# UFO Event Timeline, Part 2: 1950 up to and including 1959, v1.26 - Compiled 6/19/2023 An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée, Pea Research, George M. Eberhart, Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson, Fred Keziah, Don Berliner, Larry Hatch, and [NICAP](https://www.nicap.org/). ## Copyrights: - Richard Geldreich, Jr. - Copyright (c) 2023 (all parsed dates and events marked \"maj2\" unless otherwise attributed) - Dr. Jacques F. Vallée - Copyright (c) 1993 - LeRoy Pea - Copyright (c) 9/8/1988 (updated 3/17/2005) - George M. Eberhart - Copyright (c) 2022 - Dr. Donald A. Johnson - Copyright (c) 2012 - Fred Keziah - Copyright (c) 1958 - Larry Hatch - Copyright (c) 1992-2002 ## Update History: - v1.23-1.24: Added a handful of key historical events, such as Edward Tauss the head of CIA UFO disinformation in the 50's - v1.22: Fixing the date of Dr. Eric W. Davis's March, 2020 classified briefing to the Senate (I had it listed as March 2019) - info from NY Times. Basic locations added to Eberhart records using OpenAI. - v1.20: Split up into 5 parts, to work around iPhone web browser limits. Minor spelling and grammer fixes throughout timeline. - v1.15: Eberhart records now have basic locations, thanks to OpenAI's Davinci-3 AI model. They aren't perfect, but it's a good start to geocoding them. - v1.14: Added nuclear test data, over 2000 records, from the [Worldwide Nuclear Explosions](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) paper by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards. Note the locations in the paper are approximate, and the yields are not super accurate, which are two problems I'll fix over time. I improved the coordinates of the earliest USA/USSR tests by looking them up from Wikipedia. - v1.13: Split up the timeline into 4 parts. Still not the best solution, but it avoids croaking browsers. - v1.12: Added \*U\* database record data, using a custom event description decoder to handle his 1k+ abbreviations and custom syntax - v1.11: Crawled all ~10.5k unique URL's in this timeline using [curl](https://curl.se/) and fixed dead URL's to use archive.org. - v1.10: Added NIPCAP DB data. ## Important Notes: Best viewed on a desktop/laptop, not a mobile device. I've split up the timeline into 4 parts, to reduce their sizes: distant past up to 1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979, and 1980-present. The majority of the events in this chronology are sighting related, however it's important to be aware that this is a timeline of UFO/UAP related _events_, not necessarily or exclusively UFO _sightings_. Some sighting reports or events appear multiple times in this timeline because they appear in more than one data source. I view this as a useful feature. Currently, the events are not sorted by time of day, only by date. Some sources have separate "time" fields, but most don't. This will be fixed once the event times are automatically extracted from the description fields. A few events don't have firm dates, for example "Summer of 1947", or "Late July 1952". In these instances the compilation code uses fixed dates I selected for date sorting purposes. (See the code for the specific dates.) ## Source Code: This website is created automatically using a [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B) command line tool called “ufojson”. It parses the raw text and [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) source data to [JSON format](https://www.json.org/json-en.html), which is then converted to a single large web page using [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/). This tool's source code and all of the raw source and JSON data is located [here on github](https://github.com/richgel999/ufo_data). ## Year Ranges 1. [Part 1: Distant past up to and including 1949](timeline.html) 2. [Part 2: 1950 up to and including 1959](timeline_part2.html) 3. [Part 3: 1960 up to and including 1969](timeline_part3.html) 4. [Part 4: 1970 up to and including 1979](timeline_part4.html) 5. [Part 5: 1980 to present](timeline_part5.html) ## Table of Contents Year Histogram ### Years 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 ## Event Timeline --- ## Year: 1950 (Back to Top) ### Event 4436 (89A44C8A) **Date:** 1950's **Location:** Area 51 **Description:** “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps. **Type:** book reference **Reference:** “Dreamland” by Lazar **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_385 ### Event 4437 (AD5E156B) **Date:** 1950's **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_386 ### Event 4438 (B0DD2638) **Date:** 1950 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens (Plutonium production) **Type:** atomic plant **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_388 ### Event 4439 (85EC9337) **Date:** 1950 **Location:** WA **Description:** Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying Saucer as I Saw It” **Type:** publication **Reference:** [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/AFU_19840500_APRO_Bulletin_v32_n3/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22The+Flying+Saucer+As+I+Saw+It%22) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_389 ### Event 4440 (EDDD5476) **Date:** 1950 **End date:** 1951 **Location:** US **Description:** This period has been called the "Dark Ages" of UFO investigation. Following the Project Grudge report, the project was not disbanded. However, those who believed in a more positive investigation could not win support for their views--until late in 1951 when the situation was reviewed partly due to public protests. **Type:** time period **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_861 ### Event 4441 (B39DDBA6) **Date:** 1950 **End date:** 1951 **Location:** US **Description:** USAF Investigation Summary: These conclusions challenged on basis of lack of proof; "explain-away" approach adopted by investigators. **Type:** investigation **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_897 ### Event 4442 (DFF07604) **Date:** 1950 **Description:** [N. Meade Layne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meade%5FLayne) publishes The Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, which identifies UFOs as emanating from the etheric world, which coexists with and interpenetrates ours. The etherians must lower their “vibrational” rate in order to enter our realm. UFOs are “thought-constructs” that can take many forms and densities. He considers the etherians benign. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Meade Layne, [The Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution](https://borderlandsciences.org/project/etheria/mimeo/esm/index.html)[,](https://borderlandsciences.org/project/etheria/mimeo/esm/index.html) Borderland Sciences Research Associates, 1950 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1454 ### Event 4443 (5E34ECF7) **Date:** 1950 **Location:** Colombia **Description:** William Ortiz, a deaf-mute, claims to have the first of three close encounters \(the others in 1969 and 1975\) with large-eyed aliens in UFOs in Colombia. After the first two events, he finds his hearing temporarily restored. The entities communicate to him using hand signals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[First Reported CEIII Alien Communicating with Deaf-Mute,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 1, 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1455 ### Event 4444 (CC68ECBF) **Date:** Early 1950 **Description:** Author and military historian Fletcher Pratt initiated rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had obtained through confidential channels information that a flying saucer had crashed to earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and about 35 inches tall had been found dead in the wreckage. **Type:** rumors **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/a-list-of-forgotten-pre-roswell-crash-retrieval-c-r-authors-lecturers-d68daebe6dba) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_392 ### Event 4445 (B5822C76) **Date:** 1/1950 **Description:** TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying Saucers **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_105 ### Event 4446 (F2778630) **Date:** 1/1950 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / FT. SUMNER, NM **Description:** T6 pilot. Round glowing object going quickly southwest / 500mph. 600' away. / NICAP 1969. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1474 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "NE/Ft.SUMNER,NM:T6 PILOT:ROUND GLOWING OBJ >>SW/500mph:600'AWAY:/NICAP 1969", **LatLong:** "34.833335 -103.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:50:00 N 103:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.833335,-103.500005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4447 (CC4828EF) **Date:** 1/1950 **Description:** The Ground Observer Corps, an organization of civilians who watch the skies for enemy airplanes, is created by the US Air Defense Command. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Ground Observer Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%5FObserver%5FCorps)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1456 ### Event 4448 (E9C4532A) **Date:** 1/1950 **Locations:** Seattle, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska **Description:** On the Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage, Alaska, route, an air freighter is paced for five minutes by a UFO. When the pilots try to close in, the craft zooms away at terrific speed. Later, the airline head reports that intelligence officers quizzed the pilots for hours. “From their questions,” he said, “I could tell they had a good idea of what the saucers are. One officer admitted they did, but he wouldn’t say any more.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [p. 10](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1457 ### Event 4449 (41FA1B92) **Date:** 1/1950 **Locations:** Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with Gen. [Sory Smith](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105625/major-general-sory-smith/), director of public relations for the Air Force; Maj. [Jesse E. Stay](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27668584/jesse-e%5F-stay) and Jack T. Shea, press officers; and Maj. [Jere Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) Pentagon liaison to Project Grudge. Most of the interview involves questions for Boggs. Keyhoe is given two looseleaf notebooks with summaries of “Project Saucer” cases. His request to visit Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to look at the actual case files is turned down weeks later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [pp. 147–154](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chXVI.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1458 ### Event 4450 (73C8DE55) **Date:** 1/1/1950 **Description:** Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying Saucers are Real” in Newspapers **Type:** publication **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116737446/the-flying-saucers-are-real-keyhoe/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_391 ### Event 4451 (4B777AC2) **Date:** 1/6/1950 **Description:** Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper: “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near a radar installation, exotic metals, acclimation program, etc. **Type:** rumors **Reference:** [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115954706/car-dealer-reports-saucer-from-venus/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_393 ### Event 4452 (1A749AB1) **Date:** 1/6/1950 **Location:** HOWARD, KS **Description:** Blue Book. C47 Carswell going [to] Offutt Air Force Base. 45' metal ovoid / SL flight / 2K' altitude. 400mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1475 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "317", **HatchDesc:** "HOWARD,KS:BBK:C47 CARSWELL>OFFUTT AFB:45'MTL OVOID/SL FLITE/2K'alt:400mph", **LatLong:** "37.472224 -96.261116", **LatLongDMS:** "37:28:20 N 96:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.472224,-96.261116)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4453 (4916CEF6) **Date:** 1/6/1950 **Location:** Howard (near), KS **Description:** Crew of C-47 transport saw a 30-60 ft silver football-shaped object flying in straight level flight. (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500106](http://www.nicap.org/500106howard%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_645 ### Event 4454 (5CFB729B) **Date:** 1/6/1950 **Description:** Three military witnesses, including one named Zimmerman, were flying in a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane near Howard, Kansas on this day when they sighted a silverly metallic, football-shaped object flying on a straight level flight path. They estimated the object was between 30 and 60 feet long, was flying at 2,000 feet altitude at a speed of 400 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, January 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 2; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_162 ### Event 4455 (6DA7CC33) **Date:** 1/7/1950 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** SOUTH / CORONA, NM **Description:** Blue Book. 1 Air Force-man / car. Green fireball maneuvers / tens. Changes course and color. Lands? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1476 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2050", **HatchDesc:** "S/CORONA,NM:BBK:1 AF-MAN/CAR:GRN FBL MNVRS/10s:CHANGES COURSE+COLOR:LANDS?", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -105.594449", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 105:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-105.594449)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4456 (0C1540AA) **Date:** 1/7/1950 **Location:** Corona (south of), NM **Description:** OSI Case 161 yellowish-white ball of light at about 45° elevation changing color to orange with trailing flame (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500107](http://www.nicap.org/corona500107dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_646 ### Event 4457 (5F827084) **Date:** 1/7/1950 **Locations:** Holloman AFB; Corona, New Mexico **Description:** 10:15 p.m. The assistant maintenance officer at Holloman AFB is driving south of Corona, New Mexico, when he sees a green fireball. It descends at a 60° angle, then levels out and travels 10° east before dropping out of sight behind a mountain. When first seen, it is yellowish-white, changes to orange as it descends, then turns bright blue-green as it levels out and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[January 7, 1950, Corona, NM, OSI Case 161](http://www.nicap.org/corona500107dir.htm)”: Clark III 544; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 78 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1459 ### Event 4458 (F75EA45D) **Date:** 1/9/1950 **Location:** New Mexico **Description:** Time magazine reports on rumors of crashed saucers and small humanoids in New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Visitors from](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C811681%2C00.html) [Venus](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C811681%2C00.html),” Time, January 9, 1950 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1460 ### Event 4459 (5FE306D0) **Date:** 1/10/1950 **Location:** Las Vegas AFB, NV **Description:** A man and his father stated that an object was within their vision for approximately twenty five (25) seconds and that the appearance of the object was pure silver, round "like a balloon" and apparently constructed of. a solid material, "a metal". (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [500110](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500110lasvegasdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_647 ### Event 4460 (68D79D3A) **Date:** 1/12/1950 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** GMX NORTHWEST / CUBA **Description:** Blue Book. 3 RADAR blips hover and orbit B29 / 3000mph. RADAR jammed / an extra 10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1477 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GMX NW/CUBA:BBK:3 RDR BLIPS HVR+ORBIT B29/3000mph:RDR JAMMED/an extra 10min:", **LatLong:** "24.000001 -85.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "24:00:00 N 85:20:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.000001,-85.333337)", **State/Prov:** "GMX", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4461 (F3497711) **Date:** 1/12/1950 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico (SW of Florida), At Sea **Description:** At 24° 0' N, 85°20' W. (McDonald list) B-29 Radar Tracks Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500112](http://www.nicap.org/500112gulf%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_648 ### Event 4462 (73F693E8) **Date:** 1/12/1950 **Description:** The AF Directorate of Intelligence quietly cancels the special intelligence collection directives to various government agencies for reporting UFO incidents, though routine intelligence channels still require UFO reporting, per AFCIR-CC7, “Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft.” Cancellation is a follow-up to the widely announced closure of “Project Saucer.” AFOIN Director Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) believes that in fact AMC is taking its UFO project underground by announcing the closure. Months later Cabell discovers that AMC Intelligence under Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) is not running a secret UFO investigation, and Cabell is forced to make up for AMC’s negligence by conducting his own UFO investigations via his AF Intelligence staff. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB89-381.pdf)” January 12, 1950; Swords 498 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1461 ### Event 4463 (75375A11) **Date:** 1/12/1950 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico (southwest of Florida) **Description:** 11:25 p.m. A B-29 aircraft is flying over the Gulf of Mexico \(southwest of Florida\) on a course of 260° when three objects are noted on the radar scope orbiting the B-29 from all quadrants. The objects are noticed by the radar operator, aircraft commander, navigator, and bombardier. One object is first sighted on a bearing of 330° traveling south. The objects travel across the scope in approximately 15–20 seconds on the 100-mile range setting. In a few minutes this object is joined by two others, which disappear in a few minutes. At short ranges the object is large and well-defined on the radar scope. The object goes off for about 100 miles, turns and comes in as if for an attack, passes through the center of the scope, and emerges on the other side. The estimated speed of the object is 2,500–3,000 mph. The one object remains on the radar scope for approximately 30 minutes, following the B-29 all the time. The radar operator switches ranges on the scope and picks up the object on the 20- and 50- mile settings. Twice the object comes to within 20 miles of the aircraft and then apparently has the ability to hover, because the movement on the radar scope ceases for 5–15 seconds. After altering course the object no longer appears, but the radar is jammed for approximately 10 minutes. The crew makes no visual sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[B-29 Radar Tracks Objects](http://www.nicap.org/500112gulf%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1462 ### Event 4464 (3E0B2FAF) **Date:** 1/12/1950 **Description:** Flying over the Gulf of Mexico northwest of Cuba, a USAF B-29 picked up three unidentified radar blips. The bogeys hovered for awhile, and then orbited the B-29 at 3,000 mph. The bomber's airborne radar jammed for an additional ten minutes after the sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_272 ### Event 4465 (90F35045) **Date:** 1/13/1950 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Observed a bright white object that changed color to red and green in northern sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500113](http://www.nicap.org/holloman500113dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_649 ### Event 4466 (AC34BCD6) **Date:** 1/14/1950 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Carload / Fairchild-Nepa workers. Brill fireball hovers / restricted airspace. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1478 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:CARLOAD/FAIRCHILD-NEPA WORKERS:BRILL FBL HVRS/RESTRICTED AIRSPACE", **LatLong:** "36.000002 -84.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 84:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,-84.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4467 (4BAD5E0C) **Date:** 1/14/1950 **Location:** Key West, FL **Description:** F6F Picks Up Object Tracked By Gnd Radar At 480 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500114](http://www.nicap.org/501114keywest%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_659 ### Event 4468 (A49341B5) **Date:** 1/14/1950 **Description:** At 4:45 p.m. Fairchild plant workers at the nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee watched a brilliant fiery ball of light hover over restricted military airspace for about two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_307 ### Event 4469 (5BC35D92) **Date:** 1/15/1950 **Location:** COMECHINGONES MOUNTAINS SOUTHEAST / V.DOLORES.ARG **Description:** Horses spook. Cylinder/cylindrical object buzzes 4 riders. / r215p81. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1479 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1594", **HatchDesc:** "COMECHINGONES Mtns SE/V.DOLORES.ARG:HORSES SPOOK:CYL BUZZES 4 RIDERS:/r215p81", **LatLong:** "-32.500002 -65.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "32:30:00 S 65:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.500002,-65.000003)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4470 (08E13218) **Date:** 1/15/1950? **Location:** OFF ARGENTIA, NFLD **Description:** Pilot. 15M saucer rotates just over sea. Rotates. Quickly going up / plane passes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1480 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off ARGENTIA,NFLD:PILOT:15M SCR ROTATES JUST OVR SEA:ROTATES:↑↑/PLANE PASSES", **LatLong:** "47.166669 -54.511114", **LatLongDMS:** "47:10:00 N 54:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.166669,-54.511114)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4471 (EE9D1539) **Date:** 1/15/1950 **Location:** Key West, FL **Description:** UFO Tracked By Gnd Radar Nr. Two F6F Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500115](http://www.nicap.org/501115keywest%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_660 ### Event 4472 (3E76C234) **Date:** 1/16/1950 **Description:** CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar station near New Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was badly damaged the other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each consisted of 2 parts, a cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring approx. 18 ft. across and 2 ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling aluminum, but actual metal has defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant. Two crew members in the damaged ship were charred but in the undamaged ship the two crew members were perfectly preserved. **Type:** classified staff message **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p27, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_394 **See also:** 1/6/1950 **See also:** 1/30/1950 ### Event 4473 (B53CE056) **Date:** 1/16/1950 **Locations:** Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado **Description:** The AFOSI office at Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska, sends a message that recounts stories from Denver, Colorado, about crashed saucers in the southwest. The metal allegedly “defied analysis.” Bodies are said to be 3 feet tall. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, p. 74 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1463 ### Event 4474 (742E79B3) **Date:** 1/16/1950 **Locations:** Osaka Planetarium in Japan; Mars **Description:** [Tsuneo Saheki](https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Ecmo/cmo/175/cmo175.html) of the Osaka Planetarium in Japan sees an explosion on Mars, 60 miles high and 900 miles in diameter. Thomas Dobbins and William Sheehan investigate and find that this and other Martian flashes are likely caused by solar reflections on patches of ice crystals on the surface of Mars. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Terrific Explosion’ on Mars](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517126/st-louis-post-dispatch/) [Reported by Japanese Observers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517126/st-louis-post-dispatch/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 1950, p. 13; John J. O’Neill, “[Mars Blast](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517518/the-ottawa-citizen/) [Puzzles Science,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517518/the-ottawa-citizen/)” Ottawa \(Ont.\) Citizen, July 16, 1952, p. 30; “[Some Curious Objects: Meteoritic Perhaps,](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/djalpo/42-1/DJALPO42-1-free.PDF)” The Strolling Astronomer 4, no. 5 \(May 1, 1950\): 8–9; Thomas Dobbins and William Sheehan, “[Solving the Martian](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/mars/articles/MartianFlaresALPO.pdf) [Flares Mystery,](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/mars/articles/MartianFlaresALPO.pdf)” 2002 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1464 ### Event 4475 (263F76E2) **Date:** 1/17/1950 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** KAUAI ISLAND, HI **Description:** 5 county officials. Silver saucer hovers. Rises going [to] clouds. 3rd even since Christmas. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1481 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "KAUAI ISL,HI:5 COUNTY OFFICIALS:SLVR SCR HVRS:RISES>CLOUDS:3rd EVEN SINCE XMAS", **LatLong:** "22.150001 -159.250008", **LatLongDMS:** "22:09:00 N 159:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/22.150001,-159.250008)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4476 (B48F15EB) **Date:** 1/18/1950 **Location:** Denver, CO **Description:** T-6 Crews Encounter Object At 15,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500118](http://www.nicap.org/500118denver%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_650 ### Event 4477 (2366F56B) **Date:** 1/18/1950 **Description:** A slow moving disc-shaped or spherical UFO moved through the sky over Summit, New Jersey at 7 p.m. It was reddish-orange in color, and gave off a steady light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles case files, letter dated 1952 from W. Wilkinson **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_363 ### Event 4478 (11F62A76) **Date:** 1/22/1950 **Location:** Kodiak, Alaska **Description:** U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith, was on routine security flight when he picked up a radar track on an UFO, two times. Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised that no known traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was the USS Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3 a.m., “a very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature, seemed to come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in the direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a matter of minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_395 ### Event 4479 (68571615) **Date:** 1/22/1950 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** 32KM NORTH / KODIAK NAS, AK **Description:** 1800MPH blip. RADAR / visual (observation). Buzzes planes and boats. Silent. Going quickly southeast. / FBI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1482 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "32km N/KODIAK NAS,AK:1800MPH BLIP:RDR/VIS:BUZZES PLANES+BOATS:SLNT:>>SE:/FBI", **LatLong:** "58.133336 -152.383341", **LatLongDMS:** "58:08:00 N 152:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.133336,-152.383341)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4480 (FF89BA01) **Date:** 1/22/1950 **Location:** Kodiak NAS, AK **Description:** USN P2V3 Patrol Plane and USS Tillamook Encounter "threatening" Radar Target and E-M (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [500122](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_651 ### Event 4481 (8C49EAAD) **Date:** 1/22/1950 **Location:** Kodiak NAS (near), AK **Description:** Maneuvering red exhaust-like or orange ball of fire circle (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500122](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_653 ### Event 4482 (F619BA1D) **Date:** 1/22/1950 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Kodiak [now Coast Guard Base Kodiak], Alaska; Kodiak **Description:** 2:40 a.m. Navy patrol pilot Lieut. Smith makes a routine security flight out of Naval Air Station Kodiak \[now Coast Guard Base Kodiak\], Alaska. He obtains a radar reading on an object 20 miles north. It quickly vanishes. At 2:48, he tracks a similar object 10 miles southeast. Kodiak radar reports no known aircraft in the vicinity, but they are seeing the same track. At 3:00 a.m., the tug [USS Tillamook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTillamook%5F%28ATA-192%29) is south of Kodiak when one of the men on deck sees a “very fast-moving red glow light, which appeared to be of exhaust nature.” The object comes from the southeast, moves clockwise around Kodiak, and returns to the southeast. Another officer sees it for 30 seconds and describes it as a “large ball of orange fire.” At 4:40 a.m., Lieut. Smith picks up another blip moving so fast that it leaves a trail on his screen. His crew sees the UFO close a five-mile gap in 10 seconds, an apparent speed of 1,800 mph. Witnesses report two orange lights that rotate around a common center. The object makes a sharp turn and heads directly towards Smith’s plane. Smith considers this a threatening situation and turns off his lights; the UFO flies by and disappears. At least 35 copies of Smith’s report are sent to FBI, CIA, AFOSI, and the State Department. None are ever officially released or published. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[USN P2V3 Patrol](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) [Plane and USS](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) [Tillamook](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) [Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 165–166](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/164/mode/2up); Clark III 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 80; Swords 90–91 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1465 ### Event 4483 (CAFB72A5) **Date:** 1/22/1950 **Description:** At around 4:00 a.m. a radar blip was detected approaching the Kodiak Islands at 1,800 mph over Kodiak, Alaska, according to airborne radar. It then buzzed several planes and boats. A U.S. Navy plane failed to intercept the UFO because it was too highly maneuverable. It had two orange lights rotating about the center, and made no detectable sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7; UNICAT, case # 359; Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, UFO Coverup, p. 164; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_406 ### Event 4484 (32551803) **Date:** 1/23/1950 **Time:** 04:40 **Location:** 100KM SOUTH / KODIAK NAS, AK **Description:** 6 Navy airmen can't catch fireball going quickly west / FBI documents. / r98#243p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1483 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "100km S/KODIAK NAS,AK:6 NAVY AIRMEN CANT CATCH FBL >>W./FBI DOCS:/r98#243p30", **LatLong:** "56.750003 -152.483341", **LatLongDMS:** "56:45:00 N 152:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.750003,-152.483341)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4485 (9936F56A) **Date:** 1/23/1950 **Description:** At 4:40 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V3 patrol plane flying from the Kodiak Naval Air Station in Alaska spotted two orange lights rotating about a common central point, which maneuvered in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_437 ### Event 4486 (F270D5E3) **Date:** 1/24/1950 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** OVER HALIFAX CO, NC **Description:** 3 / USAF C45. 75M hemisphere maneuvers 5mi away. Cannot catch. Smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1484 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "78", **HatchDesc:** "ovr HALIFAX co,NC:3/USAF C45:75M HEMISPHERE MNVRS 5mi AWAY:CANNOT CATCH:SMOKE", **LatLong:** "36.216668 -77.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:13:00 N 77:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.216668,-77.300004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4487 (7F7C5F1E) **Date:** 1/24/1950 **Location:** Blackstone (near), VA **Description:** C-45 Transport Crew Encounters Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500124](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_654 ### Event 4488 (33098C05) **Date:** 1/24/1950 **Locations:** Pope AFB [now Pope Field], Fayetteville, North Carolina; Bolling AFB [now Joint Base Anacostia- Bolling], Washington, D.C.; Blacksburg, Virginia **Description:** 4:50 p.m. USAF Capt. G. B. Edwards and copilot Theron C. Fehrevach are flying a C-45 transport plane from Pope AFB \[now Pope Field\], Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Bolling AFB \[now Joint Base Anacostia- Bolling\], Washington, D.C. While at 5,000 feet near Blacksburg, Virginia, Fehrevach notices a dark, 200–250 foot in diameter, hemispherical parachute-shaped object above them about 5–10 miles away. A large black smoky region is below it, possibly obscuring the lower portion of a sphere. The UFO is darker than the 50% cloud cover and “easy to distinguish as not being cloud.” The object moves smoothly without any noticeable turn radius. Edwards puts the C-45 into a climb to 7,000 feet so they are at the same altitude as the UFO and turns to head directly toward it. Army Courier Service passenger 1st Lt. [John H. Van Santen](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57018521/john-henry-van%5Fsanten) is alerted by Fehrevach and also sees the object move right then left again, then they all see the object recede at high speed and disappear. About 90 seconds later the object reappears about 30°–45° to the right of their heading, then oscillates right to left. It moves horizontally to dead ahead again and disappears by receding in the distance at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[C-25](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm) [Transport Crew Encounters Object](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm)”; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “[Blackstone, Virginia, USA: January](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm) [24, 1950,](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm)” September 30, 2015; Swords 91 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1466 ### Event 4489 (9376EAE2) **Date:** 1/24/1950 **Description:** At 4:50 p.m. a UFO shaped like a hemisphere with a flattened lower part, and estimated to be 70-80 meters in diameter, maneuvered in the sky five miles away from a C-45 transport plane flying from Pope AFB in Halifax County, North Carolina. The C-45, flying at an airspeed of 160 mph, could not catch up with it. The object oscillated with a pendulum motion. The Air Force explanation was that the object sighted by military pilots Fehrevach and Edwards was a balloon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 14; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_473 ### Event 4490 (464922FC) **Date:** Late 1/1950 **Location:** Kodiak, Alaska **Description:** Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), possibly inspired by the Kodiak, Alaska, case, sends a letter to ATIC asking why Project Grudge has ended, because he never disbanded it. ATIC responds that Grudge is no longer a special project and that UFO reports will be processed through normal intelligence channels. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 69–70](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/68/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1467 ### Event 4491 (C2850F7B) **Date:** 1/26/1950 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** Lt. Col. and 1. 3 orange cylinders going north / 1600kph. Lost / odd small lone thin cloud.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: UFO HISTORICAL REVUE (UHR Qtrly) Barry Greenwood. Issue #8 Febr, 2001. POB 176, STONEHAM,MA 02180 **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1485 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "ELMENDORF AFB,AK:Lt.Col+1:3 ORG CYLS >N/1600kph:LOST/ODD SML LONE THIN CLOUD..", **LatLong:** "61.250003 -149.766674", **LatLongDMS:** "61:15:00 N 149:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.250003,-149.766674)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4492 (CFF552A2) **Date:** 1/26/1950 **Locations:** Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson]; Anchorage, Alaska **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Lt. Col. [Lester F. Mathison](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102721979/lester-f-mathison)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102721979/lester-f-mathison) commanding officer of the 625th Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska, notices three reddish objects above the cirrus cloud layer at 25,000–30,000 feet. They are moving to the north in a sightly curled trail fashion and disappear into some clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Extract: History of the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, January 1–March 31, 1950](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf) [\(Elmendorf AFB, Alaska\),](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 \(February 2001\): 7–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1468 ### Event 4493 (BD80D252) **Date:** 1/26/1950 **Description:** Three orange cylinders flew to the north at 1600 km/h over Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. It was witnessed by a Lieutenant Colonel and another military witness. It was lost from sight when it disappeared into an odd looking, lone small thin cloud. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1498 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_512 ### Event 4494 (A8417135) **Date:** 1/28/1950 **Location:** ALMANSA, SP **Description:** Night lights and fireballs north going quickly south / 2 days. Radios pick up strange voices / unknown language. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1486 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "ALMANSA,SP:NLTS+FBLS N>>S/2 DAYS:RADIOS PICK UP STRANGE VOICES/UNK LANGUAGE", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -1.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 01:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-1.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Albacete", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4495 (83E7895B) **Date:** 1/29/1950 **Location:** SOUTH TABLE MOUNTAIN, CO **Description:** Silver-green 20M ovoid hovers / 15M / slope. Lands / ravine. Quickly going up [to] extremely fast. Odor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1487 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1800", **HatchDesc:** "S.TABLE Mtn,CO:SLVR-GRN 20M OVOID HVRS/15M/SLOPE:LANDS/RAVINE:↑↑ XFAST:ODOR", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -105.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 105:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-105.200005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4496 (17E2E342) **Date:** 1/29/1950 **Location:** South Table Mountain, Colorado **Description:** Mr. Quintana of Denver saw a silvery-green ovoid object hovering about 15 m above a slope and landing slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 m, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS Jul., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_72 ### Event 4497 (A590D85B) **Date:** 1/29/1950 **Description:** Mr. Quintana of Denver, Colorado saw a silvery green ovoid object hovering about 15 meters above a slope on South Table Mountain. It landed slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 meters, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194, citing Flying Saucers, July 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_570 ### Event 4498 (8BAD8B6C) **Date:** 1/30/1950 **Location:** Kodiak, Alaska **Description:** The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee, prints article referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper article on “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, acclimation program. **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115954706/car-dealer-reports-saucer-from-venus/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_396 **See also:** 1/6/1950 ### Event 4499 (DCC6EED3) **Date:** 1/31/1950 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San Antonio: A UFO resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a thunderhead of clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and disappeared into another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no sound or air disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months the UFO sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This UFO was also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_397 **See also:** 1/6/1950 ### Event 4500 (59ED8170) **Date:** 1/31/1950 **Location:** Aleutian Islands (north of), AK **Description:** 3 ft red and white elliptical object flying (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500131](http://nicap.org/aleut500131dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_655 ### Event 4501 (D585C757) **Date:** 2/1/1950 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and many. Fireball going quickly west / 9km altitude. Heavy smoke trail. Slows and going quickly west. B29 chases. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 405) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1488 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:ATCs+MANY:FBL >>W/9km alt:HEAVY SMOKE TRAIL:SLOWS+>>W:B29 CHASES", **LatLong:** "32.216668 -110.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:13:00 N 110:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.216668,-110.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4502 (FC65D8BF) **Date:** 2/1/1950 **Description:** [Harry S. Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) issues Executive Order 10104 and creates the “Top Secret classification” designation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Office of the Federal Register, “[Executive Order 10104](https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10104.html)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1469 ### Event 4503 (7858704F) **Date:** 2/1/1950 **Locations:** Tucson, Arizona; Davis-Monthan AFB; University of Arizona **Description:** A meteor-like object spewing smoke is seen by many people over Tucson, Arizona. The radio operator at Davis-Monthan AFB asks 1st Lieut. [Roy L. Jones Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3594082/roy-l-jones) to investigate it in his B-29, but he cannot catch up with it. [Edwin Francis Carpenter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FFrancis%5FCarpenter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FFrancis%5FCarpenter) head of the University of Arizona astronomy department, says he is certain the object is not a meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [pp. 10–12](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 81 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1470 ### Event 4504 (9C32913F) **Date:** 2/2/1950 **Location:** Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ **Description:** Saw object trailing smoke (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_656 ### Event 4505 (F68FD3F9) **Date:** 2/2/1950 **Locations:** Falmouth Airport; Frances Crane Wildlife Management Area north of Hatchville, Massachusetts; Otis AFB; Otis Air National Guard Base near Mashpee **Description:** [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) citing the press of academic duties, withdraws from Project Twinkle. \(Clark III 544\) February 5 — 5:10 p.m. Four people at Falmouth Airport \[now part of Frances Crane Wildlife Management Area north of Hatchville, Massachusetts\] see two illuminated cylindrical objects in the western sky. The witnesses include [Marvin R. Odom](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48772567/marvin-r.-odom)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48772567/marvin-r.-odom) owner of the airport, and Lt. [Philip Foushee Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57692982/philip-amos-foushee) of Otis AFB \[now Otis Air National Guard Base\] near Mashpee. As the objects are maneuvering, a fireball drops from one. Five minutes later they both climb at high speed and disappear from view. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Feb. 5, 1950; Teaticket, Mass.](http://www.nicap.org/teaticket500205dir.htm)”; Hyannis \(Mass.\) Cape Cod Standard Times, February 6, 1950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 81 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1471 ### Event 4506 (8FB60B10) **Date:** 2/3/1950 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NORTH BAY, ON **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 2 blue 2.5M disks circle town / several minutes. Desripts vary. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 408) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1489 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH BAY,ON:NMRS OBS:2 BLU 2.5M DISKS CCL TOWN/SVRL MINs:desripts vary", **LatLong:** "46.216669 -79.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:00 N 79:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.216669,-79.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4507 (D778839F) **Date:** 2/5/1950 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** TEATICKET, MA **Description:** Many / airport. 2 cigars maneuver. Fireball drops / 1+flies away. Vibrant bright / lights all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1490 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "TEATICKET,MA:MANY/AIRPORT:2 CGRS MNVR:FBL DROPS/1+FLIES AWAY:VBRITE/LITES ALL", **LatLong:** "41.566669 -70.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:34:00 N 70:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.566669,-70.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4508 (A5CCE6FA) **Date:** 2/5/1950 **Location:** Teaticket, MA **Description:** 2 thin, illuminated cylinders, one dropped a fireball, both maneuvered together then disappeared high and fast. (Berliner) 5 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500205](http://www.nicap.org/teaticket500205dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_657 ### Event 4509 (D070DFED) **Date:** 2/5/1950 **Time:** 5:10 PM **Location:** Teaticket, Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses: Marvin Odom, former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, USAF Lt. Philip Foushee, pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin, illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered together and then disappeared high and fast after 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_30 ### Event 4510 (C97B3BD6) **Date:** 2/5/1950 **Description:** Seven people witnessed two cylindrical objects maneuvering in the sky at 5:10 p.m. near Falmouth Airport on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A fireball dropped from one of them, then they climbed into the western sky and disappeared. Listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Cape Cod Standard Times, February 6, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 17; Project Blue Book, February 1950 summary report **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_696 ### Event 4511 (E7A1F40E) **Date:** 2/7/1950 **Description:** A 30-foot wide cone-shaped object flew in over the shoreline at Alameda Naval Yard in California. There were six military witnesses in total, and the sighting lasted several minutes. One witness reported it as possibly a plane with engine trouble. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated February 9, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_731 ### Event 4512 (7E7470D8) **Date:** 2/8/1950 **Location:** SAN LEANDRO, CA **Description:** 5+observer(s). 30' cone going north over Alameda Naval Yard. 5K' altitude. Going quickly southeast / 80mph / Scully. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1491 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LEANDRO,CA:5+OBS:30'CONE > N OVR ALAMEDA NVL YARD:5K'alt:>>SE/80mph/SCULLY", **LatLong:** "37.716668 -122.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:43:00 N 122:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.716668,-122.166672)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4513 (6C468CD1) **Date:** 2/8/1950 **Location:** Tampa, FL **Description:** B-29 Crew, Others, See 300' Object At 2,000 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500208](http://www.nicap.org/500208tampa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_658 ### Event 4514 (A64A0C5E) **Date:** 2/8/1950 **Description:** AFOSI Letter \#85 is issued, directing Air Force personnel to relay UFO sightings to the Pentagon or AMC only if they are of “priority Counterintelligence interest.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) [March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1472 ### Event 4515 (50C9D488) **Date:** 2/13/1950 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** NORRE NEBEL, DK **Description:** Saucer going [to] over farm. Maneuvers. Vanishes / flash! 2nd saucer passes. / AFU Sweden. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VESCO, Renato: INTERCEPT but DON'T SHOOT; transl. from Italian. Goofy. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1492 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "NORRE NEBEL,DK:SCR >ovr FARM:MNVRS:VANISHES/FLASH!:2nd SCR PASSES:/AFU Sweden", **LatLong:** "55.783336 8.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "55:47:00 N 08:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.783336,8.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4516 (00FD6A71) **Date:** 2/13/1950 **Description:** In Norre Nebel, Denmark a disc-shaped object maneuvered over a farm at around 9 p.m. and then vanished in a flash. A second disc passed over the area eight minutes later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1505 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_890 ### Event 4517 (4B9031FA) **Date:** 2/15/1950 **Description:** In a newspaper story published in December 1967, a man from Salzburg, Austria claimed that he was abducted by a five-foot tall Grey humanoid UFOnaut who wore a silver uniform with a fishbowl style helmet. The incident reportedly occurred in a forest five miles north of Salzburg at around 11:00 p.m. at night. He was paralyzed and was floated up to the top of a round craft that had landed in a nearby field. The UFO had a dark interior, and the experience involved an off-Earth journey. The encounter lasted about an hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1967, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_920 ### Event 4518 (353C2D1E) **Date:** 2/17/1950 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 148.7km attitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_398 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 148.7km ### Event 4519 (93A94CED) **Date:** 2/18/1950 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / DUVALL, WA **Description:** Farmer. Bright night light going east. Blinks on and off slowly. Sudden zigzag departure. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 408) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1493 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "SW/DUVALL,WA:FARMER:BRITE NLT >E:BLINKS ON+OFF SLOWLY:SUDDEN ZIGZAG DEPARTURE", **LatLong:** "47.711113 -122.005561", **LatLongDMS:** "47:42:40 N 122:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.711113,-122.005561)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4520 (A288E302) **Date:** 2/20/1950 **Locations:** Massachusetts; USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories **Description:** [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) writes to [Peter H. Wyckoff](https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477-63.2.215) of the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories in Massachusetts that a “fireball project” ought not be pursued because any objects that are not meteors are probably US test missiles. But he concedes he might be wrong and says in that case, “intensive, systematic investigation of these objects should not be delayed.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 544 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1473 ### Event 4521 (F905B7FB) **Date:** 2/21/1950 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Project Twinkle, with the assistance of Land-Air, Inc., has set up its first operations post, manned by two observers who scan the sky over Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with theodolite, telescope, and camera. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 544; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1474 ### Event 4522 (1B3E8DF6) **Date:** 2/21/1950 **Description:** At 4:55 a.m. in Durban, South Africa three men in a truck and several other people witnessed a dark red, torpedo-shaped object that had a dark center, flying straight and level. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 896; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1030 ### Event 4523 (55F294D7) **Date:** 2/22/1950 **Description:** USAF denies existance of flying saucers **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_106 ### Event 4524 (9261B1F9) **Date:** 2/22/1950 **Location:** PINCKNEYVILLE, IL **Description:** 2 / private plane. 20m saucer / 1500m altitude. Going quickly [to] as plane nears. / r118-Feb. '97. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1494 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "PINCKNEYVILLE,IL:2/PVT PLANE:20m SCR/1500m alt:>> AS PLANE NEARS:/r118-Feb97", **LatLong:** "38.077780 -89.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:04:40 N 89:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.077780,-89.383338)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4525 (C02DC9AB) **Date:** 2/22/1950 **Location:** KEY WEST NAS, FL **Description:** Pilots and more/others. 2 objects pause over town. Type unknown. 50 mile(s) altitude / RADAR. Chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1495 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KEY WEST NAS,FL:PILOTS++:2 OBJs PAUSE ovr TOWN:TYPE UNK:50mi alt/RDR:CHASE", **LatLong:** "24.550001 -81.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "24:33:00 N 81:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.550001,-81.766671)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4526 (C9DAE60A) **Date:** 2/22/1950 **Location:** Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida **Description:** Navy pilots and others see two glowing UFOs, confirmed by radar, above the Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida. A plane is sent to investigate but it is “hopelessly outdistanced.” After hovering momentarily at a high altitude \(50 miles?\), they speed away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [p. 12](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 81 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1475 ### Event 4527 (3470E7D9) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #645. 2+12 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) inspect. Metal saucer circles base / erratic. Goes going up. Back / 25 th. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1496 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:BBK#645:2+12 AEC INSP:MTL SCR CCLS BASE/ERRATIC:GOES↑:BACK/25th", **LatLong:** "35.888891 -106.305561", **LatLongDMS:** "35:53:20 N 106:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.888891,-106.305561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4528 (06CDCAC0) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Airport weathermen with theodolite. White ovoid. Straight and level flight / 90 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1497 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1488", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:AIRPt WEATHERMEN W/THEODOLITE:WHT OVOID:S/L FLITE/90sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.044446 -106.605561", **LatLongDMS:** "35:02:40 N 106:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.044446,-106.605561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4529 (539B40F6) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Time:** ~23:50 **Location:** DATIL, NMX **Description:** USAF man photos disk. Astronomer LA Paz has no explanation. / FBI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1498 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2238", **HatchDesc:** "DATIL,NMX:USAF MAN PHOTOS DISK:ASTRONOMER LA PAZ HAS NO EXPLANATION./FBI", **LatLong:** "34.150002 -107.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:00 N 107:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.150002,-107.866672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4530 (9D5AFA0B) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** UAO observed over Los Alamos (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 642, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500224](http://www.nicap.org/albuq500224Adir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_661 ### Event 4531 (3E576BA0) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Location:** Datil, NM **Description:** Saw and photographed a circular luminous object (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500224](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_662 ### Event 4532 (617D49B0) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Time:** 1:55 PM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Municipal Airport Weather Observers Luther McDonald, Harrison Manson. One white, slightly elongated oval was watched for 1.5 minutes through a theodolite while it flew straight and level. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_31 ### Event 4533 (32F48E38) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Locations:** Holloman AFB; Datil, New Mexico **Description:** 7:30 p.m. USAF Cpl. [Lertis E. Stanfield](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63307920/lertis-eugene-stanfield) and other Holloman AFB Photographic Branch project staff at an observation post at Datil, New Mexico, take five photos \(using a Cineflex camera with 3-inch focal length lens\) of a circular, luminous white object that changes to red and green. Its angular velocity is greater than 0.5°/min in azimuth calculated by [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) The object moves in a smooth straight-line motion from about 8:00–9:30 p.m. to the west, blinking red and green. It disappears at high altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 175; Datil](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm) [Observation Post Photographs Object](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 82 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1476 ### Event 4534 (2EB6B3F2) **Date:** 2/24/1950 **Description:** At 1:15 p.m. 16 A.E.S.S. inspectors watched an aluminum colored, round UFO hovering over Los Alamos, New Mexico. It moved around for 20 minutes as if observing the nuclear facility, zigzagged, and shot straight up in the sky. At 1:55 p.m. two Albuquerque, New Mexico Municipal Airport Weather Observers, Luther McDonald and Harrison Manson, watched a white, slightly elongated oval-shaped UFO for 90 seconds through a theodolite while it flew straight and level. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 26; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 642; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1073 ### Event 4535 (B826C2F2) **Date:** 2/25/1950 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** NEW BEDFORD, MA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent shiny 1M glowing-saucer hovers 300M / city incinerator. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 409) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1499 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NEW BEDFORD,MA:2 OBS:SLNT SHINY 1M GLO-SCR HVRS 300M/CITY INCINERATOR:>>NW", **LatLong:** "41.661113 -70.950003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:39:40 N 70:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.661113,-70.950003)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4536 (71C2C15D) **Date:** 2/25/1950 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AEC Investigators Sighted cylinder with tapered ends, silver and flashing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 645, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500225](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/alamos500225Bdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_663 ### Event 4537 (E258DCFF) **Date:** 2/25/1950 **Time:** 3:55 PM **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security inspectors. One cylinder with tapered ends, silver and flashing, flew slow and hen fast, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. observations by individuals varied from 3 seconds to 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_32 ### Event 4538 (7CA8C022) **Date:** 2/25/1950 **Description:** Los Alamos, New Mexico. Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security inspectors sighted a cylindrical UFO at 3:55 p.m. while at the Los Alamos nuclear facility. It was silver colored and was flashing, and had tapered ends. The object flew slowly and then sped up, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. The observations by the various individuals lasted from three seconds up to two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1095 ### Event 4539 (CA5C64A4) **Date:** 2/26/1950 **Location:** Vancouver, British Columbia **Description:** 2:45 p.m. Three witnesses observe a bronze-colored object that looks like two cigarette ashtrays placed face to face over Vancouver, British Columbia. It slows down as it passes overhead and wobbles as it moves along. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1477 ### Event 4540 (B183D92A) **Date:** 2/27/1950 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** JAMESBURG, NJ **Description:** 2 / car. Metal saucer ringed / lights. Hovers low. Sudden takeoff / swish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 409) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1500 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "JAMESBURG,NJ:2/CAR:MTL SCR RINGED/LITES:HVRS LOW:SUDDEN TAKEOFF/SWISH:", **LatLong:** "40.350002 -74.438892", **LatLongDMS:** "40:21:00 N 74:26:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.350002,-74.438892)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4541 (A72B615E) **Date:** 2/27/1950 **Location:** Coulterville, IL **Description:** Object in the shape of a discus approximately 60 feet in diameter, 10 feet thick in the middle and thin at the edges seen from private plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [500227](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500227coultervilledir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_664 ### Event 4542 (450C6BC8) **Date:** 2/27/1950 **Description:** In Jamesburg, New Jersey two witnesses watched a metallic saucer-shaped object ringed with lights hovering at a low altitude, when it suddenly took off with a swishing sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 (volume 4), p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1148 ### Event 4543 (B2760D29) **Date:** 3/1950 **Description:** James J. Rodgers is named a chief of Project Grudge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1478 ### Event 4544 (2F12114D) **Date:** 3/1950 **Location:** White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico **Description:** Naval Commander [Robert Bright McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin), in charge of a team of Navy scientists at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, writes about the [Charles B. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FB.%5FMoore) sighting of April 24, 1949, in a True magazine article and speculates on saucer propulsion systems. McLaughlin writes that the saucers are indeed “spaceships from another planet, operated by animate, intelligent beings.” The Navy, having gotten a preview of the article, removes him from White Sands and gives him an assignment at sea aboard the destroyer [USS Bristol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FBristol%5F%28DD-857%29). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Robert B. McLaughlin, “[How Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm)” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; Ruppelt, [pp. 70–](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up) [72](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up); Swords 94–95 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1479 ### Event 4545 (E08DBD13) **Date:** 3/1950 **Location:** Aztec, New Mexico **Description:** According to [Karl T. Pflock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock) two CIA agents clandestinely visit Aztec, New Mexico, UFO crash storyteller [Silas Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) and tell him that, although they know he is lying, they want him to continue spreading the tale as disinformation. The two agents later wind up involved in the Psychological Strategy Board created in 1951. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kremlin 37–42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1480 ### Event 4546 (2D33D8D8) **Date:** 3/1/1950 **Location:** CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO **Description:** Many observer(s). Metallic disk hovers 5km over city and airport. Then going quickly south. / r134#1p27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1501 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1433", **HatchDesc:** "CHIHUAHUA,MEX:MANY OBS:MTLC DISK HVRS 5km OVR CITY+AIRPORT:THEN >>S:/r134#1p27", **LatLong:** "28.616668 -106.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "28:37:00 N 106:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.616668,-106.100005)", **RelAlt:** "5000", **State/Prov:** "Chihuahua", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4547 (025B3B81) **Date:** 3/1/1950 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** 1-6 March. Military and civil RADAR's and visual. 40k-80k altitude. No planes scheduled / area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1502 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "64", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:1-6MAR:MIL+CIV RDRs+VISUAL:40k-80k ALT:NO PLANES SCHEDULED/AREA", **LatLong:** "36.011113 -84.277782", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:40 N 84:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.011113,-84.277782)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4548 (0DB2B035) **Date:** 3/1/1950 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** HANNA, WY **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. Odd birds circle area. 1 blows white smoke and streaks going quickly north. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 411) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1503 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "2066", **HatchDesc:** "HANNA,WY:1/BINOCS:ODD BIRDS CCL AREA:1 BLOWS WHT SMOKE+STREAKS >>N:ABS SLNT", **LatLong:** "41.866669 -106.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 106:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,-106.550005)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4549 (5DB8BC8D) **Date:** 3/1/1950 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** Radio amateur tracks UFO with radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) **Reference:** NICAP: [500301](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/knoxville500301dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_665 ### Event 4550 (815F88E0) **Date:** 3/1/1950 **Description:** A metallic disc hovered over Chihuahua Airport in Mexico at five kilometers altitude during the day, then shot off quickly toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated March 5, 1950; Inforespace, December 1975 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1195 ### Event 4551 (AF48A514) **Date:** 3/1/1950 **Description:** Military and civilian radars tracked a UFO flying at between 40,000 and 80,000 feet near Knoxville, Tennessee. At 11:15 a.m. Stuart Adcock, a Knoxville radio amateur with experience in radar technology, called the local FBI agent, Mr. Robey, to report that he had detected an object using a surplus military radar set. The object was circling at at altitude of about 40,000 feet over Oak Ridge nuclear facility. Mr. Adcock reported another detection the next day. No planes were scheduled in the area at the time. The US Air Force suggested that the visual sightings may have been due to a mirage. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 169 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1196 ### Event 4552 (C932F32A) **Date:** 3/3/1950 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** SELFRIDGE AIR FORCE BASE, MI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #650. 2 RADAR's and visual (observation). Wide swings and abrupt turns. Also unidentified blips / 08 March. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1504 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "SELFRIDGE AFB,MI:BBK#650:2 RDRs+VIS:WIDE SWINGS+ABRUPT TURNS:+UID BLIPS/08MAR", **LatLong:** "42.605558 -82.827782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:36:20 N 82:49:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.605558,-82.827782)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4553 (5C798AC1) **Date:** 3/3/1950 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** An intense, dull yellowish light descend vertically (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 650) **Reference:** NICAP: [500303](http://nicap.org/selfridge500303dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_666 ### Event 4554 (EBEDF77C) **Date:** 3/3/1950 **Time:** 11:05 PM **Location:** Selfridge AFB, Michigan **Description:** Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. One intense, dull yellowish light descended vertically, then flew straight and level very fast for 4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_33 ### Event 4555 (174D09F8) **Date:** 3/3/1950 **Locations:** Selfridge AFB; Selfridge Air National Guard Base; Mount Clemens, Michigan **Description:** At Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, a lone UFO causes multiple radar trackings and is logged at speeds up to 1,500 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Descends Vertically,](http://www.nicap.org/500303selfridge%5Fdir.htm) [Levels Out](http://www.nicap.org/500303selfridge%5Fdir.htm)”; Patrick Gross, “[Selfridge AFB, Michigan, March 3, 1950](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/selfridge50.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 83 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1481 ### Event 4556 (1E0686DF) **Date:** 3/3/1950 **Description:** At Selfridge AFB in Macomb County, Michigan two radars tracked an unusual object in the sky at 11:10 p.m. whose presence was confirmed with a visual sighting by a witness named Mattson. The UFO was visible for four minutes and made wide swings and abrupt turns. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 650; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1268 ### Event 4557 (5D7927AB) **Date:** 3/4/1950 **Location:** Newburgh (near), IN **Description:** A man was driving east approximately two miles east of the junction of Indiana State Hwy 66 and 261 north of Newburgh, when he observed an object he believed to be a rocket at a distance of approximately 50-75 yards in front of his automobile. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [500304](http://www.nicap.org/500304newburghdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_667 ### Event 4558 (46664D53) **Date:** 3/5/1950 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR BLOOMFIELD, NM **Description:** Object paces car. Car stops. Dark 5' saucer circles car / dizzy speeds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1505 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1662", **HatchDesc:** "nr BLOOMFIELD,NM:OBJ PACES CAR:CAR STOPS:DRK 5'SCR CIRCLES CAR/DIZZY SPEEDS", **LatLong:** "36.711113 -107.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:42:40 N 107:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.711113,-107.983338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4559 (11430144) **Date:** 3/5/1950 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** SALTSBURG, PA **Description:** Ex USAF Officer. 15M turtle saucer hovers / low altitude. Keeps away as observer(s) nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 411) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1506 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "274", **HatchDesc:** "SALTSBURG,PA:EX USAF OFCR:15M TURTLE SCR HVRS/LO ALT:KEEPS AWAY AS OBS NEARS", **LatLong:** "40.483335 -79.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:29:00 N 79:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.483335,-79.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4560 (E6E1D7FE) **Date:** 3/5/1950 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** GERING, NEBR **Description:** 16+cop. 8m night light / 30m altitude. Changes shape. Extremely bright. Dangles and maneuvers. Going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1507 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1219", **HatchDesc:** "GERING,NEBR:16+COP:8m NLT/30m alt:CHANGES SHAPE:XBRITE:DANGLES+MNVRS: >SE", **LatLong:** "41.822224 -103.661116", **LatLongDMS:** "41:49:20 N 103:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.822224,-103.661116)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4561 (7A19D26B) **Date:** 3/5/1950 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** 4+1 observer(s). Metal disk hovers and darts. Going quickly [to] cloud. Trails ribbon going east. / r134-4 / 13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1508 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:4+1 OBS:MTL DISK HVRS+DARTS:>> CLOUD:TRAILS RIBBON >E:/r134-4/13", **LatLong:** "29.766668 -95.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:46:00 N 95:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.766668,-95.350005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4562 (4DBE7CEB) **Date:** 3/5/1950 **Location:** Bloomfield, NM **Description:** Night. A dark, five-foot diameter disc paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the object circled the car, then sped away at a high speed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_668 ### Event 4563 (8EAFC5D3) **Date:** 3/5/1950 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m an ex-Air Force officer driving on Highway 80 in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania said he watched a turtle shell-shaped disc hovering at low altitude. The 15 meter wide object kept away from him when the witness attempted to approach it. At 7:00 a.m. on this same date twenty witnesses watched a 25 foot wide, extremely bright UFO maneuver in the sky over Gering, Nebraska. It appeared to change shape as it flew off toward the southeast. In the afternoon a metallic flying disc trailing some kind of ribbon hovered, darted about, and jumped into some clouds over Houston, Texas. It left flying toward the east. That night in Bloomfield, New Mexico a dark, five-foot diameter disc paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the object circled the car, then sped away at a high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clippings, March 10, 1950 and March 27, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1950: January-March, pp. 11, 31-32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1308 ### Event 4564 (16FA22AC) **Date:** 3/7/1950 **Location:** DURANGO, MEXICO **Description:** Passing saucer stops / 2 hours. No further details. / Los Angeles Times. / r134#1p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1509 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1892", **HatchDesc:** "DURANGO,MEX:PASSING SCR STOPS/2 hrs:NFD:/Los Angeles Times:/r134#1p37", **LatLong:** "23.033334 -104.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "23:02:00 N 104:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.033334,-104.683338)", **State/Prov:** "DRG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4565 (9826FE67) **Date:** 3/7/1950 **Description:** In 1950, two discs passing over Durango, Mexico stopped in the sky for two hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211, citing the Los Angeles Times **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1361 ### Event 4566 (FFD2E180) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Description:** Mysterious "Silas Newton" speaks at University of Denver **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_107 ### Event 4567 (CC7AB146) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Location:** University of Denver **Description:** Tape recorded University of Denver lecture on three crash retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank Scully’s papers in Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist involved in the retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush during WW2, but was instead given by Silas Newton at the last minute. **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [YouTube - Part 1](https://youtu.be/ASCUGdnsQxw) **Reference:** [YouTube - Part 2](https://youtu.be/aNcpr3f8Eew) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_399 ### Event 4568 (D0090921) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Location:** MAZATLAN, MEXICO **Description:** Naval Commander. Object / sky. Type unknown. "Artificial device". No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1510 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MAZATLAN,MEX:NAVAL COMMANDER:OBJ/SKY:TYPE UNK:"ARTIFICIAL DEVICE":NFD", **LatLong:** "23.233334 -106.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "23:14:00 N 106:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.233334,-106.450005)", **State/Prov:** "Sinaloa", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4569 (1F9A6EAB) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** VANDALIA AIRPORT, OH **Description:** 2 airliners and Air Traffic Controller and many. Jets chase bullet cylinder/cigar-shape. Quickly going up [to] very fast. / r29p73. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1511 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "296", **HatchDesc:** "VANDALIA AIRPt,OH:2 AIRLINERS+ATC+MANY:JETS CHASE BULLET CGR:↑↑ VFAST:/r29p73", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -84.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 84:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-84.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4570 (59AB9C21) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Three Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar Track At ATIC (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500308](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_669 ### Event 4571 (54F3A05B) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Kerr/Miller/Rabenek Case (AL) Three Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar Track At ATIC (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [500308](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_670 ### Event 4572 (4200DE78) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Locations:** Dayton, Ohio; Vandalia, Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** Mid-morning. TWA pilot Capt. W. H. Kerr reports to the CAA that he and two other TWA pilots \(D. W. Miller and [Malvern H. Rabeneck](https://www.terraceparkfuneralhome.com/notices/Malvern-Rabeneck)\) are watching a UFO hovering at high altitude near Dayton, Ohio. The CAA has already received about 20 other reports about it from Vandalia, Ohio. ATIC control tower operators at Wright- Patterson AFB pick it up visually and on radar \(“a good, solid target”\). Four F-51 interceptors are sent up. They see it as a huge, round, metallic object, but clouds move in. The object climbs vertically out of sight at high speed. ATIC calls it the planet Venus, with radar returns from ice-laden clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three Aircraft Spot UFO /](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm) [Radar Track at ATIC](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 84](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=96&skin=2021); Ruppelt, [pp. 72–75](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/72/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) [March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 32–37 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1482 ### Event 4573 (E31DCE98) **Date:** 3/8/1950 **Description:** A Naval commander sighted a UFO in the sky over Mazatlan, Mexico which he described as an "artificial device." At five o'clock in the morning the crew of two airliners, the Air Traffic Controller, and many other ground witnesses at Vandalia Airport, Ohio sighted a bullet-shaped UFO being chased by military jets. The UFO ascended very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 84 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1375 ### Event 4574 (E4DDC0F2) **Date:** 3/9/1950 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** SANTIAGO TO/FROM ANTILLA, CUBA **Description:** All / airliner and many / ground. Classic saucer tracked / theodolite. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1512 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "SANTIAGO> Event 4575 (1D39BA99) **Date:** 3/9/1950 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SELFRIDGE AIR FORCE BASE, MI **Description:** Military Air Traffic Controllers. Blip paces jets. 4 blips to 2052h. 2500mph vertical! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 295) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1513 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "SELFRIDGE AFB,MI:MIL ATCs:BLIP PACES JETS:4 BLIPS TO 2052h:2500mph VERTICAL!", **LatLong:** "42.594446 -82.827782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:35:40 N 82:49:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.594446,-82.827782)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4576 (9B594337) **Date:** 3/9/1950 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** Selfridge AFB, Michigan, G,V,A air defense ground radar trackings of an object erratically varying height & speed (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500309](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500309selfridgedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_671 ### Event 4577 (3C61E9E1) **Date:** 3/9/1950 **Locations:** Selfridge Air Force Base; Mount Clemens, Michigan **Description:** 7:45 p.m. A crew of three radar controllers at Selfridge Air Force Base \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, is busy monitoring the night flying units of the 56th Fighter-Interceptor Group. 1st Lt. [Francis E. Parker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117698545/francis-everett-parker)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117698545/francis-everett-parker) 1st Lt. [Frank K. Mattson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101130001/frank-kansas-mattson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101130001/frank-kansas-mattson) Sgt. McCarthy, and Cpl. Melton observe an intermittent target on the height range indicator \(HRI\) scope of the CPS-4 radar at 47,000 feet altitude and higher. Further indications of what Parker describes as a well-defined, clear target like an aircraft are picked up with increasing regularity over the next 45–60 minutes. During this time, the target seems to stay in the area where the F-80s are flying, but 20,000 feet above them. The radar operators are monitoring two different systems—a CPS-5 radar operating on long-wave frequencies at 40,000 feet, and a CPS-4 radar operating on short-wave frequencies—and the target appears on both scopes simultaneously without fade. The speed varies from a hover in low-density air to nearly 1,500 mph, well in excess of the fastest operational jet at the time, and a climb rate of up to 7,000 feet per minute. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Selfridge AFB Incident](http://www.nicap.org/500309selfridge%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 84; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 123–](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/122/mode/2up) [125](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/122/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/122/mode/2up) [295–297](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/294/mode/2up); Clark III 1047–1049; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 215–217 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1483 ### Event 4578 (C52B7B37) **Date:** 3/9/1950 **Description:** At ten o'clock in the morning a disc-shaped object was sighted by witnesses on the ground as well as by passengers and crew of an airliner flying from Santiago to Antilla, Cuba. The ground observers tracked the UFO with a theodolite. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 54 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1389 ### Event 4579 (41E14B2C) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Location:** CD.JUAREZ, MX **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Top-like disk going quickly north. Big wave all over/all about / MX. / r134#1p46. / LDLN#211. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 411) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1514 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1143", **HatchDesc:** "Cd.JUAREZ,MX:NMRS OBS:TOP-LIKE DISK >>N:BIG WAVE ALLO/MX:/r134#1p46:/LDLN#211", **LatLong:** "31.716668 -106.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:43:00 N 106:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.716668,-106.483338)", **State/Prov:** "JLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4580 (F8BD4EB2) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Time:** ~08:50 **Location:** LA CRESCENTA, CA **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Delta-gondola object goes going [to] N. toward(s) Tujunga. Altitude = 5000'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1515 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "524", **HatchDesc:** "LA CRESCENTA,CA:NMRS.OBS:DELTA-GONDOLA OBJ GOES >N.TWRD TUJUNGA:ALT=5000'.", **LatLong:** "34.222224 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:13:20 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.222224,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4581 (9A397B8C) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Time:** ~17:30 **Location:** BURBANK, CA **Description:** Near Lockheed works. Spoked wheel-object going quickly south from Tujunga. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1516 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "236", **HatchDesc:** "BURBANK,CA:nr LOCKHEED WORKS:SPOKED WHEEL-OBJ >>S FROM TUJUNGA.", **LatLong:** "34.183335 -118.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:00 N 118:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.183335,-118.316672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4582 (FB035804) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** 7 observer(s). 200' metal ovoid / 45K' altitude. Silent and still. Then shoots going up / sky / seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1517 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "330", **HatchDesc:** "SE/PHOENIX,AZ:7 OBS:200'MTL OVOID/45K'alt:SILENT+STILL:THEN SHOOTS↑/SKY/SECs", **LatLong:** "33.400002 -112.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:24:00 N 112:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.400002,-112.000005)", **RelAlt:** "13200", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4583 (6E861A48) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** ORANGEBURG, SC AND COLUMBIA AND FLORENCE AND SALLY, SC **Description:** Saucer hovers over towns. Then speeds away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1518 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "ORANGEBURG,SC+COLUMBIA+FLORENCE+SALLY,SC:SCR HVRS OVR TOWNS:THEN SPEEDS AWAY", **LatLong:** "33.494446 -80.855559", **LatLongDMS:** "33:29:40 N 80:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.494446,-80.855559)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4584 (28A1CB00) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NORWOOD, OH **Description:** 12+observer(s). Huge object in searchlight again. Rises to avoid beam? Many such. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1519 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "NORWOOD,OH:12+OBS:HUGE OBJ IN SEARCHLITE AGAIN:RISES TO AVOID BEAM?:MANY SUCH", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -84.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 84:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-84.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4585 (8075367E) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Location:** Orangeburg, SC **Description:** Disc hovered over city, sped away. \[XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_672 ### Event 4586 (732073C2) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Location:** Orangeburg, South Carolina **Description:** A publisher and others see a bright disc hover over Orangeburg, South Carolina, for 15 minutes. It speeds away, leaving a trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 149](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=161&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1484 ### Event 4587 (7E4DDDF7) **Date:** 3/10/1950 **Description:** An oval-shaped, aluminum colored object hung in sky at 40,000 feet altitude over Indian School Road southeast of Phoenix, Arizona at 6:00 p.m. It was estimated to be 200 feet in diameter, tapering to narrower proportions in the rear. It moved silently through the sky with a red fiery trail one hundred feet long, but left no vapor trail. It was gone from sight in 4 to 5 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 45 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1401 ### Event 4588 (BCF5A34D) **Date:** 3/11/1950 **Location:** CD MEXICO, DF, MX **Description:** Airport observer(s) and Cadet with telescope. Many see several saucers. Others just 1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1520 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1143", **HatchDesc:** "cd MEXICO,DF,MX:AIRPORT OBS+CADET W/TELESCOPE:MANY SEE SVRL SCRS:OTHERS JUST 1", **LatLong:** "19.450001 -99.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "19:27:00 N 99:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.450001,-99.133338)", **State/Prov:** "DF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4589 (D03E2A7D) **Date:** 3/11/1950 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Huge 5-minute meteor changes color / Provost Marshall Haynor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 147) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1521 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1230", **HatchDesc:** "SW/HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:HUGE 5-MINUTE METEOR CHANGES COLOR/PROVOST MARSHALL HAYNOR", **LatLong:** "32.750002 -106.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:45:00 N 106:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.750002,-106.100005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 4590 (DFCFB67D) **Date:** 3/11/1950 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** PUNTA ARENAS, CHL **Description:** 18cm sphere / 5400M altitude / 3 hours. Crosses sky going west. / Los Angeles Times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 147) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1522 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "PUNTA ARENAS,CHL:18cm SPHERE/5400M alt/3hrs:CROSSES SKY >W:/Los Angeles Times", **LatLong:** "-53.133336 -70.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "53:08:00 S 70:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-53.133336,-70.916670)", **RelAlt:** "5400", **State/Prov:** "TDF", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 4591 (C054E942) **Date:** 3/11/1950 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** CHUALAR AND SALINAS, CA **Description:** 4 / car buzzed / saucer. Brill blue-light. Loops. Going quickly south. Many calls. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1523 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "CHUALAR+SALINAS,CA:4/CAR BUZZED/SCR:BRILL BLU-LITE:LOOPS:>>S:MANY CALLS", **LatLong:** "36.622224 -121.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:37:20 N 121:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.622224,-121.583339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4592 (BF1CA769) **Date:** 3/11/1950 **Location:** Punta Arenas, Chile **Description:** Silver ping-pong-shaped object at extreme altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_673 ### Event 4593 (FD509C37) **Date:** 3/11/1950 **Description:** A car was buzzed by a brilliant blue disc at 9:00 p.m. as it was being driven from Chualar to Salinas, California. The UFO made a loop, then shot off to the south. There were many calls to the authorities reporting sightings of the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1421 ### Event 4594 (0A9F0772) **Date:** 3/12/1950 **Location:** MEXICALI, MX AND CALEXICO, CA **Description:** Many observer(s). Bright discs tumble / sky. Crescents zip about. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1524 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MEXICALI,MX+CALEXICO,CA:MANY OBS:BRITE DISCS TUMBLE/SKY:CRESCENTS ZIP ABOUT", **LatLong:** "32.450002 -115.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:27:00 N 115:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.450002,-115.483339)", **State/Prov:** "Baja California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4595 (E869D41C) **Date:** 3/12/1950 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** PACIFIC CITY, OR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Photograph. Turtle-shell object south going north over sea. 6 holes / bottom. No spin. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1525 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC CITY,OR:2 OBS:FOTO:TURTLE-SHELL OBJ S>N OVR SEA:6 HOLES/BOTTOM:NO SPIN", **LatLong:** "45.200002 -123.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:12:00 N 123:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.200002,-123.950006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4596 (B845BC6E) **Date:** 3/12/1950 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** NEAR COLUMBUS, MT **Description:** 3 observer(s). Featureless cylinder/cigar-shape flames going quickly northwest. Separate weatherman reports saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 416) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1526 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1097", **HatchDesc:** "nr COLUMBUS,MT:3 OBS:FEATURELESS CGR FLAMES >>NW:SEP. WEATHERMAN REPORTS SCR", **LatLong:** "45.633336 -109.250005", **LatLongDMS:** "45:38:00 N 109:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.633336,-109.250005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4597 (19C02480) **Date:** 3/12/1950 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** BROOKS CO, TX **Description:** 11 observer(s) / 2 separate ranches. Plain 4M disk circles / 300M altitude. Going quickly southwest toward(s) Mexico. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 417) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1527 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKS co,TX:11 OBS/2 SEP.RANCHES:PLAIN 4M DISK CCLs/300M alt:>>SW twrd MEXICO", **LatLong:** "27.233335 -98.150005", **LatLongDMS:** "27:14:00 N 98:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.233335,-98.150005)", **State/Prov:** "TSX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4598 (6F689226) **Date:** 3/12/1950 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** SANTA FE, NM **Description:** 2 saucers swoop over highway in front / car. Observer(s) terrified. (UPI) / WDC. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1528 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2100", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA FE,NM:2 SCRS SWOOP OVR HIGHWAY IN FRONT/CAR:OBS TERRIFIED:(UPI)/WDC", **LatLong:** "35.666668 -106.038894", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 106:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,-106.038894)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4599 (B59057AA) **Date:** 3/12/1950 **Description:** On this night a featureless four-meter wide disc circled a ranch in Falfurrias, Texas at 300 meters altitude for a few minutes. It flew off in a southwesterly direction toward Mexico. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 Supplement, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1430 ### Event 4600 (BD262616) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Location:** CLARKSBURG, CA **Description:** Big glowing saucer descends. Hovers / swaying motion. Stays / 15 minute(s). 2 observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1529 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "CLARKSBURG,CA:BIG GLOWING SCR DESCENDS:HOVERS/SWAYING MOTION:STAYS/15min:2 OBS", **LatLong:** "38.422224 -121.527784", **LatLongDMS:** "38:25:20 N 121:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.422224,-121.527784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4601 (2D44CC22) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NORTH / MONTREAL, QB **Description:** Pilot sighting. 2 saucers and 2 pear-shapes / 10K' altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1530 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "N/MONTREAL,QB:PILOT SIGHTING:2 SCRS+2 PEAR-SHAPES/10K'alt:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.666669 -73.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:00 N 73:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.666669,-73.583337)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4602 (94820B42) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EUNICE, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Dull-red glowing-disk going east / oilfield / 150M altitude. 90° turn going quickly north / 1600kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1531 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1051", **HatchDesc:** "EUNICE,NM:2 OBS:DULL-RED GLO-DISK > E/OILFIELD/150M alt:90°TURN >>N/1600kph", **LatLong:** "32.438890 -103.161116", **LatLongDMS:** "32:26:20 N 103:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.438890,-103.161116)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4603 (E8FAB143) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Location:** Clarksburg, CA **Description:** Saucer-shaped object descended, hovered with swaying motion, moved away. \[IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_674 ### Event 4604 (262DD764) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Location:** Mexico City, MX **Description:** Airport observers saw 4 UFOs, one through theodolite. \[V, Xl (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_675 ### Event 4605 (57FA865D) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Location:** Clarksburg, California **Description:** Early morning. Army Signal Corps \(Reserve\) Maj. Taylor in Clarksburg, California, is sleeping when an odd droning noise wakes him up. Going outside, he notices the noise is coming from a brilliant light in the sky, one- half the size of the full moon. It sways for about 15 minutes, then moves away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) [Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 49 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1485 ### Event 4606 (4BA10841) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Location:** Central Airport in Mexico City, Mexico **Description:** Day. At the Central Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, Santiago Smith \(weather observer for Mexicana de Aviación\), J. de la Vega of the airport commander’s office, and others see a total of four UFOs passing overhead. Smith observes one of them through a theodolite, describing it as the shape of a “half-moon.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 44](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021); “[‘Saucers’ No Illusion: Hundreds See Shy Visitors,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93070351/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, March 14, 1950, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 50–51 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1486 ### Event 4607 (CC533E28) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Description:** A glowing light descended, then hovered with a swaying motion over farm country in Clarksburg, California at 5:00 a.m. It made a droning sound, and stayed in the area for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 49, citing Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, October 1958, p. 83 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1445 ### Event 4608 (5294CD22) **Date:** 3/13/1950 **Description:** An nine meter in diameter object, described as a spaceship with a propeller, allegedly landed in Penon de Los Banos, Mexico on this day. The pilot of the craft conversed in the Spanish language with the witness. His message was that "they" will colonize after we destroy ourselves. There was a reported odor of sulphur accompanying the presence of the UFOnaut. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0157, citing the Durango Herald, March 19, 1950; El Universal, March 14, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1446 ### Event 4609 (6ED6D1F8) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Location:** KAILUA, OAHU, HI **Description:** Farm worker. Silver saucer trails smaller shining streaks. Goes southeast going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1532 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KAILUA,OAHU,HI:FARM WORKER:SLVR SCR TRAILS SMALLER SHINING STREAKS:GOES SE>>NW", **LatLong:** "21.366668 -157.783341", **LatLongDMS:** "21:22:00 N 157:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.366668,-157.783341)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4610 (946CEDCF) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Location:** NEAR MEXICO CITY AIRPORT/APARTMENT, MX **Description:** Private pilot. 7M dome with green glow / bottom. Quickly going up. / r134#1p49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1533 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2230", **HatchDesc:** "nr MEXICO CITY Apt,MX:PVT PILOT:7M DOME W/GRN GLOW/BOTTOM:↑↑:/r134#1p49", **LatLong:** "19.466668 -99.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "19:28:00 N 99:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.466668,-99.100005)", **State/Prov:** "DF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4611 (E2256A88) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** 16 KM NORTHEAST / SANTA FE, NM **Description:** Teen. Huge shiny globe hovers / mountains. Sudden burst / speed going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1534 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2098", **HatchDesc:** "16 km NE/SANTA FE,NM:TEEN:HUGE SHINY GLOBE HVRS/Mtns:SUDDEN BURST/SPEED >>NE", **LatLong:** "35.750002 -105.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:45:00 N 105:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.750002,-105.900005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4612 (A0BD1DF3) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** PACIFIC BEACH, WA **Description:** Blue Book. Civil observer(s) = Ballieu. Object / crazy maneuvers / 5 minute(s). Type unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1535 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC BEACH,WA:BBK:CIV.OBS=BALLIEU:OBJ/CRAZY MNVRS/5min:TYPE UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.211113 -124.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:12:40 N 124:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.211113,-124.200006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4613 (BC582734) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Description:** At 1:00 p.m. in a cemetery in Veghenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy a witness witnessed a six-meter in diameter metallic saucer with legs. Six four-foot tall humanoids climbed ladders, then gestured. The craft took off and flew to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2046 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1469 ### Event 4614 (F95A0D21) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Description:** At around noon a teenager named Richardson, who was located 16 km northeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico, saw a huge shiny sphere hovering over the mountains. It made a sudden burst of speed to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated March 15, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 (Volume 4), p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1470 ### Event 4615 (88F25AC6) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Description:** On this day a farmworker in Kailua, island of Oahu, Hawaii sighted a silver disc; it had trailing it smaller shining streaks. It flew from the southeast to the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. January-March, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1471 ### Event 4616 (AF4452FC) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Description:** On this night a private pilot at Mexico City Airport, Mexico witnessed a 7 meter in diameter dome with a green glow on the bottom. It shot up vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** H. Edward Hill, Catalog Through 1950, case #315; Frank Scully, Behind the Flying Saucers, p. 209; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 44; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1556 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1472 ### Event 4617 (3FBE84F0) **Date:** 3/14/1950 **Description:** At 11:30 p.m. in Pacific Beach, Washington civilians watched a UFO maneuver erratically for about five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book, March 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. January-March, p. 51 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1473 ### Event 4618 (293ECA1F) **Date:** 3/15/1950 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** GUATEMALA, GUAT **Description:** 4 silver saucers / 25K' over airport/apartment runways. 1Kmph going quickly north. Also Mexico, DF / same day.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1536 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guatemala", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "GUATEMALA,GUAT:4 SLVR SCRS/25K' OVR APT RUNWAYS:1Kmph>>N:+MEXICO,DF/SAME DAY..", **LatLong:** "14.616667 -90.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "14:37:00 N 90:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.616667,-90.533338)", **RelAlt:** "7500", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4619 (0D7E49AE) **Date:** 3/15/1950 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** PRESTONSBURG, KY **Description:** 35 kids and more. Terrible roar. 3 star-saucers slow down and maneuver. 2 more later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 423) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1537 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "196", **HatchDesc:** "PRESTONSBURG,KY:35 KIDS+:TERRIBLE ROAR:3 STAR-SCRS SLOW DOWN+MNVR:2 MORE LATER", **LatLong:** "37.666668 -82.772226", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 82:46:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,-82.772226)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4620 (2AD40D43) **Date:** 3/15/1950 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** PENFIELD, PA **Description:** 2 / car / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 30m saucer / 100m altitude trails streamer. Military investigation/investigators. (AP) news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1538 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "377", **HatchDesc:** "PENFIELD,PA:2/CAR/EMEs:30m SCR/100m alt TRAILS STREAMER:MIL INV:(AP) NEWS", **LatLong:** "41.211113 -78.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "41:12:40 N 78:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.211113,-78.577782)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4621 (3F59BB97) **Date:** 3/15/1950 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** BATON ROUGE, LA **Description:** 1 observer. 5 ovoids going quickly southeast fast in formation. White or aluminum color. Seen 10 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1539 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "BATON ROUGE,LA:1 OBS:5 OVOIDS >>SE FAST in FORMn:WHT or ALUMN CLR:seen 10 sec", **LatLong:** "30.450001 -91.155560", **LatLongDMS:** "30:27:00 N 91:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.450001,-91.155560)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4622 (07A8A362) **Date:** 3/15/1950 **Locations:** Guatemala; Guatemala City; Brookley Air Force Base; Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley; Mobile, Alabama **Description:** An Air Force Captain Hall, flying in Guatemala, hears from other pilots at La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City that large, fast, and highly maneuverable objects have flown directly over the runway. The stories also appear in the local press. When Hall returns to Brookley Air Force Base \[now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley\] in Mobile, Alabama, he is interrogated by a USAF intelligence officer and told: “Listen, there is no such thing as a flying saucer. You won’t discuss them.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 96 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1487 ### Event 4623 (9DE918B7) **Date:** 3/15/1950 **Description:** At 6:15 p.m. a disc-shaped object circled a motorist on highway 153 north of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. There were humanoids inside the craft that were visible through windows, and a bluish-green ray was shot in the direction of the witness but missed. A white light lingered in the area for more than 30 seconds, then the UFO flew off toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** William Baggs, Miami Daily News, March 15, 1950; St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 2, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 52 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1521 ### Event 4624 (E554BE61) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Location:** Lima, Peru **Description:** Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special) **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116741771/swiss-engineer-sees-ufo-behind-the/) **Reference:** ["Behind the Flying Saucers" by Frank Scully](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_400 ### Event 4625 (CDFEBAF8) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **End date:** 3/18/1950 **Locations:** Farmington, NM; Aztec, NM **Description:** Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s of UFO’s spotted over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared red colored. Seen by thousands of witnesses over a period of several days. Local newspapers reportedly censored. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [link](https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/2020/03/17/ufo-armada-reportedly-filled-skies-above-farmington-1950/5073795002/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_401 ### Event 4626 (0EB0A15F) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Location:** MIRAFLORES, PERU **Description:** Swiss engineer and family. Glowing saucer stops overhead / 5 minute(s). Continues going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1540 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "MIRAFLORES,PERU:SWISS ENGINEER+FAMILY:GLOWING SCR STOPS OVHD/5min:CONTINUES>>N", **LatLong:** "-12.133334 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "12:08:00 S 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.133334,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "LMA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4627 (EB8A206B) **Date:** 3/16/1950 (approximate) **Location:** COCHABAMBA AND LA PAZ, BLV **Description:** 2+glowing-disks going northeast overhead and away. / local paper and more / r134#1p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1541 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Bolivia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2570", **HatchDesc:** "COCHABAMBA+La PAZ,BLV:2+GLOW-DISKS >NE OVHD+away:/local paper+/r134#1p35", **LatLong:** "-17.383334 -66.150003", **LatLongDMS:** "17:23:00 S 66:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.383334,-66.150003)", **State/Prov:** "LPZ", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4628 (732D6603) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Location:** SAN JOSE PURUA, MICH, MEXICO **Description:** AM tourist. Double truncated cone. Photographs (lost). 9000' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1542 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1450", **HatchDesc:** "SAN JOSE PURUA,MICH,MEX:AM TOURIST:DBL TRUNCATED CONE:FOTOS(LOST):9000'alt", **LatLong:** "19.516668 -100.522227", **LatLongDMS:** "19:31:00 N 100:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.516668,-100.522227)", **RelAlt:** "2700", **State/Prov:** "MCH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4629 (EF8B11EF) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** DELHI, ONT **Description:** 3 observer(s). Dull "extra moon" jerks around sky generally going quickly south. Quite fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1543 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "233", **HatchDesc:** "DELHI,ONT:3 OBS:DULL "EXTRA MOON" JERKS AROUND SKY GENERALLY >>S:QUITE FAST", **LatLong:** "42.866669 -80.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:52:00 N 80:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.866669,-80.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4630 (85C26D4E) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** DALLAS NAS, TX **Description:** CPO Lewis. 25' saucer stops right under B36 bomber. Then quickly going up. / r29p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 424) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1544 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS NAS,TX:CPO LEWIS:25'SCR STOPS RIGHT UNDER B36 BOMBER:THEN ↑↑:/r29p75", **LatLong:** "32.733335 -96.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:44:00 N 96:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.733335,-96.966671)", **RelAlt:** "-1", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4631 (1CAA05A2) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** NEAR TIOGA, TX **Description:** 7 / bus. Slow silent flat disk suddenly flips and speeds away. Featureless. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 424) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1545 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "212", **HatchDesc:** "nr TIOGA,TX:7/BUS:SLOW SLNT FLAT DISK SUDDENLY FLIPS+SPEEDS AWAY:FEATURELESS", **LatLong:** "33.466668 -96.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:28:00 N 96:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.466668,-96.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4632 (39241DF7) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** PIKES PEAK, CO **Description:** Saucer over peak. Newpaper lines jammed / calls. Also Hobbs and Albuquerque / NM. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 155) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1546 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "4300", **HatchDesc:** "PIKES PEAK,CO:SCR OVR PEAK:NEWPAPER LINES JAMMED/CALLS:ALSO HOBBS+ALBUQQ/NM", **LatLong:** "38.844446 -105.044449", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:40 N 105:02:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.844446,-105.044449)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4633 (C7B8062F) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Location:** Dallas, TX **Description:** Navy Chief Petty Officer at Naval Air Station saw a flat oval UFO pass under a B36 bomber. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_676 ### Event 4634 (19280678) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Locations:** White Sands, New Mexico; New Mexico **Description:** The efforts of [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and Maj. [Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39) to start a fireball research project come to fruition when the AF Geophysical Research Directorate headed by Oder issues a letter directive authorizing Project Twinkle. A $20,000 half-year contract is signed with Land-Air, Inc. which operates the phototheodolites at White Sands, New Mexico. Land-Air is to set up a 24-hour watch at a location in New Mexico to be specified by the Air Force, and the phototheodolite operators at White Sands are to film any unusual objects that happen to fly past. The official contract gives April 1 as the starting date. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1488 ### Event 4635 (4337D9CA) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Dallas; Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex; Dallas, Texas **Description:** Just before 12:00 noon. Chief Petty Officer Charles Lewis sees a flying disc streak across the sky at Naval Air Station Dallas \[later Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex\] near Dallas, Texas. It buzzes a high- flying B-36. It hovers under the bomber for a moment, then flies off and disappears. NAS Commander Capt. [Milton Adolphus Nation](https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/21419) vouches for Lewis and says that the base tower operators had seen a UFO 10 days before. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Disc Buzzes B-36](http://www.nicap.org/500316dallas%5Fdir.htm)”; “‘Flying Saucers’ Sighted by Two,” Dallas Morning News, March 18, 1950; Ruppelt, [p. 75](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/74/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1489 ### Event 4636 (21165C57) **Date:** 3/16/1950 **End date:** 3/18/1950 **Location:** Farmington, New Mexico **Description:** 11 a.m.–noon. Former Army Engineer Capt. and Farmington Times business manager [Clayton J. Boddy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203856575/clayton-joseph-boddy) [Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203856575/clayton-joseph-boddy) and dozens of others watch 12–15 shiny “saucer-like discs” cavorting around the sky over Farmington, New Mexico. They hover, then move in great bursts of speed. The objects appear three days in a row. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/500316farmington%5Fdir.htm) [Farmington Invasion](http://www.nicap.org/500316farmington%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 56–64; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 84; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 47–48 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1490 ### Event 4637 (6D2D8B7D) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Location:** ANKARA, TURKEY **Description:** Locals. 6 blue-white disks turn / sky. Suddenly shoot up and gone. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1547 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Turkey", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANKARA,TURKEY:LOCALS:6 BLU-WHT DISKS TURN/SKY:SUDDENLY SHOOT UP+GONE:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.916669 32.833335", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:00 N 32:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.916669,32.833335)", **State/Prov:** "Ankara", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4638 (5C75ECA6) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Location:** MEXICO CITY, MX **Description:** Aircrew and 4 pilots / ground and more. Plane chases 30M saucer / 10km altitude. / r150p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1548 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2221", **HatchDesc:** "MEXICO CITY,MX:AIRCREW+4 PILOTS/GND+:PLANE CHASES 30M SCR/10km ALT:/r150p11", **LatLong:** "19.466668 -99.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "19:28:00 N 99:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.466668,-99.116671)", **RelAlt:** "10000", **State/Prov:** "DF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4639 (E168C68B) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** FARMINGTON, NM **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Hundreds / saucers cones and cigars maneuver. 90° turns. / r212p65+/ r134#4+6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1549 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "1613", **HatchDesc:** "FARMINGTON,NM:1000s/OBS:100s/SCRS CONES+CGRS MNVR:90°TURNS:/r212p65+/r134#4+6", **LatLong:** "36.733335 -108.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:44:00 N 108:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.733335,-108.183338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4640 (6E5FC64E) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Night lights and fireballs zip all over town to 1645hrs. Drop from sky. Exit going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 155) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1550 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "105", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:NLTS+FBLS ZIP ALL OVR TOWN to 1645hrs:DROP FROM SKY:EXIT >>W.", **LatLong:** "35.877779 -106.283338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:40 N 106:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.877779,-106.283338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4641 (1E56F2F9) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 4 Air Force men. 3 silver saucers tumble / 10K' altitude. 1 shoots going up. 1 going north. 1 going northeast / 15 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1551 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "KIRTLAND AFB,NM:4 AF MEN:3 SLVR SCRS TUMBLE/10K'alt:1 SHOOTS ↑:1>N:1>NE/15min", **LatLong:** "35.016668 -106.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:01:00 N 106:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.016668,-106.600005)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4642 (EEA49F6C) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** TUCUMCARI, NM **Description:** Daily news swamped / calls. Saucers all over. 1 larger / rest. Big show.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1552 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1245", **HatchDesc:** "TUCUMCARI,NM:DAILY NEWS SWAMPED/CALLS:SCRS ALL OVR:1 LARGER/REST:BIG SHOW..", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -103.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 103:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-103.700005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4643 (4CC051F6) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** LITTLE ROCK, ARK **Description:** Pilot sighting. 6-12 black octagons turn suddenly going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1553 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLE ROCK,ARK:PILOT SIGHTING:6-12 BLACK OCTAGONS TURN SUDDENLY >>SW:", **LatLong:** "34.733335 -92.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:00 N 92:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.733335,-92.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4644 (3801EED6) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Location:** Farmington, NM **Description:** Retired Army Captain, others, saw dozens of discs gyrating in sky. \[IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_677 ### Event 4645 (80B3DD9A) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Description:** Six bluish white disc-shaped objects turned in the sky over Ankara, Turkey on this day. They next shot straight up into the sky and vanished from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1534 ### Event 4646 (125E484D) **Date:** 3/17/1950 **Description:** Six to twelve black octagon-shaped objects were seen from the air over Little Rock, Arkansas at 4:30 p.m. The object made a sharp sudden turn to the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1950 report; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1535 ### Event 4647 (60ABAF27) **Date:** 3/18/1950 (approximate) **Location:** ORLAND PARK, IL **Description:** Man photographs 30m pie-plate saucer. Dives into clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1554 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "213", **HatchDesc:** "ORLAND PARK,IL:MAN FOTOS 30m PIE-PLATE SCR:DIVES into clouds", **LatLong:** "41.627780 -87.855560", **LatLongDMS:** "41:37:40 N 87:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.627780,-87.855560)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4648 (4C14CAE6) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** BURSA, TURKEY **Description:** (AP) "Mohammedan Muzzeins / minarets see flying saucers in sky". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1555 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Turkey", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BURSA,TURKEY:(AP) "MOHAMMEDAN MUZZEINS/MINARETS SEE FLYING SAUCERS IN SKY"", **LatLong:** "40.200002 29.066668", **LatLongDMS:** "40:12:00 N 29:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.200002,29.066668)", **State/Prov:** "BRS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4649 (EE500270) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** BRADFORD, IL **Description:** Several / private plane. Very fast metallic glowing-ovoid enters clouds. / r134#1p65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1556 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "246", **HatchDesc:** "BRADFORD,IL:SVRL/Pvt.PLANE:VFAST MTLC GLOW-OVOID ENTERS CLOUDS:/r134#1p65", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -89.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 89:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-89.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4650 (5EF1E5EF) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** ATLANTA AIRPORT/APARTMENT, GA **Description:** 6 airline(s)/airliner pilots / ground. Silent aluminum disk going quickly southwest. 6-7km altitude. Impossible climb. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1557 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTA Apt,GA:6 AL PILOTS/GND:SLNT ALUM.DISK >>SW:6-7km alt:IMPOSSIBLE CLIMB", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -84.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 84:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-84.416671)", **RelAlt:** "6500", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4651 (BBD9D7DD) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LAGO ARGENTINO, ARG **Description:** 2 saucers, 1 lands. Pseudo-human/entity / cabin. Smell and sound / jet engineer. Going quickly west. / r67p89. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1558 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "LAGO ARGENTINO,ARG:2 SCRS,1 LANDS:PSH/CABIN:SMELL+SOUND/JET ENG:>>W:/r67p89", **LatLong:** "-50.333336 -72.300003", **LatLongDMS:** "50:20:00 S 72:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-50.333336,-72.300003)", **State/Prov:** "STC", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 4652 (E176F3C8) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Location:** Bradford (near), IL **Description:** Fisher Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_678 ### Event 4653 (A589905E) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Lago Argentino, Argentina **Description:** A rancher, Wilfredo H. Arevalo, saw two objects, one of which landed. He walked within 150 m of the aluminum-looking craft which gave off a greenish-blue vapor and "an intense smell of burning benzine." A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin in which could be seen four tall men, dressed in something like cellophane, working at various instruments. They saw him and shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft; the vapor increased and flames (alternately reddish and greenish) shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 32 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_73 ### Event 4654 (92C4C3D5) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Location:** Bradford, Illinois **Description:** 8:40 a.m. Private pilot Robert Fisher, flying a Beechcraft Bonanza over Bradford, Illinois, encounters an oval object with a metallic sheen. He can still see the object when it flies behind some thin clouds. It moves away at an estimated speed of 600–1,000 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 38](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=50&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1491 ### Event 4655 (26540B19) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Description:** The USAF publicly denies that UFOs are secret missiles or space-exploration devices. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [p. 13](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1492 ### Event 4656 (9AC94395) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Description:** On this day in 1950, several sightings of daylight discs occurred over the United States, Europe, and South America. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1544 ### Event 4657 (69338106) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Description:** At the Atlanta Municipal Airport, Georgia six airline pilots on the tarmac reported sighting an aluminum colored disc that flew silently toward the southwest at between 6000 and 7000 feet altitude. It then made an "impossible climb." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon, 1947-1987, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1545 ### Event 4658 (D4E41837) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Description:** A large number of saucers, performing aerobatics, appeared over Farmington, New Mexico around noon, and then flew away at an estimated 1000 mph. A luminous, metallic appearing disc was sighted five miles northeast of Bradford, Illinois at 8:40 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** unnamed newspaper clippings, March 18 and 19, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1546 ### Event 4659 (3A771B51) **Date:** 3/18/1950 **Description:** At a ranch in Lago Argentino, Argentina, Mr. Wilfredo H. Arevalo, a rancher, saw two objects, one of which landed at 6:30 p.m. He walked within 150 meters of the aluminum looking craft that gave off a blue-green vapor with "an intense smell of burning benzene." A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin in which could be seen four tall men with pallid faces, dressed in something like cellophane, working at various instruments. When they saw him they shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft. The vapor increased and flames, alternately red and green, shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 108; The Humanoids, FSR Special Issue #1, p. 32; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1547 ### Event 4660 (E7443235) **Date:** 3/19/1950 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EAST TORONTO, ON **Description:** 2 Air Force Vets and 3. 4 silver grey saucers going east. Circle / 3000M altitude / 300kph. Maneuvers. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 438) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1559 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "E.TORONTO,ON:2 AF VETS+3:4 SLVR GRY SCRS > E:CCL/3000M alt/300kph:MNVRS:>>NW", **LatLong:** "43.683335 -79.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:41:00 N 79:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.683335,-79.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4661 (AF8EE88A) **Date:** 3/19/1950 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** GUIJUELO, SP **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Glowing dark-grey 4M disk zips / 1 cloud into another. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1560 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GUIJUELO,SP:NMRS OBS:GLOWING DRK-GRY 4M DISK ZIPS/1 CLOUD INTO ANOTHER", **LatLong:** "40.533335 -5.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:32:00 N 05:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.533335,-5.650000)", **State/Prov:** "SLM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4662 (4DA5BF97) **Date:** 3/19/1950 **Description:** In 1950 in Sonderborg, Denmark at 2:30 a.m., mechanic J. Matiszewski heard a whistling sound that drew him outside. He then watched a UFO land in a meadow. When he approached to within 50 meters he suddenly felt paralyzed, and he observed that birds and cows in the vicinity were also unable to move. He stood motionless as four handsome men with brown complexions, wearing shiny black suits and translucent helmets, emerged from the craft and engaged in repair activities. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger 1 Danmark, p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1561 ### Event 4663 (4CCFEA7F) **Date:** 3/20/1950 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** SOUTH / MULESHOE, TX **Description:** USAF T6. White sphere/orb/globe / 2Kmph / 15K' altitude goes by going quickly west / seconds. Leaves (something behind) contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1561 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1155", **HatchDesc:** "S/MULESHOE,TX:USAF T6:WHT ORB/2Kmph/15K'alt GOES BY >>W/SECONDS:LVS CONTRAIL", **LatLong:** "34.205557 -102.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:12:20 N 102:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.205557,-102.716672)", **RelAlt:** "4600", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4664 (BB3956A8) **Date:** 3/20/1950 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** NEAR GREENWOOD, MS **Description:** Crew and several / airliner. Strange bright object / 10 minute(s). Vanishes. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1562 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "nr GREENWOOD,MS:CREW+SVRL/AIRLINER:STRANGE BRITE OBJ/10min:VANISHES:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "33.516668 -90.177782", **LatLongDMS:** "33:31:00 N 90:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.516668,-90.177782)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4665 (B47F8004) **Date:** 3/20/1950 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** OVER HAZEN, ARK **Description:** DC3 pilots. 27M saucer going quickly north / 900kph. 6-7 lit portholes / bottom/underside. Blue-glow. / r2p77. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 439) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1563 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "71", **HatchDesc:** "ovr HAZEN,ARK:DC3 PILOTS:27M SCR >>N/900kph:6-7 LIT PORTS/BTM:BLUE-GLOW:/r2p77", **LatLong:** "34.783335 -91.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:47:00 N 91:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.783335,-91.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4666 (43C04EFC) **Date:** 3/20/1950 **Location:** Stuttgart, AR **Description:** 100 ft flat cylinder-section circular disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 671) **Reference:** NICAP: [500320](http://www.nicap.org/500320littlerock%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_679 ### Event 4667 (30BA7C69) **Date:** 3/20/1950 **Location:** Clovis (35 miles SE of), NM **Description:** Spherical then elongated object flying at 2,000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_680 ### Event 4668 (96BAA4CE) **Date:** 3/20/1950 **Time:** 9:26 PM **Location:** Stuggart, Arkansas **Description:** Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt. Jack Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. One 100' circular disc with 9-12 portholes along the lower side emitting a soft purple light, and a light at the top which flashed 3 times in 9 seconds, flew at not less than 1,000 m.p.h. It was seen for 25-35 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_34 ### Event 4669 (CC411B27) **Date:** 3/20/1950 **Locations:** Chicago; Southern Airlines; Memphis, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; Hazen, Arkansas **Description:** 9:26 p.m. Chicago and Southern Airlines Capt. [Jack Adams](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169984401/jack-alvin-adams) and First Officer G. W. Anderson Jr., flying a DC-3 at 2,000 feet and heading west from Memphis, Tennessee, to Little Rock, Arkansas, see a circular disc 100 feet in diameter approximately over Hazen, Arkansas. In the top center of the object is an extremely bright light blinking at an estimated 3 flashes per second. The bottom of the object appears to have 9–12 symmetrical oval or circular portholes in a circle approximately 75% of the distance from the center to the outer edge. The object passes directly in front of the airliner at a distance of not more than 2,640 feet and approximately 1,000 feet higher than the airliner. They watch the object for 25–35 seconds. Adams estimates its speed is greater than 1,000 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[DC-3 Encounters 100ʹ Disc](http://www.nicap.org/500320littlerock%5Fdir.htm)”; Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, July 24, 1955; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 85; Swords 95–96; Tom Howell YouTube channel, “[UFO from the 1950s,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj3VL8MGiHw)” October 3, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1493 ### Event 4670 (65034004) **Date:** Spring 1950 **Locations:** Antarctica; Chilean Embassy **Description:** Commander Augusto Vars Ortega of the Chilean Navy takes about 1,200 feet of color film of UFOs—one above the other, turning at tremendous speeds—in Antarctica. When NICAP asks the Chilean Embassy about the film in 1956, it tells [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that the film is classified and not available. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dan Lloyd, “[Things Are Hotting Up in](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf) [the Antarctic,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1965\): 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1506 ### Event 4671 (8FB3A709) **Date:** 3/21/1950 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE AND SANDIA, NM **Description:** Silent MLT saucers circle / 30 minute(s). Going quickly east. 22 March. 11 military. Flying wing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1564 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "KIRTLAND AFB+SANDIA,NM:SLNT MLT SCRS CCL/30min:>>E::22MAR:11 MIL:FLYING WING", **LatLong:** "35.033335 -106.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:02:00 N 106:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.033335,-106.600005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4672 (AC9B53FC) **Date:** 3/21/1950 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** RAPID CITY, SDAK **Description:** Blue Book. 2 observer(s). Metal saucer makes 1 mile circle / 2 minute(s). Shoots straight going up / cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1565 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "974", **HatchDesc:** "RAPID CITY,SDAK:BBK:2 OBS:MTL SCR MAKES 1mi CIRCLE/2min:SHOOTS STRAIGHT↑/CLOUD", **LatLong:** "44.066669 -103.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:04:00 N 103:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.066669,-103.216672)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4673 (D5C0B8FB) **Date:** 3/21/1950 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** 4925th Test Group Sees UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500321](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/kirtland500321dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_681 ### Event 4674 (C519BAB2) **Date:** 3/21/1950 **Locations:** Sandia Base, New Mexico; Kirtland AFB **Description:** 1:00–1:30 p.m. Sergeant Woods at Sandia Base, New Mexico, reports four round, silvery objects to the northeast. The objects appear to be more maneuverable than any known aircraft. The maneuvers are similar to those in dogfights involving two aircraft, but there seems to be no similarity to a conventional plane. They make right-angle turns and reverse direction instantaneously. The duration is about 30 minutes. Other witnesses at Sandia and Kirtland AFB report similar observations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Base Personnel Sight Strange Objects](http://www.nicap.org/500321kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 85 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1494 ### Event 4675 (48FEF7AF) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM (corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/1950). Description: Circular with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by 3 bodies, only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like high-speed flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station interfered with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash. **Type:** memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, ["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p527, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_402 **See also:** 3/25/1948 ### Event 4676 (50F2FFE6) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Location:** Ottawa, CA **Description:** Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada, announces plans to build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also state that "Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group in the USA **Type:** announcement **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, ["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p464) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_403 ### Event 4677 (44C9D7F3) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Location:** NORTHWEST / KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 11 Air Force Sergeants. Tan flying wing going northwest. Turns going north and gone / fantastic speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1566 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1495", **HatchDesc:** "NW/KIRTLAND AFB,NM:11 AF SGTS:TAN FLYING WING> NW:TURNS>N+GONE/FANTASTIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -106.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 106:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-106.500005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4678 (7765C010) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** VILLARTA DE SAN JUAN, SP **Description:** Cloud object hits car / bright light. Buzzes car repeatedly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1567 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "VILLARTA de SAN JUAN,SP:CLOUD OBJ HITS CAR/BRITE LITE:BUZZES CAR REPEATEDLY", **LatLong:** "39.300002 -3.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "39:18:00 N 03:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.300002,-3.700000)", **State/Prov:** "CRL", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4679 (C7751715) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** 4925th Test Group Sees UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500322](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/docs/kirt1950/500322%5F4925dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_682 ### Event 4680 (2B2467DC) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, New Mexico **Description:** 11:00 a.m. Eleven sergeants in the 4925th Test Group watch a UFO northwest of Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The shape is “similar to a flying wing air craft and tan in color, turning to brown around the edges.” It first travels northwesterly at 25,000–30,000 feet, then turns north and disappears with a tremendous burst of speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Atomic Test Group Witnesses UFO in Broad Daylight](http://www.nicap.org/500322kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 85 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1495 ### Event 4681 (BE32D9E9) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Location:** New Mexico **Description:** FBI agent [Guy L. Hottel](https://gwsports.com/hof.aspx?hof=81) writes to FBI headquarters about a rumor that three UFOs have crashed and are recovered in New Mexico. They are 50 feet in diameter and “each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.” It goes on, “According to Mr. \[redacted\], informant, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government had a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling \[sic\] mechanism of the saucers." The informant is probably [Silas M. Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) or [Leo GeBauer](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660). On March 25, 2013, the FBI issues a release saying that the Hottel memo was simply a second- or third-hand claim “that we never investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was circulating at that time, but the Bureau’s files have no information to verify that theory.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Guy Hottel, “[Flying Saucers, Information Concerning,](https://vault.fbi.gov/hottel%5Fguy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view)” March 22, 1950; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 326–327; Good Above, [p. 527](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/526/mode/2up); Federal Bureau of Investigation, “[UFOs and the Guy](https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo) [Hottel Memo,](https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo)” March 25, 2013; Robert L. Hastings, “[The March 22, 1950 FBI Memo on Crashed Flying](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/the-march-22-1950-fbi-memo-on-crashed-flying-saucers) [Saucers,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/the-march-22-1950-fbi-memo-on-crashed-flying-saucers)” UFOs & Nukes, April 18, 2011 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1496 ### Event 4682 (C80FF9C1) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Description:** At 5:45 a.m. two industrialists in Spain saw a bright blue, cloud-like object while driving in Villarta de San Juan, Ciudad Real Province. It emitted a very bright light that appeared to collide with the object. The UFO was seen again 20 times during their drive. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, citing Stendek, June 1970, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1611 ### Event 4683 (2D892F34) **Date:** 3/22/1950 **Description:** At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico eleven USAF Sergeants watched a tan-colored flying wing head towards the northwest, turn to the north, and then fly off at a fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 73 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1612 ### Event 4684 (2E91D286) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Location:** MORRO BAY, CA **Description:** Ex-Air Force aircraft-observer(s). 8 metallic ovoids soar going quickly west to sea / 2000' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1568 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "MORRO BAY,CA:EX-AF AIRCRAFT-OBS:8 MTLC OVOIDS SOAR >>W TO SEA/2000'alt", **LatLong:** "35.366668 -120.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:22:00 N 120:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.366668,-120.850006)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4685 (7DF49367) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Location:** JALAPA, VERACRUZ, MX **Description:** At least 300 saucers circle city. Gone by sundown. / El Universal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1569 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "1381", **HatchDesc:** "JALAPA,VERACRUZ,MX:AT LEAST 300 SCRS CIRCLE CITY:GONE BY SUNDOWN:/El Universal", **LatLong:** "19.466668 -96.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "19:28:00 N 96:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.466668,-96.916671)", **State/Prov:** "VRC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4686 (7F1EFEA2) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** J. McCullen. Huge saucer hovers / 20K' altitude. Then goes going quickly east very fast. / LA Times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1570 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:J.McCULLEN:HUGE SCR HVRS/20K'alt:THEN GOES >>E VFAST:/L.A.TIMES", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -114.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 114:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-114.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4687 (BF714F6C) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Location:** BARRE, VT **Description:** 3+observer(s). Baseball-orbs dive to ground. Head going quickly northwest. Flying hubcaps pace B36 also. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1571 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "186", **HatchDesc:** "BARRE,VT:3+OBS:BASEBALL-ORBS DIVE TO GND:HEAD>>NW:FLYING HUBCAPS PACE B36 ALSO", **LatLong:** "44.194447 -72.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:11:40 N 72:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.194447,-72.500003)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4688 (2353E6FC) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** PENSACOLA, FL **Description:** Saufley Field. Group / military and separate civilians. Metal saucer / 500mph. Flies going quickly east into wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1572 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PENSACOLA,FL:SAUFLEY FIELD:GRP/MIL+SEP CIVS:MTL SCR/500mph:FLIES>>E INTO WIND:", **LatLong:** "30.422224 -87.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:25:20 N 87:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.422224,-87.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4689 (589283DD) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** OLIVEIRA DO HOSPITAL, PORTUGAL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Disk north going quickly south. 2nd disk does same / 1845hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1573 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "OLIVEIRA do HOSPITAL,PORTUGAL:NMRS OBS:DISK N>>S:2nd DISK DOES SAME/1845hrs", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -7.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 07:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-7.850000)", **State/Prov:** "BXA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4690 (6DFB4EE8) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Location:** Jacksonville, FL **Description:** Blue-White Flame Approaches C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) **Reference:** NICAP: [500323](http://www.nicap.org/500323jacksonville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_683 ### Event 4691 (B30A92D2) **Date:** 3/23/1950 **Description:** A Mexican newspaper, El Universal, reported that at least 300 disc-shaped UFOs were sighted zooming around the sky above the city of Jalapa Enriquez, in the State of Veracruz, Mexico on this night. In Yuma, Arizona a UFO hovered over the park at 20,000 feet for two minutes during the day, then left at high speed to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 78, citing El Universal, March 24, 1950; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 75 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1619 ### Event 4692 (897C884E) **Date:** 3/24/1950 **Location:** GUATEMALA, GUAT **Description:** 4 / US include/including fed Judge and big crowd. Bright silver discs maneuver over city. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1574 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guatemala", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "GUATEMALA,GUAT:4/US incl FED JUDGE+BIG CROWD:BRIGHT SLVR DISCS MNVR OVR CITY", **LatLong:** "14.600001 -90.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "14:36:00 N 90:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.600001,-90.516671)", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4693 (8A4DD57A) **Date:** 3/24/1950 **Location:** WILLOWS AND CORNING, CA **Description:** 2 police chiefs and co deputies. Silvery discs / 10 minute(s). Headlines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1575 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "WILLOWS+CORNING,CA:2 POLICE CHIEFS+co DEPUTIES:SILVERY DISCS/10min:HEADLINES", **LatLong:** "39.522224 -122.194450", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:20 N 122:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.522224,-122.194450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4694 (E4981B70) **Date:** 3/24/1950 (approximate) **Location:** TEUGUEGARAO, LUZON, PHL **Description:** Flying saucer visible for over 40 minute(s) / Manila bulletin article. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1576 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Philippines", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "TEUGUEGARAO,LUZON,PHL:FLYING SCR VISIBLE for OVR 40min/MANILA BULLETIN article", **LatLong:** "17.638890 121.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "17:38:20 N 121:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/17.638890,121.733339)", **State/Prov:** "LZN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4695 (E20E5352) **Date:** 3/24/1950 **Location:** PEARL HARBOR, HI **Description:** Brill blue-green fireball passes overhead. Pauses and continues. Doesn't fall. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1577 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PEARL HARBOR,HI:BRILL BLUE-GREEN FBL PASSES OVHD:PAUSES+CONTINUES:DOESN'T FALL", **LatLong:** "21.383334 -157.972230", **LatLongDMS:** "21:23:00 N 157:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.383334,-157.972230)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4696 (43469713) **Date:** 3/24/1950 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** SANDIA MOUNTAINS, NM **Description:** 4 observer(s). Moon-size object loops over special military facility / 4 minute(s). Shoots going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1578 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "SANDIA Mtns,NM:4 OBS:MOON-SIZE OBJ LOOPS OVR SPECIAL MIL FCLTY/4min:SHOOTS↑", **LatLong:** "35.200002 -106.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:12:00 N 106:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.200002,-106.433338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4697 (5E98434B) **Date:** 3/25/1950 **Location:** NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA **Description:** Writer. Brilliant undimming ovoid near home. / LA Times report. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1579 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "198", **HatchDesc:** "N.HOLLYWOOD,CA:WRITER:BRILL. UNDIMMING OVOID nr HOME:/L.A.Times rpt:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -118.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 118:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-118.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4698 (8CE867BD) **Date:** 3/25/1950 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** PATERNA, SP **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Flying plate east going quickly west / very high altitude. Brusk turn and disappears. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1580 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PATERNA,SP:NMRS OBS:FLYING PLATE E>>W/VHI ALT:BRUSK TURN+DISAPPEARS:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "39.500002 -0.433333", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 N 00:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.500002,-0.433333)", **State/Prov:** "Valencian", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4699 (343319C0) **Date:** 3/25/1950 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** BARCELONA, SP **Description:** Several observer(s). 1-2 metallic disks high and fast north going quickly south. / Noticiera Universal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1581 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BARCELONA,SP:SVRL OBS:1-2 MTLC DISKS HIGH+FAST N>>S:/Noticiera Universal", **LatLong:** "41.416669 2.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "41:25:00 N 02:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.416669,2.133333)", **State/Prov:** "Barcelone", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4700 (B8AB6BF4) **Date:** 3/26/1950 (approximate) **Location:** OVER ACRE, ISRAEL **Description:** Leb. airliner. Objects going quickly west. Very fast. Others see saucers going quickly north. Very high. Smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1582 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ovr ACRE,ISRAEL:LEB.AIRLINER:OBJS >>W:VFAST:OTHERS SEE SCRS >>N:VHIGH:SMOKE", **LatLong:** "32.933335 35.050002", **LatLongDMS:** "32:56:00 N 35:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.933335,35.050002)", **State/Prov:** "NRT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4701 (B6576467) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** WEST NATIONAL AIRPORT, DC **Description:** Man dives private plane / 40' metallic saucer. Going up / clouds and going quickly east. / r134#4p47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1583 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "W.NATL AIRPORT,DC:MAN DIVES PVT PLANE/40'MTLC SCR:↑/CLOUDS+>>E:/r134#4p47", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4702 (B54D839F) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** BRUNSWICK, GA **Description:** 3 pilots and 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. 3+2 saucers / 25K' altitude. 1800+mph going south. Returns going quickly north. / r43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1584 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BRUNSWICK,GA:3 PILOTS+2/BINOCS:3+2 SCRS/25K'alt:1800+mph> S:RETURNS >>N:/r43", **LatLong:** "31.150001 -81.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "31:09:00 N 81:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.150001,-81.500004)", **RelAlt:** "7500", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4703 (0B37DAE6) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEAR ALGECIRAS, SP **Description:** Rancher Jose Ayala. Flying disk east going quickly west / 1 second(s). No further details. / ABC News / Spain. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1585 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALGECIRAS,SP:RANCHER JOSE AYALA:FLYING DISK E>>W/1sec:NFD:/ABC News/Spain", **LatLong:** "36.133335 -5.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "36:08:00 N 05:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.133335,-5.416667)", **State/Prov:** "CDZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4704 (65685A38) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** RENO AIRPORT, NV **Description:** CAA Air Traffic Controller and 2 United Airlines (UAL) men. Brill night light / northwest. Hovers / 5 minute(s) then going up / clouds extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1586 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "1345", **HatchDesc:** "RENO AIRPORT,NV:CAA ATC+2 UAL MEN:BRILL NLT/NW:HVRS/5min THEN ↑/CLOUDS XFAST", **LatLong:** "39.500002 -119.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 N 119:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.500002,-119.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4705 (FDB08C40) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Location:** Reno, NV **Description:** CAA control tower operator saw maneuvering light source. \[V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_684 ### Event 4706 (D7323302) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Location:** Washington (near), D.C. **Description:** Mar 26, 1950; near Washington, DC, Totten (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_685 ### Event 4707 (A677A41B) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Locations:** London; Mars **Description:** Vice-Admiral [Louis Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) in a letter to his friend [Charles Eade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FEade)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FEade) editor of the London Sunday Dispatch, rejects the idea that flying saucers are secret weapons, admitting that “they do not come from our Earth…. Maybe it is the Shackletons or Scotts of Venus or Mars who are making their first exploration of our Earth.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [p. 37](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n63/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1497 ### Event 4708 (9DE56B2E) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Location:** Fairfax County, Virginia **Description:** Day. [Bertram A. Totten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40112790/bertram-a-totten)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40112790/bertram-a-totten) a clerk at the Library of Congress, is flying his plane at 5,000 feet over Fairfax County, Virginia, when he spots an aluminum-colored disc about 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick flying 1,000 feet below him. He dives toward it, but it speeds up into the overcast. It glints when the sun hits it, and he notices a vapor trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 79–80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1498 ### Event 4709 (EFA6448F) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Location:** Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Former First Lady [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%5FRoosevelt) interviews airline pilots Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson about their March 20 UFO sighting on her NBC television program, Today with Mrs. Roosevelt. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Anatomy of a](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part5.html) [Hoax, Part Five,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part5.html)” Saturday Night Uforia **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1499 ### Event 4710 (35AB7789) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Locations:** Hubbard Field; Reno–Tahoe International Airport; Reno, Nevada **Description:** 8:50 p.m. CAA Tower operator Marie H. Matthews and United Airlines employees Robert Higbee and Fred Hinkle see a brilliant light northeast of Hubbard Field \[now Reno–Tahoe International Airport\] outside Reno, Nevada. It hangs motionless for 5–6 minutes, then moves slowly across the sky with a green light on either side of it. It suddenly zooms upward into a cloud bank. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 44–45](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1500 ### Event 4711 (ECE5BB98) **Date:** 3/26/1950 **Description:** Several discs were seen from a Lebanese airliner off the coast of the ancient city of Acre (now Akko), Israel. They were travelling north and flying at a high altitude while emitting trails of smoke. At 11:15 a.m. five disc-shaped UFOs were seen, first three, then another two, flying over Bruswick, Georgia. They were silver in color, and flew at 30,000 feet altitude at a speed greater than 1,800 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1671 ### Event 4712 (9C82FA33) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Location:** BERLIN, GERM **Description:** Astronomers. Odd new star. Bright. Zigzags going west. Stops at times.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1587 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BERLIN,GERM:ASTRONOMERS:ODD NEW STAR:BRITE:ZIGZAGS >W:STOPS AT TIMES.. ", **LatLong:** "52.500003 13.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:30:00 N 13:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.500003,13.383334)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4713 (A765E9A5) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** TULSA, OK **Description:** 2+3 observer(s). Pie-pans pass / low-altitude. 1 stops and darts off. Glowing saucers 1 vertical. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1588 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "241", **HatchDesc:** "TULSA,OK:2+3 OBS:PIE-PANS PASS/LO-ALT:1 STOPS+DARTS OFF:GLOWING SCRS 1 VERTICL", **LatLong:** "36.150002 -96.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:09:00 N 96:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.150002,-96.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4714 (E24EEF0E) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** MOTOBO, OKINAWA, JP **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #678. Military RADAR-visual. 500mph approximate. Stops and starts. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1589 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MOTOBO,OKINAWA,JP:BBK#678:MIL RDR-VISUAL:500mph aprx:STOPS+STARTS:>>SW", **LatLong:** "26.666668 127.922228", **LatLongDMS:** "26:40:00 N 127:55:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.666668,127.922228)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4715 (33ABEC44) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ALGORTA, SP **Description:** 2 military / observer(s) tower. Blue-ovoid with red glowing east going quickly west / low altitude in nearby mountains. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1590 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALGORTA,SP:2 MIL/OBS.TOWER:BLU-OVOID W/RED GLO E>>W/LO ALT in NEARBY MTNS", **LatLong:** "43.338891 -3.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:20:20 N 03:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.338891,-3.000000)", **State/Prov:** "VZC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4716 (FD8B959C) **Date:** 3/27/1950 (approximate) **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** NORTH / WORLAND, WY **Description:** 5 / car. Saucer hovers over sulfur plant. Going quickly [to] away / car nears. Row / blue lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 450) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1591 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1810", **HatchDesc:** "N/WORLAND,WY:5/CAR:SCR HVRS ovr SULFUR PLANT:>> AWAY/CAR NEARS:ROW/BLUE LITES", **LatLong:** "44.116669 -107.938894", **LatLongDMS:** "44:07:00 N 107:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.116669,-107.938894)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4717 (09B7D4BA) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Location:** Motubu Peninsula, Okinawa **Description:** Tracked stationary target on radar at 18 miles range for 10 mins (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 678) **Reference:** NICAP: [500327](http://www.nicap.org/500327okinawadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_686 ### Event 4718 (F4DE0ED8) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Time:** 10:30 AM **Location:** Motobo, Okinawa **Description:** Witness: USAF radar operator Cpl. Bolfango. Tracked on radar for 2 minutes while it was stationary and then moved at 500 m.p.h.. Visual observation not detailed, only mentioned in summary. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_35 ### Event 4719 (A98C1C5D) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Location:** Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, Japan **Description:** 10:30 a.m. USAF antiaircraft radar operator Cpl. Bolfango tracks a stationary target on radar over the Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, Japan, at 18 miles range for 10 minutes at 13,000 feet. The object then moves on a 220° heading for 16.9 miles in 2 minutes \(about 500 mph\) to a point over a mountain, where it is lost. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Tracked Stationary Target at 18 Miles](http://www.nicap.org/500327okinawadir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 85 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1501 ### Event 4720 (05243151) **Date:** 3/27/1950 **Locations:** US; Hollywood **Description:** Radio broadcaster [Henry J. Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor) on his syndicated radio program Your Land and Mine, announces the “wonderful news” that saucers are in fact US secret weapons, which will reassure the nation when the US Air Force confirms it. Within days, the story is twisted to specifically credit the Navy’s alleged “top secret” project the Flying Flapjack Vought XF5U. The story is apparently disinformation planted by ex-Hollywood writers in the CIA Office of Policy Coordination’s Political and Psychological Warfare staff headed by [Joseph Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993)[,](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) a future president and board chairman of NICAP. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Radio Man Certain U.S. Is Owner of ‘Flying Saucer’ Missile](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93072159/) [Secret,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93072159/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, March 29, 1950, p. 9; NICAP, “[1950 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1950fullrep.htm)”; Swords 97; Curt Collins, “[1950 Disclosure: UFOs Are Made in the USA,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/11/1950-disclosure-ufos-are-made-in-usa.html)” November 9, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1502 ### Event 4721 (5F8283BC) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** 3 observer(s). Silver saucer parks / sky / 10 minute(s). Shoots straight up until O / O / sight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1592 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "1105", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:3 OBS:SLVR SCR PARKS/SKY/10min:SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP UNTIL O/O/SIGHT.", **LatLong:** "35.233335 -101.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:14:00 N 101:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.233335,-101.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4722 (34014F9D) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** NEAR EUREKA, CA **Description:** Yellow-glowing-cylinder/cylindrical object hovers overhead. Going quickly west. Night lights maneuver very fast / 1920 hours. / r134#4p52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1593 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "nr EUREKA,CA:YLW-GLOW-CYL HVRS OVHD:>>W:NLTs MNVR VFAST/1920 hrs:/r134#4p52", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -124.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 124:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-124.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4723 (621E01A5) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Time:** ~21:30 **Location:** OAKLAND, CA **Description:** 5 observer(s). Luminous/glowing white ball leaves (something behind) white smoke. Fast and slow circles. Going quickly east. / r134#4p54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1594 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "OAKLAND,CA:5 OBS:LUMN WHT BALL LVS WHT SMOKE:FAST+SLOW CCLs:>>E:/r134#4p54", **LatLong:** "37.816668 -122.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:00 N 122:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.816668,-122.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4724 (2880A4B1) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** CEGLIE MESSAPICO, ITL **Description:** 80cm wide double-umbrella takes off vertically. / balloon? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1595 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CEGLIE MESSAPICO,ITL:80cm WIDE DOUBLE-UMBRELLA TAKES OFF VERTICALLY:/balloon?", **LatLong:** "40.650002 17.516668", **LatLongDMS:** "40:39:00 N 17:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.650002,17.516668)", **State/Prov:** "BR", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4725 (7A5E0F6B) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Location:** Santiago, Chile **Description:** White object through binoculars flying at extreme altitude and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 680) **Reference:** NICAP: [500328](http://www.nicap.org/chile500328dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_687 ### Event 4726 (2044FC82) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Time:** 3:15 PM **Location:** Santiago, Chile **Description:** Witness: M/Sgt. Patterson, of the office of the U.S. Air Attache. One white object observed for 5-10 seconds through binoculars while it flew high and fast, crossing 30 degree of sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_36 ### Event 4727 (D34D5FC1) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Description:** In response to a request from [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) to his aide [D. Milton \(“Mickey”\) Ladd](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) on “just what are the facts re ‘flying saucers,’ agent [S. Wesley Reynolds](https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19611122.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1) interviews Maj. [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) and Lieut. Col. [John V. Hearn Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36938515/john-vernon-hearn) of Air Force Intelligence, who tell him that most UFOs are misidentifications and weather balloons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 95; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 84–85 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1503 ### Event 4728 (6C5E36A2) **Date:** 3/28/1950 **Locations:** Centralia, Washington; Markham; Morton **Description:** [Samuel Eaton Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FEaton%5FThompson) is on his way home to Centralia, Washington, from Markham. He drives through a wooded area between Morton and Mineral and decides to stop to take a break. On foot, he comes upon a large, globe-shaped craft hovering above a clearing. Naked children with dark tans and blond hair are playing on steps that lead from an open door to the side of the UFO. Several naked adults—humanoid, attractive, and also deeply tanned—then appear at the ship’s door. After realizing that Thompson means them no harm, they beckon him closer. The crew consists of 20 adults and 25 children, the latter from about 5–15 years of age. Thompson claims to have spent the next 40 hours with the humanoids. They are from Venus, he learns, and have stopped at Earth despite the fact that other Venusian saucers have been shot at by Earth-based military forces. The Venusians further claims that they are vegetarian and that they never grow ill. Thompson also claims the Venusians are naïve and childlike; they do not know who has built their flying saucers and seem to possess little to no curiosity. He goes back to get a camera and tries to take photos, but the object is too bright to appear on film. Thompson returns home on March 30. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Centralian Tells Strange Tale of Visiting Venus Space Ship in Eastern Lewis County,” Centralia \(Wash.\) Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1950; Clark III 1127–1129; Jerome Clark, “The Coming of the Venusians,” Fate 34, no. 1 \(January 1981\): 49–55; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1950-03-28-usa-centralia.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1950-03-28-usa-centralia.htm) November 16, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1504 ### Event 4729 (6D7E54FA) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Location:** FT WILLIAM AND MORE/OTHERS, ON **Description:** Crowds. Brill fireball. No wings. 4 night lights join. Hover. Going quickly northeast. / r134#4p51. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 187) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1596 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "Ft WILLIAM++,ON:CROWDS:BRILL FBL:NO WINGS:4 NLTS JOIN:HOVER:>>NE:/r134#4p51", **LatLong:** "48.416669 -89.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "48:25:00 N 89:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.416669,-89.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4730 (69373613) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Location:** AUSTIN, TX **Description:** 3 men. Flat silver featureless "saucer" hovers / 3 seconds. Then going quickly northeast. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 455) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1597 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "AUSTIN,TX:3 MEN:FLAT SLVR FEATURELESS "SCR" HVRS/3 secs:THEN >>NE:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "30.266668 -97.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:16:00 N 97:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.266668,-97.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4731 (0D0A712D) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** MONTUIRI, MALLORCA, SP **Description:** 3 photographs. Flash! Photographs shows ovoid with glowing-antennas rotate. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1598 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTUIRI,MALLORCA,SP:3 FOTOGs:FLASH!:FOTOS SHOWS OVOID W/GLO-ANTENNAS ROTATE", **LatLong:** "39.566669 2.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "39:34:00 N 02:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.566669,2.966667)", **State/Prov:** "BLR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4732 (47F327E3) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** MARROWBONE LK, TN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #682. 2 fishing. 3 black saucers maneuver / unison / 75m altitude below clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1599 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "MARROWBONE Lk,TN:BBK#682:2 FISHING:3 BLK SCRS MNVR/UNISON/75m alt BELOW CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "36.300002 -86.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:18:00 N 86:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.300002,-86.900004)", **RelAlt:** "75", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4733 (FAE38242) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** LA PALMA DEL CONDADO, SP **Description:** Several observer(s). Square object hovers and makes wild maneuvers. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1600 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "La PALMA del CONDADO,SP:SVRL OBS:SQR OBJ HVRS+MAKES WILD MNVRS:>>S", **LatLong:** "37.394446 -6.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:23:40 N 06:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.394446,-6.550000)", **State/Prov:** "HLV", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4734 (F65DE1F2) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** ALBANY, CA **Description:** Teen. White cone saucer spins / 150M altitude. Blue streaks / bottom/underside. Going quickly east. / Oakland Tribun. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 454) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1601 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "ALBANY,CA:TEEN:WHT CONE SCR SPINS/150M ALT:BLU STREAKS/BTM:>>E:/Oakland Tribun", **LatLong:** "37.883335 -122.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:53:00 N 122:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.883335,-122.316672)", **RelAlt:** "45", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4735 (3075860C) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** BURGOS, SP **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and more/others. Sounds / unexpected plane. Saucer buzzes tower. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly east. 1800kph. / r57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1602 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BURGOS,SP:ATCs++:SOUNDS/UNEXPECTED PLANE:SCR BUZZES TOWER:↑↑+>>E:1800kph:/r57", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -3.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 03:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-3.733334)", **State/Prov:** "VLD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4736 (51E14241) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** IRONWOOD, MICH **Description:** 6 airline(s)/airliner pilots / ground / (seen thru) binoculars. Saucer zips going quickly north. Skips and slips side = to-side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1603 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "458", **HatchDesc:** "IRONWOOD,MICH:6 AL PILOTS/GND/BINOCS:SCR ZIPS>>N:SKIPS+SLIPS SIDE=TO-SIDE", **LatLong:** "46.455558 -90.172227", **LatLongDMS:** "46:27:20 N 90:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.455558,-90.172227)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4737 (A16977F3) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SAN DIEGO, CA **Description:** Night light going south. Circles city. Casts orange light. Speeds away going quickly northeast. / S. D. union. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 187) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1604 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SAN DIEGO,CA:NLT > S:CIRCLES CITY:CASTS ORG LITE:SPEEDS AWAY >>NE:/S.D.UNION", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -117.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 117:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-117.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4738 (DE6CD465) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** UNION POINT, GA **Description:** 3 / train crew. Round object hovers / 10 minute(s). Orange glow. No further details / train pulls away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1605 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "209", **HatchDesc:** "UNION POINT,GA:3/TRAIN CREW:RND OBJ HVRS/10min:ORG.GLOW:NFD/train pulls away", **LatLong:** "33.616668 -83.072226", **LatLongDMS:** "33:37:00 N 83:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.616668,-83.072226)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4739 (AE22D910) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Location:** Marrowhode Lake, TN **Description:** 6-12 dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 682) **Reference:** NICAP: [500329](http://nicap.org/marrowbone500329dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_688 ### Event 4740 (C7D07C82) **Date:** 3/29/1950 **Time:** 7 AM **Location:** Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee **Description:** Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside and Williams. Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs, estimated 5 feet long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise like wind blowing through the trees. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_37 ### Event 4741 (396D035E) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Location:** ASTRONOMER H.P.WILKINS **Description:** Vibrant bright oval glow lights Aristarchus-Herotodus crater. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1606 **Attributes:** **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "ASTRONOMER H.P.WILKINS:VBRITE OVAL GLOW LITES ARISTARCHUS-HEROTODUS CRATER ", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "ARH", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4742 (9C25D738) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Location:** SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** 5 National Guardsmen. White saucer follows plane 300' over plane / rear. (UPI.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1607 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX CITY,IA:5 NATl GUARDSMEN:WHT SCR FOLOS PLANE 300' OVR PLANE/REAR:(UPI)", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -96.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 96:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-96.416671)", **RelAlt:** "90", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4743 (609839DF) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** NEAR AUTAUGAVILLE, AL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 saucers in formation. Go up and down and away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1608 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "49", **HatchDesc:** "nr AUTAUGAVILLE,AL:2 OBS:3 SCRS/FORMATION:GO UP+DOWN+AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "32.433335 -86.655560", **LatLongDMS:** "32:26:00 N 86:39:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.433335,-86.655560)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4744 (C2003B76) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SELMA, AL **Description:** Radio engineer and 20. 3 saucers zip going quickly west. Stop / 5 minute(s). 1 goes going up. 2 continue going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1609 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "SELMA,AL:RADIO ENGINEER+20:3 SCRS ZIP>>W:STOP/5min:1 GOES↑:2 CONTINUE >W:", **LatLong:** "32.405557 -87.022226", **LatLongDMS:** "32:24:20 N 87:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.405557,-87.022226)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4745 (7727BC87) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** OFF ST. IGNACE, MI **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). 60cm white disk over straits. Blue smoky film. Very high. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 452) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1610 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "176", **HatchDesc:** "off St.IGNACE,MI:3 SEP.OBS:60cm WHT DISK ovr STRAITS:BLUE SMOKY FILM:VHIGH", **LatLong:** "45.866669 -84.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "45:52:00 N 84:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.866669,-84.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4746 (E7D74122) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** CORAOPOLIS, PA **Description:** 2 military observer(s). Silent saucer circles airport/apartment / 50mph. Flat turns. Then goes going up / 60K'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1611 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "CORAOPOLIS,PA:2 MIL OBS:SLNT SCR CCLS APT/50mph:FLAT TURNS:THEN GOES ↑/60K'", **LatLong:** "40.516669 -80.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:31:00 N 80:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.516669,-80.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4747 (E967F16D) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Description:** A UFO was seen hovering over Adrian, Michigan at noon. At 11:00 p.m. that night another UFO was seen hovering between Worland and Greybull, Wyoming. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1726 ### Event 4748 (027CA98E) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Description:** Three discs flew in formation over Autaugaville, Alabama at 5:30 p.m. They went up, down, and then flew away. Thirty-eight minutes later Mr. Townsend, a radio engineer, and 20 others in Selma, Alabama sighted three discs zip across the sky toward the west. One stopped for five minutes, and then shot up vertically, the other two continued on westward. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1623; newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1727 ### Event 4749 (B9BCFE7E) **Date:** 3/30/1950 **Description:** On this night astronomer Harold Wilkins watched a very bright oval glow illuminate the Aristarchus-Herotodus crater on the Moon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 74 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1728 ### Event 4750 (5B16779F) **Date:** 3/31/1950 **Location:** Denver, CO **Description:** Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of radio time salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles), recorded at station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking for “parts” and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from the Frank Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item #17). **Type:** tape recording **Reference:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/aVzZy9dKY1Q) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_404 ### Event 4751 (0E7F0A0D) **Date:** 3/31/1950 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio transmitter. **Type:** memo **Reference:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/aVzZy9dKY1Q) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_405 ### Event 4752 (DAB3E5F5) **Date:** 3/31/1950 **Location:** ESCANABA, MICH **Description:** Fiery blue-glowing disc races over town. Spews ribbon / blue-fire / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 188) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1612 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "182", **HatchDesc:** "ESCANABA,MICH:FIERY BLU-GLOWING DISC RACES OVR TOWN:SPEWS RIBBON/BLU-FIRE/NEWS", **LatLong:** "45.744447 -87.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "45:44:40 N 87:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.744447,-87.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4753 (D9A8C7C9) **Date:** 3/31/1950 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** MCALISTERVILLE, PA **Description:** Farm boy. 2 ovoids dive fast. Level off / 600M altitude. Buzz and whirl / 2 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 450) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1613 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "McALISTERVILLE,PA:FARM BOY:2 OVOIDS DIVE FAST:LVL OFF/600M alt:BUZZ+WHIRL/2min", **LatLong:** "40.638891 -77.277781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:38:20 N 77:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.638891,-77.277781)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4754 (FD4F448F) **Date:** 3/31/1950 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LITTLE ROCK, AR **Description:** Saucer arcs over airliner. Light flashes / top. 8 10' portholes / underside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1614 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLE ROCK,AR:SCR ARCS OVR AIRLINER:LITE FLASHES/TOP:8 10'PORTHOLES/UNDERSIDE", **LatLong:** "34.750002 -92.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 N 92:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.750002,-92.266671)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4755 (6FC28FC3) **Date:** 3/31/1950 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** Syndicated columnist [Drew Pearson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%5FPearson%5F%28journalist%29) publishes “Worried about Flying Saucers?” in which he sympathizes with the Air Force, which has to reply to groundless public excitement. His USAF contact has told him, “there ain’t no such animal.” Pentagon Public Relations Officer Maj. [DeWitt Searles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt%5FSearles) tells the press that all UFO cases are the result of misinterpretations, mass hysteria, and hoaxes: “As far as the Air Force goes, there’s no such thing as a flying saucer.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Drew Pearson, “[Worried about Flying Saucers?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92526588/)” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 31, 1950, p. 5; “[Major Debunker of Flying Saucers, Keeps Saying, ‘No, No, 1,000 Times No,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92525956/the-rock-island-argus/)’” Rock Island \(Ill.\) Argus, March 31, 1950, p. 18; Swords 96–99 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1505 ### Event 4756 (44435A6A) **Date:** 3/31/1950 **Description:** In 1950 a woman driving at night on Highway 80 in Jacumba, California reported that she saw a little man jump out of a landed disc-shaped UFO, and then run down the highway "faster than Jesse Owens." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** International News Service, March 31, 1950; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0161 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1757 ### Event 4757 (E968A89C) **Date:** 4/1950 **Location:** 60KM NORTH / JUNEAU, AK **Description:** M. Konrad takes movies. 8 saucers land and take off. No further details. / Quincy. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1615 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "60km N/JUNEAU,AK:M.KONRAD TAKES MOVIES:8 SCRs LAND+TAKE OFF:NFD:/Quincy", **LatLong:** "58.916669 -134.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "58:55:00 N 134:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.916669,-134.500006)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4758 (2A40CD3F) **Date:** 4/1950 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** OFF BLACKPOOL, ENGL **Description:** Several / pier. Luminous silver disk maneuvers. Halo. Beams going [to] clouds. Away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 505) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1616 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "off BLACKPOOL,ENGL:SVRL/PIER:LUMN.SLVR DISK MNVRS:HALO:BEAMS>CLOUDS:AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "53.833336 -3.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:50:00 N 03:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.833336,-3.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4759 (7227D9B5) **Date:** 4/1950 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** CHICLAYO, PERU **Description:** PAF Commander and engineer chase disk / light plane. Can't reach / 9km altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1617 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHICLAYO,PERU:PAF COMMANDER+ENG CHASE DISK/LITE PLANE:CAN'T REACH/9km alt", **LatLong:** "-6.766667 -79.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "06:46:00 S 79:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.766667,-79.850004)", **RelAlt:** "9000", **State/Prov:** "LMB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4760 (20FDBED3) **Date:** 4/1950 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** 100MI NORTHWEST / KAUAI IS., HI **Description:** CAA C54 crew. 6 red night lights. Magnetic indicators go crazy. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1618 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "100mi NW/KAUAI Is.,HI:CAA C54 CREW:6 RED NLTS:MAGNETIC INDICATORS GO CRAZY ", **LatLong:** "23.000001 -161.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "23:00:00 N 161:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.000001,-161.000008)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4761 (BD2C1D2B) **Date:** 4/1950 **Location:** Juneau, Alaska **Description:** Mikel Konrad made a movie of eight disks he saw landing and taking off 60 km north of Jun.au. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_74 ### Event 4762 (2C777FDD) **Date:** 4/1950 **Location:** Canby, Oregon **Description:** Daytime. While working on her lawn in Canby, Oregon, Ellen Jonerson glances over at her neighbor’s yard and sees a 12-inch-tall man with his back turned to her. When he turns around, she sees that he has a heavily tanned face, is of stocky build, and wears overalls and a plaid shirt. There is a skullcap on his head. She dashes inside to call a friend, then runs outside again in time to see the figure “waddling” away. He walks under a parked car and disappears. [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) who interviews her, is convinced of her sincerity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index, 1950–1951,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1950-1951.pdf) p. 2; Clark III 270 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1507 ### Event 4763 (56F2C54D) **Date:** 4/1/1950 **Time:** 19:00? **Location:** OFF RICCIONE, ITL **Description:** Boat crew. Ovoid dives / sea. Column / water shoots up. Meteor? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1619 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "off RICCIONE,ITL:BOAT CREW:OVOID DIVES/SEA:COLUMN/WATER SHOOTS UP:meteor?", **LatLong:** "43.983335 12.650001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:59:00 N 12:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.983335,12.650001)", **State/Prov:** "FO", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4764 (5E71EEA8) **Date:** 4/1/1950 **Description:** Project Twinkle officially begins. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1508 ### Event 4765 (8272C617) **Date:** 4/1/1950 **Description:** At seven o'clock in the evening the crew of a fishing boat off the coast of Perugia, Italy watched an ovoid object dive into the sea and a column of water shoot up into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 117. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1779 ### Event 4766 (C713CDF4) **Date:** 4/2/1950 **Location:** NORTHWEST / CARACAS, VNZ **Description:** US airliner rocks violently. Huge turtle passes. "Controlled". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1620 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "NW/CARACAS,VNZ:US AIRLINER ROCKS VIOLENTLY:HUGE TURTLE PASSES:"CONTROLLED"", **LatLong:** "10.550001 -67.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:33:00 N 67:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.550001,-67.016670)", **State/Prov:** "DF", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4767 (B6343643) **Date:** 4/2/1950 **Location:** SR38 NORTHEAST / BUTLER, PA **Description:** 4 / car. Silver football flashes going quickly west. 6K' altitude. No plane insists observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1621 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "SR38 NE/BUTLER,PA:4/CAR:SLVR FOOTBALL FLASHES>>W:6K'alt:NO PLANE INSISTS OBS", **LatLong:** "40.900002 -79.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:00 N 79:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.900002,-79.866670)", **RelAlt:** "1800", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4768 (528F2634) **Date:** 4/2/1950 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** TIPP CITY, OH **Description:** 4+5 separate observer(s). 2 brilliant night lights hover and maneuver. Going south. Going west. Hover / wright-Pat Air Force Base and quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1622 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "253", **HatchDesc:** "TIPP CITY,OH:4+5 SEP.OBS:2 BRILL.NLTS HVR+MNVR:>S:>W:HVR/WRIGHT-PAT AFB+↑↑", **LatLong:** "39.961113 -84.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:40 N 84:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.961113,-84.172226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4769 (30CBD2EB) **Date:** 4/4/1950 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SOUTH / DELANO, CA **Description:** Many calls to Edwards Air Force Base. 65cm round object circles / 200' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 207) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1623 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "S/DELANO,CA:MANY CALLS to EDWARDS AFB:65cm ROUND OBJ CIRCLES/200'alt:", **LatLong:** "35.733335 -119.244450", **LatLongDMS:** "35:44:00 N 119:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.733335,-119.244450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4770 (29102294) **Date:** 4/4/1950 **Locations:** US; Caltech **Description:** Presidential press secretary [Charlie Ross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%5FRoss%5F%28journalist%29) states that [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) has conferred with his two top military advisers, Rear Adm. [Robert Dennison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FDennison%5F%28United%5FStates%5FNavy%5Fofficer%29) and Brig. Gen. [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/), and that they claim the US has no such technology. Furthermore, the Air Force study has concluded there are no such things as flying saucers. Caltech aeronautics professor [Clark Blanchard Millikan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%5FBlanchard%5FMillikan) agrees, saying: “If anyone should know about such a project, I should know—and I know of no development in the aircraft or guided missile field.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 97–99 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1509 ### Event 4771 (8AB13BD7) **Date:** 4/5/1950 **Location:** WHITBY, NORTH YORKS **Description:** 3 observer(s). 2 concentric hoops spin. Going [to] over coast. / London daily express. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 209) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1624 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "WHITBY,N.YORKS:3 obs:2 CONCENTRIC HOOPS SPIN:>OVR COAST:/LONDON DAILY EXPRESS", **LatLong:** "54.466669 -0.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "54:28:00 N 00:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.466669,-0.616667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4772 (E1F3D209) **Date:** 4/5/1950 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** EAST / SAN JOSE, CA **Description:** Mt. Hamilton Road. 1 observer. Dull white saucer straight and level going quickly northwest / 18 second(s). Lost behind trees. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1625 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "E/SAN JOSE,CA:Mt HAMILTON Rd:1 OBS:DULL WHT SCR S/L >>NW/18sec:LOST BHND TREES", **LatLong:** "37.338891 -121.705561", **LatLongDMS:** "37:20:20 N 121:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.338891,-121.705561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4773 (199CA1EE) **Date:** 4/5/1950 **Time:** 14:40 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 1+5 separate observer(s). Silver saucer and sphere spin and dip and wobble and maneuver / 10 minutes. Going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 511) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1626 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1580", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:1+5 SEP.OBS:SLVR SCR+SPHERE SPIN+DIP+WOBBLE+MNVR/10mins:>W", **LatLong:** "39.761113 -104.955561", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:40 N 104:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.761113,-104.955561)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4774 (1F7DAE70) **Date:** 4/5/1950 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** WOODLAND, NC **Description:** Military observer(s). 18' silent white cylinder/cigar-shape seen / low altitude. Direction unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1627 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "WOODLAND,NC:MLT.OBS:18' SILENT WHT CGR SEEN/LO alt:DIRECTION UNKNOWN", **LatLong:** "36.333335 -77.211115", **LatLongDMS:** "36:20:00 N 77:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.333335,-77.211115)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4775 (706802C1) **Date:** 4/5/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** AHOSKIE, NC **Description:** Numerous observer(s) / Rhue St. Vibrant bright red rectangular "neon tube" going north slowly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1628 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "AHOSKIE,NC:NMRS OBS/RHUE St:VBRITE RED RECTANGULAR "NEON TUBE" >N SLOWLY", **LatLong:** "36.288891 -76.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:17:20 N 76:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.288891,-76.983337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4776 (8C65DB04) **Date:** 4/5/1950 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / WINSLOW, AZ **Description:** Several observer(s). White night light hovers. Sudden extremely fast maneuvers. Quickly going up / lost in stars. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 543) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1629 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1480", **HatchDesc:** "SW/WINSLOW,AZ:SVRL OBS:WHT NLT HVRS:SUDDEN XFAST MNVRS:↑↑/lost in stars", **LatLong:** "34.916668 -110.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:55:00 N 110:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.916668,-110.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4777 (5DC752B7) **Date:** 4/5/1950 **Locations:** Ga.; Md.; Mich.; Neb. **Description:** Sen. [Richard Russell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr) \(D-Ga.\) states to the press that he is “completely baffled” by flying saucer reports that are made by many pilots who would not be fooled by hallucinations or clouds. Sen. [Millard Tydings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard%5FTydings) \(D-Md.\), chair of the Armed Services Committee, says he thinks saucers might be experimental US aircraft “in embryo stage.” Rep. [Albert J. Engel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FJ.%5FEngel) \(R-Mich.\) thinks the same. Sen. [Kenneth S. Wherry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FS.%5FWherry) \(R-Neb.\) says the saucers are “like our foreign policy. It is in a state of confusion and no one seems to know what it is all about.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Congress](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93077613/) [Split](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93077613/) [about Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93077743/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, April 5, 1950, pp. 1, 6; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 9–10; Swords 98 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1510 ### Event 4778 (D352C465) **Date:** 4/6/1950 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** ASMARA, ERITRIA **Description:** Thousands. Double-hoop disk hovers / high altitude. Small object detaches and away. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 514) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1630 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ethiopia", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "ASMARA,ERITRIA:1000s:Dbl-HOOP DISK HVRS/hi alt:SML OBJ DETACHES+AWAY:>N", **LatLong:** "15.333334 38.966669", **LatLongDMS:** "15:20:00 N 38:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/15.333334,38.966669)", **State/Prov:** "ERT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4779 (513C89FD) **Date:** 4/6/1950 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** WESTFIELD AND AGAWAM, MA **Description:** Airman and 1. Huge saucer slowly going west. Roars and sparkles. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 513) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1631 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "WESTFIELD+AGAWAM,MA:AIRMAN+1:HUGE SCR SLOWLY >W:ROARS+SPARKLES:sep obs", **LatLong:** "42.127780 -72.750003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:07:40 N 72:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.127780,-72.750003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4780 (C7F53113) **Date:** 4/6/1950 **Location:** Springfield, Massachusetts **Description:** 4:45 p.m. Lt. [John J. Sevila](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117282898/john-j.-sevila)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117282898/john-j.-sevila) a pilot with the 131st Fighter Squadron, hears a sound like a flight of jet airplanes and rushes out of his house in Springfield, Massachusetts, to see them. Instead, he sees a perfectly circular object moving slowly westward at an altitude of 25,000 feet. He watches it for 5 minutes as it moves at a speed of 50– 100 mph. When the sun hits it directly, it shines like a mirror. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** The Thunderbolt 1, no. 12 \(April 1950\): 5; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1511 ### Event 4781 (6C7B0EC2) **Date:** 4/6/1950 **Description:** A huge sparkling saucer shaped object moved across the sky heading west over Westfield, Massachusetts on this day. It made a roaring sound as it flew. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1855 ### Event 4782 (60109245) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** Letter sent from BSRA to President **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555559492540157954) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_406 **See also:** 5/16/1950 ### Event 4783 (3B6CFDE5) **Date:** 4/7/1950 (approximate) **Location:** LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** 2 military observer(s). Pink pancake-object flips in sky. / Brawley, CA newspapers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1632 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "LONG BEACH,CA:2 MIL OBS:PINK PANCAKE-OBJ FLIPS IN SKY:/BRAWLEY,CA NEWSPAPERS", **LatLong:** "33.800002 -118.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:48:00 N 118:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.800002,-118.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4784 (61208EB0) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Location:** DUNCANNON, PA **Description:** 2 railroad/railway men. Saucer is size / large plane. 3K' over train. No means / propulsion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1633 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "DUNCANNON,PA:2 RR MEN:SCR is SIZE/LRG PLANE:3K' ovr TRAIN:NO MEANS/PROPULSION", **LatLong:** "40.383335 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:23:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.383335,-77.033337)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4785 (635AA0D0) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Location:** JERICHO AND RAM ALLAH, PALESTINE **Description:** Many observer(s). 2 silver saucers north going quickly south. Clearly seen. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1634 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "JERICHO+RAM ALLAH,PALESTINE:MANY OBS:2 SLVR SCRS N>>S:CLEARLY SEEN:NFD", **LatLong:** "31.850002 35.466668", **LatLongDMS:** "31:51:00 N 35:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.850002,35.466668)", **State/Prov:** "OCC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4786 (F100ACA1) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Location:** ST. IGNACE, MICH **Description:** 2 Ferrymen. Saucer races all over/all about sky over strait / Mackinac. Plasma-glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1635 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "176", **HatchDesc:** "ST IGNACE,MICH:2 FERRYMEN:SCR RACES ALLO SKY OVR STRAIT/MACKINAC:PLASMA-GLOW", **LatLong:** "45.861113 -84.727782", **LatLongDMS:** "45:51:40 N 84:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.861113,-84.727782)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4787 (E5A52F13) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** MIDDLETOWN, IA **Description:** 4 separate observer(s). Silver disk going [to] over pen factory. 5M cylinder/cigar-shape going southeast over ammunition plant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 516) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1636 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "221", **HatchDesc:** "MIDDLETOWN,IA:4 SEP.OBS:SLVR DISK >OVR PEN FACTORY:5M CGR >SE OVR AMMO PLANT", **LatLong:** "40.827780 -91.261115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:49:40 N 91:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.827780,-91.261115)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4788 (8316A4D3) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Time:** ~16:30 **Location:** PITTSBURGH, PA **Description:** Kids / baseball. Blue-white object / lightning tail. All tell parents. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1637 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "PITTSBURGH,PA:KIDS/BASEBALL:BLU-WHT OBJ/LIGHTNING TAIL:ALL TELL PARENTS", **LatLong:** "40.433335 -79.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:00 N 79:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.433335,-79.966670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4789 (DCF3805C) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SALAMANCA, SP **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous metallic ovoid without fuselage going quickly ESE. No further details. / ABC / Spain. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1638 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SALAMANCA,SP:SVRL OBS:LUMN.MTLC OVOID W/O FUSELAGE >>ESE:NFD:/ABC/Spain", **LatLong:** "40.900002 -5.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:00 N 05:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.900002,-5.700000)", **State/Prov:** "SLM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4790 (D26949C0) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** LOGAN AIRPORT, MASS **Description:** 3 Air Traffic Controllers and more. Object with lights maneuvers. Splits. Play about. Go going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1639 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "LOGAN Airport,MASS:3 ATCs+:OBJ W/LITES MNVRS:SPLITS:PLAY ABOUT:GO>>NE", **LatLong:** "42.372224 -71.011114", **LatLongDMS:** "42:22:20 N 71:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.372224,-71.011114)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4791 (2EDD0346) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** EL CENTRO, CA **Description:** Many observer(s). Hundreds / night lights south going quickly north. Some hover. Others dart all over/all about. / Brawley News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1640 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "-14", **HatchDesc:** "EL CENTRO,CA:MANY OBS:100s/NLTS S>>N:SOME HOVER:OTHERS DART ALLO:/BRAWLEY NEWS", **LatLong:** "32.794446 -115.561117", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:40 N 115:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.794446,-115.561117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4792 (EF38BB46) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Location:** Boston (Logan Airport), MA **Description:** Deep-blue ellipsoid object at 15° elevation moving SW-NE opposite the winds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_689 ### Event 4793 (C464E2E0) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Locations:** Logan Airport; Boston; Massachusetts **Description:** A CAA control tower operator at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, watches a blue light split into two lights that revolve around each other for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 65–68](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/64/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 86 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1512 ### Event 4794 (FB27C6D9) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Location:** Muroc AFB **Description:** Newsman [Edward R. Murrow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FR.%5FMurrow) produces the first extended TV commentary on UFOs, “The Case of the Flying Saucer” on CBS. He begins with the [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) case, mentions Muroc AFB cases and [Mantell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell), and quotes both True magazine and [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) Also on the show are [Henry J. Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor) engineer [Charles H. Zimmerman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FH.%5FZimmerman), and [Charlie Ross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%5FRoss%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%5FRoss%5F%28journalist%29) as well as people on the street. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Transcript of Ed Murrow–Kenneth Arnold Telephone](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [Conversation,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 3; Edward R. Murrow, “[The Case of the](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvz8ebUeSk) [Flying Saucer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvz8ebUeSk) \[audio only\],” Bryce Zabel YouTube channel, February 24, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1513 ### Event 4795 (6AF9D505) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Description:** US News and World Report comes out with a story on saucers that hints they are top-secret, jet-propelled Navy aircraft “that can outfly other planes.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucers—the Real Story: U.S. Built First One in 1942,](https://www.flickr.com/photos/34917706%40N07/7114216827/in/photostream/)” US News and World Report 28, no. 14 \(April 7, 1950\): 13–15; Michael D. Swords, “Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1514 ### Event 4796 (60BBB00F) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Location:** US **Description:** The National Security Council presents President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) with Report 68 \(NSC-68\), a 56-page top secret policy paper that provides the “blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War.” It advocates a large expansion in the military budget, the development of a hydrogen bomb, and increased military aid to US allies for the containment of Communist expansion. It essentially warns Truman that the US is losing the Cold War. Truman does not approve it until 1951. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[NSC-68](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC%5F68)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1515 ### Event 4797 (45D63591) **Date:** 4/7/1950 **Description:** Two ferrymen in Saint Ignace, Michigan watched a flying saucer race all over the sky over the Strait. It gave off a plasma glow. On the same day two railroad workers saw a flying saucer the size of a large airplane 3,000 feet over their train. Two silver discs were seen flying over Jericho and Ramallah in Israel and Palestine. At eleven o'clock in the morning a silver, rotating disc flew over a pen factory in Fort Madison, Iowa. It left a shower of sparks behind it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clippings, April 11 & 8, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950: April-July, pp. 10 & 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1878 ### Event 4798 (A4EE99A7) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Location:** HENDERSON, KY **Description:** 3 farmers. Several 10m oil-drums whiz by in formation. Trail / smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1641 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "132", **HatchDesc:** "HENDERSON,KY:3 FARMERS:SVRL 10m OIL-DRUMS WHIZ BY/FORMATION:TRAIL/SMOKE.", **LatLong:** "37.838891 -87.588893", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:20 N 87:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.838891,-87.588893)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4799 (5BD76973) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** 2 saucers buzz house. Stop. Go going up [to] going down [to] and around like a game of tag. 1 observer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1642 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:2 SCRS BUZZ HOUSE:STOP:GO↑↓+AROUND LIKE A GAME OF TAG:1 OBS", **LatLong:** "37.766668 -122.466673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:46:00 N 122:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.766668,-122.466673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4800 (9DB29605) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Location:** NEAR TERRA BELLA, CA **Description:** Rancher. Group / saucers swoop climb and circle. Emit black smoke / ascending. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1643 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "148", **HatchDesc:** "nr TERRA BELLA,CA:RANCHER:GROUP/SCRS SWOOP CLIMB+CCL:EMIT BLK SMOKE/ASCENDING", **LatLong:** "35.961113 -119.044450", **LatLongDMS:** "35:57:40 N 119:02:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.961113,-119.044450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4801 (23BD2EC3) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** KOKOMO, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #706. 5M domed saucer 30m from observer(s). 3 portholes / blue light. Going quickly north very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 518) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1644 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "253", **HatchDesc:** "KOKOMO,IN:BBK#706:5M DOMED SCR 30m FROM OBS:3 PORTHOLES/BLU LITE:>>N VFAST", **LatLong:** "40.488891 -86.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:29:20 N 86:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.488891,-86.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4802 (00B74278) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** Boys. 3' saucer / ground. Dome turns. Red sprays cause welts. / APRO 1-63. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 530) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1645 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1105", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:BOYS:3'SCR/GND:DOME TURNS:RED SPRAYS CAUSE WELTS:/APRO 1-63", **LatLong:** "35.283335 -101.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:17:00 N 101:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.283335,-101.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4803 (06C2FB0F) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SHELBY, NC **Description:** Blue Book. 5 observer(s). Metal saucer wobbles going southwest / 2 minute(s). Then shoots straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 519) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1646 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "SHELBY,NC:BBK:5 OBS:MTL SCR WOBBLES>SW/2min:THEN SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP:", **LatLong:** "35.288891 -81.538893", **LatLongDMS:** "35:17:20 N 81:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.288891,-81.538893)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4804 (EFB02214) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Location:** Kokomo, IN **Description:** Grey metallic disc, 50 ft in diameter, 15 ft thick, top-shaped (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 706) **Reference:** NICAP: [500408](http://nicap.org/kokomo500408dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_690 ### Event 4805 (485343E4) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Time:** 0200 **Location:** Kokomo, Indiana **Description:** A metal worker was awakened by his dog and observed an object 60 m away at low altitude. It was a gray metal disk, 5 m in diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 min, left toward the north, very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_75 ### Event 4806 (0EFACF97) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** River Road near Amarillo, Texas **Description:** David, 12, and Charles, 9, Lightfoot saw a disk land behind a hill and touched it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated and a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became red. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 200 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_76 ### Event 4807 (51C7F197) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Time:** 2 AM **Location:** Kokomo, Indiana **Description:** Witness: Earl Baker. One grey metallic disc, 50' in diameter, 15' thick; top-shaped with a "conning tower" at the top and three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It hovered for 2 minutes, then flew away. Baker aroused from sleep by his dog. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_38 ### Event 4808 (0378409D) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Location:** Shelby, North Carolina **Description:** [Paul Limerick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41728149/paul-r-limerick), commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Shelby, North Carolina, watches a round, aluminum-colored object with four other people for 2 minutes. It follows a horizontal course toward the southwest without making a sound, then shoots straight up and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1516 ### Event 4809 (4E8714AB) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Description:** At 2:00 a.m. Mr. Earl Baker, a metal worker in Kokomo, Indiana was awakened by his dog and observed an object outside his bedroom window only 60 meters away hovering at a low altitude. It was a gray metallic disc, five meters in diameter and 15-feet thick. It was shaped like a top with a kind of "conning tower" turret on top. It had three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 minutes and then left toward the north at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #706; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 166; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1893 ### Event 4810 (9994289D) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Description:** Later that day shortly before noon near Amarillo, Texas, David Lightfoot, age 12, and his brother Charles saw a disc land behind a hill. They were able to walk up to it and touch it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated. It had a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became red with welts. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 194 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1894 ### Event 4811 (81629C7E) **Date:** 4/8/1950 **Description:** On the same day two disc-shaped objects buzzed a house in San Francisco, California. They stopped in mid-flight, then went up and around like playing a game of tag. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1895 ### Event 4812 (9DB9DCAF) **Date:** 4/9/1950 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** HAPEVILLE, GA **Description:** Silent bright red 6M pencil shape going south. Flickers like neon light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1647 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "HAPEVILLE,GA:SLNT BRITE RED 6M PENCIL SHAPE >S:FLICKERS like NEON LITE:", **LatLong:** "33.661113 -84.405560", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:40 N 84:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.661113,-84.405560)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4813 (B5BD3CC7) **Date:** 4/9/1950 **Description:** A bright red pencil-shaped UFO, about six meters in length, moved through the sky over Hapeville, Georgia, flying to the south. It flickered like a neon light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** M. Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1918 ### Event 4814 (09685A19) **Date:** 4/10/1950 **Location:** NEAR YORK, PA **Description:** 9 / road crew. Whine! 6m saucer 150m overhead spews fire and smoke. No propellers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1648 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "nr YORK,PA:9/ROAD CREW:WHINE!:6m SCR 150m OVHD SPEWS FIRE+SMOKE:NO PROPELLERS", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -76.722226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 76:43:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-76.722226)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4815 (BDC029B6) **Date:** 4/10/1950 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** Pilot and 1 / ground. Silent flash. 8M top saucer going north. Neon-red glow. 90° turn going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1649 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ROBINS AFB,GA:PILOT+1/GND:SLNT FLASH:8M TOP SCR >N:NEON-RED GLOW:90°TURN >E", **LatLong:** "32.600002 -83.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:36:00 N 83:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.600002,-83.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4816 (260E1155) **Date:** 4/10/1950 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** SOUTH / MONTEREY, CA **Description:** 7+separate observer(s) and cops. 30' saucer / 4K' altitude. Stops. Spins. Goes going west / sea. Army investigation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 215) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1650 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "S/MONTEREY,CA:7+SEP.OBS+COPS:30'SCR/4K'alt:STOPS:SPINS:GOES>W/SEA:ARMY INVSTn", **LatLong:** "36.583335 -121.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:35:00 N 121:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.583335,-121.866672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4817 (486344C1) **Date:** 4/10/1950 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** LINDSBORG, KS **Description:** P. Patchin. Grey-white clam-shape / 2 miles altitude. Goes going quickly southwest / 650mph. / news? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 217) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1651 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "406", **HatchDesc:** "LINDSBORG,KS:P.PATCHIN:GRY-WHT CLAM-SHAPE/2mi ALT:GOES >>SW/650mph:/NEWS?", **LatLong:** "38.572224 -97.672227", **LatLongDMS:** "38:34:20 N 97:40:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.572224,-97.672227)", **RelAlt:** "3200", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4818 (2653BAFF) **Date:** 4/10/1950 **Location:** Mobile (Brookley AFB & Bates Field), AL **Description:** Object flying to the NE or E over Brookley AFB at 3,500 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_691 ### Event 4819 (653270CA) **Date:** 4/10/1950 **Locations:** University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, California; Monterey, California; San Francisco **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Several University of California, Berkeley, graduate students, including [Garniss H. Curtis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garniss%5FCurtis), [Robert](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=robert-scott-creely&pid=148482398) [Scott Creely](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=robert-scott-creely&pid=148482398), and [Louis I. Briggs](https://lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-us/faculty-history/louis-i--briggs.html)[,](https://lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-us/faculty-history/louis-i--briggs.html) watch a bright light moving against the wind at about 10–15 mph at 1,500 feet altitude about 3–4 miles away from Berkeley, California, for two hours. It turns slowly to the south then turns around and heads slowly back. Four high school students in Monterey, California, see a gleaming object over San Francisco in the early afternoon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file; “[Saucer Visits San Francisco, Schoolboys Say,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93087065/)” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1950, p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1517 ### Event 4820 (DE1C3316) **Date:** 4/11/1950 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PEPPERWOOD, CA **Description:** 3 / farm. Shiny disk circles / 5 minutes. Then shoots going quickly northeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 531) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1652 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "PEPPERWOOD,CA:3/FARM:SHINY DISK CCLS/5mins:THEN SHOOTS >>NE:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.444446 -123.994450", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:40 N 123:59:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.444446,-123.994450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4821 (6A89711D) **Date:** 4/11/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MONTCLAIR, NJ **Description:** 2 women. 6 softly glowing saucers play in sky. Rise descend and circle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1653 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "91", **HatchDesc:** "MONTCLAIR,NJ:2 WOMEN:6 SOFTLY GLOWING SCRS PLAY IN SKY:RISE DESCEND+CIRCLE", **LatLong:** "40.827780 -74.211115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:49:40 N 74:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.827780,-74.211115)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4822 (41BFBC9C) **Date:** 4/12/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** REUS GOING [TO] TARRAGONA, SP **Description:** 2 / truck. 1M saucer glows low over trees. Away fast. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) Special #4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1654 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "REUS>TARRAGONA,SP:2/TRUCK:1M SCR GLOWS LOW OVR TREES:AWAY FAST:/FSR Special #4", **LatLong:** "41.183335 1.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:11:00 N 01:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.183335,1.116667)", **State/Prov:** "TRG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4823 (971C12C0) **Date:** 4/13/1950 **Location:** SALINAS, CA **Description:** 5 observer(s). Silent silvery "long-rooted sweet-potato" dives. Hovers. Maneuvers? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1655 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "SALINAS,CA:5 OBS:SILENT SILVERY "LONG-ROOTED SWEET-POTATO" DIVES:HVRS:MNVRS?", **LatLong:** "36.666668 -121.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:40:00 N 121:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.666668,-121.650006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4824 (BBAFDCA4) **Date:** 4/13/1950 **Location:** MOFFETT NAS, CA **Description:** Many observer(s). Object hovers. 3 flames shoot / tail. Swish. Flutters. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1656 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "MOFFETT NAS,CA:MANY OBS:OBJ HVRS:3 FLAMES SHOOT/TAIL:SWISH:FLUTTERS:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "37.411113 -122.088895", **LatLongDMS:** "37:24:40 N 122:05:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.411113,-122.088895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4825 (CDD426CB) **Date:** 4/13/1950 **Location:** OKLAHOMA CITY, OK **Description:** Minister and 1. 2 saucers on edge. Both right themselves together. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 223) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1657 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "358", **HatchDesc:** "OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:MINISTER+1:2 SCRS ON EDGE:BOTH RIGHT THEMSELVES TOGETHER:", **LatLong:** "35.450002 -97.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:27:00 N 97:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.450002,-97.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4826 (8F4ED14F) **Date:** 4/14/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** CAMARASA, SP **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright object lands / reservoir / hydro power station/depot/facility. Floats. Submerges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1658 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CAMARASA,SP:SVRL OBS:BRITE OBJ LANDS/RSRVR/hydro power stn:FLOATS:SUBMERGES", **LatLong:** "41.866669 0.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 00:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,0.866667)", **State/Prov:** "LRD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4827 (8053DA9D) **Date:** 4/14/1950 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** PORT MONMOUTH, NJ **Description:** Military observer(s). 4 amber rectangles rise and fall. Fast changes / speed and direction. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1659 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PORT MONMOUTH,NJ:MIL OBS:4 AMBER RECTANGLES RISE+FALL:FAST CHANGES/SPEED+DIRn", **LatLong:** "40.427780 -74.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:25:40 N 74:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.427780,-74.100004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4828 (29C307FA) **Date:** 4/14/1950 **Location:** Fort Monmouth, NJ **Description:** 4 rectangular, amber objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 711) **Reference:** NICAP: [500414](http://www.nicap.org/monmouth500414dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_692 ### Event 4829 (A11C2AC2) **Date:** 4/14/1950 **Time:** 2:30 PM **Location:** Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey **Description:** Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four rectangular, amber objects, about 3' by 4'. changed speed and direction rapidly; the group of objects rose and fell during the 3-4 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_39 ### Event 4830 (60D50D8E) **Date:** 4/14/1950 **Description:** RAND Corporation writer Jean M. Hungerford writes a 32-page research memorandum for the US Air Force titled “The Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare.” She uses recent examples of religious miracles that were used in Western propaganda, as well as horoscopes, chain letters, and folklore. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jean M. Hungerford, “[The Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare,](https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research%5Fmemoranda/2008/RM365.pdf)” USAF Project Rand Research Memorandum, RM-35, April 14, 1950 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1518 ### Event 4831 (6AB51872) **Date:** 4/16/1950 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LUDLOW, MASS **Description:** Silver saucer over Minnechaug Mountain. Very slow. Gaseous tail. Rises slowly going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 531) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1660 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "LUDLOW,MASS:SLVR SCR OVR MINNECHAUG Mtn:VSLOW:GASEOUS TAIL:RISES SLOWLY >E", **LatLong:** "42.166669 -72.505559", **LatLongDMS:** "42:10:00 N 72:30:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.166669,-72.505559)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4832 (AADFDB20) **Date:** 4/17/1950 **Location:** Glens Falls, NY **Description:** Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Sauces” announced coming soon. **Type:** announcement **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115865814/behind-the-flying-saucers-book/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_407 ### Event 4833 (5B1DF754) **Date:** 4/17/1950 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** 15+scientist/science / (seen thru) telescope. 3 9' metallic saucers / E. horizon. Faster / any jet. / r95v5#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 422) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1661 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:15+SCI/TSCOPE:3 9'MTLC SCRs/E.HRZN:FASTER/ANY JET:/r95v5#3", **LatLong:** "35.883335 -106.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:53:00 N 106:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.883335,-106.300005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4834 (29076995) **Date:** 4/17/1950 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SPRINGFIELD, MASS **Description:** 2 teens. 2 glowing saucers buzz car. Hop about. Rise going up [to] very fast and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1662 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGFIELD,MASS:2 TEENS:2 GLOWING SCRS BUZZ CAR:HOP ABOUT:RISE↑ VFAST+GONE", **LatLong:** "42.100002 -72.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:00 N 72:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.100002,-72.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4835 (CE470924) **Date:** 4/17/1950 **Description:** Newsweek publishes an article, “Flying Saucers Again,” on crashed saucers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Flying Saucers Again,” Newsweek, April 17, 1950, p. 29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1519 ### Event 4836 (0775BCCA) **Date:** 4/17/1950 **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** More than 15 people report seeing a UFO for 20 minutes at 2,000 feet on the eastern horizon at Los Alamos, New Mexico. One scientist watches the object through a telescope and says it looks flat, circular, metallic, and roughly 9 feet in diameter. It moves faster than any conventional aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 26; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 86 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1520 ### Event 4837 (DFF85B37) **Date:** 4/17/1950 **Description:** Three flat, metallic flying objects were sighted east of the Los Alamos AEC nuclear facility in New Mexico by 15 University of California scientists at 1:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 20 minutes and the UFO was viewed through a telescope. They estimated the size of the objects as approximately nine feet in diameter, and they flew faster than conventional aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, FSR, volume 25, number 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2074 ### Event 4838 (AB6F2292) **Date:** 4/17/1950 **Description:** At 8:15 p.m. EDT two teenagers were driving in a car in Springfield, Massachusetts when their vehicle was bussed by two glowing saucers. The objects then hopped about in the sky, ascend very fast and are gone from sight in about a minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 26 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2075 ### Event 4839 (9D9CEA0F) **Date:** 4/18/1950 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** MEMPHIS, TX **Description:** F610 crew and separate ground RADAR's. Silver sphere tilts. 4 hours / RADAR. B36 scrambles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ACTAEON ADVISOR (qtrly) Actaeon Group; PO.Box 515123, St. Louis, MO 63151-1290 314/994-1290. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1663 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "MEMPHIS,TX:F610 CREW+SEP.GND RDRS:SLVR SPHERE TILTS:4hrs/RDR:B36 SCRAMBLES", **LatLong:** "34.722224 -100.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:43:20 N 100:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.722224,-100.533338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4840 (280415B2) **Date:** 4/18/1950 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** PULLMAN, WA **Description:** 3 observer(s). 2 dark delta/triangle/box-like crafts going north. Join saucer and circle hill. Saucer going quickly north. "Kites" going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 532) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1664 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "732", **HatchDesc:** "PULLMAN,WA:3 OBS:2 DRK DLTS >N:JOIN SCR+CCL HILL:SCR >>N:"KITES" >>S", **LatLong:** "46.733336 -117.172228", **LatLongDMS:** "46:44:00 N 117:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.733336,-117.172228)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4841 (9A233A9C) **Date:** 4/18/1950 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** SHERMAN, TX **Description:** 2 military wives. 18-20 flat silent silver saucers race going quickly north. Maneuver / 4-5 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1665 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "227", **HatchDesc:** "SHERMAN,TX:2 MIL WIVES:18-20 FLAT SLNT SLVR SCRS RACE >>N:MNVR/4-5min", **LatLong:** "33.633335 -96.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:38:00 N 96:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.633335,-96.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4842 (81F5FEB1) **Date:** 4/18/1950 **Location:** Memphis (near), TX **Description:** Object Triangulated, Observed From F-61C (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500418](http://www.nicap.org/500418memphis%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_693 ### Event 4843 (B96BA8D6) **Date:** 4/18/1950 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. three observers in Pullman, Washington saw two dark delta-shaped objects fly to the north; they joined a saucer-shaped object and circled a hill. The saucer then flew off to the north, while the "kites" flew off to the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1691; newspaper clipping dated April 21, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2104 ### Event 4844 (A5FA14BC) **Date:** 4/18/1950 **Description:** CAA observers in Clarendon, Texas saw an unidentified object to the southeast, while observers in Childress, Texas about 50 miles to the SE saw the object to the northwest, and triangulated the stationary object about midway between, near Memphis, Texas. The sighting began around 9 a.m. and the object was on radar for four hours. This radar-visual case involved the crew of an F-61C as it was flying over Memphis around 11:00 a.m. as well as separate ground radars. A silver sphere that tilted was seen, and it did not move significantly despite winds aloft. Northrop engineering test pilot Max Stanley and observers Lloyd Balsam and Sam F. West were asked to intercept the object when they took off in their F-61C (AF 8357) from Amarillo on an MX-775 test of a Navaho missile celestial guidance test. A B-36 was also scrambled and took off from Fort Worth to intercept. On the same day at 10:50 a.m. two military wives in Sherman, Texas saw 18-20 flat silent silver discs race to the north, then maneuver for 4-5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, pp. 26-27; Jan Aldrich **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2105 ### Event 4845 (9AD3A91E) **Date:** 4/19/1950 **Location:** SOUTH / EDMONTON, ALTA **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Fiery red rod or light hangs / sky. Same / Dallas, TX. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1666 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "661", **HatchDesc:** "S/EDMONTON,ALTA:1000s/OBS:FIERY RED ROD OR LITE HANGS/SKY::SAME/DALLAS, TX", **LatLong:** "53.500003 -113.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "53:30:00 N 113:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.500003,-113.466672)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4846 (AC13A919) **Date:** 4/19/1950 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** CALEXICO, CA **Description:** 2 cops. 3 dark silent 150' saucers slowly circle town and entire valley in formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1667 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CALEXICO,CA:2 COPS:3 DARK SILENT 150'SCRS SLOWLY CCL TOWN+ENTIRE VALLEY/FORMn", **LatLong:** "32.683335 -115.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:41:00 N 115:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.683335,-115.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4847 (4124C4A7) **Date:** 4/19/1950 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** ANDERSON, MO **Description:** Swarm / 80+4' saucers in 30 minute(s) traffic jam east / town. Fly going quickly east at sunrise. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1668 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "271", **HatchDesc:** "ANDERSON,MO:SWARM/80+ 4' SCRS in 30min TRAFFIC JAM E/TOWN:FLY>>E AT SUNRISE", **LatLong:** "36.650002 -94.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:39:00 N 94:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.650002,-94.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4848 (49A08E48) **Date:** 4/19/1950 **Description:** A silver, cigar-shaped object was sighted by a pilot in the morning sky over Clarendon, Texas. It flew slowly and vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, page 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2131 ### Event 4849 (6BA3382D) **Date:** 4/20/1950 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** 2 observer(s). Dim fake moon hovers / 1800M. Suddenly quickly going up / 45° angle whoosh! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 531) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1669 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:2 OBS:DIM FAKE MOON HVRS/1800M:SUDDENLY ↑↑/45°ANGLE WHOOSH!", **LatLong:** "29.738890 -95.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:44:20 N 95:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.738890,-95.333338)", **RelAlt:** "1800", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4850 (EC27F0BC) **Date:** 4/20/1950 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** LORIENT, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucer going quickly south to sea fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1670 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LORIENT,FR:SVRL OBS:SCR >>S TO SEA FAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.716669 -3.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:43:00 N 03:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.716669,-3.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4851 (CF9192B9) **Date:** 4/20/1950 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** WEST / LUFKIN, TX **Description:** 3M saucer follows car. 50° turn. Sparks. Spins. Observer's face burnt. / LDLN#123+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 533) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1671 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "W/LUFKIN,TX:3M SCR FOLOS CAR:50°TURN:SPARKS:SPINS:OBS'FACE BURNT:/LDLN#123+/r8", **LatLong:** "31.338890 -94.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:20:20 N 94:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.338890,-94.850005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4852 (9F6AAD26) **Date:** 4/20/1950 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** STAMFORD, CT **Description:** 1+observer(s) / 2 nights. Upside-down banana like inverted moon. Back next night. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 234) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1672 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "136", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "STAMFORD,CT:1+obs/2 NITES:UPSIDE-DOWN BANANA LIKE INVERTED MOON:BACK NEXT NITE", **LatLong:** "41.050002 -73.538892", **LatLongDMS:** "41:03:00 N 73:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.050002,-73.538892)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4853 (FFA4B1AD) **Date:** 4/20/1950 **Time:** night **Location:** Lufkin, Texas **Description:** Jack Robertson was driviug about 13 km west of town when he saw a round object about 3 m in diameter hovering about 7 m above him with a dull red glow. It took off with a "swooshing roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness feIt a burning sensation on his face. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS Jul., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_77 ### Event 4854 (22EAF259) **Date:** 4/20/1950 **Description:** Mr. Robertson was driving about 13 km west of Lufkin, Texas when he saw a round object about three meters in diameter hovering about 7 meters above him. It had a dull red glow. It took off with a "swooshing roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness felt a burning sensation on his face. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucers, July 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2151 ### Event 4855 (4061704C) **Date:** 4/22/1950 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / PRINCETON, MO **Description:** Several separate farmers. Flying disk speeds by trailing white smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 231) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1673 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "262", **HatchDesc:** "SW/PRINCETON,MO:SVRL SEP FARMERS:FLYING DISK SPEEDS BY TRAILING WHT SMOKE", **LatLong:** "40.366669 -93.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:22:00 N 93:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.366669,-93.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4856 (E195F7AE) **Date:** 4/22/1950 **Description:** On this morning in Princeton, Missouri several farmers, including one named Kincaid, saw a flying disc speed by, leaving a trail of white smoke. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History: 1950: April-July, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2205 ### Event 4857 (85136E8B) **Date:** 4/23/1950 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** SOUTH / MORINVILLE, ALTA **Description:** 2 / car. Big flash and near collision / 8M glowing-ovoid. 150kph / low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 507) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1674 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "691", **HatchDesc:** "S/MORINVILLE,ALTA:2/CAR:BIG FLASH+nr COLLISION/8M GLO-OVOID:150kph/lo alt:", **LatLong:** "53.750003 -113.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "53:45:00 N 113:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.750003,-113.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4858 (31442A2B) **Date:** 4/23/1950 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** RED BUD, IL **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Huge red domed saucer seen several X. Going quickly southeast. Photograph / r97#52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1675 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "129", **HatchDesc:** "RED BUD,IL:SVRL SEP.OBS:HUGE RED DOMED SCR SEEN SVRL X:>>SE:FOTO /r97#52", **LatLong:** "38.211113 -89.994449", **LatLongDMS:** "38:12:40 N 89:59:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.211113,-89.994449)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4859 (A654AE97) **Date:** 4/23/1950 **Location:** Red Bud, IL **Description:** Red Bud, IL (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_694 ### Event 4860 (F7398670) **Date:** 4/24/1950 (approximate) **Location:** LARAMIE, WY **Description:** 4 university/universe(al) students. Extremely slow round glittering object going west / 3K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1676 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2183", **HatchDesc:** "LARAMIE,WY:4 UNIV STUDENTS:EXTREMELY SLOW ROUND GLITTERING OBJ >W/3K'alt", **LatLong:** "41.350002 -105.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:21:00 N 105:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.350002,-105.616672)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4861 (88E5F2AC) **Date:** 4/24/1950 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** ANSONIA, CT **Description:** Cops and more/others. Amber-glow. Gravy-boat object flies overhead. Back / 0130hrs next day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1677 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "196", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "ANSONIA,CT:COPS++:AMBER-GLOW:GRAVY-BOAT OBJ FLIES OVHD:BACK/0130hrs NEXT DAY", **LatLong:** "41.344446 -73.077781", **LatLongDMS:** "41:20:40 N 73:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.344446,-73.077781)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4862 (A699F512) **Date:** 4/24/1950 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** DORRIS, CA **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). 7 silver round objects float overhead. Then shoot away extremely fast. 2400M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 534) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1678 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1292", **HatchDesc:** "DORRIS,CA:1+2 OBS:7 SLVR RND OBJS FLOAT OVHD:THEN SHOOT AWAY XFAST:2400M alt", **LatLong:** "41.950002 -121.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:57:00 N 121:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.950002,-121.916672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4863 (D4C9F414) **Date:** 4/24/1950 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** ABBIATE GUAZZONE, ITL **Description:** 3 pseudo-human/entity weld saucer body. Metal fragments left! Observer(s) zapped. / FSRv32#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1679 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "ABBIATE GUAZZONE,ITL:3 PSH WELD SCR BODY:MTL FRAGS LEFT!:OBS ZAPPED:/FSRv32#4", **LatLong:** "45.700002 8.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:42:00 N 08:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.700002,8.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Varese", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 4864 (00F6C13B) **Date:** 4/24/1950 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Abbiate Guazzone, Italy **Description:** Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object, near which a man dressed in tight-fitting clothes and wearing a helmet seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trap through which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness had the time to note many details of the machine and its occupants. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 63, 2; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_78 ### Event 4865 (39ADBE32) **Date:** 4/24/1950 **Locations:** Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy; outskirts of Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Bruno Facchini steps outside his house on the outskirts of Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy, and notices something flashing near a power line. He goes to investigate and encounters a landed disc with an open door and steps leading down. Three or four men in diving suits and helmets are inside. One seems to be welding a pipe. Facchini speaks to them, but they respond with growling sounds. One points a small “camera” at him that emits a beam that knocks him over. Facchini lies still while the repairs are completed, and the UFO takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Pino Carminati Ghidelli, “[Un Diaco è Atterrato,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201971%2001-02%20No%2037.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 37 \(Jan./Feb. 1971\): 19–22; Antonio Giudici, “[The Case of Bruno Facchini,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 \(April 1975\): 30–32; Ezio Barnardini, “[Facchini: Un CE3 Rivisitato,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201985%2003-1986%2001%20-%20Vol%2020-21%20No%20104.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 104 \(March 1985/Jan. 1986\): 4–7; Clark III 267; Marcus Lowth, “[Bruno Facchini’s Extraterrestrial Encounter in Varese, Italy,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/encounters/bruno-facchinis-extraterrestrial-encounter)” UFO Insight, September 5, 2020; 1Pinotti 30–40; Patrick Gross, “[Abbiate Guazzone, Italy, April 24, 1950](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/abbiateguazzone.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1521 ### Event 4866 (7F85F05F) **Date:** 4/24/1950 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. three men watched a crescent-shaped object maneuver through the sky over Ansonia, Connecticut. The object looked like a half-moon with a squared off end, and was sighted by two policemen and a restaurant proprietor. It moved unevenly thru the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 33 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2272 ### Event 4867 (0D096482) **Date:** 4/24/1950 **Description:** Later, at 10 p.m. in Abbiate Guazzone, Italy, Sr. Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object. Nearby stood a man dressed in tight fitting clothes and wearing a helmet who seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trapdoor through which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness time to note many details about the craft and its occupants. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Antonio Giudici, Flying Saucer Review, April-May 1975, p. 30; Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 120; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2273 ### Event 4868 (2A245A72) **Date:** 4/25/1950 **Time:** 03:00? **Location:** DUGWAY MOUNTAIN, UT **Description:** Odd night lights. Beams / light extend / all directions. 24hr search ordered. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 234) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1680 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1955", **HatchDesc:** "DUGWAY Mtn,UT:ODD NLTS:BEAMS/LITE EXTEND/ALL DIRs:24hr SEARCH ORDERED:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.166669 -113.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:00 N 113:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.166669,-113.166672)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4869 (73B3DB0D) **Date:** 4/25/1950 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** VANCOUVER, BC **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). 200' cone over city and airport. 700mph. 15K' altitude. Goes west going quickly southeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 235) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1681 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,BC:1000s/OBS:200'CONE OVR CITY+AIRPORT:700mph:15K'alt:GOES W>>SE:NFD", **LatLong:** "49.200002 -123.116673", **LatLongDMS:** "49:12:00 N 123:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.200002,-123.116673)", **RelAlt:** "4500", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4870 (5DD66A0B) **Date:** 4/25/1950 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** ROCKY HILL, CT **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer / low altitude. Erratic flight. Lit windows / edge. Hartford Times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 235) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1682 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKY HILL,CT:2 OBS:SCR/LO ALT:ERRATIC FLITE:LIT WINDOWS/EDGE:Hartford Times", **LatLong:** "41.666669 -72.650003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 72:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,-72.650003)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4871 (FF17475E) **Date:** 4/25/1950 **Location:** Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah **Description:** Early morning. Military security patrols at the deactivated Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah view a series of unusual lights and objects moving above an ammunition storage area. One object is “surrounded by an aura of spears of light jutting diagonally from the main body.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History, Volume 6:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 34 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1522 ### Event 4872 (B1CC8D4E) **Date:** 4/25/1950 **Location:** Montuïri, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Enrique Hausmann Muller takes a film of a bright, circular UFO with rays of flame spinning off its edge in a pinwheel fashion in Montuïri, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Probable hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 88](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 32; Matías Morey Ripoll, “[El Caso](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019%5F09%5F21%5Farchive.html\#es) [Hausmann: Una Aproximación desde Ibiza,](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019%5F09%5F21%5Farchive.html\#es)” UFO Fotocat Blog, September 20, 2019; Centro Ufologico Nazionale, \[[Hausmann photo](https://www.centroufologiconazionale.net/1950fotolofocun.JPG)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1523 ### Event 4873 (8C806AEC) **Date:** 4/25/1950 **Description:** A series of unknown lights and UFOs where seen near the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. A "flying icebox," surrounded by an aura of spears was seen over the Ammunition Storage Area near Dougway Mountain at 3:00 a.m. A 24-hour search of the area ensued. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2289 ### Event 4874 (1F064BB2) **Date:** 4/25/1950 **Description:** At 4:00 p.m. a 200 foot long cone-shaped device flew over the Vancouver, British Columbia airport at 15,000 feet altitude, and there were many calls to the police and news media. A white substance hung about the tail of the object but it left no condensation trail. The sighting lasted one minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** The Oregonian, April 26, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2290 ### Event 4875 (C7C2FC1D) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Description:** TWA flight 117 sights UFO **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_108 ### Event 4876 (B305B2C5) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** WHITE SANDS PG, NM **Description:** Theodolite films / missile test. 10M objects / 150K' altitude. Very fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 354) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1683 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE SANDS PG,NM:THEODOLITE FILMS/MISSILE TEST:10M OBJs/150K'alt:VFAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "32.666668 -106.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:40:00 N 106:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.666668,-106.466672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4877 (C7785E35) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** RANGELY, CO **Description:** 3 observer(s). Glowing-ball / clouds. Electric. 2 see metallic 4' saucer / eye-level 60' away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1684 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1594", **HatchDesc:** "RANGELY,CO:3 OBS:GLO-BALL/CLOUDS:ELECTRIC:2 SEE MTLC 4'SCR/EYE-LEVEL 60' AWAY", **LatLong:** "40.033335 -108.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "40:02:00 N 108:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.033335,-108.916672)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4878 (EB4ECD28) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** OVER PLYMOUTH, MASS **Description:** F86 / Otis Air Force Base. Saucer / 17K' rises / 28K' very fast. Shoots going quickly north / huge speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1685 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "ovr PLYMOUTH,MASS:F86/OTIS AFB:SCR/17K' RISES/28K' VFAST:SHOOTS>>N/HUGE SPEED", **LatLong:** "41.961113 -70.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:57:40 N 70:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.961113,-70.666670)", **RelAlt:** "5200", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4879 (6985DB1D) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** 25KM ESE / SEVILLE, SPN **Description:** Swiss engineer. Saucer going quickly ESE. Much detail-see reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1686 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "25KM ESE/SEVILLE,SPN:SWISS ENGINEER:SCR >>ESE:MUCH DETAIL-see ref.", **LatLong:** "37.300002 -5.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "37:18:00 N 05:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.300002,-5.716667)", **State/Prov:** "SVL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4880 (D969B91F) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** OSUNA, SPN **Description:** 85KM ESE / Seville. Different observer(s). Same saucer in dead-leaf motion. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1687 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OSUNA,SPN:85KM ESE/SEVILLE:DIFFERENT OBS:SAME SCR IN DEAD-LEAF MOTION:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.216668 -5.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "37:13:00 N 05:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.216668,-5.066667)", **State/Prov:** "SVL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4881 (104A4361) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** SOUTH / SOUTH BEND, IN **Description:** All / TWA DC3 / 2K'. Saucer paces DC3 / 8 minute(s). Veers going north. / r148p59. / r242p38. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1688 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "S/SOUTH BEND,IN:ALL/TWA DC3/2K':SCR PACES DC3/8min:VEERS >N:/r148p59:/r242p38", **LatLong:** "41.633335 -86.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:38:00 N 86:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.633335,-86.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4882 (5A39A3F7) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** Hachinohe (NE of Camp Haugen), Japan **Description:** Rectangular cream-colored flat object about 20 ft high, 60 ft long (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_695 ### Event 4883 (3CC9B880) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM **Description:** Cinetheodolite Film Taken By Tracking Station (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500427](http://www.nicap.org/500427whitesands%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_696 ### Event 4884 (EAE0678E) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** Goshen, IN **Description:** Adickes/Manning Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/adickesdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_697 ### Event 4885 (804298EE) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** Plymouth, MA **Description:** Light-brown flat oval object that climbed to 28,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/plymouth500427dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_698 ### Event 4886 (90F51900) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico **Description:** While preparing for an MX-776A Shrike air-to-ground missile test at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Charles Riggs, a member of the Project Twinkle cinetheodolite camera crew supplied by Land-Air Inc., sees, tracks, and manages to film four high-flying objects streaking across the sky. Another station also tracks the objects. The photos show only a smudgy dark object, but the triangulation results in a calculation by mathematician Wilbur L. Mitchell and Capt. Perry Bryant of the objects’ size as 30 feet in diameter and 150,000 feet in altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Cinetheodolite Film Taken by Tracking Station](http://www.nicap.org/500427whitesands%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 88](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/88/mode/2up); Clark III 544–545; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 88; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 44; Good Above, [pp. 354–355](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/354/mode/2up); Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 \(Spring 1996\): 22–25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1524 ### Event 4887 (03C7D739) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Location:** Goshen, Indiana **Description:** 8:25 p.m. TWA Flight 117 pilot Capt. [Robert Adickes](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-05-fi-33312-story.html) and Flight Officer Robert F. Manning are flying near Goshen, Indiana, when they see a bright-red disc-shaped UFO behind their DC-3. It overtakes the plane in about 2 minutes. Stewardess Gloria Henshaw and 11 passengers \(including Boeing engineers C. H. Jenkins and [Dean C.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69300704/dean-c%5F-bourland) [Bourland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69300704/dean-c%5F-bourland) and executives E. J. Fitzgerald and S. N. Miller\) also see the object. It veers off at 400 mph, drops down to 1,500 feet, and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Adickes TWA DC-3 Case](http://www.nicap.org/500427goshen%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 89; Donald E. Keyhoe, “[Flight](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf) [117 and the Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf)” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 46–47 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1525 ### Event 4888 (B16FAC2C) **Date:** 4/27/1950 **Description:** At 9:00 a.m. a U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet had an encounter with a flat oval-shaped object near Plymouth, Massachusetts. The object was light brown in color, climbed away from the jet, and at 28,000 feet turned and flew away. At 8:25 p.m. a huge reddish-orange disc passed a TWA DC-3 airliner being flown over South Bend, Indiana by the crew named Adickes, Manning, and Hinshaw. The UFO approached the plane from below and behind, overtaking the aircraft, then moved rapidly away when the pilot attempted a closer approach. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12; (2) True Magazine, August 1950; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 145; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 150 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2361 ### Event 4889 (9FA3C820) **Date:** 4/28/1950 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** REUS, SP **Description:** Several / railroad/railway station. Brilliant flying cartwheel going quickly ESE vertically. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1689 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "REUS,SP:SVRL/RR STATION:BRILL.FLYING CARTWHEEL >>ESE VERTICALLY:", **LatLong:** "41.133335 1.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "41:08:00 N 01:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.133335,1.083333)", **State/Prov:** "TRG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4890 (CDADC173) **Date:** 4/28/1950 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NORTH CHICAGO, IL **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 2 15M glowing-disks circle going north / 300kph. 600M altitude. / news report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 539) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1690 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "N.CHICAGO,IL:SVRL SEP.OBS:2 15M GLOW-DISKS CCL >N/300kph:600M alt:/news rpt", **LatLong:** "41.900002 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:54:00 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.900002,-87.666671)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4891 (8256186C) **Date:** 4/28/1950 **Location:** Wakkanai (About 2 miles W of), Japan **Description:** Unidentified Target Tracked / F-80 Intercepts (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500428](http://www.nicap.org/500428japan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_699 ### Event 4892 (55CF8FCF) **Date:** 4/29/1950 **Location:** CENTRALIA, WA **Description:** Woman. 2 saucers / sky. 6 more join / 1 red. All going quickly south into cloud. / LA Times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1691 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "58", **HatchDesc:** "CENTRALIA,WA:WOMAN:2 SCRS/SKY:6 MORE JOIN/1 RED:ALL>>S INTO CLOUD:/L.A.TIMES", **LatLong:** "46.716669 -122.955561", **LatLongDMS:** "46:43:00 N 122:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.716669,-122.955561)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4893 (400586FA) **Date:** 4/30/1950 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SAVANNAH, GA **Description:** Cops and 5 separate observer(s). 15M upside down hat-saucer with small fins hovers / seconds. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1692 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "SAVANNAH,GA:COPS+5 SEP.OBS:15M UPSIDE DOWN HAT-SCR W/SML FINS HVRS/secs:>>SE", **LatLong:** "32.066668 -81.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:04:00 N 81:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.066668,-81.083337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4894 (85D72ED3) **Date:** 4/30/1950 **Description:** At around 8:00 p.m. police and five other independent witnesses in Savannah, Georgia reported seeing an upside-down, hat-shaped disc with small fins. It was an estimated 15 meters in diameter. It hovered for a few seconds, then shot off toward the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping, May 1, 1950; Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2418 ### Event 4895 (27454EB7) **Date:** 5/3/1950 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** SAVOYEUX-HAUTE, FR **Description:** Several girls. Large cylinder/cylindrical object south going quickly north. Shoots silvery rays. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1693 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAVOYEUX-HAUTE,FR:SVRL GIRLS:LRG CYL S>>N:SHOOTS SILVERY RAYS:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.550002 5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:33:00 N 05:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.550002,5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "HSO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4896 (30979CB6) **Date:** 5/3/1950 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** NEUVILLE-SUR-SARTHE, FR **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 4 saucers / low altitude. Going [to] horizon slowly. Leave trail / smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1694 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NEUVILLE-sur-SARTHE,FR:NMRS OBS:4 SCRS/LO ALT:> HRZN SLOWLY:LEAVE TRAIL/SMOKE", **LatLong:** "48.066669 0.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:04:00 N 00:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.066669,0.200000)", **State/Prov:** "SRT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4897 (7CDE187E) **Date:** 5/3/1950 **Description:** At 3:00 p.m. several girls in Savoyeux-Haute, Haute-Saone department, France saw a large cylindrical object fly rapidly from the south to the north shooting silvery rays. At 4:30 p.m. four discs were sighted by numerous observers in Neuville-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe department, France flying at a low altitude slowly toward the the horizon. They left a trail of smoke. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2464 ### Event 4898 (B6325984) **Date:** 5/4/1950 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM, AL **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). Ghostly object grows and changes shape. Flashes. Suddenly goes going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1695 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM,AL:2+1 OBS:GHOSTLY OBJ GROWS+CHANGES SHAPE:FLASHES:SUDDENLY GOES ↑", **LatLong:** "33.500002 -86.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:30:00 N 86:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.500002,-86.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4899 (891D25F2) **Date:** 5/4/1950 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. in Birmingham, Alabama a ghostly object grew and changed shape; it flashes; then suddenly shoots up and is gone. There were two witnesses together and an additional independent observer, and the event lasted 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1722; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 41 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2500 ### Event 4900 (822981FB) **Date:** 5/5/1950 **Location:** SYDNEY SUBURBS AND ALL AUSTRALIA **Description:** Reports pour in. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape flashes across sky. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1696 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "SYDNEY SUBURBS+ALL AUSTRALIA:REPORTS POUR IN:HUGE CGR FLASHES ACRS SKY:NFD", **LatLong:** "-33.900002 151.200007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 S 151:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.900002,151.200007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4901 (F8A25D81) **Date:** 5/5/1950 **Location:** Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska **Description:** 11:30 p.m. Capt. Marcellus D. O’Sullivan, 1Lt. [William J. Reisinger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194896161/william-j-reisinger), and three enlisted men of the 625th Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska, see a reddish-orange object hovering in the sky for 5 minuites. It puts on a burst of speed and disappears over the horizon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[From History: 57th Fighter Interceptor Wing \(Alaska\), January–June 1950,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr05.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 \(July 1999\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1526 ### Event 4902 (2E5F5F3B) **Date:** 5/6/1950 **Location:** ABINGTON, PA **Description:** Squadron / saucers circles all over town. All see. No further details. / Scranton Tribune. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1697 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "ABINGTON,PA:SQUADRON/SCRS CIRCLES ALL OVR TOWN:ALL SEE:NFD:/SCRANTON TRIBUNE", **LatLong:** "40.122224 -75.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:20 N 75:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.122224,-75.116670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4903 (68D147A8) **Date:** 5/6/1950 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** ROMA, ITL **Description:** Crowds / observers. 2 flashing saucers 1 mile over Piazza Colonna. Spin and move slowly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1698 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ROMA,ITL:CROWDS/OBSs:2 FLASHING SCRS 1mi OVR PIAZZA COLONNA:SPIN+MOVE SLOWLY", **LatLong:** "41.900002 12.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "41:54:00 N 12:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.900002,12.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Rome", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4904 (8A2C7DF4) **Date:** 5/6/1950 **Description:** Crowds of observers in Rome, Italy watched two flashing saucer-shaped object one mile over the Piazza Colonna at 4:30 p.m. They were spinning and moved slowly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 126; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2578 ### Event 4905 (BB270107) **Date:** 5/6/1950 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. a squadron of discs flew in circles for 20 minutes above the city of Abington, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. There were many witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Riverside Daily Press, May 8, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2579 ### Event 4906 (6A610227) **Date:** 5/7/1950 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / ELY, NV **Description:** 3 observer(s). Silver 100' saucer / 100' altitude. Hovers 10 minute(s). Oscillates. Goes going up / great speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1699 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "2150", **HatchDesc:** "SE/ELY,NV:3 OBS:SLVR 100' SCR/100'alt:HOVRS 10min:OSCILLATES:GOES↑/GREAT SPEED", **LatLong:** "39.233335 -114.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:14:00 N 114:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.233335,-114.733339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4907 (E6EA359E) **Date:** 5/7/1950 **Location:** Ely (9 miles S of), NV **Description:** Silvery white object hover at 100 ft altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 721) **Reference:** NICAP: [500507](http://www.nicap.org/ely500507dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_700 ### Event 4908 (45743C19) **Date:** 5/7/1950 **Time:** 1845 **Location:** Ely, Nevada **Description:** A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic when, about 14 km south of Ely, they saw a silvery-white object at treetop level. It hovered for 10 min, then oscillated "as if attempting to rise" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_79 ### Event 4909 (FFD85269) **Date:** 5/7/1950 **Time:** 6:45 PM **Location:** Nine miles sough of Ely, Nevada **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and their grandson. One silvery white object hovered at 100' altitude, moved back and forth for 10 minutes and then flew up and away. Note in case file: "No investigation." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_40 ### Event 4910 (D2114050) **Date:** 5/7/1950 **Description:** A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic at 6:45 p.m. when they saw a silvery white object at treetop level. They were about nine miles south of Ely, Nevada at the time. It hovered for ten minutes, then oscillated "as if attempting to rise" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 721; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 79 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2613 ### Event 4911 (F197EE96) **Date:** 5/9/1950 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** Object with erratically varying height, position and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_701 ### Event 4912 (FC248499) **Date:** 5/10/1950 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** ARLINGTON VA **Description:** Man / window. 60 cm Lt. grey disk going north / 150M altitude. Spins. Light smoke trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 542) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1700 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "ARLINGTON VA:MAN/WINDOW:60 cm Lt.GRY DISK >N/150M alt:SPINS:LITE SMOKE TRAIL", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -77.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 77:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-77.116670)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4913 (104A8FB7) **Date:** 5/11/1950 **Location:** McMinnville, OR **Description:** McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near McMinnville, Oregon. **Type:** ufo photo **Reference:** [link](https://kval.com/news/local/fight-over-ufo-photos-pits-family-versus-newspaper) **Reference:** [link](https://saucerco.com/blogs/saucer-encounters/mcminnville-ufo-photos) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_408 ### Event 4914 (22D744E4) **Date:** 5/11/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MCMINNVILLE, OR **Description:** Classic 30' saucer over farm. 1st good photographs. No spin. Going quickly west. / r221p132. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 244) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1701 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "49", **HatchDesc:** "McMINNVILLE,OR:CLASSIC 30'SCR OVR FARM:1st GOOD FOTOS:NO SPIN:>>W:/r221p132", **LatLong:** "45.233335 -123.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:14:00 N 123:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.233335,-123.200006)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4915 (288CD7ED) **Date:** 5/11/1950 **Location:** McMinnville (9 miles W of), OR **Description:** Paul Trent Photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500511](http://www.nicap.org/500511mcminnville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_702 ### Event 4916 (B6799FD1) **Date:** 5/11/1950 **Locations:** McMinnville, Oregon; Sheridan, Oregon; Colorado **Description:** 7:30 p.m. [Evelyn Trent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84284227/evelyn-mae-trent)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84284227/evelyn-mae-trent) who lives on a farm nine miles from McMinnville, Oregon \[near Sheridan, Oregon\], is walking back to her farmhouse after feeding rabbits. Before reaching the house, she sees a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object heading in her direction from the northeast. She yells for her husband [Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent), who is inside the house; he comes out and also sees the object. After a short time, he goes back inside to get a camera and manages to take two photos of the object before it speeds away to the west. Paul Trent’s father briefly sees the object before it flies away. The Trents assume they have seen some exotic military aircraft. They do not develop the film in the camera until they use it up and show the photos only to a few friends. Eventually it reaches the cover of Life magazine, but the Trents show no desire to make any money from the photos. Although the Colorado project initially thinks the photos seem genuine, three Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs researchers in 2013–2015 claim to find evidence of a model suspended from a string. Researcher [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) finds major mathematical and scientific errors in IPACO’s work, which actually supports a UFO conclusion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[McMinnville UFO Photographs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville%5FUFO%5Fphotographs)”; “[Farmer Trent’s Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1950%2006%2026%5FLife.pdf)” Life, June 26, 1950, p. 29; NICAP, “[Trent /](http://www.nicap.org/500511mcminnville%5Fdir.htm) [McMinnville Photos](http://www.nicap.org/500511mcminnville%5Fdir.htm)”; Story, [pp. 223–226](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/222/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 90; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 244–245](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/244/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 396–](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/396/mode/2up) [407](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/396/mode/2up); Bruce S. Maccabee, “[On the Possibility that the McMinnville Photos Show a Distant Unidentified Object](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf) [\(UO\),](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf)” Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 152–163; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The McMinnville Photos,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp. 13–57; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The Trent Farm Photos,](http://brumac.mysite.com/trent1.html)” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The Trent Farm Photos Appendix,](http://brumac.mysite.com/trent1b.html)” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The McMinnville Photos,](http://brumac.mysite.com/trent2.html)” May 2000; Michael D. Swords, “[Can We Learn Anything](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F15.html) [from UFO Photos? Part Five,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F15.html)” The Big Study, July 15, 2012; Antoine Cousyn, François Louange, and Geoff Quick, “[The McMinnville Pictures](http://www.ipaco.fr/ReportMcMinnville.pdf),” Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs, May 2014; Clark III 702–704 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1527 ### Event 4917 (C98C4706) **Date:** 5/11/1950 **Description:** Two famous UFO photographs were taken on this evening by Mr. Paul Trent in McMinnville, Oregon. The UFO was also witnessed by his wife. The images show a dark metallic, asymmetric hat-shaped disc. The upper structure was described as like a "parachute canopy", with slightly off-center triangular post or antenna. It hovered, rocking slowly like a rowboat riding at anchor, and made no sound. The photos were published in Life Magazine. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** McMinnville (OR) Telephone Register, June 8, 1950; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 6; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 396 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2734 ### Event 4918 (8BB9304D) **Date:** 5/13/1950 **Location:** SUTTER BUTTES, CA **Description:** 2 / farm. Brilliant white objects play around in sky. ".. here again". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1702 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "SUTTER BUTTES,CA:2/FARM:BRILLIANT WHT OBJs PLAY AROUND IN SKY:"..HERE AGAIN"", **LatLong:** "39.227780 -121.805561", **LatLongDMS:** "39:13:40 N 121:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.227780,-121.805561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4919 (9CD9351C) **Date:** 5/13/1950 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** EAST / WILMETTE, IL **Description:** 25m meteor-saucer going quickly south. Glows. 25° elevation. 6mi out over Lake Michigan. Turns going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1703 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "176", **HatchDesc:** "E/WILMETTE,IL:25m METEOR-SCR >>S:GLOWS:25° ELEV:6mi OUT ovr LAKE Mi:TURNS>>E", **LatLong:** "42.072224 -87.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:04:20 N 87:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.072224,-87.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4920 (B12A5D70) **Date:** 5/15/1950 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** LA PAMPA, ARG **Description:** Engineer. 10M saucer and 3 dead pseudo-human/entity inside. Ashes. / APRO Aug'55+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) 25 / 4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 290) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1704 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "La PAMPA,ARG:ENGINEER:10M SCR+3 DEAD PSH INSIDE:ASHES:/APRO Aug'55+FSR 25/4", **LatLong:** "-32.000002 -66.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "32:00:00 S 66:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.000002,-66.000003)", **State/Prov:** "LPM", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 4921 (08C857A6) **Date:** 5/15/1950 **Locations:** Bahía Blanca Partido; Macachín; Estación Hidalgo Ferrocarril Sarmiento; La Pampa, Argentina **Description:** Afternoon. Architect Enrique Carotenuto Bossa is driving in an isolated region in Bahía Blanca Partido \(possibly between Macachín and Estación Hidalgo Ferrocarril Sarmiento\), La Pampa, Argentina, when he sees a metallic disc resting on the ground to the left of the highway. He stops the car to investigate, approaches it, and sees an open door in its side. He goes inside and sees a “curved divan with three seats, two of which were occupied by small beings covered from head to foot \(except for an opening for the face \(in a kind of tight-fitting overall of a brown color.” The bodies are about 4 feet tall, and their faces seem charred or burnt. In front of them is a screen with “rays playing on it,” and on top of the screen is a rotating globe. The engineer runs out and drives back to his hotel. He returns the next day with two companions and finds only an ash heap. But they look up and see three UFOs—one a cigar-shaped object and two discs, hovering above them at 1,800 feet. The discs merge with the cigar and speed away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** El Universal \(Caracas, Venezuela\), May 7, 1955; “[Man Enters Grounded Disc,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2008%2000%20-%20August%5F%28underlinings%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, pp. 1–3; Clark III 327–328; Willy Smith, “The Curious Case of the Argentine Crashed Saucer,” IUR 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1986\): 18–19; Roberto E. Banchs and Richard W. Heiden, “Crash Landing in the Pampas,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 4–10, 30; Roberto Banchs, “[General Acha \(LP\): Un](http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2009/07/general-acha-lp-un-accidentado-aterrizaje-primera-parte/) [Accidentado Aterrizaje \(Priemra Parte\),](http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2009/07/general-acha-lp-un-accidentado-aterrizaje-primera-parte/)” Marcianitos Verdes, July 4, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1528 ### Event 4922 (61A87067) **Date:** 5/16/1950 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Reply letter from White House to BSRA **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555559492540157954) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_409 **See also:** 4/7/1950 ### Event 4923 (F9269E76) **Date:** 5/17/1950 (approximate) **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** 1 military observer(s). Saucer lands / airport / 5 minute(s). Sets grass afire. Going quickly west. / OSI investigation/investigators. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 244) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1705 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "1105", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:1 MIL.OBS:SCR LANDS/AIRPORT/5min:SETS GRASS AFIRE:>>W:/OSI INV", **LatLong:** "35.233335 -101.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:14:00 N 101:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.233335,-101.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4924 (631952B5) **Date:** 5/17/1950 **Location:** TIMPERLEY, MANCHESTER **Description:** Dark 'absolute(ly) solid smoke-ring' speeds through clouds. Plane-size. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1706 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "52", **HatchDesc:** "TIMPERLEY,MANCHESTER:DARK 'ABS SOLID SMOKE-RING' SPEEDS THRU CLOUDS:PLANE-SIZE", **LatLong:** "53.383336 -2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:23:00 N 02:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.383336,-2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4925 (97624640) **Date:** 5/17/1950 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** HAY CREEK, WY **Description:** 4 oilmen. 2 saucers over oil field / 2 hours. Lights and flames / rim. Dives and maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 545) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1707 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "1317", **HatchDesc:** "HAY CREEK,WY:4 OILMEN:2 SCRS OVR OIL FIELD/2hrs:LITES+FLAMES/RIM:DIVES+MNVRS", **LatLong:** "43.711113 -104.661116", **LatLongDMS:** "43:42:40 N 104:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.711113,-104.661116)", **State/Prov:** "WHY", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4926 (4A4B4E08) **Date:** 5/17/1950 **Description:** At three o'clock in the morning four oil men in Hay Creek, Wyoming watched two saucers over an oil field for two hours. The object had lights and flames around its rim. It made dives and maneuvers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 45 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2915 ### Event 4927 (DF6602C4) **Date:** 5/17/1950 **Description:** On this night a military witness reported that a saucer-shaped object landed at the Amarillo, Texas airport for five minutes. Its touchdown set the grass on fire. It took off and flew to the west. There was an OSI investigation. On the same night a dark, "absolutely solid smoke ring" sped through the clouds of Timperley, Cheshire, England. It was the size of a plane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, pp. 44 & 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2916 ### Event 4928 (DF35AC20) **Date:** 5/19/1950 **Location:** Honshu (100 miles E of), Japan **Description:** Triangular Object Tracked By Gnd Radar & Observed By F-80 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500519](http://www.nicap.org/500519honshu%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_703 ### Event 4929 (1371A0AB) **Date:** 5/20/1950 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** LOWELL OBSERVER(S), AZ **Description:** Astronomer S. Hess / (seen thru) telescope. 4' saucer southeast going quickly northwest across wind / 100mph. / r48p84. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1708 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2130", **HatchDesc:** "LOWELL OBS,AZ:ASTRONOMER S.HESS/TSCOPE:4'SCR SE>>NW ACRS WIND/100mph:/r48p84", **LatLong:** "35.333335 -111.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:20:00 N 111:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.333335,-111.616672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4930 (DE53B1EA) **Date:** 5/20/1950 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** COURS-LES-BARRES, FR **Description:** Cold hands grab woman. Invisible figure nears. / LDLN#314+/ MJ#309. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN 2-250-00464-1 (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1709 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "COURS-les-BARRES,FR:COLD HANDS GRAB WOMAN:INVSBL FIG NEARS:/LDLN#314+/MJ#309", **LatLong:** "47.033336 3.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:02:00 N 03:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.033336,3.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 4931 (38FC565C) **Date:** 5/20/1950 **Location:** Flagstaff, AZ **Description:** Astronomer/meteorologist observed a "powered" disc-like object from the grounds of Lowell Observatory. \[I\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_704 ### Event 4932 (0E6DAECB) **Date:** 5/20/1950 **Locations:** Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona **Description:** 12:15 p.m. Meteorologist [Seymour L. Hess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%5FHess) is strolling the grounds of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, when he notices a round, gray-colored object approaching from the southeast at about 12,000 feet altitude. He follows it with a 4x spyglass as it passes in front of a small cumulus cloud. Hess estimates it is about 4 feet in diameter and moving about 100 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 3](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=15&skin=2021); Condon, [pp. 245–248](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/244/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 61–62 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1529 ### Event 4933 (4C922236) **Date:** 5/21/1950 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** MONTROSE, CO **Description:** 3+16 separate observer(s). Saucer hovers / town. 2nd saucer joins. Both going quickly north. Then turn going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 548) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1710 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1768", **HatchDesc:** "MONTROSE,CO:3+16 SEP.OBS:SCR HVRS/TOWN:2nd SCR JOINS:BOTH >> N:THEN TURN>>E", **LatLong:** "38.477780 -107.877783", **LatLongDMS:** "38:28:40 N 107:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.477780,-107.877783)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4934 (1A54AECB) **Date:** 5/21/1950 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, WY **Description:** 7 / Air National Guard. 4 white saucers / V formation maneuver and regroup. 90° turn going quickly east inline. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 545) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1711 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1872", **HatchDesc:** "WARREN AFB,WY:7/AIR Ntl.GUARD:4 WHT SCRS/VFORM MNVR+REGROUP:90°TURN >>E INLINE", **LatLong:** "41.183335 -104.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:11:00 N 104:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.183335,-104.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4935 (B88DBD99) **Date:** 5/21/1950 **Description:** A second Gallup poll on UFOs is released, showing that 5% of respondents think “these flying saucers” are “comets, shooting stars, something from another planet.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 48-49; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 10–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1530 ### Event 4936 (2C0666DB) **Date:** 5/21/1950 **Location:** Municipal Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming **Description:** 3:50 p.m. T/Sgt Edward Eles, [Earl DuQuoin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88216492/earl-e.-duquoin)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88216492/earl-e.-duquoin) and four other airmen of the 187th Fighter Squadron of the Wyoming National Guard are on the airfield at the Municipal Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming, when they see a V- shaped formation of four round, pure-white discs flying in a northerly direction. In a matter of seconds, the objects change formation and make a sharp right-angle turn, flying single file, and speed out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, May 22, 1950, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1531 ### Event 4937 (A5CE00B2) **Date:** 5/21/1950 **Description:** A huge round object hung in the sky over Montrose, Colorado. It was joined by a second large object. Both started heading to the north, but turned and flew off to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 48, citing UPI release, May 22, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3014 ### Event 4938 (53F584A7) **Date:** 5/23/1950 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LOVELAND, CO **Description:** 3 observer(s). 2 large flat glowing-disks make 10 circular orbits / N. sky. / Denver News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 547) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1712 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1518", **HatchDesc:** "LOVELAND,CO:3 OBS:2 LRG FLAT GLOW-DISKS MAKE 10 CIRC.ORBITS/N.SKY:/Denver news", **LatLong:** "40.416669 -105.072227", **LatLongDMS:** "40:25:00 N 105:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.416669,-105.072227)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4939 (A722B2C7) **Date:** 5/24/1950 **Location:** VAUGHN, NM **Description:** Contractors / Project Twinkle. 8 30' saucers and green fireballs / FBI. 150k' altitude. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) V9#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1713 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "1806", **HatchDesc:** "VAUGHN,NM:CONTRACTORS/PROJ TWINKLE:8 30'SCRS+GRN FBLS./FBI:150k'alt:/IUR V9#1", **LatLong:** "34.616668 -105.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:37:00 N 105:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.616668,-105.216672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4940 (C629D367) **Date:** 5/24/1950 **Location:** Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM **Description:** Askania Theodolite Films Objects At Tracking Station (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500524](http://www.nicap.org/500524whitesands%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_705 ### Event 4941 (9BC3F3CD) **Date:** 5/24/1950 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** During an MX-674 Tarzon controllable vertical bomb test at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Floyd Fannon and other USAF crew members see eight unidentified objects. They separately track and film two of the objects down the North American Aviation missile firing range. Project Twinkle cinetheodolite station P-8 films one object to the northeast for 6 frames \(1.0 sec\) moving uniformly to the south. Cinetheodolite station P-10, located 5.7 miles down range to the north from P-8 and 7 feet higher, films another object, hence no triangulation is possible. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Cinetheodolite Film Taken by Tracking Station](http://www.nicap.org/500427whitesands%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 91; Good Above, [pp. 354–355](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/354/mode/2up); Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 \(Spring 1996\): 22–25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1532 ### Event 4942 (8E029DE7) **Date:** 5/25/1950 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / CANON CITY, CO **Description:** 2 observer(s). Series / 11 glowing-saucers pass Pikes Peak / 1 min intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 551) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1714 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "4300", **HatchDesc:** "NE/CANON CITY,CO:2 OBS:SERIES/11 GLOW-SCRS PASS PIKES PEAK/1 min intervals", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -105.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 105:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-105.050005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4943 (4AE7CBE3) **Date:** 5/25/1950 **Locations:** USAF Office of Special Investigations; New Mexico area **Description:** Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) of the USAF Office of Special Investigations writes a confidential memo to Brig. Gen. [Joseph F. Carroll](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107471/lieutenant-general-joseph-francis-carroll/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107471/lieutenant-general-joseph-francis-carroll/) Director of Special Investigations. In part, it states: “In a liaison meeting with other military and government intelligence and investigative agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The organization and physical location of units of this District were most suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this District has assumed the responsibility for collecting and reporting basic information with respect to aerial phenomena in this general area.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena, New Mexico Area, Dec 1949 to May 1950](http://www.nicap.org/waves/500525doc.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1533 ### Event 4944 (64182801) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Time:** 06:00? **Location:** WHITE SANDS PG, NM **Description:** 2 separate theodolites film object just prior / missile test. / r120p354. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1715 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE SANDS PG,NM:2 SEP THEODOLITES FILM OBJ JUST PRIOR/MISSILE TEST:/r120p354", **LatLong:** "33.483335 -106.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:29:00 N 106:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.483335,-106.333338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4945 (E93B9202) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** 7MI WITH MT. VERNON, VA **Description:** 3 crew. Blue-glowing cylinder/cigar-shape buzzes DC6. Going quickly [to] ahead. Turns going quickly southwest. / r29p85. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1716 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "7mi W/MT VERNON,VA:3 CREW:BLUE-GLO CGR BUZZES DC6:>> AHEAD:TURNS >>SW:/r29p85", **LatLong:** "38.716669 -77.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:43:00 N 77:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.716669,-77.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4946 (C96FB28E) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Location:** Mt. Vernon, VA **Description:** Sperry/Gates Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [500529](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500529mtvernondir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_706 ### Event 4947 (03272BAF) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Theodolite photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_707 ### Event 4948 (70349D1F) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Location:** Mt. Vernon (about 7 miles W of), VA **Description:** A spindle-shaped 150 ft long metallic object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_708 ### Event 4949 (5CEEB710) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Nashville, Tennessee; Mount Vernon, Virginia **Description:** 9:20 p.m. Capt. [Willis T. Sperry](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf) copilot Bill Gates, flight engineer [Robert Arnholt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135568763/robert-carl-arnholt), a stewardess, and several passengers on an American Airlines DC-6 airliner headed southwest out of Washington, D.C., en route to Nashville, Tennessee, are flying at 7,500 feet at 250 mph. About 7 miles west of Mount Vernon, Virginia, Gates alerts Sperry to a bright blue or bluish light ahead of them and increasing in size. Sperry makes an evasive 45° turn to the right and the object passes from 11 o’clock to 7 o’clock position to the left at a slightly higher altitude. The light very briefly passes between the aircraft and the upper part of the moon, revealing an object with a long silhouette \(somewhat reminiscent of a submarine\) without visible wings or empennage. The blue light is on the front of the object. Sperry turns left back onto his original course to get the object back in view, but it apparently stays stationary for about 30 seconds. Gates then notices the object circling around to the right side. Sperry banks right again, while the object paces the airliner about 20–30 seconds before it climbs to the east at a 30° angle at “fantastic” speed and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Sperry UFO Case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry%5FUFO%5Fcase)”; NICAP, “[Capt. Willis Sperry Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/500529mtvernon%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 52–53; Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1950b.htm) [Reports 1950](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1950b.htm)”; Sparks, p. 91 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1534 ### Event 4950 (FAAC3F35) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Location:** White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico **Description:** A shiny, bright object streaking across the sky is spotted by two cine-theodolite stations at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, just before firing a test missile. The object is tracked and photographed by both stations. After the films are developed, it turns out that the stations had photographed different objects. Analysts estimate that the objects were higher than 40,000 feet, traveling more than 2,000 mph, and over 300 feet in diameter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 89](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/88/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1535 ### Event 4951 (AF027A86) **Date:** 5/29/1950 **Description:** At 9:15 p.m. an American Airlines DC-6 flying at 8000' altitude, climbing from Washington, D.C. and approximately over Rappahannock, Virginia encountered a spindle-shaped UFO. The object changed course to parallel the plane, then circled the aircraft, and reversed direction before it went out of sight very fast. It had a blue light on its front end. The sighting lasted approximately one minute, and the object was not detected on radar. There were three witnesses among the crew: Sperry, Bates, and Arnholt. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 39; UNICAT, case # 719, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July; True Magazine, August 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3144 ### Event 4952 (A18BBEEA) **Date:** 6/1950 **Description:** Many sightings **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_109 ### Event 4953 (EEDB68A5) **Date:** 6/1950 **Location:** GEELONG, VCT, AUS **Description:** Saucer going quickly south / 1000mph. Bronze top and silver bot. Absolute(ly) silent. Trails blue vapor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1717 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GEELONG,VCT,AUS:SCR>>S/1000mph:BRONZE TOP+SLVR BOT:ABS SILENT:TRAILS BLU VAPOR", **LatLong:** "-38.100002 144.216674", **LatLongDMS:** "38:06:00 S 144:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.100002,144.216674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4954 (FC00A017) **Date:** 6/1950 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** OFF RIO GRANDE, ARG **Description:** Sheep run. Splash! Luminous/glowing ovoid rises / sea. 90° turn going quickly northwest. / MJ#130. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1718 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off RIO GRANDE,ARG:SHEEP RUN:SPLASH!:LUMn OVOID RISES/SEA:90°TURN>>NW:/MJ#130", **LatLong:** "-53.333336 -68.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "53:20:00 S 68:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-53.333336,-68.000003)", **State/Prov:** "TDF", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4955 (E33EE81A) **Date:** 6/1/1950 **Locations:** RAF Tangmere; West Sussex, England; RAF Wartling; Eastbourne **Description:** A pilot on patrol from RAF Tangmere in West Sussex, England, sights a “bright circular metallic object” that speeds past his Gloster Meteor jet fighter at 20,000 feet. As he undergoes a debriefing by squadron intelligence, he finds out that four RAF controllers at the radar station at RAF Wartling near Eastbourne have, at the same time, tracked an “unusual response” that vanishes from their screens, moving at terrific speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1538 ### Event 4956 (CE03CD88) **Date:** 6/2/1950 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** ONSET, MA **Description:** 6 observer(s). 2 small luminous silver disks circle several X / 60M altitude. Shoot to distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 564) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1719 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "ONSET,MA:6 OBS:2 SML.LUMN.SLVR DISKS CCL SVRL X/60M alt:SHOOT TO DISTANCE", **LatLong:** "41.744446 -70.661114", **LatLongDMS:** "41:44:40 N 70:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.744446,-70.661114)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4957 (38BCA7F1) **Date:** 6/7/1950 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** OFF DUNKIRK, NY **Description:** 2+observer(s) parachute glowing-saucer going down [to] slow. Stops. 2 lights flash. Going quickly east fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 565) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1720 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "174", **HatchDesc:** "off DUNKIRK,NY:2+OBS PARACHUTE GLOW-SCR ↓ SLOW:STOPS:2 LITES FLASH:>>E FAST", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -79.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 79:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-79.333337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4958 (A186DA28) **Date:** 6/8/1950 **Location:** Korean Theatre **Description:** Gen. [Earle E. Partridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle%5FE.%5FPartridge) of the Fifth Air Force, responsible for the Korean Theatre, writes to Commanding Gen. [George E. Stratemeyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) asking for an analysis of certain UFO cases. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 100–101 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1539 ### Event 4959 (8010C1C6) **Date:** 6/12/1950 **Location:** Unknown City, CA **Description:** Geologist saw disc-shaped object loop around plane. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_709 ### Event 4960 (026E24F5) **Date:** 6/12/1950 **Description:** Eastern Airlines executive [Eddie Rickenbacker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%5FRickenbacker) tells the press that if flying saucers “do exist, you can rest assured that they are ours.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 100 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1540 ### Event 4961 (0ACD6456) **Date:** 6/12/1950 **Location:** California **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Working in a quarry somewhere in California, geologist John Zimmerman and civil engineer Charles Fisher are watching a jet aircraft speeding through the sky and leaving a vapor trail. Suddenly Zimmerman notices that the vapor trail has been cut. Looking more closely, he notices a metallic disc making vertical loops around the jet. Two other discs come into view and perform the same aerobatics. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier, Fearon, 1956, p. 124; UFOEv, [p. 50](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1541 ### Event 4962 (232960E9) **Date:** 6/13/1950 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** NEAR MILL VALLEY, CA **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge disk hovers / high over bay / 5 minute(s). Going quickly [to] away instantly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1721 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr MILL VALLEY,CA:MANY OBS:HUGE DISK HVRS/HIGH OVR BAY/5min:>> AWAY INSTANTLY", **LatLong:** "37.905557 -122.544450", **LatLongDMS:** "37:54:20 N 122:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.905557,-122.544450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4963 (536AED7E) **Date:** 6/14/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** 4:45 PM. Fairchild plant workers at the nuclear research facilities watched a brilliant fiery ball of light hover over restricted military airspace for about two minutes. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 3). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_710 ### Event 4964 (3009DC26) **Date:** 6/15/1950 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** PARAMARIBO, SURNM **Description:** Many observer(s). Moon-size silver ovoid going northeast slow. Sudden dips and rises. / Bloe. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 566) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1722 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guyanas (all 3 of them)", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PARAMARIBO,SURNM:MANY OBS:MOONSIZE SLVR OVOID >NE SLOW:SUDDEN DIPS+RISES:/Bloe", **LatLong:** "5.866667 -55.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "05:52:00 N 55:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.866667,-55.166669)", **State/Prov:** "Surinam", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4965 (6F5159C6) **Date:** 6/16/1950 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** Triangular Object Passes C-47 At 700 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500616](http://www.nicap.org/500616tucson%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_711 ### Event 4966 (34EE767C) **Date:** 6/17/1950 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** HASELBACH, GERM **Description:** 0.Linke and 1. 15M saucer. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) check ground. Going quickly southwest. Plug / dirt gone. / MJ#153. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1723 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HASELBACH,GERM:0.LINKE+1:15M SCR:2 OIDS CHECK GND:>>SW:PLUG/DIRT GONE:/MJ#153", **LatLong:** "50.500002 10.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:30:00 N 10:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.500002,10.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 4967 (80451FDC) **Date:** 6/17/1950 **Location:** Hasselbach, East Germany **Description:** 40-50 ft frying pan-shaped object with two rows of 1 ft holes (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_712 ### Event 4968 (743A3F79) **Date:** 6/17/1950 **Locations:** Haselbach, Thuringia, East Germany; West Berlin; Stockheim **Description:** Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriele are walking toward Haselbach, Thuringia, East Germany, in the twilight when she notices something about 420 feet away. It appears to be two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing who are stooped over and looking at something on the ground. Linke approaches to 30 feet away, looks over a small fence, and sees a large object about 40 feet in diameter that looks like a huge frying pan. It has two rows of holes in its periphery and a black conical tower about 9 feet high. The two men suddenly jump inside. The inside lights up, the object starts humming and rises slowly from the ground, rotating like a top. It rises from the ground with the aid of a central cylinder and is surrounded by flames, then takes off in the direction of Stockheim. Later he finds a circular depression in the ground at the spot. Linke resettles in West Berlin in 1951. He tells his story to a notary there on July 1, 1952, which is how it turns up in the Western press and explains a confusion in the date of the sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[CE III by Two Witnesses / Oskar Linke Case](http://www.nicap.org/500617hasselbach%5Fdir.htm)”; Central Intelligence Agency, “‘[Flying Saucers’ in East Germany,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015464.pdf)” July 9, 1952; Andreas Müller, “[Das Haselbach-UFO](https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/haselbach-ufo-1950-augenzeugin-spricht20160126/) [von 1950: Die Augenzeugin spricht,](https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/haselbach-ufo-1950-augenzeugin-spricht20160126/)” grenzWissenschaft-aktuell.de, January 26, 2016; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 92; Good Above, [pp. 513–514](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/512/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1542 ### Event 4969 (440B3B95) **Date:** 6/17/1950 **Description:** Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter saw two little men in silver suits in a forest outside of Hasselbach, Germany in 1950. His motorcycle had gotten a flat tire and they were pushing it toward the village around 2:30 a.m. when his daughter Gabriele pointed to what she thought was a young deer about 150 yards away. He approached and realized that what she had seen were apparently human figures, wearing shimmering metallic clothing. They stood about 1.5 meters (4 feet) in height, and one of them wore a light on its chest that flashed at regular intervals. He stealthily approached to about 30 feet from them, peering over a small ridge. Next to them was a pan-shaped disc, approximately 40-50 feet (15-20 meters) in diameter. The object was metallic and had two rows of holes along the sides each about a foot in diameter, spaced 1.5 feet apart. Out of the top rose a ten-foot high black, cylindrical "conning tower."

When his daughter called to him it apparently alarmed the two figures, for they rushed back to the object, clambering up the side of the conning tower and disappearing inside. The outer rim of the disc in which the holes were sunk began to glow a blue-green color, and a humming sound started. As the glow and sound increased, the tower was retracted into the center of the object, and the whole object rose from the ground. From the swirling effect he got the impression the object was spinning like a top. The color of the disc turned to red as it took off. A two-meter circular depression of compressed ground, freshly made, was found at the landing site, with ground indentations. At the time Mr. Linke lived in communist controlled East Germany. He told his story to a judge and U.S. Military intelligence when he was able to cross into West Germany two years later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, pp. 8-9, citing Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 158. This case is often erroneously cited as occurring in 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3525 ### Event 4970 (AB58E68D) **Date:** 6/21/1950 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Blue Book. 2+3 pilots. Saucer / 3000' altitude. 1200mph. Blue flame. Roars. 3 passes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1724 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON AFB,CA:BBK:2+3 PILOTS:SCR/3000'alt:1200mph:BLUE FLAME:ROARS:3 PASSES", **LatLong:** "38.083335 -122.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:05:00 N 122:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.083335,-122.550006)", **RelAlt:** "915", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4971 (22C3B649) **Date:** 6/21/1950 **Location:** Misawa AFB, Japan **Description:** 30' Disc Seen From Golf Course (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500621](http://nicap.org/500621misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_713 ### Event 4972 (5BA91B9C) **Date:** 6/21/1950 **Location:** Hamilton AFB, CA **Description:** Disc Makes Five Passes At Control Tower (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500621](http://www.nicap.org/500621hamilton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_714 ### Event 4973 (078D20BD) **Date:** Summer 1950 **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** Physicist [Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi) first formulates the “Fermi Paradox” during a casual conversation \(in Los Alamos, New Mexico?\) with fellow physicists [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [Herbert York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FYork)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FYork) and [Emil Konopinski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%5FKonopinski)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%5FKonopinski) While walking to lunch, the men discuss recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moves on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi allegedly says suddenly, “But where is everybody?” \(although the exact quote is uncertain\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1536 ### Event 4974 (AB9C898E) **Date:** Summer 1950 **Location:** Beaverdam, Virginia **Description:** Evening. An 8- or 10-foot-disc lands in a field behind Mrs. Mason Vaughan’s house in Beaverdam, Virginia. From an open cockpit a “man with unusual goggles or headpiece” looks out. Surprised, the disc takes off abruptly, breaking off a limb from an oak tree on the way up. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 267; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1950-1951.pdf) [1950–1951,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1950-1951.pdf) p. 20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1537 ### Event 4975 (D6857E3A) **Date:** 6/21/1950 **Locations:** Hamilton AFB; Novato, California **Description:** 1:35 a.m. Control tower operators Cpl. Roger G. Pryor and S/Sgt. [Ellis R. Lorimer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99049849/ellis-reed-lorimer) and airways communications staffer S/Sgt. Virgil Cappuro watch a flying disc speeding at 1,000–1,500 mph over Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] in Novato, California. The object shoots blue flame and makes a roar like thunder as it makes five passes over the base. They observe it through binoculars for 25 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Disc Makes Five Passes](http://www.nicap.org/500621hamilton%5Fdir.htm) [at Control Tower](http://www.nicap.org/500621hamilton%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 92 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1543 ### Event 4976 (F19A47EA) **Date:** 6/23/1950 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico, At Sea **Description:** Huge ball of fire descend slowly in 1-1/2 mins in a wavy spiral path (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_715 ### Event 4977 (13599702) **Date:** 6/24/1950 **Location:** COMMERCE, TX **Description:** 2 / airliner. Saucer seen / 30 km. Sudden burst speed / 600 kph and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1725 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "157", **HatchDesc:** "COMMERCE,TX:2/AIRLINER:SCR SEEN/30 km:SUDDEN BURST SPEED/600 kph AND AWAY", **LatLong:** "33.244446 -95.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:14:40 N 95:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.244446,-95.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4978 (257DBD93) **Date:** 6/24/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NEAR DAGGETT, CA **Description:** Navy transport and all / airliners. Cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers. Follows liner / 20 mile(s). / r22p139. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1726 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "611", **HatchDesc:** "nr DAGGETT,CA:NAVY XPORT+ALL/AIRLINERS:CGR MNVRS:FOLOS LINER/20mi:/r22p139", **LatLong:** "34.866668 -116.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:00 N 116:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.866668,-116.900006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4979 (7691D73E) **Date:** 6/24/1950 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** GULF OF MEXICO **Description:** Military reconnaissance flight. Fireball maneuvers / 90 second(s). Descends. Leaves contrail.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1727 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GULF of MEXICO:MIL.RECON FLITE:FBL MNVRS/90sec:DESCENDS:leaves contrail..", **LatLong:** "26.833335 -86.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "26:50:00 N 86:05:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.833335,-86.083337)", **State/Prov:** "GMX", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4980 (A37F8051) **Date:** 6/24/1950 **Location:** Daggett, CA **Description:** Navy transport pilot Case (AL, M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500624](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/daggett.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_716 ### Event 4981 (F65F0BA0) **Date:** 6/24/1950 **Location:** Daggett, California **Description:** A cigar-shaped UFO paces a United Airlines plane \(Capt. E. L. Remlin, First Officer David Stewart, and observer Capt. [Samuel B. Wiper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16889611/samuel-b%5F-wiper)\) for 20 minutes near Daggett, California. The object is also seen by the crew of another airliner and a navy transport plane. The Navy pilot sees for 3 minutes a dark gray object with heat radiation at the tail end. He estimates altitude as 50,000–100,000 feet and a speed of 1,000–1,500 mph. The crews discuss the matter with two CAA ground stations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three Aircraft Crews Observe UFO](http://www.nicap.org/500624daggett%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 31](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=43&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 93 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1544 ### Event 4982 (294477AD) **Date:** 6/25/1950 **Location:** Korea **Description:** Korean War **Type:** war **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_410 ### Event 4983 (9DE173A8) **Date:** 6/25/1950 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 1 observer. Silver cylinder/cigar-shape tilts over city. / FBI records. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1728 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:1 OBS:SLVR CGR TILTS OVR CITY:/FBI RECORDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.866669 -76.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:52:00 N 76:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.866669,-76.983337)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4984 (BC3501B1) **Date:** 6/25/1950 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEWBURGH, NY **Description:** WW2 plane spotter and more/others. 4 disks in formation. "Not planes". Maneuver. / The New York Times (NYT) 27 Jun. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1729 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "NEWBURGH,NY:WW2 PLANE SPOTTER++:4 DISKS/FORMn:"NOT PLANES":MNVR:/NYT 27JUN47", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -74.005559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 74:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-74.005559)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4985 (57A9BAD6) **Date:** 6/25/1950 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BARCELONA, SP **Description:** 4 observer(s). Bright long metallic cylinder south going quickly north / 10 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1730 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BARCELONA,SP:4 OBS:BRITE LONG MTLC CYLINDER S>>N/10sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.400002 2.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "41:24:00 N 02:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.400002,2.133333)", **State/Prov:** "Barcelone", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4986 (C6D87462) **Date:** 6/25/1950 **Locations:** North Korea; South Korea **Description:** North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Korean War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%5FWar\#Course%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fwar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1545 ### Event 4987 (AF57D0C1) **Date:** 6/26/1950 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LAS VEGAS, NV **Description:** Wingless fuselage going quickly [to] MACH1 and more/others / several min. 3 planes and ground observer(s). Bluish light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1731 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "LAS VEGAS,NV:WINGLESS FUSELAGE >>MACH1++/SVRL MIN:3 PLANES+GND OBS:BLUISH LITE", **LatLong:** "36.166668 -115.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:10:00 N 115:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.166668,-115.133339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4988 (DBA54DC3) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** TEXARKANA, TX **Description:** 2 / truck / Red River Arsenal. Fast glittering "double-dishpan" zips by. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1732 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "97", **HatchDesc:** "TEXARKANA,TX:2/TRUCK/RED RVR ARSENAL:FAST GLITTERING "DOUBLE-DISHPAN" ZIPS BY", **LatLong:** "33.416668 -94.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:00 N 94:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.416668,-94.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4989 (D6DE38E6) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** LOUISVILLE, KY **Description:** Newsman shoots 50' / 8mm film. Large bright saucer near passing plane. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1733 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "139", **HatchDesc:** "LOUISVILLE,KY:NEWSMAN SHOOTS 50'/8mm FILM:LRG BRITE SCR nr PASSING PLANE:>>W", **LatLong:** "38.250002 -85.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:15:00 N 85:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.250002,-85.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4990 (CF9CAE51) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** OAKLAND, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bomber flies over. Shiny spinning object overtakes plane / rear going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1734 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "OAKLAND,CA:2 OBS:BOMBER FLIES OVR:SHINY SPINNING OBJ OVERTAKES PLANE/REAR >>E", **LatLong:** "37.816668 -122.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:00 N 122:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.816668,-122.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4991 (03BF21A6) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Location:** Texarkana, TX **Description:** Huge "Dishpan" Flies Over Arsenal (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 738) **Reference:** NICAP: [500627](http://www.nicap.org/500627texarkana%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_717 ### Event 4992 (696447D7) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Location:** Louisville, KY **Description:** Movie film of UFO taken by newspaper reporter Al Hixenbaugh (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_718 ### Event 4993 (4EAB25C4) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Time:** 7:50 AM **Location:** Texarkana, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Terrell and Yates, employees of Red River Arsenal. One object, bright, shaped like two dishpans face-to-face, flew straight and level, fast for 4-5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_41 ### Event 4994 (A7DF82B8) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Location:** South Korea **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) orders US air and sea forces to help South Korea. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Korean War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%5FWar\#Factors%5Fin%5FUS%5Fintervention)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1546 ### Event 4995 (9B4D3E0B) **Date:** 6/27/1950 **Locations:** Louisville, Kentucky; Longest and Everett avenues **Description:** 4:15 p.m. Al Hixenbaugh, a photographer for the Louisville Times, is at the corner of Longest and Everett avenues in Louisville, Kentucky, when he hears the sound of a DC-3 airplane overhead. He looks up and sees the plane as well as a large disc with a slight corona around it. He shoots 50 feet of film with his 16mm movie camera as the object remains motionless for 10 seconds before it starts getting smaller and disappears to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Louisville \(Ky.\) Times, June 28, 1950, p. 1; “[How to Film UFO’s,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%203.pdf)” Saucers 6, no. 3 \(August 1958\): 3; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 93 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1547 ### Event 4996 (40DEFFC9) **Date:** 6/28/1950 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** SAN LEANDRO, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Thunder-roar. Circular object 2000' overhead. Jets / flame from edges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1735 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LEANDRO,CA:2 OBS:THUNDER-ROAR:CIRCULAR OBJ 2000'OVHD:JETS/FLAME FROM EDGES", **LatLong:** "37.700002 -122.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:42:00 N 122:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.700002,-122.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4997 (C97428FD) **Date:** 6/28/1950 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** SAVANNAH, GA **Description:** 2 observer(s). White fireball / night light maneuvers erratically / 45 minute(s). Climbs swiftly going quickly northeast and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1736 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "SAVANNAH,GA:2 OBS:WHT FBL/NLT MNVRS ERRATICALLY/45min:CLIMBS SWIFTLY>>NE+GONE", **LatLong:** "32.083335 -81.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:05:00 N 81:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.083335,-81.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4998 (D6D44B0A) **Date:** 6/28/1950 **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** CAIRO, IL **Description:** 5 observer(s). Chrome-ovoids maneuver. 1 pauses-then tears off going quickly southwest. / Post Dispatch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1737 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "CAIRO,IL:5 OBS:CHROME-OVOIDS MNVR:1 PAUSES-THEN TEARS OFF >>SW:/POST DISPATCH", **LatLong:** "37.000002 -89.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 89:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,-89.183338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4999 (620B04D8) **Date:** 6/29/1950 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** DOWAGIAC, MI **Description:** Farmer. Military C54 / 150m altitude! 8m saucer / under plane and zips off / fantastic speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1738 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "DOWAGIAC,MI:FARMER:MIL C54/150m alt!:8m SCR/UNDER PLANE+ZIPS OFF/FANTASTIC SPD", **LatLong:** "41.983335 -86.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:59:00 N 86:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.983335,-86.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5000 (7493DA0A) **Date:** 6/30/1950 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** KINGMAN, KS **Description:** 4+/ car. 250' domed saucer hovers and turns over road. Away as car nears. / r78p159. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1739 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "489", **HatchDesc:** "KINGMAN,KS:4+/CAR:250'DOMED SCR HVRS+TURNS ovr ROAD:AWAY as CAR NEARS:/r78p159", **LatLong:** "37.644446 -98.111116", **LatLongDMS:** "37:38:40 N 98:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.644446,-98.111116)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5001 (9FE07FB2) **Date:** 6/30/1950 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / DARTMOUTH, NS **Description:** RADAR blip hovers. Shoots inland. Hovers / oil refinery. Aims beams. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1740 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SE/DARTMOUTH,NS:RDR BLIP HVRS:SHOOTS INLAND:HVRS/OIL REFINERY:AIMS BEAMS", **LatLong:** "44.450002 -63.516670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:27:00 N 63:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.450002,-63.516670)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5002 (2070A703) **Date:** 6/30/1950 **Location:** Dartmouth, NS, CAN **Description:** Royal Canadian NAS, G,V Navy Men Report Radar Contact (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500630](http://www.nicap.org/500630dartmouth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_719 ### Event 5003 (219239FE) **Date:** 6/30/1950 **Location:** Kingman (near), KS **Description:** Rotating disc hovered, sped away when car approached \[XII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_720 ### Event 5004 (8F9AD7A1) **Date:** 6/30/1950 **Locations:** Kingman, Kansas; Cunningham, Kansas; Meade, Kansas; US Hwy 54 **Description:** Midnight. Rev. Ross Vermillion, a former bomber pilot, and his wife are driving 9 miles west of Kingman, Kansas, when they see a bright red light hovering over US Hwy 54 near Cunningham, Kansas. They estimate it to be about 250 feet in diameter with a small canopy on top. The family of druggist Dwayne Mulnix of Meade, Kansas, also sees the object and they stop and watch it for about 20 minutes along the highway. They begin to drive closer, but it speeds away. As seen in the bright moonlight, the object looks made of bright metal and has an elliptical body “as big as the cross-section of a B-29” with a rotor turning counterclockwise around its body. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[WWII Pilot Tells of Seeing Flying Saucer](http://www.nicap.org/500630cunningham%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 66–69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1548 ### Event 5005 (7A9CF3F7) **Date:** 6/30/1950 **Locations:** Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; North Dartmouth **Description:** 11:15 p.m. Two navy men \(Petty Officer Carter and Able Seaman Connelly\) at Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, are pulling duty on radar watch from dusk until dawn. They report four separate radar contacts bearing 160° at 5 miles over 90 minutes. Visual confirmation of two glowing objects is made by a chief petty officer in North Dartmouth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Navy Men Report Radar Contact](http://www.nicap.org/500630dartmouth%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1549 ### Event 5006 (5EEDB75B) **Date:** 7/1950 **Description:** Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR FICTION?” **Type:** publication **Reference:** [link](https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/ahcpublic/UFO/1950_Flying%20magazine_ah12722.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_411 ### Event 5007 (F825A1CB) **Date:** 7/1950 **Location:** AVOCA, AUSTR **Description:** Farmer. Huge saucer rises / horizon. Crosses sky going quickly north. 6 more follow. Very high and very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1741 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "AVOCA,AUSTR:FARMER:HUGE SCR RISES/HRZN:CROSSES SKY >>N:6 MORE FOLO:VHI+VFAST", **LatLong:** "-37.083335 141.516673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 S 141:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.083335,141.516673)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5008 (D3EC3C71) **Date:** 7/1950 **Location:** Cincinnati, OH **Description:** CAA flight engineer observed a "wingless, fuselage-shaped" UFO. \[V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_721 ### Event 5009 (3134CA14) **Date:** 7/1950 **Description:** USAF Director of Intelligence Maj. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) orders secret UFO field investigations to be conducted by his staff Technical Capabilities Branch in the Evaluation Division under Maj. [Milton D. Willis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49365086/milton-dean-willis). These begin this month and last until October 1951 when Cabell is replaced by Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 936 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1550 ### Event 5010 (8D014522) **Date:** 7/1950 **Description:** Editor [Curtis Fuller](https://occulthealth.com/fuller-curtis-1912%E2%80%931991/)’s article, “The Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” appears in Flying magazine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Curtis Fuller, “[The Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Flying%20Magazine/1950%2007%2000%5FFlying%20Magazine%5FCurtis%20Fuller.pdf)” Flying 47 \(July 1950\): 16–17, 59–61 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1551 ### Event 5011 (2CE5AD01) **Date:** 7/1950 **Locations:** continental US; Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada; Frenchman Flat **Description:** Armed Forces Special Weapons Project concludes a top secret study, named Project Nutmeg, to search for an atomic weapons site in the continental US. AFSWP concludes that a site on the Air Force’s Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada is the right place. President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) approves the location, known as Frenchman Flat. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Sandia Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia%5FBase\#The%5FArmed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject%5Fand%5Fits%5Fsuccessors)”; “[Project Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,](https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps100925/www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV%5F767.pdf)” National Nuclear Security Administration, June 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1552 ### Event 5012 (738C728F) **Date:** 7/1950 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Mid-day. Electronics engineer Cliff Booth is having lunch in his office at a private contractor’s building at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, when he gets a call that a UFO has been reported by one of the range stations. Booth and an Askania cinetheodolite operator are asked to drive to another range station with a manually operated Askania and look for the object. Through the finders on the theodolite the object presents a side view to the observers and appears to be cigar-shaped and metallic, with a straw-colored iridescent radiance or luster. It also has fins one-third of the way back from the front of the fuselage and a row of at least three oblong ports extending to the rear of the object and located above the center line of the fuselage. The ports are a dark smoky gray but not luminescent. The object hovers in an almost horizontal position, elevation 20°–25°, azimuth northeast. Shortly after the men focus the instrument on the object to take a film, it begins maneuvering. Turning toward the camera, the object moves in, and the men can see the front—a round shape with the fins extending out from the sides. It then drops abruptly, as though beginning to fall, but stops. It moves toward the camera, turns sideways, then drops as before, but this time it exposes the side view again. The operator leaves to report the coordinates to headquarters, and when he returns the object is gone. The men turn over their exposed film to the Data Reduction Division for development and analysis. A week or so later they are called in and questioned by a young first lieutenant unknown to them who asks them over and over again if they have taken pictures and to describe the object they had seen. Then they are asked if they can identify the film of the object they photographed. One of the men becomes angry about the questioning, telling the officer he had seen what he reported, had photographed the object, and is convinced it is some sort of a vehicle from outer space. He is shown a film of 14 frames on a Recordak projector. The black-and-white presentation shows a blurred ellipsoid with a dark center, but no details. \(Puzzled about the film, he later talks to a mathematician-analyst employed by Land-Air, Inc.; she conjectured the object had been oscillating in the air, preventing a stable image.\) The men are then told by their superiors to forget the whole thing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 27–29](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n23/mode/2up); Project 1947, “[APRO Files: Coral E.](http://www.project1947.com/folio/apro%5Fholloman.htm) [Lorenzen, Holloman Air Force Base UFO Sighting, July, 1950](http://www.project1947.com/folio/apro%5Fholloman.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1553 ### Event 5013 (80853085) **Date:** 7/1950 **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** 1:45 p.m. A Civil Aviation Authority flight engineer observes a “wingless, fuselage-shaped” object maneuvering over Cincinnati, Ohio. The object climbs at a steep angle to 16,000–18,000 feet, hesitates, dives, and speeds away to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 45](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=57&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1554 ### Event 5014 (16D26F44) **Date:** 7/2/1950 **Location:** Steep Rock Lake, Canada **Description:** In a story strangely similar to that of Mr. Kiehl (Aug., 1914) (Case 40) a man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten figures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on deck like robots "changing direction without turning their bodies." Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker arms and legs and "seemed to be their chief." They immersed a hose in the lake, then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss forming on the lake. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_80 ### Event 5015 (FC4E3634) **Date:** 7/2/1950 **Locations:** Sawbill Bay on Marmion Lake, western Ontario; Scarborough, Ontario **Description:** Dusk. While picnicking on the shore of Sawbill Bay on Marmion Lake, western Ontario, an anonymous employee of the Steep Rock Iron Mine claims to have seen a UFO resting on the water’s surface. A hatch opens and 10 figures, 3–4 feet tall, emerge, wearing shiny, metallic clothing. They seem to be drawing in lake water with a hose. The object soon rises and hovers, then swiftly takes off. The story appears in the mine’s house newsletter, then gets picked up by some Canadian newspapers and Fate magazine in its February/March 1952 issue. However, Robert Badgley, a Scarborough, Ontario, member of APRO, finds in 1974 that Steep Rock employee Gordon Edwards had written the fictitious tale to entertain readers of the newsletter and to satirize saucer stories. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Steep Rock Flying Saucer,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1952-02/page/68/mode/2up)” Fate 5, no. 2 \(February–March 1952\): 68–72; “[1950 Steep Rock](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2011%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%205.pdf) [Lake, Ontario Case Possible Hoax,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2011%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 5 \(November 1977\): 5; John Robert Columbo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, pp. 32–41; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1950-07-02-canada-steeprocklake.htm), January 31, 2007; Hammerson Peters, “The Little Green Men of Steep Rock Lake,” Mysteries of Canada, September 7, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1555 ### Event 5016 (DB3F12E4) **Date:** 7/2/1950 **Description:** Steep Rock Lake, Ontario, Canada. A man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten figures, four feet tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on deck like robots "changing direction without turning their bodies." Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker arms and legs and seemed to be their leader. They immersed a hose in the lake, apparently extracted water, and then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss formed on the lake. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3784 ### Event 5017 (339E9DE1) **Date:** 7/4/1950 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back in 30 minutes **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_110 ### Event 5018 (6B2B57CB) **Date:** 7/4/1950 **Locations:** White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; New York **Description:** Evening. Aerojet engineer [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry) is alone during the holiday at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, when a flying saucer appears and hovers just above the ground. Fry approaches and strokes its surface when a voice booms, “Better not touch the hull, pal, it’s still hot.” After some conversation with the disembodied extraterrestrial named Alan, he is invited on board the craft, which flies him to New York and back in 30 minutes. Fry has further encounters and becomes a celebrity on the contactee circuit. He finally meets Alan in person in 1961. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Daniel Fry, The White Sands Incident, New Age, 1954; Clark III 518–520 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1556 ### Event 5019 (818156E0) **Date:** 7/5/1950 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** HILL AIR FORCE BASE, UT **Description:** 3 Sergeants. 50' silver saucer / 25K' altitude going quickly southeast / 600mph / 3 minute(s). RADAR warms up too late. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 271) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1742 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1459", **HatchDesc:** "HILL AFB,UT:3 SGTs:50'SLVR SCR/25K'alt >>SE/600mph/3min:RDR WARMS UP TOO LATE", **LatLong:** "41.083335 -111.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:05:00 N 111:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.083335,-111.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5020 (D4413512) **Date:** 7/6/1950 **Location:** TOPEKA, KS **Description:** 3 doctors / clinic. Saucer speeds over city. 5 more see platter / 7 July. Extremely bright. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 274) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1743 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "TOPEKA,KS:3 MDs/CLINIC:SCR SPEEDS OVR CITY:5 MORE SEE PLATTER/7JLY:XBRITE", **LatLong:** "39.050002 -95.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:00 N 95:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.050002,-95.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5021 (E4E85A00) **Date:** 7/6/1950 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** 2 good observer(s). 50' saucer / 1000' altitude. Goes / 50mph then zooms over hills (AP.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad (ed.): PROJECT BLUEBOOK; Ballentine Books 1976. 423pp. (Index 361) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1744 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:2 GOOD OBS:50'SCR/1000'alt:GOES/50mph THEN ZOOMS ovr HILLS (AP)", **LatLong:** "34.033335 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.033335,-118.250006)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5022 (7862B13A) **Date:** 7/6/1950 **Description:** A memo by Lt. Col. F. D. McGarrachy, USAF chief of General Investigations Division, expresses strong interest to acquire motion pictures of UFOs taken by civilians, perhaps in cooperation with the FBI, but not in a way to arouse public suspicion of USAF interest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 54–56](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/54/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1557 ### Event 5023 (513A37D2) **Date:** 7/7/1950 **Location:** Weisbaden, Germany **Description:** GCA Scope Notices Targets Near Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500707](http://www.nicap.org/500707weisbaden%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_722 ### Event 5024 (44067CDC) **Date:** 7/7/1950 **Description:** Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) through his aide Col. Barber, sends a notice to AMC Intelligence Chief Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/), that despite the official closing of Project Grudge, the Air Force still desires to receive UFO reports and take them seriously. Project Grudge begins to be reactivated as Project 10073. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12; Swords 101–102, 498–499 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1558 ### Event 5025 (EA89ED99) **Date:** 7/8/1950 **Location:** PERIL STRAIT, AK **Description:** 3 USCG. 2 white saucers connected / strut. Banks. 350mph going quickly [to] WNW. 1500' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 274) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1745 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "0", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PERIL STRAIT,AK:3 USCG:2 WHT SCRS CONNECTED/STRUT:BANKS:350mph>>WNW:1500'alt", **LatLong:** "57.500003 -135.216673", **LatLongDMS:** "57:30:00 N 135:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.500003,-135.216673)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5026 (122A4F67) **Date:** 7/9/1950 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** SCHENECTADY, NY **Description:** 2 cops and 1. Giant white cylinder/cylindrical object hangs / sky. National Guard jets circle. Silence. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 274) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1746 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "SCHENECTADY,NY:2 COPS+1:GIANT WHT CYL HANGS/SKY:NTL GUARD JETS CIRCLE:SILENCE", **LatLong:** "42.833335 -73.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:50:00 N 73:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.833335,-73.933337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5027 (5BB25065) **Date:** 7/11/1950 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** RIVERSIDE, FL **Description:** Fireball brightens and roars every 2 second(s). Another / 0515h. 3rd / 0530h. Going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1747 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "RIVERSIDE,FL:FBL BRIGHTENS+ROARS EVERY 2sec:ANOTHER/0515h:3rd/0530h:>NW", **LatLong:** "30.300001 -81.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:18:00 N 81:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.300001,-81.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5028 (D9C9956E) **Date:** 7/11/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** OSCEOLA, AR **Description:** 2 Navy planes. 25' saucer So close / WW1 helmet shape shows / RADAR! / r242p31. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1748 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "OSCEOLA,AR:2 NAVY PLANES:25'SCR SO CLOSE/WW1 HELMET SHAPE SHOWS/RDR!:/r242p31", **LatLong:** "35.705557 -89.972227", **LatLongDMS:** "35:42:20 N 89:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.705557,-89.972227)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5029 (242F7C20) **Date:** 7/11/1950 **Location:** Osceola (near), AR **Description:** USN pilots of 2 planes saw a domed disc A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500711](http://www.nicap.org/500711osceola%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_723 ### Event 5030 (F2759436) **Date:** 7/11/1950 **Location:** Osceola (near), AR **Description:** Martin/Moore Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500711](http://www.nicap.org/500711osceola%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_724 ### Event 5031 (C25C9954) **Date:** 7/11/1950 **Locations:** NAS Millington; Naval Support Activity Mid-South; Tennessee; Mississippi River; Osceola, Arkansas **Description:** Two Navy aircraft crews from NAS Millington \[now Naval Support Activity Mid-South\] in Tennessee, across the Mississippi River from Osceola, Arkansas, see a domed disc pass in front of them. Airborne radar confirms it. The object first appears as a round ball; after it crosses their flight path, it appears like an upside-down shallow bowl. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Millington Men Report Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ and Tracing It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90116255/the-commercial-appeal/)” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Commercial Appeal, July 12, 1950, p. 1; NICAP, “[Air, Radar/Visual over Arkansas](http://www.nicap.org/500711osceola%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 93 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1559 ### Event 5032 (2B35E18D) **Date:** 7/12/1950 **Location:** ST. LOUIS, MO **Description:** Cop and 2. 2 13' silent metal saucers flutter going quickly northwest / Lambert Field. Pace plane / 13 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1749 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "138", **HatchDesc:** "ST LOUIS,MO:COP+2:2 13'SLNT MTL SCRS FLUTTER >>NW/LAMBERT Fld:PACE PLANE/13JLY", **LatLong:** "38.616669 -90.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:37:00 N 90:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.616669,-90.183338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5033 (1CADD26B) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** OVER FT PECK, MT **Description:** USAF photograph-reconnaissance plane. 4 separate groups / 20' metallic saucers. Seen / 13 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1750 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "13", **Elev:** "685", **HatchDesc:** "ovr Ft PECK,MT:USAF FOTO-RECON PLANE:4 SEP GROUPS/20'MTLC SCRS:SEEN/13min:", **LatLong:** "48.011113 -106.444450", **LatLongDMS:** "48:00:40 N 106:26:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.011113,-106.444450)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5034 (DA10A35C) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** CAA flight engineer and many. Silent metallic cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers. Going up [to] 17K'. Stops / 10 second(s). Going down [to] again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1751 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:CAA FLT ENG+MANY:SLNT MTLC CGR MNVRS:↑17K':STOPS/10sec:↓ AGAIN", **LatLong:** "39.116669 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,-84.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5035 (14384458) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** REDSTONE ARSENAL, AL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #758. 2 civil observer(s). Bowtie object = 2 delta/triangle/box-like crafts. 1 rotates. 90 turn and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1752 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "REDSTONE ARSENAL,AL:BBK#758:2 CIV OBS:BOWTIE OBJ=2 DLTS:1 ROTATES:90 TURN+AWAY", **LatLong:** "34.750002 -86.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 N 86:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.750002,-86.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5036 (8C6DB8B0) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Location:** Fort Peck, MT **Description:** Weather Recon flight crew saw 4 groups of round metallic silver objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_725 ### Event 5037 (0FA5A63F) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Location:** Huntsville, GA **Description:** Polished aluminum object, shaped like a bowtie (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 758) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_726 ### Event 5038 (8AE6B555) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Time:** 5 PM **Location:** Redstone Arsenal, Alabama **Description:** Witnesses: two skilled Arsenal employees including Mr. Washburn. one object, shaped like a bowtie, and like polished aluminum. Flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated 1/4 turn in the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object then made a right-angle turn and accelerated away after at least 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_42 ### Event 5039 (45B9F59E) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Description:** USAF weather reconnaissance sighted four groups of round, metallic silvery objects flying over Fort Peck, Montana at 11:51 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book, July 1950 report **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4026 ### Event 5040 (D830C838) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Description:** At 1:45 p.m. a CAA flight engineer, flying over Cincinnati, Ohio sighted a metallic cigar-shaped UFO maneuvering silently in the sky. It ascended to 17,000 feet and stopped in midair, hovering in place for ten seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1766 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4027 ### Event 5041 (74D9B399) **Date:** 7/13/1950 **Description:** Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. At 5:00 p.m. two skilled Arsenal employees, witnessed a bowtie-shaped object flying in the sky, appearing like it was made of polished aluminum. It flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated one-quarter of a turn in the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object then made a ninety-degree turn and accelerated away after at least 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 758; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4028 ### Event 5042 (3E53A631) **Date:** 7/14/1950 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** OCALA, FLA **Description:** MD. Glowing-orbs play over home. Shrill sounds (made by UFO's) going quickly southwest / checkmark formation. / r106p125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 569) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1753 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "OCALA,FLA:MD:GLOW-ORBS PLAY ovr HOME:SHRILL SND >>SW/CHECKMARK FORMn:/r106p125", **LatLong:** "29.183335 -82.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "29:11:00 N 82:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.183335,-82.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5043 (E949D74A) **Date:** 7/16/1950 **Location:** POMEROY, OH AND AREA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). White orbs and disks play / small groups. Very fast (AP.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1754 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "POMEROY,OH+AREA:100s/OBS:WHT ORBS+DISKS PLAY/SMALL GROUPS:VFAST (AP)", **LatLong:** "39.027780 -82.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:01:40 N 82:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.027780,-82.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5044 (02CB8393) **Date:** 7/17/1950 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** CERES HILL, WA **Description:** 25' saucer follows road going [to] 100M from observer(s) / low altitude. Swish sound. Suddenly going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 570) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1755 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "CERES HILL,WA:25'SCR FOLOS ROAD > 100M fm OBS/lo alt:SWISH SOUND:SUDDENLY >>SE", **LatLong:** "46.622224 -123.155561", **LatLongDMS:** "46:37:20 N 123:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.622224,-123.155561)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5045 (DE8CB5B5) **Date:** 7/18/1950 **Description:** [Bruce Bliven](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/bliven-bruce-jr-1916-2002) summarizes flying saucer news in a Look magazine article. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bruce Bliven, “[Flying Saucers: Myth](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1950%2007%2018%5FLook%5FBruce%20Blive%5FFlying%20Saucer%20Myth%20Or%20Menace%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf) [or Menace?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1950%2007%2018%5FLook%5FBruce%20Blive%5FFlying%20Saucer%20Myth%20Or%20Menace%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look, July 18, 1950, pp. 12–18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1560 ### Event 5046 (F51938E2) **Date:** 7/19/1950 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 3 Air Force men. 2 softball-size objects hover. Change colors. Rise and vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1756 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:3 AF MEN:2 SOFTBALL-SIZE OBJS HVR:CHANGE COLORS:RISE+VANISH", **LatLong:** "32.866668 -106.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:52:00 N 106:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.866668,-106.066672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5047 (811F9374) **Date:** 7/19/1950 **Description:** A memo by Col. [Bruno W. Feiling](https://www.458bg.com/MN-BrunoWFeiling-WEB.jpg)[,](https://www.458bg.com/MN-BrunoWFeiling-WEB.jpg) chief of the USAF Technical Analysis Division, on “Investigation of Flying Saucer Reports” says that UFO investigation takes up too much time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [p. 57](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/56/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1561 ### Event 5048 (E8C5E133) **Date:** 7/19/1950 **Description:** At Holloman AFB, New Mexico at 11:30 p.m. two softball-sized spheres hovered, changed colors, then rose vertically into the sky and vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1950: April-July, p. 78 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4189 ### Event 5049 (52D9F314) **Date:** 7/20/1950 **Location:** Porto Novo, Brazil **Description:** Mr. Campello and several others in a car saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hillock, the other on flat ground, about 50 m away from each other. They came within 600 m of the objects, which went away at "an incredible speed," causing a rush of air that rocked the car. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** SBEDV 30 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_81 ### Event 5050 (5F1CAD84) **Date:** 7/20/1950 **Description:** In Porto Novo, Brazil Mr. Campello and several others driving together in a car saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hill, the other on flat ground. They were about 50 meters away from each other. They drove to within 600 meters of the objects, which flew away at "an incredible speed," causing a rush of air that rocked the car. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 (case 81) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4222 ### Event 5051 (CC549C77) **Date:** 7/24/1950 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_412 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 16.1km **Rocket range:** 320km ### Event 5052 (A686CFDD) **Date:** 7/25/1950 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** NEAR LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 100' saucer hovers / 1K' altitude. Dashes off. Leaves (something behind) blue = white vapor trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1757 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "nr LOS ANGELES,CA:2 OBS:100'SCR HVRS/1K'alt:DASHES OFF:LVS BLU=WHT VAPOR TRAIL", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -118.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 118:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-118.216672)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5053 (96138947) **Date:** 7/26/1950 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** CESSON, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Several going east. Turns going northeast. White beam going down. Vanishes in place as if erased. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1758 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CESSON,FR:2 OBS:SVR > E:TURNS >NE:WHT BEAM ↓:VANISHES IN PLACE as if erased", **LatLong:** "48.566669 2.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:34:00 N 02:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.566669,2.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5054 (8C4215DC) **Date:** 7/27/1950 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** WIESBADEN, GERM **Description:** Blue Book. 2 soldiers. Classic saucer. Reflects sun / underside. Instant speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1759 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "WIESBADEN,GERM:BBK:2 GIs:CLASSIC SCR:REFLECTS SUN/UNDERSIDE:INSTANT SPEED", **LatLong:** "50.083336 8.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:05:00 N 08:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.083336,8.250000)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5055 (FB8A6C45) **Date:** 7/29/1950 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_413 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 16.1km **Rocket range:** 320km ### Event 5056 (6E686D69) **Date:** 7/29/1950 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** OVER WILLIAMSVILLE, IL **Description:** Air and ground observers. 3M glowing-cylinder/cylindrical object explodes in DC3 prop! No damage! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1760 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "ovr WILLIAMSVILLE,IL:AIR+GND OBSs:3M GLO-CYL EXPLODES IN DC3 PROP!:NO DAMAGE!", **LatLong:** "39.955557 -89.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:20 N 89:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.955557,-89.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5057 (0F0B6F1B) **Date:** 7/30/1950 **Location:** HANFORD, WA **Description:** 1st of many saucers seen over Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) plant. RADAR's. Air Force jets can't catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE; Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1761 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "HANFORD,WA:1ST OF MANY SCRS SEEN OVR AEC PLANT:RDRs:AF JETS CANT CATCH:", **LatLong:** "46.500002 -119.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:30:00 N 119:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.500002,-119.516672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5058 (FA0910FE) **Date:** 7/30/1950 **Description:** USAF jets were scrambled to chase a disc-shaped UFO seen over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission plant in Washington State. The object was tracked on radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, p. 4; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4500 ### Event 5059 (DC72A359) **Date:** 7/30/1950 **Description:** A ten-foot long long glowing cylinder appeared to explode when it flew into the propeller of DC-3 over Williamsville, Illinois. There was no damage to the aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 80 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4501 ### Event 5060 (E55D5726) **Date:** 8/1950 **Location:** US **Description:** Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers” published **Type:** publication **Reference:** [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_414 ### Event 5061 (5DA1E611) **Date:** 8/1950 (approximate) **Location:** VILJANDI, ESTONIA **Description:** Girl. 6M ovoid / field. Small figure(s) walk awkwardly. Telepathy! Silent takeoff. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1762 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Estonia, Latvia& Lithuania", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "VILJANDI,ESTONIA:GIRL:6M OVOID/FLD:SML FIGs WALK AWKWARDLY:TLP!:SLNT TAKEOFF.", **LatLong:** "58.400003 25.566668", **LatLongDMS:** "58:24:00 N 25:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.400003,25.566668)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5062 (96ABB79D) **Date:** 8/1950 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** COURS-LES-BARRES, FR **Description:** 4 observer(s). Metallic hat-saucer hovers / river / 60 minute(s). Animals flee. Going quickly [to] extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1763 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "COURS-les-BARRES,FR:4 OBS:MTLC HAT-SCR HVRS/Rvr/60min:ANIMALS FLEE:>> XFAST", **LatLong:** "47.033336 3.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "47:02:00 N 03:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.033336,3.033333)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5063 (A5E6E260) **Date:** 8/1950 (approximate) **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** MEDFORD, OR **Description:** Air Traffic Controller and several / airport/apartment. Shiny silver disks hover and circle / high altitude. Line up and going quickly southeast. / CUFOS. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 601) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1764 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "117", **HatchDesc:** "MEDFORD,OR:ATC+SVRL/Apt:SHINY SLVR DISKS HVR+CCL/HI ALT:LINE UP+>>SE:/CUFOS", **LatLong:** "42.372224 -122.872228", **LatLongDMS:** "42:22:20 N 122:52:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.372224,-122.872228)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5064 (3E5F14B7) **Date:** 8/1950 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / BIG SUR, CA **Description:** Silent cylinder/cigar-shape hovers 5km offshore. 200+M altitude. Going quickly south. Returns and circles. Going quickly south again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 603) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1765 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SE/BIG SUR,CA:SLNT CGR HVRS 5km OFFSHORE:200+M alt:>>S:RETURNS+CCLS:>>S AGAIN", **LatLong:** "36.150002 -121.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:09:00 N 121:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.150002,-121.716672)", **RelAlt:** "200", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5065 (A644A890) **Date:** 8/1950 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** NIZHNE-KOLYMSK, RUSSIA **Description:** Disk / extreme-altitude / 3 days. Planes chase. Zips up and away. / LDLN#204. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1766 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "NIZHNE-KOLYMSK,RUSS:DISK/XTREME-ALT/3 DAYS:PLANES CHASE:ZIPS UP+AWAY:/LDLN#204", **LatLong:** "68.533337 160.933341", **LatLongDMS:** "68:32:00 N 160:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/68.533337,160.933341)", **State/Prov:** "YKT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5066 (369D9A33) **Date:** 8/1950 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ARLINGTON, VA **Description:** Astronomer and 1. 8' glowing lens-disk hovers near residential power lines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977. (Index 147) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1767 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "ARLINGTON,VA:ASTRONOMER+1:8' GLOWING LENS-DISK HVRS nr RESIDENTIAL PWR LINES", **LatLong:** "38.866669 -77.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:52:00 N 77:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.866669,-77.116670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5067 (A840E8A8) **Date:** 8/1950 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio **Description:** Engineer [Eric A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) becomes executive secretary of the Research and Development Board. He later refers to a real group called MJ-12 and admits attending meetings at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio concerning “recovered UFOs.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1562 ### Event 5068 (BB6C7E9A) **Date:** 8/1950 **Locations:** New Mexico; Lincoln LaPaz **Description:** A CIA memo sent to FBI headquarters, “Summary of Aerial Phenomena in New Mexico,” discusses the green fireballs and notes that OSI is concerned with the phenomena seen over sensitive installations. It reiterates that [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) does not think they are meteors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 167–168](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1563 ### Event 5069 (C0AB5D52) **Date:** 8/1950 **Location:** Big Sur coast at Anderson Creek, California **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s article on the [Adickes](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-05-fi-33312-story.html) case of April 27, “Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,” appears in True magazine. \(Donald E. Keyhoe, “[Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf)” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79\) August — 2:00 p.m. Hugh O’Neill views a cigar-shaped object hovering silently about 2–5 miles off the Big Sur coast at Anderson Creek, California, at an elevation of 500–1,000 feet. It moves swiftly away to the south, then returns less than 2 minutes later and slowly circles above the ocean twice for 90 seconds, disappearing again to the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, New Directions, 1957, [p. 75](https://archive.org/details/trent%5F0116301751230/page/74/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1950 August–December, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1564 ### Event 5070 (465719B1) **Date:** 8/1/1950 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_416 ### Event 5071 (B235574D) **Date:** 8/1/1950 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** AUBURN, ME **Description:** 2 pilots / ground. Large dark silent cylinder/cigar-shape. Several sudden turns. Beams going down. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 604) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1768 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "91", **HatchDesc:** "AUBURN,ME:2 PILOTS/GND:LRG DRK SLNT CGR:SVRL SUDDEN TURNS:BEAMS ↓:vanishes!", **LatLong:** "44.100002 -70.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:06:00 N 70:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.100002,-70.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5072 (8FA203E0) **Date:** 8/2/1950 **Location:** SAN RAFAEL, CA **Description:** Mysterious cloud / 15K'. Going [to] against wind. Radiates green / blue / red / orange.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 301) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1769 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SAN RAFAEL,CA:MYSTERIOUS CLOUD/15K':>AGAINST WIND:RADIATES GRN/BLU/RED/ORG..", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -122.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 122:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-122.550006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5073 (833D231C) **Date:** 8/2/1950 **Description:** On this day in San Rafael, Marin County, California a strange cloud was seen over the city at 15,000 feet altitude for about an hour, moving against the wind. It radiated many different colors: green, blue, red, and orange. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gerald Heard, Is Another World Watching?, p. 150 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4588 ### Event 5074 (B299E945) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Location:** Hanford, WA **Description:** CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel Mildren (G-3) to Maj. U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30, 1950, UFO’s have been sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets fails to intercept them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and fighter squadrons alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy Commission still investigating. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p485) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_417 ### Event 5075 (957C38C3) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** ATLANTIC SS MARCALA CREW **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #773. 10' cylinder/cylindrical object / 80' altitude. Churning motion. Going quickly northeast / 500mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1770 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC SS MARCALA CREW:BBK#773:10'CYL/80'alt:CHURNING MOTION:>>NE/500mph", **LatLong:** "39.583335 -72.405559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:35:00 N 72:24:20 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.583335,-72.405559)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5076 (B1FEB354) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LITTLE ROCK, ARK **Description:** 5 observer(s) / power company. Saucer going northeast reflects sunlight. Turns going quickly east and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1771 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLE ROCK,ARK:5 OBS/POWER COMPANY:SCR> NE REFLECTS SUNLITE:TURNS>>E AND GONE", **LatLong:** "34.750002 -92.288893", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 N 92:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.750002,-92.288893)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5077 (3A4C81BD) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Location:** North Atlantic, At Sea **Description:** Object 100' Above Sea Observed By Ship MV Marcala (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: U, Rating: 5, BB: 773) **Reference:** NICAP: [500804](http://www.nicap.org/500804northatlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_727 ### Event 5078 (FEAC2BD8) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Time:** 10 AM EDT **Location:** approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39' 35' N, 72' 24.5' W) **Description:** Witnesses: Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, Third Mate, of M/V Marcala. One 10' cylindrical object at 50-100' altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion, accelerated at end of 15 second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_43 ### Event 5079 (9F23FA59) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Location:** Hanford Site, Washington State **Description:** A memo from Army Maj. [Ulysses Grant Carlan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8778340/ulysses-grant-carlan) states that UFOs since July 30 have been seen at the Hanford Site in Washington State. They are above 15,000 feet. Jets attempting interception fail. The AEC says that the investigation is continuing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. U. G. Carlan, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/foia11.htm)” August 4, 1950; Good Above, [pp. 267](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up), [485](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/484/mode/2up); Nukes 46; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 71 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1565 ### Event 5080 (DDF7EF15) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Locations:** North Atlantic; Nova Scotia **Description:** The crew \(Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn\) of the M/V Marcala in the North Atlantic between Nova Scotia and the US Eastern seaboard watch an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped UFO, apparently 10 feet in diameter, 50–100 feet above the surface. It initially moves 25 mph, makes no noise, wobbles slightly, disappears over the horizon, then reappears. The ship’s captain watches the object through binoculars for 90 seconds. One of the other witnesses describes the sighting as “one of the most frightening experiences I have ever had.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object 100ʹ above Sea Observed by Ship MV](http://www.nicap.org/500804northatlantic%5Fdir.htm) [Marcala](http://www.nicap.org/500804northatlantic%5Fdir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 115–116](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/114/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 340–341](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/340/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1566 ### Event 5081 (79143D39) **Date:** 8/4/1950 **Description:** In the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 miles southeast of New York City (39.58 degrees N, 72.41 degrees W). At 10:00 a.m. EDT Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, and the Third Mate of the M/V Marcala sighted a ten-foot long cigar or ovoid object at 50-100 feet altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion. The UFO was shaped like an egg cut lengthwise, and wobbled as it flew. It also "sparkled in the sunlight." It accelerated away toward the end of their fifteen-second observation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 773; UNICAT, case # 720; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4641 ### Event 5082 (252AB511) **Date:** 8/5/1950 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** GREAT FALLS, MT **Description:** 2 observer(s). 315 16 mm frames / 2 saucers over baseball field. Going quickly southwest. / MJ#223. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1772 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1000", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT FALLS,MT:2 OBS:315 16mm FRAMES/2 SCRS OVR BASEBALL FLD:>>SW:/MJ#223", **LatLong:** "47.500002 -111.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 111:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,-111.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5083 (DEA0F87C) **Date:** 8/5/1950 **Description:** On this day one of the most famous UFO movies of all time was shot in Great Falls, Montana. The 16mm film was shot by Nick Mariana and was witnessed by his secretary, Virginia Raunig. It shows aluminum colored discs, "like two new dimes", hovering in the sky at a distance of two miles. It was sent to the U.S. Air Force for analysis, but when it was returned Mr. Mariana claimed many frames from the first part of the film, those showing the best closeup images of the objects, had been deleted. The existing film consists of 280 frames of 16mm film. The UFOs first hovered, then moved smoothly at very high speed (400 mph) in an arch beind a water tower. The objects estimated diameter was 50 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 138; UNICAT, case 310; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 407 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4670 ### Event 5084 (92C93F09) **Date:** 8/6/1950 **Location:** RIVERDALE, IL **Description:** 1 observer. Saucer going [to] overhead. "Too round to be plane. To fast for balloon". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1773 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "RIVERDALE,IL:1 OBS:SCR > OVHD:"TOO ROUND TO BE PLANE:TO FAST FOR BALLOON"", **LatLong:** "41.633335 -87.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:38:00 N 87:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.633335,-87.633338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5085 (CA3655F0) **Date:** 8/6/1950 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** LAKE STOREY, IL **Description:** 7+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 shiny metallic balls hover and dart and circle. 1100 kph. Going quickly NNW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 606) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1774 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "222", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE STOREY,IL:7+OBS/BINOCS:2 SHINY MTLC BALLS HVR+DART+CCL:1100 kph:>>NNW", **LatLong:** "40.994446 -90.411115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:59:40 N 90:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.994446,-90.411115)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5086 (50C56F3E) **Date:** 8/7/1950 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** OVER SANTA FE, NM **Description:** Air Force jet / 30K'. C-47 with dark object below. Jet follows. Can't catch / 620mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 304) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1775 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2100", **HatchDesc:** "ovr SANTA FE,NM:AF JET/30K':C-47 W/DARK OBJ BELOW:JET FOLOS:CANT CATCH/620mph:", **LatLong:** "35.677779 -105.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:40 N 105:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.677779,-105.983338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5087 (A45BCB1B) **Date:** 8/7/1950 **Location:** Santa Fe, NM **Description:** Black Object Chased At 620 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500807](http://www.nicap.org/500807santafe%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_728 ### Event 5088 (CB1EEDD9) **Date:** 8/10/1950 **Location:** CAMPELLO, TICINO, SWITZ **Description:** 12+observer(s). Saucers leave luminous wake. Gyrates with 'organ-music' sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1776 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CAMPELLO,TICINO,SWITZ:12+OBS:SCRS LEAVE LUM WAKE:GYRATES W/'ORGAN-MUSIC' SOUND", **LatLong:** "46.483336 8.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:29:00 N 08:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.483336,8.816667)", **State/Prov:** "VLS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5089 (79EA8574) **Date:** 8/10/1950 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** ENUMCLAW, WA **Description:** Flat round silver object going west slow. Turns going north. Then straight up like bullet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 609) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1777 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "219", **HatchDesc:** "ENUMCLAW,WA:FLAT RND SLVR OBJ > W SLOW:TURNS > N:THEN STRAIGHT UP LIKE BULLET", **LatLong:** "47.205558 -121.988895", **LatLongDMS:** "47:12:20 N 121:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.205558,-121.988895)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5090 (46A79713) **Date:** 8/10/1950 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Navy physicist Wykoff / (seen thru) binoculars. Large saucer maneuvers. No further details. / r11p328. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1778 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "702", **HatchDesc:** "EDWARDS AFB,CA:NAVY PHYSICIST WYKOFF/BINOCS:LRG SCR MNVRS:NFD: /r11p328.", **LatLong:** "34.883335 -117.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 N 117:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.883335,-117.900006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5091 (ED3FA1F8) **Date:** 8/10/1950 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** TOLOVANA PARK, OR **Description:** Domed tank / US101. Lit portholes. Aims beam / bank / clay. Away fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 607) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1779 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "TOLOVANA PARK,OR:DOMED TANK/US101:LIT PORTHOLES:AIMS BEAM/BANK/CLAY:AWAY FAST", **LatLong:** "45.872224 -123.961117", **LatLongDMS:** "45:52:20 N 123:57:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.872224,-123.961117)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5092 (AC59EE05) **Date:** 8/11/1950 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** TOLOVANA PK, OR **Description:** Saucer back studying clay bank / beam again. Hides / cars in canyon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 608) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1780 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "TOLOVANA Pk,OR:SCR BACK STUDYING CLAY BANK/BEAM AGAIN:HIDES/CARS in canyon", **LatLong:** "45.872224 -123.966673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:52:20 N 123:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.872224,-123.966673)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5093 (C4D47CC8) **Date:** 8/11/1950 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** TWIN FALLS, ID **Description:** 2 observer(s). 10M cube going [to] 400kph. 25 saucers or night lights. Then 25 more. All silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 609) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1781 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1137", **HatchDesc:** "TWIN FALLS,ID:2 OBS:10M CUBE >400kph:25 SCRS or NLTS:THEN 25 more:ALL SLNT", **LatLong:** "42.550002 -114.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:00 N 114:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.550002,-114.466672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5094 (5D67633A) **Date:** 8/12/1950 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** Many observer(s). Glowing saucer right over main street. Goes straight going up [to] to clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 304) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1782 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:MANY OBS:GLOWING SCR RIGHT OVR MAIN STREET:GOES STRAIGHT ↑ TO CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "32.700002 -114.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:42:00 N 114:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.700002,-114.616672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5095 (EC46D413) **Date:** 8/12/1950 **Location:** state forestry lookout tower on Round Top Mountain north of Medford, Oregon **Description:** 1:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Oliver are at the state forestry lookout tower on Round Top Mountain north of Medford, Oregon, when they see two UFOs, one disc-shaped, the other oblong. They are about 100 feet apart, and the oblong one is tumbling in the air end over end. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Lookouts Report Seeing ‘Saucers’ North of Medford,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93136634/)” Medford \(Oreg.\) Mail-Tribune, August 17, 1950, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1567 ### Event 5096 (A92D52B0) **Date:** 8/12/1950 **Description:** More than eighty discs maneuvered in the sky over Campello, Ticino canton, Switzerland, leaving behind luminous wakes. They gyrated in the sky with a noise that was described as similar to "organ music". **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 104 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4931 ### Event 5097 (BD6AE761) **Date:** 8/12/1950 **Description:** In Yuma, Arizona a disc-shaped object with a glowing outer edge zoomed to a position directly over Main Street at 5:45 p.m., then shot straight up into the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 153; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4932 ### Event 5098 (DD0960EB) **Date:** 8/14/1950 **Location:** Cromer (10 miles N of), UK **Description:** Neatishead radar tracked an unidentified aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500814](http://www.nicap.org/500814cromer%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_729 ### Event 5099 (406DC139) **Date:** 8/14/1950 **Location:** Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, England **Description:** 11:27 a.m. Flight Lt. [Stan J. Hubbard](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11320471/Wing-Commander-Stan-Hubbard-obituary.html) and two other officers at Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, England, hear a humming noise. Hubbard looks up and sees a flat gray disc, about 100 feet in diameter, at an altitude of 700–1,000 feet. He watches it for 30 seconds as it flies at a speed of 800–1,000 mph and makes a series of S- turns, oscillating as it moves. The other two officers see nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015; Good Need, [pp. 149–151](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/148/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, [pp. 40–42](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n69/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1568 ### Event 5100 (06DDBC6E) **Date:** 8/15/1950 **Location:** Great Falls, MT **Description:** Nick Mariana / Montana UFO Color Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500815](http://www.nicap.org/500815greatfalls%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_730 ### Event 5101 (2D57331E) **Date:** 8/15/1950 **Location:** Great Falls, Montana **Description:** 11:30 a.m. [Nicholas Mariana](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/05/marianas-ufo-film-one-of-best-produced.html) and his secretary Virginia Raunig are inspecting the Great Falls, Montana, baseball stadium in preparation for a game. He walks up to the grandstand and notices two fast-moving bright lights “like two new dimes in the sky.” He rushes to his car, parked 60 feet away, and gets his 16mm movie camera from the glove compartment. He films the objects passing behind a water tower, which provides a frame of reference for measuring distance, size, altitude, azimuth, and speed. In October he takes it to an Air Force officer for analysis. USAF notes that two jet interceptors were in the area and might be the objects on the film, but Mariana and Raunig had seen those too. Controversy soon arises when Mariana claims that the first 35 frames of his film—which he says most clearly show the UFOs as rotating disks—are missing. People in the Great Falls area who view Mariana’s film support him. They claim that the missing frames clearly show the UFOs as spinning, metallic disks with a “notch or band” along their outer edges. USAF personnel deny this accusation and insist that they have removed only a single frame of film that was damaged in the analysis. In 1952, Blue Book reviews the film; so does [Robert M. L. Baker Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FM.%5FL.%5FBaker%5FJr) in 1954, and the Colorado project in 1967. All studies of the film agree that it was not faked and that the objects appear to be disc-shaped. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Mariana UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Nick Mariana / Montana UFO Color Film](http://www.nicap.org/500815greatfalls%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Nick Mariana UFO Footage 1950 Great Falls Montana,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIH7ufiBII)” parkerdonaldmusic YouTube channel, September 29, 2012; “[Air Force Takes over Films of Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93138384/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Chronicle, October 5, 1950, p. 8; “[Colored Films on Saucers to Be Shown,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93139228/)” Twin Falls \(Idaho\) Times-News, October 19, 1950, p. 17; Clark III 767–769; UFOs Yes, 81–108; Condon, [pp. 407–415](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/406/mode/2up); Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [pp. 127–128](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/127/mode/2up); Barry Greenwood, “[On the Question of Tampering](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr07.pdf) [with the 1950 Great Falls UFO Film,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr07.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 7 \(September 2000\): 1–8; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 138–139; Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Three,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F07.html)” The Big Study, July 7, 2012; Patrick Gross, “[The Great Falls, Montana, UFO Color Film, August 15, 1950](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/montana50.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1569 ### Event 5102 (33188D06) **Date:** 8/15/1950 **Location:** Metropole Building on Northumberland Avenue in London, England **Description:** A top secret meeting on UFOs takes place at the Metropole Building on Northumberland Avenue in London, England. It is chaired by Hugh Young, deputy director of intelligence, and attended by representatives of the Secret Intelligence Service and Wing Commander [Myles Formby](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171579927/myles-hesketh-formby) of the Air Ministry’s technical intelligence branch. Young explains that [Henry Tizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard), chief scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, feels that reports of flying saucers should not be dismissed without investigation and has asked that a working party be set up to look into significant reports. RAF Fighter Command is advised that all future reports of aerial phenomena should go to the Flying Saucer Working Party. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 77– 78; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1, 1947–December 31,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) [1959, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1570 ### Event 5103 (A7FFAE27) **Date:** 8/20/1950 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** NICOSIA, CYPRUS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #793. 3+USAF. Small vibrant bright white sphere/orb/globe going quickly west / fantastic speed. Very high. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 307) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1783 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Cyprus", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NICOSIA,CYPRUS:BBK#793:3+USAF:SML VBRITE WHT ORB >>W/FANTASTIC SPEED:VERY HIGH", **LatLong:** "35.166668 33.533335", **LatLongDMS:** "35:10:00 N 33:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.166668,33.533335)", **State/Prov:** "NIC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5104 (86A3BDAE) **Date:** 8/20/1950 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** NORTH PORTLAND, OR **Description:** Long "sharpened pencil" paces plane / higher altitude through turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 615) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1784 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "N.PORTLAND,OR:LONG "SHARPENED PENCIL" PACES PLANE/HIGHER alt THRU TURNS", **LatLong:** "45.600002 -122.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:36:00 N 122:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.600002,-122.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5105 (07B9F0B7) **Date:** 8/20/1950 **Location:** Nicosia, Cyprus **Description:** Small, round or elliptical, bright object overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 793) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_731 ### Event 5106 (454BBD04) **Date:** 8/20/1950 **Time:** 1:30 PM **Location:** Nicosia, Cyprus **Description:** Witnesses: USAF MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley, Col. W. V. Brown, Lt. col. L.w. Brauer. One small, round, bright object flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_44 ### Event 5107 (1EF170AC) **Date:** 8/20/1950 **Locations:** Mount Palomar, California; Palomar Gardens Café **Description:** An FBI informant meets with [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) at Alice Wells’s restaurant, the Palomar Gardens Café, south of Mount Palomar, California. In addition to the standard flying saucer tales, Adamski mentions that the Federal Communications Commission has established contact with people from other planets who apparently have a communist economic system. He also predicts that Russia will dominate the world for the next 1,000 years. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kremlin 63–71 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1571 ### Event 5108 (672C7948) **Date:** 8/20/1950 **Description:** On this afternoon in Nicosia, Cyprus at 1:30 p.m., three military officers sighted a small, round, bright white flying object. MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley, Colonel W. V. Brown, and Lt. Colonel L.W. Brauer reported that the UFO flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 793; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5165 ### Event 5109 (EEB10421) **Date:** 8/21/1950 **Location:** ECHTERDINGEN ARMY AIR BASE, GERMANY **Description:** White ovoid joins balloon / theodolite. Going up and down. Turns going [to] WSW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 307) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1785 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ECHTERDINGEN AAB,GERMANY:WHT OVOID JOINS BALLOON/THEODOLITE:↑+↓:TURNS >WSW", **LatLong:** "48.733336 9.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:44:00 N 09:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.733336,9.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5110 (D5DB3C38) **Date:** 8/22/1950 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / BERMUDA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #787. 8 civil and US B29 RADAR. Blip lets B29 pass by. Then zips off / 400knt. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1786 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SW/BERMUDA:BBK#787:8 CIV+US B29 RDR:BLIP LETS B29 PASS BY:THEN ZIPS OFF/400knt", **LatLong:** "29.666668 -67.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "29:40:00 N 67:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.666668,-67.466670)", **State/Prov:** "Bermuda", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5111 (D9FB5C37) **Date:** 8/23/1950 **Description:** FBI memo from [Alan H. Belmont](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbelmontA.htm) to [D. Milton Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) on green fireballs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** A. H. Belmont, “[Summary of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500823%5FFBI.pdf) [Aerial Phenomena in New Mexico, Miscellaneous—Information Concerning,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500823%5FFBI.pdf)” August 23, 1950 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1572 ### Event 5112 (3590F235) **Date:** 8/24/1950 **Location:** Bermuda (250 Miles SW of), At Sea **Description:** Distinct bright unidentified target travel at same speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 787) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_732 ### Event 5113 (20648198) **Date:** 8/25/1950 **Time:** 8 PM **Location:** approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29' 40' N, 67' 28' W) **Description:** Witness: B-29 radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer. Radar observation, plus possible blue streak 3 minutes later. B-29 followed unidentified target, then passed it at l/4-mile distance, target followed for 5 minutes, then passed B-29 and sped away. Total time of tracking: 20 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_45 ### Event 5114 (1BD98BD6) **Date:** 8/25/1950 **Description:** 250 miles southwest of Bermuda over the Atlantic Ocean (29.67º N, 67.47º W). At 8:00 p.m. radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer, flying in a B-29, picked up an unidentified radar blip. The B-29 followed the unidentified target, then passed it at one-quarter-mile distance, whereupon the target followed them for the next five minutes. It passed the B-29 and sped away. A blue streak was seen in the sky three minutes later. Total time of tracking: 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5308 ### Event 5115 (1B1F3AB1) **Date:** 8/27/1950 **Location:** BROCKTON, MASS **Description:** 1 observer. Shiny white 20' sphere speeds into wind. Air Force says "a balloon". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1787 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "BROCKTON,MASS:1 OBS:SHINY WHT 20' SPHERE SPEEDS INTO WIND:AF SAYS "A BALLOON"", **LatLong:** "42.100002 -71.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:00 N 71:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.100002,-71.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5116 (55E328F5) **Date:** 8/27/1950 **Location:** Brockton (near), MA **Description:** Shiny white spherical object about 20 ft diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_733 ### Event 5117 (90E829DA) **Date:** 8/27/1950 **Description:** A shiny white 20-foot wide sphere sped into the wind over Brockton, Massachusetts. The Air Force explained it as a balloon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5387 ### Event 5118 (E9619250) **Date:** 8/29/1950 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** HOLLY HILL, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 60cm disk going down / dark low cloud. Back up and down again. Going quickly south. Sparks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 616) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1788 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLY HILL,FL:2 OBS:60cm DISK ↓/DRK LOW CLOUD:BACK UP+DOWN AGAIN:>>S:SPARKS", **LatLong:** "29.244446 -81.038893", **LatLongDMS:** "29:14:40 N 81:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.244446,-81.038893)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5119 (588E129D) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Many HIQ observer(s). 2 saucers / theodolites. Photographs hazy / objects. Back 31 Aug. 5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1789 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:MANY HIQ OBS:2 SCRS/THEODOLITES:FOTOS HAZY/OBJS:BACK 31AUG5", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -106.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 106:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-106.083338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5120 (288C1033) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Location:** Sandy Point, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** A black or dark round object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 790) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_734 ### Event 5121 (3B38D926) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Location:** S of Kippens, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** (BB# may be wrong) black or yellowish-brown object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 790) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_735 ### Event 5122 (C2B8B805) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Location:** Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** A black or dark round object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [500830](http://www.nicap.org/500830harmon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_736 ### Event 5123 (D1303662) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Location:** Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM **Description:** Two Objects Filmed During Shrike Missile Test (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500830](http://www.nicap.org/500830holloman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_737 ### Event 5124 (6CECFF95) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Time:** 1:30 PM **Location:** Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: three local employees, including Kaeel and Alexander, of the Air Force Base. A dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole down from it into the water, flew at 3-5 m.p.h. and 15-20' altitude for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_46 ### Event 5125 (44B4514A) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** 10:45 a.m. During a Bell Aircraft MX-776 Shrike missile test \(for the later Rascal air-to-ground strategic missile\) a USAF M/Sgt and eight Bell Aircraft employees at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, see two glaringly bright circular or elliptical objects maintaining relative position to each other following the B-50 Superfortress launch aircraft from above on both the dry run and hot run prior to missile release. The objects give a “strong glare at all times” \(not reflected sunlight\), maneuver at high estimated speeds up to 10 times the B-50 \(roughly 2,500 mph\) for short distances, leave no vapor trails, hover, accelerate rapidly, and make abrupt “square” turns with apparent size changing to indicate ascent and descent. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Objects Filmed during Shrike Missile](http://www.nicap.org/500830holloman%5Fdir.htm) [Test](http://www.nicap.org/500830holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 98; Maj. R. G. Illing, “[Aerial Phenomena,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1950-08-30%5FUSA%5FHolloman%5FAFB.pdf)” September 13, 1950; Swords 115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1573 ### Event 5126 (DCBFF862) **Date:** 8/30/1950 **Description:** At 1:30 p.m. three local employees of the Air Force Base at Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada including Kaeel and Alexander sighted a dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole extending down from it into the water. The object flew very slowly at 3-5 mph just 15-20-feet above the water for five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5485 ### Event 5127 (3FC5AC9A) **Date:** 8/31/1950 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_415 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 136.4km ### Event 5128 (ABA20F33) **Date:** 8/31/1950 **Location:** Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM **Description:** Objects Filmed After V-2 Launch (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [500831](http://www.nicap.org/500831holloman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_738 ### Event 5129 (3A0D3536) **Date:** 8/31/1950 **Locations:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico; Kirtland AFB **Description:** 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. After V-2 missile launch no. 51 at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Project Twinkle cinetheodolite crews track and film multiple objects sporadically several times from different directions at very high speeds over the course of 3 hours. Cinetheodolite station P-5 films an object using a one-frame-per-second 60 cm focal length camera with 35 mm color film. Frames 593 and 595 \(2 seconds of nearly 10 minutes of film\) show its elevation angle changing. An attempted interception by four F-86 jets from Kirtland AFB for one hour fails to locate the objects, which apparently return after the jets leave. Cinetheodolite observers note an object with definite shape and 3D depth but indistinct edges and no smoke or trail. The object seems to “rock or oscillate.” It is lost when the observer looks away to get an angle reading. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Objects Filmed after V-2](http://www.nicap.org/500831holloman%5Fdir.htm) [Launch](http://www.nicap.org/500831holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 99 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1574 ### Event 5130 (D82CE2B2) **Date:** 9/1950 **Location:** DU BOIS, PA **Description:** 80 National Guardsmen. 30' rotating metal saucer / 4K' altitude over airport. Vapor trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1790 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "163", **HatchDesc:** "DU BOIS,PA:80 Natl GUARDSMEN:30'ROTATING MTL SCR/4K'alt ovr AIRPORT:VPR TRAIL", **LatLong:** "41.116669 -78.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:07:00 N 78:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.116669,-78.761115)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5131 (14DABAE3) **Date:** 9/1950 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** NORTH KOREA **Description:** 6 US bombers. 200M saucers jam RADAR / each frequency in turn. Going quickly northwest. / NICAP v3#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1791 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "N.KOREA:6 US BOMBERS:200M SCRS JAM RDR/EACH FREQ.IN TURN:>>NW:/NICAP v3#5", **LatLong:** "40.000002 126.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "40:00:00 N 126:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.000002,126.500006)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5132 (A5FFE368) **Date:** 9/1950 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SAND PATCH, PA **Description:** Kids. Huge metallic dome with square portholes. WHIRRs and maneuvers. Bright yellow light / bottom/underside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 617) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1792 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "683", **HatchDesc:** "SAND PATCH,PA:KIDS:HUGE MTLC DOME W/SQR PORTS:WHIRRs+MNVRS:BRITE YLW LITE/BTM", **LatLong:** "39.800002 -78.972226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:48:00 N 78:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.800002,-78.972226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5133 (54D929D0) **Date:** 9/1950 **Location:** City not noted, Korea **Description:** Navy planes on mission approached by two large discs, radar jammed, radio transmitter blocked by buzzing noise each time new frequency tried (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_739 ### Event 5134 (72B2082D) **Date:** 9/1950 **Location:** 100 miles south of the Yalu River in Korea **Description:** 7:00 a.m. Three US Navy planes on a combat mission 100 miles south of the Yalu River in Korea are approached from below by two huge discs, at least 600–700 feet in diameter, traveling at 1,000–1,200 mph. The radar shows them as 1.5 miles away. Suddenly the objects halt, back up, and begin a jittering motion, keeping pace with them, circling above and below. When one pilot readies his guns, the aircraft radar goes haywire, apparently jammed. His radio transmitter is blocked by a buzzing noise. The discs are silvery and shaped like a “coolie’s hat, with oblong ports from which emanated a copper-green colored light which gradually shifted to pale pastel-colored lights.” A shimmering red ring circles the top portion of the disc. The objects soon speed away in the direction from which they had come. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Haines, Korea, [pp. 28–30](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm); Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 30–32](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n27/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1575 ### Event 5135 (ACA2778E) **Date:** 9/1950 **Locations:** San Francisco Bay Area, California; Norfolk, Virginia **Description:** The first US Army large-scale aerosol vulnerability test occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, using two types of bacteria \(Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens\) and fluorescent particles. Six simulated attacks are conducted, with the conclusion that it is feasible to attack a seaport city with biological aerosol agents from a ship offshore. The first open-air tests with biological simulants are conducted in 1950 in various locales, one of which is off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States biological weapons program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fbiological%5Fweapons%5Fprogram\#Cold%5FWar%5F%281947%E2%80%931969%29)”; David R. Franz, Cheryl D. Parrott, and Ernest T. Takafuji, “The U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs,” in Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Office of the US Surgeon General, 1997, chap. 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1576 ### Event 5136 (3EFABA94) **Date:** 9/1950 **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) first receives national exposure as coauthor of an article in Fate on his fake UFO photographs. A follow-up article in July 1951 features even more dramatic photos. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 39; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 \(September 1950\): 56– 59; George Adamski, “I Photographed Space Ships,” Fate 4, no. 5 \(July 1951\): 64–74; George Noory, “[Fate](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/fate-flashback-flying-saucers-in-the-1950-s/) [Flashback: ‘Flying Saucers’ in the 1950’s,](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/fate-flashback-flying-saucers-in-the-1950-s/)” Coast to Coast AM, August 18, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1577 ### Event 5137 (8EFB1B36) **Date:** 9/1/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NUNIVAK ISLAND, AK **Description:** Aleuts terrorized. Huge fireball / ovoid at sea. 3 repeats. Going west to Siberia. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1793 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "NUNIVAK ISL,AK:ALEUTS TERRORIZED:HUGE FBL/OVOID at SEA:3 REPEATS:>W to SIBERIA", **LatLong:** "60.416670 -167.700008", **LatLongDMS:** "60:25:00 N 167:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.416670,-167.700008)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5138 (81678223) **Date:** 9/1/1950 **Location:** McKorryuk, Nunivak Island, Aleutians, AK **Description:** Strange deep red ball of fire near the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_740 ### Event 5139 (BB3959DE) **Date:** 9/2/1950 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** HARMON AIR FORCE BASE, NFL **Description:** Air Force guard. Shadow-man at end of runway. Vanishes in flash! No UFO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS & CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1794 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "HARMON AFB,NFL:AF GUARD:SHADOW-MAN at END of RUNWAY:VANISHES in FLASH!:no ufo", **LatLong:** "48.533336 -58.566669", **LatLongDMS:** "48:32:00 N 58:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.533336,-58.566669)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5140 (5FAD2EC1) **Date:** 9/3/1950 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #797. Air Force Major and 2. 3 30' saucers / erratic motion. Going quickly [to] WSW going [to] Fairchild Air Force Base. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1795 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:BBK#797:AF Major+2:3 30'SCRS/ERRATIC MOTION:>>WSW >FAIRCHILD AFB", **LatLong:** "47.633336 -117.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 117:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,-117.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5141 (6F503F55) **Date:** 9/3/1950 **Location:** Spokane, WA **Description:** Three Pancake-Shaped Objects Observed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 797) **Reference:** NICAP: [500903](http://www.nicap.org/500903spokane%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_741 ### Event 5142 (5CF10E98) **Date:** 9/3/1950 **Time:** 2 PM **Location:** Spokane, Washington **Description:** Witnesses: Maj R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and neighbor (former saw three objects, others saw one). Metallic bronze discs, 20-30' long, 2-6' thick. Moved independently and erratically for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_47 ### Event 5143 (47940AFC) **Date:** 9/5/1950 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** BIG RAPIDS, MI **Description:** 2 / farm. 10m silent saucer with large round portholes floats over barn going southwest. Drawing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 619) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1796 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "302", **HatchDesc:** "BIG RAPIDS,MI:2/FARM:10m SLNT SCR W/LRG RND PORTS FLOATS ovr BARN >SW:drawing", **LatLong:** "43.700002 -85.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:42:00 N 85:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.700002,-85.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5144 (01937A52) **Date:** 9/5/1950 **Location:** Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, England **Description:** 4:09 p.m. Flight Lt. [Stan J. Hubbard](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11320471/Wing-Commander-Stan-Hubbard-obituary.html) is standing on the watchtower at Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, England, with five other officers, one of whom is Wing Commander Frank Jolliffe. They all see, at a range of 10– 15 miles, a light gray disc following a rectangular flight path, consisting of a “falling leaf, horizontal flight, an upward “falling leaf,” then another horizontal stretch. The Working Party concludes they have imperfectly viewed some conventional aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015; Good Need, [pp. 150–151](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/150/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, [p. 41](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n71/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1578 ### Event 5145 (19BCBCD4) **Date:** 9/8/1950 **Location:** Unkown location, Germany **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_742 ### Event 5146 (6060465F) **Date:** 9/8/1950 **Locations:** Illinois; Korea **Description:** Henry Holt publishes [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully)’s Behind the Flying Saucers, the first book on UFOs. It sensationally claims that the US government has retrieved a crashed flying saucer and several dead pilots. Rep. [Edward H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FH.%5FJenison) [Jenison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FH.%5FJenison) \(R-Ill.\) condemns the book as contributing to mass hysteria during a time of war in Korea. USAF Public Information Officer Clare Welch estimates that 3–4 million people have heard about saucers, thanks to the book. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank Scully, [Behind the Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul/page/n5/mode/2up) Holt, 1950; John L. Cotton, et al., “[Flying Saucers and Frank Scully,](http://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/)” in KNW 2333: The Scientific Method, Critical and Creative Thinking \(Debunking Pseudoscience\), Southern Methodist University; Swords 103; Curt Collins, “[Operation Hush-Hush: The UFO Crash and ET Bodies Cover-](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/operation-hush-hush-ufo-crash-and-et.html) [Up,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/operation-hush-hush-ufo-crash-and-et.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 9, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1579 ### Event 5147 (2276C629) **Date:** 9/8/1950 **Locations:** The Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** Air Force Intelligence Collection Division’s Collection Control Branch \(AFOIN-CC-1\) at the Pentagon issues a new intelligence reporting directive requiring special handling and reporting of UFO incidents, “Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,” thus reversing the cancellation directive of January 12, 1950. The action reflects the increasing interest by AFOIN Director Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) and his dissatisfaction with AMC inaction on UFO study at Wright-Patterson AFB. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[1950 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1950fullrep.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1580 ### Event 5148 (E3A0F94C) **Date:** 9/11/1950 **Description:** On this day 8 mm motion pictures were shot with a telescopic lens of a spinning disk at Wickup Reservoir in Oregon by a man named Murphy. He shot 10 feet of film showing the spinning disc-shaped object. There was one other witness. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping, September 12, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5850 ### Event 5149 (19070337) **Date:** 9/12/1950 **Location:** WICKIUP RESERVOIR, OR **Description:** Fisherman. Telescopic 8mm movies. 10' / film. Spinning disk-saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1797 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "480", **HatchDesc:** "WICKIUP RSVR,OR:FISHERMAN:TELESCOPIC 8mm MOVIES:10'/FILM:SPINNING DISK-SCR", **LatLong:** "43.688891 -121.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:41:20 N 121:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.688891,-121.700006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5150 (B4F8F8D5) **Date:** 9/13/1950 **Location:** Effingham (5 miles SW of), IL **Description:** Red Lights On Collision Course With Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [500913](http://www.nicap.org/500913effingham%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_743 ### Event 5151 (AD7960FB) **Date:** 9/13/1950 **Location:** Howard Hawks **Description:** The Air Force responds to producer [Howard Hawks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHawks)’s request for the use of military locations, personnel, and equipment for his upcoming film The Thing from Another World by refusing to participate and objecting to any display of USAF personnel or equipment on the grounds that “it is our policy not to participate in any proposal that will perpetuate this hoax.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 103–104 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1581 ### Event 5152 (2365A9D1) **Date:** 9/15/1950 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** In a conference between Canadian Wilbert Smith and Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development Board), scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 "Behind the Flying Saucers" book is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist, we haven’t been able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain they didn’t originate on the earth, the subject is classified more highly than the H-bomb. **Type:** conference **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p519) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_418 **See also:** 9/23/1947 **See also:** 1/26/1953 ### Event 5153 (44351256) **Date:** 9/15/1950 **Location:** Canada **Description:** Canadian engineer [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) attends a classified briefing with physicist [Robert I. Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm) of the US Defense Dept.’s Research and Development Board. Smith asks if there is any truth to the [Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) crash- and-retrieval story and [Sarbacher](http://www.presidentialufo.com/old%5Fsite/sarbacher.htm) replies, “The facts reported in the book are substantially correct.” He says that UFOs are “classified two points higher even than the H-bomb.” In 1983, Sarbacher confirms the comment to [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) although he clarifies that he was speaking about crashed UFOs in general. He tells UFO researcher [William Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) in November 1983 that he “was invited to participate in several discussions associated with the reported recoveries” of UFOs, but is unable to attend the meetings. He claims [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush), [Eric A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) and [John von Neumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5Fvon%5FNeumann) are “definitely involved” in the program and probably [J. Robert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) [Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) as well. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1029–1031; Good Above, [pp. 519–521](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/518/mode/2up); Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[Dr. Robert Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm),” March 1, 2010; Wilbert B. Smith, \[[Sarbacher interview notes](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Smith%5F9%5F15%5F50.html)\], September 15, 1950; Dolan II 320; Robert I. Sarbacher, \[[Letter to William Steinman](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Sarbacher%5FNov1983.html)\], November 29, 1983 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1582 ### Event 5154 (EE0C4D73) **Date:** 9/17/1950 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** FEEDING HILLS, MA **Description:** 2 cone saucers going southwest / rigid formation. Reverse going northeast with no stop. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 629) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1798 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "FEEDING HILLS,MA:2 CONE SCRS > SW/RIGID FORMn:REVERSE >NE with no stop:sep obs", **LatLong:** "42.066669 -72.677781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:04:00 N 72:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.066669,-72.677781)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5155 (5B5BF9F6) **Date:** 9/17/1950 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** TATUM, NM **Description:** Blue Book. Fireball / grey edge going south. Saucer inside? Separate saucers / Albuquerque and Walker Air Force Base. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1799 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "1218", **HatchDesc:** "TATUM,NM:BBK:FBL/GREY EDGE >S:SCR INSIDE?::SEP SCRS/ALBUQUERQUE+WALKER AFB", **LatLong:** "33.261113 -103.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:15:40 N 103:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.261113,-103.316672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5156 (211E0156) **Date:** 9/18/1950 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** POPLAR, MT **Description:** 2 ANG F51 pilots and Air Traffic Controllers and ground observer(s). Round object / fast erratic maneuvers. Then hovers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1800 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "607", **HatchDesc:** "POPLAR,MT:2 ANG F51 PILOTS+ATCs+GND.OBS:RND OBJ/FAST ERRATIC MNVRS:then HOVERS", **LatLong:** "48.111113 -105.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "48:06:40 N 105:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.111113,-105.200005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5157 (B2349F1F) **Date:** 9/18/1950 **Location:** Poplar (Bluff?), MT **Description:** Round object moving erratically at high speed then hover (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_744 ### Event 5158 (EABCC586) **Date:** 9/19/1950 **Location:** BLACKHEATH, KENT **Description:** 18 silver spheres going quickly [to] over. 2 more follow. Direction unknown. No further details. / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1801 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BLACKHEATH,KENT:18 SLVR SPHERES>>OVR:2 MORE FOLO:DIRECTION UNK:NFD:/r171", **LatLong:** "51.461114 0.005556", **LatLongDMS:** "51:27:40 N 00:00:20 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.461114,0.005556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5159 (0F1642D5) **Date:** 9/20/1950 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** US40 EAST / KIT CARSON, CO **Description:** 3 small glowing-balls exit 2 large ones. Hover. Up / 3000kph. / r28p431. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 632) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1802 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "US40 E/KIT CARSON,CO:3 SML GLOW-BALLS EXIT 2 LRG ONES:HVR:UP/3000kph:/r28p431", **LatLong:** "38.788891 -102.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:47:20 N 102:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.788891,-102.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5160 (AD6D401E) **Date:** 9/20/1950 **Location:** Kit Carson, CO **Description:** Brilliant white star like object accelerate and decelerate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 807) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_745 ### Event 5161 (20DEC192) **Date:** 9/20/1950 **Location:** Murray, KY **Description:** Dog cowers at bolide (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** NICAP: [500920](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-500920.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_746 ### Event 5162 (63CECE43) **Date:** 9/20/1950 **Time:** 10:49 AM **Location:** Kit Carson, Colorado **Description:** Witness identified only as a "reliable source". Two large, round, glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. Two hovered for 1 minute, moved, and three smaller ones came from behind or within the two larger objects, and all sped upward and away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_48 ### Event 5163 (50AEA4EC) **Date:** 9/20/1950 **Description:** Kit Carson, Colorado at 10:49 a.m. A witness described by Project Blue Book as a "reliable source" reported sighting two large, round glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. The two large objects hovered for one minute and then moved, while the three smaller objects came from behind or from within the two larger objects, and all shot upward and away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6117 ### Event 5164 (6333829F) **Date:** 9/21/1950 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** PROVINCETOWN, MA **Description:** Object buzzes F86's. 1200mph. Air and ground RADAR confirm. 5g acceleration. / r201p105. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1803 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "PROVINCETOWN,MA:OBJ BUZZES F86s:1200mph:AIR+GND RDR CONFIRM:5g ACCEL:/r201p105", **LatLong:** "42.061113 -70.177781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:03:40 N 70:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.061113,-70.177781)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5165 (A13CE448) **Date:** 9/21/1950 **Location:** Provincetown, MA **Description:** SCR-615B Tracks UFO (BBU 809) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 809) **Reference:** NICAP: [500921](http://www.nicap.org/500921provincetown%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_747 ### Event 5166 (1761038A) **Date:** 9/21/1950 **Time:** 9:52 AM **Location:** Provincetown, Massachusetts **Description:** Witness: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22 miles/minute (l,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1 minute observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_49 ### Event 5167 (885D05BF) **Date:** 9/21/1950 **Locations:** MIT; Provincetown, Massachusetts **Description:** MIT research associate and Air National Guard Maj. [Myron Herbert Ligda](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/919358/myron-george%5Fherbert-ligda) and [Joseph V. Connelly](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/514815/joseph-v-connelly) are testing radar near Provincetown, Massachusetts, under contract to the US Signal Corps, when they track an unknown object on a converging course with two F-86s. The clear target passes the planes at a speed of at least 1,200 mph, makes a right turn, then passes directly over or under the F-86s. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[SCR-615B Tracks UFO](http://www.nicap.org/500921provincetown%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 139–141](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/138/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 100; Swords 104 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1583 ### Event 5168 (587A15EF) **Date:** 9/21/1950 **Description:** Provincetown, Massachusetts. At 9:52 a.m. an M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Major M. H. Ligda observed the radar tracking of a UFO during an M.I.T. tracking of a flight of two USAF F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. The object's speed was calculated as 22 miles/minute (1,200 mph), and it executed a turn of 11-12 Gs acceleration during the one-minute observation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 809; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 139; UNICAT, case 275 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6175 ### Event 5169 (0A924AC0) **Date:** 9/25/1950 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM, AL **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape drops right over drive-in movie screen / 15 minute(s) during show. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 324) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1804 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM,AL:CGR DROPS RIGHT OVR DRIVE-IN MOVIE SCREEN/15min DURING SHOW:", **LatLong:** "33.533335 -86.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:32:00 N 86:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.533335,-86.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5170 (B49AD36E) **Date:** 9/25/1950 **Locations:** Pentagon; Wright-Patterson **Description:** JANAP 146\(A\) is issued: “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft,” the start of CIRVIS reporting for commercial and military pilots. This adds UFOs to the list of sighting categories. All UFO reports are to be sent to the Air Defense Command at the Pentagon and to the Secretary of Defense. AMC at Wright-Patterson is not mentioned. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 123 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1584 ### Event 5171 (7E034116) **Date:** 9/25/1950 **Description:** The Air Force Intelligence office, apparently at the request of Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), orders all copies of the December 10, 1948, revised Project Sign report destroyed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 114](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/114/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1585 ### Event 5172 (02FA4D9C) **Date:** 9/26/1950 **Location:** WINDSOR LOCKS, CT **Description:** Partly translucent "dinner plate". / doubt Magzn.v2#43p212. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1805 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "WINDSOR LOCKS,CT:PARTLY TRANSLUCENT "DINNER PLATE":/DOUBT Magzn.v2#43p212", **LatLong:** "41.927780 -72.627781", **LatLongDMS:** "41:55:40 N 72:37:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.927780,-72.627781)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5173 (23A12DB7) **Date:** 9/26/1950 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** 2 cops / car. 6' saucer descends / grass. Glows. Extremely light. Evaporates. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1806 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:2 COPS/CAR:6'SCR DESCENDS/GRASS:GLOWS:XTREMELY LITE:EVAPORATES", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -75.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 75:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-75.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5174 (79DBF014) **Date:** 9/26/1950 **Location:** Vare Avenue near 26th Street in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Policemen John Collins and Joseph Keenan are patrolling on Vare Avenue near 26th Street in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when they see something like a parachute drifting down ahead of them at treetop level. It is about 6 feet in diameter and settles in an open field. After summoning Sgt. Joseph Cook and Patrolman James Casper, they go into the field to investigate. When they turn their flashlights on it, it gives off a purplish glow, “almost a mist, that looked as though it contained crystals.” Collins touches it and it dissolves in his hand, leaving an odorless, sticky residue. It completely evaporates in 25 minutes. This event inspires producer [Jack H. Harris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%5FH.%5FHarris) to ask his friend Irvine H. Millgate to come up with a story for what eventually becomes the 1958 horror film The Blob. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1102; “Flying ‘Saucer’ Just Dissolves,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27, 1950, pp. 1–2; Rebekah McKendry, “The Supposedly True Story behind the Classic Film The Blob!” 13th Floor, October 21, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1586 ### Event 5175 (0348D710) **Date:** 9/30/1950 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST SEOUL, KOREA **Description:** 7+soldiers. Classic metallic saucer going west / high altitude. Yellow glow? 1.20M diameter? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 637) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1807 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NW SEOUL,KOREA:7+GIs:CLASSIC MTLC SCR >W/hi alt:YLW GLOW?:1.20M diam?", **LatLong:** "37.583335 127.016673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:35:00 N 127:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.583335,127.016673)", **State/Prov:** "SKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5176 (C3E0601E) **Date:** 10/1950 **Location:** NEAR ABADAH, IRAN **Description:** Metallic hour-glass shape spins / axis near oil tanker. Then shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1808 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Iran", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr ABADAH,IRAN:MTLC HOUR-GLASS SHAPE SPINS/AXIS nr OIL TANKER:THEN shoots away", **LatLong:** "29.966668 48.616669", **LatLongDMS:** "29:58:00 N 48:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.966668,48.616669)", **State/Prov:** "KHZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5177 (69458F2D) **Date:** 10/1950 (approximate) **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE, IL **Description:** 30 / 10 theodolites. Large ovoid by balloon / 30 seconds. Shoots away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 617) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1809 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "CHANUTE AFB,IL:30/10 THEODOLITES:LRG OVOID by BALLOON/30secs:SHOOTS AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "40.300002 -88.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:18:00 N 88:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.300002,-88.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5178 (6BBECC97) **Date:** 10/1950 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** NEAR CROWFOOT, OR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brill 8M saucer? going up / gully. Dogs react. Going northeast. Circles and returns. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 638) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1810 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "116", **HatchDesc:** "nr CROWFOOT,OR:2 OBS:BRILL 8M SCR? ↑/GULLY:DOGS REACT:> NE:CCLS+RETURNS:>>E", **LatLong:** "42.633335 -122.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "42:38:00 N 122:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.633335,-122.700006)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5179 (89DD0128) **Date:** 10/1950 **Description:** [Donald Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s True article is expanded into a paperback book, The Flying Saucers Are Real, which sells 500,000 copies. It brings many interested civilians and military people to accept UFO reality, government withholding of information, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, [The Flying Saucers Are Real](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/fsar-chapters.htm), Gold Medal, 1950; Wikipedia, “[The Flying Saucers Are Real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FFlying%5FSaucers%5FAre%5FReal)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1587 ### Event 5180 (D96A4FD7) **Date:** 10/1950 **Description:** [J\[ack?\] L. Rohn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79820198/jack-l-rohn) is named a chief of Project Grudge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1588 ### Event 5181 (7A037237) **Date:** 10/1950 **Location:** UK **Description:** The Flying Saucer Working Party is created in the UK by Ministry of Defence Chief Science Adviser [Henry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard) [Tizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard) assisted by [Louis Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) and Air Chief Marshal [Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding), both who have quietly concluded that flying saucers are real. It has five members, representing UK intelligence branches. Its charge is to study UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Flying Saucer Working Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%5FSaucer%5FWorking%5FParty)”; Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 21–23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1589 ### Event 5182 (D1C47795) **Date:** 10/3/1950 **Location:** POMONA, CA **Description:** Geochemist. Wobble-disk going quickly [to] behind mountain-peak. Min. speed = 720mph. / r242p49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1811 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "285", **HatchDesc:** "POMONA,CA:GEOCHEMIST:WOBBLE-DISK >> BHND MTN-PEAK:MIN.SPEED=720mph:/r242p49", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -117.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 117:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-117.750006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5183 (9277EFF2) **Date:** 10/3/1950 **Location:** Pomona, CA **Description:** Disc-shaped UFO reported by scientist. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_748 ### Event 5184 (91F8683A) **Date:** 10/3/1950 **Location:** Pomona, California **Description:** Geochemist J. D. Laudermilk watches a disc moving with a wobbling motion at 750 mph behind a mountain peak near Pomona, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 49](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=61&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1590 ### Event 5185 (19F26FED) **Date:** 10/5/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SAN FERNANDO, CA **Description:** Flying wing / 6-8 lights in near collision / airliner. Going north. / r32p150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1812 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "294", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FERNANDO,CA:FLYING WING/6-8 LITES in NEAR COLLISION/AIRLINER:>N:/r32p150", **LatLong:** "34.333335 -118.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:20:00 N 118:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.333335,-118.433339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5186 (22300AEF) **Date:** 10/5/1950 **Location:** San Fernando, CA **Description:** California Central Airlines plane buzzed by wing-like UFO. \[V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_749 ### Event 5187 (D59206EE) **Date:** 10/5/1950 **Location:** San Francisco (near), CA **Description:** Hardin/Conroy Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_750 ### Event 5188 (67BA4010) **Date:** 10/5/1950 **Locations:** California; San Fernando; Van Nuys **Description:** A California Central Airlines plane, piloted by Capt. Cecil Hardin and Flight Officer Jack Conroy, is buzzed by a wing-like UFO with 8 bright lights between San Fernando and Van Nuys, California. Bands of blue light are visible across its width. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Now Add This to Saucer Mysteries,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93147090/)” Los Angeles Daily News, October 6, 1950, p. 2; NICAP, “[Mysterious Object Buzzes Airliner](http://www.nicap.org/501005sanfernando%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 34](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=47&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1591 ### Event 5189 (6D6D2184) **Date:** 10/5/1950 **Description:** While flying over Van Nuys, California at 7:32 p.m., a CAL airliner had a near collision with a luminous object that looked like a flying wing without a fuselage. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6562 ### Event 5190 (E9884CB2) **Date:** 10/6/1950 **Location:** Fort Sam Houston, TX **Description:** Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army Division: John de Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near Aztec, N.M. He said that “army officials” had attempted to take the photographs away from him but that he had given them another roll of film. In a further interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux denied any knowledge of the Aztec crash. **Type:** confidental memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p117, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_419 **See also:** 3/25/1948 ### Event 5191 (0D84FE13) **Date:** 10/7/1950 **Description:** [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) takes over as director of central intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1592 ### Event 5192 (96305FA5) **Date:** 10/9/1950 **Location:** WILLIAMSTOWN, VT **Description:** 2 identical cylinders hang vertical. Swing / pendulums. 10 / 1 length ratio. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 91) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1813 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "WILLIAMSTOWN,VT:2 IDENT.CYLs HANG VERTICAL:SWING/PENDULUMS:10/1 LENGTH RATIO", **LatLong:** "44.116669 -72.544448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:07:00 N 72:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.116669,-72.544448)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5193 (AE8771F8) **Date:** 10/11/1950 **Location:** BUTTE, CA **Description:** Hundreds / silvery balls join and part and fly going quickly north. Webby "gossamer" found. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HUNT, Gerry: BIZARRE AMERICA; Berkley Books, NY. PB 1988. [ inexpensive ] (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1814 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "BUTTE,CA:100S/SLVRY BALLS JOIN+PART+FLY >>N:WEBBY "GOSSAMER" FOUND:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.466669 -122.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:28:00 N 122:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.466669,-122.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5194 (E96D3243) **Date:** 10/12/1950 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Ground RADAR's direct F82 going [to] 5 blips. Pilot and air.rdr see nothing. / LDLN#331. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1815 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:GND RDRS DIRECT F82 >5 BLIPS:PILOT+AIR.RDR SEE NOTHING:/LDLN#331", **LatLong:** "35.983335 -84.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:59:00 N 84:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.983335,-84.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5195 (5BFA2B51) **Date:** 10/12/1950 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** Military Radar at Knoxville Tracks Eleven Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501012](http://www.nicap.org/501012oakridgedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_751 ### Event 5196 (181CCA68) **Date:** 10/12/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridger **Description:** The Oak Ridger columnist [Robert Sharon Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FS.%5FAllen) reports that the Atomic Energy Commission Security Service has issued a questionnaire to be used when UFOs are reported at its installations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Robert S. Allen, “AEC Wants Info on Flying Saucers Seen near A-Plants,” The Oak Ridger, October 12, 1950; Project 1947, “[Robert S.](http://www.project1947.com/allen/index.htm) [Allen Introduction](http://www.project1947.com/allen/index.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1593 ### Event 5197 (D19388E7) **Date:** 10/12/1950 **End date:** 11/5/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Some 15 radar and visual sightings of UFOs take place over restricted airspace at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the observation on October 23, an unexplained increase in alpha-beta background radiation is detected; after the November 29 sighting, an alpha and gamma ray increase is correlated with unidentified radar targets in the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 171–173](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/170/mode/2up); Memo from Strategic Air Command Knoxville to Director of FBI, “‘Flying Saucers’ Observed over Oak Ridge Area,” October 25, 1950; J. Edgar Hoover, \[[teletype in response](http://www.nicap.org/docs%5Foakridge/fbi%5F501205.htm)\], December 5, 1950; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[NCP-14: Saucers over Oak Ridge,](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-brumac3.htm)” from UFO–FBI Connection, Llewellyn, 2000, pp. 163–181; Francis Ridge, “[The Oak Ridge Sightings including All the Tennessee Blue Book](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge/oakridgesightings.htm) [Unknowns,](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge/oakridgesightings.htm)” September 22, 2005; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 100–102; Clark III 950; Swords 106–107; Hynek UFO Report, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/142/mode/2up) [142–143](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/142/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1594 ### Event 5198 (CF1BBCEC) **Date:** 10/13/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Sightings by AEC security patrols (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501013](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge501013.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_752 ### Event 5199 (C6770615) **Date:** 10/13/1950 **Location:** Los Angeles, California **Description:** [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) sends a teletype message to the Special Agent in Charge in Los Angeles, California, asking him to determine whether [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) is the same man who has been active in communist activities since the 1930s. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anthony Bragalia, “[J. Edgar Hoover’s Saucer Crash Secrets,](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/j-edgar-hoovers-saucer-crash-secret)” UFO Explorations, April 2011 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1595 ### Event 5200 (86C96BF3) **Date:** 10/14/1950 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Air Force navigator in-flight. Night light makes every maneuver known / observer(s). Going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1816 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "467", **HatchDesc:** "MARCH AFB,CA:BBK:AF NAVIGATOR IN-FLITE:NLT MAKES EVERY MNVR KNOWN/OBS:>S", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -117.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 117:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-117.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5201 (5DDB2794) **Date:** 10/15/1950 (approximate) **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Huge copper saucer hovers / seconds. Shoots to cloud / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1817 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:HUGE COPPER SCR HVRS/SECONDS:SHOOTS TO CLOUD/INCREDIBLE SPEED", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -83.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 83:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-83.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5202 (25B1F305) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #819. Several RADAR's and visual (observation). Guards hear odd noises. Troopers see saucers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1818 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:BBK#819:SVRL RDRS+VIS:GUARDS HEAR ODD NOISES:TROOPERS SEE SCRS", **LatLong:** "35.988891 -84.294448", **LatLongDMS:** "35:59:20 N 84:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.988891,-84.294448)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5203 (1455B524) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** OVER POPE AIR FORCE BASE, NC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #821. 4 shiny 100' orbs 25' apart. DC4 chases. Gone / burst / speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1819 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "ovr POPE AFB,NC:BBK#821:4 SHINY 100' ORBS 25'APART:DC4 CHASES:GONE/BURST/SPEED", **LatLong:** "35.161113 -79.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:40 N 79:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.161113,-79.033337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5204 (731CB395) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** NEAR POPE AIR FORCE BASE, NC **Description:** USAF pilot / ground. Same orbs as DC4 pilots above. Going quickly northwest / 10-12 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1820 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "nr POPE AFB,NC:USAF PILOT/GND:SAME ORBS as DC4 PILOTS ABOVE:>>NW/10-12sec", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -79.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 79:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-79.016670)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5205 (01525185) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** Saw 2 shiny silver objects shaped like bullet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 819) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_753 ### Event 5206 (EAA97CD1) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Location:** Pope AFB, NC **Description:** 4 round shiny 100 ft objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 821) **Reference:** NICAP: [501015](http://www.nicap.org/pope501015dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_754 ### Event 5207 (055759F7) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** AEC Security Patrol Encounters Object 200' Away (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501015](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge501013.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_755 ### Event 5208 (63A75C1C) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Time:** 3:20 PM **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Atomic Energy Commission Trooper Rymer, J. Moneymaker, Capt. Zarzecki. Two shiny silver objects shaped like bullet or bladder. They dove with a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at 5-6, altitude, 50' away, left and returned several times somewhat further away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_50 ### Event 5209 (466F6458) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Pope AFB, North Carolina **Description:** Witness: Daniel. Listed as "unidentified" in folder index, but no supporting data could be found. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_51 ### Event 5210 (68C0933C) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Pope AFB, North Carolina **Description:** Witness: Woodward. Same as previous observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_52 ### Event 5211 (68FA6B67) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Locations:** Raleigh, North Carolina; Pope AFB; Fort Bragg; Pope Field **Description:** 4:20 p.m. After taking off from Raleigh, North Carolina, Miami Airlines DC-4 pilot Capt. George A. Woodward and copilot William Bardsley see four round, metallic objects descending slowly near Pope AFB \[now Pope Field\] at Fort Bragg. They look like two saucers fitted together and are about 100 feet in diameter, flying in a line about 25 feet apart. The pilots pursue the objects for about 3 minutes, but the objects recede then shoot away at tremendous speed. Around the same time, a similar object crosses the path of an Air Force jet near Pope AFB. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Pilots Report 100-Ft Round Objects](http://www.nicap.org/501015pope%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Aluminum-Like Object Crosses Path of Jet](http://www.nicap.org/501015pope2%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1596 ### Event 5212 (FA5E48C1) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Description:** In Oak Ridge, Tennessee at 3:20 p.m. Atomic Energy Commission Troopers Rymer, J. Moneymaker, and Capt. Zarzecki sighted two shiny silver objects shaped like bullets. They dove in the sky leaving a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at a low altitude only 50 feet away, then left and returned several more times, but somewhat further away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 819; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1833 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6844 ### Event 5213 (F4438FC8) **Date:** 10/15/1950 **Description:** At 4:20 p.m. a pilot named Daniel, flying from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina sighted four metallic spheres, 100 feet diameter, that flew in a perfect line formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 821; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6845 ### Event 5214 (766CF671) **Date:** 10/16/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Oak Ridge Security Guard Reports Spinning Object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501016](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501016dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_756 ### Event 5215 (3C86A774) **Date:** 10/16/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Security Guards Report Spinning Object/ Radar Detects UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501016](http://www.nicap.org/501016oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_757 ### Event 5216 (2C89D0BA) **Date:** 10/18/1950 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Ohio **Description:** USAF Brig. Gen. [Ernest Moore](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106180/major-general-ernest-moore/) writes a memo to Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, advising him of the standing policy of releasing no details about UFO case investigations. A form letter is to be used: “We have investigated and evaluated         incident and have found nothing of value and nothing which would change our previous estimates on this subject.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 102–103, 500 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1597 ### Event 5217 (182B3503) **Date:** 10/19/1950 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** SOUTH / ALTOONA, PA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Large silent silver ovoid in 6 10M turns over orchard / 150M altitude. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 644) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1821 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "357", **HatchDesc:** "S/ALTOONA,PA:2 OBS:LRG SLNT SLVR OVOID in 6 10M TURNS ovr ORCHARD/150M alt:>N", **LatLong:** "40.461113 -78.422226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:27:40 N 78:25:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.461113,-78.422226)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5218 (63C90FBD) **Date:** 10/20/1950 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) man. Metal "balloon" hovers. Changes shape? RADAR confirm. Jets chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1822 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:AEC MAN:MTL "BALLOON" HVRS:CHANGES SHAPE?:RDR CONFIRM:JETS CHASE", **LatLong:** "35.983335 -84.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:59:00 N 84:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.983335,-84.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5219 (69D711EB) **Date:** 10/20/1950 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** NEW HAVEN, CT **Description:** 3 observer(s). Huge silent glowing sphere/orb/globe and night light / high-altitude. Going quickly [to] WSW / NYC. / Strategic Air Command (SAC) to FBI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 342) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1823 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "NEW HAVEN,CT:3 OBS:HUGE SILENT GLOWING ORB+NLT/HI-ALT:>>WSW/NYC:/SAC to FBI", **LatLong:** "41.316669 -72.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:19:00 N 72:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.316669,-72.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5220 (286C897C) **Date:** 10/20/1950 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** CAMAGUEY PROV, CUBA **Description:** 4 good observer(s) / plane. 75' saucer going quickly east / Mach 1. Passes Rt. wing going quickly [to] cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1824 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "95", **HatchDesc:** "CAMAGUEY Prov,CUBA:4 GOOD OBS/PLANE:75' SCR >>E/Mach 1:PASSES Rt WING>>CLOUD", **LatLong:** "21.333334 -78.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "21:20:00 N 78:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.333334,-78.000004)", **State/Prov:** "CUB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5221 (4B5D5CB9) **Date:** 10/20/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** UFOs sighted over "Control Zone" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501020](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge501020.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_758 ### Event 5222 (3D0B902F) **Date:** 10/20/1950 **Location:** Kirtland AFB (and over Camp Hood, TX), NM **Description:** Flying Saucers Observed Over Kirtland AFB and Camp Hood (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501020](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/kirtland500321dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_759 ### Event 5223 (445172D8) **Date:** 10/20/1950 **Description:** Four people flying over Camaguey province, Cuba in a Beech Bonanza aircraft sighted a circular object with a diameter of 70-80 feet flying at terrific speed at 7:40 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 45 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6993 ### Event 5224 (F5D86530) **Date:** 10/23/1950 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** BONLEE, NC **Description:** Ex-USAF pilot. MLT blimp with 3 portholes hovers / 5 second(s). Going SSE after 40 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1825 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "BONLEE,NC:EX-USAF PILOT:MLT BLIMP W/3 PORTHOLES HVRS/5sec:>SSE AFTER 40sec", **LatLong:** "35.644446 -79.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "35:38:40 N 79:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.644446,-79.416670)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5225 (C4CCC4D0) **Date:** 10/23/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Lab Employee Sees Flash/Radiation Detected at Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501023](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501023dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_760 ### Event 5226 (C8617D3F) **Date:** 10/23/1950 **Location:** Bonlee, NC **Description:** Aluminum object shaped like a dirigible (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 824) **Reference:** NICAP: [501023](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/bonlee501023dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_761 ### Event 5227 (948F44F7) **Date:** 10/23/1950 **Time:** 12:42 PM **Location:** Bonlee, North Carolina **Description:** Witness: ex-USAF pilot Frank Risher. One aluminum object shaped like a dirigible or Convair C-99 cargo plane, with 3 portholes, arrived from southeast, hovered 3-5 seconds and flew away to the south-south-east at end of 40 second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_53 ### Event 5228 (9B1F4F36) **Date:** 10/23/1950 **Description:** A retired USAF pilot watched a metallic blimp with three portholes hover for five seconds over Bonlee, North Carolina. He lost sight of it but saw it again after 40 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 824 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7034 ### Event 5229 (FE1FFFE2) **Date:** 10/24/1950 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Several observer(s) and RADAR targets. Jets scramble. Silent object going quickly SSE. / r118 Feb. '97. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 173) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1826 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:SVRL OBS+RDR TARGETS:JETS SCRAMBLE:SLNT OBJ >>SSE:/r118 Feb97", **LatLong:** "36.016668 -84.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:01:00 N 84:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.016668,-84.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5230 (9FC53236) **Date:** 10/24/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Assistant Chief of Security sees UFO and radar tracks at Knoxville (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501024](http://www.nicap.org/501024oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_762 ### Event 5231 (D9ED5F3C) **Date:** 10/26/1950 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_420 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 8km ### Event 5232 (8BA8CC51) **Date:** 10/27/1950 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** DYCKESVILLE, WI **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Red-orange "moon" vanishes and reappears as ovoid. Gets fuzzy. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1827 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "DYCKESVILLE,WI:2 SEP.OBS:RED-ORG "MOON" VANISHES+REAPPEARS as OVOID:gets fuzzy", **LatLong:** "44.650002 -87.738893", **LatLongDMS:** "44:39:00 N 87:44:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.650002,-87.738893)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5233 (240357B7) **Date:** 10/30/1950 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** PAIGNTON, DEVON **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape drops. 2 saucers exit. All fly going quickly north. Also Denon / Exmoor / Bexleyheath. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 347) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1828 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PAIGNTON,DEVON:CGR DROPS:2 SCRS EXIT:ALL FLY>>N::ALSO DENON/EXMOOR/BEXLEYHEATH", **LatLong:** "50.416669 -3.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:25:00 N 03:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.416669,-3.566667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5234 (5B8D5927) **Date:** 10/30/1950 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. in Paignton, Devonshire, England a cigar-shaped object dropped from the sky, then ejected two disc-shaped objects. All three craft flew off to the north. The witnesses were two men named Cove and Clark. The sighting lasted two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 47; newspaper clipping dated November 1, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7298 ### Event 5235 (3F61C4BC) **Date:** 11/5/1950 **Location:** HEATHROW AIRPORT/APARTMENT, ENG **Description:** 4 / PanAm. Long object going [to] overhead / 1000mph. Spurts blue flame. / LDLN#211. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 347) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1829 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HEATHROW APT,ENG:4/PanAm:LONG OBJ > OVHD/1000mph:SPURTS BLUE FLAME:/LDLN#211", **LatLong:** "51.450002 -0.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:27:00 N 00:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.450002,-0.466667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5236 (8453315C) **Date:** 11/5/1950 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Aircraft illustrator. Translucent pear-shape darts about / 5-10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1830 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:AIRCRAFT ILLUSTRATOR:XLUCENT PEAR-SHAPE DARTS ABOUT/5-10min", **LatLong:** "36.011113 -84.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:40 N 84:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.011113,-84.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5237 (E4F743DE) **Date:** 11/5/1950 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / JONESVILLE, LA **Description:** Blue Book. 7 observer(s). Extremely bright "ghosts" right over farm-shed. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 348) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1831 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "SW/JONESVILLE,LA:BBK:7 OBS:XBRITE "GHOSTS" RIGHT OVR FARM-SHED:>>NW", **LatLong:** "31.561113 -91.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:33:40 N 91:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.561113,-91.883338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5238 (C317FE7A) **Date:** 11/5/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Aircraft Illustrator Reports Darting Pear-Shaped Object Over Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 829, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501105](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501105dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_763 ### Event 5239 (E6A060B6) **Date:** 11/5/1950 **Time:** 11:55 AM **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Witness: Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick. One translucent object, light grey with dark core, shaped like a pear or bean. Flew for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_54 ### Event 5240 (D664A9F4) **Date:** 11/5/1950 **Location:** Heathrow Airport, London **Description:** Four Pan American Airways employees \(Fred Wilkinson, Patrick Joseph Maloney, Fred Perrior, and E. Newman\) see a bright object fly east to west over Heathrow Airport, London, at 1,000 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Sunday Dispatch, November 12, 1950; “Saucers over England,” Fate 4, no. 2 \(March 1951\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1598 ### Event 5241 (8594C342) **Date:** 11/5/1950 **Description:** At 11:55 a.m. Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick in Oak Ridge, Tennessee saw a translucent pear or bean-shaped object, light gray with a dark core, fly through the sky for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #829; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7465 ### Event 5242 (FEF19D1B) **Date:** 11/7/1950 **Location:** BARROW-IN-FURNESS, ENGL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape like 200' silent submarine. / r232'76#3+/ r106p134. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 348) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1832 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BARROW-in-FURNESS,ENGL:2 OBS:CGR LIKE 200'SLNT SUBMARINE:/r232'76#3+/r106p134", **LatLong:** "54.133336 -3.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "54:08:00 N 03:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.133336,-3.216667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5243 (55F745AB) **Date:** 11/7/1950 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** EAST / LAKEHURST, NJ **Description:** Military jet in dogfight / 30cm night light-fireball. Insane speeds and maneuvers. / r50p68. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 653) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1833 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "E/LAKEHURST,NJ:MIL JET in DOGFIGHT/30cm NLT-FBL:INSANE SPDS+MNVRS:/r50p68", **LatLong:** "40.000002 -74.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:00:00 N 74:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.000002,-74.166670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5244 (70DB0F69) **Date:** 11/7/1950 **Location:** Lakehurst (E of), NJ **Description:** Light Makes 5-6 Head On Passess At Navy Plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [501107](http://nicap.org/501107lakehurst%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_764 ### Event 5245 (B004A7B4) **Date:** 11/7/1950 **Location:** Lakehurst, New Jersey **Description:** A military pilot flying a Douglas AD-4Q Skyraider near Lakehurst, New Jersey, engages in a dogfight with a steady white light that he at first mistakes for an aircraft. He gets on its tail, then the light reverses suddenly and passes 100–200 feet above his plane at incredible speed. He again tails it and the same thing happens. The light continues to “turn about me in wide, climbing turns, making about two orbits to my one.” He abandons chase at 11,500 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Light Makes 5–6 Head On Passes at Navy Plane](http://www.nicap.org/501107lakehurst%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 68–70](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/68/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 102 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1599 ### Event 5246 (7AA9335D) **Date:** 11/10/1950 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of 1946. **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1599287488123576321) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_421 ### Event 5247 (51355D7B) **Date:** 11/10/1950 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** HESTON AIRDROME, LONDON **Description:** Solid RADAR blip. 30 going [to] 1100mph. 13K going [to] 30K' altitude / 5 second(s). Impossible turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1834 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HESTON AIRDROME,LONDON:SOLID RDR BLIP:30>1100mph:13K>30K'alt/5sec:IMPOSS.TURNS", **LatLong:** "51.477780 -0.383333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:40 N 00:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.477780,-0.383333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5248 (B85887C5) **Date:** 11/10/1950 **Location:** South Ruislip, UK **Description:** (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Targets Comparable to B-29 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [501110](http://www.nicap.org/501110sruislip%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_765 ### Event 5249 (941B6415) **Date:** 11/11/1950 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final Hermes II test) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_422 **Rocket type:** V-2 ### Event 5250 (C05B945F) **Date:** 11/11/1950 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EAST WUHAN, HUBEI, CH **Description:** 3 students. Saucer / 3000' altitude. Going northeast slow. Turns going quickly southeast. 4 lights. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v27#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1835 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "E.WUHAN,HUBEI,CH:3 STUDENTS:SCR/3000'alt:> NE SLO:TURNS>>SE:4 LITES:/FSR v27#5", **LatLong:** "30.583335 114.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "30:35:00 N 114:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.583335,114.366672)", **State/Prov:** "HUB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5251 (3C250003) **Date:** 11/14/1950 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** ROME, GA **Description:** 5 observer(s). 2 saucers over airfield. 1 going quickly north. 1 going quickly northeast. Airliners ordered to watch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 356) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1836 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "184", **HatchDesc:** "ROME,GA:5 OBS:2 SCRS OVR AIRFIELD:1>>N:1>>NE:AIRLINERS ORDERED TO WATCH", **LatLong:** "34.250002 -85.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:15:00 N 85:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.250002,-85.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5252 (97F5906D) **Date:** 11/14/1950 **End date:** 11/15/1950 **Location:** Key West, FL **Description:** (24.58° N, 81.80° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [501114-15](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/keywest501114dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_766 ### Event 5253 (C46715AF) **Date:** 11/16/1950 **Description:** Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) at AMC brings in news columnist [Bob Considine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FConsidine) for an in-depth interview on flying saucers. Watson says: “I’ve seen lots of flying saucers…and every single saucer turned out to be the sun shining off the wing or body of a distant DC-4, or jet, or a weather balloon, or it was a reflection off a water-tank or something else that is readily explainable.” He characterizes witnesses as crackpots, religious fanatics, publicity hounds, or practical jokers. Considine asks him about airline pilot witnesses. Watson accuses them of being fooled by optical tricks and the power of suggestion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 107–108 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1600 ### Event 5254 (46F8DD38) **Date:** 11/17/1950 **Locations:** Louisville (Ky.); Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Telenews Productions releases a 9½-minute short film, The Flying Saucer Mystery, apparently the first UFO documentary. The film’s main focus is on the best new evidence of 1950, the alleged first authentic photographs and motion picture film of flying saucers, the two snapshots by farmer [Paul Trent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent) and the film shot by Louisville \(Ky.\) Times photographer Al Hixenbaugh on June 27, 1950. It also features UFO witness [Arthur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67846049/arthur-weisberger) [Weisberger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67846049/arthur-weisberger) of Tucson, Arizona, describing his sighting, apparently the only record of the event, as well as [Donald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) [E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and Admiral [Calvin M. Bolster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster) The film is apparently only shown for a few months and rotates among the Telenews Theaters across the nation. It is lost for decades until it resurfaces in the 1990s. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK%5Fs%5F1m7lI8) [Saucer Mystery,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK%5Fs%5F1m7lI8)” historycomestolife YouTube channel, July 3, 2010; Curt Collins, “[The First UFO Documentary:](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-ufo-documentary-flying-saucer.html) [The Flying Saucer Mystery,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-ufo-documentary-flying-saucer.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1601 ### Event 5255 (1278F2B9) **Date:** 11/21/1950 **Location:** Canada **Description:** Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government research into UFO’s and propulsion technology. **Type:** top secret memo **Reference:** [link](https://www.howandwhys.com/wilbert-smith-project-magnet/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_423 ### Event 5256 (0EE6030F) **Date:** 11/21/1950 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** PASCO, WA **Description:** 25+observer(s). Glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape going southwest. Stops over Hanford plant. Continues. / MJ#271. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 659) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1837 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "PASCO,WA:25+OBS:GLOW-CGR >SW:STOPS OVR HANFORD PLANT:CONTINUES:/MJ#271", **LatLong:** "46.222224 -119.094450", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:20 N 119:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.222224,-119.094450)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5257 (28323B6A) **Date:** 11/21/1950 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Canada **Description:** [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) writes a top secret memo to the Canadian Controller of Telecommunications claiming that he has talked to Canadian embassy staff in Washington, D.C., who tell him that the UFOs are the “most highly classified subject in the US government” \(what [Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm) told him\) and that a “concerted effort is being made by a small group headed by Dr. [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush).” Sarbacher later verifies the information, saying the small group existed within the Research and Development Board. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** W. B. Smith, “[Memorandum to the Controller of](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Smith%5F11%5F21%5F50.html) [Telecommunications,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Smith%5F11%5F21%5F50.html)” November 21, 1950; NICAP, “[The Smith Memo, November 21, 1950](http://www.nicap.org/smithmemodir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up) [183](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up) [464–466](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/464/mode/2up); Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 10–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1602 ### Event 5258 (FC6763ED) **Date:** 11/21/1950 **Description:** In 1950, Canadian government engineer Wilbert B. Smith met with US scientist Robert J. Sarbacher, and was told that it is the secret opinion of the US military that "flying saucers exist." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 210 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7763 ### Event 5259 (0628B169) **Date:** 11/23/1950 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** MONTGOMERY, AL **Description:** 3+observer(s). Saucer southwest going quickly northeast. Does flips over town. 2nd saucer southwest going quickly northeast. 2 more south going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 358) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1838 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "MONTGOMERY,AL:3+OBS:SCR SW>>NE:DOES FLIPS OVR TOWN:2nd SCR SW>>NE:2 MORE S>>N", **LatLong:** "32.383335 -86.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:23:00 N 86:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.383335,-86.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5260 (C52FE60F) **Date:** 11/23/1950 **Location:** Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL **Description:** (32.37° N, 86.36° W). Thompson. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_768 ### Event 5261 (C20DAA64) **Date:** 11/23/1950 **Description:** At 3:20 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO flew from the southwest to the northeast near Maxwell Air Force Base, then performed a flip over the city of Montgomery, Alabama. A second disc flew from the southwest to the northeast, then two more flew from the south to the north at a high rate of speed. town. There were three witnesses, and the entire event lasted nine minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 58 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7834 ### Event 5262 (8F17FA39) **Date:** 11/26/1950 **End date:** 11/27/1950 **Locations:** Huron (South Dakota); Bismarck, North Dakota; Rapid City; Aberdeen **Description:** 11:50 p.m. A “mysterious lighted object” flashing red, white, and green lights is seen above Huron \(South Dakota\) Regional Airport. Weather Bureau observer Gene Fowler, [Winfield Henry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61621047/winfield-d-henry) of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, and Gordon Moore and Chet Fuqua, ground personnel at Western Airlines, go up to the roof of the airport administration building for a better look. Fowler is able to watch it through a theodolite used for weather balloons for 8 minutes. He says, “The azimuth reading changed from 147 degrees to 161 degrees during that period and went up seven degrees vertically.” The Rapid City weather bureau and Aberdeen CAA in South Dakota estimate the object is 40–50 miles northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota. The object reappears at 1:30 a.m. and is visible, sometimes hovering, until 3:00 a.m. when it disappears to the northwest. In Aberdeen, CAA aircraft communicator William B. Hiller sees a star-like object at 2:00 a.m. and watches it for 90 minutes. It changes colors, glowing white, green, and red alternately. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mysterious Sight May Be ‘Saucer,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93149224/)” Rapid City \(S.Dak.\) Journal, November 27, 1950, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1982, pp. 59–60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1603 ### Event 5263 (B68D1C48) **Date:** 11/26/1950 **Description:** On this day in 1950, two airmen flying over the Sussex, England coastline saw a silver-blue disc flying south. The object "tumbled over" and disappeared into some clouds at a terrific speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Awareness, April 1979, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7933 ### Event 5264 (E879F805) **Date:** 11/27/1950 **Location:** EVANSVILLE, WI **Description:** Pilot and ground observer(s). Group / 6 ovoids / 800kph. Helicopter noise! / r242p14+p34. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 460) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1839 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "EVANSVILLE,WI:PILOT+GND OBS:GROUP/6 OVOIDS/800kph:copter noise!:/r242p14+p34", **LatLong:** "42.788891 -89.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:47:20 N 89:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.788891,-89.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5265 (DBA0737D) **Date:** 11/27/1950 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** HURON, SD **Description:** CAA observer(s). Glowing objects dart / sky. CAA also sees / Aberdeen, Sd. / r242p45. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 359) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1840 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "391", **HatchDesc:** "HURON,SD:CAA OBS:GLOWING OBJs DART/SKY:CAA ALSO SEES/ABERDEEN,SD:/r242p45", **LatLong:** "44.361113 -98.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:21:40 N 98:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.361113,-98.216671)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5266 (CB6F2F97) **Date:** 11/27/1950 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** WEST / BAKERSFIELD, CA **Description:** DC3. Large star / sharp turns and maneuvers. Going quickly southeast toward(s) Palmdale very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1841 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "W/BAKERSFIELD,CA:DC3:LRG STAR/SHARP TURNS+MNVRS:>>SE twrd PALMDALE VFAST", **LatLong:** "35.416668 -119.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:25:00 N 119:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.416668,-119.666672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5267 (E357C758) **Date:** 11/27/1950 **Location:** Huron, SD **Description:** CAA personnel saw hovering maneuvering UFO. \[V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_769 ### Event 5268 (5799D638) **Date:** 11/27/1950 **Location:** Evansville, WI **Description:** Blair Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_770 ### Event 5269 (6536E92E) **Date:** 11/27/1950 **Location:** Evansville, Wisconsin **Description:** [Bill Blair](https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/capt-c-w-bill-blair)[,](https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/capt-c-w-bill-blair) a commercial pilot and flight instructor, watches six elliptical objects in loose echelon formation over Evansville, Wisconsin. They are making noises like a helicopter and are flying at 500 mph at 10,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 34](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=47&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1604 ### Event 5270 (FD71F068) **Date:** 11/27/1950 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. six elliptical UFOs flew over Evansville, Wisconsin in a loose echelon formation at a speed of 500 mph and at an altitude of 10,000 feet, making a sound like helicopters. They were seen by Mr. B. Blair, a commercial airline pilot in flight at that time. At 9:08 p.m. a bright light made a sharp turn toward a DC-3 transport plane over Bakersfield, California at 9:08 p.m., flew parallel to it for a short while, then pulled ahead and to the left at a speed of over 200 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Edward Sullivan, letter dated April 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 34; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 180; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 68; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7951 ### Event 5271 (105F1CD4) **Date:** 11/28/1950 **Location:** OVER BRITISH GUIANA **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner crew. Huge green ball-saucer dives 3km toward(s) Stratocruiser. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1842 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guyanas (all 3 of them)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "ovr BRITISH GUIANA:AL CREW:HUGE GRN BALL-SCR DIVES 3km twrd STRATOCRUISER:", **LatLong:** "7.000000 -59.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "07:00:00 N 59:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/7.000000,-59.000003)", **State/Prov:** "BGU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5272 (E0F55C4A) **Date:** 11/28/1950 **Description:** On this night a huge green luminous ball dove three kilometers toward a Stratocruiser airliner flying over British Guinea, and was sighted by the entire airliner crew. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7978 ### Event 5273 (972986C5) **Date:** 11/29/1950 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** RADAR blips going quickly west right toward oak ridge. Big rise / radiation there. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1843 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "104", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:RDR BLIPS >>W RIGHT TOWARD OAK RIDGE:BIG RISE/RADIATION THERE", **LatLong:** "36.016668 -84.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:01:00 N 84:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.016668,-84.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5274 (42A7FDE4) **Date:** 11/29/1950 **End date:** 11/30/1950 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** Radar jamming and radiation at AEC plant (Nov 29-30) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501129-30](http://www.nicap.org/501129oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_771 ### Event 5275 (34F27D38) **Date:** 11/29/1950 **Description:** Between 5:00 and 11:00 p.m. radar targets were detected from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Fighter planes were, scrambled but saw nothing. However, at 7:00 p.m. there were Geiger counter detections in the restricted area of Oak Ridge that indicated an abnormal increase in alpha and gamma ray radiation that could not be attributed to any known source. Officials in charge of Oak Ridge security held a two-day meeting to discuss the "operational difficulties" of the early warning radar of the Air Defense Command at Knoxville. AFI was asked to investigate the situation and set up a separate radar set. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 178 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8024 ### Event 5276 (E8CA4EDB) **Date:** 11/30/1950 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** More UFOs, Radar-Jamming, and Radiation at Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501130](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501130dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_772 ### Event 5277 (83EDB1FF) **Date:** 12/1950 **Location:** Canada **Description:** Project "Magnet" authorized in Canada **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_111 ### Event 5278 (CDF0FFB6) **Date:** 12/1950 **Location:** Cheyenne (near), WY **Description:** USAF officer saw aluminum-like oval UFO. \[III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_773 ### Event 5279 (760C284C) **Date:** 12/1950 **Locations:** US; Incheon, South Korea **Description:** The US seaplane tender [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGardiners%5FBay%5F%28AVP-39%29) [Gardiners Bay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGardiners%5FBay%5F%28AVP-39%29) is steaming up the channel from Incheon, South Korea, when the crew sees two mysterious, smoke-trailing objects that strike the water at tremendous speed. Two columns of water rise to 100 feet in height. No aircraft are sighted overhead. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) p. 43; “[Sighting Flying](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Naval%5FAviation%5FNews/hmBGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%E2%80%9CSighting%20Flying%20Discs%20Again%3F%E2%80%9D) [Discs Again?](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Naval%5FAviation%5FNews/hmBGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%E2%80%9CSighting%20Flying%20Discs%20Again%3F%E2%80%9D)” Naval Aviation News 32, no. 2 \(February 1951\): 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1605 ### Event 5280 (CED0F900) **Date:** 12/1950 **Locations:** UK; US **Description:** Science writer [Gerald Heard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FHeard) publishes The Riddle of the Flying Saucers in the UK, in which he speculates that with conditions on Mars being severe, the only intelligent beings that can exist there would be advanced insects. A US edition is published in April 1951 as Is Another World Watching? The Riddle of the Flying Saucers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gerald Heard, The Riddle of the Flying Saucers, Carroll and Nicholson, 1950; Lyle Zapato, “[Of Bees and Men:](https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201501270490.of%5Fbees%5Fand%5Fmen%5Fthe%5Friddle%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fflying%5Fsaucers) [The Riddle of the Flying Saucers,](https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201501270490.of%5Fbees%5Fand%5Fmen%5Fthe%5Friddle%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fflying%5Fsaucers)” ZPi blog, January 27, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1606 ### Event 5281 (15015BE9) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** NANYUKI, KENYA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #845. 2 observer(s). Pearly glowing saucer spins. Paces jeep. Bee buzz sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1844 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kenya", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NANYUKI,KENYA:BBK#845:2 OBS:PEARLY GLOWING SCR SPINS:PACES JEEP:BEE BUZZ SOUND", **LatLong:** "0.016667 37.083335", **LatLongDMS:** "00:01:00 N 37:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/0.016667,37.083335)", **State/Prov:** "NNY", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5282 (09EE9D02) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SUBURBS / MELBOURNE, AUSTR **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Saucer crosses sky / 7 second(s). Blue-white with green side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 361) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1845 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SUBURBS/MELBOURNE,AUSTR:SVRL SEP.OBS:SCR CROSSES SKY/7sec:BLU-WHT W/GREEN SIDE", **LatLong:** "-37.883335 145.172229", **LatLongDMS:** "37:53:00 S 145:10:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.883335,145.172229)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5283 (990D7E72) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** ELLENTON, SC **Description:** Brilliant object maneuvers / 10 minute(s). Site / 1st H-bomb plant not built yet! Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 362) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1846 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "ELLENTON,SC:BRILL.OBJ MNVRS/10min:SITE/1st H-BOMB PLANT not built yet!:>>SW ", **LatLong:** "33.494446 -81.744448", **LatLongDMS:** "33:29:40 N 81:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.494446,-81.744448)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5284 (F5AA6D57) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Location:** Nanyika, Kenya, Africa **Description:** Pearly, iridescent object with a flattened top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 845) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_774 ### Event 5285 (ABDFB732) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Time:** 10:50 AM **Location:** Nanyika, Kenya **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott. One pearly, iridescent object with a flattened top, spun while hovering and made a sound like bees buzzing. Only data in files was from East African "Standard" newspaper. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_55 ### Event 5286 (FC9DF15E) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Description:** Cmdr. [Charles Peter Edwards](https://rr0.org/people/e/EdwardsCharlesPeter/), Canadian Deputy Minister of Transport for Air Services, approves [Wilbert](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) [B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)’s proposed plan to use the Department of Transport lab and field facilities during off-hours to gather quality UFO data. It is called Project Magnet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[What Was the Truth about Project Magnet?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2010%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 29; Clark III 1078; Good Above, [pp. 183–184](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1607 ### Event 5287 (FF2BECFA) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Description:** A pearl white, spinning, glowing disc-shaped object closely paced a jeep along a road in Nanyuki, Kenya at 10:45 a.m. It reportedly made a buzzing noise like bees. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 845; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8120 ### Event 5288 (0A6DD616) **Date:** 12/2/1950 **Description:** At around 9:00 p.m. a brilliant UFO maneuvered over Ellenton, South Carolina for ten minutes, the future site of the Savannah River hydrogen bomb production facility, not yet constructed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950 (volume 3), p. 62 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8121 ### Event 5289 (1F571DE9) **Date:** 12/3/1950 **Location:** Richmond, Virginia **Description:** Stanton Friedman used the Freedom of Information Act to procure a previously classified communique from a field agent named Auerbach (first name not given) in Richmond, Virginia, to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. According to Auerbach, of the Counter Intelligence Corps, his office had been asked to stay attuned to “any data on flying saucers.” Any information, the memo added, would be telephoned, immediately, to Air Force Intelligence. **Type:** classified communique **Reference:** [link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_424 ### Event 5290 (505BD4CA) **Date:** 12/5/1950 (approximate) **Location:** NEWBLISS, IRELAND **Description:** Postman. 8 'table-knives' pass / high-altitude. Weave up and down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 362) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1847 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "NEWBLISS,IRELAND:POSTMAN:8 'TABLE-KNIVES' PASS/HI-ALT:WEAVE UP+DOWN:", **LatLong:** "54.150003 -7.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "54:09:00 N 07:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.150003,-7.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5291 (7F7E6210) **Date:** 12/5/1950 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Blue Book. Saucer over post office / 60 second(s). Going east. Turns going quickly northwest. Separate observer(s) see going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 363) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1848 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:BBK:SCR OVR POST OFFICE/60sec:> E:TURNS >>NW:SEP.OBS SEE >> W", **LatLong:** "36.016668 -84.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:01:00 N 84:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.016668,-84.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5292 (7D034CE8) **Date:** 12/5/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Wife of Security Officer Reports Object Made of Polished Metal (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501205](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501205dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_775 ### Event 5293 (66A01062) **Date:** 12/5/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** FBI Memo - Detection of UFOs Over Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501205](http://www.nicap.org/docs%5Foakridge/fbi%5F501205.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_776 ### Event 5294 (A07755DB) **Date:** 12/5/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Engineer Lt. Col. John R. Hood disperses radiation counters around the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, National Laboratory’s restricted area. The intent is to map the presence of any unusual radiation, in the wake of numerous UFO reports over the facility. He also sets up a source of radioactive material to see if its presence has an effect on the air above it. If the air is unusually ionized, it might be the source of the anomalous radar targets. He also mentions using a magnetometer array, but there is no documentation of the result of this effort. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1982, pp. 64–65; Swords 107 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1608 ### Event 5295 (4FCFCAE2) **Date:** 12/5/1950 **Description:** A postman in the farming community of Newbliss, Monaghan County, Ireland watched at 1:00 p.m. as 8 "table knives" passed over at high altitude, weaving up and down. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 62 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8194 ### Event 5296 (C485F41B) **Date:** 12/5/1950 **Description:** On this afternoon a disc-shaped object was seen over the post office for 60 seconds in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It flew to the east, then turned and flew off to the northwest. A separate witness saw it and reported it flew off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 63 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8195 ### Event 5297 (B7E33E4C) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Location:** Limestone, Maine **Description:** The ConAC Air Defense Controller notified the Headquarters USAF Command Post that at 1030 hours a number of unidentified aircraft were approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there was no reason to believe the aircraft were friendly. By 1040 hours, 40 aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet were confirmed by radar in the vicinity of Limestone, Maine. President Truman had been notified and interceptors scrambled. Truman even mentioned the incident in his memoirs, not published until 1979. At the time, he noted in his diary, "It looks like World War III is here. I hope not--but we must meet whatever comes--and we will." **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_425 ### Event 5298 (CEC4F2F9) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Location:** Guerrero, Mexico **Description:** A second flying saucer crashes in El Indio-Guerrero area. The saucer is recovered and taken to the AEC facility at Sandia, NM. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Reference:** [link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_426 ### Event 5299 (D5229D50) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** FT MYERS, FL **Description:** 5 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 23m saucer with clear dome. Jets / sides. Edge rotates when hovers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1849 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "Ft MYERS,FL:5 OBS/BINOCS:23m SCR W/CLR DOME:JETS/SIDES:EDGE ROTATES WHEN HVRS", **LatLong:** "26.600001 -81.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "26:36:00 N 81:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.600001,-81.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5300 (831D6E93) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Location:** Northeastern U.S, Various **Description:** Radar-Inspired National Alert (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501206](http://www.nicap.org/rina.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_777 ### Event 5301 (3D6458EE) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Location:** Fort Meyers, FL **Description:** 75 ft object, 3-4 ft thick, bubble on top, silver with a red rim having 2 white and 2 orange jets (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 848) **Reference:** NICAP: [501206](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftmyers501206dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_778 ### Event 5302 (7B10B421) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Location:** Westover AFB, MA **Description:** Sighting 2 Hours Before National Alert (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [501206](http://www.nicap.org/501206westoverAFB%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_779 ### Event 5303 (AB94252B) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Time:** 5 PM **Location:** Ft. Myers, Florida **Description:** Witnesses: former aircraft purchasing agent Harry Lamp and four boys, using lO-power binoculars. One 75' object, 3-4' thick, bubble on top, silver with a red rim having two white and two orange jets along it. The center revolved when the object hovered; then it flew away very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_56 ### Event 5304 (007E0800) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Locations:** United States; Limestone, Maine; White House **Description:** 10:30–11:04 a.m. The ConAC Air Defense Controller notifies the HQ USAF that a number of unidentified aircraft are approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there is no reason to believe they are friendly. By radar contact it is determined that approximately 40 aircraft are in the flight at 32,000 feet on a course of 200° northeast of Limestone, Maine. The White House is notified at 10:31 a.m., and President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) discusses the reports in a meeting with UK Prime Minister [Clement Attlee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement%5FAttlee). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Radar-Inspired National](http://www.nicap.org/501206rina%5Fdir.htm) [Alert](http://www.nicap.org/501206rina%5Fdir.htm)”; Bruce Maccabee, “[Immediate Saucer Alert! The Mystery of December 6, 1950,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/rina4.htm)” July 1999; Clark III 824; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 103 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1609 ### Event 5305 (7B9FF1B0) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Locations:** Dyess AFB near Abilene, Texas; Mexican border near Del Rio, Texas; Hagerstown, Maryland **Description:** While F-94s are being tested at Dyess AFB near Abilene, Texas, radar catches a UFO on a high-speed intercept course with the planes. Some personnel see the object shortly afterward. Col. [Robert B. Willingham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151862594/robert-burton-willingham) claims it is not a missile. It makes 90° turns at high speed. NORAD tracks it and the object is said to crash near the Mexican border near Del Rio, Texas. Willingham and a copilot take a light aircraft to the site but are escorted away. They do see part of the crash field and pick up a small piece of metal from the ground. Willingham takes it to a Marine Corps metallurgy lab in Hagerstown, Maryland, for analysis but never sees it again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [pp. 192–193](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/192/mode/2up); Clark III 338; “[Del Rio 1955,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=61)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 22, 2010; Kevin D. Randle, “[Del Rio UFO Crash and MJ-12,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/07/del-rio-ufo-crash-and-mj-12.html)” A Different Perspective, July 21, 2010; Kevin D. Randle, “MJ-12’s Fatal Flaw and Robert Willingham,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 4–7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1610 ### Event 5306 (E3689A92) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Location:** Fort Myers, Florida **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Former aircraft purchasing agent [Harry Lamp](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42739792/harry-g.lenn-lamp) and four boys spot a 75-foot silver object hovering at 3,000 feet above the northern part of Fort Myers, Florida. Through 10x binoculars Lamp sees it is 3–4 feet thick at the edges and 14 feet thick in the center, which revolves as it hovers. The object has a red rim with two white and two orange jets along it. It flies away at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Large Object with Bubble on Top](http://www.nicap.org/501206ftmyers%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1611 ### Event 5307 (C08ACFEC) **Date:** 12/6/1950 **Locations:** El Indio, Texas; Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico **Description:** Dubious MJ-12 documents refer to a UFO crash on the Mexico side of the US border in the area between El Indio, Texas, and Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[El Indio 1950,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=375)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1612 ### Event 5308 (D827B577) **Date:** 12/7/1950 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MARYBOROUGH, QLD, AUS **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright blue saucer sweeps going north. Returns / low altitude. 450mph going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 365) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1850 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MARYBOROUGH,QLD,AUS:SVRL OBS:BRITE BLU SCR SWEEPS>N:RETURNS/LO ALT:450mph >N", **LatLong:** "-25.583335 152.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "25:35:00 S 152:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-25.583335,152.666674)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5309 (B2E59CD0) **Date:** 12/8/1950 **Location:** Richmond, Virginia **Description:** The FBI office in Richmond, Virginia, sends a telegram to FBI headquarters saying that local Army Intelligence has been put “on immediate high alert for any data whatsoever concerning flying saucers.” It adds, “CIC advises data strictly confidential and should not be disseminated.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Auerbach, \[[teletype memo](http://www.nicap.org/docs%5Foakridge/fbi%5F501208.htm)\], December 8, 1950; ClearIntent, [p. 175](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/174/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1613 ### Event 5310 (BF4745CC) **Date:** 12/10/1950 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** 1.5MI NORTHEAST / SEVENOAKS, ENG **Description:** Absolute(ly)-silent object / 3500' altitude. 140MPH. Type unknown. Wilderness area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1851 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "1.5MI NE/SEVENOAKS,ENG:ABS-SLNT OBJ/3500'alt:140MPH:type unkn:wilderness area", **LatLong:** "51.266669 0.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:16:00 N 00:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.266669,0.200000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5311 (3774C5DB) **Date:** 12/10/1950 **Location:** Wilderness Golf Course near Sevenoaks, Kent, England **Description:** 7:30 p.m. RAF Group-Captain B. S. Cartmel and two friends are at the Wilderness Golf Course near Sevenoaks, Kent, England, when they see a bright light moving east to west in complete silence. It maintains a steady height of 3,000 feet moving at 130–150 mph and is visible for 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 28–29](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/28/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1614 ### Event 5312 (A9FD9929) **Date:** 12/11/1950 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** 10 MI NORTHWEST / GULKANA, AK **Description:** NW.Al crew. 2 flashes. Dark cloud rises and splits / 2. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) #330p18. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1852 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "10mi NW/GULKANA,AK:NW.AL CREW:2 FLASHES:DRK CLOUD RISES+SPLITS/2:/LDLN #330p18", **LatLong:** "62.266670 -145.383340", **LatLongDMS:** "62:16:00 N 145:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.266670,-145.383340)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5313 (333DC931) **Date:** 12/11/1950 **Location:** Gulkana (10 miles NW of), AK **Description:** 2 white flashes, followed by dark cloud - rose and split in 2 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 849) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_780 ### Event 5314 (E91FEE46) **Date:** 12/11/1950 **Time:** 10:13 PM **Location:** l0 mi. NW of Gulcana, Alaska **Description:** Witnesses: crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802. Two white flashes, followed by a dark cloud which rose and split in two. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_57 ### Event 5315 (0A1064E4) **Date:** 12/11/1950 **Description:** The crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802 sighted two white flashes, followed by a dark cloud that rose higher in the sky, and then split in two. The sighting occurred ten miles northwest of Gulcana, Alaska at 10:13 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8334 ### Event 5316 (FA3DAC42) **Date:** 12/12/1950 **Location:** SOUTH LONDON, ENG **Description:** Blue Book. Silver ball high / 3 minute(s). Then 18 more. All go silently going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1853 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "S.LONDON,ENG:BBK:SLVR BALL HI/3min:THEN 18 MORE:ALL GO SILENTLY >>NE", **LatLong:** "51.416669 -0.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:25:00 N 00:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.416669,-0.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5317 (E943F698) **Date:** 12/12/1950 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** (NW), GA **Description:** 3 / car. Silent radium-glow ovoid going quickly south overhead into cloud bank. No trail. / CSI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1854 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "(nw),GA:3/CAR:SLNT RADIUM-GLOW OVOID >>S OVHD into cloud bank:NO TRAIL:/CSI", **LatLong:** "34.500002 -85.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:30:00 N 85:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.500002,-85.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5318 (65A87B61) **Date:** 12/12/1950 **Location:** Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nevada **Description:** The AFSWP’s Project Nutmeg officially selects the Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nevada, for domestic nuclear testing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Nevada Test and Training Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%5FTest%5Fand%5FTraining%5FRange)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1615 ### Event 5319 (59018E53) **Date:** 12/13/1950 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** OVER LAKE CHAMPLAIN, VT **Description:** "Rocket" comes south / Canada. Turns going west near Burlington. 5000' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 367) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1855 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "95", **HatchDesc:** "OVR LAKE CHAMPLAIN,VT:"ROCKET" COMES S/CANADA:TURNS >W nr BURLINGTON:5000'alt", **LatLong:** "44.500002 -73.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:30:00 N 73:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.500002,-73.250003)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5320 (FAAF6778) **Date:** 12/13/1950 **Location:** Kimberley, South Africa **Description:** 4:55 p.m. J. G. F. Moult and his mother are sitting at their home in Kimberley, South Africa, when they observe a bright object “like a huge mirror in the sky,” hovering, and moving laterally and up and down for about 3 minutes. It goes behind a cloud but can still be seen, appearing like a “piece of magnesium wire burning with a bright, purplish-white light.” It dives through the clouds, turns sharply, and shoots out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Marais, “[The Outspan Magazine, January 1, 1954](http://www.project1947.com/fig/outspan54.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1616 ### Event 5321 (56B8D3BE) **Date:** 12/14/1950 **Location:** NORTH / HAGERMAN, ID **Description:** 3 / car. 2M sphere with fin lands. Fantastic close maneuvers / 30M altitude. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 666) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1856 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "905", **HatchDesc:** "N/HAGERMAN,ID:3/CAR:2M SPHERE W/FIN LANDS:FANTASTIC CLOSE MNVRS/30M alt:>>SW", **LatLong:** "42.877780 -114.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:52:40 N 114:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.877780,-114.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5322 (358A5CDC) **Date:** 12/14/1950 (approximate) **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** BENTLEIGH, AUSTR **Description:** Group women and kids. 20' ovoid passes school-bus stop. Buzzes. Investigation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 367) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1857 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BENTLEIGH,AUSTR:GRP WOMEN+KIDS:20'OVOID PASSES SCHOOL-BUS STOP:BUZZES:INVESTGN", **LatLong:** "-37.916668 145.033340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:55:00 S 145:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.916668,145.033340)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5323 (72766D15) **Date:** 12/14/1950 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** Radar Targets Over AEC Plant (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501214](http://www.nicap.org/501214knoxville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_781 ### Event 5324 (9BE793C3) **Date:** 12/14/1950 **Description:** A group of teardrop-shaped UFOs was picked up on multiple radar units for ten minutes near the Oak Ridge Nuclear facility in Tennessee at around 4 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1978, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8388 ### Event 5325 (623C0EAB) **Date:** 12/15/1950 **Location:** WEST / INCHON, KOREA **Description:** US Navy ship. 2 objects hit water very fast. 30M splash! Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1858 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "W/INCHON,KOREA:US NAVY SHIP:2 OBJs HIT WATER VFAST:30M SPLASH!:type unk", **LatLong:** "37.416668 126.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:25:00 N 126:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.416668,126.250006)", **State/Prov:** "SKR", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5326 (818C3D73) **Date:** 12/15/1950 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Unidentified blips all over/all about RADAR screens. Full fighter intercept finds nothing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 367) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1859 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:UID BLIPS ALLO RDR SCREENS:FULL FIGHTER INTERCEPT finds nothing", **LatLong:** "35.988891 -84.255560", **LatLongDMS:** "35:59:20 N 84:15:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.988891,-84.255560)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5327 (839B76B8) **Date:** 12/15/1950 **Description:** Ground radar tracked an unidentified flying object over the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Anderson County, Tennessee at 11:45 p.m. The object was sighted visually as well and described as teardrop shaped. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8403 ### Event 5328 (10E3B1AA) **Date:** 12/16/1950 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** OFF GRAND HAVEN, MI **Description:** Extra moon speeds going down / Lake Michigan. Glows / surface then sinks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 367) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1860 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "off GRAND HAVEN,MI:EXTRA MOON SPEEDS ↓/LAKE MICH:GLOWS/SURFACE THEN SINKS", **LatLong:** "43.033335 -86.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:02:00 N 86:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.033335,-86.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5329 (A1230841) **Date:** 12/16/1950 **Description:** An unidentified object landed on the surface of Lake Michigan near Grand Haven, Michigan at 11:45 p.m. making the surface glow. It then sank beneath the surface. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8437 ### Event 5330 (4F5DEFD5) **Date:** 12/18/1950 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** 3+observers. Circular night light changes shape and brilliance. Fades to a star going northwest? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 174) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1861 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:3+OBSs:CIRC.NLT CHANGES SHAPE+BRILLIANCE:FADES TO A STAR >NW?", **LatLong:** "36.016668 -84.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:01:00 N 84:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.016668,-84.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5331 (A9FC6CBF) **Date:** 12/18/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** NEPA Employees Report Light In Control Area (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501218](http://www.nicap.org/501218oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_782 ### Event 5332 (B98E312F) **Date:** 12/18/1950 **Description:** At 8:39 a.m. a circular light changed shape and brilliance as it hovered over Oak Ridge AEC Laboratories, Tennessee. It faded to a star, then flew away to the northwest. There was radar confirmation of the sighting from the nearby McGhee Air Force Base. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce S Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1978, pp. 11, 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8485 ### Event 5333 (E4C22277) **Date:** 12/20/1950 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** KNOXVILLE, TN **Description:** RADAR blip. F82 intercepts. Only finds odd small smoke cloud.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1862 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "267", **HatchDesc:** "KNOXVILLE,TN:RDR BLIP:F82 INTERCEPTS:only finds odd small smoke cloud..", **LatLong:** "35.966668 -83.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:58:00 N 83:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.966668,-83.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5334 (CF95A1B3) **Date:** 12/20/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Another Radar Sighting / Small Smoke Cloud (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501220](http://www.nicap.org/501220oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_783 ### Event 5335 (06DB7FFA) **Date:** 12/20/1950 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Another Radar Report. Log of the 663rd AN and C Squadron, F-82 Intercept (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [501220](http://www.nicap.org/501220oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_784 ### Event 5336 (CB15EF42) **Date:** 12/23/1950 (approximate) **Location:** PT LOMA, CA **Description:** 7 TEARDROPs maneuver near pilot balloon. Several Navy / theodolite. Turn going quickly west / sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 368) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1863 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "Pt LOMA,CA:7 TEARDROPs MNVR nr PILOT BALLOON:SVRL NAVY/THEODOLITE:TURN>>W/SEA", **LatLong:** "32.700002 -117.244450", **LatLongDMS:** "32:42:00 N 117:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.700002,-117.244450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5337 (273A8E7F) **Date:** 12/23/1950 **Description:** In Point Loma, California on this date in 1950 seven teardrop-shaped flying objects maneuvered near a weather balloon. Several navy personnel, including one using a theodolite to view the object, watched the UFO turn toward the W and fly away out over the Pacific Ocean. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 68 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8567 ### Event 5338 (C2035E1A) **Date:** Late 12/1950 **Location:** Cheyenne, Wyoming **Description:** USAF Capt. [J. E. Broyles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3100492/james-edwin-broyles) sees an aluminum-like oval object with a conical tail moving slowly in the sky near Cheyenne, Wyoming. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 20](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=32&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1617 ### Event 5339 (CF598A4C) **Date:** 12/26/1950 **Location:** Harvard University **Description:** Harvard University historian [William L. Langer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FL.%5FLanger)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FL.%5FLanger) special assistant for intelligence analysis to US Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FF.%5FByrnes)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FF.%5FByrnes) organizes the CIA Office of National Estimates, a forerunner of the National Intelligence Council. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Central Intelligence Agency, “[Staff Conference: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R002300010024-2.pdf) [Conference Room, Administration Building, Tuesday, 26 December 1950, at 1100 Hours](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R002300010024-2.pdf)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1618 ### Event 5340 (B8C62A20) **Date:** 12/27/1950 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** OVER BRADFORD, IL **Description:** TWA pilot. Night light / violent turns and maneuvers / 25 minute(s). Going quickly [to] N. horizon. / LDLN#330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1864 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "246", **HatchDesc:** "ovr BRADFORD,IL:TWA PILOT:NLT/VIOLENT TURNS+MNVRS/25min:>>N.HORIZON:/LDLN#330", **LatLong:** "41.177780 -89.655560", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:40 N 89:39:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.177780,-89.655560)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5341 (5736D6CA) **Date:** 12/27/1950 **Location:** Bradford (near), IL **Description:** Shutts Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_785 ### Event 5342 (16430594) **Date:** 12/27/1950 **Location:** Lakehurst, NJ **Description:** (40.01° N, 74.31° W). Folean. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_786 ### Event 5343 (0E6F9C59) **Date:** 12/27/1950 **Locations:** Chicago; Kansas City; Bradford, Illinois **Description:** Sunset. A TWA flight, piloted by Capt. Art Shutts, is enroute from Chicago to Kansas City. Near Bradford, Illinois, Shutts notices a bright white light ahead of the plane, also flashing red and green occasionally. It begins to “wobble and swerve unsteadily,” then streaks back and forth in a north-south line through an arc of 10–30°, changing direction abruptly. He notices that the horizon near the UFO appears to vibrate as if light is distorted, especially after the object puts on a burst of speed. It dims to a pinpoint and begins to slowly move south. Suddenly it lurches, accelerates rapidly, zooms upward at a 45° angle, makes a nearly square turn, plunges downward, and disappears below the horizon to the north. It is visible for 25 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 40](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=52&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1619 ### Event 5344 (0A429927) **Date:** 12/29/1950 **Location:** SOVIET-IRAN BORDER AREA **Description:** Wave / night lights fireballs etc. Green and black. West going quickly east / several min. Explodes? Smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 369) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1865 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Iran", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SOV-IRAN BORDER AREA:WAVE/NLTS FBLS ETC:GRN+BLK:W>>E/SVRL MIN:EXPLODES?:SMOKE", **LatLong:** "37.500002 59.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:00 N 59:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.500002,59.000003)", **State/Prov:** "KHR", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5345 (77FFDA69) **Date:** Early 1950's **Location:** Carson's Field, New Zealand **Description:** Carson’s Field (speculated location), New Zealand: A New Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected US researcher who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions he had just been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a vast airport. A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a group of friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they were scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland for a meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane during the conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s nations were also present. **Type:** book reference **Reference:** “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69 **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_387 --- ## Year: 1951 (Back to Top) ### Event 5346 (C24282BC) **Date:** 1951 **Description:** Meade Layne, BSRA director, founds the “Borderland Sciences Research Foundation” as a CA non-profit (C0254263) research and educational organization for the purpose of studying parapsychology, UFO’s and extended consciousness. Previously, the BSRA was a loose/unofficial association. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://borderlandsciences.org/about.html) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_428 ### Event 5347 (D10DCAD4) **Date:** 1951 **Location:** Europe **Description:** Project Mercury Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper), describes seeing 100's of UFO's flying in formation at very high altitudes over Europe. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [link](https://youtu.be/1GlVRrk0qgU) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_705 ### Event 5348 (B78B3A1E) **Date:** 1951 **Location:** Georgia **Description:** David Huggins was born in Georgia in 1943 on a farm and claims to be an abductee. At night strange creatures would appear in his bedroom and escort him to a metallic, egg shaped craft. On his first encounter he saw a short alien, covered in brown fur, with large glowing eyes. He also encountered an "Alien Mantis", which often seemed to be in control, followed by typical Alien Grays, eight the first time. There were also short creatures wearing identical blue jumpsuits, and a hybrid named Crescent who appeared initially as a mother figure. Crescent had large eyes, pale skin, long hair that seemed to be a wig, with definite human anatomical features. These encounters ceased when he was 11 and the family moved to Acworth, but then continued when he turned 17. **Type:** abduction **Reference:** [Website: "The Night Sky II", Article: David Huggins](https://www.thenightskyii.org/huggins.html) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_901 ### Event 5349 (21CDDFBF) **Date:** 1951 **Location:** Iron Triangle, near Chorwon, Korea **Description:** Craft hit soldier with light beam (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [510000](http://www.nicap.org/springkor.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_787 ### Event 5350 (820BCD0A) **Date:** 1951 **Location:** in airspace over, Korea **Description:** UFO Circles Fleet of Fourteen Ships / Tracked By Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [510000](http://www.nicap.org/51FALLkorea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_788 ### Event 5351 (98C13E67) **Date:** 1951 **Locations:** West Germany; Europe **Description:** While flying an F-86 Sabrejet over West Germany, USAF pilot [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FCooper) sees several metallic discs flying at a high altitude. He claims to “have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperCollins, 2000, pp. 80–81; “[UFO Sightings by](http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html) [Astronauts,](http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html)” Syti.net, January 30, 2001; “[Astronaut Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc)” Elhardt YouTube channel, December 27, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1620 ### Event 5352 (76E637D0) **Date:** 1951 **Location:** Korea **Description:** The intelligence unit of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing puts out periodic intelligence reports through 1953 that cover ground and air operations, unusual incidents, and UFO reports in Korea. The UFO reports are in a different category from unidentified aircraft. Some of these reports do not appear in Project Blue Book. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1621 ### Event 5353 (A42B9C86) **Date:** 1951 **Description:** The Atomic Energy Commission uses its parallel system of secret-keeping to conduct controversial research, development, and engineering on aircraft and pilot-related projects, entirely without oversight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1622 ### Event 5354 (D4DB3E8B) **Date:** 1951 **Locations:** France; Paris **Description:** [Marc Thirouin](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%5FThirouin) founds the first UFO group in France, the Commission Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. It begins publishing Ouranos in June 1952 and issues 32 numbers through 1966, reviving in 1972 after Thirouin’s death with a new series that lasts until 1980. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Ouranos](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf) no. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1623 ### Event 5355 (77BAE6BE) **Date:** 1/1951 **Locations:** Cosmopolitan; USAF Public Information Officer **Description:** Author and journalist [Bob Considine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FConsidine)’s article appears in Cosmopolitan, debunking all UFO stories as delusions and hoaxes, and quoting a weary Air Force Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/), who has replaced [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) in Project Grudge. It offends people so badly that many pilots afterward refuse to report UFO sightings to the Air Force. USAF Public Information Officer Clare Welch, who has set this interview up, believes the Air Force has better things to do and is out of step with Cabell’s renewed interest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bob Considine, “[The Disgraceful Flying Saucer](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcosmopolitan%5F1951-01%5F130%5F1/page/32/mode/2up) [Hoax!](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcosmopolitan%5F1951-01%5F130%5F1/page/32/mode/2up)” Cosmopolitan, January 1951, pp. 32–33, 100–102, [republished](http://www.project1947.com/fig/cosmojan51.htm) by Project 1947; Swords 113–114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1624 ### Event 5356 (B2EFE728) **Date:** 1/1/1951 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** OAK GROVE, LA **Description:** 12 / farm. 12M saucer spins counterclockwise going east / low altitude. Rectangular windows / rim. Maneuvers. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1866 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "OAK GROVE,LA:12/FARM:12M SCR SPINS CCW >E/lo alt:RECT.WINDOWS/RIM:MNVRS:↑↑", **LatLong:** "32.861113 -91.388893", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:40 N 91:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.861113,-91.388893)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5357 (89F95C14) **Date:** 1/1/1951 **Location:** Oak Grove, Louisiana **Description:** 7:00 a.m. Katie Sowell watches an object about 30–50 feet in diameter, like two “upside down saucers” revolving counterclockwise and darting low over her farmhouse near Oak Grove, Louisiana. It has rectangular, opaque windows. It is seen for 15–20 minutes at close range. It banks and disappears, going straight up. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Huntsville \(Ala.\) Times, February 5, 1974; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) [History: 1951, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 1–2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1625 ### Event 5358 (0949DD01) **Date:** 1/1/1951 **Locations:** Mitchel AFB; Long Island, New York; Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** The Air Defense Command, inactivated since July 1, 1950, is reinstated as a major command at Mitchel AFB \[now closed\] in Long Island, New York. The HQ is moved to Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a week later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand\#Reformation%5F1951)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1626 ### Event 5359 (309FCC7F) **Date:** 1/6/1951 (approximate) **Location:** BOWRAL, NSW, AUSTR **Description:** Fast silent steel-blue moon-size object crosses sky. Spirals going up [to] clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1867 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOWRAL,NSW,AUSTR:FAST SLNT STEEL-BLU MOONSIZE OBJ CROSSES SKY:SPIRALS↑CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "-34.500002 150.400007", **LatLongDMS:** "34:30:00 S 150:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.500002,150.400007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5360 (3A41ED0A) **Date:** 1/8/1951 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** SOUTH / FORT WORTH, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #864. 15' delta/triangle/box-like crafts / night lights go overhead and by US81. 1 going north / low altitude. Light humming. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1868 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "203", **HatchDesc:** "S/FORT WORTH,TX:BBK#864:15'DLTS/NLTS GO OVHD+BY US81:1 >N/LO ALT:LITE HUM", **LatLong:** "32.666668 -97.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:40:00 N 97:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.666668,-97.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5361 (47D0FA4A) **Date:** 1/8/1951 **Location:** Fort Worth (South of ), TX **Description:** Watch 2 stationary groups of red and green lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 864) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_789 ### Event 5362 (371A7C94) **Date:** 1/8/1951 **Time:** 10:45 PM **Location:** South of Ft. Worth, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Boggus, plus unidentified drivers and passengers in other cars stopped to watch. Two groups of red and green lights in triangular formations were stationary and then moved. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_58 ### Event 5363 (C6238B1A) **Date:** 1/8/1951 **Description:** A group of three delta-shaped objects with wingspans of 15’ flew over US Highway 81 south of Forth Worth, Texas at 10:45 p.m. One passed overhead at a low altitude, and made a faint humming sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics case 864 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_190 ### Event 5364 (FAFC17CC) **Date:** 1/12/1951 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** FT BENNING, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #868. 10+observer(s). Saucer hovers / 20 minute(s). Going quickly south. Matchhead / arms-length. / r43p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1869 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "94", **HatchDesc:** "Ft BENNING,GA:BBK#868:10+OBS:SCR HVRS/20min:>>S:MATCHHEAD/ARMS-LENGTH:/r43p13", **LatLong:** "32.350002 -84.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:21:00 N 84:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.350002,-84.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5365 (B1311AAF) **Date:** 1/12/1951 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** STEWART AIR FORCE BASE, NY **Description:** Blue Book. USAF man. Meteor going up [to] and zigzags. Clear maneuvers. Changes colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1870 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "STEWART AFB,NY:BBK:USAF MAN:METEOR↑+ZIGZAGS:CLEAR MNVRS:CHANGES COLORS", **LatLong:** "41.505558 -74.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:20 N 74:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.505558,-74.066670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5366 (49E7FDE1) **Date:** 1/12/1951 **Location:** Fort Benning, GA **Description:** Light with a fan-shaped wake remain motionless like a star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 868) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_790 ### Event 5367 (71E1D851) **Date:** 1/12/1951 **Time:** 10 PM **Location:** Ft. Benning, Georgia **Description:** Witness: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A.C. Hale. One light with a fan-shaped wake remained motionless like a star about 20 minutes and then sped away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_59 ### Event 5368 (C95774AE) **Date:** 1/12/1951 **Description:** At 10:05 p.m. two U.S. Air Force airmen at Stewart AFB in Orange County, New York saw a fireball drop from a high altitude, and then zig-zag. It made clear cut maneuvers, and changed colors. At 11:01 p.m. a saucer-shaped object hovered near Fort Benning, Georgia for 20 minutes, then shot off to the south. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A. C. Hale saw a light with a fan-shaped wake remain motionless like a star then speed away. It was estimated to be the size of a matchhead held at arms length. There were nine other witnesses. A Project Blue Book unknown. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951 (volume 2), pp. 2 & 3; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 868 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_273 ### Event 5369 (DBA5808D) **Date:** 1/14/1951 **Description:** Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities” **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_429 ### Event 5370 (E0268409) **Date:** 1/14/1951 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** JOLON, CA **Description:** Private pilot / Navion 4582K. 3 rectangular objects. Flat tops. Shrink away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1871 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "293", **HatchDesc:** "JOLON,CA:Pvt.PILOT/NAVION 4582K:3 RECTANGLR OBJS:FLAT TOPS:SHRINK AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.016668 -121.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:01:00 N 121:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.016668,-121.200006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5371 (FCA3616F) **Date:** 1/14/1951 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** BIG BEAR LAKE, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Hillman and 3 / small plane. 50' saucer / 30K' altitude. Going quickly west. Wind = due going north / 60 kts. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1872 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2050", **HatchDesc:** "BIG BEAR LAKE,CA:BBK:HILLMAN+3/SML PLANE:50' SCR/30K'alt:>>W:WIND=DUE> N/60kts", **LatLong:** "34.250002 -116.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:15:00 N 116:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.250002,-116.883339)", **RelAlt:** "9000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5372 (E50498B0) **Date:** 1/14/1951 **Location:** Jolon, CA **Description:** Private Pilot Reports Mile-Wide Rectangles (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510114](http://www.nicap.org/510114jolon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_791 ### Event 5373 (ADE08638) **Date:** 1/14/1951 **Location:** Big Bear Lake, CA **Description:** Pilot Sees 150' Circular Object At 30,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510114](http://www.nicap.org/510114bigbear%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_792 ### Event 5374 (4DDD01F5) **Date:** 1/14/1951 **Description:** At 12:38 p.m. four witnesses flying in an airplane over Big Bear Lake, California saw three circular or disc-shaped UFOs that were 40 to 50 feet in diameter and flying at 30,000 feet altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 3; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_308 ### Event 5375 (02EA1828) **Date:** 1/16/1951 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** ARTESIA, NM **Description:** Blue Book. 6+GM scientists / theodolite and photographs. 2 60' saucers maneuver and circle balloon. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1873 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1035", **HatchDesc:** "ARTESIA,NM:BBK:6+GM SCIs/THEODOLITE+FOTOS:2 60'SCRS MNVR+CCL BALLOON:>>NW ", **LatLong:** "32.861113 -104.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:40 N 104:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.861113,-104.400005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5376 (CB38CB8A) **Date:** 1/16/1951 **Location:** Artesia (near), NM **Description:** Two Discs Approach Skyhook (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510116](http://www.nicap.org/510116artesia%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_793 ### Event 5377 (89CF588F) **Date:** 1/16/1951 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Artesia, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Two members of a balloon project from the General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory, the manager of the Artesia Airport, and three pilots. The balloon crew was observing their 110' balloon at an altitude of 112,000' when a dull white, round object was spotted. It appeared larger than the balloon, but made no movement. Later, the balloon crew and the others saw two objects from the airport; flying side-by-side, they circled the balloon and flew away to the northeast. The second observation lasted about 40 seconds. Note: there is confusion over the date of this case, with some USAF records showing it as 1952; however, 1951 appears to be correct. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_60 ### Event 5378 (E4A24CF0) **Date:** 1/16/1951 **Locations:** Artesia, New Mexico; Artesia Airport **Description:** Raymond Dugan and Raymond E. Stiles, members of the General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory balloon project, observe a round disc near their Skyhook balloon over Artesia, New Mexico. The balloon is at a height of 112,000 feet. A short time later, Dugan, Stiles, and four civilian pilots at Artesia Airport see two similar objects circling the same balloon that then fly off to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Discs Approach Skyhook](http://www.nicap.org/510116artesia%5Fdir.htm)”; Project Blue Book, \[[Artesia documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/510116artesia%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 69–70](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/68/mode/2up); Sparks, p. 104; Swords 166 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1627 ### Event 5379 (97E9DCFE) **Date:** 1/18/1951 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_430 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 1.6km ### Event 5380 (69E3B708) **Date:** 1/20/1951 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and pilots. Cylinder/cigar-shape circles and maneuvers. Paces DC3. Going quickly northwest. / MJ#273+/ r242p44. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1874 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX CITY,IA:ATCs+PILOTS:CGR CCLs+MNVRs:PACES DC3:>>NW:/MJ#273+/r242p44", **LatLong:** "42.516669 -96.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:00 N 96:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.516669,-96.400005)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5381 (32F7D21C) **Date:** 1/20/1951 **Location:** Sioux City, IA **Description:** UFO Buzzes DC-3 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510120](http://www.nicap.org/510120siouxcity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_794 ### Event 5382 (08A9CBC0) **Date:** 1/20/1951 **Locations:** Sioux City, Iowa; Mid-Continent Airlines Flight 9 **Description:** 9:20 p.m. Sioux City, Iowa, CAA Control Tower operator John M. Williams sees an odd light in the west. Capt. [Lawrence W. Vinther](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80862109/lawrence-w-vinther) and copilot [James F. Bachmeier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/308536/james-f-bachmeier) of Mid-Continent Airlines Flight 9 takes off and Vinther is asked by the tower to look for the light. While still in a climbing turn at about 1,000 feet, the pilots spot the object to the north-northwest at about 8,000 feet and 4 miles away. It looks like a B-29 fuselage with wings but no engines and blinks some lights like running lights. The object comes towards the DC-3, flies across the nose within 200 feet, then suddenly reappears on the other side, paralleling them for 2–3 seconds. The object then flies under them and disappears to the northwest. This is one of the first reports to make it into the CIRVIS system specified by JANAP 146. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[UFO Buzzes DC-3](http://www.nicap.org/510120siouxcity%5Fdir.htm)”; Lawrence W. Vinther, “[Another Saucer Mystery,](https://books.google.com/books?id=a9uIro6WeNoC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Lawrence%2BW.%2BVinther%2C%2B%E2%80%9CAnother%2BSaucer%2BMystery%2C%E2%80%9D%2BFlying%2BJune%2B1951&source=bl&ots=K4sPgAZVhR&sig=ACfU3U136sQ1yJhwBCv5Yaoa0kzTvEEWSw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAv72w3sX1AhVNITQIHWYgDJwQ6AF6BAgkEAM%23v%3Donepage&q=Lawrence%20W.%20Vinther%2C%20%E2%80%9CAnother%20Saucer%20Mystery%2C%E2%80%9D%20Flying%20June%201951&f=false)” Flying 48 \(June 1951\): 23, 56, [reprinted](http://www.project1947.com/fig/vinther51.htm) by Project 1947; Ruppelt, [p. 84](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/84/mode/2up); Jan Aldrich; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 104; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 43–44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1628 ### Event 5383 (4D617616) **Date:** 1/20/1951 **Description:** At 8:26 p.m. the control tower in Sioux City, Iowa warned the Mid-Continental Airlines DC-3 flight to watch for an approaching unidentified aircraft. The crew saw a bright light that quickly closed with them. They saw that it was cigar-shaped with no wings, and it paced their aircraft for a short while before shooting out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, January 1951; Edward Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 118; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_391 ### Event 5384 (6F8AA0D1) **Date:** 1/21/1951 **Location:** Oakridge, TN **Description:** F-82 Attempts Intercept of UFO Over AEC Plant / Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [510121](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_795 ### Event 5385 (B032148E) **Date:** 1/21/1951 **Locations:** Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee; X-10 plant **Description:** 4:20 p.m. A UFO that appears to be over the restricted area at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is sighted on the radarscope of an F-82 fighter. The GCI gives the go-ahead to intercept the target. The radar set on the F-82 is locked on and the run begins. The interception is unsuccessful, and the fighter returns to base. In all, three passes are made at targets, all with radar indications, but they cannot be completed since the target is over the restricted area that includes the X-10 plant. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-82 Attempts Intercept of UFO over AEC Plant /](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm) [Radar](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 104 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1629 ### Event 5386 (A094A144) **Date:** 1/22/1951 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Blue Book. Saucer hovers by test balloon. Grows. Flashes 1 / second(s). Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1875 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:BBK:SCR HVRS BY TEST BALLOON:GROWS:FLASHES 1/sec:>>W", **LatLong:** "32.816668 -106.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:49:00 N 106:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.816668,-106.066672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5387 (BE5122E3) **Date:** 1/22/1951 **Location:** Holloman AFB (50 miles SE of), NM **Description:** C-47 Crew Encounter Object Near "Gopher" (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [510122](http://www.nicap.org/510122holloman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_796 ### Event 5388 (F6F7BE2B) **Date:** 1/22/1951 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio; Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** 11:00 a.m. USAF pilots Capt. [Ernest W. Spradley Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3051370/ernest-warner-spradley) of Aerial Photo Lab and Capt. James E. Cocker of All-Weather Flying Division \(both based at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio\), a General Mills Aeronautical lab project engineer named McAleese, and another airman are flying in a C-47 heading east about 50 miles southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico, at about 10,000–12,000 feet, tracking a Project Gopher plastic balloon at about 50,000–70,000 feet, when they see a bright star-like object adjacent to the pear-shaped balloon. As they approach and fly under the balloon, they notice the object descend to the balloon’s level and grow larger in apparent size until about one-quarter to one-half the size of the 70-foot balloon. It appears to be round and flat like a dime, milky white or silvery in color, with a clear outline. Cocker and McAleese leave the cockpit and go to the astrodome to observe the object. After 3 minutes they see the object separate from the balloon and head west at high speed. After about 1 minute it emits a series of 3 bright photoflashes at one-second intervals and disappears from sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[C-47 Crew Encounter Object near ‘Gopher’](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[White Object Paces Balloon](http://www.nicap.org/510214alamogordo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 105; Swords 114–115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1630 ### Event 5389 (7A0B3F6E) **Date:** 1/22/1951 **Description:** A saucer-shaped object hovered next to a test balloon 50 miles southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico. It grew in dimensions, and flashed once every second. It flew off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_407 ### Event 5390 (51276F56) **Date:** 1/24/1951 **Location:** Westover AFB, MA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Three Uncorrelated Targets Like A B-36 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510124](http://www.nicap.org/510124westover%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_797 ### Event 5391 (48189193) **Date:** 1/25/1951 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** Blue Book. 2+observer(s). 150' dark cylinder/cigar-shape follows night light. 4 staircase maneuvers upward. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1876 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ROBINS AFB,GA:BBK:2+OBS:150'DRK CGR FOLOS NLT:4 STAIRCASE MNVRS UPWARD", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -83.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 83:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-83.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5392 (664C79AA) **Date:** 1/26/1951 **Location:** Sea of Japan (off coast of South Korea), At Sea **Description:** Radar tracking of unidentified target at 3,000 knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510126](http://www.nicap.org/510126korea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_798 ### Event 5393 (2652AF04) **Date:** 1/27/1951 **Time:** 13:44:51.0 **Location:** 36.82664 -115.95883 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Able” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_8 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.82664 -115.95883", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:36 N 115:57:32 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.82664,-115.95883)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.32", **NukeName:** "Able", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 5394 (96BF37F5) **Date:** 1/27/1951 **Locations:** US; Frenchman Flat; Nevada Test Site **Description:** An Air Force B-50D bomber drops the first atomic bomb, the Able blast, for testing in the US onto a dry lake bed known as Frenchman Flat, inside the Nevada Test Site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Ranger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FRanger)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1631 ### Event 5395 (E0969643) **Date:** 1/28/1951 **Time:** 13:52:04.5 **Location:** 36.82664 -115.95883 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Baker” Yield: 8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_9 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.82664 -115.95883", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:36 N 115:57:32 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.82664,-115.95883)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.33", **NukeName:** "Baker", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "8" ### Event 5396 (11C4872B) **Date:** 1/29/1951 **Location:** New England **Description:** USAF Lt. Col. [Milton D. Willis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49365086/milton-dean-willis) replies to [Robert B. Sibley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204932537/robert-b%5F-sibley), president of the Aero Club of New England, who has written Secretary of the Air Force [Thomas K. Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) asking that the UFO project be reinstated because pilots are indeed seeing something that could be extraterrestrial. Willis writes that, although the UFO project is disbanded, the Air Force still investigates incidents and sends them to AMC if necessary, and an officer \(Willis himself, who has replaced [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm)\) monitors all UFO reports. As an aside to his superiors, Willis in a memo notes that “there have been several incidents, during the last six months, which cannot be explained and further investigation may be necessary.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) [1951, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 7 –8; Swords 113 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1632 ### Event 5397 (9BEB7507) **Date:** 1/31/1951 (approximate) **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** NNW / NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NV **Description:** Air Traffic Controller. Clam-saucer going southwest. Circles 3X and hovers / 30M altitude. Atomic test in progress. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 209) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1877 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "630", **HatchDesc:** "NNW/NELLIS AFB,NV:ATC:CLAM-SCR >SW:CCLs 3X+HVRS/30M alt:A-test in progress", **LatLong:** "36.333335 -115.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:20:00 N 115:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.333335,-115.066672)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5398 (E89CF063) **Date:** 2/1951 **Location:** NAVAL ASTRONOMER MARKOWITZ **Description:** "New asteroid in unique orbit" discovered. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1878 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Earth Orbit or seen from space stations/capsules", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "NAVAL ASTRONOMER MARKOWITZ:"NEW ASTEROID IN UNIQUE ORBIT" DISCOVERED.", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "---", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5399 (E2F89018) **Date:** 2/1951 **Location:** C.AUSTRL DESERT **Description:** Aborigines. 2 saucers land. Small humanoid (or Grey) exits one & boards the other! Away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-SERIOUS BUSINESS; Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1966. (Index 93) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1879 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "C.AUSTRL DESERT:ABORIGINES:2 SCRS LAND:OID EXITS ONE & BOARDS THE OTHER!:AWAY", **LatLong:** "-30.000001 135.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 135:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.000001,135.000006)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 5400 (166B4CE2) **Date:** 2/1/1951 **Time:** 05:10 **Location:** NEAR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** 2 / USAF F82. Amber night light makes 3 360° loops. Buzzes F82. Quickly going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1880 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr JOHNSON AFB,JPN:2/USAF F82:AMBER NLT makes 3 360° LOOPS:BUZZES F82:↑↑+AWAY", **LatLong:** "35.916668 139.600007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:55:00 N 139:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.916668,139.600007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5401 (254F0470) **Date:** 2/1/1951 **Location:** Johnson AFB, Japan **Description:** F-82 Encounters Maneuvering Amber Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 886) **Reference:** NICAP: [510201](http://www.nicap.org/510201johnson%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_799 ### Event 5402 (0030BE4A) **Date:** 2/1/1951 **Time:** 5:10 PM **Location:** Johnson Air Base, Japan **Description:** Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-82 night fighter. One amber light made three or four 360 degree turns to the right, reversed toward the F-82 and then climbed out of sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_61 ### Event 5403 (2CBC24A1) **Date:** 2/1/1951 **Time:** 13:46:39.5 **Location:** 36.82664 -115.95883 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Easy” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_10 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.82664 -115.95883", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:36 N 115:57:32 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.82664,-115.95883)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.33", **NukeName:** "Easy", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 5404 (D2ABFBBF) **Date:** 2/2/1951 **Time:** 13:48:48.0 **Location:** 36.82664 -115.95883 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Baker-2” Yield: 8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_11 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.82664 -115.95883", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:36 N 115:57:32 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.82664,-115.95883)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.34", **NukeName:** "Baker-2", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "8" ### Event 5405 (C0FA1F73) **Date:** 2/3/1951 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** GALENA, IL **Description:** 12m baseball-bat / 90M altitude. Skirts hills. Silent. Lightning flashes / rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1881 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "238", **HatchDesc:** "GALENA,IL:12m BASEBALL-BAT/90M alt:SKIRTS HILLS:SILENT:LIGHTNING FLASHES/REAR", **LatLong:** "42.416669 -90.427782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:25:00 N 90:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.416669,-90.427782)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5406 (61A89B94) **Date:** 2/4/1951 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** WITHDEAN, SUSSEX **Description:** Girl. Grey-green domed object going down / garden. 3 bald small humanoids (or Greys) exit. No further details / repeater. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1882 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "WITHDEAN,SUSSEX:GIRL:GRY-GRN DOMED OBJ ↓/GARDEN:3 BALD OIDS EXIT:NFD/repeater", **LatLong:** "50.816669 -0.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:49:00 N 00:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.816669,-0.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5407 (76FDF535) **Date:** 2/4/1951 **Description:** A young girl, who was to have other UFO encounters later in life, was playing in her garden in Withdean, East Sussex, England between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. when she saw a hovering disc-shaped object with a transparent dome on top. Inside the dome she could see three men, and they appeared to be looking down at her. The domed object made a descent into the garden and three humanoids with bald, domed heads exited. The men wore khaki-colored outfits, and carried a weird looking object. They floated toward the girl, then reversed direction, reboarded, and took off. Their exit was "like a film in reverse." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 65 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_685 ### Event 5408 (547A94C0) **Date:** 2/6/1951 **Time:** 13:46:55.0 **Location:** 36.82664 -115.95883 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Fox” Yield: 22KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_12 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.82664 -115.95883", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:36 N 115:57:32 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.82664,-115.95883)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.44", **NukeName:** "Fox", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "22" ### Event 5409 (D9D7DE7E) **Date:** 2/8/1951 **Description:** A four engine Super-Constellation R5D Navy transport, flying at a speed of 200 knots at 10,000 feet between Iceland and Newfoundland, saw a UFO ascend from the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in the pre-dawn hours. They watched it on the surface for 8-10 minutes while approaching it, and it was so bright that they thought at first that perhaps the auto-pilot had gone off course and it was the lights from a city. It moved at 1,500 mph with a white flow and with a reddish-purple fiery ring around the rim. It shot up and at the aircraft, and due to the object's high speed, its size and direction of travel it looked like it would collide. The pilot quickly disengaged the auto-pilot and stood by to push the nose of the plane over in hopes that they could pass underneath. Everyone onboard began ducking, including the relief crew. "It stopped its movement toward us and began moving along with us about 45 degrees off the bow to the right, about 100 feet or so below us and about 200 to 300 feet in front of us. It was not in a level position; it was tilted about 25 degrees. It stayed in this position for a minute or so. It appeared to be from 200 to 300 feet in diameter, translucent or metallic, shaped like a saucer." When it moved away it made no turns, and was out of sight in only a few seconds.Gander radar did track the object in excess of 1,800 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1970; Weinstein Dominique, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 691; Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=76 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_752 ### Event 5410 (81DB2CF3) **Date:** 2/9/1951 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** OFF NFLD **Description:** Several / R5D Navy transport. 300' saucer quickly going up / sea. 1800mph / RADAR. / r135p11+/ r120p268. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 849) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1883 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off NFLD:SVRL/R5D NAVY XPORT:300'SCR↑↑/SEA:1800mph/RDR:/r135p11+/r120p268", **LatLong:** "49.833336 -50.050002", **LatLongDMS:** "49:50:00 N 50:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.833336,-50.050002)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5411 (11E83777) **Date:** 2/9/1951 **Locations:** Keflavík, Iceland; Gander, Newfoundland; Ocean **Description:** 9:55 p.m. The crew \(including Lt. [Fred W. Kingdon Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69695127/fred-william-kingdon) and US Naval Reserve Lt. [Graham E. Bethune](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78330887/graham-eugene-bethune)\) and passengers of a US Navy R5D transport flying west from Keflavík, Iceland, at 10,000 feet about 212 miles northeast of Gander, Newfoundland, observe a large orange-rimmed UFO with a dark center. It is about 400 feet in diameter and first seen moving above the surface of the ocean. As the plane approaches, the object changes colors, executes a sudden 180° turn and disappears over the horizon. Over time, several attempts to disguise the participants have resulted in confusion over the date. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Bethune Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/510210newfoundland%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Huge Object](http://www.nicap.org/510221newfoundland%5Fdir.htm) [Rushes up from Ocean Surface](http://www.nicap.org/510221newfoundland%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 9–26; “[Casebook: February 8, 1951,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/054%20SEPTEMBER%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, no. 54 \(September 1970\): 3; “[Casebook: February 8, 1951,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/055%20OCTOBER%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, no. 55 \(October 1970\): 3; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 78–79](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/78/mode/2up); “Unidentified Flying Object: A Provocative Tale,” Naval Aviation News, June 1973, pp. 18–19, [reprinted](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) by Project 1947; Good Above, [pp. 268](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up) [486](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/486/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/136/mode/2up) [137–139](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/136/mode/2up); Graham E. Bethune, “[Lights on the Surface,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/Bethunefinaltext.doc)” 1999; Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell, and Peter A. Reali, “[Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/powell/Estimating.Flight.Characteristics.of.UAP-entropy-21-00939-v2.pdf)” Entropy, September 25, 2019; Patrick Gross, “[The Bethune Flight 124 Airmiss in 1951](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bethune51.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1633 ### Event 5412 (F65DF032) **Date:** 2/10/1951 **Location:** Keflavik, Iceland **Description:** Confidential Memo to Air Transport Squadron One: Lt. Graham E. Bethune, U.S. Naval Reserve reported seeing a circular, reddish-orange UFO flying at a speed in excess of 1000 mph, approx. 300 ft. diam. approaching and reversing direction within 5 miles of his plane (Flight 125 from Keflavik, Iceland.) **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p486) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_431 ### Event 5413 (A2BA92FF) **Date:** 2/10/1951 **Location:** Gander, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Bethune Case. Several onboard aircraft compasses slowly rotated or spun during UFO encounter (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [510210](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/candir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_800 ### Event 5414 (36A21C0F) **Date:** 2/10/1951 **Location:** Gander, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Bethune Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [510210](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/candir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_801 ### Event 5415 (DACF51EF) **Date:** 2/10/1951 **Description:** A giant, bright orange-red disc was observed by the pilot of a four-engine, U.S. Navy R-5D transport flying 90 miles from Gander, Labrador, Canada. The UFO maneuvered nearer to the plane, which was flying at 10,000 feet altitude at the time. The UFO sighting was dubbed the "Gander UFO case." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 211; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_793 ### Event 5416 (7D1C5881) **Date:** 2/13/1951 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** [William Webster](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/19/archives/william-webster-power-execijtive-expentagon-official-dead-led-new.html), chair of the Defense Department’s Research and Development Board, convenes a press briefing at the Pentagon and announces that “Careful studies have been made \[referring to the upcoming article in Look\]. I don’t believe anyone who has the opportunity to be informed and to look into this thing believes there is a flying saucer as such. As far as I know there is nothing to the flying saucers.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) [History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 13–14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1634 ### Event 5417 (ABB305F1) **Date:** 2/14/1951 **Location:** ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** 2 Air Force pilots watch large balloon. Saucer / high altitude hovers. Going quickly northwest. / r78p159. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1884 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1351", **HatchDesc:** "ALAMOGORDO,NM:2 AF PILOTS WATCH LRG BALLOON:SCR/HI alt HVRS:>>NW:/r78p159", **LatLong:** "32.866668 -105.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:52:00 N 105:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.866668,-105.966672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5418 (F6F5B7A9) **Date:** 2/14/1951 **Location:** Alamogordo, NM **Description:** Two Air Force pilots, while watching a large balloon, saw a flat, round white object hovering at high altitude. \[III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_802 ### Event 5419 (DD136A7D) **Date:** 2/14/1951 **Description:** U.S. Air Force pilots Cocker and Spradley saw a flat, round white UFO hovering as they were flying near Alamogordo, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Daniel Lang, The New Yorker, September 1952, p. 6; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 154, citing Fate, August 1951, p. 16; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_913 ### Event 5420 (F6CF0378) **Date:** 2/15/1951 **Location:** Sea of Japan (off coast of South Korea), At Sea **Description:** Radar tracking of unidentified target at 12,000 - 14,000 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510215](http://www.nicap.org/510215seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_803 ### Event 5421 (DB977E3F) **Date:** 2/19/1951 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** MT. KILIMANJARO, KNYA **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner crew and more/others. Photographs. Huge bullet going up [to] and going east / 1K mph. / r31p141+/ r242p123. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1885 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kenya", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "Mt KILIMANJARO,KNYA:AL CREW++:FOTOS:HUGE BULLET ↑+>E/1K mph:/r31p141+/r242p123", **LatLong:** "-3.150000 37.300002", **LatLongDMS:** "03:09:00 S 37:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-3.150000,37.300002)", **State/Prov:** "KMJ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5422 (7ADB7781) **Date:** 2/19/1951 **Location:** Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya, Africa **Description:** Lodestar Crew Sees Stationary Silver Elongated Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510219](http://www.nicap.org/510219kilimanjaro%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_804 ### Event 5423 (D228CAC7) **Date:** 2/19/1951 **Location:** Rodeo, NM **Description:** Pilot saw a green flare \[fireball?\] pass his plane. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_805 ### Event 5424 (FFBA3D19) **Date:** 2/19/1951 **Locations:** Nairobi, Kenya; Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanganyika [now Tanzania] **Description:** 7:20 a.m. Capt. Jack Bicknell and Radio Officer D. W. Merrifield are flying a Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar aircraft out of Nairobi, Kenya, when they see a bright object hanging motionless about 10,000 above Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanganyika \[now Tanzania\]. They watch it for 3 minutes, then tell the passengers about it. Bicknell observes it through binoculars and sees a “metallic, bullet-shaped object which must have been over 200 feet long.” It has a vertical fin at one end, and at regular intervals along the fuselage are vertical dark bands. It remains completely stationary for 17 minutes. Two passengers take photos of it. Then it begins rising and moving eastward, disappearing at 40,000 feet. It leaves no vapor trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Lodestar Crew Sees Stationary Silver](http://www.nicap.org/510219kilimanjaro%5Fdir.htm) [Elongated Object](http://www.nicap.org/510219kilimanjaro%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Flying Saucer: Captain Bicknell’s Own Story,](http://cufos.org/cases/1951%5F02%5F19%5FTZ%5F09%5FMt-Kilimanjaro%5FBaller%5FMultiWit%5FPhotor.pdf)” Nairobi \(Kenya\) Sunday Post, February 25, 1951, p. 15; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1951%5F02%5F19%5FTZ%5F09%5FMt-Kilimanjaro%5FBaller%5FMultiWit%5FPhotor.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p. 124](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=136&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 105; Patrick Gross. “[February 19, 1951, Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kilimandjaro1951.htm)”; Barry Greenwood, “[Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, February 19,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf) [1951: Photo Located,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 \(July 2015\): 1–4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1635 ### Event 5425 (A16BF574) **Date:** 2/19/1951 **Description:** Aviation Week praises the upcoming article in Look identifying UFOs as balloons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Robert H. Wood, “Saucers, Secrecy, and Security,” Aviation Week 54 \(February 19, 1951\): 50, [reprinted](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) by Project 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1636 ### Event 5426 (625A0E47) **Date:** 2/19/1951 **Description:** Twelve witnesses flying in an airliner, including two men name Bicknell and Merrifield, while flying near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania sighted a 200 foot long bullet shaped UFO at 7:20 a.m. At one end of the object was a square-cut, vertical fin. The body of the craft was a dull silver cover, but at intervals along the fuselage were dark vertical bands. The object hovered over Mount Kilimanjaro for several minutes, then moved away fast towards the east at an estimated speed of 1,000 km per hour. They took a photograph of it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Nairobi Sun Post, February 25, 1951; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 9; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 36; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, January 1990 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_992 ### Event 5427 (6260CDE0) **Date:** 2/20/1951 **Description:** The Air Intelligence Training Bulletin publishes a facetious news item on how to recognize flying saucers, but implies they are all reflections. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Recognition of Flying Saucers,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/aitb%5F1.htm)” Air Intelligence Training Bulletin, February 20, 1951 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1637 ### Event 5428 (AFA1D013) **Date:** 2/21/1951 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** DURBAN, RSA **Description:** 3 / truck and several others. Dark red torpedo flies straight and level. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1886 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DURBAN,RSA:3/TRUCK+SVRL OTHERS:DARK RED TORPEDO FLIES S/L:NFD", **LatLong:** "-29.783335 30.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "29:47:00 S 30:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.783335,30.950001)", **State/Prov:** "KwaZulu-Natal", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5429 (04A1E87F) **Date:** 2/21/1951 **Location:** Durban, S. Africa **Description:** Dark red, torpedo-shaped object with darker center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 896) **Reference:** NICAP: [510221](http://nicap.org/durban510221dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_806 ### Event 5430 (33148181) **Date:** 2/21/1951 **Time:** 4:55 AM **Location:** Durban, South Africa **Description:** Witnesses: three men in a truck, several other persons, none named. A dark red, torpedo-shaped object with darker center, flew straight and level. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_62 ### Event 5431 (592D6515) **Date:** 2/24/1951 **Location:** REDWOOD VALLEY, CA **Description:** Flash fades to night light. Night light circles / high speed. Heads going quickly south. Local news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1887 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "REDWOOD VALLEY,CA:FLASH FADES TO NLT:NLT CIRCLES/HI SPEED:HEADS>>S:LOCAL NEWS", **LatLong:** "39.266669 -123.205561", **LatLongDMS:** "39:16:00 N 123:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.266669,-123.205561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5432 (1527E36C) **Date:** 2/25/1951 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** BSRA’s “Gerald Light” associate reports that he was attacked suffering injuries by a saucer, and his neighbor and his neighbor's dog were also affected. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555309019648196610) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_432 ### Event 5433 (D265A272) **Date:** 2/25/1951 **Locations:** USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts; New Mexico; Los Alamos **Description:** Project Twinkle head and chemist Anthony O. Mirarchi at the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts tells the Associated Press that he thinks UFOs are not “just balloons” \(in response to [Liddel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/)’s upcoming article\) and urges a full investigation of what could be experiments by a “potential enemy of the United States.” He says that UFO reports show “maneuvered motion” that are not characteristic of a natural phenomenon. He says the “Navy report is erroneous. It lulls people into a false sense of security.” He reminds the nation of the critical installations in New Mexico, including Los Alamos, and argues that they are a target of reconnaissance: “If they were launched by a foreign power, then they could lead to a worse Pearl Harbor than we have ever experienced.” He blasts the US government for a policy of “suicide by secrecy.” The FBI and Air Force mull prosecuting Mirarchi for violating AFR 205-1. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A.F. Scientist Warns Saucers Major Threat,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93205228/)” Dayton \(Ohio\) Daily News, February 26, 1951, p. 1; “[Scientist Fears Flying Saucers Portend a Worse ‘Pearl Harbor,’](http://www.nicap.org/articles/MirarchiArticle.htm)” Oklahoma Daily Oklahoman, February 26, 1951, p 1; Swords 119–120; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 18–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1638 ### Event 5434 (DD753B14) **Date:** 2/26/1951 **Time:** 07:10 **Location:** LADD AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #897. Observer(s) = sells. 120' football over runway. Wobbles / 18K' altitude. Very fast going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1888 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "LADD AFB,AK:BBK#897:OBS=SELLS:120'FTBALL ovr RUNWAY:WOBBLES/18K'alt:VFAST>>N", **LatLong:** "64.800003 -147.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "64:48:00 N 147:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.800003,-147.666674)", **RelAlt:** "5500", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5435 (EE88AE67) **Date:** 2/26/1951 **Location:** Ladd AFB, AK **Description:** Oblong Object Hovers Over Runway (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 897) **Reference:** NICAP: [510226](http://www.nicap.org/510226laddafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_807 ### Event 5436 (614F63AA) **Date:** 2/26/1951 **Time:** 7:10 AM **Location:** Ladd AFB, Alaska **Description:** Witness: USAF Sgt. J.B. Sells. One dull grey, metallic object, estimated to be 120' long and 10-12' thick, hovered, puffed smoke and sped away after 1-1.5 minutes. Note: may have been Feb. 25. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_63 ### Event 5437 (742FB25B) **Date:** 2/26/1951 **Description:** Ladd AFB, Alaska. At 7:10 a.m. USAF Sgt. J. B. Sells watched a dull gray metallic object, estimated to be 120 feet long and 10-12 feet thick. The UFO hovered, puffed smoke, and sped away after about 90 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1126 ### Event 5438 (56FE7084) **Date:** 2/27/1951 **Description:** Physicist [Urner Liddel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/) Office of Naval Research, says in a Look magazine article that there is not a single reliable UFO report that is not attributable to the cosmic \[Skyhook\] balloons. The article is based on Liddel’s study in ONR’s Research Reviews in March. He claims to have studied “hundreds” of sightings in detail \(probably from Project Grudge\). As for UFOs sighted by Skyhook scientists themselves, he discounts them because these technicians are not aware of mirages and internal reflections in optical devices. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard Wilson, “A Nuclear Physicist Exposes Flying Saucers,” Look, February 27, 1951, pp. 60–64; Swords 117–118; Urner Liddel, “[Bogies at Angels 100,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435069145381&view=1up&seq=75&skin=2021)” Research Reviews, March 1951, pp. 1–6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1639 ### Event 5439 (C7EA2B79) **Date:** 3/1951 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** BANGUI, FR. EQT.AFR **Description:** White fireball buzzes Air Force Base. Fast and silent. Stops. 90° turn and away. / r135p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1889 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Congo states", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BANGUI,Fr.Eqt.AFR:WHT FBL BUZZES AFB:FAST+SLNT:STOPS:90°TURN+AWAY:/r135p16", **LatLong:** "4.366667 18.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "04:22:00 N 18:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/4.366667,18.583334)", **State/Prov:** "FEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5440 (45D9A866) **Date:** 3/1951 (approximate) **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** 125MI SOUTHEAST / CAPE MAY, NJ **Description:** New Navy RADAR. Blip going quickly west / 3Kmph. Stops. Going up / 150mi altitude. / r210v30#7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1890 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "125mi SE/CAPE MAY,NJ:NEW NAVY RDR:BLIP >>W/3Kmph:STOPS:↑/150mi ALT:/r210v30#7", **LatLong:** "34.750002 -72.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 N 72:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.750002,-72.500003)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5441 (D979CEC7) **Date:** 3/1951 **Location:** Off Cape May, NJ **Description:** U.S.S. Dyess Tracks Object at 3,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [510300](http://www.nicap.org/5103XXcapemaydir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_808 ### Event 5442 (F3115DE3) **Date:** 3/1951 **Locations:** Suffolk County, Virginia; Nansemond County; Turlington Road; Jackson Road **Description:** A ghost light is seen in Suffolk County, Virginia, and investigated by Nansemond County Deputy Sheriff [Hurley Jones](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25642529/hurley-jones)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25642529/hurley-jones) who sees the light three times. It looks like a car headlight 5 feet off the ground, three times. Jeston Reid said his father had seen the light in the 1870s. The location is apparently either Turlington Road or Jackson Road \[they intersect\] south of Suffolk, since locals say the old railroad along the Jackson and Whaleyville logging road used to run down that way, and the light has also been compared to a locomotive headlight. Some 200 people have been gathering along the road, hoping to catch a glimpse. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mystery Light Is a Puzzle in Nansemond,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91144882/the-times-dispatch/)” Richmond \(Va.\) Times-Dispatch, March 6, 1951, p. 2; “[Nansemond’s Mystery Light Is Nothing New to Old-](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91144937/the-times-dispatch/) [Timers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91144937/the-times-dispatch/)” Richmond \(Va.\) Times-Dispatch, March 7, 1951, p. 2; “[Mysterious Suffolk Light Has Deputy Believing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91145128/statesville-daily-record/) [in Ghosts,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91145128/statesville-daily-record/)” Statesville \(N.C.\) Daily Record, March 8, 1951, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1640 ### Event 5443 (C715F568) **Date:** 3/1951 **Locations:** Cape May, New Jersey; Nantucket Island, Massachusetts **Description:** 11:30 p.m. Operations Officer Robert Wood is aboard the [USS Dyess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FDyess%5F%28DD-880%29) approximately 125 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, when he picks up a radar target coming in from due east at a speed of 98–104 mph and an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet. It stops and hovers about 30 miles away. Wood notifies the bridge, and the captain orders the ship to change course toward the object. About 30 minutes later, the UFO suddenly takes off toward the north at 3,000 mph, getting to within 35–40 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, before it zooms straight up. Altitude-determining radar tracks the object to 100 miles altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[March, 1951: Approximately 125](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) [Miles SE of Cape May, N.J.,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm)” Project 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1641 ### Event 5444 (76A38645) **Date:** Early Spring 1951 **Location:** Cheorwon, South Korea **Description:** Dusk. US Army Pfc. [Francis P. Wall](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74275338/francis-patrick-wall) is on maneuvers with the 27th Infantry Regiment near Cheorwon, South Korea, when he sees an orange light like a jack-o-lantern coming down a mountain. Artillery airbursts do not seem to harm it. As it approaches, it turns into a brilliant blue-green disc pulsating with light. Wall asks permission to shoot and fires a round from his M-1 rifle at it. The object starts moving erratically from side to side, flashes on and off, and makes an engine-like noise. It sweeps the soldiers with a beam of light, and they feel a burning and tingling sensation. They retreat to their bunkers and continue to watch the object, which is still lighting up the area, and then it shoots away at a 45° angle. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Haines, Korea, [pp. 18–27](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch2.htm); Richard F. Haines, “GI Fires on UFO in Korea,” IUR 15, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1990\): 23–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1644 ### Event 5445 (F26A8EE8) **Date:** 3/8/1951 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 3.1km (Blossom 8 — Three explosions at 15.5; 18.5 and 19.5s destroying tail section) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_433 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 3.1km ### Event 5446 (8F0B6F18) **Date:** 3/9/1951 **Location:** Tsushima Island (about 20 miles SE of), Japan **Description:** Radar tracking of unidentified target at 3,350 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510309](http://www.nicap.org/510309japan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_809 ### Event 5447 (2D93373E) **Date:** 3/10/1951 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** 42 MI SOUTHWEST / CHINNAMPO, KOREA **Description:** 9+observer(s). 2' orange fireball buzzes B29. Flashes blue-white and shoots by. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1891 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "42mi SW/CHINNAMPO,KOREA:9+OBS:2'ORG FBL BUZZES B29:FLASHES BLU-WHT+SHOOTS BY", **LatLong:** "38.750002 125.394450", **LatLongDMS:** "38:45:00 N 125:23:40 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.750002,125.394450)", **State/Prov:** "NMP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5448 (06997E68) **Date:** 3/10/1951 **Location:** Chinnampo, Korea **Description:** Large red-yellow glow burst and become blue-white (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_810 ### Event 5449 (135C0ACD) **Date:** 3/10/1951 **Time:** 9:51 AM **Location:** Chinnampo, Korea **Description:** Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber, including scanners and tail gunner. A large red-yellow glow burst and became blue-white. No further information in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_64 ### Event 5450 (B4D640E9) **Date:** 3/12/1951 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CORCELLES, NEUCHATEL, SWZ **Description:** Professor and 300. Saucer / spurts / speed. Flips over and maneuvers. Going up / extreme speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1892 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "CORCELLES,NEUCHATEL,SWZ:PROF+300:SCR/SPURTS/SPEED:FLIPS OVR+MNVRS:↑/XTREME SPD", **LatLong:** "46.983336 6.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:59:00 N 06:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.983336,6.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Vaud", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5451 (65C5DF5D) **Date:** 3/13/1951 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** MCCLELLAN AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Blue Book. 2 observer(s). 200' cylinder/cylindrical object with twin tails. Turns going quickly north. Incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1893 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "McCLELLAN AFB,CA:BBK:2 OBS:200'CYL W/TWIN TAILS:TURNS>>N:INCREDIBLE SPEED", **LatLong:** "38.700002 -121.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:42:00 N 121:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.700002,-121.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5452 (7B208FDD) **Date:** 3/13/1951 **Location:** McClellan AFB, Sacramento, CA **Description:** Cylinder With Twin Trails (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 907) **Reference:** NICAP: [510313](http://www.nicap.org/510313sacramento%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_811 ### Event 5453 (73F4B48D) **Date:** 3/13/1951 **Time:** 3:20 PM **Location:** McClellan AFB, California **Description:** Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. B.J. Hastie, Mrs. Rafferty. A cylinder with twin tails, 200' long and 90' wide, turned north and flew at incredible speed. Two minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_65 ### Event 5454 (8509D66E) **Date:** 3/13/1951 **Description:** At 3:15 p.m. a 200 foot long cylinder with twin tails was sighted over McClellan AFB in Sacramento County, California. It made a turn to the north and flew off at an incredible speed. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 907 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1447 ### Event 5455 (FAD4D6AC) **Date:** 3/14/1951 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** EAST / HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 9 aero-engineers. 12+white objects swirl randomly. Then shoot going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1894 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1230", **HatchDesc:** "E/HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:9 AERO-ENGINEERS:12+ WHT OBJs SWIRL RANDOMLY:THEN SHOOT >>N", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -106.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 106:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-106.050005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5456 (D35348FF) **Date:** 3/14/1951 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** A group of nine Bell Aircraft engineers are flying at 15,000 feet in a B-50 Superfortress near Holloman AFB, New Mexico, during a test of a secret Bell aircraft. They spot a group of unknown objects flying in a confusing “swirl” that breaks into a V-formation and back to a “swirl,” then a V again. The objects are slightly higher than the aircraft and seem to be moving at high velocity. The engineers insist the objects are not geese, which actually can fly this high. \(This may be the same incident as the August 30, 1950, case at Holloman.\) **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 21–22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1642 ### Event 5457 (006AA256) **Date:** 3/14/1951 **Description:** Nine aeronautical engineers at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico watched at least 12 white objects swirl around randomly in the sky, and then shoot off to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1474 ### Event 5458 (8BEA053D) **Date:** 3/15/1951 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** NEW DELHI, INDIA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #908. 25 observer(s). 100' metal cylinder/cigar-shape. Exhaust going quickly [to] black / acceleration. Going southwest. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1895 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "NEW DELHI,INDIA:BBK#908:25 OBS:100'MTL CGR:EXHAUST>>BLK/ACCEL:>SW: VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "28.633335 77.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "28:38:00 N 77:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.633335,77.200004)", **State/Prov:** "PJB", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5459 (577CFDED) **Date:** 3/15/1951 **Time:** 10:20? **Location:** ALLAHABAD, INDIA **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape leaves queer fluorescent trail. Similar to new Delhi object. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1896 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ALLAHABAD,INDIA:CGR LEAVES QUEER FLUORESCENT TRAIL:similar to NEW DELHI OBJ", **LatLong:** "25.338890 81.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:20:20 N 81:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.338890,81.883337)", **State/Prov:** "UTP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5460 (F7E7E2E1) **Date:** 3/15/1951 **Location:** New Delhi, India **Description:** 20+ Top Shelf Witnesses / Metallic Cigar (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 908) **Reference:** NICAP: [510315](http://www.nicap.org/510315newdelhi%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_812 ### Event 5461 (748A6EB6) **Date:** 3/15/1951 **Time:** 10:20 AM **Location:** New Delhi, India **Description:** Witnesses: 25 members of a flying club, including the chief aerial engineer and his two assistants. One metallic cigar-shaped object with white exhaust which turned black when it accelerated to an estimated 1,000 m.p.h. and made a large loop. Seven minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_66 ### Event 5462 (EBBFE821) **Date:** 3/15/1951 **Location:** New Delhi, India **Description:** 10:20 a.m. George F. Floate, chief engineer of the Delhi Flying Club, and two assistants observe a swirly white cloud moving from north to south at about 4,000 feet altitude near the club’s hanger in New Delhi, India. The cloud is about 700 feet in length. At the end of it a bullet-shaped object appears, approximately 100 feet long and as big around as a C-47 fuselage. The witnesses shout out, and 17–20 people rush out of the hanger and see the object. It heads south for about 3 minutes where it makes an apparent loop, coming back over the field. At the top of the loop it is out of sight, but it is seen again in its dive. After recovering straight and level flight, the UFO proceeds to the southwest until it is lost to sight. Its speed is estimated at three times greater than the cruising speed of a British Vampire jet. The total duration is about 7 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[20+ Top Shelf Witnesses /](http://www.nicap.org/510315newdelhi%5Fdir.htm) [Metallic Cigar](http://www.nicap.org/510315newdelhi%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 106 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1643 ### Event 5463 (ED8D61C1) **Date:** 3/15/1951 **Description:** Three men saw a one hundred foot long metallic cigar-shaped object over the city of New Delhi, India at 9:50 a.m. It gave off a black exhaust when it accelerated. The UFO flew toward the southwest and then vanished from sight. It was visible for over seven minutes. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force files counted in official statistics, case #908 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1522 ### Event 5464 (947B314D) **Date:** 3/21/1951 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** EL MOUIDZINE, MAROC **Description:** 3 observer(s) / 15 second(s). Moon-size saucer going quickly west. Very sharp turn / horizon. Luminous trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: GUIEU, Jimmy: Les Soucoupes Volantes vient de un Autre Monde: pg 48. [from 2 scanned pages] **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1897 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "El MOUIDZINE,MAROC:3 OBS/15sec:MOONSIZE SCR >>W:VSHARP TURN/HRZN:LUMn.TRAIL", **LatLong:** "34.294446 -6.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "34:17:40 N 06:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.294446,-6.416667)", **State/Prov:** "KNT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5465 (F7B155F7) **Date:** 3/24/1951 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Project Twinkle Photographed UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [510324](http://www.nicap.org/holloman510324dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_813 ### Event 5466 (AA575D2D) **Date:** 3/26/1951 (approximate) **Location:** TERRE HAUTE, IN **Description:** News. Many observer(s). Silver saucer passes over airport. Wind direction differs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1898 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "151", **HatchDesc:** "TERRE HAUTE,IN:NEWS:MANY OBS:SLVR SCR PASSES OVR AIRPORT:WIND DIR. DIFFERS", **LatLong:** "39.472224 -87.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:28:20 N 87:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.472224,-87.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5467 (80766848) **Date:** 3/29/1951 **Location:** NEW DELHI, INDIA **Description:** Same observer(s). Same craft parks / sky / 20 minute(s). Vanishes in sight again! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1899 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "NEW DELHI,INDIA:SAME OBS:SAME CRAFT PARKS/SKY/20min:VANISHES IN SIGHT AGAIN!", **LatLong:** "28.633335 77.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "28:38:00 N 77:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.633335,77.183337)", **State/Prov:** "HRY", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5468 (8ABEBBC5) **Date:** 4/1951 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** FAYETTE CO, GA **Description:** Private pilot. Silver white disk. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). Compass spins etc. Object vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1900 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "FAYETTE co,GA:Pvt PILOT:SLVR WHT DISK:EME:COMPASS SPINS etc.:OBJ VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "33.416668 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.416668,-84.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5469 (CA1EB066) **Date:** 4/1951 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** CHORWON, KOREA **Description:** Domed saucer / low altitude hit / M1 rounds. 1 observer has missing time later. Object quickly going up [to] and going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1901 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "CHORWON,KOREA:DOMED SCR/LO ALT HIT/M1 ROUNDS:1 OBS HAS MST LATER:OBJ↑↑+>>W", **LatLong:** "38.266668 127.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:16:00 N 127:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.266668,127.200006)", **State/Prov:** "CHR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5470 (5410C840) **Date:** 4/1951 **Location:** E. coast of Korea, Korea **Description:** U.S.S. Princeton Tracks Fast-Moving Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [510400](http://www.nicap.org/5104XXkoreancoast%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_815 ### Event 5471 (1F7E8B38) **Date:** 4/4/1951 **Description:** The Truman administration forms the Psychological Strategy Board to coordinate and plan for psychological operations. The board is composed of the Under Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence, or their designated representatives. The board’s first director is [Gordon Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29) later National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower administration. The board is created in response to the growth of Office of Policy Coordination covert activities during the Korean War. The PSB is tasked with creating propaganda that will subconsciously turn people away from communism and toward democracy. It is abolished in 1953. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Psychological Strategy Board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological%5FStrategy%5FBoard)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1645 ### Event 5472 (A55F260C) **Date:** 4/7/1951 **Time:** 17:33:57.8 **Location:** 11.55234 162.34648 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Dog” Yield: 81KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_13 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.55234 162.34648", **LatLongDMS:** "11:33:08 N 162:20:47 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.55234,162.34648)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Dog", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "81" ### Event 5473 (669DB85A) **Date:** 4/7/1951 **Locations:** Arctic; Everywhere **Description:** [Howard Hawks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHawks)’s film The Thing from Another World opens, starring [Margaret Sheridan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%5FSheridan), [Kenneth Tobey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FTobey), and [James Arness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FArness)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FArness) about a crashed flying saucer found in the Arctic. It ends with the haunting lines by [Douglas](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817930/) [Spencer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817930/): “Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Watch the skies!” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Internet Movie Database, “[The Thing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/) [from Another World](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1646 ### Event 5474 (2BC3A0AB) **Date:** 4/11/1951 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** 2 scientists / plane and ground theodolite. 2 very fast cigars. 1 going quickly east. / r107p226. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1902 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:2 SCIENTISTS/PLANE+GND THEODOLITE:2 VFAST CGRS:1>>E:/r107p226", **LatLong:** "44.966669 -93.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:58:00 N 93:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.966669,-93.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5475 (21958A80) **Date:** 4/11/1951 **Description:** Air Defense Command issues a memo on “Unconventional Aircraft” to all USAF facilities, encouraging them to report sightings in a timely manner. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf), The Author, 1983, pp. 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1647 ### Event 5476 (25F16D80) **Date:** 4/12/1951 **Location:** NEAR MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WA **Description:** 9 military observer(s) and more. Extremely fast object going northeast. Maneuvers. Bursts / light. Shoots quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1903 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "nr MCCHORD AFB,WA:9 MIL OBS+:XFAST OBJ >NE:MNVRS:BURSTS/LITE:SHOOTS ↑↑", **LatLong:** "47.183336 -122.466673", **LatLongDMS:** "47:11:00 N 122:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.183336,-122.466673)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5477 (AC9D734B) **Date:** 4/14/1951 **Location:** Yellow Sea, At Sea **Description:** Radar tracking of unidentified target at 3,755 mph. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510414](http://www.nicap.org/510414yellowsea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_816 ### Event 5478 (7E304837) **Date:** 4/17/1951 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** Project Grudge’s Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) notes that JANAP 146 has no provision for UFO reports to be sent to Wright-Patterson AFB under the CIRVIS system. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1648 ### Event 5479 (8B48C369) **Date:** 4/20/1951 **Time:** 17:27:00.1 **Location:** 11.6689 162.2403 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Easy” Yield: 47KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_14 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6689 162.2403", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:08 N 162:14:25 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6689,162.2403)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Easy", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "47" ### Event 5480 (A9794618) **Date:** 4/21/1951 **Locations:** Enewetak Atoll; Marshall Islands; Bogullua Island **Description:** Drones are again used in the series of thermonuclear tests designated Operation Greenhouse at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. During the Easy detonation, two T-33 drones are lost. One receives heavy damage from the shock wave, loses control, and crashes; the other refuses to respond to control signals and crashes on uninhabited Bogullua Island. The Air Force concludes that unmanned samplers are unreliable. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** M/Sgt Leland B. Taylor, [History of Air Force Atomic Cloud Sampling](https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=485689)[,](https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=485689) US Special Weapons Center, January 1963, pp. 34–37; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 225](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/224/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1649 ### Event 5481 (150669C5) **Date:** 4/23/1951 **Locations:** USAF Director of Intelligence; AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) writes a memo to the USAF Director of Intelligence, explaining his view that “little if any results” have been obtained from Project Grudge other than the objects are not from a foreign power. But since there is still dome doubt, all reports should be forwarded to AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio . **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 121 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1650 ### Event 5482 (B7B218FE) **Date:** 4/27/1951 **Location:** US **Description:** Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is released **Type:** movie **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_434 ### Event 5483 (69E539A5) **Date:** 5/1951 (approximate) **Location:** OFF EAST KOREA **Description:** April and May. US Princeton and PHL sea. Many RADAR report(s). To 1200mph. 1 splits going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1904 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "248", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off E.KOREA:APR+MAY:US PRINCETON+PHL SEA:MANY RDR RPTS:TO 1200mph:1 SPLITS >>N", **LatLong:** "36.200002 130.033340", **LatLongDMS:** "36:12:00 N 130:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.200002,130.033340)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5484 (06A952E7) **Date:** 5/1951 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** EAST / CHINHOYI, RHOD **Description:** 3+many. Silent 20M metallic saucer going south / 500M altitude. Stops. Turns going quickly west going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1905 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "E/CHINHOYI,RHOD:3+MANY:SLNT 20M MTLC SCR > S/500M alt:STOPS:TURNS >>W ↑+AWAY", **LatLong:** "-17.333334 30.633335", **LatLongDMS:** "17:20:00 S 30:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.333334,30.633335)", **State/Prov:** "ZIM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5485 (1393CAF8) **Date:** 5/8/1951 **Time:** 20:30:00.7 **Location:** 11.6269 162.3147 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “George” Yield: 225KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_15 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6269 162.3147", **LatLongDMS:** "11:37:37 N 162:18:53 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6269,162.3147)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.06", **NukeName:** "George", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "225" ### Event 5486 (14FD16BB) **Date:** 5/21/1951 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson; Pentagon **Description:** Wright-Patterson’s Technical Intelligence Department \(T-2\) becomes the Air Technical Intelligence Center \(ATIC\) and is assigned to the Directorate of Intelligence in the Pentagon. Project Grudge goes along with it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 12; Clark III 936 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1651 ### Event 5487 (2B339724) **Date:** 5/22/1951 **Location:** RAINY LAKE, MN **Description:** 50 observer(s). Crystal ball maneuvers. Hovers. Shoots going up / cloud. Joined / 2nd similar. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1906 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "340", **HatchDesc:** "RAINY LAKE,MN:50 OBS:CRYSTAL BALL MNVRS:HVRS:SHOOTS↑/CLOUD:JOINED/2nd SIMILAR", **LatLong:** "48.627780 -93.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "48:37:40 N 93:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.627780,-93.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5488 (47D99391) **Date:** 5/22/1951 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** OVER DODGE CITY, KS **Description:** AAL pilot buzzed / odd blue night light. 500 going [to] 2000MPH. Going quickly southwest. / r242p34 / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1907 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "791", **HatchDesc:** "ovr DODGE CITY,KS:AAL PILOT BUZZED/ODD BLUE NLT:500>2000MPH:>>SW:/r242p34/r150", **LatLong:** "37.750002 -100.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:45:00 N 100:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.750002,-100.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5489 (A4E494E4) **Date:** 5/22/1951 **Location:** Dodge City (near), KS **Description:** Hunt Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_817 ### Event 5490 (3CE8CD46) **Date:** 5/22/1951 **Locations:** American Airlines; Dodge City, Kansas **Description:** 3:20 a.m. American Airlines pilot Capt. W. R. Hunt observes a blue-white, star-like object gyrating around the airplane at 21,000 feet for 20 minutes about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas. It moves backward and forward, then up and down, then dives below the plane and speeds away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mysterious Bright Light ‘Plays Tag’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91223699/the-iola-register/) [with Airliner over Kansas,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91223699/the-iola-register/)” Iola \(Kan.\) Register, May 22, 1951, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) [8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1652 ### Event 5491 (8F658473) **Date:** 5/22/1951 **Description:** A bluish-white object circled around and paced an American Airlines flight 100 miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas at 3:20 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3031 ### Event 5492 (0F3E2F5C) **Date:** 5/23/1951 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** SOUTH / GRAND RAPIDS, MN **Description:** AA liner. Night light 500-1000mph. Hovers and maneuvers. Nears and retreats / (UPI.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1908 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "413", **HatchDesc:** "S/GRAND RAPIDS,MN:AA LINER:NLT 500-1000mph:HVRS+MNVRS:NEARS+RETREATS/(UPI)", **LatLong:** "47.133336 -93.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:00 N 93:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.133336,-93.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5493 (8A081170) **Date:** 5/24/1951 **Time:** 17:16:59.3 **Location:** 11.6730 162.2486 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Item” Yield: 45.5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_16 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6730 162.2486", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:23 N 162:14:55 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6730,162.2486)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.06", **NukeName:** "Item", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "45.5" ### Event 5494 (76E087C4) **Date:** 5/29/1951 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Blue Book report. 4 airmen. Saucer going ESE slow 2800' over Geiger field. Going up / 60 degree angle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1909 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "23", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:BBK Rpt:4 AIRMEN:SCR >ESE SLOW 2800'ovr GEIGER Fld:↑/60dgr ANGLE", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -117.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 117:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-117.400006)", **RelAlt:** "840", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5495 (1E023FCE) **Date:** 5/29/1951 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** DOWNEY, CA **Description:** 3 aero-science writers and more. 30 silent glowing-saucers. 2500kph. 90° turns! / J. Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 431) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1910 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "36", **HatchDesc:** "DOWNEY,CA:3 AERO-SCIENCE WRITERS+:30 SLNT GLOW-SCRS:2500kph:90°TURNS!:/J.Guieu", **LatLong:** "33.900002 -118.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 N 118:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.900002,-118.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5496 (DA1E4C7E) **Date:** 5/29/1951 **Description:** At 3:41 p.m. there was a procession of a large number of glowing objects--at least 30--over Downey, California. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** H. B. Darrach, Life Magazine, April 7, 1952; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, July 1954; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 27; Richard F Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 212 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3145 ### Event 5497 (9081C56F) **Date:** 5/31/1951 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** NIAGARA FALLS, NY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #928. 3 military observer(s). Glowing saucer with arc-wings rises very fast / 35 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1911 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "NIAGARA FALLS,NY:BBK#928:3 MIL OBS:GLOWING SCR W/ARC-WINGS RISES VFAST/35sec", **LatLong:** "43.100002 -79.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:00 N 79:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.100002,-79.050004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5498 (CFF008A2) **Date:** 5/31/1951 **Description:** Niagara Falls, New York - A luminous disc with arc-shaped wings rose into the sky at a very fast speed. It was seen by several military witnesses for 35 seconds at 11:20 p.m. This case is a Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #928 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3176 ### Event 5499 (6BE3AECE) **Date:** 6/1951 **Location:** KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, LONDON **Description:** Plain metal parachute-size saucer over river. 1 American observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1912 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KINGSTON-upon-THAMES,LONDON:PLAIN MTL PARACHUTE-SIZE SCR OVR RIVER:1 AMER OBS", **LatLong:** "51.394447 -0.311111", **LatLongDMS:** "51:23:40 N 00:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.394447,-0.311111)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5500 (D4DAAC25) **Date:** 6/1951 **Location:** CAMBRIDGE, OH **Description:** 40cm double-hubcap / ground. Man picks it up and sets it down. It flies away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1913 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "246", **HatchDesc:** "CAMBRIDGE,OH:40cm DOUBLE-HUBCAP/GND:MAN PICKS IT UP+SETS IT DOWN:it flies away", **LatLong:** "40.022224 -81.588893", **LatLongDMS:** "40:01:20 N 81:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.022224,-81.588893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 5501 (3138EA18) **Date:** 6/1951 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST CAPE, WEST AUS **Description:** 2 / seismic survey. Dull aluminum saucer going quickly southeast to horizon. Faster / plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH: AUFORN group, with Diane Harrison. http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw/new **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1914 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NORTHWEST CAPE,W.AUS:2/SEISMIC SURVEY:DULL ALUMN.SCR >>SE to HRZN:FASTER/PLANE", **LatLong:** "-22.083334 114.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "22:05:00 S 114:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.083334,114.050005)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5502 (C96595EA) **Date:** 6/1951 **Description:** Project Grudge only has one person on staff to investigate UFO reports, Lt. [Jerry W. Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm), who reorganizes the system and uses a more open-minded approach. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/56/mode/2up) [56–57](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/56/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14; Swords 121 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1653 ### Event 5503 (9BBBA8FA) **Date:** 6/1951 **Locations:** UK; Canada; US; UK **Description:** The UK Flying Saucer Working Party produces its six-page final report for the Ministry of Defence’s Directorate of Scientific Intelligence, DSI/JTIC Report number 7, Unidentified Flying Objects, classified Secret. The CIA’s chief scientist, [H. Marshall Chadwell,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) attends the meeting when the report is delivered. The report admits that no systematic investigation has been undertaken, but from the evidence examined, including reports by RAF pilots, explanations can probably be found for most reports. Copies are also submitted to Canada as well as US and UK officials. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joe McGonagle, “[Flying Saucer Working Party: Commentary,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/fswpcmnt2.htm)” part 2, The Real UFO Project; Good Need, [pp. 149–152](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/148/mode/2up); David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015; UFOFiles2, [pp. 38–40](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n65/mode/2up); Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 21–23; Ian Ridpath, “[Report of the UK Government’s Flying Saucer Working Party \(1951 June\),](http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/ukgwp.html)” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic Pages, January 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1654 ### Event 5504 (90B99463) **Date:** 6/1/1951 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NEAR DAYTON, OH **Description:** USAF officer / car. Saucer / 90° turns. Faster / plane. Slower / meteor. / r135p28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1915 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "nr DAYTON,OH:USAF OFFICER/CAR:SCR/90°TURNS:FASTER/PLANE:SLOWER/METEOR:/r135p28", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -84.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 84:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-84.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5505 (AFFDD6B4) **Date:** 6/1/1951 **Location:** Niagara Falls, NY **Description:** Glowing yellow-orange, saucer shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 925) **Reference:** NICAP: [510601](http://nicap.org/niagara510601dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_818 ### Event 5506 (999C5C2E) **Date:** 6/1/1951 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Wright-Patterson AFB official watched disc make sharp turn. \[III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_819 ### Event 5507 (C2FBB774) **Date:** 6/1/1951 **Time:** 4:20 AM **Location:** Niagara Falls, New York **Description:** Witnesses: M/Sgt H.E. Sweeney, 2 enlisted men. One glowing yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, flew straight up. Seen for 30-40 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_67 ### Event 5508 (CAC5CB93) **Date:** 6/1/1951 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** 10:00 p.m. An ATIC official at Wright-Patterson AFB is driving west near Dayton, Ohio, when he sees a large, bluish-white light moving parallel to the car. It looks like a “stubby cigar.” After 15–20 seconds, it makes a right- angle turn, becomes circular, and rapidly disappears. Its speed is “faster than an airplane, slower than a meteor.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 23](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=35&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1655 ### Event 5509 (C3CF4823) **Date:** 6/1/1951 **Description:** At Niagara Falls, New York at 4:20 a.m. three enlisted men watched a glowing yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, shoot straight up into the sky. It was seen for 30-40 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3192 ### Event 5510 (83F39077) **Date:** 6/1/1951 **Description:** A Wright-Patterson AFB base official saw a disc-shaped object turn sharply southeast of Dayton, Ohio at 10:00 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3193 ### Event 5511 (E4300FFD) **Date:** 6/9/1951 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** NORTH / MIKKELI, FINLAND **Description:** 2 observer(s). 25M saucer / 300M altitude. Absolute(ly) silent straight & level flight going southeast going [to] Leningrad. 800mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1916 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "N/MIKKELI,FINLAND:2 OBS:25M SCR/300M alt:ABS SILENT S&L >SE >LENINGRAD:800mph", **LatLong:** "61.727781 27.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "61:43:40 N 27:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.727781,27.300001)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5512 (F6F30230) **Date:** 6/9/1951 **Description:** At 8:10 p.m. in Mikkeli, Finland two witnesses watched a 25 meter diameter disc-shaped object flying at 300 meters altitude. It was absolutely silent and continued to fly slowly at a low altitude toward Leningrad, Russia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3382 ### Event 5513 (E41502D4) **Date:** 6/14/1951 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_435 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 0km ### Event 5514 (7DA183DC) **Date:** 6/15/1951 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** ORANGE, FR **Description:** 2 / jet. Metal saucer hovers / 500M altitude. Jet chases. Quickly going up / 10000kph and gone. / r135#1p29. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: VSD Magazine, France: Special Issue. OVNIs: 50 ans de Rapports Officiels; June 2002 (Bernard Thouanel) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1917 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "ORANGE,FR:2/JET:MTL SCR HVRS/500M alt:JET CHASES:↑↑/10000kph+GONE:/r135#1p29", **LatLong:** "44.133335 4.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:08:00 N 04:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.133335,4.800000)", **State/Prov:** "Vaucluse", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5515 (AF8EC5F6) **Date:** 6/15/1951 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FR **Description:** Red sphere hovers. Going northeast. Going southwest. Descends. Rises. Swings. Also away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1918 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "La ROCHE-sur-YON,FR:RED SPHERE HVRS:> NE:>SW:DESCENDS:RISES:SWINGS:+away", **LatLong:** "46.650002 -1.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:39:00 N 01:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.650002,-1.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5516 (8B47EEDD) **Date:** 6/15/1951 **Description:** A metallic disc-shaped object, looking like aluminum, appeared to stand motionless in the sky when it was sighted by two military pilots flying between Orange and Aspres Buech, France at 10:37 a.m. in a French Air Force Vampire jet. It then accelerated away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3495 ### Event 5517 (426BF11F) **Date:** 6/19/1951 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** SONDERBORG, DK **Description:** Saucer / meadow. Observer(s) and birds and cows paralyzed. 4 pseudo-human/entity work on saucer. Probes exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1919 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SONDERBORG,DK:SCR/MEADOW:OBS+BIRDS+COWS PRLYZD:4 PSH WORK ON SCR:PROBES EXIT", **LatLong:** "54.916669 9.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "54:55:00 N 09:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.916669,9.783334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 5518 (5B7C6D98) **Date:** 6/19/1951 **Time:** 1200 **Location:** Sonderborg, Denmark **Description:** Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 m, he found himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Nachrichten May., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_82 ### Event 5519 (C5A1B037) **Date:** 6/19/1951 **Location:** Sønderborg, Denmark **Description:** Day. Mechanic Joseph Matiszewski hears a whistling sound as he is walking in Sønderborg, Denmark, and sees an object land in a nearby meadow. Approaching to within 150 feet of it, he finds himself paralyzed and notices that birds have stopped singing and cows seem frozen in place. Four men with brown skin and wearing black shiny suits and translucent helmets emerge from the object and send Matiszewski some telepathic messages. Eight smaller objects are ejected from the large one and float above it. Other figures inside the craft and on its deck appear to be making repairs. The objects ascend to about 300 feet and climb rapidly after that. The paralysis subsides. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-06-19-denmark-sonderborg.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-06-19-denmark-sonderborg.htm) July 1, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1656 ### Event 5520 (2D110C6D) **Date:** 6/19/1951 **Description:** In Sonderborg, Denmark Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 meters, he found himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195, citing UFO Nachrichten, May 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3548 ### Event 5521 (1F735DE7) **Date:** Summer 1951 **Location:** US **Description:** USAF project "Bluebook" is started **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_112 ### Event 5522 (8CD2CA06) **Date:** Summer 1951 **Locations:** Mexico City International Airport; Cuernavaca; New Zealand; US **Description:** A dubious story surfaces in 1956 that three UFOs had appeared above Mexico City International Airport at the same time as a visit by US Secretary of Defense [George C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall) \(However, there is no record of a visit by Marshall at this time; apparently his first visit to Mexico was a vacation in Cuernavaca in February 1952.\) According to the story, Marshall tells a “highly placed American” and “prominent medical scientist” that UFOs are interplanetary and friendly, but they have crashed accidentally on three occasions. In 1965, the American informant is revealed to be [Rolf Alexander](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/creative-realism-rolf-alexander/1132618455), who is in fact Allan Alexander Stirling, a New Zealand seaman who had jumped ship in 1920 and entered the US illegally. To support himself he promoted various dubious health cures while concocting a fictitious personal history. His activities were interrupted by prison sentences for mail fraud and embezzlement, and in 1954–1960 he claimed the ability to break up clouds with his psychokinetic abilities. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Let’s Talk Space: ‘Flying Saucers’ Are Real,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CJan-Feb%2CV%202%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1956\): 2–4; “[Rolf Alexander, M.D.,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2011%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1965\): 9; RosRept, [p. 99](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1659 ### Event 5523 (84F70FCB) **Date:** 6/22/1951 **Location:** Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** Life magazine reporter [Robert Emmett Ginna Jr.](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927) visits Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for the first time to gather information on “Project Saucer” for an article. The visit is coordinated by Jack T. Shea, special assistant to the director of public relations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1657 ### Event 5524 (B190A30A) **Date:** 6/24/1951 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / RICHMOND, VA **Description:** Odd blimp follows turnpike. Plays tag / police car. Away quickly going up. / D. Gribble. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1920 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "56", **HatchDesc:** "SE/RICHMOND,VA:ODD BLIMP FOLOS TURNPIKE:PLAYS TAG/POLICE CAR:AWAY↑↑:/D.Gribble", **LatLong:** "37.533335 -77.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "37:32:00 N 77:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.533335,-77.416670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5525 (82C9292A) **Date:** 6/25/1951 **Description:** The UK Flying Saucer Working Party is disbanded. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 152](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/152/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1658 ### Event 5526 (3A6DF3FB) **Date:** 6/28/1951 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.8km (Blossom 9 — Tail explosion at 8s and then cut-off signal given at 22s.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_436 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 5.8km ### Event 5527 (DCF3B5B9) **Date:** 7/1951 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** MADOC, ONT **Description:** 2 HIQ observer(s). Huge grey saucer covers end / Moira Lake. Shoots off faster / jet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FSR CASE HISTORIES. Bimonthly/London. Supplements 2 - 18 (final issue) (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1921 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "178", **HatchDesc:** "MADOC,ONT:2 HIQ OBS:HUGE GRY SCR COVERS END/MOIRA LAKE:SHOOTS OFF FASTER/JET", **LatLong:** "44.516669 -77.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:31:00 N 77:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.516669,-77.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5528 (ED36D27D) **Date:** 7/1951 (approximate) **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, ID **Description:** 60 military observer(s). 25' saucer 500' over runway. Observers reassigned widely. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1922 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "913", **HatchDesc:** "MOUNTAIN HOME AFB,ID:60 MIL.OBS:25'SCR 500'OVR RUNWAY:OBSs REASSIGNED WIDELY", **LatLong:** "43.033335 -115.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:02:00 N 115:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.033335,-115.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5529 (BF19CD82) **Date:** 7/1951 **Location:** Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee **Description:** The radiation-counter network set up at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, in December 1950 by Lt. Col. John R. Hood hits paydirt when a UFO appears, sighted both visually and on radar over the facility. He finds that the radiation counters have detected a significant rise in some kind of emission. Hood wants to expand the equipment, adding a debris-catching pursuit plane. However, information is lacking on this case and any follow- up. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1660 ### Event 5530 (89262949) **Date:** 7/1/1951 **Location:** Seoul, South Korea **Description:** Several Pilots Saw Fireballs (Probable IFO) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 2, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510701](http://www.nicap.org/510701seoul%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_820 ### Event 5531 (326AEE9C) **Date:** 7/1/1951 **Location:** Seoul, Korea **Description:** 10:50 p.m. Four night pilots of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in different areas around Seoul, Korea, simultaneously report a large green ball, very bright and trailing streaks of red then blue, passing overhead at 10,000–15,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Haines, Korea, [p. 31](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 106 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1661 ### Event 5532 (6EEEDCB5) **Date:** 7/4/1951? **Location:** Galena, Ohio **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Future ufologist [Irena Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena%5FScott) and her sister Sue are sleeping at their home in Galena, Ohio, when they wake to see a small glowing light circling their bedroom in a meandering movement, but never bumping into anything. It circles the room three times, maintaining the same shape, brightness, and size \(less than one inch\). After a few minutes, it moves in tight circles around the chandelier, then spirals downward, makes a noise, and emits tiny lights. Terrified, they rush out of the room and tell their father, who inspects the room but finds nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Irena Scott, “Bedroom Light,” IUR 13, no. 2 \(March/April 1988\): 14–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1662 ### Event 5533 (3B769E85) **Date:** 7/6/1951 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** LYNCHBURG, VA **Description:** 1M saucer hovers / college building. Zigzags. Rolls on edge. Going west. Silent. No trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1923 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "249", **HatchDesc:** "LYNCHBURG,VA:1M SCR HVRS/COLLEGE BLDG:ZIGZAGS:ROLLS ON EDGE:>W:SLNT:no trail", **LatLong:** "37.400002 -79.177782", **LatLongDMS:** "37:24:00 N 79:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.400002,-79.177782)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5534 (08B8E9BF) **Date:** 7/6/1951 **Description:** A UFO zigzagged over Lynchburg, Virginia at 8:25 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, March 2, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3872 ### Event 5535 (2C1C8D45) **Date:** 7/8/1951 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** MONTGOMERY, AL **Description:** Air Force man. 75' saucer southwest / drive-in movie. 1000' altitude. Wobbles. Shoots going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1924 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "MONTGOMERY,AL:AF MAN:75'SCR SW/DRIVE-IN MOVIE:1000'alt:WOBBLES:SHOOTS>>S", **LatLong:** "32.350002 -86.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:21:00 N 86:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.350002,-86.300004)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5536 (CDFC4194) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Location:** Columbus, GA **Description:** Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_437 **See also:** 7/10/1951 ### Event 5537 (83917887) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Location:** 18 MI SOUTHWEST / CORONA, NM **Description:** EXP'l RADAR facility. Red fireball slowly drops into trees. Glows / 10 sc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1925 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1950", **HatchDesc:** "18mi SW/CORONA,NM:EXP'l RDR FCLTY:RED FBL SLOWLY DROPS INTO TREES:GLOWS/10sc", **LatLong:** "34.033335 -105.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:00 N 105:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.033335,-105.833338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5538 (66596069) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** OVER DEARING, GA **Description:** 4M saucer does barrel-rolls around F51 / 10 minute(s)! Crazy speeds. / r43p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1926 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "143", **HatchDesc:** "ovr DEARING,GA:4M SCR DOES BARREL-ROLLS AROUND F51/10min!:CRAZY SPEEDS:/r43p14", **LatLong:** "33.422224 -82.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:20 N 82:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.422224,-82.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5539 (888504C6) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Location:** Dearing, GA **Description:** Pilot saw high speed white oval disc about twice size of his plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510709](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/510709dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_821 ### Event 5540 (DC851475) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Location:** Corona, NM **Description:** Red glowing ball about size of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_822 ### Event 5541 (BA9881E8) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Location:** Augusta, GA **Description:** Augusta, Georgia (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [510709](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/510709dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_823 ### Event 5542 (1242E9D5) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Locations:** Lawson AFB; Lawson Army Airfield; Dearing, Georgia **Description:** Day. USAF Lt. [George H. Kinmon II](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186955724/george-herbert-kinmon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186955724/george-herbert-kinmon) stationed at Lawson AFB \[now Lawson Army Airfield\] with the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, is flying an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia, when he sees a white disc “completely round and spinning in a clockwise direction.” It makes a headlong pass at his aircraft. It travels at “tremendous speed” and leaves no vapor trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Aerial Encounter with Disc](http://www.nicap.org/510709augusta%5Fdir.htm)”; “Saucer Attacked Me, Pilot Declares,” Cleveland Press, July 30, 1952, p. 1, [reprinted](https://members.tripod.com/task%5F2/Saucer%5Fattack.htm) in Saucer Attack, April 1998; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 107; UFOEv, [p. 23](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=35&skin=2021); Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 328–330 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1663 ### Event 5543 (ED9B4E01) **Date:** 7/9/1951 **Description:** At 1:40 p.m. a white, disc-shaped UFO, spinning clockwise, confronted an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia with head-on passes several times. Pilot Kinmon said he felt the air disturbance as the UFO barrel-rolled around the airplane for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 239 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3946 ### Event 5544 (DAC86CD8) **Date:** 7/10/1951 **Location:** Macon, GA **Description:** Classified OSI Message from Robins AFB, Macon: UFO sighted by Lt. George H. Kinmon Jr. on July 9, 1951. Description: Flat on top and bottom and appeared from front view to have rounded edges, slightly beveled. Color was white. When it dived from its position it appeared circular with a clockwise spinning motion. Appeared to have a fractured surface. No exhaust fumes or visible means of propulsion. At an approx. distance from his plane the UFO appeared to be 10 to 15 feet in diam. UFO caused air disturbance as it barrel-rolled under his plane. His nose camera malfunctioned. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_438 ### Event 5545 (9E391DED) **Date:** 7/14/1951 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** WHITE SANDS PG, NM **Description:** 2 objects near B29. 2 RADAR's and film and telescopes. / r120p355+/ r242p84. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1927 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE SANDS PG,NM:2 OBJS nr B29:2 RDRs+FILM+TELESCOPES:/r120p355+/r242p84", **LatLong:** "33.133335 -106.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:08:00 N 106:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.133335,-106.466672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5546 (FB66C8E0) **Date:** 7/14/1951 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Tracking Camera Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [510714](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_824 ### Event 5547 (F32FC282) **Date:** 7/14/1951 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** White Sands Radar / Visual (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [510714](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_825 ### Event 5548 (F3DEFBF5) **Date:** 7/14/1951 **Location:** White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico **Description:** Morning. During a guided missile launch, two radar operators at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, catch a fast-moving object on their scope. At the same time, a tracker watching a B-29 with binoculars sees a large UFO near the bomber. Another observer sights the UFO and, with a 35mm camera, shoots 200 feet of film. The UFO shows on the film as a round, bright spot. The film has never been released. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[White](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm) [Sands Radar/Visual](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 107; Project 1947, “[Radar and Visual UFO Sighting, White Sands Missile](http://www.project1947.com/folio/19510714%5Fwsmr.htm) [Range, New Mexico—July 14, 1951](http://www.project1947.com/folio/19510714%5Fwsmr.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 354–355](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/354/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1664 ### Event 5549 (D79F2F6E) **Date:** 7/14/1951 **Description:** At the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on this morning an oval-shaped object flying near a B-29 was viewed from the ground through a telescope during a rocket launch, and then tracked on airborne radar by two jets. The radar confirmed the visual sighting of a fast-moving UFO. Motion picture footage was allegedly obtained, but subsequently lost. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald Keyhoe, True Magazine, December 1952; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 48; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4046 ### Event 5550 (3B32F80B) **Date:** 7/19/1951 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** NEAR PUERTO MALDONADO, PERU **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous saucer south going quickly north. Buzzes. Photographs. Main southwest radio dead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1928 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "192", **HatchDesc:** "nr PUERTO MALDONADO,PERU:SVRL OBS:LUM SCR S>>N:BUZZES:FOTOS:MAIN SW RDO DEAD.", **LatLong:** "-12.566667 -69.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "12:34:00 S 69:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.566667,-69.183337)", **State/Prov:** "PUN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5551 (D15FC034) **Date:** 7/19/1951 **Location:** Maldonado, Uraguay **Description:** Puerto Maldonado, Cigar Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_826 ### Event 5552 (AB3C7552) **Date:** 7/19/1951 **Description:** Several people witnessed a luminous disc buzz the city of Puerto Maldonaldo, Peru at 4:50 p.m. The object flew off toward the north, emitting fog or smoke. A short wave radio wouldn't work during the sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1951, p. 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4190 ### Event 5553 (13DCF65F) **Date:** 7/22/1951 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** The Soviet R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before that. **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-1_(missile)) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_439 ### Event 5554 (A0525411) **Date:** 7/23/1951 **Location:** March Field, CA **Description:** Radar-visual sighting of silvery object circling high above aircraft. \[VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_827 ### Event 5555 (78EF238F) **Date:** 7/24/1951 **Time:** 07:10 **Location:** PORTSMOUTH, NH **Description:** 2 military observer(s). 150' cylinder/cylindrical object with black spots and fins / 1 end. 900mph / 1500' altitude / 20 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1929 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "PORTSMOUTH,NH:2 MIL OBS:150'CYL W/BLACK SPOTS+FINS/1 END:900mph/1500'alt/20sec", **LatLong:** "43.066669 -70.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:04:00 N 70:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.066669,-70.766670)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5556 (F92B9E00) **Date:** 7/24/1951 **Location:** Portsmouth, NH **Description:** Greyish 100-200 ft tubular object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 943) **Reference:** NICAP: [510724](http://nicap.org/portsmouth510724dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_828 ### Event 5557 (DD6FC2EA) **Date:** 7/24/1951 **Time:** 7:10 PM **Location:** Portsmouth, New Hampshire **Description:** Witnesses: Hanscom AFB Operations Officer Capt. Cobb, Cpl. Fein. One 100-200' tubular object, 5 times long as it was wide, with fins at one end, and colored greyish with many black spots. Flew 800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1-2,000' altitude, leaving a faint swath. 20 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_68 ### Event 5558 (A59215F4) **Date:** 7/24/1951 **Description:** A 150-foot long cylinder with many black spots and fins at one end flew at 900 mph at an altitude of 1500 feet over Portsmouth, New Hampshire at 7:10 p.m. It was seen for 20 seconds by two military witnesses, Cobb and Fein. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 943 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4343 ### Event 5559 (F70A4B5C) **Date:** 7/25/1951 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Personnel at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, write a report compiling the results of an organized skywatch of UFOs at the base. Several photos are taken. The report does not conclude what the objects are, but it does establish that some kind of objects have been seen. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Status of Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\], p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1665 ### Event 5560 (ED046D55) **Date:** 7/30/1951 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) CPS-6B Picks Up High Speed Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510730](http://www.nicap.org/510730selfridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_829 ### Event 5561 (F5DCFC5B) **Date:** 8/1951 **Location:** OVER NORFOLK, VA **Description:** Navy jet. 2 slow lights. 1 shoots off. 60' saucer tails jet into landing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1930 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ovr NORFOLK,VA:NAVY JET:2 SLO LITES:1 SHOOTS OFF:60'SCR TAILS JET INTO LANDING", **LatLong:** "36.866668 -76.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:52:00 N 76:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.866668,-76.266670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5562 (BD5985BB) **Date:** 8/1951 **Location:** Central, NM **Description:** Mining engineer sighted two discs with "portholes." \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_830 ### Event 5563 (0E99D6BB) **Date:** 8/1951 **Description:** In an article in Popular Science, the editors ask UFO witnesses what they think the objects are. About 70% believe they are intelligently controlled devices, either man-made or extraterrestrial. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[What Were the Flying](https://books.google.com/books?id=lyEDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA74&dq=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&pg=PA74%23v%3Donepage&q=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&f=false) [Saucers? Eyewitnesses Believe They Saw Secret Aircraft,](https://books.google.com/books?id=lyEDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA74&dq=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&pg=PA74%23v%3Donepage&q=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&f=false)” Popular Science 159 \(August 1951\): 74–75, 228 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1666 ### Event 5564 (D17B50E0) **Date:** 8/1/1951? **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BEAUSOLEIL, FR **Description:** Cop and 2. 2 pseudo-human/entity / transparent bubble see street play near crowd. Going quickly NNE. / MJ#142. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1931 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUSOLEIL,FR:COP+2:2 PSH/XPRNT BUBBLE see STREET PLAY nr CROWD:>>NNE:/MJ#142", **LatLong:** "43.750002 7.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:45:00 N 07:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.750002,7.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 5565 (39DCFF81) **Date:** 8/1/1951 **Description:** Three witnesses including police from Beausoleil, France in the Alpes-Maritime viewed a transparent bubble in the sky at nine o'clock in the evening. Two human-looking occupants of the transparent sphere watched the street and the crowd below. The bubble flew off towards the north-northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 175 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4557 ### Event 5566 (57E263A8) **Date:** 8/3/1951 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** SILVER LAKE, MI **Description:** Astronomer Webb and many. Night light / regular wavy course going quickly west / low elevation. / r70p3-6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1932 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "267", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER LAKE,MI:ASTRONOMER WEBB+MANY:NLT/REG.WAVY COURSE>>W/LO ELEV.:/r70p3-6", **LatLong:** "42.411113 -83.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:24:40 N 83:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.411113,-83.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5567 (D5590387) **Date:** 8/3/1951 **Location:** Pinckney (near), MI **Description:** NICAP Adviser saw a glowing, yellowish UFO which moved on an undulating course. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_831 ### Event 5568 (C23CA75F) **Date:** 8/3/1951 **Locations:** Camp Big Silver; Silver Lake; southern Michigan; Pinckney **Description:** 11:00 p.m. [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm), nature counselor at Camp Big Silver on the shore of Silver Lake in southern Michigan, 3 miles south of Pinckney, is showing two boy campers some celestial objects through a reflecting telescope. He sees a glowing, yellowish light moving westward at a low elevation in an undulating path over hills to the south. It disappears behind the hills before he can train his telescope on it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 50](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1667 ### Event 5569 (B9CA43D1) **Date:** 8/5/1951 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** PACOIMA, CA **Description:** 2 1M dull-grey orbs going southeast low and slow against wind. Turn going southwest. Flash and quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1933 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "299", **HatchDesc:** "PACOIMA,CA:2 1M DULL-GRY ORBS >SE LOW+SLOW against wind:TURN >SW:FLASH AND ↑↑", **LatLong:** "34.244446 -118.405561", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:40 N 118:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.244446,-118.405561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5570 (C4BD8C07) **Date:** 8/8/1951 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** NNE / PORT CLINTON, OH **Description:** Air Force pilot. 6M cylinder/cigar-shape / 1800M altitude. Going quickly [to] WNW very fast. Reported / Cleveland. / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1934 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "174", **HatchDesc:** "NNE/PORT CLINTON,OH:AF PILOT:6M CGR/1800M alt:>>WNW VFAST:Rptd/CLEVELAND:/r150", **LatLong:** "41.538891 -82.944448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:32:20 N 82:56:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.538891,-82.944448)", **RelAlt:** "550", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5571 (7762EBED) **Date:** 8/8/1951 **Location:** Port Clinton (NE of ), OH **Description:** 20 ft dark cigar-shaped object flying at high speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510808](http://nicap.org/portclinton510808dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_832 ### Event 5572 (7CC7ABE3) **Date:** 8/10/1951 **Location:** NEAR TESSALIT, MALI **Description:** 2 pilots / AAC-1. Circular shadow / ground. Source lost / sun. No balloons up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1935 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Sahara", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr TESSALIT,MALI:2 PILOTS/AAC-1:CIRC.SHADOW/GND:SOURCE LOST/SUN:NO BALLOONS UP", **LatLong:** "20.250001 0.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "20:15:00 N 00:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/20.250001,0.916667)", **State/Prov:** "MLI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5573 (4CA7BB60) **Date:** 8/11/1951 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** Ex-Air Force P47 pilot. 3 saucers fly in perfect V-formation. / NICAP. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1936 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:EX-AF P47 PILOT:3 SCRS FLY IN PERFECT V-FORMATION:/NICAP:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -122.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 122:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-122.700006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5574 (DB07DED1) **Date:** 8/11/1951 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** Dodge Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_833 ### Event 5575 (D585B658) **Date:** 8/11/1951 **Location:** Portland, Oregon **Description:** Former USAF pilot [Robert O. Dodge](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52665496/robert-oliver-dodge) watches three disc-like UFOs in formation over Portland, Oregon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 34](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=46&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1668 ### Event 5576 (3AD47C3B) **Date:** 8/14/1951 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** VOGHENZA, ITL **Description:** Farm. 6M metallic saucer going down / legs. 6 4' men going down / ladders and gesture! Going quickly northeast. / FSRv24#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1937 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VOGHENZA,ITL:FARM:6M MTLC SCR ↓/LEGS:6 4'MEN ↓/LADDERS+GESTURE!:>>NE:/FSRv24#6", **LatLong:** "44.766669 11.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "44:46:00 N 11:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.766669,11.750001)", **State/Prov:** "FE", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5577 (85F99C52) **Date:** 8/14/1951 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** RHEIN-MAIN AIR FORCE BASE, GERMANY **Description:** 2 USAF. Circular / light descends slow. Levels. Turns. Shoots going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1938 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RHEIN-MAIN AFB,GERMANY:2 USAF:CIRC/LITE DESCENDS SLO:LEVELS:TURNS:SHOOTS>>S", **LatLong:** "50.016669 8.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:01:00 N 08:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.016669,8.583334)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5578 (EEDA6729) **Date:** 8/14/1951 **Description:** At around one o'clock in the afternoon, a six-meter in diameter, metallic saucer with legs landed on a farm in Voghenza, Italy. Six four-foot tall humanoids climbed down ladders, then gestured to each other. They later got back aboard and took off, flying off toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1951, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, CISU website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4999 ### Event 5579 (CB206CA8) **Date:** 8/15/1951 (approximate) **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** NEAR CENTRAL, NM **Description:** Engineer. 2 saucers with portholes going [to] lone cloud. Instantly 800kph. / MJ#280. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1939 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1775", **HatchDesc:** "nr CENTRAL,NM:ENGINEER:2 SCRS W/PORTS>LONE CLOUD:INSTANTLY 800kph:/MJ#280", **LatLong:** "32.783335 -108.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 108:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,-108.116672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5580 (C354611B) **Date:** 8/15/1951 **Location:** US **Description:** US test pilot [Bill Bridgeman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FBridgeman) attains an unofficial altitude of 79,494 feet in a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, an air-launched rocket plane powered by the XLR-11 liquid fuel rocket engine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Bill Bridgeman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FBridgeman)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1669 ### Event 5581 (DE10040E) **Date:** Mid 8/1951 **Locations:** 10 miles east of Silver City, New Mexico; Fort Bayard, two miles to the northwest **Description:** 10:30 a.m. Mining engineer Alfred Roos hears a swishing sound at his ranch 10 miles east of Silver City, New Mexico. He looks up and sees two lens-shaped UFOs swooping at tremendous speed then hovering. They go back and forth between his location and Fort Bayard, two miles to the northwest, where they finally disappear into a cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=68&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1670 ### Event 5582 (2C02E05D) **Date:** Mid 8/1951 **Location:** Waco, Texas **Description:** Midnight. A witness is on his porch in Waco, Texas, looking at the sky when he sees a V-shaped formation of 10–20 round, luminous objects silently pass over from west to east in a matter of seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 41–42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1671 ### Event 5583 (BD262804) **Date:** 8/15/1951 **Description:** Five witnesses including an engineer watched maneuvering disc-shaped UFOs in Grant County, New Mexico at around 10:45 a.m. They first saw two disc-shaped objects that swooped down at a 45 degree angle and entered a cloud, next hovered for a short while, and then three objects emerged from the cloud, leaving behind a vapor trail. They went from hovering to speeding off in excess of 500 mph instantaneously, and had portholes or orifices below the rim line. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** letter to Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles from one of the witnesses, dated March 2, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5029 ### Event 5584 (2F55FC0D) **Date:** 8/17/1951 **Locations:** US; Germany **Description:** 11:30 a.m. [Otto Bock](https://www.arnold.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/410184/otto-bock-helped-make-arnolds-g-range-a-national-defense-asset/)[,](https://www.arnold.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/410184/otto-bock-helped-make-arnolds-g-range-a-national-defense-asset/) a German scientist with a specialty in optics who came to the US as part of Operation Paperclip, observes a high-altitude, metallic object through his 20x telescope for about 4 hours. He says the sighting is confirmed by four other persons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[Letter to Donald Keyhoe: Otto Bock, August 22,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) [1951](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1672 ### Event 5585 (6F22E734) **Date:** 8/20/1951 **Location:** Finland AFS, MN **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_834 ### Event 5586 (294F253A) **Date:** 8/20/1951 **Description:** The CIA, approved by DCI [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) starts Project ARTICHOKE to study hypnosis, morphine addiction, and LSD to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects, as a way of exploring interrogation methods. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project ARTICHOKE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FARTICHOKE)”; \[Central Intelligence Agency\], “[Project Artichoke,](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf)” declassified\(?\), January 31, 1975 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1673 ### Event 5587 (9593BD77) **Date:** 8/21/1951 **Location:** Sea of Japan, At Sea **Description:** (at 41°55' N, 133°52' E). 12:05 p.m. Radar tracking of unidentified target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510821](http://www.nicap.org/510821seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_835 ### Event 5588 (3A6CDD46) **Date:** 8/22/1951 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_440 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 213.4km ### Event 5589 (108D18E9) **Date:** 8/23/1951 **Locations:** Iran; Guatemala **Description:** [Frank Wisner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FWisner) succeeds [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) as CIA Deputy Director of Plans in the Office of Policy Coordination, with [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) as chief of operations. In this position, Wisner is instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that [toppled](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%5FIranian%5Fcoup%5Fd%27%C3%A9tat) [Mohammed Mossadegh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%5FMosaddegh) in [Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran) in 1953 and [Jacobo Árbenz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo%5F%C3%81rbenz) in Guatemala [in 1954.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954%5FGuatemalan%5Fcoup%5Fd%27%C3%A9tat) Sometime this year he visits [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) and asks him to finance OPC operations by diverting some Marshall Plan funds, presumably for covert black ops. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 45–46](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/44/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1674 ### Event 5590 (6C3C2BB9) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** ELLINGTON AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** RADAR-man visually. Night light zigzags. Turns. Going up [to] very high and blinks / 2s intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1940 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "ELLINGTON AFB,TX:RDR-MAN VISUALLY:NLT ZIGZAGS:TURNS:↑ VHI+BLINKS/2s INTERVALS", **LatLong:** "29.650001 -95.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:39:00 N 95:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.650001,-95.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5591 (DFCEB337) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Time:** ~21:10 **Location:** NEAR LUBBOCK, TX **Description:** 4 college PROFs and many. 2 waves / silent night lights north going quickly south. 30° / arc / second(s). Photographs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1941 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "960", **HatchDesc:** "nr LUBBOCK,TX:4 COLLEGE PROFs+MANY:2 WAVES/SLNT NLTS N>>S:30°/ARC/SEC:FOTOS", **LatLong:** "33.600002 -101.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:36:00 N 101:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.600002,-101.850005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5592 (0E30B71F) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** 2 glowing ovoids. 5 minute(s) later 5 objects. All going quickly southwest faster / jet. Uneven formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1942 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1110", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:2 GLOWING OVOIDS:5min LATER 5 OBJs:ALL >>SW FASTER/JET:UNEVEN FRMn", **LatLong:** "35.216668 -101.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:13:00 N 101:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.216668,-101.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5593 (41FCAC8B) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EAST ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Sandia guard&family. Flying wing larger / B36 going quickly SSE. / r28p313. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1943 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "E.ALBUQUERQUE,NM:SANDIA GUARD&FAMILY:FLYING WING LARGER/B36 >>SSE:/r28p313", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -106.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 106:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-106.533338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5594 (88DA340B) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Wife saw a flying wing-shaped craft pass overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 955, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [510825](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq510825dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_836 ### Event 5595 (74AA4CE6) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Location:** Lubbock, TX **Description:** Lubbock, TX; (Hart photos) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [510825](http://www.nicap.org/docs/lubbock/510825dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_837 ### Event 5596 (2276F957) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Time:** 9:58 PM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and wife. A flying wing-shaped craft passed over their heads at an estimated 800-1,000' altitude with no sound. Size estimated at 1.5 times wingspan of B-36 bomber,or 350'. Dark, chordwise stripes on underside, and 6-8 pairs of soft, glowing lights on trailing edge of "wing". Speed estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_69 ### Event 5597 (64F650EF) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Locations:** Brownfield, Texas; Lubbock **Description:** Evening. Joseph Bryant and his wife, at 407 West Powell Street, Brownfield, Texas, see a loose group of glowing lights heading north to south. They are a “little bigger than a star.” A few minutes later a second group flies over, and then a third, which circles around the house. This time Bryant can hear them, and he identifies them as plovers. When he hears about the Lubbock lights, he is sure the professors are seeing plovers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 691–692 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1675 ### Event 5598 (1EB59018) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Locations:** Texas Technical College; Lubbock, Texas; Texas Tech **Description:** 9:10 p.m. Three Texas Technical College professors \(geologist [Wilbur Irvin Robinson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7739779/wilbur-irvin-robinson), chemist [Aaron](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179646789/aaron-gustav-oberg) [Gustav “Gus” Oberg](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179646789/aaron-gustav-oberg), and petroleum engineer [William Lyon Ducker Jr.](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7356)\) are sitting in a backyard at Lubbock, Texas, when they see a fast-moving, semicircular formation of 20–30 lights, as intense as bright stars but larger. Blue-green and silent, they move across the sky in seconds. A second group appears and repeats the performance. Others, including Carl Hemminger at Texas Tech, report seeing the same objects the same night. [J. Russell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53450604/jone-russell-heitman) [Heitman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53450604/jone-russell-heitman), head of the Texas Tech journalism department, says he had seen an identical group of lights several days earlier. The professors watch 10–12 such flights through November 1 \(including on September 1 and 5\), sometimes accompanied by colleagues [Ellis Richard Heineman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114607095/ellis-richard-heineman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114607095/ellis-richard-heineman) E. F. George, [Grayson Mead](https://texasbeyondhistory.net/lubbock/images/Lu1-ge17.html), and John Brand. Some researchers, including [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek), think the witnesses are seeing migrating plovers attracted to Lubbock’s new vapor street lights, although Ruppelt changes his mind later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lubbock Lights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock%5FLights)”; NICAP, “[The Lubbock Lights / Carl Hart Photos](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf)”; Clark III 688–690; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) [8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 45–55; Swords 130–132; “[Lubbock 1951,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=152)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15, 1999 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1676 ### Event 5599 (2CE9903B) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Locations:** Sandia Base; east Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Around 9:58 p.m. Hugh Young, a security guard at Sandia Base, and his wife Emily are in their trailer home in east Albuquerque, New Mexico, and watch a large object like a flying wing, but 1.5 times as large as a B-36, flying at 80 feet at about 300 mph. It has glowing white lights on the trailing edge of the wing and is completely silent. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Flying Wing over Sandia Base](http://www.nicap.org/510825albuquerque%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 691; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 108 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1677 ### Event 5600 (261D9A26) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Description:** At 9:10 p.m. four Texas Tech professors--Robinson, Oberg, Ducker, and George--in a backyard in Lubbock, Texas saw the "Lubbock Lights", a string of perhaps 50 beads of light in a semi-circle or wing shape, which passed over from north to south. They were seen again less than one hour later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge Report #2, December 1951, p. 31; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 131; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers--1952, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5309 ### Event 5601 (A2329D16) **Date:** 8/25/1951 **Description:** In Albuquerque, New Mexico Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and his wife sighted a huge flying wing-shaped craft pass over their heads at 9:58 p.m. at an estimated 800 to 1,000-feet altitude. The craft made no sound. Its size was estimated as 1.5 times the wingspan of a B-36 bomber, or 350 feet. It had dark, chordwise stripes on the underside, and 6-8 pairs of soft, glowing lights on the trailing edge of "wing". Its speed was estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 479; Kevin D. Randall, The UFO Casebook, p. 56 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5310 ### Event 5602 (55743EF6) **Date:** 8/26/1951 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** NEAR LUBBOCK, TX **Description:** 2 separate Air Defense Command RADAR's track object going quickly northwest. Over 900 MPH / 13K'. F86 scrambled. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1944 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "959", **HatchDesc:** "nr LUBBOCK,TX:2 SEP.ADC RDRS TRACK OBJ >>NW:OVR 900 MPH/13K':F86 SCRAMBLED", **LatLong:** "33.583335 -101.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:00 N 101:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.583335,-101.866672)", **RelAlt:** "3900", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5603 (84CC8CC6) **Date:** 8/26/1951 **Location:** Larson AFB, WA **Description:** Two Radars Track 900 MPH Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510826](http://www.nicap.org/510826larson%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_838 ### Event 5604 (14709266) **Date:** 8/26/1951 **Locations:** Larson AFB [now Grant County International Airport]; Moses Lake, Washington **Description:** 8:28 p.m. A radar station at Larson AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\], near Moses Lake, Washington, tracks a UFO at 13,000 feet going 950 mph on two different sets, AN/CPS-1 and AN/CPS-4, for about 6 minutes. An F-86 is scrambled, but radar contact is lost before the plane gets off the ground. An electronic signal is received from this object that appears to be a mode-one IFF response from an AN/APX-6 transponder. This response is received twice at approx.115 miles and 80 miles from the radar station. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Radars](http://www.nicap.org/510826larson%5Fdir.htm) [Track 900 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/510826larson%5Fdir.htm); Clark III 692; Ruppelt, [pp. 96–98](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/96/mode/2up), [108–109](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/108/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 108 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1678 ### Event 5605 (6F742456) **Date:** 8/26/1951 **Description:** The driver of a transcontinental train in Australia, on the east/west line, saw a flying object at four o'clock in the morning that illuminated the countryside like a full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in the desert, then took off and disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5353 ### Event 5606 (4B6ABCCD) **Date:** 8/26/1951 **Description:** At Ellington AFB, Texas a radar operator made a visual sighting of a nocturnal light at 1:18 a.m. The UFO zig-zagged many times, then shot up to a very high altitude, blinking at two second intervals. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge Report #1, November 30, 1951 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5354 ### Event 5607 (7616C78C) **Date:** 8/27/1951 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** VANDALIA, IL **Description:** 2 pilots and Air Traffic Controller. Large orange night light buzzes plane. Going west. Returns and circles plane and town. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1945 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "164", **HatchDesc:** "VANDALIA,IL:2 PILOTS+ATC:LRG ORG NLT BUZZES PLANE:>W:RETURNS+CCLS PLANE+TOWN", **LatLong:** "38.961113 -89.094449", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:40 N 89:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.961113,-89.094449)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5608 (59444D56) **Date:** 8/27/1951 **Location:** Vandalia, IL **Description:** Large blinding orange light to the SW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_839 ### Event 5609 (8D4F6600) **Date:** 8/27/1951 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** At a conference at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, on the green fireballs, Project Twinkle’s Maj. [Edward A.](http://www.roswellproof.com/Dyvad1951.html) [Doty](http://www.roswellproof.com/Dyvad1951.html) expresses skepticism about the project. Meteorologist [Bernard “Duke” Gildenberg](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/alamogordonews/obituary.aspx?n=bernard-david-gildenberg-duke&pid=166827255) tells those assembled that he has never seen anything out of the ordinary, nor has astronomer [Clyde Tombaugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTombaugh). The commanding officer at Holloman wants to cease allocating funds for the project. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 545 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1679 ### Event 5610 (15526B96) **Date:** 8/28/1951 **Description:** Project Twinkle personnel talk to [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) about the green fireballs and he insists they are not meteors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 545 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1680 ### Event 5611 (741DC4C8) **Date:** 8/30/1951 **Locations:** Texas Tech; Lubbock, Texas; Lubbock Morning Avalanche; Life; Lubbock Lights; Dr. Ducker's house; Texas Tech; Ralph Sylvester Underwood **Description:** 11:30 p.m. A Texas Tech freshman named Carl Hart Jr. sees the same formation of 18–20 lights over Lubbock, Texas, and takes five photos. He gets the roll of film developed the next day and takes it to the Lubbock Morning Avalanche, which puts them out on the Associated Press wire. ATIC examines the photos and notes that the “two rows of spots behaved differently. One row only shows slight variation from a precise V formation throughout, whereas the other now appears to pass from above the first row, through it to a position below.” Biologist [James Cecil](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7399) [Cross](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105726781/james-cecil-cross) looks at the Lubbock photos under a microscope and rules out the bird explanation. See also Life, Apr. 7, 1952. While investigating the Lubbock Lights, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) also learns that several people in and around Lubbock claim to have seen a “flying wing” moving over the city. Among the witnesses is the wife of Dr. [Ducker](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7356)[,](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7356) who reports that in August 1951 she observed a “huge, soundless flying wing” pass over her house. Ruppelt knows that USAF does possess a “flying wing” jet bomber, and he feels that at least some of the sightings are caused by the bomber, although he cannot explain why, according to the witnesses, the wing makes no sound as it flies overhead. Ruppelt says that in addition to Project Grudge investigators, another group of people who, “because of their association with the government, had complete access to our files” \(scientists convinced of the ETH\) were also looking into the Lubbock cases. In March 1955, Ducker sends Ruppelt a telegram indicating that he has figured out that the lights are a “natural phenomenon” and requests no further publicity in his book. However, Texas Tech mathematics professor [Ralph Sylvester Underwood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183461956/ralph-sylvester-underwood) has also observed three flights and estimates the objects are at 2,000 feet altitude and flying at 700 mph—much too fast for birds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf) [Lubbock Lights / Carl Hart Photos](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf)”; “‘Flying Whatsits’ Stir Dispute in Area,” Lubbock \(Tex.\) Morning Avalanche, September 6, 1951; Clark III 690–693; Ruppelt, [pp. 96–110](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/96/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “Carl Hart and the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 17–19; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 22; “[Lubbock 1951,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=152)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15, 1999; Donald R. Burleson, “New Findings on the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 3–5; “[Lubbock Lights and Roswell,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=329)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, December 7, 2005; Michael D. Swords, “[Can We Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Five,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F15.html)” The Big Study, July 15, 2012; Swords 131– 132 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1681 ### Event 5612 (48453A6B) **Date:** 8/31/1951 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** MATADOR, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #962. 2 / car. Silent 50' pear crosses US70 going east / 150' altitude. Porthole / door. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1946 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "MATADOR,TX:BBK#962:2/CAR:SLNT 50'PEAR CROSSES US70 >E/150'alt:PORTHOLE/DOOR", **LatLong:** "34.011113 -100.822227", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:40 N 100:49:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.011113,-100.822227)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5613 (17280996) **Date:** 8/31/1951 **Location:** Matador, TX **Description:** Pear-shaped object the length of a B-29 fuselage (100 ft), (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 962) **Reference:** NICAP: [510831](http://nicap.org/matador510831dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_840 ### Event 5614 (3238481D) **Date:** 8/31/1951 **Time:** 12:45 PM **Location:** Matador, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Mrs. Tom Tilson, one or two other women, all apparently of excellent reputations. One pear-shaped object with a length of a B-29 fuselage (100'), aluminum or silver with a port or some type of aperture on the side. It moved with smaller end forward, drifting slowly at about 150' altitude, then headed up in a circular fashion and out of sight after a few seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_70 ### Event 5615 (76E12D06) **Date:** 8/31/1951 **Location:** Hwy 70 near Matador, Texas **Description:** 12:45 p.m. Mrs. Tom Tilson and one or two other women are driving north on Hwy 70 near Matador, Texas, when they see to the west a pear-shaped object the length of a B-29 fuselage \(100 feet\). It is aluminum or silver-yellow with a port or some type of aperture on the side, and it moves with its smaller end forward, drifting slowly at about 150 feet altitude. It then shoots up in a circular fashion and out of sight after a few seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 692; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 109 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1682 ### Event 5616 (8790A432) **Date:** 9/1951 **Location:** US **Description:** Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt became chief of the newly revitalized AF UFO project (which later became Project Blue Book). **Type:** personell assignment **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_863 ### Event 5617 (9EEC1936) **Date:** 9/1951 (approximate) **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** EDDINGTON, ME **Description:** 1 / farm. Bee-swarm sound. 20M metallic ovoid / low altitude overhead! Quickly going up [to] and away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1947 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "EDDINGTON,ME:1/FARM:BEE-SWARM SOUND:20M MTLC OVOID/lo alt OVHD!:↑↑+away xfast", **LatLong:** "44.827780 -68.694448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:49:40 N 68:41:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.827780,-68.694448)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5618 (34913115) **Date:** 9/1951 **Location:** Prom. E. Coast AF Base, unknown **Description:** Sept of 1951 to Nov of 1952, Prom. E. Coast AF Base, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_841 ### Event 5619 (35D75CF1) **Date:** 9/1951 **Location:** Central Australia **Description:** A group of Unmatjera aborigines observed a shiny circular object land near a similar craft, about 12 m in diameter. Several min later, a dwarf dressed in a shiny suit and having "a round, shiny head" came out of one craft and entered the other; both took off with a buzzing sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Edwards 93 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_83 ### Event 5620 (A1E279B9) **Date:** 9/1951 **Location:** Bloomington, California **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Louise McDougall is sitting on the lawn outside her trailer park in Bloomington, California, when she has the feeling someone is watching her. She looks up and sees a flying saucer hovering some 20 feet up. It is lenticular, perhaps 100 feet in diameter, and dull silver metallic in appearance. There are tall, rectangular windows in its lower half, in which can be seen against an amber glow four men, in one-piece “jump suits,” with shoulder- length hair. She turns a spotlight on the saucer, whereupon it shoots off silently at incredible speed. About 15 minutes later it returns, hovering in the same spot, the figures still visible at the windows. After 6 or 7 minutes, it takes off again to the southeast. McDougall’s husband and three other people also see it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-09-usa-bloomington.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-09-usa-bloomington.htm) September 15, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1683 ### Event 5621 (6E583B8B) **Date:** 9/1/1951 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** LUBBOCK, TX **Description:** Good photograph. 18+bright saucers going quickly south / 2 V formations and coin-disk / Ft. Sill. / r135p52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 315) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1948 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "960", **HatchDesc:** "LUBBOCK,TX:GOOD FOTO:18+BRITE SCRS >>S/2 VFORMNs+COIN-DISK/Ft.SILL:/r135p52", **LatLong:** "33.583335 -101.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:00 N 101:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.583335,-101.850005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5622 (3BADB795) **Date:** 9/3/1951 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Project grudge. 30' bronze saucer / all speeds. Silent erratic maneuvers. Northwest going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1949 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:PROJ GRUDGE:30'BRONZE SCR/ALL SPEEDS:SLNT ERRATIC MNVRS:NW>SE", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -117.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 117:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-117.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5623 (3A788BF8) **Date:** 9/6/1951 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** EAST / CLAREMONT, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #964. 2 USAF observer(s) / US66. 6 orange-glowing objects circular form. Going quickly southwest going [to] fogbank. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1950 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "357", **HatchDesc:** "E/CLAREMONT,CA:BBK#964:2 USAF OBS/US66:6 ORG-GLO OBJs CIRC.FORM:>>SW>FOGBANK", **LatLong:** "34.083335 -117.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:05:00 N 117:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.083335,-117.633339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5624 (A21B4665) **Date:** 9/6/1951 **Location:** Claremont, CA **Description:** 6 orange lights in an irregular formation, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 964) **Reference:** NICAP: [510906](http://nicap.org/claremont510906dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_842 ### Event 5625 (DC74EC48) **Date:** 9/6/1951 **Time:** 7:20 PM (not really clear) **Location:** Claremont, California **Description:** Witnesses: S/Sgt W.T. Smith, M/Sgt L.L. Duel (?). Six orange lights in an irregular formation, flew straight and level into a coastal fog bank after 3-4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_71 ### Event 5626 (A9C8673C) **Date:** 9/6/1951 **Locations:** Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** The Air Force issues JANAP 146\(B\), “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft.” All UFO reports are to go to the Air Defense Command in the Pentagon \(which presumably will send them to AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio\), the Secretary of Defense, and to the nearest US military command. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 123 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1684 ### Event 5627 (52FF2B48) **Date:** 9/6/1951 **Description:** In Claremont, California Sergeants W. T. Smith and L. L. Deuel saw six orange lights flying in an irregular formation at 7:20 p.m. They flew straight and level into a coastal fog bank after approximately 3-4 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #964; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5674 ### Event 5628 (73A1B7BE) **Date:** 9/9/1951 **Location:** 50 miles off coast of North Korea, At Sea **Description:** Radar tracking of multiple unidentified targets at 900 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510909](http://www.nicap.org/510909nkorea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_843 ### Event 5629 (73343669) **Date:** 9/10/1951 **Location:** Asbury, NJ **Description:** CONFIDENTIAL Air Intel REPORT: Maj. Ballard and Lt. Rogers while flying at 20,000 ft. in a T-33 spotted a disc-shaped UFO the size of an F-86 flying below them at 8000 ft. It was travelling much faster than they were (900+ mph). It was steady in flight, with no visible means of propulsion and shiny silver in color. The radar station at Ft. Monmouth plotted the same UFO on radar at 1110 EDT flying above 700 mph. (p127 of Ruppelt’s book) **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p487) **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_441 ### Event 5630 (501F14C8) **Date:** 9/10/1951 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** PORT MONMOUTH, NJ **Description:** T33 pilot and RADAR. 40' saucer / 1000mph. 120° turns. Going quickly southeast. / r97#54+/ r29p91. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: SMITH, Willy: ON PILOTS and UFO's. UNICAT Project, 8011 SW 189th St. Miami, FL 33175 USA. March 1997. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1951 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PORT MONMOUTH,NJ:T33 PILOT+RDR:40'SCR/1000mph:120°TURNS:>>SE:/r97#54+/r29p91", **LatLong:** "40.416669 -74.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:25:00 N 74:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.416669,-74.100004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5631 (63FE6BC1) **Date:** 9/10/1951 **Location:** Fort Monmouth, NJ **Description:** The Fort Monmouth Radar Incident (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [510910](http://www.nicap.org/510910monmouth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_844 ### Event 5632 (37E35DA8) **Date:** 9/10/1951 **Location:** Sandy Hook, NJ **Description:** The Sandy Hook / T-33 Incident (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510910](http://www.nicap.org/510910sandyhook%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_845 ### Event 5633 (8739D3DE) **Date:** 9/10/1951 **Locations:** Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Sandy Hook **Description:** 11:10 a.m. At the Army Signal Corps radar center at Fort Monmouth \[now closed\], New Jersey, a student operator demonstrating radar functions to a group of visiting officers picks up a target that is moving too fast to be tracked automatically. The object seems to be following the coastline. He follows it off and on for 3 minutes, after which it disappears to the northeast, flying at 700 mph. About 25 minutes later, a T-33 jet trainer piloted by Lt. [Wilbert S. Rogers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190765231/wilbert-s-rogers)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190765231/wilbert-s-rogers) with Maj. Edward Ballard as passenger, spots a “silver-colored object about the size of a fighter plane” flying at 900 mph at 5,000–8,000 feet over Sandy Hook. It makes a 90° banking turn and disappears out to sea. At 3:15 p.m., a second radar tracking occurs, but this slower object turns out to be a balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Fort Monmouth Radar Incident](http://www.nicap.org/510910monmouth%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[The Sandy Hook / T-33 Incident](http://www.nicap.org/510910sandyhook%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Clark III 513– 515; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 110; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 45–46; Swords 124–127; Good Above, [pp. 269](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up), [487](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/486/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1685 ### Event 5634 (C91838DC) **Date:** 9/10/1951 **Description:** U.S. Air Force pilots Lt. Wilbert Rogers and Major Ezra Ballard were flying in a T-33 at 20,000 feet from Dover AFB when at 11:35 a.m. EDT they saw a silvery metallic disc-shaped object to their 11 o'clock position and below their aircraft, three miles northeast of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. It was silhouetted against the ground. Rogers immediately turned left and descended to intercept the craft, which then banked revealing its flat round profile, with no appendages. The UFO curved in a tight turn, covering an estimated 30 nautical miles in two minutes at a speed estimated between 1,000-1,500 mph. The object passed within about 8,000 feet distance of the T-33, descending from about 12,000 feet to 5000 feet and heading out to sea at high speed near Point Pleasant. The aerial sighting lasted two minutes and was rated a high reliability unknown by Project Blue Book and Dr. James McDonald. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 127; UNICAT, case # 637, citing James E. McDonald, 1968 Armed Services Committee Congressional Hearings, p. 66; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 131; Brad Sparks, NICAP 1951 UFO Chronology webpage **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5820 ### Event 5635 (5D56D5A0) **Date:** 9/11/1951 **Location:** Fort Monmouth, New Jersey **Description:** 10:50 a.m. Two radars at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, pick up another object moving at 1,000 mph. At 1:30 p.m., another radar target appears, apparently hovering. Overcast conditions prevent a visual sighting. The radar then shows it ascending at a rapid rate then streaking to the south at 700+ mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 514 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1686 ### Event 5636 (9C85F9DD) **Date:** 9/12/1951 **Location:** Fort Monmouth, New Jersey **Description:** Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, officials send ATIC and USAF headquarters a three-foot-long teletype describing the sightings. ATIC’s new chief, Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm), gets a wire from Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), who wants somebody from ATIC to find out what’s going on. Dunn sends Lt. [Jerry Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) \(head of Project Grudge\) and Lt. Col. [Nathan R. Rosengarten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171879736/nathan-robert-rosengarten) \(chief of the ATIC Aircraft Performance Section\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, [pp. 93–94](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/92/mode/2up); Swords 126; Good Need, [pp. 164–165](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/164/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1687 ### Event 5637 (3B4245A7) **Date:** 9/13/1951 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Two GCA operators observed what appeared to be three targets on the PPI (Plan Position Indicator) scope. (See report and reference to an attached photo on NARAPBB89-1203) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 969) **Reference:** NICAP: [510913](http://www.nicap.org/510914goosebay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_846 ### Event 5638 (0E750A94) **Date:** 9/13/1951 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** 9:30 p.m. T/Sgt Warner B. Maupin and Cpl. John W. Green track two objects on radar at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, on a collision course. One of them tries to warn the supposed aircraft of an imminent collision and is surprised to watch one avoid danger by moving to the right. A third unidentified target joins the other two. The incident lasts more than 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 53; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 110; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 261 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1688 ### Event 5639 (3DFE9B78) **Date:** 9/14/1951 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** GOOSE BAY AIR FORCE BASE, NFLD **Description:** RADAR's. 2 blips / collision course. 1 turns on radio warning. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1952 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE BAY AFB,NFLD:RDRs:2 BLIPS/COLLSN COURSE:1 TURNS ON RADIO WARNING", **LatLong:** "53.300003 -60.450003", **LatLongDMS:** "53:18:00 N 60:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.300003,-60.450003)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5640 (A7E1F66A) **Date:** 9/14/1951 **Time:** 9:30 PM **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: T/Sgt W.B. Maupin, Cpl. J.W. Green. Three objects tracked on radar. Two were on a collision course, then one evaded to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third unidentified track then joined the first two. More than 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_72 ### Event 5641 (DBEC666F) **Date:** 9/14/1951 **Description:** At nine o'clock in the evening at the Goose Bay AFB in Labrador, Canada Sgt W. B. Maupin and Corporal J. W. Green tracked three objects on radar. Two were on a collision course when one of the bogeys diverted to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third unidentified track then joined the first two. This incident lasted longer than 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 969; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5940 ### Event 5642 (A56CDCD4) **Date:** 9/15/1951 **Location:** US **Description:** Lt. Jerry Cummings, and a Lt. Col. from ATIC, were called to Washington to brief a General (and a disgruntled group of industrialists and scientists) about the conduct of the investigation. Received orders to set up a new project. **Type:** briefing **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 128-130](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_862 ### Event 5643 (2FC83D81) **Date:** 9/15/1951 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR CROSSVILLE, TN **Description:** 5 / USAF C45. 3 orange balls / equilateral/equal triangular formation join and pace C45. / Narcap. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1953 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "568", **HatchDesc:** "nr CROSSVILLE,TN:5/USAF C45:3 ORG BALLS/EQL TRNGLr FORMn JOIN+PACE C45:/Narcap", **LatLong:** "36.000002 -85.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 85:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,-85.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5644 (909A78A7) **Date:** 9/17/1951 **Location:** Marion (3 miles NE of), OH **Description:** Cessna In Near-Miss with Swept Wing UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510917](http://www.nicap.org/510916marion%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_847 ### Event 5645 (471C44AC) **Date:** 9/17/1951 **Location:** Hudson Strait to Baffin Island, CAN **Description:** B-36 Radar Picks Up Object Seen Visually (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510917](http://www.nicap.org/510917atlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_848 ### Event 5646 (167FB437) **Date:** 9/18/1951 **Location:** US **Description:** Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is released **Type:** movie **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_442 ### Event 5647 (F2E401BC) **Date:** 9/18/1951 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** SOUTH / THULE, GRNLND **Description:** B36 crew paced. RADAR jammed. Autopilot malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Unidentified object passes overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard & WEINSTEIN,Dominique: Preliminary Study of 64 Pilot Sightings involving EME on Aircraft Systems NARCAP TR-3 2001 (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1954 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "100", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S/THULE,GRNLND:B36 CREW PACED:RDR JAMMED:AUTOPILOT EMEs:UID OBJ PASSES OVHD", **LatLong:** "63.500003 -70.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "63:30:00 N 70:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.500003,-70.000003)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5648 (76E2A0AD) **Date:** 9/18/1951 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** SANTA FE, NM **Description:** Meteor nears airport / loud noise. Air Traffic Controller lights runway. Shoots going up. Hovers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1955 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2100", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA FE,NM:METEOR NEARS AIRPORT/LOUD NOISE:ATC LITES RUNWAY:SHOOTS ↑:HVRS", **LatLong:** "35.666668 -106.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 106:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,-106.016672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5649 (52BB4C3E) **Date:** 9/18/1951 **Location:** ADC radar sites, Mich, Wisc, Minn, various **Description:** 6,000 MPH Targets Tracked By Radar In Three States (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [510918](http://www.nicap.org/510918empireAFS%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_849 ### Event 5650 (EC57BD88) **Date:** 9/18/1951 **Locations:** New York City; Washington, D.C. **Description:** The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by [Robert Wise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FWise) and starring [Michael Rennie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FRennie) and [Patricia Neal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%5FNeal), premieres in New York City. The ultimate flying saucer science-fiction movie, the plot revolves around an alien who lands in a UFO in Washington, D.C., and demands that atomic testing cease. [Lock Martin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%5FMartin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%5FMartin) who is more than 7 feet tall, plays the robot Gort. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Internet Movie Database, “[The Day the Earth Stood Still](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1689 ### Event 5651 (AE99BA73) **Date:** 9/18/1951 **Locations:** Hudson Strait; northern Canada; southwest Baffin Island, Nunavut; Labrador **Description:** 10:20 p.m. USAF B-36 radar operator Maj. Paul E. Gerhart and navigator Maj. Charles J. Cheever are flying northwest at 239 mph over the Hudson Strait in northern Canada when they pick up radar interference coming from an unidentified aircraft moving away from them to the east about 32 miles away. The anti-jamming device on their radar is turned on at 11:20 p.m. but does not affect the jamming on the radar scope. At 11:35 p.m., a UFO is seen visually on the right side of the B-36, which is flying at 18,000 feet over southwest Baffin Island, Nunavut. The object has all-white “unconventional running lights” and two white flashing tail lights, travels about 35 mph faster than the B-36, crosses the front from right to left heading toward the north-northwest, and is in view about 20 minutes. While the object is still visible at 11:50 p.m., the B-36 autopilot and APQ-24 radar set malfunction, the latter coming back a few minutes later when the object disappears. ECM operators S/Sgt. Donald E. Jenkins and S/Sgt. Doty T. Larimore on two B-36 flights over Labrador on September 19 detect carrier wave signals at several frequencies and some radar-like pulses at other frequencies, all below 1,000 MHz. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[B-](http://www.nicap.org/510917atlantic%5Fdir.htm) [36 Radar Picks up Object Seen Visually](http://www.nicap.org/510917atlantic%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 111 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1690 ### Event 5652 (6D15935F) **Date:** 9/18/1951 **Description:** A U.S. Air Force B-36 on a training flight near Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada spotted a saucer-shaped object with multiple white lights on a parallel flight course, which then crossed over in front of them from right to left. The ADF went out for a few minutes, then the radar jammed and also went out for a few minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; J. Allen Hynek files; Richard F. Haines, NARCAP: A Preliminary Report of 64 Pilot Sightings Involving EM Effects on Aircraft, case # 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6064 ### Event 5653 (2AEE64EF) **Date:** 9/19/1951 **Location:** RICHMOND, CA **Description:** Slow fiery pencil-cloud going east from bay. Dozens / calls to police. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1956 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND,CA:SLOW FIERY PENCIL-CLOUD >E FROM BAY:DOZENS/CALLS to POLICE", **LatLong:** "37.916668 -122.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:55:00 N 122:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.916668,-122.350006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5654 (6177ADBF) **Date:** 9/23/1951 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** RADAR / ground and air. Silver object circles / 17km altitude. Jets chase. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) #330+/ r11p203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1957 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "467", **HatchDesc:** "MARCH AFB,CA:RDR/GND+AIR:SLVR OBJ CCLs/17km alt:JETS CHASE:/LDLN #330+/r11p203", **LatLong:** "33.900002 -117.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 N 117:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.900002,-117.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5655 (C684C201) **Date:** 9/23/1951 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** WEST / LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** 2+4 F86's can't reach cylinder/cigar-shape. Keeps circling and rising. 1 describes saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1958 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "W/LONG BEACH,CA:2+4 F86s CANT REACH CGR:KEEPS CIRCLING+RISING:1 DESCRIBES SCR", **LatLong:** "33.800002 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:48:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.800002,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5656 (365F6AE7) **Date:** 9/23/1951 **Location:** Victorville (1st jets scrambled from), CA **Description:** A bright silvery aircraft with highly swept back 45° wings (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_850 ### Event 5657 (AF5CAE95) **Date:** 9/23/1951 **Location:** March AFB, CA **Description:** Swept Wing Aircraft At Above 50,000' / Tracked By GCI (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [510923](http://www.nicap.org/510923marchfield%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_851 ### Event 5658 (090A74BE) **Date:** 9/23/1951 **Locations:** March AFB; Long Beach, California **Description:** At March AFB \[now March Air Reserve Base\] near Long Beach, California, two F-86 jets try to intercept an object in controlled orbit at around 55,000 feet, but they run low on fuel and have to land. Two more F-86s are scrambled, with the same results. Three of the pilots report seeing a “silver airplane with highly swept- back wings,” although one of them says the UFO looks round and silver. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Swept Wing Aircraft at above](http://www.nicap.org/510923marchfield%5Fdir.htm) [50,000ʹ / Tracked by GCI](http://www.nicap.org/510923marchfield%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 94–95](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/94/mode/2up), [111](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/110/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/110/mode/2up) [113–114](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/112/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 112 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1691 ### Event 5659 (4F7AB166) **Date:** Fall 1951 **Location:** Korea **Description:** Navy pilot Lt. Cmdr. [Marvin C. Davies](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115130534/marvin-cecil-davies) is flying a plane off a CVE class aircraft carrier near Korea when the crew tracks a radar target 3 miles astern. The object has apparently been circling the fleet at an altitude of 5,000 feet and speeds of “slow” to 1,000 mph. The UFO has been tracked on 14 ship radars for 7 hours. It stops circling and takes up a position behind the plane’s wingman, remaining there 5 minutes, then departing at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1937, “[UFO Reports, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/dekdavies.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 84](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=96&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1692 ### Event 5660 (9CBE0E16) **Date:** 9/23/1951 **Description:** On this morning a total of seven F-86 fighters were scrambled to chase a UFO that remained over southern California for nearly ninety minutes. Two F-86 jet interceptors were scrambled from George AFB near Victorville, California then vectored by air defense GCI radar to a target off the Pacific Coast 30 miles west of Long Beach Airport, where the jets circled and then headed east toward Long Beach when the object was seen at 7:55 a.m. PDT at the 12 o'clock high position. It was in a left orbit at about 50,000 feet, above the F-86's. It appeared to be a bright silvery aircraft with highly swept back 45° wings. The F-86's tried to climb to intercept the object but it climbed away in response. Another two F-86's were scrambled from George AFB at about 8:00 a.m. as the first two were running low on fuel and broke off pursuit. The second pair of F-86's was vectored by GCI radar to Camp Pendleton, arrived there at 8:10 a.m. at 43,000 feet, and spotted the object at the one o'clock high position back to the north toward Muroc/Edwards AFB, appearing to be at about 50,000-55,000 feet in a controlled orbit. It looked like a swept wing aircraft that sped up when the F-86's tried to close. The object was again found near March AFB, Riverside, California to the NNW but the jets broke off intercept because they were low on fuel at about 8:20 a.m., landing at 8:45. A third flight of two F-86's were scrambled from George AFB and saw the object shortly after takeoff, heading south. The F-86's made climbing turns up to 43,500 feet under the now round silvery object at 55,000 feet over the San Bernardino Mountains. They broke off the intercept at about 9:25 a.m. A seventh F-86 was scrambled to the south toward Long Beach but the UFO had gone. The Air Force explanation for the sightings was a balloon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge Report #1, November 11, 1951; Project Grudge Report #2, December 31, 1951; Edward J. Ruppelt, Unidentified Flying Objects, pp. 94-95; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 48; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 42; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 44; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Blue Book Archive Document Group NARA-PBB85 566 (566-568) -Francis Ridge, From Long Beach to Camp Pendleton -MAXW-PBB8-1583-1588,1596-1617 - Dan Wilson, Blue Book Archive Document Group MAXW-PBB8 1604 (1604-1649) & PBB2 273 - Fran Ridge The Report and the Flimsy Analysis - Francis Ridge The original Project Blue Book Special Report Document, p. 16; Analysis: Air Force Documents Supporting Negative Conclusion, Project Blue Book Special Report, pp. 44-47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6245 ### Event 5661 (AC3FB505) **Date:** 9/24/1951 **Location:** Semipalatinsk Test Site **Description:** Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_443 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 38.3 ### Event 5662 (373677AC) **Date:** 9/24/1951 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** EAST / MOKENA, IL **Description:** Man rolling tractor tire abduction. 5 hours missing time. Odd frogs. Saucer and 2 men / helmets. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ROGO, D. Scott (ed): ALIEN ABDUCTIONS, True Cases of UFO Kidnappings; Signet/Penguin, NY 1980. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1959 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "E/MOKENA,IL:MAN ROLLING TRACTOR TIRE ABD:5hrs MST:ODD FROGS:SCR+2 MEN/HELMETS:", **LatLong:** "41.527780 -87.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:31:40 N 87:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.527780,-87.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5663 (EC160CE7) **Date:** 9/24/1951 **Location:** 50.43 77.83 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Name: “joe2” Yield: 38KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1033 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.43 77.83", **LatLongDMS:** "50:25:48 N 77:49:48 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.43,77.83)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "joe2", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "38" ### Event 5664 (8FA0D54F) **Date:** 9/30/1951 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** 3MI SOUTHWEST / ORANGE, VA **Description:** Blue Book. 3 teens. Saucer inside haze / black smoke. Violent stops and maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1960 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "3Mi SW/ORANGE,VA:BBK:3 TEENS:SCR INSIDE HAZE/BLACK SMOKE:VIOLENT STOPS+MNVRS:", **LatLong:** "38.244446 -78.111115", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:40 N 78:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.244446,-78.111115)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5665 (9C134B2C) **Date:** 10/1951 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Project Grudge is on hold, Intelligence Officer Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt has been assigned to reshape the study and field mounting concern for the Pentagon. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_444 **See also:** 12/1948 **See also:** 3/1952 ### Event 5666 (5E8F870F) **Date:** 10/1951 **Location:** Stockholm University, Sweden **Description:** [Per Sundh](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FSundh) is appointed head of a unit at the Swedish Defence Staff responsible for investigating UFO reports. He remains in charge until October 1954. During that time the department handles 6,000 reports, of which 400 are investigated and 40 remain unexplained. Their astronomical consultant is [Bertil Lindblad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad) an astronomer at Stockholm University, Sweden. Sundh says that his personnel always took even the weirdest observations seriously. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 364–365 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1693 ### Event 5667 (F14543C3) **Date:** 10/1/1951 **Locations:** Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** 10:00 a.m. At the Pentagon, [Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) and [Rosengarten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171879736/nathan-robert-rosengarten) brief [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), his staff, and a representative from Republic Aircraft Corporation who “supposedly represented a group of top US industrialists and scientists.” The meeting is recorded with a wire recorder. [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later head of Project Blue Book, hears the recording before it is ordered destroyed and keeps detailed notes about the meeting. Cabell supposedly learns that Grudge is effectively dead and demands to know “who in hell has been giving me these reports that every decent flying saucer report is being investigated?” Cabell says there is a great deal of doubt in his mind as to what the saucers are and that the Grudge report is the “most poorly written, inconclusive piece of unscientific tripe” he had ever read. He orders Grudge to reactivate itself, and Cummings and Rosengarten go back to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to do just that. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, [pp. 93–94](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/92/mode/2up); Swords 127–128, 501–502; Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1694 ### Event 5668 (DBB3A248) **Date:** 10/2/1951 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #980. Physicist. Bright ovoid with clipped tail. Straight and level flight going [to] distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1961 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:BBK#980:PHYSICIST:BRITE OVOID W/CLIPPED TAIL:S/L FLITE > DISTANCE", **LatLong:** "39.983335 -83.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:59:00 N 83:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.983335,-83.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5669 (76710A75) **Date:** 10/2/1951 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Three Separate Reports (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [511002](http://www.nicap.org/sands511002dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_854 ### Event 5670 (A9E7A278) **Date:** 10/2/1951 **Location:** Columbus, OH **Description:** Bright oval with a clipped tail fly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 980) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_855 ### Event 5671 (08BC9612) **Date:** 10/2/1951 **Time:** 6 PM **Location:** Columbus, Ohio **Description:** Witness: Battelle Memorial Institute graduate physicist Howard Cross. One bright oval with a clipped tail flew straight and level, fading into the distance after 1 minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_73 ### Event 5672 (1D8F8B7F) **Date:** 10/3/1951 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** KADENA AIR FORCE BASE, OKINAWA **Description:** 2 RADAR operators and 1. Large sausage shaped blip tracked at 4800mph! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1962 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KADENA AFB,OKINAWA:2 RDR OPS+1:LRG SAUSAGE SHAPED BLIP TRACKED AT 4800mph!", **LatLong:** "26.333335 127.716673", **LatLongDMS:** "26:20:00 N 127:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.333335,127.716673)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5673 (14E00A57) **Date:** 10/3/1951 **Location:** Kadena AFB, Okinawa **Description:** Large, sausage-shaped blip on radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 984) **Reference:** NICAP: [511003](http://www.nicap.org/511003okinawadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_856 ### Event 5674 (E4E99A91) **Date:** 10/3/1951 **Time:** 10:27 PM **Location:** Kadena, Okinawa **Description:** Witnesses: radar operators Sgt. M.W. Watson and Pvt. Gonzales and one other Sergeant. One large, sausage-shaped blip tracked at an estimated 4,800 m.p.h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_74 ### Event 5675 (D62E0D1B) **Date:** 10/3/1951 **Description:** At 9:27 p.m. military radar picked up a large sausage-shaped radar blip. It was tracked flying over Kadena AFB, Japan moving at 4,800 mph. Listed as a Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 984 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6517 ### Event 5676 (748AED15) **Date:** 10/4/1951 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** TESSALIT OASIS, MALI **Description:** FAF officers and men / ground. Saucer east going quickly west. 170° turn and away / amazing speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1963 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Sahara", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TESSALIT OASIS,MALI:FAF OFFICERS+MEN/GND:SCR E>>W:170°TURN+AWAY/AMAZING SPEED:", **LatLong:** "20.233334 0.983333", **LatLongDMS:** "20:14:00 N 00:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/20.233334,0.983333)", **State/Prov:** "MLI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5677 (50212ECD) **Date:** 10/4/1951 **Locations:** Mali; Tessalit **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Two French aviation officers are camped out several miles northwest of the village of Tessalit, Mali. A luminous dark-yellow disc approaches slowly from the east, loses altitude, makes a 90° turn, accelerates, and ascends at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[Tessalit, Mali, October 4, 1951](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tessalit1951.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1695 ### Event 5678 (2F4C68A3) **Date:** 10/7/1951 **Location:** Honshu, Japan **Description:** CPS-5 Established Radar Contact With UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [511007](http://www.nicap.org/511007honshu%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_853 ### Event 5679 (477205B4) **Date:** 10/7/1951 **Location:** Honshu (a few miles off the coast), Japan **Description:** Radar tracking of unidentified target at 420 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511007](http://www.nicap.org/511007honshu%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_857 ### Event 5680 (FF29B296) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** EAST / TERRE HAUTE, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #985. CAA man and pilot. Huge metal ovoid crosses sky going quickly northwest / 15 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1964 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "153", **HatchDesc:** "E/TERRE HAUTE,IN:BBK#985:CAA MAN+PILOT:HUGE MTL OVOID CROSSES SKY >>NW /15sec", **LatLong:** "39.466669 -87.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:28:00 N 87:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.466669,-87.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5681 (738990ED) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** EAST / PARIS, IL **Description:** Blue Book 985. Private pilot and separate observer(s). Saucer going quickly northeast over Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) plant. / r242p44+/ r148p60. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1965 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "E/PARIS,IL:BBK 985:Pvt.PILOT+SEP.OBS:SCR >>NE OVR AEC PLANT:/r242p44+/r148p60", **LatLong:** "39.616669 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:37:00 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.616669,-87.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5682 (A83FE25B) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** LODI, OH **Description:** Glittering silver barrel makes 90-turn at speed. 2nd object / meteoric speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 282) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1966 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "282", **HatchDesc:** "LODI,OH:GLITTERING SLVR BARREL MAKES 90-TURN AT SPEED:2nd OBJ/METEORIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "41.016669 -82.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:00 N 82:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.016669,-82.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5683 (4B9922FD) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Location:** Terre Haute, IN **Description:** Object appearing as a silvery "flattened tennis ball" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 985) **Reference:** NICAP: [511009](http://www.nicap.org/511009terre%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_858 ### Event 5684 (89A87963) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Location:** Paris, IL **Description:** Hulman Fld (IN); Paris (IL); Newport atomic plant Unknown (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [511009](http://www.nicap.org/511009parisIL%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_859 ### Event 5685 (9146CD74) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Location:** Terre Haute, IN **Description:** CAA employee saw h.s. "flattened tennis ball" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [511009](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/terredir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_860 ### Event 5686 (0E772966) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Location:** Terre Haute, IN **Description:** CAA and pilot, "flattened sphere". (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [511009](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/terredir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_861 ### Event 5687 (F94A1AFD) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Time:** 1:42 PM **Location:** Terre Haute, Indiana **Description:** Witness: CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport. One round silver object flew directly overhead, reaching the horizon in 15 seconds. Note: a very similar incident happened 3 minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and was also listed as "unidentified" for several years, but was eventually reclassified. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_75 ### Event 5688 (2CC18771) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Locations:** Hulman Municipal Airport [now Terre Haute Regional Airport]; five miles east of Terre Haute, Indiana; Paris, Illinois **Description:** 1:42 p.m. A fast-moving, silvery UFO shaped like a “flattened tennis ball” is sighted by a Civil Aviation Administration Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport \[now Terre Haute Regional Airport\], five miles east of Terre Haute, Indiana. At 1:45 p.m., private pilot Charles Warren, flying at 5,000 feet east of Paris, Illinois, sees a silvery “flattened orange” object that appears stationary to his left rear. It picks up speed and heads to the northeast. Project Blue Book plots the sighting and concludes that both cases involve the same object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[October 9, 1951, Hulman CAA / Pilot Case](http://www.nicap.org/511009terre%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Pilot Radios Terre](http://www.nicap.org/511009parisIL%5Fdir.htm) [Haute: Observes ‘Flattened Orange’](http://www.nicap.org/511009parisIL%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 114; Swords 129 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1696 ### Event 5689 (6E62C103) **Date:** 10/9/1951 **Description:** At 1:42 p.m. CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport in Terre Haute, Indiana sighted a round silver object that flew directly overhead. The UFO reached the horizon in 15 seconds. A very similar incident happened three minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and was also listed as "unidentified" for several years, but was eventually reclassified. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6683 ### Event 5690 (C41F29FE) **Date:** 10/10/1951 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** 10 MI EAST / ST. CROIX FALLS, WI **Description:** 2 / light plane. Glowing cylinder/cigar-shape / fast maneuvers. Slows. Quickly going up. / r242p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1967 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "375", **HatchDesc:** "10mi E/St.CROIX FALLS,WI:2/LITE PLANE:GLOWING CGR/FAST MNVRS:SLOWS:↑↑:/r242p56", **LatLong:** "45.411113 -92.472227", **LatLongDMS:** "45:24:40 N 92:28:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.411113,-92.472227)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5691 (8E74D287) **Date:** 10/10/1951 **Location:** St. Croix Falls (10 miles E of), WI **Description:** Maneuvering Object Spotted By Private Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511010](http://www.nicap.org/511010stcroixfalls%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_862 ### Event 5692 (8A6A1D1A) **Date:** 10/10/1951 **Location:** 10 miles east of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin **Description:** 10:10 a.m. Engineer and pilot [Joseph J. Kaliszewski](https://www.heritagesfsd.com/obituary/6140844), flying with copilot Jack Donaghue on a Skyhook balloon tracking mission for General Mills 10 miles east of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, notices a strange object crossing the sky from west to east, much higher and behind the balloon, which is at 20,000 feet. The UFO has a peculiar glow. It comes into sight at a slight dive, then levels off and slows down, makes a sharp left turn, climbs at an angle of 50–60° into the southeast with terrific acceleration, and disappears. It is seen for about 2 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Kaliszewski Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/511011minneapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=68&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1697 ### Event 5693 (57F2A73F) **Date:** 10/10/1951 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object crossed the sky ten miles east of St. Croix, Wisconsin. It made a slight dive, levelled off, then accelerated out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge Report #3; January 31, 1952; Project Blue Book, October 1951; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 56 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6697 ### Event 5694 (68303BA0) **Date:** 10/11/1951 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #989. 2 / plane. Object circles research balloon. Sways. Going quickly east. / APRO B.v1#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MANEY, Charles & HALL, Richard: The CHALLENGE OF UFO'S; NICAP, Washington, DC. 1961 (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1968 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:BBK#989:2/PLANE:OBJ CCLs RSRCH BALLOON:SWAYS:>>E:/APRO B.v1#1", **LatLong:** "44.950002 -93.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 93:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,-93.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5695 (9273DA74) **Date:** 10/11/1951 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** NEUBIBERG AB, GERM **Description:** 2 Air Force sergeants. Odd blimp hovers / 30 second(s). Vanishes in plain sight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1969 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NEUBIBERG AB,GERM:2 AF SERGEANTS:ODD BLIMP HVRS/30sec:VANISHES IN PLAIN SIGHT", **LatLong:** "48.116669 11.600001", **LatLongDMS:** "48:07:00 N 11:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.116669,11.600001)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5696 (E5AF59A2) **Date:** 10/11/1951 **Location:** Minneapolis, MN **Description:** Kalizewski sighting (P). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 989) **Reference:** NICAP: [511011](http://www.nicap.org/511011minneapolis%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_863 ### Event 5697 (6FD3E7FF) **Date:** 10/11/1951 **Time:** 6:30 AM **Location:** Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** Witnesses: General Mills balloon researchers, including aeronautical engineer J.J. Kaliszewski, aerologist C.B. Moore, pilot Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground. The flight crew saw the first object, a brightly glowing one with a dark underside and a halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to the east. Soon they saw another one, confirmed by ground observers using a theodolite, which sped across the sky. Total time first object was seen was 5 minutes, second was a few seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_76 ### Event 5698 (78F0CD62) **Date:** 10/11/1951 **Locations:** Minneapolis, Minnesota; University of Minnesota airport; General Mills tracking station at the University of Minnesota **Description:** 6:30 a.m. [Joseph J. Kaliszewski](https://www.heritagesfsd.com/obituary/6140844) and Dick Reilly are flying at 10,000 feet north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, observing a balloon when they see a brightly glowing object to the southeast of the University of Minnesota airport moving at high speed from west to east. It has a halo around it with a dark under surface. It crosses rapidly, slows down, and starts to climb slowly in lazy circles. Observers Doug Smith and Dick Dorion at the General Mills tracking station at the University of Minnesota watch the object through a theodolite. They watch another object 2 hours later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Kaliszewski Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/511011minneapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=68&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 114; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 44–45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1698 ### Event 5699 (9BF03D43) **Date:** 10/11/1951 **Description:** In Minneapolis, Minnesota at 6:30 a.m. General Mills balloon researchers, including aeronautical engineer J. J. Kaliszewski and aerologist C. B. Moore, pilot Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground sighted a UFO. The flight crew saw the first object, a brightly glowing UFO with a dark underside and a halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to the east. Soon they saw a second UFO, confirmed by ground observers using a theodolite, which sped across the sky. The total time for the sighting of the first object was five minutes, and the second sighting lasted a few seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge Report #1, November 11, 1951; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 56; UNICAT, case # 362; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 12; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6745 ### Event 5700 (2F4D9E78) **Date:** 10/15/1951? **Location:** OFF KOREA **Description:** Object circles fleet. 15+air and ships RADAR's / 7 hours! Going [to] over 1600kph. / r116p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1970 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "164", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "OFF KOREA:OBJ CIRCLES FLEET:15+ AIR+SHIPS RDRs/7 HRS!:> OVR 1600kph:/r116p32", **LatLong:** "36.033335 126.016673", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:00 N 126:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.033335,126.016673)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5701 (7715FFFA) **Date:** 10/16/1951 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WA **Description:** USAF pilots and Navy persons / ground. Grey round object high and fast. Silent. / Bloecher. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1971 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "McCHORD AFB,WA:USAF PILOTS+NAVY PERS/GND:GRY RND OBJ HI+FAST:SLNT:/Bloecher", **LatLong:** "47.133336 -122.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:00 N 122:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.133336,-122.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5702 (DFB2CB1B) **Date:** 10/16/1951 **Location:** Whidbey Island NAS, WA **Description:** 3 F-94's Encounter Round Grey Object / Photos Taken (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511016](http://www.nicap.org/511016whidbeyisle%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_864 ### Event 5703 (006A6963) **Date:** 10/16/1951 **Locations:** McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis- McChord]; Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, Washington **Description:** 11:01 a.m. Air Force pilots flying three F-94 fighters out of McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis- McChord\] and naval ground personnel see a round, gray object flying soundlessly at high speed and high altitude west of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, Washington. Photos taken from the F-94s show the object. After 50 minutes, the aircraft abandon the chase. The Air Force attributes the sighting to Venus. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[3 F-94’s Encounter Round Grey Object / Photos Taken](http://www.nicap.org/511016whidbeyisle%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 391–392; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1699 ### Event 5704 (52DB656B) **Date:** 10/18/1951 **Location:** Semipalatinsk Test Site **Description:** Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_445 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 41.2 ### Event 5705 (E7A54559) **Date:** 10/18/1951 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** YELLOW SEA EAST / TSINGTAO, CH **Description:** US Navy BD5 crew. Long flaming cone turns white-orange. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1972 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "YELLOW SEA E/TSINGTAO,CH:US NAVY BD5 CREW:LONG FLAMING CONE TURNS WHT-ORG.", **LatLong:** "35.800002 123.266673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:48:00 N 123:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.800002,123.266673)", **State/Prov:** "YLS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5706 (DE6FDA8D) **Date:** 10/18/1951 **Location:** Over Yellow Sea, At Sea **Description:** Craft With Sweptback Wings Tracked By Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [511018](http://www.nicap.org/511018yellowsea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_865 ### Event 5707 (9667931E) **Date:** 10/18/1951 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Name: “joe3” Yield: 42KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1034 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "joe3", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "42" ### Event 5708 (659FF947) **Date:** 10/20/1951 **Description:** [Frank B. Jewett Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/03/obituaries/frank-b-jewett-jr.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/03/obituaries/frank-b-jewett-jr.html) director of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory at General Mills Corporation, writes to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Eugene M. Zuckert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FM.%5FZuckert) about UFOs seen by his personnel. \( **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1951, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 51 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1700 ### Event 5709 (F993181C) **Date:** 10/21/1951 **Location:** Battle Creek, MI **Description:** Air Intelligence Report: Mr. (name withheld), a civilian pilot of 14 years experience sighted a disk-like, highly polished UFO which closed head on with his Navy aircraft at an extremely high rate of speed near Battle Creek, MI. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_446 ### Event 5710 (76C23D51) **Date:** 10/21/1951 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** 17M EAST / BATTLE CRK, MI **Description:** 10m domed saucer going quickly east extremely fast. Near collision / private plane. / r135p83. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1973 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "17M E/BATTLE CRK,MI:10m DOMED SCR >>E XFAST:nr COLLISION/PVT PLANE:/r135p83", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -84.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 84:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-84.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5711 (AD820729) **Date:** 10/21/1951 **Location:** Battle Creek (20 miles E of ), MI **Description:** Classic domed disc and a Navion aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511021](http://www.nicap.org/511021battlecreek%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_866 ### Event 5712 (895918D6) **Date:** 10/21/1951 **Location:** North Truro, MA **Description:** (McDonald files; Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511021](http://www.nicap.org/511021ntrurodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_867 ### Event 5713 (EC1D0869) **Date:** 10/22/1951 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** WATERBURY, CT **Description:** Silver-white ovoid going quickly southeast / 800mph. Stops overhead. Sharp edges. Shoots going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1974 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "WATERBURY,CT:SLVR-WHT OVOID >>SE/800mph:STOPS OVHD:SHARP EDGES:SHOOTS >>N", **LatLong:** "41.550002 -73.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:33:00 N 73:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.550002,-73.050003)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5714 (0E4546D7) **Date:** 10/22/1951 **Location:** North Truro, MA **Description:** Radar Tracks Near Truro (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [511022](http://www.nicap.org/511022ntrurodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_868 ### Event 5715 (D62E9539) **Date:** 10/22/1951 **Time:** 14:00:00.0 **Location:** 37.0839 -116.0239 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Able” YieldMax: .1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_17 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0839 -116.0239", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:02 N 116:01:26 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0839,-116.0239)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.03", **NukeName:** "Able", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeYMax:** ".1" ### Event 5716 (A44B79BA) **Date:** 10/22/1951 **Description:** Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) officially takes over a revitalized Project Grudge, relieving Lt. [Jerry W.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) [Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) and 2d Lt. Henry Metscher. He learns from some scientists and engineers who visit ATIC frequently that “UFOs were being freely and seriously discussed in scientific circles.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 114](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/114/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14; Clark III 933 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1701 ### Event 5717 (69A32C45) **Date:** 10/22/1951 **Description:** The Directorate of Intelligence provides answers to the problem that Col. [Harold Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) identified with the CIRVIS reporting system. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “Flying Saucers: Behind the Cold War Veil of Military Intelligence \(Part II\),” European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies 3, no. 1 \(March 2002\): 32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1702 ### Event 5718 (376DA567) **Date:** 10/26/1951 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** SOUTH AUSTRALIA **Description:** Train and tracks / main railroad/railway line lit and examined. Object / nearly lands. Speeds off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 191) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1975 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "S.AUSTRALIA:TRAIN+TRACKS/MAIN RR LINE LIT+EXAMINED:OBJ/NEARLY LANDS:SPEEDS OFF", **LatLong:** "-32.333335 135.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 S 135:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.333335,135.000006)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5719 (08282041) **Date:** 10/26/1951 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Australia **Description:** The driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west line saw an object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in the desert, then took off and disappeared. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins A 249 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_84 ### Event 5720 (8FC609D5) **Date:** 10/26/1951 **Description:** Australia. At around four o'clock in the morning the driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west line saw a flying object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, and appeared ready to land in the desert, then it took off and disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoinia: A Century of Landings, case # 84, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 249 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7137 ### Event 5721 (08C36062) **Date:** 10/27/1951 **Location:** US **Description:** New AF UFO project (which later became Project Blue Book) officially established. **Type:** project established **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 154](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_864 ### Event 5722 (A08BA75A) **Date:** 10/28/1951 **Time:** 15:20:08.9 **Location:** 37.0850 -116.0200 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Baker” Yield: 3.5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_18 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0850 -116.0200", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:06 N 116:01:12 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0850,-116.0200)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.34", **NukeName:** "Baker", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "3.5" ### Event 5723 (20A89445) **Date:** 10/29/1951 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_447 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 140.9km ### Event 5724 (F6CDF053) **Date:** 10/30/1951 **Time:** 06:40 **Location:** YUCCA FLAT, NV **Description:** 3 silver ovoids hover 600M over atomic test 20 minutes before blast. More join. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1976 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2416", **HatchDesc:** "YUCCA FLAT,NV:3 SLVR OVOIDS HVR 600M ovr A-TEST 20 mins before blast:MORE JOIN", **LatLong:** "37.066668 -116.044450", **LatLongDMS:** "37:04:00 N 116:02:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.066668,-116.044450)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5725 (E53F1739) **Date:** 10/30/1951 **Location:** Yucca Flats, NV **Description:** Squadrons of UFOs over atomic test site (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [511030](http://www.nicap.org/armada51dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_879 ### Event 5726 (0BD2E76E) **Date:** 10/30/1951 **Time:** 15:00:29.8 **Location:** 37.0850 -116.0203 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Charlie” Yield: 14KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_19 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0850 -116.0203", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:06 N 116:01:13 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0850,-116.0203)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.35", **NukeName:** "Charlie", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "14" ### Event 5727 (A523AE57) **Date:** 10/30/1951 **Location:** Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site **Description:** 6:40 a.m. A group of servicemen are preparing to observe the Buster Charlie atomic test at Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site. Just before the blast, they see at an altitude of a few thousand feet a formation of 18 silvery, rotating, disc-shaped objects, each with a dome, arranged in six groups of three stretched out in a horizontal row. They fly low over the test site, hover for 30–60 seconds, and depart at an angle, disappearing in seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 68–71 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1703 ### Event 5728 (B0F7CF19) **Date:** 11/1951 **Description:** Maj. Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) is promoted to staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is replaced as director of Air Force Intelligence by Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 936 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1704 ### Event 5729 (ADA7D150) **Date:** 11/1/1951 **Time:** 15:30:01.6 **Location:** 37.0847 -116.0197 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Dog” Yield: 21KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_20 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0847 -116.0197", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:05 N 116:01:11 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0847,-116.0197)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.43", **NukeName:** "Dog", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "21" ### Event 5730 (444ABFB0) **Date:** 11/1/1951 **Description:** The Air Force issues a Ground Observer’s Guide for use by members of the Ground Observer Corps, a WWII Civil Defense program reinstated during the Korean War to protect against enemy attack. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Department of the Air Force, [Ground Observer’s Guide,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFM%5F50-12.pdf) AF Manual 50-12, November 1, 1951 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1705 ### Event 5731 (6AE3131C) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** EAST / ABILENE, TX **Description:** Many / DC4. Green glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape paces plane. Bursts into red fireballs going quickly [to] all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE; Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1977 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "515", **HatchDesc:** "E/ABILENE,TX:MANY/DC4:GRN GLOW-CGR PACES PLANE:BURSTS INTO RED FBLS>>ALL DIRs", **LatLong:** "32.450002 -99.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:27:00 N 99:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.450002,-99.666671)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5732 (8718B76F) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SEQUOIA NT FOREST, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 10M saucer buzzes forestry jeep. Vanishes like magic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1978 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "850", **HatchDesc:** "SEQUOIA Nt FOREST,CA:2 OBS:10M SCR BUZZES FORESTRY JEEP:VANISHES like MAGIC", **LatLong:** "35.500002 -118.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 118:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,-118.366672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5733 (DC06241D) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Location:** AZ, NM, TX, OK, various **Description:** Green fireball. (LIFE Incident 10; \[FUFOR Index?\]) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_869 ### Event 5734 (CB4DACAC) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Location:** Mojave (30 (35?) miles N of), CA **Description:** 30 ft disk-shaped flying object in the SW, 10 ft thick, blue green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_870 ### Event 5735 (130DB6ED) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Mojave, California **Description:** Two forest observers were in a canyon 50 km north of the Mojave when they saw a disk-shaped flying object in the southwest; 10 m estimated diameter, 3 m thick, blue-green, well-defined, surrounded with a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, which approached within a few meters, flew away, seemed to play with them. Eventually it vanished "like a magician's trick." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_85 ### Event 5736 (267A7E85) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Location:** Abilene, Texas **Description:** 7:15 a.m. The crew of an American Airlines DC-4 is flying east of Abilene, Texas, at 4,500 feet. They see a bright-green, projectile-shaped object, about the same size as their airliner, streak past at about same altitude and same easterly heading. The object leaves a trail then explodes, shooting red balls of fire in all directions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 92–93; Nukes 74–75; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1706 ### Event 5737 (D2557AA6) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Description:** At 7:15 a.m. an American Airlines DC-4 passenger plane was followed by a bright green glowing cigar shaped object east of Abilene, Texas. The object paced the airliner for about one minute. It then burst into pieces that looked like red fireballs, which scattered in all directions. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 204 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7410 ### Event 5738 (873AB53D) **Date:** 11/2/1951 **Description:** Later that same night, two forest observers were driving in a canyon 50 kilometers north of the Mojave Desert in California when they saw around 11 p.m. a disc-shaped flying object in the southwest sky. They estimated the diameter to be about 30 feet. It was blue-green in color, with well-defined edges, but surrounded by a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, which approached to within a few meters, then flew away, seeming to play with them. Eventually it vanished "like a magician's trick." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7411 ### Event 5739 (0C00BF5A) **Date:** 11/3/1951 **Locations:** Arizona; New Mexico; Texas; Oklahoma; Flagstaff, Arizona **Description:** 9:00 p.m. A green fireball is sighted in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Capitol Airways pilot H. R. DeHoney is flying at 11,000 feet about 20 miles south of Flagstaff, Arizona, watches the object speed by as a bright blue-green ball that leaves a streak of brilliant red fire. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 75–76; “[Mystery Meteor Startles](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93268614/) [NM, Arizona,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93268614/)” Santa Fe New Mexican, November 4, 1951, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1707 ### Event 5740 (65CECDB8) **Date:** 11/5/1951 **Time:** 16:29:58.2 **Location:** 37.0919 -116.0244 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Easy” Yield: 31KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_21 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0919 -116.0244", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:31 N 116:01:28 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0919,-116.0244)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.40", **NukeName:** "Easy", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "31" ### Event 5741 (32F7A3A7) **Date:** 11/6/1951 **Locations:** Reese AFB; Reese Technology Center; Lubbock, Texas **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) flies to Reese AFB \[now Reese Technology Center\] in Lubbock, Texas, to begin his investigation of the Lubbock lights, accompanied by OSI agent Howard Bossert. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 691 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1708 ### Event 5742 (B68BE414) **Date:** 11/7/1951 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** OVER LAKE SUPERIOR, MI **Description:** Captain and crew / ship. Elongated orange object with 6 portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 431) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1979 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "ovr LAKE SUPERIOR,MI:CAPTAIN+CREW/SHIP:ELONGATED ORNG OBJ W/6 PORTHOLES", **LatLong:** "47.500002 -87.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 87:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,-87.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5743 (E6456392) **Date:** 11/7/1951 **Location:** Lake Superior, MI **Description:** Steamship Captain and crew watched elongated orange object with six glowing "portholes" speed towards Ontario. \[XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_871 ### Event 5744 (CB7E1EE9) **Date:** 11/7/1951 **Locations:** Ontario; Lake Superior **Description:** Evening. A steamship captain and crew watch an elongated orange object with six glowing “portholes” speed toward Ontario over Lake Superior. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 146](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=158&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1709 ### Event 5745 (F42382F0) **Date:** 11/8/1951 **Locations:** Reese AFB; Brownfield, Texas **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and an officer from Reese AFB visit Brownfield, Texas, to investigate UFO sightings there. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 691 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1710 ### Event 5746 (C800B97E) **Date:** 11/9/1951 **Location:** University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics **Description:** Since October 30, seven green fireballs of exceptional size have been seen over a seven-state area in the American Southwest. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) director of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics, says that frequency is exceptional: “In fact, there has never been a rate of meteorite fall in history that has been one fifth as high as the present fall. If that rate should continue, I would suspect the phenomenon is not natural.” The fireballs travel in straight lines and are completely silent. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Southwest’s 7 Fireballs in 11 Days Called ‘Without Parallel in](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/10/81778313.pdf) [History,’](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/10/81778313.pdf)” New York Times, November 10, 1951, pp. 1, 14; Nukes 76–79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1711 ### Event 5747 (1BF9B6B5) **Date:** 11/10/1951 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** The eighth fireball in 13 days was seen here and as far away as Wyoming. (United Press) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_872 ### Event 5748 (23B563BA) **Date:** 11/11/1951 **Location:** New Haven, Connecticut **Description:** 8:45 p.m. Thomas Bartis and his older brother [Francis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138128035/francis-j-bartis) are driving through New Haven, Connecticut, when they see a huge yellow fireball with a greenish-blue tail streak through the sky. Probable bolide. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Second](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94115843/) [Fireball](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94115843/) [Is Sighted,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94115926/)” Meriden \(Conn.\) Record-Journal, November 12, 1951, pp. 1, 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1712 ### Event 5749 (A73F1F54) **Date:** 11/15/1951 (approximate) **Location:** DOWAGIAC, MICH **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright silver saucer / high speed. Flies into Gale winds without effect. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1980 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "DOWAGIAC,MICH:2 OBS:BRITE SLVR SCR/HI SPEED:FLIES INTO GALE WINDS W/O EFFECT", **LatLong:** "41.983335 -86.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:59:00 N 86:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.983335,-86.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5750 (30C9C5CD) **Date:** 11/18/1951 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** NEAR ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD **Description:** Air Traffic Controller and capitol airline(s)/airliner flight 610 crew. Liner paced / 20 minute(s)-turns back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1981 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "nr ANDREWS AFB,MD:ATC+CAPITOL AL Flt 610 CREW:LINER PACED/20min-TURNS BACK.", **LatLong:** "38.783335 -76.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:47:00 N 76:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.783335,-76.883337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5751 (22844C01) **Date:** 11/18/1951 **Location:** Washinton, D.C. **Description:** Object with several lights, follow the DC-4 for about 20 mins (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511118](http://www.nicap.org/511118washingtondc%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_873 ### Event 5752 (72BA1B4A) **Date:** 11/18/1951 **Time:** 3:20 AM **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Witnesses: Crew of Capital Airlines DC-4 Fliqht 610, Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby. One object with several lights, followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned back. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_77 ### Event 5753 (B215FBC1) **Date:** 11/18/1951 **Description:** near Washington, D.C. The crew of a Capital Airlines DC-4, Flight 610, and Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby witnessed an unidentified object with several lights at 3:20 a.m. It followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned back. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7724 ### Event 5754 (45B6A621) **Date:** 11/19/1951 **Time:** 16:59:59.7 **Location:** 37.1317 -116.0386 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Sugar” Yield: 1.2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_22 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1317 -116.0386", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:54 N 116:02:19 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1317,-116.0386)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.00", **NukeName:** "Sugar", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1.2" ### Event 5755 (A11E74E0) **Date:** 11/20/1951 **Locations:** Dodge City, Kansas; Lubbock, Texas; Big Springs, Texas; Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 6:42 p.m. A vivid green fireball is reported from Dodge City, Kansas, and Lubbock and Big Springs, Texas. Two Air Force pilots landing at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a Trans World Airlines pilot also see the fireball. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 78 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1713 ### Event 5756 (909FFF0F) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** 40M SOUTHWEST / MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** 2 / P51s. 8' white triangle saucer hovers and passes over jets. / LDLN#330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1982 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "40m SW/MINNEAPOLIS,MN:2/P51s:8'WHT TRIANGLE SCR HVRS+PASSES OVR JETS:/LDLN#330", **LatLong:** "44.583335 -93.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:35:00 N 93:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.583335,-93.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5757 (1EEE92D7) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** Radar Rumor /Radar Ceases Operation & Antenna Moves (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 4) **Reference:** NICAP: [511124](http://www.nicap.org/511124selfridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_874 ### Event 5758 (2ADFC338) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Location:** Coopersville, MI **Description:** Capital Airlines Pilot Confirms Michigan Sightings (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [511124](http://www.nicap.org/511124coopersville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_875 ### Event 5759 (4C3A1E75) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Location:** Mankato, MN **Description:** Wingshaped Object Hovers Then Passes P-51 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511124](http://www.nicap.org/511124mankato%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_876 ### Event 5760 (31B98534) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Location:** Coopersville, MI **Description:** A large round object flying at 500-1,000 ft height at about 1,000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_877 ### Event 5761 (0FFBFB17) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Time:** 33:53 PM **Location:** Mankato, Minnesota **Description:** Witnesses: USAF or ANG pilots W.H. Fairbrother and D.E. Stewart in P-51 Mustangs. One milky white object shaped like Northrop flying wing (broad, slightly swept-back wing with no fuselage or tail). Estimated 8' span. Flew straight and level for 5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_78 ### Event 5762 (7C86D2C9) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Location:** Mankato, Minnesota **Description:** 3:53 p.m. Air Force Capt. William Fairbrother is flying a P-51 over Mankato, Minnesota, at 25,000 feet when he sees a white object shaped like a flying wing. It hovers at first, then it passes 100 feet above and to the left of his aircraft. He immediately turns to follow but loses sight of it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1714 ### Event 5763 (706D083E) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Locations:** Grand Rapids; Coopersville; Battle Creek; Selfridge AFB near Mount Clemens **Description:** 6:24 p.m. A Capital Airlines Flight 94 pilot and several control tower and other ground observers in four different locations in Michigan \(Grand Rapids, Coopersville, Battle Creek, and Selfridge AFB near Mount Clemens\) see a large round object flying west at 500–1,000 feet at about 1,000 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 116; Swords 130 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1715 ### Event 5764 (E86EFE2A) **Date:** 11/24/1951 **Description:** At 3:53 p.m. a milky white object looking like a small Northrop flying wing (V-shaped with no fuselage or tail) hovered in the skies over Mankato, Minnesota. It flew over two Air National Guard F-51 fighter aircraft being flown by pilots W. H. Fairbrother and D. E. Stewart . A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1013; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Jay Rath, The M Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7865 ### Event 5765 (77FF9786) **Date:** 11/25/1951 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** 20 MI EAST / BIMINI ISLANDS, BAHAMAS **Description:** Military observer(s). 5 objects trail smoke going south according to report to CIA. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1983 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "20mi E/BIMINI ISLS,BAHAMAS:MIL OBS:5 OBJs TRAIL SMOKE >S per REPORT to CIA:", **LatLong:** "25.666668 -79.077782", **LatLongDMS:** "25:40:00 N 79:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.666668,-79.077782)", **State/Prov:** "Bahamas", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5766 (EF064E00) **Date:** 11/26/1951 **Location:** Milwaukee (25 miles E of), WI **Description:** An orange ball of fire with blue tail flying on a level trajectory (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_878 ### Event 5767 (E5701085) **Date:** 11/27/1951 **Description:** Geophysicist Louis Elterman releases the final report on Project Twinkle. Basically, it admits that the low frequency of occurrence of the fireballs does not justify the $50,000 a year required for a useful monitoring facility. It speculates that “the earth may be passing through a region in space of high meteoric population. Also, the sun-spot maxima in 1948 perhaps in some way may be a contributing factor.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Louis Elterman, [Project](http://www.nicap.org/twinkle/ProjectTwinkleFinalReport.pdf) [Twinkle Final Report](http://www.nicap.org/twinkle/ProjectTwinkleFinalReport.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/twinkle/ProjectTwinkleFinalReport.pdf) Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, November 27, 1951; Clark III 544–545 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1716 ### Event 5768 (61783E12) **Date:** 11/28/1951 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** ALEXANDRIA, VA **Description:** 2 USAF pilots. Odd craft glow and hover. Up and down maneuvers. / Blue Book and USAF-OSI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1984 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA,VA:2 USAF PILOTS:ODD CRAFT GLOW+HVR:UP+DOWN MNVRS:/BBK+USAF-OSI", **LatLong:** "38.800002 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.800002,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5769 (1FDB9793) **Date:** 11/29/1951 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** NEAR MADISON, IN **Description:** Metallic saucer circles 3 hunters. Maneuvers. Silent. 600M altitude. Away extremely fast. / r106p242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1985 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "248", **HatchDesc:** "nr MADISON,IN:MTLC SCR CCLS 3 HUNTERS:MNVRS:SLNT:600M alt:AWAY XFAST:/r106p242", **LatLong:** "41.733335 -85.377782", **LatLongDMS:** "41:44:00 N 85:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.733335,-85.377782)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5770 (7BCAF4B8) **Date:** 11/29/1951 **Time:** 19:59:59.7 **Location:** 37.1697 -116.0425 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Uncle” Yield: 1.2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_23 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1697 -116.0425", **LatLongDMS:** "37:10:11 N 116:02:33 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1697,-116.0425)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.01", **NukeName:** "Uncle", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "1.2" ### Event 5771 (A1667BAD) **Date:** 11/30/1951 **Description:** Project Grudge issues its first Status Report, classified “confidential.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 1–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1717 ### Event 5772 (2EB5420B) **Date:** 12/1951 **Location:** RED SPRINGS, NC **Description:** Man and 2 kids. Saucer hovers / low altitude. Human-shape inside. / r67p144. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1986 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "62", **HatchDesc:** "RED SPRINGS,NC:MAN+2 KIDS:SCR HVRS/LO ALT:HUMAN-SHAPE INSIDE:/r67p144", **LatLong:** "34.822224 -79.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:49:20 N 79:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.822224,-79.183337)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5773 (14BC4EA9) **Date:** 12/1951 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / PERU, NEBR **Description:** 10M saucer seen 6M / roadside. Row / 25cm windows / top. No sign of life. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1987 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "NW/PERU,NEBR:10M SCR SEEN 6M/ROADSIDE:ROW/25cm WINDOWS/TOP:NO SIGN OF LIFE", **LatLong:** "40.483335 -95.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:29:00 N 95:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.483335,-95.766671)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5774 (0FCF6901) **Date:** 12/1951 **Location:** Peru (NW of), NB **Description:** Blue light in the NW, vanish to the SE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_880 ### Event 5775 (CF9B9805) **Date:** 12/1951 **Time:** 0300 **Location:** Peru, Nebraska **Description:** A man from Lincoln was driving to Indiana when he saw a blue light in the northwest sky. It vanished to the southeast. The witness missed a turn, had to go back toward Auburn, and had reached a point northwest of Peru when he saw an orange glow in the sky. Coming near, he observed the glow came from a cauldron-shaped object on the ground, about 12 m from the road. He stopped to examine the object, which measured about 10 m diameter and seemed to be made of cast iron. Thirty cm from the top was a row of windows, 25 cm in diameter, from which the orange light was coming. On the other side was a blue flamelike glow. There was no noise, no sign of life or activity, and no antenna or protrusion. The witness drove away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_86 ### Event 5776 (1395D796) **Date:** 12/1951 **Location:** Red Springs, North Carolina **Description:** Sam Coley and his two children saw an object with a human-looking occupant. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_87 ### Event 5777 (968AFCC7) **Date:** 12/1951 **Location:** Los Angeles, California **Description:** [Ed J. Sullivan](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/)[,](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/) a technical writer for North American Aviation, holds a meeting of engineers, scientists, and journalists in Los Angeles, California, who have been following the UFO phenomenon. They form Civilian Saucer Investigation to collect reports and forward them on to ATIC. Its most prominent member is [Walther](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg) [Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg)[,](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg) German rocket scientist retrieved by Project Paperclip. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 139–140; Clark III 241–242 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1718 ### Event 5778 (0A5CB13A) **Date:** 12/5/1951 **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** Early morning. Swedish [Prince Carl Bernadotte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FCarl%5FBernadotte) and a friend, [Berl Gutenberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berl%5FGutenberg), are driving near Stockholm, Sweden, when they see a bright flash of light illuminate the sky. Bernadotte stops the car and opens the door to listen for sounds. They go immediately to the Stockholm Criminal Investigation Department, who reports the incident to the Security Police and the military UFO desk. The report is instantly classified, even though the object is probably a meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 366 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1719 ### Event 5779 (88A5AEB9) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) guard. 20' square object going up and down [to] twice. Canvas color. Taking samples? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1988 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:AEC GUARD:20' SQUARE OBJ ↑+↓ TWICE:CANVAS COLOR:TAKING SAMPLES?", **LatLong:** "36.000002 -84.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 84:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,-84.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5780 (884B88B3) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** TORRANCE, CA **Description:** 2 / private plane. Shiny metallic football ovoid hovers.. then moves away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1989 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "TORRANCE,CA:2/Pvt PLANE:SHINY MTLC FOOTBALL OVOID HVRS..THEN MOVES AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.833335 -118.338895", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 N 118:20:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.833335,-118.338895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5781 (A58052A5) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** 20' square obs by secty guard; F-47's scrambled (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1021, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [511207](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/oakridge511207dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_881 ### Event 5782 (0E74DED3) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Location:** Sunbury, OH **Description:** Silvery sphere through telescope; 2 specks sighted at sides (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1023) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_887 ### Event 5783 (D6AB3319) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Time:** 4:30 PM **Location:** Sunbury, Ohio **Description:** Witness: amateur astronomer Carl Loar. One silvery sphere seen through telescope. Two specks sighted at sides, object seemed to explode and was replaced by a dark cloud and many specks. 30 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_79 ### Event 5784 (ABC21611) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Time:** 8:15 AM **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Witness: Atomic Energy Commission guard J.H. Collins. One 20' square object, white-grey but not shiny flew above ridge to clouds and back again twice, taking 30-40 seconds each time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_80 ### Event 5785 (0F393066) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Description:** At 8:15 a.m. an Atomic Energy Commission guard named Collins at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Tennessee sighted a "canvas colored" square object, estimated to be 20 feet wide, that moved up and down twice. The case remained unexplained by the Air Force. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1021; Project Grudge Report #3, January 1952, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8252 ### Event 5786 (3F735C8C) **Date:** 12/7/1951 **Description:** A pilot trainer and his student, flying in an aeronca 65CV airplane over Torrance, California sighted a shiny metallic football-shaped object in the sky at 10:21 a.m. The object seemed to be stationary at first, then it moved away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8253 ### Event 5787 (002ECA09) **Date:** 12/11/1951 **Description:** Project Twinkle closes down. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 545 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1720 ### Event 5788 (F3DAB8EC) **Date:** 12/12/1951 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** HASTINGS, MN **Description:** USAF F51 dives / 2 60cm discs 30cm apart. Rapid climbs and maneuvers. Elusive. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 284) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1990 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "223", **HatchDesc:** "HASTINGS,MN:USAF F51 DIVES/2 60cm DISCS 30cm APART:RAPID CLIMBS+MNVRS:elusive", **LatLong:** "44.744447 -92.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:44:40 N 92:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.744447,-92.850004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5789 (30816D59) **Date:** 12/12/1951 **Location:** Hastings (or near Prescott?), MN **Description:** "Deke" Slayton / P-51 Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511212](http://www.nicap.org/511212hastings%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_882 ### Event 5790 (CED9C6D6) **Date:** 12/12/1951 **Location:** Hastings, Minnesota **Description:** 3:50 p.m. USAF Capt. [Donald “Deke” Slayton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke%5FSlayton), flying a P-51 fighter at 10,000 feet, sees a whitish or gray object off his left wing about one mile away and 1,000 feet below his flight level about five miles southeast of Hastings, Minnesota. It looks like a kite at first, then like a weather balloon, then two rapidly revolving discs that overlap with centers about 1 foot apart. He attempts an intercept, but the UFO increases speed and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[‘Deke’ Slayton / P-51 Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/511212hastings%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 117 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1721 ### Event 5791 (BEAF2EE5) **Date:** 12/13/1951 **Location:** TUCUMCARI, NM **Description:** Fireball going quickly east from Portales lands here. Gashes water tank. Big flood! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1991 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1245", **HatchDesc:** "TUCUMCARI,NM:FBL >>E from PORTALES LANDS HERE:GASHES WATER TANK:BIG FLOOD!", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -103.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 103:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-103.716672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5792 (2FD9CC03) **Date:** 12/15/1951 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** VICARAGE FARM, STAFFS **Description:** Huge fireball-saucer stops and hovers. Shoots going quickly north fast as plane nears! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1992 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "86", **HatchDesc:** "VICARAGE FARM,STAFFs:HUGE FBL-SCR STOPS+HVRS:SHOOTS >>N FAST AS PLANE NEARS!", **LatLong:** "52.800003 -2.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:48:00 N 02:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.800003,-2.216667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5793 (419A574C) **Date:** 12/18/1951 **Location:** Andrews AFB, D.C. **Description:** Civilian pilot. \[Nov. 18, 1951, case??\] (NARA) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1011) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_883 ### Event 5794 (0D2B00BE) **Date:** 12/19/1951 **Locations:** Pentagon; Columbus, Ohio **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) travels to the Pentagon with ATIC Chief Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm)[.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm) They visit with Maj. Gen. [John A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) [Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford), who has replaced [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) as USAF director of intelligence and who seems “familiar with the general aspects of the problem.” Samford’s aide, Gen. [William M.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), tells them that ATIC has the sole authorization to carry out UFO investigations for the entire US military \(not exactly true\), and they discuss security problems posed by UFOs at sensitive installations. Ruppelt reveals that his preliminary analysis of UFO sighting patterns has uncovered a disturbing correlation of unexplained sightings around nuclear weapons facilities and highly classified nuclear stockpile sites and some SAC strategic air bases. Gen. Samford orders ATIC to conduct an exhaustive statistical study to verify Ruppelt’s findings, using the newly established ATIC Project WHITE STORK contract with the research think tank Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio \(which eventually spends $100,000 on the study, Subproject PPS-100, confirming Ruppelt’s pattern\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 115–116](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/114/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1722 ### Event 5795 (00AEDA27) **Date:** 12/22/1951 **Location:** Columbus (5 miles E of), OH **Description:** F-84 Encounters Odd Object At 20,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [511222](http://www.nicap.org/511222columbus%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_884 ### Event 5796 (601464FC) **Date:** 12/23/1951 (approximate) **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** NEAR AAL, BUSKERUD, NORWAY **Description:** 4 separate events / winter. Fireballs hover silently and going quickly / extreme speeds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1993 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr AAL,BUSKERUD,NORWAY:4 SEP EVENTS/WINTER:FBLS HVR SILENTLY+>>/XTREME SPEEDS", **LatLong:** "60.644447 8.594445", **LatLongDMS:** "60:38:40 N 08:35:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.644447,8.594445)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5797 (78AFBA7B) **Date:** 12/24/1951 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** Two men at Selfridge AFB, Michigan sighted a large oblong and brilliantly lighted object moving at a rapid rate of speed with no apparent audible sound. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [511224](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/selfridge511124dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_885 ### Event 5798 (E4AC8782) **Date:** 12/24/1951 **Location:** Mankato, MN **Description:** Military witness(es). \[Nov. 24, 1951, case??\] (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1013) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_886 ### Event 5799 (8D2FF95A) **Date:** 12/26/1951 **End date:** 12/27/1951 **Location:** Columbus, Ohio **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Col. [Sanford H. Kirkland Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland) of ATIC meet with members of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and ask them to help out with the USAF evaluation of UFO reports: first, a study of witness perception and recall, then a statistical study of UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON; Clark III 929 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1723 ### Event 5800 (55F32AD9) **Date:** 12/28/1951 **Description:** Project Grudge issues Status Report \#2 and a Special Report three days later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 21–53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1724 --- ## Year: 1952 (Back to Top) ### Event 5801 (D2074BDF) **Date:** 1952? **Location:** Langley, Virginia **Description:** SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION: CIA, (not dated): Walter B. Smith, (MJ-3 replacement), Director of CIA notifies the Psychological Strategy Board that “Flying Saucers” have implications for psychological warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. Suggests discussion on the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes. **Type:** secret information **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p511) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_448 **See also:** 10/2/1952 ### Event 5802 (0355E487) **Date:** 1952 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly) **Type:** atomic plant **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_449 ### Event 5803 (03523024) **Date:** 1952 **End date:** 1953 **Location:** US **Description:** USAF Investigation Summary: After review of situation, new serious investigation started; evidence uncovered led many high-ranking officers to conclude UFOs were interplanetary. **Type:** investigation **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_898 ### Event 5804 (928FA721) **Date:** 1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Summer, 1952; Secret fighter base, Albuquerque, NM, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/f-86dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_888 ### Event 5805 (6F4596CA) **Date:** 1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Summer 1952; Albuquerque, NM, Secret Fighter Base (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/f-86dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_889 ### Event 5806 (661E5727) **Date:** 1952 **Location:** MacDill AFB, FL **Description:** Summer of 1952; MacDill AFB, Florida, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_890 ### Event 5807 (63849BBB) **Date:** 1952 **Location:** London, Ont, CAN **Description:** Astronomer observed elliptical UFO with 2 bright body lights. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_891 ### Event 5808 (7E576ACA) **Date:** 1952 **Location:** N.Y. to Puerto Rico, Various **Description:** 1952, Fall; N.Y. to Puerto Rico, Zamott/Harris/Hutchins (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_892 ### Event 5809 (21D02AC2) **Date:** 1952 **Locations:** Livermore, California; UC Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley; Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is established in Livermore, California, as an offshoot of the UC Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. It is intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) and [Ernest Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence) director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as its cofounders. Los Alamos and Livermore soon establish a rivalry, fighting for weapons contracts and feasibility-study awards. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lawrence Livermore National](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%5FLivermore%5FNational%5FLaboratory) [Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%5FLivermore%5FNational%5FLaboratory)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1725 ### Event 5810 (BD66B33E) **Date:** 1952 **Locations:** Yale University; State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island; Bahamas; New Mexico **Description:** [José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FManuel%5FRodr%C3%ADguez%5FDelgado)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FManuel%5FRodr%C3%ADguez%5FDelgado) a Spanish physiologist at Yale University, coauthors what he claims is the first peer-reviewed paper describing deep-brain stimulation of humans. Over the next two decades, he implants electrodes in some 25 subjects. Most are schizophrenics and epileptics at the now-defunct State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island, where Delgado’s occasional collaborator [Hannibal Hamlin](https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/29/obituaries/dr-hannibal-hamlin-former-neurosurgeon.html) is a staff psychiatrist. Delgado is reticent discussing his experiments on humans. He is more enthusiastic recalling research on monkeys, chimpanzees, and gibbons, which he kept both at Yale and in open-air compounds in the Bahamas and New Mexico. He explores the effects of stimulation not only on individuals but also on groups. In one demonstration, he implants a stimoceiver \(a tiny electrode able to receive and transmit signals over FM radio waves\) in a macaque who terrorizes his cage-mates. Delgado installs a lever in the cage that, when pressed, activates the stimoceiver in the bully and pacify him. A female in the cage soon figures out the lever’s significance and yanks it often and with gusto. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Horgan, “[Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/) [Scary Pioneer of Mind Control,](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/)” Cross-Check, Scientific American blog, September 25, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1726 ### Event 5811 (3DCE16E1) **Date:** 1952 **Locations:** Pentagon; Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama **Description:** World War II air intelligence records are transferred from the Pentagon to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. This shift is probably why Blue Book’s Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later cannot find anything about foo- fighters during his trips to USAF intelligence to locate reports not forwarded to ATIC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1727 ### Event 5812 (3AA5CE09) **Date:** 1952 **Locations:** Argentine Navy; Puerto Belgrano Naval Base; Punta Alta, Argentina **Description:** The Argentine Navy establishes a temporary inquiry commission dedicated to the UFO phenomenon at its Puerto Belgrano Naval Base in Punta Alta, Argentina. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Milton Hourcade, “[Argentina: UFO Declassification,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1728 ### Event 5813 (F61B5546) **Date:** 1952? **Locations:** Austria; Mars **Description:** An anonymous occupation soldier in Austria meets a diving suit–clad being who paralyzes him, pulls him inside a UFO, and flies him to an otherworldly place he takes to be Mars. He sees other humans who do not acknowledge him. Then he is returned to his base. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Prince George \(B.C.\) Citizen, December 11, 1957; Clark 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1729 ### Event 5814 (AF6EC31D) **Date:** 1952 **Location:** San Mateo, California **Description:** 6:30 a.m. A carpool of people on their way to work at United Airlines in San Mateo, California, observe five smaller objects merging with a much larger, diamond-shaped object. The big one is about 150–200 feet long, charcoal or gunmetal in color, and is hovering 50–75 feet above some salt flats. The UFOs are directly in front of them to the east, about 1,500–1,800 feet away. One of the witnesses, airplane mechanic [Leonard L. Musel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106575158/leonard-l-musel), said the smaller objects entered the large object through a “transparent tail or sleeve.” After they were aboard, the bigger UFO turned edgewise and zoomed off at a fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1730 ### Event 5815 (629152BC) **Date:** 1952 **Locations:** Camp Okubo; Uji; Kyoto; Japan **Description:** Night. USAF Pvt. Sinclair Taylor is on guard duty at Camp Okubo in Uji, on the southern outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, when he hears flapping sounds and sees what seems to be an enormous bird. As it gets closer to him, Taylor sees that it is a winged man well over 7 feet tall with a wingspread of 7 feet. Taylor fires at it repeatedly with his rifle and thinks he hit it, but he can’t find the body. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 778 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1731 ### Event 5816 (2EC1C1D5) **Date:** Early 1952 **Time:** 2242 **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador **Description:** A fiery, spherical object made a right-angle turn during an observation by a C-54 crew flying from Westover to Goose Bay. It was also seen from the ground by the control tower and by two men who plunged to the earth when the object made a low pass at them. It went away at 2247. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_89 ### Event 5817 (3D3CB7DF) **Date:** 1/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** GALLUP, NM **Description:** Several fast saucers cavort and maneuver. Some in front / sun. Military photos / Tucson Air Force Base. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1994 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1952", **HatchDesc:** "GALLUP,NM:SVRL FAST SCRS CAVORT+MNVR:SOME IN FRONT/SUN:MIL PHOTOS/TUCSON AFB", **LatLong:** "35.500002 -108.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 108:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,-108.750005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5818 (8EDDA831) **Date:** 1/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** WESTON, WYO **Description:** Object maneuvers between rancher and mountainside. Spins. Responds / lights. 2nd object.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1995 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1350", **HatchDesc:** "WESTON,WYO:OBJ MNVRS BTWN RANCHER+MOUNTAINSIDE:SPINS:RESPONDS/LITES:2nd OBJ..", **LatLong:** "44.638891 -105.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:38:20 N 105:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.638891,-105.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5819 (AF1ACFA5) **Date:** 1/1952 **Location:** Weston, WY **Description:** A "shooting star" stop in mid-air between him and a mountain, spinning (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_893 ### Event 5820 (F4500A6B) **Date:** 1/1952 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Weston, Wyoming **Description:** A 38-year-old rancher saw a "shooting star" that suddenly stopped in mid-air between him and a mountain. It was seen spinning in a clockwise direction. It had one red window periodially facing the observer. It went down toward the Little Powder River and came up again. The witness turned his car to send light signals, to which the object seemed to respond by stopping its red window facing the witness's location. Spinning resumed, the object rose and came down. A similar craft arrived and both went into the deep valley, out of sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_88 ### Event 5821 (8DDC328B) **Date:** 1/1952 **Location:** Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin **Description:** [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) found the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Soon, a man claiming to have an intelligence background becomes an active supporter and tries to lead the Lorenzens into “metaphysical areas of research.” Coral Lorenzen rebuffs these attempts. She discovers what seem to be the impressions of an intelligence report about her on one of his letters. In the summer, two suspicious men posing as building contractors seem to be lurking around her home as well as the homes of the APRO treasurer and secretary the same day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 1–2, 248– 251; Clark III 49 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1732 ### Event 5822 (BA55C083) **Date:** 1/1952 **Locations:** US; USSR; China **Description:** Some 74% of the CIA’s money goes toward covert operations. It has already infiltrated many US labor, business, church, university, student, and cultural groups, usually channeling the money through foundations. This year it begins HTLINGUAL, a secret project to intercept mail destined for the USSR and China. It also targets domestic peace and civil rights activists. It lasts until 1973, photographing 2 million envelopes and opening 215,000 letters. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank J. Donner, [The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political](https://archive.org/details/nkj00fran) [Intelligence System](https://archive.org/details/nkj00fran)[,](https://archive.org/details/nkj00fran) Knopf, 1980; Jim Keith, Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mond Control, Adventures Unlimited, 1997; David Wise, [The American Police State: The Government Against the People](https://archive.org/details/americanpolicest000234), Random House, 1976 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1733 ### Event 5823 (1D752441) **Date:** 1/1/1952 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** NORTH BAY, ON **Description:** 2 orange saucers zigzag all over brand-new RCAF airfield. Supersonic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1996 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "370", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH BAY,ON:2 ORG SCRS ZIGZAG ALL OVR BRAND-NEW RCAF AIRFIELD:SUPERSONIC", **LatLong:** "46.216669 -79.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:00 N 79:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.216669,-79.466670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5824 (73B57EDD) **Date:** 1/1/1952 **Location:** RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario **Description:** 10:54 p.m. Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo \(a master telecomm specialist\) and Sgt. [D. V. Crandell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133858511/d%5F-v%5F-crandell) watch a silent, reddish-orange object circle and maneuver for nearly 9 minutes at RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario. It appears to be very large and travels at supersonic speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Saucers’ Seen Here:](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93280805/) [2 Sighted at RCAF Station,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93280911/)” North Bay \(Ont.\) Nugget, April 15, 1952, pp. 1–2; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 92 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1734 ### Event 5825 (5A36E260) **Date:** 1/1/1952 **Description:** On this night at the North Bay RCAF Base in Nipissing, Ontario, Canada Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo and Airman Crandell observed a strange craft in the sky at a NORAD installation. The UFO swung like a pendulum in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated April 16, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1 ### Event 5826 (89DA16A4) **Date:** 1/3/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** SOUTH DAYTONA, FL **Description:** Postal worker. 10m metallic hemisphere going quickly southeast / 150m altitude. Silent. Faster / jet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1997 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "S.DAYTONA,FL:POSTAL WORKER:10m MTLC HEMISPHERE >>SE/150m alt:SLNT:FASTER/JET", **LatLong:** "29.150001 -81.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "29:09:00 N 81:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.150001,-81.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5827 (1593BD0F) **Date:** 1/3/1952 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), Assistant for the Production of Intelligence, writes a secret memorandum for General [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) that lays down the investigative shortcomings of Project Grudge and suggests policies and agendas for the immediate future. Garland mentions that the aircraft inventions and models by the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) had fallen into the hands of the Soviets at the end of World War II. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brig. Gen. William M. Garland, [“\(Secret\) Contemplated Action to Determine the Nature and Origin of the Phenomena Connected with](http://www.nicap.org/waves/garland.htm) [the Reports of Unusual Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/waves/garland.htm)” January 3, 1952; Swords 141–143; Kremlin 34 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1735 ### Event 5828 (C2200594) **Date:** 1/4/1952 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** WATSONVILLE, CA **Description:** Cops and more/others. Blue-green fireball throws sparks / ends. Turns going SSE toward(s) fort ORD. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1998 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WATSONVILLE,CA:COPS++:BLU-GRN FBL THROWS SPARKS/ENDS:TURNS >SSE twrd FORT ORD", **LatLong:** "36.911113 -121.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:54:40 N 121:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.911113,-121.750006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5829 (F17B9432) **Date:** 1/6/1952 **Locations:** Giant Rock; Mojave Desert; Landers, California **Description:** Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel), living at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, receives the first of many psychic messages from extraterrestrial starship commanders. This one is from “Lutbunn, senior in command of first wave, planet patrol, realms of Schare. We have your contact aboard 80,000 feet above this place.” Other messages soon come from Elcar, Clota, Totalmon, Latamarx, Noma, Leektow, Luu, Oblow, Kerrull, Locktopar, Molca, Clatu, Hulda, Lata, Singba, and others. One of his contacts, Ashtar, will become a metaphysical superstar, and in the years ahead many contactees will channel communications from him. These aliens seek to raise humanity’s “vibrationary attunement” so that earthlings will not threaten the wise and peace- loving space people. Van Tassel reprints many of these messages in a misleadingly titled book, I Rode a Flying Saucer! **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George W. Van Tassel, [I Rode a Flying Saucer! The Mysteries of the Flying Saucers Revealed](https://archive.org/details/documents.pub%5Fi-rode-a-flying-saucer-george-van-tassel/page/n1/mode/2up), New Age, 1952; Clark III 1218–1219 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1736 ### Event 5830 (B29E5823) **Date:** 1/7/1952 **Description:** A dot appeared in the western sky over the Apple Valley Airport in San Bernardino County, California that grew to a golden shining disc, 100 feet in diameter. The UFO cavorted for several minutes, made 90 degree turns, and flew away at twice the speed of a jet. It also was completely silent. The witness was a 57-year-old man named Mattern. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles, letter from witness dated April 13, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_179 ### Event 5831 (7A29575B) **Date:** 1/8/1952 **Locations:** Battelle Memorial Institute; Columbus, Ohio **Description:** Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, agrees to help out the Air Force with analyzing UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 929 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1737 ### Event 5832 (87C7403C) **Date:** 1/9/1952 **Location:** Kerrville, TX **Description:** January 9, 1952; Kerrville, Texas. Odd 'roaring" interference on radio as UFO circled town. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_894 ### Event 5833 (88DC4E8F) **Date:** 1/16/1952 **Location:** Artesia, NM **Description:** A motionless dull white, round object 5/3 larger than the balloon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1037, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_895 ### Event 5834 (ADA41821) **Date:** 1/20/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, WA **Description:** 2 Air Force intelligence OFFs. Silent blue-white sphere/orb/globe going quickly west / 1400mph. Below clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1999 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "750", **HatchDesc:** "FAIRCHILD AFB,WA:2 AF INT.OFFs:SLNT BLU-WHT ORB >>W/1400mph:BELOW CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -117.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 117:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-117.383339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5835 (E6B99643) **Date:** 1/20/1952 **Location:** Fairchild AFB, WA **Description:** Bluish-white spherical object with a long blue tail that flew beneath a solid overcast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520120](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/fairchild520120dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_896 ### Event 5836 (23E0D6DD) **Date:** 1/20/1952 **Location:** Fairchild AFB near Spokane, Washington **Description:** 7:20 p.m. Two master sergeants, both intelligence specialists, are walking down a street at Fairchild AFB near Spokane, Washington, when they notice a large, bluish-white, spherical object approaching from the east. It passes north of their position, traveling horizontally and silently, and disappears in the west. They notice it has a long blue tail. It travels underneath low cloud cover at 4,700 feet at 1,400 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Large Sphere with Blue](http://www.nicap.org/520120spokane%5Fdir.htm) [Tail at 500ʹ,](http://www.nicap.org/520120spokane%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 12](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/12/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 118 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1738 ### Event 5837 (0598B3F0) **Date:** 1/21/1952 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** MITCHELL AIR FORCE BASE, LI, NY **Description:** White saucer makes 180° turn. Circles Air Force Base. Goes going quickly south to sea. / LDLN#330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2000 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "MITCHELL AFB,LI,NY:WHT SCR MAKES 180° TURN:CCLs AFB:GOES>>S TO SEA:/LDLN#330", **LatLong:** "40.722224 -73.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:43:20 N 73:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.722224,-73.583337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5838 (ED198429) **Date:** 1/21/1952 **Location:** Mitchell AFB, NY **Description:** TBM And Possible Balloon? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520121](http://nicap.org/520121mitchel%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_897 ### Event 5839 (3E008739) **Date:** 1/21/1952 **Locations:** Mitchel AFB; Long Island, New York **Description:** 9:50 a.m. A Navy pilot lieutenant commander in a TBM Avenger chases a white, dome-shaped object over Mitchel AFB \[now closed\] on Long Island, New York. It accelerates rapidly, makes a 180° turn, and heads out to sea. He estimates it is traveling at least at 300 mph. It looks like a parachute canopy and has a dark undersurface. Although there is a balloon in the area, but its flight path is completely different. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[TBM Chases Climbing](http://www.nicap.org/520121mitchel%5Fdir.htm) [and Accelerating Object](http://www.nicap.org/520121mitchel%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 121–123](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/120/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 118 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1739 ### Event 5840 (9F508CE5) **Date:** 1/21/1952 **Description:** Two pilots of a Navy TBM plane from Mitchel AFB on Long Island, New York chased a white, circular, domed disc at 9:50 a.m., which finally accelerated and outdistanced them, climbing away. The TBM torpedo plane was flying at 6000 feet altitude when the crew first spotted the object. The disc was very light on top, but dark on the underside. It was estimated to be from 20 to 30 feet in diameter, at a minimum distance of only 2000 feet. When it was first seen it was at 200 feet, and then climbed to the plane's altitude. It started a rapid climb from there and soon vanished from sight. The official Air Force explanation at the time was that it was a balloon, which nearly everyone who has reviewed the case doubts. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 401; Richard H. Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO sightings that shook the government, p. 9; Terrence Wright, Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers, p. 139; UNICAT case 807, citing Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 161 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_399 ### Event 5841 (82EBEE1C) **Date:** 1/22/1952 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** LADD AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** Objects / 3 ground and air RADAR's going quickly southwest / 1500mph. Gravitational effects. F94s chase. / r242p118. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2001 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "100", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "LADD AFB,AK:OBJs/3 GND+AIR RDRs >>SW/1500mph:GRAV.EFFECTS:F94s CHASE:/r242p118", **LatLong:** "64.566670 -149.083340", **LatLongDMS:** "64:34:00 N 149:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.566670,-149.083340)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5842 (72375129) **Date:** 1/22/1952 **Location:** Nenana (E of), AK **Description:** Radar operator at ADC tracks object Alaska, G,A (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520122](http://www.nicap.org/520122nenana%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_898 ### Event 5843 (EFFED237) **Date:** 1/22/1952 **Location:** Mitchell AFB (SE of), NY **Description:** Bomber chased a a white circular domed-disc which shot away (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_899 ### Event 5844 (861A1A16) **Date:** 1/22/1952 **Locations:** northern Alaska outpost; Murphy Dome Air Force Station **Description:** 12:20 a.m. At a northern Alaska outpost, Murphy Dome Air Force Station, radar captures a UFO traveling 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet. When an F-94 is sent to intercept, the target stops, slows down, reverses course, and heads directly for the radar station. It comes within 30 miles, then disappears from the screen. The F-94 heads back to refuel, and a second fighter is scrambled. This pilot gets a strong radar return. At first, the object is almost stationary, but then it dives suddenly, at which point ground radar picks it up again. A third F-94 is sent up, also tracks the object on radar, and closes to within 900 feet. At this point, the pilot pulls away to avoid a collision, as the UFO is nearly immobile. Since none of the pilots obtained a visual sighting, the Air Force concludes that the radar returns are weather-related, although the pilots strongly dispute this. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Alaskan Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/520122nenana%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 123–127](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/122/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 119–120 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1740 ### Event 5845 (EA5C0D26) **Date:** 1/22/1952 **Description:** At 12:20 a.m. a radar station at Murphy's Dome, Alaska tracked a UFO moving at 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet. Three F-94s were vectored in. There were solid radar returns on the ground radar as well as two airborne radars. At one point the short range radar stopped working, preventing anything being tracked close to the station. The third jet approached to within 200 meters of the UFO, but pulled up for fear of a mid-air collision. No radar malfunctions were found. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 165; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 86; Project Blue Book Special Report # 3, report dated April 30, 1952; UNICAT, case # 599 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_408 ### Event 5846 (AAAA4F37) **Date:** 1/25/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTH / SAN JOSE, CA **Description:** Private pilot. Group / odd red night lights play / sky. Away as plane nears. / Sj Merc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2002 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "S/SAN JOSE,CA:PVT.PILOT:GRP/ODD RED NLTS PLAY/SKY:AWAY AS PLANE NEARS:/SJ Merc", **LatLong:** "37.250002 -121.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:15:00 N 121:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.250002,-121.833339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5847 (25EABBC2) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** 30 MI WSW / WONSAN, NORTH KOREA **Description:** 3 USAF / B29. Orange fireball / sphere. Paces plane / 5 min. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2003 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "30 MI WSW/WONSAN,N.KOREA:3 USAF/B29:ORG FBL/SPHERE:PACES PLANE/5 min:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.033335 126.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:02:00 N 126:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.033335,126.900006)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5848 (03A65513) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** 5MI SSE / SUNCHON, NORTH KOREA **Description:** 2nd B29. 3' orange glowing-saucer. Going south. Turns back going quickly north. / r242p124. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2004 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "5mi SSE/SUNCHON,N KOREA:2nd B29:3'ORG.GLO-SCR:> S:TURNS BACK >>N:/r242p124", **LatLong:** "39.366669 125.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:22:00 N 125:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.366669,125.900006)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5849 (678A75ED) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Location:** Wonsan (30 miles SW of), South Korea **Description:** Orange luminous rotating and pulsating 3 ft sphere with blue flame halo (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520129](http://www.nicap.org/520129wonsan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_900 ### Event 5850 (8C9649EF) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **End date:** 1/30/1952 **Location:** Sunchon, South Korea **Description:** USAF crew saw an orange sphere follow the B-29 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520129-30](http://www.nicap.org/520129sunchon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_901 ### Event 5851 (991E9774) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Locations:** Pentagon; AFOIN offices; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** On his trip to the Pentagon to brief Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits the AFOIN offices and discovers they have more complete files than ATIC in Dayton, Ohio, does. He arranges to have copies made of the missing files for him at Project Grudge \(though multiple visits are required to obtain the copies and Ruppelt probably does not succeed in getting everything\). The offices with UFO files include the Technical Capabilities Branch \(TCB\) of the Evaluation Division and the Collection Control Branch of the Collection Division. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1741 ### Event 5852 (EEDB542B) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Locations:** Pentagon; White Sands and Los Alamos, New Mexico; Killeen Base, Texas; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Dayton, Ohio; Cambridge, Massachusetts **Description:** Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), USAF Assistant for Production of Intelligence, and his staff are briefed at the Pentagon on the status of Project Grudge by [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) who with his colleagues at ATIC has prepared sighting maps that show a concentration of cases at White Sands and Los Alamos, New Mexico; Killeen Base, Texas; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Dayton, Ohio \(where Wright-Patterson AFB is situated\). At this meeting, Garland introduces a new intelligence policy that emphasizes the use of instrumentation for intelligence collection, including the detection and tracking of UFOs \(the basis for terminating Project Blue Book as an intelligence function\). As an interim last-chance measure to prove whether anecdotal sightings have any value, Garland approves Ruppelt’s publicity plan to draw in UFO reports from the public so that triangulations might be obtained. This leads to Garland secretly backing the Life magazine article. Apparently on the same day, Garland gives the welcoming address to the secret MIT Lincoln Laboratory \(Ruppelt calls it the Beacon Hill group\) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he tells the assembled scientists to study ways USAF intelligence methodology can be revolutionized through the use of technology. \(Later Garland sends Ruppelt, Col. [Sanford H. Kirkland Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland) of ATIC, and Lt. Col. William A. Adams of AFOIN, to brief the Lincoln Lab scientists on UFOs on March 26 and in April 1952, respectively\) **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Status of Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\]; NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm) [Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)”; Swords 144; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf), The Author, 1993, p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1742 ### Event 5853 (149215D1) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Location:** Guam **Description:** Evening. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are at an open-air movie theater on Guam when they and others at the theater see an orange light passing silently overhead. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Violet M. Winstead, Letter, IUR 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1743 ### Event 5854 (FF366E88) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Locations:** Wonsan; Sunchon; North Korea **Description:** Night. A bright orange, disc-shaped object, also described as a “huge ball of fire,” paces two B-29s on the same night, 80 miles from each other over the towns of Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Rotating](http://www.nicap.org/520129wonsan%5Fdir.htm) [Light Seen by B-29 Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520129wonsan%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[B-29 Crew Followed by UFO](http://www.nicap.org/520129sunchon%5Fdir.htm)”; Haines, Korea, [pp. 33–37](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 121; Patrick Gross, “[UFO US Military Reports, Korea, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/korea29jan52.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1744 ### Event 5855 (4C1B5046) **Date:** 1/29/1952 **Description:** Several bright discs, each estimated to be three feet in diameter, followed a B-29 Superfortress flying 30 miles west-southwest of Wonsan, Korea at 11:20 p.m. A second sighting occurred at 11:24 p.m. with a different squadron of B-29s flying near Sunchon, Korea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 157; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15; UNICAT, case 625, citing Life magazine, April 7, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_571 ### Event 5856 (2E72891D) **Date:** 1/31/1952 **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) releases Project Grudge Status Report \#3, in which he reviews the geographic distribution of UFO reports, states the project’s obstacle, and includes a list of 15 cases reported to ATIC in January. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 144; US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 55–64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1745 ### Event 5857 (480F6DE5) **Date:** 2/1952 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** BINGHAMTON, NY **Description:** Several girls and more. Orange burger-saucer going north. Portholes / rim. Accelerations very fast. Dwg / reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 707) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2005 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "BINGHAMTON,NY:SVRL GIRLS+:ORG BURGER-SCR >N:PORTS/RIM:ACCELS VFAST:dwg/ref", **LatLong:** "42.100002 -75.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:00 N 75:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.100002,-75.916670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5858 (01AEBD92) **Date:** 2/1/1952 **Location:** Terre Haute (10 miles W of), IN **Description:** Close group of moving lights changing color from blue to green to yellow (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_902 ### Event 5859 (725DD89E) **Date:** 2/2/1952 **Location:** OFF EAST COAST / KOREA **Description:** Blip all over AC carrier. Splits / 2. Much RADAR. Zigzags going quickly north and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2006 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off E.COAST/KOREA:BLIP ALL OVR AC CARRIER:SPLITS/2:MUCH RDR:ZIGZAGS >>N+AWAY", **LatLong:** "36.166668 130.016673", **LatLongDMS:** "36:10:00 N 130:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.166668,130.016673)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5860 (9C2317D9) **Date:** 2/2/1952 **Location:** Pusan (40 miles E of), South Korea **Description:** Radar track of 767 mph unidentified target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520202](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_903 ### Event 5861 (B89A3E24) **Date:** 2/2/1952 **Location:** east coast of Korea **Description:** 7:35 p.m. Radar operators aboard the aircraft carrier [USS Philippine Sea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPhilippine%5FSea%5F%28CV-47%29) pick up an unidentified target off the east coast of Korea. It is first detected at a distance of 25 miles; when it closes to 20 miles, it makes a wide turn to the east directly away from the carrier, accelerating from 600 to 1,800 mph at 52,000 feet altitude. It splits into two targets 5–12 miles apart on a slightly zigzag course to the north. They disappear about 110 miles away. Observers on the carrier see three exhaust flames. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[USS](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm) [Philippine Sea](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm) [Tracks Approaching Target](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/126/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 121 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1746 ### Event 5862 (E0BB6B5D) **Date:** 2/8/1952 **Locations:** Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB; Wonsan **Description:** [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) on the Pentagon’s UFO desk, writes to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) at ATIC for help in interpreting the Korean sightings. Ruppelt has brought in an expert from Wright-Patterson AFB’s Engineering Division, [Peter A. Stranges](https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-12-28-0212280043-story.html) of the Propulsion Branch Power Plant Group, to help with the analysis, which he passes on to Fournet and [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/)[.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) Stranges compares the Wonsan sighting to the foo fighters of World War II. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(Swords 144–145\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1747 ### Event 5863 (C605A551) **Date:** 2/11/1952 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** PITTSBURGH, PA **Description:** 2 / AT11 trainer plane. Comet-like pulses flame / 2 second(s). Straight and level flight / 1 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2007 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "PITTSBURGH,PA:2/AT11 TRAINER PLANE:COMET-LIKE PULSES FLAME/2sec:S/L FLITE/1min", **LatLong:** "40.416669 -79.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:25:00 N 79:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.416669,-79.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5864 (5E99D7EF) **Date:** 2/11/1952 **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA **Description:** AT-11 Encounters Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1052) **Reference:** NICAP: [520211](http://www.nicap.org/520211pittsburgh%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_904 ### Event 5865 (9BAD60E4) **Date:** 2/11/1952 **Time:** 3 AM **Location:** Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witnesses: Capt. G.P. Arns and Maj. R.J. Gedson flying a Beech AT-ll trainer. One yellow-orange comet-shaped object pulsed flame for 1-2 seconds of a 1 minute straight and level flight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_81 ### Event 5866 (B04D28B6) **Date:** 2/11/1952 **Description:** A bright, yellowish orange object with a pulsating flame exhaust was spotted at a high altitude by the crew of a US Air Force AT-11 trainer flying near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at three o'clock in the morning. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1052; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15; Project Blue Book Special Report #5, March 31, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_817 ### Event 5867 (A42FD1AC) **Date:** 2/12/1952 **Location:** Baltimore (Bet. Friendship Airfield and), MD **Description:** MATS C-47 Crew Encounter Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520212](http://www.nicap.org/520212baltimore%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_905 ### Event 5868 (5C16A9C0) **Date:** 2/12/1952 **Description:** The pilot and co-pilot of a MATS C-47 transport plane flying between Friendship Airfield and Baltimore, Maryland sighted a bright white UFO at 10:30 p.m. The object moved slowly at first, then accelerated away. The sighting lasted two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #5, dated March 31, 1952; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_861 ### Event 5869 (C33FF4CC) **Date:** 2/13/1952 **Location:** LONDON **Description:** Sunday mirror reports luminous cigar. Blue / bottom. Both ends green. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2008 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON:SUNDAY MIRROR REPORTS LUM.CIGAR:BLUE/BOTTOM:BOTH ENDS GREEN:NFD", **LatLong:** "51.483336 -0.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:29:00 N 00:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.483336,-0.083333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5870 (B85BBE7C) **Date:** 2/13/1952 **Location:** Granite City, IL **Description:** The 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group observed an unusual radar return while attempting to score a bomb run (McDonald list; BB Rpt 6) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520213](http://www.nicap.org/520213granite%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_906 ### Event 5871 (977F6BC3) **Date:** 2/13/1952 **Description:** A luminous cigar-shaped object, blue on the bottom and green at both ends, flew over London, England on this night. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated February 14, 1952; UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_891 ### Event 5872 (E32E8611) **Date:** 2/16/1952 **Location:** Pusan (60 miles E of), South Korea **Description:** Large Target Tracked By GCI CPS-5 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520216](http://www.nicap.org/520216pusan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_907 ### Event 5873 (3D92AD48) **Date:** 2/17/1952 **Location:** Roswell (25 miles SE of), NM **Description:** Unusual Fireball Near B-29 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520217](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/roswell520217dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_908 ### Event 5874 (08DC16F5) **Date:** 2/18/1952 **Time:** 06:50 **Location:** TIJERAS CANYON, NM **Description:** Bright blue-white 40M saucers hover / 6km altitude. Tilt. Drop suddenly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 710) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2009 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1890", **HatchDesc:** "TIJERAS CANYON,NM:BRITE BLU-WHT 40M SCRS HVR/6km alt:TILT:DROP SUDDENLY:", **LatLong:** "35.027779 -106.544450", **LatLongDMS:** "35:01:40 N 106:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.027779,-106.544450)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5875 (C6CB6426) **Date:** 2/19/1952 (approximate) **Location:** MAGDALENA, NM AND SOCORRO AND RIO PUERCO AND MORE **Description:** Round object maneuvers. Ramp attached / cop. / r136#7p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2010 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2003", **HatchDesc:** "MAGDALENA,NM+SOCORRO+RIO PUERCO+:RND OBJ MNVRS:RAMP ATTACHED/cop:/r136#7p11", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -107.244450", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 107:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-107.244450)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5876 (E062D095) **Date:** 2/19/1952 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** CORONA, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2364. Unidentified. Observer(s) = Beyer. Red-orange fireball zigzags / 15 minute(s). Swoops up and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2011 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CORONA,CA:BBK#2364:UID:OBS=BEYER:RED-ORG FBL ZIGZAGS/15min:SWOOPS UP+AWAY", **LatLong:** "33.866668 -117.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:52:00 N 117:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.866668,-117.516672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5877 (B64263E4) **Date:** 2/19/1952 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** RICHMOND, CA **Description:** Green orbs stop / midair. Shoot going quickly SSW / San Francisco. Orange fireballs back 24 February. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2012 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND,CA:GRN ORBS STOP/MIDAIR:SHOOT >>SSW/SAN FRANCISCO:ORG FBLS BACK 24FEB", **LatLong:** "37.933335 -122.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:56:00 N 122:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.933335,-122.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5878 (7FA4CC31) **Date:** 2/19/1952 **Description:** A reddish-orange fireball zig-zagged for 15 minutes over Corona, California shortly after 6:00 p.m. In addition to zigzagging the ball of light swooped up and down. There were three witnesses. The case was listed as an unknown by Project Blue Book. At 8:00 p.m. three or more green balls of light stopped in midair in Richmond, California. They then shot away to the south-southwest toward San Francisco. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2364; (1) & (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_993 ### Event 5879 (8EA0C286) **Date:** 2/20/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MA **Description:** Minister and more / train. 3 silver saucers going [to] overhead / V formation. 90° turn away. / r71p129. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2013 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MA:MINISTER+/TRAIN:3 SLVR SCRs >OVHD/VFORM:90°TURN AWAY:/r71p129", **LatLong:** "42.683335 -72.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:00 N 72:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.683335,-72.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5880 (BB838B9B) **Date:** 2/20/1952 **Location:** Mt. Diablo, CA **Description:** On Collision Course & Definitely Not Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520220](http://www.nicap.org/520220mtdiablo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_909 ### Event 5881 (1031E711) **Date:** 2/20/1952 **Location:** Greenfield, MA **Description:** Congregational Minister saw three very bright silver objects, apparently spherical, traveling in a perfect V. \[VII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_910 ### Event 5882 (234FE7D0) **Date:** 2/20/1952 **Location:** Greenfield, Massachusetts **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Rev. [Albert Baller](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baller.htm) is sitting in a train at the station in Greenfield, Massachusetts, when he sees a “sharp flash of light about 35° or more above the horizon.” Looking upward, he sees three perfectly circular, silver objects approaching in a V-formation. They are moving at about the “speed of a second hand on a watch.” They stop and hover for 10 seconds. The lead object reverses and pulls into a line with the other two between them. Then they depart in a direction at right angles to their approach. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 69](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=81&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1748 ### Event 5883 (55FE96F8) **Date:** 2/20/1952 **Description:** [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FAlsop) and [Stewart Alsop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%5FAlsop) examine the January 29 Korean incidents in their syndicated column, “Problems of Scientific Development.” They suspect a Russian origin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 145–146 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1749 ### Event 5884 (179DE981) **Date:** 2/21/1952 **Locations:** Ga.; Korean **Description:** Sen. [Richard Russell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr) \(D-Ga.\), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requests further information on the January 29 Korean UFO incidents in a letter to Secretary of the Air Force [Thomas K. Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFO Documents, 1952, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/fig/korea52a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1750 ### Event 5885 (01998882) **Date:** 2/21/1952 **Locations:** Far East Air Forces; Wonsan/Sunchon, Korea **Description:** Far East Air Forces Commander Lieut. Gen. [Otto P. Weyland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FP.%5FWeyland) tells reporters that “no conclusive evaluation had been made at the present time” on the Wonsan/Sunchon, Korea, sightings of January 29–30. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Nothing Conclusive on Globes: Weyland,” Stars and Stripes, Pacific edition, February 22, 1952; Project 1947, “[UFO Documents, 1952, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/fig/korea52a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1751 ### Event 5886 (1A19431A) **Date:** 2/22/1952 **Location:** Key West, FL **Description:** Ground/Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520222](http://www.nicap.org/500222keywest%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_911 ### Event 5887 (B0B2B0CF) **Date:** 2/22/1952 **Locations:** Manzano Base, New Mexico; Coyote Canyon; Sandia Base; Killeen Base, adjacent to Gray AFB; Campbell AFB; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Campbell; Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale AFB; Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis AFB; Medina Base, adjacent to Lackland AFB **Description:** The now-completed Site Able is renamed Manzano Base, New Mexico, and turned over to the operational control of the Air Force. What appear to be secure bunkers are visible to people \(mostly military personnel\) who go to a recreational camping area nearby known as Coyote Canyon. The military, however, never officially confirms the nature of the activities at Manzano Base \[now part of Kirtland Air Force Base\]. At one point, a military spokesman says that Manzano Base has nothing to do with Sandia Base. Manzano has since been identified as the first of six original National Stockpile Sites for nuclear weapons. The other original NSS installations similar to Manzano are: Site Baker at Killeen Base, adjacent to Gray AFB \[now Robert Gray Army Airfield\] at Fort Hood, Texas; Site Charlie at Campbell AFB \[now Campbell Army Airfield\] near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and adjacent to Fort Campbell; Site Dog at Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale AFB near Bossier City, Louisiana; Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis AFB, Nevada; and Medina Base, adjacent to Lackland AFB \[now Joint Base San Antonio\], Texas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Sandia Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia%5FBase\#Manzano%5FBase)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1752 ### Event 5888 (AF030806) **Date:** 2/23/1952 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** SINUIJU, NORTH KOREA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1061. B29 crew. Blue cylinder/cylindrical object pulses. Maneuvers to evade flak? / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2014 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SINUIJU,N.KOREA:BBK#1061:B29 CREW:BLU CYL PULSES:MNVRS TO EVADE FLAK?:/r185", **LatLong:** "40.100002 124.394450", **LatLongDMS:** "40:06:00 N 124:23:40 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.100002,124.394450)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5889 (13F14A38) **Date:** 2/23/1952 **Time:** 11:15 PM **Location:** over North Korea **Description:** Witness: Captain/B-29 navigator. One bluish cylinder, three times long as wide, with a tail and rapid pulsations, came in high and fast, made several turns and levelled out under B-29 which was evading mild antiaircraft fire. 45 second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_82 ### Event 5890 (77408064) **Date:** 2/23/1952 **Alternate date:** 2/24/1952 **Location:** Sinuiju, North Korea **Description:** 11:15 p.m. The navigator on a B-29 bomber sees a pulsating bluish cylinder while the aircraft is evading antiaircraft fire near Sinuiju, North Korea. It arrives high and fast, makes several turns, and levels out underneath the aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 122 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1753 ### Event 5891 (8817F40F) **Date:** 2/23/1952 **Description:** Over North Korea. At 11:15 p.m. the navigator of a USAF B-29 sighted a bluish cylindrical UFO, three times longer than it was wide, with a tail. It flew with rapid pulsations, came in high and fast, and made several turns before leveling out under the B-29. The bomber was evading mild anti-aircraft fire at the time, and the UFO seemed to be maneuvering to avoid the flack as well. The sighting lasted an estimated 45 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1061; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 37; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1059 ### Event 5892 (B9BDFDBC) **Date:** 2/24/1952 (approximate) **Location:** KEYSVILLE, VA **Description:** Silvery cigar-shaped "meteor" crosses sky in short bursts / motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2015 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "196", **HatchDesc:** "KEYSVILLE,VA:SILVERY CIGAR-SHAPED "METEOR" CROSSES SKY IN SHORT BURSTS/MOTION", **LatLong:** "37.038891 -78.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:20 N 78:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.038891,-78.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5893 (7EAE0D68) **Date:** 2/24/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** SHERMAN, TX **Description:** Military and civil observer(s). Round objects with big halos in tight circles climb and fade away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2016 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "227", **HatchDesc:** "SHERMAN,TX:MIL+CIV OBS:ROUND OBJs W/BIG HALOS in TIGHT CIRCLES CLIMB+FADE AWAY", **LatLong:** "33.650002 -96.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:00 N 96:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.650002,-96.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5894 (1B6AFEC4) **Date:** 2/24/1952 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** SOUTH / ANTUNG, CH **Description:** (XE2838). B29 hit / NK searchlights. 10' cylinder/cylindrical object rises / ground and scouts B29 after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2017 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "S/ANTUNG,CH:(XE2838):B29 HIT/NK SEARCHLITES:10'CYL RISES/GND+SCOUTS B29 AFTER", **LatLong:** "40.166669 124.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:00 N 124:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.166669,124.450006)", **State/Prov:** "LNG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5895 (7B56718E) **Date:** 2/24/1952 **Location:** Sinuiju, N. Korea **Description:** Auto-Sized Cylinder Tries To Intercept B-29? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1061) **Reference:** NICAP: [520224](http://www.nicap.org/520224antung%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_912 ### Event 5896 (7FF6B622) **Date:** 2/24/1952 **Description:** A bright blue cylindrical object approached a B-29 flying over Antung, Korea at 11:15 p.m. It had a pulsating exhaust trail three times the length of the object. When it came within 3,000 feet it emitted a luminous beam of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge Report #4, February 1952, p. 29; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1074 ### Event 5897 (5EE47185) **Date:** 2/25/1952 **Location:** GASSVILLE, ARK **Description:** Hoops tilt / great altitude. Light reflects / invisible center. Turkeys panic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2018 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "GASSVILLE,ARK:HOOPS TILT/GREAT ALT:LIGHT REFLECTS/INVISIBLE CTR:TURKEYS PANIC", **LatLong:** "36.266668 -92.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:16:00 N 92:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.266668,-92.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5898 (1D2044E8) **Date:** 2/25/1952 **End date:** 2/27/1952 **Location:** USAF headquarters at the Pentagon **Description:** Life magazine reporter [Robert Emmett Ginna Jr](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927). visits USAF headquarters at the Pentagon to gather information for his UFO article. He talks with Brig. Gen. [Joseph F. Carroll](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107471/lieutenant-general-joseph-francis-carroll/), Director of Special Investigations. Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) tells him that he has considered firing a guided missile at a UFO to bring it down and requests that Ginna delay publishing an article until the Air Force has come to a more definite conclusion. Ginna also talks to Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) of OSI. \(Jan L. Aldrich, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](http://www.project1947.com/fig/lifememo52a.htm)” Project 1947\) February 29 — Project Grudge issues a secret Status Report \#4, classified “secret.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 65–78 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1754 ### Event 5899 (974EFFFD) **Date:** 2/26/1952 **Location:** Albany, NY **Description:** Minimum 3-5 Minute Incident Described As Possible Meteor???? (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520226](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/albany520226dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_913 ### Event 5900 (3BC14292) **Date:** 2/27/1952 **Location:** Ft. Stockton, TX **Description:** B-29 and radar (McDonald list; BB Rpt 5) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_914 ### Event 5901 (B9BF44AA) **Date:** 2/28/1952? **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** SOUTH / LIMA, PERU **Description:** Saucer 2M over road. 3 mummy small humanoids (or Greys) take observer(s) / ride. / r8+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#6p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: UFO's OVER THE AMERICAS; Signet Books, NY 1968. 243p. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2019 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CNT:** Contactee related, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "S/LIMA,PERU:SCR 2M OVR ROAD:3 MUMMY OIDS TAKE OBS/RIDE:/r8+FSR v16#6p12", **LatLong:** "-12.188889 -76.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "12:11:20 S 76:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.188889,-76.916670)", **State/Prov:** "LIM", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 5902 (0CC585EB) **Date:** 2/28/1952 **Description:** An oil company employee was driving on the highway in Lomo de Ballena, Peru at 4:30 p.m. when he allegedly encountered a 10 meter in diameter disc hovering 500 meters away. Three uniped beings with rough, towel-like skin that looked something like "mummies" glided from the hovering object toward him. They communicated a message to him, warning of the dangers of atomic energy. He was also given a short tour flight on the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Greenwell, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1172 ### Event 5903 (1E7CFACA) **Date:** 3/1952 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project Grudge, “Project Blue Book”. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_450 **See also:** 12/1948 **See also:** 10/1951 ### Event 5904 (93E5A866) **Date:** 3/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Project Grudge had become a full-fledged organization, the "Aerial Phenomena Group." Soon thereafter, the code name was changed to "Blue Book." **Type:** organization established **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 176](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_865 ### Event 5905 (2C04C1CE) **Date:** 3/1952 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** BARBERS POINT, HI **Description:** Navy men. 16M saucer hovers silent / 3 minutes. Shoots going quickly south to sea. See sketch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2020 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "BARBERS POINT,HI:NAVY MEN:16M SCR HVRS SLNT/3mins:SHOOTS >>S to sea:see sketch", **LatLong:** "21.316668 -158.066674", **LatLongDMS:** "21:19:00 N 158:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.316668,-158.066674)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5906 (24E0406D) **Date:** 3/1952 **Location:** Finland AFS, MN **Description:** CPS-3 Tracks "Unknown Or Flying Saucer" (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [5203xx](http://www.nicap.org/5302XXfinland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_915 ### Event 5907 (02B428B1) **Date:** 3/1952 **Alternate date:** 4/1952 **Locations:** US Naval Reserve; US Naval Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland **Description:** 5:00 a.m. Two women cryptographers in the US Naval Reserve stationed at the US Naval Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland, are out taking a walk outside the base on a dirt road. They notice a red light off to one side above the trees. It starts moving toward them and stops about 100 feet above the road in front of them, about 300 feet away. The object is a 250-foot black disc with two large red lights at each side, an illuminated dome, and smaller lights along the rim. A hole opens in the bottom and phosphorescent white sparks drop toward the ground and disintegrate when they hit the road. The two reservists sprint the quarter-mile back to the base. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1755 ### Event 5908 (7C6990FA) **Date:** 3/1/1952 **Description:** The 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron is activated under ADC to collect air combat intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl1.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1756 ### Event 5909 (2C60A824) **Date:** 3/3/1952 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio; Peenemünde, Germany **Description:** [Robert Emmett Ginna Jr.](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927) of Life visits ATIC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, to obtain material for his UFO article. [Walther Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg), former German rocket scientist at Peenemünde, Germany, tells Ginna he has kept notes on UFO sightings from all over the world: “I am completely convinced that they have an out-of-world basis.” He also meets with visits Air Force UFO spokesman [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php)[.](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) AMC claims it is investigating every serious UFO report, but it can’t find the files he requests. Ginna becomes suspicious. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Status of Project](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf) [Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\]; Jan L. Aldrich, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](http://www.project1947.com/fig/lifememo52a.htm)” Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 9; Swords 120–121 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1757 ### Event 5910 (669415CC) **Date:** 3/4/1952 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** 15 MI WITH ASHIYA, JPN **Description:** US C54 crew. Bright-orange 75' ovoid going quickly northwest extremely fast. Seen / 2 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2021 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "15mi W/ASHIYA,JPN:US C54 CREW:BRITE-ORG. 75'OVOID >>NW XFAST:seen/2min", **LatLong:** "33.916668 130.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 130:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,130.416673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5911 (AFC92D86) **Date:** 3/4/1952 **Location:** Ashiya AFB (15 miles W of), Japan **Description:** Huge Oval Encountered By C-54 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520304](http://www.nicap.org/520304seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_916 ### Event 5912 (2343E79E) **Date:** 3/4/1952 **Description:** On this date in 1952, at 1:35 a.m. over the Sea of Japan, a bright orange, 75-foot long ovoid object passed by a US Army C-54 at a very high rate of speed. Project Blue Book explained it as a meteor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book cases counted in official statistics. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1289 ### Event 5913 (C505D8CD) **Date:** 3/5/1952 **Description:** The Air Force sends a letter, signed by Lieut. Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining), to Secretary [Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) in response to Sen. [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr)’s February 21 inquiry. It offers two possible explanations: aircraft exhaust from a Soviet Lavochkin La-9 or La-11 fighter aircraft, or spotlights carried on enemy aircraft that have intercepted US bombers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFO Documents, 1952, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/fig/korea52a.htm)”; Swords 145 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1758 ### Event 5914 (746C5FB8) **Date:** 3/7/1952 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** 2 flat silver objects park in sky over suburbs / several min. No RADAR. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2022 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:2 FLAT SLVR OBJS PARK IN SKY OVR SUBURBS/SVRL min:NO RDR:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "32.200002 -110.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:12:00 N 110:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.200002,-110.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5915 (F385BC10) **Date:** 3/7/1952 **Location:** Tulsa (Bet. Claremore and), OK **Description:** Bright Light Passes C-54, Drops Down (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520307](http://www.nicap.org/520307tulsa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_917 ### Event 5916 (7F0B67D2) **Date:** 3/7/1952 **Description:** Physicist [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) visits ATIC to discuss methods of obtaining more information on green fireballs using a special diffraction grid to be placed on patrol cameras that can be used as a field spectrometer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Status of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf) [Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1759 ### Event 5917 (4BD355E6) **Date:** 3/7/1952 **Description:** On this day in 1952, two flat, silver discs parked in the sky over the Tucson, Arizona suburbs for several minutes. The objects were not detected on radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs A History: 1952: January-May, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1362 ### Event 5918 (9551EEF9) **Date:** 3/10/1952 **Time:** 06:50 **Location:** OAKLAND, CA **Description:** Engineer. Dark 45' saucers. 1 flies straight and level at 6K' altitude. 2nd goes left and right of 1st. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2023 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "OAKLAND,CA:ENGINEER:DRK 45'SCRS:1 FLIES S/L @6K'alt:2nd GOES LEFT+RIGHT OF 1st", **LatLong:** "37.783335 -122.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:00 N 122:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.783335,-122.250006)", **RelAlt:** "1800", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5919 (034A53C2) **Date:** 3/10/1952 **Location:** Oakland, CA **Description:** An engineering metals inspector watched two dark wing (or hemisphere) shaped objects pass overhead, swaying back and forth like a pendulum. (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_918 ### Event 5920 (9C304AE2) **Date:** 3/10/1952 **Location:** Oakland, California **Description:** 6:45 a.m. [Clarence K. Greenwood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3581517/clarence-kirk-greenwood)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3581517/clarence-kirk-greenwood) inspector of engineering metals, sees two dark objects come from behind him at an altitude of 5,000–7,500 feet while he is waiting for a bus in Oakland, California. They pick up speed, one of them moving in a pendulum-like motion. He thinks they are about 45 feet long. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 56–57](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=69&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1760 ### Event 5921 (B1BEB3D2) **Date:** 3/12/1952 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Wingless cylinder/cylindrical object turns twice. Going quickly north. Seen / Wellston and Athens, oh same day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2024 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:WINGLESS CYL TURNS TWICE:>>N:SEEN/WELLSTON+ATHENS,OH SAME DAY", **LatLong:** "39.983335 -82.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:59:00 N 82:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.983335,-82.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5922 (FB7B9531) **Date:** 3/13/1952 **Location:** Keflavik, Iceland **Description:** Eight Radar Tracks by GCA Team (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520313](http://www.nicap.org/520313keflavik%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_919 ### Event 5923 (FC3C0A2B) **Date:** 3/14/1952 **Location:** Pacific Ocean (near Hawaii), HI **Description:** Admiral Radford & Navy Sec. Kimball Planes Buzzed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520314](http://www.nicap.org/520314hawaii%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_920 ### Event 5924 (244F35EF) **Date:** 3/14/1952 **Locations:** US; Hawaii **Description:** Evening. US Secretary of the Navy [Dan A. Kimball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball) is flying to Hawaii when he sees two discs moving at 1,500 mph. The UFOs circle his plane twice, then move on 50 miles east to another Navy plane carrying Adm. [Arthur W. Radford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FRadford)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FRadford) The UFOs circle Radford’s plane then zoom up out of sight. Kimball sends a report to the Air Force, but hears nothing back, despite USAF demanding reports from all Navy witnesses. Kimball threatens to initiate Naval reports on UFOs through ONR to be kept separate from Blue Book. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) hears about this from both Kimball and Chief of ONR Adm. [Calvin M. Bolster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster). The report is never made public. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Admiral](http://www.nicap.org/520314hawaii%5Fdir.htm) [Radford & Navy Sec. Kimball Planes Buzzed](http://www.nicap.org/520314hawaii%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Navy Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s Sighting, March 14,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm) [1952](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm)”; Swords 165 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1761 ### Event 5925 (CA44E87B) **Date:** 3/15/1952 (approximate) **Location:** HAWAII TO/FROM GUAM **Description:** Longitude & latitude coords. and date approximate. Navy Sec. Kimball. 2 planes paced and buzzed / saucer. / speech. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2025 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "HAWAII> Event 5926 (04D1D5E5) **Date:** 3/15/1952 **Location:** Sandia Base, NM **Description:** 4:30 p.m. (MST). (McDonald list; BB Rpt 7) Flattened Oval As Large As B-29 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520315](http://www.nicap.org/sandia520315dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_921 ### Event 5927 (6FCE9813) **Date:** 3/17/1952 **Location:** IONIA, MICH **Description:** Classic saucer tips and wobbles / sky. Flashes silver light. / local papers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2026 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "249", **HatchDesc:** "IONIA,MICH:CLASSIC SCR TIPS+WOBBLES/SKY:FLASHES SILVER LITE:/LOCAL PAPERS", **LatLong:** "42.988891 -85.072226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:59:20 N 85:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.988891,-85.072226)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5928 (51725D29) **Date:** 3/19/1952 **Location:** Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and other representatives of ATIC meet with the commander of the Air Defense Command, Gen. [Benjamin W. Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) and Gen. [Grandison Gardner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandison%5FGardner) and his staff in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on getting radar scope camera films as UFOs are being tracked. “They agreed with it in principle and suggested that I work out the details with the Director of Intelligence for the ADC, Brigadier Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess).” Chidlaw promises to issue a directive to all units explaining procedures in UFO situations, including the scrambling of interceptors. This is issued, apparently in April. Burgess assigns Maj. [Vernon L. Sadowski](https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/2140264/Vernon-L-Sadowski) of his staff to be liaison to Project Grudge., and the Ground Observer Corps is brought into the UFO reporting net. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 128–129](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/128/mode/2up); “[Status of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf) [Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1762 ### Event 5929 (782BFBFC) **Date:** 3/20/1952 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** CENTREVILLE, MD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1074. 2 observer(s). Dull orange saucer straight and level. Very fast / 30 second(s). Unidentified. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2027 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "CENTREVILLE,MD:BBK#1074:2 OBS:DULL ORG SCR S/L:VFAST/30sec:UID:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.044446 -76.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:02:40 N 76:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.044446,-76.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5930 (4B93DB8A) **Date:** 3/20/1952 **Location:** Centreville, MD **Description:** Dull orange-yellow saucer-shaped light fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1074) **Reference:** NICAP: [520320](http://nicap.org/centreville520320dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_922 ### Event 5931 (9850C302) **Date:** 3/20/1952 **Time:** 10:42 PM **Location:** Centreville, Maryland **Description:** Witnesses: WWl/WW2 veteran A.D. Hutchinson and son. One dull orange-yellow saucer-shaped light flew straight and level very fast for 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_83 ### Event 5932 (CA9BE5D0) **Date:** Spring 1952 **Location:** Prescott, Arizona **Description:** Occultist [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and his wife Betty move to Prescott, Arizona, and immerse themselves in UFO literature. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1775 ### Event 5933 (E95976B5) **Date:** 3/21/1952 **Description:** At 10:42 p.m. a dull orange saucer was sighted moving slowly at first, then very fast for 30 seconds over farmland in Centreville, Maryland. There were two witnesses, named Hutchison. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1074 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1593 ### Event 5934 (288CEDCE) **Date:** 3/22/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** YAKIMA, WA **Description:** 2 / F94+ground RADAR's. 2 red fireballs / 90mph / 22K and 25K' altitude. Return. / LDLN#330+/ r185p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 728) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2028 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "YAKIMA,WA:2/F94+GND RDRS:2 RED FBLS/90mph/22K+25K'alt:RETURN:/LDLN#330+/r185p7", **LatLong:** "46.600002 -120.511117", **LatLongDMS:** "46:36:00 N 120:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.600002,-120.511117)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5935 (3D4AC236) **Date:** 3/22/1952 **Location:** Yakima (20 miles S of), WA **Description:** F-94 Crew Made Two Sightings / Gnd Radar Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1076) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520322](http://www.nicap.org/520322yakima%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_923 ### Event 5936 (ED137600) **Date:** 3/23/1952 **Time:** 6:56 and 7 PM **Location:** Yakima, Washington **Description:** Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-94 jet interceptor. On either occasion, a red fireball increased in brightness and then faded over 45 second span. Stationary both times. Note: (May 31, 1952) says target was also tracked by ground radar at 78 knots (90 m.p.h.) at 22,500' and 25,000' altitude. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_84 ### Event 5937 (D8EEF237) **Date:** 3/24/1952 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** WEST / PT CONCEPTION, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1077. B29 navigator and RADAR OP. Blip tracked / 3000mph / 30 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2029 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "W/Pt CONCEPTION,CA:BBK#1077:B29 NAVIGATOR+RDR OP:BLIP TRACKED/3000mph/30sec", **LatLong:** "34.450002 -121.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:27:00 N 121:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.450002,-121.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5938 (4A4921B4) **Date:** 3/24/1952 **Location:** Point Conception (60 miles W of), CA **Description:** Airborne Radar Tracks 3,000 MPH Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1077) **Reference:** NICAP: [520324](http://www.nicap.org/520324conception%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_925 ### Event 5939 (B297BB87) **Date:** 3/24/1952 **Time:** 8:45 AM **Location:** 60 miles west of Pt. Concepcion, California **Description:** Witnesses: B-29 navigator and radar operator. One target tracked for 20-30 seconds at estimated 3,000 m.p.h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_85 ### Event 5940 (23C09841) **Date:** 3/25/1952 **Location:** Iowa State University **Description:** Project Grudge becomes a separate organization under the title Aerial Phenomena Group and is renamed Project Blue Book, apparently by Lt. Col. Charles Cooke, which he thinks has “no overtones.” Ruppelt says it is based on the books provided for taking college tests at Iowa State University. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf) [1952, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1993, pp. 20–21; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12; Ruppelt, [p. 131](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/130/mode/2up); Clark III 916 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1763 ### Event 5941 (62C012C4) **Date:** Late 3/1952? **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) meets with two RCAF officers and briefs them on the new procedures. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 130](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/130/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1767 ### Event 5942 (FB18847C) **Date:** 3/26/1952 **Time:** 20:30? **Location:** SOUTH / PECOS, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1079. 4 Air Force B50D pilots and RADAR photographs. Red and green night lights / aerobatics. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2030 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "788", **HatchDesc:** "S/PECOS,TX:BBK#1079:4 AF B50D PILOTS+RDR FOTOS:RED+GRN NLTS/AEROBATICS", **LatLong:** "31.166668 -103.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:10:00 N 103:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.166668,-103.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5943 (45BEBA16) **Date:** 3/26/1952 **Location:** Fort Stockton, TX **Description:** (Now an IFO) B-50 Radarscope / Scope Photos (Downgraded) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1079) **Reference:** NICAP: [520326](http://www.nicap.org/520326ftstockton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_926 ### Event 5944 (02AD5BED) **Date:** 3/26/1952 **Location:** Long Beach, CA **Description:** Two yellowish discs passed by slowly; "as they passed the radio was agitated twice." (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_927 ### Event 5945 (93F75278) **Date:** 3/26/1952 **Location:** Long Beach, California **Description:** Day. Henry C. Davis is looking out at the ocean through his second-floor window in Long Beach, California, and listening to the radio. He spots two yellow discs in the sky about one mile high and 2 miles away. He thinks they are 1,000 feet apart and moving southeast to northwest at 100 mph. As they pass, his radio goes to static twice. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 78 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1764 ### Event 5946 (F99239B7) **Date:** 3/26/1952 **Locations:** MIT; Beacon Hill **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) meets with the MIT scientists he calls the Beacon Hill Group, which recommends that Blue Book use “sound detection apparatus” in areas of UFO activity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 916 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1765 ### Event 5947 (DF87F962) **Date:** 3/26/1952 **Locations:** Georgia; North Carolina; South Carolina **Description:** Five trials are conducted through April 21 by the US Army Chemical Corps under Operation Dew. The tests release zinc cadmium sulfide along a 100-to-150-nautical-mile line approximately 5–10 nautical miles off the coast of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Two of the trials disperse clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide over large areas of all three states. The tests affect over 60,000 square miles of populated coastal region. The Dew I releases are from a Navy minesweeper, the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTercel%5F%28AM-386%29) [Tercel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTercel%5F%28AM-386%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTercel%5F%28AM-386%29) The conclusion is that long-range aerosol clouds can obtain hundreds of miles of travel and large-area coverage when disseminated from ground level under certain meteorological conditions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Dew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FDew)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1766 ### Event 5948 (5304E504) **Date:** 3/27/1952 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** 2 saucers exit cloud. Flip over completely. Return to same "cloud" / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2031 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "185", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:2 SCRS EXIT CLOUD:FLIP OVR COMPLETELY:RETURN TO SAME "CLOUD"/NEWS", **LatLong:** "41.816669 -87.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:49:00 N 87:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.816669,-87.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5949 (18C719DD) **Date:** 3/27/1952 **Description:** At 12:55 p.m. over Downey, California a bright, aluminum colored spot of light hung motionless in the sky above an aircraft factory for 15 minutes. It appeared to turn on edge, and then went straight up out of sight. In Chicago, Illinois two discs were seen exiting from a cloud. They flipped over completely, and then returned to the same cloud. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1952: January-May, p. 27; Edward Sullivan, CSI/Los Angeles case files, letter dated March 27, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1690 ### Event 5950 (793EC499) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** ELIZABETHVILLE, CONGO **Description:** Many observer(s). 2 15M saucers hover and zigzag going quickly northeast. Jet chases. Uranium. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2032 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Congo states", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "ELIZABETHVILLE,CONGO:MANY OBS:2 15M SCRS HVR+ZIGZAG >>NE:JET CHASES:Uranium", **LatLong:** "-11.672223 27.466668", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:20 S 27:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-11.672223,27.466668)", **State/Prov:** "ZAI", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5951 (A982F382) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** NORTH / MISAWA AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1082. 2 pilots. 20cm saucer buzzes AT6+F84! / r111p38+/ r242p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2033 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "N/MISAWA AFB,JPN:BBK#1082:2 PILOTS:20cm SCR BUZZES AT6+F84!:/r111p38+/r242p5", **LatLong:** "41.000002 141.333340", **LatLongDMS:** "41:00:00 N 141:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.000002,141.333340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5952 (A5DCEBC0) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** BUTLER, MO **Description:** Bureaucrat. Silent silver 30M cylinder/cylindrical object going northwest slow. No smoke. / r136#1p28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2034 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "272", **HatchDesc:** "BUTLER,MO:BUREAUCRAT:SLNT SLVR 30M CYL >NW SLOW:NO SMOKE:/r136#1p28", **LatLong:** "38.266668 -94.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:16:00 N 94:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.266668,-94.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5953 (31BCF934) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Butler, MO **Description:** Chairman of Industrial Commission of Missouri saw cylinder-shaped, silver UFO, \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_928 ### Event 5954 (CE40A7E2) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Misawa (20 miles N of), Japan **Description:** Brigham/T-6 Case: UFO Makes Pass At F-84 (BBU 1082) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1082) **Reference:** NICAP: [520329](http://nicap.org/520329misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_929 ### Event 5955 (9ED66737) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Elizabethville, Belgian Congo **Description:** Two Discs Over Uraniam Mines / Jet In Pursuit (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: N, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520329](http://www.nicap.org/520329elizabethville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_930 ### Event 5956 (BA797356) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Glen Burnie, MD **Description:** 50 ft flat silver disc with cupola/dome (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520329](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/glenburnie520329dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_932 ### Event 5957 (47C92D76) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Time:** 11:20 AM **Location:** 20 miles north of Misawa AFB, Japan **Description:** Witness: Brigham, pilot of AT-6 trainer. One small, very thin, shiny metallic disc flew alongside the AT-6, then made a pass at an F-84 jet fighter, flipped on edge, fluttered 20' from the F-84's fuselage and flipped in the slipstream...all in 10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_86 ### Event 5958 (636115AB) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Misawa, Japan **Description:** Small, shiny disc made pass at Air Force plane **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Source:** HallUFOEvidence2, **ID:** HallUFOE2_0 ### Event 5959 (79963B34) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Misawa, Japan **Description:** 11:20 a.m. Near Misawa, Japan, USAF Lt. [David Conant Brigham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49468988/david-conant-brigham) is flying a T-6 target plane on a practice intercept mission for two F-84s. The first F-84 overtakes him at 6,000 feet when the T-6 pilot notices a small disc gaining on the interceptor. The UFO curves toward the F-84, decelerates rapidly, then flips on edge in a 90° bank. It flies between the two aircraft, pulls away, flips again, passes the F-84, crosses in front, and accelerates out of sight in a near vertical climb. Both pilots notice the object, which comes within 30–50 feet of the T-6. The pilot estimates it is only 8 inches in diameter. There is a ripple around the edge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Brigham/T6 Case: UFO](http://www.nicap.org/520329misawa%5Fdir.htm) [Makes Pass at F-84](http://www.nicap.org/520329misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 5](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021); Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 192](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chXI.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 123 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1768 ### Event 5960 (1A3E538D) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Locations:** Belgian Congo; Elisabethville [modern Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo] **Description:** Two fiery discs are sighted over the uranium mines in the southern part of the Belgian Congo near Elisabethville \[modern Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo\]. With a diameter of approximately 36– 45 feet, they travel in a precise and light manner, both vertically and horizontally. They emit hissing and buzzing sounds. Changes in elevation from 2,400 to 3,000 feet are accomplished in a few seconds. The discs often move down to within 60 feet of the treetops. A Commander Pierre of the Belgian Air Force sets out in pursuit in a fighter plane from the city airport. On his first approach he comes to within about 260 feet of one of the discs. Suddenly they hover in one spot then takes off in a unique zigzag flight to the northeast at an estimated speed of 930 mph. Pierre gives up his pursuit after about 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Discs over Uranium Mines / Jet in](http://www.nicap.org/520329elizabethville%5Fdir.htm) [Pursuit](http://www.nicap.org/520329elizabethville%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 123; Good Above, [p. 512](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/512/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1769 ### Event 5961 (A51C76D4) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Butler, Missouri **Description:** 6:40 p.m. [Carl J. Henry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79853419/carl-jefferson-henry)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79853419/carl-jefferson-henry) chairman of the Industrial Commission of Missouri, along with several others, watches a cylinder-shaped, silver UFO for 2 minutes almost directly overhead in Butler, Missouri. It is moving silently in a northwesterly direction leaving no trail or exhaust. He estimates its length at 100 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 68](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=80&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1770 ### Event 5962 (63C5F7F9) **Date:** 3/29/1952 **Location:** Governor Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie, Maryland **Description:** 10:45 p.m. Donald F. Stewart and George Tyler III are driving northbound on the Governor Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie, Maryland. A 50-foot silvery domed disc with two portholes and an apparent hatch appears from the northeast and hovers above their car, causing the engine to fail, magnetizing the wiring, and cracking the paint. Stewart takes a sub-machine gun from the back of the car and debates whether to fire it at the object, which remains in view for 3 minutes before turning n its edge and speeding away to the southwest. Tyler changes his story later, denying he was involved. Possible hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[E-M Effects on Car from Domed](http://www.nicap.org/520329glenburnie%5Fdir.htm) [Disc](http://www.nicap.org/520329glenburnie%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 124; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 196–198](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/196/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 61–64, 229 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1771 ### Event 5963 (7F6B549B) **Date:** 3/30/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MASS **Description:** Whoosh! Saucer stops / 1500' altitude. Turns / edge. Going quickly southwest. Goes going up / fantastic speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2035 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MASS:WHOOSH!:SCR STOPS/1500'alt:TURNS/EDGE:>>SW:GOES↑/FANTASTIC SPD", **LatLong:** "42.683335 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:00 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.683335,-72.600003)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5964 (BD08FC9B) **Date:** 3/30/1952 **Description:** At about 3 p.m. in Greenfield, Massachusetts Mr. Earley sighted a disc that stopped abruptly in the air at 1500-feet altitude. It turned on its edge and then shot off at great speed to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Boston Traveller, May 5, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1729 ### Event 5965 (577D5F6A) **Date:** 3/31/1952 **Description:** Battelle begins its UFO study \(referred to as P-47S and nicknamed Little Stork\) under the supervision of William T. Reid, folding it into Project Stork, an initiative to examine the Soviet Union’s technological warfare capabilities. Almost all of the UFO analysis involves compiling IBM punch cards based on data forwarded by Project Blue Book files. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 929; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 4–12, 19–21; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1772 ### Event 5966 (CB631781) **Date:** 3/31/1952 **Description:** ATIC Chief [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm) writes to Gen. [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) requesting that Project Blue Book be entirely declassified in order to make it easier to encourage civilian pilots to send in reports. That is a bit too much openness for Garland, who compromises by reclassifying certain case investigations as “Restricted,” a relatively low level. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 146 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1773 ### Event 5967 (648A731B) **Date:** 3/31/1952 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#5. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 81–94 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1774 ### Event 5968 (865390E8) **Date:** 4/1952 **Description:** Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?” **Type:** article **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_451 **See also:** 12/1948 **See also:** 10/1951 ### Event 5969 (249297D8) **Date:** 4/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Al Chop appointed public information officer for UFO's. **Type:** personell appointment **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_866 ### Event 5970 (F1213FAA) **Date:** 4/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Air Force Letter 200-5 gave Project Blue Book authority to cut red tape, contact any Air Force unit in the U.S. without going through channels; provided for wire transmission of reports to ATIC, followed with details via Air Mail. **Type:** air force letter **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_867 ### Event 5971 (6334B075) **Date:** 4/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** WEST / NASH, TX **Description:** 30M fireball going quickly east over 2 / car. 90° turn going quickly north. Spouts / flame unaffected by air. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 723) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2036 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "W/NASH,TX:30M FBL >> E ovr 2/CAR:90°TURN >>N:SPOUTS/FLAME unaffected by air", **LatLong:** "33.433335 -94.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:26:00 N 94:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.433335,-94.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5972 (96ED1C4F) **Date:** 4/1952 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Sandia engineer and 1. Black rectangle with bright yellow triangle / underside going quickly west to cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2037 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1490", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQQ,NM:SANDIA ENG+1:BLK RECTNGL W/BRITE YLW TRIANGLE/UNDERSIDE >>W to CLOUD", **LatLong:** "35.066668 -106.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:04:00 N 106:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.066668,-106.616672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5973 (B71CF399) **Date:** 4/1952 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** NEAR NEWMAN, TX **Description:** Dr. / US54. Yellow disk hovers between mountains. Shoots up / enormous speed. / APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 725) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2038 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1218", **HatchDesc:** "nr NEWMAN,TX:Dr./US54:YLW DISK HVRS BTWN MTNs:SHOOTS UP/ENORMOUS SPEED:/APRO", **LatLong:** "32.000002 -106.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:00:00 N 106:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.000002,-106.316672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5974 (F1AF76EC) **Date:** 4/1952 **Location:** Hawaii (near), HI **Description:** Navy Sec. Exec. Plane Encounters UFOs (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520400](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/hawaii.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_933 ### Event 5975 (C89E48BC) **Date:** 4/1952? **Location:** London, Ontario **Description:** Amateur astronomer [W. Gordon Graham](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1951JRASC..45..124N) sees a UFO “like a smoke ring, elliptical in shape, and having two bright pinpoints of light along its main axis” at London, Ontario. It sails overhead from west to east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London \(Ont.\) Free Press, May 1, 1952; UFOEv, [p. 49](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1776 ### Event 5976 (F41E4ADF) **Date:** 4/1952 **Description:** Secretary of the Navy [Dan Kimball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball) upset with the way the Air Force has treated his UFO sighting, sets up an independent Navy probe of UFOs under Lt. Commander Fred Lowell Thomas of the Office of Naval Research. The project lasts through 1952, but probably not much longer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Navy Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm) [Sighting, March 14, 1952](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1777 ### Event 5977 (0586C4E5) **Date:** 4/1952 **Location:** Cambridge, Massachusetts **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) again meets with MIT Lincoln Laboratory scientists \(the Beacon Hill group\) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to brief them on Blue Book’s progress. Afterward, he asks them about the flashes seen on Mars in 1951, and a general discussion of life on other planets ensues. [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) suspects that some of those present are physicist [George Valley Jr.](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020)[,](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020) engineer [Julius Adams Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton) physicist [Albert G. Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FG.%5FHill), and chemical engineer [Walter G. Whitman](https://www.nae.edu/30667/Walter-G-Whitman)[.](https://www.nae.edu/30667/Walter-G-Whitman)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, “Are There Men on Mars? Or Other Worlds?” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 10–12, 31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1778 ### Event 5978 (0D12E8C5) **Date:** 4/1952 **Location:** Bridgeport, Connecticut **Description:** [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) a factory worker in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announces the formation of the International Flying Saucer Bureau. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 189, 623 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1779 ### Event 5979 (D3AFA431) **Date:** 4/1/1952 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** GMX SOUTH / LAKE CHARLES, LA **Description:** Steamship Esso Bermuda. "Plane" falls / sea. None missing. No debris. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2039 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GMX S/LAKE CHARLES,LA:SS ESSO BERMUDA:"PLANE" FALLS/SEA:NONE MISSING:NO DEBRIS", **LatLong:** "27.400001 -93.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "27:24:00 N 93:12:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.400001,-93.200004)", **State/Prov:** "GMX", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5980 (AC25E44E) **Date:** 4/1/1952 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** STOCKTON, KS **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright metal saucer-sphere/orb/globe / great altitude. Hovers or moves slowly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2040 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "601", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKTON,KS:SVRL OBS:BRITE MTL SCR-ORB/GREAT ALT:HOVERS OR MOVES SLOWLY", **LatLong:** "39.438891 -99.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:26:20 N 99:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.438891,-99.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5981 (37ABBFEE) **Date:** 4/1/1952 **Time:** 17:00:07.5 **Location:** 36.7983 -115.9356 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Able” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_24 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.7983 -115.9356", **LatLongDMS:** "36:47:54 N 115:56:08 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.7983,-115.9356)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.24", **NukeName:** "Able", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 5982 (FAC8ACB0) **Date:** 4/2/1952 **Location:** Lake Mead, NV **Description:** A man observed a UFO. It was silver in color, very large and at a tremendous altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520402](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lmeade520402dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_934 ### Event 5983 (D4995607) **Date:** 4/2/1952 **Locations:** Los Angeles, California; Mayfair Hotel **Description:** On the eve of the release of the bombshell Life magazine article, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and his boss, ATIC Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. [Sanford H. Kirkland Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland) give an extraordinary briefing, technically unclassified but in fact quasi-classified, to a group of aerospace engineers and saucer buffs organized as Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles. These include aeronautical consultant [Felix W. A. Knoll](http://www.pknoll.net/knoll%5Faircraft/), technical writer [Ed J.](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/) [Sullivan](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/), and North American Aviation project engineer [Walther A. Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg). The briefing takes place at the Mayfair Hotel in Los Angeles, California, along with national media reporters and the Life magazine reporters who give them advance copies of the Darrach/Ginna article in exchange. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Minutes of Meeting of Civilian Saucer](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520402csi%5Fminutes.pdf) [Investigations Held Wednesday, April 2, 1952, 8:00 PM in the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, California,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520402csi%5Fminutes.pdf)” April 2, 1952, transcribed by Sign Historical Group; Willard D. Nelson, “When Blue Book Met the Ufologists,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 21–24; Ruppelt, [p. 175](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/174/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1780 ### Event 5984 (F6E70B9F) **Date:** 4/2/1952 **Location:** Lake Mead, Nevada **Description:** 9:00 a.m. While on a fishing trip to Lake Mead, Nevada, with his wife and M/Sgt Lester Gossett, M/Sgt Sheldon Smith observes a large silver UFO at a high altitude. It looks like a B-36 without wings. Smith observes it right after a flight of F-86s overfly the area at about 15,000 feet. After watching the hovering object for about an hour at a much higher altitude than the vapor trails from the F-86s, it suddenly disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[B-36](http://www.nicap.org/520402lakemeade%5Fdir.htm) [without Wings](http://www.nicap.org/520402lakemeade%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1781 ### Event 5985 (CBFC41E3) **Date:** 4/3/1952 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** BENSON, AZ **Description:** 5 military and civil aviators / ground and airborne. Vibrant bright huge silver ovoid hovers / one hour. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 288) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2041 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1093", **HatchDesc:** "BENSON,AZ:5 MIL+CIV AVIATORS/GND+AIRBORNE:VBRITE HUGE SLVR OVOID HVRS/1hr:", **LatLong:** "31.966668 -110.294450", **LatLongDMS:** "31:58:00 N 110:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.966668,-110.294450)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5986 (97B6CD44) **Date:** 4/3/1952 **Location:** Marana, AZ **Description:** Bright aluminum shiny oblong object above 54,000 ft (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520403](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/benson520403dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_935 ### Event 5987 (D5BDE9CE) **Date:** 4/3/1952 **Description:** The Air Force publicly announces that it has not stopped investigating and evaluating UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1782 ### Event 5988 (71A857C1) **Date:** 4/4/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** DUNCANVILLE, TX **Description:** Blue Book. 2 RADAR operators. Blip tracked at 2160mph / 1 minute(s). Type unknown / no visual. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2042 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "258", **HatchDesc:** "DUNCANVILLE,TX:BBK:2 RDR OPs:BLIP TRACKED at 2160mph/1min:TYPE UNK/NO VISUAL:", **LatLong:** "32.650002 -96.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:39:00 N 96:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.650002,-96.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5989 (74AF300F) **Date:** 4/4/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** HAMMOND, BC **Description:** Silent green ovoid going north. Turns red. 90-turn going west. Back / 11 19+21 Apr. '52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2043 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HAMMOND,BC:SILENT GRN OVOID > N:TURNS RED:90-TURN >W:BACK/11 19+21 APR52", **LatLong:** "49.083336 -123.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:05:00 N 123:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.083336,-123.000006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5990 (1CDD9524) **Date:** 4/4/1952 **Location:** Duncanville, TX **Description:** Secret Report: Unidentified Radar Return (BB 1095) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1095) **Reference:** NICAP: [520404](http://www.nicap.org/520404duncanville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_936 ### Event 5991 (D02334FF) **Date:** 4/4/1952 **Time:** 7:30 PM **Location:** Duncanville, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: two radar operators of the 147th AC&W Squadron. One object was tracked for one minute by radar at an estimated 2,160 m.p.h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_87 ### Event 5992 (1A9D2F36) **Date:** 4/4/1952 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. two radar operators of the 147th AC&W Squadron in Duncanville, Texas tracked a UFO for one minute by radar moving at an estimated speed of 2,160 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1830 ### Event 5993 (BFAC5D4A) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** 4 observer(s). 1 large dull-grey saucer then 2 more. All fly straight and level at high speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2044 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "PHOENIX,AZ:4 OBS:1 LRG DULL-GRY SCR THEN 2 MORE:ALL FLY S/L at HIGH SPEED", **LatLong:** "33.433335 -112.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:26:00 N 112:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.433335,-112.066672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5994 (ED573342) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 4 dark circular objects cross moons face. Each 1/2 moon-size. Fuzzy edges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2045 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:2 OBS:4 DARK CIRC.OBJS CROSS MOONS FACE:EACH 1/2 MOONSIZE:FUZZY EDGES", **LatLong:** "25.772223 -80.205559", **LatLongDMS:** "25:46:20 N 80:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.772223,-80.205559)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5995 (9CFC6246) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** KADENA AIR FORCE BASE, OKINAWA **Description:** Flight crew. Small luminous object zigzags all over/all about / 1000kts. Going up [to] and going quickly west. 20K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2046 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "KADENA AFB,OKINAWA:FLITE CREW:SML LUM OBJ ZIGZAGS ALLO/1000kts:↑+>>W:20K'alt", **LatLong:** "26.333335 127.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "26:20:00 N 127:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.333335,127.733339)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5996 (01D418E6) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Location:** Phoenix (Glendale?), AZ **Description:** Large, dull grey circular object, followed by 2 more, fly straight and level at high speed. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1096) **Reference:** NICAP: [520405](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/phoenix520405dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_937 ### Event 5997 (0629CCF5) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** 4 dark circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges each ½ the angular size of Moon. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1097) **Reference:** NICAP: [520405](http://nicap.org/miami520405dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_938 ### Event 5998 (08D7418B) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Time:** l0:40 AM **Location:** Phoenix, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, D. Schook. One large, dull grey circular object, followed by two more, flew straight and level at high speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_88 ### Event 5999 (F591E388) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Time:** 9:15 PM **Location:** Miami, Florida **Description:** Witnesses: L.E. VanDercar and 9 year old son. Four dark circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed face of Moon; each was half the apparent diameter of Moon. 2:59 PM Witness: H.L. Russell. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_89 ### Event 6000 (8DB407A6) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Description:** At 10:40 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, and D. Schook of Phoenix, Arizona watched a large, dull gray disc-shaped object fly by, followed by two more objects. All three flew straight and level at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1842 ### Event 6001 (B13F1D47) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Description:** Miami, Florida. At 9:15 p.m. four dark circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed the face of the Moon. Each was half the apparent diameter of Moon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1843 ### Event 6002 (EB3420B1) **Date:** 4/5/1952 **Description:** At 11:30 p.m. Lt. W. R. Holder and Lt. A.M. Jones, the flight crew of a USAF F-94 jet interceptor, saw a small luminous object approach Kadena AFB, Japan from the north. It flew straight and level at first at an estimated speed of 1,000 knots, but then began to maneuver and zigzag. Airborne radar tracked the target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators watched for 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 knots (380 mph). It hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of maneuvers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 62; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1844 ### Event 6003 (CD6BEAF4) **Date:** 4/6/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** TEMPLE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1099. 1 observer. 50-75 white saucers shift about. All tilt / unison each 12 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2047 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "TEMPLE,TX:BBK#1099:1 OBS:50-75 WHT SCRS SHIFT ABOUT:ALL TILT/UNISON EACH 12sec", **LatLong:** "31.100001 -97.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:06:00 N 97:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.100001,-97.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6004 (09617754) **Date:** 4/6/1952 **Location:** Temple, TX **Description:** 50-75 grey white discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1099) **Reference:** NICAP: [520406](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/temple520406dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_939 ### Event 6005 (1BE78432) **Date:** 4/6/1952 **Time:** 2:59 PM **Location:** Temple, Texas **Description:** Witness: H.L. Russell. 50-75 grey-white discs changed position within formation continually, tilted in unison every 12-15 seconds during 3.8 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_90 ### Event 6006 (0C17E54A) **Date:** 4/6/1952 **Description:** At 2:59 p.m. in Temple, Texas fifty to seventy-five gray-white discs continually changed position within a flight formation. The UFOs tilted in unison every 12-15 seconds during the 3.8 minute sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1099; Project Blue Book Report # 7, May 31, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1856 ### Event 6007 (C1EDC412) **Date:** 4/6/1952 **Description:** A man named Poprocky wrote to report that at 8:15 p.m. he watched five lights in the evening sky over Sharon, Pennsylvania that looked like "a sideview of someone blowing smoke rings." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence/Los Angeles case files, letter dated April 22, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1857 ### Event 6008 (2E7ACE4E) **Date:** 4/7/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Life Magazine article "Have We Visitors From Space?", inspired by several top officers in the Pentagon. **Type:** magazine article **Reference:** [Project 1947: LIFE Magazine - April 7, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/lifemag52.html) **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 177-178](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_868 ### Event 6009 (1369607F) **Date:** 4/7/1952 **Description:** [Henry B. Darrach Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%5FDarrach) and [Robert Ginna](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927)’s article, “Have We Visitors from Space?” appears in Life and reports on the revitalized USAF project. It comes close to advocating the ETH, and its primary sources are high-ranking Air Force officers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, pp. 80–96; NICAP, “[Scholarly Commentary on LIFE Article of April 7, 1952](https://www.nicap.org/life52.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 8–9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1783 ### Event 6010 (BA70BF69) **Date:** 4/7/1952 **Location:** Lampasas, Texas **Description:** During war games taking place in the vicinity of Lampasas, Texas, nicknamed Operation Longhorn, the Air Force announces that a new “aerial light” attached to a B-26 aircraft is in use that makes an “attacking bomber look like a ball of fire in the sky.” It is essentially a bright magnesium searchlight \(dubbed a “Hell Roarer” flare\) that can illuminate a battlefield for nighttime photography. USAF Public Information Officer Capt. Irving Rappaport implies it could be mistaken for a flying saucer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Light Makes Bomber Resemble Ball of Fire,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94116656/)” Chambersburg \(Pa.\) Public Opinion, April 7, 1952, p. 3; “[It’s No Saucer! Strange Objects in the Sky Are Nothing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94117530/) [New in Dayton,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94117530/)” Dayton \(Ohio\) Daily News, November 9, 1952, magazine supplement, p. 7; Curt Collins, “[UFOs: Confusing the Public,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/01/ufos-confusing-public.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 27, 2022 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1784 ### Event 6011 (940B18EE) **Date:** 4/8/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BIG PINE, CA **Description:** TV-network engineer / (seen thru) binoculars. Reddish domed disk over mountains. / r78p162. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2048 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1215", **HatchDesc:** "BIG PINE,CA:TV-NETWORK ENGINEER/BINOCS:REDDISH DOMED DISK OVR MTNS:/r78p162", **LatLong:** "37.166668 -118.288895", **LatLongDMS:** "37:10:00 N 118:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.166668,-118.288895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6012 (8BAAF2EA) **Date:** 4/8/1952 **Location:** Big Pines (near), CA **Description:** Disc-like UFO observed by TV network engineer. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_940 ### Event 6013 (1DF4A27C) **Date:** 4/8/1952 **Description:** A CBS-TV staff engineer named Smith saw a copper red disc with sharply defined edges fly "unbelievably fast" between Pear Blossom and Big Pine, California. It made no sound as it flew and left no contrail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles files, letter dated April 9, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1896 ### Event 6014 (A1A07DFC) **Date:** 4/9/1952 **Time:** 14:40 **Location:** SHREVEPORT TO/FROM BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LA **Description:** USAF C54 buzzed / 35' saucer. Jets chase 55 mile(s) going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2049 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "SHREVEPORT>>N.", **LatLong:** "32.505557 -93.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:30:20 N 93:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.505557,-93.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6015 (F6CCEAD4) **Date:** 4/9/1952 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** PINTADA, NM **Description:** "Aluminum bow-tie" somersaults / 5000' altitude. Crosses sky faster / jet plane going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2050 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1618", **HatchDesc:** "PINTADA,NM:"ALUM.BOW-TIE" SOMERSAULTS/5000'alt:CROSSES SKY FASTER/JET PLANE>>W", **LatLong:** "34.883335 -105.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 N 105:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.883335,-105.066672)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6016 (38D66DF8) **Date:** 4/9/1952 **Location:** Barksdale AFB (Bet. Shreveport and), LA **Description:** Crew Of C-46 Encounters Cream-Colored Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520409](http://www.nicap.org/520409shreveport%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_941 ### Event 6017 (0F9FE442) **Date:** 4/9/1952 **Location:** Pecos (6 miles W of near Lackland AFB), TX **Description:** Bethune. (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 43; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520409](http://nicap.org/pecos520409dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_942 ### Event 6018 (574999B9) **Date:** 4/9/1952 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. a USAF C-54 transport plane flying near Shreveport, Louisiana was buzzed by a disc-shaped UFO estimated to be 35 feet in diameter. Air Force jets were scrambled from Barksdale AFB and chased the UFO for 55 miles as it headed off to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #6; Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, report dated April 30, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1919 ### Event 6019 (30637FDB) **Date:** 4/9/1952 **Description:** On the same night a round, red colored UFO moved silently above a drive-in movie screen in Asheville, North Carolina at a high rate of speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing letter from F. Branch dated April 16, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1920 ### Event 6020 (FF714CAE) **Date:** 4/10/1952 **Location:** 6MI WITH PECOS, TX **Description:** 50x75' diamond rotates 1 / second(s). Jet sound. Quickly going up / 2000' and veers going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2051 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "791", **HatchDesc:** "6mi W/PECOS,TX:50x75' DIAMOND ROTATES 1/sec:JET SOUND:↑↑/2000'+VEERS >>NW", **LatLong:** "31.422224 -103.566672", **LatLongDMS:** "31:25:20 N 103:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.422224,-103.566672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6021 (41655FD4) **Date:** 4/10/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NIMES, GARD, FR **Description:** 1 observer. 3 giants and pseudo-human/entity translator. Wants books. Shows tricks. / MJ#309. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2052 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **CNT:** Contactee related, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "NIMES,GARD,FR:1 OBS:3 GIANTS+PSH TRANSLATOR:WANTS BOOKS:SHOWS TRICKS:/MJ#309", **LatLong:** "43.816669 4.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:49:00 N 04:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.816669,4.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6022 (55FC3197) **Date:** 4/11/1952 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** LANCASTER, PA **Description:** Saucer-like object seen / sky. / Richmond news-leader. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2053 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "LANCASTER,PA:SAUCER-LIKE OBJ SEEN/SKY:/RICHMOND NEWS-LEADER:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.038891 -76.305559", **LatLongDMS:** "40:02:20 N 76:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.038891,-76.305559)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6023 (1CBA2E7D) **Date:** 4/11/1952 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** TIMISKAMING CO, ONT **Description:** 6 silent saucers leave vapor-trails. Go up and down / sky. Not planes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2054 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "TIMISKAMING co,ONT:6 SILENT SCRS LV VAPOR-TRAILS:GO UP+DOWN/SKY:NOT PLANES", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -80.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 80:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-80.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6024 (9E2D7A19) **Date:** 4/11/1952 **Description:** On this afternoon six silent disc-shaped objects flew over Temiscaming, Quebec leaving vapor trails. They flew in an up-and-down motion, and were definitely "not planes." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 921, citing the North Bay (Ontario) Nugget **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1949 ### Event 6025 (686C978F) **Date:** 4/11/1952 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. a silent green ovoid object flew to the north in Hammond, British Columbia, turned red, and made a ninety-degree turn. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated April 30, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1950 ### Event 6026 (54B16ABB) **Date:** 4/12/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NORTH BAY, ON **Description:** 2 military observer(s). Bright amber saucer stops / airfield. Rises going quickly southwest / terrific speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2055 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH BAY,ON:2 MIL OBS:BRITE AMBER SCR STOPS/AIRFIELD:RISES>>SW/TERRIFIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "46.233336 -79.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "46:14:00 N 79:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.233336,-79.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6027 (EAFA3B9A) **Date:** 4/12/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WINCHESTER, VA **Description:** 20cm hazy orange sphere/orb/globe / treetop level. Straight and level flight. Slow and silent. Rotates. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2056 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "219", **HatchDesc:** "WINCHESTER,VA:20cm HAZY ORG ORB/TREETOP LEVEL:S/L FLITE:SLOW+SILENT:ROTATES:", **LatLong:** "39.183335 -78.155559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:11:00 N 78:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.183335,-78.155559)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6028 (656578E3) **Date:** 4/12/1952 **Location:** North Bay CFS, Ontario, CAN **Description:** The round amber object came in from the southwest and moved across the RCAF Station airfield at North Bay, stopped and moved off again in the reverse direction (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1108) **Reference:** NICAP: [520412](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/ontario520412dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_943 ### Event 6029 (342225D2) **Date:** 4/12/1952 **Time:** 9:30 PM **Location:** North Bay, Ontario, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E.H. Rossell, Flight Sgt. R. McRae. One round amber object flew fast, stopped, reversed direction, climbed away at 30' angle during a 2 minute observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_91 ### Event 6030 (5B30368B) **Date:** 4/12/1952 **Location:** RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario **Description:** 8:30 p.m. W/O E. H. Rossell and Flight Sgt. Reginald McRae are driving on RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario, when they see a bright amber disc arrive from the southwest, move across the airfield, stop, and then take off in the opposite direction at an angle of 30° at terrific speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Amber Disc Stops, Reverses](http://www.nicap.org/520412northbay%5Fdir.htm) [Direction](http://www.nicap.org/520412northbay%5Fdir.htm)”; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 92–94 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1785 ### Event 6031 (42A40E20) **Date:** 4/12/1952 **Description:** North Bay, Ontario, Canada. At 9:30 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E. H. Rossell and Flight Sgt. R. McRae sighted a round amber object that flew fast, stopped, reversed direction, and climbed away at a 30-degree angle during the two-minute observation. They said it with terrific speed, twice the speed of an F-86. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1108; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 87; UNICAT, case # 810 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1963 ### Event 6032 (6CFC43E4) **Date:** 4/13/1952 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** EAST / MORIARITY, NM **Description:** 4 airmen. Very fast saucer. Erratic flight path. Tilts vanishes and reappears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2057 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "1890", **HatchDesc:** "E/MORIARITY,NM:4 AIRMEN:VFAST SCR:ERRATIC FLITE PATH:TILTS VANISHES+REAPPEARS", **LatLong:** "34.988891 -106.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:59:20 N 106:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.988891,-106.000005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6033 (036FE3D3) **Date:** 4/13/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** Airline workers. Brill saucer / 3000' altitude. Vibrates and fades into distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2058 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:AIRLINE WORKERS:BRILL SCR/3000'alt:VIBRATES+FADES INTO DISTANCE:", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -81.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 81:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-81.700004)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6034 (A24E72B9) **Date:** 4/13/1952 **Time:** ~21:40 **Location:** GMX SOUTH / BILOXI, MS **Description:** Air Force Lieut. and more/others. Dull orange saucers over Gulf change formation. Shoot going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2059 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GMX S/BILOXI,MS:AF LIEUT.++:DULL ORG SCRS OVR GULF CHANGE FORMn:SHOOT>>W:", **LatLong:** "30.333335 -88.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:20:00 N 88:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.333335,-88.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6035 (A15248F1) **Date:** 4/13/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** TORPO, NORWAY **Description:** 3 observer(s). Fireball going up / woods. Lights area. Hovers. Maneuvers. Going quickly south / terrific speed. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 138) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2060 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "TORPO,NORWAY:3 OBS:FBL ↑/WOODS:LITES AREA:HVRS:MNVRS:>>S/TERRIFIC SPEED:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "60.666670 8.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "60:40:00 N 08:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.666670,8.733334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6036 (96D4D78D) **Date:** 4/13/1952 **Location:** Moriarty AFB, NM **Description:** CPS Tracks Silver Disc (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520413](http://www.nicap.org/520413moriarty%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_944 ### Event 6037 (DAF43EBD) **Date:** 4/13/1952 **Description:** In Torpo, Norway at 10:35 p.m. a fireball came down in some nearby woods. It lit up the area, hovered, maneuvered, then shot away to the south at great speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping, June 7, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 38 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2002 ### Event 6038 (5BA4D16F) **Date:** 4/13/1952 **Description:** At 4:45 p.m. a disc-shaped object with an erratic flight path moved very fast through the sky east of Moriarty, New Mexico. It tilted and vanished, then reappeared. There were four military witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP Projects Grudge and Blue Book Report, p. 109; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 41 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2003 ### Event 6039 (9FC700D4) **Date:** 4/14/1952 **Location:** ANCHORAGE, AK **Description:** 12 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Huge "disk" crosses sky / 30 minute(s). No further details / news report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2061 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "ANCHORAGE,AK:12 OBS/BINOCS:HUGE "DISK" CROSSES SKY/30min:NFD/NEWS REPORT", **LatLong:** "61.216670 -149.883340", **LatLongDMS:** "61:13:00 N 149:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.216670,-149.883340)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6040 (8983A307) **Date:** 4/14/1952 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** LACROSSE, WI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1113. Central airline(s)/airliner crew and passengers. Light colored objects / V formation. High-speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2062 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "199", **HatchDesc:** "LACROSSE,WI:BBK#1113:CENTRAL AL CREW+PASSENGERS:LITE CLRd OBJS/VFORM:HI-SPEED", **LatLong:** "43.800002 -91.238893", **LatLongDMS:** "43:48:00 N 91:14:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.800002,-91.238893)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6041 (E0F7F77B) **Date:** 4/14/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** OVER MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** 1M inv. bowl passes 2 / United States Navy (USN) plane. Vertical slots / top to bottom. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2063 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "ovr MEMPHIS,TN:1M INV.BOWL PASSES 2/USN PLANE:VERTICAL SLOTS/TOP to BOTTOM", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -90.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 90:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-90.033338)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6042 (9B822153) **Date:** 4/14/1952 **Location:** Memphis, TN **Description:** Inverted Bowl Passes Aircraft At 300' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1112) **Reference:** NICAP: [520414](http://www.nicap.org/520414memphis%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_945 ### Event 6043 (677285C4) **Date:** 4/14/1952 **Location:** La Crosse, WI **Description:** CIRVIS Report / V-Formation Seen By Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1113) **Reference:** NICAP: [520414](http://www.nicap.org/520414lacrosse%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_946 ### Event 6044 (26C3A00B) **Date:** 4/14/1952 **Time:** 12:35 PM **Location:** LaCrosse, Wisconsin **Description:** Witness: unidentified CAL airline pilot. Several light colored objects flew in V-formation. No further details in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_92 ### Event 6045 (E56E8F87) **Date:** 4/14/1952 **Time:** 6:34 PM **Location:** Memphis, Tennessee **Description:** Witnesses: U.S. Navy pilots Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O'Neil. One inverted bowl, 3' long and 1' high, with vertical slots, flew fast, straight and level, 100 yards from observers' aircraft for 45-60 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_93 ### Event 6046 (97673FFB) **Date:** 4/15/1952 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** FRENCHMAN FLAT, NV **Description:** 6+observer(s). 4-6 saucers pass through atomic cloud after atomic test. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 761) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2064 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2420", **HatchDesc:** "FRENCHMAN FLAT,NV:6+OBS:4-6 SCRS PASS THRU ATOMIC CLOUD AFTER A-TEST:see ref", **LatLong:** "36.827780 -115.938894", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:40 N 115:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.827780,-115.938894)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6047 (0078164F) **Date:** 4/15/1952 **Location:** Santa Cruz, CA **Description:** 2 faint objects flying fast along the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1115) **Reference:** NICAP: [520415](http://www.nicap.org/santacruz520415dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_947 ### Event 6048 (05CD27E8) **Date:** 4/15/1952 **Time:** 7:40 PM **Location:** Santa Cruz, California **Description:** Witness: Mr. Hayes, brother of Master Sergeant. Two faint objects observed flying fast along the horizon for 6-8 seconds, using 20x spotting telescope. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_94 ### Event 6049 (FA15DE4C) **Date:** 4/15/1952 **Time:** 17:29:57.1 **Location:** 37.0842 -116.0194 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Baker” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_25 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0842 -116.0194", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:03 N 116:01:10 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0842,-116.0194)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.34", **NukeName:** "Baker", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 6050 (5F5FE544) **Date:** 4/15/1952 **Description:** At Frenchman Flat, Nevada at 9:30 a.m. four to six flying discs passed through the mushroom cloud created after an Atomic bomb test blast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2082 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2018 ### Event 6051 (A1BE8D23) **Date:** 4/15/1952 **Description:** That evening in Gardena, California a set of unidentified nocturnal lights flew silently to the north slowly, pulsating at regular intervals. The bright white light had a red glow preceeding it and one behind. When the white light went off the red glows seemed to merge to form a semi-elliptical red glow. It abruptly changed direction in a zigzag maneuver. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-Los Angeles, letter dated April 26, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2019 ### Event 6052 (92BA4A3E) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** HALIBURTON, ONT **Description:** 2 silver streaks. 1 follows other closely. Jet plane seen nearby. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2065 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "388", **HatchDesc:** "HALIBURTON,ONT:2 SLVR STREAKS:1 FOLOS OTHER CLOSELY:JET PLANE SEEN NEARBY", **LatLong:** "45.033335 -78.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:00 N 78:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.033335,-78.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6053 (C3766A1E) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** HAMILTON, ON **Description:** Huge ring / dark center spins. Sky-blue cylinder/cigar-shape? Hovers / 4 minute(s). Going east to Niagara F. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2066 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "234", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON,ON:HUGE RING/DARK CTR SPINS:SKY-BLUE CGR?:HVRS/4min:>E to NIAGARA F.", **LatLong:** "43.233335 -79.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:14:00 N 79:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.233335,-79.866670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6054 (0FD4B7EC) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** TRUAX FIELD, WI **Description:** Pilot and RADAR. 5-6 glowing-domes going east in formation. Turn going quickly NNW. / r136#1p48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2067 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "TRUAX FIELD,WI:PILOT+RDR:5-6 GLOW-DOMES > E/FORMn:TURN >>NNW:/r136#1p48", **LatLong:** "43.083335 -89.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:05:00 N 89:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.083335,-89.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6055 (7BF40FDB) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** ALUMINUM ROCK, CA **Description:** Amateur astronomer and 4. 2 glowing-orbs hover. Going up [to] going down [to] motion. Photographs = twin streaks and spiral. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 768) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2068 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "ALUM ROCK,CA:Am.ASTRON+4:2 GLOW-ORBS HVR:↑↓ MOTION:FOTOS=TWIN STREAKS+spiral", **LatLong:** "37.400002 -121.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:24:00 N 121:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.400002,-121.800006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6056 (387B06CA) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NEAR DALLAS, TX **Description:** Campers. 1 white and 4 red and 4 yellow night lights. Cross sky. Make 90-turn and fly away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2069 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "nr DALLAS,TX:CAMPERS:1 WHT+4 RED+4 YEL NLTS:CROSS SKY:MAKE 90-TURN+FLY AWAY", **LatLong:** "32.733335 -96.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:44:00 N 96:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.733335,-96.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6057 (4EACC7A2) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** NEAR SHREVEPORT, LA **Description:** Strategic Air Command (SAC) Commander / ground. Saucer going quickly south. Instant 80° turn going quickly north! / r136#1p48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: SMITH, Willy: ON PILOTS and UFO's. UNICAT Project, 8011 SW 189th St. Miami, FL 33175 USA. March 1997. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2070 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "nr SHREVEPORT,LA:SAC COMMANDER/GND:SCR >>S:INSTANT 80°TURN >>N!:/r136#1p48", **LatLong:** "32.483335 -93.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:29:00 N 93:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.483335,-93.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6058 (0CC3BCA7) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Location:** Madison, WI **Description:** Observed 5 or 6 semi-circular objects almost overhead, glowing with a yellowishwhite light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520416](http://www.nicap.org/madison520416dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_948 ### Event 6059 (EA4E44BB) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Location:** Shreveport, LA **Description:** Course reversing light. (Willy Smith pp. 25-29; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520416](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/shreve520416dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_949 ### Event 6060 (588C081B) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Locations:** Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** ADC becomes frantic about a possible Soviet attack. Air Force Intelligence warns Brig. Gen. [Woodbury](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) [Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) at ADC Headquarters, Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that a classified source \(possibly an electronic intercept\) has provided an “indication” of ominous Soviet military activity. With the simultaneous appearance of two waves of unidentified targets, there is no alternative. At 3:10 a.m., ADC Commander Gen. [Frederic H. Smith Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%5FH.%5FSmith%5FJr) orders America’s first nationwide Air Defense Readiness alert. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[UFOs and Alert Scare, April 1952](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/nn-020628.htm)”; “[Radar Scare,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93333332/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, April 19, 1952, p. 23; “[3](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93333141/) [Plane Vapors Cause Alert at Alaska Stations,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93333141/)” Long Beach \(Calif.\) Independent, April 18, 1952, p. 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1786 ### Event 6061 (CE8904E6) **Date:** 4/16/1952 **Description:** At 10:26 p.m. a U.S. Air Force captain and his neighbor in Shreveport, Louisiana saw a bright white object make a fast approach, reverse direction, then change shape from a flat circular object to a thin lens. It also changed color from pink to red. Its speed was estimated at 1285 mph, and showed a red exhaust tail after making its turn. It was ten times brighter than the brightest star. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. H. Tessier, UNICAT computer database case #812, citing Blue Book; Project Blue Book Report # 6, April 30, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2048 ### Event 6062 (027B2F82) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** WILLIAMSPORT, PA **Description:** Odd vapor trails. Then "big block of silver" crosses sky! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2071 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "161", **HatchDesc:** "WILLIAMSPORT,PA:ODD VAPOR TRAILS:THEN "BIG BLOCK OF SILVER" CROSSES SKY!", **LatLong:** "41.233335 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:14:00 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.233335,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6063 (5ECC1165) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NV **Description:** 5 military. 18 dull-white saucers going quickly east / 1200mph. 40K' altitude. 1 ZIGZAGs. / r136#7p61. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 288) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2072 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "570", **HatchDesc:** "NELLIS AFB,NV:5 MIL:18 DULL-WHT SCRS >>E/1200mph:40K'alt:1 ZIGZAGs:/r136#7p61", **LatLong:** "36.233335 -114.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:14:00 N 114:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.233335,-114.983339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6064 (6765DED2) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1127. Numerous observer(s). Silent saucer. 6mm / ARMs-length. Back / 2100 hours. / r136#7p58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2073 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:BBK#1127:NMRS OBS:SLNT SCR:6mm/ARMs-LENGTH:BACK/2100 hrs:/r136#7p58", **LatLong:** "32.583335 -114.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:35:00 N 114:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.583335,-114.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6065 (FFF37F4F) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** LONGMEADOW, MA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1124. 2 engineers. Silent night lights / 1000mph. Erratic quickly going up [to] and quickly going down. 90° turns.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2074 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LONGMEADOW,MA:BBK#1124:2 ENGINEERS:SLNT NLTS/1000mph:ERRATIC ↑↑+↓↓:90°TURNS..", **LatLong:** "42.050002 -72.594448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:03:00 N 72:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.050002,-72.594448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6066 (F1A0AEE0) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Location:** Longmeadow, MA **Description:** Round, deep orange object fly fast and erratic (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1124) **Reference:** NICAP: [520417](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/longmead520417dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_950 ### Event 6067 (40387936) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Location:** Yuma Test Station, AZ **Description:** Flat-white, circular object flew with an irregular trajectory (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1127) **Reference:** NICAP: [520417](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/yuma520417dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_951 ### Event 6068 (841BCEFF) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Location:** Nellis AFB, NV **Description:** Large group of circular UFOs. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520417](http://www.nicap.org/nellis520417dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_952 ### Event 6069 (91F1F78A) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Location:** Alaska, At Sea **Description:** Another Radar-Inspired National Alert (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520417](http://www.nicap.org/520417atlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_953 ### Event 6070 (CBE85C70) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Longmeadow, Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses: S.B. Brooks, chemical engineer J.A. Eaton. One round, deep orange object flew fast and erratic, occasionally emitting a shaft of light to the rear during a 40 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_95 ### Event 6071 (29A07B19) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Time:** 3:05 PM **Location:** Yuma, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: group of Army weather observation students, including several graduate engineers. One flat-white, circular object flew with an irregular trajectory and a brief trail, for about 7 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_96 ### Event 6072 (A31AE574) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Location:** Nunivak Island, Alaska **Description:** 12:58 a.m. Four high-altitude contrails heading east-southeast toward Alaska are seen by NORAD defense observers at Nunivak Island, Alaska. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Another Radar-Inspired National Alert](http://www.nicap.org/520417atlantic%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1787 ### Event 6073 (4F2C6D2D) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Locations:** Caswell Air Force Station; Limestone, Maine; US **Description:** 5:10 a.m. Radar at Caswell Air Force Station \[now closed\] in Limestone, Maine, tracks five unknown targets headed southwest into the US. Three are later identified as off-course civilian airliners, while two remain unidentified. A nationwide Air Defense Readiness Alert is declared at 5:11 a.m. SAC is notified to prepare launch of nuclear missiles. The alert is canceled at 7:40 a.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Another Radar-Inspired National Alert](http://www.nicap.org/520417atlantic%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1788 ### Event 6074 (EC1C88C6) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Locations:** Air Force T/S Orville Lawson; Nellis Air Force Base; near Las Vegas; Nevada Test Site **Description:** 12:05 p.m. Air Force T/S Orville Lawson, [Rudy Toncer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198096963/rudy-f%5F-toncer) \(sheet metal shop foreman\), and sheet metal shop workers R. K. Van Houtin, Edward Gregory, and [Charles Ruliffson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62143699/charles-f-ruliffson) at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, see 18 circular objects flying an easterly course that carry them over or very close to the Nevada Test Site. They watch the objects for about 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Work Crew Spots Flying Saucers over A-Test Site,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93332628/)” Salt Lake Tribune, April 18, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “[April 17, 1952: Nellis AFB, Nevada Large Group of Circular UFOs](http://www.nicap.org/nellis520417dir.htm)”; Nukes 83 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1789 ### Event 6075 (AC33B381) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Location:** Baltimore **Description:** [Dewey Fournet Jr.](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2009/01/major-dewey-j-fournet-historical.html) responds to a reporter from the Baltimore Sun who has asked about details of the Blue Book investigation with a two-and-a-half-page memo, vagued up a bit, but essentially saying that “nothing detrimental to our national security has materialized from these incidents.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 147 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1790 ### Event 6076 (34C0A7A5) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Description:** At 3:15 p.m. two military weather observers from the 9575 TSU at the Yuma Test Station in Yuma, Arizona watched a circular, flat-white craft with a short trail shoot across the sky from zenith to the horizon in 7 seconds (traveling at 13 degrees a second). It traveled so fast it could not be tracked with a theodolite. There was a similar sighting at the same place the next day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UNICAT, case 813, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 47; NICAP UFO Investigator, volume 3, number 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2076 ### Event 6077 (47A4A6FE) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Description:** Two engineers watched several silent noctunal lights make erratic maneuvers and ninety-degree turns in the sky over Longmeadow, Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 400 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs a History, 1952: January-May, p. 48 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2077 ### Event 6078 (DBA01B97) **Date:** 4/17/1952 **Description:** Thirty minutes later two men in Westmont, Illinois, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Hall, tracked an object traveling at a high rate of speed from the east to the north, vanishing just under the Ursa Minor constellation. No tail or exhaust were visible, nor were any signs of propulsion visible. They watched the object through a pair of binoculars. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, CSI--Los Angeles letter files, April 17, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2078 ### Event 6079 (ED4364BD) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Location:** 50 MI NORTHWEST / KYUSHU, JPN **Description:** Radar OP. Unidentified target tracked / 2700mph / 1 minute. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2075 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "50mi NW/KYUSHU,JPN:RADAR OP:UID TARGET TRACKED/2700mph/1 MINUTE:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.316668 129.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:19:00 N 129:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.316668,129.850006)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6080 (2DCAB924) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** CORNER BROOK, NFLD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1129+1131. Yellow sphere/orb/globe circles town 2X. Going quickly northwest. Back 18 hours later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2076 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "CORNER BROOK,NFLD:BBK#1129+1131:YEL.ORB CIRCLES TOWN 2X:>>NW:BACK 18hrs LATER", **LatLong:** "48.950002 -57.966669", **LatLongDMS:** "48:57:00 N 57:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.950002,-57.966669)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6081 (AB0202A7) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** BETHESDA, MD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1128. Parstell and 3. 7-15 silent orbs / 40° V-formation going quickly north. Clear weather. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2077 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "92", **HatchDesc:** "BETHESDA,MD:BBK#1128:PARSTELL+3:7-15 SLNT ORBS/40° VFORMn >>N:clear weather", **LatLong:** "38.983335 -77.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:59:00 N 77:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.983335,-77.100004)", **State/Prov:** "MRL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6082 (BA701C20) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Location:** Bethesda, MD **Description:** 7-9 circular, orange-yellow lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1128) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_954 ### Event 6083 (DFFA2339) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Location:** Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Janitor saw a yellow-gold object make a sharp turn, leaving a short, dark trail. (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1129) **Reference:** NICAP: [520418](http://www.nicap.org/newf520418dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_955 ### Event 6084 (A715DD7E) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Location:** Kyushu (50 miles northwest of), Japan **Description:** Object Tracked At 2,700 MPH (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1130) **Reference:** NICAP: [520418](http://www.nicap.org/520418kyushu%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_956 ### Event 6085 (DE8C0765) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Location:** Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Round, yellow-gold object fly S then return (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1131) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_957 ### Event 6086 (FC357E1B) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Yuma, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: two Army weather observation students. One flat-white circular object flew for 5-10 seconds in a very erratic manner. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_97 ### Event 6087 (C80B517B) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Time:** l1:30 AM **Location:** Bethesda, Maryland **Description:** Witnesses: R. Poerstal and three other men. Seven to nine circular, orange-yellow lights in a V-formation flew overhead silently for 4-8 seconds, from south to north. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_98 ### Event 6088 (420D4580) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Time:** l0:l0 PM **Location:** Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada **Description:** Witness: reporter Chic Shave. One round, yellow-gold object flew south and returned during 1.5 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_99 ### Event 6089 (519E50A0) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129' 51' E, 34' 19' N) **Description:** Witness: one radar operator. Tracked unidentified target for 1 minute at 2,700 m.p.h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_100 ### Event 6090 (C810EF32) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Time:** 4 AM **Location:** Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada **Description:** Witness: janitor C. Hamilton. One yellow-gold object made a sharp turn and left a short, dark trail during l minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_101 ### Event 6091 (226D79C1) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Locations:** Korea Strait; Kyushu Island, Japan **Description:** 12:07 p.m. Detachment 21 of the 618th Aircraft and Warning Squadron, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, picks up a radar target over the Korea Strait north of Kyushu Island, Japan, moving at 2,700 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object](http://www.nicap.org/520418kyushu%5Fdir.htm) [Tracked at 2,700 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/520418kyushu%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 127 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1791 ### Event 6092 (BAD76125) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Description:** 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129.85 E, 34.32 N). Radar tracked an unidentified target for one minute flying at 2,700 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2106 ### Event 6093 (44147C50) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Description:** At 4:00 a.m. in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada Mr. C. Hamilton, a janitor, saw a yellow-gold colored spherical object make a sharp turn in the sky. It left a short, dark trail for one minute. Eighteen hours later at 10:10 p.m. a newspaper reporter, Chic Shave, sighted the same round, yellow-gold object as it flew to the south and then returned. His sighting lasted 90 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, April 19, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2107 ### Event 6094 (4FF55F55) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Description:** In Bethesda, Maryland at 11:30 a.m. Mr. R. Poerstal and three other men sighted seven to nine circular, orange-yellow lights in a 40-degree V or U-formation as they flew overhead silently for eight seconds at a high speed, from south to north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1128; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2108 ### Event 6095 (4749BB19) **Date:** 4/18/1952 **Description:** On this day in Yuma, Arizona two Army weather observation students sighted a flat-white circular object flying in a very erratic manner. The sighting lasted approximately 10 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2109 ### Event 6096 (2B210050) **Date:** 4/19/1952 **Time:** 14:40 **Location:** RED BLUFF, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 2 fat bullet objects straight and level fast for 25 second(s). No further details / files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2078 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "RED BLUFF,CA:GOC OBS:2 FAT BULLET OBJs S/L FAST for 25sec:NFD/FILES", **LatLong:** "40.183335 -122.227784", **LatLongDMS:** "40:11:00 N 122:13:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.183335,-122.227784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6097 (3AD2620F) **Date:** 4/19/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** TORONTO, ON **Description:** 50+pale-orange objects / V-formation cross 30° / sky in seconds. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2079 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "TORONTO,ON:50+PALE-ORG OBJS/V-FORMn CROSS 30°/SKY IN SECONDS:ABS.SILENT", **LatLong:** "43.683335 -79.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:41:00 N 79:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.683335,-79.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6098 (7461A56F) **Date:** 4/19/1952 **Location:** Dhahran, Saudi Arabia **Description:** 9:20 p.m. USAF Brig. Gen. [Edwin M. Day](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107267/brigadier-general-edwin-m-day/) is reclining on a patio in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when he sees an object traveling parallel to the ground at a constant altitude \(between 10,000 and 20,000 feet\) and moving in his direction. Its speed is greater than a jet’s. It breaks into two parts at one point but maintains its constant course. He follows it visually for 5–6 seconds until it disappears to the north-northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 5–6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1792 ### Event 6099 (A3FAC07C) **Date:** 4/19/1952 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. a silvery cigar-shaped object flew over Brooklyn, New York. It had a light orange streak two-thirds of the way to the top of the object for its entire length. It flew into a cloud, causing a sparkling light to emanate from the cloud, and did not emerge. That night in Chestertown, Maryland a yellow-orange disc-shaped UFO that was self-luminous moved through the sky in a zigzag motion. It passed over the eastern horizon in two minutes, leaving a trail. At 10:30 p.m. 50 or more pale orange lights in a V formation were seen flying in the sky over Toronto, Ontario. They crossed 30 degrees of sky in seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles case files, letter dated April 25, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2132 ### Event 6100 (A57223EA) **Date:** 4/20/1952 (approximate) **Location:** TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OK **Description:** Civil employ and more/others. Blue-green saucer goes over base / terrific speed. 15k' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 147) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2080 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "394", **HatchDesc:** "TINKER AFB,OK:CIV EMPL++:BLU-GRN SCR GOES OVR BASE/TERRIFIC SPEED:15k'alt", **LatLong:** "35.433335 -97.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:26:00 N 97:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.433335,-97.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6101 (3B336DA5) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** LONDON, ONT **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Dark cylinder/cylindrical object / 40K' altitude. North going quickly south / 1500mph. Jets can't reach or catch up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2081 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON,ONT:100s/OBS:DARK CYL/40K'alt:N>>S/1500mph:JETS CANT REACH OR CATCH UP", **LatLong:** "43.016669 -81.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:01:00 N 81:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.016669,-81.333337)", **RelAlt:** "12000", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6102 (E0368461) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Aviation designer and 2. Silent flying wing dives and maneuvers / 20 minute(s). Glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2082 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:AVIATION DESIGNER+2:SILENT FLYING WING DIVES+MNVRS/20min:GLOWS", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -118.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 118:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-118.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6103 (D3C73268) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** FLINT, MI **Description:** Several observer(s). 20 separate groups / fake planes maneuver impossibly. 1200mph. Going north. / LDLN#187. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2083 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "75", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "FLINT,MI:SVRL OBS:20 SEP.GRPS/FAKE PLANES MNVR IMPOSSIBLY:1200mph:>N:/LDLN#187", **LatLong:** "43.016669 -83.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:01:00 N 83:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.016669,-83.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6104 (D4E32852) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MCCLELLAN AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Commercial pilot / ground. Night lights follow planes / landing approach / 4 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2084 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "McCLELLAN AFB,CA:COMMERCIAL PILOT/GND:NLTS FOLO PLANES/LANDING APPROACH/4min", **LatLong:** "38.700002 -121.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:42:00 N 121:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.700002,-121.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6105 (5FFB9F7D) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Location:** Flint, MI **Description:** Twenty Groups of Objects Observed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520420](http://www.nicap.org/520420flint%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_958 ### Event 6106 (2A89F3F3) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Location:** Toronto (west of), CAN **Description:** Pilot Tracks 11 Objects on radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520420](http://www.nicap.org/520420toronto%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_959 ### Event 6107 (7580B574) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Location:** Flint, Michigan **Description:** 9:15 p.m. Naval aviation student Edmund Kogut and his wife Shirley are at a drive-in movie theater in Flint, Michigan, when they see several groups of UFOs fly over. There are 2–9 objects in a group and about 20 groups, all flying in a straight line except for some changes in direction accomplished unlike any known aircraft. They are shaped like conventional aircraft but have an odd reddish glow surrounding them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, \[[Flint, Michigan, case](http://nicap.org/docs/520420flint%5Fdocs.pdf) [documents](http://nicap.org/docs/520420flint%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 128 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1793 ### Event 6108 (167E01F8) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Description:** A dark cylinder was sighted over London, England at 10 o'clock in the morning, flying at 40,000 feet altitude. It was moving from north to south at a speed in excess of 1,500 mph. Jet interceptors couldn't reach or catch it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Toronto (Ontario) Globe & Mail, April 21, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2152 ### Event 6109 (182B123B) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Description:** At 9:15 p.m. several people at a drive-in theatre in Flint, Michigan saw several groups of UFOs fly over. There were two to nine objects in a group, and a total of 20 groups. The UFOs were shaped like "oat kernels" and made changes in direction like conventional aircraft at a high rate of speed, but a red glow surrounded each object. The weather was clear at the time, and the sighting was reported to the Air Force by a Naval Aviation student. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; Project Grudge/Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1955; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 121, citing UNICAT **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2153 ### Event 6110 (9477F813) **Date:** 4/20/1952 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. a commercial pilot named J. Fidelli, on the ground at McClellan Air Field in Sacramento, California saw eight luminous objects moving in a undulating motion at a high rate of speed. They appeared to be following an aircraft during a landing approach. The formation of objects passed thru 20 degrees of arc in 6-8 seconds. They made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** letter to Civilian Saucer Intelligence from witness dated April 10, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 51 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2154 ### Event 6111 (CB1FCECB) **Date:** 4/21/1952 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** ALMANSA, SPN **Description:** Many observer(s). 4 silent glowing orbs going quickly northeast very fast and high. Change colors. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2085 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALMANSA,SPN:MANY OBS:4 SLNT GLOWING ORBS >>NE VFAST+HIGH:CHANGE COLORS:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.866669 -1.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "38:52:00 N 01:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.866669,-1.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Albacete", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6112 (4E4978D8) **Date:** 4/21/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MOLSON AND TUXEDO, MBA **Description:** Saucers and cylinders change color(s) fast. 1 stops and backtracks going quickly north. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2086 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "MOLSON+TUXEDO,MBa:SCRS+CYLS CHANGE CLRS FAST:1 STOPS+BACKTRACKS >>N:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "50.016669 -96.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "50:01:00 N 96:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.016669,-96.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6113 (AE403A28) **Date:** 4/21/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** WINNIPEG, MB **Description:** 2 separate sightings. Night lights glow green and white. 1 makes 90° turn back going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2087 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "WINNIPEG,MB:2 SEP SIGHTINGS:NLTS GLOW GRN+WHT:1 MAKES 90° TURN BACK >>S.", **LatLong:** "49.866669 -97.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "49:52:00 N 97:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.866669,-97.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6114 (052561BC) **Date:** 4/21/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** WALLA WALLA, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 8 moon-discs speed over town. Straight and level. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2088 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "WALLA WALLA,WA:2 OBS:8 MOON-DISCS SPEED OVR TOWN:STRAIGHT+LEVEL:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "46.083336 -118.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:05:00 N 118:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.083336,-118.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6115 (8DE139FE) **Date:** 4/21/1952 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. eight crescent-shaped objects flew over Walla Walla, Washington. A dull gray disc with a hump in the middle, looking something like a fin, was seen at 2:30 in the afternoon by the Gmyrek family in Browerville, Minnesota. The disc made no sound at first but as it was fading away behind some trees "we heard a very low hum." It left no vapor trail, and flew at an estimated speed of 300 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Project Blue Book Report # 7, reported dated May 31, 1952; Edward Sullivan, CSI - Los Angeles, citing letter from R. Gmyrek dated June 2, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2176 ### Event 6116 (E0ACE456) **Date:** 4/21/1952 **Description:** A flying disc was sighted in Tuxedo, Manitoba at 8:26 p.m. Four minutes later several discs and cylindrical UFOs were sighted in Molson, Manitoba. The UFOs were changing colors quickly, and one object stopped in flight, reversed direction, and backtracked by shooting off toward the north. At 10:15 p.m. there were two separate sightings of nocturnal lights glowing green and white in Winnipeg, Manitoba. One of the lights made a ninety-degree turn and turned back in flight toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Winnipeg Free Press, April 23, 1952; Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 60; Toronto Daily Star, April 23, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2177 ### Event 6117 (5D9159B1) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** NORTH / CONDON, OR **Description:** 1 observer. 3 saucers / V formation going quickly east. Larger saucer turns and leads. All brown colored / bot and silver tops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2089 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "865", **HatchDesc:** "N/CONDON,OR:1 OBS:3 SCRS/VFORM>>E:LARGER SCR TURNS+LEADS:ALL BRN/BOT+SLVR TOPS", **LatLong:** "45.250002 -120.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:15:00 N 120:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.250002,-120.183339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6118 (8987C956) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NAHA, OKINAWA, JPN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1144. 6 military-air and more. 1+2+2 3' saucers east going west. Lights blink / regularly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2090 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NAHA,OKINAWA,JPN:BBK#1144:6 MIL-AIR+:1+2+2 3'SCRS E>W:LITES BLINK/REGULARLY", **LatLong:** "26.033335 127.716673", **LatLongDMS:** "26:02:00 N 127:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.033335,127.716673)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6119 (D19B4CC1) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Location:** Naha AFB, Okinawa **Description:** Elliptical object followed by 2 then another 2 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1144) **Reference:** NICAP: [520422](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/naha520422dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_960 ### Event 6120 (13BB6063) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Time:** 99 PM **Location:** Naha AFB, Okinawa **Description:** Witnesses: crew of B-29 bomber, on ground. One elliptical object, followed by two and then another two, each with a white light that blinked every 1-2 seconds as they performed erratic maneuvers for 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_102 ### Event 6121 (0976EF2E) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Time:** 17:30:10.0 **Location:** 37.0844 -116.0203 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Charlie” Yield: 31KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_26 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0844 -116.0203", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:04 N 116:01:13 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0844,-116.0203)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-1.05", **NukeName:** "Charlie", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "31" ### Event 6122 (5B1D7CD3) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Description:** The Canadian Defence Research Board establishes a UFO study group that meets for the first time today. Project Second Storey, formed by [Omond M. Solandt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omond%5FSolandt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omond%5FSolandt) DRB chairman, meets at least five times. It is chaired by astrophysicist [Peter M. Millman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FMillman) and includes [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) and representatives from Naval Intelligence, Military Operations and Planning, and the Defence Research Board. At its April 24 meeting, it decides to meet with the US government on UFO matters. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Project Second Storey Minutes, 1952.04.24](http://luforu.org/ottawa-ontario-canada-north-america/)”; Clark III 1078; Good Above, [p. 186](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 225– 226 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1794 ### Event 6123 (2A6F6C7D) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Description:** Six military witnesses saw a white elliptical object, three feet in diameter and blinking regularly fly over Naha Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan at 9:00 p.m. Two more similar looking discs then followed the first, then two more in a procession passed over flying east to west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1144; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 54; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 181; UNICAT, case # 814 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2206 ### Event 6124 (EB080D65) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Description:** At 12:30 p.m. MDT, three hours after an atomic bomb test explosion, Mrs. M. Kennedy saw a propeller shaped object moving at high speed and high altitude across the sky from Temple Bar on the Colorado River, Nevada. It took only a few seconds to come into view and then go completely across the sky, heading toward the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles files, letter dated June 5, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2207 ### Event 6125 (0547DE23) **Date:** 4/22/1952 **Description:** At 12:15 p.m. PDT three disc-shaped objects were sighted flying toward the east in a V formation north of Condon, Oregon. They were bottom on the bottom and had silver tops. The larger disc turned and led the formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 52 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2208 ### Event 6126 (79262D4E) **Date:** 4/23/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** FORT WORTH, TX **Description:** Newspaper reporter. 50 pink glowing winged objects cross sky in formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2091 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "202", **HatchDesc:** "FORT WORTH,TX:NEWSPAPER REPORTER:50 PINK GLOWING WINGED OBJS CROSS SKY/FORMn", **LatLong:** "32.733335 -97.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:44:00 N 97:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.733335,-97.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6127 (0AA78865) **Date:** 4/23/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** AUSTIN, TX **Description:** 50 pink-glow objects / 3 formations. 24 April saucer going quickly west and several fireballs in formation very fast north going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2092 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "220", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "AUSTIN,TX:50 PINK-GLOW OBJS/3 FORMNs::24APR SCR>>W+SVRL FBLS/FORMn VFAST N>>S", **LatLong:** "30.266668 -97.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "30:16:00 N 97:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.266668,-97.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6128 (7E8EC6DF) **Date:** 4/23/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LEXINGTON, MASS **Description:** Engineer. Object at 40K' altitude. Extreme accelerations and flat turns. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2093 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "LEXINGTON,MASS:ENGINEER:OBJ at 40K'alt:EXTREME ACCELS+FLAT TURNS:>>NE", **LatLong:** "42.433335 -71.216670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:26:00 N 71:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.433335,-71.216670)", **RelAlt:** "12000", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6129 (04CEE4C1) **Date:** 4/23/1952 **Location:** Lexington, Massachusetts **Description:** 9:30 a.m. R. C. Munroe, engineering standards section head for Raytheon Manufacturing Company, notices an object near an AT-6 Texan trainer aircraft above Lexington, Massachusetts. He estimates its altitude at 40,000 feet. It decelerates abruptly and goes into a flat turn. He writes, “It is inconceivable to me that any human being could have withstood the deceleration or acceleration displayed by this aircraft.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 57](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=69&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1795 ### Event 6130 (32186097) **Date:** 4/23/1952 **Locations:** Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sandia Mountains; Tijeras Canyon; downtown Albuquerque **Description:** 10:45 a.m. Engineers [Carl Hawk](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34712578/carl-newton-hawk) and [Marvin Harvey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77517774/marvin-l-harvey) are at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they look up to watch a jet fighter as it shoots to the north above the Sandia Mountains. They also notice a soundless, flat, rectangular, wing-like object streaking through the sky from east to west above Tijeras Canyon. The object is completely black except for a distinct, bright yellow “V” on its bottom. Two slight points extend from its rear corners. Hawk estimates that it is passing overhead at 2,000 feet altitude at 200–400 mph and is roughly 60 feet wide by 20 feet long. They watch it for 10 seconds until it disappears in a cloud above downtown Albuquerque. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[What Soared Against Duke City Sky That Day in April, 1952?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334249/)”Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Tribune, November 21, 1957, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1796 ### Event 6131 (958546D1) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Location:** OTTAWA, ON **Description:** Trowel-shaped object with dark tail crosses northeast sky / great speed. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2094 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "OTTAWA,ON:TROWEL-SHAPED OBJ W/DARK TAIL CROSSES NE SKY/GREAT SPEED:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "45.416669 -75.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:25:00 N 75:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.416669,-75.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6132 (11063F01) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** BELLEVUE HILL, VT **Description:** USAF C124 crew. 3 blue circular objects pace transport plane / 3-4 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2095 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "396", **HatchDesc:** "BELLEVUE HILL,VT:USAF C124 CREW:3 BLUE CIRC.OBJS PACE TRANSPORT PLANE/3-4min", **LatLong:** "44.816669 -73.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:49:00 N 73:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.816669,-73.083337)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6133 (FAC287C2) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** MILTON, MASS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1148. 3 RADAR experts. Silent odd-shaped ovoids / 2000' altitude. 240mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2096 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "MILTON,MASS:BBK#1148:3 RDR EXPERTS:SILENT ODD-SHAPED OVOIDS/2000'alt:240mph", **LatLong:** "42.250002 -71.072226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:15:00 N 71:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.250002,-71.072226)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6134 (9A1CA633) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** VANCOUVER, BC **Description:** Double V formation glowing objects going quickly north / extreme speed. Shoot upward and lost in sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2097 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,BC:DBL VFORM GLOWING OBJs >>N/XTREME SPEED:SHOOT UPWARD+LOST IN SKY", **LatLong:** "49.266669 -123.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:16:00 N 123:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.266669,-123.100006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6135 (DE1DC950) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** CLOVIS, NM **Description:** Blue Book. Flight surgeon and 1. Orange night lights stop. Then go different directions / 1000mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2098 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1300", **HatchDesc:** "CLOVIS,NM:BBK:FLITE SURGEON+1:ORG NLTS STOP:THEN GO DIFF.DIRECTIONS/1000mph", **LatLong:** "34.400002 -103.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:24:00 N 103:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.400002,-103.216672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6136 (0066BA12) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** REGINA, SSK **Description:** Saucer with kite-tail hovers / seconds. Then spurts fire and moves going southwest. / Toronto star. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2099 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "571", **HatchDesc:** "REGINA,SSK:SCR W/KITE-TAIL HVRS/secs:THEN SPURTS FIRE+MOVES >SW:/TORONTO STAR", **LatLong:** "50.416669 -104.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "50:25:00 N 104:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.416669,-104.650005)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6137 (0D14C657) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** 4 good observer(s). Rocket-like object races toward(s) town. Lights sky. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2100 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:4 GOOD OBS:ROCKET-LIKE OBJ RACES TWRD TOWN:LITES SKY:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -117.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 117:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-117.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6138 (4E397731) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Location:** Bellevue Hill, VT **Description:** C-124 Crew Encounter Three Circular Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1147) **Reference:** NICAP: [520424](http://www.nicap.org/520424bellevue%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_961 ### Event 6139 (BB3DD97C) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Location:** Milton, MA **Description:** Squarish Objects Observed By Tower Crew (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1148) **Reference:** NICAP: [520424](http://www.nicap.org/520424milton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_962 ### Event 6140 (D9B1CAF3) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Location:** Colorado Springs, CO **Description:** Dark (object) with luminous glow, swept wing, no fuselage. Straight and level maneuvers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520424](http://nicap.org/colsprings520424dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_963 ### Event 6141 (5A89682F) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Location:** Clovis, NM **Description:** Orange-amber lights, sometimes separate, sometimes fused (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1151, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_964 ### Event 6142 (DA81C543) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 5 AM **Location:** Bellevue Hill, Vermont **Description:** Witnesses: crew of USAF C-124 transport plane. Three circular, bluish objects in loose "fingertip" formation twice flew parallel to airplane during 3-4 minute period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_103 ### Event 6143 (EDB5917E) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 2:30 PM **Location:** Milton, Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses: three Cambridge Research Center electronics engineers, one named Buruish. Two flat, red squares flew wobbly in level flight, climbed, levelled out during 1.5 minute observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_104 ### Event 6144 (880B6DE3) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Time:** 8:10 PM **Location:** Clovis, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: USAF light Surgeon Maj. E.L. Ellis. Many orange-amber lights, sometimes separate, sometimes fused, behaved erratically. Speed varied from motionless to very fast during 5 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_105 ### Event 6145 (CA0CAFBF) **Date:** 4/24/1952 **Description:** An Air Force Intelligence memorandum to Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm), chief of ATIC, transmits nine reports \(not released\) of unidentified submarine objects reported to the Office of Naval Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [pp. 141](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/140/mode/2up), [145](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/144/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1797 ### Event 6146 (0F12D629) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Location:** San Jose, CA **Description:** UFO sighted flying over San Jose, CA, near Mt. Hamilton by two scientists, Dr. W (biochemist; name withheld) and Dr. Y (bacteriologist, name also withheld). Description of hovering disk: at about 50 ft. it appeared to be 4 to 5 ft. in diam. The wobble of the disk allowed them to estimate it’s thickness to be approx. 1.5ft. No sound or means of propulsion observed. Later they observed a higher flying silvery disc approx. 100 ft. in diam. Next to it more UFOs appeared and bobbed around like boats in a stream. The objects disappeared around 11:15 a.m. The two scientists decided not to report the incident to Moffett Field for fear of ridicule. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p241) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_452 ### Event 6147 (E6D71C82) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** SAN JOSE, CA **Description:** 2 scientists. 2m saucer wobbles over FMC building. 2 30m saucers overhead rise going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 769) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2101 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "SAN JOSE,CA:2 SCIENTISTS:2m SCR WOBBLES OVR FMC BLDG:2 30m SCRS OVHD RISE >>N.", **LatLong:** "37.355557 -121.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:21:20 N 121:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.355557,-121.916672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6148 (B93BAF93) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** RHEIN-MAIN AIR FORCE BASE, GER **Description:** 2 pilots. 5cm circle / white light / near collision with C47. Rises going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2102 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RHEIN-MAIN AFB,GER:2 PILOTS:5cm CCL/WHT LITE/NEAR COLLISION WITH C47:RISES>NW", **LatLong:** "50.016669 8.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:01:00 N 08:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.016669,8.600000)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6149 (C68DCD4E) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Location:** Rheim-Main AFB, West Germany **Description:** C-47 Has Near Collision With UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520425](http://www.nicap.org/520425rhein%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_965 ### Event 6150 (CC20320A) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Location:** San Jose, CA **Description:** Scientists close encounter with small daylight disc (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520425](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520425dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_966 ### Event 6151 (D902F18A) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Locations:** San Jose, California; Moffett Field, Santa Clara County **Description:** 11:00 a.m. A biochemist and a bacteriologist are driving to their office in San Jose, California, when they see a metallic-looking disc rotating around a vertical axis and wobbling. It is moving slowly over the office and is about 4–5 feet in diameter. It flies in a slow arc. Then they see a black object hovering at a high altitude under an overcast. This one is about 100 feet in diameter. Two identical objects come into view out of the clouds. The three objects “jittered about like boats in a stream.” Then the small disc stops spinning, hovers, then shoots upwards, followed by one of the black objects. The remaining two objects linger another minute or so, then take off separately. The episode lasts 15 minutes. The biochemist calls Moffett Field in Santa Clara County, but hangs up before reporting the sighting, which they describe as a “most disturbing experience.” The object “utilized some propulsion method not in the physics books.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Scientist Sighting / Extraordinary Propulsion Implied](http://www.nicap.org/520425sanjose%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 241–242 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1798 ### Event 6152 (13F1593A) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Description:** Battelle releases its first status report on Project Stork, noting that it has selected a panel of consultants, initiated a news clipping service, and devised a coding scheme for UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seven Status Reports for](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm) [Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1799 ### Event 6153 (2AF4268E) **Date:** 4/25/1952 **Description:** At three a.m. a shining white metallic disc with legs, a ladder, a tube, and a transparent dome landed in the Serchio River in Liguria, Italy. It shot red beams of light at the witnesses, who were able to avoid being hit by them by jumping into a ditch. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Marco Marianti, FSR, June 1977, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2291 ### Event 6154 (7C0DF953) **Date:** 4/26/1952 **Location:** MILWAUKEE, WI **Description:** 5 disk-like objects seen. No further details. / Frank Edwards radio program. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2103 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "191", **HatchDesc:** "MILWAUKEE,WI:5 DISK-LIKE OBJS SEEN:NFD:/FRANK EDWARDS RADIO PROGRAM", **LatLong:** "43.050002 -87.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:03:00 N 87:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.050002,-87.933338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6155 (1486E6BF) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** WASKISH, MN **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Wingless silent aluminum cylinder/cigar-shape goes 30 mile(s) going quickly north / 1 minute(s). / report going [to] USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2104 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "WASKISH,MN:GOC OBS:WINGLESS SILENT ALUM CGR GOES 30mi>>N/1min:/rept>USAF", **LatLong:** "48.111113 -94.511116", **LatLongDMS:** "48:06:40 N 94:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.111113,-94.511116)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6156 (F4185C89) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** ROYAL OAK AND BIRMINGHAM, MI **Description:** Blue Book. Several separate observer(s). White plates / sky. Saucers going northwest. / r136#1p63. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2105 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "ROYAL OAK+BIRMINGHAM,MI:BBK:SVRL SEP.OBS:WHT PLATES/SKY:SCRS >NW:/r136#1p63", **LatLong:** "42.483335 -83.144448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:29:00 N 83:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.483335,-83.144448)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6157 (0B5D45F0) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** ROSEVILLE, MI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1160. 4 observer(s). Ovoid and 2 cigars hover and maneuver. Shoot going up / extremely fast. All silent. 1 going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2106 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "186", **HatchDesc:** "ROSEVILLE,MI:BBK#1160:4 OBS:OVOID+2 CGRS HVR+MNVR:SHOOT↑/XFAST:ALL SLNT:1>W", **LatLong:** "42.483335 -82.955560", **LatLongDMS:** "42:29:00 N 82:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.483335,-82.955560)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6158 (D6E8962E) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1163. Air Traffic Controller and military observer(s) / drive-in movie. 1+2 saucers several times. Fast turns. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2107 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:BBK#1163:ATC+MIL OBS/DRIVE-IN MOVIE:1+2 SCRS SVRL TIMES:FAST TURNS:>>S", **LatLong:** "32.683335 -114.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:41:00 N 114:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.683335,-114.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6159 (313C0FC6) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MANCHESTER AND ANN ARBOR, MICH **Description:** Bright green saucer with tail. Very high. Crosses sky north going quickly south. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2108 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "31", **Elev:** "306", **HatchDesc:** "MANCHESTER+ANN ARBOR,MICH:BRITE GRN SCR W/TAIL:VHIGH:CROSSES SKY N>>S:VFAST", **LatLong:** "42.150002 -84.038893", **LatLongDMS:** "42:09:00 N 84:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.150002,-84.038893)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6160 (522B6A04) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Location:** Roseville, MI **Description:** Silver oval roll, descend and stop (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1160) **Reference:** NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/roseville520427dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_967 ### Event 6161 (9CEA8D96) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Location:** Pontiac, MI **Description:** 11:06 pm. Witness observed an object approximately 200 feet in daiameter and approximately 200 feet off the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/pontiac520427dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_968 ### Event 6162 (9A795C7E) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Location:** Birmingham, MI **Description:** Witness observed an object approximately 200 feet in daiameter and approximately 200 feet off the ground (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/pontiac520427dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_969 ### Event 6163 (33EBF0CF) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Location:** Yuma, AZ **Description:** Bright red or flame-colored discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1163) **Reference:** NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/yuma520427dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_970 ### Event 6164 (AC35DC92) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Time:** 4:15 PM **Location:** Roseville, Michigan **Description:** Witnesses: H.A. Freytag and three male relatives, including a minister. One silver oval rolled, descended and stopped. Two silver cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. Sightings lasted 45 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_106 ### Event 6165 (4F9161BF) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Yuma, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: M/Sgt. and Mrs. G.S. Porter (he was off-duty control tower operator). Bright red or flame-colored discs, appearing as large as fighter planes. Seven sightings of one disc, one of two in formation during 2 hours. All seen below 11,000' overcast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_107 ### Event 6166 (CA2D6516) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Description:** At 4:15 p.m. H. A. Freytag and three male relatives, including a minister, sighted a silver oval-shaped UFO that rolled across the sky in Roseville, Michigan. The UFO descended and stopped. Two silver cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. These sightings lasted for 45 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1160; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 61; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2362 ### Event 6167 (A4B68F0B) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Description:** A Ground Observer Corps member (GOC) in Waskish, Minnesota sighted a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object that flew over 30 miles to the north in less than one minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #6, report dated April 30, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2363 ### Event 6168 (BD2752E9) **Date:** 4/27/1952 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. Master Sgt. G. S. Porter, an off-duty control tower operator, and his wife observed two bright red or flame-colored discs that appeared in the sky over Yuma, Arizona. They were said to be as large as fighter planes. They had seven sightings of one disc, and two objects that they saw flying in formation. They watched the UFOs for a total of two hours. All were seen below an 11,000-foot overcast sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1163; UNICAT database, case # 818; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 59; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2364 ### Event 6169 (C8DAB7AD) **Date:** 4/28/1952 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** VANCOUVER, BC **Description:** Amber sphere going up [to] going down / sky. Makes 3 passes over city. Finally goes going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2109 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,BC:AMBER SPHERE ↑↓/SKY:MAKES 3 PASSES OVR CITY:FINALLY GOES>>SW", **LatLong:** "49.233336 -123.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:14:00 N 123:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.233336,-123.100006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6170 (FD13E7DD) **Date:** 4/28/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** HOMEWOOD, IL **Description:** 2 women. Silver parachute canopy circles plane / 3 minute(s). Going southeast. Not investigated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2110 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "198", **HatchDesc:** "HOMEWOOD,IL:2 WOMEN:SLVR PARACHUTE CANOPY CIRCLES PLANE/3min:>SE:not investgd", **LatLong:** "41.555558 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:33:20 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.555558,-87.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6171 (BC5F333D) **Date:** 4/28/1952 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** LAKE TANWAX, WA **Description:** Loud humming. 20 dark saucers going east. Make 90° turn going quickly north and away. / r136#1p66. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2111 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE TANWAX,WA:LOUD HUM:20 DARK SCRS > E:MAKE 90° TURN>>N+AWAY:/r136#1p66", **LatLong:** "46.938891 -122.277784", **LatLongDMS:** "46:56:20 N 122:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.938891,-122.277784)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6172 (73B2A917) **Date:** 4/28/1952 **Location:** Homewood, IL **Description:** Two civilian witnesses reported to the Air Force that an object in the SE that resembled a white parachute was apparently circling a large airplane for about three minutes. Not listed in BB unknowns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520428](http://nicap.org/home520428dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_971 ### Event 6173 (1F2C9079) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** JOHOR BAHARU, MALAYSIA **Description:** Cigar-shaped object flies overhead. (20mi north / Singapore.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2112 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Malaysia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "JOHOR BAHARU,MALAYSIA:CIGAR-SHAPED OBJ FLIES OVHD:(20mi N/SINGAPORE)", **LatLong:** "1.466667 103.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "01:28:00 N 103:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.466667,103.766672)", **State/Prov:** "JHR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6174 (C83390C8) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** SINGAPORE **Description:** Silver cylinder/cigar-shape puffs smoke at intervals across sky. No jets / balloons up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2113 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SINGAPORE:SLVR CGR PUFFS SMOKE AT INTERVALS ACRS SKY:NO JETS/BALLOONS UP:", **LatLong:** "1.300000 103.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "01:18:00 N 103:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.300000,103.866672)", **State/Prov:** "SNG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6175 (6D55A296) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** MARSHALL, TX **Description:** Private pilot. 1 white saucer in straight and level path with side-to-side oscillations. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2114 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "109", **HatchDesc:** "MARSHALL,TX:PVT PILOT:1 WHT SCR IN S/L PATH WITH SIDE-TO-SIDE OSCILLATIONS", **LatLong:** "32.533335 -94.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:32:00 N 94:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.533335,-94.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6176 (EB68D6AE) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTH / GOODLAND, KS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1168. B29 bombardier. White fan-shaped light pulses 8X / 4 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2115 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1120", **HatchDesc:** "N/GOODLAND,KS:BBK#1168:B29 BOMBARDIER:WHT FAN-SHAPED LITE PULSES 8X/4sec", **LatLong:** "39.433335 -101.711116", **LatLongDMS:** "39:26:00 N 101:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.433335,-101.711116)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6177 (EF8D88DE) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Location:** Marshall, TX **Description:** Private pilot saw a round white object fly straight with side-to-side oscillation (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: 1167) **Reference:** NICAP: [520429](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/marshall520429dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_972 ### Event 6178 (17AC9DF7) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Location:** Goodland (North of ), KS **Description:** B-29 Encounters Pulsing Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1168) **Reference:** NICAP: [520429](http://www.nicap.org/520429goodland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_973 ### Event 6179 (47C6288A) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Time:** 3:30 PM **Location:** Marshall, Texas **Description:** Witness: private pilot R.R. Weidman. One round, white object which flew straight, with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_108 ### Event 6180 (F596B7EA) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Time:** 100 PM **Location:** Goodland, Kansas **Description:** Witness: B-29 bombardier Lt. R.H. Bauer. One white fan-shaped light pulsed 3-4 times per second for 2 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_109 ### Event 6181 (9105CCD6) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Description:** Secretary of the Air Force [Thomas K. Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) issues Air Force Letter 200-5, which directs intelligence officers at every base to report UFOs immediately to ATIC and all major USAF commands. It enables Project Blue Book staff to communicate directly with any Air Force base without going through the normal chain of command, and provides for wire transmission of reports to ATIC, followed with details via air mail. AFL 200-5 is modified by AFR 200-2 in 1953. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Department of the Air Force, “[Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFL%5F200-5.pdf)” Air Force Letter 200-5, April 29, 1952; Ruppelt, [pp. 132–133](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/132/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1800 ### Event 6182 (5C6AC01F) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Locations:** Europe; USAF Intelligence **Description:** An Air Force memorandum written to justify a trip by Lt. Col. E. Sterling and [Stefan Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony) to Europe mentions that their work for USAF Intelligence’s “Special Study Group” is to evaluate Soviet advanced aerial delivery systems, as well as to shed “some much needed light” on the “vexing ‘flying saucer’ problem.” It adds that the “Air Force cannot assume that flying saucers are of non-terrestrial origin, and hence, they could be Soviet.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 10; Swords 151 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1801 ### Event 6183 (F5438F8C) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Description:** While flying over Goodland, Kansas at one o'clock in the afternoon, B-29 bombardier Lt. R. H. Bauer sighted a white fan-shaped light that pulsed 8 times per second for four seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2403 ### Event 6184 (F276AE74) **Date:** 4/29/1952 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. on this same day in Marshall, Texas private pilot R. R. Weidman sighted a round, white object that flew straight and low but with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2404 ### Event 6185 (6F0289A1) **Date:** 4/30/1952 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** TIJERAS CANYON, NM **Description:** Professor. Small silver saucer hovers. Goes slowly going north into cloud. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2116 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1890", **HatchDesc:** "TIJERAS CANYON,NM:PROFESSOR:SML SLVR SCR HVRS:GOES SLOWLY >N INTO CLOUD:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.066668 -106.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:04:00 N 106:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.066668,-106.366672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6186 (42BC8B99) **Date:** 4/30/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** FRONT LINES, KOREA **Description:** 2 white saucers / succession going southeast. 900+mph. Odd holes found / ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad (ed.): PROJECT BLUEBOOK; Ballentine Books 1976. 423pp. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2117 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FRONT LINES,KOREA:2 WHT SCRS/SUCCESSION >SE:900+mph:ODD HOLES FOUND/GND", **LatLong:** "38.166668 126.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:10:00 N 126:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.166668,126.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6187 (BAE002D3) **Date:** 4/30/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** VANCOUVER, BC **Description:** Bluish round object changes to cone-shape. Goes going quickly southwest. / Vancouver Sun. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2118 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,BC:BLUISH RND OBJ CHANGES TO CONE-SHAPE:GOES>>SW:/VANCOUVER SUN", **LatLong:** "49.250002 -123.116673", **LatLongDMS:** "49:15:00 N 123:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.250002,-123.116673)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6188 (2F3B1960) **Date:** 4/30/1952 **Location:** Moriarty AFB, NM **Description:** Radar tracking of 4,000 mph first (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520430](http://www.nicap.org/520430moriartydir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_974 ### Event 6189 (AA9238BC) **Date:** 4/30/1952 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#6. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 95–112 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1802 ### Event 6190 (5BE8A63E) **Date:** 4/30/1952 **Location:** Panmunjeom, Korea **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Six members of the 3rd Platoon, Heavy Mortar Company, 180th Infantry Regiment at the front lines around Panmunjeom, Korea, see two silvery wingless objects, one behind the other, flying in a valley in a southeasterly direction. Pfc H. B. Webb thinks they are flying at 900–1,000 mph. Some slower northbound F-86 Sabre jets pass above them. They make a rumbling sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Haines, Korea, [p. 63](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch4.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1803 ### Event 6191 (0794444E) **Date:** 4/30/1952 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. two whitish-silver disc-shaped objects rumbled high in the sky over a valley in Korea at the front lines of the Korean War, according to military witnesses Webb, Jones, and Smith. Later two anomalous holes, 25 feet apart and two feet wide by 7.5 feet wide, were found in the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 63 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2419 ### Event 6192 (6E9C7183) **Date:** 5/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR ALEXANDRIA, VA **Description:** Top CIA man and military brass / lawn party. Vibrant bright night light going up. Going down. Streaks going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2119 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALEXANDRIA,VA:TOP CIA MAN+MIL.BRASS/LAWN PARTY:VBRITE NLT ↑:↓:STREAKS >>E", **LatLong:** "38.800002 -77.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:00 N 77:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.800002,-77.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6193 (8A35387E) **Date:** 5/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** PROSPECT HTS, IL **Description:** 12m saucer hovers / 30M altitude near observer(s). 3 figure(s) / square windows operate levers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2120 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "198", **HatchDesc:** "PROSPECT Hts,IL:12m SCR HVRS/30M alt NR OBS:3 FIGs/SQR WINDOWS OPERATE LEVERS", **LatLong:** "42.094446 -87.938893", **LatLongDMS:** "42:05:40 N 87:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.094446,-87.938893)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6194 (A1B6E20E) **Date:** 5/1952 **Location:** NAS, Willow Grove, PA **Description:** Target Follows Sweep (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520500](http://www.nicap.org/520500willowgrovedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_975 ### Event 6195 (A884B37C) **Date:** 5/1952 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; eastern Pennsylvania; Pentagon; McGuire AFB [now part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst] in Burlington County, New Jersey **Description:** Army radar specialist Jay Nogle is stationed near Washington, D.C., when he picks up an unknown target on his M33 scope at an altitude of 18,000 feet about 130 miles from the capital \(which would put it over eastern Pennsylvania\). Two other Army units also detect the object, which remains stationary for 30 minutes before moving. By the time the object reaches the edge of the radar scope, it is traveling at 1,000 mph. The report goes all the way to the Pentagon, where orders are given to fire on it if it returns. Nogle says that radar targets are frequently seen in May or June, and units have their antiaircraft guns loaded after the first incident. When fighters are scrambled from McGuire AFB \[now part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst\] in Burlington County, New Jersey, the targets move speedily out of range. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 153 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1804 ### Event 6196 (22FEAB4F) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** MOSES LAKE, WA **Description:** 2 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) men. Wingless silver object going straight and level for 90 second(s). Shape unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2121 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "323", **HatchDesc:** "MOSES LAKE,WA:2 AEC MEN:WINGLESS SLVR OBJ > S/L FOR 90sec:SHAPE UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.133336 -119.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:00 N 119:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.133336,-119.300006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 6197 (E7D0FE23) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ **Description:** 2 saucers pace B36 / wingtips. Going quickly south. Big file vanishes. / r55p109. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO Evidence II: HB: Scarecrow Press Lanham, MD. http://www.scarecrowpress.com ISBN 0-8108-3881-8 (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2122 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "824", **HatchDesc:** "DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB,AZ:2 SCRS PACE B36/WINGTIPS:>>S:big file vanishes:/r55p109", **LatLong:** "32.166668 -110.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:10:00 N 110:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.166668,-110.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6198 (935C6F9E) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1176. 5 separate observer(s). 5 silent 60' saucers maneuver / 20 second(s). Sharp turn going quickly north and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2123 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "877", **HatchDesc:** "GEORGE AFB,CA:BBK#1176:5 SEP.OBS:5 SLNT 60'SCRS MNVR/20sec:SHARP TURN >>N+AWAY", **LatLong:** "34.600002 -117.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:36:00 N 117:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.600002,-117.366672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6199 (422AA219) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NEAR ALFRED, ONT **Description:** Square object descends / 20 second(s). Curves going up [to] sharply / 1000mph. Tight turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2124 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALFRED,ONT:SQR OBJ DESCENDS/20sec:CURVES ↑ SHARPLY/1000mph:TIGHT TURNS", **LatLong:** "45.566669 -74.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "45:34:00 N 74:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.566669,-74.866670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6200 (6750A46D) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** OTTAWA, ON **Description:** Huge blue-green saucer curves / extremely fast. White night light follows. 3 more / Toronto / r136#1p69. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2125 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "OTTAWA,ON:HUGE BLU-GRN SCR CURVES/XFAST:WHT NLT FOLOS:3 MORE/TORONTO/r136#1p69", **LatLong:** "45.416669 -75.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:25:00 N 75:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.416669,-75.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6201 (6CC9A4F8) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** PORTLAND, ME **Description:** 3 observer(s). 3 rotating night lights change colors. 1 flies behind house. Others hover. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2126 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,ME:3 OBS:3 ROTATING NLTS CHANGE COLORS:1 FLIES BHND HOUSE:OTHERS HVR", **LatLong:** "43.666669 -70.261114", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:00 N 70:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.666669,-70.261114)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6202 (76D65AAA) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Location:** Moses Lake, WA **Description:** Civilian AEC employees observed a slow moving wingless silver object at 5,000 feet altitude in the Hanford area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1174) **Reference:** NICAP: [520501](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/moses520501dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_976 ### Event 6203 (5B8C979F) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Location:** Tucson (Davis-Monthan AFB), AZ **Description:** The Case of the Missing Report (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520501](http://www.nicap.org/520501davismonthan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_977 ### Event 6204 (826EFAA7) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Location:** George AFB, CA **Description:** 5 flat white discs about the diameter of a C-47's wingspan (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1176) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520501](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520501georgedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_978 ### Event 6205 (5B74A54B) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 5:32 AM **Location:** Moses Lake, Washington **Description:** Witnesses: Two Atomic Energy Commission employees, Eggan and Shipley. One silver object without wings flew straight and level for 1.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_110 ### Event 6206 (C88EC7AC) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 10:50 AM **Location:** George AFB, California **Description:** Witnesses: three men on the arms range, plus one Lt. Colonel 4 miles away. Five flat-white discs about the diameter of a C-47's wingspan (95') flew fast, made a 90^ turn in a formation of three in front and two behind, and darted around, for 15-30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_111 ### Event 6207 (68CFC182) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Location:** Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ **Description:** Two disc-shaped UFOs approached close to B-36 bomber, also seen from ground **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Source:** HallUFOEvidence2, **ID:** HallUFOE2_1 ### Event 6208 (38D11262) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Time:** 16:29:59.1 **Location:** 37.0842 -116.0203 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Dog” Yield: 19KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_27 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0842 -116.0203", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:03 N 116:01:13 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0842,-116.0203)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.32", **NukeName:** "Dog", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "19" ### Event 6209 (4713F289) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Location:** Davis-Monthan AFB base hospital, Tucson, Arizona **Description:** 9:10 a.m. Air intelligence officer Maj. [Rudolph Pestalozzi](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31478705/rudolph%5Fpestalozzi%5Fobituary/) and an airman standing outside the Davis-Monthan AFB base hospital, Tucson, Arizona, watch two shiny, round objects overtake a B-36 flying above. The objects slow down to match the plane’s speed and remain in formation with them for 20 seconds. Then they make a sharp, no-radius turn away from the B-36, moving away a bit. Then one of the objects stops and hovers. Both are silent, and the crew estimates they have a diameter of 20–25 feet and a thickness of 10–12 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/520501davismonthan%5Fdir.htm) [Case of the Missing Report](http://www.nicap.org/520501davismonthan%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 109–112](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/108/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/108/mode/2up) [292–294](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/292/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131; Good Need, [pp. 166–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/166/mode/2up) [167](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1807 ### Event 6210 (6231C345) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Locations:** George AFB [now Southern California Logistics Airport] near Victorville, California; Apple Valley, California **Description:** 10:50 a.m. At George AFB \[now Southern California Logistics Airport\] near Victorville, California, five independent witnesses in the base control tower see a group of five white discs moving in formation for about 30 seconds. The objects appear very maneuverable, seem to almost collide, then break away in a right-angle turn. They are traveling an estimated 900–1,200 mph and are 1,000–1,200 feet in diameter. Four miles away at Apple Valley, California, the base’s wing director of personnel, playing on a golf course, sees one of the UFOs at the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[George AFB / Apple Valley, CA Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/520501george%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 107–109](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/106/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131; Swords 147–148; Good Need, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/166/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 10, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1808 ### Event 6211 (884A392D) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Locations:** Albuquerque Journal composing room; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sandia Base **Description:** 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque Journal composing room employee Eugene Cline sees four silvery objects seemingly playing tag with a formation of 12 Air Force bombers—either B-29s or B-50s—flying west over Albuquerque, New Mexico. The round objects are keeping up with the planes at the same altitude, moving in a “tumbling or pitching manner.” One object shoots straight up and takes off in a southerly direction. About the same time, workmen \(one of them Howard Burgess\) erecting an antenna at nearby Sandia Base watch three UFOs pass directly overhead. One comes from the west and moves south; another comes from the north and moves south; and a third, tan-colored rather than silver like the others, passes low overhead and looks like a “cylinder tumbling end over end.” Burgess and the others are debriefed and sworn to secrecy about what they have witnessed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucers Play Tag with Bombers over City,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5965299/albuquerque-journal/)” Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Journal, May 2, 1952, p. 2; Nukes 56–58 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1809 ### Event 6212 (38E16778) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Description:** At 5:32 a.m. two men who worked for the Atomic Energy Commission, Eggan and Shipley, sighted a silver, wingless object at Moses Lake, Washington for 90 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1174; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2436 ### Event 6213 (59C281F4) **Date:** 5/1/1952 **Description:** At 10:50 a.m. several Air Force officers and enlisted men at George AFB in San Bernardino County, California watched five flat, white discs make a sudden 90 degree turn, then disappear. The sighting lasted half a minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1176; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 107; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 108; UNICAT database, case 263, citing J. Allen Hynek, Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 401 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2437 ### Event 6214 (34B42554) **Date:** Early 5/1952 **Location:** Alexandria, Virginia **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A senior CIA official is having a lawn party at his home near Alexandria, Virginia, for some VIPs. He and two others notice a light approaching silently from the west. It stops then climbs almost vertically, stops again, then levels out. Then it goes into a nearly vertical dive, levels out, and streaks off to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 135–136](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/134/mode/2up); Swords 148 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1805 ### Event 6215 (0DCE0816) **Date:** Early 5/1952 **Locations:** Pentagon office; Harvard University; Georgetown University **Description:** A meeting is held in the Pentagon office of [Stefan Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony), acting chief of the Directorate of Intelligence Study Group under Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) to hear Harvard University astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) express his views. Present are Possony, Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), ATIC chief Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm) Brig. Gen. [William M.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) Possony’s assistant [Leslie Rosenzweig](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Rosenzweig%5FL.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Rosenzweig%5FL.htm) and one other officer. Menzel announces that he has solved all UFO reports and claims to have helped out in the development of the cameras in Project Twinkle. His attitude irks everyone in the meeting. When he asks the Air Force to support his views in upcoming publications in Time and Look, Gen. Garland gets angry. Col. Dunn says that Blue Book would have put some money into more formal versions of his experiments, but he can only offer a statement that Menzel has told them of his theory. Now Menzel gets agitated, saying it is no theory. He refuses to leave them a copy of his book to pass on to [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) In the evening, Possony speaks with astronomer Francis J. Heyden at Georgetown University, who tells him that Menzel’s work is based on no more than a “couple of meaningless high school physics experiments.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 743; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 9; Swords 152 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1806 ### Event 6216 (91232398) **Date:** 5/3/1952 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR SYDNEY, NSW **Description:** Pilots and RAAF. Huge "flying submarine". Lights flash. 3X size / airliner. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2127 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "nr SYDNEY,NSW:PILOTS+RAAF:HUGE "FLYING SUBMARINE":LITES FLASH:3X SIZE/AIRLINER", **LatLong:** "-33.900002 151.183341", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 S 151:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.900002,151.183341)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6217 (5B9D495E) **Date:** 5/3/1952 **Location:** WARRAGUL, VCT, AUSTRALIA **Description:** 2 bright disks play tag. Join and merge into 1 then gone! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2128 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "WARRAGUL,VCT,AUSTRL:2 BRITE DISKS PLAY TAG:JOIN+MERGE INTO 1 THEN GONE!", **LatLong:** "-38.150002 145.916674", **LatLongDMS:** "38:09:00 S 145:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.150002,145.916674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6218 (337FA7D7) **Date:** 5/3/1952 **Description:** At dawn in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at least 13 witnesses, including pilots and the RAAF, witnessed a huge "flying submarine" with flashing lights. It was reported to be huge, three times larger than an airliner. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 45; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 68; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2147 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2465 ### Event 6219 (6DBFD16C) **Date:** 5/3/1952 **Description:** On this day two bright discs played tag in the sky over Warragul, Victoria, Australia. They then joined together, merged into one object, then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 69; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2146 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2466 ### Event 6220 (1DCB468A) **Date:** 5/3/1952 **Description:** On this evening three men in Chestertown, Maryland heard a strange whooshing noise. Looking up, they saw a black speck, high in the sky, moving back and forth. It went straight up out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence/Los Angeles investigation files, letter from E. Mifflin dated May 5, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2467 ### Event 6221 (D071FD02) **Date:** 5/4/1952 **Time:** ~12:00 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1201. Clear photo of ovoid / broad daylight. Looks black. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad (ed.): PROJECT BLUEBOOK; Ballentine Books 1976. 423pp. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2129 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:BBK#1201:CLEAR PHOTO OF OVOID/BROAD DAYLITE:LOOKS BLACK.", **LatLong:** "37.766668 -122.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:46:00 N 122:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.766668,-122.433339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6222 (7FF68CC6) **Date:** 5/5/1952 (approximate) **Location:** DURANGO, CO **Description:** 12 observer(s). Silver disks near vanadium CORPs uranium processing plant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2130 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1988", **HatchDesc:** "DURANGO,CO:12 OBS:SILVER DISKS NEAR VANADIUM CORPs URANIUM PROCESSING PLANT", **LatLong:** "37.266668 -107.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:00 N 107:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.266668,-107.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6223 (E8AC7AB9) **Date:** 5/5/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** TENAFLY, NJ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 6-7 translucent cream colored objects. One circled. Other out and back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2131 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "TENAFLY,NJ:2 OBS:6-7 TRANSLUCENT CREAM CLRD OBJS:ONE CIRCLED:OTHER OUT+BACK", **LatLong:** "40.916669 -73.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 73:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,-73.983337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6224 (0B009962) **Date:** 5/5/1952 **Location:** Tenafly, NJ **Description:** 6-7 objects translucent, cream-yellow (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1183) **Reference:** NICAP: [520505](http://www.nicap.org/tenafly520505dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_980 ### Event 6225 (8B1E8902) **Date:** 5/5/1952 **Time:** 10:45 PM **Location:** Tenafly, New Jersey **Description:** Witness: Mrs. M.M. Judson. Six or seven translucent, cream-yellow objects. One moved in an ellipse, while the others moved in and out. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_112 ### Event 6226 (143B1DD4) **Date:** 5/5/1952 **Description:** On this day two silver discs were sighted by over a dozen witnesses near the Vanadium Corporation's uranium processing plant in Durango, Colorado. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 72 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2533 ### Event 6227 (21075F93) **Date:** 5/5/1952 **Description:** At 10:50 p.m. six to seven translucent cream-colored objects were sighted over Tenafly, New Jersey. One object circled the area, while another flew away and then came back. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1183; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2534 ### Event 6228 (80896C64) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, MS **Description:** 3 military observer(s). Silver cylinder/cylindrical object darts in & out / clouds 10 times / 5-10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2132 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "KEESLER AFB,MS:3 MIL OBS:SLVR CYL DARTS IN & OUT/CLOUDS 10 TIMES/5-10min", **LatLong:** "30.416668 -88.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:25:00 N 88:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.416668,-88.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6229 (3A26869A) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** BARRA DA TIJUCA, BRZ **Description:** 5 photographs. 200' silent saucer. Going south / sea. / FSRv17#3. Possible hoax / r142#1p47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2133 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BARRA da TIJUCA,BRZ:5 FOTOS:200'SLNT SCR:>S/SEA:/FSRv17#3:POSS.HOAX/r142#1p47", **LatLong:** "-23.000001 -43.316669", **LatLongDMS:** "23:00:00 S 43:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.000001,-43.316669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6230 (D8872697) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Location:** Keesler AFB, MS **Description:** Aluminum or silver cylindrical object dart in and out of the clouds 10 times. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1185) **Reference:** NICAP: [520507](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/keesler520507dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_981 ### Event 6231 (75E4DDB0) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Location:** Barra da Tijuca, Brazil **Description:** Brazil photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520507](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/barradir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_982 ### Event 6232 (D051C4B1) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Time:** 12:15 PM **Location:** Keesler AFB, Mississippi **Description:** Witnesses: Capt. Morris, a Master Sergeant, a Staff Sergeant, and an Airman First Class. Ten times, an aluminum or silver cylindrical object was seen to dart in and out of the clouds during a 5-10 minute period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_113 ### Event 6233 (2A2DF16E) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Time:** 12:14:59.3 **Location:** 37.0531 -116.1056 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Easy” Yield: 12KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_28 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0531 -116.1056", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:11 N 116:06:20 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0531,-116.1056)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Easy", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "12" ### Event 6234 (B2F4B093) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Locations:** Sandia Mountains, New Mexico; Bel-Air neighborhood of Albuquerque **Description:** 12:22 a.m. Mrs. Hanley Marks sees a light-green, ball-shaped object fall from the sky into the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, from her home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Albuquerque. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Fireball Falls near](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334929/) [Sandias Early Today,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334929/)” Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 1; “[Green Fireball Falls in Southwest, Three Here](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334874/) [Report,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334874/)” Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1810 ### Event 6235 (1E68A1FB) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Location:** Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi **Description:** 12:15 p.m. A Captain Morris and three enlisted men at Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi, see one or two aluminum or silver cylindrical objects darting in and out of the clouds 10 times. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue Book case report](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520507keesler%5Fdoc2.pdf)\]”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1811 ### Event 6236 (EBFF5891) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Locations:** Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Colorado **Description:** 4:30 p.m. Magazine writer Ed Keffel, in the company of João Martins, takes five photographs of a UFO over Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the first, the UFO resembles an airplane coming directly toward them over a large group of trees. The second shows the object as disc-shaped. The third photo is taken as the object tilts slightly, showing both the top with a slight dome and the now obvious disc shape. More trees, including a very tall palm, can be seen in the photograph. The fourth picture, taken as the object tilts the other way, shows a raised ring on the bottom. The final picture is taken as the object is nearly vertical, seen over part of the ocean and some distant hills. The UFO disappears shortly afterward. NICAP does not see any negatives and is skeptical. The Colorado project finds a “glaring internal inconsistency” in the illumination and dismisses the photos as hoaxes. Today, the best evidence seems to suggest the case is a hoax, perpetrated by two magazine writers who wanted an interesting story. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Barra da Tijuca Photos](http://www.nicap.org/520507barra%5Fda%5Ftijuca%5Fdir.htm)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[The Barra da Tijuca Disc,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2010%2000%20-%20October%5FSpecial%5Freport%5Fon%5FBarra%5Fda%5FTijuca.pdf)” APRO Special Report no. 1 \(October 1961\): 1–6; Condon, [pp. 83,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/82/mode/2up) [415–418](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/414/mode/2up); Swords 460–461; Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga, “Os 90 Anos do O Cruzeiro, a Revista que Inaugurou a Era Moderna dos Discos Voadores no Brasil,” October 11, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1812 ### Event 6237 (E037FBCF) **Date:** 5/7/1952 **Description:** Five very clear photographs were taken on this day at 4:30 p.m. in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They show a disc-shaped object with a double protuberance on top. Its estimated size was 300 feet in diameter. An apparent discrepancy with some shadows was explained by the Brazilian UFO investigator, Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, as having been due to some broken leaves. The witnesses were named Keffel and Martins. The Brazilian Air Force conclusion on the photos is that the "object is several kilometers from the camera." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1973, p. 1; UNICAT, case # 402, citing Stendek; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, photo plate 2; William K. Hartmann, in Edward Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 415 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2614 ### Event 6238 (74F1AC0D) **Date:** 5/8/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Capt. Ruppelt and a Lt. Col. from ATIC briefed Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter for one hour. **Type:** briefing **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 185](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_869 ### Event 6239 (33F38BD2) **Date:** 5/8/1952 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** 600MI EAST / JACKSONVILLE, FL **Description:** PAA crew. 3 large night lights going quickly north head-on. Pass left wing. / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2134 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "600mi E/JACKSONVILLE,FL:PAA CREW:3 LRG NLTS >>N HEAD-ON:PASS LEFT WING:/r150", **LatLong:** "30.000001 -70.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 N 70:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.000001,-70.000003)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6240 (249F2C18) **Date:** 5/8/1952 **Location:** Jacksonville (over the Atlantic 600 Miles E of), FL **Description:** Three UAO Sighted By Constellation Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520508](http://www.nicap.org/520508atlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_983 ### Event 6241 (9569F24A) **Date:** 5/8/1952 **Locations:** San Juan, Puerto Rico; New York; Atlantic Ocean east of South Carolina **Description:** 2:27 a.m. Pan American Airways pilot Clayton C. Gallagher and his copilot, flying a Lockheed Constellation aircraft at 8,000 feet en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York, see a light, 10 times the size of an airplane landing light, approach them over the Atlantic Ocean east of South Carolina. It streaks past their left wing about a quarter mile away, followed by two smaller orange balls of fire. Probable meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three](http://www.nicap.org/520508atlantic%5Fdir.htm) [UAO Sighted by Constellation Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520508atlantic%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1813 ### Event 6242 (1098A8C5) **Date:** 5/8/1952 **Description:** Air Force Secretary [Thomas Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) and his staff \(including his special assistant, covert CIA agent [Joseph](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) [Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993)\) receive a secret one-hour briefing on UFOs from [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Lt. Col. R. J. Taylor that covers USAF investigations over the previous five years. Finletter asks questions about some specific sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/138/mode/2up) [138](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/138/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1814 ### Event 6243 (4B82C02B) **Date:** 5/8/1952 **Description:** Pan American Airlines flight 203 was flying 600 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida over the Atlantic Ocean at 2:27 a.m. when the pilot and co-pilot encountered three round, white lights in a line that buzzed their aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 177; UNICAT database, case #345, citing Ruppelt; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 132; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 77 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2649 ### Event 6244 (E74A1635) **Date:** 5/9/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** MISHAWAKA, IN **Description:** Blue Book. Ghostly domed saucer circles powerplant. Going quickly [to] St. Joseph airport. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 416) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2135 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "MISHAWAKA,IN:BBK:GHOSTLY DOMED SCR CIRCLES POWERPLANT:>> St.JOSEPH AIRPORT", **LatLong:** "41.661113 -86.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:39:40 N 86:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.661113,-86.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6245 (49D7D05C) **Date:** 5/9/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1194. 2 F86's and 3 Air Traffic Controllers. Saucer accelerations 0 to 5000kph in 2 seconds! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LINDEMANN, Michael (ed.): UFO's and the ALIEN PRESENCE - Six Viewpoints; 2020 Group, Santa Barbara, CA 1991. 233pp. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2136 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "877", **HatchDesc:** "GEORGE AFB,CA:BBK#1194:2 F86s+3 ATCs:SCR ACCELS 0 to 5000kph in 2 SECONDS!", **LatLong:** "34.600002 -117.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:36:00 N 117:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.600002,-117.350006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6246 (AEBEF4B2) **Date:** 5/9/1952 **Location:** George AFB, CA **Description:** 1194-1 Two F-86 Pilots Sight Round Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520509](http://nicap.org/520509georgeafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_984 ### Event 6247 (ADD99353) **Date:** 5/9/1952 **Location:** George AFB, CA **Description:** 1194-2 2 \[3?\] PM MST - dull white arrowhead-shaped object fly straight and level (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_985 ### Event 6248 (58A542C2) **Date:** 5/9/1952 **Time:** 5:20 PM **Location:** George AFB, California **Description:** Witness: A/lc G.C. Grindeland. One dull white, arrowhead-shaped object flew straight and level for 10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_114 ### Event 6249 (FAD82669) **Date:** 5/9/1952 **Description:** At 12:10 a.m. a ghostly domed saucer circled the powerplant in Mishawaka, Indiana. It flew off quickly toward St. Joseph Airport. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2154, citing Project Blue Book; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2674 ### Event 6250 (12EE35D8) **Date:** 5/9/1952 **Description:** Two F-86 pilots saw a round, silver object flying north from George AFB, California at 10:20 a.m. A Project Blue Book "unknown." At 12:30 two more UFOs were seen moving with the current or breeze at a slow speed. They were silver metallic in color, with a dark spot in the center, and at certain angles gave off a glare. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1194A & 1194B; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Michael Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 100 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2675 ### Event 6251 (6277B395) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Location:** Paphos, Cypress **Description:** RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report signed by Col. William L. Travis, Chief USAF Intelligence Division. stating: at 2030 hours, in the city of Paphos, S.W. Cypress, a group of persons including a noted British Scientist sighted an UFO which appeared to rise sharply from the level of the sea and disappeared into the sky. It was of a circular shape and emitted a luminous light. It appeared to waver back and forth before fading out of sight directly overhead. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p540) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_453 ### Event 6252 (47C8D9E7) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Air Force Col. and 1. Silver saucer going northeast / 5 minute(s). 2nd same flips and flips going northeast. / Blue Book report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2137 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "KIRTLAND AFB,NM:AF COL+1:SLVR SCR >NE/5min:2nd SAME FLIPS+FLIPS >NE:/BBK REPt", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -106.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 106:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-106.066672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6253 (80C2A436) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Odd object dives at car. Roars! 90° turns. Project Bluebook Case #1260 / 7 June and #1263 / 8 June. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2138 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1485", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:ODD OBJ DIVES AT CAR:ROARS!:90°TURNS:BBK#1260/7JUN+#1263/8JUN", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -106.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 106:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-106.633338)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6254 (4216896F) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FR **Description:** 12 observer(s). Silent glowing-ball maneuvers. Going up [to] and meets 2nd object. / LDLN#125+/ r251. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2139 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "LA ROCHE-sur-YON,FR:12 OBS:SLNT GLO-BALL MNVRS:↑+MEETS 2nd OBJ:/LDLN#125+/r251", **LatLong:** "46.633336 -1.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:38:00 N 01:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.633336,-1.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6255 (E539CA7B) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PAPHOS, CYPRUS **Description:** Scientist and several. Saucer rises from sea. Shoots into sky and away. / reference unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: UFOHIST1.TXT from PEA Research / Ultra Majic BBS: http://www.ipacific.net.au/~pavig/govtinvolvementincove_488.shtml **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2140 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Cyprus", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PAPHOS,CYPRUS:SCIENTIST+SVRL:SCR RISES fm SEA:SHOOTS INTO SKY+AWAY:/ref unk", **LatLong:** "34.750002 32.477779", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 N 32:28:40 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.750002,32.477779)", **State/Prov:** "PAP", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6256 (05CAD76A) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** VENTURA, CA **Description:** USAF man and 3. 4 orange silent glowing-disks / 2500M altitude. Swerve / diamond. 2400kph? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 777) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2141 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "VENTURA,CA:USAF MAN+3:4 ORG SLNT GLO-DISKS/2500M alt:SWERVE/DIAMOND:2400kph?", **LatLong:** "34.277779 -119.288895", **LatLongDMS:** "34:16:40 N 119:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.277779,-119.288895)", **RelAlt:** "2500", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6257 (3D177483) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** SOUTH / ELLENTON, SC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1198. 8 small saucers / Savannah H-bomb plant. 1 going southwest. 1 going north. / r136#1p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 422) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2142 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "S/ELLENTON,SC:BBK#1198:8 SML SCRS/SAVANNAH H-BOMB PLANT:1>SW:1>N:/r136#1p75", **LatLong:** "33.344446 -81.738893", **LatLongDMS:** "33:20:40 N 81:44:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.344446,-81.738893)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6258 (9FB9D3C4) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Saw 2 silvery disc-shaped objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520510](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/albuq520510dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_986 ### Event 6259 (B6428F3B) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Location:** Paphos, SW, Cyprus **Description:** Luminous circular object rise from sea level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520510](http://www.nicap.org/paphos520510dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_987 ### Event 6260 (C825DB47) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Location:** New Ellenton, SC **Description:** UFO Incident at Savannah River (AEC) Plant (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1198, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520510](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/savannah520510dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_988 ### Event 6261 (DCADF4DD) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Time:** 10:45 PM **Location:** Ellenton, South Carolina **Description:** Witnesses: 4 duPont employees at the Savannah River nuclear plant. Up to four yellow, disc-shaped objects were seen on five occasions between 10:45 and shortly after 11:15. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_115 ### Event 6262 (C45B8FA1) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 3:00 p.m. USAF Lt. Col. Maurice G. Bechtel and his wife are in the yard of their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they see two silvery disc-shaped objects flying straight and level, one after the other, moving southwest to northeast at above 20,000 feet. The first object seems to waver on its axis, the second object follows a similar path but at a higher altitude. The first object is the size of a B-36 at high altitude. Bechtel alerts the radar station but it is unable to track the objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Discs Observed by Lt. Colonel and Wife](http://www.nicap.org/520510albuq%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 132 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1815 ### Event 6263 (107CE0A0) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Location:** Paphos, Cyprus **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A British scientist and others at Paphos, Cyprus, see a luminous circular object rise from the sea and waver back and forth before fading from sight directly overhead. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 132; Good Above, [p. 540](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/540/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1816 ### Event 6264 (370D280A) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Locations:** AEC’s Savannah River Laboratory; Jackson, South Carolina **Description:** 10:45 p.m. Four employees of DuPont Corporation at the AEC’s Savannah River Laboratory near Jackson, South Carolina, see four disc-shaped objects approach, then two other discs pass high overhead from different directions. They are a luminous yellow-gold color and move at a high rate of speed. One of the discs approaches at such a low altitude that it must ascend to pass over some tall tanks at the facility. One witness says that the objects are weaving from left to right while continuing on a steady course. The case is investigated by the FBI and passed on to the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Objects Sighted near Vital](http://www.nicap.org/520510savannah%5Fdir.htm) [Installation](http://www.nicap.org/520510savannah%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 132; Nukes 84 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1817 ### Event 6265 (A492C427) **Date:** 5/10/1952 **Description:** At 11:40 p.m. four yellow disc-shaped objects approached the Savannah River AEC nuclear facility near Ellenton, South Carolina from the south at a very low altitude. They flew straight and level for a short period of time, but they had to rise to pass over tall tanks on the ground. They made no sound, and weaved left to right as they flew. Four DuPont workers were the witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #7, May 31, 1952; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1198; George D. Fawcett, Rense.com, citing Look, June 24, 1952; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 262 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2711 ### Event 6266 (8BFA82DF) **Date:** 5/11/1952 **Location:** GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Civil flight-student. 3 metallic disks jump. 1 makes 90° turn going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2143 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "877", **HatchDesc:** "GEORGE AFB,CA:CIV FLITE-STUDENT:3 MTLC DISKS JUMP:1 MAKES 90°TURN >>S:", **LatLong:** "34.583335 -117.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:35:00 N 117:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.583335,-117.366672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6267 (EE935862) **Date:** 5/11/1952 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** TOURS, FR **Description:** M. Gerbaud and 1 via window. Brilliant silver saucer going quickly south overhead fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2144 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TOURS,FR:M.GERBAUD+1 via WINDOW:BRILL.SLVR SCR >>S OVHD FAST:NFD ", **LatLong:** "47.366669 0.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:22:00 N 00:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.366669,0.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Indre-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6268 (9AE01C59) **Date:** 5/11/1952 **Location:** George AFB, CA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_989 ### Event 6269 (72706D1F) **Date:** 5/12/1952 **Location:** Seattle, WA **Description:** “Blue Flash” phenomenon reported over Seattle on front page of NY Times, reported as possible meteor but meteorologists were not convinced as it did not follow the usual patterns **Type:** anomalous phenomenon **Reference:** [Dr. Leon Davidson](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) **Reference:** [NY Times](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/05/12/84315928.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_454 ### Event 6270 (83046C1C) **Date:** 5/12/1952 **Location:** Roswell (near), NM **Description:** An object was seen that was blue-green in color and its estimated altitude above the terrain was 30,000 to 40,000 feet. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520512](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520512roswelldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_990 ### Event 6271 (6A500D29) **Date:** 5/12/1952 **Locations:** Walker AFB; Roswell, New Mexico; Ruidosa **Description:** 8:45 p.m. A UFO is seen by Walker AFB T/Sgt. Raymond Bare in a car in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. The object is blue-green in color, and its estimated altitude above the terrain is 20,000–30,000 feet. It appears to be about 40–50 miles distant over some low mountains east of Ruidosa. The object travels three times over approximately the same south-to-north / east-to-west, swaying, triangular course. Rate of speed cannot be precisely estimated but is faster than that of jet aircraft. Intensity of color brightness varies with the object’s altitude. The Air Force explains it as the planet Venus, but Venus is on the other side of the earth at the time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[High-Speed Object Maneuvers over Mountains](http://www.nicap.org/520512roswell%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 390–391; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 132 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1818 ### Event 6272 (5EA64838) **Date:** 5/12/1952 **Description:** A restricted military document shows that a UFO was sighted at 2145 hours UST 40 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico. The object was blue-green in color and its estimated altitude was 30,000-40,000 feet. The object traveled three times over approximately the same triangular course. The rate of speed could not be estimated precisely, but was faster than a jet aircraft. The intensity of its color brightness varied with the object's altitude **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Fran Ridge, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1952fullrep.htm, citing AF Form 112 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2754 ### Event 6273 (1E911AD2) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** CALDAS DA REINHA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Odd cloud darts upward 'at breath-taking speed'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2145 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CALDAS da REINHA,PORTUGAL:ODD CLOUD DARTS UPWARD 'AT BREATH-TAKING SPEED'", **LatLong:** "39.394446 -9.094445", **LatLongDMS:** "39:23:40 N 09:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.394446,-9.094445)", **State/Prov:** "Beira littoral", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6274 (CBB4CDCF) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** ALCOBATA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Cigar goes back and forth several times. 'Blows up'. / Jimmy Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2146 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ALCOBATA,PORTUGAL:CIGAR GOES BACK+FORTH SVRL TIMES:'BLOWS UP':/JIMMY GUIEU", **LatLong:** "39.550002 -9.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "39:33:00 N 09:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.550002,-9.000000)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6275 (0F94C11E) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** SANTAREM, PORTUGAL **Description:** Dazzlingly brilliant sphere with vapor trail. Several min. / J. Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2147 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SANTAREM,PORTUGAL:DAZZLINGLY BRILL.SPHERE W/VAPOR TRAIL:SVRL MIN.:/J.GUIEU", **LatLong:** "39.255557 -8.711112", **LatLongDMS:** "39:15:20 N 08:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.255557,-8.711112)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6276 (ECE4C4F5) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NATIONAL CITY, CA **Description:** Pilot and engineer and amateur Ast and 5. Metallic saucer dives / extreme altitude. Circles area 2X. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2148 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NATIONAL CITY,CA:PILOT+ENG+AM.AST+5:MTLC SCR DIVES/XTREME ALT:CIRCLES AREA 2X", **LatLong:** "32.666668 -117.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:40:00 N 117:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.666668,-117.100006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6277 (549B9BD9) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** GREENVILLE, SC **Description:** 3 amateur astronomers and more. 4 large ovoids going NNW / box-formation / 300M. / r136#1+/ r172p148. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: SMITH, Willy: ON PILOTS and UFO's. UNICAT Project, 8011 SW 189th St. Miami, FL 33175 USA. March 1997. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2149 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "GREENVILLE,SC:3 AM.ASTRONS+:4 LRG OVOIDS >NNW/box-FRMN/300M:/r136#1+/r172p148", **LatLong:** "34.850002 -82.394448", **LatLongDMS:** "34:51:00 N 82:23:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.850002,-82.394448)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6278 (66FE5D35) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** George AFB, CA **Description:** Observers In T-6 Watch Round Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520513](http://nicap.org/520513georgeafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_991 ### Event 6279 (C1E82812) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** Greenville, SC **Description:** 4 oval reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520513](http://www.nicap.org/520513greenville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_992 ### Event 6280 (C19DC8F2) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** El Centro NAS, CA **Description:** F9F Encounters "Shooting Star" (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520513](http://www.nicap.org/520513elcentro%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_993 ### Event 6281 (6FAEC913) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** National City, CA **Description:** Meteor-like obj seen descending in a curving path to the northwest over the San Diego Bay area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520513](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/natcity520513dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_994 ### Event 6282 (9C700729) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** National City, California **Description:** 8:55 p.m. Aeronautical engineer Donald R. Carr sees a meteor-like object descend over National City, California, flying a curving path to the northwest. At 9:25 p.m., Carr watches a similar object, seemingly returning from the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 4](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=16&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1819 ### Event 6283 (C71D947B) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Location:** Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina **Description:** 10:33 p.m. James Richardson and three other amateur astronomers \(among them [Cyril Thomas Wyche](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142432399/cyril-thomas-wyche) and [Harry B. Mooney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23310388/harry-balch-mooney)\), set up telescopes at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, when they see a diamond formation of 4 oval, reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects nearly overhead. They disappear after 3 seconds moving through a 12° arc. The apparent size is a half dollar at arms length. They wobble in flight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Diamond Formation of 4 Objects Observed by Astronomers](http://www.nicap.org/520513greenville%5Fdir.htm)”; Willy Smith, “Blue Book Pearls: Greenville, S.C.,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 8–9, 24; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 133; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 10, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1820 ### Event 6284 (1E6319B6) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Description:** On this morning a cigar-shaped object flew back and forth in the sky several times over the town of Alcobaca, Portugal before "blowing up." Over the town of Santarem, Portugal a dazzingly brilliant sphere that left a vapor trail was observed for several minutes. Later that evening at 7:20 p.m. two orange balls of light were sighted over the shoreline of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. One of the object hovered while the second object darted out and back. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 78; (2) Edward Sullivan, letter from Garcia-Mendez dated May 14, 1952 to Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2790 ### Event 6285 (07B8EABD) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Description:** At 3:15 a.m PST an F9F pilot taking off from El Centro Naval Air Station, California saw what appeared to be a shooting star diving at an angle of 60 degrees. At around the same time the El Centro's Sheriff's Office received reports of five "flying saucers" as large as B-36's with a light underneath. They disappeared to the southwest at terrific speed. All together there were four separate reports of UFOs in the El Centro area on this date. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2791 ### Event 6286 (9A9FFCC5) **Date:** 5/13/1952 **Description:** At 10:33 p.m. EST in Greenville, South Carolina James Richardson and three other amateur astronomers set up telescopes in a dark area of Furman University, when they saw a box or diamond formation of four oval dull glowing, reddish object nearly overhead. They were the apparent size of a half dollar at arms length, one-quarter turned and wobbling in flight. They disappeared after 3 seconds after moving through 12 degrees of arc. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #8; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 148; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 181, UNICAT, case 705 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2792 ### Event 6287 (49463D2E) **Date:** 5/14/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MAYAGUEZ, PR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1213. Ex-Air Force pilot and Garcia. 2 orange orbs. 1 hovers. 1 darts out and back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2150 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MAYAGUEZ,PR:BBK#1213:EX-AF PILOT+GARCIA:2 ORG ORBS:1 HVRS:1 DARTS OUT+BACK", **LatLong:** "18.183334 -67.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "18:11:00 N 67:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.183334,-67.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Puerto Rico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6288 (8FAEE006) **Date:** 5/14/1952 **Location:** George AFB, CA **Description:** T-6G Crew Encounters Hovering Metallic-Looking Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520514](http://www.nicap.org/520514georgeafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_995 ### Event 6289 (1C7BF440) **Date:** 5/14/1952 **Location:** Mayaquez, Puerto Rico **Description:** 2 shining orange spheres (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1213) **Reference:** NICAP: [520514](http://nicap.org/puerto520514dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_996 ### Event 6290 (D09AA696) **Date:** 5/14/1952 **Time:** 7 PM **Location:** Mayaquez, Puerto Rico **Description:** Witnesses: Attorney and ex-USAF pilot Mr. Stipes, Sr. Garcia-Mendez. Two shining orange spheres: one was stationary, while the other darted away and back for 30 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_116 ### Event 6291 (AC997E95) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Location:** NEAR WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Navy officers. Red-orange saucer. Straight and level-flight going quickly south. Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2151 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr WASHINGTON,DC:NAVY OFFICERS:RED-ORG SCR:S/L-FLITE>>S:EXTREMELY FAST:", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -76.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 76:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-76.966670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6292 (D8B90C2C) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOUTH / CHANGSONG-NI, NORTH KOREA **Description:** 2 F86's. Large silver ovoid / 1500mph. Rolls going quickly west. / r96#70v2#20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2152 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "S/CHANGSONG-NI,N.KOREA:2 F86s:LRG SLVR OVOID/1500mph:ROLLS >>W:/r96#70v2#20", **LatLong:** "40.916669 127.066673", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 127:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,127.066673)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6293 (D70A47DB) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** OVER RUIDOSO, NM **Description:** Blue Book. USAF observer(s). Disc-star makes long series / maneuvers generally going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2153 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2048", **HatchDesc:** "ovr RUIDOSO,NM:BBK:USAF OBS:DISC-STAR MAKES LONG SERIES/MNVRS GENERALLY >N", **LatLong:** "33.350002 -105.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:21:00 N 105:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.350002,-105.666672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6294 (2F276A43) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Location:** S of Changsong-ni and N of Nangnim Mt \- #1, North Korea **Description:** (11 AM) silvery oval shaped object larger than a MiG jet airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520515](http://www.nicap.org/520515nkorea1%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_997 ### Event 6295 (1968B3EF) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Location:** S of Changsong-ni and N of Nangnim Mt \- #2, North Korea **Description:** (6 PM) silvery oval shaped object larger than a MiG jet airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520515](http://www.nicap.org/520515nkorea2%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_998 ### Event 6296 (18AEC07A) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Location:** Georgetown, Washington, D.C. **Description:** Soft golden glowing oval object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520515](http://nicap.org/georgetown520515dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_999 ### Event 6297 (358B2596) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Location:** Europe **Description:** USAF Intelligence Special Study Group Chief Lieut. Col. E. Sterling and [Stefan Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony) begin a five-week temporary duty trip to Europe to study Soviet missiles and aircraft. As a side project they study “flying saucers” that might be of Soviet origin. No documents have yet been found on this trip’s results. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 151 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1821 ### Event 6298 (35FD9F2C) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Location:** North Korea **Description:** 6:35 p.m. The pilot of an F-51 assigned to the 18th Fighter Bomber Group flying at 9,000 feet over North Korea encounters a silver object estimated to be 50 feet in diameter. It appears ahead of him to the right and begins climbing at 1,000 mph to the east, pauses, then descends into some haze. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Haines, Korea, [pp. 39–40](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1822 ### Event 6299 (5720AEF0) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Location:** North Korea **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Two F-86E pilots of the 61st Fighter-Interceptor Wing are on a mission in North Korea when they see a silvery disc larger than a MiG aircraft 20 miles away and below them at 8,000–10,000 feet. Seen for only 3– 5 seconds, the object is traveling at 1,200–1,500 mph in a rolling maneuver. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Haines, Korea, [p. 39](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1823 ### Event 6300 (CA5C4062) **Date:** 5/15/1952 **Description:** An U.S.A.F. F-51 aircraft flying over North Korea watched an unidentified object following a jet interceptor at 6:35 p.m. The object was subsequently in front of the F-51, with a positive radar lock-on. At 6,000 yards distance the object pulled away with an acceleration of 20 G's. At 8:00 p.m. a silvery oval object was seen below two F-86E jets flying south of Changson-Ni, North Korea at 8,000-10,000 altitude. The object was estimated to be 20 miles away, and travelled at a speed of 1,200 -1,500 mph in a "rolling maneuver." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2849 ### Event 6301 (95C53947) **Date:** 5/16/1952 **Location:** MALUNG, SWEDEN **Description:** Several observer(s). Object 'like glass lit from inside'. Silently crosses sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2154 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MALUNG,SWEDEN:SVRL OBS:OBJ 'LIKE GLASS LIT FROM INSIDE':SILENTLY CROSSES SKY", **LatLong:** "60.666670 13.722223", **LatLongDMS:** "60:40:00 N 13:43:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.666670,13.722223)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6302 (FC385DB2) **Date:** 5/16/1952 **Description:** On this night a luminous object like a "glass lit from the inside" moved silently across the sky in Malung, Kopparberg, Sweden. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 78 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2883 ### Event 6303 (B21D5738) **Date:** 5/18/1952 **Location:** Greenville, SC **Description:** Four amateur astronomers observed a diamond-shaped formation, oval shaped objects, wobbled in flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1000 ### Event 6304 (EF0DC5A6) **Date:** 5/19/1952 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** NEAR SONORA, TX **Description:** 8 / USAF B36. 7-9 white ovoids pass / tilted stack formation. Photographs. / r114p66. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2155 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "650", **HatchDesc:** "nr SONORA,TX:8/USAF B36:7-9 WHT OVOIDS PASS/TILTED STACK FORMn:FOTOS:/r114p66", **LatLong:** "30.616668 -100.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:37:00 N 100:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.616668,-100.783338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6305 (DCECA7DC) **Date:** 5/19/1952 **Location:** San Angelo (30 miles SW of), TX **Description:** RB-36 Crew Sees Seven Stacked Donuts (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520519](http://www.nicap.org/520519sanangelo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1001 ### Event 6306 (091E0B3A) **Date:** 5/20/1952 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army training test. Also designated TF-2) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_455 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 103.5km ### Event 6307 (ABB2B37A) **Date:** 5/20/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** 2 Air Force pilots. Bright ovoid moves side to side in gradual turn / 90 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2156 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:2 AF PILOTS:BRITE OVOID MOVES SIDE TO SIDE IN GRADUAL TURN/90sec", **LatLong:** "29.750001 -95.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:45:00 N 95:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.750001,-95.350005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6308 (2CC243B9) **Date:** 5/20/1952 **Location:** George AFB, CA **Description:** 1:25 p.m. (PST) (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1002 ### Event 6309 (2516C6E1) **Date:** 5/20/1952 **Location:** Houston, TX **Description:** Bright or white oval object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1219) **Reference:** NICAP: [520520](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/houston520520dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1003 ### Event 6310 (2EBED0FF) **Date:** 5/20/1952 **Time:** l0:l0 PM **Location:** Houston, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: USAF pilots Capt. J. Spurgin and Capt. BB. Stephan. One bright or white oval object moved from side-to-side while making a gradual turn for 90 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_117 ### Event 6311 (E3F460D1) **Date:** 5/21/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** STURGEON BAY, WI **Description:** Coral Lorenzen and many / various angles. 240m saucer going quickly northeast. / r210 v1#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2157 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "221", **HatchDesc:** "STURGEON BAY,WI:CORAL LORENZEN+MANY/VARIOUS ANGLES:240m SCR >>NE:/r210 v1#1", **LatLong:** "44.816669 -87.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:49:00 N 87:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.816669,-87.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6312 (C76EC539) **Date:** 5/21/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1522. Air Force Captain. 15-20 night lights / 1-3 at a time. Going up [to] going down [to] to/from. Vanish in place. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2158 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "RANDOLPH AFB,TX:BBK#1522:AF Capt:15-20 NLTS/1-3 AT A TIME:↑↓><:VANISH IN PLACE", **LatLong:** "29.522224 -98.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:31:20 N 98:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.522224,-98.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6313 (A64E2EA5) **Date:** 5/22/1952 **Location:** Alexandria, VA **Description:** Top CIA Official & Guests Have Notable Sighting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520522](http://www.nicap.org/520522alexandria%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1004 ### Event 6314 (0A231569) **Date:** 5/23/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Ground observer(s). 50 targets / RADAR. Oval red glow. Very fast erratic course. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2159 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "nr WASHINGTON,DC:GND OBS:50 TARGETS/RDR:OVAL RED GLOW:VFAST ERRATIC COURSE", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -76.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 76:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-76.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6315 (DCA9E583) **Date:** 5/23/1952 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Silvery or aluminum color flat on the bottom, slightly rounded on top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520523](http://www.nicap.org/520523kirtland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1005 ### Event 6316 (35DB39D7) **Date:** 5/23/1952 **Locations:** Victory Boulevard; Burbank, California; Los Angeles River **Description:** After 11:00 p.m. Lockheed worker [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci) is driving home on Victory Boulevard from his job in Burbank, California, when he senses a force and sees a red, glowing UFO. After a while he begins to follow it, and after he crosses the Los Angeles River and turns onto Forest Lawn Drive, he gets to within 30 feet of it when it hovers. Just before it streaks away, two smaller green globes, 3 feet in diameter, shoot out of it and approach him. He hears a voice saying, “Don’t be afraid, Orfeo, we are friends.” This begins his contact with benevolent beings from other planets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Orfeo Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, [pp. 1–15](https://archive.org/details/secretofsaucers00ange/page/n25/mode/2up); Bryant and Helen Reeve, Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, Amherst Press, 1957, [pp. 222–232](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-156/page/n223/mode/2up); Clark III 127–129 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1825 ### Event 6317 (53C6728E) **Date:** 5/24/1952 **Location:** Zuni, NM **Description:** Two Reddish Torpedos Near TWA (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520524](http://nicap.org/520524zuni%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1006 ### Event 6318 (B8B8BDC8) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** OFF COAST, NJ **Description:** Fishermen. Glowing saucer. Drops. Darts going [to] and <. Flips. Vanishes in place! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2160 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off COAST,NJ:FISHERMEN:GLOWING SCR:DROPS:DARTS >+<:FLIPS:VANISHES IN PLACE!", **LatLong:** "39.916669 -73.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:00 N 73:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.916669,-73.916670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6319 (ABD86192) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** ASHLAND, KY **Description:** "Large oysters" circle town and double back going quickly north. / FBI report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2161 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "ASHLAND,KY:"LARGE OYSTERS" CIRCLE TOWN+DOUBLE BACK >>N:/FBI REPORT", **LatLong:** "38.416668 -82.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:25:00 N 82:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.416668,-82.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6320 (5D740AAF) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** WALNUT LAKE, MI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1227. Hoffman and 6. Saucer with dark parts / rim. Glows red behind cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2162 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "269", **HatchDesc:** "WALNUT LAKE,MI:BBK#1227:HOFFMAN+6:SCR W/DARK PARTS/RIM:GLOWS RED BHND CLOUD", **LatLong:** "42.561113 -83.327782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:40 N 83:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.561113,-83.327782)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6321 (48E4CC65) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LUBBOCK, TX **Description:** USAF Captain and 2. 12 "teardrops" / 3 tight V-FORMs. East going quickly west / 1800mph. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 185) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2163 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "960", **HatchDesc:** "LUBBOCK,TX:USAF Capt+2:12 "TEARDROPS"/3 TIGHT V-FORMs:E>>W/1800mph:abs SILENT", **LatLong:** "33.566668 -101.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:34:00 N 101:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.566668,-101.850005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6322 (B0CFBAAA) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Location:** Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM **Description:** Unknown Tracked At 1800 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520525](http://www.nicap.org/520525tierraamarilla%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1007 ### Event 6323 (0DE624AB) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Location:** Randolph AFB, TX **Description:** 12 orange-white tear-drop shaped lights (McDonald files; Jan Aldrich; cf. Ruppelt p. 140; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520525](http://www.nicap.org/randolph520525dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1008 ### Event 6324 (F2470F61) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Location:** Walnut Lake, MI **Description:** Large white circular object having dark sections on its rim (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1227) **Reference:** NICAP: [520525](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/walnutlake520525dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1009 ### Event 6325 (0628C3BC) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Radiation was detected at Los Alamos at 2330 hours (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) **Reference:** NICAP: [520525](http://nicap.org/alamos520525dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1010 ### Event 6326 (8041727E) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Time:** 9:15 PM **Location:** Walnut Lake, Michigan **Description:** Witnesses: seven persons, including John Hoffman, his family and friends. One large white circular object having dark sections on its rim, flew straight and level for 30 minutes, appearing red when behind a cloud. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_118 ### Event 6327 (08CDADEE) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Time:** 11:59:59.6 **Location:** 37.0956 -116.1056 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Fox” Yield: 11KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_29 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0956 -116.1056", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:44 N 116:06:20 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0956,-116.1056)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Fox", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11" ### Event 6328 (673E6B31) **Date:** Late 5/1952 **Locations:** Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Guam; Korea **Description:** 1:00–3:00 a.m. Royal Canadian Navy Commander George R. McFarlane is officer of the watch on the Canadian warship [HMCS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FIroquois%5F%28G89%29) [Iroquois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FIroquois%5F%28G89%29) in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Guam en route to Korea. He sees many different lights, some single, others in formations of 3, 5, or 6, appearing and disappearing instantly. Suddenly one of the objects appears off the port bow at close range and low elevation. McFarlane and the signalman on watch see that the light is attached to a disc-shaped object with two dozen black windows running along its side. It hovers nearby for at least 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [pp. 142–143](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/142/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1824 ### Event 6329 (71CB00B2) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Locations:** Randolph AFB; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** 9:27 a.m. An Air Force captain in charge of the navigation section of Combat Crew Training School at Randolph AFB near San Antonio, Texas, his wife, and another pilot see a group of about 12 orange-white, tear- drop shaped lights in 3 groups of 4 moving from west to east at 2,000 mph and 10,000 feet altitude. They hear deep, soft intermittent noise. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 140](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/140/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 134 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1826 ### Event 6330 (5CF82EC6) **Date:** 5/25/1952 **Description:** A glowing disc-shaped object dropped from the sky, darted about, flipped over, and then vanished in place over the New Jersey shore at nine o'clock in the morning. It was sighted by a group of fishermen. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1952: January-May, p. 84 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3081 ### Event 6331 (F7C64FA8) **Date:** 5/26/1952 **Location:** unknown location, North Korea **Description:** Bright white object that accelerated to high speed and tracked by ground radar. (Weinstein; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520526](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520526koreadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1011 ### Event 6332 (256A538B) **Date:** 5/26/1952 **Location:** North Korea **Description:** 3:20 a.m. Ground radar alerts the crew of an F-94 Starfire interceptor jet over North Korea that an unidentified target is on its tail. The jet turns, locks onto the object with onboard radar at 21,000 feet and begins to close. Both the pilot and radar operator see a brilliant white light straight ahead. The UFO performs a steady climbing turn and accelerates away at a tremendous speed. The jet loses the object at a distance of 7,800 feet after 15 seconds of contact. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Haines, Korea, [pp. 40–44](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1827 ### Event 6333 (965A1B61) **Date:** 5/26/1952 **Description:** At 3:20 a.m. a brilliant white object was seen overhead by a US Air Force F-94C fighter jet flying in Grid Area CT 4856 in Korea during the Korean War. The UFO was picked up by both ground and airborne radar. It shot away with tremendous acceleration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3095 ### Event 6334 (B5FE7CF7) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SAIGON, FR INDOCHINA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1232. Many observer(s). Cloud churns. Silver saucer exits and returns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2164 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Vietnam", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SAIGON,FR INDOCHINA:BBK#1232:MANY OBS:CLOUD CHURNS:SLVR SCR EXITS+RETURNS:", **LatLong:** "10.766667 106.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "10:46:00 N 106:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.766667,106.716672)", **State/Prov:** "SAI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6335 (787964A7) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** NORTHEAST / ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1233. 2 firemen. 1+2+1 saucers / 50 minute(s). Abrupt turns over mountains. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 187) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2165 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "NE/ALBUQUERQUE,NM:BBK#1233:2 FIREMEN:1+2+1 SCRS/50min:ABRUPT TURNS OVR MTNS", **LatLong:** "35.233335 -106.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:14:00 N 106:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.233335,-106.466672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6336 (40F96882) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** OTTO RADIO EAST / ALBUQUERQUE, NM AND WIDE AREA **Description:** 5 B29s see green fireballs-orbs straight and level. 1 descends. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 188) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2166 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "140", **Elev:** "1900", **HatchDesc:** "OTTO RADIO E/ALBUQUERQUE,NM+wide area:5 B29s SEE GRN FBLS-ORBS S/L:1 DESCENDS", **LatLong:** "35.072224 -106.005561", **LatLongDMS:** "35:04:20 N 106:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.072224,-106.005561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6337 (C435B040) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Location:** Saigon, Indochina **Description:** White-silver disc-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1232) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1013 ### Event 6338 (AE140DC2) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** (1:45-2:40 PM) 2 circular objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1233, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520528](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq520528dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1014 ### Event 6339 (6AF4C4C3) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** (8:20-8:40 PM) 2 circular objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1233, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520528](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq520528dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1015 ### Event 6340 (E980C686) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Time:** 10:30 AM **Location:** Saigon, French Indo China **Description:** Witnesses: many in crowd watching a ceremony. One white-silver disc-shaped object flew straight and fast for 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_119 ### Event 6341 (D9BFA676) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Time:** 1:45-2:40 PM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: two city fire department employees. Two circular objects--one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown--were seen three times performing fast maneuvers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_120 ### Event 6342 (B8D7B864) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque, New Mexico, fire department employees Martin Romero and Don Atteberry see two circular objects, one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown, performing fast maneuvers on three different occasions over the course of an hour above the northeast part of the city. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, \[[Blue Book case](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-931-933.pdf) [documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-931-933.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 135 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1828 ### Event 6343 (C67CAFFE) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **Locations:** Albuquerque, New Mexico; Santa Fe; Otto, New Mexico **Description:** 8:30–8:40 p.m. A green fireball about one-third the size of the full moon is seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from eight ground points and five aircraft. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) pinpoints the fall near Santa Fe. Around the same time, the crew of a Flying Tiger Line C-46 near Otto, New Mexico, sees a green fireball rise up and drop steeply down. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[2 Green Fireballs Seen by Many, LaPaz Reports,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93336128/)” Albuquerque Journal, May 29, 1952, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1829 ### Event 6344 (BC0955DF) **Date:** 5/28/1952 **End date:** 5/29/1952 **Locations:** Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Enid, Oklahoma **Description:** During a night refueling mission at 8:10 p.m., the crews of five USAF B-29 bombers see green spherical objects. The primary sighting takes place near Albuquerque, New Mexico, and involves three B-29s flying at 15,000 feet. Another sighting takes place around 11:30 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. That crew is flying at 25,000 feet. Three hours later the final sighting takes place near Enid, Oklahoma, also with a B- 29 at 25,000 feet. The aircrews making these reports do not think the objects are meteorites. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Five B-29](http://www.nicap.org/520528albuq%5Fdir.htm) [Bomber Crews Observe Green Objects](http://www.nicap.org/520528albuq%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 135 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1830 ### Event 6345 (804648DA) **Date:** 5/29/1952 **Location:** EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Several high-Tech observer(s). 2 metal saucers curve east going quickly west. Silent. No contrail. 400mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2167 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "702", **HatchDesc:** "EDWARDS AFB,CA:SVRL HI-TECH OBS:2 MTL SCRS CURVE E>>W:SLNT:NO CONTRAIL:400mph", **LatLong:** "34.900002 -117.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:54:00 N 117:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.900002,-117.850006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6346 (12D5D875) **Date:** 5/29/1952 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** ST. NAZAIRE, FR **Description:** Very luminous/glowing disk hovers here. Going quickly northwest. Trail / sparks / 25 minute(s). Seen / St. Gildas. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2168 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.NAZAIRE,FR:VERY LUMn DISK HVRS HERE:>>NW:TRAIL/SPARKS/25min:seen/St.GILDAS", **LatLong:** "47.300002 -2.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:18:00 N 02:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.300002,-2.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6347 (36C132E5) **Date:** 5/29/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1236. Air Force pilot / ground. Cylinder/cylindrical object tilts vertical and horizontal. Reads Air Force radios? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2169 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "14", **Elev:** "211", **HatchDesc:** "LACKLAND AFB,TX:BBK#1236:AF PILOT/GND:CYL TILTS VERTCL+HZNTL:READS AF RADIOS?", **LatLong:** "29.416668 -98.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:25:00 N 98:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.416668,-98.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6348 (DD9EC31F) **Date:** 5/29/1952 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** Bright tubular object tilt from horizontal to vertical (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1236) **Reference:** NICAP: [520529](http://www.nicap.org/sanant520529dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1016 ### Event 6349 (0A7D8355) **Date:** 5/29/1952 **Location:** near the Florida Keys, at sea **Description:** Carrier Oriskany OSI Report Describes Domed Discs & Radar Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520529](http://www.nicap.org/520529floridakeys%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1017 ### Event 6350 (24CBDCCB) **Date:** 5/29/1952 **Time:** 7 PM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witness: USAF pilot Maj. D.W. Feuerstein, on ground. One bright tubular object tilted from horizontal to vertical for 8 minutes, then slowly returned to horizontal, again tilted vertical, accelerated, appeared to lengthen and turned red. The entire sighting lasted 14 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_121 ### Event 6351 (0253CFB1) **Date:** 5/29/1952 **Description:** Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Keys -- At approximately 1700 hours two eliptically shaped objects, larger than a fighter aircraft, were observed from the USN aircraft carrier Oriskany CV-34. One observer watched the objects through a telescope, while the radar officer viewed the objects on the radar scope. The objects had a bubble dome on the top. Each object flew at an estimated altitude of between 10,000 and 15,000 feet at a supersonic speed and left a white vapor trail. The objects' course paralleled that of the carrier. The duration of the sighting was from 15 to 20 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Francis Ridge, Nuclear Connection Project, OSI report, NARA Project Blue Book Roll 90, NARA-PBB90-1166 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3146 ### Event 6352 (5147A1E9) **Date:** 5/30/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** NORTH / OSHIMA, JPN **Description:** 3 / USAF C54+. Saucer-cloud hovers / 6 minute(s). Shoots going quickly west. 10K-15K' altitude. / r116p44. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 783) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2170 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "N/OSHIMA,JPN:3/USAF C54+:SCR-CLOUD HVRS/6min:SHOOTS >>W:10K-15K'alt:/r116p44", **LatLong:** "35.000002 139.583340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 N 139:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.000002,139.583340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6353 (98A5BFBF) **Date:** 5/30/1952 **Location:** Oshima island (Japan Sea, S of), Japan **Description:** C-54 Crew Encounters Round Black Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520530](http://www.nicap.org/520530nearjapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1018 ### Event 6354 (8D1D7DEC) **Date:** 5/30/1952 **Location:** Oshima, Japan **Description:** USAF Maj. [William D. Leet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet) copilot on a C-54 transport mission at 8,500 feet near Oshima, Japan, sees a dark object hovering in clouds for 7 minutes. It disappears, speeding away in seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[C-54 Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520530nearjapan%5Fdir.htm) [Encounters Round Black Object](http://www.nicap.org/520530nearjapan%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May-SN.pdf) [January–May, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 82–83; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 136 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1831 ### Event 6355 (21F0B252) **Date:** 5/31/1952 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** SOUTH / CHORWAN, KOREA **Description:** Saucer / jerky trajectory. F94 chases going [to] 450 Kts. On air RADAR / not ground RADAR. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2171 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "S/CHORWAN,KOREA:SCR/JERKY TRAJ:F94 CHASES>450 Kts:on air rdr/NOT gnd rdr:>>NE", **LatLong:** "38.033335 127.116673", **LatLongDMS:** "38:02:00 N 127:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.033335,127.116673)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6356 (B98E261A) **Date:** 5/31/1952 **Location:** Chorwon (South of ), Korea **Description:** Multiple sightings, RV (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520531](http://www.nicap.org/520531chorwon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1019 ### Event 6357 (DD6BBC03) **Date:** 5/31/1952 **Location:** Chorwon (South of ), Korea **Description:** Radar Visual case in Korea, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520531](http://www.nicap.org/520531chorwon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1020 ### Event 6358 (F2798AEF) **Date:** 5/31/1952 **Location:** Cheorwon, South Korea **Description:** About 4:00 a.m. Over Cheorwon, South Korea, several US soldiers see a bright UFO that looks like a falling star, except that it stops falling and begins to climb again. It then moves northeast at 150 mph, reverses course twice, then climbs at a 45° angle and fades from sight. One guard hears a pulsating sound. An F-94 attempts to intercept the brilliant white object, which takes clearly evasive maneuvers and pulls away at 30,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Jerky Object Observed and Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/520531chorwon%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 87–90](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/86/mode/2up) ; Haines, Korea, [pp. 63–64](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch4.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 136; Patrick Gross, “[UFO US Military Reports, Korea, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/korea31may52.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1832 ### Event 6359 (438BBE31) **Date:** 5/31/1952 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#7. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 113–130 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1833 ### Event 6360 (BDB35F72) **Date:** 5/31/1952 **Location:** Derna, Libya **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Mr. R. Baits is on the beach at Derna, Libya, with three companions when he notices a soft orange- yellow light traveling soundlessly toward them from inland at great speed and in a straight line. Suddenly, as it reaches a point overhead, it swerves to the east over the town, gaining height. After a few seconds it moves to the south and begins zigzagging until it fades away into the background of stars. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Newcastle \(UK\) Evening Standard, June 13, 1952; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1834 ### Event 6361 (894F75D1) **Date:** 5/31/1952 **Description:** South of Chorwon, Korea - At 4:20 a.m. pilot Hufberry turned his F-94 jet to descend and intercept a round, bluish white UFO. The F-94's radar locked onto the object, whereupon the UFO made a left turn climb, silhouetting the F-94 against the dawn sky. The UFO accelerated away after the fighter jet made two unsuccessful attempts to pass the UFO. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices During the Korean War, p. 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3177 ### Event 6362 (51824A1F) **Date:** 6/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Reports of UFO's in Korean War **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_113 ### Event 6363 (8E35CFCF) **Date:** 6/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Big month for sightings **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_114 ### Event 6364 (42D0B133) **Date:** 6/1952 **Description:** Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many times **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_115 ### Event 6365 (2D917A1D) **Date:** 6/1952 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** PHILIPEVILLE, BELGIUM **Description:** Military observer(s). Star dives swoops going down [to] =. Domed disk. Flips over. 2 balls / bottom/underside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2172 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PHILIPEVILLE,BELG:MIL.OBS:STAR DIVES SWOOPS↓=:DOMED DISK:FLIPS OVR:2 BALLS/BTM", **LatLong:** "50.188891 4.544445", **LatLongDMS:** "50:11:20 N 04:32:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.188891,4.544445)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6366 (26BE1F09) **Date:** 6/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NEAR BENSON, AZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer going quickly southeast. Hovers and tilts and returns. Exact repeat. Absolute(ly) silent. / MJ#290. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2173 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1093", **HatchDesc:** "nr BENSON,AZ:2 OBS:SCR>>SE:HOVERS+TILTS+RETURNS:EXACT REPEAT:ABS SLNT:/MJ#290", **LatLong:** "31.950002 -110.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:57:00 N 110:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.950002,-110.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6367 (C7A16FD1) **Date:** 6/1952 **Location:** Tombstone, AZ **Description:** Williams Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1021 ### Event 6368 (B66B149A) **Date:** 6/1952 **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) has four officers, two airmen, and two civilians on his permanent Blue Book staff \(including Lt. [Anderson G. Flues](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Flues.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Flues.htm) Robert M. Olsson, and Kerry Rothstien\), as well as a number of scientific consultants, including [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek). In the Pentagon, Maj. [Dewey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) [Fournet Jr.](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2009/01/major-dewey-j-fournet-historical.html) is a full-time Blue Book liaison. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 140](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/140/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1835 ### Event 6369 (D872EE1B) **Date:** 6/1952 **Location:** Michigan **Description:** In the wake of mass public and governmental interest in UFOs kindled by the provocative Life magazine article, CIA intelligence experts [Sidney N. Graybeal](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/03/22/arms-control-negotiator-sidney-graybeal-dies-at-73/8f3e8cdf-fef7-41b4-b2a8-e6f11f481dc2/) \(Chief, Guided Missiles Branch, Weapons and Equipment Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence\) and [Irl D’Arcy Brent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62821794/irl-d%5Farcy-brent) \(Chief, Ground Branch, W&E Division, OSI\) prepare a summary of the UFO subject for the CIA/OSI hierarchy based on the past several years of OSI intelligence \(and OSI predecessor documents going back to ghost rockets of 1946\) and mentioning sightings going back to the Bible. The possibility of swamp gas in Michigan as an explanation for UFOs is suggested by Brent \(foreshadowing the [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) swamp-gas fiasco in Michigan in 1966\). This report has never been acknowledged or released by the CIA despite FOIA litigation. Its existence and contents are revealed in [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm)’s interviews with Brent and Graybeal and other OSI officials in 1975–1976. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1836 ### Event 6370 (C96868CB) **Date:** 6/1952 **Locations:** Spitsbergen; Svalbard archipelago, Norway; Narvik; Heligoland, Germany, North Sea **Description:** Jet pilots allegedly discover the wreck of a flying disc on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. It is taken to Narvik, where it is identified as either a Russian or extraterrestrial device. Other variants of the legend claim it is a Nazi device or that it is actually discovered on Heligoland, Germany, in the North Sea. [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) suspects the story is planted by either Soviet or US intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Auf Spitzbergen landete Fliegende Untertasse,” Saarbrücker Zeitung, June 28, 1952; Hessische Nachrichten, July 26, 1954; E. W. Grenfell, “[First Report on the](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Sir/1954%2009%2000%5FSir%5FGershtein%20scan.pdf) [Captured Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Sir/1954%2009%2000%5FSir%5FGershtein%20scan.pdf)” Sir! September 1954, pp. 16–17, 56–57; Le Lorrain, October 15, 1954; Verdens Gang, December 19, 1954; Condon, [pp. 90–91](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/90/mode/2up); William Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1987, pp. 353–366; Ole Jonny Brænne, “Legend of the Spitsbergen Saucer,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 14–20; Kremlin 45–46 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1837 ### Event 6371 (BDF39FA7) **Date:** 6/1952 **Locations:** Tombstone, Arizona; Tucson **Description:** Sunset. In Tombstone, Arizona, Navy Lieut. Cmdr. John C. Williams, his wife Josephine, and a guest see a “huge circular object” flying toward them from the direction of Tucson. Suddenly it stops in mid-flight, hovers, then reverses direction and retraces its course. A few seconds later it returns, stops gain, and appears to oscillate and tilt from one side to the other. Again it reverses its course, repeating everything 2–3 more times. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 31](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=43&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1838 ### Event 6372 (F9DC5226) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS, CA **Description:** Hughes RADAR. Blip triples speed going [to] 550mph. 35K' / min ascent! Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2174 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1800", **HatchDesc:** "SAN GABRIEL Mtns,CA:HUGHES RDR:BLIP TRIPLES SPEED>550mph:35K'/min ASCENT!:>>SE", **LatLong:** "34.300002 -117.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:18:00 N 117:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.300002,-117.916672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6373 (AE71880C) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** WALLA WALLA, WA **Description:** Ex military pilot. Ovoid with airfoil. 3500M altitude. Rocks. Away fast. / r185p9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 804) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2175 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "WALLA WALLA,WA:EX MIL PILOT:OVOID W/AIRFOIL:3500M alt:ROCKS:away fast:/r185p9", **LatLong:** "46.066669 -118.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:04:00 N 118:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.066669,-118.350006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6374 (F48A729B) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** RAPID CITY, SD **Description:** Airman and 2 civil. 5+silver cigars in neat box formation with 1 leading. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2176 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "975", **HatchDesc:** "RAPID CITY,SD:AIRMAN+2 CIV:5+ SLVR CGRS IN NEAT BOX FORMATION W/1 LEADING", **LatLong:** "44.083335 -103.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:00 N 103:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.083335,-103.233338)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6375 (E219253A) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** Radar Tracks Object Which Suddenly Climbs To 55,000 Feet (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520601](http://www.nicap.org/520601losangeles%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1024 ### Event 6376 (A852B88D) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Location:** Rapid City, SD **Description:** USAF A/1c Beatty and two civilians saw at least 5 long silver objects which flew in a neat box formation with a leader. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1243) **Reference:** NICAP: [520601](http://nicap.org/rapcit520601dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1025 ### Event 6377 (B3B7CE66) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Location:** Walla Walla, WA **Description:** Oval object with a "definite airfoil" perform a fast climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1245) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1026 ### Event 6378 (97F4DCB9) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Location:** Soap Lake, WA **Description:** 3 glimmering objects fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1246) **Reference:** NICAP: [520601](http://nicap.org/soaplake520601dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1027 ### Event 6379 (5988B479) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Time:** 6 PM **Location:** Rapid City, South Dakota **Description:** Witnesses: A/lc Beatty and two civilians. At least five long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_122 ### Event 6380 (3FA428DC) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Time:** 1 PM **Location:** Walla, Washington **Description:** Witness: ex-military pilot Reserve Maj. W.C. Vollendorf. One oval object with a "definite airfoil" performed a fast climb for 7 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_123 ### Event 6381 (73930302) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Time:** 3+ PM **Location:** Soap Lake, Washington **Description:** Witness: Ray Lottman. Three glimmering objects flew straight and level for 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_124 ### Event 6382 (14093E02) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Time:** 11:54:59.8 **Location:** 37.0481 -116.0211 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “George” Yield: 15KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_30 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0481 -116.0211", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:53 N 116:01:16 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0481,-116.0211)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "George", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "15" ### Event 6383 (3C30B255) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Location:** Port-Gentil, Gabon **Description:** 2:40 a.m. A cargo ship anchored at the wharf in Port-Gentil, Gabon, observes a mysterious object fly from behind the city, make a double loop, pass over the roadstead, and then dive toward the sea. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 119](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/118/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1840 ### Event 6384 (A9F83968) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Locations:** San Gabriel Mountains; Los Angeles, California; Santa Monica; Riverside **Description:** Morning. The chief of a radar test section for Hughes Aircraft Company tracks an unidentified target coming across the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, California. It is moving at 180 mph toward Santa Monica at an altitude of 11,000 feet. The object suddenly triples its speed to 550 mph, turns, and climbs over Los Angeles at 35,000 feet per minute. The target then levels out for a few seconds, goes into a high-speed dive, and levels out again at 55,000 feet. They lose the blip somewhere near Riverside. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Radar Tracks Object Which](http://www.nicap.org/520601losangeles%5Fdir.htm) [Suddenly Climbs to 55,000 Feet](http://www.nicap.org/520601losangeles%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 141–143](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/140/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1841 ### Event 6385 (50F708E4) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Description:** On this morning the Hughes Aircraft radar facility in Los Angeles, California tracked a UFO that climbed to 35,000 feet, dove and then pulled out of the dive, heading off to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ruppelt Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3194 ### Event 6386 (3F6E033E) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Description:** Walla Walla, Washington. At 1:00 p.m. ex-military pilot Major W. C. Vollendorf sighted an oval-shaped object with a "definite airfoil" performed a fast climb for 7 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3195 ### Event 6387 (B4CA3664) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Description:** Soap Lake, Washington. Sometime after three o'clock in the afternoon Ray Lottman sighted three glimmering objects that flew straight and level for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3196 ### Event 6388 (A265A1F7) **Date:** 6/1/1952 **Description:** At six o'clock in the evening Airman Beatty and two civilians in Rapid City, South Dakota watched at least five long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1243; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3197 ### Event 6389 (A411B695) **Date:** 6/2/1952 **Location:** FULDA, GERMANY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1249. Photograph-reconnaissance airman Hendry / B26. Very fast porcelain-white object. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2177 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FULDA,GERMANY:BBK#1249:FOTO-RECON AIRMAN HENDRY/B26:VFAST PORCELAIN-WHT OBJ", **LatLong:** "50.550002 9.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:33:00 N 09:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.550002,9.683334)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6390 (911DA87F) **Date:** 6/2/1952 **Location:** Bayview, WA **Description:** Purple object for unknown length of time (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1249) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1028 ### Event 6391 (082A0400) **Date:** 6/2/1952 **Location:** Fulda, West Germany **Description:** Porcelain-white object fly very fast for an unknown length of time (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1250) **Reference:** NICAP: [520602](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/fulda520602dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1029 ### Event 6392 (AA87128E) **Date:** 6/2/1952 **Time:** 5:02 PM **Location:** Bayview, Washington **Description:** Witness: Larry McWade. One purple object seen for unknown length of time. No further information in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_125 ### Event 6393 (FEC44691) **Date:** 6/2/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Fulda, West Germany **Description:** Witness: lst Lt. John Hendry, photo-navigator on an RB-26C reconnaissance bomber. One porcelain-white object flew very fast for an unknown length of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_126 ### Event 6394 (59A8229F) **Date:** Early 6/1952 **Locations:** Charleston; White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia **Description:** 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are driving in a narrow valley somewhere between Charleston and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, when they see a number of lights on a bridge crossing the valley. They begin blinking off, one by one. When they get to the bridge, they see no street lights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Violet M. Winstead, Letter, IUR 9, no.1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1839 ### Event 6395 (08E9311F) **Date:** 6/2/1952 **Description:** In Bayview, Washington eight witnesses watched an irregular bluish-white or silver sphere hover in the sky. They viewed it through a theodolite. An intercept was attempted with a C-47 but abandoned when the transport place couldn't close with the UFO. At 5:02 p.m. Larry McWade observed a purple object for an unknown length of time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3221 ### Event 6396 (47502A3E) **Date:** 6/2/1952 **Description:** Fulda, West Germany. On this night Lt. John Hendry, the photo-navigator on a RB-26C reconnaissance bomber, sighted a porcelain-white object that flew very fast for an unknown length of time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3222 ### Event 6397 (26F5A2F8) **Date:** 6/3/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR PALERMO, ITL **Description:** 3 / outing. Disk hovers / 3km altitude. Then sways and maneuvers. Going quickly north to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 806) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2178 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr PALERMO,ITL:3/OUTING:DISK HVRS/3km alt:then SWAYS+MNVRs:>>N to sea", **LatLong:** "38.083335 13.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:05:00 N 13:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.083335,13.416667)", **State/Prov:** "SCL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6398 (2E4B67DC) **Date:** 6/3/1952 **Location:** Chicago, IL **Description:** Ten Targets With Gnd Radar / No Visuals By Jets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520603](http://www.nicap.org/520603chicago%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1030 ### Event 6399 (139AD219) **Date:** 6/4/1952 **Description:** RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report. **Type:** intelligence report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_456 **See also:** 5/10/1952 ### Event 6400 (8BADDC29) **Date:** 6/4/1952 **Location:** IN AND NEAR CHARTRES, FR **Description:** 2 small and 1 huge saucer / 15K' altitude. Hover then zoom up. No further details. / J. Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 203) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2179 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "in+near CHARTRES,FR:2 SML+1 HUGE SCR/15K'alt:HVR THEN ZOOM UP:NFD:/J.GUIEU", **LatLong:** "48.433336 1.483333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:26:00 N 01:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.433336,1.483333)", **State/Prov:** "Eure-et-Loir", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6401 (33D54CD1) **Date:** 6/4/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** CATANIA AIRPORT/APARTMENT AND, ITL **Description:** Numerous HIQ observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver disk / 9km altitude. Slow maneuvers. Shoots to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 809) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2180 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "CATANIA Apt+,ITL:NMRS HIQ OBS/BINOCS:SLVR DISK/9km alt:SLO MNVRS:SHOOTS TO SEA", **LatLong:** "37.450002 15.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "37:27:00 N 15:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.450002,15.083334)", **State/Prov:** "SCL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6402 (B47A998C) **Date:** 6/4/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** STUTTGART, GER **Description:** C47 pilots chase night light and vice-versa. Circular silhouette seen briefly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2181 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STUTTGART,GER:C47 PILOTS CHASE NLT+VICE-VERSA:CIRCULAR SILHOUETTE SEEN BRIEFLY", **LatLong:** "48.800002 9.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:48:00 N 09:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.800002,9.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6403 (78D72372) **Date:** 6/4/1952 **Location:** Stuttgart, West Germany **Description:** Circular object with white lights on the leading edge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1031 ### Event 6404 (1711710E) **Date:** 6/4/1952 **Description:** Air Force Secretary [Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) issues a press release about his May UFO briefing, saying, “No concrete evidence has yet reached us either to prove or disprove the existence of the so-called flying saucers. There remain, however, a number of sightings that the Air Force investigators have been unable to explain. As long as this is true, the Air Force will continue to study flying saucer reports.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 51](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1842 ### Event 6405 (24338823) **Date:** 6/4/1952 **Description:** In 1952 at 6:45 p.m., two small and one very large disc were sighted flying at 15,000 feet altitude in Chartres, France. The three discs hovered, and then shot straight up and away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, computerized catalogue, case #655; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3267 ### Event 6406 (4A287D57) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 1 military observer(s). Shiny saucer 5-6X F86 speed. Seen 6 second(s). Project Bluebook Case #unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2182 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:1 MIL OBS:SHINY SCR 5-6X F86 SPEED:SEEN 6sec:BBK#UNK", **LatLong:** "35.066668 -106.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:04:00 N 106:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.066668,-106.600005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6407 (997235F5) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, NEBR **Description:** Strategic Air Command (SAC) security man and 2. Large red night light hovers 1000' / main gate / 5 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2183 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "319", **HatchDesc:** "OFFUTT AFB,NEBR:SAC SECURITY MAN+2:LRG RED NLT HVRS 1000'/MAIN GATE/5min:", **LatLong:** "41.116669 -95.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:07:00 N 95:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.116669,-95.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6408 (CBC1B316) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Location:** Lubbock, TX **Description:** 8 yellow circular objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1255) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1032 ### Event 6409 (E4103520) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Shiny round object fly 5-6x as fast as an F-86 jet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1256, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520605](http://www.nicap.org/albuq520605dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1033 ### Event 6410 (4D446C46) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Location:** Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE **Description:** Bright red stationary object for 4-5 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1257) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1034 ### Event 6411 (5229CFA0) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Time:** 11 PM **Location:** Lubbock, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Dan Benson, Mr. Bacon. A total of eight yellow circular objects, like large stars, were seen during 45 minutes. The first two were in a trail formation, the others were seen singly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_127 ### Event 6412 (77B6DABA) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Time:** 6:45 PM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: S/Sgt T.H. Shorey. One shiny round object flew 5-6 times as fast as an F-86 jet fighter for 6 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_128 ### Event 6413 (9BC57497) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Time:** 11 PM **Location:** Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska **Description:** Witnesses: 2nd Lt. W.R. Soper, a Strategic Air Command top secret control officer and former OSI agent; and two other persons. One bright red object remained stationary for 4.5 minutes before speeding away with a short tail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_129 ### Event 6414 (1798B32B) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Time:** 11:55:00.3 **Location:** 37.1386 -116.1178 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “How” Yield: 14KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_31 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1386 -116.1178", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:19 N 116:07:04 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1386,-116.1178)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "How", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "14" ### Event 6415 (405A318C) **Date:** 6/5/1952 **Description:** On this evening in 1952 three cases occurred that were listed by the Air Force Project Blue Book as "unknowns." At 6:15 p.m. in Albuquerque, New Mexico a shiny disc was reported moving through the sky by a military witness. Its speed was estimated as 5-6 times faster than a F-86 jet and was seen for six seconds. At Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska three security guards saw a large red nocturnal light hover 1000 feet over the main gate to the Strategic Air Command's major airbase at 11:00 p.m. At the same time, eight star-like objects were seen flying over Lubbock, Texas. The first two lights flew over in a trailing formation and the others followed singly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, cases 1255, 1256, and 1257 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3291 ### Event 6416 (57481766) **Date:** 6/6/1952 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** SOUTH / CATAWBA, WI **Description:** Family. Fake cloud circles and stops several X. Finally going quickly south with vapor trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 812) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2184 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "460", **HatchDesc:** "S/CATAWBA,WI:FAMILY:FAKE CLOUD CCLS+STOPS SVRL X:finally >>S W/vapor trail", **LatLong:** "45.433335 -90.527782", **LatLongDMS:** "45:26:00 N 90:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.433335,-90.527782)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6417 (016B0242) **Date:** 6/6/1952 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** K14 = KIMPO AB, KOREA **Description:** 20' flat disc spins tumbles and buzzes F86. 250mph. / r136#2p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2185 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "K14=KIMPO AB,KOREA:20'FLAT DISC SPINS TUMBLES+BUZZES F86:250mph:/r136#2p5", **LatLong:** "37.361113 126.755562", **LatLongDMS:** "37:21:40 N 126:45:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.361113,126.755562)", **State/Prov:** "SEO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6418 (FA81009E) **Date:** 6/6/1952 **Location:** Kimpo AB, Korea **Description:** (Case missing) cylinder-section flat disc-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1035 ### Event 6419 (9B2C6340) **Date:** 6/6/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Kimpo AFB, Korea **Description:** Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_130 ### Event 6420 (41D794F0) **Date:** 6/6/1952 **Locations:** Kimpo Air Base; Gimpo International Airport; Seoul, Korea **Description:** 8:42 a.m. Flight Sgt. [Kenneth Dudley Smith](https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/500799) from the 77th RAAF Squadron at Kimpo Air Base \[now Gimpo International Airport\] in Seoul, Korea, observes a dull silver object in the shape of a coin performing spinning and tumbling maneuvers for 4 minutes at 345 mph. Flight Sgt. Kenneth Fawner also sees the UFO for 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue Book case documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/1952%5F06%5F05%5FKOR%5FKR-11%5FKimpo-AFB%5FBB%5FSmith.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 137 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1843 ### Event 6421 (B97E4B44) **Date:** 6/6/1952 **Description:** Battelle issues its second status report on Project Stork to ATIC. It describes a “tentative” data sheet for observers to fill out, a more detailed coding scheme, an example of an IBM punch card that will be used, and plans for statistical studies. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON; “[Seven Status Reports for Project](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7a.htm) [Stork, Part 2,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7a.htm)” CUFON; Clark III 929 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1844 ### Event 6422 (7628DD9D) **Date:** 6/6/1952 **Description:** At 8:42 a.m. local time a UFO traveled at 300 mph in a straight line while revolving. It stopped over airfield K-14 at Kimpo, Korea. Next it rose straight up for ten seconds, disappearing from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 48; Project Blue Book Special Report #14, p. 83 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3317 ### Event 6423 (8F5178F2) **Date:** 6/7/1952 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** SEOUL, KOREA **Description:** 5th Air Force guards. Night light hovers / 1000'. Bobs going up and down. Rises fast. Going quickly east. Changes color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2186 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SEOUL,KOREA:5th AF GUARDS:NLT HVRS/1000':BOBS ↑+↓:RISES FAST:>>E:CHANGES CLRS", **LatLong:** "37.566668 127.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:34:00 N 127:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.566668,127.033339)", **State/Prov:** "SEO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6424 (0B7969C1) **Date:** 6/7/1952 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1260. B25 crew / 11.5K' altitude. 6' x4' rectangular object 300' under B25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2187 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:BBK#1260:B25 CREW/11.5K'alt:6'x4' RECTANGLR OBJ 300' UNDER B25", **LatLong:** "35.033335 -106.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:02:00 N 106:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.033335,-106.666672)", **RelAlt:** "-90", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6425 (26D481A5) **Date:** 6/7/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** LORAIN, OH **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). Silver domed saucer stops and tilts. Purple glow. Shoots going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 813) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2188 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "189", **HatchDesc:** "LORAIN,OH:2+2 OBS:SLVR DOMED SCR STOPS+TILTS:PURPLE GLOW:SHOOTS >>E", **LatLong:** "41.455558 -82.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:27:20 N 82:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.455558,-82.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6426 (93557495) **Date:** 6/7/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** B-25 Crew Encounters Rectangular Object / Close Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1260, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520607](http://www.nicap.org/520607albuq%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1036 ### Event 6427 (4C4561D8) **Date:** 6/7/1952 **Time:** 11:18 AM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: crew of B-25 bomber #8840 at 11,500'. One rectangular aluminum object, about 6'x4', flew 250-300' below the B-25. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_131 ### Event 6428 (6548E1CA) **Date:** 6/7/1952 **Description:** On this day in 1952, at 4:00 a.m., security guards watched a light hover at 1,000 feet over the 5th Air Force Base near Seoul, South Korea. The light bobbed in the sky, then rose rapidly to the east, changing colors as it went. Several hours later, at 11:18 a.m. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a rectangular-shaped, aluminum colored object followed a B-25 bomber during its flight. Both of these reports were listed by Project Blue Book as "unidentified" cases. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, cases #1259 and #1260; (2) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3347 ### Event 6429 (91203E69) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Location:** MONTBAZON, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s) / 15 second(s). Brilliant circular machine going west over town. Rises. Going quickly north. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2189 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTBAZON,FR:2 OBS/15sec:BRILLIANT CIRC.MACHINE > W OVR TOWN:RISES:>>N:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.300002 0.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:18:00 N 00:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.300002,0.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Indre-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6430 (CBE709E9) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 2 civil observer(s). 4 shiny objects in diamond formation. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2190 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1486", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:2 CIV OBS:4 SHINY OBJS IN DIAMOND FORMATION:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.100002 -106.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:06:00 N 106:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.100002,-106.666672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6431 (58D61028) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** NEAR CALGARY, ALTA **Description:** Theodolite observer(s). Silver 8 / 1 ovoid going / 50k' altitude. Sharp outline. Reflects. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 814) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2191 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1070", **HatchDesc:** "nr CALGARY,ALTA:THEODOLITE OBS:SLVR 8/1 OVOID >/50k'alt:SHARP OUTLINE:reflects", **LatLong:** "51.000002 -114.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "51:00:00 N 114:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.000002,-114.000005)", **RelAlt:** "15000", **State/Prov:** "Alta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6432 (33C4C942) **Date:** 6/8/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** AZROU AND IMMOUZER, MAROC **Description:** Separate observer(s). 50M green-glow cylinder/cigar-shape going northeast. Stops over monastery and onward. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2192 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AZROU+IMMOUZER,MAROC:SEP.OBS:50M GRN-GLOW CGR >NE:STOPS OVR MONASTERY+ONWARD", **LatLong:** "33.438890 -5.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:26:20 N 05:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.438890,-5.233334)", **State/Prov:** "IFR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6433 (B1437DD1) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** 4 shiny objects fly straight and level in a diamond formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1263, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520608](http://www.nicap.org/520608albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1037 ### Event 6434 (247CB6A7) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Time:** 10:50 AM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Markland. Four shiny objects flew straight and level in a diamond formation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_132 ### Event 6435 (646F2273) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 10:50 a.m. Four flat, round, shiny objects in a diamond formation are seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the ground by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland. The objects are approximately 15,000 feet in altitude and traveling 300 mph. There is no audible sound. They are first seen at about 60° above the horizon to the north and are traveling to the southwest at approximately 240°. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Diamond Formation of Flat Objects Observed](http://www.nicap.org/520608albuquerque%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 138; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 10, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1845 ### Event 6436 (05E59C88) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Location:** Calgary, Alberta **Description:** During a launch of a pibal balloon at Calgary, Alberta, a silvery ellipse with a sharp outline reflecting sunlight and an aspect ratio of 8:1 crosses the field of vision of the observer’s theodolite. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich; Project Magnet Case V **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1846 ### Event 6437 (9AD872B9) **Date:** 6/8/1952 **Description:** In Albuquerque, New Mexico at 10:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland sighted four shiny objects flying straight and level in a diamond formation. They made no sound, and were silver white in color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1263; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 264; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3367 ### Event 6438 (8FA58F6F) **Date:** 6/9/1952 **Location:** Minneapolis, MN **Description:** (Case missing) Berliner (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1039 ### Event 6439 (C34F7316) **Date:** 6/9/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_133 ### Event 6440 (A2A4E0BB) **Date:** 6/9/1952 **Description:** Astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) writes in Time magazine that most UFOs are light reflections caused by ice crystals, refractions, or temperature inversions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[An Astronomer’s Explanation: Those Flying Saucers,](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C806457%2C00.html)” Time, June 9, 1952; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1847 ### Event 6441 (E56B079D) **Date:** 6/10/1952 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 2 men. Saucer going quickly southeast against wind. Turns up and gone. Orange glow = sun reflection. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 815) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2193 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:2 MEN:SCR >>SE AGAINST WIND:TURNS UP+GONE:ORG GLOW=SUN REFLECTION", **LatLong:** "39.711113 -105.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:42:40 N 105:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.711113,-105.116672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6442 (D557329E) **Date:** 6/11/1952 **Location:** O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois **Description:** 6:44 p.m. Two round objects, dark blue with gray centers, are seen moving southwest to northwest for 40 seconds at 500 mph and 6,000 feet altitude several miles east of O’Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois. One passes the other before disappearing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 10–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1848 ### Event 6443 (745F482F) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Location:** ANGOULEME, FR **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Ovoid moves / jerks. Leaves (something behind) glowing contrail. / LDLN#125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2194 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANGOULEME,FR:NMRS OBS:OVOID MOVES/JERKS:LVS GLOWING CONTRAIL:/LDLN#125", **LatLong:** "45.666669 0.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:00 N 00:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.666669,0.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6444 (9C4B3A3B) **Date:** 6/12/1952 (approximate) **Location:** MEDFORD, OR **Description:** Strange object hovers. Spews white smoke. Leaves (something behind) vapor trail 4' wide and 200' long. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2195 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "117", **HatchDesc:** "MEDFORD,OR:STRANGE OBJ HVRS:SPEWS WHT SMOKE:LVS VAPOR TRAIL 4'WIDE+200'LONG", **LatLong:** "42.300002 -122.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:18:00 N 122:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.300002,-122.883339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6445 (1D5E4FC8) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** MARRAKESH, MOROCCO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1270. US radarman. Unidentified blip 650knts / 60K' altitude or greater! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2196 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MARRAKESH,MOROCCO:BBK#1270:US RADARMAN:UID BLIP 650knts/60K'alt OR GREATER!", **LatLong:** "31.633335 -8.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "31:38:00 N 08:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.633335,-8.016667)", **State/Prov:** "MRK", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6446 (15C6BB5E) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** ST. FOY LES LYON, FR **Description:** 70M saucer. Dome. Pipe and ropes hang / bottom. Same / Chasse going quickly southeast. / r30p57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2197 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.FOY les LYON,FR:70M SCR:DOME:PIPE+ROPES HANG/BOTTOM:SAME/CHASSE>>SE:/r30p57", **LatLong:** "45.738891 4.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:44:20 N 04:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.738891,4.783334)", **State/Prov:** "Rhône", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6447 (D7BA34D9) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** LE BOURGET AIRPORT/APARTMENT, FR **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and pilots and many. Saucer-night light plays to 0200hrs. / LDLN#121+#330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 173) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2198 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "58", **HatchDesc:** "Le BOURGET APT,FR:ATCS+PILOTS+MANY:SCR-NLT PLAYS to 0200hrs:/LDLN#121+#330", **LatLong:** "48.950002 2.433333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:57:00 N 02:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.950002,2.433333)", **State/Prov:** "VDO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6448 (102B037F) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** "Balloon". Jumps all over airport. Going quickly east / 400mph. Globe shape becomes saucer! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2199 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:"BALLOON":JUMPS ALL OVR AIRPORT:>>E/400mph:GLOBE SHAPE BECOMES SCR!", **LatLong:** "37.683335 -97.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:41:00 N 97:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.683335,-97.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6449 (B568F21D) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** FORT SMITH, ARK **Description:** Army Colonel and Major with (seen thru) binoculars. Orange ball with tail at low angular speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2200 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "134", **HatchDesc:** "FORT SMITH,ARK:ARMY COLONEL+MAJOR W/BINOCS:ORG BALL W/TAIL AT LO ANGULAR SPEED", **LatLong:** "35.400002 -94.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:24:00 N 94:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.400002,-94.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6450 (2B039EB4) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Location:** Fort Smith, AR **Description:** Orange ball with a tail fly with a low angular velocity (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1269) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1040 ### Event 6451 (20DDEA5B) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Location:** Marrakech, Morocco **Description:** Unidentified target at 650 knots at 60,000+ ft altitude (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1270) **Reference:** NICAP: [520612](http://www.nicap.org/520612moroccodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1041 ### Event 6452 (5DB3A85A) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Time:** 7:30 PM **Location:** Ft. Smith, Arkansas **Description:** Witnesses: U.S. Army Major and Lt. Colonel, using binoculars. One orange ball with a tail flew with a low angular velocity. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_134 ### Event 6453 (75C84435) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Time:** 11:26 AM **Location:** Marakesch, Morocco **Description:** Witness: T/Sgt. H.D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set. One unidentified blip tracked at 650 kts. (750 m.p.h.) at greater than 60,000' altitude. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_135 ### Event 6454 (1C98DD8D) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Description:** At 4:00 p.m. several disc-shaped UFOs followed an airliner over Mill Valley in Marin County, California for five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3433 ### Event 6455 (F7094C50) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. A U.S. Army Major and a Lt. Colonel, using binoculars, watched an orange ball with a tail fly with a low angular velocity in Fort Smith, Arkansas. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1269; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 264 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3434 ### Event 6456 (BFA68989) **Date:** 6/12/1952 **Description:** At 11:26 a.m. at a U.S. Air Force radar facility in Marakesch, Morocco Sgt. H. D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set, tracked an unidentified radar blip moving at 650 knots (750 mph) and at an altitude greater than 60,000 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1270; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3435 ### Event 6457 (A5BDC3E4) **Date:** 6/13/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** MIDDLETOWN, PA **Description:** Former Air Traffic Controller. Round orange object stops / 1 second(s). Going east. Stops again. Goes down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2201 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "MIDDLETOWN,PA:FORMER ATC:ROUND ORG OBJ STOPS/1sec:>E:STOPS AGAIN:GOES DOWN.", **LatLong:** "40.200002 -76.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:12:00 N 76:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.200002,-76.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6458 (FBD3B537) **Date:** 6/13/1952 **Location:** Fox Hill, VA **Description:** Object described as similar to a discus used in athletics, about 25 to 30 feet in diameter hovering (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520613](http://www.nicap.org/foxhill520613dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1042 ### Event 6459 (CBEBE9F5) **Date:** 6/13/1952 **Location:** Le Bourget (airport), France **Description:** Control tower operators and pilot watched brilliant light source cross sky SW of field after hovering for about an hour. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1043 ### Event 6460 (EEAE585D) **Date:** 6/13/1952 **Location:** Middletown, PA **Description:** Orange object travel S, stop for 1 sec (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1273) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1044 ### Event 6461 (59DACC8E) **Date:** 6/13/1952 **Time:** 8:45 PM **Location:** Middletown, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: R.S. Thomas, Olmstead AFB employee and former control tower operator. One round, orange object travelled south, stopped for 1 second, turned east, stopped 1 second, and went down. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_136 ### Event 6462 (F72041CE) **Date:** 6/13/1952 **Location:** Paris–Le Bourget Airport, France **Description:** 1:00 a.m. M. Veillot and M. Damiens, air traffic control operators at Paris–Le Bourget Airport, France, watch a prominent orange-red light hover in the sky for about one hour. Eventually it begins moving and crosses the sky southwest of the airport, accelerating rapidly. The light is also seen by M. Navarri, the pilot of an approaching Air France plane. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michel, Truth About FS, 165–166 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1849 ### Event 6463 (975AA07A) **Date:** 6/13/1952 **Description:** In Middletown, Pennsylvania at 8:45 p.m. Mr.R. S. Thomas, an Olmstead AFB employee and former control tower operator, sighted a round, orange flying object traveling south. It stopped for one second, turned east, stopped a second time for one second, and then went down below the tree line. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3454 ### Event 6464 (C4FCD15D) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Location:** Gordonsville, VA **Description:** An intercept operation took place in Richmond, VA. An Air Force T-33 jet tried to intercept a “shiny sphere” south of Gordonsville. It was a “round, shiny object with a golden glow” above 35000 feet altitude. At 20:05 the jet lost sight of the UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_459 ### Event 6465 (1FC23A8A) **Date:** Mid 6/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Capt. Ruppelt briefed General Samford, Director of Intelligence, others; given directive to take further steps to obtain positive identification of UFOs. **Type:** briefing **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 196-199](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_870 ### Event 6466 (3A61CD8D) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Location:** SHOWA, HONSHU, JP **Description:** Night light drops. Stops. Bounces / sky like a Spring. "Similar / Seoul Case". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2202 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SHOWA,HONSHU,JP:NLT DROPS:STOPS:BOUNCES/SKY LIKE A SPRING:"SIMILAR/SEOUL CASE"", **LatLong:** "34.716668 133.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:43:00 N 133:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.716668,133.650006)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6467 (1693DFEE) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** NEAR HALIFAX, NS **Description:** Army weatherman. 100' silver saucer going quickly [to] 800MPH. 6K' altitude. Going up / 11K' and more. / r136#8p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2203 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "145", **HatchDesc:** "nr HALIFAX,NS:ARMY WEATHERMAN:100'SLVR SCR>>800MPH:6K'alt:↑/11K'+:/r136#8p16", **LatLong:** "44.650002 -63.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:39:00 N 63:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.650002,-63.600003)", **RelAlt:** "1800", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6468 (65F48437) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** ROBERT-ESPAGNE TO/FROM MOGNEVILLE, FR **Description:** 6 woodsmen. Huge parachute drops. Nothing found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 59) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2204 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ROBERT-ESPAGNE> Event 6469 (F3CB091C) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** UNIONVILLE, VA **Description:** Woman reports very shiny object / very high altitude. Also seen / Gordonsville. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2205 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "UNIONVILLE,VA:WOMAN REPORTS VERY SHINY OBJ/VHI ALTITUDE:ALSO SEEN/GORDONSVILLE", **LatLong:** "38.261113 -77.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:15:40 N 77:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.261113,-77.966670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6470 (F4E17E19) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / GORDONSVILLE, VA **Description:** CAA / ground and airliner. USAF and marine jets chase silvery sphere/orb/globe. 35K' altitude and more. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2206 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "85", **Elev:** "148", **HatchDesc:** "SE/GORDONSVILLE,VA:CAA/GND+AIRLINER:USAF+MARINE JETS CHASE SLVRY ORB:35K'alt+", **LatLong:** "38.100002 -78.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:06:00 N 78:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.100002,-78.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6471 (E6CA9247) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** LOUISVILLE, KY **Description:** Former Navy RADAR-Tech. Large silent cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers slowly. Then 500mph going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2207 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "LOUISVILLE,KY:FORMER NAVY RDR-TECH:LRG SILENT CGR MNVRS SLOWLY:THEN 500mph>>NE", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -85.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 85:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-85.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6472 (0E3C9437) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Location:** Louisville, KY **Description:** Large, cigar-shaped object with a blunt front (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1285) **Reference:** NICAP: [520615](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/louisville520615dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1045 ### Event 6473 (8062144B) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Location:** Magneville, France **Description:** Men at work in the forest saw large, circular objects similar to parachutes coming down. Half a dozen witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** France-Soir Jun. 18, 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_92 ### Event 6474 (5B6CEB96) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Time:** 11:50 PM **Location:** Louisville, Kentucky **Description:** Witness: Edward Duke, ex-U.S. Navy radar technician. One large, cigar-shaped object with a blunt front, lit sides and a red stern, maneuvered in a leisurely fashion for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_137 ### Event 6475 (CA0F62C1) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Location:** Halifax, Nova Scotia **Description:** 8:32 a.m. A meteorological assistant on reserve army maneuvers sees a large silver disc in the sky southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It moves southwest for 30 seconds at an altitude of 5,000–8,000 feet and then rises and merges in 2–5 seconds with altocumulus clouds at 11,000–12,000 feet. Its diameter is about 100 feet and speed at least 800 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 184](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1850 ### Event 6476 (66D90AFB) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Locations:** Gordonsville, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Prince William County, Virginia; Blackstone, Virginia; Langley AFB in Hampton, Virginia **Description:** 4:20 p.m. A round shiny object is seen over Gordonsville, Virginia. At 4:25 p.m., the crew of a commercial airliner reports a silver sphere over Richmond, Virginia. At 4:33 p.m., a Marine fighter jet is scrambled from Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia, and attempts to intercept a target south of Gordonsville but fails and returns to base. At 5:43 p.m., an Air Force fighter attempts to intercept the same shiny sphere but after reaching 35,000 feet turns back. At 7:35 p.m., a UFO emitting a golden glow is seen over Blackstone, Virginia. Fighter jets from Langley AFB in Hampton, Virginia, are scrambled, but the object is gone by the time they get there at 8:05 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 194–195](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1851 ### Event 6477 (68126485) **Date:** 6/15/1952 **Location:** Standiford Field [now Louisville International Airport], Louisville, Kentucky **Description:** 11:50 p.m. Edward Duke, a former Navy radar technician, sees an unidentified cigar-shaped object in the vicinity of Standiford Field \[now Louisville International Airport\], Louisville, Kentucky. It has a light on either side of the fuselage and a reddish hue on the trailing end. The object appears to be moving at about 400–500 mph and maneuvers around in several directions for 15 minutes, then descends and flies away to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-1258.jpg) [Book document](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-1258.jpg)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 138 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1852 ### Event 6478 (CD8096DB) **Date:** Mid 6/1952 **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) briefs Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) and his staff, two Navy captains from ONI, and “some people I can’t name.” The meeting is contentious. One USAF colonel argues that Blue Book’s investigation is biased against the ETH, which launches an emotional debate. Ruppelt is directed to “take further steps to obtain positive identification” of UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 147–149](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/146/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1857 ### Event 6479 (C4EA68AD) **Date:** 6/16/1952 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** ST. NAZAIRE, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Golden disk going quickly east. Saucer / Versailles / 1700h / document going [to] Graziana. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2208 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.NAZAIRE,FR:SVRL.OBS:GOLDEN DISK >>E::SCR/Versailles/1700h /Doc>Graziana", **LatLong:** "47.333336 -2.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:20:00 N 02:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.333336,-2.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6480 (E07F0911) **Date:** 6/16/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** HAUTMONT, FR **Description:** 2+observer(s). Silent thin metallic donut with 2 black spots hovers. Maneuvers and tilts / 80 minute(s). Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2209 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "HAUTMONT,FR:2+OBS:SLNT THIN MTLC DONUT W/2 BLK SPOTS HVRS:MNVRS+TILTS/80min:↑↑", **LatLong:** "50.250002 3.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:15:00 N 03:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.250002,3.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6481 (16CE5587) **Date:** 6/16/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** OVER WALKER AIR FORCE BASE-ROSWELL, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1295. Staff Sgt. 5 grey saucers / arc-formation going quickly east / 550mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2210 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1119", **HatchDesc:** "ovr WALKER AFB-ROSWELL,NM:BBK#1295:STAFF Sgt:5 GRY SCRS/ARC-FORMN >>E/550mph", **LatLong:** "33.316668 -104.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:19:00 N 104:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.316668,-104.550005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6482 (CF8C38A3) **Date:** 6/16/1952 **Location:** Walker AFB, Roswell, NM **Description:** S/Sgt. Sparks saw 5-6 greyish discs, in a half-moon formation fly at 500-600 mph. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1295, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520616](http://www.nicap.org/walker520616dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1046 ### Event 6483 (CF2BD812) **Date:** 6/16/1952 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Walker AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: USAF maintenance specialist S/Sgt. Sparks. Five or six greyish discs, in a half-moon formation, flew at 500-600 m.p.h. for l minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_138 ### Event 6484 (577FF3E0) **Date:** 6/16/1952 **Description:** A Staff Sergeant saw five gray discs in a arc formation shoot to the east over Walker Field, Roswell, New Mexico at 8:30 p.m. They flew at an estimated speed of 550 mph. A Project Blue Book "unknown" report. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1285; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 265; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3511 ### Event 6485 (87D5A201) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** CAPE COD, MA **Description:** USAF pilot. Star-like night light crosses nose / F94. Seen 15 second(s). / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) #330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2211 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CAPE COD,MA:USAF PILOT:STARLIKE NLT CROSSES NOSE/F94:SEEN 15sec:/LDLN #330", **LatLong:** "41.866669 -70.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 70:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,-70.250003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 6486 (E0691B28) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1298. Many observer(s) and theodolite. 5-6 fast saucers. 4 F94s chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE; Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2212 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "170", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "MCCHORD AFB,WA:BBK#1298:MANY OBS+THEODOLITE:5-6 FAST SCRS:4 F94s CHASE", **LatLong:** "47.133336 -122.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:00 N 122:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.133336,-122.416673)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6487 (B9F41253) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Location:** McChord AFB, WA **Description:** Many witnesses saw 1-5 large silver yellow objects flying erratically, stop and start. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1298) **Reference:** NICAP: [520617](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mcchord520617dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1047 ### Event 6488 (2DE87E80) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Location:** Hasselbach, East Germany **Description:** 40-50 ft frying pan-shaped object with two rows of 1 ft holes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1048 ### Event 6489 (640FB90D) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Location:** Cape Cod, MA **Description:** Light like a bright star cross the nose of a jet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1299) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1049 ### Event 6490 (ABF876DC) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Time:** Between 7:30 and 10:20 PM **Location:** McChord AFB, Washington **Description:** Witnesses: many and varied. From one to five large silver-yellow objects flew erratically, stopped and started for about 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_139 ### Event 6491 (124485DE) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Time:** 1:28 AM **Location:** Cape Cod, Massachusetts **Description:** Witness: pilot of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. A light like a bright star crossed the nose of the airplane while being observed for 15 seconds. No further information in the files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_140 ### Event 6492 (9ED3F3F8) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Location:** Cape Cod, Massachusetts **Description:** 1:28 a.m. A USAF F-94 pilot sees a light like a bright star cross the nose of his jet at blinding speed over Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for 15 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 138 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1853 ### Event 6493 (7F796314) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Description:** Astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) writes in an article in Look magazine about how he creates temperature-inversion UFOs in his laboratory. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald H. Menzel, “[The Truth about Flying Saucers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1952%2006%2017%5FLook%5FDonald%20Menzel%5FFlying%20Saucers%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look 16, no. 13 \(June 17, 1952\): 35–39; NICAP, “[The Truth about Flying Saucers,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look61752.htm) [Look](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look61752.htm) [Magazine](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look61752.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1854 ### Event 6494 (CF32DF68) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Location:** McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] south of Tacoma, Washington **Description:** 7:30–10:20 p.m. Many witnesses at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] south of Tacoma, Washington, see 5–6 yellowish discs, tracked by radar and theodolite. Several F-94s are scrambled. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[1–](http://www.nicap.org/520617mcchord%5Fdir.htm) [5 Silver Yellow Objects Stop and Start](http://www.nicap.org/520617mcchord%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 138 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1855 ### Event 6495 (1C074D02) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Location:** Pueblo (Colorado) Memorial Airport **Description:** 8:45 p.m.. Orville Foster, a US Weather Bureau observer at the Pueblo \(Colorado\) Memorial Airport, watches a UFO through the bureau’s theodolite. It circles leisurely for 10 minutes, then disappears toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “‘Flying Saucer’ Sighted at Pueblo,” Leadville \(Colo.\) Herald-Democrat, June 18, 1952; Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952a.htm) [Reports, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1856 ### Event 6496 (E1AC46BB) **Date:** 6/17/1952 **Description:** Two cases from Project Blue Book's list of unexplained reports occurred on this day in 1952. On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a bright light crossed the sky in front of a USAF F-94 fighter plane at 1:28 a.m. local time. The light was observed for 15 seconds. Later that evening at McChord AFB outside of Tacoma, Washington many military observers tracked 5-6 discs with a theodolite as USAF F-94 jets pursued them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book, cases #1299 and #1298 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3526 ### Event 6497 (5D4E6F59) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Description:** EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter Aquarius document **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [link](https://obscurantist.com/texts/396-2/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_457 **Attributes:** Majestic ### Event 6498 (ED2EFA05) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Location:** 100M EAST / MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Strange object paces USAF B25 / 30 minutes. 90 minute(s) / Loren Gross. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2213 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "900", **HatchDesc:** "100M E/MARCH AFB,CA:STRANGE OBJ PACES USAF B25/30 MINUTES:90min/LOREN GROSS", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -115.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 115:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-115.966672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6499 (734DE54B) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** COLUMBUS, WI **Description:** Observer(s) = finger. Crescent object hovers / several seconds. Then shoots away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2214 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "262", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,WI:OBS=FINGER:CRESCENT OBJ HVRS/SVRL SECs:THEN SHOOTS AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.350002 -88.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:21:00 N 88:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.350002,-88.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6500 (8DB8B296) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 silver orbs follow B36 going east / lower altitude. Take sudden turn going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 817) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2215 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:2 OBS:2 SLVR ORBS FOLO B36 > E/lower alt:TAKE SUDDEN TURN >>S:", **LatLong:** "47.633336 -117.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 117:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,-117.400006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6501 (02F76197) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** WALNUT LAKE, MI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1305. Soft white light jumps back and forth / 60 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2216 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "269", **HatchDesc:** "WALNUT LAKE,MI:BBK#1305:SOFT WHT LITE JUMPS BACK+FORTH/60min:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.550002 -83.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:00 N 83:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.550002,-83.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6502 (DDFB213A) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Location:** Columbus, WI **Description:** Crescent-shaped object hover then speed away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1302) **Reference:** NICAP: [520618](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/columbus520618dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1050 ### Event 6503 (949F33C7) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Location:** Walnut Lake, MI **Description:** Orange light zigzag then hover (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1305) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1051 ### Event 6504 (93D32568) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Location:** March AFB (100 miles E of), CA **Description:** UFO Paces B-25 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520618](http://www.nicap.org/520618march%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1052 ### Event 6505 (2BDFB3CD) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Time:** 9 AM **Location:** Columbus, Wisconsin **Description:** Witness: R.A. Finger. One crescent-shaped object hovered for several seconds and then sped away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_141 ### Event 6506 (E53E9D61) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Time:** 10 PM **Location:** Walnut Lake, Michigan **Description:** Witnesses: Marron Hoffman and four relatives, using 4x binoculars. One orange light was observed zigzagging and then hovering for an unspecified length of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_142 ### Event 6507 (5F2EB614) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Locations:** March AFB; southern California **Description:** 5:00 p.m. USAF Capt. Erie P. Ashton and 2nd Lt. Clifton Ashley, while flying a B-25 about 100 miles east of March AFB \[now March Air Reserve Base\] in southern California, sight a silver object at approximately 11,000 feet in altitude off their left wing. The object is longer than it is wide and is in sight for about 39 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[UFO Paces B-25](http://www.nicap.org/520618march%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 138 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1858 ### Event 6508 (07D4AFA5) **Date:** 6/18/1952 **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** According to Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard)’s 1980s disinformation, the living alien retrieved in 1949 \(EBE-1\) and kept at Los Alamos, New Mexico, dies of unknown causes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 364 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1859 ### Event 6509 (A3200AC1) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** GOOSE BAY, NFL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1308. RADAR-visual (observation) / red-glow disk / 4K' altitude. Also 26 November and 15 December. Eludes jets. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2217 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE BAY,NFL:BBK#1308:RDR-VIS/RED-GLOW DISK/4K'alt:+26NOV+15DEC:ELUDES JETS", **LatLong:** "53.300003 -60.383336", **LatLongDMS:** "53:18:00 N 60:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.300003,-60.383336)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6510 (80A0DF9C) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** USAF pilot lane. Round white object flew straight and level for 10 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2218 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:USAF PILOT LANE:ROUND WHT OBJ FLEW S/L FOR 10sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "32.683335 -114.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:41:00 N 114:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.683335,-114.616672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6511 (DB8B0228) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** JERSEY SHORE, PA **Description:** 4+observer(s). Several saucers and cigars / high altitude. / Air Force report. News copy / r136#8p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 221) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2219 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "JERSEY SHORE,PA:4+ OBS:SVRL SCRS+CGRS/HI ALT:/AF RPT:news copy/r136#8p20", **LatLong:** "41.205558 -77.272226", **LatLongDMS:** "41:12:20 N 77:16:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.205558,-77.272226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6512 (544645A6) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** TRENTON, NJ **Description:** Former USAF man / backyard. Strange night light. Swirling motion. Possible saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 217) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2220 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "TRENTON,NJ:FORMER USAF MAN/BACKYARD:STRANGE NLT:SWIRLING MOTION:POSSIBLE SCR", **LatLong:** "40.216669 -74.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:13:00 N 74:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.216669,-74.750004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6513 (3702BAA4) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** One red light turned white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary object G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1308) **Reference:** NICAP: [520619](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520619goosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1053 ### Event 6514 (57AAC393) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Location:** Yuma, AZ **Description:** Pilot saw a round, white object fly straight and level (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1310) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1054 ### Event 6515 (1D32796A) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Time:** 2:37 AM **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada **Description:** Witness: 2nd Lt. A'Gostino and unidentified radar operator. One red light turned white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary target during the 1 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_143 ### Event 6516 (2B5C2B28) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Time:** 2 PM **Location:** Yuma, Arizona **Description:** Witness: USAF pilot John Lane. One round, white object flew straight and level for 10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_144 ### Event 6517 (F0836A3E) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** 2:37 a.m. At Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, radar men pick up a UFO track. 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and others outside see a strange, red-lighted object come in over the field. The radar blip suddenly enlarges, as if the device has banked, exposing a larger surface to the radar beam. The watching airmen see the red light wobble or flutter. After a moment the light turns white and quickly disappears. Apparently, the unknown craft has gone into a steep climb. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) assumes the radar and visual sightings are simultaneous, but Blue Book records indicate they are separate. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Target Suddenly Enlarges](http://www.nicap.org/detection/radar/520619goose%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 52](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 139; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 55–56 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1860 ### Event 6518 (2DEF9811) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Locations:** Tacoma, Washington; McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis- McChord] in Tacoma **Description:** 1:30 p.m. Four silvery UFOs are seen by many witnesses in Tacoma, Washington, flying silently at a high altitude. Unofficial sources report that the objects are tracked on radar at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis- McChord\] in Tacoma and jets are scrambled. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Tacoma \(Wash.\) Reporter, June 20, 1952; Shoot 9; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 11, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1861 ### Event 6519 (AD3A9E60) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Location:** Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Army Capt. Harold Hermann and his wife see a round, silver UFO speeding across the sky at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [\(“‘Flying Saucers’ Sighted,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/24/84327623.pdf)” New York Times, June 24, 1952, p. 26\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1862 ### Event 6520 (1EDCE776) **Date:** 6/19/1952 **Location:** Trenton, New Jersey **Description:** 9:50 p.m. A former Army Air Force ground crew member sees a UFO flying in a swirling motion over the backyard of his home in Trenton, New Jersey. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1863 ### Event 6521 (3E52C511) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** SANTA ROSA, CA **Description:** Newsman. Round flat shiny saucer going quickly [to] by extremely fast. Size / B29 / 1 mile. 8k' altitude? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 821) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2221 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA ROSA,CA:NEWSMAN:RND FLAT SHINY SCR >> BY XFAST:SIZE/B29/1 mile:8k'alt?", **LatLong:** "38.438891 -122.711117", **LatLongDMS:** "38:26:20 N 122:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.438891,-122.711117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6522 (2F240C3D) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** CT0909 / WEST CENTER KOREA LONGITUDE & LATITUDE COORDS. = APPROXIMATE **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1313. USAF. 10' saucer circles area just bombed. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2222 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CT0909/W.CENTR.KOREA LL=APRX:BBK#1313:USAF:10'SCR CCLS AREA JUST BOMBED:>>E", **LatLong:** "36.583335 128.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:35:00 N 128:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.583335,128.000006)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6523 (37EE696E) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** (CENTRAL), MS **Description:** 2 USAF B29. Cone-saucer / collision course. 2nd cone follows. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2223 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "(central),MS:2 USAF B29:CONE-SCR/COLLISION COURSE:2ND CONE FOLOS::NFD", **LatLong:** "33.000002 -89.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:00:00 N 89:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.000002,-89.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6524 (7A89A052) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Location:** Central Korea, Korea **Description:** F4U-4B Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520620](http://www.nicap.org/520620korea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1038 ### Event 6525 (8E3BDA03) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Location:** Central Korea, Korea **Description:** F4U-4B Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520620](http://www.nicap.org/520620korea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1055 ### Event 6526 (060D172C) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Location:** Paulette (near), MS **Description:** Cone-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1056 ### Event 6527 (5BC60125) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Time:** 3:03 PM **Location:** Central Korea **Description:** Witnesses: four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B Corsair fighter planes. One 10-20' white or silver oval object made a left-hand orbit at terrific speed for 60 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_145 ### Event 6528 (A5AF4547) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Location:** central Korea **Description:** 3:03 p.m. A flight of four US Marine Corps captains and pilots \([Bobbie Foster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118916528/bobbie-gene-foster)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118916528/bobbie-gene-foster) Richard Francisco, [Teddy L.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3841406/teddy-l-pittman) [Pittman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3841406/teddy-l-pittman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3841406/teddy-l-pittman) and [Ronnie A. McDonald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150828155/ronnie-angus-mcdonald)\) of F4U-4B Corsair fighters with the 7302nd Squadron over central Korea see a silvery-white object passing below them, banking into a left turn. As the object circles around, Foster dives toward the object, which appears to be 10–20 feet in diameter. It flies away at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph and disappears toward friendly lines. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F4U-4B Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO](http://www.nicap.org/520620korea%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 139 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1864 ### Event 6529 (CCB4417D) **Date:** 6/20/1952 **Description:** Central Korea. At 3:03 p.m. four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B Corsair fighter planes of the 7302nd Squadron sighted a 10-20 foot diameter white to silver oval object for 60 seconds. The daylight UFO made a left-hand orbit of the target area, and then shot away to the east outdistancing pursuit aircraft at a terrific speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1313; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3550 ### Event 6530 (DEB8728F) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Description:** While Operation INTERCEPT was in effect, two North American F-86 Operation INTERCEPT Sabre fighters were vectored onto a target UFO. The pilots had a broad daylight view of the UFO and fired tracer bullets at it before it accelerated out of range. The officer who fired the bullets was debriefed by his Colonel (name withheld) and the base commander told Capt. Ruppelt to destroy the report (according to Ruppelt himself). **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_458 **See also:** 7/1952 ### Event 6531 (4E4F5625) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** AUCH, FR **Description:** Cop and 3 kids. Red sphere maneuvers out and back / 10 minute(s). Nears. Going quickly east toward(s) Toulouse. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2224 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "AUCH,FR:COP+3 KIDS:RED SPHERE MNVRS OUT+BACK/10min:NEARS:>>E twrd TOULOUSE", **LatLong:** "43.966669 0.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:58:00 N 00:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.966669,0.583333)", **State/Prov:** "Gers", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6532 (26C65481) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** KELLY AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1319. B29 crew. Brilliant 3'GUITAR-pick dives past bomber / 8K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2225 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "KELLY AFB,TX:BBK#1319:B29 CREW:BRILL.3'GUITAR-PICK DIVES PAST BOMBER/8K'alt", **LatLong:** "29.366668 -98.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:22:00 N 98:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.366668,-98.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6533 (6B8EB683) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, NS **Description:** Separate observer(s). 2-5 silver-grey triangle-OVOIDs going quickly west. 1 splits off going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2226 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "ANNAPOLIS ROYAL,NS:SEP.OBS:2-5 SLVR-GRY TRIANGLE-OVOIDs >>W:1 SPLITS OFF >>S", **LatLong:** "44.733335 -65.533336", **LatLongDMS:** "44:44:00 N 65:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.733335,-65.533336)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6534 (E83040EF) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MIDDLETON, NS **Description:** Teacher. Long cone / airplane speed. Flies wide-end first. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2227 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "MIDDLETON,NS:TEACHER:LONG CONE/AIRPLANE SPEED:FLIES WIDE-END FIRST:SILENT", **LatLong:** "44.933335 -65.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:56:00 N 65:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.933335,-65.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6535 (EC6E8C8D) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** RADAR and Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and air observer(s). 20cm night light over Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) site. Eludes F47. 8km altitude. Blinks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2228 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:RDR+GOC+AIR OBS:20cm NLT ovr AEC SITE:ELUDES F47:8km ALT:BLINKS", **LatLong:** "36.000002 -84.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 84:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,-84.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6536 (7A3CEC54) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Famous F-86 shooting incident. Date unknown. Case report destroyed. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [52Summer](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/f-86dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1022 ### Event 6537 (6945C74F) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Location:** MacDill AFB, FL **Description:** USAF Colonel, B-29 pilot investigated radar target, saw glowing ellipse which reversed direction and sped away. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) **Reference:** NICAP: [52Summer](http://www.nicap.org/52SUMRmacdillafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1023 ### Event 6538 (C0E756B0) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Location:** Kelly AFB, TX **Description:** B-29 Encounters Flat Object With Pointed Front (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1319) **Reference:** NICAP: [520621](http://www.nicap.org/520621kellyafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1057 ### Event 6539 (AA0471BD) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Location:** Oakridge, TN **Description:** Radar Visual Near AEC Plant (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520621](http://www.nicap.org/520621oakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1058 ### Event 6540 (EDE6A922) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Location:** MacDill AFB, FL **Description:** USAF Colonel, B-29 pilot investigated radar target, saw glowing ellipse which reversed direction and sped away. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [52Summer](http://www.nicap.org/52SUMRmacdillafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1182 ### Event 6541 (078A4B2C) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Time:** 0300 **Location:** Itenhaem, Brazil **Description:** A woman was awakened by a thunderclap and a strong bluish light. As she got out, she saw a large number of hovering disk-shaped machines resembling "inverted soup plates" 200 m away at an altitude of about 1 m. She observed them for 30 min, saw two figures standing on one of the craft and looking at the sky. They went back inside, and shortly thereafter the "fleet" took off, one object at a time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 68,1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_90 ### Event 6542 (268605E2) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Location:** Martin County, Texas **Description:** Mrs. Rogers saw an object descend slowly and pass across a pasture at 7 m altitude. She stopped her car and observed it was "wobbling" in mid-air, was shaped like a turtle, and showed three oarlike protrusions that moved slowly. Estimated dimensions: 5 by 4 m, 1 m thick. It was greenish-gray in color, emitted a blue flame, but showed no other light. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Barker 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_91 ### Event 6543 (F65822C8) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Time:** 12:30 PM **Location:** Kelly AFB, Texas **Description:** Witness: T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of B-29 bomber at 8,000' altitude. One flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear; white with a dark blue center and red rim, trailed sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500', in l second. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_146 ### Event 6544 (7D6937A1) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Locations:** Kelly AFB; Kelly Field; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** 12:30 p.m. T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of a B-29 bomber flying at 8,000 feet altitude near Kelly AFB \[now Kelly Field\] in San Antonio, Texas, sees a small, flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear. It is white with a dark blue center and red rim and trails sparks as it dives past the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet in one second. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[B-29 Encounters Flat Object with Pointed Front](http://www.nicap.org/520621kellyafb%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 140 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1865 ### Event 6545 (55DCCC30) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** 10:58 p.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, sees a small \(6–8 inches in diameter\), slow-moving UFO near the AEC plant. GCI radar obtains the target, but it fades from the scope. An F-97 on combat air patrol engages in a “dogfight” with the object, which makes “ramming attacks” at the aircraft. It blinks until it speeds away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Radar Visual near AEC Plant”](http://www.nicap.org/520621oakridge%5Fdir.htm); Ruppelt, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/42/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 139 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1866 ### Event 6546 (EB22CB9A) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Location:** Bristol, England **Description:** Denis Plunkett forms a British branch of [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender)’s International Flying Saucer Bureau in Bristol, England. When Bender closes down IFSB in late September 1953, the branch becomes the British Flying Saucer Bureau, with his son E. L. Plunkett as president. It publishes Flying Saucer News from Spring 1953 to Spring 1956 and Flying Saucer News Bulletin from February 1955 through 1957. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Flying Saucer News](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20%28BFSB%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20-%20No%2001%20-%201953%20Spring.pdf), no. 1 \(Spring 1953\); [Flying Saucer News Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20Bulletin%20%28BFSB%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20Bulletin%20-%20No%2001%20-%201955%2002.pdf), no. 1 \(February 1955\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1880 ### Event 6547 (C6A8C727) **Date:** Summer 1952 **Location:** MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida **Description:** Night. Radar at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, picks up a target at 40,000 feet flying at 460 mph. A nearby B-29 volunteers to investigate, searching until midnight. The pilot, a USAF colonel, finally reports a visual sighting of the UFO, flying at 40,000 feet and 250 mph and appearing as a glowing white light shaped like a football. The object changes course and disappears at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 25](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=37&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1881 ### Event 6548 (B6DFA606) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Description:** Near Kelly AFB, Texas. At 12:30 p.m. Sgt. Howard Davis, the flight engineer of a B-29 bomber flying at 8,000' altitude, witnessed a flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear. It was white with a dark blue center and red rim. It trailed sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet for a very brief time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1319; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 16; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3567 ### Event 6549 (144F5367) **Date:** 6/21/1952 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. that night at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee nuclear facility a radar target was picked up and later sighted as a featureless nocturnal light over the AEC site by a member of the Ground Observer Corps. The light eluded an F-47 fighter sent to investigate it, flying at 8,000 feet altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3568 ### Event 6550 (F00AFD02) **Date:** 6/22/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** CHEYENNE, WY **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). Red and white round silver objects zigzag all over/all about. Back / 1000 hours. Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 439) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2229 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1820", **HatchDesc:** "CHEYENNE,WY:2+2 OBS:RED+WHT RND SLVR OBJS ZIGZAG ALLO:BACK/1000 hrs:XFAST", **LatLong:** "41.150002 -104.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:09:00 N 104:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.150002,-104.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6551 (0BDFF998) **Date:** 6/22/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** PYONGTAEK AIR FORCE BASE, KOREA **Description:** 2 Sergeants / 753D RADAR. Project Bluebook Case #1323. Object hovers and flashes. 270° loop going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2230 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "PYONGTAEK AFB,KOREA:2 Sgts/753D RDR:BBK#1323:OBJ HVRS+FLASHES:270°LOOP >>E", **LatLong:** "36.983335 127.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:59:00 N 127:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.983335,127.083339)", **State/Prov:** "KYG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6552 (026F9617) **Date:** 6/22/1952 **Location:** Pyungthek, Korea **Description:** 4 ft diameter orange object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1323) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1060 ### Event 6553 (B002C131) **Date:** 6/22/1952 **Time:** 10:45 PM **Location:** Pyungthek, Korea **Description:** Witnesses: Two Marine Corps Sergeants. One 4 ft. diameter object dove at a runway shooting red flames, hovered briefly over a hill, turned 180, flashed twice and was gone. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_147 ### Event 6554 (D133CF4F) **Date:** 6/22/1952 **Location:** Pyeongtaek military base, South Korea **Description:** 10:45 p.m. Two US Marine sergeants see a 4-foot diameter orange object dive at a runway from the north, dropping from 800 to 100 feet altitude over the west end of the runway at Pyeongtaek military base, South Korea, shooting 2–5-foot red flames. It then heads west at about 300–450 mph for 2–3 seconds, hovers briefly over a hill, turns 180° in 45–60 seconds, flashes, heads east a half mile, flashes again, and blinks out. No sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 82–83](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/82/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 140 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1867 ### Event 6555 (C323BD31) **Date:** 6/22/1952 **Description:** Near the Korean front in 1952, two sergeants sighted an orange disc four feet in diameter just above an airstrip. It dove vertically, emitting a red flame 2-5 feet long as it did so, and stopped momentarily 100 feet over the end of the runway. The object then flew to the west, circled back taking about 45 to 60 seconds to execute the 180-degree turn, flashed, the flew on to the east. A second bright flash was seen followed by complete darkness: the disc had vanished. No sound was heard coming from the object. The case was unexplained by Project Blue Book. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 82 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3598 ### Event 6556 (D66212B3) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** 1 observer. Bullet object trails burnt orange smoke / 30 second(s) and more. Straight and level flight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2231 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:1 OBS:BULLET OBJ TRAILS BURNT ORG SMOKE/30sec+:S/L FLITE", **LatLong:** "35.994446 -84.272226", **LatLongDMS:** "35:59:40 N 84:16:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.994446,-84.272226)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6557 (80B1891C) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** US60 3MI EAST / OWENSBORO, KY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1335. 2 military. 2 huge soap-bubbles fly going north. Reflect sun. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2232 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "US60 3mi E/OWENSBORO,KY:BBK#1335:2 MIL:2 HUGE SOAP-BUBBLES FLY>N:REFLECT SUN", **LatLong:** "37.783335 -87.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:00 N 87:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.783335,-87.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6558 (3E2BDDFA) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Weatherman. Metallic disk flips like a coin / 5-7 minute(s). Flashes in sunlight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2233 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:WEATHERMAN:MTLC DISK FLIPS LIKE A COIN/5-7min:FLASHES IN SUNLITE", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -117.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 117:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-117.383339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6559 (918DECB1) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** ST. CHARLES, MO **Description:** 2 observer(s). Very large silver disk flies / low altitude. Seen 1 min. No further details / Banner News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 824) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2234 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "135", **HatchDesc:** "St.CHARLES,MO:2 OBS:VLARGE SLVR DISK FLIES/LO alt:SEEN 1 min:NFD/Banner News", **LatLong:** "38.783335 -90.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:47:00 N 90:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.783335,-90.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6560 (5BE8321D) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** 4 MI WITH MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1332. Civil and military observer(s). Yellow-white night lights / V formation. V-agile motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 223) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2235 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "4 MI W/McCHORD AFB,WA:BBK#1332:CIV+MIL OBS:YEL-WHT NLTS/VFORM:V-AGILE MOTION", **LatLong:** "47.133336 -122.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:00 N 122:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.133336,-122.450006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6561 (B5019759) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** Spokane, WA **Description:** Round disc with a metallic shine flash and flutter like a flipped coin. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1331) **Reference:** NICAP: [520623](http://www.nicap.org/spokane520623dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1061 ### Event 6562 (203FBD29) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** McChord AFB, WA **Description:** A very large light fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1332) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1062 ### Event 6563 (FD402720) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** Kirksville, MO **Description:** (Case missing) Seven ADC Men Track 3,600 MPH Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520623](http://www.nicap.org/520623kirksville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1063 ### Event 6564 (AE798A55) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Secretary Martha Milligan saw a bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1334, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520623](http://nicap.org/oak520623dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1064 ### Event 6565 (5272558D) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** unknown location, Japan **Description:** Black coin-shaped object, 15-20 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1065 ### Event 6566 (3E25DB01) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** Owensboro (near), KY **Description:** 2 obj looking like “giant soap bubbles” reflecting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1335) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1066 ### Event 6567 (EC6ACE55) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 4:05 PM **Location:** Spokane, Washington **Description:** Witness: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson. One round disc with a metallic shine flashed, and fluttered like a flipped coin for 5-7 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_148 ### Event 6568 (5AA2AD12) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** McChord AFB, Washington **Description:** Witness: 2nd Lt. K. Thompson. One very large light flew straight and level for 10 minutes. No further information. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_149 ### Event 6569 (738953BA) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Kirksville, Missouri **Description:** Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_150 ### Event 6570 (6F2B1791) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 3:30 AM **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Witness: secretary Martha Milligan. One bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust flew straight and level for 30-60 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_151 ### Event 6571 (269F43F3) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 10:00 AM **Location:** Owensboro, Kentucky **Description:** Witness: National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp. Two objects looking like "giant soap bubbles", reflecting yellow and lavender colors, flew in trail for 5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_152 ### Event 6572 (6B3AB483) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Time:** 6:08 AM **Location:** Location unknown, but information came via Japan Hq. "CV 4359" **Description:** Witness: USAF pilot of the l8th Fighter-Bomber Group. One black coin-shaped object, 15-20' in diameter, made an irregular descent. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_153 ### Event 6573 (9FC22F39) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** Kirksville Air Force Station in Missouri **Description:** 1:30 a.m. USAF ADC radar operators Lt. A. N. Robinson Jr. and Airman Ray H. Foote, plus 5 other controllers, officers, and maintenance technicians at Kirksville Air Force Station in Missouri, track a hard target with a clear sharp return about the size of a B-29. It suddenly appears 85 miles north-northwest of the station, moving at a constant speed of about 3,600+ mph on a straight path for about 125 miles for 2 minutes. Then it vanishes. A second target appears at 1:35 a.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Seven ADC Men Track 3,600 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/520623kirksville%5Fdir.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “Case Missing,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 20; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 141 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1868 ### Event 6574 (B0D84FBB) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** 3:30 a.m. Secretary Martha Milligan sees a bullet-shaped object emitting a burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level over Oak Ridge, Tennessee. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[June 23, 1952: Oak Ridge, Tenn.](http://www.nicap.org/oak520623dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 141 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1869 ### Event 6575 (75BB7058) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Location:** Owensboro, Kentucky **Description:** 10:00 a.m. National Guard Lt. Col. [Oren Laramore Depp](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145485153/oren-laramore-depp) \[[Johnny Depp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%5FDepp)’s grandfather\] sees two objects looking like giant soap bubbles reflecting yellow and lavender colors flying in line over Owensboro, Kentucky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 141 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1870 ### Event 6576 (D942BD33) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Locations:** Geiger Field [now Spokane International Airport]; Spokane, Washington **Description:** 4:05 pm. Airport weather observer Rex Thompson sees a round disc with a metallic shine flash and flutter like a flipped coin for 5–7 minutes over Geiger Field \[now Spokane International Airport\], Spokane, Washington. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[June 23, 1952: Spokane, Wash.](http://www.nicap.org/spokane520623dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 140 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1871 ### Event 6577 (1820BE7B) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Locations:** McChord AFB; Joint Base Lews-McChord; Tacoma, Washington **Description:** 9:00 p.m. 2d Lt. K. Thompson sees a very large light flying straight and level for 10 minutes at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lews-McChord\] near Tacoma, Washington. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 140; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 11, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1872 ### Event 6578 (5452F35C) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Description:** Grid area CV 4, Korea. Information came via Japan H.Q. "CV 4359". At 6:08 a.m. a USAF pilot of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Group sighted a black coin-shaped object about seven times wider than it was thick, with an estimated diameter of 15-20 feet, that made an irregular descent. It flew at a fixed altitude for 6-7 seconds, approached the pilot's plane, then disappeared into a cloud. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3613 ### Event 6579 (77322558) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Description:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At 3:30 a.m. Martha Milligan, a secretary, saw a bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level for 30-60 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1334; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 266 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3614 ### Event 6580 (395D2F51) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Description:** In Owensboro, Kentucky at 10:00 a.m. National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp and another man heard a sound like an airplane and witnessed two objects looking like "giant soap bubbles", reflecting yellow and lavender colors. They flew one behind the other for five seconds, then vanished from view. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1335; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 267 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3615 ### Event 6581 (C952B1C4) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Description:** Airport weather observer Rex Thompson in Spokane, Washington sighted a round disc with a metallic shine at 4:05 pm. It flashed and fluttered like a flipped coin for 5-7 minutes. Many others saw a fiery light that might have been a meteor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1331; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3616 ### Event 6582 (03639B4D) **Date:** 6/23/1952 **Description:** McChord AFB, Washington. At around 9 p.m. Lt. K. Thompson watched a very large light that flew straight and level for 10 minutes. Four miles west of the Air Base several yellow-whitish nocturnal lights in a V formation made precise maneuvers in sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1332; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 23; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 266 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3617 ### Event 6583 (062806D6) **Date:** 6/24/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / DURANGO, CO **Description:** Highway Patrolman. Silver object going [to] alongside B50 bomber. 3 separate observer(s) see saucers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 824) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2236 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1900", **HatchDesc:** "SE/DURANGO,CO:Hwy PATROLMAN:SLVR OBJ > ALONGSIDE B50 BOMBER:3 SEP.OBS SEE SCRS", **LatLong:** "37.216668 -107.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:13:00 N 107:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.216668,-107.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6584 (128BF7A7) **Date:** 6/24/1952 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** GOOSE BAY, NFLD **Description:** Fiery sphere makes 90° turn. Dives at men / ground. RADAR-visual and Air Traffic Controller observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2237 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE BAY,NFLD:FIERY SPHERE MAKES 90°TURN:DIVES at MEN/GND:RDR-VISUAL+ATC obs", **LatLong:** "53.333336 -60.450003", **LatLongDMS:** "53:20:00 N 60:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.333336,-60.450003)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6585 (56477AA7) **Date:** 6/24/1952 **Location:** Paris **Description:** The first issue of Ouranos is published by the Commission Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Ouranos](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf) no. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1873 ### Event 6586 (9F3A6A3F) **Date:** 6/25/1952 (approximate) **Location:** BAFFIN ISLAND, NWT **Description:** USAF weathermen / theodolite. Silver-metallic ovoid passes going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2238 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "307", **HatchDesc:** "BAFFIN ISLAND,NWT:USAF WEATHERMEN/THEODOLITE:SLVR-MTLC OVOID PASSES >>SW", **LatLong:** "68.833337 -76.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "68:50:00 N 76:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/68.833337,-76.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Northwest Territories", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6587 (AF57D129) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** K14 AB / SUWON, KOREA **Description:** Separate observer(s). Dull-silver coin-disc spins counterclockwise. Several passes south to/from/between north / 45°. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2239 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "K14 AB/SUWON,KOREA:SEP.OBS:DULL-SLVR COIN-DISC SPINS CCW:SVRL PASSES S<>N/45°", **LatLong:** "37.277780 126.927784", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:40 N 126:55:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.277780,126.927784)", **State/Prov:** "SEO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6588 (A6B03F90) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** No information (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1340) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1067 ### Event 6589 (CD90F9D7) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Location:** Japan, Korea Area, Far East **Description:** Military witness(es). Case missing \[?\]. (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1347) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1068 ### Event 6590 (CFF1BEAF) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Location:** Chicago, IL **Description:** Bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1344) **Reference:** NICAP: [520625](http://nicap.org/chicago520625dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1069 ### Event 6591 (00342ABE) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Location:** unknown location, MI **Description:** (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1070 ### Event 6592 (68C9842A) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** Witnesses: Mrs. Norbury, Mr. Matheis. One bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object which sometimes had a red tail, made seven circles in 1 1/2 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_154 ### Event 6593 (93562489) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Japan-Korea area **Description:** Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_155 ### Event 6594 (98BAA5C5) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Description:** [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) writes an “Interim Report on Project Magnet,” in which he states: “If, as appears evident, the flying saucers are emissaries from some other civilization, and actually do operate no magnetic principles, we have before us the fact that we have missed something in magnetic theory but have a good indication of the direction in which to look for the missing quantities.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 185](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1874 ### Event 6595 (1D88A3EE) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Daniel Norbury and Lawrence Matheis see a bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object, sometimes with a red tail, make seven circles over Chicago, Illinois. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[June 25, 1952: Chicago, Illinois](http://www.nicap.org/chicago520625dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 141 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1875 ### Event 6596 (F66EC0CE) **Date:** 6/25/1952 **Description:** At 20:23 p.m. over Suwon, Korea a silver coin-shaped object was seen spinning in a counterclockwise direction. The edges of the disc were dark blue, with its diameter seven times larger than its thickness. It changed course, paused, then rose vertically straight up. A bright yellow-white egg-shaped light flew at a slightly higher elevation than the planet Venus over Chicago, Illinois. Occasionally had a red tail light visible. It made a large continuous circle in the night sky at a slow speed. Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1344 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3648 ### Event 6597 (FD521D03) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** CELINA, OH **Description:** Minister and wife. Luminous/glowing dark disk going south straight and level across town. Slight tilt. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 826) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2240 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "265", **HatchDesc:** "CELINA,OH:MINISTER+WIFE:LUMN DARK DISK >S S/L ACROSS TOWN:SLIGHT TILT:", **LatLong:** "40.550002 -84.572226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:33:00 N 84:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.550002,-84.572226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6598 (6A0B25F8) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** NORTHWEST / VALDOSTA, GA **Description:** Pilots and more/others. Orange night lights zigzag and circle town and Air Force Base. Futile T33 chase. / r43p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 827) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2241 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "NW/VALDOSTA,GA:PILOTS++:ORG NLTS ZIGZAG+CCL TOWN+AFB:FUTILE T33 CHASE:/r43p15", **LatLong:** "30.916668 -83.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:55:00 N 83:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.916668,-83.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6599 (D99117B5) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** MITCHELL AIR FORCE BASE, LI, NY **Description:** Pan-AM pilot. Night light hovers and maneuvers. "No familiar craft or weapon". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2242 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "MITCHELL AFB,LI,NY:PAN-AM PILOT:NLT HVRS+MNVRS:"NO FAMILIAR CRAFT OR WEAPON"", **LatLong:** "40.716669 -73.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:43:00 N 73:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.716669,-73.600004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6600 (984F8159) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** POTTSTOWN, PA **Description:** 2 glowing-objects going southeast. 15 minute(s) later 2 more. Yet another. All going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 221) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2243 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "46", **HatchDesc:** "POTTSTOWN,PA:2 GLOW-OBJs >SE:15min LATER 2 MORE:YET ANOTHER:ALL >>SE", **LatLong:** "40.233335 -75.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:00 N 75:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.233335,-75.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6601 (B8842F76) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Location:** Terre Haute, IN **Description:** Undescribed object fly at 600 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1348) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1071 ### Event 6602 (FBCF992C) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Location:** Pottstown, PA **Description:** 3 different sightings of flashing lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1351) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1072 ### Event 6603 (90E16020) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Time:** 2:45 AM **Location:** Terre Haute, Indiana **Description:** Witness: USAF 2nd Lt. C. W. Povelites. Undescribed object flew at 600 m.p.h. and then stopped. No further information in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_156 ### Event 6604 (B3038B6C) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Time:** 11:50 PM **Location:** Pottstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: assistant manager of airport. Three sightings of flashing lights: two lights separated by 2 miles, with the leader flashing steadily and the other irregularly; two similarly flashing lights, but with l mile separation; finally a single light. Speed estimated at 150-250 m.p.h.. Total of 1/2 hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_157 ### Event 6605 (61D7A263) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Description:** In Celina, Ohio at 1:30 a.m. a married couple saw a glowing but dark colored disc fly over the town slowly toward the south, at a low altitude. It flew with a slight tilt, and made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2259 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3666 ### Event 6606 (037C7907) **Date:** 6/26/1952 **Description:** Later that day in Pottstown, Pennsylvania a procession of discs flew by. At 11:50 p.m. two objects flew side-by-side in tandem-one had steady lights and the other had flashing lights. Fifteen minutes later two more passed over in the same configuration. After another fifteen minutes a single object flew over. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1351 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3667 ### Event 6607 (3FE88C89) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **Time:** 01:40 **Location:** BRONX, NYC, NY **Description:** Round smooth glowing saucer parks overhead. Then going north and sharp turn going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2244 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "BRONX,NYC,NY:ROUND SMOOTH GLOWING SCR PARKS OVHD:THEN > N + SHARP TURN>>W", **LatLong:** "40.833335 -73.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:50:00 N 73:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.833335,-73.866670)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6608 (B78A599F) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** MALTA **Description:** UK Marines. Saucer going [to] over island. Fast. High-altitude. Morning. Reuters copy / r136#8p29. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: MALTA UFO RESEARCH: J.J.Mercieca. www.mufor.org email: mufor at maltanet.net **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2245 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MALTA:UK MARINES:SCR >OVR ISLAND:FAST:HI-ALT:morning:Reuters copy/r136#8p29", **LatLong:** "35.833335 14.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "35:50:00 N 14:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.833335,14.500001)", **State/Prov:** "MLT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6609 (E97945B2) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** TOPEKA, KS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1355. 2 military. 200' sphere/orb/globe-saucer changes shape. Back 30X / min! Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2246 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "TOPEKA,KS:BBK#1355:2 MIL:200' ORB-SCR CHANGES SHAPE:BACK 30X/min!:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "39.033335 -95.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:02:00 N 95:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.033335,-95.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6610 (68E31EA0) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** FT. MYERS, FL **Description:** 2 / home. Round orange disk hovers. Large sharp drop. Stops. Then going north slowly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 828) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2247 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.MYERS,FL:2/HOME:RND ORG DISK HVRS:LARGE SHARP DROP:STOPS:then >N slowly:", **LatLong:** "26.638890 -81.872226", **LatLongDMS:** "26:38:20 N 81:52:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.638890,-81.872226)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6611 (20263001) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **Location:** Topeka, KS **Description:** Pulsating red object change shape from circular to a vertical oval (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1355) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1073 ### Event 6612 (ACF9418B) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **Time:** 6:50 PM **Location:** Topeka, Kansas **Description:** Witnesses: USAF pilot 2nd Lt. K. P. Kelly and wife. One pulsating red object which changed shape from a circular to a vertical oval as it pulsed. Was stationary for about 5 minutes, then went out. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_158 ### Event 6613 (EED709C4) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **End date:** 6/30/1952 **Location:** McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington, to look into recent sightings there. Capt. Harnnagy of the 4704 Air Defense Wing Intelligence tells him that the objects are always seen in the northern sky around 8:00 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 23–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1876 ### Event 6614 (1EEA1222) **Date:** 6/27/1952 **Description:** A military pilot named Kelly saw a UFO hover at 6:50 p.m. and pulsate a brilliant red over Topeka, Kansas. The shape of the object varied from circular to oval in the vertical dimension as the object pulsated. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1355; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 27; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 267 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3692 ### Event 6615 (EB25A31C) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** NEAR KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 2 saucers seen 30 second(s) / 2 observer(s). 1 going east. Other going SSE. Instant acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, J. Allen: The UFO EXPERIENCE, A Scientific Inquiry; Ballentine Books, NY 1974,1977. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2248 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "nr KIRTLAND AFB,NM:2 SCRS SEEN 30sec/2 OBS:1 >E:OTHER >SSE:INSTANT ACCEL.", **LatLong:** "35.033335 -106.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:02:00 N 106:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.033335,-106.633338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6616 (3AE2849D) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** NAGOYA, JPN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1364. ECM officer. Silent ovoid straight and level 750mph going quickly northeast. Edge pulses blue. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2249 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NAGOYA,JPN:BBK#1364:ECM OFFICER:SLNT OVOID S/L 750mph>>NE:EDGE PULSES BLUE", **LatLong:** "35.150002 136.883340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 136:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,136.883340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6617 (B7E55A20) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** LAKE KOSHKONONG, WI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1361. 1 ground observer(s). White saucer high over F80-jet makes 180 turn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2250 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "237", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE KOSHKONONG,WI:BBK#1361:1 GND OBS:WHT SCR HI OVR F80-JET MAKES 180 TURN", **LatLong:** "42.883335 -88.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:53:00 N 88:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.883335,-88.983338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6618 (D2063E48) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CALUSO, ITL **Description:** 1 observer. Flashing disk hovers vertical by woods. Turns horizontal. Ozone odor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2251 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CALUSO,ITL:1 OBS:FLASHING DISK HVRS VERTICAL by WOODS:TURNS HZNTL:OZONE ODOR", **LatLong:** "45.300002 7.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:18:00 N 07:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.300002,7.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Torino", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6619 (170D166F) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** 2 silvery disc-like objects high in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1074 ### Event 6620 (DB98EF22) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Location:** Lake Kishkonoug, WI **Description:** Silver-white sphere become an ellipse (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1361) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1075 ### Event 6621 (701FDD11) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Location:** Nagoya, Honshu, Japan **Description:** Dark blue elliptical-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1363) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1076 ### Event 6622 (6D6F7570) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Location:** Pacific bet. Hawaii and Calif., in airspace **Description:** Bright Light Crosses C-97's Path (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520628](http://www.nicap.org/520628pacific%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1077 ### Event 6623 (BA05E449) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Time:** 6 PM **Location:** Lake Kishkanoug, Wisconsin **Description:** Witness: G. Metcalfe. One silver-white sphere became an ellipse as it turned and climbed away very fast. 10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_159 ### Event 6624 (71A3C1A4) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Time:** 4:10 PM **Location:** Nagoya, Japan **Description:** Witness: Capt. T. W. Barger, USAF electronics countermeasures officer. One dark blue elliptical-shaped object with a pulsing border flew straight and level at 700-800 m.p.h.. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_160 ### Event 6625 (E069F063) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Location:** Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 1:20 p.m. Two observers at the Cargo Air Service hangar at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see two silvery discs high in the sky and moving to the south. They noiselessly climb nearly vertically at high speed, one going south-southeast, the other heading almost due east. The observation lasts 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, THE UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 68–69](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/68/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 142 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1877 ### Event 6626 (D2CFC293) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Description:** Kirtland AFB, New Mexico - Two round silver disks were sighted by two men aboard a Carco Air Service cargo plane flying south of Kirtland AFB at 1:20 p.m. The craft initially moved slowly and silently to the south, but picked up speed instantly speed and climbed vertically. After climbing one object veered to the east and the second continued on in a south-southeasterly direction. They made no detectable sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 181 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3709 ### Event 6627 (3BFCFBDF) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Description:** At 6 o'clock in the evening a silvery white sphere was observed flying over Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin. It made a 180 degree turn and assumed an elliptical shape during the turn, then returned to a spherical appearance as it flew on. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 28; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 268 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3710 ### Event 6628 (7C89BB15) **Date:** 6/28/1952 **Description:** A flashing disc shaped object hovered vertically in the air by some woods near Lake Caluso in the Piemonte region of Italy around nine o'clock in the evening. It rotated 90 degrees into a horizontal position, and left behind an odor of ozone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 136 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3711 ### Event 6629 (2C3A8C7F) **Date:** 6/29/1952 **Location:** PARK RIDGE, IL **Description:** 3 military cops. 10M saucer over 2 radio towers. Jumps about / 45 minute(s). Blue-glowing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2252 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "PARK RIDGE,IL:3 MIL COPS:10M SCR ovr 2 RDO TOWERS:JUMPS ABOUT/45min:BLU-GLO", **LatLong:** "42.011113 -87.838893", **LatLongDMS:** "42:00:40 N 87:50:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.011113,-87.838893)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6630 (3088E2DA) **Date:** 6/29/1952 **Location:** O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL **Description:** A bright silver smooth surfaced, flat oval 30 ft object (Jan Aldrich; unpublished Ruppelt manuscript) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1364) **Reference:** NICAP: [520629](http://www.nicap.org/ohara520629dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1078 ### Event 6631 (0A113656) **Date:** 6/29/1952 **Time:** 5:45 PM **Location:** O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois **Description:** witnesses: three USAF air policemen. One bright silver, flat oval object surrounded by a blue haze, hovered, then moved very fast to the right and to the left, and up and down for 45 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_161 ### Event 6632 (B537005F) **Date:** 6/29/1952 **Locations:** O’Hare Airport; Chicago **Description:** 5:45 p.m. Three Air Force police officers of the 83rd Air Base Squadron at O’Hare Airport in Chicago spot a flat, oval object as it hovers between two radio towers about 7 miles away. It is bright silver in color, encircled by white haze, and appears about 30 feet in diameter. During the next 45 minutes the object moves to the southwest and then back north. It accelerates instantaneously to a speed faster than a jet fighter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520629ohara%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 143 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1878 ### Event 6633 (E2502451) **Date:** 6/29/1952 **Description:** On this night three military policemen in Park Ridge, Illinois near O'Hare Airport sighted a thirty foot in diameter disc with a blue glow hovering over two civilian radio towers. It jumped about in the sky for 45 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1364. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3726 ### Event 6634 (D765C808) **Date:** 6/29/1952 **Description:** At 9:05 p.m. EDT a BOAC airliner with 22 witnesses aboard tracked a group of at least seven objects for 18 minutes over Canada, first encountering the objects around Sept-Iles in Quebec. The objects were seen flying in and out of broken cloud cover. There were six small ovals and a larger dark object, which was continually changing shape. It was described as changing shape "like a swarm of bees might do." The six smaller orbs were "strung out in a line." The explanation provided by the US Air Force, that they were witnessing Mars, was impossible at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Brinsley LePoer Trench, The Flying Saucer Story, p. 33; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 139; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3727 ### Event 6635 (D6F6A68D) **Date:** 6/30/1952 **Location:** SEASIDE PARK, NJ **Description:** 1 observer. Saucer over 3 Air Force jets;1 towing target. Saucer vanishes / smoke! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2253 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SEASIDE PARK,NJ:1 OBS:SCR OVR 3 AF JETS;1 TOWING TARGET:SCR VANISHES/SMOKE!", **LatLong:** "39.927780 -74.077781", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:40 N 74:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.927780,-74.077781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6636 (23ED74C7) **Date:** 6/30/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** SEA OF JAPAN **Description:** Location unknown. 3 in USAF C54. Cloud-saucer hides / clouds. Seen 5mn. Speeds away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2254 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SEA of JAPAN:loc unk:3 in USAF C54:CLOUD-SCR HIDES/CLOUDS:SEEN 5mn:SPEEDS AWAY", **LatLong:** "39.000002 135.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 135:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,135.000006)", **State/Prov:** "SJP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6637 (C4A6CBF1) **Date:** 6/30/1952 **Location:** Columbia, MO **Description:** Object at extreme distance irregularly changing color from red to green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1079 ### Event 6638 (3C607880) **Date:** 6/30/1952 **Location:** Phoenix, AZ **Description:** Gaudet \[and Wolf?\]. (Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1080 ### Event 6639 (EBCE4A8C) **Date:** 6/30/1952 **Location:** Sea of Japan, at sea **Description:** Circular object flattened on top and bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1081 ### Event 6640 (0D0B08DD) **Date:** 6/30/1952 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says that by this time there is a split in opinion in the military about what to do about UFOs. One group assumes that UFOs are interplanetary, and information must be withheld at a top-secret level. “The enthusiasm of this group took a firm hold in the Pentagon, at Air Defense Command headquarters, on the Research and Development Board, and many other agencies.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 152–153](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/152/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1879 ### Event 6641 (64B8CE28) **Date:** 7/1952 **Location:** Ohio Northern University **Description:** Ohio Northern University sets up Project "A" to investigate the UFO's. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_116 ### Event 6642 (CCF4CC9B) **Date:** 7/1952 **Description:** Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_117 ### Event 6643 (D1377B95) **Date:** 7/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** NEAR MASCOT, NSW **Description:** Ana pilot. Orange fireball going quickly [to] by. Returns. Circles airliner. Going quickly east. Nothing / RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 832) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2255 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr MASCOT,NSW:ANA PILOT:ORG FBL >> BY:RETURNS:CCLS AIRLINER:>>E:nothing/rdr", **LatLong:** "-33.933335 151.200007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:56:00 S 151:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.933335,151.200007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6644 (6B6F23B9) **Date:** 7/1952 **Locations:** Sydney, New South Wales; Fairfield, New South Wales **Description:** [Edgar Jarrold](http://theozfiles1.rssing.com/chan-25625913/all%5Fp4.html) begins the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia’s first civilian UFO organization, following his personal observation of two fast-moving yellow lights in the sky over Fairfield, New South Wales. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucers on His Mind,](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18407496)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Gazette, February 2, 1954, p. 7; Clark III 632 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1882 ### Event 6645 (7C925E3C) **Date:** 7/1952 **Location:** Schenectady, New York **Description:** Afternoon. A man driving a car near Schenectady, New York, sees an oblong object hovering nearby. A gondola lowers from the object and a bunch of “Navy officers in white hats” rush to the windows. All are wearing huge dark glasses. The gondola goes back up, and three smaller UFOs appear and go inside the bigger one. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1952–1953,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1952-1953.pdf) p. 10; Clark III 267 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1883 ### Event 6646 (954B79BB) **Date:** 7/1952 **Locations:** Ohio Northern University; Ada, Ohio; Los Angeles **Description:** The administration and faculty of Ohio Northern University, in Ada, Ohio, announce the formation of Project A: Investigation of Phenomena, saying that members of the engineering, pharmacy, law, and liberal arts colleges will examine the evidence for UFOs under the direction of Dean [Warren L. Hickman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158923731/warren-l%5F-hickman). Project A personnel seek reports from the public and collect newspaper clippings. The project receives a disappointing 54 completed questionnaires, far lower than the 200 they would like for a scientific sampling. However, they do estimate that about 20% involve “unnatural phenomena.” After unsuccessful attempts to obtain reports from Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles and other groups, the university closes the project down in mid-1954. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 3; Clark III 916; Curt Collins, “[Project A: The Short](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/09/project-the-short-life-of-ufo-study.html) [Life of a UFO Study,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/09/project-the-short-life-of-ufo-study.html)” September 21, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1884 ### Event 6647 (A040A5BA) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** BEDFORD, MA **Description:** Many observer(s). Saucer outraces 2 F94s. Going southwest. 2 cigars / 500mph / Lynn, Ma. / r242p84. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2256 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "BEDFORD,MA:MANY OBS:SCR OUTRACES 2 F94s:>SW:2 CGRS/500mph/LYNN,MA:/r242p84", **LatLong:** "42.488891 -71.277781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:29:20 N 71:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.488891,-71.277781)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6648 (CFD4D197) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** PORT MONMOUTH, NJ **Description:** 12+observer(s) / RADAR. 2 cigars / 15km altitude / 5 minute(s). Going quickly southwest. 2nd / 0907hrs. / r28p306. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2257 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "27", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PORT MONMOUTH,NJ:12+OBS/RDR:2 CGRs/15km alt/5min:>>SW:2nd/0907hrs:/r28p306", **LatLong:** "40.416669 -74.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:25:00 N 74:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.416669,-74.083337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6649 (A5A8255D) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Physics Professor and 500 at G. Washington university/universe(al). Metallic saucer hovers and maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2258 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:PHYSICS PROF+500 at G.WASHINGTON UNIV:METALLIC SCR HVRS+MNVRS", **LatLong:** "38.900002 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:54:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.900002,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6650 (93F662C3) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** OVER MT. WILSON, CA **Description:** Observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars watches 6-engine B36. So does motionless saucer / 10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2259 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1740", **HatchDesc:** "ovr Mt WILSON,CA:OBS/BINOCS WATCHES 6-ENGINE B36:SO DOES MOTIONLESS SCR/10min", **LatLong:** "34.233335 -118.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:00 N 118:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.233335,-118.083339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6651 (6DDAFF76) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LOCATION UNKNOWN / SOUTH SWEDEN **Description:** 3 RSAF men. Silver-grey classic saucer. Very fast. No further details. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 832) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2260 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "loc.unk/S.SWEDEN:3 RSAF MEN:SLVR-GRY CLASSIC SCR:VFAST:NFD:see ref", **LatLong:** "57.000003 14.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "57:00:00 N 14:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.000003,14.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6652 (7D96D225) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Location:** Boston, MA **Description:** 7:25 am. Two silvery elliptical UFOs were observed visually near Boston, where an F-94 interceptor was sent up to investigate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520701](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lynn520701dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1082 ### Event 6653 (6AFCAE62) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Location:** Fort Monmouth, NJ **Description:** 2 big lights about 20 ft diameter fly straight and level, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520701](http://www.nicap.org/520701fortmonmouth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1083 ### Event 6654 (94C1F80C) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Description:** [J. Robert Moskin](http://www.jrobertmoskin.com/)‘s article appears in Look magazine. It features Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)’s declaration that “we cannot afford to be complacent” about UFOs. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) says that the article has upset the “silence group” in the Pentagon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. Robert Moskin, “[Hunt for the Flying Saucer,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look7152.htm)” Look. July 1, 1952, pp. 37–41; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 52–53](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1885 ### Event 6655 (F35CF5A8) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Locations:** Boston, Massachusetts; Lynn, Massachusetts; Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts **Description:** 7:25 a.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a UFO headed southwest across Boston, Massachusetts. Two F-94s are scrambled. Erwin W. Nelson and his wife at Lynn, Massachusetts, notice two vapor trails from the climbing jets, look around, and see in the west a bright silver “cigar shaped object about six times as long as it was wide” heading over Boston at a very high altitude. An identical UFO is following the first some distance back. No vapor trails are visible. The witnesses watch the F-94s search back and forth far below the UFOs. At 7:30, USAF Capt. [Robert E. Metcalf](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49260481/robert-eugene-metcalf), petroleum officer for the 6520th Test Support Wing, and USAF air policemen M/Sgt [James Stiner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50612319/james-stiner) and M/Sgt Joseph R. Bosh, 6520th Air Police Squadron, at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, see the two jets, look for what they are intercepting, and see to the east a 100-foot-long silvery ellipse “fatter than a cigar” traveling southwest. At two points, the object seems to hover, then continues at about 40,000 feet. The object’s path intersects contrails of the two jets heading southeast. Metcalf loses sight of the object on his way to the tower after a few minutes, then sees it again at about 7:40 a.m., noting it has increased distance “considerably,” but finally loses sight of it at the tower. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue Book document](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB11-326-328.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p. 160](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=172&skin=2021); Ruppelt, [pp. 150–151](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/150/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 144 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1886 ### Event 6656 (692BE83B) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Locations:** East Coast; Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; George Washington University, D.C. **Description:** 8:40–9:15 a.m. Two silvery objects move south along the East Coast and hover near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for about 5 minutes at 50,000 feet. As radar at Fort Monmouth detects the objects, they put on a burst of speed and head southwest toward Washington, D.C., confirmed visually. At about 12:00 noon, a physics professor at George Washington University in D.C. sees a grayish UFO hovering and arcing back and forth across the sky for about 8 minutes. He guesses about 500 people are watching the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Objects Tracked at 50,000ʹ,](http://www.nicap.org/520701fortmonmouth%5Fdir.htm) [G/V](http://www.nicap.org/520701fortmonmouth%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 151–152](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/150/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 36– 37; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 144 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1887 ### Event 6657 (BAF5E485) **Date:** 7/1/1952 **Description:** Lynn, Massachusetts - At about 7:25 in the morning two F-94's were scrambled to intercept a UFO that a Ground Observer Corps spotter reported was travelling southwest across Boston. Radar couldn't pick it up so the jets were vectored into the general area. At 7:30 a.m. a man and his wife in Lynn noticed the two vapor trails from the F-94 interceptors and looked around the sky to see if they could spot what the jets were after. They saw a bright silver cigar-shaped object "about six times as long as it was wide" moving southwest. As they watched they saw an identical UFO was following the first one some distance back. Both were moving just a little faster than the two jets. The UFOs appeared to be at a very high altitude, and the couple watched as the two F-94's searched back and forth far below the UFOs. The Air Force lists the explanation of the objects as probable balloons. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956, pg. 150 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3769 ### Event 6658 (41CABF74) **Date:** 7/2/1952 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** US30 7 MILE(S) NORTH / TREMONTON, UT **Description:** Navy man and 1. 12 saucers maneuver going west. 40' good 16 mm film. / r242p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 304) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2261 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1315", **HatchDesc:** "US30 7mi.N/TREMONTON,UT:NAVY MAN+1:12 SCRS MNVR >W:40'GOOD 16mm FILM:/r242p15", **LatLong:** "41.716669 -112.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "41:43:00 N 112:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.716669,-112.183339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6659 (121CDD86) **Date:** 7/2/1952 **Location:** Tremonton, UT **Description:** The Tremonton, Utah / Newhouse Color Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520702](http://www.nicap.org/520702tremonton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1084 ### Event 6660 (D4D8538E) **Date:** 7/2/1952 **Location:** highway seven miles north of Tremonton, Utah, US **Description:** 11:10 a.m. As he is driving on a highway seven miles north of Tremonton, Utah, US Navy Chief Petty Officer Delbert C. Newhouse and his wife see a strange object in the sky. Newhouse pulls the car to the side of the road, gets out, and watches 12–14 UFOs at about 10,000 feet. Looking like “two pie pans, one inverted on top of the other,” they are clustered in a loose formation, “milling around.” He takes about 75 seconds worth of film through the telephoto lens of his 16mm movie camera, though the objects have receded a bit to shiny points of light. At one point a single object leaves the pack, heading east, and Newhouse holds the camera still so the UFO crosses the field of view. He repeats the procedure 3-4 times. Blue Book obtains the film and sends it to the USAF Photo- Reconnaissance Laboratory and the Navy’s Photo Interpretation Laboratory. Both analyses eliminate the possibility of aircraft or birds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Tremonton, Utah / Newhouse Color Film](http://www.nicap.org/520702tremonton%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Delbert Newhouse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLvzgJMsIQ) [UFO Footage, 1952, Tremonton, Utah,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLvzgJMsIQ)” parkerdonaldmusic YouTube channel, September 29, 2012; Ruppelt, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/220/mode/2up) [220–222](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/220/mode/2up); UFOEv, [pp. 88](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021) [112](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=124&skin=2021); Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 235–239](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/234/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 418–426](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/418/mode/2up); “Turner on Tremonton,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 6; Swords 149; Clark III 1203–1204; Kevin D. Randle, “[Newhouse’s Tremonton, Utah](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/12/newhouses-tremonton-utah-movie-revisited.html) [Movie Revisited,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/12/newhouses-tremonton-utah-movie-revisited.html)” A Different Perspective, December 12, 2013; Patrick Gross, “[Tremonton, Utah, UFO Color](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tremonton.htm) [Film of July 2, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tremonton.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1888 ### Event 6661 (3C5F6607) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Time:** 06:10 **Location:** DAKAR, SENEGAL, (FWA) **Description:** Odd meteor straight and level for 5 second(s). Then rises. Accounts differ. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2262 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DAKAR,SENEGAL,(FWA):ODD METEOR S/L for 5sec:THEN RISES:accounts differ:NFD", **LatLong:** "14.666667 -17.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "14:40:00 N 17:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.666667,-17.433334)", **State/Prov:** "SNG", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 6662 (CF67DCF5) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Time:** 06:10 **Location:** AJAX, ON **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Flaming red disk south going quickly north. Vapor trail. "Just like a tea-plate". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 839) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2263 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "AJAX,ON:2 SEP.OBS:FLAMING RED DISK S>>N:VAPOR TRAIL:"Just like a tea-plate"", **LatLong:** "43.850002 -79.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:51:00 N 79:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.850002,-79.016670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6663 (2E8F1E1B) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** NEAR ROME CENTER, MI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1380. 2 6m circular lights flash over country / low altitude. Many calls. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2264 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "277", **HatchDesc:** "nr ROME CENTER,MI:BBK#1380:2 6m CIRC.LITES FLASH OVR COUNTRY/LO ALT:MANY CALLS", **LatLong:** "41.916669 -84.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:55:00 N 84:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.916669,-84.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6664 (5C0CB8E5) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** ORAN, ALGERIA **Description:** Mechanic. Silver saucer maneuvers slowly. Rotates rapidly / 3 minute(s). Going quickly west to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2265 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ORAN,ALGERIA:MECHANIC:SLVR SCR MNVRS SLOWLY:ROTATES RAPIDLY/3min:>>W TO SEA", **LatLong:** "35.766668 -0.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "35:46:00 N 00:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.766668,-0.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Oran", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6665 (F36C5579) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1382. 1 observer. 2 pastel disks straight and level very fast / 6 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2266 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:BBK#1382:1 OBS:2 PASTEL DISKS S/L VERY FAST/6sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.883335 -87.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:00 N 87:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.883335,-87.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6666 (D303953B) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** 2 big lights about 20 ft diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1380) **Reference:** NICAP: [520703](http://www.nicap.org/selfridge520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1085 ### Event 6667 (2FE85066) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Location:** Chicago, IL **Description:** 2 bright pastel green discs fly straight and level very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1382) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1086 ### Event 6668 (9D2EE059) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Time:** 4:15 AM **Location:** Selfridge AFB, Michigan **Description:** Witnesses not identified. Two big lights, estimated at 20' diameter, flew straight and level at tremendous speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_162 ### Event 6669 (BF0DBDC6) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Time:** 11:50 PM **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** Witness: Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle. Two bright pastel green discs flew straight and level very fast for 6 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_163 ### Event 6670 (292E65CB) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Locations:** Manitou Beach Highway; Rome Center, Michigan **Description:** 4:15 a.m. A witness on the Manitou Beach Highway near Rome Center, Michigan, watches two circular lights about 20 feet in diameter flying horizontally at tremendous speed at only a few hundred feet altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[July 3, 1952: Selfridge AFB, Mich.](http://www.nicap.org/selfridge520723dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1889 ### Event 6671 (A4FF1E87) **Date:** 7/3/1952 **Locations:** Chicago, Illinois; O'Hare Airport **Description:** 11:50 p.m. Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle sees two bright pastel-green discs fly straight and level very fast for 6 seconds over Chicago, Illinois. The next day the Air Force public information office at O’Hare Airport says it has received 16 reports of UFOs over Chicago in the past week. An Air Force spokesman says that jet patrols are on alert 24 hours a day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145; “[Deny Reports of ‘Saucers’ Alerts,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93380946/)” Waterloo \(Iowa\) Courier, July 4, 1952, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1890 ### Event 6672 (2085DF44) **Date:** 7/4/1952 **Location:** GLENROCK, WYOMING **Description:** Saucer / 200-300mph. Slows. Circles. Gyrates. Rises and falls. Going quickly [to] behind mountains. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2267 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1529", **HatchDesc:** "GLENROCK,WYOMING:SCR/200-300mph:SLOWS:CIRCLES:GYRATES:RISES+FALLS:>>BHND MTNS", **LatLong:** "42.861113 -105.872227", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:40 N 105:52:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.861113,-105.872227)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6673 (8D4C1B20) **Date:** 7/4/1952 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** STUTTGART, GERM **Description:** 5+observer(s). Silver saucer hovers. 2nd saucer joins. 1 goes then 2nd. Extreme speeds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2268 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "STUTTGART,GERM:5+OBS:SLVR SCR HVRS:2nd SCR JOINS:1 GOES THEN 2nd:XTREME SPEEDS", **LatLong:** "48.800002 9.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:48:00 N 09:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.800002,9.233334)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6674 (5C917EB5) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** HANFORD, WA **Description:** 4 pilots. Saucer 2.7km over atomic plant. Changes shape. / r242p38. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2269 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "HANFORD,WA:4 PILOTS:SCR 2.7km OVR ATOMIC PLANT:CHANGES SHAPE:/r242p38", **LatLong:** "46.533336 -119.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:32:00 N 119:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.533336,-119.500006)", **RelAlt:** "7400", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6675 (18E8F750) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SSW / NORMAN, OKLA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1390. 3 saucers hover until cop / private plane asks about them / radio. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2270 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "350", **HatchDesc:** "SSW/NORMAN,OKLA:BBK#1390:3 SCRS HVR until COP/PVT PLANE ASKS ABOUT THEM/RADIO", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -97.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 97:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-97.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6676 (7A5F121B) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** OFF NORWALK, CT **Description:** 2 / boat. Intense low star becomes 2 small night lights. Zip going up [to] until lost / sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2271 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off NORWALK,CT:2/BOAT:INTENSE LO STAR BECOMES 2 SML NLTS:ZIP ↑ UNTIL LOST/SKY", **LatLong:** "41.066669 -73.400003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:04:00 N 73:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.066669,-73.400003)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6677 (D651C207) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Location:** Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK **Description:** (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1087 ### Event 6678 (5571EF19) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Location:** Richland, WA **Description:** Hanford Atomic Works - perfect circular white disc above the site (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1088 ### Event 6679 (E0909A19) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Location:** Norman, OK **Description:** Three Dark Discs Sighted From State Patrol Airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1390) **Reference:** NICAP: [520705](http://www.nicap.org/520705norman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1089 ### Event 6680 (C03A553B) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Location:** Hanford AEC Plant (at Richland), WA **Description:** C-46 Crew Observe Disc Over AEC Plant (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520705](http://www.nicap.org/520705hanford%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1090 ### Event 6681 (D336D87A) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Time:** 7:58 PM **Location:** Norman, Oklahoma **Description:** Witness: Oklahoma State Patrolman Hamilton in State Patrol airplane. Three dark discs hovered and then flew away, silhouetted against a dark cloud. 15 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_164 ### Event 6682 (6B6D7FC1) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Locations:** Hanford atomic site in Washington State; 9,000 feet above the Hanford atomic site in Washington State **Description:** 6:00 a.m. Four commercial pilots flying at 9,000 feet above the Hanford atomic site in Washington State observe a disc just below a deck of wispy clouds directly above their C-46. The witnesses are Capt. John Baldwin, Capt. George Robertson, H. D. Shenkel, and Steven Summers. Baldwin says that the disc stands still at first and then seems to back away and change shape, becoming flat, gaining speed, and then disappearing. Robertson says “we couldn’t pick it up on our radar. We reversed our course and went back, but we couldn’t spot it again.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[C-46 Crew Observe Disc over AEC Plant](http://www.nicap.org/520705hanford%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 53](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/52/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145; Swords 149 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1891 ### Event 6683 (83DD700B) **Date:** 7/5/1952 **Locations:** Oklahoma State; Norman, Oklahoma **Description:** 7:58 p.m. Oklahoma State Patrolman Arthur Myers Hamilton is flying five miles south-southeast of Norman, Oklahoma, in a State Patrol airplane when he sees three dark discs 4–8 miles away at 6,000 feet hover for 15 seconds then fly away, silhouetted against a dark cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three Dark Discs Sighted from State Patrol](http://www.nicap.org/520705norman%5Fdir.htm) [Airplane](http://www.nicap.org/520705norman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1892 ### Event 6684 (0BAA8DED) **Date:** 7/6/1952 **Location:** BONE = ANNABA, ALGERIA **Description:** Luminous sphere seen. Observer(s) and time unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2272 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BONE = ANNABA,ALGERIA:LUMINOUS SPHERE SEEN:OBS+TIME UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.950002 7.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "36:57:00 N 07:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.950002,7.650000)", **State/Prov:** "CNN", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6685 (C92142C4) **Date:** 7/6/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** THANN, HT RHIN, FR **Description:** 2 bluish disks seen. Observer(s) and time unknown. No further details. / Jimmy Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2273 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "THANN,Ht RHIN,FR:2 BLUISH DISKS SEEN:OBS+TIME UNK:NFD:/JIMMY GUIEU.", **LatLong:** "47.816669 7.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:49:00 N 07:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.816669,7.083334)", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6686 (E776D07A) **Date:** 7/6/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** KINDLEY AIR FORCE BASE, BERMUDA **Description:** 8 observer(s). Saucer hovers overhead / 7 minute(s). Turns / edge and grows tube. Vanishes!! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2274 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KINDLEY AFB,BERMUDA:8 OBS:SCR HVRS OHVD/7min:TURNS/EDGE+GROWS TUBE:VANISHES!!", **LatLong:** "32.366668 -64.705559", **LatLongDMS:** "32:22:00 N 64:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.366668,-64.705559)", **State/Prov:** "Bermuda", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6687 (6C6E4DDA) **Date:** 7/6/1952 **End date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Governors Island, NY **Description:** 4 photos of some indistinct light (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: 1397) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1091 ### Event 6688 (D48382C1) **Date:** 7/6/1952 **Time:** 11:00 PM **Location:** Elizabeth, New Jersey **Description:** July 6-12, 1952. Witness: Charles Muhr. Four pictures taken of some indistinct light which was admittedly not seen visually, but which appeared on the negatives. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_165 ### Event 6689 (8C34F185) **Date:** 7/6/1952 **Description:** Amateur photographer Neff was making time exposures at Governors Island, New York. He didn't see a UFO at the time, but an unidentified object appeared on the film when developed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1397 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3873 ### Event 6690 (AC2FA544) **Date:** 7/7/1952 **Description:** Battelle issues its third status report on Project Stork to ATIC. It mentions that Hynek has been consulted on the observer’s data sheet, suggested some changes, and is in the process of interviewing astronomers about any potential sightings made by them. The group has studied and coded UFO reports from 1948. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seven Status](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm) [Reports for Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1893 ### Event 6691 (E9B52C48) **Date:** 7/8/1952 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** WHEATON, IL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 yellow disks pace airliner / lower altitude. 1 turns grey and turns away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 842) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2275 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "WHEATON,IL:2 OBS:2 YLW DISKS PACE AIRLINER/lower alt:1 TURNS GRY+TURNS AWAY", **LatLong:** "41.866669 -88.105560", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 88:06:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,-88.105560)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6692 (64875AB9) **Date:** 7/8/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** OTTAWA, ON **Description:** 2 Army men. Silent fireball going west. Circles city / 200mph / 2 mile(s) altitude. Going east again. / APRO v1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 842) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2276 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "OTTAWA,ON:2 ARMY MEN:SLNT FBL > W:CCLS CITY/200mph/2mi.alt:>E again:/APRO v1#2", **LatLong:** "45.383335 -75.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:23:00 N 75:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.383335,-75.683337)", **RelAlt:** "3168", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6693 (38C5529B) **Date:** 7/8/1952 **Location:** Ottawa, Ontario **Description:** A commissionaire on duty at an army depot in Ottawa, Ontario, sees a bright orange light about a quarter size of the full moon travel from south to north, turn, and travel south again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich; Project Magnet Case X **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1894 ### Event 6694 (A2EAE116) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Location:** GRANTS PASS, OR **Description:** Classic saucer / local papers. Glows red. Triangular tail spews light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2277 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "289", **HatchDesc:** "GRANTS PASS,OR:CLASSIC SCR/LOCAL PAPERS:GLOWS RED:TRIANGULAR TAIL SPEWS LITE", **LatLong:** "42.438891 -123.327784", **LatLongDMS:** "42:26:20 N 123:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.438891,-123.327784)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6695 (4FEC7A14) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Location:** ASHLAND, OREGON **Description:** "Blue square object / rounded corners drops / sky in a flaming plunge". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2278 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "595", **HatchDesc:** "ASHLAND,ORE:"BLUE SQUARE OBJ/ROUNDED CORNERS DROPS/SKY IN A FLAMING PLUNGE"", **LatLong:** "42.200002 -122.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "42:12:00 N 122:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.200002,-122.700006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6696 (F21BCC0C) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** COLORADO SPRINGS, CO **Description:** Air Force pilot. Luminous white airfoil without trailing edge glides / 12 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2279 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "1802", **HatchDesc:** "COLORADO SPRINGS,CO:AF PILOT:LUM.WHT AIRFOIL W/O TRAILING EDGE GLIDES/12min", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -104.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 104:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-104.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6697 (9D2768E5) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** MIAMI, OK **Description:** 10 observer(s). Large silver saucer hovers / tire plant. Rim smokes. Going down [to] low nearby. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 866) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2280 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "246", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,OK:10 OBS:LRG SLVR SCR HVRS/TIRE PLANT:RIM SMOKES:↓ LO NEARBY:↑↑+>>S", **LatLong:** "36.872224 -94.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "36:52:20 N 94:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.872224,-94.877782)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6698 (C3130D68) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, SD **Description:** 4 airmen / ground. 3 white saucers faster / jet. 1 hovers / airstrip. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2281 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "977", **HatchDesc:** "ELLSWORTH AFB,SD:4 AIRMEN/GND:3 WHT SCRS FASTER/JET:1 HVRS/AIRSTRIP", **LatLong:** "44.150002 -103.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:09:00 N 103:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.150002,-103.116672)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6699 (9F1328E1) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** KUTZTOWN, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1409. Farmer. Aluminum saucer tips maneuvers rises and falls. 3 poor photographs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2282 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "127", **HatchDesc:** "KUTZTOWN,PA:BBK#1409:FARMER:ALUM.SCR TIPS MNVRS RISES+FALLS:3 POOR FOTOS", **LatLong:** "40.516669 -75.777781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:31:00 N 75:46:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.516669,-75.777781)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6700 (A77E34A9) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Location:** Colorado Springs, CO **Description:** Object shaped like an airfoil less its trailing edge, luminous white, move slowly and erratically. 12-mins. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1405) **Reference:** NICAP: [520709](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/colosprings520709dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1092 ### Event 6701 (CB302AD6) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Location:** Kutztown, PA **Description:** Aluminum, oval-shaped object change direction (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1409) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1093 ### Event 6702 (6D1F1092) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Location:** Rapid City AFB, SD **Description:** A sergeant and three airmen reported that three milky white discs were between 30,000 and 40,000 feet. The airmen observed the objects which appeared between 3 and 4 inches in diameter (at arm’s length), moving faster than any jet aircraft they have seen (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520709](http://www.nicap.org/rapidcity520709dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1094 ### Event 6703 (BD94C1B7) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Time:** 12:45 PM **Location:** Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** Witness: USAF pilot Maj. C. K. Griffin. One object shaped like an airfoil less its trailing edge, luminous white, moved slowly and erratically for 12 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_166 ### Event 6704 (17E62D61) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Time:** 6:30 PM **Location:** Kutztown, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: farmer John Mittl. One aluminum, oval-shaped object changed direction and attitude, finally tipping on end and departing after 20 seconds. Case file includes three vague photographs. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_167 ### Event 6705 (10F66D67) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Time:** 3:35 PM **Location:** Rapid City AFB, South Dakota **Description:** Witnesses: S/Sgt. D.P. Foster and three other persons. Three times, a single white, disc-shaped object sped by, straight and level, in 5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_168 ### Event 6706 (8E65BD5B) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Locations:** Colorado Springs, Colorado; one mile north of Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** 12:45 p.m. USAF Maj. [Claude K. Griffin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49193646/claude-k-griffin) is driving one mile north of Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he sees a luminous white object shaped like an airfoil moving slowly and erratically like a corkscrew. He estimates its size at 100 feet, distance at 15–20 miles, and altitude at 30,000 feet, heading northwest. Griffin stops the car to watch for 12 minutes. USAF Maj. E. R. Hayden and his wife come out of their house and look at the object in a 4x rifle scope. He describes it as rectangular, silver on one side, and black on the other. It flutters as it moves slowly north-northwest above 20,000 feet 20 miles away. It gains altitude and gradually diminishes to a black dot, then accelerates to a high speed and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB11-670-676.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1895 ### Event 6707 (EEE95FF6) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Location:** 2 miles east of Kutztown, Pennsylvania **Description:** 5:30 p.m. Farmer John Mittl watches an aluminum, oval-shaped object silently change direction and attitude above his farm 2 miles east of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, finally tipping on end and departing. He manages to take three photos. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Claude Falkstrom and Curt Collins, “[John Mittl: From Unsolved UFOs to Astral Encounters,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/07/john-mittl-from-unsolved-ufos-to-astral.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot,” July 13, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1896 ### Event 6708 (4279F920) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Description:** At 12:45 p.m. a luminous white airfoil without a trailing edge glided through the sky over Colorado Springs, Colorado for 12 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1405 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3947 ### Event 6709 (4024BDF1) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Description:** A large silver disc hovered over a tire factory in Miami, Oklahoma at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It had a halo of smoke around its rim. It descended to a low, nearby spot, then rose up and shot away toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2300 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3948 ### Event 6710 (F14D333D) **Date:** 7/9/1952 **Description:** An aluminum colored disc maneuvered with flips and up-and-down motion over Kutztown, Pennsylvania at 6:30 p.m. Observers took three poor-quality photographs of the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1409 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3949 ### Event 6711 (1F836ADB) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Location:** OFF NORTH KOREA **Description:** Canadian destroyer. RADAR-visual (observation). 2 disks / 10k' altitude. / r28 p307. / The New York Times (NYT) 03 Aug. '52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2283 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "OFF N.KOREA:CANADIAN DESTROYER:RDR-VIS:2 DISKS/10k'alt:/r28 p307:/NYT 03AUG52", **LatLong:** "39.000002 129.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 129:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,129.000006)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6712 (A555BC4F) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** ORLANDO, FL **Description:** Perfect 35' metal football exits tall thundercloud and enters another.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2284 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "ORLANDO,FL:PERFECT 35'MTL FOOTBALL EXITS TALL THUNDERCLOUD+ENTERS ANOTHER..", **LatLong:** "28.533335 -81.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "28:32:00 N 81:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.533335,-81.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6713 (5BE94145) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** 10+observer(s). Gold-glowing object zig-zags across sky several X. Avoids spotlight. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 867) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2285 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:10+OBS:GOLD-GLO OBJ ZIG-ZAGS ACRS SKY SVRL X:AVOIDS SPOTLITE:VFAST", **LatLong:** "37.666668 -97.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 97:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,-97.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6714 (D617D883) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** QUANTICO, VA **Description:** National airline(s)/airliner flight and marine pilot. Green fireballs. Faster / balloon. Slower / meteor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2286 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "QUANTICO,VA:NAT'L AL FLITE+MARINE PILOT:GRN FBLS:FASTER/BALLOON:SLOWER/METEOR", **LatLong:** "38.522224 -77.294448", **LatLongDMS:** "38:31:20 N 77:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.522224,-77.294448)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6715 (0BC797D6) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Location:** Quantico (near), VA **Description:** Light Maneuvers Near C-60 Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520710](http://www.nicap.org/520710quantico%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1095 ### Event 6716 (30966405) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Location:** Korea (near), Korea **Description:** Navy Destroyer Observes Two Discs / Tracks On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) **Reference:** NICAP: [520710](http://www.nicap.org/520710korea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1096 ### Event 6717 (9DE801CE) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Location:** Quantico, Virginia **Description:** 8:18 p.m. Capt. James E. Lundy and First Officer Leon Blanks are flying a National Airlines C-60 airplane 15 miles south of Quantico, Virginia, when they see an object resembling an aircraft landing light. The object becomes brighter as it approaches from the north. It then performs a climbing turn away from the aircraft and its appearance changes, resembling a light emitted by a red flare. Visible for 10 minutes, it is flying too fast for any known aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Light Maneuvers near C-60 Airliner](http://www.nicap.org/520710quantico%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 146 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1897 ### Event 6718 (CF2C08B2) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Location:** Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia **Description:** Night. A Marine pilot on night maneuvers near Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, spots two green objects shoot straight across the sky at terrific speed at a high altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Radar Sees ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93382148/) [AF Investigating,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93381862/)” July 22, 1952, pp. 1A, 6A **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1898 ### Event 6719 (747137A7) **Date:** 7/10/1952 **Location:** Korea **Description:** Night. Forty crew members of the Canadian destroyer [HMCS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FCrusader%5F%28R20%29) [Crusader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FCrusader%5F%28R20%29) off Korea see two shiny discs and track them on radar. The radar fix places them at 10,560 feet altitude and 7 miles distant. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Naval](http://www.nicap.org/520710korea%5Fdir.htm) [Destroyer Observes Two Discs / Tracks on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/520710korea%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1899 ### Event 6720 (0749314B) **Date:** 7/11/1952 (approximate) **Location:** LINCOLNWOOD, IL **Description:** Lt. Col. Weig sees flying saucer / Chicago daily news. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2287 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "184", **HatchDesc:** "LINCOLNWOOD,IL:Lt COL.WEIG SEES FLYING SCR/CHICAGO DAILY NEWS:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.005558 -87.727782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:00:20 N 87:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.005558,-87.727782)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6721 (97DF9C33) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Location:** VAN NUYS, CA **Description:** Night light hovers and shoots off / L. Gross. Culver city. Cylinder/cigar-shape and saucers circle aircraft plant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2288 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "VAN NUYS,CA:NLT HVRS+SHOOTS OFF/L.GROSS::CULVER CITY:CGR+SCRS CCL ACRFT PLANT", **LatLong:** "34.183335 -118.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:00 N 118:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.183335,-118.450006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6722 (508509D7) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** 100 observer(s). Silver cylinder/cylindrical object scouts 3 aircraft plants. Hovers and extreme accelerations. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 868) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2289 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:100 OBS:SLVR CYL SCOUTS 3 AIRCRAFT PLANTS:HVRS+EXTREME ACCELS:SLNT", **LatLong:** "37.700002 -97.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:42:00 N 97:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.700002,-97.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6723 (FFA0FDA9) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** ORAN, ALG **Description:** Newsman and 2 grocers. Brilliant disk. Going quickly southwest fast. Moderate altitude into cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2290 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ORAN,ALG:NEWSMAN+2 GROCERS:BRILL.DISK:>>SW FAST:MODERATE ALTITUDE INTO CLOUD", **LatLong:** "35.716668 -0.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "35:43:00 N 00:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.716668,-0.733333)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6724 (45BDE024) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** HANFORD, WA **Description:** 2 yellow saucers going east over Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) plant. 4km altitude. Air Force investigate. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) V35#2+/ r95v5#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 843) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2291 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "HANFORD,WA:2 YLW SCRs >E OVR AEC PLANT:4km alt:AF INVSTG:/FSR V35#2+/r95v5#3", **LatLong:** "46.583336 -119.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:35:00 N 119:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.583336,-119.550006)", **RelAlt:** "4000", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6725 (7211B55C) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** GARY, IN **Description:** 1+dog. Disk size / dinner plate. 3M tail. Red glow. Going [to] low over houses. Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 867) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2292 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "GARY,IN:1+DOG:DISK size/dinner plate:3M TAIL:RED GLOW:> LO OVR HOUSES:XFAST", **LatLong:** "41.633335 -87.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:38:00 N 87:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.633335,-87.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6726 (ABD047F8) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LAMORICIERE, ALG **Description:** Meteor and 2 night lights. Then ovoid passes straight and level / low altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2293 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LAMORICIERE,ALG:METEOR+2 NLTS:then OVOID PASSES STRAIGHT+LEVEL/LO alt:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.900002 -1.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:54:00 N 01:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.900002,-1.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Lamoriciere", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6727 (727EBAB7) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Location:** Hasselbach, Germany **Description:** Oscar Linke, former Wehrmacht major, and his daughter Gabrielle, 11, had to leave their motorcycle when they had a flat tire. Inside the woods the girl noticed two men in silvery suits examining the ground in a clearing near a pink disk-shaped object, 8 m in diameter, showing a double row of openings around the rim and a black turret on top. One of the men had a flashing box. Both men went inside, and the disk vibrated, rose along the turretlike cylinder, then spun faster and rose out of sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Guieu 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_93 ### Event 6728 (21127376) **Date:** 7/11/1952 **Locations:** Korea; Japan **Description:** The Air Technical Liaison Office, Directorate of Intelligence for the Far East Air Force, prepares Intelligence Report \#29-52, detailing Air Force, Navy, and Marine radar UFO reports for 1950–1952 in Korea and Japan. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Capt. Charles J. Malven, “[FLYOBRPT: Japan/Korea Area,](http://www.project1947.com/feaf/FEAF%5FIR-29-52.pdf)” IR-29-52, July 11, 1952 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1900 ### Event 6729 (19783736) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / ANNAPOLIS, MD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1431. 2 observer(s). 4 white saucers follow plane. Stop dead. 90 turn going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2294 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NW/ANNAPOLIS,MD:BBK#1431:2 OBS:4 WHT SCRS FOLO PLANE:STOP DEAD:90 TURN>>S", **LatLong:** "39.066669 -76.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:00 N 76:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.066669,-76.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6730 (AC868403) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** Air Force RADAR and civil and military pilots &1000s / ground. Huge saucer turns going northwest / 5K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 847) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2295 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:AF RDR+CIV+MIL PILOTS &1000s/GND:HUGE SCR TURNS>NW/5K'alt", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -86.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 86:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-86.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6731 (7AFE4F58) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / DELPHI, IN **Description:** Airman and several. Large blue-white night light going northwest. Estimated 800kph and more. Straight and level. / r172p55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 843) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2296 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "206", **HatchDesc:** "NE/DELPHI,IN:AIRMAN+SVRL:LRG BLU-WHT NLT >NW:Estm 800kph+:S/L:/r172p55", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -86.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 86:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-86.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6732 (261D0532) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR ARLINGTON, IL **Description:** Jets chase. Mystery radio says pilots name as saucer speeds away! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2297 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "nr ARLINGTON,IL:JETS CHASE:MYSTERY RADIO SAYS PILOTS NAME AS SCR SPEEDS AWAY!", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -89.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 89:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-89.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6733 (623EB8B2) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** KIRKSVILLE, MO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1436. Many military RADAR operators and RADAR photographs. 2 B36 = sized blips / 1700mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 93) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2298 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "294", **HatchDesc:** "KIRKSVILLE,MO:BBK#1436:MANY MIL RDR OPs+RDR FOTOS:2 B36=SIZED BLIPS/1700mph", **LatLong:** "40.194446 -92.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:11:40 N 92:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.194446,-92.577782)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6734 (C9A1AFFD) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LOUIS GENTIL AND CHICHAOUA, MAROC **Description:** Several observer(s). Yellow 30cm disk east going quickly west. 3 white flares / sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2299 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LOUIS GENTIL+CHICHAOUA,MAROC:SVRL OBS:YEL.30cm DISK E>>W:3 WHT FLARES/SKY", **LatLong:** "32.266668 -8.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "32:16:00 N 08:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.266668,-8.550000)", **State/Prov:** "SFI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6735 (FD6FC81C) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** Air Force Officer and many. Large red night light. White lights / side. Instant 180° turn back going quickly [to] WNW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2300 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:AF OFC+MANY:LRG RED NLT:WHT LITES/SIDE:INSTANT 180°TURN BACK >>WNW", **LatLong:** "41.850002 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:51:00 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.850002,-87.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6736 (07588BA1) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** CLEARFIELD, UT **Description:** 8 observer(s). Night light-saucer going west. Stops. Zooms across sky. Red glowing with white flashes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 845) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2301 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1368", **HatchDesc:** "CLEARFIELD,UT:8 OBS:NLT-SCR >W:STOPS:ZOOMS ACRS SKY:RED GLO W/WHT FLASHES", **LatLong:** "41.111113 -112.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:06:40 N 112:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.111113,-112.016672)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6737 (F2333E51) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** NEAR OSLO, NORWAY **Description:** 2 / airfield. Ovoid in plasma glow going quickly northeast. Seen / Stockholm hours later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 252) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2302 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr OSLO,NORWAY:2/AIRFIELD:OVOID IN PLASMA GLOW >>NE:SEEN/STOCKHOLM HOURS LATER", **LatLong:** "59.916670 10.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "59:55:00 N 10:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.916670,10.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6738 (A3543407) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Annapolis, MD **Description:** 3:30 p.m. Insurance company president William Washburn saw 4 large, elliptical- shaped objects fly very fast, stop, turn 90° and fly away. 7-8 secs. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1431) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/anna520712dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1097 ### Event 6739 (566B241D) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Arlington, IL **Description:** F-86 On Scramble Mission / Strange Radio Transmission (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712arlington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1098 ### Event 6740 (906B5DFD) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Arlington, IL **Description:** Oblong yellowish lighted object with a trail flying in a straight course (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712arlington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1099 ### Event 6741 (7A3328DB) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Williams Bay, WI **Description:** Radars had picked up strange objects in several areas heading west and north at different altitudes, 3000 mph and above. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712williamsbay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1100 ### Event 6742 (410E90A4) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Chicago, IL **Description:** Air Force weather officer, many others at Montrose Beach saw large red object with small white lights on side reverse course directly overhead. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1101 ### Event 6743 (2905804C) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Greenfield (near), IN **Description:** Co-pilot saw object paralleling the plane then dropping down (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1102 ### Event 6744 (2B180878) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** 2 brilliant round white lights hovering at 21,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/dayton520712dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1103 ### Event 6745 (C771844C) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Kirksville, MI **Description:** Several big radar blips tracked at 1,500 knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1436) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712kirksville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1104 ### Event 6746 (52167965) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Williams Bay, WI **Description:** Three Radars Track Objects At High Speed (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712williamsbay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1105 ### Event 6747 (7E420846) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Location:** Belleville, IL **Description:** Five Radar Tracks In 50 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712belleville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1106 ### Event 6748 (E9A60FEE) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 3:30 PM **Location:** Annapolis, Maryland **Description:** Witness: insurance company president William Washburn. Four large, elliptical-shaped objects were seen to fly very fast, stop, turn 90 degrees and fly away in 7-8 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_169 ### Event 6749 (56831AC1) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** Kirksville, Missouri **Description:** Witnesses: many radar controllers who were military officers. Several big blips tracked on radar at 1,500 kts. (1,700 m.p.h.). There was no visual sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_170 ### Event 6750 (20FD5E8D) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Locations:** O’Hare AFB; Montrose Beach, Chicago, Illinois; O’Hare Airport **Description:** 8:42 p.m. O’Hare AFB weather observer Capt. W. J. Shea and a civilian, Jane Morrison, watch three lights, one main red light with smaller white lights on each side, traveling 500 mph at 40,000–50,000 feet over Montrose Beach, Chicago, Illinois, from the west-northwest. They accelerate to the south and make a 180° turn heading north-northwest, then disappear. The UFO is seen by 400+ people, with 14 others making reports to the 4706th Defense Wing located at O’Hare Airport. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 153](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/152/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 146–147 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1901 ### Event 6751 (2AA6695D) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Locations:** Arlington Heights, Illinois; Elgin, Illinois **Description:** 9:04 p.m. Two USAF F-86 Sabre jets with the 62nd Flight Squadron are flying at 22,000 feet on a routine training mission \(or on a scramble mission\) over Arlington Heights, Illinois. Capt. Robert W. Casey Jr., after coming out of a right turn, sees an oblong yellowish lighted object with an exhaust moving in a straight course about 15 miles away south of Elgin, Illinois, at 22,000 feet traveling at 800 mph. The F-86 pursues at maximum speed, but the object pulls away. Both pilots hear a strange radio transmission on their restricted communications channel during the pursuit saying the name of the pursuit pilot, Casey, in an ethereal “ghost-like” monotone. Apparently, this is a prank by Casey’s fighter pilot buddies at the 62nd who are monitoring his channel, though this is later officially denied by the 62nd. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-86 on Scramble Mission / Strange Radio Transmission](http://www.nicap.org/520712arlington%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 147 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1902 ### Event 6752 (BF1DF1F8) **Date:** 7/12/1952 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. four elliptical-shaped objects, one-third the size of a transport plane, flew four abreast in formation at a high rate of speed over Annapolis, Maryland. They stopped in mid-air, executed a 90-degree turn, then accelerated and vanished in mid-air. At 9:00 p.m. an object the size of a B-36 bomber was picked up on radar flying over Kirksville Air Force Base, Missouri at a speed of 1,700 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1431; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 51; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 269; (2) Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 57 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3999 ### Event 6753 (E10E69EE) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** DAYTON, OH **Description:** Disk with plasma cone going [to] flat face forward! Jet plane speed. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 848) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2303 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "DAYTON,OH:DISK W/PLASMA CONE > FLAT FACE FWD!:JET PLANE SPEED:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "39.755557 -84.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:20 N 84:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.755557,-84.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6754 (18B4A7E6) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** SPOTSYLVANIA CO, VA **Description:** Blue saucer paces flight 611. DC4 turns on lights. Saucer going quickly west. / The New York Times (NYT) 17 Jy. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2304 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "95", **HatchDesc:** "SPOTSYLVANIA co,VA:BLU SCR PACES FLITE 611:DC4 TURNS ON LITES:SCR>>W:/NYT 17JY", **LatLong:** "38.066668 -77.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:04:00 N 77:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.066668,-77.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6755 (50715059) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** KENNEWICK, WA **Description:** Several observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Aluminum saucer wavers. Going quickly east. Going quickly west. 4km altitude. Erratic maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 870) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2305 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "KENNEWICK,WA:SVRL OBS/BINOCS:ALUM.SCR WAVERS:>> E:>>W:4km alt:erratic mnvrs", **LatLong:** "46.211113 -119.138895", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:40 N 119:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.211113,-119.138895)", **RelAlt:** "4000", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6756 (EC4C9477) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** OUKAIMEDEN AND ASNI, MAROC **Description:** 50+separate observer(s). White moon-size sphere northeast going quickly southwest. 3 stumps / side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2306 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OUKAIMEDEN+ASNI,MAROC:50+SEP.OBS:WHT MOONSIZE SPHERE NE>>SW:3 STUMPS/SIDE", **LatLong:** "31.183335 -7.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "31:11:00 N 07:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.183335,-7.866667)", **State/Prov:** "MRK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6757 (ABEBF602) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BOUZNIKA AND BAULHAUT, MAROC **Description:** Several observer(s). "Unusual flying objects / 60 min" / news / CIA report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 358) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2307 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "BOUZNIKA+BAULHAUT,MAROC:SVRL OBS:"UNUSUAL FLYING OBJs/60min"/NEWS/CIA REPORT", **LatLong:** "33.788891 -7.155556", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:20 N 07:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.788891,-7.155556)", **State/Prov:** "CSB", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6758 (EAC326F3) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CASABLANCA, MAROC **Description:** 40+9 americans / 2 days. Diamond / saucers pass / V formation overhead. Report going [to] CIA. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2308 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CASABLANCA,MAROC:40+9 AMERICANS/2 DAYS:DIAMOND/SCRS PASS/VFORM OVHD:rept>CIA", **LatLong:** "33.583335 -7.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:00 N 07:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.583335,-7.600000)", **State/Prov:** "CSB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6759 (D21CFEC7) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** FEDALA = MOHAMMEDIA AND CHICHAOUA, MAROC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Blue-green sphere/orb/globe trails light. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 358) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2309 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FEDALA=MOHAMMEDIA+CHICHAOUA,MAROC:2 OBS:BLU-GRN ORB TRAILS LIGHT:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "33.733335 -7.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:00 N 07:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.733335,-7.400000)", **State/Prov:** "MZN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6760 (94F9C86A) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Location:** Fordland, MO **Description:** Very Large Object Tracked, No Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520713](http://www.nicap.org/520713fordland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1107 ### Event 6761 (29782E23) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Location:** Washington (60 miles SW of ), D.C. **Description:** Saw round ball of bluish-white light hovering Bruen Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520713](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/washington520713dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1108 ### Event 6762 (A3B9FD4F) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Location:** Osceola, WI **Description:** Eleven UFOs Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520713](http://www.nicap.org/520713osceoladir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1109 ### Event 6763 (959F8EA4) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Locations:** Jacksonville, Florida; Washington, D.C. **Description:** 4:00 a.m. Capt. William Bruen, piloting National Airline Flight 611 heading north from Jacksonville, Florida, sees a round ball of bluish-white light about 60 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., hovering to the west then ascending to the airliner’s altitude of 11,000 feet, then parallel course off left wing at about 2 miles distance. It takes off upwards at 1,000 mph when Bruen turns on all aircraft lights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Light Ascends, Paces Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/520713washington%5Fdir.htm) [Takes Off Vertically](http://www.nicap.org/520713washington%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 90–91](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/90/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 148 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1903 ### Event 6764 (13128FF6) **Date:** 7/13/1952 **Description:** A National Airlines flight flying some sixty miles southwest of Washington, D.C. over Virginia reported that a bluish-white light approached their plane, hovered, and then moved away. The UFO was tracked on radar by Washington National radar operators. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4029 ### Event 6765 (2BDCAA4B) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Description:** Pan American pilots see formation of UFO's. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_118 ### Event 6766 (337BA142) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Location:** MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, MT **Description:** Message going [to] USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC) / wright-Pat / oh. 5 objects north going quickly south / V-formation. Supersonic speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2310 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1075", **HatchDesc:** "MALMSTROM AFB,MT:MSG>ATIC/WRIGHT-PAT/OH:5 OBJS N>>S/V-FORM:SUPERSONIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "47.483336 -111.150005", **LatLongDMS:** "47:29:00 N 111:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.483336,-111.150005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6767 (B97F861D) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** IFRANE, MOROCCO **Description:** Time unknown. Saucers over Ifrane going quickly northwest toward(s) Meknes. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2311 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "IFRANE,MOROCCO:TIME UNK:SCRS OVR IFRANE >>NW twrd MEKNES:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -5.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 05:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-5.150000)", **State/Prov:** "MEK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6768 (0C9C352A) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 8 / naval gun factory. 3 shiny-metal ovoids cross sky. Then 2 more. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2312 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:8/NAVAL GUN FACTORY:3 SHINY-MTL OVOIDS CROSS SKY:THEN 2 MORE", **LatLong:** "38.827780 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:49:40 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.827780,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6769 (38E4E6C1) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** 3 teens Puzzled. Very fast object no disk. Resembles dirigible instead.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2313 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:3 TEENS PUZZLED:VFAST OBJ NO DISK:RESEMBLES DIRIGIBLE INSTEAD..", **LatLong:** "37.666668 -97.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 97:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,-97.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6770 (BACA4BE9) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** INDIO, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars considers 2 shiny disks "flying saucers". / newspaper. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2314 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "INDIO,CA:GOC OBS/BINOCS CONSIDERS 2 SHINY DISKS "FLYING SCRS":/NEWSPAPER", **LatLong:** "33.722224 -116.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:43:20 N 116:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.722224,-116.216672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6771 (2DDF0D96) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** EAST / STEELTON, PA **Description:** New "star" hovers over Oberlin gardens. Shoots straight up and vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2315 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "E/STEELTON,PA:NEW "STAR" HVRS OVR OBERLIN GARDENS:SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP+VANISHES", **LatLong:** "40.238891 -76.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:20 N 76:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.238891,-76.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6772 (77C0F352) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** HILLANDALE AND MORE/OTHERS, AL **Description:** 3 engineers. Round glowing-object descends going north. Instant reversal going south! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 871) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2316 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "HILLANDALE++,AL:3 ENGINEERS:RND GLOW-OBJ DESCENDS >N:INSTANT REVERSAL >S!", **LatLong:** "34.733335 -86.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:00 N 86:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.733335,-86.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6773 (B73F24CA) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** NEAR HAMPTON, VA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 8 saucers spin fast. Glow yellow-orange. 150M altitude. No further details / news account. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 871) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2317 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr HAMPTON,VA:2 OBS:8 SCRS SPIN FAST:GLOW YLW-ORG:150M alt:NFD/news acct", **LatLong:** "37.027780 -76.344448", **LatLongDMS:** "37:01:40 N 76:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.027780,-76.344448)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6774 (9B706092) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** NEWPORT NEWS, VA **Description:** Nash and more / DC4. 8 30M saucers / sharp turns. Going quickly west. / r24v2#6+/ MJ#291 / IURv27#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2318 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NEWPORT NEWS,VA:NASH+/DC4:8 30M SCRS/SHARP TURNS:>>W:/r24v2#6+/MJ#291/IURv27#1", **LatLong:** "36.977780 -76.427781", **LatLongDMS:** "36:58:40 N 76:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.977780,-76.427781)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6775 (4E81BB24) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** KADENA AIR FORCE BASE, OKINAWA, JP **Description:** Many military observer(s). Night light drops over base. Shoots away horizontally. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2319 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KADENA AFB,OKINAWA,JP:MANY MIL OBS:NLT DROPS OVR BASE:SHOOTS AWAY HORIZONTALLY", **LatLong:** "26.344446 127.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "26:20:40 N 127:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.344446,127.750006)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6776 (9397976E) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** HANFORD, WA **Description:** 5 observer(s). Round brilliant blue-yellow glowing-object circles atomic plant 2X and gone. Back / 0123 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 872) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2320 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "HANFORD,WA:5 OBS:RND BRILL.BLU-YLW GLO-OBJ CCLS A-PLANT 2X+gone:back/0123 hrs", **LatLong:** "46.572224 -119.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:34:20 N 119:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.572224,-119.516672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6777 (B24625C8) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Location:** Norfolk (20-25 miles N of ), VA **Description:** Nash/Fortenberry Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1444) **Reference:** NICAP: [520714](http://www.nicap.org/520714norfolk%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1110 ### Event 6778 (8C8E6C96) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Location:** Langley AFB, VA **Description:** OSI doc confirms Nash/Fortenberry Incident (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520714](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520714langleyafb.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1111 ### Event 6779 (95263664) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Location:** Okinawa (near), Guam **Description:** A spherical object to the north of the base. The object was moving straight down, but its course changed immediately as it moved to the northeast across the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520714](http://nicap.org/okinawa520714dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1112 ### Event 6780 (EB1CB7CE) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Strange red and green lights slowly rolling between the aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520714](http://www.nicap.org/520714hollomanafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1113 ### Event 6781 (A8BDC222) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Time:** 8:12 PM **Location:** Norfolk, Virginia **Description:** Witnesses: Pan American Airways First Officer William Nash, Second Officer William Fortenberry. Eight large, round, glowing red objects maneuvered below their airliner, in formation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_171 ### Event 6782 (02B375DD) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Description:** The Ground Observer Corps expands into Operation Skywatch, consisting of 750,000 volunteers aged 7 to 86 years old working around the clock in shifts at more than 16,000 posts and 73 filter centers to detect a sneak attack against the United States. The expansion follows an Army announcement from a few weeks earlier that antiaircraft guns and personnel are on continuous duty in key areas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Radomes.org, “[Ground Observer Corps,](https://www.radomes.org/museum/documents/GOC/GOC.html)” January 31, 2001; Shoot 21–22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1904 ### Event 6783 (07D230EB) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Locations:** Chesapeake Bay in Maryland/Virginia; Camden, New Jersey **Description:** 9:12 p.m. Some 8,000 feet above the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland/Virginia, Capt. [William B.](https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/) [Nash](https://www.fortmyersmemorial.com/obituaries/William-Nash-21291/%23!/Obituary) and copilot First Officer [William H. Fortenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7) flying a Pan American Airways DC-4, see six crimson dots at 30°. The dots are streaking in their direction like tracer bullets. As they get closer, they resolve into reddish-orange circles, about 100 feet in diameter and 15 feet thick, with sharply defined edges. Nash says they are holding a “narrow echelon formation.” When they are nearly underneath the aircraft, “they flipped on edge, the sides to the left of us going up and the glowing surfaces facing right. While all were in the edgewise position, the last five slid over and past the leader so that the echelon was now tail foremost.” Then they all flip over again into a flat attitude. Two new, brighter UFOs join the formation, and the lights of all eight objects blink out then come on again. They all speed westward \(Nash estimates 6,000–12,000 mph\) and climb in a graceful 45° arc. The entire sighting lasts only 15 seconds. Possible corroboration comes from a sighting in Camden, New Jersey, although the date is uncertain. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting”; “[Miami Pilots Spot 8 Saucers](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93387815/) [Flying in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93388058/) [Formation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93388058/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, July 16, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; NICAP, “[Nash / Fortenberry Case](http://www.nicap.org/520714norfolk%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 150; William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, “[We Flew Above Flying Saucers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1952%2010%2000%5FTrue%5FNash%20and%20Fortenberry%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf)” True, October 1952, pp. 65, 110–112; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 47; Clark III 791; Good Above, [pp. 269–270](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up); “[The Pilot’s Tale,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thepilotstale.html)” Saturday Night Uforia; Swords 149–150; Shoot 22–24; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 21–22; Thomas Tulien, “The 1952 Nash/Fortenberry Sighting Revisited,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 20–23, 27–28, [reprinted](https://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/tulien%5Fnashfort.htm) in Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 11, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1905 ### Event 6784 (F1307425) **Date:** 7/14/1952 **Description:** At 7:40 p.m. a group of three engineers in Hillandale, Alabama watched a round glowing object descend to the north, then make an instant reversal in direction and head south. At 8:00 p.m. a famous sighting occurred over Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia by two pilots named Nash and Fortenberry. The men were flying a DC-4 aircraft for Pan American Airways when they sighted six luminous reddish-orange disc-shaped objects that were joined by two brighter discs. They were each estimated to be 100 feet in diameter, and they suddenly flipped on edge, revealing a flat, coin-like shape. They made a sharp turn, blinked off and on in unison, and then flew off in formation as the disappeared in the distance. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 8), p. 71; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1444; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 40; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4047 ### Event 6785 (00CDF073) **Date:** Mid 7/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** Every Air Force installation in U.S. swamped with UFO reports. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 205](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_871 ### Event 6786 (B5B65668) **Date:** 7/15/1952 (approximate) **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Airline exec to papers. Saucers 4 nights running / LAX tower. P276. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2321 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:AIRLINE EXEC to PAPERS:SCRS 4 NITES RUNNING/LAX TOWER:p276", **LatLong:** "33.966668 -118.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:00 N 118:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.966668,-118.416672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6787 (F2CA0396) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** NEAR PASCO, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Glowing-object going [to] east-northeast. Zigzags over town. Going quickly southeast and gone. Round misty shape. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 873) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2322 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "0", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "nr PASCO,WA:2 OBS:GLO-OBJ > ENE:ZIGZAGS ovr town:>>SE+gone:RND MISTY SHAPE", **LatLong:** "46.216669 -119.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:00 N 119:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.216669,-119.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6788 (F2C4882B) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** WEST PALM BEACH, FL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1451. Pilot and 2 / ground. Saucer dives / SA16 amphibian plane. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 873) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2323 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "W.PALM BEACH,FL:BBK#1451:PILOT+2/GND:SCR DIVES/SA16 AMPHIBIAN PLANE:>>S", **LatLong:** "26.716668 -80.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "26:43:00 N 80:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.716668,-80.083337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6789 (695000DB) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** BOUKANEFIS, ALG **Description:** 2 bakers. "Agile" dinner-plate going quickly south. Green smoke. Lights sky. Straight and level flight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2324 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOUKANEFIS,ALG:2 BAKERS:"AGILE" DINNER-PLATE >>S:GRN SMOKE:LITES SKY:S/L FLITE", **LatLong:** "35.116668 -0.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "35:07:00 N 00:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.116668,-0.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Boukanefis", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6790 (73D17C82) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Location:** McChord AFB (20 miles S of ), WA **Description:** Object "Rolling" Between Two Fighters (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520715](http://www.nicap.org/520714mcChordafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1114 ### Event 6791 (55D317B2) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Location:** West Palm Beach, FL **Description:** Discus-shaped object, greyish, except when hovering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1451) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1115 ### Event 6792 (67ACCB43) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Location:** Pendleton, OR **Description:** Many civilians in 5 cars and an Oregon State Trooper observed a spherical-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520715](http://nicap.org/pendleton520715dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1116 ### Event 6793 (25DA4849) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Time:** 10:10 PM **Location:** West Palm Beach, Florida **Description:** Witnesses: J. Antoneff and two other persons. One discus-shaped object, greyish, except when hovering, when it appeared muddy. Hovered over Palm Beach International Airport, then followed an SA-l6 twin-engined amphibian and flew away after 40-60 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_172 ### Event 6794 (4FBD833D) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Description:** The [Lorenzens](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) publish the first issue of the APRO Bulletin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [APRO Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201952%2007%2015%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(July 1952\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1906 ### Event 6795 (7070CB02) **Date:** Mid 7/1952 **Locations:** Washington; New York **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says that rumors persist that the Air Force is braced for an expected invasion by UFOs. “Had these rumormongers been at ATIC in mid-July they would have thought that the invasion was in full swing.” He talks to a scientist “from an agency that I can’t name” about the build-up of UFO reports. From his study of reports, the scientist predicts that “within the next few days they’re going to blow up and you’re going to have the granddaddy of all UFO sightings. The sighting will occur in Washington or New York, probably Washington.” [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) identifies the scientist as [Stefan T. Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony) acting chief of the AFOIN Special Study Group and adviser to Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 154–155](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/154/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/154/mode/2up) [157](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/156/mode/2up); NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1907 ### Event 6796 (4EC7AE94) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Description:** At 1:20 a.m. a misty, glowing red UFO zig-zagged over the city of Pasco, Washington. There was a mist surrounding the UFO as it went quickly toward the southeast and away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2342, citing Loren E. Gross **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4066 ### Event 6797 (D99D1A95) **Date:** 7/15/1952 **Description:** At 10:10 a.m. a gray object, slightly yellow, and looking like "a flattened out donut without the hole", approached West Palm Beach, Florida very rapidly. It then hovered in place for 90 seconds. Finally, it picked up speed and disappeared out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1451; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 269; UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 58 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4067 ### Event 6798 (80C1173C) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Location:** Germany **Description:** German mayor states two human-like figures wearing shimmer metallic clothing about 4 feet high come out of a landed 40ft diameter saucer **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_460 ### Event 6799 (12B46B78) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Location:** OFF LAHAINA, HI **Description:** Blue Book unidentified. Submarine/submerged Burgara crew / (seen thru) binoculars. Oval disk going quickly [to] sky. Changes color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 619) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2325 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off LAHAINA,HI:BBK UID:SUBM.BURGARA CREW/BINOCS:OVAL DISK >> SKY:CHANGES CLRs", **LatLong:** "20.877779 -156.683341", **LatLongDMS:** "20:52:40 N 156:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/20.877779,-156.683341)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6800 (32A5F772) **Date:** 7/16/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** SAN ANSELMO, CA **Description:** 2 boys. Bright yellow saucer stops. Night lights exit / all directions. 90° U-turn. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2326 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANSELMO,CA:2 BOYS:BRITE YLW SCR STOPS:NLTS EXIT/ALL DIRs:90° U-TURN:>>SW", **LatLong:** "37.972224 -122.561117", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:20 N 122:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.972224,-122.561117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6801 (BBD169D8) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Time:** 09:40 **Location:** SALEM, MASS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1501. USCG photos / 4 oval globs over cars. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FOWLER, Raymond E.: UFO'S, INTERPLANETARY VISITORS; Prentice Hall & Bantam Books, NY 1979. 346pp. (Index 91) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2327 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "0", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SALEM,MASS:BBK#1501:USCG PHOTOS/4 OVAL GLOBS OVR CARS:/FSR v3#3", **LatLong:** "42.522224 -70.894448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:20 N 70:53:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.522224,-70.894448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6802 (B99BA7E6) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE, NY **Description:** 1 observer. Silent saucer / 5000' altitude. Tilts. Rises. Away / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2328 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "nr POUGHKEEPSIE,NY:1 OBS:SILENT SCR/5000'alt:TILTS:RISES:AWAY/INCREDIBLE SPEED", **LatLong:** "41.700002 -73.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:42:00 N 73:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.700002,-73.916670)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6803 (3972079B) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** HAMPTON, VA **Description:** Aero eng. and many. 2 objects maneuver. 1+1 join. Play / sky. Photographs. All going quickly south. / r114p115. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2329 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "HAMPTON,VA:AERO ENG.+MANY:2 OBJs MNVR:1+1 JOIN:PLAY/SKY:FOTOS:ALL>>S:/r114p115", **LatLong:** "37.033335 -76.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:00 N 76:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.033335,-76.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6804 (B429A4D8) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MARRAKESH, MOROCCO **Description:** Many observer(s). Large then small saucers maneuver. Then going quickly southwest. Other saucers later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2330 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARRAKESH,MOROCCO:MANY OBS:LRG THEN SML SCRS MNVR:THEN >>SW:OTHER SCRS LATER", **LatLong:** "31.616668 -8.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "31:37:00 N 08:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.616668,-8.066667)", **State/Prov:** "MAR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6805 (E5095B20) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** DEVINE, TX **Description:** Several / train station. Dull yellow-lights cross sky / V-formation. Hover briefly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2331 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "214", **HatchDesc:** "DEVINE,TX:SVRL/TRAIN STATION:DULL YEL-LITES CROSS SKY/V-FORMATION:HVR BRIEFLY", **LatLong:** "29.138890 -98.905560", **LatLongDMS:** "29:08:20 N 98:54:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.138890,-98.905560)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6806 (20BB7665) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Location:** Hampton Roads, VA **Description:** 2 amber-colored objects approach from the S (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1117 ### Event 6807 (6ED124C4) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Location:** Beverly, MA **Description:** Roughly elliptical irregular blobs of light in formation filmed (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: 1501) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1118 ### Event 6808 (E9A4AF82) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Time:** 9:35 AM **Location:** Beverly, Massachusetts **Description:** Witness: U.S. Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert. Four roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through window of photo lab. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_173 ### Event 6809 (82C504D1) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Location:** Coast Guard Air Station Salem [now Winter Island Marine Park], Massachusetts **Description:** 9:35 a.m. US Coast Guard photographer Seaman [Shell R. Alpert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9302407/shell-r%5F-alpert) sees several bright lights through a window screen \(no glass\) from his position inside the photo lab at Coast Guard Air Station Salem \[now Winter Island Marine Park\], Massachusetts, while cleaning a camera. He watches them for 5–6 seconds, calls out to Hospitalman 1st Class [Thomas E. Flaherty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/652942/thomas-e-flaherty) from sick bay to see them. The objects dim then brighten suddenly. Alpert grabs a camera and films 4 roughly elliptical irregular blobs of light in formation through the screen, on Super XX cut film 4-by-5-inch format. The lights disappear suddenly in a flash. The photo is explained as showing reflections of light sources from inside the building, but this ignores the fact that the window is open, and the camera is not pointed through glass. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 88](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 151; Joe Nyman and Barry Greenwood, “The July 1952 Coast Guard Photo Revisited,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 3–5, 25–30; Michael D. Lampen, “Mystery Alpert Objects,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 27; “[The Photographer’s Tale,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thephotographerstale.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, December 3, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1908 ### Event 6810 (DEBBCA58) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Locations:** Chesapeake Avenue (near LaSalle Avenue); Hampton, Virginia; Virginia Beach; James River **Description:** 9:00 p.m. [Paul R. Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FR.%5FHill), an aeronautical research engineer, is watching the sky with his future wife, Frances Hoback, on Chesapeake Avenue \(near LaSalle Avenue\) in Hampton, Virginia, when he notices two amber- colored lights coming in over Hampton Roads from the south at 500 mph. They slow down and make a U turn, moving side by side until they revolve around each other at a high rate of speed in a tight circle 200–300 feet in diameter. A third UFO comes racing up from the direction of Virginia Beach and falls in several hundred feet below the other two, making a V formation. A fourth UFO comes in from up the James River and joins the group, which heads south at 500 mph. “Their ability to make tight circling turns was amazing.” Around 9:03 p.m., the four UFOs have moved out of sight to the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Pairs of Objects Maneuver Overhead](http://www.nicap.org/520716hampton%5Fdir.htm)”; \[[Blue](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520716hampton%5Fdocs.pdf) [Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520716hampton%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p. 57](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=70&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 150 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1909 ### Event 6811 (D25ABA55) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Description:** A U.S. Coast Guardsman, Shell R. Alpert, took a famous photograph of four oval globs of light in a V-formation moving over parked cars near a power plant in Salem, Massachusetts at 9:35 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1501; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 91 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4092 ### Event 6812 (718977F2) **Date:** 7/16/1952 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. EDT aeronautical engineer Paul R. Hill along with his wife Frances saw two amber lights in the sky make a U-turn over Hampton, Virginia and then revolve around each other. They were joined by two more amber lights, then all four sped off toward the south at an estimated speed of 500 mph. They moved jerkily when flying slowly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 208; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: Report on Multiple UFO, p. 115, citing the Newport News Press **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4093 ### Event 6813 (B9B25CE4) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** SR33 NEAR ST. PAUL, MN **Description:** 2 observer(s). 4 2' saucers / 200' altitude. Sharp turns. (During lightening storm.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2332 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "SR33 nr ST PAUL,MN:2 OBS:4 2' SCRS/200'alt:SHARP TURNS:(DURING LITENING STORM)", **LatLong:** "44.950002 -93.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 93:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,-93.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6814 (AD95EE36) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** NEAR ELIZABETH CITY, NC **Description:** Watchman. Southwest radio dead. 4 disks going [to] over fast. Radio OK after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2333 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr ELIZABETH CITY,NC:WATCHMAN:SW RADIO DEAD:4 DISKS > OVR FAST:RADIO OK AFTER", **LatLong:** "36.300002 -76.222226", **LatLongDMS:** "36:18:00 N 76:13:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.300002,-76.222226)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6815 (BF57C80B) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** OVER DENVER, CO **Description:** 3 pilots. Night light going SSE. 2 more going west return going quickly east. All / 3000mph. / r242p158. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2334 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1580", **HatchDesc:** "ovr DENVER,CO:3 PILOTS:NLT> SSE:2 MORE> W RETURN>>E:ALL/3000mph:/r242p158", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -104.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 104:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-104.983338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6816 (3EF57648) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** LOCKBOURNE, OH **Description:** ANG men and many. Night light maneuvers. Vanishes when planes near. Back 18-23 Jul. '52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2335 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "LOCKBOURNE,OH:ANG MEN+MANY:NLT MNVRS:VANISHES WHEN PLANES NEAR:BACK 18-23JLY52", **LatLong:** "39.816669 -82.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:49:00 N 82:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.816669,-82.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6817 (6B3B57C1) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** LAKE ERIE EAST / SANDUSKY, OH **Description:** Private pilot. 55m saucer seen near United Airlines (UAL) airliner. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2336 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "174", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE ERIE E/SANDUSKY,OH:PRIVATE PILOT:55m SCR SEEN nr UAL AIRLINER:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -82.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 82:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-82.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6818 (A7C8D18F) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** MATANZAS, CUBA **Description:** 1 observer. Shadow / ground. Saucer overhead tilted vertical. Going up [to] 400M and turns horizontal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2337 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MATANZAS,CUBA:1 OBS:SHADOW/GND:SCR OVHD TILTED VERTICAL:↑ 400M+TURNS HORZNTL", **LatLong:** "23.038890 -81.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "23:02:20 N 81:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.038890,-81.583337)", **State/Prov:** "CUB", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6819 (355F1180) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** YARMOUTH HARBOUR, NS **Description:** FBI report. Several silver half and full circles in formations. All vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2338 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "YARMOUTH HARBOUR,NS:FBI RPT:SVRL SLVR HALF+FULL CIRCLES/FORMNs:ALL VANISH", **LatLong:** "43.833335 -66.133336", **LatLongDMS:** "43:50:00 N 66:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.833335,-66.133336)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6820 (B1140DAA) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** BELAN-SUR-OURCE, FR **Description:** Whirlwind. 2 saucers separate. 1 going quickly west. 1 going quickly east. Wind stops oddly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2339 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "BELAN-sur-OURCE,FR:WHIRLWIND:2 SCRs SEPARATE:1>>W:1>>E:WIND STOPS ODDLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.966669 4.661111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:58:00 N 04:39:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.966669,4.661111)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6821 (0188CC54) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** BALLIETTSVILLE, PA **Description:** 2 women. 2 red glowing-balls follow plane across sky. Plane type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 876) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2340 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "152", **HatchDesc:** "BALLIETTSVILLE,PA:2 WOMEN:2 RED GLOW-BALLS FOLO PLANE ACS SKY:plane type unkn", **LatLong:** "40.677780 -75.572226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:40 N 75:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.677780,-75.572226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6822 (AC117F64) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** WHITE PLAINS, NY **Description:** 1 observer. 2 saucers with bright rims. Soft sounds. Female voices heard! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2341 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE PLAINS,NY:1 OBS:2 SCRS W/BRITE RIMS:SOFT SOUNDS:FEMALE VOICES HEARD!", **LatLong:** "41.050002 -73.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:03:00 N 73:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.050002,-73.766670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6823 (4D6D09AC) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** TSUIKI AB, JPN **Description:** 2 / theodolite. 12 white objects check out weather balloon. Shape unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2342 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TSUIKI AB,JPN:2/THEODOLITE:12 WHT OBJs CHECK OUT WEATHER BALLOON:SHAPE UNK", **LatLong:** "33.666668 131.050006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:40:00 N 131:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.666668,131.050006)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6824 (8C192A51) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTH / SALEM, OH **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 flat glowing-saucers seen 2200-2400 hours. Fly in formation / high altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 874) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2343 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "N/SALEM,OH:SVRL OBS:2 FLAT GLOW-SCRS SEEN 2200-2400 hrs:FLY/FORMn/hi alt", **LatLong:** "40.966669 -80.855559", **LatLongDMS:** "40:58:00 N 80:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.966669,-80.855559)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6825 (A9C28325) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** VERONICA, ARG **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). 6 saucers maneuver and circle town. No further details. / r11p312+/ r198p66+/ r136#2p62. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2344 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "VERONICA,ARG:100s/OBS:6 SCRS MNVR+CCL TOWN:NFD:/r11p312+/r198p66+/r136#2p62", **LatLong:** "-35.400002 -57.366669", **LatLongDMS:** "35:24:00 S 57:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.400002,-57.366669)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6826 (429E2E7B) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EAST / RAPID CITY, SD **Description:** Airmen / drive-in. Several saucers going quickly south over Air Force Base. Straight and level and same altitude. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 875) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2345 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "980", **HatchDesc:** "E/RAPID CITY,SD:AIRMEN/DRIVE-IN:SVRL SCRS >>S OVR AFB:S/L+SAME ALT:sep.obs", **LatLong:** "44.083335 -103.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:00 N 103:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.083335,-103.033338)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6827 (0A514022) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Location:** Batesville, MS **Description:** State Highway Patrolmen observed two or three round blue flourescent colored objects approximately 100 feet in diamter. The objects were observed for approximately 30 minutes. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/batesville520717dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1119 ### Event 6828 (F0157863) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Location:** White Plains, NY **Description:** 2 round objects, bluish white with brighter rims, fly in formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1502) **Reference:** NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/whiteplains520717dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1120 ### Event 6829 (13943F25) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Location:** Lockbourne AFB, OH **Description:** Amber-colored elliptical-shaped object with a small flame (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1476) **Reference:** NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/lockbourne520717dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1121 ### Event 6830 (D0DE32E8) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Location:** Rapid City, SD **Description:** Military (USAF?) witness(es). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1479) **Reference:** NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/rapidcity520717dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1122 ### Event 6831 (CAA6B691) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Location:** Tsuiki Air Base, Kyushu, Japan **Description:** A formation of twelve circular luminous objects moving in the same direction as balloons just released (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/tsuiki520717dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1123 ### Event 6832 (6130E373) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 3:10 PM **Location:** White Plains, New York **Description:** Witness: Mrs. Florence Daley. Two round objects, bluish-white with brighter rims, flew in formation, making a sound like bombers, only softer. Note: Later, the witness stated she heard many feminine voices coming from the objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_174 ### Event 6833 (726B83D7) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Time:** 11 AM **Location:** Lockbourne, Ohio **Description:** Witness: Air National Guard employees. One light like a big star was seen for 3 hours, but disappeared when an aircraft approached. Also seen the night of July 20, 22 and 23. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_175 ### Event 6834 (4837DFC1) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Location:** Yarmouth Harbour, Nova Scotia **Description:** 6:30 p.m. A woman leaving Yarmouth Harbour, Nova Scotia, on the SS Yarmouth watches seven silvery objects in an inverted triangular formation for 2 minutes. They hover momentarily, descend slowly, and disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 268–269 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1910 ### Event 6835 (12DA566E) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Alternate date:** 7/18/1952 **Locations:** Lockbourne AFB; Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base; Lockbourne, Ohio **Description:** 10:10 p.m. T/Sgt. Thurman C. Mahone and A/3c [Gene A. Jennings](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/835391/gene-arthur-jennings) at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio, see an amber-colored, elliptical-shaped object with a small flame at the rear, periodically increasing in brightness. It moves swiftly, giving off a resonant beating sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[July 18, 1952: Lockbourne, Ohio](http://nicap.org/lockbourne520718dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1911 ### Event 6836 (CD6CFAA4) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Description:** At ten minutes after midnight on State Route 33 in St. Paul, Minnesota four two-foot diameter discs flew through a lightning storm at only 200 feet altitude, making sharp turns. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 59 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4117 ### Event 6837 (4863E4CB) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Description:** At 11:00 a.m. an elliptical object was sighted from Lockbourne AFB, Ohio with a pinpoint of flame at the rear that would occasionally flare. The object had a resonant beat as it moved through the sky at high speed. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1476 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4118 ### Event 6838 (F40D6054) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Description:** At the same time as the Lockbourne AFB sighting, a pilot for United Airlines flying over Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio saw a saucer-shaped object pacing his airliner. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4119 ### Event 6839 (0FA61BF9) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Description:** At 2 o'clock in the afternoon two red glowing spheres followed a plane across the sky in Balliettsville, Pennsylvania. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2360 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4120 ### Event 6840 (1B5CB8B0) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Description:** At 3:10 p.m. a woman saw two large flying discs over White Plains, New York flying on their edge and making a whirring sound. They were in sight for 5-6 seconds. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1502 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4121 ### Event 6841 (38CB0B77) **Date:** 7/17/1952 **Description:** In the evening a Master Sergeant near Rapid City, South Dakota saw 12-14 glowing orange objects in the sky. They flew straight and level, and seemed to be going faster than jet aircraft. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1479 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4122 ### Event 6842 (9B2817D7) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** HYATTSVILLE, MD **Description:** Radio engineer. 6-7 orange disks curve up and away / sequence. / r242p160. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 852) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2346 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "HYATTSVILLE,MD:RADIO ENGINEER:6-7 ORG DISKS CURVE UP+AWAY/SEQUENCE:/r242p160", **LatLong:** "38.955557 -76.944448", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:20 N 76:56:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.955557,-76.944448)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6843 (143CBDC0) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** NEAR DENVER, CO **Description:** AAL pilot. 4 night lights race past. 25K' altitude. 180-turns. 3000+MPH! / r242p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2347 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1580", **HatchDesc:** "nr DENVER,CO:AAL PILOT:4 NLTS RACE PAST:25K'alt:180-TURNS:3000+MPH!:/r242p35", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -105.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 105:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-105.000005)", **RelAlt:** "7500", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6844 (A1DF84AE) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** TACHIKAWA GOING QUICKLY [TO] OSHIMA, JPN **Description:** 2 / C54 plane. Rectangular clearing / clouds. Cloud saucer inside! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2348 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "TACHIKAWA>>OSHIMA,JPN:2/C54 PLANE:RECT. CLEARING/CLOUDS:CLOUD SCR INSIDE!", **LatLong:** "35.733335 139.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:44:00 N 139:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.733335,139.500007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6845 (A73F76B3) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Opaque silver bubble flies fast at right angles to wind direction / 10 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2349 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:2 OBS:OPAQUE SLVR BUBBLE FLIES FAST at RIGHT ANGLES to WIND DIR/10sec", **LatLong:** "25.805557 -80.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:48:20 N 80:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.805557,-80.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6846 (06207957) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** WHEELING, WVA **Description:** 2 observer(s). "Weird roaring whirling flat object / sky". Newspapers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2350 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "202", **HatchDesc:** "WHEELING,WVa:2 OBS:"WEIRD ROARING WHIRLING FLAT OBJ/SKY":NEWSPAPERS", **LatLong:** "40.066669 -80.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:04:00 N 80:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.066669,-80.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6847 (00B00EB6) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** WEST NEW BRIGHTON AND MANHATTAN, NY **Description:** 3+observer(s). 5 large saucers / V formation / red rims. Southwest going quickly northeast. / r136#2p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2351 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "W.NEW BRIGHTON+MANHATTAN,NY:3+OBS:5 LRG SCRS/VFORM/RED RIMS:SW>>NE:/r136#2p64", **LatLong:** "40.627780 -74.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:37:40 N 74:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.627780,-74.150004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6848 (1D8FC9CD) **Date:** 7/18/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** POUILLY AND VENAREY, FR **Description:** 30M vertical cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape. Regular brief lights. Thick white smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2352 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "POUILLY+VENAREY,FR:30M VERT CLOUD-CGR:REGULAR BRIEF LITES:THICK WHT SMOKE", **LatLong:** "47.538891 5.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:32:20 N 05:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.538891,5.433334)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Saône", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6849 (FE35C0A8) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** LAC CHAUVET, FR **Description:** Engineer / (seen thru) binoculars. Saucer going quickly east straight and level. Photographs test genuine see / r48+/ r97#54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2353 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Lac CHAUVET,FR:ENGINEER/BINOCS:SCR >>E S/L:FOTOS TEST GENUINE see /r48+/r97#54", **LatLong:** "45.461113 2.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:27:40 N 02:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.461113,2.833333)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6850 (A55F34FA) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** FRONT ROYAL, VA **Description:** Whitish globe going quickly southeast. Stops here. Zigzags back going quickly northwest. Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 876) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2354 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "173", **HatchDesc:** "FRONT ROYAL,VA:WHITISH GLOBE >> SE:STOPS HERE:ZIGZAGS BACK >>NW:XFAST", **LatLong:** "38.916669 -78.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "38:55:00 N 78:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.916669,-78.194448)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6851 (89D21201) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** PLACITAS, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Yellow-orange object extremely fast going east. 90-turn going quickly south. 90 turn going west. 90 turn going quickly south and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2355 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1814", **HatchDesc:** "PLACITAS,NM:2 OBS:YEL-ORG OBJ XFAST> E:90-TURN>>S:90TURN> W:90TURN>>S+AWAY.", **LatLong:** "35.316668 -106.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:19:00 N 106:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.316668,-106.416672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6852 (AD1D9F23) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, FL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1458. Several observer(s). 4 night lights circle missile center. 1 going quickly east. Others going south. / r29p155. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2356 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PATRICK AFB,FL:BBK#1458:SVRL OBS:4 NLTS CCL MISSILE Ctr:1>>E:OTHERS>S:/r29p155", **LatLong:** "28.238890 -80.594448", **LatLongDMS:** "28:14:20 N 80:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.238890,-80.594448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6853 (6FE47F0D) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Location:** Lockbourne AFB, OH **Description:** A light like a big star that disappeared when an aircraft approached (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1482) **Reference:** NICAP: [520718](http://nicap.org/lockbourne520718dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1124 ### Event 6854 (7E7F904D) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Opaque, silvery bubble fly very fast at a right-angle to the wind (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1483) **Reference:** NICAP: [520718](http://nicap.org/miami520718dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1125 ### Event 6855 (C0B4AA0D) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Location:** Patrick AFB, FL **Description:** Series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1485) **Reference:** NICAP: [520718](http://www.nicap.org/520718patrickAFB%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1126 ### Event 6856 (6F9C2DB9) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Location:** Denver, CO **Description:** Carpenter Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1127 ### Event 6857 (B41EDCED) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Location:** Lac Chauvet, France **Description:** Fregnale Photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1128 ### Event 6858 (4866DAB2) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 9:10 PM **Location:** Lockbourne, Ohio **Description:** Witnesses: T/Sgt. Mahone, A/3c Jennings. One amber-colored, elliptical-shaped object with a small flame at the rear, periodically increased in brightness. It moved very fast for l 1/2 minutes, giving off a resonant beat sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_176 ### Event 6859 (27EBC3C8) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 11 AM **Location:** Miami, Florida **Description:** Witnesses: E. R. Raymer and daughter. One opaque, silvery bubble flew very fast at a right-angle to the wind direction for 10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_177 ### Event 6860 (9CF3062F) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Time:** 9:45 PM **Location:** Patrick AFB, Florida **Description:** Witnesses: three USAF officers and four enlisted men. Over an hour period, a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights were observed moving in a variety of directions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_178 ### Event 6861 (9E140557) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Locations:** American Airlines; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles; Chicago **Description:** Early morning. American Airlines pilot Capt. Paul L. Carpenter, First Officer George Fell, and Flight Engineer Quilici watch several dull-red objects with a “yellowish tinge” speeding around in the air at an altitude of 25,000– 30,000 feet near Denver, Colorado, during a non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. A maximum of three objects are seen at one time over a 2-minute period. Carpenter says they seem to be about 100 miles away. The first object is moving south by southeast. One minute after it disappears, two more come into view going westward and another one eastward. “The two traveling westward disappeared about two seconds then reappeared traveling eastward.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1912 ### Event 6862 (8F07738C) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Location:** Dayton, Ohio **Description:** Capt. [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) tells the press in Dayton, Ohio, that ground radar has tracked UFOs at speeds of 1,500– 2,000 mph, that jet fighters scrambled to intercept them have failed, and that “persons making these reports actually see something in the sky,” but the Air Force does not know what they are. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [\(“‘Saucer’ Sightings Spur](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93389332/) [AF’s Drive](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93389332/) [to End Mystery](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93389470/),” Dayton \(Ohio\) Journal Herald, July 18, 1952, pp. 1, 10; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf) [History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 66\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1913 ### Event 6863 (D3D6302D) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Locations:** Lac Chauvet; Puy-de-Dôme; France **Description:** 6:10 p.m. André Frégnale is hiking near Lac Chauvet, Puy-de-Dôme, France, when he sees a disc flying west to east in a straight line at constant speed. He immediately takes two photos when the object is at its largest apparent size, then two others when it is moving away to his left. It is in view for 50 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Une soucoupe](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lemeridional25jul1952.htm) [volante,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lemeridional25jul1952.htm)” Le Méridional, July 25, 1952, pp. 1, 8; Pierre Guérin, “[A Scientific Analysis of Four Photographs of a](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/8/jse%5F08%5F4%5Fguerin.pdf) [Flying Disk near Lac Chauvet \(France\),](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/8/jse%5F08%5F4%5Fguerin.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 8, no. 4 \(1994\): 447–469; Alain Delmon, “[Les Cas Solides: Lac Chauvet, France, 1952,](http://adelmon.free.fr/Lac%5FChauvet.html)” Les OVNIs: Intelligences non-humaines ou mythe moderne?, December 26, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1914 ### Event 6864 (2E2F97FD) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Locations:** Patrick AFB; Cocoa Beach, Florida **Description:** 9:45 p.m. Three Air Force officers and four enlisted men at Patrick AFB, near Cocoa Beach, Florida, see a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights moving in a variety of directions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Hovering and](http://www.nicap.org/520718patrickAFB%5Fdir.htm) [Maneuvering Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520718patrickAFB%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1915 ### Event 6865 (88D1E434) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. in Pouilly, Cote-d'Or department, France six witnesses spotted a 30 meter long vertical cloud-cigar with regularly spaced brief lights. It was emitting a thick white smoke. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 66 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4157 ### Event 6866 (DB1385AA) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Description:** At 2:00 a.m. a procession of bright orange discs in single file veered over Washington, D.C. and disappeared in a regular sequence. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 18, 1952, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 160 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4158 ### Event 6867 (97EC7031) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Description:** At 11:00 o'clock in the morning in Miami, Florida Mr. E. R. Raymer and his daughter spotted an opaque, silvery bubble for 10 seconds. The object flew very fast perpendicular to the wind direction. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1483; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4159 ### Event 6868 (3B8701DA) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Description:** At 8:50 p.m. a white sphere flew fast toward the southeast, stopped over Front Royal, Virginia and then zigzagged back toward the northwest at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2374 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4160 ### Event 6869 (A5B8E180) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Description:** Technical Sgt. Mahone and Airman Third Class Jennings saw a UFO at 9:10 p.m. in Lockbourne, Ohio. It was amber colored, circular object, somewhat smaller than the average airplane. It had a small flame coming from the rear of the craft that periodically increased in brightness, and its rim gave off an orange and green glow. It moved very fast for 90 seconds, giving off a resonant beat sound. It appeared several times over a four-hour period. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1482; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4161 ### Event 6870 (DB8D21CE) **Date:** 7/18/1952 **Description:** At 9:45 p.m. EDT three USAF officers and four enlisted men watched a series of hovering and maneuvering amber to reddish-orange lights for over an hour in the sky over Patrick AFB, Florida. They were observed maneuvering in a variety of directions. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, December 1952, p. 31; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4162 ### Event 6871 (4958DB81) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **End date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** UFO's detected by radar over Washington., D.C. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_119 **Attributes:** radar ### Event 6872 (801B7093) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Washington, D.C.: Long range “overfly” RADAR picked up a formation of seven blips that were 15 miles south and not far from Andrews AFB. Radar operator, Ed Nugent, thought that they were military traffic until two of the targets suddenly accelerated at fantastic speeds and disappeared off the radar scope. These strange UFOs were monitored by Harry Barnes, Senior Controller, and controllers Howard Cocklin and Joe Zacko. Also, Andrews AFB had also been tracking the UFOs as they intruded over the White House which was Washington Air Space restricted air space. The UFOs were traveling at speeds of up to 7000 mph before stopping abruptly and then cruising about in unconventional patterns. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_461 **See also:** 7/26/1952 ### Event 6873 (31BB3D9C) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** HELSINKI, FINL **Description:** 2 cops. 50' saucer north going quickly south. Stops and drops over stadium. Rises and shoots going quickly south / sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2357 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HELSINKI,FINL:2 COPS:50'SCR N>>S:STOPS+DROPS OVR STADIUM:RISES+SHOOTS>>S/SEA", **LatLong:** "60.216670 24.883335", **LatLongDMS:** "60:13:00 N 24:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.216670,24.883335)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6874 (220EB384) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** ELKINS PARK, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1494. Unidentified. 1 star chases 2nd. Circles. Going quickly southeast toward(s) coast. 2 military observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2358 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "ELKINS PARK,PA:BBK#1494:UID:1 STAR CHASES 2nd:CCLS:>>SE TWRD COAST:2 MIL OBS", **LatLong:** "40.083335 -75.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:05:00 N 75:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.083335,-75.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6875 (F4C22BCD) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** CHATHAM, ON **Description:** 1 observer. 2 dark silent round objects play over treetops. Circle and maneuver. Away in unison. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 856) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2359 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "CHATHAM,ON:1 OBS:2 DRK SLNT RND OBJs PLAY ovr TREETOPS:CCL+MNVR:away in unison", **LatLong:** "42.400002 -82.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:24:00 N 82:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.400002,-82.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6876 (12175A14) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** NEAR WILLISTON, NDAK **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1492. Pilot / US85. Saucer dives. Lights clouds. 360+180 turns. Going northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2360 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "572", **HatchDesc:** "nr WILLISTON,NDAK:BBK#1492:PILOT/US85:SCR DIVES:LITES CLOUDS:360+180 TURNS:>NE", **LatLong:** "48.144447 -103.627783", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:40 N 103:37:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.144447,-103.627783)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6877 (6700C4A0) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 2 round objects trail smoke going quickly northwest. Instantly turn straight up! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 268) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2361 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:GOC OBS:2 ROUND OBJs TRAIL SMOKE >>NW:INSTANTLY TURN STRAIGHT UP!", **LatLong:** "39.266669 -76.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:16:00 N 76:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.266669,-76.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6878 (7DD73C12) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** EAST / RICHLAND, WA **Description:** 2 / car. Silver pancake-saucer hovers. Slow tilts / maneuvers. Lost in the distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 991) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2362 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "E/RICHLAND,WA:2/CAR:SLVR PANCAKE-SCR HVRS:SLOW TILTS/MNVRS:LOST/DISTANCE:", **LatLong:** "46.266669 -119.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:16:00 N 119:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.266669,-119.250006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6879 (D7499BA5) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** LAFAYETTE, IN **Description:** Engineer and Air Force jet and many. 320' cylinder/cigar-shape / 40' diameter. Fast 90° turn going quickly southwest. ~2200mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2363 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "LAFAYETTE,IN:ENGINEER+AF JET+MANY:320'CGR/40'diam:FAST 90°TURN >>SW:~2200mph ", **LatLong:** "40.433335 -86.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:00 N 86:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.433335,-86.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6880 (B95C421A) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** 1 observer and more. 6 luminous saucers in independent. Horizontal and vertical maneuvers. All over sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 268) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2364 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:1 OBS+:6 LUM SCRS IN INDEPENDANT:HZNTL+VERTCL MNVRS:ALL OVR SKY.", **LatLong:** "41.883335 -87.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:00 N 87:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.883335,-87.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6881 (F6D95104) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** STEWART LAKE, YKN **Description:** Waco pilot. 2 metallic disks oscillate/oscillation over lake. Altitude = 900M / Msl. Going quickly north. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 857) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2365 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "762", **HatchDesc:** "STEWART LAKE,YKN:WACO PILOT:2 MTLC DISKS OSC OVR LAKE:ALT=900M/MSL:>>N:NFD", **LatLong:** "60.616670 -128.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "60:37:00 N 128:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.616670,-128.700006)", **RelAlt:** "138", **State/Prov:** "YKN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6882 (A9E87962) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** BALD TOP, CA **Description:** 2 / beach. 7 round flat objects / sea level. 1 going up [to] and 5 follow / spirals. 1 stays / 20 minutes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 877) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2366 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BALD TOP,CA:2/BEACH:7 RND FLAT OBJS/SEA Lvl:1 ↑+5 FOLO/SPIRALS:1 STAYS/20mins", **LatLong:** "35.833335 -121.377784", **LatLongDMS:** "35:50:00 N 121:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.833335,-121.377784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6883 (C54107CB) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 1st great DC wave. Fleets / saucers. 1 going [to] 7k MPH. RADAR's. / r210v1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2367 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "196", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:1ST GREAT DC WAVE:FLEETS/SCRS:1 >7k MPH:RDRs:/r210v1#2", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6884 (CEBD60DC) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** RIVER EDGE, NJ **Description:** Newsman. Silent orange Japanese lantern going southeast. Absolute(ly) silent. / r28p286+/ APROv1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 853) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2368 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "RIVER EDGE,NJ:NEWSMAN:SLNT ORG.JAPn.LANTERN >SE:ABS SLNT:/r28p286+/APROv1#2", **LatLong:** "40.933335 -74.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:56:00 N 74:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.933335,-74.033337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6885 (C60FAEFA) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Savanna River, SC **Description:** Hundreds of employees from AEC witnessed UFO cavort (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520719](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/5207xxdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1129 ### Event 6886 (4683B6B1) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** unknown location, Unknown **Description:** 2 cigar-shaped objects, one hovering the other moving to the E (Battelle Unknown #4) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1130 ### Event 6887 (BF63FEA7) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Porto Maldo, Peru **Description:** Photograph of oval UFO taken by customs official. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1131 ### Event 6888 (12CCFBB1) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** River Edge, NJ **Description:** Associated Press reporter Saul Pett about midnight saw an intensely glowing, nonblinking orange ball of light moving steadily overhead from the northwest to the southeast for 1-2 minutes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1132 ### Event 6889 (7D918D5C) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Williston, ND **Description:** Elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, descend fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1492) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1133 ### Event 6890 (CA2E653A) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Elkins Park, PA **Description:** Saw 2 star-like lights maneuver, hover and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1494) **Reference:** NICAP: [520719](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1134 ### Event 6891 (C3300925) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Famous Photo of Objects Over Capitol (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 0) **Reference:** NICAP: [520719](http://www.nicap.org/520719washington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1135 ### Event 6892 (6501AAF3) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **End date:** 7/20/1952 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Washington National Airport Air Route Traffic Control radar tracked the UFO to within about 4 miles of the airport (1st event) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520719-20](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520719wnsdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1136 ### Event 6893 (98C6A2CD) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 2:55 AM **Location:** Williston, North Dakota **Description:** Witness: one experienced civilian pilot. One elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, travelled down fast, made a 360 degree and then a 180 degree turn in 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_179 ### Event 6894 (87B09566) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Time:** 11:35 PM **Location:** Elkins Park, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. C.J. Powley and wife. Two star-like lights maneuvered, hovered and sped for 5-7 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_180 ### Event 6895 (591CAA61) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Williston, North Dakota **Description:** 2:55 a.m. An experienced civilian pilot watches an elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe over Williston, North Dakota, for 5 minutes. It descends fast and makes a 360° then a 180° turn. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 151 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1916 ### Event 6896 (BB59CDFC) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) tells newspapermen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that UFOs “can reverse directions and cruise back and forth; they travel at high speeds in wide sweeping circles…. They travel at high altitudes and can be followed as long as 3½ minutes.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Luminous Objects Flooding Southwest Skies Not Shooting Stars or](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7924767/albuquerque-journal/) [Meteorites, Says LaPaz,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7924767/albuquerque-journal/)” July 20, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 67 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1917 ### Event 6897 (1D7A40EB) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Locations:** Savannah River Atomic Site; Aiken, South Carolina **Description:** 10:00 a.m. Engineer John A. Anderson and other technicians at the Savannah River Atomic Site near Aiken, South Carolina, watch a greenish glowing object dart back and forth silently and erratically at high speed above the plant. It is in view for 2 minutes, moving constantly and changing direction at sharp angles. The object disappears over the horizon at “tremendous velocity.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Multiple Witnesses Observe Strange](http://www.nicap.org/520719savannah%5Fdir.htm) [Maneuvering Object](http://www.nicap.org/520719savannah%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 51; Nukes 47–48 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1918 ### Event 6898 (796598C0) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Locations:** Agricultural engineer Pedro Bardi's farm in the Madre de Dios region of Peru; Puerto Maldonado **Description:** 4:30 p.m. Agricultural engineer Pedro Bardi and others on a farm in the Madre de Dios region of Peru see a UFO flying at 325 feet shortly after their short-wave radio goes dead. Bardi says it is a bit smaller than a DC-3 and is making a buzzing sound. It shows up 4 minutes later at Puerto Maldonado, 75 miles away, and Customs Administrator Domingo Troncosco photographs it. The photo shows an elongated object trailing smoke, passing over the top of a tree and in front of a cumulus cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Curt Collins, “[The Case of the Smoking Saucer,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/11/the-case-of-the-smoking-saucer/)” In Honor of Jim Moseley, November 3, 2014; Curt Collins, “[Jim Moseley: The Case of the Smoking Saucer,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/jim-moseley-case-of-smoking-saucer.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 18, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1919 ### Event 6899 (154D7476) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Locations:** Chicago, Illinois; Elgin, Illinois **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Six luminous round objects are seen by a Chicago, Illinois, woman moving horizontally and vertically as they cavort around in the sky. The same night, a UFO is seen by three witnesses at the Ground Observer Corps post at the city hall in Elgin, Illinois. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1920 ### Event 6900 (57398E8E) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Elkins Park, Pennsylvania **Description:** 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. [Charles John Powley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33034027/charles-john-powley) and his wife [Janet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145064742/janet-powley) see two star-like lights maneuver, hover, and speed up for 5–7 minutes over Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three Groups of Witnesses See Strange](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm) [Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 12, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1921 ### Event 6901 (D4482E7E) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **End date:** 7/20/1952 **Locations:** Washington National [now Ronald Reagan National] Airport’s Air Route Traffic Control (ARTC) in D.C.; Andrews AFB [now Joint Base Andrews] in Prince George’s County, Maryland; Andrews AFB; Bolling AFB [now Joint Base Anaconda-Bolling] in Washington, D.C.; New Castle AFB [now New Castle Air National Guard Base] in Delaware; White House and Capitol **Description:** 11:40 p.m. Air traffic controller Edward Nugent at Washington National \[now Ronald Reagan National\] Airport’s Air Route Traffic Control \(ARTC\) in D.C. picks up a formation of seven objects on his long-range radar. They are southeast of Andrews AFB \[now Joint Base Andrews\] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, moving along at 100–130 mph. Two of the targets suddenly accelerate and vanish off the scope within seconds. One apparently reaches a speed of 7,000 mph. A second, shorter-range radar in the airport control tower \(operated by [Howard Cocklin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68160004/howard-arthur-cocklin) and [Joseph Zacko Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158964070/joseph-charles-zacko)\) and another at Andrews AFB has also tracked the objects. For 6 hours, between 8 and 10 UFOs are tracked on radar. Senior Air Traffic Controller Harry G. Barnes says that “They followed no set course, were not in any formation, and we only seemed to be able to track them for about three miles at a time…. I can safely deduce that they performed gyrations which no known aircraft could perform.” Several Capitol Airlines pilots \(one of them Capt. S. C. “Casey” Pierman\) see the objects visually as white or orange lights in restricted air space over the White House and Capitol. Ground observers at Andrews \(Capt. Harold C. May, Staff/Sgt Charles Davenport\) watch red or orange lights. Radar and visual sightings are also taking place at Bolling AFB \[now Joint Base Anaconda-Bolling\] in Washington, D.C. By 3:00 a.m., the UFOs are all gone, just as two F-94 interceptors arrive belatedly from New Castle AFB \[now New Castle Air National Guard Base\] in Delaware. The jets depart, and the UFOs return, observed by Capt. Howard Dermott, a Capitol Airlines pilot, and Sgt. Davenport at Andrews. Radar trackings continue, the last at 5:30 a.m. Civilian radio engineer E. W. Chambers sees five huge discs circling in a loose formation; they tilt upward and leave in a steep ascent. Blips appear on radar for at least another day, until the evening of July 20. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[1952 Washington,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%5FWashington%2C%5FD.C.%5FUFO%5Fincident) [D.C. UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%5FWashington%2C%5FD.C.%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[The Washington National Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/520719wns%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Andrews Tower Radar Confirms](http://www.nicap.org/520720andrewsafb%5Fdir.htm) [Washington Target](http://www.nicap.org/520720andrewsafb%5Fdir.htm)”; “Washington’s Blips: ‘Somethings’ over the Capital Are Traced on Radar,” Life, August 4, 1952, pp. 39–40; Ruppelt, [pp. 158–161](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/158/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 71–72; Clark III 1250–1252; Swords 154–155; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 151; Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/152/mode/2up) [153–157](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/152/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/152/mode/2up) [862–867](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/862/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 32– 58; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 139; Shoot 28–34 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1922 ### Event 6902 (E19714CE) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Location:** Centerville, Virginia **Description:** 12:00 midnight. A part-time farmer named Constantine and a hired hand named Davis are curing tobacco when they see two cigar-shaped objects—one hovering, the other moving to the east—for 3–4 minutes near Centerville, Virginia. Both objects are translucent, lit from within, and emit an exhaust from one end. They both ascend until they disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1923 ### Event 6903 (4E610900) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Description:** A tobacco farmer sighted two cigar-shaped objects on this night in the southern United States (location undisclosed). The sighting occurred around midnight at the beginning of the new da y.One object hovered while the other one moved east and then came back, then both objects ascended vertically until gone from view. Both had some type of exhaust, and were illuminated from the inside. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4191 ### Event 6904 (8D77CCAD) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Description:** An experienced civilian pilot reported that he observed an unidentified elliptical object with a lighted fringe at 2:55 a.m. while flying over Williston, North Dakota. The object made a fast descent, executed a 360° and then a 180° turn. He had the object in sight for five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1492; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4192 ### Event 6905 (E4A53AA4) **Date:** 7/19/1952 **Description:** At 10:50 p.m. seven round flat objects were seen at sea level from Bald Top, California. One object ascended while five followed it in spirals. One object stayed behind for twenty minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2385 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4193 ### Event 6906 (CD6CB43B) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Location:** Andrews AFB **Description:** Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/1952): 3 UFO spotted by 5 base personnel at Andrews AFB at 0030 hours EST. UFOs reddish orange in color, moving erratically at an undetermined altitude. Approach Control picked up another UFO at 0415 EST which was on the radar scope for 30 seconds before fading. Lt. Hyatt, Operations Officer during this period, said that he had been receiving “flying saucer” reports that evening and the objects had been picked up by radar. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_462 ### Event 6907 (245A8101) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** MADISON, FL **Description:** 2 / farm. 2 saucers nearby. 1 advances and retreats. Both brighten and rise going up / sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 272) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2369 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "58", **HatchDesc:** "MADISON,FL:2/FARM:2 SCRS NEARBY:1 ADVANCES+RETREATS:BOTH BRIGHTEN+RISE↑/SKY", **LatLong:** "30.466668 -83.411115", **LatLongDMS:** "30:28:00 N 83:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.466668,-83.411115)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6908 (D73E36EB) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** RADAR's / Bolling and Andrews AFBs and local (as a local wave) airports/apartments. Jets chase 8+objects. 1 going NNE. / r151. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2370 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "184", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:RDRs/BOLLING+ANDREWS AFBs+LCL APTs:JETS CHASE 8+OBJs:1>NNE:/r151", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6909 (A1321637) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** LAVALLETTE, NJ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1504. Unidentified. Chemical Professor. Detailed account. 2 night lights maneuver / 6mn. Going quickly east to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2371 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LAVALLETTE,NJ:BBK#1504:UID:CHEM PROF:DETAILED ACCT:2 NLTS MNVR/6mn:>>E to SEA", **LatLong:** "39.972224 -74.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:20 N 74:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.972224,-74.066670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6910 (91EF7317) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON AIRPORT, VA **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner crew. Night light flashes by before takeoff. RADAR-visual (observation) after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2372 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON AIRPORT,VA:AL CREW:NLT FLASHES BY BEFORE TAKEOFF:RDR-VIS AFTER", **LatLong:** "38.838891 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:20 N 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.838891,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 6911 (8D6595D8) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** (NORTHERN), VA **Description:** 2 pilots. Round flat ovoid going up / woods. Going quickly southwest extremely fast as airliner signals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 858) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2373 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "(NORTHERN),VA:2 PILOTS:RND FLAT OVOID ↑/WOODS:>>SW XFAST as AIRLINER SIGNALS", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -78.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 78:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-78.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6912 (CEB8D548) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LEWISTON, ID **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). 4 large silent disks circle over Waha Grade. Rise going quickly south extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 877) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2374 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LEWISTON,ID:2+2 OBS:4 LRG SLNT DISKS CCL OVER WAHA GRADE:RISE >>S XFAST", **LatLong:** "46.350002 -116.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:21:00 N 116:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.350002,-116.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6913 (F3719C49) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Pierman/Wheaton Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1138 ### Event 6914 (67731C42) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Location:** Lavalette, NJ **Description:** 2 large orange-yellow lights with some dull red color fly in trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1504) **Reference:** NICAP: [520720](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1139 ### Event 6915 (A40503A3) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Location:** Andrews AFB, MD **Description:** Air Force radar tracked up to 10 UFOs for 15-20 minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520720](http://www.nicap.org/520720andrewsafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1140 ### Event 6916 (FCCC168B) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Location:** Herndon, VA **Description:** Airlines Flight Visual / Ground Radar Tracks (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520720](http://www.nicap.org/520720herndon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1143 ### Event 6917 (B268C936) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 0030 **Location:** Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco **Description:** Approximate date. R. Petijean saw a luminous object, 20 m diameter, on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off, leaving a smell of burning sulphur. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_94 ### Event 6918 (D18EECEB) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Time:** 12:20 AM **Location:** Lavalette, New Jersey **Description:** Witness: Seton Hall Univ. chemistry professor Dr. A.B. Spooner. Two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring flew in trail, turned and circled for 5-6 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_181 ### Event 6919 (A060A8AC) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. in Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco Mr. R. Petijean observed a 20-meter wide luminous object on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off, and left behind the smell of burning sulphur. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4223 ### Event 6920 (8FD3E637) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Description:** Seton Hall University chemistry professor Dr. A. B. Spooner of Lavalette, New Jersey reported to the Air Force that he sighted two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring in trail at 12:20 a.m. The lights turned and circled for 5-6 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4224 ### Event 6921 (183D6509) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Description:** At 1:05 a.m. at Andrews AFB in Maryland five witnesses visually observed three red-orange objects moving erratically around the sky. During the evening USAF radar operators at the weather tower tracked ten UFOs for 15-20 minutes at Andrews AFB, Maryland. The objects approached the runway, scattered, and then made sharp turns and reversals in direction. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP case investigation files, report dated September 14, 1960 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4225 ### Event 6922 (C26872BC) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Description:** At 4:30 a.m. additional unidentified radar targets were picked up and tracked on ARTC radar at National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO sightings that shook the government, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4226 ### Event 6923 (8ACFE3EE) **Date:** 7/20/1952 **Description:** An Army officer saw a red, cigar-shaped object hover for four minutes over Alexandria, Virginia at 9:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP case investigation files, report dated May 28, 1963 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4227 ### Event 6924 (5FDBA3AF) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** SOUTHWEST / READING, KS **Description:** 2 / farm. Noise. Metal disk / 3km altitude. Wobbles. 150kph. Rises going quickly north / 1500kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 904) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2375 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "331", **HatchDesc:** "SW/READING,KS:2/FARM:NOISE:MTL DISK/3km alt:WOBBLES:150kph:RISES >>N/1500kph", **LatLong:** "38.488891 -95.972227", **LatLongDMS:** "38:29:20 N 95:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.488891,-95.972227)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6925 (2817D528) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** DOBBINS AIR FORCE BASE **Description:** 4 radarmen. Unidentified blip. 1200mph. Slows. Gone. / Atlanta Journal 24 Jul. '52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 903) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2376 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "326", **HatchDesc:** "DOBBINS AFB:4 RADARMEN:UID BLIP:1200mph:SLOWS:gone:/Atlanta Jrnl 24Jly52", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -84.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 84:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-84.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6926 (0EE5C539) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** NEAR NORRISTOWN, PA **Description:** 2.5M flat green-metallic going west under private plane / 800kph. 150M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 767) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2377 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "nr NORRISTOWN,PA:2.5M FLAT GRN-MTLC >W under pvt plane/800kph:150M alt", **LatLong:** "40.116669 -75.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:00 N 75:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.116669,-75.333337)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6927 (0C0AD143) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** POMONA, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observers. Red and silver ovoid makes loops going north. 3km altitude. 300kph. Featureless. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 906) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2378 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "285", **HatchDesc:** "POMONA,CA:GOC OBSs:RED+SLVR OVOID MAKES LOOPS >N:3km alt:300kph:featureless", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -117.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 117:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-117.750006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6928 (3122256D) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** 2 observer(s). Large cone-shaped object with brilliant orange glow. / USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC) report to Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 302) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2379 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:2 OBS:LRG CONE-SHAPED OBJ W/BRILL.ORG GLOW:/ATIC REPORT TO BBK", **LatLong:** "39.300002 -76.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:18:00 N 76:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.300002,-76.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6929 (BC36A7BF) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** CONVERSE, TX **Description:** 1 observer near Randolph Air Force Base. Fuselage shape straight and level. Makes 90-turn / 300mph! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2380 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "121", **HatchDesc:** "CONVERSE,TX:1 OBS nr RANDOLPH AFB:FUSELAGE SHAPE S/L:MAKES 90-TURN/300mph!", **LatLong:** "29.516668 -98.283338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:31:00 N 98:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.516668,-98.283338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6930 (F96A6A15) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** WIESBADEN, GERMANY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1514. USAF pilot and separate observer(s). 4+night lights / varying trajectories / 10-15 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2381 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WIESBADEN,GERMANY:BBK#1514:USAF PILOT+SEP.OBS:4+NLTS/VARYING TRAJs/10-15min", **LatLong:** "50.083336 8.255556", **LatLongDMS:** "50:05:00 N 08:15:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.083336,8.255556)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6931 (8D6D3BD7) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** TERRE HAUTE, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1533. USAF man. Delta/triangle/box-like craft / 12K' altitude and 600mph stops dead! Report going [to] Rockville. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2382 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "151", **HatchDesc:** "TERRE HAUTE,IN:BBK#1533:USAF MAN:DLT/12K'alt+600mph STOPS DEAD!:rept>ROCKVILLE", **LatLong:** "39.466669 -87.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:28:00 N 87:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.466669,-87.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6932 (433B1C92) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, FL **Description:** Several military observer(s). Night lights over missile test center again. 700mph. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2383 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PATRICK AFB,FL:SVRL MIL OBS:NLTS OVR MISSILE TEST CTR AGAIN:700mph:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "28.216668 -80.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "28:13:00 N 80:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.216668,-80.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6933 (D5B5FC22) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** BELUGA LAKE WITH ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** Bogeys / ground and air RADAR's. F94s get close. Never see.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 402) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2384 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "BELUGA LAKE W/ELMENDORF AFB,AK:BOGEYS/GND+AIR RDRS:F94s GET CLOSE:NEVER SEE..", **LatLong:** "61.400003 -151.583341", **LatLongDMS:** "61:24:00 N 151:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.400003,-151.583341)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6934 (A0F7EF85) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** SAN MARCOS AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1516. Unidentified. Several observer(s). Horizontal "meteor" rises and descends. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2385 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "182", **HatchDesc:** "SAN MARCOS AFB,TX:BBK#1516:UID:SVRL OBS:HORIZNTAL "METEOR" RISES+DESCENDS:", **LatLong:** "29.666668 -98.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:40:00 N 98:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.666668,-98.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6935 (5BDE4090) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Baltimore, MD **Description:** Brilliant orange, cone-shaped object size of four engine aircraft sighted at 15,000 to 20,000 feet then dove to 2000 feet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520721](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/balt520721dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1145 ### Event 6936 (EEF449D9) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Dobbins (Turner AFB), GA **Description:** Blip Makes Passes On Wind-Finding Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/520721dobbinsAFBdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1146 ### Event 6937 (C64D8470) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Wiesbaden, West Germany **Description:** Separated Witnesses Observe Maneuvering Lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1514) **Reference:** NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/520721wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1147 ### Event 6938 (8F24F41E) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** San Marcos AFB, TX **Description:** A blue circle with a blue trail hover then accelerate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1516) **Reference:** NICAP: [520721](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/sanmarcos520721dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1148 ### Event 6939 (3D029CDC) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Randolph AFB, TX **Description:** An elongated, fuselage-shaped object fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1522) **Reference:** NICAP: [520721](http://nicap.org/randolph520721dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1149 ### Event 6940 (9EE4D172) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Holyoke, MA **Description:** Round, yellow, flashing light fly downward (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1524) **Reference:** NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/holyoke520722dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1150 ### Event 6941 (0E7209FF) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Dobbins (Turner AFB), GA **Description:** Dobbins AFB, Georgia, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1151 ### Event 6942 (AC2706A7) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Beluga Lake, AK **Description:** Aircraft Has Radar Contact But No Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/520721beluga%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1152 ### Event 6943 (9B4AAEE5) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 6:30 PM **Location:** Weisbaden, West Germany **Description:** Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. E.E. Dougher, WAF Lt. J.J. Stong, situated miles apart. Four bright yellowish lights were seen by Dougher to separate, with two climbing and two flying away level in the opposite direction. Stong watched two reddish lights fly in opposite directions. Sightings lasted about 10-15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_182 ### Event 6944 (08C1C35E) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 10:40 PM **Location:** San Marcos AFB, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: one Lieutenant, two Staff Sergeants, three airmen. One blue circle with a blue trail was seen to hover and then accelerate to near-sonic speed (700+ m.p.h.) after 1 minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_183 ### Event 6945 (6A1DF4F1) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 4:30 PM **Location:** Converse, Texas **Description:** Witness: wife of USAF Capt. J. B. Neal. One elongated, fuselage-shaped object flew straight and level, made a right-angle turn and went out of sight at more than 300 m.p.h., all in 3-5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_184 ### Event 6946 (AF5858E0) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Time:** 8:10 PM **Location:** Rockville, Indiana **Description:** Witnesses: one military officer, two enlisted men. One aluminum, delta-shaped object with a vertical fin, flew straight and level, and then hovered during a 3 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_185 ### Event 6947 (7D82F7F8) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Locations:** Washington National Airport; Andrews AFB, Maryland; Bolling AFB, D.C.; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio **Description:** 10:00 a.m. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) first hears about the National Airport sightings in D.C. when he buys a newspaper in the Washington National Airport terminal. He has been to Andrews AFB in Maryland the day before with his boss Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) and no one had said anything. At 1:00 p.m., Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) calls Ruppelt to come to a briefing with Capt. Berkow, a USAF intelligence officer from Bolling AFB in D.C. Ruppelt hears that President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) is personally interested and wants a full investigation, but Bower orders Ruppelt to return to Wright- Patterson AFB in Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 158–159](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/158/mode/2up); Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) [UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 46–47 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1924 ### Event 6948 (5080DE8C) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Locations:** Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia; Washington; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** 10:30 a.m. Radar used to measure wind velocity in the upper atmosphere at Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia, detects an unusual object flying at 50,000 feet. Observing the blip are four radar technicians who state that “it could have been an electromagnetic phenomenon but they did not believe it was.” A second blip appears on the radar moving toward the wind-finding weather balloon and passing through it three separate times. USAF officials report “in private conversations” that the object moves at 1,200 mph, slows considerably for 3–5 minutes, then disappears. The Civilian Defense director in Atlanta, [George M. “Pup” Phillips](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170666077/george-marshall-phillips), receives a report of the object but has “no details.” Col. [Murray C. Woodbury](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60053447/murray-clarke-woodbury)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60053447/murray-clarke-woodbury) commander of the 35th Air Division at Dobbins, checks with “defense officials in Washington” before telling the press that such reports are sent to the Air Technical Intelligence Center \(Project Blue Book\) in Dayton, Ohio, for evaluation. Surprisingly, he admits, “We try to intercept such objects and identify them, but so far we have been unsuccessful.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Blip Makes](http://www.nicap.org/520721dobbinsAFBdir.htm) [Passes on Wind-Finding Target](http://www.nicap.org/520721dobbinsAFBdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 3; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 152 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1925 ### Event 6949 (C96210CE) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Location:** Wiesbaden, Germany **Description:** 6:30 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. [Edward E. Dougher](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8769632/edward-ervin-dougher) and WAF Lt. [Josephine J. Stong](http://images.library.wisc.edu/History/EFacs/GerRecon/omg1951April/reference/history.omg1951april.i0024.pdf), separated by one mile on the ground in Wiesbaden, Germany, see 4 bright yellowish lights. Dougher watches them separate, with two climbing and two flying away level in the opposite direction. His wife [Barbara](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131544832/barbara-dougher) joins him as they fly away. Stong sees two reddish lights fly in opposite directions for 10–15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Separated Witnesses Observe Maneuvering](http://www.nicap.org/520721wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm) [Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520721wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 152; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 12, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1926 ### Event 6950 (73BA15F2) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. two U.S. Air Force officers, Dougher and Strong, in separate locations at Wiesbaden Air Base in Hesse state, Germany watched two to four long, slender objects for 10-15 minutes. The UFOs were described as bright yellow lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted as official statistics, case 1514; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 271; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4259 ### Event 6951 (C4D6B0D0) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. a UFO was tracked on radar at Dobbins AFB, Georgia at a speed of 1200 miles per hour and at an altitude of 50,000 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP files, citing newspaper source; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 160 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4260 ### Event 6952 (9AD307C6) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Description:** While flying ten miles northwest of Kermit, Texas a private pilot experienced total radio failure when he encountered a brilliant white light playing in the sky near a bank of high altitude clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49, citing Jan Aldrich **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4261 ### Event 6953 (DF3F8B7A) **Date:** 7/21/1952 **Description:** On the second day in a row more than 25 workers at the Northrup Aircraft Factory in Los Angeles, California watched as two flying saucers were sighted hovering and cutting capers over their aircraft plant for more than an hour. This occurred for a total of four evenings in a row, beginning at around 7:00 p.m. The objects were high in the sky and resembled pulsating stars, but they shot away as if controlled. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk on April 16, 2005, p. 47, citing San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4262 ### Event 6954 (8CB9D221) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** SYDNEY, NSW **Description:** Watchman. Orange glowing "lantern" going [to] over railroad/railway tracks / 400mph. Gun shakes. Shocks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCHUESSLER, John F.: UFO-RELATED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS. 1996 J. Schuessler, POB 58485, Houston, TX 77258 (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2386 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SYDNEY,NSW:WATCHMAN:ORG.GLO "LANTERN" >OVR RR TRACKS/400mph:GUN SHAKES:SHOCKS", **LatLong:** "-33.883335 151.200007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 S 151:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.883335,151.200007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6955 (3A865FC0) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** SSW / LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1538. Air Traffic Controller and more/others. Large very fast objects / sudden turns and reversals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2387 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "2260", **HatchDesc:** "SSW/LOS ALAMOS,NM:BBK#1538:ATC++:LRG VFAST OBJS/SUDDEN TURNS+REVERSALS.", **LatLong:** "35.800002 -106.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:48:00 N 106:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.800002,-106.350005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6956 (E51AE702) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** EAST / GOSHEN, OR **Description:** Several observer(s). 1-3 then 8 round bits / fluff maneuver and circle / 1 hr and more. / Register Guard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 909) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2388 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "E/GOSHEN,OR:SVRL OBS:1-3 then 8 RND BITS/FLUFF MNVR+CCL/1 hr+:/Register Guard", **LatLong:** "43.983335 -123.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:59:00 N 123:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.983335,-123.000006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6957 (3CC37950) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** OVER STAFFORD, VA **Description:** USAF C54. Shiny ovoid dances. Dead stops and starts. Vertical steps. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2389 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "56", **HatchDesc:** "ovr STAFFORD,VA:USAF C54:SHINY OVOID DANCES:DEAD STOPS+STARTS:VERTICAL STEPS", **LatLong:** "38.422224 -77.411115", **LatLongDMS:** "38:25:20 N 77:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.422224,-77.411115)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6958 (21BE4162) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** HAZLEHURST, GA **Description:** 2+observer(s). 8M pancake saucer circles. Moves side-to-side. Flashes. Large night lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 908) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2390 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "HAZLEHURST,GA:2+OBS:8M PANCAKE SCR CCLS:MOVES SIDE-to-SIDE:FLASHES:LRG NLTS", **LatLong:** "31.872224 -82.594448", **LatLongDMS:** "31:52:20 N 82:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.872224,-82.594448)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6959 (404F3234) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** UVALDE, TX **Description:** WxMAN. 15M silver saucer spins. Gyrates rising going quickly southwest. Lost in clouds. / r242p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 909) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2391 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "276", **HatchDesc:** "UVALDE,TX:WxMAN:15M SLVR SCR SPINS:GYRATES RISING >>SW:LOST/CLOUDS:/r242p21", **LatLong:** "29.200001 -99.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:12:00 N 99:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.200001,-99.783338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6960 (ACFDEC5C) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL **Description:** Private pilot and wife. Metallic disk hovers / 10 second(s). Shoots away / fast climb. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2392 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEW SMYRNA BEACH,FL:Pvt.PILOT+WIFE:MTLC DISK HVRS/10sec:SHOOTS AWAY/FAST CLIMB", **LatLong:** "29.027779 -80.888893", **LatLongDMS:** "29:01:40 N 80:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.027779,-80.888893)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6961 (AA0DC05A) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** EAST / WOLLASTON OBSERVER(S), MA **Description:** Air Force plane spotter. Silver disk circles and maneuvers. "No plane". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 911) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2393 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "E/WOLLASTON OBS,MA:AF PLANE SPOTTER:SLVR DISK CCLS+MNVRs:"no plane"", **LatLong:** "42.255558 -70.972226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:15:20 N 70:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.255558,-70.972226)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6962 (C8E8ECAA) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** HUNTSVILLE, AL **Description:** 4+observer(s). Dark double-cone disk going east. Sharp climb and turns. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 912) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2394 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "193", **HatchDesc:** "HUNTSVILLE,AL:4+OBS:DRK DBL-CONE DISK >E:SHARP CLIMB+TURNS:ABS SLNT:", **LatLong:** "34.733335 -86.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:00 N 86:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.733335,-86.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6963 (3E37C0B8) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** PENNINGTON, NJ **Description:** Several / home. Orange night light 3 lengths ahead / airliner as if towing it! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2395 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "PENNINGTON,NJ:SVRL/HOME:ORG NLT 3 LENGTHS AHEAD/AIRLINER as if towing it!", **LatLong:** "40.294446 -74.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:17:40 N 74:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.294446,-74.750004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6964 (3024FAD4) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTH / MONROE, LA **Description:** Red blot / light follows small plane through maneuvers. Above and below. Going quickly southwest extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 914) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2396 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "N/MONROE,LA:RED BLOT/LITE FOLOS SML PLANE THRU MNVRS:ABOVE+BELOW:>>SW XFAST", **LatLong:** "32.966668 -92.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:58:00 N 92:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.966668,-92.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6965 (CF50CD75) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** DUNELLEN, NJ **Description:** 7 observer(s) at end. 2 orange disks cross sky. 3 minutes each. 1 north going south. Other east going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 915) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2397 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "DUNELLEN,NJ:7 OBS at end:2 ORG.DISKS CROSS SKY:3 mins each:1 N>S:OTHER E>W:", **LatLong:** "40.588891 -74.472226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:35:20 N 74:28:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.588891,-74.472226)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6966 (03F255B0) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** SOUTH / TAMPA, FL **Description:** 20 report(s). Saucers and night lights all over/all about MacDill Air Force Base and more. 2x jet-speed. 2 going quickly east. RADAR's. Military investigation/investigators. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 916) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2398 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "S/TAMPA,FL:20 Rpts:SCRS+NLTS ALLO MacDILL AFB+:2x JET-SPEED:2>>E:RDRs:MIL.INV", **LatLong:** "27.866668 -82.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "27:52:00 N 82:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.866668,-82.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6967 (037C959C) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** SR50 NEAR ORLANDO, FL **Description:** Ovoid mass / light east going quickly west fast. Turns vertical. / separate military observer(s) / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2399 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "SR50 nr ORLANDO,FL:OVOID MASS/LITE E>>W FAST:TURNS VERTICAL:/sep.mil.obs/r150", **LatLong:** "28.550001 -81.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "28:33:00 N 81:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.550001,-81.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6968 (6567748B) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** Gene hays. Saucer stops / 1 second(s) overhead. Edges glow. Dark center. Going quickly southeast. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2400 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX CITY,IA:GENE HAYS:SCR STOPS/1sec OVHD:EDGES GLOW:DARK CTR:>>SE:SLNT", **LatLong:** "42.516669 -96.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:00 N 96:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.516669,-96.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6969 (A9F2785D) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** TRENTON, NJ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1588. Several F94 crews. Night lights going quickly south and southeast and southwest. Join and separate to 2300h. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2401 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "190", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "TRENTON,NJ:BBK#1588:SVRL F94 CREWS:NLTS >>S+SE+SW:JOIN+SEPARATE to 2300h:/r185", **LatLong:** "40.216669 -74.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:13:00 N 74:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.216669,-74.733337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6970 (5EC614AE) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** PORTALES, NM **Description:** Observer(s) / drive-in movie. V-formation / night lights crosses sky. Reverses direction (AP.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 307) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2402 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1235", **HatchDesc:** "PORTALES,NM:OBS/DRIVE-IN MOVIE:V-FORM/NLTS CROSSES SKY:REVERSES DIRECTION (AP)", **LatLong:** "34.183335 -103.338894", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:00 N 103:20:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.183335,-103.338894)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6971 (A3F6F298) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** BOSTON TO/FROM PROVINCETOWN, MA **Description:** Pilot and RADAR-OP. Blue round object spins past F94. Project Bluebook Case #1556. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2403 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON> Event 6972 (19D0ADBD) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** WEST BRIGHTON, NY **Description:** Bright yellow object. Red lights / edge. Bobs going up and down [to] and circles. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 307) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2404 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "154", **HatchDesc:** "W.BRIGHTON,NY:BRITE YEL OBJ:RED LITES/EDGE:BOBS ↑+↓ AND CIRCLES:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "43.150002 -77.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:09:00 N 77:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.150002,-77.583337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6973 (5286320A) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** BOSTON HARBOR, MA **Description:** Logan WxMAN. Dazzling object circles 3x at least. Different color(s). Good data. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 918) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2405 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON HARBOR,MA:LOGAN WxMAN:DAZZLING OBJ CCLS 3x at least:DIFF.CLRS:good data", **LatLong:** "42.383335 -70.950003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:23:00 N 70:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.383335,-70.950003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6974 (9EE1F4D4) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** QUINCY NAS, MASS **Description:** 2 silent blue-glowing saucers. Straight and level going quickly northwest. Abruptly vanish or darken 1, 2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 307) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2406 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "QUINCY NAS,MASS:2 SILENT BLUE-GLO SCRS:S/L>>NW:ABRUPTLY VANISH OR DARKEN 1,2.", **LatLong:** "42.250002 -71.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:15:00 N 71:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.250002,-71.016670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6975 (092D7C9B) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Rockville, IN **Description:** An aluminum delta-shaped object with vertical fin (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1533) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/rockville520722dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1153 ### Event 6976 (88BEB6C2) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Uvalde, TX **Description:** Large, round, silver object fly at 1,000+ mph while gyrating (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1536) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722uvalde%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1154 ### Event 6977 (66788608) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Maxwell, TX **Description:** At 2240 CST one bluish green object was observed at 8,000 feet. The object climbed to 14,000 in arc very rapid. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722maxwelldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1155 ### Event 6978 (79BC97D6) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Saw 8 large, round, bright aluminum objects fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1538, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/alamos520722dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1156 ### Event 6979 (1B7E01E4) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Boston (near Braintree between Provincetown and), MA **Description:** F-94B Chases Object / With Airborne radar Tracking (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1556) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722braintree%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1157 ### Event 6980 (E31D56E4) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Brookley AFB (Mobile), AL **Description:** Barrel-shaped black object 3.5-4 ft diameter, emitting black smoke trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mobile520722dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1159 ### Event 6981 (698C2221) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Peterson Field (12 miles E of ), CO **Description:** ADC Personnel In Cessna See Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722petersonfld%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1160 ### Event 6982 (AFCF644E) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** New Smryna (near), FL **Description:** Very Large Disc Sighted By Private Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722nsmyrna%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1161 ### Event 6983 (DC135CB0) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Stafford, VA **Description:** Bright ovoid object hover then move in stops and starts (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1654) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1162 ### Event 6984 (91185864) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** After midnight **Location:** Holyoke, Massachusetts **Description:** Witness: Mrs. A. Burgess. One round, yellow, flashing light went downward. No further information in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_186 ### Event 6985 (D9CEB189) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 10:50 AM **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: control tower operator Don Weins, and two pilots for Carco. Eight large, round, bright aluminum objects flew straight and level, then darted around erratically during 25 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_187 ### Event 6986 (D0435B73) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 2:46 PM **Location:** Uvalde, Texas **Description:** Witness: Don Epperly, Trans Texas Airlines station manager and weather observer. One large, round, silver object flew at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for 45 seconds, while gyrating. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_188 ### Event 6987 (86B3A56C) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 10:47 PM **Location:** between Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. One round blue light passed F-94, spinning. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_189 ### Event 6988 (3573A35C) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Time:** 10:50 PM to 12:45 AM, July 23 **Location:** Trenton, New Jersey **Description:** Witnesses: crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from Dover AFB, Del. Thirteen visual sightings and one radar tracking of blue-white lights during two hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_190 ### Event 6989 (DF224D55) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Washington **Description:** At Wright-Patterson AFB, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) meets with ATIC electronics specialist Capt. [Roy L. James](http://www.project1947.com/feaf/feafintros.htm) \(who harbors a “personal dislike for UFOs”\). He tells Ruppelt that weather conditions caused the Washington radar returns. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1927 ### Event 6990 (9764856F) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Locations:** Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company; Pueblo, Colorado; Montana; California **Description:** Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company President Joseph H. Rohrer gives a lecture \(one of a series\) on flying saucers at a chamber of commerce meeting in Pueblo, Colorado. He mixes a few genuine cases with some crashed saucer fiction, claiming that 7 discs have been retrieved by the US government, three of them forced down in Montana. One occupant has survived, he says, a little man 3 feet tall who is later kept alive in a secret site in California. Rohrer claims he has been inside a 100-foot-diameter disc in 1942, but he has made up these stories for entertainment purposes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Flying Saucer Talk Startles Chamber Membership Meeting,” Pueblo \(Colo.\) Chieftain, July 23, 1952, p. 3; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 111–113](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chVII.htm); James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 90–92; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-00-00-usa-california.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-00-00-usa-california.htm) August 6, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1928 ### Event 6991 (CB2B4E6D) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Location:** Worcester, Massachusetts **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Eubert T. White and his wife see three silvery objects whizzing across the sky above Worcester, Massachusetts, “like planes in attack formation.” One of the objects has a bluish glow in the front and a reddish tint behind it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Strange Objects in Worcester Sky,” Lawrence \(Mass.\) Eagle, July 23, 1952; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 14; Shoot 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1929 ### Event 6992 (89395A5B) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Locations:** Boston, Massachusetts; Braintree **Description:** 10:20 p.m. A bluish-green UFO is seen over Boston, Massachusetts, and a few minutes later it is picked up by GCI radar. When Ground Control vectors an F-94 toward the UFO, the pilot sees the UFO near Braintree and locks on to it with his own radar. But the object easily leaves the jet behind. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-94B Chases Object /](http://www.nicap.org/520722braintree%5Fdir.htm) [With Airborne Radar Tracking](http://www.nicap.org/520722braintree%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 67](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIV.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 154–155 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1930 ### Event 6993 (936D4679) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **End date:** 7/23/1952 **Locations:** MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida; Tampa **Description:** 10:30 p.m. An air traffic control tower operator at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, watches for 30 minutes a red-greenish-blue object to the west-southwest at about 45° elevation with 2 other objects to the north of it, smaller and lower in elevation. He sights another object to the south-southeast about 30° elevation at 11:30 p.m. MacDill radar tracks an object at 12:03 a.m. 37 miles away at 41,200 feet altitude heading almost directly toward the base at 532 mph. It also tracks an object to the south-southeast at an altitude of 41,000 feet \(reportedly Navy and CAA radars also track the object\). At 12:08 a.m., the pilot and copilot of a B-29 bomber on landing approach are vectored by MacDill tower operator to investigate the UFO. They see a high-speed object at 40,000 feet heading towards MacDill and traveling faster than the B-29. The B-29 fire control radar locks onto the object and prepares to fire just as the UFO changes course and disappears at 4,600 mph. Four airmen at the MacDill radar site see an object as it passes nearly overhead. MacDill radar loses the object at about 12:15 a.m. Civilians in Tampa also see two yellowish-orange discs maneuvering around the air base. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156; Tampa \(Fla.\) Daily Times, July 23, 1952, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1931 ### Event 6994 (C7FD3D25) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **End date:** 7/23/1952 **Locations:** Dover AFB, Delaware; Trenton, New Jersey **Description:** 10:50 p.m. Crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from Dover AFB, Delaware, make 13 visual sightings and one radar tracking of blue-white lights around Trenton, New Jersey, continuing until 12:45 a.m. White, green, and blue lights are seen by ground observers and F-94 pilots moving in arcs and blinking out suddenly. One F-94 crew gets a radar lock-on from 30,000 feet away of an object the size of an F-94. At 9,000 feet distance, the object makes a sharp right turn, suddenly drops in height, and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1932 ### Event 6995 (4692A85A) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Description:** In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at 8:00 p.m. a railroad guard received electric shocks and his gun shook when he had a close encounter with an orange glowing, lantern-shaped UFO over some railroad tracks. The UFO flew away at an estimated 400 mph. Guard receives electrics shocks, gun shakes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** James Holledge, Flying Saucers over Australia, p. 32; John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4286 ### Event 6996 (12101956) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Description:** At 10:50 a.m. Mr. D. Weins, the Los Alamos Airport control tower operator at the AEC Los Alamos nuclear research facility in New Mexico, and two others, saw eight round, aluminum-colored objects. They were described as large and very fast moving UFOs. They made several sudden turns and reversals, and were seen for 25 minutes. An unexplained Project Blue Book report. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1538; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 4; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4287 ### Event 6997 (ADD313B8) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Description:** At 2:45 p.m. Mr. Epperly, a weather observer, sighted a 30-foot diameter silver disc-shaped object that flew 100 degrees through the sky over Uvalde, Texas in 48 seconds, between cloud banks. It seemed to climb, and moved at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1536; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4288 ### Event 6998 (A0E14530) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Description:** A triangular-shaped flying object, the size of C-47 transport plane, flew across the sky over Rockville, Indiana. It stopped to hover about half a minute, then resumed its flight, disappearing in the distance. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4289 ### Event 6999 (7AB0EFA0) **Date:** 7/22/1952 **Description:** At 10:50 p.m. eight lights in a V formation crossed the sky at a drive-in movie theater in Portales, New Mexico and then reversed direction. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4290 ### Event 7000 (05826AB3) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Description:** Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_123 ### Event 7001 (36820AFA) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** In an Air Mail reply from Dr. Einstein to Mr. Louis A. Gardner in LA, he said in regards to UFO's “Those people have seen something. What they saw I do not know, and I am not curious to know”. **Type:** letter **Reference:** [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p128) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_463 ### Event 7002 (B26ADDF5) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** WESTFIELD, ME **Description:** 3 silver saucers speed going quickly southwest. Other objects reported / previous night. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2407 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "145", **HatchDesc:** "WESTFIELD,ME:3 SLVR SCRS SPEED >>SW::other OBJs reported/previous nite.", **LatLong:** "46.572224 -67.922225", **LatLongDMS:** "46:34:20 N 67:55:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.572224,-67.922225)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7003 (1708A161) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** CULVER CITY, CA **Description:** Aircraft workers. Silver ovoid launches 2 small scout disks. Rejoin and going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2408 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "CULVER CITY,CA:AIRCRAFT WORKERS:SLVR OVOID LAUNCHES 2 SML SCOUT DISKS:REJOIN+↑", **LatLong:** "34.033335 -118.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:00 N 118:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.033335,-118.400006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7004 (3CDE1431) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** SPRINGFIELD, MASS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Orange glowing ovoid maneuvers / T-formation / 40 minute(s). Twinkles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2409 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGFIELD,MASS:2 OBS:ORG GLOWING OVOID MNVRS/T-FORMATION/40min:TWINKLES", **LatLong:** "42.100002 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:00 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.100002,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7005 (A856F38B) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** USCG / NAHANT, MASS AND MORE **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1556. 2 5' saucers going quickly northwest / 1500' altitude. Circle Bird Rock. Going quickly southeast again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 907) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2410 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "USCG/NAHANT,MASS+:BBK#1556:2 5'SCRS >>NW/1500'alt:CCL Bird Rock:>>SE again", **LatLong:** "42.266669 -71.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:00 N 71:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.266669,-71.083337)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7006 (3C6D2394) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LEXINGTON PARK, MD **Description:** 2 night lights over sea / 10 minute(s). 1 hovers. 1 darts to and fro. / letter to Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2411 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LEXINGTON PARK,MD:2 NLTS OVR SEA/10min:1 HVRS:1 DARTS TO+FRO:/LETTER to BBK", **LatLong:** "38.166668 -76.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:10:00 N 76:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.166668,-76.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7007 (68FF1D9E) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** MARSHFIELD, WI **Description:** Unidentified observer(s). 90M orange metallic disk with blue-glow. Slants down. Shoots back up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 919) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2412 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "389", **HatchDesc:** "MARSHFIELD,WI:UID OBS:90M ORG MTLC DISK W/BLU-GLOW:SLANTS DOWN:SHOOTS BACK UP", **LatLong:** "44.672224 -90.172227", **LatLongDMS:** "44:40:20 N 90:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.672224,-90.172227)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7008 (6AE01C44) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** WALTHAM, MASS **Description:** Odd orange night light circles town / hours. F94B sees spinning saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2413 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WALTHAM,MASS:ODD ORG NLT CIRCLES TOWN/HOURS::F94B SEES SPINNING SCR", **LatLong:** "42.366669 -71.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:22:00 N 71:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.366669,-71.250003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7009 (F52E65E0) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** GORDONSVILLE, VA **Description:** Boy / 14. 4 teardrop flames going quickly east. Veer sharply upward. Same repeated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 920) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2414 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "GORDONSVILLE,VA:BOY/14:4 TEARDROP FLAMES >>E:VEER SHARPLY UPWARD:SAME REPEATED", **LatLong:** "38.138891 -78.188893", **LatLongDMS:** "38:08:20 N 78:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.138891,-78.188893)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7010 (7CE26674) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** NEAR BRAINTREE, MA **Description:** 5 in 3 F94s and 5 / ground. RADAR-visual (observation). Blue-glowing object / 25K' altitude. Going quickly [to] away. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 310) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2415 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "nr BRAINTREE,MA:5 in 3 F94s+5/GND:RDR-VIS:BLU-GLO OBJ/25K'alt:>> AWAY:/r242", **LatLong:** "42.216669 -71.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:13:00 N 71:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.216669,-71.116670)", **RelAlt:** "7500", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7011 (E659C77E) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** SANTA CRUZ, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 3 large night lights circle / sky. 2 zoom away and return. Hover. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 310) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2416 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "36", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA CRUZ,CA:GOC OBS:3 LRG NLTS CCL/SKY:2 ZOOM AWAY+RETURN:HOVER:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.033335 -122.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:00 N 122:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.033335,-122.016672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7012 (1C7FB192) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 07:40 **Location:** JAMESTOWN, RI **Description:** Navy radar. Blip south going quickly [to] 2 / 43K' altitude. F94s and F86's chase. Can't catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2417 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "JAMESTOWN,RI:NAVY RADAR:BLIP S>>2/43K'alt:F94s+F86s CHASE:CANT CATCH:", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -71.366670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 71:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-71.366670)", **RelAlt:** "13100", **State/Prov:** "Rhode Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7013 (2809779E) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** POTTSTOWN, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1554 unidentified. 3 F94 crews. 3 silver 80' cylinders and pears / 2400kph. / LDLN#330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2418 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "46", **HatchDesc:** "POTTSTOWN,PA:BBK#1554 UID:3 F94 CREWS:3 SLVR 80'CYLS+PEARS/2400kph:/LDLN#330", **LatLong:** "40.250002 -75.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:15:00 N 75:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.250002,-75.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7014 (0C8D955F) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** ABILENE, TX **Description:** 2+girl / 6. 15M silver round object stops. Up and down. Going west and lost in the distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 921) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2419 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "510", **HatchDesc:** "ABILENE,TX:2+GIRL/6:15M SLVR RND OBJ STOPS:UP+DOWN:>W+lost/distance", **LatLong:** "32.450002 -99.733338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:27:00 N 99:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.450002,-99.733338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7015 (7BB13331) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** BERKELEY, CA **Description:** Silver "blimp" enters cloud. Exits at 90° angle with tremendous speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2420 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BERKELEY,CA:SLVR "BLIMP" ENTERS CLOUD:EXITS AT 90°ANGLE W/TREMENDOUS SPEED", **LatLong:** "37.855557 -122.272228", **LatLongDMS:** "37:51:20 N 122:16:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.855557,-122.272228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7016 (95D04E95) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** LAX AIRPORT/APARTMENT, CA **Description:** 3 Air Traffic Controllers / (seen thru) binoculars. 3 disks hover / 5 minute(s). 1 side dark. Flip over and going quickly [to] away. No RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 922) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2421 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "LAX Apt,CA:3 ATCs/BINOCS:3 DISKS HVR/5min:1 SIDE DARK:FLIP OVR+>>away:NO RDR", **LatLong:** "33.983335 -118.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:59:00 N 118:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.983335,-118.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7017 (FE39F10E) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** OFF MISAWA AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** Blue-green fireball rushes F94. F94 pursues. Object suddenly dives. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2422 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off MISAWA AFB,JPN:BLUE-GRN FBL RUSHES F94:F94 PURSUES:OBJ SUDDENLY DIVES", **LatLong:** "40.750002 141.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 141:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,141.500007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7018 (871DA847) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** HAPEVILLE, GA **Description:** Observer(s) / car. White saucer drops. Stops and "bounces" / 1000' altitude. Goes slowly going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2423 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "HAPEVILLE,GA:OBS/CAR:WHT SCR DROPS:STOPS+"BOUNCES"/1000'alt:GOES SLOWLY >SW", **LatLong:** "33.661113 -84.411115", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:40 N 84:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.661113,-84.411115)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7019 (ADF442C9) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** 4 MILES WITH ALEXANDRIA, VA **Description:** Cop and 2 USAF and civilians. Red night light hangs / sky / 10 minute(s). Then shoots going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2424 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "4mi W/ALEXANDRIA,VA:COP+2 USAF+CIVS:RED NLT HANGS/SKY/10min:THEN SHOOTS >>W.", **LatLong:** "38.811113 -77.122226", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:40 N 77:07:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.811113,-77.122226)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7020 (B5CF4E5A) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** NORFOLK, MASS **Description:** 3 prison guards. Silent circular shadow overhead. Leaves / great speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2425 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,MASS:3 PRISON GUARDS:SILENT CIRC.SHADOW OVHD:LEAVES/GREAT SPEED", **LatLong:** "42.122224 -71.327781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:07:20 N 71:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.122224,-71.327781)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7021 (444E8728) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** SOUTH BEND, IN **Description:** USAF Captain Kloth / backyard. 2 night lights going quickly southwest. 1 veers due going west. / r242p21+35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 416) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2426 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "217", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTH BEND,IN:USAF Capt KLOTH/BACKYARD:2 NLTS>>SW:1 VEERS DUE >W:/r242p21+35", **LatLong:** "41.700002 -86.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:42:00 N 86:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.700002,-86.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7022 (0F1A24B1) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** CRECY-SUR-TILLE, FR **Description:** 19M glowing-saucer going down. Slows. Maneuvers / 1100M. Blows white smoke / 4 portholes. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2427 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "CRECY-sur-TILLE,FR:19M GLO-SCR↓:SLOWS:MNVRS/1100M:BLOWS WHT SMOKE/4 PORTS:>>SE", **LatLong:** "47.555558 5.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:33:20 N 05:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.555558,5.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7023 (9F1295EB) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Long Beach, CA **Description:** Oval Object Zig Zags Over Naval Ship Yard (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723longbeach%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1163 ### Event 7024 (4B2AD594) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Culver City, CA **Description:** Two Discs Emerge From Elliptical Object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723culvercity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1164 ### Event 7025 (5D9EE267) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Saucer Hit By Jet Gunfire, Fragment Recovered? No Evidence. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 0) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723washington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1165 ### Event 7026 (9CAC92E8) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Alexandria, VA **Description:** 9:00 p.m. A red object, size undetermined, was sighted southwest of Alexandria, Virginia. The object hovered for 10 minutes, then disappeared in a westerly direction at a high rate of speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/alexandria520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1166 ### Event 7027 (AFE5886C) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Boston, MA **Description:** \[Same as or continuation of July 22 sightings near Braintree?\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/boston520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1167 ### Event 7028 (B53AF5C8) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Jamestown, RI **Description:** USN radar tracked high speed target heading N at 42,000 ft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520723jamestown%5F01%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1168 ### Event 7029 (CBFBF1B6) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Jamestown, RI **Description:** Jets Scrambled Again / High Speed Target At 42,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520723jamestown%5F02%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1169 ### Event 7030 (08242998) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Misawa AFB (E of ), Japan **Description:** USAF pilot flying F-94 jet fighter chased blue-green fireball. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/japan520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1170 ### Event 7031 (F649C563) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Pottstown, PA **Description:** Silver object, shaped like a long pear with 2-3 squares beneath (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1554) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/pottsdown520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1171 ### Event 7032 (E7C36BED) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Altoona, PA **Description:** 3 cylindrical objects in a vertical stack formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1567) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://nicap.org/altoona520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1172 ### Event 7033 (E4BF3420) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Trenton, NJ **Description:** Crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors saw 13 visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1572) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723trenton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1173 ### Event 7034 (5C640D12) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Santa Cruz, CA **Description:** "Possible GCI Sighting" of Circular Lights (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723santacruz%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1175 ### Event 7035 (6A5E4829) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Springfield, OH **Description:** Bt. 8:05 and 10:15 p.m. two lights, some described them as white globes, were seen high in the sky. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/springfield520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1176 ### Event 7036 (1C21715F) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** South Bend, IN **Description:** USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth saw 2 bright blue-white objects flying together, then the rear one veered off. 9 mins. (Berliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1578) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://nicap.org/sbend520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1177 ### Event 7037 (9594A0AF) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Nahant, MA **Description:** 2:15-218 a.m. A Seaman on watch at Nahant Coast Guard Station observed two (2) bluish lights approximately 5 feet in diameter, appearing as flat, disc-shaped objects having no aerodynamic features (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/nahant520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1178 ### Event 7038 (2243D756) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Braintree, MA **Description:** G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1179 ### Event 7039 (BB355799) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Lockbourne AFB, OH **Description:** Numerous witnesses observed four (4) objects hovering in the vicinity of the Lockbourne AFB, Columbus, Ohio. The objects were round and flourescent white in color. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/lockbourne520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1180 ### Event 7040 (F94B6E8E) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Lockbourne AFB, OH **Description:** Numerous witnesses observed four (4) objects hovering in the vicinity of the Lockbourne AFB, Columbus, Ohio. Two F-84 jets were dispatched from Lockbourne AFB, but were unable to identify the objects. Approximately 90 per cent of the personnel at the base observed the objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/lockbourne520723dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1181 ### Event 7041 (0D06632D) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 8:40 AM **Location:** Pottstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witnesses: the two-man crews of three USAF F-94 jet interceptors. One large silver object, shaped like a long pear with two or three squares beneath it, flew at 150-180 kts. (170-210 m.p.h.), while a smaller object, delta-shaped or swept back, flew around it at 1,000-1,500 kts. (1,150-1,700 m.p.h.). Seen by crews for 1-4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_191 ### Event 7042 (AE918658) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 12:50 PM **Location:** Altoona, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witnesses: two-man crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors at 35-46,000' altitude. Three cylindrical objects in a vertical stack formation flew at an altitude of 50-80,000'. Seen for 20 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_192 ### Event 7043 (72892573) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Time:** 11:35 PM **Location:** South Bend, Indiana **Description:** Witness: USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth. Two bright blue-white objects flew together, then the rear one veered off after about 9 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_193 ### Event 7044 (BADBD039) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Nahant (Massachusetts) **Description:** 2:15 a.m. Seaman [Henry J. Arnpriester](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72766295/henry-j-arnpriester) is on watch at Nahant \(Massachusetts\) Coast Guard Station \[now closed\] when he sees two bluish lights approximately 5 feet in diameter. They appear as flat, disc-shaped objects having no aerodynamic features and move without sound or exhaust trail at a speed faster than a four-engine airliner at an altitude of 1,100 to 2,000 feet. When they are approximately 1.5 miles from the point of observation, they execute an extremely sharp turn similar to the path of a ball bouncing off a wall. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lt. Col. Robert S. Jones, “[Spot Intelligence Report,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB89-1103-1105.pdf)” July 29, 1952; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1933 ### Event 7045 (D7C9086E) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Locations:** Jamestown, Rhode Island; Camp Hero, Montauk Point, New York; Westover AFB, Chicopee, Massachusetts **Description:** 7:36 a.m. US Navy radar at Jamestown, Rhode Island, tracks a high-speed target heading north at 42,000 feet. It is confirmed by ADC radar at Camp Hero \[now closed\] at Montauk Point, New York. F-94s and F-86s are scrambled unsuccessfully from Westover AFB \[now Westover Air National Guard Base\] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Jets Scrambled / High Speed Object at 45,000ʹ Feet](http://www.nicap.org/520723jamestown%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1934 ### Event 7046 (696CE808) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Pottstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** 8:40 a.m. The crews of three USAF F-94 jet interceptors see a large silver object, shaped like a long pear with 2–3 squares beneath it, flying at 170–210 mph over Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A smaller object, delta-shaped or swept-back, flies around it at 1,150-1,720 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue Book document](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB12-1174.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 157 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1935 ### Event 7047 (26E755D1) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Location:** Altoona, Pennsylvania **Description:** 12:50 p.m. Crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors flying at 35,000–46,000 feet altitude near Altoona, Pennsylvania, see three cylindrical objects in a vertical-stack formation fly at an altitude of 50,000–80,000 feet for 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[July 23, 1952: Altoona, Penna.](http://nicap.org/altoona520723dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 157 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1936 ### Event 7048 (11405B5A) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Locations:** Culver City, California; Hawthorne **Description:** 7:00–8:00 p.m. Owner Edwin C. Johnston and more than 20 employees of Aircraft Hydroforming at Culver City, California, see a bright silvery elliptical object that moves northwest over the Northrup aircraft plant in nearby Hawthorne, then stops and hovers. Two small discs emerge and circle around the area before rejoining the mother ship. The object then climbs straight up out of sight at tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Aircraft Co. Owner Sees](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93397593/) [‘Discs’ Four Nights in Row,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93397593/)” Redlands \(Calif.\) Daily Facts, July 24, 1952, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1937 ### Event 7049 (573B9AF6) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Locations:** Lockbourne AFB; Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base; Lockbourne, Ohio; Turner AFB; Naval Air Station Albany; Albany, Georgia; Wright-Patterson AFB; Dayton, Ohio; Clinton County Airport; Wilmington, Ohio **Description:** 7:15 p.m. Many witnesses at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio, including visiting Capt. Eugene E. McManus from Turner AFB \[now Naval Air Station Albany\] in Albany, Georgia, observe four round, fluorescent white objects hovering near the base at 75,000 feet. An Air force pilot named Capt. Swartz in Flight Service at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, radios in the report that the objects are balloons. Two F-84 jets are scrambled at 8:15 p.m. and identify them as a balloon cluster. The objects, seen over many other areas of central Ohio \(Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says he was called out to see it over Wright- Patterson\), are probably USAF reconnaissance balloons sent up from Clinton County Airport in Wilmington, Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[July 23, 1952, Lockbourne, Ohio, UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/lockbourne520723dir.htm)”; Clark III 395–398 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1938 ### Event 7050 (C5DB6DF0) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Locations:** Glendale-Hyperion Bridge; Glendale, California **Description:** Night. Contactee [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci) feels compelled to walk over the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge in Glendale, California. He feels an odd sensation and suddenly sees in front of him a soap-bubble-like object that turns into a metallic craft. He gets aboard and is taken on his first trip into outer space. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Orfeo Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, [pp. 18–36](https://archive.org/details/secretofsaucers00ange/page/18/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1939 ### Event 7051 (DEA41380) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Description:** At two o'clock in the morning a witness in Springfield, Massachusetts reported a silent orange glowing ovoid object maneuvering in the sky in a T pattern for 40 minutes. At 2:15 a.m. a Ground Observer Corp volunteer in Nahant, Massachusetts named Armpriester sighting two disc-shaped objects that flew to the northwest at 1500 feet altitude, circled Bird Rock, then flew off to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1 & 2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 9; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1556; NICAP files, citing newspaper clipping dated July 23, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4314 ### Event 7052 (60E39DD8) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Description:** At three o'clock in the morning four fiery teardrop-shaped flames flew rapidly toward the east over Gordonsville, Virginia and then veered sharply upward. They then repeated this staircase maneuver. The sighting lasted two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2434; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4315 ### Event 7053 (B8A6547F) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Description:** At 3:50 a.m. an F-94 interceptor obtained a radar lock-on while chasing a blue-green light, which circled Braintree, Massachusetts at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 132; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 97 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4316 ### Event 7054 (4C5825ED) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Description:** At 8:20 p.m. local time a blue green ball of light approached an F-94 jet flying over the ocean east of Misawa AFB in Japan. The jet gave pursuit, but the UFO suddently shot straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4317 ### Event 7055 (39026816) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Description:** At 9:10 p.m. three prison guards in Norfolk, Virginia watched a silent, circular shadow overhead. It shot off at high speed in less than a minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4318 ### Event 7056 (F026BE35) **Date:** 7/23/1952 **Description:** At 9:15 p.m. a group of evening shift aircraft workers in Culver City, California watched a silvery elliptical object flying over their aircraft plant. It emitted two small discs, which later returned to the main object. The sighting lasted several minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 156; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 182 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4319 ### Event 7057 (47360E03) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** BSRA sends a warning letter to the President, a large swath the US military, US government, representatives, and press concerning the recently announced USAF “Shoot Down” order. Warning found in official FBI UFO files. **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1528563227612913666) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_464 ### Event 7058 (EA462EBD) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Location:** DOOR PENINSULA, WI **Description:** 3 / SR57. Shiny saucer follows road going northeast / 1k' altitude. Turns sharply going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2428 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "DOOR PENINSULA,WI:3/SR57:SHINY SCR FOLOS ROAD > NE/1k'alt:TURNS SHARPLY >>W", **LatLong:** "44.900002 -87.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:54:00 N 87:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.900002,-87.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7059 (761E49A5) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** FLUSHING, NY **Description:** Orange glowing object circles / high altitude. 2 jets / same area shortly after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2429 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FLUSHING,NY:ORANGE GLOWING OBJ CIRCLES/HI ALT:2 JETS/SAME AREA SHORTLY AFTER", **LatLong:** "40.666669 -73.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:00 N 73:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.666669,-73.950004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7060 (A45CBEF3) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** LAKELAND, GA **Description:** USAF man. Night light darts and plays / 7 minute(s). 2 more do same. Color(s) = red going [to] blue going [to] white. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2430 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "LAKELAND,GA:USAF MAN:NLT DARTS+PLAYS/7min:2 MORE DO SAME:CLRS=RED>BLU>WHT", **LatLong:** "31.038890 -83.077782", **LatLongDMS:** "31:02:20 N 83:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.038890,-83.077782)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7061 (DAF76BD2) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** REDLANDS, CA **Description:** CD-observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Round amber object going west slow. 2nd object follows. Both zigzag going up and down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 924) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2431 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "402", **HatchDesc:** "REDLANDS,CA:CD-OBS/BINOCS:RND AMBER OBJ >W SLOW:2nd OBJ FOLOS:BOTH ZIGZAG ↑+↓", **LatLong:** "34.055557 -117.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:20 N 117:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.055557,-117.183339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7062 (0DA05430) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / LAPWAI, ID **Description:** 2 / car. Bright silver disk going east toward(s) sun. Spins on edge! Brief glimpse.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 925) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2432 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "NE/LAPWAI,ID:2/CAR:BRITE SLVR DISK >E TWRD SUN:SPINS on EDGE!:brief glimpse..", **LatLong:** "46.416669 -116.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:25:00 N 116:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.416669,-116.900006)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7063 (D685E505) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** TV cameras at DEM.convention. Follow UFO and jet-chase / telephoto lens (AP.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2433 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:TV CAMERAS at DEM.CONVENTION:FOLO UFO+JET-CHASE/TELEFOTO LENS (AP)", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -83.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 83:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-83.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7064 (D38E359D) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** SOMERVILLE, MASS **Description:** UFO changes silver to/from/between red / even intervals. No aerodynamic features. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 315) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2434 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "SOMERVILLE,MASS:UFO CHANGES SLVR<>RED/EVEN INTERVALS:NO AERODYNAMIC FEATURES", **LatLong:** "42.388891 -71.100003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:23:20 N 71:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.388891,-71.100003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7065 (72C6A24D) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** CARSON SINK, NV **Description:** 2 USAF Colonels / B52. 3 silver deltoids going [to] over 1000mph. Make turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2435 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1188", **HatchDesc:** "CARSON SINK,NV:2 USAF COLONELS/B52:3 SLVR DELTOIDS >OVER 1000mph:MAKE TURNS.", **LatLong:** "39.833335 -118.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:50:00 N 118:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.833335,-118.583339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7066 (8CB38D37) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** LENNOX, CA **Description:** 1 observer. Odd star going / 20 minute(s). Suddenly splits / 5 pieces that zigzag all over/all about. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2436 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "21", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "LENNOX,CA:1 OBS:ODD STAR >/20min:SUDDENLY SPLITS/5 PIECES that ZIGZAG ALLO", **LatLong:** "33.938891 -118.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:56:20 N 118:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.938891,-118.350006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7067 (43336356) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BELLFLOWER AND RESEDA, CA **Description:** Bright UFO / red rim splits / 3 pieces. Same / Hawthorne, CA / 25 Jl. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 332) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2437 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "BELLFLOWER+RESEDA,CA:BRITE UFO/RED RIM SPLITS/3 PIECES::SAME/HAWTHORNE,CA/25JL", **LatLong:** "33.883335 -118.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 N 118:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.883335,-118.116672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 7068 (AC09D40A) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** ARNHEM, NETH **Description:** Many observer(s). 4 disks pass. 50 Saturn-sphere follow / V formation. Suddenly quickly going up. / Ivo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2438 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ARNHEM,NETH:MANY OBS:4 DISKS PASS:50 SATURN-SPHERE FOLO/VFORM:SUDDENLY↑↑:/Ivo", **LatLong:** "51.983336 5.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "51:59:00 N 05:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.983336,5.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7069 (CA37381B) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** CLOVIS, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1151. Unidentified. Military observer(s). 2 ovoids wobble going east. Turn going quickly north at horizon. 400mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2439 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1300", **HatchDesc:** "CLOVIS,NM:BBK#1151:UID:MIL OBS:2 OVOIDS WOBBLE > E:TURN>>N AT HORIZON:400mph", **LatLong:** "34.400002 -103.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:24:00 N 103:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.400002,-103.200005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7070 (35A193B4) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** WEISER, ID **Description:** Airport manager. Bright metallic ovoid. Zigzags going southwest. Visible / 3 minutes. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 926) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2440 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "649", **HatchDesc:** "WEISER,ID:AIRPORT MGR:BRITE MTLC OVOID:ZIGZAGS >SW:VISIBLE/3mins:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "44.205558 -116.961117", **LatLongDMS:** "44:12:20 N 116:57:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.205558,-116.961117)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7071 (56AA6F91) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / TALKEETNA, AK **Description:** Ground and air RADAR blip. Jet chases. Can't catch at 550 knts. No visual. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2441 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "109", **HatchDesc:** "SE/TALKEETNA,AK:GND+AIR RDR BLIP:JET CHASES:CANT CATCH @550 knts:NO VISUAL", **LatLong:** "62.250003 -150.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "62:15:00 N 150:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.250003,-150.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7072 (9C6719CD) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** OFF KEY WEST, FL **Description:** 1 observer. 6 orange fireballs in circular orbit over sea. "No planes". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 927) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2442 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "off KEY WEST,FL:1 OBS:6 ORG FBLS in CIRCULAR ORBIT ovr sea:"NO PLANES"", **LatLong:** "24.500001 -81.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "24:30:00 N 81:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.500001,-81.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7073 (334677F6) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** FAYETTEVILLE, ARK **Description:** 2 / car. Six 15cm saucers overhead. 1 passes over hood / car. Emits smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2443 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "427", **HatchDesc:** "FAYETTEVILLE,ARK:2/CAR:SIX 15cm SCRS OVHD:1 PASSES OVR HOOD/CAR:EMITS SMOKE", **LatLong:** "36.066668 -94.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:04:00 N 94:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.066668,-94.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7074 (FCD1E28E) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Location:** Carson Sink, NV **Description:** B-26 Crew Encounters 3 Triangular UFOs (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1584) **Reference:** NICAP: [520724](http://www.nicap.org/520724carsonsink%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1183 ### Event 7075 (D0FC7B71) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Location:** Clovis (Clovis AFB), NM **Description:** 2 oval-shaped objects, reddish-orange neon glow, approx 3-4 mi high and trav E approx speed 400-600 MPH. In formation approx 1-1½ mi apart on level course- no vapor trails, no sound. Duration approx 4 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520724](http://nicap.org/clovis520724dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1184 ### Event 7076 (CA8F12D2) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Location:** Travis AFB, CA **Description:** At 2215 hours PDST, thirteen witnesses of the 1501st Maintenance Squadron observed a round object with a reddish center with a halo around the object. (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1588) **Reference:** NICAP: [520724](http://nicap.org/travis520724dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1185 ### Event 7077 (35F0775C) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Location:** Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK **Description:** (FUFOR Index) F-94 Makes Radar Contact (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520724](http://www.nicap.org/520724elmendorf%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1186 ### Event 7078 (36E8DF3E) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Location:** MacDill AFB, FL **Description:** USAF Colonel, B-29 pilot investigated radar target, saw glowing ellipse which reversed direction and sped away. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520724](http://www.nicap.org/520724macdill%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1187 ### Event 7079 (915D2091) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** night **Location:** Vico, Italy **Description:** A man who was fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk hovering for 10 min. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. The object was 20 m in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock as a "green ray" hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 69,1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_95 ### Event 7080 (D6641345) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Time:** 3:40 PM **Location:** Carson Sink, Nevada **Description:** Witnesses: two USAF Lt. Colonels McGinn and Barton in a B-25 bomber. Three silver, delta-shaped objects, each with a ridge along the top, crossed in front of and above the B-25 at high speed, in 3-4 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_194 ### Event 7081 (9D3C9D2C) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Locations:** Hamilton AFB; Novato, California; Colorado Springs; Carson Sink, Nevada **Description:** 3:40 p.m. Two USAF pilots, Lt. Col. John L. McGinn and Lt. Col. [John R. Barton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63852700/john-r%5F-barton), are flying a B-25 out of Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] in Novato, California, for Colorado Springs. They are over Carson Sink, Nevada, at 11,000 feet when they see three unknown objects make a left bank and fly to within 400–600 yards of the plane. They are three bright silver, delta-wing craft with no tails and no canopies. The pilots see a clean upper triangular wing with a definite ridge that runs from the nose to the tail. They estimate the speed as at least three times that of any conventional jet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Carson Sink UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%5FSink%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “B-26 Crew Encounters 3 Triangular UFOs”; NICAP, “[The Carson Sink Case](http://www.nicap.org/july24.htm)”; Sparks, p. 157; Ruppelt, [pp. 10–12](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/10/mode/2up); Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 5; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 12, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1940 ### Event 7082 (C83DA0F7) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Description:** At three o'clock in the afternoon many witnesses and television cameras outside the Democratic Convention in Columbus, Ohio equipped with telephoto lens followed a UFO across the sky being chased by a USAF jet interceptor. The report was carried by the Associated Press wire service. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4344 ### Event 7083 (B529A5CF) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Description:** At Travis AFB, California a bright orange light witnessed by three military men--Mezo, Hanson, and Steen--looked like it was coming in for a landing, but then it stopped and hovered, made a slow turn to the west, and shot off at high speed. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1588; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4345 ### Event 7084 (39C45B13) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Description:** At 3:40 p.m. near Carson Sink, Nevada three silver arrowhead-shaped or triangular UFOs flew in a V formation at an estimated speed 1000 mph, crossing the sky in front of a B-25 USAF bomber. The military witnesses onboard the bomber were named McGinn and Barton, and their sighting was brief, lasting less than 10 seconds. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1584; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 182; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4346 ### Event 7085 (A25F753C) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. in Arnheim, The Netherlands four discs passed over the city, followed by 50 Saturn-shaped objects flying in a V formation. They all suddenly shot straight up into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 26; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 129 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4347 ### Event 7086 (964CF875) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Description:** At 10:20 p.m. ground based air defense radar picked up a bogey over Alaska southeast of Talkeetna. A fighter jet was vectored into the location and also made radar contact but no visual sighting, and it couldn't catch up with the UFO moving at 550 knots. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4348 ### Event 7087 (EAAD12CD) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. in Fayetteville, Arkansas two in car watched six 6- inch diameter discs overhead. One passed over the hood of their car, emitting smoke. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4349 ### Event 7088 (7CF416D1) **Date:** 7/24/1952 **Description:** At 11:30 p.m. orange balls of light were seen flying in circular orbits over the ocean in Key West, Florida. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4350 ### Event 7089 (AE4AE447) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Location:** WILMINGTON, DE **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1664? Observer(s) / 3rd floor / Drano building. 2 silver turtle-shapes soar and going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 318) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2444 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,DE:BBK#1664?:OBS/3rd FLOOR/DRANO BLDG:2 SLVR TURTLE-SHAPES SOAR+↑", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -75.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 75:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-75.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7090 (0A2A1092) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** SERCHIO RIVER, ITL **Description:** 25M saucer hovers and drops hose going down / river. Props / top and bottom/underside. Pseudo-human/entity. / FSRv23#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2445 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "SERCHIO Rvr,ITL:25M SCR HVRS+DROPS HOSE↓/RIVER:PROPS/TOP+BTM:PSH:/FSRv23#1", **LatLong:** "43.833335 10.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:50:00 N 10:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.833335,10.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Lucques", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7091 (3E320E76) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** NORTHWEST / COFFEYVILLE, KS **Description:** 1 / car. 4M saucer going SSE slow. Flat bottom/underside and curved top. Stops. Going quickly west extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2446 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "233", **HatchDesc:** "NW/COFFEYVILLE,KS:1/CAR:4M SCR >SSE SLO:FLAT BTM+CURVED TOP:STOPS:>>W XFAST", **LatLong:** "37.144446 -95.705560", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:40 N 95:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.144446,-95.705560)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7092 (2887D7E6) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NEW BERLIN, NY **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Yellow-white cylinder changes position every 5 second(s). Balloon? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 318) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2447 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "333", **HatchDesc:** "NEW BERLIN,NY:GOC:YEL-WHT CYLINDER CHANGES POSITION EVERY 5sec:BALLOON?", **LatLong:** "42.683335 -75.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:00 N 75:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.683335,-75.350004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7093 (CBBCF0E4) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** MARION AND NORWALK, OH **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) report(s). Silver disk going quickly / day. 6 jets can't catch "weather balloon". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 642) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2448 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "291", **HatchDesc:** "MARION+NORWALK,OH:GOC Rpts:SLVR DISK >>/DAY:6 JETS CANT CATCH "WEATHR BALLOON"", **LatLong:** "40.583335 -83.127782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:35:00 N 83:07:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.583335,-83.127782)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7094 (89FF8729) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** WELLFLEET, MA **Description:** 3 observer(s). Several silver disks going west inland over firing range. Maneuver / high altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 928) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2449 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WELLFLEET,MA:3 OBS:SVRL SLVR DISKS >W INLAND ovr FIRING RANGE:MNVR/HI ALT", **LatLong:** "41.927780 -69.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:55:40 N 69:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.927780,-69.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7095 (F74B8DBE) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** GARDENA AND HAWTHORNE, CA **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Saucer hovers and banks. Small objects exit. Away in formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 929) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2450 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "GARDENA+HAWTHORNE,CA:SVRL SEP.OBS:SCR HVRS+BANKS:SML OBJs EXIT:AWAY/FORMn", **LatLong:** "33.888891 -118.305561", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:20 N 118:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.888891,-118.305561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7096 (03A55CD8) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** GADSDEN, AL **Description:** 2 teens. Large Saturn saucer hovers over steel plant. Then rises going quickly west very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 930) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2451 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "169", **HatchDesc:** "GADSDEN,AL:2 TEENS:LRG SATURN SCR HVRS OVR STEEL PLANT:THEN RISES >>W VFAST:", **LatLong:** "34.016668 -86.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:01:00 N 86:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.016668,-86.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7097 (8916C053) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** LAVALLETTE, NJ **Description:** 3 observer(s) and many. Long thin cloud going north fast. Turns going south. Exits going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 931) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2452 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LAVALLETTE,NJ:3 OBS+MANY:LONG THIN CLOUD > N FAST:TURNS > S:EXITS >>E.", **LatLong:** "39.977780 -74.072226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:40 N 74:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.977780,-74.072226)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7098 (E820E50C) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** PATERSON, NJ **Description:** 2 small orange-gold disks hover. Shoot / opposite directions. Rejoin and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 932) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2453 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "PATERSON,NJ:2 SML ORG-GOLD DISKS HVR:SHOOT/OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS:REJOIN+away:", **LatLong:** "40.900002 -74.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:00 N 74:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.900002,-74.183337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7099 (31019648) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** WILKES-BARRE, PA **Description:** Large black saucer slowly tilts vertical. 4 large lights / rim. Fades away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 932) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2454 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "WILKES-BARRE,PA:LRG BLK SCR SLOWLY TILTS VERTICAL:4 LRG LITES/RIM:FADES away", **LatLong:** "41.233335 -75.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:14:00 N 75:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.233335,-75.883337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7100 (B8831614) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Location:** Osceola, WI **Description:** Ground Radar and Air Visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 1) **Reference:** NICAP: [520725](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/osceola520725dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1188 ### Event 7101 (14FF0A8E) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Location:** Manassas, VA **Description:** F-94 Checks Out Object Sighted By 647th AC&W (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520725](http://www.nicap.org/520725manassas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1189 ### Event 7102 (65038D6C) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Location:** Wilmington, DE **Description:** Afternoon VA employee saw 2 discs reflecting light in a climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1190 ### Event 7103 (9D4CE502) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Alternate date:** 4/25/1952 **Locations:** Serchio river; San Pietro a Vico, Lucca, Italy **Description:** 3:00 a.m. Carlo Rossi is on his way to a fishing spot on the Serchio river near San Pietro a Vico, Lucca, Italy. He notices an odd light above the river and finds that it belongs to an enormous disc-shaped object with a transparent dome. It is about 82 feet in diameter and apparently taking up water through a long tube. The object is standing in the river on three legs and has a ladder reaching down next to the tube. Rossi thinks it is hovering by means of propellors. Suddenly a porthole opens, and a human figure looks out and notices him. Rossi begins to leave, but a green ray passes above his head and he feels an electric shock. The object takes off and disappears to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Le Nostre Analisi: Precisazioni sul Caso di S. Pietro e Vico \(1952\),](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201975%2007-09%20No%2067.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 67 \(July/Sept. 1975\): 4–9; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1952-07-25-italy-sanpietro.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1952-07-25-italy-sanpietro.htm) September 12, 2006; 1Pinotti 42–46 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1941 ### Event 7104 (52371477) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Location:** Portales, New Mexico **Description:** Capt. J. W. Titus of the 140th Wing Medical Group sees two oval-shaped objects flying in formation at 400– 600 mph in Portales, New Mexico. They are silent and leave no vapor trail. At one point, they make an abrupt 80° turn and fly off to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 85–86 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1942 ### Event 7105 (8E2074FD) **Date:** 7/25/1952 **Description:** A man who was fishing in the pre-dawn hours in the Serchio River in the Tuscany region of Italy saw a disc hovering for ten minutes. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. The object was 20 meters in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock as a "green ray" hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 137; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181 (case 95); Peter Rogerson, A Worldwide Catalog of Type I Reports, p. 244 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4372 ### Event 7106 (0AB04AB0) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Washington, DC: Long range “overfly” RADAR picks more blips, just one week after the previous invasion of restricted air space over Washington, D.C. Capt. Ruppelt told Maj. Dewey Fournet to get over to the airport in Washington. Fournet was a radar specialist with Project HOLCOMBE and arrived at the airport with Al Chop, AF Press Officer, just in time to see the UFO blips on the radar sets and to hear ground-to-air conversations of the pilots of two F-94s vectored towards the UFOs. **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_465 ### Event 7107 (73A0BCD7) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** DARTMOUTH, NS **Description:** Huge dinner-plate circle ballpark / terrific speed. Going quickly west. / APRO B.v1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2455 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "DARTMOUTH,NS:HUGE DINNER-PLATE CCL BALLPARK/TERRIFIC SPEED:>>W:/APRO B.v1#2", **LatLong:** "44.661113 -63.561114", **LatLongDMS:** "44:39:40 N 63:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.661113,-63.561114)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7108 (83C0E6FA) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Airman Donaldson. 8-10 orange balls fly in V-formation. Fast / 4 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2456 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "KIRTLAND AFB,NM:AIRMAN DONALDSON:8-10 ORG BALLS FLY IN V-FORMATION:FAST/4sec", **LatLong:** "35.027779 -106.588894", **LatLongDMS:** "35:01:40 N 106:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.027779,-106.588894)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7109 (9660C15A) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** NORFOLK, VA **Description:** Many observer(s). Flashing sphere/orb/globe turns over James River bridge / 30 minute(s). Jets chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 318) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2457 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,VA:MANY OBS:FLASHING ORB TURNS OVR JAMES RIVER BRIDGE/30min:JETS CHASE", **LatLong:** "36.850002 -76.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:51:00 N 76:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.850002,-76.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7110 (37ADFD1F) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** TRUAX AIR FORCE BASE, WI **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and Air Force men. Green night light flashes red. Descends after 1 hour. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2458 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "TRUAX AFB,WI:ATCs+AF MEN:GRN NLT FLASHES RED:DESCENDS AFTER 1 HOUR:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.083335 -89.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:05:00 N 89:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.083335,-89.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7111 (8A56AA82) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** POINT ARENA AND WILLIAMS, CA **Description:** RADAR blip. F94 in cat and mouse game / blue-white blob. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2459 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "POINT ARENA+WILLIAMS,CA:RDR BLIP:F94 in CAT+MOUSE GAME/BLU-WHT BLOB:>>N", **LatLong:** "38.950002 -123.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:00 N 123:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.950002,-123.733339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7112 (86B85AF9) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** CHIPPEWA TWNSHP, PA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) spotter. Aluminum disk high / clear sky. No further details / account truncated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 927) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2460 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "CHIPPEWA Twnshp,PA:GOC SPOTTER:ALUM.DISK HIGH/CLR SKY:NFD/account truncated", **LatLong:** "40.772224 -80.377782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:20 N 80:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.772224,-80.377782)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7113 (25A32A90) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** KEY WEST, FL **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Red saucer over naval-air station/depot/facility. Destroyers put to sea.(silence.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2461 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KEY WEST,FL:100s/OBS:RED SCR OVR NAVAL-AIR STn:DESTROYERS PUT TO SEA.(SILENCE)", **LatLong:** "24.533335 -81.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "24:32:00 N 81:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.533335,-81.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7114 (CAD803BF) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers / 2 airports/apartments. Formation / saucers. Very high. Airliners confirm night lights. / The New York Times (NYT) and more / r48p89. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2462 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:ATCs/2 APTS:FORMn/SCRS:VHIGH:AIRLINERS CONFIRM NLTS:/NYT+/r48p89", **LatLong:** "38.866669 -77.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:52:00 N 77:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.866669,-77.000004)", **State/Prov:** "DC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7115 (9345F16A) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 2nd great saucer flap. Ground-air RADAR and visual (observation). Andrews Air Force Base jets chase. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2463 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "208", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:2ND GREAT SCR FLAP:GND-AIR RDR+VIS:ANDREWS AFB JETS CHASE:/r242", **LatLong:** "38.916669 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:55:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.916669,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7116 (62FA06FB) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** LEXINGTON, KY **Description:** 5 observer(s). 5 round flat saucers glow red-orange. Away and back. Small objects orbit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 940) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2464 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "287", **HatchDesc:** "LEXINGTON,KY:5 OBS:5 RND FLAT SCRS GLOW RED-ORG:AWAY+BACK:SML OBJS ORBIT", **LatLong:** "38.033335 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:02:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.033335,-84.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7117 (89C38371) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Fiery orange saucer cavorts all over/all about. Black stripe. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 940) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2465 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "SALT LAKE CITY,UT:NMRS SEP.OBS:FIERY ORG SCR CAVORTS ALLO:BLK STRIPE:>>SW", **LatLong:** "40.766669 -111.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:00 N 111:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.766669,-111.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7118 (ECE1FAE2) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** PLAINVIEW, TX **Description:** T33 jet / 30K' altitude. Brilliant distant white object hovers and maneuvers. Turns going north. / r98#203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2466 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1028", **HatchDesc:** "PLAINVIEW,TX:T33 JET/30K'alt:BRILL.DISTANT WHT OBJ HVRS+MNVRS:TURNS>N:/r98#203", **LatLong:** "34.183335 -101.705560", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:00 N 101:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.183335,-101.705560)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7119 (F37DED2C) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** OMAHA, NE **Description:** 1-foot yellow-orange disk circles over town / 10 minute(s). No further details / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 331) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2467 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "313", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NE:1-FOOT YEL-ORG DISK CIRCLES OVR TOWN/10min:NFD/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "41.250002 -95.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:15:00 N 95:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.250002,-95.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7120 (64F1C451) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** DANIA, FLA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent "flattened football" hovers / 10 minute(s). Going quickly south. Darts straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 324) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2468 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "DANIA,FLA:2 OBS:SILENT "FLATTENED FOOTBALL" HVRS/10min: >>S:DARTS STRAIGHT UP", **LatLong:** "26.050001 -80.144448", **LatLongDMS:** "26:03:00 N 80:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.050001,-80.144448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7121 (30521F38) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** OVER FLORENCE, SC **Description:** Eastern Airlines flight crew. Steady white night light / 22K' altitude. Straight and level flight. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 324) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2469 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "ovr FLORENCE,SC:EAL FLITE CREW:STEADY WHT NLT/22K'alt:S/L FLITE:VERY FAST:", **LatLong:** "34.194446 -79.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:40 N 79:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.194446,-79.761115)", **RelAlt:** "6700", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7122 (091B6AAA) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** NORTH / SANTA CRUZ, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post and many. 4 saucers play tag / sky. Silent. No contrails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 331) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2470 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "N/SANTA CRUZ,CA:GOC POST+MANY:4 SCRS PLAY TAG/SKY:SLNT:NO CONTRAILS", **LatLong:** "37.116668 -122.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:00 N 122:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.116668,-122.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7123 (16B389B8) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** TIARET PLATEAU, ALG **Description:** 3 "reliable observer(s)". Shiny cylinder/cigar-shape at 3000 meters. Going quickly northwest going [to] Mostaganem. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2471 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TIARET PLATEAU,ALG:3 "RELIABLE OBS":SHINY CGR @3000 METERS:>>NW >MOSTAGANEM.", **LatLong:** "35.350002 1.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:21:00 N 01:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.350002,1.366667)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7124 (BF30BAB7) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ECKHUHL, ORAN, ALG **Description:** 3 women. Luminous/glowing silent flattened ovoid going quickly west fast. Stops and vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2472 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ECKHUHL,ORAN,ALG:3 WOMEN:LUMn SLNT FLATTENED OVOID >>W FAST:STOPS+VANISHES", **LatLong:** "35.733335 -0.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "35:44:00 N 00:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.733335,-0.733333)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7125 (9D8CF3C8) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD **Description:** Blue Book. HIQ. Many blips over WDC. Newmen banished / RADAR room. Many references. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2473 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "ANDREWS AFB,MD:BBK:HIQ:MANY BLIPS OVR WDC:NEWMEN BANISHED/RDR ROOM:many refs", **LatLong:** "38.816669 -76.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:49:00 N 76:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.816669,-76.866670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7126 (A27C5884) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Hampton (and between Newport News and Langley AFB), VA **Description:** Navy Ground Radar / & Airborne Radars Track UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726norfolk%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1191 ### Event 7127 (368BF877) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Kansas City, MO **Description:** Light with red-orange flashes descend in the NW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1628) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1192 ### Event 7128 (BEB91BFE) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** 8-10 orange balls in triangular or V-formation flying fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1637, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1193 ### Event 7129 (0F62D9A4) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Williams, CA **Description:** F-94 Intercept With ADC Detection (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726williams%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1194 ### Event 7130 (E410EB9A) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Langley AFB, CA **Description:** At 1450 hours an unidentified target was observed on a radar scope. The target stopped and hovered for 2 minutes and then resumed its flight at an extremely high speed. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726langley%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1195 ### Event 7131 (1DEA986F) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **End date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Washington - Andrews AFB, D.C. **Description:** Andrews AFB and Washington National Airport (2nd event) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1661) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520726-27](http://www.nicap.org/520726wnsdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1196 ### Event 7132 (5E8D7507) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Plainview, TX **Description:** T-33 Crew Encounters Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726plainview%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1198 ### Event 7133 (AD16D1FA) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** New York City (Atlantic 200 miles S of), NY **Description:** 3 amber edged \[?\] white flashing objects traveling at Mach 1 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1199 ### Event 7134 (BC8C6135) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Florence, SC **Description:** Eastern Flight 606 Encounters H. S. Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726florence%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1200 ### Event 7135 (B215D7B2) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 8 PM **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Event occurred until after midnight. Witnesses: radar operators at several airports, airline pilots. Many unidentified blips tracked by radar all over Washington area, at varying speeds. Pilots spotted unidentified lights. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_195 ### Event 7136 (213F8BD9) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 12:15 AM **Location:** Kansas City, Missouri **Description:** Witnesses: USAF Capt. H. A. Stone, men in control towers at Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport. One greenish light with red-orange flashes was seen for 1 hour as it descended in the northwest from 40 degree elevation to 10 degree elevation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_196 ### Event 7137 (A0AE2A95) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Andrews AFB, Maryland **Description:** This was a continuation of the extensive sightings and radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, DC. area, all night long. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_197 ### Event 7138 (25669349) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** 12:05 AM **Location:** Kirtland AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: Airman lst Class J.M. Donaldson. Eight to ten orange balls in a triangular or V-formation flew very fast for 3-4 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_198 ### Event 7139 (4D498BF9) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Williams, California **Description:** Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_199 ### Event 7140 (B5A4A7A8) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **End date:** 7/27/1952 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Washington National Airport; Ronald Reagan National; Andrews AFB in Maryland; New Castle AFB in Delaware; Langley AFB; Newport News, Virginia **Description:** 8:15 p.m. Flying saucers return to the nation’s capital, only one week after a massive number of radar- visual UFO sightings above restricted air space in Washington, D.C. At 8:15 p.m., pilot Capt. Berkow and a stewardess of a National Airlines flight near Washington National Airport \[now Ronald Reagan National\] see several objects resembling the glow of a cigarette high above them. The lights move at around 100 mph. Soon, the airport and Andrews AFB in Maryland are tracking a dozen UFOs throughout much of the sky, all traveling 90– 100 mph. By midnight, two F-94s are scrambled from New Castle AFB in Delaware to intercept them. National Airport staff hustle newspaper reporters away from the air traffic control tower, saying that interceptions are classified \(but Project Blue Book chief Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) suspects that the Air Force does not want the press around when they finally get a good look at a saucer\). The UFOs are seen on radar for 2 hours, but when the jets approach, the blips disappear. When the pilots return to base, they show up again. Reports are reaching Langley AFB about rotating objects that give off alternating colors over Newport News, Virginia. Another F-94 is scrambled, the pilot gets a radar lock, and the target speeds away. At National Airport, the objects reappear shortly before dawn, and two more F-94s are scrambled. The pilots obtain radar locks; again, the objects speed away. USAF press spokesman [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) is in the airport radar tower and notes that everyone there believes the targets are “very probably caused by solid metallic objects.” One F-94 pilot, Lieut. William Patterson, says, “I saw several bright lights. I was at my maximum speed, but even then I had no closing speed.” A USAF air intelligence report later states that the radar crew is emphatic that the returns are solid and not temperature inversions. In 1969, however, Colorado project physicist [Gordon David Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) concludes that the radar events involved temperature inversions. He believes the visual sightings were caused by meteors and scintillating stars. University of Arizona atmospheric physicist [James McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) disagreed, arguing that Thayer’s own data did not support his conclusion. Colorado project psychologist [Michael Wertheimer](https://dgozli.com/interview-with-michael-wertheimer/) interviews many of the radar operators; nearly all disagree with the inversion explanation and maintain that all experienced radar operators have no trouble identifying such phenomena. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Washington National Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/520726wnsdir.htm)”; Richard Hall, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/waves/washinvas.htm) [Washington Invasion, July 26/27, 1952](http://www.nicap.org/waves/washinvas.htm)”; Clark III 1252–1255; Ruppelt, [pp. 163–167](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/162/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 157–158](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/156/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/156/mode/2up) [862–](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/862/mode/2up) [867](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/862/mode/2up); Swords 156–159; Good Above, [pp. 270–272](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/270/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The Washington D.C. UFO Flap of 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/usa1952.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 158; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 68– 76,127–148, 253–260; Shoot 42–47 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1943 ### Event 7141 (D77D14B5) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Williams, California **Description:** 5:15 p.m. Air Defense Command radar detects a UFO over Williams, California. An F-94 jet interceptor is scrambled and locks onto the object with its radar. The crew sees a yellow-orange light. As confirmed by ground and airborne radar, the UFO plays tag with the F-94, alternately accelerating away when it gets close, then slowing down until it catches up again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-94 Intercept with ADC Detection](http://www.nicap.org/520726williams%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 158 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1944 ### Event 7142 (F7E93D5F) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Location:** Oran, Algeria **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Three women in Oran, Algeria, notice a large, orange-red, luminous patch in the sky. It travels from east to west, halts, then vanishes. It is one of many UFOs seen in the province of Oran over several weeks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/120/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1945 ### Event 7143 (0599A603) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Description:** At Andrews AFB, Maryland from midnight until dawn, there were more UFO reports that were a continuation of the extensive sightings and radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, D.C. area from the evening before. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4409 ### Event 7144 (11F8EED0) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Description:** At 12:15 a.m. USAF Capt. H. A. Stone and Air Traffic Controllers in the control towers at Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport, Kansas City, Missouri saw a green light with red-orange flashes descend in the northwestern sky for 1 hour. It moved from 40 elevation to 10 elevation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4410 ### Event 7145 (3871C34E) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Description:** At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico at 12:05 a.m. Airman 1st Class J. M. Donaldson observed eight to ten orange balls flying very fast for a 3-4 second duration traveling in a triangular or V formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4411 ### Event 7146 (218E314D) **Date:** 7/26/1952 **Description:** In Washington, D.C. on this date, from 8:00 p.m. until after midnight, radar operators at several airports tracked many unidentified blips by radar all over the Washington area, at varying speeds. Airline pilots reported spotting unidentified lights during this period as well. Sharp UFO targets on the ARTC radar at National Airport at 9:08 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Visual sightings were reported by civilians four times, near Herndon, Virginia and from Maryland. A National Airlines flight near Andrews AFB saw a UFO "directly over the airliner." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 69; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4412 ### Event 7147 (A4106DED) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other visits. **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_122 ### Event 7148 (72964C16) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** WILMINGTON, DE **Description:** Vertical cylinder/cigar-shape follows jets / same speed. Ends domed. Flash and vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2474 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,DE:VERTICAL CGR FOLOS JETS/SAME SPEED:ENDS DOMED:FLASH+VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -75.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 75:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-75.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7149 (126ED733) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** SSW / COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** 5 USAF / B25. White night light / 2350m altitude. Going up. Splits / 2. Level off. Going west. / r98#203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 327) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2475 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "SSW/COLUMBUS,OH:5 USAF/B25:WHT NLT/2350m alt:↑:SPLITS/2:LEVEL OFF:>W:/r98#203", **LatLong:** "39.866669 -83.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:52:00 N 83:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.866669,-83.116671)", **RelAlt:** "2350", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7150 (88C594B2) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** OFF HOLLYWOOD, FL **Description:** Separate observers. Huge brilliant orange glowing-ball hovers / 3 minutes. Then going quickly east extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 946) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2476 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off HOLLYWOOD,FL:SEP.OBSs:HUGE BRILL.ORG GLO-BALL HVRS/3mins:then >>E XFAST", **LatLong:** "26.000001 -80.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "26:00:00 N 80:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.000001,-80.116670)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7151 (A6C02072) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 03:00? **Location:** JERSEY CITY, NJ **Description:** 3 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 70' disk seen toward(s) Manhattan. Glows. Rim spins. Page 3-12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** OLSEN, Thomas: REFERENCE for OUTSTANDING UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTS. 1966 UFO Information Retrieval Center, Riderwood, MD 21139. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2477 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "JERSEY CITY,NJ:3 GOC OBS:70'DISK SEEN TWRD MANHATTAN:GLOWS:RIM SPINS:pg 3-12", **LatLong:** "40.733335 -74.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:00 N 74:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.733335,-74.016670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7152 (8598C162) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** NEAR LINCOLN, CA **Description:** Boy / 12 / ranch. 6M x 12M top saucer with square windows. Jet sound. Beams. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 956) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2478 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "nr LINCOLN,CA:BOY/12/RANCH:6M x 12M TOP SCR W/SQR WINDOWS:JET SOUND:BEAMS:↑↑", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -121.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 121:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-121.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7153 (6FDF3E71) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** SELFRIDGE AIR FORCE BASE, MI **Description:** 3 airmen / ground. 2+1+1+1 white saucers straight and level. Very fast. 30 second(s) / each passage. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2479 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "SELFRIDGE AFB,MI:3 AIRMEN/GND:2+1+1+1 WHT SCRS S/L:VFAST:30sec/EACH PASSAGE", **LatLong:** "42.600002 -82.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:36:00 N 82:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.600002,-82.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7154 (CA0E628C) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** WEST / ANN ARBOR, MI **Description:** Biologist. 15 tuning forks pass / pool-rack formation. Silent. / r64p61. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2480 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "W/ANN ARBOR,MI:BIOLOGIST:15 TUNING FORKS PASS/POOL-RACK FORMn:SILENT:/r64p61", **LatLong:** "42.283335 -83.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:00 N 83:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.283335,-83.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7155 (00388FC9) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** NAPA VALLEY, CA **Description:** John Foraythe. Metallic disk going quickly west / 20K' altitude. Tilts. Lost in haze. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 950) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2481 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "NAPA Vly,CA:John Foraythe:MTLC DISK >>W/20K'alt:TILTS:LOST IN HAZE:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.300002 -122.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:18:00 N 122:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.300002,-122.300006)", **RelAlt:** "6000", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7156 (617FD6F4) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** SEATTLE, WA **Description:** 2 silvery dots speed going quickly ESE. 1 straight and level trajectory. Other in wide arc. Planes? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 332) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2482 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "SEATTLE,WA:2 SLVRY DOTS SPEED>>ESE:1 S/L TRAJ:OTHER IN WIDE ARC:PLANES?", **LatLong:** "47.600002 -122.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:36:00 N 122:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.600002,-122.316672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7157 (4511009A) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** MANHATTAN BEACH, CA **Description:** Aviation engineer and 7. 7 silver saucers change formations. Circle. Going quickly NNE. / r136. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2483 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "MANHATTAN BEACH,CA:AVIATION ENG+7:7 SLVR SCRS CHANGE FORMns:CIRCLE:>>NNE:/r136", **LatLong:** "33.888891 -118.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:20 N 118:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.888891,-118.416672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7158 (8E56B4D3) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** BETHESDA, MD **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). Thin disk wobbles across sky / 2500' altitude. Same / Washington 2100h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 333) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2484 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "92", **HatchDesc:** "BETHESDA,MD:2+2 OBS:THIN DISK WOBBLES ACRS SKY/2500'alt:SAME/WASHINGTON 2100h", **LatLong:** "38.966669 -77.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:58:00 N 77:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.966669,-77.100004)", **RelAlt:** "750", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7159 (8C41B150) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Report going [to] FBI. White night light hangs over Pentagon / 4 hours. Drops. Veers away / civil observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 333) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2485 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:RPT>FBI:WHT NLT HANGS OVR PENTAGON/4hrs:DROPS:VEERS AWAY/CIV OBS", **LatLong:** "38.933335 -76.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:56:00 N 76:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.933335,-76.983337)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7160 (1E767A09) **Date:** 7/27/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** LEWISTOWN, PA **Description:** Large round object hovers. Shadows move / lit windows. Object going up [to] as observer(s) shines light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 970) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2486 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "LEWISTOWN,PA:LRG RND OBJ HVRS:SHADOWS MOVE/LIT WINDOWS:OBJ↑ as obs shines lite", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -77.572226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 77:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-77.572226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7161 (E93C41CB) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WICHITA FALLS, TX **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 phosphorescent saucers at 1000mph / 15 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2487 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "304", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA FALLS,TX:2 OBS:2 PHOSPHORESCENT SCRS AT 1000mph/15sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.883335 -98.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 N 98:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.883335,-98.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7162 (45088E47) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** USAF man and 2. Large round object hovers / capitol BLDH. Wavers. Quickly going up [to] straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 954) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2488 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:USAF MAN+2:LRG RND OBJ HVRS/CAPITOL BLDH:WAVERS:↑↑ STRAIGHT UP", **LatLong:** "38.927780 -77.027781", **LatLongDMS:** "38:55:40 N 77:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.927780,-77.027781)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7163 (517468CC) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** HINTON, WV **Description:** 3+4 observer(s). Extremely bright saucer follows river. Circles railroad/railway depot and shops. Spins. Going [to] down river. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 955) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2489 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "442", **HatchDesc:** "HINTON,WV:3+4 OBS:XBRITE SCR FOLOS RIVER:CCLS RR DEPOT+SHOPS:SPINS:>DOWN RVR", **LatLong:** "37.672224 -80.888893", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:20 N 80:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.672224,-80.888893)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7164 (544F696A) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** KENNEWICK, WA **Description:** 12 disks going quickly southwest / perfect V-formation extremely fast. 3 more play tag 35 minute(s) later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 958) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2490 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "KENNEWICK,WA:12 DISKS >>SW/PERFECT VFORMn XFAST:3 MORE PLAY TAG 35min LATER:", **LatLong:** "46.200002 -119.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:00 N 119:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.200002,-119.150006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7165 (CA6F551F) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Military and civil / 2 separate drive-inspect. 12 night lights and glowing "clay = pigeons" go overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2491 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:MIL+CIV/2 SEP DRIVE-INs:12 NLTS+GLOWING "CLAY=PIGEONS" GO OVHD", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -117.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 117:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-117.400006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7166 (B5FC11DC) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** RIPLEY, NY **Description:** 2 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and more/others. White-glowing disk / 200mph. 5000' altitude. Streaks / light over Tarrytown / Ground Observer Corps (GOC.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2492 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "RIPLEY,NY:2 GOC++:WHT-GLO DISK/200mph:5000'alt::STREAKS/LITE ovr TARRYTOWN/GOC", **LatLong:** "42.272224 -79.705559", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:20 N 79:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.272224,-79.705559)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7167 (0C8EA407) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Belleville, IL **Description:** Four Large Objects Tracked On Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 1) **Reference:** NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520727belleville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1201 ### Event 7168 (33DB39C7) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Wilmington, DE **Description:** James R. Thomas observed one cylindrical object with a domed top and bottom moving northwest to southeast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520727](http://nicap.org/wilm520727dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1202 ### Event 7169 (F8270A2B) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Wilmington, DE **Description:** \[Same as July 25 case?\] (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1664) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1203 ### Event 7170 (D00AC0D0) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Columbus (10 miles SSW of), OH **Description:** B-25 Crew & Pentagon Brass See Lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520727columbus%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1204 ### Event 7171 (F3CCF583) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Selfridge AFB, MI **Description:** Many round white objects fly straight and level, very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1680) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1205 ### Event 7172 (4D08E30D) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Ann Arbor, MI **Description:** Biologist reported "flotilla" of rocket-like UFOs. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1206 ### Event 7173 (FF71FF85) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. Both Air Force personnel and National Airport employees observed a large round object reflecting sunlight as it hovered over the U.S. Capitol Building. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520726wnsdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1207 ### Event 7174 (71ED177B) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Witchita Falls, TX **Description:** 2 disc-shaped objects illuminated by a phosphorus light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1684) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1208 ### Event 7175 (48D89CEB) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Manhattan Beach, CA **Description:** Large Object Separates Into 7 Discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520727manhattanbeach%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1209 ### Event 7176 (E01EB8AF) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **End date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Washington (The Pentagon), DC **Description:** At 2000 hours July 27 and 0200 hours July 28, 1952, Mrs. XXXXXXX observed a white light immediately over the Pentagon, then it made a direct descent toward the Pentagon, stopped and veered off. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520727-28](http://www.nicap.org/pent520727dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1210 ### Event 7177 (5EE8D9A0) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 10:05 AM **Location:** Selfridge AFB, Michigan **Description:** Witnesses: three B-29 bomber crewmen on ground. Many round, white objects flew straight and level, very fast. Two at 10:05, one at 10:10, one at 10:15, one at 10:20. Each was seen for about 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_200 ### Event 7178 (9950A22D) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Wichita Falls, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Ellis. Two disc-shaped objects, illuminated by a phosphorus light, flew at an estimated l,000 m.p.h. for 15 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_201 ### Event 7179 (8D922BCF) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Locations:** Bowling Green State University; 3724 Dexter Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan **Description:** 10:40 a.m. Bowling Green State University biologist [Charles H. Otis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64357313/charles-h-otis) sees a “flotilla” of UFOs “seemingly floating along, making no sound” at 3724 Dexter Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He grabs a pair of 5x binoculars and studies them until they disappear. He counts 15 of them in a loose formation, moving slowly. One object leaves the formation and disappears in a burst of speed. The body of each seems to be elongated but split at the rear. A bright glow is visible in the front, and they have a bifurcated tail streaming out horizontally, never changing in length **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 50–51](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1946 ### Event 7180 (410C14EC) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Location:** Manhattan Beach, California **Description:** 6:35 p.m. A group of eight pilots and engineers see a large, silvery object moving rapidly at a high altitude over Manhattan Beach, California. After it makes a turn, the UFO separates into 7 discs that form into groups, circle, and speed out of sight. Former Navy pilot and aircraft engineer J. E. Kempf says the formation looks like a “stack of coins.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Large Object Separates into 7 Discs](http://www.nicap.org/520727manhattanbeach%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 159; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 13, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1947 ### Event 7181 (1B714D74) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** At 12:15 a.m. seven "good, solid targets" appeared on radar at National Airport near Washington, D.C. F-94 interceptors were sent from Deleware, but they made no visual contact as the UFOs were gone by the time they arrived. It was noted that there were only minor temperature inversions at the time, and these were not the likely cause of the radar blips. Five minutes later an F-94 pilot made vsual contact with a round UFO. Both the UFO and the F-94 jet were seen on radar flying at the same speed. But when the jet tried to overtake the UFO it disappeared visually and on radar. "Incredible speed of the object," said the pilot. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO Cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 cases 6 & 7; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4425 ### Event 7182 (89C3331D) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** In Nevada at four o'clock in the morning highway worker Truman Bethurum had finished working the night shift and decided to visit a nearby hilltop called Mormon Mesa because he heard it was a good place to look for seashell fossils. After he parked his truck he used a flashlight to hunt for seashells, but he had no luck finding any, and after searching for an hour or so he returned to the truck and napped awhile. A “mumbling around the truck” awakened him. The mumbling came from eight to ten olive-skinned beings speaking an unintelligible language. All were about 4 feet 8 inches to 5 feet tall. They were not dwarfs but fully developed men. The strange men made no effort to disturb him, although Bethurum said he was afraid to attempt a getaway.

He was still in the truck cab when one man spoke to him in a foreign tongue. Bethurum shook his head, indicating he could not understand. Then the small man said: “You name it.” It was perfect English, recalled Bethurum, who answered: “My God, you can speak English, too?” “We have no trouble with any language,” replied the man. Bethurum then climbed out of the truck and stopped, awestruck. He saw a flying saucer parked about 75 yards away from his truck. It looked like burnished stainless steel. Bethurum shook hands with all the “friendly” men and asked if their captain was around. The spokesman for the group volunteered to escort Bethurum to the captain, and led him toward the parked craft. Meanwhile, Bethurum looked around and saw that the short men were “Latin types,” with complexions “something like Italians.” All were neatly dressed in uniforms similar to those “worn by Greyhound bus drivers.” All had coal black hair and dark eyes. Their skin complexion was perfect and had no wrinkles or blemishes. The spokesman for the group took hold of Bethurum’s right elbow. While holding the arm the man seemed to “have me in his power completely. He gave the impression of great strength.” Soon the group arrived at the ship. Bethurum described it as being metallic. He learned that it measured 300 feet in diameter and was “six yards deep in the center.” A three-foot metal rim with beveled edges surrounded the saucer-shaped craft, and the rim was about two feet thick. The ship had no rudder or stacks. They entered the ship through a large door that Bethurum estimated was 4 ½ feet wide and about 10 to 12 feet long. It was located atop the ship close to the metal rim around the edge. Inside he met the woman captain, Aura Rhanes. He described her as having a “slender” Latin-type face. She wore a “radiant red skirt, black velvet short sleeved blouse and a black beret with red trim.” He went into her lounge and they talked. The woman captain said she was from the planet Clarion, which could not be seen from earth. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1952-07, citing Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 237 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4426 ### Event 7183 (AE7268C9) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** At 10:05 a.m. a procession of white saucer-shaped objects was sighted at Selfridge AFB, Michigan. They flew very fast and made no sound. Each passage of UFOs took 30 seconds. First two objects flew over, then one, then another, and then a last one. A Project Blue Book unidentified case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1680; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4427 ### Event 7184 (32B26C44) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object split into seven or eight smaller objects over Manhattan Beach, California at 6:25 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 68; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 3-012 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4428 ### Event 7185 (96F9CFCA) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object moved slowly toward the northeast with an "oscillating rolling motion" seen from Andrews AFB, Maryland. Clouds at the time were moving toward the southeast, and the UFO entered the base of the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 161; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO Cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 case 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4429 ### Event 7186 (D1D458F9) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. in Wichita Falls, Texas two people witnessed two phosphorescent disc-shaped objects flying at 1,000 mph. They were seen for 15 seconds. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1684; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4430 ### Event 7187 (3EE7F7AF) **Date:** 7/27/1952 **Description:** At 11:30 p.m. at a drive-in movie theater in Spokane, Washington twelve UFOs were seen in the skies for 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4431 ### Event 7188 (649CD71C) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper articles **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102175368/jets-keeping-24-hour-alert-for-saucers/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_466 ### Event 7189 (F64C1F58) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Britain **Description:** Personal Minute from Prime Minister W.S. Churchill to Secretary of xxxxxxx Air Ministry stating: What does all this stuff about Flying Saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience. **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p505, Churchhill) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_467 **See also:** 8/9/1952 ### Event 7190 (3B3FB564) **Date:** End of 7/1952 **Location:** Dayton OH **Description:** SECRET MEMO to Director, CIA, from H. Marshall Chadwell, Office of Scientific Intelligence stating: ATIC has set up a worldwide reporting network for Flying Saucers and major Air Force bases have been ordered to make INTERCEPTIONS of UFO’s. Battello Memorial Institute is to handle machine indexing of all official reported sightings. From 1947 to date, there have been 1500 official sightings with 250 of them in 1952 alone. Of the 1500, 28% remain UNEXPLAINED. UFO’s are of such importance that the matter should be brought before the National Security Council. **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p31,506, war escalation) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_469 **See also:** 9/19/76 **See also:** 5/10/80 **See also:** 5/19/86 **See also:** 9/4/87 ### Event 7191 (88B607E3) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** HALLOCK, MN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. GCI RADAR and Air Force pilot and Ground Observer Corps (GOC) spotters. Several UFO's all over Wisconsin and Minn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2493 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "HALLOCK,MN:BBK#UNK:GCI RDR+AF PILOT+GOC SPOTTERS:SVRL UFOS ALL OVR WISC+MINN", **LatLong:** "48.772225 -96.944449", **LatLongDMS:** "48:46:20 N 96:56:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.772225,-96.944449)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7192 (7611BC93) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** FRANKLIN, IN **Description:** Cops and military and hundreds. Night lights hover dance and play tag / several counties. / r242p161. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2494 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "FRANKLIN,IN:COPS+MIL+100s:NLTS HVR DANCE+PLAY TAG/SVRL COUNTIES:/r242p161", **LatLong:** "39.483335 -86.055560", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:00 N 86:03:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.483335,-86.055560)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7193 (1357B42F) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** OSCEOLA, WI **Description:** Air Defense Command / GCI RADAR's track objects / 90-900kph. Maneuver and evade jets. Fly going quickly north. / r242+r11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2495 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "275", **HatchDesc:** "OSCEOLA,WI:ADC/GCI RDRs TRACK OBJS/90-900kph:MNVR+EVADE JETS:FLY>>N:/r242+r11", **LatLong:** "45.322224 -92.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:19:20 N 92:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.322224,-92.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7194 (068919AC) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** HELENA, MT **Description:** 12 objects / V formation hover over town. Going quickly southwest. No further details [in] type unknown. Blue Book files. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2496 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1230", **HatchDesc:** "HELENA,MT:12 OBJS/VFORM HVR OVR TOWN:>>SW:NFD TYPE UNK:BBK FILES:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.600002 -112.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "46:36:00 N 112:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.600002,-112.050005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7195 (892D1323) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** MCGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, NJ **Description:** RADAR OP and Air Traffic Controllers. RADAR-visual. Distinct plain ovoids make very fast turn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2497 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "McGUIRE AFB,NJ:RDR OP+ATCS:RDR-VISUAL:DISTINCT PLAIN OVOIDS MAKE VFAST TURN", **LatLong:** "40.016669 -74.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:01:00 N 74:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.016669,-74.616670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7196 (53611840) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** BISMARCK, ND **Description:** 2 silver objects speed over town. Blue Book files. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2498 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "510", **HatchDesc:** "BISMARCK,ND:2 SILVER OBJs SPEED OVER TOWN:BBK FILES:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.816669 -100.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "46:49:00 N 100:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.816669,-100.783338)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7197 (4D6B5AEC) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** Marines take 16 mm movies / UFO. Some frames going [to] press. USAF takes rest / 29 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 355) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2499 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:MARINES TAKE 16mm MOVIES/UFO:SOME FRAMES>PRESS:USAF TAKES REST/29JLY", **LatLong:** "25.783335 -80.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:47:00 N 80:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.783335,-80.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7198 (1DF3CC13) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** DEL PASO HEIGHTS, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Star-like night light moves and stops intermittently. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2500 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "DEL PASO HEIGHTS,CA:BBK:STARLIKE NLT MOVES+STOPS INTERMITTENTLY", **LatLong:** "38.666669 -121.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:40:00 N 121:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.666669,-121.433339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7199 (EE28D1AB) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** EAST / TYRONE, PA **Description:** AA flight #519 / 18k' altitude. Small UFO's all over/all about thunderhead. Jets chase. / r98#203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 324) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2501 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "275", **HatchDesc:** "E/TYRONE,PA:AA FLITE#519/18k'alt:SML UFOS ALLO THUNDERHEAD:JETS CHASE:/r98#203", **LatLong:** "40.672224 -78.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:20 N 78:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.672224,-78.166670)", **RelAlt:** "5500", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7200 (D44C08AC) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** HAYWARD AND ALAMEDA, CA **Description:** USAF man and 1. 2 dark disks abreast. Going quickly southeast / very high speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2502 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "HAYWARD+ALAMEDA,CA:USAF MAN+1:2 DARK DISKS ABREAST:>>SE /VERY HIGH SPEED:", **LatLong:** "37.666668 -122.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 122:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,-122.066672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7201 (0AD8A07C) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** GENEVA, NY **Description:** Ellipse hovers / high altitude. Jet contrails converge. Ovoid shoots straight going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2503 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "151", **HatchDesc:** "GENEVA,NY:ELLIPSE HVRS/HI ALT:JET CONTRAILS CONVERGE:OVOID SHOOTS STRAIGHT ↑", **LatLong:** "42.850002 -76.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:00 N 76:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.850002,-76.983337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7202 (0742751B) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PONCA CITY, OK **Description:** 3+1 observer(s). Sparkle-globe hovers / refinery. Night lights swoop low and circle school. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2504 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "307", **HatchDesc:** "PONCA CITY,OK:3+1 OBS:SPARKLE-GLOBE HVRS/REFINERY:NLTS SWOOP LOW+CCL SCHOOL", **LatLong:** "36.716668 -97.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:43:00 N 97:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.716668,-97.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7203 (5E1F72E8) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CAIRO, IL **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 3 huge "stars" / sky. 2 more join in. All 5 go / irregular motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2505 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "CAIRO,IL:GOC OBS:3 HUGE "STARS"/SKY:2 MORE JOIN IN:ALL 5 GO/IRREGULAR MOTION", **LatLong:** "37.016668 -89.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:01:00 N 89:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.016668,-89.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7204 (299868CB) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** 2 observer(s). 5-6 flat disks turn oval / passing. Flat again. Horizontal going [to] horizon / 60 seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 969) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2506 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "MEMPHIS,TN:2 OBS:5-6 FLAT DISKS TURN OVAL/PASSING:FLAT AGAIN:HRXN>HRZN/60secs", **LatLong:** "33.166668 -90.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:10:00 N 90:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.166668,-90.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7205 (4CEC1979) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** EAST / DAYTON, OH **Description:** Electro-magnetic effect (EME)? Lightning outlines 30M disk / sky. Red and green fireballs exit going up. Disk quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 969) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2507 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "E/DAYTON,OH:EME?:LIGHTNING OUTLINES 30M DISK/SKY:RED+GRN FBLS EXIT↑:DISK↑↑", **LatLong:** "39.755557 -84.022226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:20 N 84:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.755557,-84.022226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7206 (214E530D) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ELKHART, IND **Description:** Amateur astronomer / (seen thru) telescope. 5 disks in formation overhead. Shoot apart / all directions (UPI.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2508 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "237", **HatchDesc:** "ELKHART,IND:AM.ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE:5 DISKS/FORMN OVHD:SHOOT APART/ALL DIRs (UPI)", **LatLong:** "41.683335 -85.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:00 N 85:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.683335,-85.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7207 (366CF99E) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ST. PAUL, MN **Description:** Ground RADAR's and visual observer(s). Orange-white night lights. T33 jets scramble. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2509 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "234", **HatchDesc:** "ST PAUL,MN:GND RDRS+VISUAL OBS:ORG-WHT NLTS:T33 JETS SCRAMBLE:", **LatLong:** "44.966669 -93.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:58:00 N 93:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.966669,-93.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 7208 (E0637DC7) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** BURLEY, IDAHO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 1 observer. V-formation / UFO's goes over town. Type unstated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2510 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1269", **HatchDesc:** "BURLEY,IDAHO:BBK#UNK:1 OBS:V-FORMATION/UFOS GOES OVR TOWN:TYPE UNSTATED:", **LatLong:** "42.533335 -114.627783", **LatLongDMS:** "42:32:00 N 114:37:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.533335,-114.627783)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7209 (D3CE5330) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** LODI, ORAN, ALG **Description:** Very large "inverted cone" seen / several seconds. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2511 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LODI,ORAN,ALG:VLARGE "INVERTED CONE" SEEN/SEVERAL SECONDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.016668 0.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:01:00 N 00:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.016668,0.016667)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7210 (044380E0) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** HEIDELBERG, GERM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1700. Unidentified. Metal saucer beams shafts / light. Stops when plane passes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2512 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "HEIDELBERG,GERM:BBK#1700:UID:MTL SCR BEAMS SHAFTS/LITE:STOPS WHEN PLANE PASSES", **LatLong:** "49.400002 8.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:24:00 N 08:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.400002,8.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7211 (0112E629) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** ROCKFORD, IL **Description:** Amateur astronomer / (seen thru) binoculars. Hazy object by moon resolves going [to] disk / sharp edges. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2513 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKFORD,IL:AM.ASTRON/binocs:HAZY OBJ by MOON RESOLVES >DISK/SHARP EDGES:>>N", **LatLong:** "42.283335 -89.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:00 N 89:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.283335,-89.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7212 (96507A32) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Many observer(s). 8-12 night lights / various formations. Darken and lighten / sharp maneuvers. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2514 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:MANY OBS:8-12 NLTS/VAR.FORMns:DARKEN+LIGHTEN/SHARP MNVRS:/r242", **LatLong:** "38.916669 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:55:00 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.916669,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7213 (68CB42E4) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** JERSEY CITY, NJ **Description:** 1 / Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Photograph / orange glowing coin shape north going south over Manhattan? Copies going [to] USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: BENDER, Albert K.: FLYING SAUCERS and the THREE MEN. 1962 & 1968 Paperback Library, NY. Foreward/Gray Barker. 160 pp. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2515 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "JERSEY CITY,NJ:1/GOC:FOTO/ORG.GLO COIN SHAPE N>S OVR MANHATTAN?:copies>USAF", **LatLong:** "40.733335 -74.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:00 N 74:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.733335,-74.050004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7214 (0F32E4BD) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** BURBANK, CA **Description:** Pale blue object circles / 1500' altitude. Drops. Hovers. 500hz ripple sound heard! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2516 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "237", **HatchDesc:** "BURBANK,CA:PALE BLUE OBJ CIRCLES/1500'alt:DROPS:HVRS:500hz RIPPLE SOUND HEARD!", **LatLong:** "34.200002 -118.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:12:00 N 118:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.200002,-118.300006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7215 (8B699260) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Hallock, MN **Description:** (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1211 ### Event 7216 (8CA9514C) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **End date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Port Huron (20 miles W of), MI **Description:** Jets vectored to UFO during ECM exercise (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520728-29](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1212 ### Event 7217 (16E972B1) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Heidelberg, West Germany **Description:** Saucer-shaped object having appearance of light metal (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1700) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1213 ### Event 7218 (F419E83D) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** McGuire AFB, NJ **Description:** GCA Radar/Visual Of Blip Cluster (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1707) **Reference:** NICAP: [520728](http://www.nicap.org/520728mcguire%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1214 ### Event 7219 (97BE8D0F) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** McChord AFB, WA **Description:** Dull, glowing, blue green ball, size of a dime at arms' length (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1708) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1215 ### Event 7220 (9DA4B190) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Baltimore, MD **Description:** FLYOBRPT. Mr. S. Robert Tralins observed 17 shooting lights moving in varied directions at extremely high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520728](http://www.nicap.org/balti520728dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1216 ### Event 7221 (379AB700) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Central Michigan, MI **Description:** Radar visual that raised eyebrows (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520728](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1217 ### Event 7222 (A33C860F) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Central Michigan, MI **Description:** UFO by radar, target speed 550 knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520728](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1218 ### Event 7223 (75A08099) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 10:20 PM **Location:** Heidelberg, West Germany **Description:** Witnesses: Sgt. B.C. Grassmoen, WAC Pfc. A.P. Turner. One saucer-shaped object having an appearance of light metal and giving off shafts of white light, flew slow, made a 90^ turn and climbed away fast after 4-5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_202 ### Event 7224 (9DA17EC2) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 6 AM **Location:** McGuire AFB, New Jersey **Description:** Witness: Ground Control Approach radar operator M/Sgt. W.F. Dees, and persons in the base control tower. Radar tracked a large cluster of very distinct blips. Visual observation was of oblong objects having neither wings nor tail, which made a very fast turn and at one time were in echelon formation. Entire episode lasted 55 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_203 ### Event 7225 (7BD8A964) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Time:** 2:15 AM **Location:** McChord AFB, Washington **Description:** Witnesses: T/Sgt. Walstead, S/Sgt. Calkins of the 635th AC&W Squadron. One dull, glowing, blue-green ball,.the size of a dime at arms' length, flew very fast, straight and level. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_204 ### Event 7226 (171814D3) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Nevada desert **Description:** Early morning. While napping between shifts as a heavy-equipment operator in the Nevada desert, [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) [Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) is awakened by 8 small men who “seem to be of Latin extraction.” They take him to a nearby flying saucer where he meets the captain, a “gorgeous woman, shorter than any of the men, neatly attired, and also having a Latin appearance: coal black hair and olive complexion. She appeared to be about 42 years old,” although Bethurum learns that she is hundreds of years old. Her name is Aura Rhanes. Her ship is called a “scow,” and her crew is from the planet Clarion, a world that is always on the other side of the moon. He later tells this story and his later adventures in his 1954 book Aboard a Flying Saucer, ghostwritten by Mary Kay Tennison. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer, DeVorss, 1954; Clark III 192–194 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1948 ### Event 7227 (A8D2CD12) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Description:** USAF Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) secretly orders a deemphasis on or elimination of human anecdotal UFO reports. Instead, they would be “going on instruments,” as worded in his briefing, so that he can close down Blue Book. Technological hurdles and budget limits greatly delay the plan, but Blue Book does transition into a propaganda debunking mission over the next 6 months. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 813 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1949 ### Event 7228 (7FAA31BF) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Roger Smith Hotel **Description:** Late afternoon. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Maj. Ed Gregory arrive in Washington, D.C., dodging newspaper reporters at the Roger Smith Hotel. Blue Book receives an astonishing total of 50 UFO reports in a single day. UFO inquiries are jamming the Pentagon telephones. Air Force and CIA officials concede that the Soviet Union might take advantage of the confusion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 166–167](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1950 ### Event 7229 (8C03273A) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Description:** According to the United Press, the Air Defense Command has alerted jet interceptor pilots to take off instantly in pursuit of any flying saucers. The International News Service amplifies this by quoting the Air Force that orders have been issued to shoot them down if they refuse to land. The Air Force refuses to confirm this, but USAF Deputy Press Officer Lt. Col. [Moncel A. Monts](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61435014/moncel-adron-monts) states that “jet pilots are, and have been, under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can’t talk them down.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Alerted for](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93402643/) [‘Discs’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93402643/): [Sightings over Washington Put Jets at Ready,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93402831/)” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 28, 1952, p. 1; “[Jets on 24-](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68880923/the-san-francisco-examiner/) [Hour Alert to Shoot Down ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68880923/the-san-francisco-examiner/)” San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 1952, p. 2; Shoot 49–50; David Rudiak, “[1952 Flying Saucer ‘Shoot Down’ Stories](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/ShootDown%5FINS%5F72952.html),” Roswell Proof **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1951 ### Event 7230 (09F91BFB) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** In charge of jet interceptions over Washington, D.C., during the big UFO flap, USAF Director of Operations Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) issues an ambiguous public denial that the interceptors have been ordered to shoot down any saucers. However, newspaper articles and other documents say there was such an order. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Rudiak, “[Background on Gen. Roger M. Ramey,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/ShootDown%5FINS%5F72952.html)” June 4, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1952 ### Event 7231 (BC158E60) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Locations:** Kansas City, Missouri; Washington National **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) resting in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Democratic Convention, calls CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) and asks him to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling of the Washington National sightings. Smith later directs, through Deputy Director for Intelligence [Loftus E. Becker](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/lawyer-loftus-e-becker-to-us-state-department-in-his-office-news-photo/50709548), that a CIA/OSI group be put together to review the USAF UFO intelligence program at ATIC. Truman’s involvement is meant to be kept Top Secret and is not revealed until 1992. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1953 ### Event 7232 (3A638582) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Canadian researcher [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) allegedly shows Rear Admiral [Herbert B. Knowles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121964370/herbert-bain-knowles) a metallic piece from a saucer that was shot down near Washington, D.C. It is twice the size of a man’s thumb and has been loaned to him by the Air Force, but he must return it to the CIA \(or another secret agency\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Rudiak, “[Wilbert B.](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/debris8%5Fmisc.html\#anchor%5F3699) [Smith,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/debris8%5Fmisc.html\#anchor%5F3699)” Roswell Proof; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up); Good Above, [p. 188](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/188/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1954 ### Event 7233 (0686EA69) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Locations:** UK; William Sidney; Lord Cherwell **Description:** UK Prime Minister [Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill) writes to [William Sidney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FSidney%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FDe%5FL%27Isle), Secretary of State for Air, and scientific adviser and friend [Lord Cherwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FLindemann%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FCherwell), saying, “What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.” The response, dated August 9, begins: “The various reports about unidentified flying objects, described by the Press as ‘flying saucers,’ were the subject of a full Intelligence study in 1951” \[presumably the report by the Flying Saucer Working Party\]. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Records Show](https://thecosmicreport.com/records-show-winston-churchills-interest-in-ufos/) [Winston Churchill’s Interest in UFOs,](https://thecosmicreport.com/records-show-winston-churchills-interest-in-ufos/)” The Cosmic Report, December 12, 2020; Good Above, [pp. 30](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/30/mode/2up), [448–449](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/448/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 43–44](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n73/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1955 ### Event 7234 (F6964878) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Description:** There are 20 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT computer database. Outside of the continental United States there were sightings in Hawaii, Cuba, and Germany. Four occurred at military air bases and two more involved aircraft encounters with UFOs. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4448 ### Event 7235 (8D52ADFF) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Description:** At 10:15 p.m. a saucer-shaped object, light metallic in color, flew over Heidelberg, Germany. It gave off shafts of white light, flew slowly, made a 90-degree turn, and climbed away fast. It was in sight for 4.5 minutes. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1700; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 24; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4449 ### Event 7236 (C094F94E) **Date:** 7/28/1952 **Description:** At around 11 p.m. over Washington, D.C. eight to twelve nocturnal lights flew in various formations making sharp maneuvers, darkening and then becoming brighter again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 65; Richard F Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 99 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4450 ### Event 7237 (A20181FB) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Michigan **Description:** USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_120 ### Event 7238 (ABB715DD) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_121 ### Event 7239 (85022A89) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Britain **Description:** SECRET, EYES ONLY MEMO to Deputy Director/Intelligence from Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence stating: In the past several weeks numerous UFOs have been sighted visually and on RADAR. This office (CIA) has maintained a continuing review of reputed sightings for the past three years and a special group has been formed to review the sightings to date. O/CI and O/SI will participate in this study and prepare a report on UFOs by August 15, 1952. **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p505) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_468 ### Event 7240 (57B40F25) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** BOLLING AIR FORCE BASE AND WDC AND HERNDON, VA **Description:** Groups 8-10 blips. Away as USAF planes near. / FSRv3#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 231) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2517 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BOLLING AFB+WDC+HERNDON,VA:GRPS 8-10 BLIPS:AWAY AS USAF PLANES NEAR:/FSRv3#3", **LatLong:** "38.844446 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:40 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.844446,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7241 (8B56CE50) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** WALKER / ROSWELL AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Blue Book. 4 observer(s). Several saucers seen / theodolite. Faster / any plane.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2518 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "80", **Elev:** "1119", **HatchDesc:** "WALKER/ROSWELL AFB,NM:BBK:4 OBS:SVRL SCRS SEEN/THEODOLITE:FASTER/ANY PLANE..", **LatLong:** "33.316668 -104.566672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:19:00 N 104:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.316668,-104.566672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7242 (C68EF7F6) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** ELKHART, IN **Description:** Woman. Flat white dish-disk swirls around over treetops. Turns and quickly going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 986) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2519 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "237", **HatchDesc:** "ELKHART,IN:WOMAN:FLAT WHT DISH-DISK SWIRLS AROUND ovr TREETOPS:TURNS+↑↑ FAST", **LatLong:** "41.683335 -85.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:00 N 85:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.683335,-85.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7243 (91D8D254) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** GREGORY, TX **Description:** 2 observer(s). Circular object circles aluminum plant and stops. Quickly going up. Another quickly going down [to] and does same. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 986) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2520 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "GREGORY,TX:2 OBS:CIRC.OBJ CCLS ALUMINUM PLANT+STOPS:↑↑:ANOTHER ↓↓+DOES SAME", **LatLong:** "27.922224 -97.288894", **LatLongDMS:** "27:55:20 N 97:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.922224,-97.288894)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7244 (2E77DD53) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS CANYON, NM **Description:** 6 separate observer(s). Yellow UFO over base. Jets chase and vice versa. East going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2521 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2410", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS CANYON,NM:6 SEP.OBS:YEL UFO OVR BASE:JETS CHASE+VICE VERSA:E>>W", **LatLong:** "35.888891 -106.361116", **LatLongDMS:** "35:53:20 N 106:21:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.888891,-106.361116)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7245 (934B6468) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** HOPKINTON, MASS **Description:** 1 observer. 90' x10' "beam of light" seen 30 minute(s). Apparent cylinder/cylindrical object-object. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 343) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2522 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "HOPKINTON,MASS:1 OBS:90'x10' "BEAM OF LITE" SEEN 30min:APPARENT CYL-OBJ:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "42.227780 -71.522226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:13:40 N 71:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.227780,-71.522226)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7246 (2DB30449) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 2 large shiny pie-plate saucers outmaneuvers jets. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 987) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2523 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:SVRL SEP.OBS:2 LRG SHINY PIE-PLATE SCRs OUTMNVR JETS:", **LatLong:** "35.883335 -106.311116", **LatLongDMS:** "35:53:00 N 106:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.883335,-106.311116)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7247 (9B3D7775) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LAMORICIERE, ALGERIA **Description:** Motorists. Phosphorescent disk seen briefly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2524 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LAMORICIERE,ALGERIA:MOTORISTS:PHOSPHORESCENT DISK SEEN BRIEFLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.883335 -1.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 N 01:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.883335,-1.050000)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7248 (188AC557) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** FRENDA, ORAN, ALG **Description:** 2 cops. Saucer with luminous/glowing edges and dark center. Seen over town. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2525 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FRENDA,ORAN,ALG:2 COPS:SCR W/LUMn EDGES+DARK CENTER:SEEN OVER TOWN.", **LatLong:** "35.083335 1.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 01:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,1.033333)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7249 (13D51D56) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** 8MI / ENNIS, MT **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1747 / unidentified. 12 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. UFO makes cloud. Saucers exit. Photographs taken. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2526 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1530", **HatchDesc:** "8mi/ENNIS,MT:BBK#1747/UID:12 OBS/BINOCS:UFO MAKES CLOUD:SCRS EXIT:FOTOS TAKEN", **LatLong:** "45.350002 -111.727783", **LatLongDMS:** "45:21:00 N 111:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.350002,-111.727783)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7250 (59901F86) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1739. Unidentified. Airport workers. White saucer hovers over Cessna factory. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2527 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:BBK#1739:UID:AIRPORT WORKERS:WHT SCR HVRS OVR CESSNA FACTORY:>>SE", **LatLong:** "37.700002 -97.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:42:00 N 97:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.700002,-97.350005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7251 (BDE55293) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PASSAIC, NJ **Description:** Great photographs / domed saucer / G. J. stock. Over trees and poles. 2 observer(s). / r192p326. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ANDREWS, George C: EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS AMONG US; FATE/Llewellyn Publs, St. Paul, MN 1992 (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2528 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "36", **HatchDesc:** "PASSAIC,NJ:GREAT FOTOS/DOMED SCR/G.J.STOCK:OVR TREES+POLES:2 OBS:/r192p326", **LatLong:** "40.872224 -74.127781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:52:20 N 74:07:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.872224,-74.127781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7252 (50870F8D) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** DETROIT, MI **Description:** Ex-USAF man and 1. Flat-bottom/underside disk. Slow then fast wide sweep. Lost in clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 991) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2529 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "DETROIT,MI:EX-USAF MAN+1:FLAT-BTM DISK:SLOW then FAST WIDE SWEEP:LOST/CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -83.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 83:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-83.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7253 (039B977F) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** WILLIAMSBURG, VA **Description:** Air Traffic Controller and 2 civilians. Blue object going quickly southeast / 2600mph toward(s) Langley Air Force Base. Below 5K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2530 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "26", **HatchDesc:** "WILLIAMSBURG,VA:ATC+2 CIVs:BLUE OBJ >>SE/2600mph TWRD LANGLEY AFB:BLW 5K'alt:", **LatLong:** "37.272224 -76.705559", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:20 N 76:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.272224,-76.705559)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7254 (142C11BD) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** GREAT FALLS, MT **Description:** Radio alert / McChord Air Force Base. 50 observer(s). 3 silver saucers sway west going quickly east. 40K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 357) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2531 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1000", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT FALLS,MT:RADIO ALERT/McCHORD AFB:50 OBS:3 SLVR SCRS SWAY W>>E:40K'alt", **LatLong:** "47.500002 -111.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 111:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,-111.283339)", **RelAlt:** "12000", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7255 (6A8E4BDE) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** MERCED, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1738. Unidentified. Mitchell and 1. Saucer tilts dives levels itself and circles. Going quickly NNE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2532 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "58", **HatchDesc:** "MERCED,CA:BBK#1738:UID:MITCHELL+1:SCR TILTS DIVES LEVELS ITSELF+CIRCLES:>>NNE", **LatLong:** "37.266668 -120.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:00 N 120:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.266668,-120.466672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7256 (8F69AFB1) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** GREEN LANE, PA **Description:** 3+observer(s). Dark oval = round saucer. Passes going south under low clouds. Seen / 10 seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 992) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2533 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "GREEN LANE,PA:3+OBS:DRK OVAL=RND SCR:PASSES >S UNDER LOW CLOUDS:seen/10 secs", **LatLong:** "40.338891 -75.472226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:20:20 N 75:28:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.338891,-75.472226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7257 (5D8BEAC2) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** Newmen and many. "Saucer" / wild maneuvers all over/all about. Color(s) vary. Huge accelerations. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 997) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2534 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "SALT LAKE CITY,UT:NEWMEN+MANY:"SCR"/WILD MNVRS ALLO:CLRS VARY:HUGE ACCELS", **LatLong:** "40.783335 -111.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "40:47:00 N 111:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.783335,-111.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7258 (3A6346EA) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** MOSTAGANEM, ALG **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Saucer seen / seconds. 3 globes hover. Going quickly north as jets near / r230 v1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2535 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOSTAGANEM,ALG:NMRS OBS:SCR SEEN/secs::3 GLOBES HVR:>>N as JETS NEAR/r230 v1#2", **LatLong:** "35.916668 0.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:55:00 N 00:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.916668,0.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Mostaganem", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7259 (7063855A) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CULVER CITY, CA **Description:** Former pilot and several. Ovoid splits / 2 pieces. 30K' altitude. Separate paths. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 370) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2536 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "CULVER CITY,CA:FORMER PILOT+SVRL:OVOID SPLITS/2 PIECES:30K'alt:SEPARATE PATHS", **LatLong:** "34.016668 -118.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:01:00 N 118:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.016668,-118.400006)", **RelAlt:** "10000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7260 (E5AA78E3) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** BISON TO/FROM WAUKOMIS, OK **Description:** Saucer blows car off road. Possible abduction try. Going west very fast. / LDLN#101p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2537 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "396", **HatchDesc:** "BISON>W VFAST:/LDLN#101p4.", **LatLong:** "36.233335 -97.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "36:14:00 N 97:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.233335,-97.877782)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 7261 (3B02444F) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** SAGINAW BAY, MI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1680. RADAR and 2 F94s RADAR-visual (observation). Night light / 180° going quickly north / 1440mph. Responds / radio. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2538 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SAGINAW BAY,MI:BBK#1680:RDR+2F94s RDR-VIS:NLT/180°>>N/1440mph:RESPONDS/RADIO", **LatLong:** "44.000002 -83.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:00:00 N 83:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.000002,-83.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7262 (4776BA03) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / ADRIAN, MI **Description:** 1 / car. Moon-size disk. Strong glow. Going [to] slow over city. Sharp outlines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 996) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2539 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "243", **HatchDesc:** "SW/ADRIAN,MI:1/CAR:MOONSIZE DISK:STRONG GLOW:> SLOW ovr CITY:SHARP OUTLINES", **LatLong:** "41.866669 -84.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 84:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,-84.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7263 (B24772DD) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / NIWOT, CO **Description:** Woman. Saucer ringed / small lights going quickly west. Large and distant. Much faster / plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 997) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2540 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1553", **HatchDesc:** "SW/NIWOT,CO:WOMAN:SCR RINGED/SML LITES >>W:LRG+DISTANT:MUCH FASTER/PLANE", **LatLong:** "40.083335 -105.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:05:00 N 105:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.083335,-105.183338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7264 (122FC935) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** AIN TEDELES, ALG **Description:** Many observer(s). Classic saucer blows white smoke over town / 1 minute(s). Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2541 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AIN TEDELES,ALG:MANY OBS:CLASSIC SCR BLOWS WHT SMOKE OVR TOWN/1min:>>S:", **LatLong:** "36.000002 0.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 00:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,0.250000)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7265 (8CEE0562) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** LAGUNA BEACH, CA **Description:** 2 / roof. Hemisphere going east. Flat / top. Rounded bottom/underside glows. Tilts. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 998) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2542 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LAGUNA BEACH,CA:2/ROOF:HEMISPHERE > E:FLAT/TOP:ROUNDED BTM GLOWS:TILTS:>>W", **LatLong:** "33.550002 -117.794450", **LatLongDMS:** "33:33:00 N 117:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.550002,-117.794450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7266 (4D0C913A) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Osceola, WI **Description:** Clusters of Small Targets & One Large Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1731) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729osceola%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1219 ### Event 7267 (B0EC779E) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Jets scrambled from Kirtland (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1221 ### Event 7268 (4BCFB82A) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Langley AFB, VA **Description:** 2,600 MPH Target Approaches Base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1732) **Reference:** NICAP: [520729](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729langley%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1222 ### Event 7269 (317E6A7D) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Walker AFB, Roswell, NM **Description:** Sighted several high-speed discs through theodolite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1223 ### Event 7270 (A27FF6E2) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** White object moving E to W & light-brown egg shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1224 ### Event 7271 (2C98B035) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Merced, CA **Description:** Dark, discus shaped object, trailed by a silvery light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1738) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1225 ### Event 7272 (AFD35E8B) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** CAA radar in the early morning tracked 8 to 12 UFOs at a time traveling about 100-120 m.p.h. in a 10-mile arc around the Nations Capital. When an Eastern Airlines pilot tried to check on the radar targets at CAA request at 3:00 a.m., he saw nothing. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1226 ### Event 7273 (90F83913) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Port Huron, MI **Description:** 9:40 p.m. CST an Air Force radar station plotted an unidentified target moving at 550 knots. An F-94 in the area was asked to investigate, and its airborne radar locked onto the UFO which appeared as a bright flashing colored light. The object, showing on ground radar along with the F-94, outdistanced the interceptor. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729porthuron%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1227 ### Event 7274 (D8741A4C) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Movies taken of high-speed UFO; film submitted to Air Force, never released. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1228 ### Event 7275 (F90DF466) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Witchita, KS **Description:** Bright white circular object with a flat bottom fly very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1739) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1229 ### Event 7276 (508456B3) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Air Force reserve colonel at Los Alamos saw a strange ellipse shaped light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1230 ### Event 7277 (2FF3A1D3) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Ennis, MT **Description:** Twelve Witnesses Observe Discs / Movies & Stills Taken (BBU 1747) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: 1747) **Reference:** NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729ennis%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1231 ### Event 7278 (F00D4AB0) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Enid, Oklahoma **Description:** Sidney Eubank went to the Enid police station and told Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disk had buzzed his car as he drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the car leave the road while the object flew west very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 134 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_96 ### Event 7279 (7704062B) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 1:30 AM **Location:** Osceola, Wisconsin **Description:** Witnesses: radar operators on ground, pilot of F-5l Mustang in flight. Several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one large target. Small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 kts. (60-70 m.p.h.), following each other. The large one moved at 600 kts. (700 m.p.h.). One hour total time. Pilot confirmed one target. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_205 ### Event 7280 (B0B8A629) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 2:30 PM **Location:** Langley AFB, Virginia **Description:** Witness: USAF Capt D.G. Moore, of military air traffic control system. One undescribed object flew at an estimated 2,600 m.p.h., below 5,000' altitude, toward the air base for about 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_206 ### Event 7281 (90701423) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 2:50 PM **Location:** Langley AFB, Virginia **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. Moore, Gilfillan electronics representative W. Yhope. One radar target tracked moving away, stopped for 2 minutes, again moved very, very fast. Four minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_207 ### Event 7282 (715398F7) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 3:44 or 4:35 PM **Location:** Merced, California **Description:** Witnesses: Herbert Mitchell and one employee. One dark, discus-shaped object, trailed by a silvery light 2 lengths behind, tipped on its side, dove, hesitated and then circled very fast during the 2 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_208 ### Event 7283 (944E75FE) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 12:35 PM **Location:** Wichita, Kansas **Description:** Witnesses: USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess at Municipal Airport. One bright white circular object with a flat bottom flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft Co. plant, during the 5 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_209 ### Event 7284 (2404D2ED) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Time:** 12:30 PM **Location:** Ennis, Montana **Description:** Witnesses: USAF persons, alerted that UFOs were coming from the direction of Seattle, Wash. Two to five flat disc-shaped objects: one hovered 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. Sighting length of 30 minutes not explained further. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_210 ### Event 7285 (EB58BF9E) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Locations:** Osceola, Wisconsin; St. Paul, Minnesota **Description:** 1:30 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar outside of Osceola, Wisconsin, picks up some unidentified targets. Four F-51s from St. Paul, Minnesota, are scrambled, but the targets are moving around so quickly that it is impossible to vector in on a single target. The F-51 pilots see many lights; one pilot at 25,000 feet sees an object blaze across the nose of his airplane. Two other pilots vainly try to climb up to a hovering light that is in the same position as the radar targets. ATIC’s Robert M. Olsson and Wendell Swanson explain the radar incident as a temperature inversion and the visual sighting as a meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “Clusters of Small Targets and One Large Target”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July 21st–31st,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 80–85; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 161 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1956 ### Event 7286 (F9053384) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Early morning. CAA radar tracks 8–12 UFOs at a time traveling 100–120 mph in a 10-mile arc around Washington, D.C. When an Eastern Airlines pilot tries to check on the radar targets at the request of the CAA at 3:00 a.m., he sees nothing. The targets disappear from CAA radar when the airliner approaches then come back in behind him after he passes through the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Debunks ‘Saucers’ As Just ‘Natural Phenomena,’](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/07/30/84338117.pdf)” New York Times, July 30, 1952, pp. 1, 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1957 ### Event 7287 (2D61EB2C) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** 10:00 a.m. President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) tells his air force liaison, [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/) to find out what is going on with UFOs. Landry calls ATIC and eventually reaches [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), who tells him that weather may have caused the radar targets, but there is no proof. He later learns that Truman is listening in. There is some evidence that Truman or Landry soon contact the National Security Council directly to find out how to proceed with the UFO problem. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/166/mode/2up); Swords 170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1958 ### Event 7288 (686A0088) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Locations:** Los Alamos Scientific Labs, New Mexico; Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque **Description:** 10:00 a.m. Several employees of Los Alamos Scientific Labs, New Mexico \(including Robert B. Leachman, W. Schafer, E. T. Jurney\), see a white object moving east to west with a gyrating motion. Two jet interceptors from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque arrive 5 minutes later. The object disappears but reappears in front of the jets, makes a 360° turn, comes around in back, follows for 2 minutes, then disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Jets Scrambled from](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm) [Kirtland](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 61–64](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/60/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 161 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1959 ### Event 7289 (4D18DB82) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Locations:** Walker AFB; Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** Four weather observers at Walker AFB \[now closed\] in Roswell, New Mexico, watch several high-speed discs through a theodolite. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 114–115](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/114/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 161 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1960 ### Event 7290 (8BAC1855) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** US **Description:** An FBI memo from Victor P. Keay on “Flying Saucers” discusses a classified briefing about UFOs by Cmdr. [Randall Boyd Jr.](https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=520321) of the Air Intelligence Estimates Division to [Norman W. Philcox](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155730842/norman-walter-philcox)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155730842/norman-walter-philcox) an FBI liaison to the Air Force. The Air Force has “failed to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion” on UFOs. Reports are being received from all parts of the US and distant parts of the world. Boyd explains that USAF has made no progress in ascertaining the nature of UFOs, but it is filing them into three classifications: reports by civilians on the ground, reports by commercial or military pilots, and reports by pilots that are confirmed by radar or ground observations. He concludes by writing that it is “not entirely impossible that the objects sighted may possibly be ships from another planet such as Mars,” but he adds that “air intelligence is fairly certain that these objects are not ships or missiles from another nation in this world.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [History: 1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 55–56; ClearIntent, [pp. 175–177](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/174/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1961 ### Event 7291 (E483DAE8) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** [Ralph L. Clark](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/) acting assistant director of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence, sends a memo to OSI Deputy Director [Robert Amory Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html) indicating that the agency will be looking into UFO matters a bit more thoroughly, even though it has been collecting cases for the past three years \(since 1949\): “a special study group has been formed to review the subject to date. D/CI \[[Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)\] will participate in this study with D/SI \[[H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)\], and a report should be ready about 15 August.” It alludes to his meeting with CIA rocket consultant [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) and others the previous day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ralph L. Clark, “[Recent Sightings of Unexplained](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060002-4.pdf) [Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060002-4.pdf)” July 29, 1952, [reprinted](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) in “The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler”; Good Above, [pp. 330](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up) [505](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/504/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1962 ### Event 7292 (35651F27) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** Robert L. Farnsworth, president of the American Rocket Society, urges President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) and defense officials to restrain the US armed forces from shooting at UFOs. He says that hostile action might alienate us from “beings of far superior powers.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Robert L. Farnsworth, \[[Telegram to President Truman](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Protests%5F1952.html)\], July 28, 1952; “[A Pro-Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93410948/) [Voice Heard,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93410948/)” New York Daily News, July 29, 1952, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1963 ### Event 7293 (18F8EEB3) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** airport in Macdonald, Manitoba **Description:** An orange, oblong stationary object is observed at the airport in Macdonald, Manitoba, in the south- southwestern sky for 2 minutes. It seems to change into a group of small round lights. They all disappear together. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich; Project Second Storey **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1964 ### Event 7294 (E4E3A33D) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio **Description:** 4:00 p.m. The Air Force holds its largest and longest press conference since the end of World War II. Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) director of USAF intelligence, leads it. He is accompanied by Eighth Air Force Maj. Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) director of operations and commander of the Eighth Air Force; USAF Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower), Technical Analysis Division, Air Technical Intelligence Center \(ATIC\), Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio; Project Blue Book head Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt); USAF Capt. [Roy L. James](http://www.project1947.com/feaf/feafintros.htm), ATIC radar specialist; and [Burgoyne L. Griffing](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124036/burgoyne-lee-griffing), electronics branch, ATIC. Samford says that the Air Force has been monitoring US air space since 1947. Approximately 20% of UFO reports come from “credible observers of relatively incredible things,” which keeps the Air Force concerned. He explains that the Washington, D.C., sightings earlier in July were caused by “weather phenomena” that caused radar beams to bend and pick up objects on the ground. James offers more technical explanations about temperature inversions that cause radar echoes. Pro-UFO Maj. [Dewey J.](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) [Fournet Jr.](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)[,](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) USAF public relations officer [Al Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php)[,](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) and Navy radar specialist Lieut. John Holcomb are conspicuous by their absence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[General Samford’s Press Conference,](http://www.nicap.org/waves/pressconf%5F1952.htm)” July 29, 1952; Ruppelt, [pp. 168–](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/168/mode/2up) [169](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/168/mode/2up); “[General Samford’s UFO Press Conference, Pentagon, July 29, 1952,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRtkA1Rmvw)” knightskross YouTube channel, August 3, 2010; “[The Air Force Makes a Pass at the Saucer Stories,](https://books.google.com/books?id=TFYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20magazine&pg=PA35%23v%3Donepage&q&f=true)” Life 33, no. 6 \(August 11, 1952\): 35; Swords 159–163; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 60–63](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/60/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 77–126; Shoot 53–57 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1965 ### Event 7295 (5F0332BC) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 9:15 p.m. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. [Robert G. LeCompte](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17567749/robert-g-lecompte) sees a flight of at least 10 luminous objects pass over Albuquerque, New Mexico. At first they appear overhead in no pattern, heading north, then shift to a V formation. They then shift into two rows. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AF Reserve Colonel Observes Rapid Ellipse](http://www.nicap.org/520729albuquerque%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 163; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 13, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1966 ### Event 7296 (D43BE87B) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Location:** Miami Beach, Florida **Description:** 9:35 p.m. Marine Pfc Ralph C. Mayher, using 16 mm film exposed at 24 frames per second, obtains footage of a high-speed UFO over Miami Beach, Florida. Retaining a few frames for personal study, Mayher submits the main portion of the film to the Air Force for analysis. The film is never returned, and no analysis report is ever released. Enlargements of a few frames show a fiery looking, roughly circular object, symmetrical, with two small peaks or projection on opposite sides of the disc. The CIA examines the film in 1957 and returns it with no comment or analysis. The Mayher case features prominently in the subsequent lawsuit by Ground Saucer Watch against the CIA and is important because it is a confirmed case of direct interaction of the CIA with a witness, clearly indicating that there was CIA interest in the subject. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Ralph Mayer / Miami Film](http://www.nicap.org/520729miami%5Fdir.htm)”; Ralph Mayer, “[I Proved Flying Saucers Are Real,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952mayher.htm)” Pic, June 1954; Good Above, [pp. 355–356](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/354/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1967 ### Event 7297 (B1D0AB18) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Alternate date:** 7/28/1952 **Locations:** Port Huron, Michigan; 29 miles west of Port Huron **Description:** 9:40 p.m. An Aircraft and Warning Station in Port Huron, Michigan, tracks an unidentified return on radar for 20 minutes. GCI asks Capt. Edward J. Slowinski flying an F-94B on a practice run to investigate. The pilot sees a bright, flashing, colored light in the location of the blip 29 miles west of Port Huron and follows it for 20 minutes. Slowinski is unable to close on the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Key Radar Case \(CCL \#17\)](http://www.nicap.org/520729porthuron%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 160; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 72–73; Center for UFO Studies, \[[documents and case files](http://cufos.org/cases/1952%5F07%5F29%5FUS%5FMI%5FPort-Huron%5FNICAP%5FAir-to-Air-RV.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1968 ### Event 7298 (C03808F8) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** There are 39 unexplained UFO reports recorded in the UFOCAT database for this day. Most are lacking any detail and so fall into the category of "insufficient information." All but five come from the United States. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4471 ### Event 7299 (8AABEC7D) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m. radar operators on the ground in Osceola, Wisconsin witnessed several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one large target. The small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 knots (60-70 mph), following each other. The large object moved at 600 knots (700 mph). One hour total time. The pilot of a F-51 Mustang in flight confirmed a visual sighting of one of the targets. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Condon Committee investigation files; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4472 ### Event 7300 (2D7D0BFE) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** Sidney Eubank went to the Enid, Oklahoma police station and told Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disc had buzzed his car as he drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the car leave the road while the object flew west very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP investigation files, reported dated July 30, 1952; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4473 ### Event 7301 (29320F84) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** At 12:30 p.m. USAF personnel near Ennis, Montana were alerted that UFOs were coming from the direction of Seattle, Washington and headed toward their position. Twelve of them saw two to five flat disc-shaped objects fly over. One hovered for 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1747; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4474 ### Event 7302 (8EF142C5) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** Langley AFB, Virginia. At 2:30 p.m. USAF Captain D.G. Moore, of military air traffic control, sighted a UFO coming toward the air base that flew at an estimated speed of 2,600 mph below an altitude of 5,000 feet. It was in sight for two minutes. Twenty minutes later Captain Moore and electronics technician W. Y. Hope tracked a UFO on radar moving away. The object stopped for two minutes, then moved away again very, very fast. Total duration four minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol; p. 275; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4475 ### Event 7303 (26FF8A7E) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** At 3:44 Herbert Mitchell and his employee in Merced, California sighted a dark, discus-shaped object, trailed two lengths behind by a silvery light. It tipped on its side, dove, hesitated, and then circled very fast. They watched it for two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1738; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4476 ### Event 7304 (094A0B5A) **Date:** 7/29/1952 **Description:** In Wichita, Kansas at 12:35 p.m. USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess saw a bright white circular craft with a flat bottom at the Municipal Airport. The object flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft Co. plant. Their sighting lasted five minute sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1739; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4477 ### Event 7305 (3174EDEC) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 03:40 **Location:** NORTH / JACKSONVILLE, FL **Description:** Eastern Airlines crew. Extremely bright night light still / 3 minute(s). Shoots going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2543 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "N/JACKSONVILLE,FL:EAL CREW:EXTREMELY BRITE NLT STILL/3min:SHOOTS >>W", **LatLong:** "30.583335 -81.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:35:00 N 81:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.583335,-81.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7306 (9E628FC0) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** ALGIERS, ALG **Description:** Shiny black disk shoots up from horizon. Sudden turn to one side. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2544 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALGIERS,ALG:SHINY BLK DISK SHOOTS UP FROM HORIZON:SUDDEN TURN TO ONE SIDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.833335 2.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "36:50:00 N 02:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.833335,2.933333)", **State/Prov:** "Alger", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7307 (B15B0E9C) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** ORLANDO, FL **Description:** 2 reports. Metal ovoid / gentle turns. 1115hrs. Bright white saucer straight and level north going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2545 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "135", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "ORLANDO,FL:2 Repts:MTL OVOID/GENTLE TURNS::1115hrs:BRITE WHT SCR S/L N>>S", **LatLong:** "28.533335 -81.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "28:32:00 N 81:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.533335,-81.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7308 (93C1CCDB) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA **Description:** Railroad/railway crew. 2-10 silver pinheads hover / E. sky. Shoot away 1-by-1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2546 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "380", **HatchDesc:** "COUNCIL BLUFFS,IA:RR CREW:2-10 SLVR PINHEADS HVR/E.SKY:SHOOT AWAY 1-by-1", **LatLong:** "41.266669 -95.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 N 95:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.266669,-95.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7309 (BDCB3A19) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1758. Saucer / 5K' altitude rises to 10K' when C97 passes. Back down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2547 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:BBK#1758:SCR/5K'alt RISES TO 10K' WHEN C97 PASSES:BACK DOWN.", **LatLong:** "29.433335 -98.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:26:00 N 98:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.433335,-98.483338)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7310 (F0E21991) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** ALEXANDRIA, IN **Description:** 4 observer(s). 6 aluminum saucers streak across strange cloud and merge. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2548 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "264", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA,IN:4 OBS:6 ALUM.SCRS STREAK ACRS STRANGE CLOUD+MERGE:ABS SLNT", **LatLong:** "40.261113 -85.677782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:15:40 N 85:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.261113,-85.677782)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7311 (818CA581) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** LIBERTY LAKE, WA **Description:** UFO hovers / 30K' altitude / 60 minute(s). Going up / plane passes. Going down [to] after. Infra-red photographs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 373) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2549 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "625", **HatchDesc:** "LIBERTY LAKE,WA:UFO HVRS/30K'alt/60min:↑/PLANE PASSES:↓AFTER:INFRA-RED FOTOS", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -117.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 117:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-117.133339)", **RelAlt:** "10000", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7312 (DD1A8CD2) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** DULUTH, MN **Description:** 2 observer(s). Thick band / vapor beams going down [to] into cloud. Horizontal band shoots to side! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 370) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2550 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "DULUTH,MN:2 OBS:THICK BAND/VAPOR BEAMS ↓ INTO CLOUD:HZNTL BAND SHOOTS TO SIDE!", **LatLong:** "46.783336 -92.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "46:47:00 N 92:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.783336,-92.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7313 (3F668BCC) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** SUAMICO, WI **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 bowler-hat saucers all over/all about. Tease Air Force jet and B25. Going quickly west extremely fast. / APRO v1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2551 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "181", **HatchDesc:** "SUAMICO,WI:2 OBS:2 BOWLER-HAT SCRS ALLO:TEASE AF JET+B25:>>W XFAST:/APRO v1#2", **LatLong:** "44.633335 -88.038893", **LatLongDMS:** "44:38:00 N 88:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.633335,-88.038893)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7314 (1CCB7D92) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** LEXINGTON, KY **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 2nd moon northwest going quickly southeast below real moon. White with blue edge. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: BENDER, Albert K.: FLYING SAUCERS and the THREE MEN. 1962 & 1968 Paperback Library, NY. Foreward/Gray Barker. 160 pp. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2552 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "287", **HatchDesc:** "LEXINGTON,KY:SVRL.SEP.OBS:2nd MOON NW>>SE BELOW REAL MOON:WHT w/BLU EDGE:/news", **LatLong:** "38.016668 -84.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:01:00 N 84:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.016668,-84.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7315 (31D878A2) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Airman. White saucer makes 180-turn over base. Stops. Climbs O / O / sight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2553 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:AIRMAN:WHT SCR MAKES 180-TURN OVR BASE:STOPS:CLIMBS O/O/SIGHT", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -106.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 106:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-106.066672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7316 (FCC5C8F4) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** ANDUJAR, SPAIN **Description:** Many locals. Silent 'flying dessert dish'. Leaves (something behind) green trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2554 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ANDUJAR,SPAIN:MANY LOCALS:SLNT 'FLYING DESSERT DISH':LVS GREEN TRAIL.", **LatLong:** "38.033335 -4.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "38:02:00 N 04:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.033335,-4.050000)", **State/Prov:** "JAE", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7317 (72D221F3) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** YORK, PA **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). 3M disk / white light going north and going south and going north and south.. Oval / moving circular when still. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2555 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "YORK,PA:NMRS.SEP.OBS:3M DISK/WHT LITE >N+>S+>N+S..:OVAL/MOVING CIRC when STILL", **LatLong:** "39.933335 -76.722226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:00 N 76:43:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.933335,-76.722226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7318 (A1D076D7) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** ATLANTA, GA **Description:** RADAR-visual (observation). Night lights. T33 chases to Macon. Gets buzzed. 1 changes colors. / r43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2556 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTA,GA:RDR-VIS:NLTS:T33 CHASES TO MACON:GETS BUZZED:1 CHANGES COLORS:/r43", **LatLong:** "33.733335 -84.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:00 N 84:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.733335,-84.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7319 (140B2A28) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** TLELAT-ED-DOUAIR, ORAN, ALG **Description:** 3 cops and Cadi. Strange luminous/glowing flying object. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2557 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TLELAT-ed-DOUAIR,ORAN,ALG:3 COPS+CADI:STRANGE LUMn FLYING OBJ:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.983335 2.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:59:00 N 02:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.983335,2.916667)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7320 (6C896D46) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, AL **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers. Revolving sphere changes color(s). Slight swaying. Seen 30 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2558 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "52", **HatchDesc:** "MAXWELL AFB,AL:ATCS:REVOLVING SPHERE CHANGES CLRS:SLIGHT SWAYING:SEEN 30min", **LatLong:** "32.400002 -86.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:24:00 N 86:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.400002,-86.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7321 (51491299) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Location:** Atlanta, GA **Description:** (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1232 ### Event 7322 (548E0CA4) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Stationary orange light. No further details in files (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1755, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1233 ### Event 7323 (671CD2CA) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Location:** Keesler AFB, MS **Description:** PPI Scope Of CPS-5 Tracks Slow Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520730](http://www.nicap.org/520730keesler%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1234 ### Event 7324 (74136D3F) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** Round, white object fly slow then speed away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1758) **Reference:** NICAP: [520730](http://www.nicap.org/sanantonio520730dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1235 ### Event 7325 (28F72FE7) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Location:** Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, NM **Description:** (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1236 ### Event 7326 (0DC76FCA) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 11:02 PM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: USAF lst Lt. George Funk. One orange light remained stationary for 10 minutes. No further details in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_211 ### Event 7327 (C45DB581) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Time:** 10 AM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: E.E. Nye and one other person. One round, white object flew slow and then sped away after 20-30 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_212 ### Event 7328 (5403FA1D) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Locations:** RAF Oldenburg, Germany; RAF Faßberg **Description:** Flight Sgt. Roland Hughes of No. 20 Squadron RAF is on a training flight in a de Havilland Vampire FB-9 jet fighter and returning to base at RAF Oldenburg, Germany, when he sees a “gleaming silver, metallic disc” drop down from above and fly alongside his aircraft for several seconds before speeding off. The object is about 100 feet long. Its surface is shiny “like tinfoil,” highly reflective, and “without a single crease or crinkle in it.” On August 5, Hughes is ordered to fly to RAF Faßberg for further questioning. He arrives and finds a number of officers, including his commander and the UK Minister of Supply, [Duncan Sandys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%5FSandys) \([Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill)‘s son-in- law\), who asks Hughes how many beers he had before his saucer sighting. The Air Commanding Officer then reveals that the object had also been tracked on radar going faster than any known aircraft. This convinces Sandys that the case is a serious one, a view that he communicates to [Lord Cherwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FLindemann%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FCherwell), the government’s chief scientific adviser, in a letter, saying there is “ample evidence of some unfamiliar and unexplained phenomenon.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [pp. 44–46](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n75/mode/2up); “[The UFO Sighting That Convinced a Government Minister,](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/9292417/The-UFO-sighting-that-convinced-a-Government-minister.html)” The Telegraph, May 27, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1969 ### Event 7329 (9180BE7E) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Description:** Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) tells the press that, although he does not believe there are flying saucers, he dislikes the “mass hysteria” about them. He says the Air Force has had experts investigating them since the end of World War II and never found anything substantial. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Double Vision,’ Vandenberg,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93411553/)” Santa Rosa \(Calif.\) Press-Democrat, July 31, 1952, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1970 ### Event 7330 (C5337CE1) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Location:** Alexandria, Indiana **Description:** 1:10 p.m. [Willie Vaught](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36454642/willie-i-vaught) of Alexandria, Indiana, sees a strange looking cloud and calls her two teenage daughters \([Laura](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96294064/laura-n-humphries) and [Patsy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38958136/patsy-l-vaught)\) and [Laura Oliver](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193684621/laura-a-oliver) to see it. While looking at it, they see six flat, aluminum-like objects streak across the cloud, merge, and disappear within a minute. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Alexandria Family Reports Seeing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93412845/) [‘Flying Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93412845/)” Alexandria \(Ind.\) Times-Tribune, July 31, 1952, p. 1; Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1971 ### Event 7331 (EDEE6162) **Date:** 7/30/1952 **Description:** At ten o'clock in the morning a white round object was seen flying slowly over San Antonio, Texas. After 20-30 minutes it sped away. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1758; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 64; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4502 ### Event 7332 (CC75FCB1) **Date:** 7/31/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** MCWATTERS, QBC **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 8 saucers cross sky. Jet follows. Shaped like show-shoes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2559 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "298", **HatchDesc:** "McWATTERS,QBC:SVRL SEP.OBS:8 SCRS CROSS SKY:JET FOLOS:SHAPED LIKE SHOW-SHOES", **LatLong:** "48.350002 -78.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "48:21:00 N 78:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.350002,-78.916670)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7333 (EB1A0788) **Date:** 7/31/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** SIG, ALGERIA **Description:** Couple. Silent cylinder/cigar-shape. Very fast. Altitude = 1KM. No exhaust. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2560 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SIG,ALGERIA:COUPLE:SILENT CGR:VERY FAST:ALT=1KM:NO EXHAUST:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.527779 -0.194444", **LatLongDMS:** "35:31:40 N 00:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.527779,-0.194444)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7334 (738CAD67) **Date:** 7/31/1952 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** 2 lens-shapes drift into view. 1 reverses course. 1 goes straight going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 373) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2561 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:2 LENS-SHAPES DRIFT INTO VIEW:1 REVERSES COURSE:1 GOES STRAIGHT ↑", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -83.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 83:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-83.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7335 (C7946370) **Date:** 7/31/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SEWART AIR FORCE BASE, TN **Description:** Waf A3 / C. Dishpan saucer drops from 600M altitude. Sudden turn back up and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2562 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "SEWART AFB,TN:WAF A3/C:DISHPAN SCR DROPS fm 600M alt:SUDDEN TURN BACK UP+away", **LatLong:** "36.011113 -86.522226", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:40 N 86:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.011113,-86.522226)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7336 (94BFA3CE) **Date:** 7/31/1952 **Location:** Yokota AFB (15 miles E of), Japan **Description:** Pilot saw object at 7,000 ft off their left (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1237 ### Event 7337 (06B56F63) **Date:** 7/31/1952 **Location:** Yaak (near), MT **Description:** This entry has the incorrect date. Go the the entry for Sept 1, 1952 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1239 ### Event 7338 (5E3A74A9) **Date:** 7/31/1952 **Description:** Brig. Gen. [Alfred R. Maxwell](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106293/brigadier-general-alfred-r-maxwell/) of the Research and Development Board prepares a memorandum that generally supports the official position that UFO reports contain no information of value, he writes: “The Air Force has made very little progress in learning what the phenomena or objects are.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona, Marlowe, 1994, [pp. 30–31](https://archive.org/details/crashatcoronausm0000berl/page/30/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1972 ### Event 7339 (9F5A8777) **Date:** 8/1952 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH **Description:** Study of UFO maneuvers initiated, to determine whether objects displayed intelligent control. **Type:** study initiated **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 250-251](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_872 ### Event 7340 (791A300B) **Date:** 8/1952 (approximate) **Location:** YUNGAY, PERU **Description:** Orange disk displays yellow tail. No further details. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2563 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2714", **HatchDesc:** "YUNGAY,PERU:ORANGE DISK DISPLAYS YELLOW TAIL:NFD:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "-9.150000 -77.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "09:09:00 S 77:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.150000,-77.733337)", **State/Prov:** "LMA", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7341 (96DDA752) **Date:** 8/1952 (approximate) **Location:** JAEN, PERU **Description:** Several include/including submersible/USO-prefect. Glowing saucer crosses sky. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2564 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "861", **HatchDesc:** "JAEN,PERU:SVRL incl SUB-PREFECT:GLOWING SCR CROSSES SKY:NFD/NEWS", **LatLong:** "-5.711111 -78.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "05:42:40 S 78:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-5.711111,-78.816670)", **State/Prov:** "PIU", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7342 (4A173473) **Date:** 8/1952 (approximate) **Location:** AYACUCHO, PERU **Description:** Several prison guards. 2 saucers hover over prison / 3 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2565 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2805", **HatchDesc:** "AYACUCHO,PERU:SVRL PRISON GUARDS:2 SCRS HVR OVER PRISON/3min:NFD", **LatLong:** "-13.150001 -74.222226", **LatLongDMS:** "13:09:00 S 74:13:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-13.150001,-74.222226)", **State/Prov:** "AYC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7343 (0B06333C) **Date:** 8/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** BENTON CREEK, TX **Description:** 1 observer. 20cm saucer over windmill. Glows. Hovers. Zigzags going [to] porch. Going up / very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2566 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "480", **HatchDesc:** "BENTON CREEK,TX:1 OBS:20cm SCR OVR WINDMILL:GLOWS:HVRS:ZIGZAGS>PORCH:↑/VFAST", **LatLong:** "29.866668 -99.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:52:00 N 99:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.866668,-99.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7344 (5D232910) **Date:** 8/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** STA.CATALINA ISLAND, CA **Description:** Group scouts. Metal saucer with windows. Halo / dark all over/all about! / APRO Apr'79. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 413) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2567 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "Sta.CATALINA ISL,CA:GRP SCOUTS:MTL SCR W/WINDOWS:HALO/DARK ALLO!:/APRO Apr'79", **LatLong:** "33.433335 -118.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:26:00 N 118:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.433335,-118.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7345 (0EBE5296) **Date:** 8/1952 **Time:** ~15:30 **Location:** WASHINGTON CO, AR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer moves in and out / clouds. Poor photographs taken. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2568 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "400", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON co,AR:2 OBS:SCR MOVES IN+OUT/CLOUDS:POOR FOTOS TAKEN:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.000002 -94.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 94:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,-94.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7346 (A3FE0B31) **Date:** 8/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** GAS CITY, IN **Description:** 2 / yard. Metallic disk hovers. 2nd joins. Light tilting / 10 minute(s). Going quickly [to] opposite directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2569 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "GAS CITY,IN:2/YARD:MTLC DISK HVRS:2ND JOINS:LITE TILTING/10min:>> OPP.DIRs", **LatLong:** "40.488891 -85.605560", **LatLongDMS:** "40:29:20 N 85:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.488891,-85.605560)", **RelAlt:** "36", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7347 (22406412) **Date:** 8/1952 (approximate) **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** CHATILLON, FR **Description:** Crash / woods. Silence! Voices. Saucer traces / ground. Nothing seen. / r30p60. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2570 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHATILLON,FR:CRASH/WOODS:SILENCE!:VOICES:SCR TRACES/GND:nothing seen:/r30p60", **LatLong:** "46.466669 3.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:28:00 N 03:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.466669,3.133333)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7348 (A2C0CD87) **Date:** 8/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** AYTONA, LERIDA, SP **Description:** Flash / lightning? 1.5M glowing saucer rises / ground in seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2571 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AYTONA,LERIDA,SP:FLASH/LIGHTNING?:1.5M GLOWING SCR RISES/GROUND IN SECONDS.", **LatLong:** "41.533335 0.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:32:00 N 00:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.533335,0.466667)", **State/Prov:** "LRD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7349 (829D95DA) **Date:** 8/1952 **Location:** Washington County (Skylight Mtn.), AR **Description:** Inverted tin colored saucers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1238 ### Event 7350 (894E395D) **Date:** 8/1952 **Location:** Falls Church, VA **Description:** Rotating light UFO seen by ground observers, including police. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520800](http://www.nicap.org/5208xxfallschurch%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1240 ### Event 7351 (166EC72F) **Date:** 8/1952 **Location:** Los Angeles, California **Description:** Hollywood producer [Clarence Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FGreene) and a friend see a “sphere of light” in the sky over Los Angeles, California. Visible for 5 minutes, the object alternately hovers and turns before speeding off over the horizon. The next morning, Greene tells his business partner [Russell Rouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%5FRouse) about the sighting. As he reflects on the experience, he grows ever more irritated by the stigma attached to UFO sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1188 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1973 ### Event 7352 (61F64E29) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Langley, Virginia **Description:** CIA Memo from acting Chief of Weapons and Equipment Division: “It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public.” **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_470 ### Event 7353 (8A6B68B2) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** In a document declassifed on 2/20/2000, Edward Tauss, acting chief of OSI's Weapons and Equipment Division, reported for the group that most UFO sightings could be easily explained. Nevertheless, he recommended that the Agency continue monitoring the problem, in coordination with ATIC. He also urged that CIA conceal its interest from the media and the public, "in view of their probable alarmist tendencies" to accept such interest as confirming the existence of UFOs. Tauss used the phrase "interplanetary aspects and alien origin". On 5/29/2023, ex-CIA (GS-15, 30 years) Officer John Ramirez mentioned that Ed Tauss was in charge of the CIA's UFO disinformation program, which started in 1952. **Type:** declassified document **Reference:** [CIA Reading Room](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005515936.pdf) **Reference:** [Interview between John Ramirez and Holly Wood](https://youtu.be/bI4VKmY03nE?list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A) **Reference:** [NRO Historian Gerald K. Haines - "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90"](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA525986.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_930 ### Event 7354 (D658CABA) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** LANCASTER, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1771. 2 cops and more/others. 2 brilliant red night lights. 1 to/from/between / pendulum. 1 going quickly southeast. / The New York Times (NYT) 3 August. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2572 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "718", **HatchDesc:** "LANCASTER,CA:BBK#1771:2 COPS++:2 BRILL.RED NLTS:1 <>/PENDULUM:1 >>SE:/NYT 3AUG", **LatLong:** "34.700002 -118.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:42:00 N 118:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.700002,-118.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7355 (EBA751B0) **Date:** 8/1/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** TLEMCEN AND OUED TARIA, ORAN, ALG **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape / 600M altitude going quickly north very fast. Saucer / abrupt turns / 0400hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2573 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "TLEMCEN+OUED TARIA,ORAN,ALG:CGR/600M alt>>N VFAST::SCR/ABRUPT TURNS/0400hrs", **LatLong:** "34.866668 -1.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:00 N 01:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.866668,-1.366667)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7356 (9CB42C4B) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** SOUTH / YAAK, MT **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2023. 2+observer(s). RADAR-visual (observation). Blip and night light maneuvers all over/all about. 1800kph. = cylinder/cigar-shape / r138#10p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2574 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "905", **HatchDesc:** "S/YAAK,MT:BBK#2023:2+OBS:RDR-VIS:BLIP+NLT MNVRs ALLO:1800kph:=CGR/r138#10p3", **LatLong:** "48.250002 -115.738894", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:00 N 115:44:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.250002,-115.738894)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7357 (5710197D) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / BELVIDERE, IL **Description:** 3 / US20. Flattened silver sphere hovers. Accelerates going quickly north. No contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2575 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "237", **HatchDesc:** "NW/BELVIDERE,IL:3/US20:FLATTENED SLVR SPHERE HVRS:ACCELERATES >>N:NO CONTRAIL", **LatLong:** "42.283335 -88.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:00 N 88:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.283335,-88.850004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7358 (CCAA0835) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** CARLSBAD, NM **Description:** 4M tall balloon going south. Maneuvers! Going quickly [to] going SSW faster / any jet. Huge acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2576 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "946", **HatchDesc:** "CARLSBAD,NM:4M tall BALLOON >S:MNVRS!:>>>SSW faster/any jet:HUGE ACCELERATION", **LatLong:** "32.422224 -104.227783", **LatLongDMS:** "32:25:20 N 104:13:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.422224,-104.227783)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7359 (D0D6C47B) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** AFTON, NY **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Hundreds / objects near sun and all over/all about. Scattered objects / 2 hours. / r136#10p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 417) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2577 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "440", **HatchDesc:** "AFTON,NY:100s/OBS:100s/OBJs NEAR SUN+ALLO:SCATTERED OBJs/2hrs:/r136#10p3", **LatLong:** "42.227780 -75.527781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:13:40 N 75:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.227780,-75.527781)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7360 (96AAAD6E) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 10:20? **Location:** OTEGO, NY **Description:** Crowd awaits wave / Ping-pong balls. Only 6 seen / 60 minute(s). / r136#10p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 417) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2578 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "405", **HatchDesc:** "OTEGO,NY:CROWD AWAITS WAVE/PING-PONG BALLS:ONLY 6 SEEN/60min:/r136#10p5", **LatLong:** "42.405558 -75.155559", **LatLongDMS:** "42:24:20 N 75:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.405558,-75.155559)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7361 (3036609E) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** BELLEFONTAINE, OH **Description:** 2 F86's chase silver disk going quickly southwest / 525MPH. Films taken. / r48p93+/ r97#54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 174) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2579 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "23", **Elev:** "381", **HatchDesc:** "BELLEFONTAINE,OH:2 F86s CHASE SLVR DISK>>SW/525MPH:FILMS TAKEN:/r48p93+/r97#54", **LatLong:** "40.361113 -83.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:21:40 N 83:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.361113,-83.761115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7362 (A1EAEA37) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** SIDNEY, NY **Description:** 300+observer(s). Mass / objects southwest going quickly northeast. Specks and bubbles / all directions. Pingpong balls. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2580 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "313", **HatchDesc:** "SIDNEY,NY:300+OBS:MASS/OBJs SW>>NE:SPECKS+BUBBLES/ALL DIRs:PINGPONG BALLS", **LatLong:** "42.316669 -75.394448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:19:00 N 75:23:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.316669,-75.394448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7363 (741F96F1) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** OFF HOPE RANCH, CA **Description:** White oval cloud with 2 cones / top hovers. Slow roll. Going quickly west against wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2581 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off HOPE RANCH,CA:WHT OVAL CLOUD W/2 CONES/TOP HVRS:SLOW ROLL:>>W against wind", **LatLong:** "34.366668 -119.772228", **LatLongDMS:** "34:22:00 N 119:46:20 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.366668,-119.772228)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7364 (E4F9367A) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** 4 observer(s). Large silent ovoid east going quickly west. Stops overhead. Pulses and squirms. Shoots going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** OLSEN, Thomas: REFERENCE for OUTSTANDING UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTS. 1966 UFO Information Retrieval Center, Riderwood, MD 21139. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2582 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "205", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:4 OBS:LRG SLNT OVOID E>>W:STOPS OVHD:PULSES+SQUIRMS:SHOOTS >>W", **LatLong:** "39.127780 -84.522226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:40 N 84:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.127780,-84.522226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7365 (07AAD343) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1755. Newsman. 10 saucers change / V formation going north / 2 neat rows. / MJ#232. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2583 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1486", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:BBK#1755:NEWSMAN:10 SCRS CHANGE/VFORM >N/2 NEAT ROWS:/MJ#232", **LatLong:** "35.116668 -106.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:07:00 N 106:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.116668,-106.666672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7366 (3A260C6C) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Troy (near), OH **Description:** Gun Camera R/V Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520801](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1241 ### Event 7367 (057524A9) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Sharonville, OH **Description:** Brilliant white disc observed at low altitude. Others reported oval object. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1242 ### Event 7368 (76446F80) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** At 9:50 p.m. a Scripps-Howard reporter saw a cluster of glowing white objects overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1243 ### Event 7369 (40EB8E33) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Lancaster, CA **Description:** 2 brilliant red lights hovering and maneuvering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1771) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1244 ### Event 7370 (9422B3C5) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Dayton (WPAFB), OH **Description:** Gun-camera photos Smith/Hemer Case (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520801](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1245 ### Event 7371 (62B91ECE) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Bellefontaine, OH **Description:** AF F-86's Smith/Hemer Case (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520801](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1246 ### Event 7372 (8F3198E6) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Location:** Vincennes, IN **Description:** Three men witness maneuvering disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520801](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/vincennes.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1247 ### Event 7373 (AB3EB73F) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Time:** 1:14 AM **Location:** Lancaster, California **Description:** Witnesses: sheriff's deputies and other persons, one named Mallette. Two brilliant red lights hovered and maneuvered for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_213 ### Event 7374 (59E3A569) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Locations:** Campbell Hill at Bellefontaine, Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB; Dayton **Description:** 10:51 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar site on Campbell Hill at Bellefontaine, Ohio, tracks a target 20 miles NNW of Wright-Patterson AFB, traveling 500 mph against the wind. It vectors two F-86s piloted by Maj. James B. Smith and Lt. [Donald J. Hemmer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81269106/donald-john-hemmer). They make visual contact but climb to 48,000 feet twice without reaching it. Smith gets a weak return on his radar gun sight and shoots a gun camera film of a white or silvery sphere estimated at 60,000 feet. They break off the intercept at 11:13 a.m. about 100 miles west-southwest of Dayton. The film reportedly shows a UFO in the upper right of the frames with noticeable motion to the lower left. Although Blue Book Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s assistants Lt. [Anderson G. Flues](https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/look-back-ufo-sightings/image%5F7b99baf9-07e8-5407-b231-d7d2bd474abe.html) and Lt. Robert Olsson initially declare the case an “unknown,” Ruppelt changes that evaluation a few weeks later after ATIC Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) transfers out, explaining it as two separate but coincidental IFOs—a weather balloon and a jet. Ruppelt goes to great lengths to debunk the case in his ADC briefings to the Robertson Panel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Gun Camera R/V Case](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 161–163](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/160/mode/2up); Clark III 392–395; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/20/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 165; Patrick Gross, “[The Bellefontaine, Ohio, Radar/Visual/Photographic Case, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bellefontaine52.htm)”; Shoot 71–73; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Blue Book documents and files](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1952%5F08%5F01%5FUS%5FOH%5FBellefontaine%5FNICAP%5FAir-to-Air-RV.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1974 ### Event 7375 (E6C71207) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Description:** [Edward Tauss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3005011/edward-tauss)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3005011/edward-tauss) acting chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division of the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence, writes a letter to OSI Deputy Assistant Director [Ralph L. Clark](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/) saying that less than 100 credible reports remain unexplainable. “interplanetary aspects and alien origin not being thoroughly excluded from consideration.” He recommends the CIA continue to cooperate with ATIC, but “no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 123](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/122/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1975 ### Event 7376 (0B321177) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Washington National Airport **Description:** 8:30–9:00 p.m. We, the People, a 30-minute TV news show produced by Life magazine, devotes its airtime to the recent UFO sightings over Washington, D.C. WNBW-TV, which originates the program, rents a DC-3 airliner, fills it with 20 newsmen, and has the plane circle over Washington, just in case the saucers return. On the ground in the radar room of Washington National Airport there are more newsmen and TV cameras. The show features editors and journalists [Frank Blair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FBlair%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FBlair%5F%28journalist%29) [David Brinkley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FBrinkley)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FBrinkley) [Clay Blair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%5FBlair)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%5FBlair) and various UFO witnesses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Curt Collins, “[UFOs on TV: The 1952 Washington, DC Saucer Flap,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/07/ufos-on-tv-1952-washington-dc-saucer.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July 5, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1976 ### Event 7377 (683B7C3F) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Locations:** Albuquerque, New Mexico; University of New Mexico **Description:** 9:50 p.m. Scripps-Howard reporter [Howard Doyle Kline](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150963009/howard-doyle-kline) sees a cluster of glowing white objects overhead in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The objects shift around into various patterns, including a perfect V at one point. Their shifts in position are incredibly swift and fantastically violent, he says. “They made” a flying saucer believer out of me.” He reports the incident to [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz), University of New Mexico meteoriticist, and Col. [William A. Matheny](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59346824/william-albert-matheny)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59346824/william-albert-matheny) commander of the 34th Air Defense Division. The report, which is one probably used in Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)’s Motion Study, is missing from the Project Blue Book files. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** New York World-Telegram, August 2, 1952; UFOEv, [pp. 69–70](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=81&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 95 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1977 ### Event 7378 (09B95358) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Description:** At 1:14 a.m. two brilliant red lights hovered together and maneuvered for five minutes over Lancaster, California. Witnesses included sheriff deputies. One light swung in a pendulum motion, the other shot off to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1771 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4558 ### Event 7379 (7A4EBC83) **Date:** 8/1/1952 **Description:** At ten o'clock in the morning in Afton, New York UFOs first appeared near the position of the Sun and then dispersed across the sky. Scattered disc-shaped objects were seen in the skies for the next two hours. At 10:10 a.m. a large group of UFOs described as looking like "70 white ping pong balls" passed across the sky in Sidney, New York flying from the southwest to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Tiffany Thayer, Doubt, 1953, p. 206; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 17; and UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4559 ### Event 7380 (0E758DB9) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Ground and air observer(s). Metal disk zigzag over labs. Jets can't see. 360° turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2584 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:GND+AIR OBS:MTL DISK ZIGZAG OVR LABS:JETS CANT SEE:360°TURNS", **LatLong:** "35.872224 -106.311116", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:20 N 106:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.872224,-106.311116)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7381 (0B3A2896) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** LAKE CHARLES, LA **Description:** 2 USAF men. Red ball with blue flame flew straight and level for 4 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2585 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE CHARLES,LA:2 USAF MEN:RED BALL W/BLUE FLAME FLEW S/L FOR 4 SEC:NFD", **LatLong:** "30.216668 -93.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:13:00 N 93:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.216668,-93.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7382 (106CFF08) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** CEDAR FLAT, OR **Description:** White glowing-sphere splits. Half away. Half makes 46 circles / area / 2700kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2586 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "171", **HatchDesc:** "CEDAR FLAT,OR:WHT GLO-SPHERE SPLITS:HALF away:HALF MAKES 46 CCLS/AREA/2700kph", **LatLong:** "44.055558 -122.838895", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:20 N 122:50:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.055558,-122.838895)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7383 (D0C4AE8A) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** NEAR HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** 8 silver UFO's in orderly change in formations. 3 F86's chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2587 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr HAMILTON AFB,CA:8 SLVR UFOS in ORDERLY CHANGE/FORMATIONS:3 F86s CHASE:", **LatLong:** "38.072224 -122.538895", **LatLongDMS:** "38:04:20 N 122:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.072224,-122.538895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7384 (FC5F055A) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** MOULAY BOUSELHAM, MOROCCO **Description:** "5 trustworthy men". Luminous saucer southeast going northwest. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2588 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOULAY BOUSELHAM,MOROCCO:"5 TRUSTWORTHY MEN":LUMn. SCR SE>NW:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.883335 -6.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 N 06:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.883335,-6.300000)", **State/Prov:** "KNT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7385 (9512BA70) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ADA, OK **Description:** Entire town. 1 then 10 saucers. 1 tilts. UFO's / 3 saturdays in a row. / r136#4p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2589 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "310", **HatchDesc:** "ADA,OK:ENTIRE TOWN:1 then 10 SCRS:1 TILTS:UFOS/3 SATURDAYS in a row:/r136#4p19", **LatLong:** "34.772224 -96.677782", **LatLongDMS:** "34:46:20 N 96:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.772224,-96.677782)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7386 (4133DDC2) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Location:** Lake Charles, LA **Description:** Red ball with blue flame tail fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1783) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1248 ### Event 7387 (5D71E3F8) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Location:** Lubbock, TX **Description:** Five civilian men observed a metallic looking spherical shaped object hanging in the air. The only apparent movement was a quivering motion. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520802](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lubbock520802dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1249 ### Event 7388 (13AFB733) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Location:** Houlton, ME **Description:** Saw 21 objects traveling 200-600 mp (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1250 ### Event 7389 (FBC12EEB) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Time:** 3 AM **Location:** Lake Charles, Louisiana **Description:** Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. W.A. Theil, one enlisted man. One red ball with a blue flame tail flew straight and level for 3-4 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_214 ### Event 7390 (71C12034) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Locations:** Lake Charles, Louisiana; Prescott, Arizona; Winslow, Arizona **Description:** 3:00 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. W. A. Theil and enlisted man Edwards see a red ball with a trail of blue flame fly straight and level over Lake Charles, Louisiana. \([Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 165\) August 2 \[or July 30\] — [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and his wife Betty are visited in Prescott, Arizona, by two other metaphysics enthusiasts, Alfred C. Bailey and his wife Betty of Winslow, Arizona. This evening, in the course of an automatic-writing experiment using a sort of Ouija board, they receive a message from an extraterrestrial in a spacecraft. In the days and weeks that follow, “Nah-9 of Solar X Group” and many other planetary and star people communicate with them. The space people call earth “Saras.” Nah-9 says that the good men of Saras must unite with good space people to avert a calamity. More Ouija sessions take place through August 17. A message comes through that they will be contacted via radio with an International Morse Code message on August 22. Bailey approaches a coworker on the Santa Fe Railroad, a ham radio operator named [Lyman Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) and asks for his help in picking up the space signals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1283; George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 21–22; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 178–181 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1978 ### Event 7391 (9E478FF4) **Date:** 8/2/1952 **Description:** At 3:00 a.m. on this morning USAF First Lt. W.A. Theil and an enlisted man named Edwards watched a red ball with a blue flaming tail fly straight and level for 3-4 seconds over Lake Charles, Louisiana. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1783; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4589 ### Event 7392 (8519E90D) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** SACRAMENTO, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Large flares. 1350h. Chico, CA. Saucer beams white light. Jets scramble. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 420) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2590 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "SACRAMENTO,CA:GOC:LRG FLARES::1350h:CHICO,CA:SCR BEAMS WHT LITE:JETS SCRAMBLE", **LatLong:** "38.566669 -121.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:34:00 N 121:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.566669,-121.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7393 (EF1147FE) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** SPARKS, NV **Description:** 3 observer(s). 3 30cm saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation. Flip in place. Entire formation vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 420) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2591 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1344", **HatchDesc:** "SPARKS,NV:3 OBS:3 30cm SCRS/DLT-FORMATION:FLIP IN PLACE:ENTIRE FORMn VANISHES", **LatLong:** "39.533335 -119.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:32:00 N 119:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.533335,-119.750006)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7394 (4F6F3863) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** USS SOUTH LUISA, PUNA ISLAND, ECUADOR **Description:** Observer(s) = Holmes. 3 50' metal saucers 1 dives. All depart. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 422) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2592 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ecuador", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "USS S.LUISA,PUNA ISLAND,ECUADOR:OBS=HOLMES:3 50' MTL SCRS 1 DIVES:ALL DEPART", **LatLong:** "-2.833333 -80.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "02:50:00 S 80:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-2.833333,-80.083337)", **State/Prov:** "GYS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7395 (6ECA874C) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Many / (seen thru) binoculars and RADAR. 2+6 silver saucers circle. Going quickly west. Jets chase. / MJ#232. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2593 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "75", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON AFB,CA:BBK:MANY/BINOCS+RDR:2+6 SLVR SCRS CCL:>>W:JETS CHASE:/MJ#232", **LatLong:** "38.050002 -122.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:03:00 N 122:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.050002,-122.550006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7396 (DD8B236F) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** FORT BRAGG, CA **Description:** Observers estimate 4-foot UFO at 5500' altitude. Flat-shape. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 420) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2594 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "FORT BRAGG,CA:OBSERVERS ESTIMATE 4-FOOT UFO at 5500'alt:FLAT-SHAPE:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.444446 -123.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:26:40 N 123:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.444446,-123.800006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7397 (470ACF2A) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NM **Description:** 3 green-white night lights / complex change of formation over airport. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2595 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1293", **HatchDesc:** "TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES,NM:3 GRN-WHT NLTS/CMPLX CHANGE OF FORMATION ovr AIRPORT", **LatLong:** "33.133335 -107.244450", **LatLongDMS:** "33:08:00 N 107:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.133335,-107.244450)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7398 (CB4B2EAD) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** L'ARBRET, PDC, FR **Description:** N25. 2 cops. Fireball goes going [to] Arras. Stops over railroad/railway station. Then straight/strait(s) quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2596 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "l'ARBRET,PDC,FR:N25:2 COPS:FBL GOES >ARRAS:STOPS OVR RR STATION:THEN STRT ↑↑", **LatLong:** "50.211114 2.555556", **LatLongDMS:** "50:12:40 N 02:33:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.211114,2.555556)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7399 (63018CEF) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Location:** Truth or Consequences, NM **Description:** 3 light green cylindrical objects hovering at 45° elevation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520803](http://www.nicap.org/520803truth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1251 ### Event 7400 (FB8532A6) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Location:** Hamilton AFB, CA **Description:** August 3, 1952; Hamilton AFB, California, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520803](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1252 ### Event 7401 (E84E0815) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Locations:** Santa Luisa; Rio Guayas; Isla Puná; Ecuador **Description:** 3:00 p.m. An Air Force master sergeant on the ship Santa Luisa observes three round, flat, metallic objects hovering at 30,000–40,000 feet some 10 miles away from his position at the mouth of the Rio Guayas near Isla Puná, Ecuador. After 5 seconds, one object dives to the west then turns back northwest. They all disappear after another 5 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, \[[case documents](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952%5F08%5F03%5FPuna%5FIsland-EC.pdf)\]; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1979 ### Event 7402 (CB997E61) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Locations:** Hamilton AFB; Novato, California **Description:** 4:15 p.m. Two huge silvery discs are observed visually and tracked on radar for 1 hour and 15 minutes over Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] near Novato, California. The ground observers are pilots Capt. [Leslie R. Hadley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185176492/leslie-r%5F-hadley)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185176492/leslie-r%5F-hadley) Capt. [Wayne T. Perske](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105621103/wayne-t-perske)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105621103/wayne-t-perske) and 2d Lt. [Duane A. Swimley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82411150/duane-a%5F-swimley)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82411150/duane-a%5F-swimley) They dive at each other and maneuver as if in a dogfight. After F-86s are dispatched to intercept, 6 more objects appear, take up a diamond formation, and accelerate out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Eight Huge Objects Observed by 8 Witnesses and Radar](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 165; Project 1947, “[Hamilton Air Force Base, Hamilton, California, August 3, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952%5F08%5F03%5Fhamafb.htm)”; Project 1947, \[[Blue Book documents and](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm) [files](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm)\]; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 14, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1980 ### Event 7403 (96A6E50D) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Location:** Truth or Consequences, New Mexico **Description:** 10:20 p.m. Civilian engineer Paul L. Anderson sees 3 light-green cylindrical objects at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. They are hovering at 45° elevation in an inverted-V formation, switching to echelon when one object moves with a rolling motion along its long axis. It disappears by rapidly rising vertically. The observation lasts 9 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three Cylindrical Objects Observed by Engineers](http://www.nicap.org/520803truth%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 165; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 14, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1981 ### Event 7404 (262040C6) **Date:** 8/3/1952 **Description:** At 3:13 p.m. eight military witnesses and radar confirmed the presence of two silver colored discs in the sky over Hamilton AFB in Marin County, California. The discs appeared to be dogfighting. They were joined by six other discs and formed a diamond formation. They sped away as USAF F-86 fighter jets were scrambled. The sighting lasted 75 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 120; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 35; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Dolan Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 403 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4623 ### Event 7405 (79CCB660) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** Orange-yellow saucer hovers. Going quickly [to] 700mph. Luke Air Force Base / 0400h. Very fast silent green trail going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2597 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "340", **HatchDesc:** "PHOENIX,AZ:ORG-YEL SCR HVRS:>>700mph::LUKE AFB/0400h:VFAST SILENT GRN TRAIL ↑", **LatLong:** "33.416668 -112.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:00 N 112:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.416668,-112.050005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7406 (0CAB699F) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** VENICE, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Very large bright round object in from sea? Hovers. Flashes and going quickly east inland. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2598 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "VENICE,CA:2 OBS:VLRG BRITE RND OBJ in from sea?:HVRS:FLASHES+>>E INLAND", **LatLong:** "33.988891 -118.461117", **LatLongDMS:** "33:59:20 N 118:27:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.988891,-118.461117)", **RelAlt:** "500", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7407 (CB3376CD) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** ATLANTA, GA **Description:** 2M glossy saucer 60cm thick. Going quickly [to] over US Army depot / 2500' altitude. / Blue Book report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2599 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTA,GA:2M GLOSSY SCR 60cm THICK:>> OVR US ARMY DEPOT/2500'alt:/BBK RPT", **LatLong:** "33.733335 -84.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:00 N 84:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.733335,-84.383337)", **RelAlt:** "750", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7408 (955C754A) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** MT. VERNON, NY **Description:** 1+2 kids. Flying torus emits black smoke. 15 degree arc / 90s. Seen / 2 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2600 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "Mt VERNON,NY:1+2 KIDS:FLYING TORUS EMITS BLACK SMOKE:15dgr ARC/90s:SEEN/2hrs", **LatLong:** "40.911113 -73.838892", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:40 N 73:50:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.911113,-73.838892)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7409 (8511A57B) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** FARALLON ISLANDS, CA **Description:** Military Lt. Definite physical silver saucers. 3 jets scout / find nothing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2601 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "FARALLON ISLs,CA:MIL Lt.:DEFINITE PHYSICAL SLVR SCRS:3 JETS SCOUT/find nothing", **LatLong:** "37.733335 -123.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:44:00 N 123:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.733335,-123.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7410 (20C29FF1) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** SONOMA, CA AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Several Ground Observer Corps (GOC) posts. Round disk zigzags all over/all about 2 counties. Maneuvers. 2 going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2602 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "184", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "SONOMA,CA++:SVL GOC POSTS:RND DISK ZIGZAGS ALLO 2 COUNTIES:MNVRS:2 >>W", **LatLong:** "38.300002 -122.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:18:00 N 122:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.300002,-122.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7411 (E5111516) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** SOUTH LINCOLN, NE **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 30M silver-white objects hover. 1 going quickly west. Other hovers / minutes then going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2603 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "345", **HatchDesc:** "S.LINCOLN,NE:2 OBS:2 30M SLVR-WHT OBJS HVR:1 >>W:OTHER HVRS/mins then >>E.", **LatLong:** "40.766669 -96.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:00 N 96:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.766669,-96.666671)", **RelAlt:** "3200", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7412 (22051F26) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / FREEPORT, ME **Description:** 2 observer(s). Half-moon-size disk / light. Abrupt accelerations. Changes color(s). Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2604 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "NE/FREEPORT,ME:2 OBS:HALF-MOONSIZE DISK/LITE:ABRUPT ACCELS:CHANGES CLRS:>>SW", **LatLong:** "43.866669 -70.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "43:52:00 N 70:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.866669,-70.094448)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7413 (12A59CFB) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Location:** Phoenix, AZ **Description:** Yellow ball which lengthened and narrowed to plate shape (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1812) **Reference:** NICAP: [520804](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/phoenix520808dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1253 ### Event 7414 (E391773D) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Location:** Mount Vernon, NY **Description:** Object, shaped like a lifesaver or donut emitting black smoke from its top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1813) **Reference:** NICAP: [520804](http://www.nicap.org/520804mtvernondir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1254 ### Event 7415 (8CE029C2) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 2:20 AM **Location:** Phoenix, Arizona **Description:** Witness: USAF A/3c W.F. Vain. One yellow ball which lengthened and narrowed to plate shape, flew straight and level for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_215 ### Event 7416 (002BB806) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Time:** 11:37 AM **Location:** Mt. Vernon, New York **Description:** Witnesses: one woman, two children. One object, shaped like a lifesaver or donut, emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15' arc in 1.5 minutes. Observed for 2 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_216 ### Event 7417 (1B22E36E) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Description:** At 2:20 a.m. in Phoenix, Arizona USAF Airman W. F. Vain sighted a yellow ball of light that lengthened and narrowed to the shape of a plate, then flew straight and level for five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1812; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4642 ### Event 7418 (5EA15EE8) **Date:** 8/4/1952 **Description:** A woman with two children in Mount Vernon, New York reported that they observed a white donut-shaped object for two hours, beginning at 11:37 a.m. It emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15-degree arc in the sky in 1.5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1813; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4643 ### Event 7419 (DA52F690) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Location:** GREAT FALLS, MT **Description:** 1 observer. UFO changes / all color(s). Maneuvers going up [to] going down [to] and all directions. Extreme speeds. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 424) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2605 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1000", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT FALLS,MT:1 OBS:UFO CHANGES/ALL CLRS:MNVRS↑↓+ALL DIRs:XTREME SPEEDS:>>N", **LatLong:** "47.483336 -111.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "47:29:00 N 111:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.483336,-111.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7420 (7267638C) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** ~04:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / CLEARWATER, FL **Description:** Trucker. Blazing 15M saucer stops overhead. Shoots up. Flat / bottom. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2606 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SE/CLEARWATER,FL:TRUCKER:BLAZING 15M SCR STOPS OVHD:SHOOTS UP:FLAT/BOTTOM", **LatLong:** "27.933335 -82.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:56:00 N 82:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.933335,-82.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7421 (FB189B4B) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 05:10 **Location:** NORTH / LIMA, PERU **Description:** DC3 pilot. 3 60' metallic ovoids / V formation. Going quickly SSE / 1500kph. Separate observers. / r98#203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2607 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "N/LIMA,PERU:DC3 PILOT:3 60'MTLC OVOIDS/VFORM:>>SSE/1500kph:SEP.OBSs:/r98#203", **LatLong:** "-11.638889 -77.211115", **LatLongDMS:** "11:38:20 S 77:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-11.638889,-77.211115)", **State/Prov:** "LMA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7422 (27668470) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** CUYAMACA MOUNTAINS, CA **Description:** Observer(s) / El Cajon. Black disk hovers. Shoots going quickly southwest toward(s) La Cresta. Trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2608 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1900", **HatchDesc:** "CUYAMACA Mtns,CA:OBS/EL CAJON:BLK DISK HVRS:SHOOTS >>SW twrd La CRESTA:TRAIL", **LatLong:** "32.944446 -116.605561", **LatLongDMS:** "32:56:40 N 116:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.944446,-116.605561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7423 (D41ACB5E) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** HAY LAKES, ALTA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent silver ovoid with tail hovers and maneuvers. Very fast. / Department / Defence report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2609 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "760", **HatchDesc:** "HAY LAKES,ALTA:2 OBS:SLNT SLVR OVOID W/TAIL HVRS+MNVRs:VFAST:/Dept/Defence Rpt", **LatLong:** "53.200003 -113.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "53:12:00 N 113:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.200003,-113.050005)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Alta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7424 (5A9E442F) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** Amateur astronomer and RADAR. 2+2 domed saucers after lunar eclipse. / r242p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 424) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2610 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:AM.ASTRONOMER+RDR:2+2 DOMED SCRs after LUNAR ECLIPSE:/r242p14", **LatLong:** "39.300002 -76.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:18:00 N 76:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.300002,-76.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7425 (0671D418) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** VALLEY VIEW, TX **Description:** 3 fishing / lake. Wingless going / arc. Speeds greatly going quickly west. "No plane". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2611 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "217", **HatchDesc:** "VALLEY VIEW,TX:3 FISHING/LAKE:WINGLESS >/arc:SPEEDS GREATLY >>W:"NO PLANE"", **LatLong:** "33.488890 -97.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:29:20 N 97:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.488890,-97.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7426 (D8136E55) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 3rd DC wave? Very stormy night. Saucers and blips all over/all about. / r136 #4p23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2612 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:3rd DC WAVE?:VERY STORMY NITE:SCRS+BLIPS ALLO:/r136 #4p23", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -77.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 77:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-77.000004)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7427 (D13A3E5C) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** HANEDA AIR FORCE BASE, JP **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1827. 2+2 Air Traffic Controllers. RADAR-visual (observation). Saucer maneuvers. F94 chases. / r185+/ r136#10p42. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 187) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2613 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "HANEDA AFB,JP:BBK#1827:2+2 ATCS:RDR-VIS:SCR MNVRs:F94 CHASES:/r185+/r136#10p42", **LatLong:** "35.544446 139.861118", **LatLongDMS:** "35:32:40 N 139:51:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.544446,139.861118)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7428 (6AB3E92A) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Location:** Baltimore, MD **Description:** Experienced amateur astronomer observed two copper-like discs. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1255 ### Event 7429 (4952BEEB) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Location:** Huacho (between Lima and), Peru **Description:** 3 saucer-shaped objects in a V-formation maneuver (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1256 ### Event 7430 (5106BB6C) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Location:** Haneda AFB, Japan **Description:** F-94 Pilots Tracked Object For 90-Seconds (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1827) **Reference:** NICAP: [520805](http://www.nicap.org/520805haneda%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1257 ### Event 7431 (0BA2C008) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Location:** Haneda AFB, Japan **Description:** Dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 knots (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1827) **Reference:** NICAP: [520805](http://www.nicap.org/520805haneda%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1258 ### Event 7432 (B2D00CBF) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **End date:** 8/6/1952 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Up to 10 Targets On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520805-06](http://www.nicap.org/520805washington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1259 ### Event 7433 (629E5ADA) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Time:** 11:30 PM **Location:** Haneda AFB, Japan **Description:** Witnesses: USAF F-94 jet interceptor pilots lst Lt. W.R. Holder and lst Lt. A.M. Jones, and Haneda control tower operators. Airborne radar tracked a target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators watched 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 kts. (380 m.p.h.), hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of maneuvers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_217 ### Event 7434 (8D90DC30) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Locations:** Westover AFB; Westover Reserve Air Base; Chicopee, Massachusetts **Description:** 12:25 a.m. A trio of brilliant white dots of indefinite shape, at an altitude of an estimated 5,000 feet, passes over Westover AFB \[now Westover Reserve Air Base\] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The second object is half the size of the first, and the third is half the size of the second one. The first one resembles an automobile headlight. The appearance of other two is not given. The three are in a triangular formation. No jet activity is recorded over the airbase at the time and witnesses say the objects are moving “faster than jets.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1982 ### Event 7435 (A3A8D6A5) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Location:** Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** Day. During a daylight observation of Venus, astronomer [James C. Bartlett Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Bartlett%5Fpending.htm) watches two discs fly overhead in a southerly direction at Baltimore, Maryland. They move away to the east, then two more objects with dome-like protrusions in the center fly past. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Two Huge UFOs Sighted by Baltimore Astronomer,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 1, 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1983 ### Event 7436 (3A5F3E63) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Locations:** Manassas, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Mount Vernon, Virginia; Andrews AFB; Bolling AFB; New Castle AFB, Delaware **Description:** 9:46–12:00 midnight. A visual sighting is made at 9:46 p.m. by an observer on the ground at Manassas, Virginia, who spots a brilliant oval flying south. About 10:50 p.m., Andrews AFB in Maryland picks up two unidentified blips moving slowly and steadily away from Washington, D.C., on a course toward Mount Vernon, Virginia. Minutes later the fluorescent screens at Andrews show two more UFOs to the east of the field moving for a short distance, stopping, and then moving again. The speed of the targets is a slow 60 mph. The height of the targets is unknown. Planes from both Andrews AFB and Bolling AFB are sent up to investigate but rainy weather forces them to turn back after they reach 15,000 feet altitude. Around 12:00 midnight yet another target appears on radar, and jets from New Castle AFB in Delaware are scrambled. The jets see no UFOs when they arrived over Washington; however, a spokesman for Andrews radar tells the press that “no radar sightings were made while the planes were overhead.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flock of ‘Saucer’ Objects Again Puzzles Wash. DC,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93432794/)” Visalia \(Calif.\) Times-Delta, August 6, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, pp. 23–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1984 ### Event 7437 (93EDDD72) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Location:** Camden, New Jersey **Description:** 10:45 p.m. Eight residents of Camden, New Jersey, report a bright, round, orange object hovering or moving slowly in the western sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[8 City Residents Report ‘Saucers’ on Nocturnal Sweep through Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93433118/)” Camden \(N.J.\) Courier-Post, August 6, 1952, p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1985 ### Event 7438 (C1CBB5AC) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Locations:** Haneda AFB; Tokyo International Airport; Tokyo Bay; Johnson Air Base; Iruma Air Base; Saitama Prefecture **Description:** 11:45 p.m. A complex radar-visual sighting takes place at Haneda AFB \[later Tokyo International Airport\], Japan. Control tower operators watch a disc as it passes over Tokyo Bay at about 1,500 feet. It is a dark round shape surrounded by a bright light with a curved outer edge and smaller lights around it. While being tracked on radar, a scramble alert is issued at 11:55 p.m., and an F-94 Starfire jet from nearby Johnson Air Base \[now Iruma Air Base\] in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, goes after the object. The interceptor, piloted by 1Lt. [Wesley R. Holder](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715214/wesley-r-holder) and Radar Observer 1Lt. Aaron M. Jones Jr., chases the object, which speeds away while being tracked by onboard radar. During the next 30 minutes, the UFO disappears and reappears throughout the sky, vanishes when the jet closes in, performs intricate maneuvers, and at one point splits into three radar targets. The jet searches over Tokyo Bay until 12:33 a.m. when it is recalled. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-94 Pilots Tracked Object for 90 Seconds](http://www.nicap.org/520805haneda%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 187–189](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/186/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 123–126](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/122/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 166; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 217–219; Patrick Gross, “[The Haneda AFB Case, Japan, August 5, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/haneda.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1986 ### Event 7439 (5DB2C5AD) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Description:** Another famous case, a radar-visual confirmation, occurred in Japan on this day. A UFO hovered over the Haneda U.S. Air Force base near Tokyo and had several ground military witnesses in addition to radar tracking. It looked like a dark shape with a light, and it flew at 330 knots, then hovered, then performed a variety of maneuvers. It was tracked by airborne radar for 90 seconds.The UFO moved off at extreme speed, and then divided into three parts. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book, case # 1827; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 21, 84; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 95; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 160; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4671 ### Event 7440 (E7B59CDE) **Date:** 8/5/1952 **Description:** At 5:10 a.m. an airline pilot named Quinn, flying a DC-3 for PAGA Airlines between Lima and Hueca, Peru, took a photograph of three saucer-shaped objects flying in V formation which maneuvered around his plane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4672 ### Event 7441 (A20A710B) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Location:** LUMBERTON, NC **Description:** Blue Book. Saucer hits chimney and lands. 70cm small humanoid (or Grey) exits. Footprints. / r180p08. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 427) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2614 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "LUMBERTON,NC:BBK:SCR HITS CHIMNEY+LANDS:70cm OID EXITS:FOOTPRINTS:/r180p08.", **LatLong:** "34.616668 -79.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:37:00 N 79:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.616668,-79.000004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 7442 (D7B1DA1F) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Time:** 04:40 **Location:** DELFT, NETH **Description:** Radioman / roof photographs fast silver saucer. Big surge / wattmeter. / J. Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2615 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DELFT,NETH:RADIOMAN/ROOF FOTOS FAST SLVR SCR:BIG SURGE/WATTMETER:/J.Aldrich", **LatLong:** "52.016669 4.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:01:00 N 04:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.016669,4.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7443 (3A49C0B5) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** SHENANDOAH, IA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver disk spins and descends. Lands south / golf course. Not found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2616 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "296", **HatchDesc:** "SHENANDOAH,IA:2 OBS:SLVR DISK SPINS+DESCENDS:LANDS S/GOLF COURSE:not found", **LatLong:** "40.766669 -95.377782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:00 N 95:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.766669,-95.377782)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7444 (6F0004F2) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** OVER ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD **Description:** Vip? 2 large saucers. #1 going straight and level. #2 orbits #1. More sightings / night. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 428) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2617 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "32", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "ovr ANDREWS AFB,MD:VIP?:2 LRG SCRS:#1> S/L:#2 ORBITS #1::MORE SIGHTINGS/NITE", **LatLong:** "38.800002 -76.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:00 N 76:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.800002,-76.883337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7445 (4D07E51D) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** HENDERSON, NV **Description:** 5 observer(s). 5 dark objects hover below clouds. Scatter going quickly southeast as jets near. Return. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2618 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "575", **HatchDesc:** "HENDERSON,NV:5 OBS:5 DRK OBJS HVR BLW CLOUDS:SCATTER >>SE as JETS NEAR:RETURN", **LatLong:** "36.038891 -114.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:20 N 114:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.038891,-114.983339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7446 (1FD57B77) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BELFAST, ME **Description:** Observer(s) / hill. 2 flying flapjacks going quickly west / series. 1/2 mile apart. Faster / plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2619 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "BELFAST,ME:OBS/HILL:2 FLYING FLAPJACKS >>W/SERIES:1/2 MILE APART:FASTER/PLANE", **LatLong:** "44.427780 -69.005559", **LatLongDMS:** "44:25:40 N 69:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.427780,-69.005559)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7447 (5C8280D1) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Location:** Andrews AFB, MD **Description:** Several Targets Over Andrews AFB (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520806](http://www.nicap.org/520806andrews%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1260 ### Event 7448 (1EFEE00D) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Continuation of Haneda AFB sightings. (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1841) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1261 ### Event 7449 (53A534CF) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Location:** Belleville, MI **Description:** Military witness(es) (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1843) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1262 ### Event 7450 (10F4B08D) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Location:** Port Austin, MI **Description:** FPS-3 Radar Tracks Objects At 1200 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1845) **Reference:** NICAP: [520806](http://www.nicap.org/520806portaustin%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1263 ### Event 7451 (3284C201) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **End date:** 8/7/1952 **Location:** Port Lyautey, Fr. Morocco **Description:** Brilliant white disc-shaped luminous object with red blinking light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1264 ### Event 7452 (9493A096) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **End date:** 8/7/1952 **Location:** Kerkrade, Holland **Description:** Marine engineer designer saw two disc-shaped objects with superstructures. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1265 ### Event 7453 (7D7134C4) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** This is a continuation of the Haneda AFB sightings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_218 ### Event 7454 (8EA67172) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Port Austin, Michigan **Description:** Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_219 ### Event 7455 (BDA3E472) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Description:** [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) sends Project Blue Book a report on his interviews with 45 astronomers about their opinions on UFOs at a June meeting of the American Astronomical Society and finds that five \(11%\) have seen a UFO, seven are indifferent to the subject, more express at least some interest, and a few are very interested but wary of publicity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, “[Special Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](https://www.fold3.com/image/1/11883955)” August 6, 1952; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 2,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7a.htm)” CUFON; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7b.htm)” CUFON; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 83–85 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1987 ### Event 7456 (F93380A7) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Location:** West Lumberton, North Carolina **Description:** 9:00 p.m. James J. Allen sees a UFO 6 feet high, 8 feet long, and lighted inside strike the chimney of his home in West Lumberton, North Carolina. It crashes into his backyard. When he approaches it, the lights go off and he sees a man about 30 inches tall standing next to it. He asks if he is hurt, then the figure reenters the vehicle and it zooms away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[West Lumberton Event Added](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58948450/the-robesonian/) [to Growing ‘Saucer’ Reports,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59021152/the-robesonian/)” Lumberton \(N.C.\) Robesonian, August 7, 1952, pp. 1, 4; Clark III 326; Curt Collins, “[James J. Allen’s Alien Encounter](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/01/james-j-allens-alien-encounter.html) [Embarrassment: Aug. 6, 1952,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/01/james-j-allens-alien-encounter.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 19. 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1988 ### Event 7457 (12F765EA) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Description:** At 8:30 a.m. a dark circular object hovered for thirty minutes over the U.S. Haneda Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan. It was tracked on radar as its blip hovered, then shot away at 300 knots, and in the process divided into three evenly spaced radar targets. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1827 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4716 ### Event 7458 (256AF1B2) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Description:** A U.S. Air Force radar installation in Port Austin, Michigan picked up several large flying objects that flew at speeds in excess of 1200 knots. The UFOs were in vicinity of Gore Bay, Ontario, Canada. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1845; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4717 ### Event 7459 (2AB0FC12) **Date:** 8/6/1952 **Description:** At around 9 p.m. an orange colored flying sphere struck the chimney of a house in West Lumberton, North Carolina, breaking it, and fell into the back yard. The object was eight feet long and stood six feet high. A little man only 30 inches tall was standing beside it. When the witness, Mr. J. Allen, asked him if he was hurt, he and the craft vanished with a loud noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumberton (NC) Robesonian, August 7, 1952; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0196, citing Lumberton Robesonian **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4718 ### Event 7460 (8A784E8B) **Date:** 8/7/1952 (approximate) **Location:** HAIFA, ISRAEL **Description:** 12M ovoid 15K' over Mt. Carmel. Broad rapidly revolving belt / middle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2620 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAIFA,ISRAEL:12M OVOID 15K' OVR Mt.CARMEL:BROAD RAPIDLY REVOLVING BELT/MIDDLE", **LatLong:** "32.816668 34.983335", **LatLongDMS:** "32:49:00 N 34:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.816668,34.983335)", **State/Prov:** "HAI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7461 (D239B337) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** KERKRADE, NETHL **Description:** Engineer. Domed saucer plays all over sky. 2nd saucer hovers. / r242p122. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2621 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KERKRADE,NETHL:ENGINEER:DOMED SCR PLAYS ALL OVR SKY:2nd SCR HVRS:/r242p122", **LatLong:** "50.866669 6.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:52:00 N 06:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.866669,6.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7462 (B9658EE6) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** AOULEF OASIS, ALGERIA **Description:** Lt. grey ovoid east going quickly west into mist over airstrip. / r136#4p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2622 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AOULEF OASIS,ALGERIA::Lt GRY OVOID E>>W INTO MIST ovr AIRSTRIP:/r136#4p30", **LatLong:** "26.966668 1.077778", **LatLongDMS:** "26:58:00 N 01:04:40 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.966668,1.077778)", **State/Prov:** "SAH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7463 (5D1F1946) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** 3 observer(s). 4 45cm saucers from north and west make U-turns and 90-turns. Rendezvous? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 430) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2623 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:3 OBS:4 45cm SCRS FROM N+W MAKE U-TURNS+90-TURNS:RENDEZVOUS?", **LatLong:** "29.433335 -98.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:26:00 N 98:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.433335,-98.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7464 (ECC59E23) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** SILVERTON, OR **Description:** 4 / Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Flat bottom/underside turtle saucers going east slow. Darts toward(s) jet and circles it and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2624 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "SILVERTON,OR:4/GOC:FLAT BTM TURTLE SCRS >E SLOW:DARTS TWRD JET+CCLS IT+away", **LatLong:** "45.005558 -122.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:20 N 122:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.005558,-122.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7465 (AE60FAB5) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / HEALDSBURG, CA **Description:** 2 / car. 2 silver ovoids flip like coins. Maneuver and climb. Going quickly west. Bursts / speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2625 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "24", **HatchDesc:** "SE/HEALDSBURG,CA:2/CAR:2 SLVR OVOIDS FLIP LIKE COINS:MNVR+CLIMB:>>W:BURSTS/SPD", **LatLong:** "38.516669 -122.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:31:00 N 122:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.516669,-122.783339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7466 (2061BE23) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** HOLLYWOOD, CA **Description:** TV Tech. Black saucer hovers over fountain and vine St. Crowd gathers. Saucer quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2626 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLYWOOD,CA:TV TECH:BLK SCR HVRS ovr FOUNTAIN+VINE St.:CROWD GATHERS:SCR ↑↑", **LatLong:** "34.094446 -118.327783", **LatLongDMS:** "34:05:40 N 118:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.094446,-118.327783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7467 (C4C05BA2) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** WNW / SIDI SLIMANE, MAROC **Description:** White saucer circles 2 / United States Navy (USN) plane going west. 4000mph. Quickly going up [to] steep. / r98#203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 431) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2627 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "WNW/SIDI SLIMANE,MAROC:WHT SCR CCLs 2/USN PLANE >W:4000mph:↑↑ STEEP:/r98#203", **LatLong:** "34.283335 -5.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "34:17:00 N 05:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.283335,-5.583334)", **State/Prov:** "KNT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7468 (35B6EB93) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LONGVIEW, TX **Description:** Observer(s) / car. 2 disk-saucers hover still. Trees block view. Gone after! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2628 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "111", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LONGVIEW,TX:OBS/CAR:2 DISK-SCRS HVR STILL:TREES BLOCK VIEW:GONE AFTER!", **LatLong:** "32.472224 -94.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:28:20 N 94:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.472224,-94.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7469 (048B72CA) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** KEY WEST, FL **Description:** 2+several observer(s). Saucer going south / 600kph. Luminous red. Size / washtub / closest approach. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2629 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KEY WEST,FL:2+SVRL OBS:SCR >S/600kph:LUMn.RED:SIZE/WASHTUB/CLOSEST APPROACH", **LatLong:** "24.516668 -81.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "24:31:00 N 81:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.516668,-81.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7470 (FB06C17E) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** AMSTERDAM, NY **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). White-glowing ovoid vanishes and reappears / large circular trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2630 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "AMSTERDAM,NY:2+1 OBS:WHT-GLO OVOID VANISHES+REAPPEARS/LRG CIRC.TRAJECTORY", **LatLong:** "42.938891 -74.188892", **LatLongDMS:** "42:56:20 N 74:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.938891,-74.188892)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7471 (95FB7742) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** 4 glowing white discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1855) **Reference:** NICAP: [520807](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520807sanantondir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1266 ### Event 7472 (B12E2402) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Time:** 9:08 AM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witness: Mrs. Susan Pfuhl. Four glowing white discs: one made a 180 degree turn, one flew straight and level, one veered off, and one circled during the 70 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_220 ### Event 7473 (A8B8C871) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Location:** Kerkrade, Netherlands **Description:** 12:02 a.m. At Kerkrade, Netherlands, marine engineer Will Jansen watches a domed object swoop down to a low altitude, hover, zigzag, then speed away. He sees a similar object hovering further away. It finally tilts up vertically and shoots out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 122](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1989 ### Event 7474 (944A69D8) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** 9:08 a.m. Mrs. Susan Pzuhl \(or Pfuhl\) observes over San Antonio, Texas, four round UFOs that give off a color similar to white-hot metal. The objects appear to be approximately 18 inches in diameter and are observed one at a time at intervals of approximately 20 minutes. With the exception of one object that moves slowly, the speed must have been 3 times as fast as a propeller-driven aircraft. No sound can be heard. Their maneuvers consist of radical directional change by the first object, straight and level flight by the second object, a slight directional change by the third object, and a large circular maneuver by the fourth object. An aircraft passes under the fourth object with no apparent reaction by the plane or the object. It vanishes suddenly like an extinguished light. Duration is 70 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “Four 18ʺ UFOs Observed”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 166 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1990 ### Event 7475 (E839F9D4) **Date:** 8/7/1952 **Locations:** Silverton, Oregon; Portland **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Two Ground Observer Corps skywatchers in Silverton, Oregon, [Ida Pfeifer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179055768/ida-elizabeth-pfeifer) and Dorothy Sthamann, see an aluminum-colored object 3 miles away that appears at first triangular, then more saucer shaped. Army and air observers in Portland confirm that jet interceptors are at that moment in pursuit of the object. Replacement skywatchers [Sadie Barkhurst](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91684694/sadie-e-barkhurst) and Mrs. Olaf Teglund also see the object at 5:00 p.m. All agree that the UFO is headed east at a moderate speed, but darts “fiercely” toward the interceptor when it approaches. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93434942/) [at Silverton,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93434942/)” Salem \(Oreg.\) Capital Journal, August 9, 1952, p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1991 ### Event 7476 (2D0F468F) **Date:** 8/8/1952 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** WEST / OROVILLE, WA **Description:** 4 observer(s). Silver white saucer crosses moon slowly. Flash. Going quickly [to] WNW instantly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2631 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "W/OROVILLE,WA:4 OBS:SLVR WHT SCR CROSSES MOON SLOWLY:FLASH:>>WNW instantly", **LatLong:** "48.933336 -119.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "48:56:00 N 119:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.933336,-119.583339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7477 (95F0C54E) **Date:** 8/8/1952 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, WY **Description:** 2 / ground. Intense fireball going west. Stops over theater. No light reflected / ground. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2632 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1850", **HatchDesc:** "WARREN AFB,WY:2/GND:INTENSE FBL >W:STOPS OVR THEATER:no light refl/gnd:>>E", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -104.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 104:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-104.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7478 (4EB4B987) **Date:** 8/8/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** WAUCHULA, FL **Description:** 2 / truck. Saucer nears. Flat bottom/underside glows and spins. Metallic dome / top still. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2633 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "WAUCHULA,FL:2/TRUCK:SCR NEARS:FLAT BTM GLOWS+SPINS:MTLC DOME/TOP STILL:↑↑", **LatLong:** "27.544446 -81.811115", **LatLongDMS:** "27:32:40 N 81:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.544446,-81.811115)", **RelAlt:** "120", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7479 (0FC3A7DC) **Date:** 8/8/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** WHITE SANDS, NM **Description:** 2 guards. "Batlike" saucer seen / (seen thru) binoculars. 2.5mi away. 1 mile altitude. Glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 432) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2634 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE SANDS,NM:2 GUARDS:"BATLIKE" SCR SEEN/BINOCS:2.5mi AWAY:1mi alt:GLOWS", **LatLong:** "32.466668 -106.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:28:00 N 106:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.466668,-106.483338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7480 (FF892EB2) **Date:** 8/8/1952 **Location:** Warren AFB, WY **Description:** Object immediately stop without appearing to decelerate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1267 ### Event 7481 (0075C17E) **Date:** 8/8/1952 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio; Washington National Airport **Description:** A special CIA/Office of Scientific Intelligence team consisting of [Philip Grandin Strong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong) Ransom L. Eng, and [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) visits Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for a comprehensive briefing about UFOs from Blue Book staff. This classified visit is in response to secret orders from President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) to the CIA to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling of UFOs during the Washington National Airport cases. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFON, “[The](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1992 ### Event 7482 (CBE870CD) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Location:** Britain **Description:** Reply from Air Ministry, Whitehall, S.W. to W.S. Churchill stating: All UFO sightings are either astronomical phenomena, mistaken sightings of balloons, birds, etc., optical illusions or hoaxes. The Americans have reached a similar conclusion. **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p449) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_471 **See also:** 7/28/1952 ### Event 7483 (6A718826) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** YOUNGSTOWN, NY **Description:** Niagara airport. Many military and civil. RADAR? Glowing UFO over Welland Canal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 433) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2635 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "YOUNGSTOWN,NY:NIAGARA AIRPORT:MANY MIL+CIV:RDR?:GLOWING UFO OVR WELLAND CANAL", **LatLong:** "43.244447 -79.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:14:40 N 79:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.244447,-79.050004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7484 (4ECDCBDB) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** TOKYO, JP **Description:** U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) pilot. Orange night light spirals going down / 1500'. Hovers / 3 minute(s). Winks out. Jet can't catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2636 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "TOKYO,JP:USMC PILOT:ORG NLT SPIRALS↓/1500':HVRS/3min:WINKS OUT:JET CANT CATCH", **LatLong:** "35.683335 139.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:41:00 N 139:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.683335,139.750007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7485 (23EC00A8) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** CHENNAULT AIR FORCE BASE, LA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1870. 30cm disk zips over base going south. Stops / 2 seconds. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2637 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CHENNAULT AFB,LA:BBK#1870:30cm DISK ZIPS OVR BASE > S:STOPS/2 secs:>>W", **LatLong:** "30.200001 -93.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:12:00 N 93:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.200001,-93.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7486 (50823361) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 3+separate observer(s). Large grey saucer hovers / 6 minute(s). Going quickly north. 10 extremely fast objects / 2130hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2638 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1490", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:3+SEP.OBS:LRG GRY SCR HVRS/6min:>>N::10 XFAST OBJS/2130hrs", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -106.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 106:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-106.616672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7487 (C5AF93B8) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** ODESSA, TX **Description:** 2 observer(s). Disk / light spins against dark clouds. Sparks and flame down / center. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2639 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "916", **HatchDesc:** "ODESSA,TX:2 OBS:DISK/LIGHT SPINS AGAINST DRK CLOUDS:SPARKS+FLAME DOWN/CENTER", **LatLong:** "31.861113 -102.372227", **LatLongDMS:** "31:51:40 N 102:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.861113,-102.372227)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7488 (8177421C) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Location:** Pohang (K-3 area E of), Korea **Description:** Fireball with stream of flame pass an aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520809](http://www.nicap.org/520809SEkoreadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1268 ### Event 7489 (77E8A716) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Location:** Lake Charles AFB, LA **Description:** Disc-shaped object fly S at 5,000 ft at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1870) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1270 ### Event 7490 (C8C4F407) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Time:** 10:50 AM **Location:** Lake Charles, Louisiana **Description:** Witness: USAF A/3c J.P. Raley. One disc-shaped object flew very fast and then hovered for 2 seconds during a 5-6 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_221 ### Event 7491 (C9C98F15) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Locations:** Lake Charles Air Force Station; Lake Charles, Louisiana **Description:** 1:45 a.m. A/3C [Joseph F. Raley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73773013/joseph-f%5F-raley) is walking to work at Lake Charles Air Force Station \[now closed\] in Lake Charles, Louisiana, when he observes a disc-like object from a distance away of 3,000–5,000 feet. The object is at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet. It moves several hundred mph faster than any known jet aircraft. No sound is heard. The object is first seen moving north to south until it crosses the air station, where it stops and hovers for approximately 2 seconds, then takes off to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Faster-Than-Jet Disc Stops, Hovers Two Seconds,](http://www.nicap.org/520809lakecharles%5Fdir.htm) [Accelerates](http://www.nicap.org/520809lakecharles%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 167 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1993 ### Event 7492 (B3E806D5) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Description:** At 10:50 a.m. a military witness named Raley at Chennault Air Force Base, Louisiana saw a disc-shaped object that flew very fast for five minutes, and hovered for two seconds. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1870; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 33 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4787 ### Event 7493 (CCBB672D) **Date:** 8/9/1952 **Description:** At 8:57 p.m. local time a U.S. Marine Corps ground control radar in Grid Area K-3, Pohang, Korea made contact with a moving ball of fire with a stream of flame travelling at a high rate of speed: 1500 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 51 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4788 ### Event 7494 (1618258F) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, MS **Description:** 2 grey saucers veer and soar over countryside / seconds. Impressive turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 433) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2640 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "KEESLER AFB,MS:2 GREY SCRS VEER+SOAR OVR COUNTRYSIDE/seconds:IMPRESSIVE TURNS", **LatLong:** "30.405557 -88.927782", **LatLongDMS:** "30:24:20 N 88:55:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.405557,-88.927782)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7495 (B195DD86) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** SAN CARLOS, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 1949-model aluminum disk going [to] high and fast. Casts shadow. Planes chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2641 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "SAN CARLOS,CA:GOC OBS:1949-MODEL ALUM.DISK > HI+FAST:CASTS SHADOW:PLANES CHASE", **LatLong:** "37.500002 -122.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:00 N 122:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.500002,-122.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7496 (FBA342B4) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE, MD **Description:** Newsman and 1. 3 huge white perfect disks going quickly southwest. 20x jet speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2642 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE,MD:NEWSMAN+1:3 HUGE WHT PERFECT DISKS >>SW:20x JET SPEED", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -76.394448", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 76:23:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-76.394448)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7497 (7B90079F) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** ROCKFORD, IL **Description:** Pilot / ground and 16. Series 54+white metallic domes going east. Jets chase. Can't catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2643 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKFORD,IL:PILOT/GND+16:SERIES 54+WHT MTLC DOMES >E:JETS CHASE:cant catch", **LatLong:** "42.277780 -89.088893", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:40 N 89:05:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.277780,-89.088893)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7498 (747613AE) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NEAR CROSSVILLE, TN **Description:** Mit student and 1. Saucer hovers / high altitude. Impossible accelerations. Absolute(ly) silent. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2644 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "570", **HatchDesc:** "nr CROSSVILLE,TN:MIT STUDENT+1:SCR HVRS/hi alt:IMPOSSIBLE ACCELS:ABS SLNT:>>E", **LatLong:** "35.916668 -85.011115", **LatLongDMS:** "35:55:00 N 85:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.916668,-85.011115)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7499 (1D88412F) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** CUENCA, SPAIN **Description:** Classic saucer at high speed leaves 2 luminous trails in sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2645 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CUENCA,SPAIN:CLASSIC SCR AT HI SPEED LEAVES 2 LUMINOUS TRAILS IN SKY.", **LatLong:** "40.083335 -2.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:05:00 N 02:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.083335,-2.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Cuenca", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7500 (675E152F) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** NORTHWEST / WACO, TX **Description:** 4 / SR6. Big orange light follows road. Stops over oil tanks. Quickly going up / hit by beacon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2646 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "NW/WACO,TX:4/SR6:BIG ORG LITE FOLOS ROAD:STOPS OVR OIL TANKS:↑↑/hit by beacon", **LatLong:** "31.583335 -97.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:35:00 N 97:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.583335,-97.200005)", **RelAlt:** "180", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7501 (A4071A20) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SR134 NEAR HAMPTON, VA **Description:** Air Force Captain and 1. 2+4+1 UFO's / 180m altitude. 600kph. B26 finds nothing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 433) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2647 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SR134 nr HAMPTON,VA:AF Capt+1:2+4+1 UFOS/180m alt:600kph:B26 FINDS NOTHING", **LatLong:** "37.083335 -76.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 N 76:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.083335,-76.400004)", **RelAlt:** "180", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7502 (58891CF4) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MIDLAND, GA **Description:** 2 / car. 2 top-hat saucers glow bright. Float / low altitude and follow road. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2648 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "MIDLAND,GA:2/CAR:2 TOP-HAT SCRS GLOW BRITE:FLOAT/lo alt+FOLLOW ROAD:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "32.572224 -84.827782", **LatLongDMS:** "32:34:20 N 84:49:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.572224,-84.827782)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7503 (73D78EFA) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** 5MI NORTH / FT DIX, NJ **Description:** 2 Army / car. Eerie yellow-orange baseball going south toward(s) base. Rises and descends. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 434) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2649 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "5mi N/Ft DIX,NJ:2 ARMY/CAR:EERIE YEL-ORG BASEBALL >S twrd BASE:RISES+DESCENDS", **LatLong:** "40.077780 -74.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:04:40 N 74:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.077780,-74.633337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7504 (F5F64EFE) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Location:** In airspace over, Japan **Description:** Object moving down from 8,000 to 1,500 ft then hovering and vanishing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1271 ### Event 7505 (5C9C0BCA) **Date:** 8/10/1952 **Locations:** 1231 Widergren Drive, Rockford, Illinois; Rockford airport; O’Hare Airport in Chicago **Description:** 5:38 p.m. Roy E. Munson is resting in his hammock at 1231 Widergren Drive, Rockford, Illinois, when he sees a disc-shaped object moving west to east and streaking across the sky in 6 seconds. Within minutes, another appears on the same flight path. Some family members and neighbors join him to watch the objects, which keep appearing for the next 90 minutes by which time a total of 54 have gone by. Munson alerts the CAA operator at the Rockford airport, who calls O’Hare Airport in Chicago, which sends two USAF jet interceptors to the area. They appear just as the last of the discs, which seem surrounded by a haze, disappears. Of the 54 objects, 36 appear larger that the others and move faster. Fifty follow the straight west-to-east path out of sight. Three deviate from the path to the north, and one deviates to the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Rockford, Illinois, Monday, August 11,](http://www.nicap.org/rockford520811dir.htm) [1952](http://www.nicap.org/rockford520811dir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1994 ### Event 7506 (939ADF42) **Date:** 8/11/1952 **Time:** ~19:30 **Location:** WEST / GLENRIO, NM **Description:** 2 / bus. 2 perfect round white disks hover. Reposition and maneuver and spiral. Going up / clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2650 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1180", **HatchDesc:** "W/GLENRIO,NM:2/BUS:2 PERFECT RND WHT DISKS HVR:REPOSITION+MNVR+SPIRAL:↑/CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "35.166668 -103.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:10:00 N 103:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.166668,-103.083338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7507 (FCA064D1) **Date:** 8/11/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** TEMPELHOF, BERLIN **Description:** Several observer(s) to 2315. Spinning saucer going quickly east. 3 glowing cloud-saucers etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 435) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2651 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "TEMPELHOF,BERLIN:SVRL OBS to 2315:SPINNING SCR>>E:3 GLOWING CLOUD-SCRS etc", **LatLong:** "52.466669 13.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:28:00 N 13:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.466669,13.383334)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7508 (BEA00709) **Date:** 8/11/1952 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** FORT WORTH, TX **Description:** 2 observer(s). Circle / white light. 2 night lights wobble inside. Silent. Pass going west / 30 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 436) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2652 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "202", **HatchDesc:** "FORT WORTH,TX:2 OBS:CIRCLE/WHT LITE:2 NLTS WOBBLE INSIDE:SILENT:PASS>W/30sec", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -97.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 97:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-97.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7509 (CAD63E65) **Date:** 8/11/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** LANSDALE, PA **Description:** 3 observer(s). Misty ovoid = disk / tilts. 2X moon-size. Maneuvers. Very fast. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2653 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "LANSDALE,PA:3 OBS:MISTY OVOID=DISK/tilts:2X MOONSIZE:MNVRS:VFAST:>>S", **LatLong:** "40.250002 -75.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:15:00 N 75:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.250002,-75.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7510 (4AC6DDCC) **Date:** 8/11/1952 **Location:** Hampton, VA **Description:** Series of 7 yellowish-orange low-flying objects climb away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1272 ### Event 7511 (19B7AF49) **Date:** 8/11/1952 **Location:** Rockford, IL **Description:** Fifty - four "flying saucers" were sighted streaking over Rockford Sunday evening by at least 14 persons (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [520811](http://nicap.org/rockford520811dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1273 ### Event 7512 (0F3B2FFC) **Date:** 8/11/1952 **Description:** A CIA memo refers to a meeting of the newly created study group on UFOs attended by eight operatives. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Central Intelligence Agency, “[Minutes of Branch Chief’s Meeting of 11 August 1952](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020014-5.pdf)”; CUFON, “[The CUFON](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 173 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1995 ### Event 7513 (E639B09C) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Location:** WETUMKA, OK **Description:** Assistant distr.Atty. Square object flies over home at tremendous speed. / (up.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 437) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2654 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "212", **HatchDesc:** "WETUMKA,OK:Asst DISTR.ATTY:SQUARE OBJ FLIES OVR HOME AT TREMENDOUS SPEED:/(UP)", **LatLong:** "35.238891 -96.238893", **LatLongDMS:** "35:14:20 N 96:14:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.238891,-96.238893)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7514 (5E91657A) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Location:** LA MACHINE, FR **Description:** 10 workmen. White disk west going quickly east extremely fast. 3 spheres going quickly east / Blagnac / 14 August. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2655 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "La MACHINE,FR:10 WORKMEN:WHT DISK W>>E XFAST::3 SPHERES >>E/BLAGNAC/14AUG", **LatLong:** "46.900002 3.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:54:00 N 03:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.900002,3.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7515 (0AD5A3CB) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Time:** 00:40 **Location:** NEAR CAPE MAY, NJ **Description:** F94 / 20K' altitude chases night light. Night light passes jet / return trip. / r98#203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 436) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2656 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr CAPE MAY,NJ:F94/20K'alt CHASES NLT:NLT PASSES JET/RETURN TRIP:/r98#203", **LatLong:** "38.950002 -75.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:00 N 75:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.950002,-75.000004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7516 (311E7B9D) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 15M domed disk spins like a top. Away and back. Turns and going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2657 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:2 OBS:15M DOMED DISK SPINS LIKE A TOP:AWAY+BACK:TURNS+>>NW:", **LatLong:** "25.811112 -80.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "25:48:40 N 80:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.811112,-80.194448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7517 (B9049445) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** TOULOUSE, FR **Description:** 12+observer(s). White disk stops over town. 2 more join. Going quickly [to] away fast together. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2658 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "TOULOUSE,FR:12+OBS:WHT DISK STOPS OVR TOWN:2 MORE JOIN:>> AWAY FAST TOGETHER", **LatLong:** "43.600002 1.433333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:00 N 01:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.600002,1.433333)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7518 (91101931) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** WEST / BIG SPRING, TX **Description:** Silent 5M saucer with oars / 20' altitude. Olive drab. Passes T6 pilot. / r8+/ r70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: HAINES, Richard (via Dom. Weinstein) BLUEBOOK Reports taken from 16mm Microfilm at Maxwell AFB (partial) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2659 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "741", **HatchDesc:** "W/BIG SPRING,TX:SLNT 5M SCR W/OARS/20'alt:OLIVE DRAB:PASSES T6 PILOT:/r8+/r70", **LatLong:** "32.238890 -101.477783", **LatLongDMS:** "32:14:20 N 101:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.238890,-101.477783)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7519 (AF1CF8E4) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** CENTERVILLE, NC **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Brilliant disk / light maneuvers all over/all about / 45 minutes. Extremely fast. No reflected on ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2660 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "113", **HatchDesc:** "CENTERVILLE,NC:NMRS OBS:BRILL.DISK/LITE MNVRS ALLO/45mins:XFAST:no refl on gnd", **LatLong:** "36.188891 -78.105559", **LatLongDMS:** "36:11:20 N 78:06:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.188891,-78.105559)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7520 (BFD84473) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** SOUTH / BAKERSFIELD, CA **Description:** 100+/ drive-in. 2 silent UFO's seen as delta/triangle/box-like crafts blimps saucers etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 437) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2661 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "S/BAKERSFIELD,CA:100+/DRIVE-IN:2 SILENT UFOS SEEN AS DLTS BLIMPS SCRS etc", **LatLong:** "35.366668 -119.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:22:00 N 119:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.366668,-119.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7521 (49603907) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** WEST / RED BLUFF, TX **Description:** Several metallic pie-pans pass 2 / plane. Climb going south. Glowing-exhaust. / r136#4p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: HAINES, Richard (via Dom. Weinstein) BLUEBOOK Reports taken from 16mm Microfilm at Maxwell AFB (partial) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2662 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "875", **HatchDesc:** "W/RED BLUFF,TX:SVRL MTLC PIE-PANS PASS 2/PLANE:CLIMB >S:GLO-EXHAUST:/r136#4p37", **LatLong:** "31.750002 -104.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "31:45:00 N 104:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.750002,-104.166672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7522 (B555D124) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Location:** Cape May (near), NJ **Description:** Stationary glowing object lose brightness and diminish in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1274 ### Event 7523 (9F1319F5) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Location:** Big Spring, TX **Description:** Light flying at 500 mph and 15,000 ft pass his aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1275 ### Event 7524 (9D343656) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Location:** Wink (70 miles W of), TX **Description:** Several pie-pan-shaped aluminum colored objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1276 ### Event 7525 (D18A30CE) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Locations:** Dover AFB in Delaware; Delaware Bay; Cape May, New Jersey **Description:** 1:43 a.m. An Air Force F-94B jet fighter from Dover AFB in Delaware is flying at 20,000 feet when both the pilot and his radar crewman sight a glowing object 45° to their left and at a lower altitude, with the waters of the Delaware Bay as a dark backdrop. Curious, the jet pilot adjusts his course and heads directly at the object, which is stationary. In an apparent reaction, the object loses some of its brilliance and diminishes in size, apparently moving away. The pilot determines that the object had halted above Cape May, New Jersey, where it again hovers. Without success, the pilot tries to raise the local CCI station on the radio on F channel to request a radar scan of the Cape May area. Low on fuel, the pilot cannot pursue the UFO any further, so he breaks off the chase and heads for home. The UFO follows the jet, increasing in apparent size as it draws near and overtakes it. Eventually, the UFO loses interest and flies away to the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1996 ### Event 7526 (F9D805C4) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Description:** In Toulouse, Haute-Garonne department, France more than a dozen witnesses saw a white disc-shaped object that stopped over the city in the middle of the afternoon. It was joined by two more similar looking objects, and then all three flew away fast together. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4933 ### Event 7527 (FD2956BE) **Date:** 8/12/1952 **Description:** At 9:48 p.m. two military witnesses sighted two disc-shaped UFOs while in flight over Wink, Texas. The objects were described as aluminum colored, and shaped like pie-pans. They rose rapidly from a lower altitude and passed the plane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 37 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4934 ### Event 7528 (9CA25F45) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** SUFFOLK, VA **Description:** Civilian. 3 orange saucers / V-formation going quickly northwest very fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 438) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2663 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SUFFOLK,VA:CIVILIAN:3 ORANGE SCRS/V-FORMATION >>NW VERY FAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.727780 -76.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:43:40 N 76:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.727780,-76.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7529 (6863E998) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** FOURCHAMBAULT AND GIVRY, FR **Description:** 12 separate observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Huge domed saucer circles / 15 mn. Going quickly northeast. / r3p149. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN 2-250-00464-1 (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2664 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "FOURCHAMBAULT+GIVRY,FR:12 SEP.OBS/BINOCS:HUGE DOMED SCR CCLS/15mn:>>NE:/r3p149", **LatLong:** "47.033336 3.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "47:02:00 N 03:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.033336,3.083333)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7530 (DB77E0B4) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** NORTH / LUDINGTON, MI **Description:** 3 / beach. Roar and hiss. Metallic disks straight going down. Stop / 12 minutes. Straight going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2665 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "N/LUDINGTON,MI:3/BEACH:ROAR+HISS:MTLC DISKS STRAIGHT ↓:STOP/12mins:STRAIGHT ↑", **LatLong:** "43.983335 -86.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:59:00 N 86:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.983335,-86.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7531 (543FE6CF) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, FL **Description:** 2 civil. Odd blips / 20 minute(s). 960kph. Abrupt turns. Ovoid. / r242p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 439) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2666 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MacDILL AFB,FL:2 CIV:ODD BLIPS/20min:960kph:ABRUPT TURNS:OVOID:/r242p35", **LatLong:** "27.850001 -82.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "27:51:00 N 82:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.850001,-82.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7532 (66B38512) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** MALDONADO, URUGUAY **Description:** 4 observer(s). Soup-bowl saucer hovers / 1 minute(s). Going quickly south very fast rising to clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2667 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "MALDONADO,URUGUAY:4 OBS:SOUP-BOWL SCR HVRS/1min:>>S VFAST RISING to clouds", **LatLong:** "-34.900002 -54.950003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:54:00 S 54:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.900002,-54.950003)", **State/Prov:** "MLD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7533 (8592EA11) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 68 unidentified RADAR-blips / 3.5 hours / 10 mile(s) area and airline(s)/airliner pilots visual. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 440) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2668 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "210", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:68 UID RDR-BLIPS/3.5 HOURS/10mi AREA+AL PILOTS VISUAL:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "38.850002 -77.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:51:00 N 77:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.850002,-77.000004)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7534 (C4B8C250) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** DALLAS, TX **Description:** Blue Book. Airline(s)/airliner pilot chases night light / 900M. Turns and dives away. Back 21 August. / r136#4p39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2669 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "139", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS,TX:BBK:AL PILOT CHASES NLT/900M:TURNS+DIVES away:BACK 21AUG:/r136#4p39", **LatLong:** "32.783335 -96.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 96:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,-96.783338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7535 (E36BBADF) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Orange light fly a left orbit at 8,000 ft and 230 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1889) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1277 ### Event 7536 (2F833A8D) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Dallas, TX **Description:** Jacoby/McNaulty (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1278 ### Event 7537 (787C7165) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** Stanley Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1279 ### Event 7538 (3862B16B) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Multiple Targets C (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520813](http://www.nicap.org/520813washington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1280 ### Event 7539 (66885BEF) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Time:** 9:45 PM **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Witness: USAF Marine Corps pilot Maj. D. McGough. One orange light flew a left orbit at 8,000' and 230 m.p.h., spiralled down to no more than 1,500', remained stationary for 2-3 minutes and went out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_222 ### Event 7540 (41582FE5) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Tampa, Florida **Description:** Around 7:00 p.m. Two civilians in the Tampa, Florida, area watch three UFOs. One object changes its course abruptly to the west, moving in excess of 600 mph. The same object hovers for about 5 minutes then moves at an excessive rate back to the east and resumes its course to the north and disappears. The two other objects do not alter course but disappear to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1997 ### Event 7541 (C9F1B2F7) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Dallas Love Field, Texas **Description:** Night. Pioneer Airlines pilot Capt. Max M. Jacoby sees a mystery light while on a routine test flight out of Dallas Love Field, Texas. He tries to intercept it, but the light evades him and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1998 ### Event 7542 (78DBDD21) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Locations:** Oakland, California; Hamilton AFB; Novato; Hamilton AFB Airdrome **Description:** 9:10 p.m. A witness in Oakland, California, calls Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] in Novato to notify them he is watching “two balls of fire” making a 10-mile circle and leaving in the direction of Hamilton. When the report is made to Capt. [Kenneth Broden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69038388/kenneth-broden)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69038388/kenneth-broden) Hamilton AFB Airdrome Officer, he orders an F-94 jet scrambled to search the bay between Oakland and the air base. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1999 ### Event 7543 (E41F2B71) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** 9:45 p.m. In Tokyo, Japan, US Marine Corps pilot Maj. [James D. McGough](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115912870/james-deasy-mcgough) sees an orange light fly a left orbit at 8,000 feet and 230 mph, then spiral down to no more than 1,500 feet, remain stationary for 2–3 minutes, and go out. An attempted interception is unsuccessful. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Orange Light Maneuvers Then Stops in Mid-](http://www.nicap.org/520813tokyo%5Fdir.htm) [Air](http://www.nicap.org/520813tokyo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 167 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2000 ### Event 7544 (4B9489F7) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** 11:10 p.m. USAF Reserve Capt. Stanley W. Thompson sees a formation of lighted objects flying rapidly over Tucson, Arizona. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2001 ### Event 7545 (514D8A95) **Date:** 8/13/1952 **Description:** While flying over Tokyo, Japan at 9:45 p.m. USAF Marine Corps pilot Major D. McGough sighted an orange light that flew a left orbit at 8,000' and 230 mph. It then spiraled down to no more than 1,500 feet altitude, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes more, and went out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4961 ### Event 7546 (0BEAD126) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** KEY BISCAYNE, FL **Description:** Separate observer(s). 2nd moon 60° / E. horizon. Ring / orange lights / center. Tilts and wobbles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2670 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KEY BISCAYNE,FL:SEP.OBS:2nd MOON 60°/E.HRZN:RING/ORG LITES/CTR:TILTS+WOBBLES", **LatLong:** "25.694446 -80.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:41:40 N 80:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.694446,-80.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7547 (AE71B3D5) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** KELLY AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** 7 military. Large saucer. Many fast-smooth maneuvers. Same back / 1110hrs / 2 separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 441) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2671 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "194", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "KELLY AFB,TX:7 MIL:LRG SCR:MANY FAST-SMOOTH MNVRS::SAME BACK/1110hrs/2 SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "29.350001 -98.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:21:00 N 98:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.350001,-98.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7548 (65AD7AC1) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** EAST / BUNKER HILL, KOREA **Description:** All / US patrol. Thin saucer east / moon hovers / minutes. Sharp maneuvers and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 91) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2672 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "E/BUNKER HILL,KOREA:ALL/US PATROL:THIN SCR E/MOON HVRS/mins:SHARP MNVRs+gone", **LatLong:** "37.966668 126.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 126:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,126.833339)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "---", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7549 (331C9EA4) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** LAS VEGAS, NV **Description:** 2 80M round objects drift / halo / dark smoke near airport. Quickly going up / sequence extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2673 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "665", **HatchDesc:** "LAS VEGAS,NV:2 80M RND OBJS DRIFT/HALO/DRK SMOKE nr AIRPORT:↑↑/SEQUENCE XFAST", **LatLong:** "36.077779 -115.150005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:04:40 N 115:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.077779,-115.150005)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7550 (F2FCFA95) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** NEAR ROCKHAMPTON, AUST **Description:** Test Pilot. Large circular / light. Small night lights exit and circle. / r114p175. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2674 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr ROCKHAMPTON,AUST:TEST PILOT:LRG CIRC/LITE:SML NLTS EXIT+CIRCLE:/r114p175", **LatLong:** "-23.416668 150.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "23:25:00 S 150:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.416668,150.500007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7551 (3DE0FDB1) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** CEDAR SPRS, CA **Description:** 3 bright ovoids maneuver all over/all about flight / 10 planes. 1 / instant 180° turn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 92) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2675 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1024", **HatchDesc:** "CEDAR Sprs,CA:3 BRITE OVOIDS MNVR ALLO FLIGHT/10 PLANES:1/INSTANT 180° TURN", **LatLong:** "34.283335 -117.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:17:00 N 117:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.283335,-117.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7552 (8B44C360) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** SKIKDA = PHILLIPPEVILLE, ALG **Description:** Many at docks see huge red saucer go north going west. Green trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2676 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SKIKDA=PHILLIPPEVILLE,ALG:MANY AT DOCKS SEE HUGE RED SCR GO N>W:GREEN TRAIL", **LatLong:** "36.966668 6.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "36:58:00 N 06:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.966668,6.850000)", **State/Prov:** "CNN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7553 (5691D21C) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CELENDIN, PERU **Description:** Engineer. 2 saucers converge / opposite directions over irrigation project. Going northeast slow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 92) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2677 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2987", **HatchDesc:** "CELENDIN,PERU:ENGINEER:2 SCRS CONVERGE/Opp.Dirs ovr IRRIGATION PRJCT:>NE slow", **LatLong:** "-6.872223 -78.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "06:52:20 S 78:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.872223,-78.150004)", **State/Prov:** "CEL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7554 (F2522B3B) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NEAR CONSTANTINE, ALGERIA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Luminous/glowing saucer west going quickly east toward Guelma. No balloon. / r48p110. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 441) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2678 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr CONSTANTINE,ALGERIA:2 OBS:LUMn SCR W>>E TOWARD GUELMA:NO BALLOON:/r48p110", **LatLong:** "36.466668 6.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "36:28:00 N 06:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.466668,6.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Constantine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7555 (248EC09B) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NEAR WAHOO, NE **Description:** 9 observer(s). 8M saucer to and fro over road. Glow on and off. Away / hit by spotlight / field. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 93) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2679 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "373", **HatchDesc:** "nr WAHOO,NE:9 OBS:8M SCR TO+FRO OVR ROAD:GLOW ON+OFF:AWAY/hit by spotlite/fld", **LatLong:** "41.200002 -96.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:12:00 N 96:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.200002,-96.633338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7556 (F11D12E1) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LAKE CHARLES, LA **Description:** Several observer(s). Yellow ball / light maneuvers all over Mathieson Chemical Plant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 443) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2680 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE CHARLES,LA:SVRL OBS:YEL.BALL/LITE MNVRS ALL OVR MATHIESON CHEM.PLANT", **LatLong:** "30.200001 -93.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:12:00 N 93:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.200001,-93.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7557 (A6D28D67) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** GREAT BEND, PA **Description:** Dazzling gold blob hangs / sky briefly. Then descends. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 443) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2681 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT BEND,PA:DAZZLING GOLD BLOB HANGS/SKY BRIEFLY:THEN DESCENDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.972224 -75.744448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:58:20 N 75:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.972224,-75.744448)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7558 (6A423B5A) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Location:** Australia **Description:** Australian Minister for Air [William McMahon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FMcMahon) states facetiously in Parliament that flying saucer reports are “probably based on flights of imagination,” but indicates he will “cause a thorough investigation to be made.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 376 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2002 ### Event 7559 (41CAB836) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Description:** The CIA’s special UFO study group meets for the first time and is given a summary \(probably written by [A.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon) [Ray Gordon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon) project officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch\) of UFO history, an analysis of Project Blue Book, and a discussion of explained sightings and theories about unexplained sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Central Intelligence Agency, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020013-6.pdf)” August 14, 1952; Good Above, [pp. 331–333](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2003 ### Event 7560 (3B9C7D44) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Locations:** Phillippeville [modern Skikda], Algeria; Constantine, Algeria **Description:** 7:20 p.m. People on the docks of Phillippeville \[modern Skikda\], Algeria, see an enormous red disc leaving behind a greenish trail. At 9:15 p.m., two people in Constantine, Algeria, watch a luminous object flying at high speed. It emits a bright light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 122](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/122/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2004 ### Event 7561 (6D769F00) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Locations:** Lake Charles, Louisiana; Mathieson chemical plant **Description:** 10:30 p.m. A yellow ball of light undulates up and down and from side to side over the Mathieson chemical plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It is also seen to shoot ahead abruptly and come to a halt in the same manner. Witnesses estimate that the ball passes over at 5,000 feet, growing fainter and fainter as it moves away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2005 ### Event 7562 (2764E43F) **Date:** 8/14/1952 **Description:** At around noon, inflight over Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia an RAAF Vampire fighter pilot encountered a large circular light, from which 6-10 small lights emerged and surrounded the larger object. The sighting lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 50; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 175; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5000 ### Event 7563 (BA8FF44B) **Date:** 8/15/1952? **Location:** COARI, AMAZONAS, BRZ **Description:** Bright long mass hovers over town. Minutes later same 300mi away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2682 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "COARI,AMAZONAS,BRZ:BRITE LONG MASS HVRS OVR TOWN:MINUTES LATER SAME 300mi AWAY", **LatLong:** "-4.111111 -63.138892", **LatLongDMS:** "04:06:40 S 63:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-4.111111,-63.138892)", **State/Prov:** "Amazonas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7564 (8644EEB7) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** DAVIS, CA **Description:** Blue Book. 2+Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 1+8+1 multicolor orbs and F94 jet by. Jet sees nothing! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 443) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2683 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "DAVIS,CA:BBK:2+GOC OBS:1+8+1 MULTICOLOR ORBS+F94 JET BY:JET SEES NOTHING!", **LatLong:** "38.544446 -121.738895", **LatLongDMS:** "38:32:40 N 121:44:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.544446,-121.738895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 7565 (C8ACCA2A) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** NAPA, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) = Diane Robinson. Silver cylinder/cigar-shape / 10K' altitude and "tremendous speed" going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 443) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2684 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "NAPA,CA:GOC OBS=DIANE ROBINSON:SLVR CGR/10K'alt+"TREMENDOUS SPEED" >>SW:", **LatLong:** "38.300002 -122.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:18:00 N 122:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.300002,-122.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7566 (EBBE76FD) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** NASHVILLE, TN **Description:** Several observer(s). Round flat silver object crosses sky 4x. Plane speed but silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2685 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "133", **HatchDesc:** "NASHVILLE,TN:SVRL OBS:RND FLAT SLVR OBJ CROSSES SKY 4x:PLANE SPEED but SLNT:", **LatLong:** "36.166668 -86.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:10:00 N 86:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.166668,-86.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7567 (2E7A4A25) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** ONTARIO, CA **Description:** Bright ovoid leads B36. Darts in and out / clouds. Tilts showing pointed top. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2686 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "357", **HatchDesc:** "ONTARIO,CA:BRITE OVOID LEADS B36:DARTS IN+OUT/CLOUDS:TILTS SHOWING POINTED TOP", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -117.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 117:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-117.650006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7568 (D57AEF8E) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** NORTHEAST / MATTOON, IL **Description:** Thin silent disk going down [to] between cars. Sparks / rim. Going quickly [to] over railroad/railway tracks / 1500kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2687 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "NE/MATTOON,IL:THIN SLNT DISK ↓ BTWN CARS:SPARKS/RIM:>> OVR RR TRACKS/1500kph", **LatLong:** "39.533335 -88.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:32:00 N 88:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.533335,-88.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7569 (2A51B25A) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** CARSON CITY, NV **Description:** Several observer(s). Cream-colored box drops over airliner. Paces just above. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2688 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1420", **HatchDesc:** "CARSON CITY,NV:SVRL OBS:CREAM-CLRD BOX DROPS OVR AIRLINER:PACES JUST ABOVE:>>W", **LatLong:** "39.150002 -119.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:00 N 119:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.150002,-119.766672)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7570 (B58F18E3) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** WEST PALM BEACH, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Double pie pan saucer going quickly south / Eastern sky. No further details / Palm Beach Post. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2689 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "W.PALM BEACH,FL:2 OBS:DBL PIE PAN SCR >>S/EASTERN SKY:NFD/Palm Beach Post", **LatLong:** "26.700001 -80.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "26:42:00 N 80:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.700001,-80.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7571 (DD569F4F) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** DIAMOND LAKE, MI **Description:** 20+observer(s). Saucer with odd flat spots / 240m altitude. 1100kph. 300m away. DWG. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 445) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2690 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "303", **HatchDesc:** "DIAMOND LAKE,MI:20+obs:SCR W/ODD FLAT SPOTS/240m alt:1100kph:300m away:DWG", **LatLong:** "43.716669 -85.177782", **LatLongDMS:** "43:43:00 N 85:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.716669,-85.177782)", **RelAlt:** "240", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7572 (0F1EB7C1) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** NORTH / URBANA, IL **Description:** Air Force Lt. Col. and 4 / drive-in movie. Round object rises. 90-turn going quickly north. Silent. Bright. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 445) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2691 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "218", **HatchDesc:** "N/URBANA,IL:AF Lt.COL+4/DRIVE-IN MOVIE:ROUND OBJ RISES:90-TURN>>N:SILENT:BRITE", **LatLong:** "40.138891 -88.205560", **LatLongDMS:** "40:08:20 N 88:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.138891,-88.205560)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7573 (F772E843) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / PITTSFIELD, IL **Description:** Dull-red 6M ovoid going south. Stops / 150M altitude. Violet glowing. Vibrates and going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2692 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "SE/PITTSFIELD,IL:DULL-RED 6M OVOID > S:STOPS/150M alt:VIOLET GLO:VIBRATES+>>E", **LatLong:** "39.400002 -90.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:24:00 N 90:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.400002,-90.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7574 (3EACCF52) **Date:** Mid 8/1952 **Locations:** Starke County; Tippecanoe River; Monterey, Indiana **Description:** 10:30 p.m. [John D. Moorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151329100/john-daggett-moorman), deputy sheriff of Starke County, is fishing in a boat with [Surphin Casper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56081712/surphin-casper) on the Tippecanoe River about 3 miles northwest of Monterey, Indiana. Moorman looks up and sees 7–8 objects hovering. They watch for a few seconds until the objects move away to the west. About half of them return east momentarily, and all of them disappear by blinking out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2006 ### Event 7575 (80304A10) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Locations:** Davis, California; Napa, California **Description:** 4:20 a.m. Ground Observer Corps observers in Davis, California, see a rainbow-colored, round object hovering in the air. Soon they notice eight more objects of a strange appearance. At 5:30 a.m., two more UFOs are seen, one moving west while the other moves east. The Air Force scrambles a F-94 jet interceptor to search the area at altitudes of 10,000–20,000 feet. The military claims the pilot can see nothing unusual, although the GOC spotters say that the UFOs and the jet are both visible in the sky at the same time and possibly at the same altitude. At 5:00 a.m., in Napa, California, GOC post observer Diane Robinson sights a “cigar-shaped silver thing” traveling at tremendous speed at 10,000 feet toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2007 ### Event 7576 (9FF36AD9) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Los Alamos; Oak Ridge **Description:** CIA operative [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) \[and/or Ransom L. En\] writes a top-secret draft memo for DCI [Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) [Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) on the OSI teams visit to Wright-Patterson AFB and a summary of its findings. It offers an analytical description of UFOs going back to the 1946 Scandinavian ghost rockets. It rules out the possibility of Russian secret weapons and mentions the sightings at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge at a time when the “background radiation count had risen inexplicably. Here we run out of even ‘blue yonder’ explanations that might be tenable, and, we still are left with numbers of incredible reports from credible observers.” Yet “even though we might admit that intelligent life may exist elsewhere and that space travel is possible, there is no shred of evidence to support this theory at present.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Central Intelligence Agency, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” August 15, 1952; CUFON, “[The](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2008 ### Event 7577 (1D89755A) **Date:** 8/15/1952 **Locations:** Rockhampton, Queensland; East Coast **Description:** RAAF Flight Lt. William H. Scott, chief test pilot of the Government Aircraft Factories, is flying a de Havilland Vampire jet between 35,000 and 36,000 feet near Rockhampton, Queensland. Looking east toward the coast, he sees a large, circular light at a lower elevation. It is the color of an ordinary incandescent light bulb. After about 60 seconds, 6–10 smaller lights break off from the main light, surrounding it for 2 minutes before disappearing. After another 2 minutes, the big light also disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 376 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2009 ### Event 7578 (65DE60C9) **Date:** Late Summer 1952 **Locations:** Defense Supply Center near Columbus, Ohio; hill country near Columbus; Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton **Description:** As a Signal Corps employee working the night shift, Vivian Walton handles decoded teletype messages inside a high-security building at the Defense Supply Center near Columbus, Ohio. She walks into the photo lab, where colleague Joe Sheehy is developing photos, one of which he says is a UFO that had landed in the “hill country” somewhere near Columbus. He says the object is 30 feet in diameter and unoccupied, with minimal damage. A few days later, an alert is sounded, allegedly because of danger of attack by UFOs. Walton claims the downed UFO has gone through the depot on the way to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James W. Moseley, “[The Wright Field Story, or Who’s Lying?](http://cufos.org/Nexus/1954%5F09%5F00%5FNexus03.pdf)” Nexus 3, no. 1 \(September 1954\): 11–15; James W. Moseley, The Wright Field Story, Saucerian, 1971; Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 18; Irena Scott and William E. Jones, “Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 21; Good Need, [p.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/158/mode/2up) [159](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/158/mode/2up); Clark III 329 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2032 ### Event 7579 (34F14A25) **Date:** 8/16/1952 **Location:** Langley, Virginia **Description:** CIA analysis report of a Vienna news article of a UFO report from the Belgian Congo: Commander Pierre of Elisabethville Airfield was sent out to intercept two Flying Saucers. They had a diam. of 12 to 15 meters with a stationary central hub with visible portholes and an extremely fast rotating outer disk that glowed as if on fire. Color similar to aluminum. They emitted a loud whistling sound which could be heard over his own engines. He estimated their speed at over 1500 kilometers/hour. **Type:** report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p512) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_472 ### Event 7580 (DB0AFAE6) **Date:** 8/16/1952 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE, IL **Description:** 8 military observer(s). 4 blue-glowing saucer-cigars fly flat-side forward. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 446) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2693 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "CHANUTE AFB,IL:8 MIL OBS:4 BLU-GLO SCR-CGRS FLY FLAT-SIDE FORWARD:ABS SILENT", **LatLong:** "40.283335 -88.144449", **LatLongDMS:** "40:17:00 N 88:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.283335,-88.144449)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7581 (AB4B37BE) **Date:** 8/16/1952 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** FOND DU LAC, WI **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 silver-grey saucers going quickly north / high and fast. Enter cloud. Return going quickly south! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2694 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "FOND DU LAC,WI:2 OBS:2 SLVR-GRY SCRS >> N/HI+FAST:ENTER CLOUD:RETURN >>S!", **LatLong:** "43.772224 -88.444449", **LatLongDMS:** "43:46:20 N 88:26:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.772224,-88.444449)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7582 (15F69CD6) **Date:** 8/16/1952 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** BOGOTA, COLOMBIA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Brilliant saucer flies behind hill. 5000' altitude. Tremendous speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2695 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Colombia", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2619", **HatchDesc:** "BOGOTA,COLOMBIA:100s/OBS:BRILL.SCR FLIES BEHIND HILL:5000'alt:TREMENDOUS SPEED", **LatLong:** "4.616667 -74.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "04:37:00 N 74:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/4.616667,-74.083337)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Bogota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7583 (630FB0CA) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** WESTPORT, CT **Description:** Pilot / ground. Hiss! Long massive silver ovoid over trees. Dark / bottom/underside. 300kph? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2696 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WESTPORT,CT:PILOT/GND:HISS!:LONG MASSIVE SLVR OVOID OVR TREES:DRK/BTM:300kph?", **LatLong:** "41.138891 -73.361115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:08:20 N 73:21:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.138891,-73.361115)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7584 (2C690B6A) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** (NORTHERN), AL **Description:** USAF T6G pilot. Intense-bright white round object hovers. Vanishes suddenly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2697 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "(northern),AL:USAF T6G PILOT:INTENSE-BRITE WHT RND OBJ HVRS:vanishes suddenly:", **LatLong:** "34.827779 -87.194449", **LatLongDMS:** "34:49:40 N 87:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.827779,-87.194449)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7585 (B2AD4015) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** LOS ALTOS, CA **Description:** 5 observer(s). 2 saucers / dogfight. Intense light / 1 side only. 1 going quickly southwest. 2nd follows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2698 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALTOS,CA:5 OBS:2 SCRS/DOGFIGHT:INTENSE LITE/1 SIDE ONLY:1 >>SW:2nd FOLOS", **LatLong:** "37.383335 -122.111117", **LatLongDMS:** "37:23:00 N 122:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.383335,-122.111117)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7586 (FBB74684) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** NEAR MORAN, TX **Description:** Captain Perry / USAF T6D. 15M ovoid / 500mph climbs 600M / min. / r136#4p47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: HAINES, Richard (via Dom. Weinstein) BLUEBOOK Reports taken from 16mm Microfilm at Maxwell AFB (partial) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2699 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "400", **HatchDesc:** "nr MORAN,TX:Capt PERRY/USAF T6D:15M OVOID/500mph CLIMBS 600M/min:/r136#4p47", **LatLong:** "32.583335 -99.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:35:00 N 99:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.583335,-99.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7587 (3564FB86) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** WELCH, WV **Description:** 2 women / porch. Silent silver disk whirls past radio tower. Clear skies. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2700 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "450", **HatchDesc:** "WELCH,WV:2 WOMEN/PORCH:SLNT SLVR DISK WHIRLS PAST RADIO TOWER:clear skies:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.433335 -81.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "37:26:00 N 81:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.433335,-81.583337)", **RelAlt:** "40", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7588 (C18440E3) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** DUNCANVILLE, TX **Description:** Night light maneuvers all over. RADAR-confirm. 300mph. Several sudden turns. Unidentified / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2701 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "258", **HatchDesc:** "DUNCANVILLE,TX:NLT MNVRS ALL OVR:RDR-CONFIRM:300mph:SVRL SUDDEN TURNS:UID/BBK", **LatLong:** "32.650002 -96.905560", **LatLongDMS:** "32:39:00 N 96:54:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.650002,-96.905560)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7589 (B0061736) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NORTH / PONTIJOU, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent orange ball hovers / N824. Going quickly south and stops. Zigzags. Stops again. Going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 155) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2702 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "N/PONTIJOU,FR:2 OBS:SLNT ORG.BALL HVRS/N824:>>S+STOPS:ZIGZAGS:STOPS AGAIN:>SW", **LatLong:** "47.750002 1.322222", **LatLongDMS:** "47:45:00 N 01:19:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.750002,1.322222)", **State/Prov:** "Loir-et-Cher", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7590 (C617E241) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SAN PABLO BAY EAST / SAN RAFAEL, CA **Description:** 50' cylinder/cylindrical object / 7000' altitude going quickly south / jet speed. Intense blue light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2703 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAN PABLO BAY E/SAN RAFAEL,CA:50'CYL./7000'alt >>S/JET SPEED:INTENSE BLU LITE", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -122.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 122:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-122.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7591 (6DC26BAD) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Location:** Athens, GA **Description:** An intensely bright bright white round object hovering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1281 ### Event 7592 (D9AB708B) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Location:** Abilene, TX **Description:** Oblong polished metal object climbing at 500 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1282 ### Event 7593 (F8E0B7F7) **Date:** 8/17/1952 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. on a road north of Pontijou, France two witnesses saw an orange ball of light hovering over highway N824. It made no sound. It flew off in a southerly direction, stopped, zigzagged, stoped again, then flew away toward the southwest. The duration of the sighting was nine minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 155 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5108 ### Event 7594 (F5E93D37) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Location:** DUBLIN, OH AND SPRINGFIELD AND LEBANON **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) spotters all see red-white round UFO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 642) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2704 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "DUBLIN,OH+SPRINGFIELD+LEBANON:GOC SPOTTERS ALL SEE RED-WHT ROUND UFO:", **LatLong:** "40.094446 -83.122226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:05:40 N 83:07:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.094446,-83.122226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7595 (F6803264) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** FAIRFIELD, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and 3 cops. Slow object changes color(s) and directions / 30 minute(s). Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 446) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2705 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "FAIRFIELD,CA:GOC+3 COPS:SLO OBJ CHANGES CLRS+DIRECTIONS/30min:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -122.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 122:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-122.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7596 (F03CEE99) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** MESA, AZ **Description:** Blurry disk / light hovers over trees. 120 cm / diameter. Suddenly gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2706 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "376", **HatchDesc:** "MESA,AZ:BLURRY DISK/LITE HVRS OVR TREES:120 cm/diam:SUDDENLY GONE:", **LatLong:** "33.416668 -111.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:00 N 111:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.416668,-111.833339)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7597 (2141D3D8) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** NOROTON, CT **Description:** 2 plane spotters. Orange 9M ovoid / 600M altitude. Vertical then horizontal trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2707 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NOROTON,CT:2 PLANE SPOTTERS:ORG 9M OVOID/600M alt:VERTICAL then HRZNTL TRAJ.", **LatLong:** "41.066669 -73.422226", **LatLongDMS:** "41:04:00 N 73:25:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.066669,-73.422226)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7598 (C98EA323) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Location:** Duncanville, TX **Description:** Lights Tracked By Ground Radar (R/V) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520818](http://www.nicap.org/520818duncanville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1283 ### Event 7599 (46CCF024) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Location:** Fairfield, CA **Description:** Object change color from red green-orange-blue (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1920) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1284 ### Event 7600 (C88402E3) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Location:** West Palm Beach (near), FL **Description:** August 18, 1852; near West Palm Beach, FL. "Desvergers Case", "Scoutmaster Case". (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520818](http://www.nicap.org/scoutmasdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1285 ### Event 7601 (239724EA) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Time:** 12:50 AM **Location:** Fairfield, California **Description:** Witnesses: three policemen. One object changed color like a diamond, and changed directions during the 30 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_223 ### Event 7602 (C8875529) **Date:** 8/18/1952 **Description:** Three policemen in Fairfield, California sighted a UFO at 12:50 a.m. The object changed color and intensity like a diamond, and flew in different directions during the 30-minute sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book reports counted in official statistics, case # 1920; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 42; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5119 ### Event 7603 (9D530A05) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Description:** J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is burned. **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_124 **Attributes:** injury ### Event 7604 (40FA8D3B) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Location:** VISALIA, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Strange disk-like object hovers and flits about Eastern Hills / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 449) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2708 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "VISALIA,CA:2 OBS:STRANGE DISK-LIKE OBJ HOVERS+FLITS ABOUT EASTERN HILLS/NEWS", **LatLong:** "36.327780 -119.288895", **LatLongDMS:** "36:19:40 N 119:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.327780,-119.288895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7605 (3DB3BE36) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** LOS GATOS, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 20+silent dim-white saucers pass overhead. 4K' altitude / 300mph. Direction unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2709 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "119", **HatchDesc:** "LOS GATOS,CA:GOC OBS:20+SILENT DIM-WHT SCRS PASS OVHD:4K'alt/300mph:DIR.UNK", **LatLong:** "37.216668 -121.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:13:00 N 121:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.216668,-121.950006)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7606 (25D2588F) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** COLTON, CA **Description:** White saucer going quickly south. Dives under formation / USAF bombers 2X! Jerky motion. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2710 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "COLTON,CA:WHT SCR >>S:DIVES UNDER FORMn/USAF BOMBERS 2X!:JERKY MOTION:sep.obs", **LatLong:** "34.072224 -117.311117", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:20 N 117:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.072224,-117.311117)", **RelAlt:** "4000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7607 (97742AA3) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** DALLAS, TX **Description:** Storey and 2 / Hensley NAS. 2 night lights hover / 5 minute(s). 1 drops and rises. Both going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 449) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2711 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS,TX:STOREY+2/HENSLEY NAS:2 NLTS HVR/5min:1 DROPS+RISES:BOTH >>NW", **LatLong:** "32.783335 -96.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 96:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,-96.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7608 (9C132CFA) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / SAN GORGONIO MOUNTAIN, CA **Description:** Ground and air RADAR-visual (observation). Jets chase. Very fast saucer going quickly east. Rises going up / space! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2712 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "3000", **HatchDesc:** "NW/SAN GORGONIO Mtn,CA:GND+AIR RDR-VIS:JETS CHASE:VFAST SCR >>E:RISES ↑/SPACE!", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -116.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 116:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-116.833339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7609 (42F05442) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WEST PALM BEACH, FL **Description:** Scoutmaster aims flashlight at saucer. Zapped and burnt. / APRO Vol.1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2713 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "W.PALM BEACH,FL:SCOUTMASTER AIMS FLASHLITE AT SCR:ZAPPED+BURNT:/APRO Vol.1#2", **LatLong:** "26.733335 -80.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "26:44:00 N 80:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.733335,-80.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 7610 (D3B69EA2) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Location:** Boron, CA **Description:** GOC Observer saw 2 objects, shaped like fat bullets (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1928) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1286 ### Event 7611 (52B418E2) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Location:** Red Bluff, CA **Description:** USAF pilot saw tailess object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1928) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1287 ### Event 7612 (5A0BF6F4) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Time:** evening **Location:** West Palm Beach, Florida **Description:** Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him in a clearing. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted by the object and burned him. He also observed a "hideous" creature aboard the craft. Grass roots were scorched at the site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Ruppelt 222; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_97 ### Event 7613 (0D3CFEFB) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Time:** 2:38 PM **Location:** Red Bluff, California **Description:** Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop. Two objects, shaped like fat bullets, flew straight and level, very fast for 25 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_224 ### Event 7614 (E76544D7) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Location:** Los Angeles **Description:** The CIA/OSI study group prepares an internal 6-page document of its findings. It has made a study of the Soviet press that shows “not one report or comment” about UFOs, which indicates official censorship. It perceives a danger that the Russians might try to infiltrate civilian UFO groups \(such as Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles\) or add UFO disinformation during a nuclear attack: “We give Russia the capability of delivering an air attack against us, yet at any given moment now, there may be a dozen official unidentified sightings plus many unofficial.” It briefs CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) on August 20. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Central Intelligence Agency, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” August 19, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013; Swords 174 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2010 ### Event 7615 (1882BD9E) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Location:** Red Bluff, California **Description:** 2:38 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop sees two objects shaped like fat bullets flying straight, level, and fast over Red Bluff, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 167 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2011 ### Event 7616 (C11EEED9) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Locations:** Boron Air Force Station; Boron, California **Description:** 8:00 p.m. An oval disc is seen above Boron Air Force Station \[now closed\] in Boron, California. Two jet fighters are guided into the area by Capt. [Ralph J. Borgerson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3553913/ralph-john-borgerson) at the base, but the object speeds away to the east as they close in. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 49; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 167 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2012 ### Event 7617 (1B76C8A9) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Location:** Everglades south of West Palm Beach, Florida **Description:** About 10:00 p.m. Scoutmaster D\[unham\] S\[anborn\] “Sonny” DesVergers is driving with three scouts on the edge of the Everglades south of West Palm Beach, Florida, when he sees a light in a wild palmetto grove. The boys do not see it, so he drives on. Another boy admits he has seen a light in that direction too, so DesVergers returns to the spot and goes into the grove, telling the boys to stay in the car unless he is delayed. Soon all three boys see red lights flashing in the grove. This alarms them, and they go to a nearby house for help. They return to see DesVergers staggering out of the grove, incoherently saying he has been zapped into semiconsciousness by some kind of red flare coming from a hatch in a red ball of light \(and burns his cap as well\). An area of flattened and burned grass is found after the event. DesVergers has a reputation as a prankster and hopes to monetize his story somehow, but the scouts do corroborate his story and there are physical traces. Grass samples from the site sent to the Air Force show root damage extending 4 inches or more into the soil, suggesting overheating, possibly by microwave radiation. [Karl Pflock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock) thinks it is a hoax, but [Jerry Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) isn’t 100% sure. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Florida](http://www.nicap.org/scoutmas.htm) [Scoutmaster Case](http://www.nicap.org/scoutmas.htm)”; “[Attack by Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93449895/) [Described by Scoutmaster,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93450016/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 24, 1952, pp. 1A, 4A; “[‘Line Forms at Left’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93449572/) [for That Saucer Yarn,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43214689/the-miami-news/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 25, 1952, p. 1A; “[Boy Scout Wants New Saucer Hunt,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93449087/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 26, 1952, p. 2A; “[‘Saucer’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93448814/) [Witnesses](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93448814/) [Talking,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93448912/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 27, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; Clark III 496–498; Ruppelt, [p. 176](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/176/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 August, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 115–119; Story, [pp. 128–131](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/128/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, p. 143; Karl T. Pflock, “[The Best](http://www.nicap.org/bhoax.htm) [Hoax in UFO History?](http://www.nicap.org/bhoax.htm)” 1997; “[The Scoutmaster’s Tale,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thescoutmasterstale.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, March 27, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2013 ### Event 7618 (5BE7DFF4) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Description:** At 2:38 p.m. in Red Bluff, California Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop sighted two objects shaped like fat bullets that flew straight and level, very fast for 25 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5153 ### Event 7619 (1D5C01BC) **Date:** 8/19/1952 **Description:** On this evening Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him in a clearing in West Palm Beach, Florida. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted by the object and burned him. He also observed a "hideous" short creature aboard the craft. The roots of grass growing at the site were scorched. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5154 ### Event 7620 (A3DD17BE) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Location:** Langley, Virginia **Description:** Memorandom for Director CIA: the DCI, after a briefing by OSI on the subject of UFOs, directed the preparation of an NSCID for submission to the Council stating the need for investigation and directing agencies concerned to cooperate in such investigations. It was decided that Dr. Whitman, chairman of P&DB, would investigate undertaking R&D studies through Air Force agencies. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell. (See continuation of this briefing.) **Type:** memorandom **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_473 **See also:** 11/25/1952 ### Event 7621 (861ED640) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Time:** 07:00? **Location:** CONGAREE AIR FORCE BASE, SC **Description:** RADAR blip speeds to 4000mph. Trace = 60 mile(s) southeast / Air Force Base = Lake Clarendon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2714 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "CONGAREE AFB,SC:RDR BLIP SPEEDS TO 4000mph:TRACE=60mi SE/AFB=LAKE CLARENDON", **LatLong:** "33.905557 -80.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:20 N 80:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.905557,-80.866671)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7622 (E4B03587) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** Big silent saucer rotates / low altitude / 5 minute(s). Sways to and fro. Shoots up and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 454) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2715 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:BIG SILENT SCR ROTATES/lo alt/5min:SWAYS TO+FRO:SHOOTS UP+AWAY", **LatLong:** "29.466668 -98.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:28:00 N 98:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.466668,-98.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7623 (0091B85E) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** JONES BEACH, LI, NY **Description:** 2+USAF. 5 white ovoids in a row southwest going quickly northeast. Very fast. Wavering path. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 453) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2716 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "JONES BEACH,LI,NY:2+USAF:5 WHT OVOIDS IN A ROW SW>>NE:VERY FAST:WAVERING PATH", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -73.516670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 73:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-73.516670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7624 (63C5DD8C) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SONOMA, CA **Description:** 2 / Ground Observer Corps (GOC). 2+1+1+1 silver saucers / 4K' going quickly northwest. Each circles before it enters cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 454) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2717 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "SONOMA,CA:2/GOC:2+1+1+1 SLVR SCRS/4K' >>NW:EACH CIRCLES BEFORE IT ENTERS CLOUD", **LatLong:** "38.283335 -122.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:17:00 N 122:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.283335,-122.450006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7625 (BF1DC2A1) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Location:** Neffesville, PA **Description:** Undescribed object flying at 500 ft altitude (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 1938) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1288 ### Event 7626 (E8D06ACA) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Location:** Congaree AFB, SC **Description:** ADC Tracks Object At 4,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520820](http://www.nicap.org/520820congaree%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1289 ### Event 7627 (A9108F9B) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Location:** Dayton (WPAFB), OH **Description:** August 20, 1952; WPAFB, Ohio, gun-camera photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1290 ### Event 7628 (E2629308) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Time:** 3:10 AM **Location:** Neffesville, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witnesses: Bill Ford and two others. An undescribed object flew at 500' altitude for several minutes. No further data in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_225 ### Event 7629 (95017760) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Description:** The CIA/OSI UFO study group briefs CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) who then orders the preparation of a National Security Council Intelligence Directive for submission to the NSC stating the need for a UFO investigation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020008-2.pdf)” December 2, 1952 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2014 ### Event 7630 (5C8B7A13) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Locations:** Congaree AFB [now McEntire Joint National Guard Base]; Columbia, South Carolina **Description:** Air Defense Command radar at Congaree AFB \[now McEntire Joint National Guard Base\], southeast of Columbia, South Carolina, tracks a target traveling more than 4,000 mph some 60 miles from the base. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[ADC Tracks Object at 4,000 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/520820congaree%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 78](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=90&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2015 ### Event 7631 (66974AA3) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Description:** At 3:10 a.m. Bill Ford and two others in Neffsville, Pennsylvania watched an unidentified object fly through the sky at 500 feet altitude for several minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1938; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5166 ### Event 7632 (D0AD9622) **Date:** 8/20/1952 **Description:** Air Defense Command radar tracked a UFO 60 miles from the Congaree Air Force Base, South Carolina at speeds of 4,000 mph at around 10:00 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 132; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 96 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5167 ### Event 7633 (80F5DE4A) **Date:** 8/21/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / WILLMAR, MN **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 1M disks / light circle mud lake. Away and back. Circle some more.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2718 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "407", **HatchDesc:** "NE/WILLMAR,MN:2 OBS:2 1M DISKS/LITE CCL MUD LAKE:AWAY+BACK:CCL SOME MORE..", **LatLong:** "45.333335 -94.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:00 N 94:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.333335,-94.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7634 (55FBD001) **Date:** 8/21/1952 **Location:** Dallas, TX **Description:** 3 blue-white lights hover then descend (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1944) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1291 ### Event 7635 (CAF4B58C) **Date:** 8/21/1952 **Time:** 11:54 PM **Location:** Dallas, Texas **Description:** Witness: Jack Rossen, ex-artillery observer. Three blue-white lights hovered then descended; 1.5 minutes later, one of them descended more. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_226 ### Event 7636 (4AD1BE56) **Date:** 8/21/1952 **Locations:** Elgin, Illinois; Chicago Filter Center; O’Hare Airport in Chicago **Description:** 10:10 p.m. Ground Observer Corps Supervisor D. C. Scott spots a yellowish-white light flying in the sky at 2,000 feet northeast of Elgin, Illinois. Several times it rises to 5,000 feet in three minutes, hovers, then descends again. Scott alerts Capt. Everett A. Turner at the Chicago Filter Center, who tells him to call again when the light settles down. After one hour and 23 minutes the light begins to hover, Scott calls Turner again, and Turner has at least one F-86 Sabre jet scrambled from O’Hare Airport in Chicago. The pilot makes four passes between 10,000 and 2,000 feet. On the fourth pass, it heads directly toward the light, which blinks out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Jets Pursue Mystery](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93453893/) [Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93453893/)” Carbondale Southern Illinoisan, August 23, 1952, p. 1; UFOEv, [p. 66](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=78&skin=2021); Shoot 102–103 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2016 ### Event 7637 (E4C212C5) **Date:** 8/21/1952 **Description:** Dallas, Texas. Jack Rossen, an ex-artillery observer, saw three blue-white lights hover and then descend at 11:54 p.m. Ninety seconds later one of the lights descended further. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5206 ### Event 7638 (F8582242) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_474 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 78km ### Event 7639 (E0B20AED) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Location:** PUERTO REAL, SPAIN **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 saucers going quickly [to] head-on collision. Both make 90° turn / last second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 462) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2719 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PUERTO REAL,SPAIN:SVRL OBS:2 SCRS>>HEAD-ON COLLISn:BOTH MAKE 90°TURN/LAST SEC", **LatLong:** "36.533335 -6.177778", **LatLongDMS:** "36:32:00 N 06:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.533335,-6.177778)", **State/Prov:** "CDZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7640 (57268582) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** PACIFIC 153° 45W-23° 18N **Description:** 2 military observer(s). Unidentified green fireball parallels C54 transport / 10 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 462) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2720 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC 153°45W-23°18N:2 MIL OBS:UID GRN FBL PARALLELS C54 TRANSPORT/10sec", **LatLong:** "23.300001 -153.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "23:18:00 N 153:45:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.300001,-153.750007)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7641 (E98E36AB) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** CLIFTON SPRINGS, NY **Description:** 2 saucers hover / low altitude. Tip on edge and speed away in series. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2721 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "CLIFTON SPRINGS,NY:2 SCRS HVR/LO alt:TIP ON EDGE+SPEED AWAY in series:NFD/NEWS", **LatLong:** "42.961113 -77.138893", **LatLongDMS:** "42:57:40 N 77:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.961113,-77.138893)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7642 (0351A84D) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** SOUTH / RUMFORD, ME **Description:** 3.5M silver ovoid buzzes. Hovers near junkyard / 3 hours! Buzz heard widely. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2722 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "S/RUMFORD,ME:3.5M SLVR OVOID BUZZES:HVRS nr JUNKYARD/3 HRS!:BUZZ HEARD WIDELY", **LatLong:** "44.533335 -70.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:32:00 N 70:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.533335,-70.550003)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7643 (44B1C0D6) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** CLAY BANKS, WI **Description:** 2 / farm. Silent silver parachute-saucer going [to] east-northeast straight and level. Large coin / arms length. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2723 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "CLAY BANKS,WI:2/FARM:SLNT SLVR PARACHUTE-SCR >ENE S/L:LRG COIN/ARMS LENGTH", **LatLong:** "44.755558 -87.327782", **LatLongDMS:** "44:45:20 N 87:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.755558,-87.327782)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7644 (EACEE169) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** COOLVILLE, OH **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). Half-moon hovers still / 5 minutes. Shoots up with orange contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2724 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "213", **HatchDesc:** "COOLVILLE,OH:2+2 OBS:HALF-MOON HVRS STILL/5 mins:SHOOTS UP W/ORG.CONTRAIL", **LatLong:** "39.222224 -81.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:13:20 N 81:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.222224,-81.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7645 (9862E5F3) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Location:** Ontario, CA **Description:** Two Teardrop-Shaped Objects Cross Flight Path (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520822](http://www.nicap.org/520822ontario%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1292 ### Event 7646 (52209899) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Location:** Elgin, IL **Description:** USAF jets, guided by Ground Observer Corps, chased a pulsating yellowish light. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1293 ### Event 7647 (DBCB1154) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Description:** George G. Carey, CIA assistant director for operations, writes a memo to [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) on “USSR and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers” that reviews mentions of UFOs in the Soviet press during the past two years. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[USSR and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” August 22, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2017 ### Event 7648 (4F009EB0) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **Description:** [A. Ray Gordon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon) project officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch, provides a briefing document explaining the “Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’” to CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith), who then briefs President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) on the CIA UFO study group’s reports at his regular Friday intelligence briefing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’,” August 22, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2018 ### Event 7649 (BDF497A2) **Date:** 8/22/1952 **End date:** 8/23/1952 **Locations:** Winslow, Arizona; Prescott **Description:** Evening. [Lyman Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) sees unusual lights near Winslow, Arizona, and hears strange signals on his ham radio. Not long afterward, Lyman, his wife, and Alfred C. Bailey hear a mysterious code coming through the air itself. Eventually, at 2:00 a.m., a Morse Code-like message comes through the radio from Regga of Mars and Zo and Nah-9 from Neptune. Zo refers to Affa from Uranus, who thinks earth is too evil. He also warns them that the evil Orion Solar System is coming to earth in a “square star body.” [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) arrives from Prescott on August 23. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22; Clark III 1283–1284 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2019 ### Event 7650 (F97A23EF) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Location:** Langley, Virginia **Description:** CIA analysis report of an Athens news article of an UFO landing in Communist Berlin, Germany: Former Mayor of Gleimershausen, Oscar Linke and his 11 year old daughter, Gabriella, spotted a landed Flying Saucer near the town of Hasselbach. The huge “frying pan” was approx. 13 to 15 meters in diameter and had two rows of holes on its periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the two rows was about 0.45 meters. On top was a black conical object about 3 meters high. Two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing were standing outside the craft. Upon hearing my daughters voice the two men retreated into the UFO which then began to rotate. As the UFO began to spin the conical tower slid down into the UFO and the UFO began to rise and rotate like a top. It seemed to be supported by the conical tower that was now underneath it. (More details were included in report, see 02/23/1955, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”) **Type:** report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p513) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_475 **See also:** 2/23/1955 ### Event 7651 (CDFE8250) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** SINUIJU, NORTH KOREA **Description:** 7' cylinder/cigar-shape buzzes B29 / weather reconnaissance. Glows red-orange. 300mph going southeast? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2725 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SINUIJU,N.KOREA:7' CGR BUZZES B29/WEATHER RECON:GLOWS RED-ORANGE:300mph >SE?", **LatLong:** "40.050002 124.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "40:03:00 N 124:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.050002,124.500006)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7652 (F2DB7060) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** US224 NEAR ATWATER, OH **Description:** 1 Air Force and 2 Navy / car. Night light = "strangest navigation light I ever saw". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 463) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2726 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "347", **HatchDesc:** "US224 nr ATWATER,OH:1 AF+2 NAVY/CAR:NLT="STRANGEST NAVIGN.LITE I EVER SAW"", **LatLong:** "41.022224 -81.161115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:20 N 81:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.022224,-81.161115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7653 (3301BA54) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** GALLATIN, MO **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). Classic saucer going quickly northwest / 90 second(s). Bobs and floats. Absolute(ly) silent. Photograph in source. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2727 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "284", **HatchDesc:** "GALLATIN,MO:2+1 OBS:CLASSIC SCR >>NW/90sec:BOBS+FLOATS:ABS.SLNT:FOTO in SOURCE", **LatLong:** "39.916669 -93.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:00 N 93:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.916669,-93.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7654 (41014B51) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MIDDLETOWN, PA **Description:** Curious spinning object flies in a circle. No further details. Balloon? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 464) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2728 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "MIDDLETOWN,PA:CURIOUS SPINNING OBJ FLIES IN A CIRCLE:NFD:balloon?", **LatLong:** "40.200002 -76.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:12:00 N 76:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.200002,-76.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7655 (1A43209B) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** 4 / car. 3 fiery orange fireballs going north. Each makes sharp 90° turn going west / sequence. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2729 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1105", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:4/CAR:3 FIERY ORG FBLS > N:EACH MAKES SHARP 90° TURN >W/SEQUENCE", **LatLong:** "35.233335 -101.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:14:00 N 101:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.233335,-101.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7656 (F640B189) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Location:** Sinuiju, North Korea **Description:** Orange-red cigar-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1294 ### Event 7657 (3FEF05EB) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Location:** Akron, OH **Description:** Pulsing amber light fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1956) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1295 ### Event 7658 (2ABF717E) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Time:** 4:10 AM **Location:** Akron, Ohio **Description:** Witnesses: USAF 2nd Lt. H.K. Funseth, a ground radar observer, and two U.S. Navy men. One pulsing amber light was seen to fly straight and level for 7 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_227 ### Event 7659 (28FF78C4) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Location:** July 29, 1952 **Description:** Telenews Productions re-releases its 1950 UFO documentary short, The Flying Saucer Mystery, edited and expanded to 12½ minutes with new material. It features footage from the July 29, 1952, press conference given by Air Force Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford), the UFO photo taken by [Shell Alpert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9302407/shell-r%5F-alpert), a photo taken by [August C. Roberts](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/08/the-moon-is-venusian-colony-part-ii.html), German UFO occupant witnesses Oskar and Gabriele Linke, [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully), and U.S. Army Engineers physicist Noel W. Scott. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Flying Saucer Mystery \(Full\) \(1952\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-gobjVfFiQ)” TheUFOVideoChannel YouTube channel, September 1, 2010; Internet Movie Database, “[The Flying Saucer Mystery](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188624/)”; Curt Collins, “[The Flying Saucer](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-flying-saucer-mystery-and-1952-ufo.html) [Mystery](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-flying-saucer-mystery-and-1952-ufo.html) [and the 1952 UFO Flap,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-flying-saucer-mystery-and-1952-ufo.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2020 ### Event 7660 (A5EB7245) **Date:** 8/23/1952 **Description:** At 4:10 a.m. USAF Lt. H. K. Funseth, a ground radar observer, and two U.S. Navy men watched an unidentified pulsing amber light fly straight and level for seven minutes outside of Akron on US Highway 224 in Atwater, Ohio. The object was pulsating in intensity from very intense to normal. They reported observing a light only, and could not discern what the object looked like. It was described as amber-orange, round, the size of a car headlamp on dim, and traveling at a speed of 200 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 63; UNICAT, case # 740 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5246 ### Event 7661 (2563977F) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / TITUSVILLE, PA **Description:** News editor. Night lights maneuver. Car and driver pulled and shaken. Gravity? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2730 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "370", **HatchDesc:** "NW/TITUSVILLE,PA:NEWS EDITOR:NLTS MNVR:CAR+DRIVER PULLED+SHAKEN:GRAVITY?", **LatLong:** "41.716669 -79.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:43:00 N 79:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.716669,-79.766670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7662 (20F92AD7) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** SOUTH / HERMANAS, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1961. Air Force F84 / 35K'. 2 6' silver saucers. Turn away. Back / 7mn. / r242+159. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2731 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1365", **HatchDesc:** "S/HERMANAS,NM:BBK#1961:AF F84/35K':2 6'SLVR SCRS:TURN AWAY:BACK/7mn:/r242+159", **LatLong:** "31.850002 -107.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "31:51:00 N 107:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.850002,-107.966672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7663 (D9C87B6F) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** STONINGTON, CT **Description:** ANG Lt. Col. 2 round objects going quickly east / 1400kph? 4500M altitude estimated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2732 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "STONINGTON,CT:ANG Lt.COL:2 RND OBJs >>E/1400kph?:4500M alt estm:", **LatLong:** "41.333335 -71.905559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:20:00 N 71:54:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.333335,-71.905559)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7664 (3C2FA7E0) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 150' washtub saucers going [to] all directions 1800mph. 1 going quickly southeast.. 2nd follows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2733 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:2 OBS:2 150'WASHTUB SCRS > ALL DIRS 1800mph:1>>SE..2nd FOLOS", **LatLong:** "37.766668 -122.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:46:00 N 122:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.766668,-122.450006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7665 (F7A63537) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** Strange sphere/orb/globe with low halo like inverted acorn. Dances-wavers-flies going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 464) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2734 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:STRANGE ORB W/LOW HALO LIKE INVERTED ACORN:DANCES-WAVERS-FLIES>>W.", **LatLong:** "32.233335 -110.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:14:00 N 110:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.233335,-110.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7666 (1817888C) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** SOUTH / GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR **Description:** Braniff#603 pilots. Red disk stops. Shoots away. / J. Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2735 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ecuador", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S/GUAYAQUIL,ECUADOR:BRANIFF#603 PILOTS:RED DISK STOPS:SHOOTS AWAY:/J.ALDRICH", **LatLong:** "-2.400000 -79.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "02:24:00 S 79:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-2.400000,-79.883337)", **State/Prov:** "GYQ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7667 (5E64261C) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** NEWPORT, RI **Description:** Many calls going [to] police. 2 small orange disks maneuver back and forth. Also silver objects. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2736 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "NEWPORT,RI:MANY CALLS>POLICE:2 SML ORG.DISKS MNVR BACK+FORTH:+SLVR OBJS", **LatLong:** "41.488891 -71.311115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:20 N 71:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.488891,-71.311115)", **State/Prov:** "Rhode Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7668 (D35C4DE0) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** Glowing sphere/orb/globe seen / (seen thru) binoculars / 5 minute(s). 2200h. Atlanta, GA. Very similar seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 465) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2737 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ROBINS AFB,GA:GLOWING ORB SEEN/BINOCS/5min::2200h:ATLANTA,GA:VERY SIMILAR SEEN", **LatLong:** "32.616668 -83.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:37:00 N 83:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.616668,-83.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7669 (DCA670C3) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LEVELLAND, TX **Description:** 2 observer(s). Top-saucer west fiery tail. Hovers / 20 minute(s). Whistles. Back / 2230hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2738 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1071", **HatchDesc:** "LEVELLAND,TX:2 OBS:TOP-SCR W FIERY TAIL:HVRS/20min:WHISTLES:BACK/2230hrs", **LatLong:** "33.600002 -102.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:36:00 N 102:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.600002,-102.366672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7670 (B426A187) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LA **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). Night light examines base / all angles / 45 minute(s). Stops here and there. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 465) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2739 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "51", **HatchDesc:** "BARKSDALE AFB,LA:3 SEP.OBS:NLT EXAMINES BASE/ALL ANGLES/45min:STOPS HERE+THERE", **LatLong:** "32.500002 -93.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:30:00 N 93:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.500002,-93.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7671 (3CC77DE2) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** EAST / KADOKA, SD **Description:** 2+/ car. Saucer hovers 3M / field. Very large window. Away fast when hit / spotlight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2740 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "750", **HatchDesc:** "E/KADOKA,SD:2+/CAR:SCR HVRS 3M/FLD:VLRG WINDOW:AWAY FAST WHEN HIT/SPOTLITE", **LatLong:** "43.833335 -101.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "43:50:00 N 101:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.833335,-101.400005)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7672 (277861E2) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Location:** Hermanas, NM **Description:** Two 6 ft silver balls in abreast formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1961, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520824](http://www.nicap.org/520824hermanas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1296 ### Event 7673 (76FD12ED) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** A large round, metallic, white light with a vague lower surface (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1964) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1297 ### Event 7674 (B13A9C8A) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Location:** Leveland, TX **Description:** Object shaped like a spinning top, changing color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1969) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1298 ### Event 7675 (FBB54C56) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 0600 **Location:** Frontenac, Kansas **Description:** A man driving through a wood encountred a strange object and stopped to observe it. It looked like two turtle shells glued together, about 25 m long, with a humanoid creature in what appeared to be a control cabin in front. Windows lighted by an intense blue light and a throbbing sound were also reported. The object was oscillating and suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered 3 m above ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_98 ### Event 7676 (9D98DE4A) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 10:15 AM **Location:** Hermanas, Mexico **Description:** Witness: Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot Col. G.W. Johnson. Two 6' silver balls in abreast formation, one turned grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_228 ### Event 7677 (93C31331) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 5:40 PM **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round, metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast With a dancing, wavering motion, for about 1 minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_229 ### Event 7678 (75E4990D) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Time:** 9:30 PM, 10:30 PM **Location:** Levelland, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or another like it, returned an hour later. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_230 ### Event 7679 (C3398A7A) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Locations:** Hermanas, New Mexico; El Paso, Texas **Description:** 10:15 a.m. USAF Col. [Gerald W. Johnson](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/gwjohnson.htm) is flying an F-84G when he sees two silver balls in the vicinity of Hermanas \(a ghost town\), New Mexico. They seem to be 6 feet in diameter and 2 miles away. One seems to change into a long, gray object as it is turning to the right. After 3 minutes they disappear, then reappear 7 minutes later, by which time the F-84 is over El Paso, Texas. One after the other, the objects climb straight up 2,000–3,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-84 Encounters Two Silver Balls](http://www.nicap.org/520824hermanas%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 168; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 14, 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2021 ### Event 7680 (44C69AF0) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Description:** [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter), and Bailey receive coded radio messages indicating the saucer intelligences intend to land, inviting them to help. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954 Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2022 ### Event 7681 (28D3ADE6) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Description:** A man driving through some woods at 6:00 a.m. in Frontenac, Kansas encountered a strange object and stopped to watch it. It looked like two turtle shells glued together and was about 25 meters long. There appeared to be a humanoid being in something like a control cabin in front. Windows on the object were lit by an intense blue light and a throbbing sound was also reported. The object was oscillating and suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered three meters above the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 199-200 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5284 ### Event 7682 (AE32270D) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Description:** Hermanas, Mexico. 10:15 a.m. Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot Col. G.W. Johnson. Two six-foot silver spheres in abreast formation, one turned grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5285 ### Event 7683 (7823043A) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Description:** Tucson, Arizona. 5:40 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round, metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast With a dancing, wavering motion, for about one minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5286 ### Event 7684 (9C455F05) **Date:** 8/24/1952 **Description:** Levelland, Texas. 9:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or another like it, returned an hour later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5287 ### Event 7685 (9EFE6BB8) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** NEAR PITTSBURG, KS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1972. 75' saucer / 10' altitude. Figure / window. Small propellers. / r70p316 / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 200) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2741 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "nr PITTSBURG,KS:BBK#1972:75'SCR/10'alt:FIG/WINDOW:sml propellers:/r70p316/r185", **LatLong:** "37.400002 -94.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:24:00 N 94:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.400002,-94.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7686 (3FEECA71) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** POTTSVILLE, PA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Domed yellow saucer hovers. High-pitched humming. Going southeast slow. Puffs smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2742 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "POTTSVILLE,PA:2 OBS:DOMED YLW SCR HVRS:HI-PITCHED HUM:>SE SLOW:PUFFS SMOKE", **LatLong:** "40.683335 -76.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:41:00 N 76:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.683335,-76.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7687 (40E9D14F) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver saucer going south. Going north. Makes 360 turn. Leaves vertically. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2743 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:2 OBS:SLVR SCR > S:> N:MAKES 360 TURN:LEAVES VERTICALLY", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -106.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 106:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-106.100005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7688 (FF7E677D) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** EAST / GLENDALE, CA **Description:** Huge gold ball. Altitude = 30 km. Seen / 8 min going northwest going northeast over Tujunga. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2744 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "E/GLENDALE,CA:HUGE GOLD BALL:ALT=30 km:SEEN/8 min GOING NW>NE OVER TUJUNGA", **LatLong:** "34.150002 -118.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:00 N 118:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.150002,-118.216672)", **RelAlt:** "30000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7689 (246B5094) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** BLOOMINGTON AND MORE/OTHERS, CA **Description:** 20+observer(s). Huge domed disk / low altitude. Long thin object hovers then going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2745 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "332", **HatchDesc:** "BLOOMINGTON++,CA:20+OBS:HUGE DOMED DISK/LOW ALT:LONG THIN OBJ HVRS then >>E", **LatLong:** "34.072224 -117.394450", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:20 N 117:23:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.072224,-117.394450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7690 (5E94AF04) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTH / MAXATAWNY, PA **Description:** 3 observer(s). 25' saucer near ground / 5 minute(s). Portholes. Vague figure moves inside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 468) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2746 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "146", **HatchDesc:** "N/MAXATAWNY,PA:3 OBS:25'SCR nr GND/5min:PORTHOLES:vague figure moves inside.", **LatLong:** "40.566669 -75.694448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:34:00 N 75:41:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.566669,-75.694448)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 7691 (CD698F65) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** COLEMAN, TX **Description:** 4 observer(s). 3 very large turtle-saucers hover / 5 minutes. Rock and tilt. Glow / bottom/underside. 1 going east. 1 going west. 1 going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2747 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "519", **HatchDesc:** "COLEMAN,TX:4 OBS:3 VLRG TURTLE-SCRS HVR/5mins:ROCK+TILT:GLOW/BTM:1>E:1>W:1>S", **LatLong:** "31.827779 -99.427783", **LatLongDMS:** "31:49:40 N 99:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.827779,-99.427783)", **RelAlt:** "2500", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7692 (7E99D50E) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Location:** Frontenac-Pittsburg, KS **Description:** 70-75 ft inverted platter-shaped dull aluminum color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1972) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1299 ### Event 7693 (62336212) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Location:** Delaware, OH **Description:** (NARA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1915) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1300 ### Event 7694 (7BF63A4B) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Round silver object fly S, turn and fly N (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1979, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1301 ### Event 7695 (5519994F) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** 5:35 AM **Location:** Pittsburg, Kansas **Description:** Witness: radio station musician William Squyres. One dull aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face, estimated at 75' long, 45' wide, and 15' thick. Through a window in the front section shone a blue light; the head and shoulders of a man could be seen. The mid section had numerous windows through which could be seen some kind of regular movement. A series of small propellers were spaced close together along the outer edge of the object, revolving at high speed. The object was hovering about 10' above the ground, 100 yards off the road, with a slight rocking motion. It then ascended vertically with a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time. Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_231 ### Event 7696 (FA2CDD15) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Time:** 3:40 PM **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: civilian supervisor Fred Lee, foreman L.A. Aquilar. One round silver object flew south, turned and flew north, made a 360 turn and flew away vertically after 3-5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_232 ### Event 7697 (57E06CCA) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** 3:40 p.m. At Holloman AFB, New Mexico, plant supervisor Fred Lee and foreman [Lawrence A. Aguilar](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64152017/lorenzo%5Flawrence-arthur-aguilar) watch a round silver object for 5 minutes. It flies south, turns and flies north, makes a 360° turn, then flies away vertically. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Silver Sphere Maneuvers over Base](http://www.nicap.org/520825holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 168 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2023 ### Event 7698 (DD0C0547) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Locations:** Frontenac, Kansas; Pittsburg; US Highway 160 **Description:** 5:50 a.m. [William Squyres](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106009163/william-v%5F-squyres)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106009163/william-v%5F-squyres) a radio station musician at KOAM \[now KKOW-AM\] is driving from his home northeast of Frontenac, Kansas, to the station at Pittsburg. He is in his 1952 Jeep station wagon on a rough gravel road about a quarter of a mile from US Highway 160 when he sees a large, disc-shaped object hovering 10 feet in the air on the right side of the road 750 feet away. The UFO looks like two bowls placed together end to end, 75 feet long, 40 feet wide, and 15 feet high in the midsection. Through a window he can see the head and shoulders of a motionless human figure. Along its outer edge are a series of propellers 6–8 inches in diameter, spaced closely together and mounted on a bracket so they revolve “in a horizontal plane” along the edge of the object. He stops and gets out to watch it. As he is walking toward the object, it rises into the air and flies away at great speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 200–203](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/200/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Project Blue Book Unexplained Cases](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/bb/1972.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 168 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2024 ### Event 7699 (2FE6DBE6) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Locations:** Uranus; Mars **Description:** 9:25 p.m. Affa of Uranus contacts the Baileys, the Streeters, and the Williamsons \(as well as two students named Ronald Tucker and Betty Bowen\) by radio, using 405 or 450 kilocycles. Zo and Um of Neptune, Regga of Mars, and other aliens continue sending messages by both radio and telepathy. [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) sees a dark spot in the sky that he claims is Affa. [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) sees a blue light that he thinks is Zo. Everyone signs an affidavit that the events have truly taken place. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 22, 24; Clark III 1284 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2025 ### Event 7700 (ECF7121C) **Date:** Late 8/1952 **Locations:** Palomar Gardens Café; California **Description:** Albert and Betty Bailey go to the Palomar Gardens Café in California to visit [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and tell him about their contacts and their friendship with [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2031 ### Event 7701 (0A6F4B39) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Description:** At Holloman AFB, New Mexico around 3:40 p.m., civilian supervisor Fred Lee and foreman L.A. Aquilar saw a round silver object fly south, turn and fly north, then make a 360-degree turn and shoot up vertically after 3-5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, UNICAT, case # 741 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5311 ### Event 7702 (B7D29EA9) **Date:** 8/25/1952 **Description:** In Pittsburg, Kansas at 5:35 a.m. radio station musician William Squyres saw a dull aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face. The object was hovering about 10 feet above the ground, 100 yards off the road, with a slight rocking motion. He estimated its size at 75-feet long, 45-feet wide, and 15-feet thick. The head and shoulders of a man could be seen through a window in the front section, through which a blue light shone. The midsection had numerous windows through which could be seen some type of regular movement. A series of small propellers were arranged along the outer edge of the object spaced close together, revolving at high speed. It ascended vertically with a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time. Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; The Hynek UFO Report, p. 200; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 292 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5312 ### Event 7703 (F7C8563E) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Location:** WATKINS GLEN, NY **Description:** 3 observer(s). Flying saucer dives into Seneca Lake. 10' splash. / r106p250. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2748 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "307", **HatchDesc:** "WATKINS GLEN,NY:3 OBS:FLYING SCR DIVES INTO SENECA LAKE:10'SPLASH:/r106p250", **LatLong:** "42.388891 -76.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:23:20 N 76:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.388891,-76.866670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7704 (53EFB5EF) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** LATHROP WELLS, NV **Description:** Air Force Captain. Large vibrant bright saucer. Cone / center. Hovers. 90-turn and sudden acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2749 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "951", **HatchDesc:** "LATHROP WELLS,NV:AF Capt:LRG VBRITE SCR:CONE/CENTER:HVRS:90-TURN+SUDDEN ACCEL", **LatLong:** "36.650002 -116.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:39:00 N 116:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.650002,-116.383339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7705 (639F43DB) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** ELLINGTON AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** 3 USAF. Silent very fast sphere/orb/globe. Zigzags south going quickly north. Rises. Blinks / 2 second(s) intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 471) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2750 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "ELLINGTON AFB,TX:3 USAF:SILENT VFAST ORB:ZIGZAGS S>>N:RISES:BLINKS/2sec INTVLS", **LatLong:** "29.650001 -95.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:39:00 N 95:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.650001,-95.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7706 (696DAAA7) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Location:** Lathrop Wells, NV **Description:** V-shaped contrail, a dark cone in the center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1986) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1302 ### Event 7707 (355823ED) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Location:** Biloxi, MS **Description:** (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1987) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1303 ### Event 7708 (480C61B3) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **End date:** 8/30/1952 **Location:** Veracruz, Mexico **Description:** Object traveling in straight line out to sea with buzzing noise (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1994) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1304 ### Event 7709 (6297E7E3) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Time:** 12:10 AM **Location:** Lathrop Wells, Nevada **Description:** Witness: USAF Capt. D.A. Woods. One large, round, very bright object with a V-shaped contrail having a dark cone in the center, flew very fast, hovered, made an instantaneous 90 turn, followed by a gentle climb and finally sudden acceleration. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_233 ### Event 7710 (5F159E75) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Description:** At 12:10 a.m. USAF Captain D.A. Woods sighted a large, round, very bright object with a V-shaped contrail in Lathrop Wells, Nevada. It had a dark cone in the center. The object flew very fast, stopped and hovered, made an instantaneous 90-degree turn, and began a gentle climb followed by a final sudden acceleration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1986; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 280 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5355 ### Event 7711 (F2A3E2B8) **Date:** 8/26/1952 **Description:** At Watkins Glen, New York a "flying saucer" dove into a lake, splashing water eight to ten feet high. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226, citing Buffalo Evening News, August 26, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5356 ### Event 7712 (5FB221BF) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** LUMBERTON, NC **Description:** 5 separate observer(s). 30' saucer 30' away! Sparks and spins / rising. Ground depressed. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2751 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "LUMBERTON,NC:5 SEP.OBS:30'SCR 30'AWAY!:SPARKS+SPINS/RISING:GND DEPRESSED:/news", **LatLong:** "34.616668 -79.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "34:37:00 N 79:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.616668,-79.016670)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7713 (DDEE7700) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** VERACRUZ, VER, MEXICO **Description:** Neon blue-green saucer northeast going quickly southwest / 8 second(s). Sphere/orb/globe over Madero, Mexico oilfields. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 471) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2752 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VERACRUZ,VER,MEX:NEON BLU-GRN SCR NE>>SW/8sec::ORB ovr MADERO,MEX OILFIELDS", **LatLong:** "19.183334 -96.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "19:11:00 N 96:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.183334,-96.166671)", **State/Prov:** "VRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7714 (84299D36) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** MACDONALD, MB **Description:** 2 WX men / airport/apartment. Disk subtends 3°. 2 turns below clouds. Going quickly northeast. / r24v4#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2753 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "253", **HatchDesc:** "MACDONALD,MB:2 WX MEN/APT:DISK SUBTENDS 3°:2 TURNS BLW CLOUDS:>>NE:/r24v4#10", **LatLong:** "50.066669 -98.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "50:04:00 N 98:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.066669,-98.450005)", **State/Prov:** "MTB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7715 (B7F73506) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** PORT ARTHUR, TX **Description:** 15 observer(s). 3+3+3 white auto-tires going west / 3 formations slow into cloud. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2754 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PORT ARTHUR,TX:15 OBS:3+3+3 WHT AUTO-TIRES >W/3 FORMNs SLOW into cloud:NFD", **LatLong:** "29.883335 -93.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:53:00 N 93:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.883335,-93.933338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7716 (F06E3851) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** MT. SUCCESS, NH **Description:** 4 Ob. Round flat object with hump over scene / recent forest fire. Maneuvers. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2755 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1086", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.SUCCESS,NH:4 OB:RND FLAT OBJ W/HUMP ovr SCENE/RECENT FOREST FIRE:MNVRS:>>W", **LatLong:** "44.472224 -71.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:28:20 N 71:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.472224,-71.050003)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7717 (661FF1C4) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM, AL **Description:** Flickering blue light circles city / tremendous speed. Spirals going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 473) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2756 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM,AL:FLICKERING BLUE LITE CIRCLES CITY/TREMENDOUS SPEED:SPIRALS ↑", **LatLong:** "33.516668 -86.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:31:00 N 86:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.516668,-86.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7718 (B82F37EE) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ **Description:** 2 Brill-blue blobs. Tucson, AZ civilians see also. Very fast maneuvers. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 473) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2757 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "824", **HatchDesc:** "DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB,AZ:2 BRILL-BLU BLOBS:TUCSON,AZ CIVS SEE ALSO:VFAST MNVRS:>>E", **LatLong:** "32.150002 -110.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:09:00 N 110:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.150002,-110.883339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7719 (B60164B7) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Location:** Pittsburg, KS **Description:** Object reported hovering over open field; bluish lights seen through ports; swift ascent when observed (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: T, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [520827](http://www.nicap.org/520827pittsburg%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1305 ### Event 7720 (A9AC1BC9) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Location:** Lamberton, North Carolina **Description:** A saucer-shaped craft, 3 by 2 m, landed on the witness's property after hitting a chimney. A little man, about 70 cm tall, emerged and was asked whether he was hurt, but he did not answer. The craft took off with a whistling sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins A 268 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_99 ### Event 7721 (FF5AB32E) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Location:** Macdonald Airport in Manitoba **Description:** 4:45 a.m. Two meteorological officers at Macdonald Airport in Manitoba see a disc-shaped object with shadows on it. It makes two turns around the airfield. When the rotating airport beacon light strikes it, the object glints like shiny aluminum, speeds away to the northeast, and vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 184–185](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2026 ### Event 7722 (165263BB) **Date:** 8/27/1952 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. in Lumberton, North Carolina a 30-foot wide saucer-shaped craft landed after hitting a chimney. A little man about 70 cm tall (2.3 feet) emerged. The witness asked if he was hurt but he did not answer. He re-entered the craft and it took off with a whistling sound. At 5 o'clock in the morning a disc circled in the sky over MacDonald, Manitoba. It was gone in one second after the airport tower beacon hit it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 268; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 99; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5388 ### Event 7723 (933B8319) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Location:** LE ROY, NY **Description:** Several / ground. Saucer / tight vertical circles around airliner. No further details. / r78p165. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2758 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "265", **HatchDesc:** "LE ROY,NY:SVRL/GROUND:SCR/TIGHT VERTICAL CIRCLES AROUND AIRLINER:NFD:/r78p165", **LatLong:** "42.977780 -77.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:58:40 N 77:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.977780,-77.983337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7724 (1A47F69D) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** WELLINGTON, OH **Description:** Several separate observer(s) call papers. 10m saucer up close. Landing traces? News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 473) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2759 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "WELLINGTON,OH:SVRL SEP.OBS CALL PAPERS:10m SCR UP CLOSE:LANDING TRACES?:NEWS", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -82.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 82:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-82.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7725 (D27B0AEF) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** SOUTH / WINDSOR, ONT **Description:** 10M domed saucer / field. Object sparks and glows and quickly going up [to] fast. Separate observer(s). / APRO v1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2760 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "S/WINDSOR,ONT:10M DOMED SCR/FLD:OBJ SPARKS+GLOWS+↑↑ FAST:SEP.OBS:/APRO v1#2", **LatLong:** "42.283335 -83.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:00 N 83:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.283335,-83.000004)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 7726 (97B95268) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LA **Description:** Guard. Night light stops overhead / seconds. Out like a light. Back next night. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 474) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2761 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "51", **HatchDesc:** "BARKSDALE AFB,LA:GUARD:NLT STOPS OVHD/secs:OUT LIKE A LITE:BACK NEXT NITE", **LatLong:** "32.516668 -93.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:31:00 N 93:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.516668,-93.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7727 (65E9FEE7) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 03:00? **Location:** ATLANTA, GA **Description:** 2+4 cops. Saucer(?) goes up and down. Changes color(s) red-white-blue. Flips twice. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 474) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2762 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTA,GA:2+4 COPS:SCR(?) GOES UP+DOWN:CHANGES CLRS RED-WHT-BLU:FLIPS TWICE", **LatLong:** "33.733335 -84.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:00 N 84:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.733335,-84.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7728 (2F104119) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** KENNEWICK, WA **Description:** 2 boys. Large silver saucer / treetops. Railing girds rim. Man / rim! Going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2763 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "KENNEWICK,WA:2 BOYS:LRG SLVR SCR/TREETOPS:RAILING GIRDS RIM:MAN/RIM!:>SE", **LatLong:** "46.211113 -119.155561", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:40 N 119:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.211113,-119.155561)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7729 (D6CB042E) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BEAUMONT, TX **Description:** 5 observer(s). 3 saucers hover over oil refinery. Air Force jets pursue. Saucers disperse. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2764 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUMONT,TX:5 OBS:3 SCRS HVR ovr OIL REFINERY:AF JETS PURSUE:SCRS DISPERSE", **LatLong:** "30.066668 -94.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:04:00 N 94:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.066668,-94.083338)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7730 (5816F5FF) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** DENHAM, BUCKS, ENG **Description:** Large cylinder/cigar-shape offloads smaller saucers going in all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2765 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DENHAM,BUCKs,ENG:LRG CGR OFFLOADS SMALLER SCRS GOING IN ALL DIRECTIONS", **LatLong:** "51.566669 -0.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:34:00 N 00:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.566669,-0.500000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7731 (3D5F2973) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / VENTURA, CA **Description:** 3 / ground and pilot / air. Large silver sphere jumps up and down over oilfield. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2766 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "NW/VENTURA,CA:3/GND+PILOT/AIR:LRG SLVR SPHERE JUMPS UP+DOWN ovr OILFIELD", **LatLong:** "34.300002 -119.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:18:00 N 119:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.300002,-119.300006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7732 (0E7255CB) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** VENTURA, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 1M multi-colored object in from sea. Flashes and circle / treetops. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2767 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "VENTURA,CA:2 OBS:1M MULTI-CLRD OBJ IN FROM SEA:FLASHES+CCL/TREETOPS:>>SE", **LatLong:** "34.283335 -119.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:17:00 N 119:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.283335,-119.283339)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7733 (F8DD820F) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE / MOBILE, AL **Description:** Several military and civil observer(s). Odd night lights flicker red blue and green. No explanation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 193) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2768 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "75", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKLEY AFB/MOBILE,AL:SVRL MIL+CIV OBS:ODD NLTS FLICKER RED BLU+GRN:NO EXPLAN", **LatLong:** "30.633335 -88.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:38:00 N 88:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.633335,-88.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7734 (E81A7074) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Location:** Brookley AFB, Mobile, AL **Description:** Multiple red stationary and maneuvering objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2006) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520828](http://www.nicap.org/520828brookleydir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1306 ### Event 7735 (B691CA34) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Location:** LeRoy, NY **Description:** Disc circled airliner verttically. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1308 ### Event 7736 (78E63475) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Location:** Atlanta, GA **Description:** Police watched maneuvering UFO. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1309 ### Event 7737 (F7892DEB) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Time:** 9:30 PM **Location:** Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama **Description:** Witnesses: USAF control tower operators, officer from USAF Office of Special Investigations, and others. Six objects, varying from fiery red to sparkling diamond appearance, hovered, flew erratically up and down for 1 hour and l5minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_234 ### Event 7738 (3C614027) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Location:** Le Roy, New York **Description:** A family on the ground in Le Roy, New York, sees a disc making tight vertical circles around an airliner. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 10](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=22&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2027 ### Event 7739 (8F044500) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Locations:** Chickasaw, Alabama; Brookley AFB [now Mobile Downtown Airport] in Mobile, Alabama **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Three civilians in Chickasaw, Alabama, report to Brookley AFB \[now Mobile Downtown Airport\] in Mobile, Alabama, their observation of multiple red stationary and maneuvering objects to the south, and another one moving from south to west, all in the direction of Brookley. AFOSI agent Charles A. Robinson arrives in Chickasaw at 9:50 p.m. to investigate and sees the same four objects to the south and southwest at an estimated 8–12 miles distance. One fiery red object is stationary for 15 minutes then drifts 15°–20° to the right after which it is stationary again. Radar operator A/2C [Irl A. Whitaker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187133390/irl-allen-whitaker) visually spots a red-green object over Chickasaw to the north. USAF duty officer Capt. William A. Edwards and control tower operators see one object to the southwest to the right and lower than the moon, and another object to the west at 10°–20° elevation. The latter is confirmed by radar as a stationary target at four miles range and 4,000 feet altitude. Robinson and others see one object explode, and another does a figure 8 maneuver. There are 4–6 objects larger than a star or planet varying from fiery red, red-blue, red-green, and sparkling diamond appearance. A civilian Air Force employee sees a flat oval shape. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[GCA Paints Stationary Target](http://www.nicap.org/520828brookleydir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 169 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2028 ### Event 7740 (87DE0D2E) **Date:** 8/28/1952 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. USAF control tower operators at Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama, an officer from the USAF Office of Special Investigations, and others watched six UFOs hover and fly erratically for 75 minutes. They varied in color and intensity from fiery red to sparkling diamond white in appearance. They flew erratically up and down, and were tracked on radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2006; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 442 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5407 ### Event 7741 (6C40FFB7) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Location:** BERNALILLO TO/FROM LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** (Up). 3 / plane. Air Force vectors jets chase / 7 metal UFO's. Denial. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2769 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1885", **HatchDesc:** "BERNALILLO> Event 7742 (4D724016) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** WEST / THULE, GREENLAND **Description:** 2 Navy pilots / PY4-2. 3 saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. Hover and away fast. / r185+172. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2770 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "W/THULE,GREENLAND:2 NAVY PILOTS/PY4-2:3 SCRS/DLT FORMn:HVR+AWAY FAST:/r185+172", **LatLong:** "76.416670 -75.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "76:25:00 N 75:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/76.416670,-75.000004)", **State/Prov:** "THU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7743 (06B9C44E) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** LAKE CHARLES, LA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer hovers / 3 second(s). Going quickly east toward(s) Chenault Air Force Base. Small red light follows.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 478) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2771 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE CHARLES,LA:2 OBS:SCR HVRS/3sec:>>E TWRD CHENAULT AFB:SML RED LITE FOLOS..", **LatLong:** "30.216668 -93.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:13:00 N 93:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.216668,-93.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7744 (8FDB0204) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** PALM BEACH, FL **Description:** 3+tots. Coin saucer lands / woods. Portholes or lights / edge. / r136#10p155. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 510) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2772 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "PALM BEACH,FL:3+TOTS:COIN SCR LANDS/WOODS:PORTS or LITES/EDGE:/r136#10p155", **LatLong:** "26.705557 -80.038893", **LatLongDMS:** "26:42:20 N 80:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.705557,-80.038893)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7745 (228AEEE3) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MOSS BLUFF, LA **Description:** Silent ovoid descends. Strong white light going down. Seems to land in woods. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 479) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2773 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "MOSS BLUFF,LA:SILENT OVOID DESCENDS:STRONG WHT LITE ↓:SEEMS TO LAND in WOODS", **LatLong:** "30.300001 -93.188893", **LatLongDMS:** "30:18:00 N 93:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.300001,-93.188893)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7746 (D3E7271B) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** ~20:30 **Location:** VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, FR **Description:** 7+observer(s) with theodolite. Luminous/glowing bar going northwest in jumps. Quickly going up. / r242p122. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2774 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY,FR:7+OBS W/THEODOLITE:LUMn BAR >NW in JUMPS:↑↑:/r242p122", **LatLong:** "48.750002 2.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:45:00 N 02:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.750002,2.200000)", **State/Prov:** "PAR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7747 (E9416207) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** COLORADO SPRS, CO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2013. Pilot Magruder. 3 silent 50' metal saucers / 1500mph. Exit going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 480) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2775 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1802", **HatchDesc:** "COLORADO SPRs,CO:BBK#2013:PILOT MAGRUDER:3 SILENT 50'MTL SCRS/1500mph:EXIT ↑", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -104.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 104:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-104.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7748 (69D59BF6) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** ELIZABETH, NJ **Description:** Medical Dr. and wife. Cloud is glowing-saucer over oil refinery. 5 small objects orbit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2776 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "ELIZABETH,NJ:Med.Dr+WIFE:CLOUD is GLOW-SCR ovr OIL REFINERY:5 SML OBJs ORBIT", **LatLong:** "40.683335 -74.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:41:00 N 74:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.683335,-74.200004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7749 (0B56817F) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Location:** Villacoublay, France **Description:** Unidentified bright blue light observed through theodolite; once appeared as luminous white bar edged with black. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1310 ### Event 7750 (423D8AC6) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Location:** Colorado Springs, CO **Description:** 3 objects 50 ft in diameter, 10 ft high, aluminum (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2013) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1311 ### Event 7751 (6D708554) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Location:** Thule (West of), Greenland **Description:** Three Objects Shake Up Air Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520829](http://www.nicap.org/520829thule%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1312 ### Event 7752 (94A69A4B) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 8:35 PM **Location:** Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** Witness: pilot C.A. Magruder. Three objects, 50' in diameter, 10' high, aluminum with red-yellow exhaust, flew in trail at estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_235 ### Event 7753 (2C909741) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Time:** 10:50 AM **Location:** west of Thule, Greenland (77' N, 75' 15' W) **Description:** Witnesses: two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane. Three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovered, then flew very fast in a triangular formation, in 2-3 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_236 ### Event 7754 (757D5EA5) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Locations:** Thule Air Base; Qaanaaq, Greenland **Description:** 10:50 a.m. Pilot LtJG William A. O’Flaherty and navigator LtJG R. S. Moore are flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane west of Thule Air Base, near Qaanaaq, Greenland. They are following an 85-foot-diameter Skyhook balloon launched from an icebreaker, US Coast Guard Cutter [Eastwind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%5FEastwind%5F%28WAGB-279%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%5FEastwind%5F%28WAGB-279%29) when, upon release of the parachute instrument package from the balloon, they see 3 white discs or globes, about ½ to almost the full apparent size of the balloon, in triangle formation clustered to the right of the Skyhook instrument package at 74,000 feet for some 2–3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three Objects Shake Up Air Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520829thule%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 167 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2029 ### Event 7755 (E0BD6AF3) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Location:** Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** 8:35 p.m. Civil Air Patrol pilot [Carlton A. Magruder](http://www.nicap.org/520829colorado%5Fdir.htm) sees three aluminum-colored objects with a red-yellow exhaust over Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are 50 feet in diameter and 10 feet high, flying in line at about 1,500 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Pilot Reports Three Objects 50ʹ in Diameter](http://www.nicap.org/520829colorado%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 169; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2030 ### Event 7756 (F6F1BF2E) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Description:** Two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane witnessed three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovering west of Thule, Greenland (77.00º N, 75.25º W) at 10:50 a.m. They flew very fast in a triangular formation, and were in sight for 2-3 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer from Outer Space, p. 255; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 743; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5455 ### Event 7757 (05D7155F) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. at least seven observers with a theodolite sighted a luminous bar in the sky over the city of Villacoublay, Yvelines, France. The object flew to the northwest in jumps, and then shot up vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 179-180; UNICAT, case # 200; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1968 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5456 ### Event 7758 (53C23ACB) **Date:** 8/29/1952 **Description:** At 8:35 p.m. pilot C. A. Magruder, flying near Colorado Springs, Colorado saw three aluminum colored objects with yellowish-red exhaust, 50-feet in diameter and 10' high. They flew in a trail formation at estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2013; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5457 ### Event 7759 (DABA74D0) **Date:** 8/30/1952 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** SANTA MONICA, CA **Description:** F. Hehr. Several rectangular objects in holes / overcast sky. Maneuvers and formations. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2777 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA MONICA,CA:F.HEHR:SVRL RECTANGLR OBJS in HOLES/OVERCAST SKY:MNVRS+FORMns", **LatLong:** "34.033335 -118.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:00 N 118:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.033335,-118.466672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7760 (8A53DAB3) **Date:** 8/30/1952 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** EAST / KEARNEY, NE **Description:** 2 / rural road. 8M silver disk hovers / Platte River. Vanishes. Seen closely. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2778 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "650", **HatchDesc:** "E/KEARNEY,NE:2/RURAL ROAD:8M SLVR DISK HVRS/PLATTE Rvr:VANISHES:seen closely", **LatLong:** "40.700002 -99.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:42:00 N 99:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.700002,-99.000005)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7761 (795D80CC) **Date:** 8/30/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** DAMARISCOTTA LK, ME **Description:** Doctor. Large frying pan going northeast. Handle rotates. Silent. Large and sharp. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2779 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "DAMARISCOTTA Lk,ME:DOCTOR:LRG FRYING PAN >NE:HANDLE ROTATES:SLNT:LRG+SHARP", **LatLong:** "44.133335 -69.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:08:00 N 69:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.133335,-69.500003)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7762 (600BEBA0) **Date:** 8/30/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** TAMPICO, VERACRUZ, MEXICO **Description:** Many observer(s). 7M saucer hovers / 5 minute(s). Then shoots going quickly north / amazing speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 480) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2780 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TAMPICO,VERACRUZ,MEX:MANY OBS:7M SCR HVRS/5min:THEN SHOOTS >>N/AMAZING SPEED", **LatLong:** "22.216668 -97.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "22:13:00 N 97:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/22.216668,-97.883338)", **State/Prov:** "VRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7763 (0E248F9E) **Date:** 8/30/1952 **Location:** Santa Monica, CA **Description:** Horizontal bar-shaped objects appearing and disappearing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1313 ### Event 7764 (67FCF032) **Date:** 8/31/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CLINTON, NJ **Description:** 2+3 kids. Silver sphere hovers. Shoots up / impossible speed as plane nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 59) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2781 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "59", **HatchDesc:** "CLINTON,NJ:2+3 KIDS:SLVR SPHERE HVRS:SHOOTS UP/IMPOSS.SPEED as plane nears", **LatLong:** "40.650002 -74.911115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:39:00 N 74:54:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.650002,-74.911115)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7765 (8D53BE50) **Date:** 8/31/1952 **Location:** Pennsylvania, exact location unknown **Description:** Herbert Long saw an object land 15 m away from the road. He made a drawing of it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins A 257 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_100 ### Event 7766 (EE8C620E) **Date:** 9/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** F-86 Shooting Incident / 700 MPH Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [5209XX](http://www.nicap.org/5209XXalbuquerque%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1315 ### Event 7767 (73AE30A4) **Date:** 9/1952 **Location:** Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 10:00 a.m. A radar scope near Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, picks up an unknown target approaching at 700 mph then slows down to 100 mph northeast of the airfield. Two F-86 Sabre jets are scrambled but at first cannot locate the target. The second pilot suddenly spots what seems to be a balloon but as he gets closer it looks more like a “doughnut without a hole.” He gets as close as 1,500 feet before the object accelerates. When it is again at a range of 3,000 feet, the pilot begins firing at the object, but it pulls up in a climb and disappears in seconds. Capt. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is given this report by an intelligence officer \(probably Lt. Glen Parrish\) at the base, who is about to forward the incident report to ATIC but the commanding officer \(Brig. Gen. [William A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FA.%5FMatheny) [Matheny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FA.%5FMatheny)\) orders it destroyed. Parrish shows the last copy of the report to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) during a visit to Kirtland. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 1–5](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/n13/mode/2up); NICAP, “[F-86 Shooting Incident / 700 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/5209XXalbuquerque%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2033 ### Event 7768 (D2AFD4B8) **Date:** 9/1952 **Description:** UFO witness turned researcher [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) releases The Coming of the Saucers, coauthored by his friend and publisher, [Raymond A. Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) As publicity, the story “Flying Saucer-y” is prepared by King Features Syndicate and carried in many newspapers as a full-page story. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952; Curt Collins, “[Kenneth Arnold’s 1952 UFO Book Promotion,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/09/kenneth-arnolds-1952-ufo-book-promotion.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, September 28, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2034 ### Event 7769 (AF01D4E2) **Date:** 9/1952 **Location:** Los Angeles **Description:** Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles publishes the first of only four issues of its CSI Quarterly Bulletin. The final issue appears in early 1954. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [CSI Quarterly](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201952%20Fall.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201952%20Fall.pdf) no. 1 \(Fall 1952\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2035 ### Event 7770 (91009EE1) **Date:** 9/1952 **Description:** [John P. Cahn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27512833/john-p%5F-cahn) publishes an exposé of [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully)’s Behind the Flying Saucers in True magazine. Scully’s sources are an oil prospector named [Silas M. Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) and a mysterious “Dr. Gee,” later identified as [Leo](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660) [GeBauer](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660)[,](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660) a con man with a long arrest record. The tale is a ploy to gain the attention of potential investors in a bogus oil detection scheme allegedly linked to alien technology. [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) writes that Scully was himself a victim, not a perpetrator. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men,](http://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn1.pdf)” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; Clark III 1044–1045 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2036 ### Event 7771 (9BC24847) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** SE.MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** 2 observer(s). 6M white wingless disk going southeast / 1500M altitude over clouds. 600kph. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2782 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "SE.MEMPHIS,TN:2 OBS:6M WHT WINGLESS DISK >SE/1500M alt ovr clouds:600kph:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.100002 -89.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:06:00 N 89:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.100002,-89.983338)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7772 (BE5F7B56) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** WOODLYN, PA **Description:** Separate observer(s). 7-8 observer(s). Bright 'saucer' exits cloud. Circles jet going southwest several-X. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2783 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WOODLYN,PA:SEP.OBS:7-8 OBS:BRITE 'SCR' EXITS CLOUD:CCLS JET >SW SVRL-X:", **LatLong:** "39.877780 -75.344448", **LatLongDMS:** "39:52:40 N 75:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.877780,-75.344448)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7773 (1A46CB91) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MARIETTA, GA **Description:** Several separate observer(s) to 2250h. Saucers and night lights spew sparks. Merge maneuver and hover. Wave. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2784 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "344", **HatchDesc:** "MARIETTA,GA:SVRL SEP.OBS to 2250h:SCRS+NLTS SPEW SPARKS:MERGE MNVR+HVR:WAVE", **LatLong:** "33.950002 -84.561115", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:00 N 84:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.950002,-84.561115)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7774 (9D0E3875) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Location:** Atlanta, GA **Description:** Light, similar to the evening star, move up and down (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1316 ### Event 7775 (5DE1949F) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Location:** Marietta, GA **Description:** Red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2022) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1317 ### Event 7776 (0822BDEC) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Location:** Marietta, GA **Description:** 2 large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1318 ### Event 7777 (CE40105E) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Location:** Yaak, MT **Description:** Radar/Visual At Air Force Radar Site (BBU 2023) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2023) **Reference:** NICAP: [520901](http://www.nicap.org/520901yaak%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1319 ### Event 7778 (9F3CB9B1) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 10:50 PM **Location:** Marietta, Georgia **Description:** Witness: ex-AAF B-25 gunner. Two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails flew in trail formation, merged, flew away very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_237 ### Event 7779 (1BF7A042) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 10:30 PM **Location:** Marietta, Georgia **Description:** Witness: one unidentified person using binoculars. Two large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and green colors, flew side by side, leaving a sparkling trail for 30 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_238 ### Event 7780 (A0718C89) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 9:43 PM **Location:** Atlanta, Georgia **Description:** Witnesses: Mrs. William Davis and nine other persons. One light, similar to the evening star, moved up and down for a long period of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_239 ### Event 7781 (5FA0AF27) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 10:30 PM **Location:** Marietta, Georgia **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. Bowman (ex-artillery officer) and 24 others. A red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_240 ### Event 7782 (A6D560A5) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Time:** 4:45 AM **Location:** Yaak, Montana **Description:** Witnesses: Visual sighting by two USAF enlisted men, radar tracking seen by three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Two small, varicolored lights became black silhouettes at dawn; flew erratically. One hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_241 ### Event 7783 (8E1A22BB) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Location:** Yaak Air Force Station in Montana **Description:** 8:23 p.m. Air Defense Command radar at Yaak Air Force Station in Montana picks up UFOs exhibiting changes of direction as many as five times a minute. Some course changes are 90° and speeds are measured at 1,400–1,600 mph. Six blips at one time appear on the FPS-3 radar scopes and the strange targets come within 10 miles of the GCI site. So close is the indicated range the radar personnel leave their windowless operations room to check the sky. Six objects can be seen an estimated 10 miles away. When first spotted, the UFOs are in an in- trail formation, and shortly thereafter that changes to an in-line abreast grouping. Finally, the UFOs switch to a vertical stack. S/Sgt. William Kelly remembers tracking the UFOs on the radar executing vertical climbs that exceed the limit of the site’s height-finding equipment. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Radar/Visual at Air Force Radar Site](http://www.nicap.org/520901yaak%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2037 ### Event 7784 (E93CDB5C) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Location:** Marietta, Georgia **Description:** 10:30 p.m. An ex-artillery officer named Bowman and 24 others at Marietta, Georgia, see a red, white, and blue-green object that spins and shoots off sparks. An unidentified witness using binoculars sees two large objects shaped like spinning tops with red, blue, and green colors, flying side by side and leaving a sparkling trail for 30 minutes. At 10:50 p.m., a former Army Air Force B-25 gunner sees two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails fly in trail formation, merge, and fly away quickly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Discs in Trail](http://www.nicap.org/520901marietta%5Fdir.htm) [Formation](http://www.nicap.org/520901marietta%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2038 ### Event 7785 (1586174C) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Description:** At a U.S. Air Force radar site in Yaak, Montana at 4:45 a.m. two Air Force enlisted men sighted lights in the sky at the same time radar tracked two blips on an AN/FPS-3 radar set monitored by three radar operators. The two small, multi-colored lights became black silhouettes at dawn and flew around erratically for an hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5549 ### Event 7786 (E3E4428B) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Description:** At 9:43 p.m. in Atlanta, Georgia Mrs. William Davis and nine other witnesses saw a light, similar to the evening star, move up and down for a long period of time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5550 ### Event 7787 (94EA7503) **Date:** 9/1/1952 **Description:** At 10:30 p.m. in nearby Marietta, Georgia an unidentified witness using binoculars viewed two large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and green colors. They flew side-by-side leaving a trail of sparks for 30 minutes. At the same time Mr. Bowman, an ex-artillery officer, and 24 others saw a red, white, and bluish-green object spinning and throwing off sparks for 15 minutes. Twenty minutes later an ex-AAF B-25 gunner saw two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails flying in trail formation. They merged together and flew away very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5551 ### Event 7788 (FFA3FCBF) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** 2 airport/apartment RADAR's. 40 blips going [to] all directions. Jets fly through blips. No visual at all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 503) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2785 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "224", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:2 APT RDRS:40 BLIPS>ALL DIRs:JETS fly THRU BLIPS:NO VISUAL at all", **LatLong:** "41.883335 -87.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:00 N 87:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.883335,-87.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7789 (A6B24797) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** NNW / RAPID CITY, SD **Description:** B36 flight engineers 10 mile(s) / east. Metal disk hovers and wobbles under high clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2786 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "975", **HatchDesc:** "NNW/RAPID CITY,SD:B36 FLT ENGs 10mi/E:MTL DISK HVRs+WOBBLES UNDER HIGH CLOUDS:", **LatLong:** "44.166669 -103.255560", **LatLongDMS:** "44:10:00 N 103:15:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.166669,-103.255560)", **RelAlt:** "3500", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7790 (CC9E5677) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 7 large saucers / changing formations / direction. All vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 507) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2787 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "824", **HatchDesc:** "DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB,AZ:2 OBS:7 LRG SCRS/CHANGING FORMATIONS/DIRECTION:ALL VANISH", **LatLong:** "32.150002 -110.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:09:00 N 110:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.150002,-110.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7791 (800FCC51) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Several reports / papers. Brill night lights going up [to] going down [to] etc. Change color(s). Fast all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 508) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2788 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:SVRL REPTS/PAPERS:BRILL NLTS ↑↓ etc:CHANGE CLRS:FAST ALL DIRs.", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -118.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 118:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-118.233339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7792 (69ABA9E3) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** (McDonald list) GCI Has Radar Targets At Two Sites (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520902](http://www.nicap.org/520902tokyo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1320 ### Event 7793 (CA161D66) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Location:** Chicago, IL **Description:** Midway Airport 40 targets flying in miscellaneous directions (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2025) **Reference:** NICAP: [520902](http://www.nicap.org/520902chicago%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1321 ### Event 7794 (8089E102) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Time:** 3 AM **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** Witness: radar tracker Turason (ground controlled approach) at Midway Airport. 40 targets flew in miscellaneous directions, up to 175 m.p.h. Two seemed to fly in formation with DC-6 airliner. Total of 8 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_242 ### Event 7795 (6F074BAC) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Locations:** Midway Airport in Chicago; Elkhorn, Wisconsin; O’Hare Airport in Chicago **Description:** 12:01 a.m. CAA radar controllers [Robert L. Terneuzen](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100317697/robert-l-terneuzen) \(GCA\), Ralph L. Frick, Dale E. Warner, Warren J. Weber, and Radar Maintenance Technician Gordon R. Copeland track as many as 30 targets simultaneously at Midway Airport in Chicago, flying in various directions with an average speed of 175 mph at about 2,000 feet. The 755th Aircraft Control and Weapons radar station in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, claims that the Midway Airport Tower supervisor has called them at 2:50 a.m., saying there are 40 targets plotted by airport radar flying from 3,000 to 6,000 feet at a speed of 120–150 mph. The targets are the size of blips from light planes or larger \(the best target quality is in the 6–10-mile range\) and move in no particular pattern—sometimes erratically and sometimes in straight lines up to 15 miles long. In at least one instance, the targets fly in formation with an aircraft. At 5:14 a.m., the Air Defense Command is alerted and authorizes the scramble of two jets from the 4706th Interceptor Wing at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. At 5:55 a.m., a pair of F-86 Sabre jets piloted by Capt. [William W. Maitland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42353620/william-ward-maitland) and Lt. Beverly L. Dunhill, lift off and are vectored right through the targets as shown on radar, making passes at 800 and at 4,000 feet without making contact. The F-86s are evidently without airborne radar because they only mention visual descriptions. Maitland and Dunhill later tell the media: “We didn’t hit anything. We didn’t see anything. We went through the target showing on the scope and there was nothing there, not even a cloud.” The jets break off their aerial search at 6:19 a.m. and return to base. By 7:00 a.m. all of the mysterious targets disappear off the scopes toward the south. The Midway radar crews are convinced the targets are returns from tangible bodies, but CAA chief Bob Zeigler overrules them and blames “peculiar atmospheric conditions.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sabre Jets Fly through ‘Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93459288/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Spokesman-Review, September 3, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “[40 Targets at Midway Airport](http://www.nicap.org/520902chicago%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 171 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2039 ### Event 7796 (43DC797F) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Description:** At three o'clock in the morning Mr. Turason, a radar operator working for ground control at Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois picked up 40 targets flying in miscellaneous directions, up to 175 mph. Two of the blips seemed to fly in formation with a DC-6 airliner. The radar sightings lasted a total of eight hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2025; UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 3; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5562 ### Event 7797 (3C465345) **Date:** 9/2/1952 **Description:** At 5:50 p.m. two military observers at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona saw seven large saucer-shaped objects, identical in appearance, in changing formations. When they changed direction for the last time all of them vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. September-October 1952, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 183; UNICAT, case 744 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5563 ### Event 7798 (5164FE25) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Location:** CHAVES, PORTUGAL **Description:** Cops and many. Several classic saucers. 1 hovers over Tamegafor River. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2789 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHAVES,PORTUGAL:COPS+MANY:SVRL CLASSIC SCRS:1 HVRS OVR TAMEGAFOR RIVER", **LatLong:** "41.733335 -7.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "41:44:00 N 07:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.733335,-7.450000)", **State/Prov:** "TOM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7799 (0AF4181E) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** Flight instrument and 1. Dark ovoid / 2 separate loops over town. Finally going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 509) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2790 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:FLITE INSTR+1:DARK OVOID/2 SEP.LOOPS OVR TOWN:FINALLY >>W", **LatLong:** "32.250002 -110.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:15:00 N 110:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.250002,-110.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7800 (F621B603) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** NORTH / ATLANTA, GA **Description:** Military pilot-Air Traffic Controller. 2 discs / light move slowly and change color(s). / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 509) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2791 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "N/ATLANTA,GA:MIL PILOT-ATC:2 DISCS/LITE MOVE SLOWLY+CHANGE CLRS:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "33.783335 -84.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:00 N 84:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.783335,-84.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7801 (AD17AC5B) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN **Description:** 4 seminary professors. Luminous disc east going quickly west. No meteor / CIA. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 509) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2792 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PALMA de MALLORCA,SPAIN:4 SEMINARY PROFESSORS:LUM.DISC E>>W: NO METEOR/CIA", **LatLong:** "39.600002 2.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "39:36:00 N 02:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.600002,2.650000)", **State/Prov:** "BLR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7802 (DA56AEE0) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** Shiny, dark ellipse make three broad, curving sweeps (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1322 ### Event 7803 (A573C79D) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Time:** 99 AM **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: civilian pilots McCraven and Thomas. One shiny, dark ellipse made three broad, curving sweeps in 1.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_243 ### Event 7804 (0946F0BF) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** 9:00 a.m. Instructor pilot [Donald L. McCraven](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36505184/donald-l-mccraven) and N. D. Thomas observe a dark elliptical object reflecting sunlight 6 miles north of Tucson, Arizona. The object makes three well-coordinated turns with no perceptible sound. It moves at tremendous speed during a slight climb and is observed for approximately 90 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Dark Ellipse Makes Three Coordinated Turns](http://www.nicap.org/520903tucson%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 172 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2040 ### Event 7805 (8E7BDE89) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Description:** 12:30 p.m. [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) meets in the Cabinet Room with Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) Col. [John Gordon Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FGordon%5FFowler), and three other USAF officers; [Lawrence J. Henderson Jr.](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/03/28/97122067.html?pageNumber=26) and [Walter W. Niles](http://cv14.com/shipmates2.html) from the RAND Corporation; and [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/) and four others from the National Security Resources Board. The topic is the Washington UFO incident. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank Stalter, “[The Real Majestic 12: Harry Truman’s 1952 DC UFO Meeting,](http://ufopartisan.blogspot.com/2009/10/trumans-white-house-meeting-on-1952-dc.html)” The UFO Partisan, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2041 ### Event 7806 (2B897092) **Date:** 9/3/1952 **Description:** At 9:00 a.m. a flight instructor and one other witness witnessed a dark ovoid object that made two separate loops over Tucson, Arizona. It finally flew off quickly to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5585 ### Event 7807 (A53243DD) **Date:** 9/4/1952 **Location:** DANVILLE, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post Ph-04 / black. "Silent fighter-sized silver saucer faster / jet". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 509) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2793 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "DANVILLE,CA:GOC POST PH-04/BLACK:"SILENT FIGHTER-SIZED SLVR SCR FASTER/JET"", **LatLong:** "37.833335 -122.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:00 N 122:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.833335,-122.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7808 (FEDA0A82) **Date:** 9/4/1952 **Location:** SACRAMENTO, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) = Carlson. Black line tilts. = shimmering silver disk. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 509) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2794 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SACRAMENTO,CA:BBK:GOC OBS=CARLSON:BLACK LINE TILTS:=SHIMMERING SLVR DISK", **LatLong:** "38.583335 -121.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:00 N 121:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.583335,-121.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7809 (0A33E912) **Date:** 9/4/1952 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** LUDINGTON, MI **Description:** 2 / truck. Silver disk rotates going west. Antenna going / side. Halo turns outside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2795 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "178", **HatchDesc:** "LUDINGTON,MI:2/TRUCK:SLVR DISK ROTATES >W:ANTENNA >/SIDE:HALO TURNS OUTSIDE", **LatLong:** "43.955558 -86.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:57:20 N 86:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.955558,-86.450004)", **RelAlt:** "160", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7810 (E5852311) **Date:** 9/4/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** PUSAN, SOUTH KOREA **Description:** Several observer(s). White saucer spins slowly over city. Away / terrific speed. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2796 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PUSAN,S.KOREA:SVRL OBS:WHT SCR SPINS SLOWLY OVR CITY:AWAY/TERRIFIC SPEED:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.105557 129.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:06:20 N 129:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.105557,129.033339)", **State/Prov:** "SKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7811 (FFF33038) **Date:** 9/4/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** CAMP DEL MARCH, CA **Description:** 6 / U.S. Marine Corps (USMC). Large bright-colored ovoid hovers. Then going quickly north. Observer(s) named / source. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2797 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "CAMP del MAR,CA:6/USMC:LRG BRITE-CLRD OVOID HVRS:THEN >>N:obs named/source", **LatLong:** "33.222224 -117.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:13:20 N 117:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.222224,-117.400006)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7812 (5D5B390D) **Date:** 9/4/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** CRESCENT SPRS, KY **Description:** 1+3 observer(s). White disk tilts and maneuvers. Blinks orange and white. Blue night lights going quickly [to] away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2798 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "CRESCENT Sprs,KY:1+3 OBS:WHT DISK TILTS+MNVRs:BLINKS ORG+WHT:BLU NLTS >>away", **LatLong:** "39.050002 -84.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:00 N 84:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.050002,-84.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7813 (49B0A4B2) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Location:** SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES **Description:** Crowds see "white plate-weird smoke trails-flying saucer..". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 510) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2799 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES:CROWDS SEE "WHT PLATE-WEIRD SMOKE TRAILS-FLYING SCR.."", **LatLong:** "1.333333 103.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "01:20:00 N 103:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.333333,103.866672)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7814 (470EBA01) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** PORT ARTHUR, TX **Description:** Several / refinery. 3 round aluminum disks going east. 1 darts up. Rest follow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2800 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PORT ARTHUR,TX:SVRL/REFINERY:3 RND ALUM.DISKS >E:1 DARTS UP:REST FOLLOW:", **LatLong:** "29.883335 -93.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:53:00 N 93:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.883335,-93.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7815 (EA7DDF29) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** CONCORDIA, KS **Description:** 2 / ground. Round silver object going quickly southeast near bombers. 2nd does same. 3rd circles bombers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2801 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "453", **HatchDesc:** "CONCORDIA,KS:2/GND:RND SLVR OBJ >>SE nr BOMBERS:2nd DOES SAME:3rd CCLs BOMBERS", **LatLong:** "39.583335 -97.661116", **LatLongDMS:** "39:35:00 N 97:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.583335,-97.661116)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7816 (F5B3A018) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** NORTH / WALSENBURG, CO **Description:** 2 / US85. Large disk. Rings / lights blink. 2nd dark disk hovers / distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2802 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1800", **HatchDesc:** "N/WALSENBURG,CO:2/US85:LRG DISK:RINGS/LITES BLINK:2nd DRK DISK HVRS/DISTANCE", **LatLong:** "37.788891 -104.805561", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:20 N 104:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.788891,-104.805561)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7817 (C04C9C81) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** EAST / QUINCY, IL **Description:** WX man and more/others / airport/apartment. Shiny silver saucer bobs up and down / 10 minutes. Going [to] against wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2803 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "234", **HatchDesc:** "E/QUINCY,IL:WX MAN++/Apt:SHINY SLVR SCR BOBS UP+DOWN/10mns:> AGAINST WIND:", **LatLong:** "39.444446 -91.194449", **LatLongDMS:** "39:26:40 N 91:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.444446,-91.194449)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7818 (7DF6AC97) **Date:** 9/5/1952 (approximate) **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** ANCHORAGE, AK **Description:** 12+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Domed saucer hovers and rocks over airport. Shoots straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2804 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "ANCHORAGE,AK:12+OBS/BINOCS:DOMED SCR HVRS+ROCKS ovr AIRPORT:SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP", **LatLong:** "61.216670 -149.866674", **LatLongDMS:** "61:13:00 N 149:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.216670,-149.866674)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7819 (368932AD) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** Flood / calls. Meteor shoots by. 2nd object darts and turns and maneuvers / 30 minutes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2805 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1580", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:FLOOD/CALLS:METEOR SHOOTS BY:2nd OBJ DARTS+TURNS+MNVRS/30mns!:", **LatLong:** "39.744446 -105.972227", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:40 N 105:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.744446,-105.972227)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7820 (0A3B80A7) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SPRINGHILL, NS **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 12M cigars circle area / 15 minute(s) / airplane speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2806 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "121", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGHILL,NS:SVRL OBS:2 12M CGRS CCL AREA/15min/AIRPLANE SPEED:", **LatLong:** "45.666669 -64.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:00 N 64:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.666669,-64.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7821 (89045B95) **Date:** 9/5/1952 **Description:** Two 12 meter long cigar-shaped objects circled the area of Springhill, Nova Scotia for 12 minutes at aircraft speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 33 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5648 ### Event 7822 (3579301D) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** WEST / LANTANA, FL **Description:** 2 / truck. 2 white fireballs maneuver and play all over/all about road / all directions. Going quickly [to] trees. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2807 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "W/LANTANA,FL:2/TRUCK:2 WHT FBLS MNVR+PLAY ALLO ROAD/ALL DIRs:>> TREES:", **LatLong:** "26.588890 -80.111115", **LatLongDMS:** "26:35:20 N 80:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.588890,-80.111115)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7823 (E5233DD6) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** YORK BEACH, ME **Description:** 10M cake-tin saucer going [to] in / sea. Rounded top glows. Stops / shore. Follows truck. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2808 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "YORK BEACH,ME:10M CAKE-TIN SCR >IN/SEA:RNDed TOP GLOWS:STOPS/SHORE:FOLOS TRUCK", **LatLong:** "43.172224 -70.611114", **LatLongDMS:** "43:10:20 N 70:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.172224,-70.611114)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7824 (2F28CA2A) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** HELSINKI, FINL **Description:** Teacher and class. 2 silver saucers / 30 second(s). East going quickly west. 'Donuts without holes' / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 511) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2809 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HELSINKI,FINL:TEACHER+CLASS:2 SLVR SCRS/30sec:E>>W:'DONUTS WITHOUT HOLES'/NEWS", **LatLong:** "60.233336 24.883335", **LatLongDMS:** "60:14:00 N 24:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.233336,24.883335)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7825 (83C6BACC) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** DURBAN, RSA **Description:** Blue Book. 2 weathermen / theodolite. 5 white saucers / series. 7000' altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad (ed.): PROJECT BLUEBOOK; Ballentine Books 1976. 423pp. (Index 350) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2810 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "DURBAN,RSA:BBK:2 WEATHERMEN/THEODOLITE:5 WHT SCRS/SERIES:7000'alt:NFD", **LatLong:** "-29.766668 30.966668", **LatLongDMS:** "29:46:00 S 30:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.766668,30.966668)", **State/Prov:** "DRB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7826 (56CDEAD4) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** ENFIELD, CT **Description:** 15 observer(s). Noise. Metal object zigzags going down. Bang. Shoots going up / 90-angle / extreme speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 511) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2811 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "ENFIELD,CT:15 OBS:NOISE:MTL OBJ ZIGZAGS↓:BANG:SHOOTS ↑/90-ANGLE/EXTREME SPEED.", **LatLong:** "41.983335 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:59:00 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.983335,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7827 (FFDDEEAC) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** PAYETTE, ID **Description:** 2 / farm. 5' slate-grey ovoid / 100' altitude. Going down [to] near power lines. Going quickly northwest as observer(s) near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2812 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "660", **HatchDesc:** "PAYETTE,ID:2/FARM:5'SLATE-GRY OVOID/100'alt:↓ nr PWR LINES:>>NW as obs near", **LatLong:** "44.083335 -116.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:00 N 116:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.083335,-116.916672)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7828 (C76FC321) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** SAN ANSELMO, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Plane passes. Silver ovoid hovers. Going NNW slow. Shoots going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2813 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANSELMO,CA:2 OBS:PLANE PASSES:SLVR OVOID HVRS:>NNW SLOW:SHOOTS >>N:", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -122.566673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 122:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-122.566673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7829 (D93BFEFF) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2048. 2 observer(s). Teardrop object spins over aircraft plant. Going down [to] going up. Examines observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 513) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2814 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:BBK#2048:2 OBS:TEARDROP OBJ SPINS OVR AIRCRAFT PLANT:↓↑:EXAMINES OBS", **LatLong:** "32.200002 -110.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:12:00 N 110:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.200002,-110.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7830 (D04F7837) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Solid flickering glowing "basketball" southwest going quickly northeast. Jerky motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 513) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2815 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1486", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:2 OBS:SOLID FLICKERING GLOWING "BASKETBALL" SW>>NE:JERKY MOTION", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -106.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 106:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-106.600005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7831 (EF283B8B) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Location:** Lake Charles AFB, LA **Description:** Bright star-like light move about the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2045) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1323 ### Event 7832 (74480009) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** l:30 AM **Location:** Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana **Description:** Witnesses: T/Sgt. J.E. Wilson and two enlisted men. One bright star-like light moved about the sky for 2 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_244 ### Event 7833 (2116F4B2) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Time:** 4:55 PM **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill McClain. One orange teardrop-shaped object whirled on its vertical axis, descended very fast, stopped, retraced its path upwards, while whirling in the opposite direction. 1.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_245 ### Event 7834 (9CA5B492) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Locations:** Osborn Prison Farm; Somers, Connecticut **Description:** 10:10 a.m. Walter Borys and George McCracken, two guards at the Osborn Prison Farm \[now Osborn Correctional Institute\] in Somers, Connecticut, are with 13 inmates in the yard when they hear an odd motor noise and see a silvery object in the northern sky. It appears to be descending in a zigzag motion but stops and shoots upward at a right angle at terrific speed after releasing a puff of smoke. Other witnesses in the area think it is a jet aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hartford \(Conn.\) Courant, September 7, 1952, p. 1; Audrey H. Hennis, “[The ‘Flying Saucer’ Was from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93468816/) [a Jet After-Burner,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93468816/)” Hartford \(Conn.\) Courant, September 19, 1952, p. 18; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) [1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1986, pp. 11–12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2042 ### Event 7835 (855B5F7F) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Description:** Sergeant J. E. Wilson and two enlisted men at the Lake Charles AFB in Louisiana sighted a bright star-like light moving about the sky at 1:30 a.m. The light stayed visible for two hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2045; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5675 ### Event 7836 (A589C667) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Description:** At 10:10 a.m. fourteen people in Enfield, Connecticut watched a metallic flying object zigzag downward in a descent. They heard a "bang," and the UFO then shot upwards at a high speed, executing a 90-degree angle. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5676 ### Event 7837 (7E99F47B) **Date:** 9/6/1952 **Description:** In Tucson, Arizona at 4:55 p.m. ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill McClain witnessed an orange teardrop-shaped object whirl on its vertical axis, descend very fast, stop, re-trace its path upwards, and then whirl in the opposite direction. Their sighting lasted 1.5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5677 ### Event 7838 (542FFBC9) **Date:** 9/7/1952 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** CORRY, PA **Description:** Several / ground. Round disk paces 3 planes going west. Repositions front and back / planes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2816 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "435", **HatchDesc:** "CORRY,PA:SVRL/GND:RND DISK PACES 3 PLANES >W:REPOSITIONS FRONT+BACK/PLANES", **LatLong:** "41.922224 -79.638893", **LatLongDMS:** "41:55:20 N 79:38:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.922224,-79.638893)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7839 (CC8FA795) **Date:** 9/7/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** JENNINGSVILLE, PA **Description:** 4 observer(s). Silver ball hovers / 2 hours / high clear sky. Then straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2817 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "326", **HatchDesc:** "JENNINGSVILLE,PA:4 OBS:SLVR BALL HVRS/2 hrs/HIGH CLEAR SKY:then straight up.", **LatLong:** "41.583335 -76.144448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:00 N 76:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.583335,-76.144448)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7840 (F203FF0B) **Date:** 9/7/1952 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** Orange teardrop-shaped object whirl on its vertical axis, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2048) **Reference:** NICAP: [520907](http://www.nicap.org/tucson520907dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1324 ### Event 7841 (CDD60A89) **Date:** 9/7/1952 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** Orange object or light (color temperature 2,000° F.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2049) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1325 ### Event 7842 (ADCDE50A) **Date:** 9/7/1952 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2052) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1326 ### Event 7843 (50DCC339) **Date:** 9/7/1952 **Time:** 10:30 PM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: chemist J.W. Gibson and others. One orange object or light (the color of 2,000' F.) exploded into view. Seen for from 3-20 seconds by various observers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_246 ### Event 7844 (7826A7AF) **Date:** 9/7/1952 **Description:** In San Antonio, Texas at 10:30 p.m. Chemist J. W. Gibson and others watched an orange object or light (the color of iron heated to 2,000º F) explode into view. It was seen for 3-20 seconds by various observers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2049; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5707 ### Event 7845 (4BE1DA8D) **Date:** 9/8/1952 **Time:** 07:40 **Location:** SE.MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** 1 observer. 1M? white disk-ovoid going quickly west. Pole through center with colored lights / ends. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2818 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "SE.MEMPHIS,TN:1 OBS:1M? WHT DISK-OVOID >>W:POLE THRU CTR W/CLRD LITES/ENDS:", **LatLong:** "35.088891 -89.938893", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:20 N 89:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.088891,-89.938893)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7846 (35AA755E) **Date:** 9/8/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SHAMOKIN, PA **Description:** 1 observer. Cylinder/cigar-shape / sky. Orange-glow / base. 9 separate. Same observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape makes U-turn going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 520) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2819 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "219", **HatchDesc:** "SHAMOKIN,PA:1 OBS:CGR/SKY:ORG-GLOW/BASE::9SEP:SAME OBS:CGR MAKES U-TURN >E", **LatLong:** "40.783335 -76.561115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:47:00 N 76:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.783335,-76.561115)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7847 (845E2506) **Date:** 9/8/1952 **Location:** Ottawa, Ontario **Description:** [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) and Department of Transport associates launch a large weather balloon with a magnesium flare over Ottawa, Ontario, but it does not inspire any UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1078; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 17–18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2043 ### Event 7848 (D42A66E0) **Date:** 9/9/1952 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** Blue Book. 2 saucers hover / regular searchlight beam. 1 wobbles. No further details. / r78p165. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2820 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:BBK:2 SCRS HVR/REGULAR SEARCHLITE BEAM:1 WOBBLES:NFD:/r78p165", **LatLong:** "45.533336 -122.716673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:32:00 N 122:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.533336,-122.716673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7849 (0D34158C) **Date:** 9/9/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR RABAT, MAROC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2062. 6 silent saucers in formation going northwest turn going quickly southwest. Twice T33-speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 523) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2821 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr RABAT,MAROC:BBK#2062:6 SLNT SCRS/FORMATION > NW TURN >>SW:TWICE T33-SPEED", **LatLong:** "33.983335 -6.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "33:59:00 N 06:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.983335,-6.866667)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7850 (22846A51) **Date:** 9/9/1952 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** Two oval objects observed in searchlight beam. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1327 ### Event 7851 (12F3B5C9) **Date:** 9/9/1952 **Location:** Rabat, Fr. Morocco **Description:** Disc with lights along part of its circumference (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2062) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1328 ### Event 7852 (AC59ED74) **Date:** 9/9/1952 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** Rabat, French Morocco **Description:** Witness: E.J. colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF Intelligence. One disc with lights along part of its circumference, flew twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for 5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_247 ### Event 7853 (966242B0) **Date:** 9/9/1952 **Location:** Rabat, Morocco **Description:** 9:00 p.m. US Air Force civilian illustrator E. J. Colisimo sees a disc with lights along part of its circumference over Rabat, Morocco. It is flying twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer in a slightly curved path. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Disc Twice As Fast As T-33](http://www.nicap.org/520909rabat%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 172 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2044 ### Event 7854 (00802D0E) **Date:** 9/9/1952 **Description:** In Rabat, Morocco at 9:00 p.m. Mr. E. J. Colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF Intelligence, sighted a disc with lights along part of its circumference. It flew twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for five seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5784 ### Event 7855 (4C087D11) **Date:** 9/10/1952 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD **Description:** Silent shiny saucer goes back and forth over airfield / 3 minute(s). Rises and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 525) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2822 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "ANDREWS AFB,MD:SILENT SHINY SCR GOES BACK+FORTH OVR AIRFIELD/3min:RISES+GONE", **LatLong:** "38.800002 -76.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:00 N 76:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.800002,-76.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7856 (D246456D) **Date:** 9/10/1952 **Description:** Battelle issues its fifth status report on Project Stork to ATIC. It says that 800 copies of its revised report questionnaire have been sent to the Air Force, many of which were passed on to military witnesses as a trial test. The group has now examined UFO reports from 1947–1949 and 1951. It decided to discontinue the news clipping service. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7b.htm)” CUFON **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2045 ### Event 7857 (E261FD86) **Date:** 9/10/1952 **Locations:** Andrews AFB; Prince George’s County, Maryland **Description:** 2:30 p.m. The wife of a civilian employee at Andrews AFB \[now Joint Base Andrews\] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, sees a shiny, metallic, elliptical, silent object moving back and forth near the base. It is visible for 2–3 minutes. \(Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 25\) September 11 \[or 7 or 17\] — CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes a memorandum to Director of Central Intelligence [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) that sets out two national security implications of UFOs for the government of the United States: the potential for psychological panic by citizens, and demonstrating the nation’s vulnerability by air. It recommends that “A national policy should be established as to what should be told the public regarding the phenomena, in order to minimize risk of panic.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Flying](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf) [Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” September 11, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 175–181, 503–507; Good Above, [p. 224](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/224/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2046 ### Event 7858 (DA6053EF) **Date:** 9/11/1952 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** Abe Friedman sees "small salami" / (seen thru) binoculars zipping by. Explanation = cloud.(AP.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 526) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2823 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:ABE FRIEDMAN SEES "SMALL SALAMI"/BINOCS ZIPPING BY:EXPLAN=CLOUD.(AP)", **LatLong:** "25.777779 -80.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "25:46:40 N 80:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.777779,-80.194448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7859 (90BA528C) **Date:** 9/11/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** DENNIS CHURCH, OH **Description:** 1 / observer(s). Silent 15M saucer hovers near oil rig / 30 minutes. Roars on exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2824 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "350", **HatchDesc:** "DENNIS CHURCH,OH:1/OBS:SLNT 15M SCR HVRS nr OIL RIG/30mins:ROARS on exit", **LatLong:** "40.277780 -82.244448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:40 N 82:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.277780,-82.244448)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7860 (8FF083C3) **Date:** 9/11/1952 **Description:** [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) and Bailey receive a radio message saying, “I hope we might have a landing soon,” and later, “We must make landing contact soon… If you believe us, you will act accordingly.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2047 ### Event 7861 (F560CDFE) **Date:** 9/11/1952 **Description:** A UFO was seen over Belem, Brazil near the mouth of the Amazon River on this day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael D. Hill, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, p. 193 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5851 ### Event 7862 (8853D48B) **Date:** 9/11/1952 **Description:** A group of young people in Flatwoods, West Virginia saw a bright red "meteor" land on top of a hill at around 7:15 p.m. A fluctuating orange-red light was seen on the hill, so they went up to the site to investigate. They were accompanied by beautician Kathleen Hill and her two sons and another youth, Gene Lemon. When the seven witnesses got close to the hilltop, they observed a globe as large as a house, making a throbbing or hissing sound. A huge black figure with glowing orange eyes blocked their path. The figure was about 12 feet high (4 meters), and it had a reddish pear-shaped head or helmet, with two luminous eyes from which beams of bluish light emerged; it also had a dark metallic green body that "floated" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. The “entity” glided toward them, then toward a luminous, 20-foot wide pear-shaped about 50 feet away, which was pulsating between bright orange and dull red. There was also a mist in the area which had a choking, metallic smell. Gene Lemon fainted, so some of the others had to drag him away with them, while the others ran. Lemon vomited all night long. Reporters who went to the site later that evening saw no object, but could still smell the lingering odor. Next day, a 15-foot circle of flattened grass, some “skid marks”, and a strip of browned vegetation were found at the landing site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, September 14, 1952; O Cruzeiro, November 13, 1954; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 116; Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, p. 50; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 52; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 101; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1952-16 (A0200), citing Gray Barker & Ivan T Sanderson; Michael D. Hill, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, pp. 192-3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5852 ### Event 7863 (6A0EB3E5) **Date:** 9/11/1952 **Description:** That same evening in Allen, Maryland at 9:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, viewed a white light with red trim through binoculars. It had streamers of light coming off it as it flew toward northeast for 35 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book case files, case # 2077; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5853 ### Event 7864 (7A486F65) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Location:** Sutton, West Virgina **Description:** Space "monster" appears from saucer near Sutton, West VA **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_125 ### Event 7865 (7F7BA98E) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** FLATWOODS, WV **Description:** Several observer(s). Fireballs. Glowing robot with antennas. Controversy-must see reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** TEETS, Bob: WEST VIRGINIA UFO's; Headline Books, PO Box 52, Terra Alta, WV 1995 213pp. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2825 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "326", **HatchDesc:** "FLATWOODS,WV:SVRL OBS:FBLS:GLOWING ROBOT W/ANTENNAS:controversy-must see ref.", **LatLong:** "38.722224 -80.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:43:20 N 80:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.722224,-80.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 7866 (5FCEC665) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** HOKENDAUQUA, PA **Description:** 4 observer(s). White round disk with tail circles houses. Fades! Observers adamant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2826 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "HOKENDAUQUA,PA:4 OBS:WHT RND DISK W/TAIL CCLS HOUSES:fades!:OBSs adamant", **LatLong:** "40.661113 -75.488892", **LatLongDMS:** "40:39:40 N 75:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.661113,-75.488892)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7867 (F412ED87) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Location:** Allen, MD **Description:** A white light with red trim and streamers fly NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2077) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1329 ### Event 7868 (95F91DDF) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Time:** sunset **Location:** Flatwoods, West Virginia **Description:** A group of young people saw a "meteor" land on top of a hill and went to the site with Kathleen Hill and three men. They observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound and a huge figure with glowing orange eyes nearby. About 4 m tall, the figure had a red face and "floated" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_101 ### Event 7869 (345F5A54) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Time:** 9:30 PM **Location:** Allen, Maryland **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, using binoculars. One white light with a red trim and streamers flew northeast for 35 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_248 ### Event 7870 (8B56BECD) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Location:** Bladensburg, Ohio **Description:** 1:30 a.m. Two oil well drillers, William Darling and Donald Davis, see a lighted object with windows on one side circling 150 feet above the ground silently for nearly 30 minutes at Bladensburg, Ohio. Suddenly it makes a noise like steam blowing and shoots out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 6, no. 2 \(February 1953\): 108 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2048 ### Event 7871 (DCF2E1EA) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Locations:** Flatwoods, West Virginia; G. Bailey Fisher farm; West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon; Braxton Democrat; Max Lockard; Baltimore, Catonsville, Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland, and Garrett County, Maryland; Preston County, Morgantown, Fairmont, Wheeling, Charleston, Parkersburg, Nitro, Ward, and Chelyan, West Virginia; Selma, Columbus, Zanesville, St. Clairsville, Ohio; Bluefield, West Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Roanoke and Pulaski, Virginia; Arcadia, Tennessee; North Carolina; Tyndall AFB in Panama City, Florida; Gulf of Mexico **Description:** Around 7:15 p.m., in Flatwoods, West Virginia, two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer \(ages 13, 12, and 10 respectively\) witness a bright object cross the sky, coming to rest on land belonging to local farmer [G. Bailey Fisher](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34255036/george-bailey-fisher)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34255036/george-bailey-fisher) The boys go to the home of the May brothers’ mother, [Kathleen May](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93511683/kathleen-may)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93511683/kathleen-may) where they tell the story of having seen a UFO crash land. From there, Mrs. May, accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley, 14, and Ronnie Shaver, 10, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, 17, walk to the Fisher farm. At the top of a hill, they reportedly see a large pulsating “ball of fire” about 50 feet to their right. They also detect a pungent mist that makes their eyes and noses burn. Lemon then notices two small lights over to the left of the object, underneath a nearby oak tree and directs his flashlight towards them, revealing a creature, which May reports as bounding towards them. Other sources describe it as emitting a shrill hissing noise before gliding towards them, changing direction and then heading off towards the red light. The group flees in panic. Sheriff [Robert L. Carr](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44567805/robert-l-carr) and his deputy [Burnell J. Long](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112739758/burnell-j%5F-long) search the area separately, but find no trace of the encounter other than the smell. Early the next morning, [A. Lee Stewart](http://www.genealogybuff.com/wv/wv-kanawha-obits78.htm)[,](http://www.genealogybuff.com/wv/wv-kanawha-obits78.htm) co-owner of the Braxton Democrat, visits the site of the encounter for a second time and discovers two elongated tracks in the mud, as well as traces of a thick black liquid. It is later revealed that the tracks are likely those of a 1942 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by local [Max Lockard](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133730941/max-junior-lockard)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133730941/max-junior-lockard) who had gone to the site to look for the creature some hours prior to Stewert’s discovery. [Ivan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson) [T. Sanderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson) interviews the witnesses several days later and concludes that a flight of “intelligently controlled objects flew over West Virginia.” The Air Force concludes that people have seen a meteor and that the monster was only the glowing eyes of a barn owl. [Joe Nickell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FNickell) also concludes in 2000 that the bright light in the sky reported by the witnesses on September 12 was most likely a meteor, that the pulsating red light is likely an aircraft navigation/hazard beacon, and that the creature described by witnesses closely resembles a barn owl. Nickell claims that the experience was distorted by the heightened state of anxiety felt by the witnesses after having observed the original meteor. However, [Frank C. Feschino](http://www.flatwoodsmonster.com/index-id%3D228330%26fuseaction%3Dbrowse%26pageid%3D22.html) has done extensive research to support his hypothesis that the Flatwoods incident was only one small part of a major UFO display involving multiple objects \(many of them reported as “meteors” or “balls of fire” or “flaming planes”\) passing in westerly and other directions across the eastern and southern United States between 6:50 and 7:25 p.m. The trajectory of one of these objects \(moving first northwest then northeast then south\) alone takes it over Baltimore, Catonsville, Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland, and Garrett County, Maryland; Preston County, Morgantown, Fairmont, Wheeling, Charleston, Parkersburg, Nitro, Ward, and Chelyan, West Virginia; Selma, Columbus, Zanesville, St. Clairsville, Ohio; it is last seen moving south around Bluefield, West Virginia. Another object is seen over Washington, D.C., heading due west towards West Virginia, apparently landing in Flatwoods. A third object travels southwest over Roanoke and Pulaski, Virginia, possibly landing near Arcadia, Tennessee. Feschino thinks that these three objects had been damaged by fire directed at them by Air Force interceptors. Five other objects are observed in North Carolina in that time period, and these Feschino suspects may have been attempting to look for and assist the damaged objects. He also speculates that the disappearance of an F-94 jet fighter out of Tyndall AFB in Panama City, Florida, piloted by 2Lt [John A. Jones](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27843010/john-a-jones) and radar operator 2Lt [John S. DelCurto](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73733140/john-s%5F-delcurto)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73733140/john-s%5F-delcurto) might have involved a tragic UFO interception that began three hours earlier; the last known contact with the fighter is at 5:43 p.m. over the Gulf of Mexico 70 miles northwest of Tampa, the accident takes place under unusual circumstances, and the wreckage has never been found. Feschino thinks that a UFO damaged in dogfights with many interceptors over the Gulf might have triggered the second battle over the Atlantic seaboard around 7:00 p.m. Then a second wave of multiple objects is observed 8:00–8:10 p.m. in the Washington, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and West Virginia region that, according to Feschino, involves a search for a second downed UFO. Although Feschino jumps to many conclusions and his documentation for specific incidents and conditions is somewhat confusing, he may well have grasped more truth than the meteor-and-owl explanation of the skeptics. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Flatwoods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods%5Fmonster) [Monster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods%5Fmonster)”; Gray Barker, “The Monster and the Saucer,” Fate 6, no. 1 \(January 1953\): 12–17; Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, University Books, 1956, [pp. 11–35](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n5/mode/2up); Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 116–120](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chVII.htm); Clark III 494–495; Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, Cowles, 1967, pp. 39–51; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[The Braxton Democrat](http://www.noufors.com/the%5Fbraxton%5Fdemocrat.html)”; Shoot 112–313, 320–327; Joe Nickell, “[The Flatwoods UFO](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2000/11/22164839/p15.pdf) [Monster,](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2000/11/22164839/p15.pdf)” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 2000\): 15–19; Michael D. Swords, “[Peeking at Ivan’s SITU](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2011/04/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-flatwoods.html) [Files: The Flatwoods Monster,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2011/04/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-flatwoods.html)” The Big Study, April 11, 2011; Frank C. Feschino, The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods Monster Revealed, Quarrier Press, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2049 ### Event 7872 (FE0FDF4A) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Description:** A group of young people in Flatwoods, West Virginia saw a "meteor" land on top of a hill and went to the site. They were accompanied by Kathleen Hill and three men. They observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound. A huge black figure with glowing orange eyes blocked the path. About 12 feet high (4 meters), the figure had a reddish face and "floated" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 52 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5899 ### Event 7873 (F7D98B5C) **Date:** 9/12/1952 **Description:** That same evening in Allen, Maryland at 9:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, viewed a white light with red trim through binoculars. It had streamers of light coming off it as it flew toward northeast for 35 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5900 ### Event 7874 (35BDD3C8) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** HARDY, KY **Description:** 3 / (seen thru) binoculars. Round silver saucer with black band flipflops. Hovers then shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2827 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "HARDY,KY:3/BINOCS:RND SLVR SCR W/BLK BAND FLIPFLOPS:HVRS then SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "37.622224 -82.244448", **LatLongDMS:** "37:37:20 N 82:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.622224,-82.244448)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7875 (96E03A43) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** FT WORTH, TX **Description:** White cylinder/cigar-shape-shape just east / moons image / 18 minute(s). Shoots away / terrific speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 528) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2828 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "Ft WORTH,TX:WHT CGR-SHAPE JUST E/MOONs IMAGE/18min:SHOOTS AWAY/TERRIFIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -97.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 97:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-97.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7876 (E305DD21) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** ALLENTOWN, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2085. 1 observer. Saucer dives going [to] private plane. 65° climb and away. / LDLN#331. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 528) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2829 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "ALLENTOWN,PA:BBK#2085:1 OBS:SCR DIVES>PRIVATE PLANE:65° CLIMB+AWAY:/LDLN#331", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -75.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 75:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-75.466670)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7877 (D97CE9A4) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** RUIDOSO, NM **Description:** 30 observer(s). Moon-size orange-ball hangs / 30 minute(s). Rises until star-like and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 528) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2830 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "31", **Elev:** "2048", **HatchDesc:** "RUIDOSO,NM:30 OBS:MOONSIZE ORG-BALL HANGS/30min:RISES UNTIL STARLIKE+GONE", **LatLong:** "33.366668 -105.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:22:00 N 105:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.366668,-105.683338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7878 (11AD0E86) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** NORTH / BORNHOLM ISLAND, DK **Description:** Danish destroyer crew. 3 blue objects / triangle / 900M altitude going quickly north or going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2831 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/BORNHOLM Isl,DK:DAN.DESTROYER CREW:3 BLU OBJs/TRIANGLE/900M alt >>N or >>SE:", **LatLong:** "55.316669 15.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "55:19:00 N 15:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.316669,15.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7879 (F9488DD2) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Location:** Allentown, PA **Description:** A white light with red trim and streamers fly NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2085) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1330 ### Event 7880 (BDF57FAA) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Location:** Frametown, West Virginia **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl suddenly found their car stalled, and an unpleasant smell (ether mixed with sulphurous smoke) filled the air. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical plant might be burning in the area and walked toward a strong light visible in the woods, in spite of the nauseous smell. Coming near it, he felt pricklings throughout his body, had to stop, lost his balance several times as he returned to the carwhere he found his wife terrified, pointing to a giant creature (3 m tall), human-shaped, 10 m away. They locked the car as "it" inspected the vehicle, glided away and went into the woods. Soon afterward, the sphere of light was observed to rise gradually, to swing like a pendulum, and to leave a luminous trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Paul Lieb ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_102 ### Event 7881 (5696ADA4) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Time:** 7:40 PM **Location:** Allentown, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: private pilot W.A. Hobler, flying a Beech Bonanza. One object, shaped like a fat football, flaming orange-red color, descended and then pulled up in front of the witness' airplane. Seen for 2 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_249 ### Event 7882 (F2CA1000) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Description:** At around 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl suddenly found their car stalled in Frametown, West Virginia. An unpleasant odor filled the air, similar to the smell of ether mixed with sulphur. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical plant might be burning in the area and walked towards a strong light visible in the woods, in spite of the noxious smell. Coming near it, he felt a prickling sensation throughout his body, had to stop, and then lost his balance several times as he returned to the car where he found his wife terrified, pointing at a giant creature. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 200; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case # 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1952-17, citing Paul Lieb, Jacques Vallee & Mark Hall; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September 1972, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5907 ### Event 7883 (6421D72C) **Date:** 9/13/1952 **Description:** On that same night in Allentown, Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m., private pilot W.A. Hobler was flying his Beech Bonanza airplane when he sighted a flying object shaped like a fat football, fiery orange-red in color, descend and then pull up in front of his airplane. This encounter was very brief, and lasted only two 2 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2085; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5908 ### Event 7884 (7F018AF3) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Location:** North Atlantic **Description:** Iceland, North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 mph; three objects in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph **Type:** report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_476 ### Event 7885 (53D7D178) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Location:** OLMSTEAD AIR FORCE BASE, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2093. 2 civil observer(s). Humming. Blue-glowing ovoid buzzes airliner. Continues. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2832 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "652", **HatchDesc:** "OLMSTEAD AFB,PA:BBK#2093:2 CIV OBS:HUM:BLU-GLO OVOID BUZZES AIRLINER:CONTINUES", **LatLong:** "40.183335 -76.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:11:00 N 76:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.183335,-76.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7886 (4FDA22D7) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** BELLE GLADE, FL **Description:** Humming. 14M saucer / lights / rim. Going down / 12M altitude. Scares cows. Away and back. / r242p146. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2833 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BELLE GLADE,FL:HUM:14M SCR/LITES/RIM:↓/12M alt:SCARES COWS:AWAY+BACK:/r242p146", **LatLong:** "26.683335 -80.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "26:41:00 N 80:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.683335,-80.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7887 (108A55FD) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** FAIRFAX, VA **Description:** Teacher. White ball / light with plasma. Dances about as if alive / 4 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 529) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2834 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "136", **HatchDesc:** "FAIRFAX,VA:TEACHER:WHT BALL/LITE W/PLASMA:DANCES ABOUT AS IF ALIVE/4min", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -77.316670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 77:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-77.316670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7888 (9A8C0BAD) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** WHITE LAKE, SDAK **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2089. Unidentified. Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Cigar going quickly west. 3 puffs / smoke to the rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 530) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2835 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "506", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE LAKE,SDAK:BBK#2089:UID:GOC OBS:CIGAR>>W:3 PUFFS/SMOKE TO THE REAR", **LatLong:** "43.661113 -98.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "43:39:40 N 98:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.661113,-98.700005)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7889 (255CD58F) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** SANTA BARBARA, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2086. C54 pilot. Blue-white night light south and L / 30 second(s). Then shoots going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2836 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA BARBARA,CA:BBK#2086:C54 PILOT:BLU-WHT NLT S+L/30sec:THEN SHOOTS ↑ FAST", **LatLong:** "34.433335 -119.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:26:00 N 119:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.433335,-119.700006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7890 (464A3C6A) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CHARLESTON, WVA **Description:** "White saucer lands. 2 men exit and climb tree! Several observer(s)" / local papers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 533) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2837 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "182", **HatchDesc:** "CHARLESTON,WVA:"WHT SCR LANDS:2 MEN EXIT+CLIMB TREE!:SVRL OBS"/LOCAL PAPERS", **LatLong:** "38.333335 -81.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:20:00 N 81:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.333335,-81.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 7891 (481AF751) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** BILOXI, MS **Description:** Drive-in movie. Glowing disk widens to a circle. More objects nearby. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 530) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2838 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "110", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BILOXI,MS:DRIVE-IN MOVIE:GLOWING DISK WIDENS TO A CIRCLE:MORE OBJS NEARBY", **LatLong:** "30.400001 -88.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:24:00 N 88:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.400001,-88.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7892 (12E6A655) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** EL PASO, TX **Description:** Engineer and 3. 7 groups / 15 night lights east going quickly west. West going quickly east etc. Arc cluster and Y-formations. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 531) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2839 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "110", **Elev:** "1108", **HatchDesc:** "EL PASO,TX:ENGINEER+3:7 GROUPS/15 NLTS E>>W:W>>E etc:ARC CLUSTER+Y-FORMATIONS", **LatLong:** "31.750002 -106.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:45:00 N 106:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.750002,-106.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7893 (492F8B8D) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Location:** Santa Barbara, CA **Description:** Blue white light travel straight and level, then fly up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2086) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1331 ### Event 7894 (5FCA0D41) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Location:** Operation Mainbrace, At Sea **Description:** North Sea area/military exercise Ruppelt's version (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2087, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [520914](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mainbrace.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1332 ### Event 7895 (576E42DC) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Location:** White Lake, SD **Description:** Red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2089) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1333 ### Event 7896 (95300364) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Location:** El Paso, TX **Description:** (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2092) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1334 ### Event 7897 (1CF83EB6) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Location:** Olmsted AFB, PA **Description:** Blue light fly very fast on a collision course with airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2093) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1335 ### Event 7898 (71EF8C41) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **End date:** 9/15/1952 **Location:** Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico **Description:** 6 groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1336 ### Event 7899 (8EB9AE6A) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 8:40 PM **Location:** Santa Barbara, California **Description:** Witness: USAF C-54 transport pilot Tarbutton. One blue-white light travelled straight and level, then went up. Seen for 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_250 ### Event 7900 (132A0904) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland **Description:** Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the NATO "Operation Mainbrace" exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 m.p.h; three objects in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 m.p.h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_251 ### Event 7901 (6142A466) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 7 PM **Location:** White Lake, South Dakota **Description:** Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer L.W. Barnes, using binoculars. One red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it, flew west, then south, and then was gone. Seen 30-40 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_252 ### Event 7902 (98848DC8) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** 11:30 PM **Location:** Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico **Description:** Event occurred to 1:20 AM, Sept. 15. Witnesses: consulting engineer R. J. Portis and three others. Six groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs, which flew in formations varying from arcs to inverted-Y's, very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_253 ### Event 7903 (E0EA89CA) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Time:** Time not known **Location:** Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: pilot of Flying Tiger Airlines airplane N67977. One blue light flew very fast on a collision course with the airliner. Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different information. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_254 ### Event 7904 (ACAB4477) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Locations:** Everglades Experiment Station; Belle Glade, Florida; Everglades Research and Education Center **Description:** 4:30 a.m. Fred J. Brown is preparing to milk the cows at the Everglades Experiment Station \[now the Everglades Research and Education Center\] in Belle Glade, Florida, when he spots a circular object about 35 feet in diameter hovering about 100 feet above the ground. It has a row of red and amber lights spaced around the outside rim and the underside. As it descends to about 40 feet, the 13 cows bolt as the object disappears to the west. As Brown is rounding up the cows, the object appears again, moving from south to north at a speed of 30 mph, making a high-voltage buzzing noise, and emitting an odor “like acid or ammonia” that makes Brown’s eyes smart. The cows stampede once again. The object’s glow illuminates the ground as it passes, and it gains altitude and disappears again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Cattle Stampeded Twice by Mysterious ‘Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93472641/)” Palm Beach \(Fla.\) Times, September 16, 1952, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2050 ### Event 7905 (94A720BB) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Locations:** North Sea; Great Britain; France; Canada; Denmark; Norway; Portugal; Netherlands; Belgium **Description:** Exercise Mainbrace begins in the North Sea. It is the first large-scale naval exercise undertaken by NATO and jointly commanded by Admiral [Lynde D. McCormick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynde%5FD.%5FMcCormick) and Gen. [Matthew B. Ridgway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%5FRidgway). It involves the US Navy and the navies of Great Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Netherlands, and Belgium. Its objective is to convince Denmark and Norway that they can be defended against an attack from the USSR, and involves 80,000 men, 200 ships, and 1,000 aircraft. The operation lasts through September 25. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Exercise Mainbrace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise%5FMainbrace)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2051 ### Event 7906 (9060AE87) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Locations:** Bornholm island, Denmark; Baltic Sea **Description:** 10:13 p.m. The Danish destroyer [Willemoes](https://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/VW/Willemoes%281947%29.htm), during the Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, is north of Bornholm island, Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. Lt.Cmdr. G. Schmidt-Jensen and several members of the crew see an unidentified object, triangular in shape, that moves at high speed toward the southeast. It emits a greenish glow and jets three rays of fire from its rear. Jensen estimates the speed at 930 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Operation Mainbrace](http://www.nicap.org/reports/5209XXmainbrace%5Freport.htm) [Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/reports/5209XXmainbrace%5Freport.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 28; Marler 128– 129, 265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2052 ### Event 7907 (1141AEC7) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Description:** An animal reaction case occurred on a farm in Belle Glade, Florida just before dawn at 4:30 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1967, p. 24; NICAP case files; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5941 ### Event 7908 (60C9017B) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Description:** In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico between 11:30 p.m. and 1:20 a.m. the next day R. J. Portis, a consulting engineer, and three others sighted six groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs. The UFOs flew in formations varying from arcs to inverted-Y's, and moved very fast through the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5942 ### Event 7909 (8A77B98D) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Description:** North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. Military witnesses from several countries aboard ships participating in the NATO "Operation Mainbrace" exercise had several UFO sightings. Among the sightings: a blue-green triangle was observed flying at 1,500 mph while another three objects in a triangular formation gave off a white light exhaust while moving at 1,500 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5943 ### Event 7910 (F0429A79) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Description:** While flying over Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania the pilot of a Flying Tiger Airlines transport plane, # N67977, saw a blue light that flew at his plane very fast on a collision course. Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different information. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2093; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5944 ### Event 7911 (66C31729) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Description:** White Lake, South Dakota. At 7:00 p.m. L.W. Barnes, a Ground Observer Corps observer using binoculars spotted a red, cigar-shaped object. It left three puffs behind it, flew to the west, then to the south, and then was gone. It was viewed for 30-40 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2089; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5945 ### Event 7912 (DB659C90) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Description:** Santa Barbara, California. At 8:40 p.m. Mr. Tarbutton, a USAF C-54 transport pilot, sighted a blue-white light that traveled straight and level, then went up. It was seen for 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5946 ### Event 7913 (0E7A95EB) **Date:** 9/14/1952 **Description:** Several people in Charleston, West Virginia saw a luminous white disc-shaped object land at around 9:00 p.m. Two men wearing bright suits emerged from the craft and reportedly climbed a nearby tree. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 33 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5947 ### Event 7914 (2CD88991) **Date:** 9/15/1952 **Location:** NEAR NORTH BAY, ON **Description:** Pilot. 30' bronze sphere/orb/globe below airliner / 25 minute(s). Follows highway. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2840 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "nr NORTH BAY,ON:PILOT:30'BRONZE ORB BELOW AIRLINER/25min:FOLOS HWY:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "46.200002 -79.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:00 N 79:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.200002,-79.450004)", **RelAlt:** "-999", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7915 (01F28D33) **Date:** 9/15/1952 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** NORTHWEST / TOPEKA, KS **Description:** 4 observer(s). 6 metal objects hover / northwest sky / 20 minute(s). Then going quickly east. / Blue Book files. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 593) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2841 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "295", **HatchDesc:** "NW/TOPEKA,KS:4 OBS:6 MTL OBJs HVR/NW SKY/20min:then >>E:/BBK FILES:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.083335 -95.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:05:00 N 95:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.083335,-95.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7916 (BAFC27D1) **Date:** 9/15/1952 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** TEXARKANA, TX **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). 2 silver disks going north 200' apart. 5K' altitude. Silent. No flame. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2842 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "TEXARKANA,TX:2+2 OBS:2 SLVR DISKS >N 200'apart:5K'alt:SLNT:NO FLAME:", **LatLong:** "33.433335 -94.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:26:00 N 94:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.433335,-94.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7917 (B3676194) **Date:** 9/15/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** THIES, SENEGAL **Description:** Astronomer. Silent red "star" maneuvers all over/all about / sky. Going east. Stops. Going north. Away going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2843 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "THIES,SENEGAL:ASTRONOMER:SLNT RED "STAR" MNVRS ALLO/SKY:> E:STOPS:> N:AWAY >W:", **LatLong:** "14.800001 -16.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "14:48:00 N 16:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.800001,-16.933334)", **State/Prov:** "SNG", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7918 (57C8F503) **Date:** 9/15/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SOUTH / DOUGLASS, KS **Description:** 11m domed ovoid paces 2 military / car / low altitude. Flames and going quickly [to] away. / APRO v1#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2844 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "365", **HatchDesc:** "S/DOUGLASS,KS:11m DOMED OVOID PACES 2 MIL/CAR/lo alt:FLAMES+>>away:/APRO v1#3", **LatLong:** "37.438891 -97.011116", **LatLongDMS:** "37:26:20 N 97:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.438891,-97.011116)", **RelAlt:** "25", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7919 (1FD89A37) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Location:** CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE, IL **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers. Blue blob reappears several times / 45 minute(s). Weather = cloudy and dark. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 535) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2845 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "CHANUTE AFB,IL:ATCs:BLUE BLOB REAPPEARS SVRL TIMES/45min:WEATHER=CLOUDY+DARK:", **LatLong:** "40.294446 -88.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:17:40 N 88:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.294446,-88.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7920 (FC852195) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** PORTLAND, ME **Description:** Navy PV2 chases cylinder/cigar-shape and saucer going quickly southwest. RADAR shows linear blip. Away / 300mph. / r1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2846 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,ME:NAVY PV2 CHASES CGR+SCR >>SW:RDR SHOWS LINEAR BLIP:AWAY/300mph:/r1", **LatLong:** "43.666669 -70.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:00 N 70:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.666669,-70.266670)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7921 (AE5F46FE) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2100. 2 glowing-night lights going west. Small blue flames / bottom. Turn going quickly SSW. / r43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 536) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2847 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ROBINS AFB,GA:BBK#2100:2 GLOW-NLTS > W:SML BLU FLAMES/BOTTOM:TURN >>SSW:/r43", **LatLong:** "32.616668 -83.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:37:00 N 83:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.616668,-83.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7922 (FA2E6E23) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OK **Description:** 1 military and 2 civil. Saucer glows. Dims. Shifts back and forth / 30 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 535) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2848 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "394", **HatchDesc:** "TINKER AFB,OK:1 MIL+2 CIV:SCR GLOWS:DIMS:SHIFTS BACK+FORTH/30min:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.416668 -97.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:25:00 N 97:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.416668,-97.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7923 (B88220FC) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEW BERN, NC **Description:** 2 / farm duck down. Loud invisible buzzing object going [to] WSW just overhead!! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2849 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NEW BERN,NC:2/FARM DUCK DOWN:LOUD INVISIBLE BUZZING OBJ >WSW JUST OVHD!!", **LatLong:** "35.116668 -77.044448", **LatLongDMS:** "35:07:00 N 77:02:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.116668,-77.044448)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7924 (C0A20197) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Location:** Portland, ME **Description:** RV: Navy Patrol Plane Crew / Five UFOs Picked Up On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2099) **Reference:** NICAP: [520916](http://www.nicap.org/520916portlanddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1337 ### Event 7925 (F6C29AEE) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Location:** Belle Glade, FL **Description:** Circular object with row of lights on underside passed low overhead; cattle bolted. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1338 ### Event 7926 (9CA94C90) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Location:** Warner Robins AFB, GA **Description:** White lights fly abreast at 100 mph (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2100) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1339 ### Event 7927 (086A1626) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Time:** 6:22 PM **Location:** Portland, Maine **Description:** Witnesses: crew of U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, visually and via radar. A group of five lights was seen at the same time a long, thin blip was being tracked on radar. Note: consideration was given to this being USAF KC-97 airplanes involved in a refueling operation. The sighting involved 20 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_255 ### Event 7928 (05FA18E1) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Time:** 7:30 PM **Location:** Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia **Description:** Witnesses: three USAF officers, two civilians. Two white lights flew abreast, at 100 m.p.h., for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_256 ### Event 7929 (F89CF6F3) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Description:** The crew of a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, Boak, Prentis and Hara, flying near Portland, Maine at 6:22 p.m. sighted a dark elongated cigar and a group of five unidentified lights and picked up a long thin blip on radar. Investigators considered whether the crew had sighted a USAF KC-97 aircraft involved in a refueling operation, but decided that this was unlikely. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2099; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 146; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Cominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; UNICAT, case # 746 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6004 ### Event 7930 (407DA169) **Date:** 9/16/1952 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. three Air Force officers and two civilians at Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia observed two unidentified white lights flying abreast, at a speed of 100 mph, for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6005 ### Event 7931 (52C2D3B0) **Date:** 9/17/1952 **Location:** MORRIS, PA **Description:** News. Red fireball hovers over town / 20 minute(s). Shoots going quickly west trailing tail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 536) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2850 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "317", **HatchDesc:** "MORRIS,PA:NEWS:RED FBL HVRS OVR TOWN/20min:SHOOTS >>W TRAILING TAIL", **LatLong:** "41.594446 -77.294448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:40 N 77:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.594446,-77.294448)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7932 (3030B56D) **Date:** 9/17/1952 **Time:** 04:40 **Location:** KILLEEN, TX **Description:** Army base guard. 10' saucer going southwest and going quickly northeast overhead / 300m altitude. 2 red flames / rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 536) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2851 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "KILLEEN,TX:ARMY BASE GUARD:10'SCR > SW+>>NE OVHD/300m alt:2 RED FLAMES/REAR", **LatLong:** "31.122224 -97.727782", **LatLongDMS:** "31:07:20 N 97:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.122224,-97.727782)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7933 (EECCAEEC) **Date:** 9/17/1952 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** NORTH / TUCSON, AZ **Description:** 3+3 saucers in formation. Fade away! Seen longer by observer(s) with Polaroid glasses.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 536) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2852 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "728", **HatchDesc:** "N/TUCSON,AZ:3+3 SCRS/FORMn:FADE AWAY!:SEEN LONGER by OBS W/POLAROID GLASSES..", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -110.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 110:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-110.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7934 (D3400CFD) **Date:** 9/17/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** 3 observer(s) and more. Silent aluminum soup-bowl. Sudden acceleration going quickly south toward(s) naval base. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2853 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:3 OBS+:SLNT ALUM.SOUP-BOWL:SUDDEN ACCEL >>S twrd naval base", **LatLong:** "39.916669 -75.161115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:00 N 75:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.916669,-75.161115)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7935 (4FB9322A) **Date:** 9/17/1952 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** 2 groups of 3 large, flat, shiny objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2105) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1340 ### Event 7936 (1C02A5BE) **Date:** 9/17/1952 **Time:** 11:40 AM **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth. Two groups of three large, flat, shiny objects flew in tight formations: the first group slow, the second faster. Seen for 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_257 ### Event 7937 (510B6365) **Date:** 9/17/1952 **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth of Tucson, Arizona sighted two groups of three large, flat, shiny objects at 11:40 a.m. north of the city. The daylight objects flew in tight formations: the first group slowly, the second group faster. The sighting lasted for 2 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2105; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 36; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6038 ### Event 7938 (1837C326) **Date:** 9/18/1952 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** KIRKENES, NORWAY **Description:** 3 woodsmen. 18M saucer / 500' altitude. Hovers a while. Going quickly northwest / high speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: The UFO REPORT 1992; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1993 (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2854 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KIRKENES,NORWAY:3 WOODSMEN:18M SCR/500'alt:HVRS A WHILE:>>NW/HIGH SPEED", **LatLong:** "69.711114 30.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "69:42:40 N 30:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.711114,30.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7939 (7123715A) **Date:** 9/18/1952 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** TRIPOLI, LIBYA **Description:** 2+2+4 observer(s). Glowing disk / 30K'. Dives down then rises until gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 538) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2855 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Libya", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TRIPOLI,LIBYA:2+2+4 OBS:GLOWING DISK/30K':DIVES DOWN THEN RISES UNTIL GONE:", **LatLong:** "32.783335 13.200001", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 13:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,13.200001)", **State/Prov:** "TRP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7940 (59259EDA) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_477 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 27km ### Event 7941 (8DCAC93D) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** ENGLISH CHANNEL **Description:** Longitude & latitude coords. approximate. 3 photos / saucer from carrier Roosevelt / Mainbrace. / r242p162. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2856 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ENGLISH CHANNEL:LL APRX:3 PHOTOS/SCR fm CARRIER ROOSEVELT/MAINBRACE:/r242p162", **LatLong:** "50.250002 -1.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:15:00 N 01:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.250002,-1.000000)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7942 (F6431064) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** TOPCLIFFE, NORTH YORKS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2087. Saucer follows meteor jet. Incredible acceleration. / r70p3+r242+r120. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2857 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "TOPCLIFFE,N.YORKs:BBK#2087:SCR FOLOS METEOR JET:INCRED.ACCEL:/r70p3+r242+r120", **LatLong:** "54.172225 -1.383333", **LatLongDMS:** "54:10:20 N 01:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.172225,-1.383333)", **RelAlt:** "4500", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7943 (3E32BAFE) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** BEINE WITH CHABLIS, FR **Description:** Pilot / engineer. Gold-glow olive-shape over roadside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2858 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BEINE W/CHABLIS,FR:PILOT/ENGINEER:GOLD-GLOW OLIVE-SHAPE ovr ROADSIDE.", **LatLong:** "47.822225 3.722222", **LatLongDMS:** "47:49:20 N 03:43:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.822225,3.722222)", **State/Prov:** "YNN", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7944 (12EF4C8C) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Location:** Operation Mainbrace, At Sea **Description:** September 19, 1952; Operation Mainbrace color photos (Denmark & Norway) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [520919](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mainbrace.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1341 ### Event 7945 (0DB2E252) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Location:** Yorkshire (Topcliffe RAF Station), UK **Description:** Swaying Silver Object Follows Jet (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520919](http://www.nicap.org/520919topcliffe%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1343 ### Event 7946 (F5CB30C9) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Locations:** RAF Topcliffe; North Yorkshire, England; Dishforth; Buckingham Palace **Description:** 10:53 a.m. During Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, a silvery, spherical UFO appears near RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire, England, following an RAF Meteor jet \(possibly piloted by Flight Lt. John W. Kilburn and Flight Lt. Marian Cybulski\) about to land. It has been following about 5 miles behind the jet at15,000 feet, swinging like a “falling sycamore leaf” and descending. As the jet turns toward Dishforth, the object follows but begins rotating on its axis then suddenly accelerates and disappears. Several ground crew members of RAF 269 Squadron \(Master Signaller Albert Thomson, Sgt. Flight Engineer Thomas Deweys, Flight Lt. R. Paris, and Leading Aircraftman George Grime\) and civilians also see it. [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh) suggests to RAF Air Marshal [Peter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley) [Horsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley) who is serving as equerry to the duke, that he investigate credible reports of UFOs, especially those by fighter pilots who have seen them. He arranges for RAF Fighter Command to send copies of any reports for examination at Buckingham Palace and begins an informal study that lasts until 1955. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Swaying Silver](http://www.nicap.org/520919topcliffe%5Fdir.htm) [Object Follows Jet](http://www.nicap.org/520919topcliffe%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard Hall, “Operation Mainbrace Sightings”; Good Above, [pp. 31–32](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/30/mode/2up), [450](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/450/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and NATO: The Mainbrace Affair,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/04/ufos-nato-the-mainbrace-affair/)” Mysterious Universe, April 22, 2014; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 18–19; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 173; Ruppelt, [pp. 195–196](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [p. 47](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n79/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2053 ### Event 7947 (82BEABAA) **Date:** 9/19/1952 **Description:** Five men in a RAF Meteor aircraft, including John W. Kilburn, were flying at 5,000 feet altitude over Dishforth, North York, England when they sighted a UFO at 1,000 feet above their plane at 10:53 a.m. They described it as round and silvery, and it changed shape to something more elliptical. It was solid looking, and it swung like a pendulum as it lost altitude. Ten British officers had just deplaned from Operation Mainbrace at Dishforth Aerodrome when they spotted the same UFO. It appeared as a white, round, glimmering circular object, followed by the RAF Meteor jet aircraft two miles back. The UFO lost altitude, and then fluttered like a leaf in a pendulum-like motion. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 136; UNICAT, case # 413; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 24; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, p. 194 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6079 ### Event 7948 (00A44F14) **Date:** 9/20/1952 **Location:** North Yorkshire, England **Description:** Air Ministry, London: A number of airmen and officers of the R.A.F., Topcliffe, observed an UFO. As it descended it was swinging in a pendular motion like a falling leaf. Pendulous motion ceased and object began rotary motion about its own axis. Suddenly accelerated at an incredible speed. (9/19/1952, cont’d) It was not identifiable with any known aircraft and acceleration was in excess of that of a shooting star! Craft was silver in color and circular. (Operation Mainbrace) **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p31,450, B1-G p43) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_478 **See also:** 9/20/1952 ### Event 7949 (F3A0D8DC) **Date:** 9/20/1952 **Location:** Between England and Scandinavia **Description:** An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/1952) is sighted over a U.S. Carrier ship out with the fleet between England and Scandinavia. An American photographer doing a story of the fleet exercise took pictures of the UFO which was ascertained not to have been a balloon. The Navy never released the photos of the UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_479 **See also:** 9/19/1952 ### Event 7950 (2E99F230) **Date:** 9/20/1952 (approximate) **Location:** TIT MELLIL, MAROC **Description:** Pilot. Ovoid with green halo going [to] under airliner. Rises and speeds away going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2859 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TIT MELLIL,MAROC:PILOT:OVOID W/GRN HALO >UNDER AIRLINER:RISES+SPEEDS AWAY >>W", **LatLong:** "33.550002 -7.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:33:00 N 07:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.550002,-7.483334)", **State/Prov:** "CSB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7951 (17D27FFD) **Date:** 9/20/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** KARUP AIRPORT, DK **Description:** 3 Air Force officers. Shiny metallic disk going quickly east / 5 second(s) to clouds. / r242p162. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2860 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KARUP AIRPORT,DK:3 AF OFFICERS:SHINY MTLC DISK >>E/5sec to CLOUDS:/r242p162 ", **LatLong:** "56.300003 9.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "56:18:00 N 09:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.300003,9.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7952 (6002C190) **Date:** 9/20/1952? **Locations:** Woodnesborough, Kent, England; English Channel; France; Eastern Europe **Description:** Sometime during Exercise Mainbrace, at the underground RAF Ash, near Woodnesborough, Kent, England, Senior Aircraftman William Maguire tracks on radar a huge UFO high above the English Channel for 18 minutes. Eventually it splits into three and speeds away, one object to the north, another toward France, and the third toward Eastern Europe. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 152](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/152/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, “[UFOs, NATO, and Military Encounters,](http://interestingandcuriosities.blogspot.com/2018/10/ufos-nato-and-military-encounters.html)” Interesting and Curiosities, October 28, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2054 ### Event 7953 (89222929) **Date:** 9/20/1952 **Location:** North Sea **Description:** Naval personnel on the US aircraft carrier [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) in the North Sea observe a silvery sphere moving across the sky behind the fleet. Photographer Wallace Litwin takes three color photos that are developed and examined by naval intelligence officers. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says they “turned out to be excellent … judging by the size of the object in each successive photo, one could see that it was moving rapidly.” No balloon has been launched. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Photographed during Operation Mainbrace](http://www.nicap.org/520920norway-denmark%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 195–196](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up); UFOEv, [p. 162](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=174&skin=2021); “[In the News 1952,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/itn52part43.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2055 ### Event 7954 (6E266A25) **Date:** 9/20/1952 **Locations:** Air Base Karup; Jutland, Denmark **Description:** 7:30 p.m. At Air Base Karup in Jutland, Denmark, three Danish Air Force officers see a shiny, metallic UFO pass overhead and disappear in clouds to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, 133 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2056 ### Event 7955 (3F5A871B) **Date:** 9/20/1952 **Description:** Between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., a silver spherical UFO appeared over the North Sea end of the English Channel during the NATO naval exercise Operation Mainbrace and was seen by several aboard several different warshaps. It was photographed by Wallace Litwin aboard the U.S.S. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 256; UNICAT, case # 584; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 403 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6118 ### Event 7956 (C0545151) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Location:** North Sea **Description:** Six RAF jets on maneuvers over the North Sea saw a “sphere” heading towards them, coming from the direction of the English fleet. It was tracked on radar then disappeared and reappeared behind them. One Meteor pilot attempted an intercept but was completely outrun by the UFO. Capt. Ruppelt was later told by RAF Intelligence that the incidents of the past three days caused the RAF to officially recognize the UFO situation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_480 **See also:** 7/1952 **See also:** 6/24/1953 ### Event 7957 (13F37748) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Time:** ~01:00 **Location:** CENTREVILLE, VA **Description:** Bad smell. 4+2 observer(s). 6 colored night lights bounce about / sky. Hover and rise. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 541) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2861 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "117", **HatchDesc:** "CENTREVILLE,VA:BAD SMELL:4+2 OBS:6 CLRD NLTS BOUNCE ABOUT/SKY:HOVER+RISE", **LatLong:** "38.838891 -77.427781", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:20 N 77:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.838891,-77.427781)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7958 (F4CE6AC4) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** FAIRFAX, VA **Description:** 4 blazing discs over police station/depot/facility after dispatching UFO reports! (ins.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 542) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2862 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "136", **HatchDesc:** "FAIRFAX,VA:4 BLAZING DISCS ovr POLICE STN AFTER DISPATCHING UFO REPORTS!(INS)", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -77.305559", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 77:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-77.305559)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7959 (84B2E3B7) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** CASABLANCA, MOR **Description:** 5000 / boxing match and pilot. Bright blue-green cylinder/cigar-shape going. Flood / report(s). / r48p140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2863 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CASABLANCA,MOR:5000/BOXING MATCH+PILOT:BRITE BLU-GRN CGR>:FLOOD/Rpts:/r48p140", **LatLong:** "33.600002 -7.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "33:36:00 N 07:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.600002,-7.616667)", **State/Prov:** "CAS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7960 (8DD8838D) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR **Description:** Vibrant bright cylinder/cigar-shape / long trail. Slow and silent. Also night light maneuvers 11 Nov. '52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2864 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "AIX-en-PROVENCE,FR:VBRITE CGR/LONG TRAIL:SLOW+SILENT::+NLT MNVRS 11NOV52", **LatLong:** "43.533335 5.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 05:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,5.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7961 (58B5E852) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Time:** 19:30? **Location:** MARSEILLE, FR **Description:** 'Blue-neon tube' northeast going quickly southwest. Gradual downward slant. Band on edge. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 544) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2865 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARSEILLE,FR:'BLUE-NEON TUBE' NE>>SW:GRADUAL DOWNWARD SLANT:BAND ON EDGE ", **LatLong:** "43.316669 5.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:19:00 N 05:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.316669,5.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7962 (01E73F0A) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MARGATE, KENT **Description:** Fisherman. 4 bright 'dinner-plates' go east going quickly west in a row. Military investigation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 541) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2866 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARGATE,KENT:FISHERMAN:4 BRITE 'DINNER-PLATES' GO E>>W IN A ROW:MIL INVESTGN", **LatLong:** "51.350002 1.283333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:21:00 N 01:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.350002,1.283333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7963 (E9B5F323) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Location:** North Sea (Operation Mainbrace), At Sea **Description:** Six RAF Jets Approached By Shiny Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520921](http://www.nicap.org/520921northsea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1344 ### Event 7964 (61E23C68) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Location:** North Sea **Description:** Six RAF Meteor jets flying above the North Sea observe a shiny sphere approaching from the direction of the Mainbrace fleet. It eludes their pursuit and disappears. As they are returning, it reappears following one of the jets, but when he turns to chase it, it speeds away. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says the Mainbrace sightings forced the RAF to “officially recognize the UFO.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Six RAF Jets Approached by Shiny Sphere](http://www.nicap.org/520921northsea%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 196](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/196/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 173 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2057 ### Event 7965 (9263DC8C) **Date:** 9/21/1952 **Description:** A silver spherical UFO was tracked by RAF jets over the North Sea during the NATO Operation Mainbrace. An attempted intercept by three jets and a total of six air crew members failed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 258; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973, p. 403 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6176 ### Event 7966 (7404A091) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** NORTH / TRIPOLI, LIBYA **Description:** 2 / England. Fiery football-size object out over sea going quickly northwest. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 544) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2867 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Libya", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N/TRIPOLI,LIBYA:2/ENGLAND:FIERY FOOTBALL-SIZE OBJ OUT OVR SEA >>NW:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "33.000002 13.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:00:00 N 13:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.000002,13.183334)", **State/Prov:** "TRP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7967 (EC56FEC4) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / MOBRIDGE, SD **Description:** 8 / railroad/railway roundhouse. Large shiny saucer hovers high / 8 minutes. Going quickly southeast faster / jet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2868 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "525", **HatchDesc:** "SE/MOBRIDGE,SD:8/RR ROUNDHOUSE:LRG SHINY SCR HVRS HI/8mns:>>SE FASTER/JET:", **LatLong:** "45.516669 -100.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "45:31:00 N 100:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.516669,-100.416671)", **RelAlt:** "2400", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7968 (3B5ECF98) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** YAAK, MT **Description:** Rumor / radar-men. UFO lands. Breaks trees. Hops about and flies when military nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 544) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2869 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "905", **HatchDesc:** "YAAK,MT:RUMOR/RADAR-MEN:UFO LANDS:BREAKS TREES:HOPS ABOUT+FLIES WHEN MIL NEARS", **LatLong:** "48.816669 -115.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "48:49:00 N 115:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.816669,-115.750006)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7969 (3D18150B) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** NEAR WHITSETT, NC **Description:** College Dean and 1. Silver disk hovers / high altitude. Going quickly north as plane nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2870 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "nr WHITSETT,NC:COLLEGE DEAN+1:SLVR DISK HVRS/HI ALT:>>N AS PLANE NEARS", **LatLong:** "36.055557 -79.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:03:20 N 79:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.055557,-79.600004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7970 (C72DE281) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** BAYONNE, FR **Description:** All / factory night-shift. UFO / dead-leaf maneuvers etc. / 20 minute(s). / r48p140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2871 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BAYONNE,FR:ALL/FACTORY NITE-SHIFT:UFO/DEAD-LEAF MNVRS etc./20min:/r48p140", **LatLong:** "43.483335 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:29:00 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.483335,-1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "PYA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7971 (D309613C) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** CAMP DRUM, NY **Description:** Several observer(s). 20' saucer hovers and circles / 30 minute(s). Dynamo whine and sparks. / r136#5p54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2872 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "211", **HatchDesc:** "CAMP DRUM,NY:SVRL OBS:20'SCR HVRs+CCLs/30min:DYNAMO WHINE+SPARKS:/r136#5p54", **LatLong:** "44.050002 -75.722226", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:00 N 75:43:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.050002,-75.722226)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7972 (D85417D6) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Location:** Fairfax County, VA **Description:** Police observed 3-4 UFOs maneuvering erratically. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1345 ### Event 7973 (F438AEF2) **Date:** 9/22/1952 **Locations:** Camp Drum; Watertown, New York; Fort Drum **Description:** Night. A UFO hovers over the Army’s Camp Drum \[now Fort Drum\] near Watertown, New York, for 30 minutes. Eight soldiers say the object is 200 feet across, trailing red-orange sparks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mysterious, Gyratuing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35533354/democrat-and-chronicle/) [Object Looks Down on Camp Drum,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35533354/democrat-and-chronicle/)” Rochester \(N.Y.\) Democrat and Chronicle, September 27, 1952, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2058 ### Event 7974 (7DF1E385) **Date:** 9/23/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** EAST / BOISE, ID **Description:** Ground and air observer(s). Night lights hover. Move side-to-side up and down. Blue Book report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 545) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2873 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "820", **HatchDesc:** "E/BOISE,ID:GND+AIR OBS:NLTS HOVER:MOVE SIDE-TO-SIDE UP+DOWN:BBK REPORT", **LatLong:** "43.600002 -116.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:00 N 116:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.600002,-116.133339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7975 (733CD4DC) **Date:** 9/23/1952 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** NEWPORT BEACH, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 10-15 orange glowing saucers / V-formation. Return at 0407hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 545) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2874 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "127", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NEWPORT BEACH,CA:GOC OBS:10-15 ORANGE GLOWING SCRS/V-FORM:RETURN AT 0407hrs", **LatLong:** "33.616668 -117.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:37:00 N 117:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.616668,-117.900006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7976 (F47D4F60) **Date:** 9/23/1952 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** 1 civil and 2 military guards. 12 yellow-why night lights circle in sky. / Blue Book report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 546) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2875 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ROBINS AFB,GA:1 CIV+2 MIL GUARDS:12 YEL-WHY NLTS CIRCLE IN SKY:/BBK REPORT", **LatLong:** "32.600002 -83.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:36:00 N 83:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.600002,-83.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7977 (FC126A70) **Date:** Fall 1952 **Location:** NY to Puerto Rico, In Airspace **Description:** Three Pan American Airways pilots watched UFO hover, speed away. \[UFOE, V\]. Zammett/Harris/Hutchins (AL) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1314 ### Event 7978 (B3D90BB6) **Date:** 9/23/1952 **Location:** Gander Lake, CAN **Description:** Bright white light, which reflected on the lake (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2119) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1346 ### Event 7979 (F55B5E28) **Date:** 9/23/1952 **Time:** No time shown **Location:** Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other campers. One bright white light, which reflected on the lake, flew straight and level at 100 m.p.h. for 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_258 ### Event 7980 (4D70CAD4) **Date:** Fall 1952 **Locations:** Lost River Sinks; Howe, Idaho **Description:** Evening. [Paul Solem](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88132621/paul-renshaw-solem) has his first contact with a flying saucer around the Lost River Sinks a few miles from his ranch in Howe, Idaho. After watching a metallic object land, Solem sees a man with long blond hair and dressed in a white uniform standing next to it. He tells Solem to call him “Paul 2.” He says he is from Venus and tells Solem to work with Indians in North America in preparing for a postapocalyptic social order. This will be the first of many contacts for Solem. Over the next 17 years he wanders through the western states, speaking with Indians and contactees, gathers a small group of followers, and generally avoids the limelight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1094 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2068 ### Event 7981 (5F1C4977) **Date:** 9/23/1952 **Description:** Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada. No time given. Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other campers witnessed a bright white light, which reflected on the lake. It flew straight and level at 100 mph for ten minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6246 ### Event 7982 (131B1C20) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** AURORA, CO **Description:** Air Force Sgt. 5 saucers circle about near Stapleton airport. Higher / passing C47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 546) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2876 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1657", **HatchDesc:** "AURORA,CO:AF Sgt:5 SCRS CIRCLE ABOUT nr STAPLETON AIRPORT:HIGHER/PASSING C47", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -104.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 104:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-104.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7983 (63A3396E) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** GUANTANAMO, CUBA **Description:** 3 / Navy plane chases orange night light with green tail. "Terrific rate / ascent". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 552) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2877 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GUANTANAMO,CUBA:3/NAVY PLANE CHASES ORG NLT W/GRN TAIL:"TERRIFIC RATE/ASCENT"", **LatLong:** "19.900001 -75.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "19:54:00 N 75:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.900001,-75.200004)", **State/Prov:** "CUB", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7984 (2645C10C) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WEST PALM BEACH, FL **Description:** Saucer going south down Broadway / 150M altitude! 2nd follows / 90m. Pointed and rounded. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2878 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "W.PALM BEACH,FL:SCR >S DOWN BROADWAY/150M alt!:2nd FOLOS/90m:POINTED+ROUNDED", **LatLong:** "26.777779 -80.055559", **LatLongDMS:** "26:46:40 N 80:03:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.777779,-80.055559)", **RelAlt:** "9", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7985 (96726EBF) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Location:** Charleston, WV **Description:** Bright metallic particles or flashes, up to 3 ft in length (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2124) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1347 ### Event 7986 (99B5E15A) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Location:** Guantanamo Bay, Cuba **Description:** TBM-18 chased an orange light with greenish tail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1348 ### Event 7987 (4219997B) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Time:** 3:30 PM **Location:** Charleston, West Virginia **Description:** Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber. A lot of bright, metallic particles or flashes, up to 3' in length, streamed past the B-29 for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_259 ### Event 7988 (6097B7B9) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Description:** CIA Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes a 4-page memo to CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith), summarizing his earlier memo and stating that since 1947 unexplained sightings were running at 20% and in 1952 they rose to 28%. “I consider this problem to be of such importance that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council in order that a community-wide coordinated effort toward its solution may be initiated.” His CIA scientific consultants \([Julius Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton) and perhaps [Lloyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) [Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) and [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)\) think the answer will be found “on the margins of just beyond the frontiers of our present knowledge in the fields of atmospheric, ionospheric, and extraterrestrial phenomena, with the added possibility that the present dispersal of nuclear waste products might also be a factor.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” September 24, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Good Above, [pp. 328–329](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/328/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/328/mode/2up) [506–507](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/506/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2059 ### Event 7989 (15AC2F31) **Date:** 9/24/1952 **Description:** The crew of a USAF B-29 bomber, flying near Charleston, West Virginia at 3:30 p.m. reported seeing a lot of bright, metallic particles or flashes, up to three feet in length, stream past their aircraft for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2124; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6277 ### Event 7990 (21D72DF4) **Date:** 9/25/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** NEAR JOLIET, IL **Description:** 2 / car. 20M silver half-dome hovers. Near instant moves. Sharp edges and lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2879 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "185", **HatchDesc:** "nr JOLIET,IL:2/CAR:20M SLVR HALF-DOME HVRS:NR INSTANT MOVES:SHARP EDGES+LITES", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -88.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 88:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-88.100004)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7991 (BDEE2B7B) **Date:** 9/25/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** EL PASO, TX **Description:** 2 boys. Round array / lights rotates over phone building. Winks out. Away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2880 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1110", **HatchDesc:** "EL PASO,TX:2 BOYS:RND ARRAY/LITES ROTATES OVR PHONE BLDG:WINKS OUT:AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "31.755557 -106.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:45:20 N 106:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.755557,-106.483338)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7992 (CCCDA352) **Date:** 9/25/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MOUNTAINS EAST / SAIGON **Description:** 12 Fr. officers. Silent domed saucer hovers and wobbles and maneuvers going up and down. Shoots going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2881 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Vietnam", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "Mtns E/SAIGON:12 FR.OFFICERS:SLNT DOMED SCR HVRS+WOBBLES+MNVRS ↑+↓:SHOOTS >>S", **LatLong:** "10.833334 107.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "10:50:00 N 107:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.833334,107.166672)", **State/Prov:** "SGN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7993 (36A7FDF2) **Date:** Late 9/1952 **Location:** Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits the headquarters of the Air Defense Command at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado to brief Gen. [Benjamin W. Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) and his staff on the past few months of UFO activity at a lunch at the officer’s club. One of the attendees is Maj. [Vernon L. Sadowski](https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/2140264/Vernon-L-Sadowski), the ADC Intelligence liaison to Blue Book, who says that “no one can understand why Intelligence is so hesitant to accept the fact that something we just don’t know about is flying around in our skies, unless you are trying to cover up something big.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 194–197](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2060 ### Event 7994 (A554FEB3) **Date:** 9/25/1952 **Description:** Several witnesses watched a 20 foot diameter disc hover over Camp Drum near Watertown, New York at 6:00 p.m. It circled the base making a sound like a "dynamo." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 54 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6309 ### Event 7995 (D94FE4D3) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** RICHMOND AND UMGABABA, SOUTH AFR **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). Metal saucer passes over. 1 observer sees it go going quickly south to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 554) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2882 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND+UMGABABA,S.AFR:2+1 OBS:MTL SCR PASSES OVR:1 OBS SEES IT GO >>S TO SEA", **LatLong:** "-29.866668 30.283335", **LatLongDMS:** "29:52:00 S 30:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.866668,30.283335)", **State/Prov:** "KwaZulu-Natal", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7996 (A5F2A0DF) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** DENMARK, WI **Description:** 2 silver disks / high altitude. Going southwest slow. Jump / lower altitude. Light plane by. / r136#11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2883 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "268", **HatchDesc:** "DENMARK,WI:2 SLVR DISKS/HI ALT:>SW SLOW:JUMP/LOWER alt:lite plane by:/r136#11", **LatLong:** "44.350002 -87.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:21:00 N 87:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.350002,-87.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7997 (4523A5B5) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** STURGEON BAY, WI **Description:** Teacher and several. 2 large metal saucers going quickly southwest slowly. Vanish in place! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 555) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2884 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "221", **HatchDesc:** "STURGEON BAY,WI:TEACHER+SVRL:2 LRG MTL SCRS >>SW SLOWLY:VANISH IN PLACE!", **LatLong:** "44.833335 -87.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:50:00 N 87:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.833335,-87.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7998 (8A612151) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** ABRAMS, WI **Description:** Several observer(s). Silent swirling GLU-green round-object going quickly north / 600m altitude. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 555) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2885 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "204", **HatchDesc:** "ABRAMS,WI:SVRL OBS:SILENT SWIRLING GLU-GRN ROUND-OBJ >>N/600m alt:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "44.777780 -88.061115", **LatLongDMS:** "44:46:40 N 88:03:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.777780,-88.061115)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7999 (E5704D40) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** 400MI NORTHWEST / AZORES **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2126. Unidentified. C124 crew paced / 2 green night lights. No ship / plane. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 555) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2886 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "400mi NW/AZORES:BBK#2126:UID:C124 CREW PACED/2 GRN NLTS:NO SHIP/PLANE:/r185", **LatLong:** "41.000002 -35.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "41:00:00 N 35:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.000002,-35.000002)", **State/Prov:** "Azores", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8000 (9B80399F) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Location:** Azores Islands (400 miles NNW of), At Sea **Description:** Air Crews Observe Green Lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2126) **Reference:** NICAP: [520926](http://www.nicap.org/520926azores%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1349 ### Event 8001 (0EE33003) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Time:** 11:16 PM **Location:** 400 miles NNW of Azores Islands **Description:** Witnesses: pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander of USAF C-124 transport plane. Two distinct green lights were seen to the right and slightly above the C-124, and at one time seemed to turn toward it. The lights alternated leading each other during more than 1 hour of observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_260 ### Event 8002 (077D37C3) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Description:** Syndicated aviation columnist [Robert S. Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FS.%5FAllen) writes in his column that the “Air Force has a breathtaking report” ready on UFOs. The study expresses the belief that some reports are genuine and originate from “sources outside of this planet.” The supposed document also says that some sightings involve secret US military devices. The study is allegedly based on more than 1,800 sightings in the past 5 years. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Robert S. Allen, “[Report on Flying Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93486106/)” Los Angeles Mirror News, September 26, 1952, p. 43; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 10–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2061 ### Event 8003 (7DD1C87F) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Locations:** Azores Islands; 400 miles north-northwest of the Azores Islands **Description:** 11:16 p.m. The pilot and crew of a USAF C-124 see two distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the plane, about 400 miles north-northwest of the Azores Islands. At one point, they appear to turn toward the plane. They remain visible until the plane sights the islands. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Air Crews Observe Green Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520926azores%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 174 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2062 ### Event 8004 (E327AA95) **Date:** 9/26/1952 **Description:** In the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles NNW of the Azores Islands. 11:16 p.m. The pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander of an USAF C-124 transport plane reported observing two distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the C-124 at 11:16 p.m. At one point the lights seemed to turn toward their aircraft. The lights alternated leading each other during the aerial encounter, which went on for more than one hour of observation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #8, report dated December 31, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 748 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6342 ### Event 8005 (17C97891) **Date:** 9/27/1952 **Location:** HEMPSTEAD, TX **Description:** 2 T33 jets. Silver-white saucer / 600+mph. Tilts to show disk-shape. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 555) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2887 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "HEMPSTEAD,TX:2 T33 JETS:SLVR-WHT SCR/600+mph:TILTS TO SHOW DISK-SHAPE", **LatLong:** "30.100001 -96.077782", **LatLongDMS:** "30:06:00 N 96:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.100001,-96.077782)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8006 (FB55600F) **Date:** 9/27/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** INYOKERN, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2128. Unidentified. Several / telescope. Large saucer changes color(s). Level then going down / fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 555) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2888 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "742", **HatchDesc:** "INYOKERN,CA:BBK#2128:UID:SVRL/TELESCOPE:LRG SCR CHANGES CLRS:LEVEL THEN ↓/FAST", **LatLong:** "35.644446 -117.811117", **LatLongDMS:** "35:38:40 N 117:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.644446,-117.811117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8007 (6950130F) **Date:** 9/27/1952 **Location:** Hempstead, TX **Description:** White-silver circular flat disc flying erratically at 600-700 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1350 ### Event 8008 (9EFEF276) **Date:** 9/27/1952 **Location:** Inyokern, CA **Description:** 2 couples using a 5x telescope saw a large, round object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2128) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1351 ### Event 8009 (8100DC63) **Date:** 9/27/1952 **Time:** 10 PM **Location:** Inyokern, California **Description:** Witnesses: two couples, using a 5x telescope. One large, round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds, was seen to fly straight and level for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_261 ### Event 8010 (80E651F9) **Date:** 9/27/1952 **End date:** 9/28/1952 **Locations:** West Germany; Denmark; southern Sweden; Hamburg; Kiel, Germany **Description:** Throughout West Germany, Denmark, and southern Sweden, there are widespread UFO reports. A luminous object with a comet-like tail is seen moving irregularly near Hamburg and Kiel, Germany. Once, three satellite objects are reported moving around a larger object. A cigar-shaped UFO moving silently eastward is also seen. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 163](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2063 ### Event 8011 (F639368B) **Date:** 9/27/1952 **Description:** Inyo, Kern County, California. Two couples, looking through a 5x telescope at 10 p.m., observed a large, round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds. It flew straight and level for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6372 ### Event 8012 (EA865683) **Date:** 9/28/1952 **Location:** Tsushima Island, Japan **Description:** (35°11’ N, 136°45’ E). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1352 ### Event 8013 (5C5004E8) **Date:** 9/28/1952 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Object Similar to Aircraft Tracked on GCA Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [520928](http://www.nicap.org/520928goosebay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1353 ### Event 8014 (AD34511B) **Date:** 9/28/1952 **Location:** Arizona desert **Description:** 2:00 p.m. [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter), and Bailey attempt to meet the saucer intelligences for a landing somewhere in the Arizona desert, but apparently get lost. They return to Streeter’s home, where the radio sends sinister-sounding messages about the radio being dangerous, a man coming, and Streeter having a deep secret \(perhaps that Streeter has attempted psychic contact once before in 1950\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2064 ### Event 8015 (01CD0B9F) **Date:** 9/28/1952 **Locations:** Tsushima Island, Japan; Itazuke Air Base [now Fukuoka Airport]; Tsutsusaki Lighthouse **Description:** 8:35 p.m.–10:09 p.m. USAF radar operator A/3c Carlton L. Hall, stationed on the southwest coast of Tsushima Island, Japan, notices unusual targets on six separate occasions, each time for a duration of 2–4 sweeps. On two separate outbound tracks from Itazuke Air Base \[now Fukuoka Airport\], a series of targets appear directly behind aircraft when entering an azimuth of 50°–70° from nearby Tsutsusaki Lighthouse. The objects appear as normal aircraft but are rounder in shape, trailing about 2–3 miles to the rear of the aircraft. A/2c Warren D. Grovenstein also observes four of these anomalies with Hall. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Blue Book report](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1952-09-28%20TsuShima-Japan-min.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2065 ### Event 8016 (D21A5BC1) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** 1 observer. Blue-glowing ovoid. Rolls. Passes behind invisible curtain til gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, J. Allen: The UFO EXPERIENCE, A Scientific Inquiry; Ballentine Books, NY 1974,1977. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2889 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:1 OBS:BLU-GLO OVOID:ROLLS:PASSES BHND INVISIBLE CURTAIN TIL GONE", **LatLong:** "39.116669 -84.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 84:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,-84.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 8017 (70F1F3EB) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** ROCHESTER, KENT **Description:** 2 13cm plates hang over city. Zoom away shortly. No planes in area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 557) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2890 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ROCHESTER,KENT:2 13cm PLATES HANG OVR CITY:ZOOM AWAY SHORTLY:NO PLANES IN AREA", **LatLong:** "51.433336 0.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:26:00 N 00:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.433336,0.500000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8018 (A8D7AF5F) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** 2KM SOUTH / MAINZ, GERMANY **Description:** French Captain. Glowing ovoid with dark patch / side. Low humming. Going quickly [to] overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 557) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2891 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "2km S/MAINZ,GERMANY:FRENCH Capt:GLOWING OVOID W/DARK PATCH/SIDE:LOW HUM:>>OVHD", **LatLong:** "49.966669 8.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:58:00 N 08:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.966669,8.266667)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8019 (7F79989C) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** HEARNE, TX **Description:** 6 calls to military. Orange-yellow saucer / no wings. Terrific speed going quickly north and going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 557) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2892 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "87", **HatchDesc:** "HEARNE,TX:6 CALLS to MILITARY:ORG-YEL SCR/NO WINGS:TERRIFIC SPEED >> N + >>SW", **LatLong:** "30.877779 -96.594449", **LatLongDMS:** "30:52:40 N 96:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.877779,-96.594449)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8020 (4587C828) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** ALL / DENMARK, DK **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Large cylinder/cigar-shape and several saucers rotate below. Going quickly east. / r48p141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2893 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "ALL/DENMARK,DK:MANY SEP.OBS:LRG CGR+SVRL SCRS ROTATE BELOW:>>E:/r48p141", **LatLong:** "56.250003 9.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "56:15:00 N 09:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.250003,9.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8021 (8CB341D0) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SOUTHERN PINES, NC **Description:** 3 observer(s). Green ellipse with long tail orbits / 15 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2894 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTHERN PINES,NC:3 OBS:GREEN ELLIPSE W/LONG TAIL ORBITS/15min:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.172224 -79.394448", **LatLongDMS:** "35:10:20 N 79:23:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.172224,-79.394448)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8022 (C4043296) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Location:** Rochester, England, UK **Description:** 2 flat objects hovering then speeding away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2136) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1354 ### Event 8023 (B3F80879) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Location:** Aurora, CO **Description:** 5-6 circular objects, bright white but not shiny (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1355 ### Event 8024 (BD3BA8F3) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Location:** Southern Pines, NC **Description:** Green ellipse. with a long tail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2140) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1358 ### Event 8025 (C944ADFB) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 3:55 PM **Location:** Rochester, England **Description:** Witnesses unknown, but report came via the Rochester Police Dept. Two flat objects hovered for 3 minutes, and then sped away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_262 ### Event 8026 (C31D5927) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 8:15 PM **Location:** Southern Pines, North Carolina **Description:** Witnesses: U.S. Army Res. lst Lt. C.H. Stevens and two others. One green ellipse with a long tail orbited for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_263 ### Event 8027 (9F91E697) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Time:** 3:15 PM **Location:** Aurora, Colorado **Description:** Witness: USAF T/Sgt. B.R. Hughes. Five or six circular objects, bright white but not shiny, circled in trail formation for 5-6 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_264 ### Event 8028 (5B10EAC5) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Location:** Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Capt. Dursemaine, commanding officer of the Gendarmerie Maritime en Allemagne, watches a luminous, egg-shaped object with a black spot in its center flying at an altitude of 3.7 miles above his home 1.2 miles south of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It emits a low-pitched hum and white exhaust. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2066 ### Event 8029 (07C86477) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Description:** On this day a cigar-shaped mothership and accompaning disc-shaped UFOs were seen together over Denmark. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1987, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6412 ### Event 8030 (E014A057) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Description:** Rochester, England. At 3:55 p.m. GMT the Rochester Police Department received a report that two flat unidentified objects had hovered over the city for three minutes, and then sped away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2136; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6413 ### Event 8031 (D48B4707) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Description:** In Aurora, Colorado at 3:15 p.m. USAF Sgt. B. R. Hughes witnessed five or six circular objects, bright white but not shiny. They circled in trail formation for 5-6 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6414 ### Event 8032 (31F779A9) **Date:** 9/29/1952 **Description:** At 8:15 p.m. U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant C. H. Stevens and two others in Southern Pines, North Carolina observed a green ellipse with a long tail orbiting in the sky for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2140; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6415 ### Event 8033 (792157B8) **Date:** 9/30/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** 3 photographs and more. 2 saucers circle B29. Hover dart and maneuver. Out and back. / r242p57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2895 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "702", **HatchDesc:** "EDWARDS AFB,CA:3 PHOTOGS+:2 SCRS CIRCLE B29:HVR DART+MNVR:OUT+BACK:/r242p57", **LatLong:** "34.900002 -117.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:54:00 N 117:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.900002,-117.866672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8034 (263CC61B) **Date:** 9/30/1952 **Location:** Denver, CO **Description:** \[Same as Sept. 29 Aurora case?\] (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2138) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1356 ### Event 8035 (15E09A7D) **Date:** 9/30/1952 **Location:** Edwards AFB, CA **Description:** Aviation photographer, others, observed two discs alternately hovering and darting around. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1357 ### Event 8036 (C1E03429) **Date:** 9/30/1952 **Locations:** Edwards AFB; Rogers Dry Lake; Southern California **Description:** 10:30 a.m. A North American Aviation Company film crew, headed by Dick Beemer, is at Edwards AFB in southern California to film some tests. They are at Rogers Dry Lake when a B-29 passes overhead. Cameraman Carlos Garcia sees an unusual object moving near the plane. A second object appears. Soon the whole crew is looking up. Beemer says the objects are silent, leave no vapor trail, take turns maneuvering around each other, and look like “flattened spheres.” They have a color motion picture camera with them, but the UFOs are too near the sun. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 57–58](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=69&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2067 ### Event 8037 (FC48DF14) **Date:** 10/1952 **Location:** HORTEN-OSLOFJORD, NORWAY **Description:** UFO overflies naval base. Jets chase. Terrific speed.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2896 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HORTEN-OSLOFJORD,NORWAY:UFO OVERFLIES NAVAL BASE:JETS CHASE:TERRIFIC SPEED..", **LatLong:** "59.433336 10.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "59:26:00 N 10:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.433336,10.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8038 (83E1BA73) **Date:** 10/1952 **Description:** The first number of [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender)’s Space Review is published. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Space Review](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Space%20Review%20%28Bender%29/Space%20Review%20-%20Volume%201%20number%201%20-%201952%2010.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(October 1952\); Clark III 189 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2069 ### Event 8039 (546E89CE) **Date:** 10/1952 **Locations:** Salem; Corvallis, Oregon **Description:** Opal Church is driving with her nephew in a car between Salem and Corvallis, Oregon, when they see an 8- foot, heavily built figure walking with “fluid movements” along the road. It is wearing an Arab-style headdress and a uniform, with gloves and boots, of fine metallic mesh. A ribbed belt surrounds the waist. Its face is pale and the huge round eyes, nearly 3 inches in diameter, glow. Inside them are reticulations “resembling the filament in old electric light bulbs.” Church turns around immediately, but the figure is gone, even though the terrain is flat. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1952–1953,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1952-1953.pdf) p. 28; Clark III 267 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2070 ### Event 8040 (9F15AF29) **Date:** 10/1952 **Description:** [Andrija Puharich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich) a medical doctor interested in parapsychology, discovers that a person’s ESP abilities are enhanced when they are placed inside a Faraday cage. His experimental subject is none other than gifted psychic [Eileen J. Garrett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%5FJ.%5FGarrett)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%5FJ.%5FGarrett) whom he has tasked with clairvoyantly perceiving cosmic ray bursts of sufficient magnitude to trigger a signal in a detector. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2071 ### Event 8041 (11275119) **Date:** 10/1952 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** Stanley Glickman, an American artist living in Paris, France, joins a group of fellow Americans at a café, one of whom is CIA mind-control and poison specialist [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) A heated political debate ensues, and when Glickman decides to leave, he is offered a drink to soothe ill feelings. Gottlieb surreptitiously slips LSD into Glickman’s drink and it derails his life. Glickman suffers a complete mental breakdown from which he never recovers. In 1977, he learns about Gottlieb and CIA’s LSD experiments on unwitting involuntary subjects from the [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKennedy) congressional hearings. Glickman sues in 1981, but the trial is delayed 17 years on technical grounds, by which time Glickman has died in 1992. His sister, Gloria Kronisch, pursues the case in the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, as his executrix in 1998, but it is thrown out on July 9 because the statute of limitations has passed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. P. Albarelli Jr., [A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up) [War Experiments](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up) Trine Day, 2009; [Kronisch v. United States](https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1364923.html), US Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit, July 9, 1998 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2072 ### Event 8042 (3ED2E568) **Date:** 10/1952 **Locations:** Plainsboro, New Jersey; New York **Description:** Evening. Aeronautical engineer and former Project Sign liaison [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) and his wife Marion see an odd object while driving near Plainsboro, New Jersey. At first, they think it is an aircraft crashing, but the object levels off and flashes away at high speed, emitting a bluish-green light. He estimates it is 100 feet in diameter and 500–600 feet high, and it gives off a “weird light like looking at a firefly” while changing shape. Loedding says Rep. [L. Gary Clemente](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%5FGary%5FClemente) \(D-N.Y.\) is also a witness. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucer Design Practical, WADC Aid Says; U.S.](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59508517/the-journal-herald/) [Interested,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59508517/the-journal-herald/)” Dayton \(Ohio\) Journal Herald, August 9, 1957, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2073 ### Event 8043 (D1FEAB56) **Date:** 10/1/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, SC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2142. Unidentified. RF80 pilot / 22K' altitude. Luminous white dot paces. Sudden turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2897 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "23", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "SHAW AFB,SC:BBK#2142:UID:RF80 PILOT/22K'alt:LUM.WHT DOT PACES:SUDDEN TURNS", **LatLong:** "33.972224 -80.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:20 N 80:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.972224,-80.483337)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8044 (B31B34B2) **Date:** 10/1/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** PASCAGOULA, MS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2143. Unidentified. 4 civil. Sphere/orb/globe very large or very close / 7 minute(s). Blast / exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2898 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "PASCAGOULA,MS:BBK#2143:UID:4 CIV:ORB VLARGE OR VCLOSE/7min:BLAST/EXIT", **LatLong:** "30.366668 -88.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:22:00 N 88:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.366668,-88.533338)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8045 (F3647DCA) **Date:** 10/1/1952 **Location:** Shaw AFB, SC **Description:** Bright white light fly straight, then vertical (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2142) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1359 ### Event 8046 (9CEBAA7A) **Date:** 10/1/1952 **Location:** Pascagoula, MS **Description:** Heard a loud blast and saw a round, milky-white object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2143) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1360 ### Event 8047 (49C9319D) **Date:** 10/1/1952 **Time:** 6:57 PM **Location:** Shaw AFB, South Carolina **Description:** Witness: USAF lst Lt. T.J. Pointek, pilot of RF-8O reconnaissance jet. One bright white light flew straight, then vertical, then hovered, and then made an abrupt turn during a 23 minute attempted intercept. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_265 ### Event 8048 (C00E08CB) **Date:** 10/1/1952 **Time:** 7:40 PM **Location:** Pascagoula, Mississippi **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. C.C. McLean and one other person. One round, milky-white object, shaped like a powder puff, hovered for 5-10 minutes then flew away very fast in an arc. A loud blast was heard at the start of the 22 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_266 ### Event 8049 (CE873FFA) **Date:** 10/2/1952 **Location:** Langley, VA **Description:** SECRET MEMO to Director CIA from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence: ATIC is the only group devoting appreciable effort to the study of UFOs. Flying Saucers pose two elements of danger to the United States. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns vulnerability of the U.S. to air attack. Recommend that the DCI discuss this subject with the Psychological Strategy Board. **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p509) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_481 **See also:** 11/25/1952 ### Event 8050 (001F0655) **Date:** 10/2/1952? **Locations:** river Lågen; Gudbrandsdalslågen; Norway **Description:** Shortly before 7:00 a.m. One Thursday this month, Johannes Nordlien is waiting for coworkers when he hears a howling sound. A white, saucer-shaped object, 13 feet in diameter, comes in from the west at high speed and passes him only 325 feet away. It falls with a violent splash into the river Lågen \[Gudbrandsdalslågen?\] in Norway. When his colleagues show up, the water is still roiling. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2074 ### Event 8051 (52813D34) **Date:** 10/2/1952 **Description:** CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes a memorandum to Director of Central Intelligence [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) recommending he advise the National Security Council that more research is needed on UFOs to investigate their national security threat. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” October 2, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Good Above, [pp. 509–510](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/508/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2075 ### Event 8052 (5949B025) **Date:** 10/3/1952 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST, AFR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Green night light stops. Zigzags. Crazy turns. Changes color(s).. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 561) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2899 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "ABIDJAN,IVORY COAST,AFR:3 OBS:GRN NLT STOPS:ZIGZAGS:CRAZY TURNS:CHANGES CLRS..", **LatLong:** "5.350000 -4.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "05:21:00 N 04:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.350000,-4.016667)", **State/Prov:** "IVC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8053 (159AC035) **Date:** 10/3/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** COCOA, FL **Description:** Hundreds / calls. White ovoid hovers to 0020hrs. Near Cape Canaveral. Back 06 Oct(up.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 561) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2900 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "140", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "COCOA,FL:100s/CALLS:WHT OVOID HVRS to 0020hrs:nr CAPE CANAVERAL:BACK 06OCT(UP)", **LatLong:** "28.383335 -80.744448", **LatLongDMS:** "28:23:00 N 80:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.383335,-80.744448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8054 (A5D27281) **Date:** 10/3/1952 **Location:** -20.0000 115.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Hurricane” Yield: 25KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1747 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-20.0000 115.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "20:00:00 S 115:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.0000,115.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Hurricane", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "25" ### Event 8055 (145AA2B8) **Date:** 10/3/1952 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m. a UFO zigzagged over Abidjan, Ivory Coast. That evening, at Cocoa Beach, Florida a white ovoid object hovered near Cape Canaveral for two and a half hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6518 ### Event 8056 (F9CEE905) **Date:** 10/5/1952 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** ATLANTIC 5430W-4952N **Description:** Steamship Caronia. Ret Navy Lt. commercial aircraft. Brilliant saucer like welding torch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 562) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2901 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC 5430W-4952N:SS CARONIA:Ret NAVY Lt Comm:BRILL.SCR LIKE WELDING TORCH", **LatLong:** "42.316669 -55.116669", **LatLongDMS:** "42:19:00 N 55:07:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.316669,-55.116669)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8057 (3D69379C) **Date:** 10/6/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** SIDI FERRUCH, ALGERIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape-shape "in orange flames" / western coastline. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2902 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SIDI FERRUCH,ALGERIA:MANY OBS:CGR-SHAPE "IN ORANGE FLAMES"/WESTERN COASTLINE", **LatLong:** "35.600002 -1.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "35:36:00 N 01:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.600002,-1.000000)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8058 (616A9F1A) **Date:** 10/6/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** MONTPELLIER, FR **Description:** Weatherman. Disk east going quickly. Small night light follows. Leaves (something behind) trail. Seen widely. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2903 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTPELLIER,FR:WEATHERMAN:DISK E>>:SML NLT FOLOS:LVS TRAIL:seen widely", **LatLong:** "43.600002 3.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:00 N 03:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.600002,3.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Hérault", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8059 (CC439F21) **Date:** 10/6/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** DRAGUIGNAN, FR **Description:** Air France DC4+others. Luminous/glowing white ovoid SL flight east going west. / LDLN#255+r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2904 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "DRAGUIGNAN,FR:AIR FRANCE DC4+OTHERS:LUMn WHT OVOID SL FLITE E>W:/LDLN#255+r150", **LatLong:** "43.538891 6.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:20 N 06:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.538891,6.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8060 (DEBD6A4D) **Date:** 10/6/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CHENNAULT AIR FORCE BASE, LA **Description:** 3 airmen. White night light north going south. Makes 4 90-turns and various maneuvers / 5 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 562) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2905 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CHENNAULT AFB,LA:3 AIRMEN:WHT NLT N>S:MAKES 4 90-TURNS + VARIOUS MNVRS/5min", **LatLong:** "30.200001 -93.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:12:00 N 93:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.200001,-93.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8061 (C8C02A7E) **Date:** 10/6/1952 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object was seen in Oran, Algeria at 6:30 p.m. At 7:28 p.m. two witnesses onboard an Air France DC-4 flying over Draguignan, Var, France sighted a white luminous object that looked like an elongated egg with a bluish-white tail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1987, p. 18; (2) Aime Michel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 145; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6594 ### Event 8062 (D9A6A49E) **Date:** 10/7/1952 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** BALLARAT, VCT, AUS **Description:** 28 slow-going silver-white saucers dive at car. Turn up and vanish. P308. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2906 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BALLARAT,VCT,AUS:28 SLO-GOING SLVR-WHT SCRS DIVE AT CAR:TURN UP+VANISH:p308", **LatLong:** "-37.566668 143.600007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:34:00 S 143:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.566668,143.600007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8063 (BDC7EDD2) **Date:** 10/7/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** ANDERSON AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM **Description:** 2 military Air Traffic Controllers. Unidentified night light in landing pattern. No planes / balloons up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 563) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2907 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ANDERSON AFB,GUAM:2 MIL ATCs:UID NLT in LANDING PATTERN:NO PLANES/BALLOONS UP", **LatLong:** "14.416667 144.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "14:25:00 N 144:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.416667,144.750007)", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8064 (24DA5296) **Date:** 10/7/1952 **Time:** ~20:30 **Location:** SOUTH / ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** 2 military / drive-in. Bright vertical ovoid to NNE. Turns on side and dims. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 563) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2908 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1355", **HatchDesc:** "S/ALAMOGORDO,NM:2 MIL/DRIVE-IN:BRITE VERTICAL OVOID TO NNE:TURNS ON SIDE+DIMS", **LatLong:** "32.816668 -105.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:49:00 N 105:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.816668,-105.966672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8065 (97B98311) **Date:** 10/7/1952 **Location:** Alamogordo, NM **Description:** Pale blue oval, with its long axis vertical, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2150, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1361 ### Event 8066 (0AF14296) **Date:** 10/7/1952 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Alamagordo, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: USAF Lt. Bagnell. One pale blue oval, with its long axis vertical, flew straight and level for 4-5 seconds, covering 30 in that time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_267 ### Event 8067 (8CB294DC) **Date:** 10/8/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** GUIMILIAU, FR **Description:** 3+several. Thin silver saucer hovers and wobbles 500M overhead. Whistles and shoots quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2909 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GUIMILIAU,FR:3+SVRL:THIN SLVR SCR HVRS+WOBBLES 500M OVHD:WHISTLES+SHOOTS ↑↑", **LatLong:** "48.483336 -4.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:29:00 N 04:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.483336,-4.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8068 (1E54467A) **Date:** 10/8/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** KEFLAVIK AIRPORT/APARTMENT, ICEL **Description:** 4 USAF officers. Saucer going quickly northeast and SSW. Shoots going up / 1 second(s). Silent. No contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 564) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2910 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greenland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "KEFLAVIK Apt,ICEL:4 USAF OFFICERS:SCR>>NE+SSW:SHOOTS ↑/1sec:SLNT:NO CONTRAIL", **LatLong:** "64.000003 -22.550001", **LatLongDMS:** "64:00:00 N 22:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.000003,-22.550001)", **State/Prov:** "KEF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8069 (4F9661F2) **Date:** 10/8/1952 **Description:** A thin, silver disc-shaped craft hovered and wobbled 500 meters over the heads of three witnesses in Guimiliau, Finistere department, France on this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. It made a whistling sound as it shot away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6637 ### Event 8070 (DEB020AE) **Date:** 10/9/1952 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** BROOKS AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** 2 USAF men. Silver UFO hovers / 40K' altitude / one hour. 2nd zooms upward. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 564) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2911 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKS AFB,TX:2 USAF MEN:SLVR UFO HVRS/40K'alt/1hr:2nd ZOOMS UPWARD:", **LatLong:** "29.350001 -98.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:21:00 N 98:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.350001,-98.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8071 (98E57D31) **Date:** 10/9/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / HARMONY, IL **Description:** 2 / US20. Bright dish-saucer zigzags. Vanishes and reappears. Hovers / low level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2912 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "SE/HARMONY,IL:2/US20:BRITE DISH-SCR ZIGZAGS:VANISHES+REAPPEARS:HVRS/LO LEVEL", **LatLong:** "42.133335 -88.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:08:00 N 88:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.133335,-88.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8072 (BCE62109) **Date:** 10/9/1952 **End date:** 10/11/1952 **Locations:** Optical Society of America; Boston, Massachusetts **Description:** At the Optical Society of America meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) presents a paper on “Unusual Aerial Phenomena,” in which he expresses skepticism for most reports, except for nocturnal lights that do “not appear to be readily explainable on an astronomical basis, or by mirages, balloons, or by conventional aircraft.” Astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) presents a dismissive paper on radar angels and mirages, while [Urner](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/) [Liddel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/) presents “Phantasmagoria or Unusual Observations in the Atmosphere,” dismissing UFO reports as mass hysteria, fear psychosis, and sensation-seeking. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. A. Hynek, “[Unusual Aerial Phenomena,](https://opg.optica.org/josa/abstract.cfm?uri=josa-43-4-311)” Journal of the Optical Society of America 43 \(1953\): 311–314; Urner Liddel, “[Phantasmagoria or Unusual Observations in the](https://opg.optica.org/josa/abstract.cfm?URI=josa-43-4-314) [Atmosphere,](https://opg.optica.org/josa/abstract.cfm?URI=josa-43-4-314)” Journal of the Optical Society of America 43 \(1953\): 314–317 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2076 ### Event 8073 (A18DF978) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Location:** COPENHAGEN, DK **Description:** Air Force officers. 1 saucer seen. Huge wave / cigars and saucers / Germany and Norway and Sweden. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2913 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "COPENHAGEN,DK:AF OFFICERS:1 SCR SEEN:HUGE WAVE/CGRS+SCRS/GERMANY+NORWAY+SWEDEN", **LatLong:** "55.716669 12.450001", **LatLongDMS:** "55:43:00 N 12:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.716669,12.450001)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8074 (B26ECF6D) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Location:** MANSTON, DORSET, ENG **Description:** USAF wire. 2 10cm disks / unknown altitude. Silent. Northwest going quickly southeast. 1 rolls and vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 568) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2914 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "MANSTON,DORSET,ENG:USAF WIRE:2 10cm DISKS/UNK.ALT:SLNT:NW>>SE:1 ROLLS+VANISHES", **LatLong:** "50.938891 -2.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:56:20 N 02:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.938891,-2.266667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 8075 (432516FE) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SIDI-BEL-ABBES, ALG **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape flies right over sully weather station. No further details. / r49p105? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2915 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SIDI-bel-ABBES,ALG:CGR FLIES RIGHT OVER SULLY WEATHER STATION:NFD:/r49p105?", **LatLong:** "35.250002 -0.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:15:00 N 00:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.250002,-0.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Constantine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8076 (9038ED47) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** OTIS AIR FORCE BASE, MASS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2155. Blinking white night light shoots going up. Stops. Swings / 20 minute(s). Continues going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 568) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2916 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "21", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "OTIS AFB,MASS:BBK#2155:BLINKING WHT NLT SHOOTS ↑:STOPS:SWINGS/20min:CONTINUES↑", **LatLong:** "41.683335 -70.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:00 N 70:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.683335,-70.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8077 (200A4CE0) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Location:** Otis AFB, MA **Description:** Blinking white light move like a pendulum then shoot straight up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2155) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1362 ### Event 8078 (57868E3E) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Time:** 6:30 PM **Location:** Otis AFB, Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt., two other enlisted men. One blinking white light moved like a pendulum for 20 minutes, and then shot straight up. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_268 ### Event 8079 (5C545DBF) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Locations:** Florida; Pittsburg, Kansas **Description:** Battelle issues its sixth status report on Project Stork. UFO reports through 1951 have been coded and put on IBM punch cards. About 60% of the reports have been evaluated. The panel has looked at two films and soil and vegetation samples from cases in Florida and Pittsburg, Kansas. The witness questionnaire is further refined and will become the basis for Project Blue Book’s form. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7b.htm)” CUFON; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm)” CUFON **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2077 ### Event 8080 (FE8DA131) **Date:** 10/10/1952 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. three enlisted men at Otis AFB, Massachusetts watched a blinking white light swing in the sky like a pendulum for 20 minutes. It then shot straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2155; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6698 ### Event 8081 (4DE56762) **Date:** 10/11/1952 **Location:** NEWPORT NEWS, VA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Domed saucer hovers / 20 mn. Tilts and going quickly [to] away as jets near. / r78p166. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2917 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NEWPORT NEWS,VA:GOC OBS:DOMED SCR HVRS/20mn:TILTS+>>AWAY AS JETS NEAR:/r78p166", **LatLong:** "36.983335 -76.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:59:00 N 76:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.983335,-76.416670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8082 (EA050AB2) **Date:** 10/11/1952 **Location:** Newport News, VA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps spotter saw disc-shaped UFO with "dome". \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1363 ### Event 8083 (F3E095B8) **Date:** 10/11/1952 **Locations:** Newport News, Virginia; Langley Air Force Base **Description:** A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a disc hovering in one spot for 20 minutes over Newport News, Virginia. When two interceptors arrive from Langley Air Force Base, the object tilts up, accelerates, and shoots away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 150](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=162&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2078 ### Event 8084 (3BF06DA3) **Date:** 10/12/1952 **Location:** OFF HUNGNAM, NORTH KOREA **Description:** Marine pilot. 20cm orange fireball buzzes interceptor. Shoots going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 569) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2918 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off HUNGNAM,N.KOREA:MARINE PILOT:20cm ORG FBL BUZZES INTERCEPTOR:SHOOTS>>N", **LatLong:** "39.666669 127.766673", **LatLongDMS:** "39:40:00 N 127:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.666669,127.766673)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8085 (BDCD1D94) **Date:** 10/12/1952 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** PALO ALTO, CA **Description:** Aero worker. 6 glowing-disks / V-formation. North going quickly south / 8 second(s). Separate saucer west going quickly east. / r242p45. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 570) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2919 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "PALO ALTO,CA:AERO WORKER:6 GLO-DISKS/V-FORMn:N>>S/8sec::SEP.SCR W>>E:/r242p45.", **LatLong:** "37.455557 -122.144450", **LatLongDMS:** "37:27:20 N 122:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.455557,-122.144450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8086 (9CD48072) **Date:** 10/12/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** MT. AIRY, NC **Description:** Football coach and team. White object descends and hovers / 15 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 570) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2920 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "336", **HatchDesc:** "Mt AIRY,NC:FOOTBALL COACH+TEAM:WHT OBJ DESCENDS+HVRS/15min:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.483335 -80.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:29:00 N 80:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.483335,-80.600004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8087 (F998AF5C) **Date:** 10/12/1952 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** SUNSHINE ROAD, AUSTRALIA **Description:** 2 observer(s) hide. Swish sound. Red and blue saucer flies over / low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 191) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2921 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SUNSHINE ROAD,AUSTRL:2 OBS HIDE:SWISH SOUND:RED+BLU SCR FLIES OVR/LO ALT:", **LatLong:** "-37.766668 144.916674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:46:00 S 144:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.766668,144.916674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8088 (09523E3D) **Date:** 10/12/1952 **Location:** Palo Alto, CA **Description:** V-formation of six apparent discs. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1364 ### Event 8089 (802623CF) **Date:** 10/12/1952 **Locations:** New Zealand; Auckland **Description:** Harold H. Fulton founds Civilian Saucer Investigation \(New Zealand\) in Auckland. It begins publishing a quarterly newsletter, Flying Saucers, in May 1953, which continues until September 1959 with a name change in 1958 to Space Probe. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Flying Saucers](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/New%20Zealand/Flying%20Saucers%20%28CSI%20NZ%29/Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201953%2005.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(May 1953\); [Space Probe](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/New%20Zealand/Space%20Probe%20%28CSI%20NZ%29/Space%20Probe%20-%201958%2012.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/New%20Zealand/Space%20Probe%20%28CSI%20NZ%29/Space%20Probe%20-%201958%2012.pdf) Christmas 1958 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2079 ### Event 8090 (029F37AC) **Date:** 10/13/1952 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** NORTH / OSHIMA, JPN **Description:** C54 pilot and engineer. Saucer / clouds. Hovers 7 minute(s). Away in seconds. / r78p166. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2922 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "N/OSHIMA,JPN:C54 PILOT+ENGINEER:SCR/CLOUDS:HVRS 7min:AWAY IN SECONDS:/r78p166", **LatLong:** "34.783335 139.583340", **LatLongDMS:** "34:47:00 N 139:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.783335,139.583340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8091 (08A7D18D) **Date:** 10/13/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** SUNNYBROOK, MD **Description:** Boy calls cops. Cops call USAF. 3 orange UFO's hover. Seen to move. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 570) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2923 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "171", **HatchDesc:** "SUNNYBROOK,MD:BOY CALLS COPS:COPS CALL USAF:3 ORG UFOS HOVER:SEEN TO MOVE", **LatLong:** "39.505557 -76.572226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:20 N 76:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.505557,-76.572226)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8092 (12D0449B) **Date:** 10/13/1952 **Location:** Oshima, Japan **Description:** Air Force pilot and engineer saw round object in cloud formation; object became elliptical in appearance, sped away disappearing in seconds. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1365 ### Event 8093 (F9C7170B) **Date:** 10/13/1952 **Location:** United States **Description:** [James Q. Reber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FQ.%5FReber)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FQ.%5FReber) assistant director of CIA intelligence coordination, writes a memo to the CIA deputy director of intelligence, arguing that fundamental research into the question of positive identification is the responsibility of the Defense Department and that while investigating Soviet knowledge of UFO phenomena is a “primary concern” for the CIA, it “is far too early in view of the present state of our knowledge regarding Flying Saucers for psychological warfare planners to start planning how the United States might use U.S. Flying Saucers against the enemy.” Reber goes on to recommend that when “intelligence has submitted the National Estimate on Flying Saucers there will be the time and basis for a public policy to reduce or restrain mass hysteria.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James Q. Reber, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” October 13, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2080 ### Event 8094 (83AA12B0) **Date:** 10/13/1952 **Location:** Oshima, Japan **Description:** 7:08 p.m. USAF pilot Maj. [William D. Leet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet) and his engineer, flying a C-54 troop carrier, watch an elliptical UFO hovering in clouds near Oshima, Japan. It speeds away after 7 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 24](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=36&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2081 ### Event 8095 (8AF11DB4) **Date:** 10/14/1952 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** LAC FRONTIERE, QBC **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 flat saucers spin. High and fast reflect sunlight like mirror. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2924 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "376", **HatchDesc:** "LAC FRONTIERE,QBC:2 OBS:2 FLAT SCRS SPIN:HIGH+FAST REFLECT SUNLITE LIKE MIRROR", **LatLong:** "46.733336 -70.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "46:44:00 N 70:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.733336,-70.050003)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8096 (0975F082) **Date:** 10/14/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SIGNA, ITALY **Description:** Woman near woods. Silver disk hovers / 40M altitude 30M away. Green glow. Maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2925 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "SIGNA,ITALY:WOMAN nr WOODS:SLVR DISK HVRS/40M alt 30M away:GRN GLOW:MNVRS:", **LatLong:** "43.783335 11.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:47:00 N 11:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.783335,11.083334)", **State/Prov:** "Firenze", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8097 (80D14C07) **Date:** 10/14/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** OVER ZUNI, NM **Description:** USAF Col. Cox / B25. Large blimp glows and makes impossible going up [to] going down [to] to/from/between motions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 572) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2926 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1915", **HatchDesc:** "ovr ZUNI,NM:USAF Col COX/B25:LRG BLIMP GLOWS+MAKES IMPOSSIBLE ↑↓<> MOTIONS", **LatLong:** "35.072224 -108.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:04:20 N 108:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.072224,-108.850005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8098 (73547602) **Date:** 10/14/1952 **Description:** OSI Deputy Assistant Director [Ralph L. Clark](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/) writes a memorandum for the record suggesting a meeting on October 20 or 21 to work out a research and intelligence program on UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ralph J. Clark, “[Flying Saucers](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515939.pdf) [Problem,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515939.pdf)” October 14, 1952 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2082 ### Event 8099 (B40BC82D) **Date:** 10/15/1952 **Location:** Ashiya, Japan **Description:** As Many As Five Targets Observed (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521015](http://www.nicap.org/521015ashiya%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1366 ### Event 8100 (711C772F) **Date:** 10/15/1952 **Time:** 1910 **Location:** Le Vigan, France **Description:** Approximate date. Figures with helmets and masks were seen through lighted windows inside a bright yellow, cigar-shaped object on the ground. Length 30 m, diameter 6 m. Forward section was rounded, and a sort of fog was noted at both ends of object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; Anatomy 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_103 ### Event 8101 (D6E91236) **Date:** 10/15/1952 **Description:** At 7:10 p.m. beings with helmets and masks were seen through lighted windows in a craft on the ground at the Le Vigan Airport, Gard, France. The cigar-shaped object was 30 meters long, 6 meters in diameter, and had a rounded forward section. A fog was noted at both ends of the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62 & 141; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 103 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6846 ### Event 8102 (5B4148C6) **Date:** 10/16/1952 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** EAST FRONT, KOREA **Description:** 6 / USAF T6. Silent perfectly circular 25' metallic saucer going [to] east-northeast. 800mph. No TRAILs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2927 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "E.FRONT,KOREA:6/USAF T6:SLNT PERFECTLY CIRC. 25'MTLC SCR >ENE:800mph:NO TRAILs", **LatLong:** "38.500002 128.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:30:00 N 128:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.500002,128.333339)", **State/Prov:** "E", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8103 (5E8B95B3) **Date:** 10/16/1952 **Location:** Guatemala **Description:** [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) is in a state of panic from the messages he and the Baileys have received from space people. He writes an associate doing missionary work in Guatemala that disaster will strike the earth before December 1. He says radio contacts have stopped and that he has been told there will be a direct contact with a spaceman: “Professor [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) is in on this too.” The Baileys have already met with Adamski \(in August\) and now the messages are urging another meeting with him. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Y. N. ibn Aharon \[Yonah Fortner\], “Diagnosis: A Case of Chronic Fright,” Saucer News 4, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1957\): 3–6; Clark III 1284 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2083 ### Event 8104 (0637E81D) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** 2 MILES EAST / ELKO, NV **Description:** US40. USAF Major and 4. Glowing disk bounces like kite / 5 minute(s). Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 575) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2928 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1545", **HatchDesc:** "2mi E/ELKO,NV:US40:USAF MAJOR+4:GLOWING DISK BOUNCES LIKE KITE/5min:>>SW", **LatLong:** "40.833335 -115.727783", **LatLongDMS:** "40:50:00 N 115:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.833335,-115.727783)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8105 (1D0FEBC4) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** OLORON, FR **Description:** 45° cylinder/cylindrical object and 30 saucers going west. Radar affected. Angel hair falls. Flashes. / r48p153. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2929 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "OLORON,FR:45°CYL+30 SCRS >W:RADAR AFFECTED:ANGEL HAIR FALLS:FLASHES:/r48p153", **LatLong:** "43.188891 -0.611111", **LatLongDMS:** "43:11:20 N 00:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.188891,-0.611111)", **State/Prov:** "PYA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8106 (F5849FDA) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** KILLEEN, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2172. Unidentified. 2 observer(s). 10 blobs / light / square formation. North going quickly south / seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2930 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "KILLEEN,TX:BBK#2172:UID:2 OBS:10 BLOBS/LITE/SQUARE FORMATION:N>>S/seconds", **LatLong:** "31.111113 -97.727782", **LatLongDMS:** "31:06:40 N 97:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.111113,-97.727782)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8107 (88A9D038) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Location:** Taos, NM **Description:** Round bright blue light move from N to NE at an elevation of 45° (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2171, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1367 ### Event 8108 (87856946) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Location:** Killeen, TX **Description:** Rectangle of 10 lights, move more or less straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2172) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1368 ### Event 8109 (45975EB4) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Location:** Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM **Description:** Whites streamer move at an estimated 3,000 mph in an arc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2173, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1369 ### Event 8110 (047AA443) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Time:** 9:15 PM **Location:** Taos, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Four USAF officers One round, bright blue light moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degree for 2-3 seconds and then burned out. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_269 ### Event 8111 (B31C1E5F) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Time:** 10:15 PM **Location:** Killeen, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Ministers Greenwalt and Kluck. Ten lights, or a rectangle of lights, moved more or less straight and level for 5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_270 ### Event 8112 (D0C264CD) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Time:** 11 PM **Location:** Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: one military person (no detail). One white streamer moved at an estimated 3,000 m.p.h. in an arc for 20 seconds. No further details in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_271 ### Event 8113 (CF90B725) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Location:** Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France **Description:** Early afternoon. Residents of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see a large cigar-shaped structure in the blue sky, inclined at a 45° angle. The witnesses include the family of Yves Prigent, general superintendent of the local high school. A plume of white smoke is escaping from its upper end. At some distance in front of the cylinder, about 30 round, puffy objects with a central red spot are following the same trajectory. The smaller objects move in pairs following a broken, zig-zag path. They leave an abundant trail of a white substance \(angel’s hair\) behind them, which slowly falls to the ground as it disperses. For several hours, clumps of it hang on the trees, on the telephone wires, and on the roofs of houses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Les Soucoupes Volantes vues à](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf) [Oloron le 17 Octobre,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” France-Dimanche, October 26, 1952, in The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, p. 114; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, Hutchinson, 1956, pp. 87–92; Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/119/mode/2up); Clark III 123; Patrick Gross, “[Documents: Found in the Attic](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/attic/1952-10-17-oloron-dr.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 73–74; Lotharson, “[Unidentified Flying Spiders in Southern France?](https://shardsofmagonia.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/unidentified-flying-spiders-in-southern-france/)” Shards of Magonia, March 12, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2084 ### Event 8114 (CE0C1BC3) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Description:** At 12:50 a.m. in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Alpes-Maritimes, France a whitish cylinder-shaped UFO hovered at a 45 degree angle in the sky with 30 other UFOs in front of it. Through binoculars the small objects were made out to be red spheres with a yellow ring around them. Angel hair filament material fell to the ground. The fibers resembled wool or nylon strands, except when balled together became gelatinous, and sublimed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 153; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62; Roberto Pinotti, FSR, May-June1970, p. 7; UNICAT, case 641 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6908 ### Event 8115 (E5B799A8) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Description:** At 9:15 p.m. in Taos, New Mexico four USAF officers observed a round, bright blue light moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degrees for 2-3 seconds and then burnt out. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6909 ### Event 8116 (4F56BCA2) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Description:** In Killeen, Texas two ministers, Reverends Greenwalt and Kluck, sighted ten lights, or a rectangle of lights, moving more or less straight and level through the sky for 5 seconds at 10:15 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6910 ### Event 8117 (2494C112) **Date:** 10/17/1952 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico a military witness sighted what looked like a white streamer move in an arc through the sky at an estimated 3,000 mph. The sighting lasted for 20 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6911 ### Event 8118 (738ADF6F) **Date:** 10/18/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** COONALPYN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA **Description:** Flying cigar seen here and Adelaide. Shoots going up / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 577) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2931 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COONALPYN,S.AUSTRL:FLYING CIGAR SEEN HERE+ADELAIDE:SHOOTS↑/INCREDIBLE SPEED", **LatLong:** "-35.683335 139.916673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:41:00 S 139:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.683335,139.916673)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8119 (BBEB5BDB) **Date:** 10/18/1952 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** PORT PIRIE, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape seen here also. Southeast going quickly northwest. Iridescent. Size = Boeing 707. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 577) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2932 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PORT PIRIE,S.AUSTR:CGR SEEN HERE ALSO:SE>>NW:IRIDESCENT:SIZE=BOEING 707:", **LatLong:** "-33.166668 138.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:10:00 S 138:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.166668,138.000007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8120 (CFB4EE52) **Date:** 10/18/1952 **Locations:** Adelaide Advrtiser; Adelaide Hills, South Australia **Description:** 9:44 p.m. Journalist Keith Hooper is returning home from an assignment for the Adelaide Advrtiser when he sees a greenish-white, cigar-shaped object about the size of a Boeing 707 some 10 miles away over the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, moving southeast to northwest. The object makes a sharp, right-angle turn upward, recedes, then vanishes at tremendous speed. The duration is 5–7 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keith Hooper, “[My Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93520589/) [Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93520589/)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, March 13, 1965, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2085 ### Event 8121 (C44B20D3) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Location:** WEST KOREA **Description:** Cartwheel UFO's throw sparks and circle UN troops / front lines again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2933 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "W.KOREA:CARTWHEEL UFOS THROW SPARKS+CIRCLE UN TROOPS/FRONT LINES AGAIN:", **LatLong:** "38.050002 126.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:03:00 N 126:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.050002,126.450006)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8122 (985C5D5F) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** PACIFIC 148° 05W-25° 45N **Description:** 2 / USAF R5D plane. Circular object / 12K' altitude. Pink lights wink. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 577) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2934 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC 148°05W-25°45N:2/USAF R5D PLANE:CIRC.OBJ/12K'alt:PINK LITES WINK:/r185", **LatLong:** "25.750001 -148.083340", **LatLongDMS:** "25:45:00 N 148:05:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.750001,-148.083340)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8123 (4F193263) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2177. Unidentified. 3 silver saucers V formation going quickly south. Silent. 1 tumbles. 1 shrinks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 577) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2935 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:BBK#2177:UID:3 SLVR SCRS.VFORM >>S:SILENT:1 TUMBLES:1 SHRINKS", **LatLong:** "29.433335 -98.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:26:00 N 98:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.433335,-98.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8124 (D6DFE5FB) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** PACIFIC 155° 35W-12° 17N **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2175. 2 / USAF C50. 100' yellow saucer going quickly southwest / 9200' altitude. 350knts. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 577) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2936 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC 155°35W-12°17N:BBK#2175:2/USAF C50:100'YLW SCR >>SW/9200'alt:350knts", **LatLong:** "12.283334 -155.583341", **LatLongDMS:** "12:17:00 N 155:35:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/12.283334,-155.583341)", **State/Prov:** "HWI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8125 (4D1204D5) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Location:** Hawaii (500 miles S of), At Sea **Description:** Transport Crew Encounters 100' Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2175) **Reference:** NICAP: [521019](http://www.nicap.org/521019pacific%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1370 ### Event 8126 (A567CEFE) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** 3 circular aluminum objects, one olive-drab colored on the side (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2177) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1371 ### Event 8127 (982C4484) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Location:** Momence, IL **Description:** CAP Pilot Sees Silver Ball At 1000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [521019](http://www.nicap.org/521019momence%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1372 ### Event 8128 (532A9FFA) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Time:** 1:30 PM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witness: one ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey. Three circular aluminum objects, one of which was olive-drab colored on the side, flew in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly, another object stopped, during the 3-4 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_272 ### Event 8129 (ECC35399) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Time:** 6:58 PM **Location:** 500 miles south of Hawaii **Description:** Witnesses: crew of USAF C-50 transport plane. One round yellow light, with a red glowing edge, estimated at 100' in diameter, flew at 300-400 kts. (350-450 m.p.h.) for 20 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_273 ### Event 8130 (D648C6BF) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Description:** San Antonio, Texas. At 1:30 p.m. ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey saw three circular aluminum objects, one of which was olive drab colored on the side. They flew in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly and another object stopped during the 3-4 minute sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2177; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 77; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6963 ### Event 8131 (1FFC82AF) **Date:** 10/19/1952 **Description:** The crew of an USAF C-50 transport plane, flying 500 miles to the south of Hawaii at 6:58 p.m., sighted a round yellow light with a red glowing edge. The object was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter and it flew at 300-400 knots (350-450 mph). They watched it for 20 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2175; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 77; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6964 ### Event 8132 (1A52FCAB) **Date:** 10/20/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** KOREA / WESTERN FRONT **Description:** US troops. Weird 50cm disks spin and throw sparks. Maneuver / 15' circles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2937 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KOREA/WESTERN FRONT:US TROOPS:WIERD 50cm DISKS SPIN+THROW SPARKS:MNVR/15'CCLs", **LatLong:** "37.916668 126.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:55:00 N 126:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.916668,126.583339)", **State/Prov:** "SKR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8133 (ECE22206) **Date:** 10/21/1952 **Location:** KNOXVILLE, TN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2179. Unidentified. / theodolite. 6 white round objects dive at weather balloon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 578) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2938 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "267", **HatchDesc:** "KNOXVILLE,TN:BBK#2179:UID:/THEODOLITE:6 WHT ROUND OBJs DIVE at WEATHER BALLOON", **LatLong:** "35.950002 -83.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:57:00 N 83:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.950002,-83.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8134 (3EFB5DFD) **Date:** 10/21/1952 **Location:** Nr. Gloucestershire, England **Description:** RAF Meteor VII Encounters Object Tracked by Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [521021](http://www.nicap.org/521021gloucestershiredir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1373 ### Event 8135 (F7A23237) **Date:** 10/21/1952 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** 6 white lights fly in a loose formation, make a shallow dive (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2179) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1374 ### Event 8136 (AA82DBC2) **Date:** 10/21/1952 **Time:** No time given **Location:** Knoxville, Tennessee **Description:** Witnesses: persons at airport weather station. Six white lights flew in a loose formation for 1-2 minutes, and made a shallow dive at a weather balloon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_274 ### Event 8137 (22F8F668) **Date:** 10/21/1952 **Locations:** RAF Little Rissington, Gloucester, England; RAF Tangmere, West Sussex **Description:** Afternoon. Flight Lt. Michael Swiney and a student pilot, Royal Navy Lt. David Crofts, are flying a Meteor T.7 trainer out of RAF Little Rissington, Gloucester, England, for a high-altitude navigation exercise at 35,000 feet. Not long after breaking out of a cloud during a climb at 13,000–14,000 feet, they see three circular, white objects in front of them. As the aircraft get closer and turns to avoid them, the objects become visible as discs. They disappear quickly when the pilot looks away briefly. Two Meteor F.8 fighters are scrambled from RAF Tangmere \[now closed\] in West Sussex to chase three unknown radar targets moving at 3,000 mph but fail to intercept them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Little Rissington UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%5FRissington%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 98–102; UFOFiles2, [pp. 47–49](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n79/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2086 ### Event 8138 (09835F63) **Date:** 10/21/1952 **Description:** Persons at the Knoxville, Tennessee airport weather station saw six white lights flying in a loose formation for one to two minutes. The unknown lights made a shallow dive at a weather balloon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7006 ### Event 8139 (52837640) **Date:** 10/22/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** LAURINBURG AIR FORCE BASE, NC **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). Dull tone. Huge saucer / 150' altitude overhead. Red and green lights / edge. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 579) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2939 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "LAURINBURG AFB,NC:1+2 OBS:DULL TONE:HUGE SCR/150'alt OVHD:RED+GRN LITES/EDGE", **LatLong:** "34.772224 -79.461115", **LatLongDMS:** "34:46:20 N 79:27:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.772224,-79.461115)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8140 (B0327B8F) **Date:** 10/23/1952 **Location:** 35 MI SOUTHEAST / SEAL I., NS **Description:** Fiery object bobs / sea. Skips about. Crackles as waves crash over. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 581) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2940 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "35mi SE/SEAL I.,NS:FIERY OBJ BOBS/SEA:SKIPS ABOUT:CRACKLES AS WAVES CRASH OVR", **LatLong:** "43.166669 -65.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:10:00 N 65:40:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.166669,-65.666670)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8141 (A45B9A71) **Date:** 10/23/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ, SWITZ **Description:** 3 observer(s). 20M black falling leaf disk clear against Mt. Cubly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: La Tour-de-Peilz, SWZ. Gazette de Lausanne: 28 OCT 1952 Bruno Mancusi, Switzerland. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2941 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "La TOUR-de-PEILZ,SWITZ:3 OBS:20M BLK FALLING LEAF DISK CLEAR AGNST Mt.CUBLY", **LatLong:** "46.450002 6.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:27:00 N 06:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.450002,6.850000)", **State/Prov:** "Vaud", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8142 (AD9BA1B2) **Date:** 10/23/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** 10 MI WITH TOLEDO, OH **Description:** 3 / car. 5 night lights hover / V formation. 5 photographs taken. Then fly going quickly south. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 581) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2942 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "10mi W/TOLEDO,OH:3/CAR:5 NLTS HVR/VFORM:5 FOTOS TAKEN:then FLY >>S:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.666669 -83.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 83:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,-83.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8143 (DCFBA6E1) **Date:** 10/23/1952 **Location:** Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) holds a briefing on UFOs at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico. Afterward Assistant Director for Scientific Personnel William H. Crew arranges a special meeting for Ruppelt and Col. [Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) with seven people from the laboratory. Several of them have evidence that there is a possible correlation between sightings of UFOs and unusual radiation detection. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, \[[Message referring to a December 1](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB7-926-927.pdf) [telephone call](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB7-926-927.pdf)\], December 2, 1952 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2087 ### Event 8144 (BFB51236) **Date:** 10/24/1952 **Location:** Elberton, AL **Description:** Object, shaped like a plate, with a brilliant front and vague trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2184) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1375 ### Event 8145 (4086F024) **Date:** 10/24/1952 **Time:** 8:26 PM **Location:** Elberton, Alabama **Description:** Witnesses: USAF Lt. Rau, Capt. Marcinko, flying a Beech T-ll trainer. One object, shaped like a plate, with a brilliant front and vague trail, flew with its concave surface forward for 5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_275 ### Event 8146 (50030177) **Date:** 10/24/1952 **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) signs National Security Council Directive 6, a 7-page document that eliminates the Armed Forces Security Agency formed in 1949 to unite all military signal intelligence operations and creates the National Security Agency. Since the memo is a classified document, the existence of the NSA is not known to the public. Due to its ultra-secrecy the US intelligence community refers to the NSA as “No Such Agency." The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. NSA inherits Project Shamrock from the AFSA. It also inherits collection of UFO data, at least by 1958, but probably in 1953. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 189](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/188/mode/2up); Thomas L. Burns, The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940–1952, National Security Agency, 1990, pp. 97–99 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2088 ### Event 8147 (2123154F) **Date:** 10/24/1952 **Description:** At 8:26 p.m. flying over Elberton, Alabama at 5,000 feet in a Beech T-11 trainer, USAF Lt. Rau and Capt. Marcinko sighted a deep orange, plate-shaped flying object with a brilliant front and vague trail. It flew with its concave surface forward and was in sight for five seconds. It moved much faster than F-80, and showed constant acceleration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 82; UNICAT, case # 750 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7068 ### Event 8148 (373C55B6) **Date:** 10/25/1952 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** RENO, NV **Description:** Civil and 2 / stead Air Force Base. Orange objects / 10k' altitude. West going quickly east. 4 minute(s) later 1 object going quickly west leaves (something behind) contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 582) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2943 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1538", **HatchDesc:** "RENO,NV:CIV+2/STEAD AFB:ORG OBJS/10k'alt:W>>E:4min LATER 1 OBJ>>W LVS CONTRAIL", **LatLong:** "39.666669 -119.877783", **LatLongDMS:** "39:40:00 N 119:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.666669,-119.877783)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8149 (ED63C7FF) **Date:** Late 10/1952 **Locations:** Elugelab Atoll; Marshall Islands **Description:** Night. Radioman Tom Kramer is serving aboard the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29) [Curtiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29), the AEC flagship for Ivy Mike, the first detonation of a hydrogen bomb at Elugelab Atoll in the Marshall Islands. After an onboard movie, Kramer and other crewmen see a round, silent, bright white light that is motionless at first, then starts zigzagging for less than 10 seconds and takes off at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 100–101 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2089 ### Event 8150 (3BFEA012) **Date:** Late 10/1952 **Location:** Eniwetak Atoll **Description:** 3:45 a.m. Seaman Abelardo Marquez, posted on the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFletcher%5F%28DD-445%29) [Fletcher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFletcher%5F%28DD-445%29) near Eniwetak Atoll for the upcoming Ivy Mike thermonuclear test, is going on duty to the bridge when he notices that the ship is uncharacteristically moving at full speed. Other crew members tell him it is because of a round white light that has been moving above the ship. Marquez sees it descending, then it stops and hovers about 40°–45° above the horizon and perhaps one-half mile from the ship. Capt. [Grover L. Rawlings](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/islandpacket/obituary.aspx?n=grover-l-rawlings&pid=180203035) is talking with other officers on the bridge, saying they do not know what the light is, and that is not tracked on radar. After about 4–5 minutes, the light takes off straight up at the same speed it had descended. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 101–105 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2090 ### Event 8151 (D8B60E72) **Date:** 10/26/1952 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** AKUREYRI, ICELAND **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 4 spheres going quickly north over N. coast. Fast and silent. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 582) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2944 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greenland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "AKUREYRI,ICELAND:NMRS OBS:4 SPHERES >>N OVER N.COAST:FAST+SLNT:NFD", **LatLong:** "65.666670 -18.100001", **LatLongDMS:** "65:40:00 N 18:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.666670,-18.100001)", **State/Prov:** "AKU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8152 (9CF1F77D) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary ships.” **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_482 ### Event 8153 (EE82EE1C) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** MARIGNANE AIRPORT/APARTMENT, FR **Description:** Saucer lands / tarmac. Windows / side. Instant stop! Going quickly northwest. / r136#11p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2945 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARIGNANE Apt,FR:SCR LANDS/TARMAC:WINDOWS/SIDE:INSTANT STOP!:>>NW:/r136#11p64", **LatLong:** "43.433335 5.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:26:00 N 05:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.433335,5.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8154 (403FA481) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** MORNINGTON, NZ **Description:** Airman / ground. Cymbal-saucer going north in from sea? Ringing metallic sound. 500kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2946 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "MORNINGTON,NZ:AIRMAN/GND:CYMBAL-SCR >N in from sea?:RINGING MTLC SOUND:500kph", **LatLong:** "-45.883336 170.466675", **LatLongDMS:** "45:53:00 S 170:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.883336,170.466675)", **RelAlt:** "1800", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8155 (D37CEEBA) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** LIGNAN-DE-BAZAS, GIRONDE, FR **Description:** 2 glowing balls hover / 10 minute(s). Seem to burst. / r30p62. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2947 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LIGNAN-de-BAZAS,GIRONDE,FR:2 GLOWING BALLS HOVER/10min:SEEM TO BURST:/r30p62", **LatLong:** "44.422224 -0.283333", **LatLongDMS:** "44:25:20 N 00:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.422224,-0.283333)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8156 (BDE8AF5B) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** FORBACH, MOSELLE, FR **Description:** White trails / sky. 40 small gray balls exit and fly going north / Saar, Germany. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2948 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "FORBACH,MOSELLE,FR:WHT TRAILS/SKY:40 SML GRAY BALLS EXIT+FLY >N/SAAR,GERMANY", **LatLong:** "49.150002 6.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:09:00 N 06:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.150002,6.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8157 (E71DBA36) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** GAILLAC, FR **Description:** 4+12 saucers / pairs. Large cylinder/cylindrical object / midst drops angel hair. All going quickly northwest. / r2p87. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 155) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2949 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "GAILLAC,FR:4+12 SCRS/PAIRS:LRG CYL/MIDST DROPS ANGEL HAIR:ALL>>NW:/r2p87", **LatLong:** "43.900002 1.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:54:00 N 01:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.900002,1.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Tarn", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8158 (E23DEF14) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** BRIVES-CHARENSAC, FR **Description:** 5 weathermen. Silver saucer going quickly southeast. Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 30 second(s). / LDLN#131+/ r2p87. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2950 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BRIVES-CHARENSAC,FR:5 WEATHERMEN:SLVR SCR >>SE:CGR HVRS/30sec:/LDLN#131+/r2p87", **LatLong:** "45.044447 3.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:40 N 03:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.044447,3.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8159 (A8546FF0) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** EYRANS, FR **Description:** Large round white object east going west. End pointed. Throws sparks. Angel hair. / r30p63. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2951 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EYRANS,FR:LRG ROUND WHT OBJ E>W:END POINTED:THROWS SPARKS:ANGEL HAIR:/r30p63", **LatLong:** "45.183335 -0.633333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:11:00 N 00:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.183335,-0.633333)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8160 (C146D47A) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** MARSEILLE, BDR, FR **Description:** Luminous ovoid flies east going quickly west. Observer(s) = Mme Saux. / J. Guieu. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2952 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARSEILLE,BDR,FR:LUM.OVOID FLIES E>>W:OBS=Mme SAUX:/J.GUIEU:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.316669 5.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:19:00 N 05:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.316669,5.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8161 (1F830738) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Location:** Gaillac, France **Description:** Hundreds of citizens saw 16 UFOs in formation surrounding a cigar-shaped object. "Angel's hair" fell. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1376 ### Event 8162 (0A865F7C) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Time:** 0203 **Location:** Marignane Airport, France **Description:** Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observed a cigar-shaped object land briefly on the airfield 100 m away, producing a dull sound. The object was dark with four lighted windows. It took off with a "swish" and a shower of sparks when the witness ran toward it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Challenge 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_104 ### Event 8163 (CA683A70) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Location:** Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France **Description:** 2:03 a.m. Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observes a cigar-shaped object land briefly on a runway of the airport at Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, 100 meters away, producing a dull sound. The object is dark with four lighted windows. It takes off with a “swish” and a shower of sparks when he runs toward it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 243–244; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, Hutchinson, 1956, p. 53; Michel, The Truth about FS, pp. 152–156; Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, [pp. 6–11](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/5/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1986, pp. 82–84 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2091 ### Event 8164 (CEFDF776) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Description:** An FBI memorandum to [Alan H. Belmont](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbelmontA.htm) from Victor P. Keay reports that “Air Intelligence still feels that the so-called flying saucers are either optical illusions or atmospheric phenomena. He pointed out, however, that some Military officials are seriously considering the possibility of interplanetary ships.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** V. P. Keay, “[Flying](http://www.nicap.org/docs/docs85-86.pdf) [Saucers,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/docs85-86.pdf)” October 27, 1952 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2092 ### Event 8165 (E2C85FEE) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Location:** Gaillac, Tarn, France **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Residents of Gaillac, Tarn, France, see a formation of 16 disc-shaped UFOs ranged in twos. An elongated cylinder is in the center of the objects, all of which are discharging angel’s hair like glass wool. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 148; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 84–85; Lotharson, “[Unidentified Flying Spiders in Southern France?](https://shardsofmagonia.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/unidentified-flying-spiders-in-southern-france/)” Shards of Magonia, March 12, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2093 ### Event 8166 (B759B45D) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Description:** Five military witnesses at Woomera Open Air Theatre saw a cigar-shaped object fly on a straight, horizontal course at 8:00 p.m. in Woomera, South Australia. It flew from right to left, had to porthols and interior lighting, and was faster than a jet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7178 ### Event 8167 (AAD3FB6C) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Description:** Several sighting reports came from France on this day. The earliest was at 2:03 a.m. at Marignane Airport, where customs official Gabriel Gachignard saw a 15-foot long football or cigar-shaped object, throbbing with soft changing tints. It had a metallic grillwork and four rectangular windows, 8 to 12 inches wide. It made a dull sound when it touched the ground, and a soft swishing sound on its quick departure when the witness ran towards it. The acceleration was instantaneous, and the UFO was gone from view in three seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, pp. 159-160; Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 410 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7179 ### Event 8168 (801C795E) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Description:** Two glowing balls hovered over Lignan-de-Bazas, France for ten minutes at 7:45 a.m., then seemed to burst. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7180 ### Event 8169 (30E9FB19) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Description:** At three o'clock in the afternoon white trails appeared in the sky over Forbach, France and some 40 small gray spheres exited and flew to the north toward Saar, Germany. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7181 ### Event 8170 (F141C37E) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Description:** At five o'clock a white cylinder surrounded by eight pairs of Saturn-like red balls were seen at 300 to 400 meters altitude over the town of Gaillac, France. Angel hair filaments fell on the roofs of houses in the area. Thirty minutes later a UFO was seen hovering over Brives-Charensac, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, pp. 155 & 159; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, Spring 1974; UNICAT case #642 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7182 ### Event 8171 (87F56252) **Date:** 10/27/1952 **Description:** At 10:30 p.m. a large round white object flew from east to west over Eyrans, France. It had a pointed end and threw off sparks. Angel hair residue also fell to gound here as well. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7183 ### Event 8172 (ACFB7F95) **Date:** 10/28/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NEMOURS, S&M, FR **Description:** Engineer. Saucer going quickly [to] WNW toward(s) Fontanbleu. / L'astronomie. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2953 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEMOURS,S&M,FR:ENGINEER:SCR >>WNW TWRD FONTANBLEU:/L'ASTRONOMIE", **LatLong:** "48.266669 2.683333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:16:00 N 02:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.266669,2.683333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8173 (84E29C28) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** HEMPSTEAD AIR FORCE BASE, NY **Description:** Large white-glow outmaneuvers F94s / 8 minute(s). Type unknown. Going up [to] very fast. / r242p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2954 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "HEMPSTEAD AFB,NY:LRG WHT-GLOW OUTMNVRS F94s/8min:TYPE UNK:↑ VFAST:/r242p35", **LatLong:** "40.705557 -73.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:42:20 N 73:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.705557,-73.616670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8174 (18F1A5B7) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** ERDING AIR DEPOT, GERM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2196. Unidentified. 3 USAF. Saucer tumbles end-over-end going quickly east / 700' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 610) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2955 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ERDING AIR DEPOT,GERM:BBK#2196:UID:3 USAF:SCR TUMBLES END-OVR-END>>E/700'alt", **LatLong:** "48.316669 11.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "48:19:00 N 11:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.316669,11.900001)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8175 (C4371F70) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** US281 17 MI / JACKSBORO, TX **Description:** 12m metal saucer / 600m altitude / 800mph. 1 second(s) orange flashes. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 587) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2956 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "355", **HatchDesc:** "US281 17mi/JACKSBORO,TX:12m MTL SCR/600m alt/800mph:1sec ORG FLASHES:SILENT", **LatLong:** "33.400002 -98.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:24:00 N 98:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.400002,-98.516671)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8176 (026FCD33) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Location:** Erding Air Depot, West Germany **Description:** Round object, silhouetted against a cloud (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2196) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1377 ### Event 8177 (7B2744F8) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Location:** Hempstead, Long Island, NY **Description:** Two F-94's Encounter Controlled Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521029](http://www.nicap.org/521029hempstead%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1378 ### Event 8178 (000D4BBE) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Location:** Richmond (near), VA **Description:** Oct 29, 1952; near Richmond, Virginia, Rivas Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1379 ### Event 8179 (FD127A77) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Time:** 7:50 AM **Location:** Erding Air Depot, West Germany **Description:** Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt. Anderson, A/2c Max Handy. One round object, silhouetted against a cloud, flew straight and level and smooth at 400 m.p.h. for 20 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_276 ### Event 8180 (12AC7123) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Location:** HempSTEAD, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK **Description:** 5:10 a.m. Two USAF F-94 crews see a white luminous object maneuvering at high speed for 20 minutes above Hempstead, Long Island, New York. Lt. William F. Hamilton and Lt. Norman W. Booth write: “Based on my experience in fighter tactics, it is my opinion that the object was controlled by something having visual contact with us. The power and acceleration were beyond the capability of any known aircraft.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two F-](http://www.nicap.org/521029hempstead%5Fdir.htm) [94’s Encounter Controlled Object](http://www.nicap.org/521029hempstead%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 177 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2094 ### Event 8181 (D3D0007B) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Description:** At two a.m. a white luminous object was seen by the pilots of two F-94s over Hempstead, England. It maneuvered at high speed, exhibiting extreme acceleration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7264 ### Event 8182 (B3AADB07) **Date:** 10/29/1952 **Description:** At 7:50 a.m. at Erding Air Depot in West Germany U.S. Air Force S/Sgt. Anderson and A/2c Max Handy sighted a round flying object silhouetted against a cloud. It flew straight, level and smooth at an estimated speed of 400 mph for 20 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2196; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 10; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7265 ### Event 8183 (919B55FB) **Date:** 10/31/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** FAYETTEVILLE, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2200. Unidentified. Lt. Col. / car. "Blimp". Radio goes silent. Hovers. Going up [to]? going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 191) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2957 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "286", **HatchDesc:** "FAYETTEVILLE,GA:BBK#2200:UID:Lt COL/CAR:"BLIMP":RADIO GOES SLNT:HOVRS:↑?>>E", **LatLong:** "33.450002 -84.455560", **LatLongDMS:** "33:27:00 N 84:27:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.450002,-84.455560)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8184 (4AACA23E) **Date:** 10/31/1952 **Location:** Fayetteville, GA **Description:** Orange blimp-shaped object, 80 ft long 20 ft wide (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 2200) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [521031](http://www.nicap.org/fayetteville521031dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1380 ### Event 8185 (C1B3FA0D) **Date:** 10/31/1952 **Time:** 7:40 PM **Location:** Fayetteville, Georgia **Description:** Witness: USAF Lt. James Allen. One orange, blimp-shaped object, 80' long and 20' high, flew at treetop level, crossed over Allen's car (at which time his radio stopped playing), then climbed out at 45' and tremendous speed at the end of a 1 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_277 ### Event 8186 (A4EAE46E) **Date:** 10/31/1952 **Time:** 19:14:59.4 **Location:** 11.2372 162.1964 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Mike” Yield: 10400KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_32 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.2372 162.1964", **LatLongDMS:** "11:14:14 N 162:11:47 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.2372,162.1964)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.01", **NukeName:** "Mike", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "10400" ### Event 8187 (32C986C4) **Date:** 10/31/1952 **Description:** At 7:40 p.m. in Fayetteville, Georgia on highway 85 USAF Lt. James Allen watched an 80 foot long orange, blimp-shaped object. It flew at treetop level and crossed over Allen's car. As Lt. Allen's car passed underneath it his radio went completely dead. The UFO hovered for 20 seconds, then climbed up at a 45 degree angle and climbed out of sight at a tremendous speed in 30-40 seconds. The sighting lasted one minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2200; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 191; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 290 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7327 ### Event 8188 (666B49C4) **Date:** 11/1952 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH **Description:** Panel of four scientists convened at ATIC to make preliminary review of accumulated reports. Recommended convening panel of top scientists. **Type:** scientific panel **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 250-251](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_873 ### Event 8189 (8AC7437F) **Date:** 11/1952 **Location:** KANKAKEE, IL **Description:** Saucer passes over town. Angel hair falls / ground afterward. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DAVID, Jay (ed.): FLYING SAUCERS HAVE ARRIVED: HB World Publ. NY 1970. (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2958 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "192", **HatchDesc:** "KANKAKEE,IL:SCR PASSES OVR TOWN:ANGEL HAIR FALLS/GROUND AFTERWARD:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.116669 -87.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:07:00 N 87:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.116669,-87.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8190 (63F794AA) **Date:** 11/1952 **Location:** NEAR DUBLIN, IRE **Description:** Child burned when strange 25cm disk lands. No further details in available sources. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2959 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "nr DUBLIN,IRE:CHILD BURNED WHEN STRANGE 25cm DISK LANDS:NFD.", **LatLong:** "53.366669 -6.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "53:22:00 N 06:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.366669,-6.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8191 (B8350BAA) **Date:** 11/1952 **Location:** Dublin, Ireland **Description:** A child was burned when a strange disk, 25 cm in diameter, landed near Dublin. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_105 ### Event 8192 (0F5CE1D6) **Date:** 11/1952 **Locations:** Angatuba, São Paulo, Brazil; São Paulo **Description:** [Aladino Félix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladino%5FF%C3%A9lix) and a friend are climbing a hill near Angatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. When they get to the top, Félix claims they see numerous UFOs flying around. Félix comes back another day by himself; eventually a saucer lands and he is invited inside to meet its crew and examine the technology. Several months later, he is visited at his home in São Paulo by the saucer captain, who claims to come from one or two of the satellites of Jupiter. Félix, under the pseudonym of Dino Kraspedon, writes about his various conversations with the spaceman in Meu Contato com os discos voadores in 1957. He writes other mystical and religious tracts under the names Dunatos Menorá and Sábado Dinotos. In 1967–1968, Félix is operating a right-wing terrorism group that sets off bombs, steals arms and explosives, and robs a bank. He serves three years in prison. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 661–662; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 164–165 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2095 ### Event 8193 (E330CD62) **Date:** 11/1/1952 **Locations:** Elugelab; Marshall Islands; Nagasaki **Description:** Nuclear test Ivy Mike is the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon \(“hydrogen bomb”\) using the Teller-Ulam design the size of an airplane hangar. Unlike later thermonuclear weapons, Mike uses deuterium as its fusion fuel, maintained as a liquid by an expensive and cumbersome cryogenic system. It is detonated on Elugelab in the Marshall Islands yielding 10.4 megatons, almost 500 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The fireball is 3 miles wide and completely destroys the atoll. USAF Capt. [Jimmy Priestly Robinson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22314541/jimmy-priestly-robinson) of the 561st Fighter-Day Squadron, is lost near the end of his mission to successfully pilot his F-84G through the mushroom cloud’s stem to collect radiochemical air samples. After re- emerging from the cloud, both he and his wingman, pilot Captain [Bob Hagan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172623461/robert-s%5F-hagan)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172623461/robert-s%5F-hagan) encounter difficulties picking up navigational beacons due to “electromagnetic after effects” of the detonation. By the time they are successful in finding the signal four hours later, they are dangerously low on fuel, and before reaching the runway, both have depleted their reserves. While Hagan is able to glide to the runway and achieve a hard landing, Robinson is too far out to follow the same path and therefore attempts to land on water. Neither his plane nor his body has ever been found; his family only learned the truth in 2008 after repeated FOIA requests. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Ivy Mike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy%5FMike)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2096 ### Event 8194 (ED14850E) **Date:** 11/2/1952 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** WOODBOURNE, NZ **Description:** Separate observer(s). Small round object stops and maneuvers. Shoots up. (RNZAF base near.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2960 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "WOODBOURNE,NZ:SEP.OBS:SML RND.OBJ STOPS+MNVRS:SHOOTS UP:(RNZAF BASE NEAR)", **LatLong:** "-41.500002 173.833342", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 S 173:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.500002,173.833342)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8195 (94952FF9) **Date:** 11/2/1952 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / BLENHEIM, NZ **Description:** 3 / car. Orange disk / horizon. Slow. Changes color(s) / 3 minutes. Vanishes and reappears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2961 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SW/BLENHEIM,NZ:3/CAR:ORG DISK/HRZN:SLOW:CHANGES CLRS/3mns:VANISHES+REAPPEARS", **LatLong:** "-41.566669 173.900008", **LatLongDMS:** "41:34:00 S 173:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.566669,173.900008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8196 (19CD7A15) **Date:** 11/3/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LAREDO AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2202. 2 Air Traffic Controllers. Glowing ovoid going northeast. Stops near airstrip. Away going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 610) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2962 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "LAREDO AFB,TX:BBK#2202:2 ATCs:GLOWING OVOID > NE:STOPS nr AIRSTRIP:AWAY >>SE", **LatLong:** "27.500001 -99.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "27:30:00 N 99:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.500001,-99.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8197 (4BB04635) **Date:** 11/3/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** ROCKVILLE, SI, NZ **Description:** Saucer going west inland from golden bay. Red glow / rim. Lost / hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2963 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKVILLE,SI,NZ:SCR >W INLAND from GOLDEN BAY:RED GLOW/RIM:lost/hills", **LatLong:** "-40.733335 172.633342", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:00 S 172:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-40.733335,172.633342)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8198 (F6498E64) **Date:** 11/3/1952 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** TAHUNANAI, NZ **Description:** 1 observer. Dull red ovoid hovers offshore. 1 / 4 moon-size. Going east and west. Going east to hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2964 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "TAHUNANAI,NZ:1 OBS:DULL RED OVOID HVRS OFFSHORE:1/4 MOONSIZE:> E+W:>E to HILLS", **LatLong:** "-41.283335 173.250008", **LatLongDMS:** "41:17:00 S 173:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.283335,173.250008)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8199 (55937D5D) **Date:** 11/3/1952 **Location:** Laredo AFB, TX **Description:** A long, elliptical, white-grey light fly very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2202) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1382 ### Event 8200 (2009EDFB) **Date:** 11/3/1952 **Time:** 66:29 PM **Location:** Laredo AFB, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: two control tower operators, including Lemaster. One long, elliptical, white-grey light flew very fast, paused, and then increased speed during a 3-4 second observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_278 ### Event 8201 (BB0FF84D) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Location:** Fort Meade, Maryland **Description:** NSA is established **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/early_history_nsa.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_483 ### Event 8202 (C1ED6F8F) **Date:** 11/4/1952 (approximate) **Location:** WITWATERSRAND, RSA **Description:** Several observer(s). Huge cigars hover / high altitude. Shoot away when jets chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 235) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2965 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "WITWATERSRAND,RSA:SVRL OBS:HUGE CGRS HVR/HI ALT:SHOOT AWAY WHEN JETS CHASE", **LatLong:** "-26.200001 28.033335", **LatLongDMS:** "26:12:00 S 28:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.200001,28.033335)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8203 (4D170ED9) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** LAVAL, FR **Description:** 3 / clinic. Brilliant cylinder/cigar-shape changes color and shape / saucer to/from cylinder/cigar-shape. Simply melts away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2966 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "LAVAL,FR:3/CLINIC:BRILL.CGR CHANGES CLR+SHAPE/SCR> Event 8204 (15BAD567) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** VINELAND, NJ **Description:** 1 observer. 2 groups / 2-3 spinning disks going quickly southeast / 30 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2967 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "VINELAND,NJ:1 OBS:2 GROUPS/2-3 SPINNING DISKS >>SE/30sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.488891 -75.027781", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:20 N 75:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.488891,-75.027781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8205 (EC57E10B) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Location:** Columbia (Congaree AFB), SC **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1383 ### Event 8206 (3942B02D) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Location:** West Hokkaido, Japan **Description:** (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1384 ### Event 8207 (AABED87A) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Location:** Caribou, ME **Description:** T-6 Crew Observes Unidentified White Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521104](http://www.nicap.org/521104caribou%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1385 ### Event 8208 (B68025CA) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Location:** Vineland, NJ **Description:** 2 groups of 2-3 whirling discs of light fly toward the the SE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2206) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1386 ### Event 8209 (0CC13432) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Time:** 5:40 PM **Location:** Vineland, New Jersey **Description:** Witness: housewife Mrs. Sprague. Two groups of 2-3 whirling discs of light flew toward the southeast over a period of 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_279 ### Event 8210 (A1C659B4) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Locations:** Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee; Wright Air Development Center **Description:** Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Lt. Robert M. Olsson visit Col. [John R. Hood Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40669343/john-r%5F-hood), AMC chief of the Nuclear Powered Aircraft Branch of Wright Air Development Center. Hood had contacted ATIC in December 1950 in regard to certain sightings of UFOs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, in which he and a naval officer attempted to obtain correlation between sightings and peaks in radiation backgrounds. Now there are indications that there may be some correlation present between unknown radar pickups and rises in radiation, and he suggests that ATIC begin an instrumented radiation program. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Visit to WADC](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB7-932-933.pdf),” November 4, 1952; Patrick W. Hayes, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/madar/radiation/501221OakRidge%5Fdocs.pdf)” Spot Intelligence Report, Dec. 1950 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2097 ### Event 8211 (2ECADA5B) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Location:** Fort Meade, Maryland **Description:** The National Security Agency is established in Fort Meade, Maryland, in a memo by Secretary of Defense [Robert A. Lovett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett) making the new agency responsible for all communications intelligence. The existence of the NSA is not known to the public at this time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[National Security Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FSecurity%5FAgency)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2098 ### Event 8212 (7FDBA347) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **End date:** 11/6/1952 **Location:** Palomar Gardens Café **Description:** The Baileys and Williamsons come up together for a visit to the Palomar Gardens Café. [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) tells them he has been making special trips into the desert in hopes of meeting a saucer. Soon Adamski begins channeling space messages in the presence of the Williamsons and the Baileys. At one of these sessions, a space being declares that a face-to-face meeting will take place soon. [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and Bailey ask Adamski to call them before he attempts his next contact. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 23; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 357 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2099 ### Event 8213 (51BEED79) **Date:** 11/4/1952 **Description:** At six o'clock in the morning, over a hospital in Laval, Mayenne department, France a brilliant cigar-shaped UFO changed color and then change shape into a disc-shaped object, then back into a cigar shape, and then faded away. The sighting lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7456 ### Event 8214 (3FE6A46A) **Date:** 11/5/1952 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** NELSON, NZ **Description:** Wide-rim saucer / flat bottom/underside hovers / island offshore. Reappears / northeast shore. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 203) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2968 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "NELSON,NZ:WIDE-RIM SCR/FLAT BTM HVRS/ISLAND OFFSHORE:REAPPEARS/NE SHORE", **LatLong:** "-41.250002 173.300008", **LatLongDMS:** "41:15:00 S 173:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.250002,173.300008)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8215 (CFB26AED) **Date:** 11/5/1952 **Description:** [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is elected president. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2100 ### Event 8216 (F641F1BF) **Date:** 11/6/1952 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** AGDE, HERAULT, FR **Description:** 2 pilots / car. Bright silver football. 1500mph. Steep bank. Going quickly south and rises. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2969 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AGDE,HERAULT,FR:2 PILOTS/CAR:BRITE SLVR FOOTBALL:1500mph:STEEP BANK:>>S+RISES", **LatLong:** "43.316669 3.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:19:00 N 03:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.316669,3.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Hérault", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8217 (AFE4750D) **Date:** 11/8/1952 **Location:** FORCALQUIER, FRANCE **Description:** Silver cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 10 minute(s). Slowly going quickly east. Near observatory. / Jimmy Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 613) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2970 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "FORCALQUIER,FRANCE:SLVR CGR HVRS/10min:SLOWLY >>E:nr OBSERVATORY:/JIMMY GUIEU", **LatLong:** "43.933335 5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:56:00 N 05:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.933335,5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes de Haute Provence", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8218 (8C0216BD) **Date:** 11/8/1952 **Location:** EL VADO, NM **Description:** Strong RADAR blip. Bigger / B29. Comes and goes / 600-1400mph. Several frequencies used. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 613) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2971 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2087", **HatchDesc:** "EL VADO,NM:STRONG RDR BLIP:BIGGER/B29:COMES+GOES/600-1400mph:SVRL FREQs USED", **LatLong:** "36.583335 -106.727783", **LatLongDMS:** "36:35:00 N 106:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.583335,-106.727783)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8219 (D42E5B63) **Date:** 11/8/1952 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** SOUTH / ASTARA, AZERBAIJAN **Description:** Luminous saucer at Soviet border / 30 minute(s). Soviets turn on searchlights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 614) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2972 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Iran", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "S/ASTARA,AZERBAIJAN:LUMn.SCR at SOV.BORDER/30min:SOVIETS TURN ON SEARCHLITES", **LatLong:** "38.550002 48.766669", **LatLongDMS:** "38:33:00 N 48:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.550002,48.766669)", **State/Prov:** "AZB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8220 (39071023) **Date:** 11/8/1952 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** 2 MILES NORTH / BRINSON, GA **Description:** Farmer. "Lampshade" saucer over woods. Odd noise. Rises and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 614) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2973 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "2mi N/BRINSON,GA:FARMER:"LAMPSHADE" SCR OVR WOODS:ODD NOISE:RISES+GONE", **LatLong:** "31.005557 -84.738893", **LatLongDMS:** "31:00:20 N 84:44:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.005557,-84.738893)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8221 (438D73DA) **Date:** 11/8/1952 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** 5MI EAST / AUBURN, GA **Description:** 2 Air Force COLs / (seen thru) binoculars and 2 doctors. Very large saucer. Strong white beams. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 614) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2974 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "5mi E/AUBURN,GA:2 AF COLs/BINOCS+2 MDS:VLARGE SCR:STRONG WHT BEAMS:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "34.011113 -83.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:40 N 83:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.011113,-83.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8222 (5E284E07) **Date:** 11/8/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** ROUFFIGNAC GROTTO, FR **Description:** Red sphere going [to] WSW. Rises and drops vertically several times. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2975 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROUFFIGNAC GROTTO,FR:RED SPHERE >WSW:RISES+DROPS VERTICALLY SVRL TIMES:/news", **LatLong:** "45.016669 0.983333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:01:00 N 00:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.016669,0.983333)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8223 (7D0BAC46) **Date:** 11/8/1952 **Location:** Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) FPS-3 Tracks Maneuvering Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [521108](http://www.nicap.org/521108amarilla%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1387 ### Event 8224 (7DB53E90) **Date:** 11/10/1952 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** Battelle’s Project Stork notes in its seventh status report that current UFO reports “are now in more detail and often consist of sightings of one object by more than one individual.” 500 copies of a final version of the sighting questionnaire were delivered to ATIC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. It expects to have all UFO reports dated before June 15, 1952, processed and evaluated by December 10, ready for IBM analysis later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 929; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm)” CUFON **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2101 ### Event 8225 (AFC5AB37) **Date:** 11/12/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** KARUP AIRPORT, JUTLAND, DK **Description:** Military observer(s). UFO like aircraft but impossibly fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2976 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KARUP AIRPORT,JUTLAND,DK:MIL.OBS:UFO LIKE AIRCRAFT BUT IMPOSSIBLY FAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "56.300003 9.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "56:18:00 N 09:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.300003,9.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8226 (44DF7701) **Date:** 11/12/1952 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2219. Unidentified. 4 objects going quickly north / restricted airspace. Blink and glow. No RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 619) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2977 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:BBK#2219:UID:4 OBJS >>N/RESTRICTED AIRSPACE:BLINK+GLOW:NO RDR", **LatLong:** "35.866668 -106.294450", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:00 N 106:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.866668,-106.294450)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8227 (3235A146) **Date:** 11/12/1952 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** BETHESDA, MD **Description:** Several observer(s). UFO constantly changes shapes. Vanishes and reappears. Smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 620) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2978 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "92", **HatchDesc:** "BETHESDA,MD:SVRL OBS:UFO CONSTANTLY CHANGES SHAPES:VANISHES+REAPPEARS:SMOKE", **LatLong:** "38.966669 -77.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:58:00 N 77:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.966669,-77.116670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8228 (5EA28303) **Date:** 11/12/1952 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** 4 red-white-green lights fly slowly over prohibited area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2219, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1388 ### Event 8229 (E51FC012) **Date:** 11/12/1952 **Time:** 10:23 PM **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: security inspector. Four red-white-green lights flew slowly over a prohibited area for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_280 ### Event 8230 (C5CD236E) **Date:** 11/13/1952 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR SIBI, PAKISTAN **Description:** Tribesmen. Saucers / 2 nights running. Dazzling beams light 40 mile(s) area! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 631) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2979 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pakistan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "196", **HatchDesc:** "nr SIBI,PAKISTAN:TRIBESMEN:SCRS/2 NITES RUNNING:DAZZLING BEAMS LITE 40mi AREA!", **LatLong:** "29.550001 67.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "29:33:00 N 67:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.550001,67.550003)", **State/Prov:** "SIB", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8231 (E4877B0A) **Date:** 11/13/1952 **Time:** ~02:20 **Location:** OPHEIM, MT **Description:** Military RADAR. Blip / 250mph. Incredible 150K' altitude / 70 minute(s). See Glasgow, Mt. CE2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 622) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2980 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "88", **Elev:** "995", **HatchDesc:** "OPHEIM,MT:MIL RDR:BLIP/250mph:INCREDIBLE 150K'alt/70min:see Glasgow,MT CE2", **LatLong:** "48.855558 -106.405561", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:20 N 106:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.855558,-106.405561)", **RelAlt:** "32767", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8232 (65F33915) **Date:** 11/13/1952 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** GLASGOW AIR FORCE BASE, MT **Description:** Weatherman / scope. 5 40' saucers / V formation. Silent. 2K-3K' altitude. 90° turn going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 622) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2981 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "637", **HatchDesc:** "GLASGOW AFB,MT:WEATHERMAN/SCOPE:5 40'SCRS/VFORM:SLNT:2K-3K'alt:90°TURN >>SW", **LatLong:** "47.466669 -106.566672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:28:00 N 106:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.466669,-106.566672)", **RelAlt:** "800", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8233 (8C0D364C) **Date:** 11/13/1952 **Location:** Opheim, MT **Description:** Tracked an unidentified target on FPS-3 radar at 158,000 ft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2220) **Reference:** NICAP: [521113](http://www.nicap.org/521113ophiem%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1389 ### Event 8234 (C42EC042) **Date:** 11/13/1952 **Location:** Glasgow, MT **Description:** 5 oval- shaped objects with lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2220) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1390 ### Event 8235 (2FE18353) **Date:** 11/13/1952 **Time:** 2:20 AM **Location:** Opheim, Montana **Description:** Witness: radar tracking by USAF 779th AC&W station. An unexplained track was followed for 1 hour, 28 minutes, at 158,000' altitude (30 miles) and a speed of 240 m.p.h. Radar was FPS/3 (PPI). **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_281 ### Event 8236 (542CBCC6) **Date:** 11/13/1952 **Time:** 2:43 AM **Location:** Glasgow, Montana **Description:** Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Earl Oksendahl. Five oval-shaped objects, with lights all around them, flew in a V-formation for about 20 seconds. Each object seemed to be changing position vertically by climbing or diving as if to hold formation. Formation came from the northwest, made a 90 degree overhead, and flew away to the southwest. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_282 ### Event 8237 (EF273EB0) **Date:** 11/13/1952 **Description:** At both Opheim Army Base and Glasgow AFB in Montana in 1952, an unidentified flying object was picked up on radar between 2:20 and 2:43 a.m. There was visual confirmation of the UFO by military personnel near Opheim. According to Earl Oksendahl, a qualified and reliable weather bureau witness, at 2.43 a.m. five glowing objects in formation made a 90 degree turn overhead, and then flew to the southwest. The two outside objects seemed to bank. They were oval shaped, 30-50 feet in diameter, had no trail, no exhausts, and made no noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2220; UNICAT, case # 752; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 76 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7624 ### Event 8238 (15A1940B) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3' saucer changes shape 1500' over airport/apartment runway. Goes going quickly north rising. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 621) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2982 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:2 OBS:3'SCR CHANGES SHAPE 1500' ovr APT RUNWAY:GOES>>N RISING", **LatLong:** "37.666668 -97.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 97:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,-97.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8239 (1210E9B6) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** NEAR PYONGYANG?, NORTH KOREA **Description:** CT7943. Silent 10' silver sphere/orb/globe going north. Orbits T6 3x. Quickly going up [to] fast. No RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2983 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr PYONGYANG?,N.KOREA:CT7943:SLNT 10'SLVR ORB >N:ORBITS T6 3x:↑↑ FAST:NO RDR", **LatLong:** "39.050002 125.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:00 N 125:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.050002,125.800006)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8240 (161FB4DC) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** NORTH / FREDERICA, DE **Description:** 3 observer(s). Ring / colored lights rotates clockwise / 400' altitude. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 623) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2984 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "N/FREDERICA,DE:3 OBS:RING/COLORED LITES ROTATES CW/400'alt:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "39.066669 -75.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:00 N 75:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.066669,-75.466670)", **RelAlt:** "120", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8241 (E1E2D98B) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** ARGENTIA NAS, NFLD **Description:** Several observer(s). Blinking object drops / ground. Planes see night light. Fireball maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 623) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2985 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ARGENTIA NAS,NFLD:SVRL OBS:BLINKING OBJ DROPS/GND:PLANES SEE NLT:FBL MNVRS:", **LatLong:** "47.277780 -53.833336", **LatLongDMS:** "47:16:40 N 53:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.277780,-53.833336)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8242 (F62B0019) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Location:** Pyongyang (near), North Korea **Description:** Sphere Circles Below T-6 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521115](http://www.nicap.org/521115pyongyang%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1391 ### Event 8243 (4ABF32A5) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Location:** Wichita, TX **Description:** B-47 crew and passengers saw an elliptical blue-white object with orange or red tail, moving erratically (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1392 ### Event 8244 (9AE26F40) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Location:** Wichita, KS **Description:** Elliptical blue-white object with orange or red tail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2224) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1393 ### Event 8245 (E341A2BE) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Time:** 7:02 AM **Location:** Wichita, Kansas **Description:** Witnesses: USAF Maj. R.L. Wallander, Capt. Belleman, A/3c Phipps. One orange object (a blue streak?) varied in shape, as it made jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 second pauses during a 3-5 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_283 ### Event 8246 (87A026FF) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Time:** 23:30:00.0 **Location:** 11.5622 162.3525 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “King” Yield: 500KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_33 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5622 162.3525", **LatLongDMS:** "11:33:44 N 162:21:09 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5622,162.3525)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.45", **NukeName:** "King", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "500" ### Event 8247 (88704178) **Date:** 11/15/1952 **Description:** during the Korean War, two Americans flying in a T-6 aircraft over Pyongyang Sector CT 7943 at 1:07 p.m. local time saw a 10 foot diameter silver sphere below their plane. It flew north for 5 miles, then made a 180 degree turn to the south and climbed in altitude. When the plane banked toward the UFO, it banked into a left-hand orbit around the aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices during the Korean War, p. 57; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; UNICAT, case # 753). Also in 1952, a elliptical blue-white light was spotted from an Air Force B-47 bomber over Wichita, Kansas at 20:25 p.m. It had an orange or red tail, and moved erratically. The case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown." At 6:45 p.m. a ring of colored lights, rotating counter-clockwise, was sighted at 400' altitude north of Frederica, Delaware. (Sources: Project Blue Book, case 2224; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1952: November-December, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7684 ### Event 8248 (76303DC9) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** NEAR LANDRUM, SC **Description:** Hundreds and Air Traffic Controller. 5 huge saucers. Going west. Good 8mm telephoto movies. Wave. / r11p196. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2986 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "311", **HatchDesc:** "nr LANDRUM,SC:100s+ATC:5 HUGE SCRs:>W:GOOD 8mm TELEPHOTO MOVIES:WAVE:/r11p196", **LatLong:** "35.177779 -82.188893", **LatLongDMS:** "35:10:40 N 82:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.177779,-82.188893)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8249 (27BBE69E) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** CASTELFRANCO EMILIA, ITL **Description:** Farmer. Plate-saucer hovers. 5M cylinder/cylindrical object turns / bottom. Pseudo-human/entity inside! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2987 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CASTELFRANCO EMILIA,ITL:FARMER:PLATE-SCR HVRS:5M CYL TURNS/BOTTOM:PSH INSIDE!", **LatLong:** "44.616669 11.050001", **LatLongDMS:** "44:37:00 N 11:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.616669,11.050001)", **State/Prov:** "MO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8250 (800BCA58) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** WEST / NICHOLS, SC **Description:** 20 calls to police. Silver saucer whirls and rises at angle. 2X house size! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 629) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2988 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "W/NICHOLS,SC:20 CALLS TO POLICE:SLVR SCR WHIRLS+RISES AT ANGLE:2X HOUSE SIZE!", **LatLong:** "34.233335 -79.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:00 N 79:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.233335,-79.200004)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8251 (BEE07E01) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** WEST / FLORENCE, SC **Description:** Many calls to news and CAA. CAA observer(s) also. Large silver saucer tilts upward. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2989 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "46", **HatchDesc:** "W/FLORENCE,SC:MANY CALLS TO NEWS+CAA:CAA OBS ALSO:LRG SLVR SCR TILTS UPWARD", **LatLong:** "34.216668 -79.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:13:00 N 79:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.216668,-79.883337)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8252 (335DD79F) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** IMPERIAL BEACH, CA **Description:** 2 / Navy lookout tower. 5cm yellow sphere/orb/globe hovers / 3 minute(s). Zooms going quickly west to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2990 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "IMPERIAL BEACH,CA:2/NAVY LOOKOUT TOWER:5cm YEL.ORB HVRS/3min:ZOOMS >>W TO SEA.", **LatLong:** "32.583335 -117.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:35:00 N 117:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.583335,-117.100006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8253 (1E9CBFCE) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Location:** Landrum (near), SC **Description:** Hundreds of people saw a huge disc, watched through binoculars by air-traffic controller. (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1394 ### Event 8254 (F44476C6) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Locations:** Florence Airport, South Carolina; Landrum, South Carolina **Description:** Around 5:00 p.m. An air traffic controller at Florence Airport, South Carolina, watches a huge, gleaming disc through binoculars and sees it tilt up sharply before climbing out of sight. About 6 minutes later, people see a group of round, glowing objects north of Landrum, South Carolina. [David S. Bunch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89210457/david-sumter-bunch) takes 40 minutes of film with an 8mm camera and telephoto lens before the UFOs disappear to the west. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) reviews the film along with some Air Force officers. It shows five glowing, oval-shaped objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 4–5](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chI.htm); UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021) [89](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 180 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2102 ### Event 8255 (139C8302) **Date:** 11/16/1952 **Description:** A 41-year-old farmer named N. Ferrari in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy saw a 20 meter wide plate-shaped disc hovering at 9:30 a.m. It had a five meter long cylinder rotating on the top and bottom of the object and made a sound like an electric motor. The plates separated and three human-appearing occupants were visible inside. They wore rubber suits with masks. They spoke something like "Verren…firg…unch", and then the craft went straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 157; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0205, citing S. Boncompagni **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7713 ### Event 8256 (8C91DF26) **Date:** 11/17/1952 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** MCANDREW AIR FORCE BASE, NFLD **Description:** UFO spirals upward / dizzy speed. Sharp turns. Changes colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2991 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "McANDREW AFB,NFLD:UFO SPIRALS UPWARD/DIZZY SPEED:SHARP TURNS:CHANGES COLORS", **LatLong:** "47.266669 -53.850003", **LatLongDMS:** "47:16:00 N 53:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.266669,-53.850003)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8257 (74B7B4B3) **Date:** 11/18/1952 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President (elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1) **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) **Reference:** [link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_484 **Attributes:** Majestic ### Event 8258 (94D22EE0) **Date:** 11/18/1952 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** HAWERA, NZ **Description:** 4 bright circular objects going [to] WSW / series. 3rd object larger. Wide arc and return going [to] steamship. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2992 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "HAWERA,NZ:4 BRITE CIRC.OBJS > WSW/SERIES:3rd OBJ LARGER:WIDE ARC+RETURN >SS", **LatLong:** "-39.594446 174.283342", **LatLongDMS:** "39:35:40 S 174:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.594446,174.283342)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8259 (337E29E4) **Date:** 11/18/1952 **Location:** Castelfranco, Italy **Description:** Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer, found himself flooded with a reddish light and saw a large plate 10 m above him, between gold and copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface, 20 m in diameter, was a cylinder of 5 m diameter made of rapidly rotating parts, producing a noise similar to that of an electric motor. On the upper surface was a turret inside which three occupants were visible, looking directly at the witness. They looked perfectly human, wore rubber coveralls and transparent face masks. They spoke a few words, which were not understood; a loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained intensity, and the craft flew vertically at very high speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 102 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_106 ### Event 8260 (123683C2) **Date:** 11/18/1952 **Locations:** Washington D.C.; US **Description:** Date of the fake four-page “Briefing Document: Operation Majestic 12. Prepared for President-Elect [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower): Eyes Only.” It states that UFOs are the product of an extraterrestrial civilization, that several had crashed and came into the possession of the US government, and that the US had custody of an alien for some time before it died. It says that [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) established the MJ-12 group in 1947. Called Majestic-12, the group supposedly consists of CIA Director [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) Secretary of Defense [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) \(replaced by Gen. [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) in 1950\), Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining), Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), [Detlev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev%5FBronk) [Bronk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev%5FBronk)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev%5FBronk) [Jerome Clarke Hunsaker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClarke%5FHunsaker)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClarke%5FHunsaker) [Sidney Souers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers) [Gordon Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29), [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) Gen. [Robert Miller Montague](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMiller%5FMontague), and [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Briefing Document: Operation Majestic-12, Prepared for President-Elect Dwight D.](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MJ-12%5FDocument) [Eisenhower \(Eyes Only\),](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MJ-12%5FDocument)” November 18, 1952; Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 13–17; Joe Nickell and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1990\): 4–20; Good Above, [pp. 257–260](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/256/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/256/mode/2up) [544–550](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/544/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2103 ### Event 8261 (7CB68717) **Date:** 11/18/1952 **Description:** President-Elect [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) receives a 43-minute national security briefing on matters that are still classified. Gen. [Nathan Twining,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) Gen. [Omar Bradley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%5FBradley)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%5FBradley) Adm. [William Fechteler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FFechteler)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FFechteler) Gen. [J. Lawton Collins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FLawton%5FCollins), Gen. [Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel%5FC.%5FShepherd%5FJr)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel%5FC.%5FShepherd%5FJr) and Secretary of Defense [Robert A. Lovett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett) are present. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2104 ### Event 8262 (7FFC131A) **Date:** 11/18/1952 **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) telephones [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and tells him that the space people have informed him a physical encounter will take place on November 20. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1284; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 23; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2105 ### Event 8263 (40865014) **Date:** 11/18/1952 **Description:** Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer from Castelfranco, Italy found himself flooded with a reddish light on this morning when a large plate-shaped object flew ten meters above him. The 20-meter diameter disc was golden to copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface was a cylindrical section, about five meters wide, made up of a rapidly rotating part that produced a noise similar to an electric motor. On the upper surface was a transparent turret inside which three occupants were visible. The beings looked directly at him. They looked to be normal humans in appearance, and wore rubber coveralls and transparent facemasks. They spoke a few words, which were not understood. A loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained intensity, and the craft flew up vertically at very high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Il Tempo, July 12, 1963; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 201 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7725 ### Event 8264 (5F33050E) **Date:** 11/19/1952 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** GUANARITO, VNZ **Description:** Entire town. Mysterious craft / high-speed. 2 smaller objects join in. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 632) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2993 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "GUANARITO,VNZ:ENTIRE TOWN:MYSTERIOUS CRAFT/HI-SPEED:2 SMALLER OBJS JOIN IN", **LatLong:** "8.700000 -69.200003", **LatLongDMS:** "08:42:00 N 69:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.700000,-69.200003)", **State/Prov:** "PRT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8265 (A462A755) **Date:** 11/19/1952 **Location:** Salton Sea, California **Description:** Pilot J. Slade Nash reaches 698.5 mph in a North American F-86D Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bryan R. Swopes, “[19 November 1952,](https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/james-slade-nash/)” This Day in Aviation, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2106 ### Event 8266 (CA971DF2) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Location:** CA **Description:** George Adamski contacts man from Venus. **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_126 ### Event 8267 (A56E22B4) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Location:** LA FORCE, FR **Description:** Luminous red disk quickly going down. White night light / concentric circles / 10 minute(s). Going west / River Valley. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2994 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "La FORCE,FR:LUMn.RED DISK ↓↓:WHT NLT/CONCENTRIC CIRCLES/10min:>W/RIVER VALLEY", **LatLong:** "44.866669 1.383333", **LatLongDMS:** "44:52:00 N 01:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.866669,1.383333)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8268 (5BADFB7D) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Location:** MT. BLANCA, CO **Description:** Rancher. Domed saucer going [to] over San Luis valley to mountain peak. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2995 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4372", **HatchDesc:** "Mt BLANCA,CO:RANCHER:DOMED SCR > OVR SAN LUIS VALLEY TO Mtn PEAK:SILENT", **LatLong:** "37.577780 -105.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:34:40 N 105:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.577780,-105.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8269 (60F17412) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** 10 MI EAST / SALTON SEA, CA **Description:** USAF B50. Night light hovers and changes color(s). Type unknown. Going southwest. / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 634) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2996 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "-50", **HatchDesc:** "10mi E/SALTON SEA,CA:USAF B50:NLT HVRS+CHANGES CLRS:TYPE UNK:>SW:/r150", **LatLong:** "33.322224 -115.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:19:20 N 115:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.322224,-115.633339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8270 (2FDECC79) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Location:** Salton Sea, CA **Description:** B-50 Pilot Spots Object Changing Colors (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521120](http://www.nicap.org/521120saltonsea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1395 ### Event 8271 (0D6E47D8) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Locations:** Palomar Gardens Café; Blythe, California; Desert Center, California; Desert Center Rice Road 117; Coxcomb Mountain **Description:** Morning. [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and two associates, Lucy McGinnis and Alice Wells, drive out from the Palomar Gardens Café. They meet the Williamsons and the Baileys at Blythe, California, at 8:00 a.m., and they drive to Desert Center, California, taking Desert Center Rice Road 117 toward Coxcomb Mountain. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1284; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2107 ### Event 8272 (A6424E19) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Locations:** Parker, Arizona; foot of Coxcomb Mountain **Description:** 1:00 p.m. [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s group picnics along the roadside. At 1:30 p.m., they see a cigar-shaped UFO that appears shortly after a US Air Force B-29 passes overhead going in the direction of Parker, Arizona. Adamski asks Lucy McGinnis, accompanied by Alfred Bailey, to drive him a bit more than half a mile away to a flatter area near the foot of Coxcomb Mountain where he can set up his telescope. The cigar-shaped UFO is allegedly following them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 54–56, 358–359 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2108 ### Event 8273 (BC965EE6) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Locations:** Adamski; McGinnis and Bailey; Kodak Brownie **Description:** 1:57 p.m. [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) stays behind to set up his equipment as McGinnis and Bailey return to the rest of the group. At 2:04 p.m., another UFO, this time a “Scout ship,” appears near Adamski, who takes seven photos through his telescope. The cigar-shaped UFO is still visible through binoculars. At 2:12 pm., Adamski takes three more photos of the Scout ship with a Kodak Brownie before it disappears behind a hill. Air Force jets circle the area at least twice. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 359–360 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2109 ### Event 8274 (EE37C7B9) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Location:** Desert Center, California **Description:** 2:15 p.m. As he is packing up his telescope, [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) sees a man waving to him from about a quarter- mile away. He walks over to him and meets an entity named Orthon as his 6 companions watch from a distance. Five-and-a-half feet tall, Orthon \[could Adamski have thought of this name from Kodak Ortho film?\] is a beautiful being with long blond hair and an extremely high forehead. Through gestures, sign language, a few words, and telepathy, Adamski learns that he is from Venus and the Venusians are visiting earth out of concern for nuclear weapons. The conversation lasts about 45 minutes. Orthon declines to be photographed but asks Adamski to borrow one of his unexposed photos. After Orthon leaves in his Scout ship around 3:04 p.m., Adamski finds tracks in the desert floor. His companions rejoin him at the site. Around 3:45 p.m., [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) takes casts with plaster of paris, which he just happens to carry with him in case he runs into a stray bone. Each track contains within it a distinct set of symbols. After several hours of assessing the situation and waiting for the plaster to dry, the group returns to Desert Center, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, [pp. 185–215](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl/page/184/mode/2up); Adamski Foundation, “[The Landing](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/html/Landing.htm)”; James W. Moseley, “[Special Adamski Exposé Issue,](https://app.box.com/s/ffh3qv14hz8i5vcbwn5x)” Saucer News, no. 27 \(October 1957\); Curt Collins, “[Saucer News](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/05/saucer-news-presents-the-george-adamski-expose/) [Presents: The George Adamski Exposé,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/05/saucer-news-presents-the-george-adamski-expose/)” In Honor of James Moseley, May 30, 2014; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 41–89, 360–362; Clark III 39–40, 1284; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 23; Michael D. Swords, “Adamski in the Desert,” IUR 31, no. 3 \(October 2007\): 22; Rene Erik Olsen, \[[George Adamski photo analysis](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/Rene%20Erik%20Olsen%20-%20Denmark/Rene-Denmark.html)\], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2110 ### Event 8275 (B91719AA) **Date:** 11/20/1952 **Location:** Phoenix, Arizona **Description:** 9:00 p.m. The Williamsons and the Baileys, with [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s permission, drive to Phoenix, Arizona, and tell the story of their contact to reporters at the Phoenix Gazette. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2111 ### Event 8276 (88ED1D7A) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **Location:** LITTLEHAMPTON MARGATE CHICHESTER AND IPSWITCH, ENG **Description:** Wave / fireballs and tadpole and beetle shapes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 634) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2997 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLEHAMPTON MARGATE CHICHESTER+IPSWITCH,ENG:WAVE/FBLS+TADPOLE+BEETLE SHAPES", **LatLong:** "50.833336 -0.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:50:00 N 00:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.833336,-0.533333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8277 (95CC8A2E) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** SAVANNAH R. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC), GA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Red fireball passes over H-bomb plant. Seen 30s. Going quickly SSE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 635) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2998 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "SAVANNAH R. AEC,GA:2 OBS:RED FBL PASSES OVR H-BOMB PLANT:SEEN 30s:>>SSE", **LatLong:** "33.266668 -81.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:16:00 N 81:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.266668,-81.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8278 (5480A9B9) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** FT BENNING, GA **Description:** Blue white UFO zigzags. Vanishes and reappears further on. Going quickly SSE. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 634) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_2999 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "94", **HatchDesc:** "Ft BENNING,GA:BLU WHT UFO ZIGZAGS:VANISHES+REAPPEARS FURTHER ON:>>SSE:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -84.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 84:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-84.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8279 (EF43D722) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **Location:** Carribean Sea, At Sea **Description:** Bright Red Object Paces Aircraft (Photo ?) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [521121](http://www.nicap.org/521121carribbean%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1396 ### Event 8280 (4E3172DE) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **Location:** Belle-Ile, France **Description:** At a place alled "La Butte" a luminous sphere, which seemed to spin, its color changing from orange to white, was seen at low altitude. It oscillated left and right, then took off toward the southwest, according to the witness, Mr. Gauci. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Challenge 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_107 ### Event 8281 (32B88340) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **End date:** 11/23/1952 **Description:** An Air Force review panel meets at ATIC for three days and recommends that a “higher court” be formed to review UFOs. It schedules this tentatively for late December or early January. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 200–201](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/200/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2112 ### Event 8282 (9E97B263) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **Description:** Shortly after 9:00 p.m. a UFO flew in a zigzag pattern over Fort Benning, Georgia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1952 report **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7764 ### Event 8283 (C26B5F20) **Date:** 11/21/1952 **Description:** At a place called "La Butte" on Belle-Ile, France a luminous sphere was seen at a low altitude. It seemed to be spinning and its color changed from orange to white. It oscillated to the left and right, then took off toward the southwest, according to Mr. Gauci the witness. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 201-202 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7765 ### Event 8284 (DCFBCA29) **Date:** 11/22/1952 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / ST. AUBIN AND CHOLET, FR **Description:** Bright colored cylinder/cigar-shape going down. Climbs again going quickly [to] east-northeast. / LDLN#131+/ r30p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3000 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "NW/St.AUBIN+CHOLET,FR:BRITE CLRD CGR ↓:CLIMBS AGAIN >>ENE:/LDLN#131+/r30p64", **LatLong:** "46.933336 -0.688889", **LatLongDMS:** "46:56:00 N 00:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.933336,-0.688889)", **State/Prov:** "Deux-Sèvres", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8285 (67DB70E9) **Date:** 11/22/1952 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** ORLEANS, FR **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly northeast. Makes 2 stops. Shoots away going quickly south. / Nouvelle Republiq. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3001 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ORLEANS,FR:2 SEP.OBS:CGR >>NE:MAKES 2 STOPS:SHOOTS AWAY >>S:/Nouvelle Republiq", **LatLong:** "47.916669 1.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "47:55:00 N 01:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.916669,1.933333)", **State/Prov:** "Loiret", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8286 (386013B4) **Date:** 11/22/1952 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SOUTH / FLORIDA KEYS **Description:** 2 / SS. Warren. Large orange-glowing hemisphere seen clearly. Portholes. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3002 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S/FLORIDA KEYS:2/SS.WARREN:LRG ORG-GLO HEMISPHERE SEEN CLEARLY:PORTS:ABS SLNT", **LatLong:** "24.000001 -81.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "24:00:00 N 81:40:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.000001,-81.666671)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "FLR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8287 (B7BA3DE7) **Date:** 11/22/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BOCARANGA, C.AFR.REP **Description:** Priest and 7. 4 red saucers going NNW. Circle jeep and going quickly SSE. / r136#6p45. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3003 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Congo states", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BOCARANGA,C.AFR.REP:PRIEST+7:4 RED SCRS > NNW:CIRCLE JEEP+>>SSE:/r136#6p45", **LatLong:** "6.966667 15.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "06:58:00 N 15:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/6.966667,15.633334)", **State/Prov:** "CAR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8288 (BD0CE352) **Date:** 11/22/1952 **Location:** Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari [now Central African Republic] **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Fr. Carlos Maria, a Capuchin missionary, and five others are driving along the road to Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari \[now Central African Republic\] when they notice a large disc speeding overhead. Later, they see four others, motionless. They watch the UFOs for 20 minutes, changing shape and color. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS; Jimmy Guieu \[pseudonym of Henri René Guieu\], Les soucoupes volantes viennent d’un autre monde, Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, [pp. 128–129](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/128/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2113 ### Event 8289 (8B0E923A) **Date:** 11/22/1952 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object flew rapidly to the northeast over Orleans, Loiret department, France at 8:40 a.m. It made two stops, then shot away to the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7792 ### Event 8290 (1A26575A) **Date:** 11/23/1952 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** BELLE ILE, FR **Description:** Luminous ball spins and wobbles. Changes color(s). Going quickly southwest to sea. / r251p30+/ r8#107. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3004 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BELLE ILE,FR:LUM BALL SPINS+WOBBLES:CHANGES CLRS:>>SW to SEA:/r251p30+/r8#107", **LatLong:** "47.333336 -3.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:20:00 N 03:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.333336,-3.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8291 (61954F7C) **Date:** 11/23/1952 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** Observer(s) offshore. Meteor flares going [to] inland. Circles city and flares again. Fast climb. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 215) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3005 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:OBS OFFSHORE:METEOR FLARES >INLAND:CCLs CITY+FLARES AGAIN:FAST CLIMB", **LatLong:** "25.772223 -80.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "25:46:20 N 80:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.772223,-80.172226)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8292 (743A780A) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** QUIMPERLE AND ANCENIS AND VITRE, FR **Description:** Huge brilliant saucer-sphere seen widely. Changes colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3006 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "QUIMPERLE+ANCENIS+VITRE,FR:HUGE BRILL.SCR-SPHERE SEEN WIDELY:CHANGES COLORS", **LatLong:** "47.866669 -3.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:52:00 N 03:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.866669,-3.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8293 (F6A6A5F0) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** EAST GLENDALE, CA **Description:** 4 observer(s). 4 grey orbs going quickly northwest. Faint glow. Silent. Turn going quickly northwest / burst of speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 641) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3007 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "E.GLENDALE,CA:4 OBS:4 GRY ORBS >>NW:FAINT GLOW:SILENT:TURN >>NW/BURST OF SPEED", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -118.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 118:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-118.216672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8294 (FC2DA9CF) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ANNANDALE, VA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2246. Unidentified. Brettner and 1. Baseball size sphere/orb/globe / 1000mph. 90+180-turns! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 642) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3008 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "ANNANDALE,VA:BBK#2246:UID:BRETTNER+1:BASEBALL SIZE ORB/1000mph:90+180-TURNS!", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -77.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 77:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-77.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8295 (7A23188C) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Location:** Annandale, VA **Description:** Round, glowing object fly very fast, make right angle turns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2246) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1397 ### Event 8296 (3AA90C92) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Time:** 6:30 PM **Location:** Annandale, Virginia **Description:** Witness: L.L' Brettner. One round, glowing object flew very fast, made right angle turns and reversed course during a 1 hour sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_284 ### Event 8297 (BE725100) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** [Andrija Puharich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich) invited by an Army colonel friend who is chief of the Research Section of the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare, delivers a lecture on ESP to high-ranking Pentagon officers in the Army’s Psychological Warfare Research Section and the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations. Col. [Howard](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) is probably present. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nick Redfern, The Pyramids and the Pentagon, New Page, 2012; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2114 ### Event 8298 (C8400D69) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Locations:** Phoenix Gazette; Palomar Gardens **Description:** The first printed account of the encounter with Orthon appears in the Phoenix Gazette. The newspaper publishes one of [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s photos as well as a photo of the Williamsons and the Baileys. Adamski becomes instantly famous, and [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) moves to Palomar Gardens for several days. When he tells Adamski he is planning to write a book about his channelings and contacts, Adamski warns him not to mention the contacts have been largely psychic. Adamski discourages him and they have a falling out. Alfred C. Bailey later says he has seen neither spaceship nor spaceman and doubts that anyone else has either. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 45–52, 99, 358–363; “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960:](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2115 ### Event 8299 (57D51B81) **Date:** 11/24/1952 **Description:** Annandale, Virginia. 6:30 p.m. Witness L. L. Brettner reported seeing a round, glowing object that flew very fast, made right angle turns, and reversed course during a 1 hour sighting. There was also a second witness but the information about his or her sighting is missing from the file. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 42 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7866 ### Event 8300 (F6C8CC44) **Date:** 11/25/1952 **Location:** Langley, VA **Description:** (cont’d briefing from 8/20/1952): Memorandum for Director CIA: Another meeting by A-2 and ATIC personnel was held on this date. UFOs must have immediate attention. UFOs have been sighted at great altitudes and at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations and can NOT be attributed to natural phenomena or KNOWN types of aerial vehicles. OSI is proceeding to establish an immediate PRIORITY research and development on UFOs under the aegis of CANIS. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell. **Type:** memorandum **Reference:** [link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_485 **See also:** 8/10/1952 **See also:** 10/2/1952 **See also:** 11/25/1952 ### Event 8301 (F6C025F1) **Date:** 11/25/1952 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** PANAMA CZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #101. 2 separate observer(s). Fireballs and RADAR blips 5 / hours. 4 planes scramble. / r37p168. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3009 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Panama", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "31", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PANAMA CZ:BBK#101:2 SEP.OBS:FBLS+RDR BLIPS 5/HRS:4 PLANES SCRAMBLE:/r37p168", **LatLong:** "9.150000 -79.805559", **LatLongDMS:** "09:09:00 N 79:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.150000,-79.805559)", **State/Prov:** "Canal Zone", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8302 (F9903424) **Date:** 11/25/1952 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NEAR WHITE SANDS, NM **Description:** Night lights. UFO makes 90-turn over highway. Shoots going up. 2 rows / portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 644) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3010 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "nr WHITE SANDS,NM:NLTS:UFO MAKES 90-TURN ovr HWY:SHOOTS ↑:2 ROWS/PORTHOLES", **LatLong:** "32.683335 -106.283338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:41:00 N 106:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.683335,-106.283338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8303 (CBA4763B) **Date:** 11/25/1952 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1398 ### Event 8304 (409F51D3) **Date:** 11/25/1952 **Location:** Panama Canal, Panama **Description:** Two Objects Tracked By A/A Gun Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [521125](http://www.nicap.org/521125pcanal%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1399 ### Event 8305 (F9420584) **Date:** 11/25/1952 **Locations:** Tremonton; Presque Isle and Limestone AFB [now Loring International Airport], Maine; Florida **Description:** ATIC Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) and Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) brief CIA consultants [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) and [Edward Tauss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3005011/edward-tauss) on Blue Book’s top three cases: the Tremonton UFO film of July 2; a dubious sighting of an object seen at Presque Isle and Limestone AFB \[now Loring International Airport\], Maine, on the night of October 10– 11 \(which [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) has already explained as a theodolite miscalibration causing Jupiter and its 4 prominent moons to be visible\); and the problematic Florida scoutmaster case of August 19. USAF wants the CIA to think these are good cases until they unravel at the proposed Robertson Panel meeting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2116 ### Event 8306 (02E9A5F6) **Date:** 11/25/1952 **End date:** 11/26/1952 **Location:** Panama Canal Zone **Description:** Two UFOs are tracked by defense radar in the Panama Canal Zone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Objects Tracked](http://www.nicap.org/521125pcanal%5Fdir.htm) [by A/A Gun Radar](http://www.nicap.org/521125pcanal%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 168–170](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/168/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2117 ### Event 8307 (0F280336) **Date:** 11/26/1952 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** GOOSE BAY, NFLD **Description:** 2 / F94+RADAR. Silent night light / 1500-12K' altitude. To 425kts. Follows and eludes jets. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3011 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE BAY,NFLD:2/F94+RDR:SLNT NLT/1500-12K'alt:to 425kts:FOLOS+ELUDES JETS", **LatLong:** "53.300003 -60.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "53:18:00 N 60:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.300003,-60.416670)", **RelAlt:** "500", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8308 (24B48336) **Date:** 11/26/1952 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** F-94 chased maneuverable disc that changed color from white to red (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1400 ### Event 8309 (749D2465) **Date:** 11/26/1952 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** 5:56 p.m. An F-94B from the USAF 59th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, for 15 minutes chases a maneuverable object that changes color from white to red, heading south or southwest. The fighter gets a brief radar lock-on. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, November–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Nov-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 44; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 181 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2118 ### Event 8310 (08A55216) **Date:** 11/27/1952 **Location:** NEDIN, AUCKLAND, NZ **Description:** Jet-like roar. Huge cymbal-saucer surrounded green-glowing goes overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 644) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3012 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEDIN,AUCKLAND,NZ:JET-LIKE ROAR:HUGE CYMBAL-SCR SURROUNDED GRN-GLO GOES OVHD.", **LatLong:** "-36.900002 174.716675", **LatLongDMS:** "36:54:00 S 174:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.900002,174.716675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8311 (1622C21F) **Date:** 11/27/1952 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** MONT-DE-MARSAN, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous/glowing disk splits / 2. Reunites. Away fast. / LDLN#131. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3013 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MONT-de-MARSAN,FR:SVRL OBS:LUMn DISK SPLITS/2:REUNITES:AWAY FAST:/LDLN#131", **LatLong:** "43.900002 -0.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:54:00 N 00:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.900002,-0.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Landes", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8312 (699F37E1) **Date:** 11/27/1952 **Location:** Albuquerque, NV **Description:** Series of 20 ft black smoke bursts similar to antiaircraft fire (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2249) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1401 ### Event 8313 (42D067D2) **Date:** 11/27/1952 **Time:** 12:10 PM **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: pilot and crew chief of UAAF B-26 bomber. A series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire, was seen over a 20 minute period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_285 ### Event 8314 (B9368DB0) **Date:** 11/27/1952 **Description:** In Albuquerque, New Mexico at 12:10 p.m. a pilot and a crew chief of a U.S. Air Force B-26 bomber reported seeing a series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire, which was seen over a 20 minute period. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2249; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7952 ### Event 8315 (D6F836D7) **Date:** 11/28/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** WEST / BLUESKY, ALTA **Description:** 3 / car. "Boot-shape" UFO = mass / curves. Small disks hang / arms. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 646) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3014 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "640", **HatchDesc:** "W/BLUESKY,ALTA:3/CAR:"BOOT-SHAPE" UFO=MASS/CURVES:SML DISKS HANG/ARMS:VFAST", **LatLong:** "56.072225 -118.288895", **LatLongDMS:** "56:04:20 N 118:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.072225,-118.288895)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8316 (FC97BC28) **Date:** 11/28/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CULVER CITY, CA **Description:** Film crew. Saucer filmed overhead. USAF silences observer(s) / 'national security'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 817) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3015 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "CULVER CITY,CA:FILM CREW:SCR FILMED OVHD:USAF SILENCES OBS/'NATIONAL SECURITY'", **LatLong:** "34.033335 -118.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:00 N 118:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.033335,-118.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8317 (F5206EA9) **Date:** 11/28/1952 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** DELTA, UT **Description:** 2 / USAF T33. Odd meteor going straight and level. Then zigzags / 20 minute(s). 50K' altitude. "No star". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 644) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3016 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "4612", **HatchDesc:** "DELTA,UT:2/USAF T33:ODD METEOR > S/L:THEN ZIGZAGS/20min:50K'alt:"NO STAR"", **LatLong:** "39.350002 -112.577783", **LatLongDMS:** "39:21:00 N 112:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.350002,-112.577783)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8318 (E29E31D0) **Date:** 11/28/1952 **Description:** At 4:00 p.m. a motion picture film crew filmed a disc-shaped object at MGM Studio L2 in Culver City, California. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7979 ### Event 8319 (A678E871) **Date:** 11/28/1952 **Description:** At 7:40 p.m. an odd fireball moved too slowly to be a meteor, then zigzagged for 20 minutes. It's estimated altitude was 50,000 feet; "not a star" according to the witness, who was flying over Delta, Utah in a U.S. Air Force T-33 trainer. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7980 ### Event 8320 (7CDB0316) **Date:** 11/30/1952 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2253. Unidentified HIQ RADAR traces. Nothing seen in perfect weather.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 646) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3017 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:BBK#2253:UID HIQ RDR TRACES:NOTHING SEEN in PERFECT WEATHER..", **LatLong:** "38.933335 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:56:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.933335,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8321 (4FFBB8E8) **Date:** 11/30/1952 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** NEAR MODENA, ITL **Description:** Saucer going down. Opens like clamshell. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) / spacesuits exit. 'Unintelligible'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 252) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3018 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr MODENA,ITL:SCR ↓:OPENS like CLAMSHELL:3 OIDS/SSUITS EXIT:'UNINTELLIGIBLE'", **LatLong:** "44.633335 10.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "44:38:00 N 10:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.633335,10.900001)", **State/Prov:** "MO", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 8322 (0877AC0D) **Date:** 11/30/1952 **Location:** Washington National Airport, D.C. **Description:** Radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: 2253) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1402 ### Event 8323 (4C6FAD8D) **Date:** 11/30/1952 **Time:** 12:30 PM **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Witnesses: radar operators at Washington National Airport. Radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_286 ### Event 8324 (B6E81A85) **Date:** 11/30/1952 **Locations:** Washington National Airport; Washington, D.C.; Andrews AFB **Description:** 12:30 a.m. Numerous slow-moving 90–100 mph radar targets appear on the MEW VG-2 radar at Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. Suggestive of anomalous propagation, but they are unlike the July 1952 cases since there is no visual confirmation, no other radars confirming, and no fighters scrambled. A pilot at 6,000 feet sees nothing. CAA Senior Airways Specialist Austin M. Stapf claims the same thing was observed at same time on November 29, and that the Andrews AFB watch supervisor could not visually confirm targets over Andrews displayed on the ARTCC radar scope. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 181 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2119 ### Event 8325 (D43BF0D1) **Date:** 11/30/1952 **Description:** Air Traffic Control operators at Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia had radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2253; Project Blue Book Report #9, report dated January 31, 1953; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 46 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8064 ### Event 8326 (9D5E5375) **Date:** 12/1952 **Description:** Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) completes a study of UFOs to assess whether their motions are random or ordered. He concludes that their reported movements show that UFOs are under intelligent control. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp. 189–190](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/188/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “[Intelligent Motions,](http://www.project1947.com/articles/swordsfournet.htm)” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 8–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2120 ### Event 8327 (C33F5975) **Date:** 12/2/1952 **Location:** Langley, VA **Description:** Statement by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, CIA: “The reports of (UFO) incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention.” **Type:** statement **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_486 **See also:** 10/2/1952 **See also:** 11/25/1952 ### Event 8328 (E3E18F48) **Date:** 12/2/1952 **Locations:** MIT Lincoln Laboratory; MIT Center for International Studies **Description:** CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes another secret memo to Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) on UFOs: “At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention. The details of some of these incidents have been discussed by AD/SI with DDCI. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.” Physicist [Julius Adams Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton) and economist [Max Millikan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%5FMillikan) tell Chadwell that scientists at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory would like to be a part of any scientific study of the UFO phenomenon, perhaps through Millikan’s MIT Center for International Studies. Stratton indicates that Lab Director [Albert G.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FG.%5FHill) [Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FG.%5FHill) should organize the study. Attached is a draft of an intelligence directive by Chadwell on behalf of Smith to the National Security Council recommending that the CIA “formulate and carry out a program of intelligence and research activities required to solve the problem of instant positive identification of unidentified flying objects.” But Smith refuses to approve or sign the directive because he is briefing the president directly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020008-2.pdf)” December 2, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 175; Clark III 1013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2121 ### Event 8329 (DC3465D4) **Date:** 12/3/1952 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** BORDEAUX, FR **Description:** Long brilliant cylinder/cigar-shape moves slow. Suddenly speeds away. Leaves (something behind) blue trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3019 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BORDEAUX,FR:LONG BRILLIANT CGR MOVES SLOW:SUDDENLY SPEEDS AWAY:LVS BLUE TRAIL", **LatLong:** "44.833335 -0.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:50:00 N 00:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.833335,-0.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8330 (72FF2730) **Date:** 12/3/1952 **Locations:** MIT Lincoln Lab; Princeton; Cal Tech; MIT Center for International Studies **Description:** In another “Flying Saucer” memo, [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) admits the Air Force would be suspicious of any MIT Lincoln Lab involvement, and that Princeton or Cal Tech would do, and that “it will be necessary to secure the full backing of the DCI in order that a scientific review of the problem may be laid on.” However, he recommends that this “External Research Project Concerned with Unidentified Flying Objects” be administered by Max Millikan at the MIT Center for International Studies. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** P. G. Strong, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515940.pdf)” December 3, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 185–186 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2122 ### Event 8331 (FE589232) **Date:** 12/3/1952 **Description:** In 1952 at 10:10 p.m. in the city of Bordeaux, France a long, bright cigar-shaped UFO moved slowly in the sky, then suddenly shot away, leaving a blue trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8155 ### Event 8332 (305E0568) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** FT. CARSON, CO **Description:** 2 observer(s). 25' saucer all over airstrip / 7K' altitude. Flips over. Instant 90-turns! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 654) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3020 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1779", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.CARSON,CO:2 OBS:25'SCR ALL OVR AIRSTRIP/7K'alt:FLIPS OVR:INSTANT 90-TURNS!", **LatLong:** "38.750002 -104.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:45:00 N 104:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.750002,-104.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8333 (A3992FFF) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Location:** MONTREAL, QB **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 4-5 ringed saucers / tight turns. Extreme accelerations. Seen 6 minutes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 221) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3021 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "52", **HatchDesc:** "MONTREAL,QB:NMRS.OBS:4-5 RINGED SCRS/TIGHT TURNS:EXTREME ACCELs:seen 6 mins", **LatLong:** "45.483336 -73.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "45:29:00 N 73:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.483336,-73.566670)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8334 (65670EE4) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** ANSEREMME, BELGIUM **Description:** 5 observer(s). Orange sphere/orb/globe over plane. Metallic when stopped. Glows / shooting up going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 653) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3022 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ANSEREMME,BELG:5 OBS:ORG ORB OVR PLANE:MTLC WHEN STOPPED:GLOWS/SHOOTING UP↑", **LatLong:** "50.216669 4.911111", **LatLongDMS:** "50:13:00 N 04:54:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.216669,4.911111)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8335 (03322F14) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** LAREDO AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Night light circles town. Buzzes T28. Head-on passes. 90° turns. Going up. / r242+r172. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3023 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "LAREDO AFB,TX:NLT CCLS TOWN:BUZZES T28:HEAD-ON PASSES:90°TURNS:↑:/r242+r172", **LatLong:** "27.516668 -99.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "27:31:00 N 99:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.516668,-99.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8336 (81A9C663) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** GARE REYNAL / TOULOUSE, FR **Description:** Luminous disk east going quickly west fast with bright white and red flashes. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3024 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Gare REYNAL/TOULOUSE,FR:LUMn.DISK E>>W FAST with BRIGHT WHT+RED FLASHES:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.616669 1.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:00 N 01:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.616669,1.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8337 (C7383D85) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Location:** Colorado Springs, CO **Description:** (McDonald) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1403 ### Event 8338 (B1B2E1EE) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Location:** Congaree AFB, SC **Description:** Object Tracked By AN/MPS-5 At 6,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [521204](http://www.nicap.org/521204congaree%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1404 ### Event 8339 (D2CBF2CC) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Location:** Laredo (8 miles SW of), TX **Description:** Blue white object almost crashes into fighter (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521204](http://www.nicap.org/521204laredo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1405 ### Event 8340 (E2BD86A6) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Description:** The CIA Intelligence Advisory Committee recommends that “the Director of Central Intelligence will ‘enlist the services of selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence in the light of pertinent scientific theories.’” The meeting, chaired by [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) is attended by [Robert Amory Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html), Gen. [John Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford), Rear Admiral [Carl F. Espe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9048606/carl-f-espe)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9048606/carl-f-espe) Gen. [John M. Willems](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/16/archives/maj-gen-john-willems-dies-at-74-served-under-patton-in-africa.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/16/archives/maj-gen-john-willems-dies-at-74-served-under-patton-in-africa.html) [William Park Armstrong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105095607/william-park-armstrong)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105095607/william-park-armstrong) [Walter F. Colby](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118649040/walter-francis-colby)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118649040/walter-francis-colby) Col. [Edward R.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/) [Porter](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/) and Col. [Jere Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm)[.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) This is to be done “immediately” through a National Security Council Intelligence Directive and is essentially the go-ahead for what will be the Robertson Panel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Robert Amory Jr., “[Intelligence](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85S00362R000200030039-4.pdf) [Advisory Committee: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s Conference Room, Administration Building, Central](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85S00362R000200030039-4.pdf) [Intelligence Agency, on 4 December 1952,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85S00362R000200030039-4.pdf)” December 4, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 184, 186–187; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/20/mode/2up); Clark III 1013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2123 ### Event 8341 (E483F31C) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Locations:** Laredo AFB; Laredo International Airport; Texas **Description:** 8:46 p.m. USAF pilot Lt. Robert O. Arnold, 3640th Pilot Training Wing, Laredo AFB \[now Laredo International Airport\], Texas, is flying a T-28 trainer at 6,000 feet when he sees a bright bluish-white glowing object below him at about 1,500–2,000 feet and rapidly climbing to his level. It shows no navigation lights. He tightens his left turn to keep the object in view, but it suddenly climbs to 9,000 feet in several seconds and drops down to his altitude again, then stops and hovers. Arnold pursues but after 2 seconds the object suddenly heads towards him on a collision course at high speed at 8:53 p.m., wavering slightly at about 300 feet. He sees the object as a blurred reddish-bluish haze smaller than his T-28. It rapidly ascends to 15,000 feet then circles left as if positioning for another pass. In fear Arnold turns off his running lights, spirals down to 1,500 feet while keeping the object in sight as it continues to head towards him in a dive, then pulls up and climbs out of sight. A lighted weather balloon is launched at 8:53 p.m. from Laredo AFB but it is not observed near any aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Laredo / ‘Earl Fogle’ Case](http://www.nicap.org/521204laredo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 182 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2124 ### Event 8342 (663FCF7A) **Date:** 12/4/1952 **Description:** At 8:48 p.m. an F-51 pilot, Lt. Robert O. Arnold, flying out of the Laredo, Texas Air Force Base chased a glowing bluish-white object that made extremely tight turns. He had a near collision with the lighted object when it made a head-on pass at his plane. The UFO flew at extreme speeds, and there was a possible crash and subsequent retrieval of the UFO. The incident lasted seven minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 42; UNICAT database, case 754; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 53; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 404; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8172 ### Event 8343 (D3449E7D) **Date:** 12/5/1952 **Location:** Lackland AFB, TX **Description:** Pilot saw blue light maneuver in a counterclockwise orbit (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1406 ### Event 8344 (1FFC4B79) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Location:** AUCKLAND, NZ AND OTHER TOWNS **Description:** Whistling blue-green disk sails over. / Jimmy Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 659) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3025 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "AUCKLAND,NZ+OTHER TOWNS:WHISTLING BLUE-GREEN DISK SAILS OVER:/JIMMY GUIEU", **LatLong:** "-36.883335 174.700008", **LatLongDMS:** "36:53:00 S 174:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.883335,174.700008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8345 (42D52A3C) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** GMX SOUTH / COAST, LA **Description:** B29 crew. 20 fireballs going quickly east. RADAR-visual (observation). 5240mph. Saucers join cylinder/cigar-shape. / r242+/ MJ#236. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3026 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GMX S/coast,LA:B29 CREW:20 FBLS>>E:RDR-VIS:5240mph:SCRS JOIN CGR:/r242+/MJ#236", **LatLong:** "28.333335 -92.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "28:20:00 N 92:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.333335,-92.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8346 (1C4CE82A) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** PLIMMERTON, NI, NZ **Description:** Glowing green luminous ball has band / bright spots. Hissing sound. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 659) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3027 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PLIMMERTON,NI,NZ:GLOWING GRN LUM.BALL HAS BAND/BRITE SPOTS:HISSING SOUND:>>S", **LatLong:** "-41.066669 174.866675", **LatLongDMS:** "41:04:00 S 174:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.066669,174.866675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8347 (9EDF9CF9) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** KYEBURN, SI, NZ AND CHRISTCHURCH INVERCARGILL AND WAIPAHI **Description:** Local wave / UFO reports. No further details in available sources. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3028 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "KYEBURN,SI,NZ+CHRISTCHURCH INVERCARGILL+WAIPAHI:LOCAL WAVE/UFO REPTs:NFD.", **LatLong:** "-45.150002 170.411119", **LatLongDMS:** "45:09:00 S 170:24:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.150002,170.411119)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8348 (B6C2DD87) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** PALMERSTON, SI, NZ **Description:** Green ovoid going quickly southeast. Low hissing sound. Blue object joins in. Both going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 659) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3029 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PALMERSTON,SI,NZ:GREEN OVOID>>SE:LOW HISSING SOUND:BLUE OBJ JOINS IN:BOTH>>SW", **LatLong:** "-45.472224 170.700008", **LatLongDMS:** "45:28:20 S 170:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.472224,170.700008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8349 (A4B53985) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Location:** Angoon, AK **Description:** 2 shiny spheres connected by a solid rod heading S (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1407 ### Event 8350 (01653976) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico (89 miles S of Louisiana), At Sea **Description:** Tracked on radar 4 high speed targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521206](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1408 ### Event 8351 (65CE6BDF) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico (89 miles S of Louisiana), At Sea **Description:** More than six separate unknowns, seen on the B-29 radarscopes (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521206](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1409 ### Event 8352 (ED9E1950) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico **Description:** Air Force bomber tracked "mother ship," smaller high-speed objects, on radar **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Source:** HallUFOEvidence2, **ID:** HallUFOE2_2 ### Event 8353 (53F2D3CD) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Locations:** Gulf of Mexico; Louisiana **Description:** 5:24 a.m. The 3-man crew of a USAF B-29 \(1st Lt. [Norman Karas](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194604791/norman-karas) and 1st Lt. William W. Naumann\) over the Gulf of Mexico 100 miles south of Louisiana track five unidentified blips on the bomber’s radar. They maneuver around the plane at a speed of 5,240 mph. The crew sees some flashes of light, but the targets are 20 miles or more away. The five UFOs merge with a huge blip that accelerates and vanishes at a speed of 9,000 mph. Additional crewmen involved are 1st Lt. William W. Naumann, Jr., Staff Sgt B. R. Purcell, Staff Sgt. William J. De Rause, 2nd Lt. Robert J. Eckert, and Staff Sgt. Harry D. Shogren. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[B-29 Encounters High Speed](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm) [Objects over Gulf](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 161–166](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIX.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 183; Condon, [pp. 148–150](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/148/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[B-](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/coleman52.htm) [29 Radar and Visual Multiple Witnesses Observations, Dec. 6, 1952](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/coleman52.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2125 ### Event 8354 (20B03ECC) **Date:** 12/6/1952 **Description:** At 5:25 a.m. five blue objects buzzed a B-29 flying at 5000 mph off the Louisiana coast, then merged with a huge object that was a half-inch blip on radar screen. The huge object shot away at 9,000 mph. The entire incident lasted ten minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** James McDonald, UNICAT database case # 672, citing Radar Meteorological Proceedings, November 1970, p. 17; Aime Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, p. 95; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 70; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 148; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 161 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8229 ### Event 8355 (92024F43) **Date:** 12/7/1952 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** KARACHI, PAK **Description:** Multiple Ob. 4 translucent white disks trail smoke. Sudden vertical exit! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3030 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pakistan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KARACHI,PAK:MULT.OB:4 XLUCENT WHT DISKS TRAIL SMOKE:SUDDEN VERTICAL EXIT!", **LatLong:** "24.900001 67.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "24:54:00 N 67:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.900001,67.066670)", **State/Prov:** "KRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8356 (7AC8D1BF) **Date:** 12/8/1952 **Location:** CHICAGO AND NAPERVILLE, IL **Description:** Row night lights. Plane chases. Easily seen. Not on 2 RADAR's. / r242p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 660) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3031 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO+NAPERVILLE,IL:ROW NLTS:PLANE CHASES:EASILY SEEN:NOT ON 2 RDRS:/r242p35", **LatLong:** "41.866669 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,-87.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8357 (4FBAEC64) **Date:** 12/8/1952 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** LADD AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2266. Ground RADAR and F94. Unidentified. White ovoid / 10 minute(s). Maneuvers. Going up [to] extremely fast. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 660) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3032 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "LADD AFB,AK:BBK#2266:GND RDR+F94:UID:WHT OVOID/10min:MNVRS:↑ XFAST:/r185", **LatLong:** "64.750003 -147.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "64:45:00 N 147:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.750003,-147.500007)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8358 (232543F9) **Date:** 12/8/1952 **Location:** Chicago, IL **Description:** Thorpe/Plowe (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1410 ### Event 8359 (CE05E35A) **Date:** 12/8/1952 **Location:** Ladd AFB, AK **Description:** White, oval light which changed to red at higher altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2266) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1411 ### Event 8360 (13BC6A8C) **Date:** 12/8/1952 **Time:** 8:16 PM **Location:** Ladd AFB, Alaska **Description:** Witnesses: pilot lst Lt. D. Dickman and radar operator lst Lt. T. Davies in USAF F-94 jet interceptor (s/n 49-2522). One white, oval light which changed to red at higher altitude, flew straight and level for 2 minutes, then climbed at phenomenal speed on an erratic flight path. Sighting lasted 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_287 ### Event 8361 (C5BE7F96) **Date:** 12/9/1952 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** SOUTH / MADISON, WI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2267. Unidentified. 2 / T33. 4 night lights / diamond-formation. Very fast. No RADAR. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 661) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3033 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "S/MADISON,WI:BBK#2267:UID:2/T33:4 NLTS/DIAMOND-FORMn:VFAST:NO RDR:/r185", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -89.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 89:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-89.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8362 (52CBE87F) **Date:** 12/9/1952 **Location:** Madison, WI **Description:** 4 bright lights, in diamond formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2267) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1412 ### Event 8363 (44F9A3C7) **Date:** 12/9/1952 **Time:** 5:45 PM **Location:** Madison, Wisconsin **Description:** Witnesses: Capt. Bridges and lst Lt. Johneon in USAF T-33 jet trainer. Four bright lights, in diamond formation, flew at 400 m.p.h. and were passed by the T-33 at 450 m.p.h. during the 10 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_288 ### Event 8364 (0663126A) **Date:** 12/9/1952 **Description:** Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) forbids [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) from visiting the CIA to give its Office of Scientific Intelligence certain UFO cases in preparation for the Robertson Panel in January. CIA consultant Frederick C. Durant learns about this the same day in a phone call to Ruppelt. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frederick C. Durant, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020005-5.pdf)” December 9, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2126 ### Event 8365 (040421B7) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** ODESSA AND HANFORD, WA **Description:** F94S and ground and air RADAR's. Large white object. Pink portholes. Fast 180° turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3034 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "471", **HatchDesc:** "ODESSA+HANFORD,WA:F94S+GND+AIR RDRs:LRG WHT OBJ:PINK PORTHs:FAST 180°TURNS", **LatLong:** "47.322224 -118.694450", **LatLongDMS:** "47:19:20 N 118:41:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.322224,-118.694450)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8366 (AD714D4B) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Location:** Pope AFB, SC **Description:** (McDonald list) Four Radars Paint Bright Circular Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/521210pope%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1413 ### Event 8367 (AD44DEAF) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Location:** Hungnam, Korea **Description:** USN pilot flying aircraft in near-collision with orange fireball (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1414 ### Event 8368 (EEEEEF7B) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Location:** Odessa, WA **Description:** F-94 R/V With Round Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/521210odessa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1415 ### Event 8369 (ED33EDA6) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Location:** Hanford AEC Plant, WA **Description:** Object appeared large, round and white with reddish light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/neardir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1416 ### Event 8370 (AC55536A) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Location:** Hanford AEC Plant, WA **Description:** Near Hanford Plant, Washington, DC, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/neardir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1417 ### Event 8371 (8470556F) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Locations:** Cal Tech; MIT’s Lincoln Labs **Description:** [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes to [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) that OSI has been working with mathematician [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) of Cal Tech to establish a panel of scientists \(including astronomer [Thornton Leigh Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage)\) and engineers to review the status of UFOs in January. Somewhere along the line, MIT’s Lincoln Labs and CIS have been eliminated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Thornton Page, \[[Letter](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020005-5.pdf)\], December 12, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 187–188 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2127 ### Event 8372 (6CB5C1C6) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Locations:** Moses Lake AFB; Grant County International Airport; Hanford nuclear plant; Richland, Washington **Description:** 7:15 p.m. The pilot and radar observer of an F-94 patrolling from Moses Lake AFB \[now the Grant County International Airport\] spots a light over the Hanford nuclear plant near Richland, Washington, while flying at 26,000 feet. They contact the ground control station, which reports that they know of no planes in the area and that their ground radar shows nothing. They close in on the object, which is large, white, and round and features a dim reddish light coming from two windows. They lose visual contact then get a lock-on from their ARC-33 airborne radar. As they attempt to close in, the object reverses direction and dives away. They attempt several more times to approach the light and have to alter course to avoid a collision that seems imminent. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-94 R/V with Round Object](http://www.nicap.org/521210odessa%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 61–62](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/60/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 185; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case file](http://cufos.org/cases/1952%5F12%5F10%5FUS%5FWA%5FOdessa%5FNICAP%5Fpilots-Air-to-Air-Radar.pdf)\]; Patrick Gross, “[Radar Visual Aircraft UFO Encounter near Hanford Nuclear Plant, December 10, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/hanford10dec52.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2128 ### Event 8373 (C7EEAA16) **Date:** 12/10/1952 **Description:** On this day in 1952 the Civilian Aeronautics Administration issued its report explaining the radar blips recorded over Washington, D.C. in July and August as temperature inversions. Ironically, on that same day unidentified bogeys appeared on radar screens over at least three US air bases. At 9:20 a.m. a UFO appeared on the radarscope at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. It stayed in position eight miles south of the base for eight hours. At Ladd AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska Project Blue Book explained a brief sighting by two airmen as a meteor. But at 7:15 p.m. an F-94 fighter jet with a two-man crew flying near Odessa, Washington had a UFO encounter that was not so easily explained. They sighted a large round, white UFO and obtained a radar lock on the target. The UFO reversed direction almost instantly, did a chandelle in front of the jet, rushed head-on toward them, then stopped, and pulled up. Even though they were flying at 600 mph they were unable to close with the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Doubt Magazine, 1953, p. 206; Project Blue Book case files; UNICAT case 687, citing James E. McDonald, Proceedings of the 1968 U.S. Congressional House Armed Services Committee, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8292 ### Event 8374 (A8924BCC) **Date:** 12/12/1952 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** MCGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, NJ **Description:** Several / ground. Orange-red ball maneuvers over airfield. Silent. 700mph. Veers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 664) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3035 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "MCGUIRE AFB,NJ:SVRL/GND:ORG-RED BALL MNVRS OVR AIRFIELD:SILENT:700mph:VEERS", **LatLong:** "40.000002 -74.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:00:00 N 74:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.000002,-74.616670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8375 (366D2129) **Date:** 12/12/1952 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** SSE / SPRECKELS, CA **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Round light going south. Stops over Mt. Toro. Away / Army plane nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3036 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "1085", **HatchDesc:** "SSE/SPRECKELS,CA:NMRS OBS:RND LITE >S:STOPS OVR Mt.TORO:AWAY/ARMY PLANE NEARS", **LatLong:** "36.527780 -121.611117", **LatLongDMS:** "36:31:40 N 121:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.527780,-121.611117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8376 (52BE72DF) **Date:** 12/12/1952 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Columbus, Ohio; Battelle Memorial Institute **Description:** The CIA, having learned that ATIC is withholding significant case reports for the upcoming Robertson Panel, sends a three-man team to Wright-Patterson AFB in order to obtain relevant documents. The team includes [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) himself, CIA Assistant Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) and CIA rocket consultant [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1)[,](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) a personal friend of [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) who urges him to comply. At ATIC they meet with personnel from Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, which has been studying the UFO data in great secrecy. Battelle requests the CIA to postpone the panel until March so they can finish the study. Robertson agrees to postpone the panel, but is later overruled by CIA Director Gen. [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)”; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2129 ### Event 8377 (263D1D2B) **Date:** 12/13/1952 **Location:** Palomar Gardens Café in California **Description:** Morning. [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s scout ship makes a second appearance, this time at the Palomar Gardens Café in California, ostensibly so that Orthon can return the photo he borrowed. The film holder is pushed out of a porthole to the ground. One of the three Venusian photos taken by Adamski, though credited to [Jerrold E. Baker](https://rr0.org/time/1/9/5/5/01/Nexus07/%23/TheEvidencePresentedbyMrJerroldBaker)[,](https://rr0.org/time/1/9/5/5/01/Nexus07/%23/TheEvidencePresentedbyMrJerroldBaker) is taken secretly the day before by Adamski, probably of a model. [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) claims in 1985 that the photos resemble the prototype space vehicle described in [Mason Rose](http://www.linux-host.org/energy/rose.htm)’s A Simplified Explanation of the Application of the Biefeld-Brown Effect to the Solution of the Problems of Space Navigation, published in February 1952 **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 40; Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, [pp. 217–](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl/page/216/mode/2up) [221](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl/page/216/mode/2up); Paul E. Potter, “The Flying Saucer”; “[Some New Facts about](http://www.cufos.org/Nexus/1955%5F01%5F00%5FNexus07.pdf) [Flying Saucers Have Landed,](http://www.cufos.org/Nexus/1955%5F01%5F00%5FNexus07.pdf)” Nexus 2, no. 1 \(January 1955\): 13–17; James W. Moseley, “[Special Adamski Exposé Issue,](https://app.box.com/s/ffh3qv14hz8i5vcbwn5x)” Saucer News, no. 27 \(October 1957\); Curt Collins, “[Saucer News Presents: The George Adamski Exposé,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/05/saucer-news-presents-the-george-adamski-expose/)” In Honor of James Moseley, May 30, 2014; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 21; Rene Erik Olsen, “[The 13th December 1952 Photos of George Adamski Analysis,](http://www.nemmehjemmesider.dk/aspuploader/savefiles/17090/3191Research%20into%20the%2013th%20December%201952%20George%20Adamski%20photos.pdf)” April 23, 2019; Rene Erik Olsen, \[[George](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/Rene%20Erik%20Olsen%20-%20Denmark/Rene-Denmark.html) [Adamski photo analysis](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/Rene%20Erik%20Olsen%20-%20Denmark/Rene-Denmark.html)\], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) [Who Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2130 ### Event 8378 (9292D23C) **Date:** 12/14/1952 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** TSUTSU, TSUSHIMA, JAPAN **Description:** RADAR-visible. Several observer(s). Saucer beams light going down [to] to sea surface. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 666) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3037 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "TSUTSU,TSUSHIMA,JAPAN:RDR-VISL:SVRL OBS:SCR BEAMS LITE ↓ TO SEA SURFACE", **LatLong:** "34.133335 129.166673", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 129:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,129.166673)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8379 (90684350) **Date:** 12/14/1952 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA **Description:** Aero engineer and 2 / airport. Fireball over whirlwind / trash! Terrific speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 666) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3038 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "181", **HatchDesc:** "CHARLOTTESVILLE,VA:AERO ENG+2/AIRPORT:FBL OVR WHIRLWIND/TRASH!:TERRIFIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "38.033335 -78.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:02:00 N 78:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.033335,-78.466670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8380 (5A973F11) **Date:** 12/14/1952 **Location:** Charlottesville, VA **Description:** Light orange elliptical shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1418 ### Event 8381 (389945C8) **Date:** 12/15/1952 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** GOOSE BAY, NFLD **Description:** F94+T33 pilots and RADAR. Brilliant red night light maneuvers. / r28p324+r242+/ r172p149. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3039 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE BAY,NFLD:F94+T33 PILOTS+RDR:BRILL.RED NLT MNVRS:/r28p324+r242+/r172p149", **LatLong:** "53.366669 -60.383336", **LatLongDMS:** "53:22:00 N 60:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.366669,-60.383336)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8382 (D200A7EA) **Date:** 12/15/1952 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** F-94 pilot chased disc - changed from bright red to white, A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 4, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521215](http://www.nicap.org/521215goose%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1419 ### Event 8383 (AFC0100B) **Date:** 12/15/1952 **Location:** Honshu, Japan **Description:** (McDonald list) Large Blip on AN/TPS Radar At 1320 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521215](http://www.nicap.org/521215honshu%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1420 ### Event 8384 (8099488B) **Date:** 12/15/1952 **Location:** Greensboro, NC **Description:** Bright circular or spherical silvery object, losing and gaining altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1421 ### Event 8385 (6189DF2E) **Date:** 12/15/1952 **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador **Description:** 7:15 p.m. Two Air Force pilots get a momentary lock on a strange object above Goose Bay, Labrador. A T-33 and an F-94B \(piloted by Capt. E. T. Johnson and Radar Observer Lt. H. S. Norris\) see a bright red and white light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Momentary Lock On](http://www.nicap.org/521215goose%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/126/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 186 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2131 ### Event 8386 (22B550D9) **Date:** 12/16/1952 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** OFF NAPIER, NZ **Description:** 6 moon-size glowing-blimps over Hawkes Bay. Slow / single file. Going northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 225) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3040 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off NAPIER,NZ:6 MOONSIZE GLO-BLIMPS ovr HAWKES BAY:SLOW/SINGLE FILE:>NE", **LatLong:** "-39.500002 176.983342", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 S 176:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.500002,176.983342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8387 (116EB20F) **Date:** 12/16/1952 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** LADD AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** 3 military observer(s). HIQ. Night light hovers. Rushes toward(s) base and stops. Blinks out. Reappears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3041 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "LADD AFB,AK:3 MIL OBS:HIQ:NLT HVRS:RUSHES TWRD BASE+STOPS:BLINKS OUT:REAPPEARS", **LatLong:** "64.844448 -147.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "64:50:40 N 147:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.844448,-147.666674)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8388 (AEA4E7FC) **Date:** 12/16/1952 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** GISBORNE, NI, NZ **Description:** Fast luminous blue object / erratic maneuvers going quickly east. Angel hair falls / r180p09. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3042 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GISBORNE,NI,NZ:FAST LUMN.BLUE OBJ/ERRATIC MNVRS>>E:ANGEL HAIR FALLS/r180p09.", **LatLong:** "-38.650002 178.033342", **LatLongDMS:** "38:39:00 S 178:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.650002,178.033342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8389 (B8BD654E) **Date:** 12/16/1952 **Location:** Presque Isle **Description:** [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) tells CIA Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence [Robert Amory Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html) that he is unimpressed with the three Blue Book cases, especially since Presque Isle was identified as the planet Jupiter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2132 ### Event 8390 (04563D0C) **Date:** 12/16/1952 **Description:** In Gisborne, New Zealand at ten o’clock in the evening some “angel hair” residue fell from a fast moving, luminous blue object that made erratic maneuvers in the sky and flew off quickly towards the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 68 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8438 ### Event 8391 (FE10EAA8) **Date:** 12/17/1952 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** SAN DIEGO, CA **Description:** 6 scientists and techs. 2 saucers maneuver over coast and city. Slow to very high speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3043 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SAN DIEGO,CA:6 SCIENTISTS+TECHS:2 SCRS MNVR OVR COAST+CITY:SLOW TO VHIGH SPEED", **LatLong:** "32.700002 -117.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:42:00 N 117:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.700002,-117.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8392 (17872837) **Date:** 12/17/1952 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** Two or more objects described as cigar or disc shaped that emanated bright light in smooth flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521217](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sandiego521217dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1422 ### Event 8393 (BE409CEA) **Date:** 12/17/1952 **Description:** At 4:15 p.m. six people sighted two discs maneuvering over the coast and the city of San Diego, California. The objects moved at slow to very high speeds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8457 ### Event 8394 (21716BBC) **Date:** 12/18/1952 **Location:** Itazuke AFB, Japan **Description:** Five Plots on AN/MPS-5 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [521218](http://www.nicap.org/521218itazuke%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1423 ### Event 8395 (5F6999BD) **Date:** 12/18/1952 **Location:** Oakridge, TN **Description:** Oak ridge, TN, RV (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1424 ### Event 8396 (AAEA37D5) **Date:** 12/19/1952 **Time:** 06:50 **Location:** ANDERSON AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM **Description:** 2 / B17+ground observer(s). Mystery cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly [to] between clouds. Vapor trail. / MJ#236. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 669) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3044 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ANDERSON AFB,GUAM:2/B17+GND OBS:MYSTERY CYL.>>BTWN CLOUDS:VAPOR TRAIL:/MJ#236", **LatLong:** "14.450001 144.766674", **LatLongDMS:** "14:27:00 N 144:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.450001,144.766674)", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8397 (81B7E351) **Date:** 12/19/1952 **Location:** Anderson AFB, Guam **Description:** B-17 Crew Encounters Cylinder Reported By Ground Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521219](http://www.nicap.org/521219andersonafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1425 ### Event 8398 (86A7A1FD) **Date:** 12/20/1952 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** OFF CANNES, FR **Description:** Large bright silver saucer hovers. Glides over US Navy ship. Hovers. Returns. Going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 669) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3045 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "off CANNES,FR:LRG BRITE SLVR SCR HVRS:GLIDS OVR US NAVY SHIP:HVRS:RETURNS:↑", **LatLong:** "43.450002 7.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:27:00 N 07:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.450002,7.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8399 (752E1B18) **Date:** 12/21/1952 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** SOCKBURN, NZ **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Yellow manta saucer going quickly south. Stops overhead. Circles and maneuvers. Quickly going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3046 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "SOCKBURN,NZ:SVRL SEP.OBS:YLW MANTA SCR >>S:STOPS OVHD:CCLS+MNVRS:↑↑ FAST", **LatLong:** "-43.516669 172.550008", **LatLongDMS:** "43:31:00 S 172:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-43.516669,172.550008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8400 (65FB902B) **Date:** Winter 1952 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Blips Cause Scramble of F-94s (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [52WINT](http://www.nicap.org/52WINT%5Fgoosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1438 ### Event 8401 (98461CA2) **Date:** 12/21/1952 **Location:** Winslow, Arizona **Description:** [Lyman Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) and five other witnesses observe a large, cigar-shaped object over Winslow, Arizona. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2133 ### Event 8402 (EC75B1F3) **Date:** 12/21/1952 **Locations:** Fort Victoria; Masvingo; Zimbabwe; Mvuma **Description:** Evening. J. E. Hawkey, civil commissioner of Fort Victoria \[now Masvingo\], Zimbabwe, is driving near Mvuma when he sees a bright red light crossing the road about 30 feet in the air, then hovering. Suddenly it shoots straight up and disappears. After a short while it descends some distance away and travels straight down the road. Hawkey follows it at about 80 mph, after which it speeds up and disappears at three or more times the speed. He has the object in sight for about 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Southern Rhodesia Newsletter; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2134 ### Event 8403 (0CA91578) **Date:** 12/22/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** BANNING, CA **Description:** Aero-technician. Mushroom-saucer quickly going up / sharp angles. / FBI memo. / r136#6p71. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3047 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "732", **HatchDesc:** "BANNING,CA:AERO-TECHNICIAN:MUSHROOM-SCR ↑↑/SHARP ANGLES:/FBI memo:/r136#6p71", **LatLong:** "33.927779 -116.877783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:40 N 116:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.927779,-116.877783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8404 (D6046764) **Date:** 12/22/1952 **Location:** Moses Lake (Larson AFB), WA **Description:** Hat-shaped glowing object rising vertically in odd spurts right and left (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1426 ### Event 8405 (0D37C81F) **Date:** 12/22/1952 **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) finds out that the CIA Robertson Panel is back on again after being postponed on December 12. Apparently under pressure from the Air Force, which is setting a trap to embarrass the CIA with sensational IFO cases dressed up as “best” unknown UFO cases, CIA Director Gen. [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) reverses the decision to postpone the panel meeting till March 1953 or later. Smith orders the Robertson Panel to be carried out immediately. A rush-to-judgment panel will have no time to reflect on the USAF trickery involved in the IFOs-as- UFOs deception and will just react in dismissive skepticism that there is no scientific evidence for UFO reality, and hence no reason for the CIA to intrude into USAF jurisdiction over air intelligence matters such as unidentified aerial threats \(UFOs\). Ruppelt calls ADC to say that he will not be able to conduct the ADC UFO briefing tour as previously scheduled due to the CIA meeting now tentatively set in early January 1953 \(he confirms the call by teletype December 23\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) [History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 48; Clark III 1014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2135 ### Event 8406 (981E487D) **Date:** 12/22/1952 **Locations:** Larson AFB; Grant County International Airport; Moses Lake, Washington **Description:** 7:30 p.m. An instrument technician driving toward Larson AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\] near Moses Lake, Washington, stops his car to watch a hat-shaped glowing object rising vertically in odd spurts right and left, then level off at high speed. The object glows white with a red side when it is rotated. Halfway through a roll the light disappears, then it holds stationary in the sky with jumpy movements. Duration is about 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Hat-Shaped Object Observed by Technician](http://www.nicap.org/521222larson%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2136 ### Event 8407 (8C78A03F) **Date:** 12/24/1952 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** CAMP CARSON, CO **Description:** Silver saucer "changes shape". Hovers / airfield / 3 minute(s). Silent. Zooms away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 672) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3048 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1778", **HatchDesc:** "CAMP CARSON,CO:SLVR SCR "CHANGES SHAPE":HVRS/AIRFIELD/3min:SILENT:ZOOMS AWAY", **LatLong:** "38.750002 -104.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:45:00 N 104:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.750002,-104.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8408 (FC5D0035) **Date:** 12/24/1952 **Location:** Camp Carson, CO **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1427 ### Event 8409 (55762292) **Date:** 12/24/1952 **Location:** Dallas (near), TX **Description:** Intelligent Behavior / Object Tracked by Two Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [521224](http://www.nicap.org/521224dallas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1428 ### Event 8410 (8D07539E) **Date:** 12/25/1952 (approximate) **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** NORTHEAST / PAARL, RSA **Description:** Pseudo-human/entity asks / water. Observer(s) shown saucer. Small humanoid (or Grey) injured. Detailed conversation (any communication between us and them). / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v24#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3049 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "NE/PAARL,RSA:PSH ASKS/WATER:OBS SHOWN SCR:OID INJURED:DETAILED CVS:/FSR v24#2", **LatLong:** "-33.716668 19.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:43:00 S 19:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.716668,19.183334)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 8411 (04928959) **Date:** 12/27/1952 **Location:** REGINA, SSK **Description:** Air Traffic Controller and weatherman. Moon-size saucer. Red and green lights flash top and bottom. / r136#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3050 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "571", **HatchDesc:** "REGINA,SSK:ATC+WEATHERMAN:MOONSIZE SCR:RED+GRN LITES FLASH top+bottom:/r136#6", **LatLong:** "50.433336 -104.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:00 N 104:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.433336,-104.650005)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8412 (FC231AF1) **Date:** 12/27/1952 **Location:** Borger, TX **Description:** Pilot Reports\* Object Seen Six Minutes Later From Ground (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [521227](http://www.nicap.org/521227borger%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1429 ### Event 8413 (DB48AFC6) **Date:** 12/28/1952 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BEVERLY, MASS **Description:** 4 observer(s) and more. Odd semi-circular cloud maneuvers and veers about. Rises and gone. (Ins.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3051 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BEVERLY,MASS:4 OBS+:ODD SEMI-CIRCULAR CLOUD MNVRS+VEERS ABOUT:RISES+GONE:(INS)", **LatLong:** "42.566669 -70.900003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:34:00 N 70:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.566669,-70.900003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8414 (E2BA2845) **Date:** 12/28/1952 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** NEAR ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Pilot. Elongated cigar east going west. Size / medium Air Force bomber. No further details. Blue Book / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3052 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALBUQQ,NM:PILOT:ELONGATED CIGAR E>W:SIZE/MEDIUM AF BOMBER:NFD: BBK/NICAP", **LatLong:** "35.100002 -106.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:06:00 N 106:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.100002,-106.616672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8415 (20D6A02E) **Date:** 12/28/1952 **Location:** Marysville, CA **Description:** Civilian witness(es). (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2302) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1430 ### Event 8416 (3548C873) **Date:** 12/28/1952 **Time:** Time unknown **Location:** Marysville, California **Description:** Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_289 ### Event 8417 (B964BF12) **Date:** 12/28/1952 **Description:** A semi-circular cloud maneuvered and veered about in the sky over Beverly, Massachusetts at 6:00 p.m. It then rose vertically and was gone from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 73 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8627 ### Event 8418 (B4E53643) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** CHITOSE AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** F84+B26+Air Traffic Controllers and RADAR's. Bright saucers and night lights flee jet. Turn going quickly west and away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3053 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "CHITOSE AFB,JPN:F84+B26+ATCs+RDRs:BRITE SCRS+NLTS FLEE JET:TURN >>W+AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.883335 141.566673", **LatLongDMS:** "42:53:00 N 141:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.883335,141.566673)", **State/Prov:** "HKD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8419 (4F5638C7) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** EAST-NORTHEAST / TUCUMCARI, NM **Description:** 2 / B26. Vibrant bright white night light lights clouds. 3X size / C54. Rises 7K' / 5 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 675) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3054 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1240", **HatchDesc:** "ENE/TUCUMCARI,NM:2/B26:VBRITE WHT NLT LITES CLOUDS:3X SIZE/C54:RISES 7K'/5sec", **LatLong:** "35.333335 -103.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:20:00 N 103:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.333335,-103.500005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8420 (1FE1697C) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Location:** Chitose AFB, Japan **Description:** Object emitting 3 beams of light and tracked on airborne radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [521229](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1431 ### Event 8421 (5A09B979) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Location:** Amarillo (About 35 miles W of), TX **Description:** Extremely large and intense bright round bluish-white light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1433 ### Event 8422 (D38C49C4) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Location:** Chitose AFB, Misawa, Japan **Description:** USAF crews of B-26 (Ashley and Wood) and F-84G (Col. Donald J.M. Blakeslee) saw object emitting 3 beams of light and tracked on airborne radar. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521229](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1434 ### Event 8423 (D42BF493) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Location:** Chitose AFB, Japan **Description:** Object emitting 3 beams of light and tracked on airborne radar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521229](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1435 ### Event 8424 (F4EE4A60) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Location:** Misawa, northern Honshu, Japan **Description:** 7:48 p.m. Col. [Donald J. M. Blakeslee](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49123726/donald-j-blakeslee), 27th Fighter Escort Wing, while flying near Misawa, northern Honshu, Japan, in an F-84G at 27,000 feet in altitude, observes an object like a rotating cluster of lights colored white, green, and red. Blakeslee climbs to 35,000 feet, at which point he is level with the unknown object. He attempts a pursuit, but the UFO disappears in 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Col. Blakeslee / F-84 Incident](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 187; Swords 212–213 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2137 ### Event 8425 (ECCF1F60) **Date:** 12/29/1952 **Locations:** Perrin AFB [now North Texas Regional Airport] near Denison, Texas; Vega, Texas; Tucumcari, New Mexico **Description:** 9:05 p.m. Capt. [William T. Bowley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122145578/william-theodore-bowley) and Capt. [Herbert T. Lange](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54063034/herbert-theodore-lange), both of Perrin AFB \[now North Texas Regional Airport\] near Denison, Texas, are piloting a B-26 on a training flight headed west at 6,000 feet altitude and 300 mph when they see a large, intense, bluish-white light near Vega, Texas. It is about 350 feet long at their 11 o’clock position, paralleling their course at the same altitude and closing slightly. After 5 minutes, the object suddenly climbs vertically 7,000 feet in 5 seconds \(about 2,000 mph\) to disappear in thin clouds at 13,000 feet and causing the clouds to glow as if lit by a searchlight. Bowley radios the CAA controller in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Shortly after, the object reappears under the clouds and the CAA controller is told to look for it but he can’t see it \(possibly because he is told to look in the wring direction\). After 2 minutes, it climbs to the west and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Closing on B-36 Suddenly Climbs](http://www.nicap.org/521229vega%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 187 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2138 ### Event 8426 (325DB9B1) **Date:** 12/30/1952 (approximate) **Location:** LA ROCHELLE, FR **Description:** 29-31 December. UFO darts from cloud. Rises. Shoots going east and back. Exits going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 675) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3055 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "La ROCHELLE,FR:29-31Dec:UFO DARTS FROM CLOUD:RISES:SHOOTS> E+BACK:EXITS>>NE", **LatLong:** "46.150002 -1.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:09:00 N 01:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.150002,-1.133333)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8427 (2111E432) **Date:** 12/30/1952 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** TERRIGAL, NSW, AUSTRALIA **Description:** Brilliant night light / 2000' altitude. Going north slowly. Turns going quickly east and away very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 677) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3056 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TERRIGAL,NSW,AUSTRL:BRILL.NLT/2000'alt:> N SLOWLY:TURNS >>E +AWAY VFAST", **LatLong:** "-33.450002 151.450007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:27:00 S 151:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.450002,151.450007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8428 (22263AB5) **Date:** 12/30/1952 **Location:** Terrigal, New South Wales, AU **Description:** Extremely brilliant carbon-arc bright object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1436 ### Event 8429 (4D388D56) **Date:** 12/31/1952 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE, PR **Description:** 2 / RB36. Red-orange fireball seen / 5 minute(s). Passes plane and climbs O / O / south. / MJ#236. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1952 (12 booklets) Self published. (Index 678) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3057 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "RAMEY AFB,PR:2/RB36:RED-ORG FBL SEEN/5min:PASSES PLANE+CLIMBS O/O/S:/MJ#236", **LatLong:** "18.466668 -67.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "18:28:00 N 67:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.466668,-67.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Puerto Rico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8430 (044ED00B) **Date:** 12/31/1952 **Location:** Ramey AFB (NE of), Puerto Rico **Description:** Red-Orange Ball Passes RB-36 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [521231](http://www.nicap.org/521231puertorico%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1437 ### Event 8431 (7D614F12) **Date:** 12/31/1952 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#8, classified “confidential.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 131–154 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2139 --- ## Year: 1953 (Back to Top) ### Event 8432 (017FCF2A) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt stated: “Two RAF Intelligence Officers who were in the US on a classified mission brought six single-spaced typed pages of questions they and their friends wanted answered regarding UFOs.” **Type:** classified mission **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_487 **See also:** 9/21/1952 ### Event 8433 (A682C026) **Date:** 1953? **Locations:** Arizona; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** Pilot (name withheld) stated, “a saucer crashed in a desert area”. He was sure that it was just inside the Arizona border. He also saw the bodies first-hand at Wright-Patterson AFB. The crates arrived at night by DC-7. Description of bodies: approx. 4 ft. high. Resting un-shrouded on a special blanket on dry ice. Heads were hairless, narrow, disproportionately large for their bodies. Skin had brown tint. Open eyes, small mouth, indistinct nose, hands and feet. Wore tight fitting, dark colored suites. One Alien appeared to be female. One Alien had been alive at the crash site but attempts to save its’ life with oxygen failed. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_488 ### Event 8434 (BA00A2BE) **Date:** 1953 **Description:** Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968) **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (AQUARIUS, B1-A) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_490 **Attributes:** Majestic ### Event 8435 (CB1C9DB1) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Location: Confidential, unknown **Description:** A3-D's Approach Rocket-Shaped UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530000](http://www.nicap.org/53XXXXunknown%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1439 ### Event 8436 (AF1C42A2) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Salisbury Plain, UK **Description:** Daytime. This incident, witnessed by none other than George Townsend Withers (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530000](http://www.nicap.org/530000salisburyplaindir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1440 ### Event 8437 (5EC29A1D) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Yaak, MT **Description:** Summer of 1953; Yaak, Montana, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1441 ### Event 8438 (9E2B90A2) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Anaco, Venezuela **Description:** Avensa Airlines pilot reported round gray object paced plane. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1442 ### Event 8439 (81208A90) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Muskogee, OK **Description:** The “flying cup” photo. Blue Book listed as hoax, which it probably was. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [530000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/musk5307XXdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1443 ### Event 8440 (A2224D04) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Carrier-based **Description:** During off-shore combat maneuvers, a squadron of carrier-based Navy AD-3 attack planes is approached by a rocket-shaped UFO that swoops down on the flight from above. The object levels off about 1,000 feet overhead, slows, and paces the aircraft. When the Squadron Commander leads his flight in pursuit of the UFO, it turns sharply so that its tail is pointed away and shoots upward out of sight in seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 266–267\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2140 ### Event 8441 (A147B39A) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Hong Kong harbor, China **Description:** Midday. A member of the crew of a Shell tanker in Hong Kong harbor, China, watches, along with many others on shore and aboard the ship, a silver-white disc hovering at 6,000–7,000 feet. Within a second or so, it moves a full 45° arc to an area where there are some white clouds at about 5,000 fee. It shines through the cloud cover like the moon through a mist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, “A Daylight Disc in Hong Kong Harbor,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): wrap **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2141 ### Event 8442 (7EB8F206) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** North Texas **Description:** Evening. An Air Force pilot and a student are flying an F-84 Thunderjet on the home leg of a training flight over North Texas when the student notes an out-of-place light. At first the pilot thinks it’s Venus, but they realize it is moving. The student steers the plane toward the light, but it zooms past them at high speed. The pilot takes the stick and turns the aircraft to follow it. The light, which now looks like a metallic domed disc with windows, passes them again. The pilot accelerates to more than 500 mph and pursues it; the disc roars past them again. The chase goes on for 10–15 minutes until a final pass when the object shines a bright light into the cockpit. The pilot takes an evasive measure and flies back to base. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFOS case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2142 ### Event 8443 (468AC571) **Date:** 1953 **Location:** Adelaide, South Australia **Description:** Fred P. Stone founds the Australian Flying Saucer Club in Adelaide, South Australia. It later becomes the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society and publishes the Australian Saucer Record from 1955 to 1963. From 1962 to 1971, it publishes Panorama. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Australian Saucer Record](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Saucer%20Record%20%28Stone%29/Australian%20Saucer%20Record%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2002%20-%201955.pdf) 1, no. 2 \(2nd Quarter, 1955\); [Panorama](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Panorama%20%28Stone%29/Panorama%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201962.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(1962\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2143 ### Event 8444 (5F57AD9B) **Date:** 1/1953? **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** MANCHESTER, ENG **Description:** Astronomer / (seen thru) telescope. Bright red night light hovers / 20 minute(s). Zips off west going quickly northwest / 20 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3058 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "MANCHESTER,ENG:ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE:BRITE RED NLT HVRS/20min:ZIPS OFF W>>NW/20sec", **LatLong:** "53.483336 -2.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:29:00 N 02:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.483336,-2.250000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8445 (A23A6A9B) **Date:** 1/1953 **Locations:** US embassy in Moscow; west façade of the central building **Description:** Beams of microwaves, varying between 2.5 and 4 gigahertz, from Soviet sources aimed at the US embassy in Moscow are first detected, increasing in intensity by 1975. Detected by routine background radiation testing, the beams come from a source in a Soviet apartment building about 325 feet west of the embassy, affecting the west façade of the central building, with highest intensities between the third and eighth floors. The microwave transmissions are only five [microwatts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwatt) per square centimeter, well below the power level of microwave ovens and well below what would be needed to [heat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat) anything. Shielding is put in place by 1964, but the discovery is kept secret. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Moscow Signal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%5FSignal)”; J. Mark Elwood, “[Microwaves in the Cold War: The Moscow Embassy](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233417821%5FMicrowaves%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fcold%5Fwar%5Fthe%5FMoscow%5Fembassy%5Fstudy%5Fand%5Fits%5Finterpretation%5FReview%5Fof%5Fa%5Fretrospective%5Fcohort%5Fstudy) [Study and Its Interpretation,](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233417821%5FMicrowaves%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fcold%5Fwar%5Fthe%5FMoscow%5Fembassy%5Fstudy%5Fand%5Fits%5Finterpretation%5FReview%5Fof%5Fa%5Fretrospective%5Fcohort%5Fstudy)” Environmental Health 11 \(2012\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2144 ### Event 8446 (AEE9117A) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** OLD TOWN, ME **Description:** Blue Book. Small ringed sphere/orb/globe going quickly NNE. Zigzags and changes color(s). Spins / both directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3059 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "OLD TOWN,ME:BBK:SMALL RINGED ORB>>NNE:ZIGZAGS+CHANGES CLRS:SPINS/BOTH DIRs", **LatLong:** "44.933335 -68.644448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:56:00 N 68:38:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.933335,-68.644448)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8447 (3D2DC0A6) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** NORTH / PASADENA, CA **Description:** 1 / parade. Metallic ovoid between mountain peaks. Hovers and rises then shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 401) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3060 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "N/PASADENA,CA:1/PARADE:MTLC OVOID BTWN MTN PEAKS:HVRS+RISES then SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "34.233335 -118.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:00 N 118:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.233335,-118.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8448 (4CE9F8A7) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** NORTHWEST / CRAIG, MT **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2315. Anderson. Saucer / lit windows. Seen / 10 second(s) 15M over river. 3600mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3061 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1060", **HatchDesc:** "NW/CRAIG,MT:BBK#2315:ANDERSON:SCR/LIT WINDOWS:SEEN/10sec 15M ovr RIVER:3600mph", **LatLong:** "47.183336 -111.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:11:00 N 111:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.183336,-111.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8449 (C7924196) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CALGARY, ALTA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright object hovers / 10 minute(s) / northwest horizon. Away / fantastic acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3062 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1088", **HatchDesc:** "CALGARY,ALTA:2 OBS:BRITE OBJ HVRS/10min/NW HRZN:AWAY/FANTASTIC ACCELERATION", **LatLong:** "51.033336 -114.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "51:02:00 N 114:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.033336,-114.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8450 (4F78EFAC) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Location:** Mobile, AL **Description:** Bluish-white object 1-2 ft size with a short exhaust trail in rapid level flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1444 ### Event 8451 (A273C6CC) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Location:** Craig, MT **Description:** Silver, saucer-shaped object with a red glowing bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2315) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1445 ### Event 8452 (3866E5FE) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Time:** 8:45 PM **Location:** Craig, Montana **Description:** Witnesses: Warner Anderson and two women. A silver, saucer-shaped object with a red glowing bottom, flew low over a river and then climbed fast in a horizontal attitude. Ten second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_290 ### Event 8453 (4208A301) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Locations:** Hwy 91 between Craig and Wolf Creek, Montana; Missouri River **Description:** 8:45 p.m. While driving on Hwy 91 between Craig and Wolf Creek, Montana, [Warner E. Anderson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22993632/warner-eldon-anderson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22993632/warner-eldon-anderson) manager of a photo shop with wartime air spotter experience; Mrs. Greta C. Wills, manager of women’s apparel store; and teenager Marlene Wills see a saucer-shaped object above horizon about 5 miles away to the southwest. The object is an estimated 25–40 feet long and 6–8 or 18–25 feet thick and looks like two soup bowls joined at the rims. It has a red glowing bottom and portholes. The object dives low over the Missouri River to within 150–300 feet away then climbs fast horizontally at an estimated 3,600 mph to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The 1953 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1953fullrep.htm)”; Sparks, p. 188 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2145 ### Event 8454 (CB0FC3A0) **Date:** 1/1/1953 **Description:** At 9:45 p.m. in Lewis and Clark County, northwest of Craig, Montana a disc with illuminated windows was seen over the Missouri River for ten seconds. It was estimated to be about 10 meters in length and flew at 3,600 miles per hour. Fifteen minutes later a bright object hovered in the sky over the northwest horizon of Calgary, Alberta for ten minutes. It too shot away at a high speed with fantastic acceleration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953 (volume 1), p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2 ### Event 8455 (010DBD4C) **Date:** 1/2/1953 **Description:** Near Adelaide, South Australia a ghastly looking creature over six-feet tall, with a long scaly body, hissed at residents of Berri from the top of a tree. It leapt to the ground and ran off when someone fetched a gun. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_24 ### Event 8456 (7883AA25) **Date:** 1/2/1953 **Description:** Two UFO photographs were taken on this day, one in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and a second in North Bankstown, Australia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** CUFOS, letter; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_25 ### Event 8457 (1BBE854F) **Date:** 1/3/1953 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SANTANA DOS MONTES, BRZ **Description:** 4M saucer. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) scoop dirt / road going [to] 13cm cylinder/cylindrical object. Observer(s) frozen. Saucer quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3063 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "885", **HatchDesc:** "SANTANA dos MONTES,BRZ:4M SCR:3 OIDS SCOOP DIRT/ROAD>13cm CYL:OBS FROZEN:SCR↑↑", **LatLong:** "-20.783334 -43.683335", **LatLongDMS:** "20:47:00 S 43:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.783334,-43.683335)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8458 (59F5BF0B) **Date:** 1/3/1953 **Locations:** Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron \(AISS\) is created at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, by Air Defense Command Regulation AFR 24-4. One of its missions is to collect physical UFO evidence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brian Skow and Terry Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2146 ### Event 8459 (61231302) **Date:** 1/3/1953 **Description:** At one o'clock in the afternoon a metallic dome shaped UFO maneuvered five feet above a hayfield in Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Two 5.1 foot tall men jumped out. They had a shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. There was a third occupant visible in the hatchway of the craft. One of the men had a cylinder that it pushed into ground, and withdrew. They then got back into the craft and it flew away. The witness, Sr. M. Ramos Bessa, had a severe headache after his close encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 143 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_49 ### Event 8460 (6DF7398B) **Date:** 1/4/1953 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** HAIFA, ISRAEL **Description:** 4+several. Very fast cylinder/cigar-shape exits cloud. Low altitude. Mt. Carmel. 2 saucers seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3064 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HAIFA,ISRAEL:4+SVRL:VFAST CGR EXITS CLOUD:LO ALT::Mt CARMEL:2 SCRS SEEN", **LatLong:** "32.816668 35.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "32:49:00 N 35:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.816668,35.000002)", **State/Prov:** "HFA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8461 (12A7243C) **Date:** 1/4/1953 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** 4 MILES NORTH / EAU GALLIE, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Flying wing / 800kph. < 150m altitude. NNW going quickly SSW. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3065 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "4mi N/EAU GALLIE,FL:2 OBS:FLYING WING/800kph:<150m alt:NNW>>SSW:SILENT:", **LatLong:** "28.127779 -80.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "28:07:40 N 80:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.127779,-80.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8462 (0C10922D) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** LOVE FIELD AND DALLAS, TX **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and many. Delta/triangle/box-like craft going quickly south. Very fast. Many maneuvers. Rises going [to] 80K'. / r137#4p2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3066 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "148", **HatchDesc:** "LOVE FIELD+DALLAS,TX:ATCS+MANY:DLT >>S:VFAST:MANY MNVRS:RISES>80K':/r137#4p2", **LatLong:** "32.877779 -96.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:52:40 N 96:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.877779,-96.850005)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8463 (9E4BDAF8) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND **Description:** Large bright circular object fades to red glow and disappears. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3067 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NAPIER,NEW ZEALAND:LRG BRITE CIRC.OBJ FADES TO RED GLOW+DISAPPEARS:NFD", **LatLong:** "-39.500002 176.916675", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 S 176:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.500002,176.916675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8464 (0BEBA3B7) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NGUNGURU AND MORE/OTHERS, NZ **Description:** Saucer seen widely. Going quickly east rising. Flash. U-turn going quickly west inland. / r136#4p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 404) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3068 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NGUNGURU++,NZ:SCR SEEN WIDELY:>> E RISING:FLASH:U-TURN >>W inland:/r136#4p4", **LatLong:** "-35.716668 174.311119", **LatLongDMS:** "35:43:00 S 174:18:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.716668,174.311119)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8465 (08C32679) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** AUCKLAND, NZ **Description:** Luminous/glowing cylinder/cigar-shape and more / or sphere seen widely going quickly southeast. Fast. 10 seconds and gone. / r137#4p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3069 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AUCKLAND,NZ:LUMn CGR +/or SPHERE SEEN WIDELY >>SE:FAST:10 secs+gone:/r137#4p4", **LatLong:** "-36.866668 174.733342", **LatLongDMS:** "36:52:00 S 174:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.866668,174.733342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8466 (D8337ED5) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** TE KUITI, NI, NZ **Description:** Airborne observer(s). Brill orange fireball with reddish tail. Goes steadily east going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3070 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TE KUITI,NI,NZ:AIRBORN OBS:BRILL ORANGE FBL W/REDDISH TAIL:GOES STEADILY E>>W", **LatLong:** "-38.327780 175.105564", **LatLongDMS:** "38:19:40 S 175:06:20 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.327780,175.105564)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8467 (1B2471F4) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Location:** Dallas (near), TX **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530106](http://nicap.org/dallas530106dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1446 ### Event 8468 (9103C28F) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Location:** Duncanville, TX **Description:** Strange lighted object seen by CAA tower operator and others. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530106](http://www.nicap.org/530106duncanville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1447 ### Event 8469 (41A54314) **Date:** 1/6/1953 **Locations:** Duncanville, Texas; Meacham Field; Fort Worth Meacham International Airport; Oklahoma City; Paris, Texas; Dallas area **Description:** 1:05 a.m. The 147th AC&W Squadron at Duncanville, Texas, is notified by the CAA at Meacham Field \[now Fort Worth Meacham International Airport\] about a UFO northeast of Dallas. Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City reports a radar target 20 miles southwest of Paris, Texas. An arrowhead-shaped UFO with green and white lights is seen by some witnesses in the Dallas area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Arrow-Shaped Object Tracked at 600 Knots](http://www.nicap.org/530106duncanville%5Fdir.htm)”; “[‘Flying Arrowhead’ Seen over Dallas: ‘Not a Star or Plane,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98856097/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 6, 1953, p. 1; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 188 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2147 ### Event 8470 (19D17E76) **Date:** 1/8/1953 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** LARSON AIR FORCE BASE, WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2323. 60+observer(s). RADAR-visual (observation). Silent saucer going quickly southwest / 948 MPH. Air Force jets can't catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3071 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "325", **HatchDesc:** "LARSON AFB,WA:BBK#2323:60+OBS:RDR-VIS:SLNT SCR>>SW/948 MPH:AF JETS CANT CATCH", **LatLong:** "47.166669 -119.305561", **LatLongDMS:** "47:10:00 N 119:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.166669,-119.305561)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8471 (726ECF0B) **Date:** 1/8/1953 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** MOSGIEL, SI, NZ **Description:** Triangle-glow with small white night light. Vanishes. Reappears with going up [to] going down [to] motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3072 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MOSGIEL,SI,NZ:TRIANGLE-GLOW W/SML WHT NLT:VANISHES:REAPPEARS W/↑↓ MOTION", **LatLong:** "-45.872224 170.338897", **LatLongDMS:** "45:52:20 S 170:20:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.872224,170.338897)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8472 (E7EB7958) **Date:** 1/8/1953 **Location:** Moses Lake (Larson AFB), WA **Description:** Green disc shaped or round object fly SW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2323) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1448 ### Event 8473 (3AD00A60) **Date:** 1/8/1953 **Time:** 7:15 AM **Location:** Larson AFB, Washington **Description:** Witnesses: men from the 82nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, including the squadron commander; all were on the ground. One green, disc-shaped or round object flew southwest for 15 minutes, with a vertically bobbing motion and sideways movements, below clouds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_291 ### Event 8474 (965D9ADB) **Date:** 1/8/1953 **Locations:** Larson AFB [now Grant County International Airport], Moses Lake, Washington; Ephrata, Washington **Description:** 7:15–7:30 a.m. USAF ADC 82nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron personnel at Larson AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\], Moses Lake, Washington, all on the ground, see a green, disc-shaped object about the size of large weather balloon flying to the southwest. It has a vertical bobbing motion and makes sideways movements at about 8,000 feet below scattered clouds. It moves away against the wind until it disappears in the distance. The object is also observed by base personnel at Ephrata, Washington. An F-94 is scrambled at 7:43 a.m. and searches for 30 minutes, but the UFO is gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The 1953 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1953fullrep.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 188; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 50–51 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2148 ### Event 8475 (7C04AB0C) **Date:** 1/8/1953 **Location:** Mosgiel, New Zealand **Description:** 10:20 p.m. A triangular object with a brilliant reddish glow is seen for 10 minutes at Mosgiel, New Zealand. It fades, then reappears with a rising and falling motion, accompanied by a small white light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The New Zealand](https://archive.org/details/Flying%5FSaucer%5FNews%5FNo%5F01%5F1953%5FSpring/page/n7/mode/2up) [Sightings,](https://archive.org/details/Flying%5FSaucer%5FNews%5FNo%5F01%5F1953%5FSpring/page/n7/mode/2up)” Flying Saucer News, no. 1 \(Spring 1953\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2149 ### Event 8476 (A8581282) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** OVER SANTA ANA, CA **Description:** B29 pilots. V formation / blue night lights near B29. Bank and climb away. / r242p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3073 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "ovr SANTA ANA,CA:B29 PILOTS:VFORM/BLU NLTS NEAR B29:BANK+CLIMB AWAY:/r242p21", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -117.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 117:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-117.850006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8477 (5527DD68) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Location:** Misawa AFB, Japan **Description:** (McDonald list) F-94 Radar/Visual of Rotating UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530109](http://www.nicap.org/530109misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1449 ### Event 8478 (055A992D) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Location:** Unknown Location in Japan, Japan **Description:** Japan, A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1450 ### Event 8479 (9B0DB527) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Location:** Santa Ana, CA **Description:** B-29 Bomber Crew Watch V-Formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530109](http://www.nicap.org/530109santa%5Fana%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1451 ### Event 8480 (128C9F3A) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Location:** Washington **Description:** Howard C. Cross, a senior staff member at Battelle, writes a letter to Col. [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm) of ATIC, arguing that “agreement between Project Stork \[Battelle’s study\] and ATIC should be reached as to what can and what cannot be discussed at the meeting in Washington on January 14–16.” He suggests a “controlled experiment” be undertaken by USAF to obtain physical data. This would consist of “observation posts with complete visual skywatch, with radar and photographic coverage, plus all other instruments necessary or helpful in obtaining positive and reliable data on everything in the air over the area.” The suggestion is that “Many different types of aerial activity should be secretly and purposefully scheduled within the area,” meaning that the Air Force would release balloons to generate spurious UFO phenomena. The memo is a desperate effort to buy time for Battelle to finish its statistical analysis. [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) speculates that this letter by Cross \(to whom Vallée assigns the pseudonym “Pentacle”\) could have led to the military setting up artificial UFO waves and simulated cases in selected areas; however, this is clearly not the case, as [Jennie Zeidman](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jennie-zeidman-obituary?pid=195927848) and [Mark Rodeghier](http://cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) elaborately demonstrate in IUR. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [H. C. Cross letter to Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/papers/Pentacle/pentacle%5Fdoc.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/Pentacle/pentacle%5Fdoc.htm) January 9, 1952; NICAP, “[The ‘Pentacle Memorandum,’](http://www.nicap.org/reports/pentacle.htm) [Including Text of Correspondence with Dr. Jacques Vallee,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/pentacle.htm)” August 17, 1993; Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 191](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/190/mode/2up); The Hynek UFO Report, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/20/mode/2up); Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, Signet ed., 1976, [p.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/78/mode/2up) [79](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/78/mode/2up); Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, [p. 428](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/427/mode/2up); Clark III 1214–1215; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 48; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–12, 23; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 4–12, 19–21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2150 ### Event 8481 (591A16A2) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Description:** The CIA/OSI attempts to get [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)’s approval for “two series” of scientific panels in January and February, which would buy some time, but the suggestion is rejected. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2151 ### Event 8482 (51356407) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Locations:** Kerrville, Texas; North **Description:** Radio station KVET in Kerrville, Texas, blames a 75-second interruption in its operation on a red-orange oval object seen by four junior high school students over the city at the same time. Ivan Young, 13, and Edgar Rasmussen, 14, see the object fly in from the west, circle, and disappear to the north. They see two fins on its end shooting out red and green flames. It is making a buzzing noise. KVET engineer Britt Lamb says the radio interference is the weirdest he has ever seen—heavy static “with a roar that traveled up and down the scale.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Fiery Object Jams Radio at Kerrville,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99630276/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Star-Telegram, January 10, 1953, p. 2; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 78–79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2152 ### Event 8483 (B7AEB80D) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Location:** Misawa Air Base, Honshu, Japan **Description:** 6:50 p.m. An F-94 makes radar contact with a UFO at a range of about 13.5 miles over Misawa Air Base, Honshu, Japan. The radar locks on at 15,000 feet and contact is broken at a range of 600 feet. The radar observer reports unusual interference on the set throughout the mission, but the set appears to be operative both before and after. The radar contact lasts approximately 2 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-94 Radar/Visual of Rotating UFO](http://www.nicap.org/530109misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 189 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2153 ### Event 8484 (CF57CBE2) **Date:** 1/9/1953 **Location:** Santa Ana, California **Description:** 7:27 p.m. B-29 copilot 1st Lt. Charles C. Loveless sees a V-formation of bluish-white lights approaching his aircraft over Santa Ana, California. Pilot 1st Lt. Lowell D. Brandt turns to avoid them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “B-29 Bomber Crew Watch V-Formation”; UFOEv, [p. 21](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=33&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2154 ### Event 8485 (85F6B2B1) **Date:** 1/10/1953 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** NORTHWEST / SONOMA, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2326. 2 HIQ observer(s). Object / 90+180° turns and stops. Quickly going up. Going quickly northwest. / MJ#237+/ r171#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3074 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "14", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NW/SONOMA,CA:BBK#2326:2 HIQ OBS:OBJ/90+180°TURNS+STOPS:↑↑:>>NW:/MJ#237+/r171#5", **LatLong:** "38.372224 -122.538895", **LatLongDMS:** "38:22:20 N 122:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.372224,-122.538895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8486 (72472F9F) **Date:** 1/10/1953 **Location:** Sonoma, CA **Description:** Flat Object At 2,400 MPR (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 2326) **Reference:** NICAP: [530110](http://www.nicap.org/530110sonoma%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1452 ### Event 8487 (3A1B674F) **Date:** 1/10/1953 **Time:** 3:45 PM or 4 PM **Location:** Sonoma, California **Description:** Witnesses: retired Col. Robert McNab, and Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency. One flat object, like a pinhead, made three 360 degree right turns in 9 seconds, made abrupt 90 degree turns to the right and left, stopped, accelerated to original speed and finally flew out of sight vertically after 60-75 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_292 ### Event 8488 (CC90C2AD) **Date:** 1/10/1953 **Location:** 8 miles west of Sonoma, California **Description:** 4:45 p.m. Retired Air Force Col. Robert McNab and a Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency see a flat object to the northwest of their location 8 miles west of Sonoma, California. It is traveling about 2,400 mph and makes three 360° right turns in 2–3 seconds each in about 1/8 the radius required for jets \(about 1/4 mile\) and two abrupt 90° turns to the right and left, each turn 5 seconds apart. It almost stops, accelerates to its original high speed, almost stops again, speeds up again, and finally flies out of sight vertically. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Flat Object at 2,400](http://www.nicap.org/530110sonoma%5Fdir.htm) [MPH](http://www.nicap.org/530110sonoma%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 189 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2155 ### Event 8489 (1A1380D5) **Date:** 1/10/1953 **Description:** At 3:45 p.m. northwest of Sonoma, California two military witnesses with high credibility and training, named McNab and Hunter, saw a UFO make 90-degree and 180-degree turns and full stops, rise vertically, then shoot off toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 115; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2326; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 38; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 237 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_237 ### Event 8490 (5C641B8E) **Date:** 1/11/1953 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** KERRVILLE, TX **Description:** 4 teens. Huge red-orange glowing-ovoid. Buzzes. Circles town. Odd TV Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MANEY, Charles & HALL, Richard: The CHALLENGE OF UFO'S; NICAP, Washington, DC. 1961 (Index 190) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3075 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "494", **HatchDesc:** "KERRVILLE,TX:4 TEENS:HUGE RED-ORG GLOW-OVOID:BUZZES:CCLs TOWN:ODD TV RFI:/r171", **LatLong:** "30.050001 -99.150005", **LatLongDMS:** "30:03:00 N 99:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.050001,-99.150005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8491 (7DF3965C) **Date:** 1/11/1953 **Description:** A huge reddish-orange glowing ovoid object buzzed and then circled the town of Kerrville, Texas at around 6 p.m. causing odd TV and radio interference. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Maney, Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_249 ### Event 8492 (6FF6EBA3) **Date:** 1/12/1953 **Location:** US **Description:** The Air Force (reportedly with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency) convened a panel of top scientists to weigh the accumulated evidence. ["Robertson Panel" - headed by Howard P. Robertson] The panel was to decide whether the evidence indicated UFOs were interplanetary, whether it was all explainable, or whether the project should continue and seek better data. (p. 275). A study of UFO maneuvers concluding the objects were interplanetary was presented to the panel by Maj. Dewey Fournet. **Type:** scientific panel **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 285](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_874 ### Event 8493 (A6A9CCF8) **Date:** 1/12/1953 **Location:** Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil **Description:** 1:00 p.m. Maurício Ramos is driving on grassy terrain near Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he sees a luminous, metallic disc smaller than a Volkswagen hovering 6 feet from the ground. He approaches to within 6 feet of it, and a door opens. Two entitles shorter than 5 feet tall, wearing lead-colored clothing with shiny balls fitted to the shoes, jump out. Ramos thinks they invite him aboard, but he does not answer because he is getting an increasingly severe headache as he watches. When the headache goes away, the disc and creatures have disappeared. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Pesquisas sobre Tripulantes de DV,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20055-59%20-%201967.pdf)” Boletim SBEDV, no. 55/59 \(1967\): 1– 2, 8–9; Brazil 25–26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2156 ### Event 8494 (C1068F29) **Date:** 1/12/1953 **Description:** In Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil Sr. M. Ramos Bessa had a close encounter with a small domed disc-shaped UFO that landed in a field at 1:00 p.m. Two humanoids wearing "brilliant lead" colored suits w shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. Soil sample.Physiological effect: severe headache. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case # 265 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_274 ### Event 8495 (27AAF507) **Date:** 1/13/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR WINSLOW, AZ **Description:** 3 / ranch. Round vibrant bright object maneuvers all over/all about to study B36? Away and back several X. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3076 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1490", **HatchDesc:** "nr WINSLOW,AZ:3/RANCH:RND VBRITE OBJ MNVRS ALLO TO STUDY B36?:AWAY+BACK SVRL X", **LatLong:** "35.016668 -110.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:01:00 N 110:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.016668,-110.700005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8496 (0F8240CE) **Date:** 1/14/1953 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** DUNEDIN, NZ **Description:** Baker. Blue object with red rim going quickly southwest / 800kph. Straight and level then shoots up. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3077 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DUNEDIN,NZ:BAKER:BLU OBJ W/RED RIM >>SW/800kph:S/L then SHOOTS UP:NFD", **LatLong:** "-45.000002 170.833341", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:00 S 170:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.000002,170.833341)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8497 (F9328A0F) **Date:** 1/14/1953 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Montana; Utah **Description:** 9:30 a.m. The opening meeting of the Robertson Panel convenes in the OSI conference room at CIA Building “M” in Washington, D.C. Present are scientists [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) [Samuel A. Goudsmit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FGoudsmit), [Luis Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) [Alvarez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) and [Thornton Leigh Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage) CIA members [Philip Grandin Strong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong) Lt. Col. [Frederick C. E. Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39), David B. Stevenson, and [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) are also present. All are skeptical, if not openly hostile to UFO reports. Page later says that “H. P. Robertson told us in the first private \(no outsiders\) session that our job was to reduce public concern and show that UFO reports could be explained by conventional reasoning.” The panel first reviews the CIA OSI study from August, the ATIC November 21 meeting, the December 4 IAC decision, the visit to ATIC by [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) and Robertson, and CIA concern over potential national security dangers. They watch the Montana and Utah films. Lt. [Robert S. Neasham](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/) and Harry Woo of the Navy Photo Interpretation Laboratory report on their analyses of both films, which conclude that the objects are unidentified. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) speaks for 40 minutes on the Blue Book method of UFO investigation. It is possibly here that he first suggests using 4602nd AISS field units to conduct Blue Book field investigations. The meeting adjourns at 5:15 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf) [Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/334/mode/2up) [335–339](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/334/mode/2up); Swords 188–192 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2157 ### Event 8498 (08E7488A) **Date:** 1/15/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BULAWAYO, RHOD **Description:** Moon-size silver object crosses sky. 2 Prof. photographs show curvy lines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3078 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BULAWAYO,RHOD:MOONSIZE SLVR OBJ CROSSES SKY:2 PROF.FOTOS SHOW CURVY LINES", **LatLong:** "-20.216668 28.733335", **LatLongDMS:** "20:13:00 S 28:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.216668,28.733335)", **State/Prov:** "ZIM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8499 (3EFC4ED8) **Date:** 1/15/1953 **Description:** The second day of the Robertson Panel. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) completes his presentation, then [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) discusses Battelle’s Project Stork. The CIA shows a film of seagulls in flight. Lt. Col. [Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39) gives a 40-minute presentation on Project Twinkle. In the afternoon, Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) states his desire to increase the use of thoroughly briefed USAF intelligence officers to investigate UFO reports, declassify as many reports as possible, and enlarge Blue Book. Other USAF representatives discuss the difficulties of setting up instrument watches to monitor sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf) [January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III 1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2158 ### Event 8500 (D8186B61) **Date:** 1/16/1953 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** HONOLULU, HI **Description:** 1 military observer(s). Very fast saucer / 3 minute(s). Silent. No contrail. (Possibly 14 July'53.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3079 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "HONOLULU,HI:1 MIL OBS:VFAST SCR/3min:SILENT:NO CONTRAIL:(possibly 14July'53)", **LatLong:** "21.311112 -157.850008", **LatLongDMS:** "21:18:40 N 157:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.311112,-157.850008)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8501 (15B57619) **Date:** 1/16/1953 **Description:** The third day of the Robertson Panel. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) speaks again, followed by Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) who talks about his motion studies of UFOs that indicate controlled flight. Physicist [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) joins the panel in the afternoon. In the afternoon, panel members talk about conclusions they have reached, and [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) agrees to draft a report for review \(although it has already been written by [Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) prior to the meetings, which Fournet has suspected\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf) [Objects, January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III 1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2159 ### Event 8502 (704D6460) **Date:** 1/17/1953 **Location:** US **Description:** The conclusions of the scientific Robertson Panel were not made public at the time. Since then, two conflicting versions have been released:

Conclusions Reported by Ruppelt, 1956: The panel recommended that the UFO project be expanded, the investigative force quadrupled in size and staffed by trained scientists; that tracking instruments be established all over the country, and that the public be told "every detail of every phase" of the investigation. The scientists believed this program would "dispel any of the mystery" created by military security procedures, and also keep the investigation on a scientific basis. The recommendations were not adopted.

Summary Released by Air Force, 1958: The panel concluded that UFOs constituted no "direct physical threat to national security," there was no evidence of "foreign artifacts capable of hostile acts," and no "need for the revision of current scientific concepts." The panel recommended "immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired." The panel suggested "an integrated program designed to reassure the public of the total lack of evidence of inimical forces behind the phenomena."

Exactly what transpired at the conclusion of this meeting is not clear, though it is strongly suggested that the whole story has not been told. If the decision of the panel had been clearly negative, as the 1958 summary implies, there would have been no reason to be so secretive about it. On the contrary, there would have been every reason to make an immediate public announcement.

What is known about the affair is the public manifestation of the UFO project following the meeting. After a period of apparent serious interest in gathering better data (which supports Ruppelt's version of the panel conclusions), the Air Force began debunking UFOs. Since then the Air Force does not admit to having the slightest shred of evidence that anything at all out of the ordinary is taking place. **Type:** scientific panel conclusions **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 293-298](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_875 ### Event 8503 (B5D45E42) **Date:** 1/17/1953 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / VOLCAN FUEGO, GUAT **Description:** Huge gold ovoid / 6500' altitude. Going northwest / 400mph. 90° up! Continues. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3080 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guatemala", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1000", **HatchDesc:** "SE/VOLCAN FUEGO,GUAT:HUGE GOLD OVOID/6500'alt:>NW/400mph:90°UP!:CONTINUES", **LatLong:** "14.416667 -90.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "14:25:00 N 90:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.416667,-90.833338)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8504 (0D0DCDE3) **Date:** 1/17/1953 **Location:** Guatemala City (near), Guatemala **Description:** Brilliant green-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2337) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1453 ### Event 8505 (5440F613) **Date:** 1/17/1953 **Time:** 3:55 PM **Location:** near Guatemala City, Guatemala **Description:** Witness: geologist/salesman J.J. Sackett. One brilliant green-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp with its length twice its height, flew 400 m.p.h. straight and level, stopped, then went straight up with one stop. Sighting lasted 22 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_293 ### Event 8506 (1DA24950) **Date:** 1/17/1953 **Locations:** Montana; Utah **Description:** The final day of the Robertson Panel. The panel reviews [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)’s draft report \([Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) has already seen it\) and puts it into final form. \(By 11:00 a.m., both CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) and Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) have seen and approved the draft.\) The scientists agree that since most sightings can be explained, the rest can be accounted for with further investigation, which is a “great waste of effort.” They reject [Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)’s UFO reports as “raw” and “unevaluated.” The Montana film is said to depict aircraft. They reject the Navy analysis of the Utah film, calling the objects “high reflectivity of seagulls in bright sunlight.” Because the “mass receipt of low-grade reports \[tends\] to overload channels of communication with material quite irrelevant to hostile objects that might some day appear” \(a phony issue invented by [Thornton Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage)\), the Air Force should embark on a debunking campaign that would “result in reduction of public interest in flying saucers” with the help of scientific pronouncements \(suggested by [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)\) and media, including [Walt Disney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%5FDisney) Inc. animated cartoons. Blue Book should be expanded to 18 staff members \(it has 5\) so that it can educate and debunk effectively, but this never happens. Civilian UFO groups such as CSI and APRO should be watched “because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind.” The panel and report are kept classified until a brief summary is declassified in 1958, and the CIA’s involvement is kept secret until 1966. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1016 ; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20; Swords 192–200 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2160 ### Event 8507 (2B495CC0) **Date:** 1/17/1953 **Location:** Guatemala City, Guatemala **Description:** 3:55 p.m. Geologist/salesman John Townsend Sackett is riding in a bus with about a dozen passengers near Guatemala City, Guatemala, when he observes a brilliant greenish-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp. It is later described as being about twice the size of a DC-3. The object is traveling at about 400 mph straight and level in a northwesterly direction at about 6,500 feet. It almost stops in mid-flight then rises vertically about 1,500 feet, hovers for about 2 seconds, then immediately resumes flight at a new altitude. The object is lost to view because of intervening terrain. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Blimp-Like Object Sighted by Geologist](http://www.nicap.org/530117guatemala%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 189 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2161 ### Event 8508 (E0563E53) **Date:** 1/18/1953 **Locations:** Ohio State University; Building 263 at Wright-Patterson **Description:** Upon [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s return to Ohio State University from the Robertson Panel, he and his new research assistant [Jennie Zeidman](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jennie-zeidman-obituary?pid=195927848) come up with the name “Project Henry” to describe his consultancy with the Air Force. It is based on the Flit bug-spray advertisement that has a woman saying, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” About once a week, a courier from Battelle arrives at Hynek’s office with a manila envelope stuffed with teletype UFO reports for him to examine. Hynek travels to the Blue Book facility in Building 263 at Wright-Patterson about 2–3 times a month, with Zeidman sometimes accompanying him, **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–12, 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2162 ### Event 8509 (D2054D62) **Date:** 1/19/1953 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** PREMONT, TX **Description:** Minister. Saucer-cylinder/cigar-shape / 600' altitude. Drifts / several minutes. Going quickly southwest / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3081 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "83", **HatchDesc:** "PREMONT,TX:MINISTER:SCR-CGR/600'alt:DRIFTS/SVRL MINUTES:>>SW/INCREDIBLE SPEED:", **LatLong:** "27.361112 -98.122227", **LatLongDMS:** "27:21:40 N 98:07:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.361112,-98.122227)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8510 (8C45827B) **Date:** 1/20/1953 **End date:** 1/20/1961 **Description:** President Eisenhower in office **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_491 ### Event 8511 (4CACCAA7) **Date:** 1/20/1953 **Location:** BASTIA, CORSICA, FR **Description:** Luminous cylinder/cigar-shape leaves 'flaky trail'. 3rd sighting recently. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3082 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BASTIA,CORSICA,FR:LUM.CGR LEAVES 'FLAKY TRAIL':3rd sighting recently:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.716669 9.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:43:00 N 09:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.716669,9.450000)", **State/Prov:** "HCR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8512 (B4540C92) **Date:** 1/20/1953 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** GORE, NZ **Description:** Baker. Luminous object going quickly ESE. Sudden sharp turn going quickly north over town. "No meteor". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 422) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3083 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GORE,NZ:BAKER:LUMn.OBJ >> ESE:SUDDEN SHARP TURN >>N OVR TOWN:"no meteor"", **LatLong:** "-46.100002 168.966675", **LatLongDMS:** "46:06:00 S 168:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.100002,168.966675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8513 (9D7DA9D9) **Date:** 1/20/1953 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** TROWBRIDGE, WILTS **Description:** Postman / thick fog. Brilliant saucer overhead. Rays light entire neighborhood. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3084 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "54", **HatchDesc:** "TROWBRIDGE,WILTS:POSTMAN/THICK FOG:BRILL.SCR OVHD:RAYS LITE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHd", **LatLong:** "51.316669 -2.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:19:00 N 02:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.316669,-2.200000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8514 (7A78E5F1) **Date:** 1/20/1953 **Description:** [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) writes a letter to [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) saying “perhaps that’ll take care of the Forteans for a while” and mentions an upcoming meeting with the “NSA group” on February 5. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 189 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2163 ### Event 8515 (E6F4F8D8) **Date:** 1/20/1953 **Description:** [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is sworn in as president. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2164 ### Event 8516 (44ABD431) **Date:** 1/22/1953 **Location:** Harmon AFB, Newfoundland **Description:** An unidentified flying object described as red, white and blue and oval-shaped, was observed visually from the weather station, control tower, base operations office, and a nearby AC&W site (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [530122](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB85-812) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1454 ### Event 8517 (58BDE751) **Date:** 1/22/1953 **Location:** Patrick AFB, FL **Description:** At 2400 Z four airmen at Patrick AFB, Florida, visually observed for three minutes a fiery red-orange ball traveling soundlessly from north to south at high speed. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [530122](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB85-813) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1455 ### Event 8518 (3D5B13F9) **Date:** 1/23/1953 **Location:** Bergstrom AFB, TX **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Unidentified Return For 19 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530123](http://www.nicap.org/530123bergstromdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1456 ### Event 8519 (0EAA0093) **Date:** 1/24/1953 **Time:** 06:50 **Location:** SUWON, KOREA **Description:** Airman / 5 second(s). 2 36cm saucers far to east / K14 airbase. Lost in clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3085 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SUWON,KOREA:AIRMAN/5sec:2 36cm SCRS FAR TO EAST/K14 AIRBASE:LOST IN CLOUDS:", **LatLong:** "37.283335 126.916673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:17:00 N 126:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.283335,126.916673)", **State/Prov:** "SEO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8520 (8033E6DC) **Date:** 1/24/1953 **Locations:** Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) travels to Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to brief the 4602nd AISS on how they might help Blue Book investigate UFOs. He also puts in for a transfer to Air Defense Command here. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2165 ### Event 8521 (3C129CFA) **Date:** 1/24/1953 **Description:** At 1550 hrs. in Suwon, Korea two 0.36 meter diameter discs were spotted by an airman in the sky to the east of the airfield. They were lost from view in the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 65 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_474 ### Event 8522 (B9C3C62B) **Date:** 1/25/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** MT. BALDY, CA **Description:** Observer(s) / ski-lift. Silver ovoid hovers then wobbles. Going [to] desert. Air Force jet searches. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3086 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3060", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.BALDY,CA:OBS/SKI-LIFT:SLVR OVOID HVRS then WOBBLES:> DESERT:AF jet searches", **LatLong:** "34.288891 -117.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:17:20 N 117:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.288891,-117.633339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8523 (102BBEBA) **Date:** 1/25/1953 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** GRAND RAPIDS, MI **Description:** Many observer(s). White disk frisks all over/all about sky / several min. Zigzags over road. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3087 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND RAPIDS,MI:MANY OBS:WHT DISK FRISKS ALLO SKY/SVRL min:ZIGZAGS OVR ROAD", **LatLong:** "42.933335 -85.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:56:00 N 85:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.933335,-85.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8524 (1E2B98A6) **Date:** 1/25/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** PINEWOOD, SC **Description:** 10 observer(s). White object hovers 250' over woods. Shape unknown. Sways and going up [to] going down [to] motion. / 7 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3088 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "58", **HatchDesc:** "PINEWOOD,SC:10 OBS:WHT OBJ HVRS 250' ovr WOODS:SHAPE UNK:SWAYS+↑↓ MOTION:/7min", **LatLong:** "33.738890 -80.461115", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:20 N 80:27:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.738890,-80.461115)", **RelAlt:** "75", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8525 (4FFB8EEF) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Description:** The ROBERTSON PANEL convenes, headed by Prof. H.P. Robertson. He was chosen because of being renowned as a nuclear physicist. Some of the persons involved with this panel were Capt. Ruppelt, Dr. Allen Hynek, Prof. S. GOUDSMIT, L. ALVAREZ, Sam Goudsmit, Prof. Luis Alvarez, Dr. Lloyd Berkner and Prof. Thornton Page. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_492 ### Event 8526 (869EFCE7) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** The Dept. of Defense, Washington, D.C. states in a letter to the Henry Holt & Co. that Maj. Donald Keyhoes’ book on “flying saucers” is accurate and that if the reported controlled maneuvers of the saucers are accurate then the saucers may be from another planet. Signed, Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk. **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A10, ["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p542) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_493 **See also:** 9/15/1950 ### Event 8527 (7744C1AD) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** SAMPSON AIR FORCE BASE, NY **Description:** 60x4m luminous/glowing cylinder/cigar-shape east going west / slight climb. High-frequency humming. Hazy ends. 2500M altitude? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3089 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "SAMPSON AFB,NY:60x4m LUMn CGR E>W/SLIGHT CLIMB:HI-Frq HUM:HAZY ENDS:2500M alt?", **LatLong:** "42.750002 -76.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:45:00 N 76:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.750002,-76.866670)", **RelAlt:** "2500", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8528 (E3EE4CB9) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** WEST / CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, NM **Description:** Pilot and ground RADAR. White 1" disk going north slowly. Lost in the distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3090 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "W/CONTINENTAL DIVIDE,NM:PILOT+GND RDR:WHT 1" DISK >N SLOWLY:LOST/DISTANCE", **LatLong:** "35.422224 -108.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:25:20 N 108:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.422224,-108.416672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8529 (4B4E847B) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Location:** Continental Divide, NM **Description:** At 2115 MST Air Force personnel stationed at an AC&W station in this area observed an aerial phenomenon simultaneously by electronic and visual means. To the naked eye the object appeared as a very bright reddish-white object estimated to be 10 miles west of the radar site (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [530126](http://www.nicap.org/530126contdividedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1457 ### Event 8530 (504C5763) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Location:** Sampson AFB, NY **Description:** At 2320 Z an airman at Sampson AFB, New York, visually observed one large luminous rectangular shaped unidentified flying object. In one minute the object traveled through an arc of 70 or 80 degrees, while emitting a humming sound. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [530126](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB85-816) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1458 ### Event 8531 (F42B2E1D) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Location:** Henry Holt & Co. **Description:** Air Force Press Officer [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) writes a letter to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s publisher Henry Holt & Co., declaring that all the sighting reports he is using for his upcoming Flying Saucers from Outer Space were cleared and made available to him from Air Technical Intelligence records. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Albert E. Chop, [Letter to Henry Holt & Company](http://nicap.org/chop2let.htm), January 26, 1953; Good Above, [p. 542](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/542/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2166 ### Event 8532 (23ED0115) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Description:** At 6:20 p.m. an airman witnessed a 60 meter long luminous cigar-shaped or rectangular object with hazy ends, that flew from east to west over Sampson Air Force Base in Ontario County, New York while climbing slightly. It made a high frequency humming sound. It flew at an estimated 2500m altitude. In one minute the object traveled through an arc of 70 or 80 degrees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2958, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 5; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; NARA-PBB85-816 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_513 ### Event 8533 (062926A5) **Date:** 1/26/1953 **Description:** At 9:15 p.m. MST Air Force personnel stationed at the 769th AC&W station in Continental Divide, New Mexico observed an aerial phenomenon simultaneously by electronic and visual means. To the naked eye the object appeared as a very bright reddish-white object estimated to be 10 miles west of the radar site. The object passed behind a hill and then reappeared, apparently heading in a northerly direction at a slow speed. The airman making this visual observation reported it to personnel manning the radar equipment. They stated that they had an unidentified blip on the radar scope, appearing west of the station approximately 9 miles away. The scope showed the object to be on a 270 azimuth at an altitude of 10,000-15,000 feet moving away from the site at 12-15 mph. It was eventually lost on radar at the 18 mile range. The object was under visual and radar observation intermittently for 45 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 192; UNICAT, case # 653; (NARA-PBB85-814) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_514 ### Event 8534 (3CED8864) **Date:** 1/27/1953 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** 2 Sergeants include/including Koonce. Big silent silver saucer hovers and wobbles. Terrific speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3091 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "467", **HatchDesc:** "MARCH AFB,CA:2 Sgts INCL KOONCE:BIG SILNT SLVR SCR HVRS+WOBBLES:TERRIFIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -117.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 117:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-117.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8535 (1DFB651B) **Date:** 1/27/1953 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** OVER HANFORD, CA **Description:** T33 pilot. Brilliant silver pie-plate. Then 4 more come and go. 1 stays / 5 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3092 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "ovr HANFORD,CA:T33 PILOT:BRILL.SLVR PIE-PLATE:THEN 4 MORE COME+GO:1 STAYS/5min", **LatLong:** "36.327780 -119.644450", **LatLongDMS:** "36:19:40 N 119:38:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.327780,-119.644450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8536 (67FF051F) **Date:** 1/27/1953 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** LIVERMORE, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and air civil observer(s). Bright-metal saucers over new Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) nuclear facility. / r28p326. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3093 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "88", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "LIVERMORE,CA:GOC+AIR CIV OBS:BRITE-MTL SCRs ovr NEW AEC NUCL FACILITY:/r28p326", **LatLong:** "37.683335 -121.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:41:00 N 121:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.683335,-121.766672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8537 (9E21CD58) **Date:** 1/27/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WEST / DAVENPORT, IA **Description:** 2 cops. Silent 300' sphere/orb/globe moves going quickly west. Terrific speed. Stops and bobs about. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3094 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "W/DAVENPORT,IA:2 COPS:SILENT 300' ORB MOVES>>W:TERRIFIC SPEED:STOPS+BOBS ABOUT", **LatLong:** "41.522224 -90.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:31:20 N 90:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.522224,-90.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8538 (AA2A3A98) **Date:** 1/27/1953 **Location:** Mather AFB, CA **Description:** Crew Of T-29 Encounters Several Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530127](http://www.nicap.org/530127mather%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1459 ### Event 8539 (81126279) **Date:** 1/27/1953 **Location:** Livermore (near), CA **Description:** Bean (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1460 ### Event 8540 (E7CAC936) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** OFF POINT MUGU NAS, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1261. 3 / ship. 50cm saucer near remote-control drone tests. Fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3095 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off POINT MUGU NAS,CA:BBK#1261:3/SHIP:50cm SCR nr REMOTE-CTRL DRONE TESTS:FAST", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -119.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 119:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-119.100006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8541 (FF87D67F) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** MALIBU, CA **Description:** 3 / test-plane. 4 huge metal saucers. Going [to] 1000mph. Each the size of a B36 bomber. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3096 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "MALIBU,CA:3/TEST-PLANE:4 HUGE MTL SCRS:>1000mph:EACH THE SIZE of a B36 BOMBER", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -118.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 118:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-118.616672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8542 (5D9D0BDD) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** MARCH AIR FORCE BASE TO/FROM REDONDO BEACH, CA **Description:** USAF Sgt. 5 silent orbs change V formation going [to] row-formation and back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3097 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "MARCH AFB>ROW-FORMn+BACK", **LatLong:** "33.900002 -117.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 N 117:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.900002,-117.766672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8543 (DDA5DB9B) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** 5MI SOUTHWEST / CORONA, CA **Description:** Air Force Sgt. 5 silent orbs in formation. 150mph / 2K' altitude. Southeast going quickly northwest / 12 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3098 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "5mi SW/CORONA,CA:AF Sgt:5 SILENT ORBS/FORMATION:150mph/2K'alt:SE>>NW/12min", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -117.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 117:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-117.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8544 (75F3F2D8) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** FRANKFURT, GERM **Description:** 2 / Air Force jet and 1. Night light / violent maneuvers. Hovers. More maneuvers. Going quickly [to] fantastic speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3099 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FRANKFURT,GERM:2/AF JET+1:NLT/VIOLENT MNVRS:HVRS:MORE MNVRS:>>FANTASTIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "50.100002 8.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:06:00 N 08:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.100002,8.700000)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8545 (A0A0329E) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEWPORT BEACH, CA **Description:** Air Traffic Controller RADAR and more. Jet chases fiery saucer going quickly northwest up coast. Too fast. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3100 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NEWPORT BEACH,CA:ATC RDR+:JET CHASES FIERY SCR >>NW UP COAST:TOO FAST:/r242", **LatLong:** "33.633335 -117.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:38:00 N 117:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.633335,-117.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8546 (59DC26DA) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** NEAR ALBANY, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2365. Saucer avoids F86. Air Traffic Controller RADAR confirm. Splits / 3? / r242+/ r43p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3101 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALBANY,GA:BBK#2365:SCR AVOIDS F86:ATC RDR CONFIRM:SPLITS/3?:/r242+/r43p20", **LatLong:** "31.600002 -84.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "31:36:00 N 84:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.600002,-84.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8547 (B8926EE8) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** Dobbins (Turner AFB), GA **Description:** Radar tracked 3 moving targets and a stationary target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2365) **Reference:** NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128georgia%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1461 ### Event 8548 (A1019BDE) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** Point Mugu, CA **Description:** 18-20-inch white, flat disc with fuzzy or shimmering edges (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2361) **Reference:** NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/ptmagoo530128dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1462 ### Event 8549 (D8822731) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** El Toro Marine Base, CA **Description:** Marine Fighter Asked To Check On Amber Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128eltoro%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1463 ### Event 8550 (93A00E5D) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** Corona, CA **Description:** Five 25 ft green spheres fly in V-formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 2364) **Reference:** NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128corona%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1464 ### Event 8551 (3BAF5297) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** St. Georges, DE **Description:** Rose-orange 7-inch \[?\] shiny disc-shaped object with a "white tail" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1465 ### Event 8552 (8B3BF643) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** Stuttgart, Germany **Description:** C-47 Encounters Light Making Volent Maneuvers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128stuttgart%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1466 ### Event 8553 (0C219B4E) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** Stuttgart, Germany **Description:** C-47 Encounters Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128stuttgart2%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1467 ### Event 8554 (404E63BC) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 1 PM **Location:** Pt. Mugu, California **Description:** Witness: R.W. Love, owner of Love Diving Co., engaged in retrieving radio-controlled drones. An 18-20' white, flat disc flew straight and level, overhead, for 6 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_294 ### Event 8555 (32C2CA27) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** 6:05 PM **Location:** Corona, California **Description:** Witness: USAF T/Sgt. George Beyer. Five 25' green spheres flew in V-formation, then changed to trail formation at which time the end objects turned red. Sighting lasted 12 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_295 ### Event 8556 (42E167F6) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Time:** No time given **Location:** Albany, Georgia **Description:** Witnesses: radar maintenance personnel. Radar tracked one stationary target for 20 minutes. A visual sighting about the same time was explained. No further information in the files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_296 ### Event 8557 (1BCDD5A3) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Point Mugu; Naval Base Ventura County; Oxnard, California **Description:** 1:06 p.m. R. W. Love and a Mr. Ferrenti, while engaged in retrieving radio-controlled drones on a boat 1,100 yards offshore and south of Naval Air Station Point Mugu \[now Naval Base Ventura County\] near Oxnard, California, see a white, flat disc with fuzzy or shimmering edges rapidly approach from the northwest flying straight and level, overtake a jet aircraft, pass overhead, and disappear in the haze to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Flat Disc Observed Overtaking](http://www.nicap.org/530128pointmugu%5Fdir.htm) [Jet](http://www.nicap.org/530128pointmugu%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 190 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2167 ### Event 8558 (CFF663EF) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** Malibu, California **Description:** 2:20 p.m. Northrop Aircraft test pilot Rex Hardy Jr. is flying over Malibu, California, when he and two other crew members see a formation of four UFOs the size of a B-36. They are circular in shape, aluminum- colored, and flying at 1,200 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 50 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2168 ### Event 8559 (5E16AF28) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Location:** Mitchel AFB [now closed] near Uniondale, New York **Description:** A Maj. Geyer at Mitchel AFB \[now closed\] near Uniondale, New York, investigates reports of a UFO seen by both civilian and military witnesses. The UFO is an oval object glowing with different colors and having a tail or projection. He quickly concludes that it is a meteor and submits a report to Blue Book. However, one of the witnesses, author Marie Armstrong Essipoff \([Ben Hecht](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FHecht)’s first wife\), later writes to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) saying that she had told Geyer that the object wobbled and it had a turret on top. She draws a picture and Geyer says it looks like one of their flight simulators. But it’s “still a meteor,” he says. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 199–200 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2169 ### Event 8560 (94946ACF) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Locations:** Marine Corps Air Station El Toro [now closed], California; Newport Beach; Long Beach **Description:** 9:00 p.m. The control tower at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro \[now closed\], California, spots a large, luminous, red object and asks Maj. Harvey N. Patton to give chase. He pursues it from Newport Beach to Long Beach and has it in sight for 3–4 minutes but is unable to gain on it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Marine Fighter Asked to Check on](http://www.nicap.org/530128eltoro%5Fdir.htm) [Amber Object](http://www.nicap.org/530128eltoro%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2170 ### Event 8561 (83F32014) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Locations:** Moody AFB in Valdosta, Georgia; Turner AFB [now Naval Air Station Albany] in Albany, Georgia; Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia **Description:** 9:40 p.m. Maj. Hal W. Lamb, USAF senior pilot at Moody AFB in Valdosta, Georgia, apparently sees the setting planet Venus \(although this is disputed\) changing color and shape while flying a T-33 \(or an F-86\). It is also seen by Turner AFB \[now Naval Air Station Albany\] tower operators in Albany \[not Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta\], Georgia \(with time errors of about 10 minutes\). About the same time, two GCA radar maintenance men at Turner AFB radar track three moving targets and a stationary target. At 10:10 p.m., the GCA reports two stationary targets at 17 and 27 miles, both 300° azimuth. No visual confirmation, though binoculars are used. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Several Radar Contacts](http://www.nicap.org/530128georgia%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 191; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Jan-Feb.pdf) [March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Jan-Feb.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Jan-Feb.pdf) The Author, 1988, p. 66; Marler 129–130 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2171 ### Event 8562 (B34113D1) **Date:** 1/28/1953 **Description:** On this evening in 1953, at 6:10 p.m., 5 silent orbs flew over Corona, California in a V Formation. Flying at an estimated 2,000 feet altitude, they changed into a row formation, then back again into a V formation. Speed was estimated at 150 mph. They flew from the southeast to the northwest. Later that same evening, over the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu on the California coast, US Marine Corps jet fighters pursued a red disc-shaped UFO. The UFO out accelerated the jets and moved away at high speed. Project Blue Book listed this later case as an official "unknown". **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1953, p. 067; Project Blue Book files, case #2361 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_550 ### Event 8563 (C3FB4D8B) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** MILLINOCKET AND PRESQUE ILE, ME **Description:** Several jets. Plain dark grey saucer. RADAR invisible! / r172p219. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3102 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "109", **HatchDesc:** "MILLINOCKET+PRESQUE ILE,ME:SVRL JETS:PLAIN DRK GRY SCR:RDR INVSBL!:/r172p219", **LatLong:** "45.655558 -68.711114", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:20 N 68:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.655558,-68.711114)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8564 (5D1908C4) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** US31 NEAR FALKVILLE, AL **Description:** 1 observer. Saucer / 4000' altitude. 350mph. Tilted / 1 side. 90-turn straight going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3103 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "186", **HatchDesc:** "US31 nr FALKVILLE,AL:1 OBS:SCR/4000'alt:350mph:TILTED/1 SIDE:90-TURN STRAIGHT↑", **LatLong:** "34.366668 -86.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:22:00 N 86:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.366668,-86.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8565 (3F6DC33B) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** CONWAY, SC **Description:** 7M ovoid over trees. Portholes. Hums. Observer(s) shoots. Object going quickly. / APROv1#5+/ r137#1p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 426) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3104 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "CONWAY,SC:7M OVOID OVR TREES:PORTS:HUMS:OBS SHOOTS:OBJ >>:/APROv1#5+/r137#1p26", **LatLong:** "33.833335 -79.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 N 79:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.833335,-79.050004)", **RelAlt:** "25", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8566 (9747E57B) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Location:** Mailbu Beach, CA **Description:** Four B-36-Sized Discs Observed By 3-Man Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530129](http://www.nicap.org/530129malibubeach%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1468 ### Event 8567 (2E98BD2A) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Location:** Presque Isle AFB, ME **Description:** Radar tracking (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530129](http://www.nicap.org/530129presqueisle%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1469 ### Event 8568 (DABF067E) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Location:** Conway, SC **Description:** Fowl and mules vocalize as disc passes overhead (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, Code: aM, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530129](http://www.nicap.org/530129conway%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1470 ### Event 8569 (153FE883) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Location:** Conway, South Carolina **Description:** Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer observed an object about 7 m long and 4 m wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. It resembled a half egg. The witness fired his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died "mysteriously" in the area after the sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_108 ### Event 8570 (785439CC) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Location:** Washington **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) still thinks that the Robertson Panel has accepted [Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland)’s recommendation to expand Blue Book \(it hasn’t\) and that its education and debunking recommendation means that UFO information should be released to the public \(it didn’t\). [Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) [Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php), and Col. Teabert \([Kenneth E. Thiebaud](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54677903/kenneth-e%5F-thiebaud)?\) of AFOIN-2 think the same. In Washington, Ruppelt hears that the press has heard rumors about the Utah film, and he decides to release it, focusing on the seagull explanation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** The Hynek UFO Report, [p. 236](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/236/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2172 ### Event 8571 (1B7C5160) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Locations:** Utah; Montana **Description:** A briefing of the Office of Naval Estimates Board by the CIA on UFOs includes the showing of the Utah and Montana films. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frederick C. Durant, “[Briefing of ONE Board on Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/cia/cia530130memo.htm)” January 30, 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2173 ### Event 8572 (FDD399C1) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Locations:** Houlton; Chatham, Maine **Description:** 9:55 a.m. A small gray oval-shaped object is seen between Houlton and Chatham, Maine, by 2nd Lt. Fred T. Goetting Jr., pilot of an F-94B. Goetting points out the object to his radar observer, Lt. [Howard C. Kelley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186885214/howard-clay-kelley). The object appears to be 10° above the F-94B, which is at 23,000 feet. Goetting attempts to intercept the object at a speed of 0.8 Mach. This chase continues for 8 minutes without the F-94 gaining, and the chase is broken off because of low fuel. The object is seen by at least two fighter aircraft from other squadrons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Gray Oval](http://www.nicap.org/530129presqueisle%5Fdir.htm) [Sighted by 3 Fighter Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/530129presqueisle%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 191 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2174 ### Event 8573 (81FF81F8) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Location:** just north of Conway, South Carolina **Description:** 11:30 p.m. A farmer named [Lloyd C. Booth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82693987/lloyd-cooper-booth) just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of animals, grabs his .22 revolver, and sees an oblong-shaped, lighted object 10 feet above the trees moving slowly or hovering, with a low humming sound. He shoots at the object twice. The first bullet bounces off with a metallic sound; at the second shot the object tilts slightly and ascends at a 65° angle to the west at 600–700 mph and disappears. One of his cows had died the previous evening. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Man Fires 0.22 at Hovering Object](http://www.nicap.org/530129conway%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 191; “[Conway S.C. Man Shoots Saucer,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201953%2003%2015%20-%20Vol%201%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 \(March 15, 1953\): 1, 4–5; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 64–66 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2175 ### Event 8574 (930A22E6) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Location:** Malibu Beach, California **Description:** 2:20 p.m. Northrup test pilot [Rex Hardy Jr.](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-18-me-hardy18-story.html), test pilot Chester Mathews, and Northrup photographer Jim Wilkinson see four metallic, disc-shaped object the size of a B-36 flying in squadron formation over Malibu Beach, California. They estimate their height as 20,000 feet and speed as 1,200 mph. They watch for about 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Four B-36-Sized Discs Observed by 3-Man Crew](http://www.nicap.org/530129malibubeach%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2176 ### Event 8575 (73814E46) **Date:** 1/29/1953 **Description:** Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer in Conway, South Carolina observed an object about seven meters long and four meters wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. It resembled an egg sliced in half lengthwise. The witness fired his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died "mysteriously" in the area after the sighting. At 2:00 p.m. four huge metallic discs, each the size of a B-36 bomber, flew over Malibu Beach, California at a speed in excess of 1,000 mph. At five minutes before midnight an F-94 jet interceptor and two other fighter aircraft reported seeing a dark gray, oval-shaped UFO flying over Presque Isle, Maine. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; Fate Magazine, June 1953, p. 12, citing Los Angeles Examiner; Project Blue Book files; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 219 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_572 ### Event 8576 (EC5E1D34) **Date:** 1/30/1953 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** US80 EAST / YUMA, AZ **Description:** Research chemist and 2. Night light spins over mechanic at plane. Quickly going up. / r198p152. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3105 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "US80 E/YUMA,AZ:RESEARCH CHEMIST+2:NLT SPINS ovr MECHANIC AT PLANE:↑↑:/r198p152", **LatLong:** "32.666668 -114.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:40:00 N 114:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.666668,-114.483339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8577 (E50FDD18) **Date:** 1/30/1953 **Description:** Research chemist Wells Alan Webb and two other witnesses were traveling on Highway 80 seven miles east of Yuma, Arizona when a nocturnal light appeared and spun in the sky over a mechanic in a plane; the UFO then accelerated up into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 51; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_597 ### Event 8578 (97FFA924) **Date:** 1/31/1953 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#9. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 155–174 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2177 ### Event 8579 (C0E991F0) **Date:** 2/1953 **Location:** San Francisco, CA **Description:** Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco - mysterious, then disappear. **Type:** anomalous event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_127 ### Event 8580 (C465AF63) **Date:** 2/1953 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** NNW / BIACHE-ST.-VAAST, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer / blue flashes. Wires smell burnt. Going quickly west. / r30p65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3106 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NNW/BIACHE-St-VAAST,FR:3 OBS:SCR/BLUE FLASHES:WIRES SMELL BURNT:>>W:/r30p65", **LatLong:** "50.316669 2.955556", **LatLongDMS:** "50:19:00 N 02:57:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.316669,2.955556)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8581 (2B4DBE75) **Date:** 2/1953 **Location:** Finland AFS, MN **Description:** 6:29 a.m. (CST). (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1471 ### Event 8582 (76A0D5A6) **Date:** 2/1953 **Description:** [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) appoints [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) as IFSB’s chief investigator. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[IFSB Forms Dept. of Investigation,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Space%20Review%20%28Bender%29/Space%20Review%20-%20Volume%202%20number%202%20-%201953%2004.pdf)” Space Review 2, no. 2 \(April 1953\): 1; Clark III 189 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2178 ### Event 8583 (BE0A9375) **Date:** 2/1/1953 **Location:** Terre Haute, IN **Description:** Sighting of a UFO by a T-33 pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530201](http://www.nicap.org/530201terrehaute%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1472 ### Event 8584 (CFB7472F) **Date:** 2/1/1953 **Locations:** Terre Haute, Indiana; St. Louis, Missouri **Description:** 9:30 p.m. A T-33 flying 10 miles west of Terre Haute, Indiana, sights a close group of moving lights changing color from red to blue, to green to yellow. The pilot estimates their altitude to range between 15,000 feet to 30,000 feet flying in a manner similar to conventional aircraft. Searchlights from the St. Louis, Missouri, area seem to be following the unidentified lights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[T-33 Pilot Observes Unidentified Lights](http://www.nicap.org/530201terrehaute%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2179 ### Event 8585 (1E17B28D) **Date:** 2/3/1953 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** DIETRICH, ID **Description:** 4 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Silent silver saucer zigzags to avoid military jets. Going quickly west / very high altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 174) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3107 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1259", **HatchDesc:** "DIETRICH,ID:4 GOC OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR ZIGZAGS TO AVOID MIL JETS:>>W/VHI ALTITUDE", **LatLong:** "42.911113 -114.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:54:40 N 114:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.911113,-114.266672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8586 (52363A89) **Date:** 2/3/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** OVER WASHINGTON, NC **Description:** 2 U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) F6Fs and ground RADAR. White cylinder/cigar-shape rises 3km / seconds. Then drops and going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3108 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ovr WASHINGTON,NC:2 USMC F6Fs+GND RDR:WHT CGR RISES 3km/SECONDS:then DROPS+>>E", **LatLong:** "35.533335 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:32:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.533335,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8587 (15F9421B) **Date:** 2/3/1953 **Location:** Keflavik Airport, Iceland **Description:** Radar operators tracked 4 unidentified targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2384) **Reference:** NICAP: [530203](http://www.nicap.org/530203icelanddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1473 ### Event 8588 (76877BF7) **Date:** 2/3/1953 **Time:** 5:25 PM **Location:** Keflavik, Iceland **Description:** Witnesses: radar operators. Four unidentified targets were tracked for 24 minutes. No further data. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_297 ### Event 8589 (A17C0B4C) **Date:** 2/3/1953 **Locations:** Prescott, Arizona; Brookside Boulevard **Description:** 8:00 p.m. [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and his wife Betty Jane watch two UFOs near the ground from their home on Brookside Boulevard in Prescott, Arizona. Another UFO passes over the house at 10:00 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 363–364 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2180 ### Event 8590 (47957F67) **Date:** 2/3/1953 **Description:** At 3:15 p.m. a silver disc-shaped object silently zig-zagged to evade US military jets over Dietrich, Idaho. It then shot off toward the west at a very high altitude. Project Blue Book lists the explanation for the encounter as due to a weather balloon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, February 1953, case 9; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 74 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_674 ### Event 8591 (D7DA72D4) **Date:** 2/4/1953 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** 1 / theodolite. 2 dull white round objects curve up and going west against wind. / MJ#238. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 432) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3109 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:1/THEODOLITE:2 DULL WHT RND OBJs CURVE UP+ >W AGAINST WIND:/MJ#238 ", **LatLong:** "32.700002 -114.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:42:00 N 114:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.700002,-114.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8592 (03B55E74) **Date:** 2/4/1953 **Location:** Yuma, AZ **Description:** White, oblong object with a solid dull pure white color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 2388) **Reference:** NICAP: [530204](http://www.nicap.org/530204yuma%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1474 ### Event 8593 (C5D5C84B) **Date:** 2/4/1953 **Time:** 1:50 PM **Location:** Yuma, Arizona **Description:** Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley Brown, using a theodolite. One white, oblong object was tracked flying straight up, leveling off and being joined by a second, similar, object. The second twice flew away and returned to the first. After 5 minutes, both were lost to sight behind clouds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_298 ### Event 8594 (F66D6FFA) **Date:** 2/4/1953 **Locations:** US Weather Bureau; Yuma, Arizona **Description:** 1:50 p.m. US Weather Bureau observer Stanley H. Brown in Yuma, Arizona, tracks with a theodolite a white, oblong object. It is surrounded by a thin white mist and flies straight up and levels off. After 20 seconds, the object is joined by a second one that flies away twice and returns. Both are lost to sight behind clouds to the south-southwest. The sighting lasts 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Theodolite Tracking of Two Elliptical Objects](http://www.nicap.org/530204yuma%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 191; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 62–63 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2181 ### Event 8595 (2D6238F3) **Date:** 2/4/1953 **Description:** At 1:50 p.m. U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley H. Brown in Yuma, Arizona, using a theodolite, sighted a dull white, oblong object that was tracked flying straight up vertically, then leveling off and being joined by a second, similar looking object. The second UFO twice flew away and returned to the first. The two dull white objects maneuvered errratically, then in unison against the wind, one degree apart. A thin mist was seen around the edges of the objects.After five minutes both objects were lost to sight behind some clouds. A Project Blue Book unknown. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2388; UNICAT case # 795, citing Dr. James E. McDonald; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 40; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Project Blue Book Report #10, February 27, 1953; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 78 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_686 ### Event 8596 (C3DCAAAC) **Date:** 2/6/1953 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** OVER ROSALIA, WA **Description:** USAF B36 crew. White night light circles going quickly southeast / 7000' altitude. 200kts. Short flashes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3110 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "680", **HatchDesc:** "ovr ROSALIA,WA:USAF B36 CREW:WHT NLT CIRCLES>>SE/7000'alt:200kts:SHORT FLASHES", **LatLong:** "47.238891 -117.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:14:20 N 117:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.238891,-117.366672)", **RelAlt:** "2100", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8597 (B8FDF90F) **Date:** 2/6/1953 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** TRUK ISLAND, PACIFIC **Description:** Army weatherman. Bullet shaped object sails overhead. No wings / tail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUTLEDGE, Harley D. Ph.D.: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION; Prentice-Hall, NJ 1981. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3111 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "TRUK Isl,PACIFIC:ARMY WEATHERMAN:BULLET SHAPED OBJ SAILS OVHD:NO WINGS/TAIL", **LatLong:** "7.416667 151.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "07:25:00 N 151:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/7.416667,151.750007)", **State/Prov:** "CPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8598 (951ADF3C) **Date:** 2/6/1953 **Location:** Rosalia, WA **Description:** B-36 Encounters Light At 7,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530206](http://www.nicap.org/530206rosalia%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1475 ### Event 8599 (66486966) **Date:** 2/6/1953 **Location:** Truk Atoll, At Sea **Description:** Bullet-Shaped Object At 500' (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530206](http://www.nicap.org/530206trukisland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1476 ### Event 8600 (B4645C9C) **Date:** 2/6/1953 **Locations:** Rosalia, Washington; Geiger Field [now Spokane International Airport] **Description:** 1:34 a.m. A B-36 aircraft piloted by Maj. [Leo J. Moffatt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49266802/leo-james-moffatt) is over Rosalia, Washington, when he sees one round white omnidirectional light at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet on a southeast course, circling and rising as it proceeds. It is visually observed for a period of 3–5 minutes. The B-36 makes a 180° descending turn toward the light, which is estimated to be moving at a speed of 170–230 mph. Blue Book explains it as a weather balloon launched from Geiger Field \[now Spokane International Airport\]. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[B-36 Encounters Light at](http://www.nicap.org/530206rosalia%5Fdir.htm) [7,000ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/530206rosalia%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 192; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 67–68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2182 ### Event 8601 (8386CAA8) **Date:** 2/6/1953 **Description:** At 1:13 a.m. PST a B-36 was flying in the vicinity of Rosalia, Washington inbound to Spokane AFB when a round white omni-directional light was sighted. The light was at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet on a southeasterly course, and began circling the B-36 and rising above it as the aircraft approached it. The light was visually observed for a period of three to five minutes. The B-36 made a 180 degree turn toward the light which was estimated to be moving at a speed of 150 to 200 knots.The report contains a very accurate sighting description, showing that the object circled as the B-36 approached it, and the light commenced flashing at short intervals. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p 133; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_718 ### Event 8602 (74282DE1) **Date:** 2/7/1953 **Location:** unknown location, Okinawa **Description:** Bright orange object change color to red and green at intervals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530207](http://www.nicap.org/530207okinawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1477 ### Event 8603 (BA0247E8) **Date:** 2/7/1953 **Location:** Korea (near), Korea **Description:** Korean area, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1479 ### Event 8604 (019EE406) **Date:** 2/7/1953 **Location:** Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan **Description:** 9:22 p.m. A USAF F-94 crew and other witnesses near Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan, see a bright orange object change color to red and green at intervals and disappear behind a cloud. It is also tracked by ground radar. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-94 Crew in Air and Ground Radar Tracking](http://www.nicap.org/530207okinawa%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [p. 122](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/122/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 192 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2183 ### Event 8605 (751F2C0D) **Date:** 2/7/1953 **Description:** An orange light was seen in the sky over Korea and an F-94 fighter jet was scrambled to intercept it. The F-94 pilot saw the bright object change speeds and altitude, then pull away from him. The UFO's presence was confirmed on radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 60; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 257; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 133; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_732 ### Event 8606 (9E7714B0) **Date:** 2/8/1953 **Location:** Barter Island, AK **Description:** Object With Falling Leaf Motions Over Airfield (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530208](http://www.nicap.org/530208barters%5Fisle%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1478 ### Event 8607 (8B932149) **Date:** 2/9/1953 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** HAMPTONVILLE, NC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) pilot chases rocket-like object / 3+min. No further details. / r78p167. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3112 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "313", **HatchDesc:** "HAMPTONVILLE,NC:BBK#UNK:USMC PILOT CHASES ROCKET-LIKE OBJ/3+min:NFD:/r78p167", **LatLong:** "36.111113 -80.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "36:06:40 N 80:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.111113,-80.761115)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8608 (D26F46D4) **Date:** 2/9/1953 **Location:** Washington, NC **Description:** F9F Chases Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530209](http://www.nicap.org/530209washington%5Fnc%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1480 ### Event 8609 (52049CED) **Date:** 2/9/1953 **Location:** Virginia, NC **Description:** Border. Marine Corps pilot chased rocket-like object. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1481 ### Event 8610 (C01EAF82) **Date:** 2/9/1953 **Locations:** Utah; Pentagon **Description:** [Al Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) has written a press release on the Utah film with the approval of Capt. Harry B. Smith of AFOIN. They decide to also release the USAF \(possible aircraft\) and Navy \(self-luminous or light sources\) analyses, otherwise the press might suspect a cover-up. The release would state that, although no positive identification has been made, further analysis will result in an identification. Gen. [Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) approves the release, which then goes on to the Pentagon, which “screamed ‘No!’” [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is ordered into silence. Chop says the CIA “killed the whole program. We’ve been ordered to work up a national debunking campaign, planting articles in magazines and arranging broadcasts to make UFO reports seem like poppycock.” Ruppelt tells [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that Blue Book must even discredit USAF pilots who report UFOs. “It’s a raw deal, but we can’t buck the CIA.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/228/mode/2up); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 70–71](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/70/mode/2up); The Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 236–237](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/236/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2184 ### Event 8611 (913AC6C4) **Date:** 2/9/1953 **Locations:** Los Angeles, California; USSR **Description:** CIA agent Hayden Channing writes a memo to the Domestic Contact Division describing a recent \[late January?\] public meeting of the Civilian Saucer Investigation group in Los Angeles, California. North American Aviation project engineer [Walther A. Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg) is a member of the organization, and he describes the analyses of the UFO reports it receives. Only about 25 sightings are unidentified, and these they forward to Project Blue Book. Channing writes: “Apparently, an eye and interest are also directed to the USSR for reactions to sightings as reported in the PRAVDA.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hayden Channing, “[California Committee for Saucer Investigation,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csicia.html)” February 9, 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2185 ### Event 8612 (10E24BD4) **Date:** 2/9/1953 **Description:** A U.S.Marine Corps pilot chased a rocket-like object for over three minutes over Cherry Point, North Carolina at 10:30 a.m. The luminous object with a red glow climbed rapidly. It had no wings or tail section. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files, February 1953; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #2981 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_768 ### Event 8613 (7A123104) **Date:** 2/10/1953 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** XC5555 NORTHEAST / CHO-DO ISLAND, NORTH KOREA **Description:** Meteor stops and maneuvers. Turns red. Going quickly southwest. Others see saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3113 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "XC5555 NE/CHO-DO Isl,N.KOREA:METEOR STOPS+MNVRS:TURNS RED:>>SW:OTHERS SEE SCR", **LatLong:** "38.533335 124.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:32:00 N 124:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.533335,124.833339)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8614 (F3090CE1) **Date:** 2/10/1953 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** RICHMOND, VA **Description:** 2 20' saucers and probes seen / 4 separate posts / military depot / 2 days. Total checkout. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3114 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "220", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND,VA:2 20'SCRS+PROBES SEEN/4 SEP.POSTS/MIL.DEPOT/2 days:TOTAL CHECKOUT", **LatLong:** "37.566668 -77.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "37:34:00 N 77:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.566668,-77.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8615 (A237684B) **Date:** 2/10/1953 **Location:** Misawa AFB, Japan **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530210](http://www.nicap.org/530210misawadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1482 ### Event 8616 (97772EC6) **Date:** 2/11/1953 **Location:** TRIPOLI TO/FROM TUNIS **Description:** USAF C119 crew. Buzzed / disk. Falls back and follows / long time. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3115 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Iceland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "TRIPOLI> Event 8617 (BEE917BD) **Date:** 2/11/1953 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EDENTON, NC **Description:** 2 U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) F9s chase disk going quickly north and going quickly south. RADAR's. Cockpit lit. Odd effects. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3116 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "EDENTON,NC:2 USMC F9s CHASE DISK >> N+>>S:RDRs:COCKPIT LIT:ODD EFFECTS:", **LatLong:** "36.044446 -76.611115", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:40 N 76:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.044446,-76.611115)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8618 (498023F0) **Date:** 2/11/1953 **Location:** Bet. Tunis, Tunisia, and Tripoli, Libya **Description:** UFO Paces C-119 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530211](http://www.nicap.org/530211tunis%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1483 ### Event 8619 (B03B3A58) **Date:** 2/11/1953 **Alternate date:** 2/19/1953 **Locations:** Naval Auxiliary Air Station [now Northeastern Regional Airport] in Edenton, North Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia **Description:** 10:00 p.m. At the Naval Auxiliary Air Station \[now Northeastern Regional Airport\] in Edenton, North Carolina, Marine 1st Lt. Edward Balocco is on intercept stand-by duty when the alert whistle goes off. Minutes later he is in his F9F Panther jet heading north to Virginia Beach, Virginia, while being vectored to an unknown target by the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina. By the time he gets close to the target, it has disappeared from radar at Norfolk, Virginia. After searching the area for 15 minutes, he heads back for fuel. Flying south at 20,000 feet, he notices a light below him on the port side on or near the ocean. After turning his navigation lights back on, he notices that the light has risen to his altitude and is only 2,000 feet away. Closing in on it, he sees it is a disc with blinking red lights. At 350 feet away, his cockpit is bathed in blue-white light and everything seems motionless and silent. He looks at his gloved hand and he can see the bones in his hand like an X-ray. Suddenly there is a flash, and the UFO breaks away as sound and motion return. Balocco tries to pursue it again unsuccessfully. Captain Thomas Riggs, whose F9F Panther has also been scrambled, reports the UFO is moving south along the North Carolina coast. He is debriefed and told not to mention the incident. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Cherry Point, N.C.,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201953%2003%2015%20-%20Vol%201%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 \(March 15, 1953\): 9–10; Good Need, [pp. 183–184](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/182/mode/2up); Shoot 60–61 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2186 ### Event 8620 (64BF4632) **Date:** 2/11/1953 **Description:** A U.S. Air Force C-119 was paced by an unknown object while flying over North Africa. A disc-shaped object passed the transport plane while flying between Tunis, Tunisia and Tripoli, Libya at 9:45 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 133; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_818 ### Event 8621 (D4C4E8A7) **Date:** 2/12/1953 **Location:** Vichy, MO **Description:** Object On Apparent Collision Course With C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530212](http://www.nicap.org/530212vichy%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1484 ### Event 8622 (68A082EC) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** CARSWELL AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** RADAR-visual (observation) / B36 bomber crew. 3 night lights in formation. Rolls and maneuvers. No further details. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3117 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "191", **HatchDesc:** "CARSWELL AFB,TX:RDR-VIS/B36 BOMBER CREW:3 NLTS/FORMn:ROLLS+MNVRS:NFD:/r242", **LatLong:** "32.733335 -97.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:44:00 N 97:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.733335,-97.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8623 (0BC2DF4F) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** WEST / EMERYVILLE, CA **Description:** Many separate observer(s). White fireball going quickly west over GG-bridge. Jumps about. "Blinky". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3118 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "W/EMERYVILLE,CA:MANY SEP.OBS:WHT FBL >>W OVR GG-BRIDGE:JUMPS ABOUT:"BLINKY"", **LatLong:** "37.833335 -122.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:00 N 122:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.833335,-122.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8624 (6CFE48F5) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** INVERNESS, SCOTLAND **Description:** Saucer = cigar-shape when it tilts. Darts all over/all about very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3119 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "INVERNESS,SCOTLAND:SCR=CIGAR-SHAPE WHEN IT TILTS:DARTS ALLO VFAST", **LatLong:** "57.466669 -4.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "57:28:00 N 04:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.466669,-4.233334)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8625 (8CD94030) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** Toll collector and many. "Blinky" back. Various maneuvers. Throb sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3120 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "24", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:TOLL COLLECTOR+MANY:"BLINKY" BACK:VARIOUS MNVRS:THROB SOUND", **LatLong:** "37.833335 -122.477784", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:00 N 122:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.833335,-122.477784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8626 (61BB62A8) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** MYRTLE BEACH, SC **Description:** 4 observer(s). Silver-grey ovoid with lights swoops down. Levels off going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 433) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3121 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "MYRTLE BEACH,SC:4 OBS:SLVR-GRY OVOID W/LITES SWOOPS DN:LEVELS OFF >>SW", **LatLong:** "33.688890 -78.888893", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:20 N 78:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.688890,-78.888893)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8627 (A7F1A8E5) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NEAR VICHY, MO **Description:** Flight crew. 30cm white night light buzzes and paces C47. Makes 90-turn upward and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3122 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "350", **HatchDesc:** "nr VICHY,MO:FLITE CREW:30cm WHT NLT BUZZES+PACES C47:MAKES 90-TURN UPWARD+GONE", **LatLong:** "38.111113 -91.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "38:06:40 N 91:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.111113,-91.761115)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8628 (C74AB0BB) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Location:** Ft. Worth (Carswell AFB), TX **Description:** 3 bright lights of equal intensity in stacked vertical echelon formation (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530213](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/530213carswelldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1485 ### Event 8629 (FA8F901B) **Date:** 2/13/1953 **Description:** A UFO that first appeared saucer-shaped, but revealed itself to be cigar-shaped when it tilted, darted all over the sky over Inverness, Scotland at 2:00 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 84 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_892 ### Event 8630 (D86027C6) **Date:** 2/14/1953 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** LORIS, SC **Description:** 25M ovoid / 21m altitude over barnyard. 3 beams down. Pig found dead. Noisy. Going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 435) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3123 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "LORIS,SC:25M OVOID/21m ALT ovr BARNYARD:3 BEAMS DOWN:PIG FOUND DEAD:NOISY:>W", **LatLong:** "34.055557 -78.888893", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:20 N 78:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.055557,-78.888893)", **RelAlt:** "21", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8631 (DA0ABAD9) **Date:** Mid 2/1953 **Locations:** Eielson AFB near Moose Creek, Alaska; Chicago, Illinois; Illinois; Roswell **Description:** Weapons engineer [Chester W. Lytle Sr.](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31822266/chester-wallace-lytle-death-notice/)[,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31822266/chester-wallace-lytle-death-notice/) deputy director of operations for SAC’s Eighth Air Force Headquarters, is visiting Eielson AFB near Moose Creek, Alaska, with Gen. [William H. Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) when he finds out his wife is about to give birth in Chicago, Illinois. Blanchard offers to personally fly him in a bomber to an air force base in Illinois so he can get home quickly. During the long flight, their conversation turns to UFOs. Blanchard unexpectedly mentions the 1947 Roswell incident and that a crashed alien spacecraft had indeed been recovered. He tells Lytle that four dead humanoid beings had been aboard. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 478–481 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2187 ### Event 8632 (5A76C318) **Date:** 2/16/1953 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** TURNAGAIN ARM, AK **Description:** 5 observer(s) and jet chase. Red 90cm night light going northeast. Hovers. Going up [to] and going quickly west. No RADAR. / r242p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 439) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3124 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "TURNAGAIN ARM,AK:5 OBS+JET CHASE:RED 90cm NLT > NE:HVRs:↑+>>W:NO RDR:/r242p11", **LatLong:** "60.988892 -149.794452", **LatLongDMS:** "60:59:20 N 149:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.988892,-149.794452)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8633 (63F46AB7) **Date:** 2/16/1953 **Location:** Ramer, AL **Description:** Hawk and Stern. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1486 ### Event 8634 (3734E3C2) **Date:** 2/16/1953 **Location:** Willow, AK **Description:** C-47 Chases Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530216](http://www.nicap.org/530216willow%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1487 ### Event 8635 (4C95EA5F) **Date:** 2/16/1953 **Description:** A big reddish flying object passed a USAF C-47 transport plane flying over Anchorage, Alaska at 11:50 p.m. and was witnessed by the pilot and co-pilot. It then hovered for five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_940 ### Event 8636 (E352CF60) **Date:** 2/17/1953 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** PORT AUSTIN, MICH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2419. Unidentified. CE2+. Ground-RADAR observer(s). 1 UFO / 17 min. Type unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3125 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "17", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "PORT AUSTIN,MICH:BBK#2419:UID:CE2+:GND-RDR OBS:1 UFO/17 MIN:type unk:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.033335 -82.988893", **LatLongDMS:** "44:02:00 N 82:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.033335,-82.988893)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8637 (6E24B640) **Date:** 2/17/1953 **Location:** Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK **Description:** Nocturnal light with rapid vertical takeoff (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1488 ### Event 8638 (D2C380A5) **Date:** 2/17/1953 **Location:** Port Austin, MI **Description:** Object larger and brighter than a star change color (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2419) **Reference:** NICAP: [530217](http://www.nicap.org/530217portaustindir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1489 ### Event 8639 (D949270C) **Date:** 2/17/1953 **Time:** 10:04 PM **Location:** Port Austin. Michigan **Description:** Witnesses: two officers and three airmen of USAF AC&W squadron, visually and by radar. Visual object appeared to larger and brighter than a star and changed color; it was seen to move slowly for 5 minutes until 10:09 PM Radar picked up a target at 10:08 PM moving in a similar direction for 17 minutes, at similar speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_299 ### Event 8640 (EAA74DE9) **Date:** 2/17/1953 **Description:** At 10:04 p.m. five airmen of the US Air Force 754 AC&W Squad in Port Austin, Michigan picked up a clear and steady radar return at a distance of 9 miles. The slow moving light changed color from red to pink to pale white to white and then back to red. An explanation of the sighting was changed to "Venus" in the Air Force files in 1963. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2419; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; UNICAT, case # 760; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 41 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_958 ### Event 8641 (C9D8EDEB) **Date:** 2/20/1953 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** STOCKTON, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2426. Air Force B25 pilots. 2 separate night lights / collision course. Away fast. / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3126 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKTON,CA:BBK#2426:AF B25 PILOTS:2 SEP.NLTS/COLLISION COURSE:AWAY FAST:/r150", **LatLong:** "37.950002 -121.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:57:00 N 121:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.950002,-121.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8642 (CFCDE449) **Date:** 2/20/1953 **Location:** Pittsburg-Stockton, CA **Description:** Bright yellow light seen for 8 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2426) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1490 ### Event 8643 (84CC4205) **Date:** 2/20/1953 **Time:** #1 time unknown; #2, 10:30 PM **Location:** Pittsburg-Stockton, California **Description:** Witnesses: USAF B-25 bomber pilots. #1 was a bright yellow light seen for 8 minutes. #2 was a bright light which flew on a collision course, dimmed and climbed away fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_300 ### Event 8644 (FC761FB0) **Date:** 2/21/1953 **Location:** MALANG, JAVA, INDONESIA **Description:** (Up) many observer(s). Metal saucer seen 2X high and low. Rises very fast and going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3127 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "MALANG,JAVA,INDONESIA:(UP) MANY OBS:MTL SCR SEEN 2X HI+LOW:RISES VFAST+>>N", **LatLong:** "-7.983334 112.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "07:59:00 S 112:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-7.983334,112.616672)", **State/Prov:** "JVA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8645 (6CEE7B34) **Date:** 2/21/1953 **Description:** In Malang, Indonesia on the island of Java a metallic disc-shaped object was seen twice, at high and low altitudes. It rose up very fast, and shot off quickly to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 92 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1031 ### Event 8646 (EF0B1A46) **Date:** 2/22/1953 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 rotating saucers meet. Go. Return / different direction. Zip going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3128 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "ADELAIDE,S.AUSTR:2 OBS:2 ROTATING SCRS MEET:GO:RETURN/DIFF.DIRECTION:ZIP ↑", **LatLong:** "-34.916668 138.600007", **LatLongDMS:** "34:55:00 S 138:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.916668,138.600007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8647 (28CAC274) **Date:** 2/22/1953 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** ERIE, PA **Description:** HIQ Ground Observer Corps (GOC) spotter. 150' glowing-saucer 1.25mi out over Lake Erie going quickly west. Bright and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3129 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "ERIE,PA:HIQ GOC SPOTTER:150' GLOW-SCR 1.25mi OUT OVR Lk ERIE >>W:BRITE+SILENT", **LatLong:** "42.033335 -80.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:02:00 N 80:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.033335,-80.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8648 (32743783) **Date:** 2/22/1953 **Location:** Erie, PA **Description:** 150' Silvery Disc Reported By Former Navy Gunner (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530222](http://www.nicap.org/530222erie%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1491 ### Event 8649 (AE170399) **Date:** 2/23/1953 **Location:** CORONTALO, CELEBES, INDONESIA **Description:** Strange ovoid radiates gray-green light. Very fast north going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3130 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CORONTALO,CELEBES,INDONESIA:STRANGE OVOID RADIATES GRAY-GRN LITE:VFAST N>>S", **LatLong:** "0.583333 123.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "00:35:00 N 123:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/0.583333,123.033339)", **State/Prov:** "CLB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8650 (D2D86CCF) **Date:** 2/23/1953 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** SADO ISLAND, JPN **Description:** 6 / lighthouse. Flat ellipse. Red center and blue glow. Vanishes. Reappears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 440) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3131 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SADO ISLAND,JPN:6/LIGHTHOUSE:FLAT ELLIPSE:RED CTR+BLU GLOW:VANISHES:REAPPEARS", **LatLong:** "38.000002 138.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 138:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,138.416673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8651 (E527615E) **Date:** 2/23/1953 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** Project Stork’s William T. Reid writes to [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying that UFO reports have been processed through October 15, 1952, and evaluations completed for reports through July 31, 1952. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4 of 4 Parts,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm)” CUFON **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2188 ### Event 8652 (1BCF7817) **Date:** 2/24/1953 **Location:** Sherman, TX **Description:** 2 bright red, round objects with big halos fly in small circles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2441) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1492 ### Event 8653 (0D778C73) **Date:** 2/24/1953 **Time:** 7:43 PM **Location:** Sherman, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden. Two bright red, round objects with big halos flew in small circles, climbed and faded during a 3-7 second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_301 ### Event 8654 (0C29C2B8) **Date:** 2/24/1953 **Description:** On this evening Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden saw two bright red, round objects with big halos fly in small circles over Sherman, Texas at 7:43 p.m. The UFO climbed and then faded out over a 3-7 second interval. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1075 ### Event 8655 (650583A9) **Date:** 2/25/1953 **Location:** SERIA, BRUNEI, BORNEO **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Bright night light-saucer rotates / 30K' altitude / 40 minute(s). Big oil field. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 193) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3132 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "SERIA,BRUNEI,BORNEO:100s/OBS:BRITE NLT-SCR ROTATES/30K'alt/40min:big oil field", **LatLong:** "4.633334 114.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "04:38:00 N 114:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/4.633334,114.366672)", **State/Prov:** "BRN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8656 (C2973A30) **Date:** 2/25/1953 **Location:** Charleston, WV **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) FPS-3 Sights Unusual Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530225](http://www.nicap.org/530225charleston%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1493 ### Event 8657 (4F3734C3) **Date:** 2/25/1953 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** Pentagon press officer [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) writes to Maj. [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and verifies that the files on 41 cases investigated by the Air Force for his upcoming book Flying Saucers from Outer Space were indeed cleared for release by ATIC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Albert M. Chop, [Letter to Donald E. Keyhoe](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm), February 25, 1953; NICAP, “[The Chop](http://nicap.org/chop.htm) [Clearance List](http://nicap.org/chop.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2189 ### Event 8658 (769F523C) **Date:** 2/25/1953 **Locations:** Ottawa, Ontario; Dominion Observatory **Description:** Project Second Storey meets for the last known time, chaired by astrophysicist [Peter M. Millman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FMillman) of the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa, Ontario, and consisting of military and intelligence officers, as well as [Wilbert](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) [Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)[.](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) It concludes that, because details of most sightings cannot be adequately confirmed, UFO reports do not lend themselves to a “scientific method of investigation.” It determines that UFOs do not require a Canadian armed forces investigation, but reports should still be sent to the Directorate of Scientific Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Wilbert](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) [B. Smith,](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 229; Good Above, [p. 182](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up); Story, [p. 276](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/276/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2190 ### Event 8659 (15F7AE85) **Date:** Late 2/1953 **Locations:** Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** ADC commander [Benjamin Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) at Ent AFB \[now US Olympic Training Center\] near Colorado Springs, Colorado, tells future UFO researcher Robert C. Gardner that he has “stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, [3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/3-0%5FBlue.pdf), p. 91; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 137–138 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2191 ### Event 8660 (1514BA02) **Date:** 2/25/1953 **Description:** A bright disc was sighted hovering in the night sky in the Sultanate of Brunei, northern Borneo. It remained for 40 minutes and was seen rotating at 30,000 feet altitude over a big oil field. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 63 for February 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1096 ### Event 8661 (DA0DC881) **Date:** 2/26/1953 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** SHREVEPORT, LA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2543. 1 observer. 5 saucers / 10K' altitude. 3 vanish and 2 remain / 90-turns going up [to] going down [to] etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 193) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3133 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "SHREVEPORT,LA:BBK#2543:1 OBS:5 SCRS/10K'alt:3 VANISH+2 REMAIN/90-TURNS ↑↓ etc", **LatLong:** "32.511113 -93.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:30:40 N 93:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.511113,-93.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8662 (7AC75436) **Date:** 2/26/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NEAR ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** 2 scientists. Orange-yellow disk going east. Colored spots / rim. Shoots up extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 443) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3134 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1320", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALAMOGORDO,NM:2 SCIENTISTS:ORG-YLW DISK >E:CLRD SPOTS/RIM:SHOOTS UP XFAST", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -106.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 106:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-106.000005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8663 (C7C5C870) **Date:** 2/26/1953 **Location:** Thule Air Base, Greenland **Description:** Prominent Blip on GCA PPI While Tracking C-124 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530226](http://www.nicap.org/530226thule%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1494 ### Event 8664 (F3EE70A7) **Date:** 2/27/1953 **Time:** 00:40 **Location:** BROOKS AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Night light circles moons image / wavering trajectory. 2nd night light follows. Silent. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 193) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3135 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKS AFB,TX:NLT CIRCLES MOONS IMAGE/WAVERING TRAJ:2nd NLT FOLOS:SILENT:>>S", **LatLong:** "29.350001 -98.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:21:00 N 98:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.350001,-98.450005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8665 (4A9258B1) **Date:** 2/27/1953 **Location:** Great Falls AFB, MT **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530227](http://www.nicap.org/530227greatfallsdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1495 ### Event 8666 (D287FB6F) **Date:** 2/27/1953 **Location:** Shreveport, LA **Description:** 5 yellow discs make circular turns, flutter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2543) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1496 ### Event 8667 (B3EF192F) **Date:** 2/27/1953 **Time:** 11:58 AM **Location:** Shreveport, Louisiana **Description:** Witness: USAF airman/private pilot. Five yellow discs made circular turns, fluttered, three of them vanished, the other two flew erratic square turns for a total of 4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_302 ### Event 8668 (55E11124) **Date:** 2/27/1953 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#10, classified “secret.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 175–198 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2192 ### Event 8669 (8704C8BF) **Date:** 2/27/1953 **Description:** At 11:58 a.m. in Shreveport, Louisiana a USAF airman and private pilot spotted five yellow discs making circular turns and fluttering in the daytime sky. Three of the discs vanished while the other two flew objects flew erratic square turns for a total of four minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1149 ### Event 8670 (8DD12898) **Date:** 2/28/1953 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** BEIRUT, LEBANON **Description:** Aero engineer and many. 10 silent saucers and night lights parade going quickly west. / r70p3-12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3136 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Lebanon", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "BEIRUT,LEBANON:AERO ENG+MANY:10 SLNT SCRS+NLTS PARADE>>W:/r70p3-12", **LatLong:** "33.866668 35.516668", **LatLongDMS:** "33:52:00 N 35:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.866668,35.516668)", **State/Prov:** "Beirut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8671 (5AFA2015) **Date:** 2/28/1953 **Location:** Denver, Colorado **Description:** Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) transfers out of Blue Book for a seven-month assignment in Denver, Colorado. He is replaced by Lt. Robert M. Olsson, who has one staff member. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/228/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2193 ### Event 8672 (5CE3AD5F) **Date:** 2/28/1953 **Description:** Philippe Daurces and four other witnesses in Beirut, Lebanon sighted a procession of 12 disc-shaped objects with distinct contours at 6:30 p.m. Each craft had a bluish leading edge and left a trail of smoke. They flew across the sky one after the other, crossing the sky on parallel courses within a few minutes. When viewed through binoculars, each had a crimson red light. They flew at a constant speed, and it took them three minutes to fly from zenith to the horizon. They made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, p. 129; UNICAT database, case 412, citing Aime Michel; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1173 ### Event 8673 (6A59ED11) **Date:** 3/1953 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** DETROIT, MI **Description:** F94 pilot and ground and air RADAR's. Cigars going west. Vanish but still on RADAR. / r37p151. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 524) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3137 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "DETROIT,MI:F94 PILOT+GND+AIR RDRs:CGRS >W:VANISH but still on RDR:/r37p151", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -83.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 83:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-83.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8674 (937C603E) **Date:** 3/1953 **Locations:** Selfridge AFB; Mount Clemens, Michigan; Detroit **Description:** 10:00 a.m. Pilot [Howard C. Strand](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175238576/howard-c%5F-strand) is flying a routine patrol mission in a F-94B out of Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, when he is asked to check out a radar target over downtown Detroit. He and his radar operator see tiny specks that seem to be a ragged formation of aircraft. As he approaches, he cannot see any wings or tails. Ground radar has the UFOs as “good, strong targets.” Strand looks at his instruments briefly and when he looks up the objects are gone, though ground radar tracks them another 4 minutes. [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) calls it an inferior mirage. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1953 March–July, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July-SN.pdf) The Author, 2002, pp. 24–26; Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/150/mode/2up) [151–153](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/150/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2194 ### Event 8675 (98FDD67E) **Date:** 3/1953 **Location:** Harvard University **Description:** Harvard University astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) publishes Flying Saucers, in which he explains all UFO sightings as known phenomena such as mirages and temperature inversions. It is the first book-length argument against UFOs, one of the few published by an academic institution, and the first UFO book by a scientist. ATIC personnel are displeased that Menzel has used a few classified reports supplied to him for an examination of patterns, which he has never produced. However, he has an imaginative vision of what Venus looks like, with “warm seas” in which life teems. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald H. Menzel, [Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/n3/mode/2up) Harvard University, 1953; Getty Images, “[Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Harvard Professor and Native Denverite, Refers to His Book,](https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/dr-donald-h-menzel-harvard-professor-and-native-denverite-news-photo/162381615)” March 13, 1953; Clark III 742 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2195 ### Event 8676 (BA8D68E7) **Date:** 3/1953 **Description:** Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) is interviewed in See magazine and provides straightforward, factual answers about Project Blue Book, UFOs, and the inadequacy of [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)’s theories. He claims the view of the Air Force is that “many credible people have seen incredible things.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 210–211 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2196 ### Event 8677 (2151FBF8) **Date:** 3/1/1953 **Description:** A case of spontaneous human combustion occurred on this day on Highway 291 in Greenville, South Carolina to a victim named Wood. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 450; Fate magazine, July 1953, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1197 ### Event 8678 (F2C1185E) **Date:** 3/3/1953 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** NEAR QUARTZITE, AZ **Description:** 30' / 16 mm USAF film. 100M saucer-cylinder/cigar-shape and long contrail. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v24#2+r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3138 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "267", **HatchDesc:** "nr QUARTZITE,AZ:30'/16mm USAF FILM:100M SCR-CGR+LONG CONTRAIL:/FSR v24#2+r150", **LatLong:** "33.666668 -114.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:40:00 N 114:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.666668,-114.216672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8679 (5C83B994) **Date:** 3/3/1953 **Location:** Luke AFB (130 miles W of), AZ **Description:** Three F-84 Pilots Encounter Manta-Ray, Gun Camera Shots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530303](http://www.nicap.org/530303luke%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1497 ### Event 8680 (4EC0F779) **Date:** 3/3/1953 **Location:** Glendale, AZ **Description:** March 3, 1953; Luke AFB, Glendale, AR. Contrail (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [530303](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lukedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1498 ### Event 8681 (191ECCB6) **Date:** 3/3/1953 **Locations:** Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona; Blythe, California; Colorado River north of Parker Dam on the Arizona border **Description:** 1:25 p.m. USAF Capt. [Roderick D. Thompson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17406215/roderick-dhu-thompson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17406215/roderick-dhu-thompson) 3600th Fighter Training Group out of Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona, is an instructor pilot flying an F-84 at 25,000 feet over Blythe, California. He spots am object 300–500 feet wide leaving a contrail crossing his path from left to right at about 35,000–45,000 feet at about 400 mph. It is visible only by condensation vapor emitted from its manta-ray shaped flat surface. Student pilots flying two F-84s, Lt. Jack E. Brasher and Lt. Thomas W. Hale, also see the object but do not follow in pursuit. When Thompson turns to pursue it, the object makes a slight dipping turn to the northwest and begins climbing at about 20°. It appears to be very thin and immediately begins to form a heavy condensation trail behind it for roughly 1,000 feet and splits in two. Thompson reaches 30,000 feet and closes to within roughly 5–10 miles to a point over the Colorado River north of Parker Dam on the Arizona border. He takes 151 frames of gun camera film of object with a 16 mm N-9 camera, apparently at 16 fps 1/40 second exposure setting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three F-94 Pilots Encounter Manta-Ray, Gun Camera](http://www.nicap.org/530303luke%5Fdir.htm) [Shots](http://www.nicap.org/530303luke%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 194; Swords 213–214 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2197 ### Event 8682 (1E626BAC) **Date:** 3/3/1953 **Description:** A USAF F-84 fighter jet flying out of Luke AFB near Quartzite, Arizona filmed 30 feet of 16mm gun camera film that showed a cigar or fuselage-shaped object with a long contrail in a clear sky. The length of the object was estimated to be 100 meters, and the duration of the sighting was seven minutes. Project Blue Book lists the explanation as aircraft, but UFO investigators Richard Hall and Jacques Vallee didn't agree with the interpretation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #11, May 1953; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 229; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 42 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1269 ### Event 8683 (AB46D6C2) **Date:** 3/5/1953 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** 20 military and civil. 12 disks race over Air Force RADAR-gunnery meet. Stop / high altitude. Vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3139 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:20 MIL+CIV:12 DISKS RACE ovr AF RDR-GUNNERY MEET:STOP/HI ALT:VANISH", **LatLong:** "32.655557 -114.605561", **LatLongDMS:** "32:39:20 N 114:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.655557,-114.605561)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8684 (14B65A10) **Date:** 3/5/1953 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** SAVANNAH R.H-BOMB PLANT, SC **Description:** 2 separate RADAR-visual (observation) jet scrambles / 2 hours! ANG 5 F1s and RF80. Saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 203) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3140 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "127", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SAVANNAH R.H-BOMB PLANT,SC:2 SEP RDR-VIS JET SCRAMBLES/2hrs!:ANG 5F1s+RF80:SCR", **LatLong:** "33.316668 -81.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:19:00 N 81:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.316668,-81.733337)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8685 (7CF85F70) **Date:** 3/5/1953 **Location:** Congaree AFB, SC **Description:** At 3:45 p.m. (EST), the assistant director of security at the Savannah River Project, Mr. J. Howard Jones, observed a silver crescent-shaped object at a very high altitude over the project. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530305](http://www.nicap.org/530305congareedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1499 ### Event 8686 (1CABD1B4) **Date:** 3/5/1953 **Location:** Shaw AFB, SC **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1500 ### Event 8687 (5E1E1949) **Date:** 3/5/1953 **Locations:** Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** Brig. Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) commander at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, sends a memo to Air Defense Command and the director of intelligence at Ent suggesting that field teams of 4602nd personnel interview UFO witnesses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. Robert C. Brown, “[Utilisation of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/530305Hornsby-ADC%5Fletter.pdf) [4602nd AISS Personnel in Project Blue Book Field Investigations,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/530305Hornsby-ADC%5Fletter.pdf)” March 5, 1953; Kevin D. Randle, “[UFO](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/06/ufo-cover-up-early-days.html) [Coverup: The Early Days,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/06/ufo-cover-up-early-days.html)” A Different Perspective, June 20, 2011 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2198 ### Event 8688 (CAE40664) **Date:** 3/5/1953 **Description:** Two separate UFO radar-visual events occurred at two locations, in northeast Georgia and across the river in South Carolina. An object maneuvered in the sky at 5:07 p.m., then circled Congareee AFB in Sumter County, South Carolina, flying into a prohibited area. An earlier radar-visual sighting of a disc-shaped object was made at the Savannah River (Nuclear) Project. at 3:45 p.m. The sighting lasted for two hours and seven minutes, and RF-80 fighter jets and Air National Guard F-51's were scrambled to intercept. The U.S. Air Force attempted to explain the sightings as a weather balloon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book Report #11, report dated May 31, 1953; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1309 ### Event 8689 (4D9B07A7) **Date:** 3/6/1953 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** TYRREHENIAN SEA 12.24E-39.34N **Description:** Israeli steamship Meir Dizengoff. Small metal saucer going quickly ESE / very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3141 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "TYRREHENIAN SEA 12.24E-39.34N:ISRAELI SS MEIR DIZENGOFF:SML MTL SCR>>ESE/VFAST", **LatLong:** "39.566669 12.400001", **LatLongDMS:** "39:34:00 N 12:24:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.566669,12.400001)", **State/Prov:** "TYR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8690 (BCBA92EF) **Date:** 3/7/1953 **Location:** Yuma, AZ **Description:** Air Force officers at a gunnery meet observed about 12 disc-shaped objects that dove down and hovered over the base during the meet. \[AP story, Mar. 9th; UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1501 ### Event 8691 (D3DF0B56) **Date:** 3/8/1953 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** SSW / ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUS **Description:** 2 observer(s). White sphere/orb/globe / 5000kph. Stops. Orbs exit. 2nd appears. 1 going north and 1 going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 510) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3142 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SSW/ADELAIDE,S.AUS:2 OBS:WHT ORB/5000kph:STOPS:ORBS EXIT:2nd APPEARS:1>N+1>S", **LatLong:** "-35.083335 138.583340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 S 138:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.083335,138.583340)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8692 (40605BCC) **Date:** 3/8/1953 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** ASHIYA AIR FORCE BASE, JP **Description:** Numerous military observer(s) and RADAR. Night lights over runway. Fast ascent. Boat and plane search. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 510) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3143 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ASHIYA AFB,JP:NMRS MIL OBS+RDR:NLTS ovr RUNWAY:FAST ASCENT:BOAT+PLANE SEARCH", **LatLong:** "33.883335 130.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 N 130:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.883335,130.666673)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8693 (B4E8B255) **Date:** 3/8/1953 **Location:** St. Louis Post-Dispatch **Description:** Journalist [Peter H. Wyden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FH.%5FWyden)’s interview with [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) appears in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ruppelt tells him that Project Blue Book “has no evidence of any of these objects being anything other than misinterpretation of known objects…. We can’t say positively because our data isn’t good enough. But we’re not worried.” The lengthy article provides a good overview of Blue Book’s investigations and staff of seven, including Ruppelt’s assistants Lt. [Anderson G. Flues](https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/look-back-ufo-sightings/image%5F7b99baf9-07e8-5407-b231-d7d2bd474abe.html) and Max Futch. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Peter Wyden, “They’re Still Chasing Flying Saucers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 8, 1953, p. 1G **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2199 ### Event 8694 (58096F6C) **Date:** 3/8/1953 **Location:** Kents Hill School, Maine **Description:** 9:02 p.m. Physics teacher [Leigh Van Etten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111058162/leigh-van%5Fetten), two other teachers, and 10 students at Kents Hill School, Maine, watch a big red ball of fire moving west-northwest for 12 minutes before it disappears beyond the horizon. He estimates it is about 40–60 miles away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2200 ### Event 8695 (6D23913A) **Date:** 3/9/1953 **Location:** Kyushu (Ashiya AFB), Japan **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1502 ### Event 8696 (BC57FB1A) **Date:** 3/10/1953 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** BRISBANE, QLD, AUST **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape-UFO has fluorescent lights inside. Passes silently. P296. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 296) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3144 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRISBANE,QLD,AUST:CGR-UFO HAS FLUORESCENT LITES INSIDE:PASSES SILENTLY:p296", **LatLong:** "-27.500001 153.150007", **LatLongDMS:** "27:30:00 S 153:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.500001,153.150007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8697 (5034AF7B) **Date:** 3/10/1953 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / HACKETTSTOWN, NJ **Description:** Orange object to and fro over Kittinney Mountains / 7 hours! White streak joins. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3145 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "164", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "NW/HACKETTSTOWN,NJ:ORG OBJ TO+FRO OVR KITTINNEY MTNS/7hrs!:WHT STREAK JOINS", **LatLong:** "40.883335 -74.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:53:00 N 74:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.883335,-74.866670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8698 (01B0FB64) **Date:** 3/10/1953 **End date:** 3/11/1953 **Location:** Hackettstown, NJ **Description:** Large light, blinking at 10-15 times per minute (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2490) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1503 ### Event 8699 (A8D66A1B) **Date:** 3/11/1953 **Time:** 4 AM **Location:** Hackettstown, New Jersey **Description:** Witness: Mrs. Nina Cook, an experienced private pilot and wife of a Pan Am flight engineer. A large light, blinking at 10-15 times per minute, moved up and down along a mountain range. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_303 ### Event 8700 (7EBFE34C) **Date:** 3/12/1953 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** CHATHAM, NB **Description:** Military observer(s). Brilliant silver disk going / 500kts straight and level. Sudden steep silent climb going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3146 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "CHATHAM,NB:MIL.OBS:BRILL.SLVR DISK >/500kts S/L:SUDDEN STEEP SLNT CLIMB >>W", **LatLong:** "47.033336 -65.433336", **LatLongDMS:** "47:02:00 N 65:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.033336,-65.433336)", **State/Prov:** "New Brunswick", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8701 (5CEA103D) **Date:** 3/12/1953 **Location:** RCAF Station Chatham, New Brunswick, CAN **Description:** Steep Climb Observed By Ground and Airborne Witnesses (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530312](http://www.nicap.org/530312chatham%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1504 ### Event 8702 (6872F7C0) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Location:** NEAR SKILAK LAKE, AK **Description:** 4+observer(s). Huge saucer over Kenai Mountains. Going up and down [to] several times. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3147 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "84", **HatchDesc:** "nr SKILAK LAKE,AK:4+OBS:HUGE SCR OVR KENAI MTNs:↑+↓ SVRL TIMES:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "60.583336 -150.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "60:35:00 N 150:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.583336,-150.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8703 (FF671DD0) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** SEA / JAPAN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2496. RADAR's and 10 / P2V-7. 90-100 small colored balls / various formations. / r185p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 511) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3148 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SEA/JAPAN:BBK#2496:RDRs+10/P2V-7:90-100 SML CLRD BALLS/VARIOUS FORMNs:/r185p20", **LatLong:** "37.416668 132.583340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:25:00 N 132:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.416668,132.583340)", **State/Prov:** "SJP", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8704 (6F82EB27) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Location:** N of Hiroshima (Sea of Japan), Japan **Description:** 5-10 colored lights, totalling 90-100, slowly move aft, R/V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2496) **Reference:** NICAP: [530314](http://www.nicap.org/530314seajapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1505 ### Event 8705 (3A954990) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Location:** N of Hiroshima (Sea of Japan), Japan **Description:** Sea of Japan Radar Case (BBU 2496) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2496) **Reference:** NICAP: [530314](http://www.nicap.org/530314seajapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1506 ### Event 8706 (55E1D5D6) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Time:** 11:45 PM **Location:** north of Hiroshima, Japan **Description:** Witnesses: radar and visual observation by 10 crew members of U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol plane. Groups of 5-10 colored lights, totalling 90-100, slowly moved aft off the left side of the airplane, as detected visually and by airborne radar for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_304 ### Event 8707 (70C789ED) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Location:** Sea of Japan northwest of Nishinoshima, Japan **Description:** 11:43 p.m. Lt. Robert J. Wooten is flying a Navy P2V-5 antisubmarine plane over the Sea of Japan northwest of Nishinoshima, Japan, when he encounters an “electrifying display” of groups of 5–10 colored lights, totaling 90–100, slowly moving to the left side of the aircraft at a range of 3–7 miles and maintaining an extremely precise formation. Some of the objects are also tracked on radar. A 1955 RAND report falsely attributes this to an armada of 100 MiG-15 fighter aircraft \(actually only 11\) that menaced four US Navy Panther jets from the carrier [USS Oriskany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FOriskany%5F%28CV-34%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FOriskany%5F%28CV-34%29) but this earlier incident took place on November 18, 1952, resulting in damage to one of the MiGs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Groups of Lights / IFF Signals](http://www.nicap.org/530314seajapan%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 53–59; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 195; Swords 214 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2201 ### Event 8708 (0B36CD5A) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Description:** At 11:43 p.m. in the Sea of Japan near Hiroshima, Japan a dozen crewmembers flying in a U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol witnessed several groups of 5-10 lights flying slowly on the left side of the aircraft. A Project Blue Book unknown. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2496; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; J. Allen Hynek case files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1475 ### Event 8709 (D2C38DDE) **Date:** 3/14/1953 **Description:** A huge saucer-shaped object was witnessed by at least four observers at Skilak Lake, Anchorage, Alaska over the Kenai Mountains. It bobbed up and down several times for 55 minutes, and then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1476 ### Event 8710 (7D27C25F) **Date:** 3/15/1953 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** GREENVILLE, MS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2692. Several Air Force men / ground. Rear-drop shape going [to] into wind. / r185p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3149 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "38", **HatchDesc:** "GREENVILLE,MS:BBK#2692:SVRL AF MEN/GND:REAR-DROP SHAPE > INTO WIND:/r185p21", **LatLong:** "33.411113 -91.061115", **LatLongDMS:** "33:24:40 N 91:03:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.411113,-91.061115)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8711 (C7DABE5E) **Date:** 3/15/1953 **Description:** The International Flying Saucer Bureau declares today World Contact Day and calls upon the UFO occupants to make a public appearance on earth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Albert K. Bender, FS and the Three Men, Saucerian, 1962 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2202 ### Event 8712 (07372FB0) **Date:** 3/17/1953 **Time:** 13:20:00.3 **Location:** 37.0478 -116.0211 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Annie” Yield: 16KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_34 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0478 -116.0211", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:52 N 116:01:16 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0478,-116.0211)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Annie", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "16" ### Event 8713 (DD94C3D1) **Date:** 3/17/1953 **Description:** An FBI agent and two AFOSI officers interview [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and ask him to draft a statement saying that neither the FBI nor Air Force has approved material used in his speeches. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) [1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 4–5; Clark III 44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2203 ### Event 8714 (0F7D8BA1) **Date:** 3/18/1953 **Locations:** Ohio; Northern University **Description:** Ohio Northern University’s Project A reports that UFOs are usually disc-shaped, silent, and fast-moving. “Our major conclusion to date is that no one explanation fits all sightings, and about 20% of all the sightings definitely fit the category of unnatural phenomena.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 15, 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2204 ### Event 8715 (67C3FF7B) **Date:** 3/19/1953 **Location:** Glendale, CA **Description:** Jack Clerk (Jack Charles Pryal Clerk, 1919–1996, US Marine Corps Reserves), an Electrical Engineer attached to Army Ordinance as a consultant, was giving public presentations at the Glendale CA Lions Club area about three Crash Retrievals (“grounded saucers”) that occurred in the southwest. His talks were “cleared by Security”, and it says parts of his talk had to be “dummied up” at the request of the government. **Type:** public presentation **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-50s-public-presentations-about-crash-retrievals-64d2cc8766e3) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_494 ### Event 8716 (0451B2EC) **Date:** 3/19/1953 **Location:** New Haven, CT **Description:** A small round object -- flaming like red-hot iron -- plunged from the sky (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [530319](http://www.nicap.org/newhaven530819dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1507 ### Event 8717 (BD9D23A6) **Date:** 3/19/1953 **Description:** In 1953 US Army spotter planes saw a round white UFO flying 25 miles northeast of Panmunjon, Korea. It was described as 10 feet in diameter, and moving with a vibrating motion. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1562 ### Event 8718 (BD0B5DEC) **Date:** 3/20/1953 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** OLD BALDY AND PORK CHOP HILL, KOREA **Description:** W. Morgan / USAF. CE2+RADAR's both locations. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3150 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OLD BALDY+PORK CHOP HILL,KOREA:W.MORGAN/USAF:CE2+RDRs BOTH LOCS:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.283335 127.116673", **LatLongDMS:** "38:17:00 N 127:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.283335,127.116673)", **State/Prov:** "DMZ", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8719 (FD541B68) **Date:** 3/20/1953 **Location:** Pork Chop Hill, Korea **Description:** AP radio news service summary of April 5, 1953, indicates that luminous objects traveling at supersonic speeds have been observed and tracked on radar within the past few days in Pork Chop and Old Baldy Hills area, Western Korean Front (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530320](http://www.nicap.org/530320porkchophilldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1508 ### Event 8720 (819DA592) **Date:** Spring 1953 **Locations:** RAF Boscombe Down [now MoD Boscombe Down] in Wiltshire, England; Salisbury Plain **Description:** After 12:00 noon. RAF Flight Lt. Cyril George Townsend-Withers is asked to test some new ECM radar equipment using an experimental English Electric Canberra aircraft. The jet has been stripped of all removable parts to make it as light as possible. With this modification, he is able to leave RAF Boscombe Down \[now MoD Boscombe Down\] in Wiltshire, England, and soar to 55,000 feet, then a record for the aircraft. Cruising over Salisbury Plain, Townsend-Withers picks up a blip on his screen. It shows an object traveling 5 miles behind him and maintaining a steady course. His immediate reaction is to curse the “anomalous propagation” effects that they have gone to so much trouble to avoid. However, he soon becomes aware that this was an image of something flying right behind them. The science officer goes up to the turret to take a look and sees, glinting in the sun or pouring out a fantastic amount of its own light, a round shape trailing in their wake. Townsend-Withers calls his pilot on the microphone and tells him that he can see an unknown and suggests trying to outpace it. They reach 260 mph but the thing cannot be shaken off, so the pilot executes a sweeping radius turn. As the Canberra comes around from its turn, the object comes into view dead ahead. For half a minute they are on a collision course, swiftly trying to calculate what to do next. The object is round like a thin disc, but with two small tailfins at the rear. It seems to be metallic and enormous, and it is simply sitting there waiting for them to fly right into it. Suddenly, it flips vertically into the air and climbs upwards at an astonishing rate. Leaving no vapor trail, wake, or detectable sound, the object vanishes within just a couple of seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Canberra Crew Encounters UFO /](http://www.nicap.org/530000salisburyplaindir.htm) [Radar/Visual](http://www.nicap.org/530000salisburyplaindir.htm)”; Jenny Randles, “Collision Course,” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 16–18; Jenny Randles, “Scramble, UFO! Part Three, The Team,” Fortean Times 388 \(January 2020\): 31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2208 ### Event 8721 (E67B0F11) **Date:** 3/21/1953 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** ELMIRA, NY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2511. Unidentified. 4 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 6 saucers directly overhead. Seen / (seen thru) binoculars. High and fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3151 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "266", **HatchDesc:** "ELMIRA,NY:BBK#2511:UID:4 GOC OBS:6 SCRS DIRECTLY OVHD:SEEN/BINOCS:HIGH+FAST", **LatLong:** "42.083335 -76.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:05:00 N 76:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.083335,-76.833337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8722 (FB4701F8) **Date:** 3/21/1953 **Location:** Elmira, NY **Description:** 6 discs in a group fly high and fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2511) **Reference:** NICAP: [530321](http://www.nicap.org/530321elmiradir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1509 ### Event 8723 (8C11F473) **Date:** 3/21/1953 **Location:** Prescott, AZ **Description:** Beers Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1510 ### Event 8724 (246FBC0C) **Date:** 3/21/1953 **Time:** 3:05 PM **Location:** Elmira, New York **Description:** Witness: Ground Observer Corps observation post. Six discs in a group flew high and fast for a few seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_305 ### Event 8725 (4DC46D1E) **Date:** 3/21/1953 **Description:** Six disc-shaped objects flew directly over the city of Elmira, New York at 3:05 p.m. They flew high and fast, and were viewed through binoculars. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2511; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 18; Project Blue Book Report #11, May 31, 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1594 ### Event 8726 (56AA52AF) **Date:** 3/22/1953 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** TUJUNGA CANYON, CA **Description:** 2 women abduction / cabin. 1st / many for both. / r41p525. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3152 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **OPR:** Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "TUJUNGA CANYON,CA:2 WOMEN ABD/CABIN:1st/many for both:/r41p525", **LatLong:** "34.316668 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:19:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.316668,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 8727 (2CD32106) **Date:** 3/22/1953 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** AUBAGNE, FR **Description:** Ex-pilot. Dull 40cm object races overhead. Gyrates but 'deliberately steered. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3153 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AUBAGNE,FR:EX-PILOT:DULL 40cm OBJ RACES OVHD:GYRATES BUT 'DELIBERATELY STEERED", **LatLong:** "43.316669 5.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:19:00 N 05:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.316669,5.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8728 (0684E40D) **Date:** 3/22/1953 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** ELLINGTON AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Several observer(s). 4 night lights play in stars. 1 pink fireball goes going up / high-speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 219) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3154 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "ELLINGTON AFB,TX:SVRL OBS:4 NLTS PLAY IN STARS:1 PINK FBL GOES ↑/HI-SPEED", **LatLong:** "29.666668 -95.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:40:00 N 95:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.666668,-95.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8729 (F0020FB9) **Date:** 3/22/1953 **Location:** Tujunga Canyon north of Burbank, California **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley, who share an isolated one-bedroom cabin in the forest around Tujunga Canyon north of Burbank, California, wake up when an odd light shines through the window. An eerie silence falls over the cabin and neighboring forest. They get out of bed but feel paralyzed. Then suddenly and inexplicably, it is 4:20 a.m. Shaw, who was originally kneeling on the bed, is now sitting on it with her feet on the floor. The two women flee the cabin. As they run, they pass an apparition or “vaporous something” with the “head and shoulders of a long-haired” person. When they return to the cabin two days later, they feel a sense of dread. Shaw can remember nothing more and the two women move apart. In 1975 Shaw watches a UFO documentary that evokes some memories, and she contacts ufologist [Ann Druffel](https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufologist-ann-druffel-dies.html?fbclid=IwAR3N-uW1ZAkq5p21hxc11siol67dwjxfSq2vLaTl8v0pExaBh0OeTDuLTyc). During three hypnotic regression sessions—December 5, 1975; February 26, 1976; and October 22, 1978—Shaw recalls her abduction by black-garbed aliens. She undergoes a physical examination and the aliens show her a cure for cancer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, 1980, updated in New American Library, 1989 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2205 ### Event 8730 (61F62F7D) **Date:** 3/22/1953 **Description:** At two o'clock in the morning in an isolated cabin in Tujunga Canyon, California two young women in their early twenties, Shaw and Whitley, remembered seeing an oscillating light followed by a period of about two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis an abduction scenario was recalled. Seven or eight beings, all dressed in black tight-fitting one-piece suits, entered the cabin through closed windows (that is, they somehow passed through the glass panes in the windows). They had oval-shaped, hairless faces. Six of the beings were about five feet tall. Two of the beings were of average height but thin, estimated at 5 feet 7 inches tall. They all had slender builds, narrow shoulders, and long arms. The abductees were paralyzed, taken aboard a domed disc, and given physical exams. The UFOnauts communicated with each other using an unintelligible language, but they used telepathy with the abductees, and allegedly left them with some information about future events. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1976, p. 8; Ann Druffel & Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of a Mystery, case 193a **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1613 ### Event 8731 (8D678605) **Date:** 3/23/1953 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** CASPER, WYO **Description:** 2 observer(s). Orange night light all over Natrona Co Airport "like a hunting dog". Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 219) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3155 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1567", **HatchDesc:** "CASPER,WYO:2 OBS:ORG NLT ALL OVR NATRONA co AIRPORT "LIKE A HUNTING DOG":>>E", **LatLong:** "42.866669 -106.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:52:00 N 106:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.866669,-106.316672)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8732 (B216B413) **Date:** 3/23/1953 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** HENDERSON, NV **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 disks maneuver / high altitude. 1 shoots straight up. Other to side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 521) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3156 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "573", **HatchDesc:** "HENDERSON,NV:2/BINOCS:2 DISKS MNVR/hi alt:1 SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP:OTHER TO SIDE.", **LatLong:** "36.033335 -114.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:00 N 114:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.033335,-114.983339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8733 (31CB18C3) **Date:** 3/23/1953 **Location:** Pasadena, TX **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object On Radar 25 Seconds (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530323](http://www.nicap.org/530323pasadena%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1512 ### Event 8734 (AC7AEAA2) **Date:** 3/23/1953 **Description:** Gen. [Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)’s 4602nd AISS plan is approved. It is seen as aiding ATIC and giving AISS personnel valuable experience in field interrogations and cooperating with other agencies **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, The Government UFO Files, Visible Ink, 2014, p. 249 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2206 ### Event 8735 (878C2581) **Date:** 3/24/1953 **Time:** 13:10:00.0 **Location:** 37.0956 -116.1028 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Nancy” Yield: 24KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_35 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0956 -116.1028", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:44 N 116:06:10 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0956,-116.1028)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Nancy", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "24" ### Event 8736 (D53AA526) **Date:** 3/24/1953 **Locations:** Nevada Test Site Area 4; Papoose Lake, Nevada **Description:** The Upshot-Knothole Nancy nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Area 4 sends radioactive fallout on livestock across the region, including those grazing at Papoose Lake, Nevada. Sixteen horses and numerous cows belonging to local farmers, the Stewart brothers, die from acute radiation poisoning. The Army compensates them for the horses, but claim the cows died from Vitamin A deficiency. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Upshot–Knothole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FUpshot%E2%80%93Knothole)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 102](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/102/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2207 ### Event 8737 (FEEED8EE) **Date:** 3/25/1953 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2521. Military observer(s). 3+night lights curve north going quickly south. Fast and silent. Also civil observer(s) / 2315hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 225) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3157 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:BBK#2521:MIL OBS:3+ NLTS CURVE N>>S:FAST+SLNT:+CIV OBS/2315hrs", **LatLong:** "29.416668 -98.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:25:00 N 98:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.416668,-98.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8738 (47AB6694) **Date:** 3/25/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NOUASSEUR AB, FR MOROCCO **Description:** Blue Book Case #. Military ground and air and RADAR. Night light circles base. Lands. Disappears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3158 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "NOUASSEUR AB,FR MOROCCO:BBK#:MIL GND+AIR+RDR:NLT CIRCLES BASE:LANDS:DISAPPEARS", **LatLong:** "33.366668 -7.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:22:00 N 07:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.366668,-7.583334)", **State/Prov:** "CSB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8739 (DB254F47) **Date:** 3/25/1953 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** Several lights, some moving straight, others making 360° turns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2521) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1513 ### Event 8740 (74929A14) **Date:** 3/25/1953 **Location:** Rabat (Nouasseur AFB), Fr. Morocco **Description:** Light above at 7,000 to 8,000 ft maneuvering in spiral pattern over airfield (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530325](http://www.nicap.org/530325moroccodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1514 ### Event 8741 (1FC51B77) **Date:** 3/25/1953 **Time:** 3:05 PM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: USAF Capt. and Mrs. D.E. Cox. Several lights, some of which moved straight, others which made 360 degree turns for 1.5 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_306 ### Event 8742 (97A3F439) **Date:** 3/27/1953 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MT. TAYLOR, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2524. Unidentified. 2 military-pilots. Can't catch orange ball / too fast. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3159 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "3445", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.TAYLOR,NM:BBK#2524:UID:2 MIL-PILOTS:CANT CATCH ORANGE BALL/TOO FAST:/r185", **LatLong:** "35.250002 -107.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:15:00 N 107:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.250002,-107.600005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8743 (17B22B82) **Date:** 3/27/1953 **Location:** Mount Taylor, NM **Description:** 900 MPH Target Pursued By F-86 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2524, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [530327](http://www.nicap.org/530327mttaylor%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1515 ### Event 8744 (56D27A46) **Date:** 3/27/1953 **Time:** 7:25 PM **Location:** Mt. Taylor, New Mexico **Description:** Witness: pilot of USAF F-86 jet fighter at 600 kts. (700 m.p.h.). One bright orange circle flew at 800 kts. (900 m.p.h.), and executed three fast rolls. Pilot chased object for 4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_307 ### Event 8745 (49ECC2E2) **Date:** 3/27/1953 **Description:** A bright orange circular UFO was chased by a USAF F-86 fighter jet over Mount Taylor, New Mexico at 7:25 p.m. The case is listed as an Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 2524; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1691 ### Event 8746 (E53FE47F) **Date:** 3/29/1953 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** 6.5MI EAST / SPOONER, WI **Description:** 4 antenna installers. Metal saucer very fast north going quickly south. Reverses direction. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3160 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "330", **HatchDesc:** "6.5mi E/SPOONER,WI:4 ANTENNA INSTALLERS:MTL SCR VFAST N>>S:REVERSES DIRECTION", **LatLong:** "45.833336 -91.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:50:00 N 91:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.833336,-91.783338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8747 (46A8127D) **Date:** 3/29/1953 **Location:** Spooner, WI **Description:** Aluminum, circular object fly high and fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2526) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1516 ### Event 8748 (32178DE6) **Date:** 3/29/1953 **Time:** 3:45 PM **Location:** Spooner, Wisconsin **Description:** Witness: L.C. Gillette. One aluminum, circular object flew high and fast, twice reversing its course. Note: Mr. Gillette saw a similar object in 1938. Fifteen second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_308 ### Event 8749 (D072E3EE) **Date:** 3/30/1953 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** NEAR DUPUYER, MT **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). White body drops straight going down. Stops / midair. Moves left and right. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3161 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1275", **HatchDesc:** "nr DUPUYER,MT:GOC OBS:WHT BODY DROPS STRAIGHT↓:STOPS/MIDAIR:MOVES LEFT+RIGHT", **LatLong:** "48.166669 -112.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "48:10:00 N 112:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.166669,-112.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8750 (708AAA00) **Date:** 3/31/1953 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** NEAR NIIGATA, JAPAN **Description:** USAF F94. White disk beams red and blue beams. Maneuvers all over northeast Honshu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3162 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "nr NIIGATA,JAPAN:USAF F94:WHT DISK BEAMS RED+BLU BEAMS:MNVRS ALL OVR NE HONSHU", **LatLong:** "37.783335 139.066673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:00 N 139:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.783335,139.066673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8751 (79DC1EC7) **Date:** 3/31/1953 **Location:** Honshu, Japan **Description:** F-84 Encounters Object With "Legs" (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530331](http://www.nicap.org/530331honshu%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1517 ### Event 8752 (8DCA5414) **Date:** 3/31/1953 **Location:** Williams AFB, AZ **Description:** Silver Disc Encountered By Test Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530331](http://www.nicap.org/530331williams-afb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1518 ### Event 8753 (25AD1027) **Date:** 3/31/1953 **Time:** 13:00:00.0 **Location:** 37.0828 -116.0239 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Ruth” Yield: .2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_36 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0828 -116.0239", **LatLongDMS:** "37:04:58 N 116:01:26 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0828,-116.0239)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Ruth", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".2" ### Event 8754 (0F3553D3) **Date:** 3/31/1953 **Description:** At 7:50 p.m. a USAF F-94 pilot reported sighting a white disc-shaped UFO emitting red and blue beams of light. It maneuvered all about the sky over the northeast corner of Honshu Island, Japan. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1953: March-July, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1758 ### Event 8755 (0541A55A) **Date:** 4/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** SALISBURY PLAIN, ENGL **Description:** Test bomber crew / 60K' altitude. RADAR blip. Thin silver ovoid near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3163 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SALISBURY PLAIN,ENGL:TEST BOMBER CREW/60K'alt:RDR BLIP:THIN SLVR OVOID NEAR", **LatLong:** "51.250002 -1.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:15:00 N 01:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.250002,-1.833333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8756 (0A1F86DD) **Date:** 4/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** CAIRO, GA **Description:** Boys. Silver grey domed saucer going west slow and silent. Portholes. / letter to I. Sanderson. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3164 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "79", **HatchDesc:** "CAIRO,GA:BOYS:SLVR GRY DOMED SCR >W SLO+SLNT:PORTHOLES:/letter to I.Sanderson", **LatLong:** "30.877779 -84.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:52:40 N 84:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.877779,-84.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8757 (ABA37F1A) **Date:** 4/1953 **Location:** NEAR TINIAN ISLAND, MARIANAS, PACIFIC **Description:** Several UFO's seen / United States Navy (USN) report. 1 rammed drops to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3178 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "231", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr TINIAN ISL,MARIANAS,PACIFIC:SVRL UFOS SEEN/USN REPORT:1 RAMMED DROPS TO SEA", **LatLong:** "14.500001 146.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "14:30:00 N 146:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.500001,146.000007)", **State/Prov:** "TIN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8758 (DA9C8287) **Date:** 4/1953 **Location:** Laredo, TX **Description:** Wilford Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1519 ### Event 8759 (D5DCDA78) **Date:** 4/1953 **Location:** Canada **Description:** [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) is drafting a report on Project Magnet for the Canadian Department of Transport. He writes [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that their conclusion will probably be that UFOs are alien vehicles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1078 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2209 ### Event 8760 (06067D17) **Date:** 4/1953 **End date:** 6/1953 **Locations:** St. Louis, Missouri; Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** The US Army Chemical Corps’ Dew II project involves the secret release of fluorescent particles \(zinc cadmium sulfide\) and plant spores \(Lycopodium\) from an aircraft over St. Louis, Missouri. \(Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a previous target.\) It only targets black ghetto sections of St. Louis and arranges for local police surveillance “to minimize the possibility of loss of equipment.” The Army reports “much less curiosity and interference” than Minneapolis. Dew II is described in a 1953 Army report that remains classified at the time of a 1997 report by the US National Research Council concerning the zinc cadmium sulfide dispersion program. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Leonard A. Cole, Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas, Rowman & Littlefield, 1988, [pp. 63–65](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780822630012/page/62/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2210 ### Event 8761 (0A74B510) **Date:** 4/6/1953 **Time:** 15:29:38.4 **Location:** 37.0847 -116.0180 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Dixie” Yield: 11KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_37 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0847 -116.0180", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:05 N 116:01:05 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0847,-116.0180)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-1.83", **NukeName:** "Dixie", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11" ### Event 8762 (0CC010A2) **Date:** 4/7/1953 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** PALEMBANG, SUMATRA, INSPECT **Description:** 3+1 observer(s). Ovoid larger / moon going northwest / 5 minutes straight and level. Absolute(ly) silent. Glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 529) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3165 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "PALEMBANG,SUMATRA,INS:3+1 OBS:OVOID LARGER/MOON >NW/5mins S/L:ABS SLNT:GLOWS", **LatLong:** "-2.916667 104.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "02:55:00 S 104:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-2.916667,104.750005)", **State/Prov:** "SMT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8763 (C2DBF155) **Date:** 4/8/1953 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** FUKUOKA, JAPAN **Description:** F94B pilot. Bright blue night light drops and paces plane. Speeds away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3166 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FUKUOKA,JAPAN:F94B PILOT:BRITE BLU NLT DROPS+PACES PLANE:SPEEDS AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.583335 130.366673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:00 N 130:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.583335,130.366673)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8764 (C027C5B2) **Date:** 4/8/1953 **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** F-94 Encounters Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2535) **Reference:** NICAP: [530408](http://www.nicap.org/530408fukuoka%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1520 ### Event 8765 (14503B00) **Date:** 4/8/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador (between Sondrestrom AFB, Greenland and), CAN **Description:** MATS Crew Sees Light In Descending Turn (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530408](http://www.nicap.org/530408goosebay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1521 ### Event 8766 (12AA679F) **Date:** 4/8/1953 **Time:** 7:55 PM **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** Witness: lst Lt. D.J. Pichon, pilot of USAF F-94B jet interceptor. One bright blue light descended, accelerated, flew parallel to the F-94, increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_309 ### Event 8767 (E383BF35) **Date:** 4/8/1953 **Description:** At 7:55 p.m. Lt. D. J. Pichon, pilot of a USAF F-94B jet interceptor, watched a bright blue light descend, accelerate, and then fly parallel to his F-94 over Fukuoka, Japan. The object increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1897 ### Event 8768 (630515D2) **Date:** 4/11/1953 **Time:** 12:44:59.8 **Location:** 37.0989 -116.0925 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Ray” Yield: .2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_38 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0989 -116.0925", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:56 N 116:05:33 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0989,-116.0925)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.03", **NukeName:** "Ray", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".2" ### Event 8769 (5226F9E6) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** SWEETWATER, NV **Description:** C47 crew. 10 grey-metal saucers / changing formations. Wide turn. / MJ#240. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 352) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3167 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2084", **HatchDesc:** "SWEETWATER,NV:C47 CREW:10 GRY-MTL SCRS/CHANGING FORMATIONS:WIDE TURN:/MJ#240", **LatLong:** "38.516669 -119.211117", **LatLongDMS:** "38:31:00 N 119:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.516669,-119.211117)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8770 (5065242E) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** WEST / CONISTON, ON **Description:** 6 miners. Glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / nickel-copper smelter. Shrinks and changes color. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3168 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "W/CONISTON,ON:6 MINERS:GLOW-CGR HVRS/NICKEL-COPPER SMELTER:SHRINKS+CHANGES CLR", **LatLong:** "46.533336 -81.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "46:32:00 N 81:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.533336,-81.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8771 (1AB63F2B) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Location:** Sweetwater, NV **Description:** Ten Round Flat Objects Changing Formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530412](http://www.nicap.org/530412sweetwater%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1522 ### Event 8772 (3302CC0B) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Location:** Torbay Airport, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** GCA Radar Tracks Unidentified Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530412](http://www.nicap.org/530412torbay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1523 ### Event 8773 (78F629A5) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Locations:** Sweetwater, Nevada; Stead AFB [now Reno Stead Airport] **Description:** 4:10 p.m. Ten round, flat, metallic objects changing formation are observed traveling at a high rate of speed at an estimated altitude of 7,500 feet over Sweetwater, Nevada. No trail, sound, or exhaust are noted. The objects pass under the right nacelle of the observers’ C-47 aircraft, which is en route to Stead AFB \[now Reno Stead Airport\]. The copilot takes control of the aircraft and turns to the right in a tight 300° turn for a better view. The objects are then picked up unassisted by two more members of the crew. The objects are seen in a right turn of a greater radius than that of the C-47 and at a lower altitude. They are observed for approximately 120° of their turn and disappear on a heading of 300°. Observers are unable to estimate the speed of the objects because of the distance and the large turn radius. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Ten Round Flat Objects Changing Formation](http://www.nicap.org/530412sweetwater%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 197 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2211 ### Event 8774 (D95E5ED6) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Description:** At 10:31 local time an unidentified target appeared on the radar scope at Torbat Airport, Newfoundland, Canada. It was on a magnetic course of approximately 270 degrees. One of the radar operators looked outside and saw what he thought was a B-29 aircraft, but when the object disappeared, he returned to the radar set and observed the object make a 180 degree turn 8 miles west of the airport. If fade from the radar scope 30 miles away in a northeast direction. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** www.nicap.org/waves/1953fullrep.htm citing Dan Wilson **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1964 ### Event 8775 (88D83653) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Description:** At 3:10 p.m., while flying over Sweetwater, Nevada in a USAF C-47 transport 80 miles southwest of Reno, USAF Major Padelford, Lt. White and Lt. Cripe, the pilot, co-pilot, and navigator, sighted 9-10 flat, darkish metallic discs flying against the terrain. They were flying enroute from Long Beach to Stead AFB, NV at an altitude of 10,500 feet. They described the discs as having fuzzy edges, as they flashed beneath their aircraft descending. The co-pilot took control of the C-47, and turned to the right in a tight 300 degree turn for a better view of the objects. The objects were then picked up unassisted by two more members of the crew. The objects were observed in a right turn of greater radius than that of the C-47, and at a lower altitude. The object were observed for approximately 120 degrees of their turn, and disappeared on a heading of 300 degrees. The observers were unable to estimate the speed of the objects because of the distance and the objects'' large radius of turn. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 32; UNICAT, case # 762; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1988, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 183; Project Blue Book files; James McDonald files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1965 ### Event 8776 (B7482000) **Date:** 4/12/1953 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. miners in Coniston, Ontario, Canada watched as a glowing cigar-shaped object hovered over their smelter in a light wind. Over the next several minutes in began to shrink and it changed color. The duration of the sighting was 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, November 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1966 ### Event 8777 (5D178B0B) **Date:** 4/13/1953 **Locations:** Soviet bloc; US prisoners of war in Korea **Description:** The MKUltra project is launched on the order of CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) and under the direction of [Sidney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) [Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) Its aim is to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc, largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind-control techniques on US prisoners of war in Korea. The project attempts to produce a perfect truth drug for use in interrogating suspected Soviet spies, and generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control. Another MKUltra effort, Subproject 54, is the Navy’s top secret “Perfect Concussion” program, which uses subaural frequency blasts to erase memory. However, the program is never carried out. Because most MKUltra records are deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then–CIA director [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) it is difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research subprojects sponsored by MKUltra and related CIA programs. A cache of some 20,000 documents survive Helms’s purge, as they are incorrectly stored in a financial-records building and discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. These documents are fully investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project MKUltnra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMKUltra)”; US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Project MKUltra, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification, 95th Congress, 1st Session, August 3, 1977; John D. Marks, [The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john), Times Books, 1978; Jon Ronson, [The Men Who Stare at Goats](https://archive.org/details/menwhostareatgoa00rons%5F0/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/menwhostareatgoa00rons%5F0/page/n5/mode/2up) Simon & Schuster, 2004; “[Project MK-Ultra: The CIA’s](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://zazenlife.com/2011/12/18/project-mk-ultra-the-c-i-as-experiments-with-mind-control/) [Experiments with Mind Control,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://zazenlife.com/2011/12/18/project-mk-ultra-the-c-i-as-experiments-with-mind-control/)” ZazenLife.com, December 2011; Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, Henry Holt, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2212 ### Event 8778 (C27B5043) **Date:** 4/14/1953 **Locations:** Sea of Japan; Vladivostok, Russia **Description:** 9:23–11:50 p.m. A Navy P2V Neptune spy plane on an electronic intelligence \(ELINT/ferret\) mission over the Sea of Japan \(about 200 miles southeast of Vladivostok, Russia\) is paced and attacked by 10 agile and highly maneuverable UFOs. The encounter takes place with only 400 feet of distance between the aircraft and the sea. The objects make more than “70 aggressive non-firing passes” in “high-speed runs,” many just a few hundred feet directly underneath the Navy aircraft for just over an hour. The UFOs transmit Morse Code light signals \(the letter “D”\), an unprecedented occurrence in UFO history. The objects are tracked on radar and by the Navy’s ELINT systems \(which pick up and analyze radar beams emitted from the objects\) for almost two and a half hours. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Lights Flashing Morse Code Letter ‘D’](http://www.nicap.org/CATEGORIES/10-Nuclear%5FConnection%5FCases/530414sea%5Fof%5Fjapan%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 198; Clark III 53–59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2213 ### Event 8779 (7683BA3B) **Date:** 4/15/1953 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 4 unidentified night lights make extreme turns / meteor speed. Photographs no good. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 234) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3169 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:2 OBS:4 UID NLTS MAKE EXTREME TURNS/METEOR SPEED:FOTOS NO GOOD:>>NW", **LatLong:** "32.250002 -110.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:15:00 N 110:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.250002,-110.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8780 (02F41BE9) **Date:** 4/15/1953 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** 3 orange lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2542) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1525 ### Event 8781 (00D42DC9) **Date:** 4/15/1953 **Location:** East Prairie, MO **Description:** Several persons observed UFOs. Objects were circular, about 230' feet in diameter, and silver in color. Speed estimated at 400-600 mph. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [530415](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/530416eprairiedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1526 ### Event 8782 (9E4A97F4) **Date:** 4/15/1953 **Time:** 5:45 PM **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Witness: S/Sgt. V.A. Locey. Three orange lights were seen for: 3 minutes, 30 seconds, and a few seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_310 ### Event 8783 (14BE1FD6) **Date:** 4/16/1953 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** EAST PRAIRIE, MO **Description:** 4+3 metal saucers near follow B36. Tight formations. 600mph and more/others. Flash signals! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 236) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3170 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "EAST PRAIRIE,MO:4+3 MTL SCRS nr FOLO B36:TIGHT FORMns:600mph++:FLASH SIGNALS!", **LatLong:** "36.777780 -89.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:46:40 N 89:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.777780,-89.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8784 (A5BDFD63) **Date:** 4/16/1953 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** OVER CHATHAM, NB **Description:** 2 pilots. 8M metallic disk head on toward(s) DC4. Going [to] underneath / 300 kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3171 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "ovr CHATHAM,NB:2 PILOTS:8M MTLC DISK HEAD ON TWRD DC4:> UNDERNEATH/300 kph", **LatLong:** "47.066669 -65.450003", **LatLongDMS:** "47:04:00 N 65:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.066669,-65.450003)", **State/Prov:** "New Brunswick", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8785 (935381DD) **Date:** 4/16/1953 **Location:** Chatham, New Brunswick **Description:** 3:45 p.m. The crew of a commercial Maritime Central airliner flying at 9,000 feet above Chatham, New Brunswick, watches a metallic disc approach their plane and pass underneath. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 64–67 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2214 ### Event 8786 (A1D88023) **Date:** 4/16/1953 **Description:** The crew of a Maritime Central DC-4 flying near Chatham Royal Canadian AFB, New Brunswick sights an eight meter in diameter metallic disc at 3:34 p.m. that is heading toward their aircraft. The UFO passed underneath at 300 knots, just under the nose of the aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 37; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2049 ### Event 8787 (7B7F846A) **Date:** 4/18/1953 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** WILMINGTON, DE **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) and more/others. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly northwest. Flashes over town. / big newspaper article. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3172 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,DE:GOC OBS++:HUGE CGR >>NW:FLASHES OVR TOWN:/BIG NEWSPAPER ARTICLE", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -75.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 75:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-75.566670)", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8788 (18E4986E) **Date:** 4/18/1953 **Time:** 12:35:00.0 **Location:** 37.1383 -116.1178 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Badger” Yield: 23KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_39 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1383 -116.1178", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:18 N 116:07:04 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1383,-116.1178)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Badger", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "23" ### Event 8789 (77E4775B) **Date:** 4/18/1953 **Description:** A huge cigar-shaped UFO flew over Wilmington, Delaware at 11:15 a.m. and was sighted by a Ground Observer Corps observer. It was flashing as it passed over the city, heading northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Wilmington News, July 9, 1954; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 186 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2110 ### Event 8790 (0ECE520E) **Date:** 4/19/1953 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / PANMUNJON, KOREA **Description:** 2M and white rounded delta/triangle/box-like craft. 70mph going quickly SSW / 30M altitude. / r116p60+/ r137#5p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3173 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NE/PANMUNJON,KOREA:2M+WHT ROUNDED DLT:70mph >>SSW/30M alt:/r116p60+/r137#5p32", **LatLong:** "38.333335 127.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:20:00 N 127:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.333335,127.000006)", **State/Prov:** "SEO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8791 (EC9C1D3B) **Date:** 4/19/1953 **Location:** Calumet, MI **Description:** 7:19 PM (CST): Lake Superior area (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530419](http://www.nicap.org/530419calumet%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1527 ### Event 8792 (C1C42903) **Date:** 4/19/1953 **Location:** Pork Chop Hill **Description:** 1:00 p.m. Four US Army reconnaissance observers \(including pilot Lt. Julius T. Morgan, Lt. [James O.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149287981/james-ollen-rymus) [Rymus](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149287981/james-ollen-rymus)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149287981/james-ollen-rymus) and Lt. Jack E. Myers\) in two aircraft see a white, rounded, delta-shaped object 5–7 feet in diameter flying at 60–80 mph with a “vibrating” motion over Communist territory in Korea. An official G-2 Intelligence Report says the object is in the Old Baldy \(Hill 266\) and Pork Chop Hill areas. Radar supposedly tracks them also moving faster than sound \(\>767 mph\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, \[[news clippings](http://www.nicap.org/docs/530419korea.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 199; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2215 ### Event 8793 (2FC81C80) **Date:** 4/19/1953 **Description:** A white, rounded delta-shaped UFO, seven feet in estimated diameter, flew 100 feet above the ground at 60-80 mph in a vibrating motion over enemy territory northeast of Pammunjon, Korea at 1:00 p.m. It was witnessed by three U.S. soldiers named Morgan, Rymus, and Myers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, July 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2133 ### Event 8794 (0B3F120E) **Date:** 4/20/1953 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SHEFFIELD, SOUTH YORKS **Description:** 3 teens. Large classic domed saucer / distance. Glows when in motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3174 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "96", **HatchDesc:** "SHEFFIELD,S.YORKS:3 TEENS:LRG CLASSIC DOMED SCR/DISTANGE:GLOWS WHEN IN MOTION", **LatLong:** "53.366669 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:22:00 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.366669,-1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8795 (B73A7BBB) **Date:** 4/20/1953 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** BROOKLYN, NY **Description:** Engineer. Night light going down. = glowing saucer. Makes sharp turn going quickly southwest. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3175 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKLYN,NY:ENGINEER:NLT ↓:=GLOWING SCR:MAKES SHARP TURN>>SW:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.650002 -73.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:39:00 N 73:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.650002,-73.950004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8796 (B2B20BC1) **Date:** 4/23/1953 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** ADDISON, NY **Description:** Forest ranger. Lens-saucer passes going quickly west. Black line sticks way going down. Lights ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3176 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "ADDISON,NY:FOREST RANGER:LENS-SCR PASSES>>W:BLACK LINE STICKS WAY↓:LITES GND", **LatLong:** "42.105558 -77.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:20 N 77:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.105558,-77.233337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8797 (94608481) **Date:** 4/23/1953 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** IBERVILLE, QBC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brilliant carsize disk stops and spins over river. Retreats extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 533) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3177 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "IBERVILLE,QBC:2 OBS:BRILL.CARSIZE DISK STOPS+SPINS OVR RIVER:RETREATS XFAST", **LatLong:** "45.300002 -73.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "45:18:00 N 73:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.300002,-73.250003)", **RelAlt:** "75", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8798 (9E044451) **Date:** 4/23/1953 **Description:** Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) becomes deputy director of the CIA. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2216 ### Event 8799 (EE8BCA3A) **Date:** 4/23/1953 **Locations:** Iberville [now Saint-Jean-de-Richelieu], Quebec; Richelieu River **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Iberville \[now Saint-Jean-de-Richelieu\], Quebec, see a disc the size of a car approach their house while they are eating dinner. It stops 250 feet above the Richelieu River a bit more than a half-mile away. The man runs outside for a better look and sees that it as a dome and is spinning as it hovers. After 15 seconds it flies to the southwest and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 65, 68–69, 151 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2217 ### Event 8800 (56028E5E) **Date:** 4/25/1953 **Time:** 12:29:59.8 **Location:** 37.0531 -116.1028 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Simon” Yield: 43KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_40 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0531 -116.1028", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:11 N 116:06:10 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0531,-116.1028)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Simon", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "43" ### Event 8801 (DF851E96) **Date:** 4/28/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LAREDO, TX **Description:** T33 pilot. Brown cylinder/cigar-shape / 60K' altitude. 90-turn. Constant contrail. Going quickly northwest / 1200mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3179 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "LAREDO,TX:T33 PILOT:BROWN CGR/60K'alt:90-TURN:CONSTANT CONTRAIL:>>NW/1200mph", **LatLong:** "27.505557 -99.505560", **LatLongDMS:** "27:30:20 N 99:30:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.505557,-99.505560)", **RelAlt:** "18000", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8802 (C92332BA) **Date:** 4/28/1953 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. a brown, cigar-shaped UFO flew near the Laredo Air Force Base in Texas at an estimated altitude of 60,000 feet, moving at an estimated speed of 1200 miles per hour. It was sighted by a pilot in a T-33 military aircraft. At 8:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time a USAF T-6 pilot flying over Fontana, California spotted two amber colored, circular UFOs that were joined by two more such objects, which then flew away in formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21; NICAP reprint of Project Gurdge and Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1953, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2389 ### Event 8803 (B21534C6) **Date:** 4/29/1953 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** PACIFIC 166° 05W-28° A4N **Description:** United States Navy (USN) Brewster. 30' metal saucer / 90° turns toward(s) ship. Fast. Arcs going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3180 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC 166°05W-28°A4N:USN BREWSTER:30'MTL SCR/90°TURNS TWRD SHIP:FAST:ARCS>E", **LatLong:** "28.233335 -166.083341", **LatLongDMS:** "28:14:00 N 166:05:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.233335,-166.083341)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8804 (8B7B9D1C) **Date:** 5/1953 **Location:** Washington National Airport **Description:** A flawed CAA report states the July 1952 Washington National Airport radar returns were weather targets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Civil Aviation Authority, [A Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic Control](http://cufon.org/cufon/wash%5Fnat/CAA%5FRadar%5FStudy.pdf), Technical Development Report 180, May 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2218 ### Event 8805 (0BB4C12B) **Date:** 5/1953 **Description:** CIA Assistant Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) transfers chief responsibility for keeping abreast of UFOs to OSI’s Physics and Electronic Division. [Todos M. Odarenko](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47075734/todos-michael-odarenko)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47075734/todos-michael-odarenko) chief of the division, does not want to take on the problem, saying it requires too much analytic and clerical time. Given the Robertson Panel findings, he proposes to call the project “inactive” and devote only one part-time analyst and a file clerk to maintain a reference file of activities of USAF and other agencies on UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gerald K. Haines, “[CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005517742.pdf)” Studies in Intelligence, 1997, p. 72 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2219 ### Event 8806 (ABEDC2AA) **Date:** 5/1953 **Description:** The Air Force publishes, under the signatures of Chief of Staff Gen. [Hoyt S. Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and Air Adjutant General Col. [Kenneth E. Thiebaud](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54677903/kenneth-e%5F-thiebaud), Air Force Manual 200-3, titled Handbook for Air Intelligence Officers. It is classified Restricted. Intended as a general guide for air intelligence officers conducting any type of investigation, the 6-page manual’s only illustration is of an Air Force plane accompanied by three flying saucers; the caption is “The Air Technical Intelligence center is responsible for the prevention of technological surprises.” It is discovered by [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) in 1961 because someone forgot to reclassify the manual as Confidential in November 1953 when the Restricted classification is retired. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Department of the Air Force, Handbook for Air Intelligence Officers, Air Force Manual 200-3, May 1953, chapter 9, [pp. 9-1–9-6](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFM%5F200-3.pdf); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 80](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/80/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2220 ### Event 8807 (E7AF4C4A) **Date:** 5/1/1953 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** GOOSE AIR FORCE BASE, NFL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2555. Tower and air visual (observation). White night light orbits F94 / 6000knts. No RADAR. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3181 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE AFB,NFL:BBK#2555:TOWER+AIR VIS:WHT NLT ORBITS F94/6000knts:NO RDR:/r185", **LatLong:** "53.250003 -60.383336", **LatLongDMS:** "53:15:00 N 60:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.250003,-60.383336)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8808 (EF9EA933) **Date:** 5/1/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Unidentified Evades Interception By F-94 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2555) **Reference:** NICAP: [530501](http://www.nicap.org/530501goose%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1528 ### Event 8809 (B10A52E3) **Date:** 5/1/1953 **Time:** 11:35 PM **Location:** Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet interceptor, and control tower operator. One white light evaded interception attempt by F-94 during 30 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_311 ### Event 8810 (0CE3A869) **Date:** 5/1/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. R. L. Emberry and radar operator 1Lt J. R. Morin are flying an F-94 interceptor at 24,000 feet about 10 miles south of Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. Both men and a control tower operator see a white light with a visible afterburner at 10,000 feet. The F-94 pursues it, both climbing to 40,000 feet, but the object climbs out of sight after 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Unidentified Evades Interception by F-](http://www.nicap.org/530501goose%5Fdir.htm) [94](http://www.nicap.org/530501goose%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 199; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2221 ### Event 8811 (68620DF1) **Date:** 5/2/1953 **Locations:** Calcutta-Dum Dum [now Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport], India; Jagalgori **Description:** BOAC Flight 783, a de Havilland Comet 1, crashes in a severe thundersquall six minutes after taking off from Calcutta-Dum Dum \[now Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport\], India, killing all 43 on board. Witnesses observe the wingless Comet on fire plunging into the village of Jagalgori. A British aviation investigator, J. H. Lett, announces that the plane “collided with a fairly heavy body” and UFO rumors persist for about a year. However, leading investigators suspect structural failure. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[de Havilland Comet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%5FHavilland%5FComet\#Operational%5Fhistory)”; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p, 141 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2222 ### Event 8812 (E56B5E63) **Date:** 5/4/1953 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** HARMON AIR FORCE BASE, NFLD **Description:** 1 observer. Flying football going quickly south. Low altitude and high speed. Tinny sound. 3 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3182 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "HARMON AFB,NFLD:1 OBS:FLYING FOOTBALL >>S:LO ALT+HI SPEED:TINNY SOUND:3sec", **LatLong:** "48.550002 -58.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "48:33:00 N 58:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.550002,-58.550003)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8813 (59264060) **Date:** 5/4/1953 **Location:** Antung, Manchuria, China **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1524 ### Event 8814 (2552CC61) **Date:** 5/4/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Football-shaped light metal colored object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1529 ### Event 8815 (FF81443A) **Date:** 5/4/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** 1:50 a.m. A witness sees a football-shaped, metallic object caught in the glare of a rotating beacon near Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. It is traveling south at high speed and a low altitude, and disappears into low-hanging stratus clouds. She hears a sound “like tins striking together.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 199; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2223 ### Event 8816 (08F35FA5) **Date:** 5/4/1953 **Description:** On this afternoon at 1:50 p.m. a military witness at Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, Canada watched a flying football fly by at low altitude and high speed, heading south. It made a tinny sound. The sighting had a 3 second duration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2501 ### Event 8817 (4A9CB3C6) **Date:** 5/5/1953 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** EAST / YUMA, AZ **Description:** US80. Chemist sees silver saucer. Concentric rings visible / polarized glasses. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FULLER, John G: ALIENS IN THE SKIES; Putnam's Sons and Berkley Books, NY 1969. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3183 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "E/YUMA,AZ:US80:CHEMIST SEES SLVR SCR:CONCENTRIC RINGS VISIBLE/POLARZD GLASSES", **LatLong:** "32.666668 -114.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:40:00 N 114:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.666668,-114.583339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8818 (100E20F3) **Date:** 5/5/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Light above at 7,000 to 8,000 ft maneuvering in spiral pattern over airfield (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1530 ### Event 8819 (53B7A084) **Date:** 5/5/1953 **Location:** Yuma, AZ **Description:** Scientist observed silvery disc; concentric rings visible through Polaroid glasses. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1531 ### Event 8820 (583808D7) **Date:** 5/5/1953 **Locations:** Spain Flying Field; Yuma AFB [now Marine Corps Air Station Yuma]; Yuma, Arizona **Description:** 9:45 a.m. Chemist Wells Alan Webb is standing in a field near the Vacuum Cooling Company plant, not far from Spain Flying Field and about a mile north of Yuma AFB \[now Marine Corps Air Station Yuma\] near Yuma, Arizona, when he sees a fuzzy-white oblong object at an angle of 45° in the north. He observes it both with the naked eye and with Polaroid glasses with a greenish tint that he uses for cloud observations. It is about one-half the diameter of the full moon. After 5 minutes, the object moves to a position 30° eastward and suddenly becomes circular in appearance, becoming gradually smaller. Three concentric dark rings appear around the object, the largest about six times its diameter when viewed with Polaroid glasses. Webb thinks that the rings are the result of the rotation of polarized light scattered from the atmosphere \(Faraday effect\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Polaroid Glasses Expose](http://www.nicap.org/530505yuma%5Fdir.htm) [Concentric Circles around Disc](http://www.nicap.org/530505yuma%5Fdir.htm)”; Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier: Lowell’s Hypothesis, Fearon, 1956, pp, 126–127; UFOEv, [p. 51](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=63&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2224 ### Event 8821 (91CA8B91) **Date:** 5/5/1953 **Description:** One mile north of the Yuma, Arizona USAF fighter base, Wells A. Webb noticed a strange object in the clear blue sky at 9:45 a.m. The UFO initially seemed to be a cloud, but it made a sharp 90 degree turn, and he then saw the cloud resolve into a silver disc-shaped object. Through polaroid glasses Mr. Webb could see dark concentric rings around the craft, possibly due to a force field around the disc. With the glasses off the rings disappeared. He continued to watch for 15 minutes while the UFO receded into the distance. No sound was reported. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 52; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 52; John Fuller, Aliens in the Skies, p. 134; UNICAT, case #363, citing Bruce Maccabee paper, 1984 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2535 ### Event 8822 (983725BF) **Date:** 5/7/1953 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** 1 observer. House-sized saucer with lights / edge. 300mph overhead. Absolute(ly) silent. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3184 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:1 OBS:HOUSE-SIZED SCR W/LITES/EDGE:300mph OVHD:ABS SILENT:>>NE", **LatLong:** "29.400001 -98.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:24:00 N 98:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.400001,-98.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8823 (F878A062) **Date:** 5/7/1953 **Location:** Yuma, AZ **Description:** Air Force officers at a gunnery meet observed about 12 disc-shaped objects that dove down and hovered over the base during the meet. \[AP story, Mar. 9th; UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1532 ### Event 8824 (C1F3BC7D) **Date:** 5/8/1953 **Time:** 15:29:55.4 **Location:** 36.5000 -115.9289 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Encore” Yield: 27KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_41 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.5000 -115.9289", **LatLongDMS:** "36:30:00 N 115:55:44 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.5000,-115.9289)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.74", **NukeName:** "Encore", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "27" ### Event 8825 (A884200F) **Date:** 5/10/1953 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** SOUTH / MACKAY, QLD, AUSTR **Description:** 3 / DC3+Air Traffic Controller / ground. White dome circles DC3. 200-700mph. / r74+/ r137b2p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3185 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "S/MACKAY,QLD,AUSTR:3/DC3+ATC/GND:WHT DOME CCLs DC3:200-700mph:/r74+/r137b2p56", **LatLong:** "-21.400001 149.116674", **LatLongDMS:** "21:24:00 S 149:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.400001,149.116674)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8826 (48C4FA43) **Date:** 5/10/1953 **Locations:** Mackay, Queensland; Australia National Airways DC-3 **Description:** 6:08 p.m. Capt. B. L. Jones is flying an Australian National Airways DC-3 just south of Mackay, Queensland. He radios the local control tower that a “strange object like a lighted glass dome” is maneuvering around his plane. He and his copilot watch the object for about 5 minutes during which time it climbs and dives at a speed of 200–700 mph. Finally, it crosses the path of the aircraft and disappears swiftly to the west. A Mr. W. Overell, the officer in charge at Mackay tower, sees the light climbing from about 4,000–5,000 feet in the west at great speed, although the radar shows no other aircraft in the vicinity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 52; Swords 377–378 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2225 ### Event 8827 (4B29CE98) **Date:** 5/10/1953 **Locations:** Woronora Dam, New South Wales; Wollongong; Mascot **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Capt. Bob Jackson is piloting an Australian National Airways DC-3 near Woronora Dam, New South Wales, when he sees an object with an orange-colored light at the tail flash past toward the east near Wollongong. The radar tower at Mascot shows no traffic in the area. About 2 minutes later, the object reappears, makes a complete circle around the airliner, and speeds away toward the coast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 378 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2226 ### Event 8828 (4B856822) **Date:** 5/10/1953 **Description:** A white dome shaped UFO circled a DC-3 flying south of MacKay, Queensland, Australia at 6:10 p.m. at speeds between 200 and 700 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2712 ### Event 8829 (93546EBD) **Date:** 5/11/1953 **Description:** A declassified MKUltra document indicates hypnosis is a major focus. Experimental goals include: the creation of “hypnotically induced anxieties,” “hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter,” studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, “hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects,” and studying "relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis.” Experiments are conducted with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia while under the influence of such drugs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project MKUltra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMKUltra\#Hypnosis)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2227 ### Event 8830 (92643C41) **Date:** 5/12/1953 **Location:** Pacific Northwest, OR **Description:** Ground & Airborne Contacts / No Visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530512](http://www.nicap.org/530512pacificnw%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1533 ### Event 8831 (FDAA5D82) **Date:** 5/12/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** 3:20 a.m. USAF F-94 pilot Lt. D. C. Rogers and radar operator Lt. J. A. Lane track a radar target about 39 miles northwest of Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. Rogers attempts to intercept but cannot make visual contact. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 199; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2228 ### Event 8832 (B6538DFD) **Date:** 5/16/1953 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** BOUFFIOULX, BELGIUM **Description:** Saucer stops. Big blast. Angel hair falls and evaporates. Saucer flies. / MJ#241. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3186 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOUFFIOULX,BELG:SCR STOPS:BIG BLAST:ANGEL HAIR FALLS+EVAPs:SCR FLIES:/MJ#241", **LatLong:** "50.366669 4.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:22:00 N 04:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.366669,4.533334)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8833 (C6377826) **Date:** 5/16/1953 **Location:** Bouffioulx, Belgium **Description:** 8:15 p.m. Photographer Herman Charmanne is near Bouffioulx, Belgium, when he hears a strange metallic vibration. Looking up, he sees a long white trail in the wake of an object that shoots off at a great speed. The object, a luminous sphere, stops and hovers, allowing him to take two photos that depict a fried-egg-looking shape with a long tail. Recent analyses indicate that the photos are likely the result of a chemical reaction during the developing process, perhaps a flammable fluid deliberately poured on the image carrier that is then ignited. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, [Belgium in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 \(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F)[,](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 12–30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2229 ### Event 8834 (8F31BC38) **Date:** 5/16/1953 **Description:** In Bouffioulx, Hainaut, Belgium at 5:30 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO and occupant were seen briefly by a single witness named Chermanne before disintegrating, leaving behind a black smoke. Two photographs were taken of the disc enveloped in some form of "radiation." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 57; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 39; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2884 ### Event 8835 (68DFE9E5) **Date:** 5/18/1953 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** ROCKHAMPTON, QLD, AUS **Description:** Pilot and weatherman / ground. Crescent-UFO / theodolite. Glitters. Going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3187 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKHAMPTON,QLD,AUS:PILOT+WEATHERMAN/GND:CRESCENT-UFO/THEODOLITE:GLITTERS:>S", **LatLong:** "-23.433334 150.483341", **LatLongDMS:** "23:26:00 S 150:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.433334,150.483341)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8836 (8A3F4681) **Date:** 5/18/1953 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** ABADAN, IRAN **Description:** Very fast vibrant bright "half moon" seen here and all over oil producing regions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3188 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Iran", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "ABADAN,IRAN:VFAST VBRITE "HALF MOON" SEEN HERE+ALL OVR OIL PRODUCING REGIONS.", **LatLong:** "30.266668 48.583336", **LatLongDMS:** "30:16:00 N 48:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.266668,48.583336)", **State/Prov:** "ABD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8837 (5EC8B227) **Date:** 5/18/1953 **Time:** 10:30 PM **Location:** New Plymouth, New Zealand **Description:** Witness: C.S. Chapman, 15. One white, fuzzy, flashing light hovered and darted around for 4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_484 ### Event 8838 (E2942D79) **Date:** 5/18/1953 **Locations:** Abadan, Iran; Khuzestan Province **Description:** 6:55 p.m. A bright, luminous object is seen over Abadan, Iran. It travels very fast and is visible for 20 minutes. It is also seen over oil fields in Khuzestan Province. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 129–130](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/128/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2230 ### Event 8839 (0FE90359) **Date:** 5/19/1953 **Time:** 12:04:59.5 **Location:** 37.0403 -116.0253 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Harry” Yield: 32KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_42 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0403 -116.0253", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:25 N 116:01:31 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0403,-116.0253)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Harry", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "32" ### Event 8840 (2F7DE58A) **Date:** 5/20/1953 **Location:** Kingman, AZ **Description:** Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.) **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_495 **See also:** 5/21/1953 ### Event 8841 (48984EE5) **Date:** 5/20/1953 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** BRUSH CREEK, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 7' saucer going down / sandbar. Small humanoid (or Grey) passes pails / water inside. / r113p170. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3189 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1079", **HatchDesc:** "BRUSH CREEK,CA:2 OBS:7'SCR ↓/SANDBAR:OID PASSES PAILS/WATER INSIDE:/r113p170", **LatLong:** "39.683335 -121.338895", **LatLongDMS:** "39:41:00 N 121:20:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.683335,-121.338895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 8842 (7777EF2A) **Date:** 5/20/1953 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Brush Creek, California **Description:** Two miners, John Q. Black, 48, and John Van Allen, reported that an object, silvery, 2.5 m in diameter, 2 m thick, with a tripod landing gear, landed on a sand bar 50 m away from them. An occupant described as a broadshouldered dwarf wearing clothing that covered the head and the trunk was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with tweedlike cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. He filled a shiny pail with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared to notice Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound and departed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_109 ### Event 8843 (6B276C08) **Date:** 5/20/1953 **Locations:** Jordan and Marble Creeks in Plumas National Forest, northern California; Brush Creek area **Description:** At the junction of Jordan and Marble Creeks in Plumas National Forest, northern California, titanium prospector John Q. Black sees a silvery object, 8 feet in diameter, land on a nearby sand bar. On June 20 the saucer returns, along with a barrel-chested “midget pilot” wearing a “forest-green outfit” and a “peak-billed cap with a cord” around it. The UFO is about 40 feet away, resting on a rock, and has tripod-like landing gear. The pilot fills a rubber-like pail with creek water and goes back inside the craft \(which has one small window\) after hearing Black step on a stick. The craft takes off at a 45° angle with a hissing sound. Black had seen the same object on March 20, for a total of seven times. Black is alone for each sighting, so his partner John Van Allen cannot corroborate the story. The UFO’s expected return on July 20 does not occur, perhaps because scores of sightseers descend on the Brush Creek area \(snack bars are set up so that no one goes hungry during the vigil\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wallace Kunkel, “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There,” Fate 7, no. 5 \(May 1954\): 48–52; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1953-05-20-usa-brushcreek.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1953-05-20-usa-brushcreek.htm) December 15, 2006; Curt Collins, “[Flying Saucer Ambush: Brush Creek, CA, 1953,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/11/flying-saucer-ambush-brush-creek-ca-1953.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, November 17, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2231 ### Event 8844 (9BA903A4) **Date:** 5/20/1953 **Description:** Two miners in Brush Creek, California, John Q. Black, age 48, and John Van Allen, reported that they saw a silvery object land on a sand bar 50 m away from them. It was 2.5 meters in diameter with tripod landing gear. An occupant described as a broad-shouldered dwarf, wearing clothing that covered the head and body was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with tweed-like cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. The UFO occupant filled a shiny pail with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared to notice Mr. Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound when it departed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3003 ### Event 8845 (12610FA4) **Date:** 5/21/1953 **Location:** Kingman, AZ **Description:** Fritz Werner (pseudonym), engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB, assisted in the investigation of a crashed UFO. It was constructed of an unfamiliar metal, similar to aluminum [magnesium?]. It had impacted 20 inches into the sand without any signs of structural damage. It was oval and 30 ft. in diam. An opened hatchway was 3 1/2 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft. wide. Inside the craft were 2 swivel seats, oval cabin and lots of instrumentation and displays. A tent pitched nearby contained the corpse of the pilot. It was approx. 4 ft. tall and had a brown complexion, two eyes, a small round mouth, two nostrils [no nose?], and two ears. It wore a silvery metallic-like suite and a skull cap of the same material. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_496 **See also:** 5/20/1953 ### Event 8846 (6330DC86) **Date:** 5/21/1953 **Location:** NORTH / PRESCOTT, AZ **Description:** Pilot and 3. 2+6 saucers cavort / 3km altitude. Faster / any jet. / 137#2p61+r78p168. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3190 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1630", **HatchDesc:** "N/PRESCOTT,AZ:PILOT+3:2+6 SCRS CAVORT/3km alt:FASTER/ANY JET:/137#2p61+r78p168", **LatLong:** "34.566668 -112.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:34:00 N 112:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.566668,-112.466672)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8847 (F696BFDD) **Date:** 5/21/1953 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** NEAR KINGMAN, AZ **Description:** Eng. / blacked-out bus. 30' saucer and 4' dead small humanoid (or Grey) / tent. / R. Fowler / r249p131. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3191 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1000", **HatchDesc:** "nr KINGMAN,AZ:ENG./BLACKED-OUT BUS:30'SCR+4'DEAD OID/TENT:/R.FOWLER/r249p131", **LatLong:** "35.183335 -114.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:11:00 N 114:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.183335,-114.050005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 8848 (70BE0D67) **Date:** 5/21/1953 **Location:** Prescott, AZ **Description:** A veteran private pilot watched as eight disc-like objects "swooped around in formation, peeled off, and shot directly up and down in a manner that could not be duplicated by a plane." The objects maneuvered overhead for about an hour. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1534 ### Event 8849 (45CFF1E9) **Date:** 5/21/1953 **Location:** Prescott, Arizona **Description:** 10:00 a.m. Eight disc-like objects are observed maneuvering in the sky for an hour or so above Prescott, Arizona, by sportsmen’s club president Bill Beers, post office employee Ray Temple, and O. Ed Olson. Two of the discs are stationary, while the other six discs participate in maneuvers similar to a dogfight. The six swoop around in formation, peel off, and shoot directly up and down in a maneuver that cannot be duplicated by a plane. When they move, they vary from very slow to speeds faster than a jet plane. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Prescott \(Ariz.\) Evening Courier, May 22, 1953; Nukes 87 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2232 ### Event 8850 (D9FD535B) **Date:** 5/21/1953 **Locations:** Kingman, Arizona; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio **Description:** Date of alleged UFO crash and retrieval near Kingman, Arizona. “Fritz Werner” \[pseudonym of [Arthur G.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16956670/arthur-g-stansel) [Stansel Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16956670/arthur-g-stansel)\] claims to have worked on the retrieval. An informant in 1977 tells [Leonard Stringield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) that he had seen three alien bodies in a crate at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio after a UFO crash in Arizona. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, “[Retrievals of the Third Kind: Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 6–7; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 171–185; Clark III 335–338; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [pp. 57–68](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/56/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 398–400](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/398/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2233 ### Event 8851 (F1D4FA67) **Date:** 5/21/1953 **Description:** According to a letter by Fritz A. Werner to J. Allen Hynek dated May 15, 1973, 16 AEC engineers were taken by the U.S. Air Force on this day into the desert outside Kingman, Arizona aboard a bus with its windows blackened out to view a crashed disc. The object was oval shaped, 30 feet in diameter, and with a surface that looked like a highly polished brushed metal. In a nearby tent was a dead body, 4 feet tall. The body was clothed in a silvery metallic suit with a skull cap. The dead pilots body had brown skin, with the other unusual feature being a small mouth. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies files; Raymond E. Fowler, Official UFO, April 24, 1976; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1978, p. 10; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 209 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3015 ### Event 8852 (755764DD) **Date:** 5/22/1953 **Location:** AMERICUS, GA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Silver saucer chased / newspaper editor and photograph. Lost over Cordele. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 266) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3192 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "128", **HatchDesc:** "AMERICUS,GA:100s/OBS:SLVR SCR CHASED/NEWSPAPER EDITOR+PHOTOG:LOST ovr CORDELE", **LatLong:** "32.072224 -84.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:04:20 N 84:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.072224,-84.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8853 (8F4D19D2) **Date:** 5/23/1953 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** CAPE AREA, SOUTH AFRICA **Description:** Air Force Radars. Object passes Cape 6X / 1250 and more/others mph. 5km altitude. / r137#2p67. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3193 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "CAPE AREA,S.AFRICA:AF RADARS:OBJ PASSES CAPE 6X/1250++mph:5km alt:/r137#2p67", **LatLong:** "-34.000002 19.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 S 19:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.000002,19.000001)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8854 (A326A0CB) **Date:** 5/23/1953 **Location:** SURREY HILLS.MELBOURNE, VCT **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape darts into cloud and jumps back out. Very high. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3194 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "SURREY HILLS.MELBOURNE,VCT:CGR DARTS INTO CLOUD+JUMPS BACK OUT:VERY HIGH", **LatLong:** "-37.750002 145.033340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:45:00 S 145:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.750002,145.033340)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8855 (17A97D70) **Date:** 5/23/1953 **Location:** Cape, S. Africa **Description:** Cape, So. Africa, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1511 ### Event 8856 (43428FCF) **Date:** 5/23/1953 **Location:** Capetown, Union of South Africa, Africa **Description:** South African headquarters announced in November that on May 23, radar had tracked an unidentified object near the Cape at over 1000 mph. \[Prescott Evening Courier, May 22; UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530523](http://www.nicap.org/530523capetown%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1535 ### Event 8857 (7B05F011) **Date:** 5/23/1953 **Location:** Lackland AFB, TX **Description:** AN/FPS-3 Tracks Five Or More Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530523](http://www.nicap.org/530523lackland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1536 ### Event 8858 (7A83F7C5) **Date:** 5/23/1953 **Location:** Cape Province, South Africa **Description:** Radar tracks a target over Cape Province, South Africa, that makes six passes at more than 1,250 mph at 5,000–15,000 feet altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 123; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 70–71 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2234 ### Event 8859 (0BE62CA4) **Date:** 5/23/1953 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object darted into a high altitude cloud over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at noon on this day. It then flew back out again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 91; APRO Bulletin, November 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3043 ### Event 8860 (1B15D020) **Date:** 5/25/1953 **Time:** 15:30:00.3 **Location:** 36.7931 -115.9147 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Grable” Yield: 15KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_43 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.7931 -115.9147", **LatLongDMS:** "36:47:35 N 115:54:53 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.7931,-115.9147)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.16", **NukeName:** "Grable", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "15" ### Event 8861 (FD410ADE) **Date:** 5/26/1953 **Time:** 05:10 **Location:** CALVINIA, RSA **Description:** Green luminous object / clouds. 3 light-beams. Seems / follow observer(s) car. Air Force RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3195 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "CALVINIA,RSA:GRN LUM OBJ /CLOUDS:3 LITE-BEAMS:SEEMS/FOLLOW OBS CAR:AF RDR", **LatLong:** "-31.483335 19.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "31:29:00 S 19:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.483335,19.750001)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8862 (99C1FBB1) **Date:** 5/26/1953 **Location:** Brandvlei in Northern Cape Province, South Africa **Description:** 5:10 a.m. D. Beyers, driving 80 miles south of Brandvlei in Northern Cape Province, South Africa, sees a bright yellowish-green light in the clouds, then emerges. The light has the appearance of “burning hydrogen” and emits three streaks that maintain a fixed position with regard to the main light. He watches it for 50 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 130](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/130/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2235 ### Event 8863 (D1832825) **Date:** 5/27/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2577. 2+observer(s). 9 silent night lights going quickly north / 3 minute(s) intervals. 1 reverses course. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3196 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:BBK#2577:2+OBS:9 SLNT NLTS >>N/3min INTERVLS:1 REVERSES COURSE", **LatLong:** "29.433335 -98.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:26:00 N 98:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.433335,-98.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8864 (BB96EB17) **Date:** 5/27/1953 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** 9 separate meandering lights sighted by many (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2577) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1537 ### Event 8865 (615B1D1F) **Date:** 5/27/1953 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: many unidentified civilians, including Jacobson. Nine separate meandering lights were seen during 15 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_312 ### Event 8866 (2C605F6E) **Date:** 5/30/1953 **Location:** PALMERSTON NORTH, NZ **Description:** Small bright-blue UFO / irregular motion. Angel hair falls. / r137. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3197 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PALMERSTON NORTH,NZ:SML BRITE-BLU UFO/IRREGULAR MOTION:ANGEL HAIR FALLS:/r137", **LatLong:** "-40.333335 175.583342", **LatLongDMS:** "40:20:00 S 175:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-40.333335,175.583342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8867 (2CCA80C2) **Date:** 5/30/1953 **Location:** Palmerston North, New Zealand **Description:** After a small, bright-blue object with a strange irregular motion passes overhead at Palmerston North, New Zealand, numerous filaments of a “substance resembling spider webs, white in color and ashy in texture” float to earth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Palmerston North, New Zealand,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201953%2009%2015%20-%20Vol%202%20No%202.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 2, no. 2 \(September 15, 1953\): 8; Clark III 124 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2236 ### Event 8868 (0BCA40C2) **Date:** 5/30/1953 **Description:** On this day a small bright blue UFO made irregular motions in the sky over Palmerston North, New Zealand. "Angel hair" fell to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 49 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3163 ### Event 8869 (9D82190C) **Date:** 5/31/1953 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#11. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 199–214 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2237 ### Event 8870 (3ECB94E7) **Date:** 6/1953 **Location:** OTIS AIR FORCE BASE, MA **Description:** UFO / RADAR. Jet chases and malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 2 jump. Plane and 1 vanish / no trace. ?? / MJ#242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: UFO HISTORICAL REVUE (UHR Qtrly) Barry Greenwood. Issue #8 Febr, 2001. POB 176, STONEHAM,MA 02180 **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3198 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "OTIS AFB,MA:UFO/RDR:JET CHASES+EMEs:2 JUMP:PLANE+1 VANISH/NO TRACE:??/MJ#242", **LatLong:** "41.666669 -70.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 70:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,-70.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 8871 (161DBDAE) **Date:** 6/1953 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** KANSAS CITY, MO **Description:** Metal UFO rises / horizon to 3500' overhead. Size = 3X airliner. Hovers 5 min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3199 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "224", **HatchDesc:** "KANSAS CITY,MO:MTL UFO RISES/HRZN TO 3500' OVHD:SIZE=3X AIRLINER:HVRS 5 MIN", **LatLong:** "39.066669 -94.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:00 N 94:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.066669,-94.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8872 (52D54BA6) **Date:** 6/1953 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** EAST BURKLINGTON, ONT **Description:** Teens and more/others. Dull silver ovoid hovers / trees. Curves up going west over school. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 541) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3200 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "E.BURKLINGTON,ONT:TEENS++:DULL SLVR OVOID HVRS/TREES:CURVES UP >W ovr SCHOOL", **LatLong:** "43.333335 -79.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:20:00 N 79:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.333335,-79.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8873 (01CA5950) **Date:** 6/1953 **Location:** Otis AFB, NJ **Description:** F-94C Disappears During UFO Intercept Mission (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530600](http://www.nicap.org/5306XXotisafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1538 ### Event 8874 (B53A6B71) **Date:** 6/1953 **Locations:** Otis AFB; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Base Rifle Range; Norton AFB; San Bernardino International Airport, California **Description:** Night. An F-94C Starfire with classified electronic gear takes off from Otis AFB \[now Otis Air National Guard Base\] in western Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Piloted by Capt. Suggs and radar operator Lt. Robert Markhoff, the jet takes off in a westerly direction. Shortly after attaining 1,500 feet over the Base Rifle Range, the engine quits functioning and the electrical system fails. The jet’s nose drops and Suggs signals Barkhoff to bail out. Suggs bails out and he and his parachute wind up in a homeowner’s backyard. The jet should have crashed nearby, but neither Markhoff or the airplane can be located, despite months of searching. Although this account comes from M/Sgt [Clarence O. Dargie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183719276/clarence-oscar-dargie)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183719276/clarence-oscar-dargie) and investigator [Raymond Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FE.%5FFowler) obtains the accident report from Norton AFB \[now San Bernardino International Airport\], California, there appears to be no open record of this incident. The F-94C models, especially at first, have fire-control problems and electrical short circuiting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 287–291; Good Need, [pp. 189–191](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/188/mode/2up); Bob Pratt, “[Conversations](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/MUFON/Pratt/DonaldKeyhoe.pdf) [with Major Donald Keyhoe,](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/MUFON/Pratt/DonaldKeyhoe.pdf)” Mutual UFO Network; Barry Greenwood, “[Questions on a 1953 Cape Cod](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf) [Mystery,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 \(February 2001\): 1–3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2240 ### Event 8875 (BA63157A) **Date:** 6/1953 **Description:** Secretary of Defense [Charles Erwin Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FErwin%5FWilson) abolishes the Research and Development Board for the politically motivated reason that suspected communist sympathizer [Robert Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) is a sitting member. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2241 ### Event 8876 (920B01A5) **Date:** 6/1953 **Location:** Wisconsin **Description:** Lt. Robert M. Olsson and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) visit [Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) in Wisconsin and try to convince her that it is in the national interest for her to reduce excitement about UFOs by publishing cases. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 197; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 82–83](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n79/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2242 ### Event 8877 (25452FFC) **Date:** 6/1953 **Location:** Los Angeles, California **Description:** [Max B. Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%5FB.%5FMiller) publishes the first issue of Saucers, a digest-sized quarterly of Flying Saucers International in Los Angeles, California. It continues until the Fall 1959 issue. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Saucers](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(1953\); Clark III 1033 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2243 ### Event 8878 (BA0BFDA0) **Date:** 6/2/1953 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** Military and civil and 3 airbases. Night lights circle and maneuver all over sky / 2 hours and more. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3201 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:MIL+CIV+3 AIRBASES:NLTS CRCL+MNVR ALL OVR SKY/2hrs+:", **LatLong:** "29.416668 -98.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:25:00 N 98:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.416668,-98.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8879 (7D1998C6) **Date:** 6/3/1953 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NAPIER, NZ **Description:** Group / boy scouts. Glowing object / 7000' altitude. Going quickly north. Chair shaped! / r137#2p81. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3202 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NAPIER,NZ:Grp/BOY SCOUTS:GLOWING OBJ/7000'alt:>>N:CHAIR SHAPED!:/r137#2p81", **LatLong:** "-39.500002 176.900008", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 S 176:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.500002,176.900008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8880 (5DE8746E) **Date:** 6/4/1953 **Time:** 11:14:56.7 **Location:** 37.0875 -116.0183 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Climax” Yield: 61KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_44 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0875 -116.0183", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:15 N 116:01:06 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0875,-116.0183)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.41", **NukeName:** "Climax", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "61" ### Event 8881 (0F1C0CDE) **Date:** 6/9/1953 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, MI **Description:** Air Force-ROTC. Slow silent meteor levels off and flies going quickly north. / MJ#242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 281) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3203 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "WAYNE State University,MI:AF-ROTC:SLOW SLNT METEOR LVLS OFF+FLIES>>N:/MJ#242", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -83.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 83:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-83.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8882 (DD5B1A0C) **Date:** 6/9/1953 **Description:** [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) approves Project MKUltra’s “Subproject 8” on LSD. Experiments include administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts, and prostitutes—“people who could not fight back,” as one agency officer puts it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2244 ### Event 8883 (485C54D5) **Date:** 6/10/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LIDO KEY, FL **Description:** 2 / beach. Cylinder/cigar-shape follows several B36s / succession. Row / windows / side. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 542) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3204 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "LIDO KEY,FL:2/BEACH:CGR FOLOS SVRL B36s/succession:ROW/WINDOWS/SIDE:>>N", **LatLong:** "27.316668 -82.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:19:00 N 82:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.316668,-82.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8884 (2789B970) **Date:** 6/10/1953 **End date:** 6/11/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Radar tracks 25 separate unidentified objects near base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530610-11](http://www.nicap.org/530611goosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1541 ### Event 8885 (E2249F28) **Date:** 6/15/1953 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** PITTSFIELD, MASS **Description:** 2 observer(s). 60' cylinder/cigar-shape / 15mph / low altitude near reservoir. Silent. No wings / portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3205 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "312", **HatchDesc:** "PITTSFIELD,MASS:2 OBS:60'CGR/15mph/LO alt nr RESERVOIR:SILENT:NO WINGS/PORTS", **LatLong:** "42.450002 -73.244448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:27:00 N 73:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.450002,-73.244448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8886 (2775E1FB) **Date:** 6/16/1953 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** KELLY AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Several / tower. Hazy ovoid = 23cm / arms length. Vanishes in place. / MJ#242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 285) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3206 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "KELLY AFB,TX:SVRL/TOWER:HAZY OVOID=23cm/ARMS LENGTH:VANISHES IN PLACE:/MJ#242", **LatLong:** "29.333335 -98.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:20:00 N 98:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.333335,-98.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8887 (338C787D) **Date:** 6/16/1953 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1542 ### Event 8888 (D61382D3) **Date:** 6/17/1953 **Locations:** Galveston, Texas; Gulf of Mexico **Description:** 7:30 a.m. Several witnesses in Galveston, Texas, see a large, cigar-shaped object silently flying in from the Gulf of Mexico. One estimates it to be about 300 feet long and no greater than 150 feet in the air. The object makes a cloud and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2245 ### Event 8889 (D614284F) **Date:** 6/18/1953 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** Shadow going quickly [to] tree. Manlike figure in Cape on limb. Glows. Vanishes.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3207 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:SHADOW>>TREE:MANLIKE FIGURE IN CAPE ON LIMB:GLOWS:VANISHES..", **LatLong:** "29.783335 -95.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:47:00 N 95:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.783335,-95.366671)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 8890 (988ED5BB) **Date:** 6/18/1953 **Location:** unknown location, Iwo Jima **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530618](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/530618iwodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1543 ### Event 8891 (A7542261) **Date:** 6/18/1953 **Time:** 0230 **Location:** Houston, Texas **Description:** Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers saw in a garden at 118 East Third Street a strange "shadow" on the lawn which resembled a "flying man," and they watched it take off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins A 261 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_110 ### Event 8892 (586BF9B1) **Date:** 6/18/1953 **Description:** At 2:30 a.m. Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers were in a garden on 118 East Third Street in Houston, Texas when they noticed a strange "shadow" on the lawn that resembled a "flying man." They watched him take off and fly away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 261; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3531 ### Event 8893 (6BED55CF) **Date:** 6/20/1953 **Location:** California Coast **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_498 ### Event 8894 (3BF6194C) **Date:** 6/20/1953 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** BRUSH CREEK, CA **Description:** Prospectors. Saucer and small humanoids (or Greys) land again! More water samples taken. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3208 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1079", **HatchDesc:** "BRUSH CREEK,CA:PROSPECTORS:SCR+OIDS LAND AGAIN!:MORE WATER SAMPLES TAKEN.", **LatLong:** "39.683335 -121.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:41:00 N 121:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.683335,-121.350006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 8895 (21ABCE1C) **Date:** 6/20/1953 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Brush Creek, California **Description:** John Q. Black, witness of the May. 20 incident, observed an exact repetition of the scene, including the "little man." Van Allen saw only the landing marks, about 30 cm wide and re sembling elephant tracks. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_111 ### Event 8896 (15FEE147) **Date:** 6/20/1953 **Description:** Brush Creek, California. John Q. Black, one of two miners who witnessed a landing and humanoid at Brush Creek on May 20th of this year, witnessed a complete repetition of the scene, including the "little man" with the pail of water. The little man was dressed in a suit like a parka, and he descended from a 8-foot wide landed lens-shaped silver craft with tripod landing gear. The "midget" scooped up a pail of water, saw that he was being watched, then scurried back to the craft and zoomed away. His partner Mr. John Van Allen only saw the tripod landing gear marks, which were about 30 cm wide and resembled "elephant tracks." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** The Humanoids, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red, The UFO Siege!, pp. 49-51 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3551 ### Event 8897 (78EAE78C) **Date:** Summer 1953 **Location:** Camp Polk, Louisiana **Description:** Saucer crash lands near Camp Polk, Louisiana. US Army Pvt. H.J. (initials) under Sgt. R.S. (initials) in Company B ordered to stay by the saucer until the ambulance and superior officers arrive. Three Aliens walked away from the crash. One Alien was carried on a stretcher. All aliens eventually died, taken to storage facility near Washington D.C. Alien description: Large helmeted heads, tight fitting suits, legs stiff when they walked, 3.5 to 4.0 feet tall, used Alien language. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_497 ### Event 8898 (12EA4B8A) **Date:** 6/21/1953 **Location:** DUNOON, SCOTLAND **Description:** 2 observer(s). Perfectly round saucer exits cloud. Spins. Leaves (something behind) black trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 287) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3209 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "DUNOON,SCOTLAND:2 OBS:PERFECTLY ROUND SCR EXITS CLOUD:SPINS:LVS BLACK TRAIL", **LatLong:** "55.933336 -4.922222", **LatLongDMS:** "55:56:00 N 04:55:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.933336,-4.922222)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8899 (2B3A3536) **Date:** 6/21/1953 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NAHA, OKINAWA **Description:** 9+weathermen. Unidentified night light moves slowly / 20 minute(s). No further details [in] in files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3210 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "NAHA,OKINAWA:9+WEATHERMEN:UID NLT MOVES SLOWLY/20min:NFD in FILES", **LatLong:** "26.033335 127.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "26:02:00 N 127:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.033335,127.700006)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 8900 (C9D8BDEB) **Date:** Summer 1953 **Location:** Yaak, MT **Description:** Radar-visual sighting of six UFOs in formation. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1539 ### Event 8901 (1216E249) **Date:** Summer 1953 **Location:** Muskogee, OK **Description:** 2:00 p.m. The photo was allegedly taken in the Summer of 1953 by Mr. XXXXX of Tulsa, Oklahoma. According to Air Force report, at 1400 hours he took a photo of an unidentified flying object which appeared in the sky (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [53Summer](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/musk5307XXdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1540 ### Event 8902 (E08BC46A) **Date:** 6/21/1953 **Location:** Naha, Okinawa **Description:** Weather observers saw an unidentified light move slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1544 ### Event 8903 (E4FF216E) **Date:** 6/21/1953 **Time:** 7 PM **Location:** Naha, Okinawa **Description:** Witnesses: Nine Japanese and Okinawan weather observers. One unidentified light moved slowly for 20 minutes. No further data in files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_313 ### Event 8904 (512435E2) **Date:** Summer 1953 **Locations:** Ernest Harmon Air Force Base; Stephenville International Airport; Stephenville, Newfoundland **Description:** Two F-94 jets are scrambled at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base \[now Stephenville International Airport\], near Stephenville, Newfoundland, after base radar picks up an unknown target. One of the pilots gets radar and visual confirmation, then radios that he is going into a steep climb to give chase. The jet crashes into a mountain. The base is supposedly placed on red alert. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 142 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2238 ### Event 8905 (B8EA52D1) **Date:** Summer 1953 **Locations:** Scenic Avenue; Central Point, Oregon **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A family is returning home on Scenic Avenue in Central Point, Oregon, when they see three entities along the side of the road only 6 feet away. They stop the car, and the beings glide across the road and disappear into the woods. They are 4 feet high, white, with satiny fur, and resemble very large geese, but with no beaks or wings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[No UFO Seen: Just Creatures,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 \(April/May 1984\): 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2239 ### Event 8906 (957F5BD9) **Date:** 6/22/1953 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** GOOSE AFB.LABR, NFLD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2601. F94 crew and ground observer(s) and RADAR. Jet chases red night light / 5 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3211 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE AFB.LABR,NFLD:BBK#2601:F94 CREW+GND OBS+RDR:JET CHASES RED NLT/5min:", **LatLong:** "53.266669 -60.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "53:16:00 N 60:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.266669,-60.416670)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8907 (2B4C819A) **Date:** 6/22/1953 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Red Light Eludes F-94 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2601) **Reference:** NICAP: [530622](http://www.nicap.org/530622goosebay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1545 ### Event 8908 (8E66E8F1) **Date:** 6/22/1953 **Time:** 2:10 AM **Location:** Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. One red light, flying at an estimated 1,000 kts. (1,100 m.p.h.) eluded the chasing F-94 after 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_314 ### Event 8909 (730A3B9C) **Date:** 6/22/1953 **Description:** At 2:10 a.m. the pilot and radar operator of a USAF F-94 jet interceptor flying from Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada sighted a red light flying at an estimated 1,000 knots (1,100 mph). The object eluded the pursuing F-94 after five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3599 ### Event 8910 (75DB4499) **Date:** 6/23/1953 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** NORTH / US90 EAST / DEL RIO, TX **Description:** Air Force weatherman. Saucer drops. Stops. Heads going quickly west. "Tremendous acceleration". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3212 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "338", **HatchDesc:** "N/US90 E/DEL RIO,TX:AF WEATHERMAN:SCR DROPS:STOPS:HEADS>>W:"TREMENDOUS ACCEL"", **LatLong:** "29.250001 -100.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:15:00 N 100:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.250001,-100.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8911 (E104B8F5) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Location:** Quonset Point, Rhode Island **Description:** USAF EMERGENCY Intelligence Report: Two jets out of Quonset Point have had mid-air collision at 2130E with UFO. American and Eastern Airlines pilots reported UFO. Jets fell in flames 15 miles West of Quonset Point. **Type:** ufo collision **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p488) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_499 **See also:** 6/26/1953 ### Event 8912 (C6AB9F1B) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** HAMPTON BAYS, NY **Description:** 30M saucer stops / midair. Dome rises above saucer! Portholes. Control panel. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3213 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "HAMPTON BAYS,NY:30M SCR STOPS/MIDAIR:DOME RISES ABOVE SCR!:PORTHOLES:CTRL PANL", **LatLong:** "40.866669 -72.516670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:52:00 N 72:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.866669,-72.516670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8913 (0DA34530) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** SIMIUTAQ, GREENLAND **Description:** Weatherman hill. Red night light hovers and spins / 15 second(s). Rises / 5 minute(s) and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3214 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SIMIUTAQ,GREENLAND:WEATHERMAN HILL:RED NLT HVRS+SPINS/15sec:RISES/5min+GONE", **LatLong:** "60.683336 -46.583336", **LatLongDMS:** "60:41:00 N 46:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.683336,-46.583336)", **State/Prov:** "SIM", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8914 (83348802) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** IWO JIMA, BONIN, JPN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2605. KB29 air RADAR. Blip maneuvers .5mi away / 2 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3215 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "IWO JIMA,BONIN,JPN:BBK#2605:KB29 AIR RDR:BLIP MNVRS .5mi AWAY/2min:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.033335 139.783340", **LatLongDMS:** "33:02:00 N 139:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.033335,139.783340)", **State/Prov:** "IWJ", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 8915 (456744A4) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Location:** Hampton Bays, Long Island, NY **Description:** "a large aircraft" of exotic design with a lighted red band around the middle (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1546 ### Event 8916 (158FF335) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Location:** Bonin Islands, Iwo Jima **Description:** Radar tracked an unidentified target that twice approached (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2605) **Reference:** NICAP: [530624](http://www.nicap.org/530624iwodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1547 ### Event 8917 (960412C7) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Location:** Simiutak, Greenland **Description:** Saw through a theodolite a rotating red delta shaped (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Rating: 5, BB: 2606) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1548 ### Event 8918 (CBC0932C) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Time:** 0018 **Location:** Hampton Bay, Long Island **Description:** A civilian woman saw something like "a large aircraft" flying very slowly and low. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, 25 m above ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupant was seen. The cabin rose above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within 3 sec at an 80 degree angle of climb after the 3-min sighting. Diameter: 30 m. Two days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_112 ### Event 8919 (BE32C178) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Time:** 11:30 PM **Location:** Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands **Description:** Witnesses: crew of USAF KB-29 aerial tanker plane. Radar tracked an unidentified target which twice approached to within .5 miles of the airplane, and once to within 6 miles, during a 2 minute observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_315 ### Event 8920 (1437E3B9) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Time:** 11:30 AM **Location:** Simiutak, Greenland **Description:** Witness: weather observer A/2c R.A. Hill. One red triangle hovered and rotated for 15 seconds, then climbed for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_316 ### Event 8921 (346F1AE9) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Location:** Simiutaq island, western Greenland **Description:** 11:30 a.m. A weather observer stationed at remote Simiutaq island, western Greenland, is tracking a weather balloon with a theodolite. He notices a rotating red object flying from southeast to northwest and approaching the balloon, which is at 18,000 feet. The object collides with the balloon, disintegrating it. Afterward, it hovers in a circular motion for 15 seconds and departs into the wind. He watches it another 5 minutes until it is lost to view. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 69–70 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2246 ### Event 8922 (7D268312) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Locations:** NAS Quonset Point; Quonset Point Air National Guard Station; Exeter/West Greenwich town lines **Description:** Night. A flight of US Navy F2H Banshee jets out of NAS Quonset Point \[now Quonset Point Air National Guard Station\] are on a night training mission over southern Rhode Island when two aircraft in the formation collide in mid-air. The crash occurs at 19,000 feet near or over the Exeter/West Greenwich town lines, and debris is scattered for several miles in all directions. The pilot of one Banshee, Lt. Jg. [Jack Oliver Snipes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142209158/jack-oliver-snipes), is killed. An emergency cable sent to the Director of Air Force Intelligence in the Pentagon indicates that “flying objects” are seen by the pilots prior to the accident. Its distribution list includes the fledgling National Security Agency. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Exeter/West Greenwich, Rhode Island: June 24, 1953,](https://newenglandaviationhistory.com/exeterwest-greenwich-r-i-june-24-1953/)” New England Aviation History, October 2017; Good Above, [pp. 272–273](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up) [488](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/488/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2247 ### Event 8923 (22D73718) **Date:** 6/24/1953 **Description:** A woman in Hampton Bay, New York saw something like "a large aircraft" about 30 meters wide flying very slowly and low at 6:30 p.m. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, only 25 meters above the ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupants were seen. The cabin section rose above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within three seconds at an 80-degree angle of climb after the three minute long sighting. Two days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, June 1953, case 22; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203 (case 112) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3637 ### Event 8924 (BB877C7E) **Date:** 6/26/1953 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** USAF Intelligence Report, EMERGENCY JEDUP JEDEN JEDFF JEPHQ JEPRS 555. Distribution: OOP, OOP-CP, OAC, ARMY, NAVY, JCS, CIA, NSA, Tech Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB. (see 06/24/1953 for details of report) **Type:** ufo collision **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p488) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_500 **See also:** 6/24/1953 ### Event 8925 (47081922) **Date:** 6/26/1953 **Location:** EL PROVENCIO, CUENCA, SP **Description:** Extra moon hangs / sky / 5 hours. Photographs. = saucer seen sideways. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 292) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3216 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "EL PROVENCIO,CUENCA,SP:EXTRA MOON HANGS/SKY/5hrs:FOTOS:=SCR SEEN SIDEWAYS:>>N", **LatLong:** "39.377780 -2.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "39:22:40 N 02:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.377780,-2.583333)", **State/Prov:** "Cuenca", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8926 (25663A95) **Date:** 6/28/1953 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** OVER WHITE PLAINS, NY **Description:** Private pilot. 15cm saucer / 750M.alt. 386kph going quickly northeast. / USAF report / MJ#242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 292) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3217 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "ovr WHITE PLAINS,NY:PVT PILOT:15cm SCR/750M.alt:386kph >>NE:/USAF Rpt/MJ#242", **LatLong:** "41.050002 -73.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:03:00 N 73:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.050002,-73.750004)", **RelAlt:** "750", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8927 (AE84C199) **Date:** 6/30/1953 **Location:** Ramore, Ontario, CAN **Description:** Pinetreeline Radar Site. UFO was observed for, a period of twenty minutes in the northern sky moving to the southeast by at least 10 personnel of the 912th AC&W Squadron. (not tracked) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [530630](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/ramore530630dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1549 ### Event 8928 (F45C3AEB) **Date:** 6/30/1953 **Locations:** CFS Ramore; Ramore, Ontario; Domestic Area **Description:** 11:45 p.m. An orange-colored, oval object is seen for a period of 20 minutes in the northern sky moving to the southeast by at least 10 personnel of the US 912th Air Control and Warning Squadron stationed at Ramore Air Station radar site \[now CFS Ramore\], 3 miles west of Ramore, Ontario. The first person to see it is A/2c Dean McDonald who comes out of the maintenance room to inspect a power unit that has caused a minor breakdown of the search radar set. He calls two other airmen to witness it. One of the two thinks the object is the moon. The first airman gets hysterical and calls the Charge of Quarters at the Domestic Area three miles to the southwest. At least seven witnesses in that area see the object, and two of them report that the moon is visible and the UFO is distinct and separate. The object soon fades away slowly to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Project Blue Book file](https://archive.org/details/1953-06-6385545-Ramore-Ontario-Canada/mode/2up)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2248 ### Event 8929 (C8603BD9) **Date:** 7/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR GUAM **Description:** RNZAF flying boat buzzed / metallic 15 Mx4M wingless fuselage! Up and away / 6000 kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 547) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3218 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr GUAM:RNZAF FLYING BOAT BUZZED/MTLC 15Mx4M WINGLESS FSLG!:UP+AWAY/6000 kph", **LatLong:** "14.250001 144.833340", **LatLongDMS:** "14:15:00 N 144:50:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.250001,144.833340)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8930 (8D1E8C37) **Date:** 7/1953 **Description:** The 4602nd AISS has taken over nearly all of Blue Book’s field investigations. \(Ruppelt, [p. 232](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/232/mode/2up)\) **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2249 ### Event 8931 (200E0FC3) **Date:** 7/1953 **Locations:** Sea of Japan; Cal Tech **Description:** Lt. Robert M. Olsson of Project Blue Book sends five supposedly unsolved UFO cases of 1953 to Cal Tech physicist [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) in an effort to see if any change in the Robertson Panel’s conclusions is warranted. One of them is the Sea of Japan ELINT case of April 14. Apparently, Robertson’s mind is not changed. He is now heading up the Robertson Committee of the newly formed National Security Agency, tasked with developing better use of intercepted communications and radars in order to provide strategic warning of a military attack by the Soviet Union. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2250 ### Event 8932 (E3723D37) **Date:** 7/1/1953 **Time:** ~01:10 **Location:** HONRUBIA, SPAIN **Description:** Cops. Grey-white sphere/orb/globe comes from northwest. Hovers. Shoots going quickly east. Leaves no trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3219 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HONRUBIA,SPAIN:COPS:GRY-WHT ORB COMES FROM NW:HVRS:SHOOTS>>E:LEAVES NO TRAIL", **LatLong:** "39.600002 -2.288889", **LatLongDMS:** "39:36:00 N 02:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.600002,-2.288889)", **State/Prov:** "Cuenca", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8933 (85741893) **Date:** 7/1/1953 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** LA GRANDE, OR **Description:** Ground and Navy jet crew observer(s). Bright metallic triangle going quickly SSE / 18K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3220 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "845", **HatchDesc:** "La GRANDE,OR:GND+NAVY JET CREW OBS:BRITE MTLC TRIANGLE>>SSE/18K'alt:", **LatLong:** "45.316669 -118.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:19:00 N 118:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.316669,-118.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8934 (81ED1DCE) **Date:** 7/1/1953 **Location:** Villares del Saz, Cuenca, Spain **Description:** 1:00 p.m. A cowherd, Maximo Munoz Olivares \[or Hernáiz\], 14, sees a “big balloon” on the ground behind him in Villares del Saz, Cuenca, Spain, after a faint whistling attracts his attention. Shaped like a water jug, the object is metallic. Through an opening come three dwarfs 2 feet tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They speak in a language he cannot understand. They are dressed in blue and have a sort of flat hat with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacks the boy’s face, then they reenter the machine, which glows very brightly, makes a soft whistling sound, and goes off “like a rocket.” Footprints and four holes 2 inches deep, forming a perfect square 13 inches in size, are found by police. Possible hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) [History: 1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 92–93; Antonio Ribera, “[The Landing at Villares del Saz,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, pp. 28–30; Clark III 270 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2251 ### Event 8935 (E5A67C83) **Date:** 7/1/1953 **Description:** On this day or the next, at around 11:00 a.m. in Villares del Saz, Cuenca, Spain an illiterate cowherd, 14-year-old Maximo Munos-Olivares Hernaiz, heard an intermittent whistling soung behind him. When he turned around he saw a "big balloon" on the ground. It was shaped like a water jug and was metallic in appearance. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat with a visor in front, and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacked the boy's face, then they re-entered the machine, which glowed very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off "like a rocket." There were footprints left behind at the site and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square, 36 cm on each side, that were found by the police. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Antonio Ribera, in Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 113; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1953-07 (A0215); UNICAT, case # 438, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 77 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3770 ### Event 8936 (596CE31D) **Date:** 7/2/1953 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, SC **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 small saucers hover / treetop altitude / 2 hours. Large saucer joins in / 0300hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3221 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "SHAW AFB,SC:2 OBS:3 SML SCRS HVR/TREETOP ALT/2 HRS:LRG SCR JOINS IN/0300hrs", **LatLong:** "33.966668 -80.488893", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:00 N 80:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.966668,-80.488893)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8937 (FCF214CE) **Date:** 7/2/1953 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** VILLARES DEL SAZ, SP **Description:** 3 65cm small humanoids (or Greys) exit 130cm ovoid. Gibberish. / LDLN#93+/ r50p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3222 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VILLARES del SAZ,SP:3 65cm OIDS exit 130cm OVOID:GIBBERISH:/LDLN#93+/r50p3", **LatLong:** "39.850002 -2.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "39:51:00 N 02:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.850002,-2.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Cuenca", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 8938 (94FE392E) **Date:** 7/2/1953 **Time:** 1300 **Location:** Villares des Saz, Spain **Description:** Approximate date. An illiterate boy cowherd, Maximo Munos Olivares, 14, saw a "big balloon" on the ground behind him when a faint whistling attracted his attention. Shaped like a water jug, it was metallic. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacked the boy's face, then they reentered the machine, which glowed very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off "like a rocket." Footprints and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square 36 cm in side were found by police. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 29 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_113 ### Event 8939 (47CFC46B) **Date:** 7/3/1953 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** FRANKFORT, IN **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 white saucers turn silver when sun hits them. / r137#2p94. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3223 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "FRANKFORT,IN:SVRL OBS:2 WHT SCRS TURN SILVER WHEN SUN HITS THEM:/r137#2p94", **LatLong:** "40.277780 -86.511115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:40 N 86:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.277780,-86.511115)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8940 (BD8A8092) **Date:** 7/3/1953 **Location:** Tipp City, OH **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1550 ### Event 8941 (D37E1F10) **Date:** 7/7/1953 **Locations:** Atlanta, Georgia; US Highway 78 near Leland, Georgia; Cobb County; Atlanta Constitution office; Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta; Emory University Hospital in Atlanta **Description:** Evening. An Atlanta, Georgia, barber named Edward Watters buys a monkey from a pet shop, shaves and kills it, cuts off its tail, then takes it with two friends, Tom Wilson and Arnold Payne, to US Highway 78 near Leland, Georgia, and waits for the first car to stop. They tell the driver, who turns out to be Cobb County policeman [Sherley Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187468612/sherley-eugene-brown)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187468612/sherley-eugene-brown) that they had seen a flying saucer and accidentally killed one of its occupants. They bring the dead animal to the Atlanta Constitution office, where reporter Thomas McRae notifies the FBI, which alerts the Air Force at Dobbins AFB \[now Dobbins Air Reserve Base\] in Marietta. The animal is taken to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where Anatomy Professor Marion Hines identifies it properly as a shaved Capuchin monkey. Watters admits the hoax and is fined $40 by a judge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Martian Monkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5FMonkey)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) [History: 1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 96–102; Clark III 593 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2252 ### Event 8942 (B69F0404) **Date:** 7/9/1953 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** WICHITA FALLS, TX **Description:** Saucer swoops over sheppard Air Force Base hospital. Very fast. Glows. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3224 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "304", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA FALLS,TX:SCR SWOOPS OVR SHEPPARD AFB HOSPITAL:VFAST:GLOWS:>>S", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -98.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 98:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-98.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8943 (F2E1E17E) **Date:** 7/9/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** COLUMBUS AND PHENIX CITY, OH **Description:** Silver saucers over aviation plant. 20 report(s) going [to] PAPERs. / r242p65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3225 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS+PHENIX CITY,OH:SLVR SCRs ovr AVIATION PLANT:20 RPTS>PAPERs:/r242p65", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -82.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 82:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-82.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8944 (F10D81F0) **Date:** 7/9/1953 **Location:** Columbus, OH **Description:** Circular, silver UFO seen at North American Aviation plant. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1551 ### Event 8945 (D3823E3E) **Date:** 7/9/1953 **Description:** A disc swooped down over the Sheppard AFB hospital building in Texas. It was glowing and moved very fast. It headed off toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, investigation report dated July 12, 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3950 ### Event 8946 (03267C6F) **Date:** 7/12/1953 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** CLARK FORK, ID **Description:** Ground observers. 2 large "upturned mirrors" follow jet planes. / r137#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3226 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "637", **HatchDesc:** "CLARK FORK,ID:GND OBSs:2 LRG "UPTURNED MIRRORS" FOLO JET PLANES:/r137#2", **LatLong:** "48.144447 -116.172228", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:40 N 116:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.144447,-116.172228)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8947 (49D22164) **Date:** 7/13/1953 **Location:** CHICO, CA **Description:** UFO spews sparks. Sphere/orb/globe over foothills. 15 July saucer hovers over almond orchard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3227 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "CHICO,CA:UFO SPEWS SPARKS:ORB OVR FOOTHILLS::15JLY SCR HVRS OVR ALMOND ORCHARD", **LatLong:** "39.716669 -121.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:43:00 N 121:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.716669,-121.833339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8948 (E00ED9E0) **Date:** 7/13/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CONGAREE TO/FROM COLUMBIA, SC **Description:** Ground and air observer(s) both pilots. Silent orange plane-size ovoid going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3228 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "CONGAREE>>N", **LatLong:** "33.900002 -80.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 N 80:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.900002,-80.950004)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8949 (E6417301) **Date:** 7/13/1953 **Location:** Shaw AFB, SC **Description:** Elliptical Object Encountered By RF-80 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530713](http://www.nicap.org/530713shaw%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1552 ### Event 8950 (FE27CAA2) **Date:** 7/14/1953 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** WEST / NORFOLK, VA **Description:** Pilots fly over top / 6 saucers. Estimated 30M diameter each. High speeds. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILSON, Clifford: The ALIEN AGENDA; 1974 & Signet PB 1988. (religious interpretation.) (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3229 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "W/NORFOLK,VA:PILOTS FLY OVER TOP/6 SCRS:estm 30M diam each:high speeds:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.866668 -76.516670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:52:00 N 76:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.866668,-76.516670)", **RelAlt:** "-200", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8951 (57387C5F) **Date:** 7/16/1953 **Location:** Salton Sea, California **Description:** Lt. Col. William F. Barns attains an official world airspeed record of 716 mph in a North American F-86D Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[North American F-86D Sabre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-86D%5FSabre)”; “[16 July 1953,](https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/william-f-barns/)” This Day in Aviation History, July 16, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2253 ### Event 8952 (D65C3548) **Date:** 7/18/1953 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** KEY WEST NAS, FL **Description:** 2 Navy observer(s). Circular night light makes series / fantastic maneuvers. Vanishes overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3230 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KEY WEST NAS,FL:2 NAVY OBS:CIRC.NLT MAKES SERIES/FANTASTIC MNVRS:VANISHES OVHD", **LatLong:** "24.550001 -81.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "24:33:00 N 81:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.550001,-81.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8953 (046A2D01) **Date:** 7/19/1953 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Confidential Message to the Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C.: An F-86 aircraft was observed in flight over the Oak Ridge residential area by a writer and his wife. While observing the F-86 through 6 power field glasses an UFO, black in color, moved out of a high white cloud directly over the area where the F-86 had been circling. The UFO began circling at a tremendous speed for at least 5 minutes. It appeared at times to be cigar shaped and at other times to be round in shape. No sound or visible means of propulsion was observed from the UFO. It flew away at tremendous speed for 3 miles where it was joined by 2 other UFOs into a ‘V’ formation and sped away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_501 **See also:** 7/27/1953 ### Event 8954 (3D709E9C) **Date:** 7/19/1953 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** 1+2 silent black glossy saucers circle. Shoot going east / extreme speed. / MJ#242+205. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3231 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:1+2 SLNT BLK GLOSSY SCRS CIRCLE:SHOOT>E/XTREME SPEED:/MJ#242+205", **LatLong:** "36.033335 -84.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:00 N 84:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.033335,-84.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8955 (657DAF7E) **Date:** 7/19/1953 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Black objects maneuvered over area near an F-86 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [530719](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge530719.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1553 ### Event 8956 (4E402BE9) **Date:** 7/19/1953 **Locations:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Knoxville; Washington, D.C. **Description:** 3:00 p.m. After an F-86 has been circling over a particular spot in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a black object emerges from a high white cloud and takes up its position after the plane has left toward Knoxville. “This object was extremely black in color, having an appearance of a deep black metal exterior with a fine gloss. It did not leave a vapor trail or were there any lights of shine noticed. No sound was heard. The object flew east at a tremendous speed for what appeared to be approximately three miles where it stopped. The object was then joined by two more of these same objects. A formation similar to a spread V was formed and the objects, at a tremendous speed flew in an eastward direction.” The report is made by the Atomic Energy Commission and addressed to Army Adjutant General [William Edward Bergin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FEdward%5FBergin) in Washington, D.C. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Black Objects](http://www.nicap.org/530719oakridge%5Fdir.htm) [Maneuver over Area nr F-86](http://www.nicap.org/530719oakridge%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Air Space Violation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee,](http://www.nicap.org/army%5Fdocs/army530719.htm)” July 27, 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2254 ### Event 8957 (EAD8DA25) **Date:** 7/19/1953 **Description:** Near the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee around the middle of the afternoon a silent black flying object was joined by two others. They displayed amazing acceleration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4194 ### Event 8958 (A7475551) **Date:** 7/20/1953 **Location:** California Coast **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_502 ### Event 8959 (8CCFE95E) **Date:** 7/20/1953 **Location:** Omaha (Offutt AFB), NE **Description:** (McDonald list) Rawin Crew Tracks 3 UFOs On SCR-584 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530720](http://www.nicap.org/530720offutt%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1554 ### Event 8960 (DD35B8B8) **Date:** 7/20/1953 **Description:** [Ed Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) returns to Project Blue Book as either acting chief or consultant until August 31. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14; Clark III 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2255 ### Event 8961 (BB5185E7) **Date:** 7/21/1953 **Location:** OFF SANTA MONICA, CA **Description:** 2 fast shiny saucers. 90° turn over fishing boat and away. / r114p55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3232 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off SANTA MONICA,CA:2 FAST SHINY SCRS:90°TURN ovr FISHING BOAT+AWAY:/r114p55", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -118.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 118:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-118.516672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8962 (C4BA46A5) **Date:** 7/23/1953 **Location:** MORO ROCK / SEQUOIA NOT PLOTTED ON MAPS, CA **Description:** Fireballs and 1000' saucer very close / 4 days. Air Force jets patrol. / r173p33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3233 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2050", **HatchDesc:** "MORO ROCK/SEQUOIA NP,CA:FBLS+1000'SCR VCLOSE/4 DAYS:AF JETS PATROL:/r173p33", **LatLong:** "36.544446 -118.755561", **LatLongDMS:** "36:32:40 N 118:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.544446,-118.755561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8963 (F5953398) **Date:** 7/24/1953 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** MT. VERNON, OH **Description:** Large silver object circles over town. Going southwest slightly faster / clouds. 9km altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3234 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "311", **HatchDesc:** "Mt VERNON,OH:LRG SLVR OBJ CIRCLES ovr TOWN:>SW SLIGHTLY FASTER/CLOUDS:9km alt", **LatLong:** "40.383335 -82.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:23:00 N 82:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.383335,-82.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8964 (7B120FAB) **Date:** 7/24/1953 **Location:** Mt. Vernon, OH **Description:** Large silver object circled over town. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1555 ### Event 8965 (E62BDA3A) **Date:** 7/25/1953 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** AUFSTEIG NEAR EBENALP, SWZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Small white disk going [to] over restaurant. Hovers. Glows green. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: UFO NACHRICHTEN. 62 Weisbaden, Germany. (Ebenalp and Amriswil,SWZ see issue #9 pg.3) clippings /Bruno Mancusi) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3235 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AUFSTEIG nr EBENALP,SWZ:2 OBS:SML WHT DISK >OVR RESTAURANT:HVRS:GLOWS GRN.", **LatLong:** "47.277780 9.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:16:40 N 09:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.277780,9.416667)", **State/Prov:** "AIA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8966 (85139996) **Date:** 7/25/1953 **Description:** ATIC guide, How to Make FLYOBRPTS, a 68-page manual for officials required to make UFO reports, is published. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Air Technical Intelligence Center, [How to Make FLYOBRPTS,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/FLYOBRPT.pdf) July 26, 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2256 ### Event 8967 (DD056323) **Date:** 7/26/1953 **Location:** Perrin Tower, TX **Description:** Emergency Message to Air Defence Command: CIRVIS 3346N 9632W sighted 7 UFOs hovering at altitude of 5 to 8 thousand feet near Perrin Tower, TX. Visually observed by citizens of Denison and Sherman, TX. The UFOs were grouped in a Z (Zebra) formation, then circled to higher altitudes and faded from sight. Each UFO had one bright red light on it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p359) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_503 ### Event 8968 (B7A7EAF4) **Date:** 7/26/1953 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** PERRIN AIR FORCE BASE AND DENISON AND SHERMAN, TX **Description:** Many observer(s). CIA wire. 7 UFO's maneuver / 5-8K' altitude. / MJ#242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3236 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "PERRIN AFB+DENISON+SHERMAN,TX:MANY OBS:CIA WIRE:7 UFOS MNVR/5-8K'ALT:/MJ#242", **LatLong:** "33.766668 -96.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:46:00 N 96:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.766668,-96.533338)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8969 (4C1207EE) **Date:** 7/26/1953 **Location:** Perrin AFB, TX **Description:** Ground observed seven unidentified objects with one bright red light on each object hovering at estimated altitudes from five to eight thousand feet. Visually observed from Perrin Tower and citizens of Denison and Sherman Texas. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [530726](http://www.nicap.org/530726perrindir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1556 ### Event 8970 (15134C61) **Date:** 7/26/1953 **Locations:** Perrin AFB [now North Texas Regional Airport] in Sherman, Texas; Sherman; Denison **Description:** 9:39 p.m. At Perrin AFB \[now North Texas Regional Airport\] in Sherman, Texas, ground observers see 7 UFOs, each carrying a bright red light, hovering at 5,000–8,000 feet. They are in a formation of two groups of three, and one trailing, then come together to form the letter “Z.” Then they circle, gain altitude, and fade from sight. Citizens in Sherman and Denison also see the objects. Total duration is 16 minutes. This is classified as a “Vital Intelligence Sighting” and sent to the Air Defense Command, the Secretary of Defense, and the CIA. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [CIRVIS Report](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia85.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia85.htm) July 26, 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2257 ### Event 8971 (183191B2) **Date:** 7/27/1953 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C. **Type:** Confidential Message **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_504 **See also:** 7/19/1953 ### Event 8972 (F5A6B349) **Date:** 7/29/1953 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** SCIENCE WRITER / (SEEN THRU) TELESCOPE **Description:** 20 km "bridge" crosses Mare Crisium / moon! Seen / 90 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3237 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "SCIENCE WRITER/TSCOPE:20 km "BRIDGE" CROSSES MARE CRISIUM/MOON!:seen/90min", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "CRS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8973 (BBA0CE8D) **Date:** 7/30/1953 **Locations:** Mare Crisium; Promontorium Lavinium; Promontorium Olivium **Description:** Science journalist [John Joseph O’Neill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FJoseph%5FO%27Neill%5F%28journalist%29) observes through a telescope a feature on the western edge of the lunar Mare Crisium that he interprets as a giant natural bridge. The observation is prematurely confirmed by amateur Welsh astronomer [Hugh Percy Wilkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FPercy%5FWilkins)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FPercy%5FWilkins) Although it turns out to be an illusion, the location is still known as O’Neill’s bridge. When viewing conditions are poor or the telescope’s aperture is small, the feature resembles a bridge joining the tips of the capes Promontorium Lavinium and Promontorium Olivium. If viewing conditions are good and the instrument is large enough, the feature is seen as two small, eroded crater pits. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** The Moon Wiki, “[O’Neill’s Bridge](https://the-moon.us/wiki/O%27Neill%27s%5FBridge)”; Andrew May, “The Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 \(October 2017\): 56–57 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2258 ### Event 8974 (02A174DB) **Date:** 7/30/1953 **End date:** 8/1/1953 **Location:** Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California **Description:** A large UFO is seen for three nights over Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California. Park Superintendent [Elvind T. Scoyen](https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online%5Fbooks/cabr2/adhip1.htm) and his staff observe it once at close range. On August 1, a squadron of Air Force fighters sees the object streaking downward just before midnight. It stops abruptly then shoots upward. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 40–41](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/40/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2259 ### Event 8975 (B527FB92) **Date:** 7/31/1953 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 bright stars = saucers with portholes. Absolute(ly) still. Then crazy maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3238 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:2/BINOCS:2 BRITE STARS=SCRS W/PORTHS:ABS STILL:THEN CRAZY MNVRS", **LatLong:** "44.983335 -93.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:59:00 N 93:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.983335,-93.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8976 (C24CDAFD) **Date:** 7/31/1953 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** WOLIN, POL **Description:** 7 observer(s). 22M saucer / portholes / edge. Round dome. Lands near railroad/railway tracks. Going quickly [to] fast. / r2p191. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3239 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "WOLIN,POL:7 OBS:22M SCR/PORTS/EDGE:RND DOME:LANDS nr RR TRACKS:>>FAST:/r2p191", **LatLong:** "53.816669 14.550001", **LatLongDMS:** "53:49:00 N 14:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.816669,14.550001)", **State/Prov:** "WOL", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8977 (ED46D761) **Date:** 7/31/1953 **Location:** Port Clinton, OH **Description:** Unidentified white light viewed through field glasses. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1557 ### Event 8978 (1C263EAE) **Date:** 7/31/1953 **Time:** 1900 **Location:** Wolin, Poland **Description:** A metallic object 30 m in diameter was observed by five Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a railway. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing numerous openings at the periphery. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Intelligence Digest Nov., 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_114 ### Event 8979 (3F6C5E32) **Date:** 7/31/1953 **Location:** Antarctica **Description:** Lt. Robert Olsson leaves Project Blue Book. He later tells [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) his 5-month tenure “was like being president of Antarctica on a nonexpedition year.” He is replaced by Airman 1C Max G. Futch. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/228/mode/2up); Clark III 55; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2260 ### Event 8980 (D2D622E9) **Date:** 7/31/1953 **Location:** Wolin Island, Poland **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Five Poles and two Germans see a disc-shaped object about 16 feet in diameter land in a field near a railroad track on Wolin Island, Poland. After several minutes it rises up and flies away at great speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 15; Vallée, Magonia, [p. 203](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/202/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2261 ### Event 8981 (D478FCD4) **Date:** 7/31/1953 **Description:** A metallic object 30 meters in diameter was observed by five Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a railway in Woolen, Poland. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing numerous openings at the periphery. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203, citing Intelligence Digest, November 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4520 ### Event 8982 (30839AD4) **Date:** 8/1953 (approximate) **Location:** BAD HERSFELD, HESSE, GER **Description:** Saucer photographed summer / 53. Apparent dome? See photograph section. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3240 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BAD HERSFELD,HESSE,GER:SCR FOTOd SUMMER/53:APPARENT DOME?:SEE FOTO SECTION", **LatLong:** "50.883336 9.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:53:00 N 09:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.883336,9.716667)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8983 (71C4AC9A) **Date:** 8/1953 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR TIMISOARA, ROMANIA **Description:** Luminous sphere/orb/globe rises / woods. Stops. Drops / field. Turns off / vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3241 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr TIMISOARA,ROMANIA:LUM ORB RISES/WOODS:STOPS:DROPS/FIELD:TURNS OFF/VANISHES ", **LatLong:** "45.750002 21.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:45:00 N 21:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.750002,21.250001)", **State/Prov:** "TMS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8984 (B1B7ED33) **Date:** 8/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** SLOVOZIA, ROMANIA **Description:** Child sees odd UFO over field. Square face in window. Flies off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3242 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SLOVOZIA,ROMANIA:CHILD SEES ODD UFO OVR FIELD:SQUARE FACE IN WINDOW:FLIES OFF", **LatLong:** "44.500002 25.216668", **LatLongDMS:** "44:30:00 N 25:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.500002,25.216668)", **State/Prov:** "DMB", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 8985 (9EEF66D7) **Date:** 8/1953 (approximate) **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** ROUND TOP MOUNTAIN, OR **Description:** Fire lookouts. Bronze stovepipe cylinder/cylindrical object tumbles going south. Stops. Continues. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 547) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3243 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1800", **HatchDesc:** "ROUND TOP MTN,OR:FIRE LOOKOUTS:BRONZE STOVEPIPE CYL TUMBLES >S:STOPS:CONTINUES", **LatLong:** "43.755558 -121.711117", **LatLongDMS:** "43:45:20 N 121:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.755558,-121.711117)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 8986 (431A0582) **Date:** 8/1953 **Location:** Shirley's Bay, off Lake Manitou, Ontario **Description:** [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) completes his classified report on Project Magnet for the Canadian Department of Transport, writing that it can be deduced that UFOs are 100 or more feet in diameter, they can travel at speeds of several thousand miles per hour, and can reach high altitudes. “It is difficult to reconcile this performance with the capabilities of our technology \[and\] we are forced to the conclusion that the vehicles are probably extraterrestrial, in spite of our prejudices to the contrary.” The DOT agrees to his proposal to set up an electronic station for a “24-hour watch for flying saucers” in a hut at Shirley’s Bay, off Lake Manitou, Ontario. Equipment includes am ionospheric reactor, electronic sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter, magnetometer, and radio set. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1078–1079 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2262 ### Event 8987 (D43CBBD3) **Date:** 8/1/1953 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SEQUOIA PARK, CA **Description:** Large disk 3 nights / row. Jets circle and chase. Clever stop and away. / r137#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE; Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3244 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "SEQUOIA PARK,CA:LRG DISK 3 NITES/ROW:JETS CCL+CHASE:CLEVER STOP+away:/r137#6", **LatLong:** "36.583335 -118.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:35:00 N 118:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.583335,-118.633339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8988 (B8D58AFD) **Date:** 8/1/1953 **Location:** Toledo, OH **Description:** UFO, changing color, flickered and jumped in sky. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1558 ### Event 8989 (8663BBB3) **Date:** 8/1/1953 **Locations:** Brooks Air Force Base; Kelly Air Force Base; Kelly Field Annex; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters from Brooks Air Force Base \[now closed\] to Kelly Air Force Base \[now Kelly Field Annex\], both in San Antonio, Texas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Force Intelligence,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency) [Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2263 ### Event 8990 (241ACC9C) **Date:** 8/2/1953 **Location:** Saraland, AL **Description:** Highly polished spinning top or cone-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1559 ### Event 8991 (4D4D9592) **Date:** 8/3/1953 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers. Translucent saucer no balloon. Stops. 2nd identical behind it. / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 302) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3245 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "56", **Elev:** "1115", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:ATCS:TRANSLUCENT SCR NO BALLOON:STOPS:2nd IDENTICAL BEHIND IT:/BBK", **LatLong:** "35.250002 -101.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:15:00 N 101:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.250002,-101.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8992 (C3BE0E8A) **Date:** 8/3/1953 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** WESTON RHYN GOING QUICKLY [TO] RHYL, WALES **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge multicolor cylinder/cigar-shape going NNW and out to sea. Searchlight whoosh. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3246 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "WESTON RHYN>>RHYL,WALES:MANY OBS:HUGE MULTICLR CGR>NNW+OUT TO SEA:SLITE WHOOSH", **LatLong:** "52.916669 -3.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:55:00 N 03:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.916669,-3.033333)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8993 (D8AF9C46) **Date:** 8/3/1953 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Security Gd. Green ovoid fireball falls upward. / USAF Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and Blue Book reports. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 301) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3247 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:SECURITY Gd:GRN OVOID FBL FALLS UPWARD:/AFOSI+AEC+BBK REPORTS", **LatLong:** "35.877779 -106.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:40 N 106:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.877779,-106.316672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8994 (7A154819) **Date:** 8/3/1953 **Location:** Amarillo, TX **Description:** Round and reflective or translucent object fly straight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2663) **Reference:** NICAP: [530803](http://www.nicap.org/amarillo530803dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1560 ### Event 8995 (6F501269) **Date:** 8/3/1953 **Time:** 12:04 PM **Location:** Amarillo, Texas **Description:** Witness: Airport control tower chief C.S. Brown. One round and reflective or translucent object flew straight, stopped for 7 seconds, sped along, stopped again, was joined by a similar object and they flew off in different directions, after a total of 56 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_317 ### Event 8996 (C1C531C4) **Date:** 8/3/1953 **Description:** At 12:04 p.m. over the Amarillo Airport, Texas a transparent disc stopped and hovered in the sky. A second, identical object was seen behind it. They were not balloons, according to the official Air Force investigation. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2663; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4624 ### Event 8997 (D0607404) **Date:** 8/4/1953 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** ONIDA, SD **Description:** Observer(s) = Major Lewis. Night light zips overhead / various directions. No aircraft. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3248 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "570", **HatchDesc:** "ONIDA,SD:OBS=Major LEWIS:NLT ZIPS OVHD/VARIOUS DIRECTIONS:NO AIRCRAFT:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.705558 -100.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:42:20 N 100:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.705558,-100.066671)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 8998 (21DA3A78) **Date:** 8/5/1953 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** BLACKHAWK AND RAPID CITY, SD **Description:** F14 chases saucer. Ground and air RADAR's. Going quickly NNE / 15°. / MJ#244+/ 242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3249 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "980", **HatchDesc:** "BLACKHAWK+RAPID CITY,SD:F14 CHASES SCR:GND+AIR RDRs:>>NNE/15°:/MJ#244+/242", **LatLong:** "44.266669 -103.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:16:00 N 103:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.266669,-103.416672)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 8999 (48E42F2D) **Date:** 8/5/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** BISMARCK, ND **Description:** Many HIQ observer(s). Blackhawk object here / 3 hours. Jets chase going quickly north. / r98#65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3250 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "510", **HatchDesc:** "BISMARCK,ND:MANY HIQ OBS:BLACKHAWK OBJ HERE/3hrs:JETS CHASE>>N:/r98#65", **LatLong:** "46.816669 -100.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "46:49:00 N 100:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.816669,-100.766671)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9000 (C379C3BA) **Date:** 8/5/1953 **End date:** 8/6/1953 **Location:** Rapid City (east of), SD **Description:** Pilots vectored and saw silvery object like the brightest star (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530805-06](http://www.nicap.org/530805ellsworth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1561 ### Event 9001 (A25D9944) **Date:** 8/5/1953 **End date:** 8/6/1953 **Locations:** Black Hawk, South Dakota; Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City; Brunswick **Description:** Around 8:00 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Phyllis Killian spots a UFO in Black Hawk, South Dakota. Soon after, radar at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City tracks a “well-defined, solid, and bright” object. The base scrambles an F-84 and the pilot sees the UFO. Many witnesses see the object accelerate and climb. The F-84 pursues but can reach no closer than 3 miles. Now low on fuel, the F-84 returns, followed by the UFO. Immediately, another F-84 is sent up. Before long, the pilot receives strong radar returns of a target right in front of him. Fear prevails and he breaks off the chase. The UFO goes off the scope, traveling northeast. Reports soon come from Brunswick of a fast-moving, bright blue object, similar to the Rapid City object. It hovers near an air filter center, performing more maneuvers and disappearing after midnight. Before it leaves, three more UFOs are seen at 10,000 feet for three hours. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) personally investigates and calls it “the best” in the USAF files, [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes that the “entire incident…has too much of an Alice-in-Wonderland flavor for comfort.” [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) blames the star Capella. The official file is several hundred pages long. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Rapid City / Ellsworth](http://www.nicap.org/530805ellsworth%5Fdir.htm) [AFB Incident \(RV\)](http://www.nicap.org/530805ellsworth%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 132–136](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/132/mode/2up); Ruppelt, [pp. 232–235](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/232/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 203; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) [History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 2–3; Swords 215; Jan Aldrich; Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ellsworth53.htm) [Ellsworth AFB Radar Multiple Visual Case, 1953](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ellsworth53.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2264 ### Event 9002 (E0758478) **Date:** 8/6/1953 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** VINYARD HAVEN, MA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 moons tilt / half-moon shape. Beams going down [to] switched off. Going [to] slow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 602) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3251 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "VINYARD HAVEN,MA:2 OBS:3 MOONS TILT/HALF-MOON SHAPE:BEAMS ↓ SWITCHED OFF:>SLOW", **LatLong:** "41.455558 -70.605559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:27:20 N 70:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.455558,-70.605559)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9003 (35AB4D65) **Date:** 8/6/1953 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** PEARL HARBOR, HI **Description:** 5hr marathon. 75 night lights RADAR blips ovoids and possible figure in one. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3252 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "164", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PEARL HARBOR,HI:5hr MARATHON:75 NLTS RDR BLIPS OVOIDS+POSSIBLE FIGURE in ONE", **LatLong:** "21.400001 -157.983341", **LatLongDMS:** "21:24:00 N 157:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.400001,-157.983341)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9004 (F78399D4) **Date:** 8/6/1953 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Barbers Point (now Kalaeloa Airport); Hawaii **Description:** 5:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. An estimated 75 objects with lights are seen by many witnesses on the ground around Naval Air Station Barbers Point \[now Kalaeloa Airport\], Hawaii, from the airport control tower and from the air. Many are also detected by radar. At 9:00 p.m., the crew of a Navy patrol aircraft reports three head-on passes. These close calls alarm the pilot so much he lands immediately. Jet fighters are scrambled and the same night an interceptor pilot sees a “glowing blob” rising rapidly toward him. It comes to a sudden stop just behind his aircraft then accelerates briefly until it is beside him for four more seconds before accelerating away out of sight at several times his own top speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 63; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) [August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2265 ### Event 9005 (26480BDD) **Date:** 8/6/1953 **Description:** At Barbers Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 75 radar blips on screen at various times around five p.m., hovering and maneuvering. Nocturnal lights and ovoid shaped objects were sighted, and possibly a figure was seen inside one of them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 63 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4719 ### Event 9006 (CA9D9E2C) **Date:** 8/7/1953 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NEAR WINCHELL, TX **Description:** 3 large orange night lights hover. 1 going quickly east. = bowl saucer / flat top. 2nd follows. 3rd stays. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3253 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "468", **HatchDesc:** "nr WINCHELL,TX:3 LRG ORG NLTS HVR:1 >>E:=BOWL SCR/FLAT TOP:2nd FOLOS:3rd stays", **LatLong:** "31.472224 -99.161116", **LatLongDMS:** "31:28:20 N 99:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.472224,-99.161116)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9007 (AF12564F) **Date:** 8/9/1953 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** NEAR SHADY GROVE, OR **Description:** 3+/ car. Bright silver 6M sphere / 150M altitude. Square windows / center. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3254 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "426", **HatchDesc:** "nr SHADY GROVE,OR:3+/CAR:BRITE SLVR 6M SPHERE/150M alt:SQR WINDOWS/CTR:", **LatLong:** "42.611113 -122.477784", **LatLongDMS:** "42:36:40 N 122:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.611113,-122.477784)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9008 (DEEE0CE4) **Date:** 8/9/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** MOSCOW, ID **Description:** 2 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 60M glowing-disk and 4 night lights quickly going up [to] as 3 F86's near. / r47p49+/ r173p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3255 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "144", **Elev:** "787", **HatchDesc:** "MOSCOW,ID:2 GOC OBS:60M GLOW-DISK+4 NLTS ↑↑ as 3 F86s NEAR:/r47p49+/r173p30", **LatLong:** "46.733336 -116.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:44:00 N 116:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.733336,-116.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9009 (91B54859) **Date:** 8/9/1953 **Location:** Moscow, ID **Description:** Three F-86's Chase Disc Spotted By GOC (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [530809](http://www.nicap.org/530809moscow%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1562 ### Event 9010 (3D90659C) **Date:** 8/9/1953 **Location:** Moscow, Idaho **Description:** 9:34 p.m. Supervisor Larry E. Towner and other Ground Observer Corps personnel report a glowing disc about 200 feet in diameter over Moscow, Idaho. At 10:10 p.m., the first of two F-86s is scrambled. The object lingers, with other lights seen, until around 5:00 a.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three F-86’s Chase Disc Spotted by GOC](http://www.nicap.org/530809moscow%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 3–4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2266 ### Event 9011 (608628D0) **Date:** 8/9/1953 **Description:** A 60-meter diameter luminous disc-shaped object accompanied by four nocturnal lights, flying near Moscow, Idaho at 9:20 p.m., shot up and away when three F-86 Sabre jets attempted to intercept them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 30; Larry E. Towner, Fate magazine, May 1954, p. 32; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4789 ### Event 9012 (67908A49) **Date:** 8/10/1953 **Description:** [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) issues another report on Project Magnet, in which he concludes there is a “substantial probability of the real existence of extraterrestrial vehicles” that use a “technology considerably in advance of what we have.” The report is eventually sent to Prime Minister [Louis St. Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FSt.%5FLaurent). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 185](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) [187](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2267 ### Event 9013 (33EBA6E2) **Date:** 8/12/1953 **Location:** Semipalatinsk Test Site **Description:** First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt, Semipalatinsk Test Site **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_505 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 400 ### Event 9014 (C05B74CA) **Date:** 8/12/1953 **Location:** Ellsworth AFB, SD **Description:** Gun-camera (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [530812](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ellsworth.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1563 ### Event 9015 (165FB6BB) **Date:** 8/12/1953 **Location:** Rapid City, SD **Description:** Date is incorrect - see 530805-06 entry (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1564 ### Event 9016 (ACF6D4C1) **Date:** 8/12/1953 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Name: “joe4_1st_therm” Yield: 400KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1035 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "joe4_1st_therm", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "400" ### Event 9017 (A8AA817E) **Date:** 8/12/1953 **Locations:** USSR; Semipalatinsk Test Site; Kazakhstan **Description:** The USSR tests its first thermonuclear device, RDS-6s or Joe 4, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. A tenfold increase in explosive power is achieved by a combination of fusion energy and neutron- initiated fission. Scholars dispute the authenticity of RDS-6 as a true thermonuclear device, as it does not manage to produce a yield consistent with a true hydrogen bomb. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Joe 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5F4)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2268 ### Event 9018 (8179E59A) **Date:** 8/13/1953 **Location:** US **Description:** Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds” released **Type:** movie **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_506 ### Event 9019 (921239E1) **Date:** 8/13/1953 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** G. Popovic and wife. Huge white-rimmed saucers going quickly [to] overhead. "Bigger than a house". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3256 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:G.POPOVIC+WIFE:HUGE WHT-RIMMED SCRS >>OVHD:"BIGGER THAN A HOUSE"", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -81.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 81:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-81.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9020 (87A58844) **Date:** 8/13/1953 **Locations:** New York City; Mars **Description:** Paramount Pictures’ The War of the Worlds premieres in New York City. It is a modern retelling of [H. G.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells) [Wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells)’s story of an invasion from Mars and features a Northrop YB-49 flying wing dropping an atomic bomb on the invading Martians. The color footage comes from a test flight. The film is produced by [George Pal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FPal), directed by [Byron Haskin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%5FHaskin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%5FHaskin) and stars [Gene Barry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%5FBarry) and [Ann Robinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%5FRobinson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%5FRobinson)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[The War of the Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281953%5Ffilm%29) [\(1953 film\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281953%5Ffilm%29)”; Internet Movie Database, “[The War of the Worlds](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2269 ### Event 9021 (7F7F1FAA) **Date:** 8/14/1953 **Location:** Columbus, OH **Description:** Lighted object came straight down out of sky, stopped, then sped out of view. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1566 ### Event 9022 (A5129893) **Date:** 8/15/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LAKE SALEM, VT **Description:** 3 fishing. 3 silver globes buzz large passing plane! Sharp maneuvers and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 614) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3257 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "294", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE SALEM,VT:3 FISHING:3 SLVR GLOBES BUZZ LRG PASSING PLANE!:SHARP MNVRs+gone", **LatLong:** "44.927780 -72.105559", **LatLongDMS:** "44:55:40 N 72:06:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.927780,-72.105559)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9023 (5DDC9814) **Date:** 8/15/1953 **Location:** Crestline, ID **Description:** Circling light changed color, white, red, green. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1567 ### Event 9024 (D5455F03) **Date:** 8/16/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** TOURS, FR **Description:** 2 saucers glide close / ground. Slow and straight as if connected. Detailed report(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3258 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "TOURS,FR:2 SAUCERS GLIDE CLOSE/GND:SLO+STRAIGHT AS IF CONNECTED:DETAILED RPTS", **LatLong:** "47.383336 0.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:23:00 N 00:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.383336,0.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Indre-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9025 (EF7824E0) **Date:** 8/16/1953 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Tours, France **Description:** Claude Pasquier saw two disks flying very low, quite slowly, along a straight course, with a "hard" sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 65, 141 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_115 ### Event 9026 (2321DA14) **Date:** 8/16/1953 **Locations:** Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California; Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention near Landers, California **Description:** Flying Saucers International holds the first UFO conference at the Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California, featuring contactee speakers. However, [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel)’s first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention launches the same day near Landers, California, for three days with speakers [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully), George Van Tassel, [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci), [George Adamski,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and the [Amazing Criswell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FAmazing%5FCriswell). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Story, [p. 91](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/90/mode/2up) ; Orfeo Angelucci, “[A Release: On Flying Saucers First Convention,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Interplanetary%20News%20Digest/Interplanetary%20News%20Digest%20-%20vol%201%20no%202.pdf)” Interplanetary News Digest 1, no. 2 \(October 1953\): 1; “[Blast from the Past: UFO Conventions from Giant Rock in Landers,](https://www.desertsun.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2014/07/25/blast-from-the-past-ufo-conventions-at-giant-rock-in-landers/13146043/)” Palm Springs \(Calif.\) Desert Sun, July 25, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2270 ### Event 9027 (682DEFBD) **Date:** 8/16/1953 **Description:** Claude Pasquier saw two discs flying very low and quite slowly along a straight course in Tours, France at 8:30 p.m. They made a "hard" sound as they flew. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 65; Melbourne Age, July 10, 1963; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5071 ### Event 9028 (0BA61314) **Date:** 8/17/1953 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_507 ### Event 9029 (7798E82D) **Date:** 8/17/1953? **Location:** Shtanivka, Ukraine **Description:** Lina Ivanova Kravets is in her garden in Shtanivka, Ukraine, when she sees a trio of intruders cutting branches off her apple, plum, and cherry trees. Approaching closer, she sees they are 11-foot-tall entities wearing dark overalls, helmets, and gloves. They claim to be extraterrestrials, converse with her about God and their peaceful home world that is prone to natural disasters and somehow affected by the earth’s wars, and insist they are on a mission to rescue a missing scout team. They then point out a silvery sphere hovering just above the ground with similar tall being standing next to it. Before the lengthy encounter ends, the beings offer Kravets a piece of bread the size of a small coin. Breaking it open, she sees something dark and odorless inside, so she refuses it. The beings then walk to the sphere in a peculiar waddling manner, wave as they enter, and take off in the craft at terrific speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Peter Rogerson, “[INTCAT 1953](http://intcat.blogspot.com/2012/08/intcat-1953.html)”; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 \(November 2015\): 44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2271 ### Event 9030 (B642F248) **Date:** 8/17/1953 **Description:** In Ciudad Valles, Mexico at six o'clock in the evening Sr. S. Villanueva, age 37, had the engine of the vehicle he was driving fail. Two four-foot-tall beings approached, and he next saw a domed disc, 40 feet, making a humming sound. The beings entered the craft, and the UFO ascended vertically at high speed. The landing traces included crushed bushes and broken sticks in a circular area 40-45 feet wide. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 32; P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 11; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 100 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5109 ### Event 9031 (D103B513) **Date:** 8/18/1953 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** CD VALLES, MEXICO **Description:** 2 pseudo-human/entity talk trivia / cabbie / hours. "From space". Leave / saucer quickly going up. / r113p216. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3259 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "208", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "Cd VALLES,MEX:2 PSH TALK TRIVIA/CABBIE/hrs:"FROM SPACE":LEAVE/SCR↑↑:/r113p216", **LatLong:** "19.983334 -98.755560", **LatLongDMS:** "19:59:00 N 98:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.983334,-98.755560)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "SLP", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 9032 (B7D56F3F) **Date:** 8/18/1953 **Time:** evening **Location:** Ciudad Valleys, Mexico **Description:** Approximate date. Cab driver Salvador Villanueva, 40, observed two creatures 1.2 m tall wearing coveralls with wide, shiny, perforated belts, metal collars, and small, black, shiny boxes on their backs. They had helmets under their arms. The witness thought they were pilots of Indian race. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, "stringing the words together" in a strange accent. Trivial matters were discussed until dawn, when they returned to their craft, 13 m in diameter, through a staircase under the lower disk. The witness ran away when invited to follow them. The object rose with a pendulum motion and shot up vertically. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 32; FSR 56, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_116 ### Event 9033 (F23F0419) **Date:** 8/18/1953 **Description:** In the early evening on or about this day Salvador Villanueva, a taxi cab driver, was trying to repair his broken down car out in the country near Ciudad Valles, Mexico when he was joined by two short, human looking men. They were only about four and a half feet tall, and they wore one-piece gray garments made out of corduroy that covered even their feet. They also had on wide, shiny black belts, metal collars, and small black shiny boxes connected to the collars on the back of their necks. Under their arms they carried football-style crash helmets. Because it was raining he invited them to shelter inside his taxi, where they had a conversation that lasted all night. They spoke Spanish with a strange accent. The spokesman eventually told him they were from another planet, which Villanueva scarcely believed, but he accompanied them to their craft. While walking there he noticed that the mud puddles did not get their feet wet, and that their belts glowed whenever the mud was repelled. The UFO was disc-shaped and looked like two soup plates joined at the rim, with a shallow dome on top with portholes. It rested on the ground on three spheres that acted like landing gear. He was invited inside, but declined to go. The two men climbed up some stairs to get aboard. Glowing white, the vessel zigzagged upwards, and then shot up vertically, making only a faint whistling sound. A 40-foot circle of broken bushes was left behind at the landing spot. It's possible the presence of the UFO may have caused his car to malfunction. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing APRO Bulletin, April 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 116, citing Flying Saucer Review, March 1962 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5120 ### Event 9034 (A534C16E) **Date:** 8/19/1953 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** LE PUY-EN-VELAY, FR **Description:** 2 police. Large red saucer leaves (something behind) multicolor trail / sky. / J. Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3260 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Le PUY-en-VELAY,FR:2 POLICE:LARGE RED SCR LVS MULTICOLOR TRAIL/SKY:/J.GUIEU", **LatLong:** "45.033335 3.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:00 N 03:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.033335,3.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9035 (EDE8A25B) **Date:** 8/19/1953 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** EAST NEW HAVEN, CT **Description:** 18cm fireball passes cars. Hits signboard. H2S smell. Power outage. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3261 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "E.NEW HAVEN,CT:18cm FBL PASSES CARS:HITS SIGNBOARD:H2S SMELL:POWER OUTAGE:↑↑", **LatLong:** "41.350002 -72.900003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:21:00 N 72:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.350002,-72.900003)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9036 (11C1FA0E) **Date:** 8/19/1953 **Locations:** Middlestone Avenue and Front Street in East New Haven, Connecticut; Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge; Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee; Anderson Laboratories in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago Spectrographic Service Laboratory **Description:** A small, fast-moving, ricocheting fireball rips a foot-wide hole through a metal billboard at Middlestone Avenue and Front Street in East New Haven, Connecticut. IFSB investigator [August C. Roberts](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/08/the-moon-is-venusian-colony-part-ii.html) and Joseph Barbieri steal a piece of the sign during an investigation by Naval Ordnance personnel. IFSB sends the sample to Col. [Robert B. Emerson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8470193/robert-b%5F-emerson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8470193/robert-b%5F-emerson) an Army physicist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who contacts friends at Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee to have it analyzed, but nothing else is heard of this sample. APRO arranges for a separate analysis of the deposits on the sign performed by Anderson Laboratories in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Chicago Spectrographic Service Laboratory. They determine that the fragments consist of copper and copper oxide and are not meteoritic. [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) suggests that Roberts’s retrieval of the metal fragments would have attracted the attention of federal officials. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[New Haven Signboard Case](http://www.nicap.org/newhaven530819dir.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 5–7; Clark III 728–729 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2272 ### Event 9037 (BC43B20E) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** NEAR JAMESTOWN, CA **Description:** USAF #AF4076 circled / UFO's. Going quickly east toward(s) Sierras. Fiery rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3262 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "430", **HatchDesc:** "nr JAMESTOWN,CA:USAF #AF4076 CIRCLED/UFOS:>>E twrd SIERRAS:FIERY REAR:", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -120.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 120:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-120.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9038 (34109B1C) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** NEAR CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** TB29 crew. Grey ovoid makes 4 passes at trainer plane. Dives going down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3263 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "nr CASTLE AFB,CA:TB29 CREW:GREY OVOID MAKES 4 PASSES AT TRAINER PLANE:DIVES ↓", **LatLong:** "37.383335 -120.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:23:00 N 120:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.383335,-120.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9039 (705DA8EC) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** BURLINGTON, VT **Description:** Large round black object stops over radio-tower / 3 minute(s). / r137#3p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3264 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "345", **HatchDesc:** "BURLINGTON,VT:LRG ROUND BLACK OBJ STOPS OVR RADIO-TOWER/3min:/r137#3p11", **LatLong:** "44.483335 -73.216670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:29:00 N 73:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.483335,-73.216670)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9040 (B2742160) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Location:** Castle AFB (near), CA **Description:** TB-29 Crew Files CIRVIS Report (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2686) **Reference:** NICAP: [530820](http://nicap.org/530820castleafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1568 ### Event 9041 (5D2C64AB) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Time:** 9:05 PM **Location:** near Castle AFB, California **Description:** Witnesses: crew of TB-29 bomber/trainer plane. One greyish oval object made four passes at the airplane (three times at 10-20 miles distance), then dived vertically as if two objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_318 ### Event 9042 (024423E0) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Locations:** Castle AFB; Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center; Atwater, California **Description:** 9:05 p.m. The crew of a TB-29 sees a grayish oval object near Castle AFB \[now Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center\], northeast of Atwater, California. The UFO makes four passes at the plane, then dives vertically as if it consists of two objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[TB-29 Crew Files CIRVIS Report](http://www.nicap.org/530820castleafb%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 203 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2273 ### Event 9043 (74740693) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Description:** The crew of a TB-29 bomber/trainer aircraft flying near Castle AFB in California reported that at 9:05 p.m. PDT a gray oval object made four passes at their airplane (three times at 10-20 miles distance), then dived vertically as if two objects. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2686; Project Blue Book Report #12; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 21; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5168 ### Event 9044 (83832203) **Date:** 8/20/1953 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. a large round black object stopped in the air over the radio tower in Burlington, Vermont for three minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3114, citing APRO Bulletin, 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5169 ### Event 9045 (0D7B9F0D) **Date:** 8/21/1953 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MAUMEE, OHIO **Description:** Black saucer seen. Green and red lights on perimeter. Ovoids / Peoria / APRO v2#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3265 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "192", **HatchDesc:** "MAUMEE,OHIO:BLACK SCR SEEN:GRN+RED LITES on PERIMETER::OVOIDS/PEORIA/APRO v2#2", **LatLong:** "41.566669 -83.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:34:00 N 83:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.566669,-83.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9046 (F4A99B67) **Date:** 8/21/1953 **Location:** Maumee, OH **Description:** Black oval with green and red lights around perimeter. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1569 ### Event 9047 (6004DB6A) **Date:** 8/21/1953 **Description:** Test pilot Lt. Col. [Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl) reaches an unofficial altitude of 83,235 feet in a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2274 ### Event 9048 (58721DDD) **Date:** 8/22/1953 **Location:** EAST BOLTON, QBC **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver cylinder/cigar-shape quickly going down / clouds. Stops near ground. Odd noise. Shoots back quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3266 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "E.BOLTON,QBC:SVRL OBS:SLVR CGR ↓↓/CLOUDS:STOPS nr GND:ODD NOISE:SHOOTS BACK ↑↑", **LatLong:** "45.133335 -72.300003", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:00 N 72:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.133335,-72.300003)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9049 (A8737F6C) **Date:** 8/22/1953 **Description:** On this day a silver cigar-shaped object descended from the clouds over East Bolton, Quebec, Canada. It stopped near the ground, making an odd noise, then shot up vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3116, citing APRO Bulletin, November 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5216 ### Event 9050 (B92D87B5) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Location:** Semipalatinsk Test Site **Description:** Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_508 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 28 ### Event 9051 (B64E7BBD) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** ST. JOHN'S, NF **Description:** 2 / car / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Black 14M CCLR object overhead. Telepathy = 'silence'. 2 hours / missing time. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3267 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.JOHN'S,NF:2/CAR/EMEs:BLK 14M CCLR OBJ OVHD:TLP='SILENCE':2 hrs/MST:see ref", **LatLong:** "47.550002 -52.666669", **LatLongDMS:** "47:33:00 N 52:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.550002,-52.666669)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9052 (723BF1F9) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** PT. MORESBY, NG **Description:** Silver dart exits odd cloud. Fast 90° turns? Film going [to] USAF. / APRO Jul. '61. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3268 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Pt.MORESBY,NG:SLVR DART EXITS ODD CLOUD:FAST 90°TURNS?:film > USAF:/APRO JLY61", **LatLong:** "-9.566667 147.333340", **LatLongDMS:** "09:34:00 S 147:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.566667,147.333340)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9053 (8CB0670D) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Location:** Columbus, OH **Description:** Red and white object moving very slowly upward, observed by Ground Observer Corps. (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1570 ### Event 9054 (51936D6D) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Location:** Port Moresby, New Guinea **Description:** Movie film taken by Drury (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1571 ### Event 9055 (1717A11B) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Location:** Australia, AU **Description:** The Drury Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1572 ### Event 9056 (4DB14FBF) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 28KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1036 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "28" ### Event 9057 (F4748127) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Locations:** Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Royal Australian Air Force **Description:** 12:00 noon. Tom P. Drury, deputy director of the Civilian Aviation Department at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, takes 24 frames of 8mm color film of a silvery object that emerges from a cloud and climbs quickly, leaving a vapor trail. The Royal Australian Air Force and USAF intelligence are said to have studied the film, which has since disappeared, with only a few third-generation stills of poor quality remaining. Later researchers suspect a daytime meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Drury Film / Saucer-Like Object Climbing](http://www.nicap.org/530823australia%5Fdir.htm)”; Norman Cruttwell, “[The New](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf) [Guinea Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 6; Clark III 416–417; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 204; Good Above, [pp. 162–163](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up); Bill Chalker, “[The Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part 1,](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F4.htm)” 2001; Bill Chalker, “[The Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part 2,](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F5.htm)” 2001; Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 17–18; Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “[Cold Case Review of the 23 August 1953, Port Moresby Visual Sighting and Colour Movie Film,](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kbpddrury.htm)” April 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2275 ### Event 9058 (A741B4A9) **Date:** 8/23/1953 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada two witnesses experienced two hours of missing time after their car had stalled in the presence of a black, 14 meter in diameter circular object, which hovered overhead. During hypnosis it emerged that telepathy was used for communication. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 38 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5247 ### Event 9059 (B4E705DC) **Date:** 8/24/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** ISLIP TERRACE, NY **Description:** 2.5M brilliant egg hovers 30M away / 20M altitude! Going north. Flame-glow 60cm all over/all about. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 614) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3269 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "ISLIP TERRACE,NY:2.5M BRILL.EGG HVRS 30M AWAY/20M alt!:>N:FLAME-GLOW 60cm ALLO", **LatLong:** "40.744446 -73.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:40 N 73:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.744446,-73.194448)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9060 (FBDCC994) **Date:** 8/24/1953 **Description:** Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) gets to step, for the first time, inside a flying saucer, when an extraterrestrial named Solganda wakes him up and leads him to a waiting ship, giving him a tour of the interior and a technique for rejuvenating the human body before dropping him off and shooting back into space. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jody Rosen, “[Welcome](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html) [to the Integratron,](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html)” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla Miller Schnur, “[G. W. Van Tassel’s](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/) [Integraton,](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/)” The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2276 ### Event 9061 (146E1740) **Date:** 8/25/1953 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** COYOTE PASS / HEMET, CA **Description:** Huge saucer lights house and 1/2 acre Lot. Going quickly [to] WSW toward(s) Winchester. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 215) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3270 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "510", **HatchDesc:** "COYOTE PASS/HEMET,CA:HUGE SCR LITES HOUSE+1/2 ACRE LOT:>>WSW twrd WINCHESTER:", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -116.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 116:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-116.966672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9062 (9B6187F3) **Date:** 8/26/1953 **Description:** Air Force Regulation 200-2 issued by Secretary of Air Force: "Intelligence. Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting." Paragraph 9 forbids public release of unexplained sightings. Paragraph 8 requires classification of radar-scope photographs of UFOs. Air Force personnel instructed to discuss sightings only with "authorized personnel." (Note rapid drop-off of officially reported sightings after this date.) **Type:** regulation **Reference:** The UFO Evidence page 22, Richard H. Hall **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_509 **See also:** 8/12/1954 ### Event 9063 (63C5FD1C) **Date:** 8/26/1953 **Location:** US **Description:** AF Regulation 200-2 issued by Secretary of Air Force; procedures for reporting UFOs, restrictions on public discussion. **Type:** Air Force regulation **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_876 ### Event 9064 (75E56737) **Date:** 8/26/1953 **Locations:** ATIC in Dayton; Pentagon **Description:** USAF issues Air Force Regulation 200-2, which tightens UFO reporting and investigating procedures, further restricting the release of UFO information and superseding Air Force Letter 200-5. It directs that all confirmed UFO reports be sent electronically to air force intelligence. Tangible evidence must go to ATIC in Dayton. It also confines UFO investigations to three groups: USAF intelligence at the Pentagon, the 4602nd AISS, and ATIC \(although ATIC only gets reports after they go to the 4602nd\). Sightings are only to be discussed with “authorized personnel.” Reports by USAF personnel no longer go to Project Blue Book, which is now only a PR front. Some good cases still go there, but far fewer unidentifieds. Only solved cases are to be discussed publicly; those still unidentified are to remain classified at the Restricted level. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unidentified Flying Objects](http://www.nicap.org/directives/AFR%20200-2%2C%20Aug%20%2026%2C1953.pdf) [Reporting,](http://www.nicap.org/directives/AFR%20200-2%2C%20Aug%20%2026%2C1953.pdf)” Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 26, 1953; Clark III 918; Swords 198–199 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2277 ### Event 9065 (1266CFE6) **Date:** 8/27/1953 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** HIALEAH, FL **Description:** 2 / car. Huge green disk drops and curves back up. Green light floods windshield. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 617) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3271 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "HIALEAH,FL:2/CAR:HUGE GRN DISK DROPS+CURVES BACK UP:GRN LITE FLOODS WINDSHIELD", **LatLong:** "25.855557 -80.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "25:51:20 N 80:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.855557,-80.266670)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9066 (D333CA5E) **Date:** 8/27/1953 **Location:** Greenville, MS **Description:** USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground, saw a light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2692) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1573 ### Event 9067 (2267CDA0) **Date:** 8/27/1953 **Time:** 9:45 PM **Location:** Greenville, Mississippi **Description:** Witnesses: USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground. One meandering light was observed for 50 minutes. No further details in file. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_319 ### Event 9068 (83444228) **Date:** 8/27/1953 **Location:** Greenville AFB [now Mid-Delta Regional Airport], Mississippi **Description:** 9:45 p.m. A USAF pilot, M/Sgt, and others, all on the ground, see a meandering light for 50 minutes at Greenville AFB \[now Mid-Delta Regional Airport\], Mississippi. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 204 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2278 ### Event 9069 (5582D740) **Date:** 8/27/1953 **Description:** In Greenville, Mississippi at 9:45 p.m. several ground witnesses including an Air Force pilot, Sergeant and others watched an unidentified meandering light for 50 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5389 ### Event 9070 (9854D5EB) **Date:** 8/28/1953 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** SAN RAFAEL, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 14 cylinder/cigar-shape / saucers with lights in V-formation. Project Bluebook Case #unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3272 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SAN RAFAEL,CA:GOC OBS:14 CGR/SCRS W/LITES IN V-FORM:BBK#UNK.", **LatLong:** "37.983335 -122.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:59:00 N 122:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.983335,-122.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9071 (36CE3FCA) **Date:** 8/28/1953 **Location:** San Rafael, California **Description:** A Ground Observer Corps volunteer watches 14 cigar-shaped UFOs silently moving over San Rafael, California. One appears to be leading the formation at about 200 mph. They are first seen heading west through breaks in the clouds, then turn north and disappear behind clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 278](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/278/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2279 ### Event 9072 (92721B88) **Date:** 8/28/1953 **Description:** Fourteen oval flying objects were sighted by a Ground Observer Corps watcher in San Rafael, California at 2:25 a.m. They flew silently and were in view for three minutes. A report on the encounter was sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the NSA. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, August 1953, case 32; Project Blue Book Report #12, November 30, 1953; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 278 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5408 ### Event 9073 (A674595E) **Date:** 8/29/1953 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** NEAR REDKEY, IN **Description:** Several observer(s). Night light goes up-down-left-right. Changes color. Radical moves. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3273 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "312", **HatchDesc:** "nr REDKEY,IN:SVRL OBS:NLT GOES UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT:CHANGES COLOR:RADICAL MOVES", **LatLong:** "40.350002 -85.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:21:00 N 85:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.350002,-85.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9074 (BB17FE42) **Date:** 8/31/1953 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** VERNON, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucer going east. Going down [to] fast. Stops. Going up [to] and circles. 2 more saucer / wild maneuvers. / LDLN#260. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3274 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VERNON,FR:SVRL OBS:SCR >E:↓ FAST:STOPS:↑+CCLs:2 MORE SCR/WILD MNVRS:/LDLN#260", **LatLong:** "49.100002 1.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:06:00 N 01:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.100002,1.450000)", **State/Prov:** "EUR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9075 (D70DC03D) **Date:** 8/31/1953 **Description:** [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) leaves Project Blue Book permanently, leaving Max Futch in charge as acting chief through December. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14; Clark III 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2280 ### Event 9076 (3924A61A) **Date:** 8/31/1953 **Description:** A disc-shaped object flew toward the east in the sky over Vernon, France at 4:00 p.m. It shot up rapidly to a higher altitude, then stopped and circled. Two more discs engaged in wild maneuvers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 65; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5516 ### Event 9077 (A61075C9) **Date:** 9/1953 **Location:** California **Description:** The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski published. **Type:** book **Reference:** [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Have-Landed/dp/1500235040) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_489 ### Event 9078 (418439EB) **Date:** 9/1953 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SANTONA, SPAIN **Description:** F. Campana. Object rises / sea. Climbs sharply going northeast / 1 min. Lost to sight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3275 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SANTONA,SPAIN:F.CAMPANA:OBJ RISES/SEA:CLIMBS SHARPLY>NE/1 MIN:LOST TO SIGHT.", **LatLong:** "43.416669 -3.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:25:00 N 03:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.416669,-3.450000)", **State/Prov:** "SNT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9079 (4F86BE01) **Date:** 9/1953 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** SAINTES TO/FROM PONS, FR **Description:** Noisy saucer hovers 10' over field by N137. Hits trees. Quickly going up [to] very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3276 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAINTES> Event 9080 (626B0529) **Date:** 9/1953 **Location:** London, UK **Description:** London, England, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1574 ### Event 9081 (33FAFC4F) **Date:** 9/1953 **Location:** Great Pyramid **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s account \(ghostwritten by [Clara John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john)\) of his meeting in the desert with the Venusian named Orthon is appended to an already completed manuscript on modern and historical UFO reports by Irish occultist [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) and published as Flying Saucers Have Landed. Leslie asserts that the first spaceman \(a Venusian\) arrived on earth in 18,617,841 B.C. \[in the early Miocene Epoch\] and claims that early UFOs were called vimanas in Sanskrit epics like the Ramayana. He also argues that the Great Pyramid and megalithic structures were built with levitation techniques derived from space people. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, [Flying Saucers Have Landed](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl)[,](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl) British Book Centre, 1953; Clark III 40 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2281 ### Event 9082 (55F2B8EC) **Date:** 9/1953 **Locations:** Westchester, California; Santa Monica **Description:** Airline stewardess [Gloria Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%5FLee) of Westchester, California, begins to hear a voice in her head that identifies itself as “J.W.,” a resident of Jupiter. Lee insists on a physical visit. Not long afterward, as she is hanging wash in her backyard, she hears the voice say, “Well, you’ve been wanting to see me.” She looks up and sees “a saucer, big as life, flying toward Santa Monica.” She has other experiences and founds the Cosmon Research Organization to publish and study J.W.’s teachings, much of which resemble philosophy in the 1882 book Oahspe, produced by automatic writing by [John Ballou Newbrough](https://history-computer.com/People/NewbroughBio.html)[.](https://history-computer.com/People/NewbroughBio.html) She goes on the contactee lecture circuit. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 682–683 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2282 ### Event 9083 (2341D8A3) **Date:** 9/1953 **Location:** Joshua Tree, California **Description:** Genevieve A. Johnston begins publishing the contactee newsletter Interplanetary News Digest in Joshua Tree, California. It continues through spring 1955. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Interplanetary News Digest](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl) 1, no. 1 \(September 1953\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2283 ### Event 9084 (976B0D7C) **Date:** 9/1953 **Location:** Clarksburg, West Virginia **Description:** [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) starts publishing The Saucerian Bulletin in Clarksburg, West Virginia, which covers UFO reports, monster yarns, contactee tales, and the latest rumors about [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender). It continues through October 1962. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Saucerian Bulletin](http://cufos.org/Saucerian/1953%5F09%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-1%231%28W%231%29.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(September 1953\); Clark III 178 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2284 ### Event 9085 (502B1C5E) **Date:** 9/2/1953 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** SIDI SLIMANE AIR FORCE BASE, MAROC **Description:** C47 crew and Air Traffic Controller. Night light buzzes C47. 90+180° turns. No plane. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 318) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3277 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SIDI SLIMANE AFB,MAROC:C47 CREW+ATC:NLT BUZZES C47:90+180°TURNS:NO PLANE:/r185", **LatLong:** "34.266668 -5.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "34:16:00 N 05:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.266668,-5.866667)", **State/Prov:** "KNT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9086 (EA210BC6) **Date:** 9/2/1953 **Location:** Sidi Slimane AFB, Fr. Morocco **Description:** Air Force C-47 Encounters Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530902](http://www.nicap.org/530902morocco%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1575 ### Event 9087 (1FABD6DB) **Date:** 9/2/1953 **Time:** 9:14 PM **Location:** Sidi Slimane AFB, French Morocco **Description:** Witnesses: Lt. Col. William Moore and lst Lt. J.H. McInnis, flying a USAF C-47 transport plane. One very bright light was on a collision course with the C-47, levelled out, made 180 degree turn during 3 minute observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_320 ### Event 9088 (F76458AA) **Date:** 9/2/1953 **Description:** At 9:14 p.m. at Sidi Slimane AFB, Morocco pilot Lt. Col. William Moore and co-pilot Lt. J. H. McInnis, flying in a C-47 transport plane at 140 mph at 6000 feet altitude on a training mission, encountered a very bright light that appeared on a collision course with their aircraft. At the last minute the UFO levelled out. It subsequently made a 90 degree and then it executed a 180 degree turn. It descended to 700 feet or less, slowed and seemed to hover. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21; UNICAT, case # 767; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5564 ### Event 9089 (2EB2DCDE) **Date:** 9/3/1953 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** Very large luminous UFO flits. Hovers. Throws sticks and rocks / observers. Flies away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 297) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3278 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:VLARGE LUM UFO FLITS:HVRS:THROWS STICKS+ROCKS/OBSs:flies away", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -81.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 81:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-81.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9090 (CF7139B0) **Date:** 9/3/1953 **Time:** Unknown time **Location:** Portland, Oregon **Description:** Two bright silver ovals moved very fast. Case missing from files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_321 ### Event 9091 (E6115015) **Date:** 9/3/1953 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 5.8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1037 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "5.8" ### Event 9092 (6B48116A) **Date:** 9/3/1953 **Description:** On this day a very large, luminous UFO hovered close to ground in Bedford Park, near Cleveland, Ohio. It threw up rocks and sticks from the ground, and then flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3126, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 297 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5586 ### Event 9093 (3688E0C7) **Date:** 9/4/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** HOLBROOK, AZ **Description:** Air Force C47+marine plane and Zuni / NM station/depot/facility. Blue-green pulsing night light going quickly east / 500mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3279 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1549", **HatchDesc:** "HOLBROOK,AZ:AF C47+MARINE PLANE+ZUNI/NM STn:BLU-GRN PULSING NLT >>E/500mph", **LatLong:** "34.900002 -110.155561", **LatLongDMS:** "34:54:00 N 110:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.900002,-110.155561)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9094 (36F648F2) **Date:** 9/4/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** TONNERRE, FR **Description:** 5M cylinder/cigar-shape and sphere / ground. 3 1.5M small humanoids (or Greys) run to both and fly. Traces. / r8#117. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3280 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TONNERRE,FR:5M CGR+SPHERE/GND:3 1.5M OIDS RUN TO BOTH+FLY:TRACES:/r8#117", **LatLong:** "47.855558 3.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:51:20 N 03:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.855558,3.983334)", **State/Prov:** "YNN", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9095 (EA220C0C) **Date:** 9/4/1953 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Tonnerre, France **Description:** A woman saw two objects on the ground and three 1.5-m-tall men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets and boots. One entered the elongated object, 5 m long, 1.5 m wide, which spread "wings" that made it look like a butterfly. It then took a vertical position, resting on a tripod, and took off with the spherical object into which the other two creatures had gone. Traces were found at the spot. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** GEPA 68, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_117 ### Event 9096 (D9D70C84) **Date:** 9/4/1953 **Description:** Mrs. Deshais, a farmer's wife in Tonnerre, France saw two UFOs at 9:30 p.m., a five-meter long elongated object and a sphere, both on the ground. There were three 1.5-meter (5 foot) tall men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets and boots. One entered the elongated object, which then spread some "wings" that made it look like a butterfly. It then shifted to a vertical position, resting on tripod landing gear, and took off at the same time as the spherical object into which the other two beings had gone. Traces were found at the spot. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1968; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204, case 117 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5624 ### Event 9097 (7187DDB4) **Date:** 9/5/1953 **Location:** CASTLE VALLEY, UTAH **Description:** Movie crew. White sphere passes between 2 rock formations. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DAVID, Jay (ed.): FLYING SAUCERS HAVE ARRIVED: HB World Publ. NY 1970. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3281 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1433", **HatchDesc:** "CASTLE VALLEY,UTAH:MOVIE CREW:WHITE SPHERE PASSES BETWEEN 2 ROCK FORMATIONS", **LatLong:** "38.961113 -111.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:40 N 111:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.961113,-111.133339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9098 (A4D9D136) **Date:** 9/6/1953 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MASS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver-grey clam-shaped object north going quickly south overhead / 200MPH. / Loren Gross. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3282 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MASS:2 OBS:SLVR-GRY CLAM-SHAPED OBJ N>>S OVHD/200MPH:/LOREN GROSS", **LatLong:** "42.700002 -72.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:42:00 N 72:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.700002,-72.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9099 (64A13D24) **Date:** 9/6/1953 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** OMAHA, NEBR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Round red object maneuvers / erratic speed. Moves / short bursts. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3283 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "313", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NEBR:2 OBS:ROUND RED OBJ MNVRS/ERRATIC SPEED:MOVES/SHORT BURSTS:", **LatLong:** "41.266669 -95.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 N 95:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.266669,-95.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9100 (078C045E) **Date:** 9/7/1953 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** Technical writer. Equilateral triangle spins overhead going quickly north. 3000' altitude below overcast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3284 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:TECHn.WRITER:EQLT.TRIANGLE SPINS OVHD>>N:3000'alt BLW OVERCAST", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -81.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 81:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-81.666671)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9101 (A57D6BDD) **Date:** 9/7/1953 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** VANDALIA, OH **Description:** Brill white UFO flies under 2 United States Navy (USN) planes. Going up [to] fast O / O / sight. / r237p158. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3285 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "296", **HatchDesc:** "VANDALIA,OH:BRILL WHT UFO FLIES UNDER 2 USN PLANES:↑ FAST O/O/SIGHT:/r237p158", **LatLong:** "39.883335 -84.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:53:00 N 84:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.883335,-84.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9102 (808EE173) **Date:** 9/7/1953 **Location:** Vandalia, IL **Description:** Navy pilots (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1576 ### Event 9103 (4D1DF6C8) **Date:** 9/7/1953 **Location:** Cleveland, OH **Description:** Technical writer watched rotating triangle pass overhead (cf., May 22, 1960, Majorca sighting). \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1577 ### Event 9104 (81A110B3) **Date:** 9/7/1953 **Location:** Littlehampton, England **Description:** British pilot [Neville Duke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%5FDuke) reaches 728 mph in a Hawker Hunter Mk.3 at Littlehampton, England. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Neville Duke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%5FDuke)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2285 ### Event 9105 (60BD10CE) **Date:** 9/7/1953 **Location:** Cleveland, Ohio **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Don P. Hollister, a technical writer for Goodyear Aircraft, notices a grayish-blue object heading north directly over his backyard in Cleveland, Ohio, at less than 3,000 feet altitude. It is shaped like an equilateral triangle, but rounded somewhat on the sides and angles. It is rotating on a central axis. The object disappears after 5 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 70](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=82&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2286 ### Event 9106 (BDB0C3D8) **Date:** 9/7/1953 **Description:** While flying over Vandalia, Ohio at eight p.m. two onboard a U.S. Navy FG1D research aircraft sighted a white light that shot up and away vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, September 1954, p. 5; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 48; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5708 ### Event 9107 (AF6BE8AE) **Date:** 9/8/1953 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1.6KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1038 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1.6" ### Event 9108 (3B230758) **Date:** 9/9/1953 **Location:** KINGAROY, QLD, AUSTRALIA **Description:** Canberra times. UFO looks like a log or telegraph pole. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3286 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KINGAROY,QLD,AUSTRALIA:CANBERRA TIMES:UFO LOOKS LIKE A LOG or TELEGRAPH POLE", **LatLong:** "-26.616668 151.833341", **LatLongDMS:** "26:37:00 S 151:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.616668,151.833341)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9109 (A5440F34) **Date:** 9/10/1953 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 4.9KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1039 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "4.9" ### Event 9110 (26AF95E7) **Date:** 9/11/1953 **Location:** CHILOQUIN, OREGON **Description:** Police chief / (seen thru) binoculars and others. Top-saucers seen 3 nights running. R78p169. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3287 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "1274", **HatchDesc:** "CHILOQUIN,ORE:POLICE CHIEF/BINOCS+OTHERS:TOP-SCRs SEEN 3 NITES RUNNING:r78p169", **LatLong:** "42.577780 -121.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:34:40 N 121:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.577780,-121.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9111 (38229C9B) **Date:** 9/11/1953 **End date:** 9/13/1953 **Location:** Chiloquin, OR **Description:** Police Chief, others, watched top-like UFOs three consecutive nights. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1580 ### Event 9112 (5F2E582A) **Date:** 9/11/1953 **Description:** A large yellow nocturnal light zigzagged over Fort Meade, Maryland. It vanished temporarily, then reappeared. It was also seen over Andrews Air Force Base. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1953 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5854 ### Event 9113 (F2CA2A94) **Date:** 9/11/1953 **Description:** Brovst, Denmark was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5855 ### Event 9114 (15F58E1F) **Date:** 9/12/1953 **Location:** BROVST, DK **Description:** Attempted abduction / girl by 2 glowing small humanoids (or Greys) or robots. Hoax / Vallee. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3288 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BROVST,DK:ATTEMPTED ABD/GIRL by 2 GLOWING OIDS OR ROBOTS:HOAX/Vallee", **LatLong:** "57.100003 9.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "57:06:00 N 09:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.100003,9.533334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9115 (7B5E4D0B) **Date:** 9/12/1953 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / FORT MEADE, MD **Description:** 2 military observer(s). Large yellow night light zigzags. Gone. Reappears. Seen / Andrews Air Force Base. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3289 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "NE/FORT MEADE,MD:2 MIL OBS:LRG YEL.NLT ZIGZAGS:GONE:REAPPEARS:SEEN/ANDREWS AFB", **LatLong:** "39.116669 -76.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 76:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,-76.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9116 (1C2039A8) **Date:** 9/12/1953 **Location:** Brovst, Denmark **Description:** Brovst was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Guieu ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_118 ### Event 9117 (6F1D122D) **Date:** 9/12/1953 **Description:** Brovst, Denmark was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5901 ### Event 9118 (54AAEAB9) **Date:** 9/14/1953 **Location:** LONDON **Description:** Military observer(s). Strong RADAR / 150' saucer. Metallic. Seen / (seen thru) binoculars. Hovers / 15 minute(s). Back 22 SEPT53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3290 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON:MIL OBS:STRONG RDR/150'SCR:MTLC:SEEN/BINOCS:HVRS/15min:BACK 22SEPT53", **LatLong:** "51.516669 -0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:31:00 N 00:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.516669,-0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9119 (DD25BBFE) **Date:** 9/15/1953 **End date:** 9/19/1953 **Locations:** Fort McClellan; Alabama **Description:** Operation Top Hat, a “local field exercise,” takes place at the Army Chemical School \[now the US Army CBRN School\] at Fort McClellan \[now closed\], Alabama. The experiments use Chemical Corps personnel to test decontamination methods for biological and chemical weapons, including sulfur mustard and nerve agents. The personnel are deliberately exposed to these contaminants, are not volunteers, and are not informed of the tests. In a 1975 Pentagon Inspector General’s report, the military maintain that Operation Top Hat is not subject to the guidelines requiring approval because it is a line-of-duty exercise in the Chemical Corps. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Top Hat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FTop%5FHat)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2287 ### Event 9120 (89B20CE3) **Date:** 9/16/1953 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North Miami area **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_511 ### Event 9121 (0AFE538B) **Date:** 9/16/1953 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** LONDON, ONTARIO **Description:** 2 in car. Dull white irregular 30cm chunk hangs / sky. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3291 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON,ONTARIO:2 IN CAR:DULL WHT IRREGULAR 30cm CHUNK HANGS/SKY:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "42.983335 -81.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:59:00 N 81:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.983335,-81.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9122 (7A709982) **Date:** 9/22/1953 **Location:** BAD AXE, MI **Description:** Several observer(s). Object flashes red and green and white. Lands / old gravel pit. Hums. Quickly going up [to] later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3292 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "233", **HatchDesc:** "BAD AXE,MI:SVRL OBS:OBJ FLASHES RED+GRN+WHT:LANDS/OLD GRAVEL PIT:HUMS:↑↑ LATER", **LatLong:** "43.800002 -83.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:48:00 N 83:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.800002,-83.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9123 (77BC9977) **Date:** 9/22/1953 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** ONTARIO, CA **Description:** 4 USAF. "Wing tank" falls. Stops. Turns circular. Flies going quickly north / extreme speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 323) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3293 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "ONTARIO,CA:4 USAF:"WING TANK" FALLS:STOPS:TURNS CIRCULAR:FLIES>>N/XTREME SPEED", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -117.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 117:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-117.633339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9124 (5D6BF4AC) **Date:** 9/22/1953 **Time:** 11:45 AM **Location:** Hayward, California **Description:** Witness: civilian, Mr. Bray, using a small telescope. One thin, yellow triangle moved slowly, made a rapid acceleration and a vertical climb during the 5-8 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_322 ### Event 9125 (45EE6835) **Date:** 9/22/1953 **Description:** At 9:00 a.m. an object shaped like an airplane "wing tank" fell from the sky over Ontario, California. It stopped in midair, turned into a circular shape, then shot off toward the north at an extreme speed. There were four military witnesses. Another UFO was seen later that day by a man named Bray in Hayward, California in Alameda county at 11:45 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 23; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1953, case 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6217 ### Event 9126 (B22D19AF) **Date:** 9/23/1953 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** EAST CANTON TO/FROM MINERVA, OH **Description:** Astronomer Webb and 1. White sphere crosses US30 north going south. Brief. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DAVID, Jay (ed.): FLYING SAUCERS HAVE ARRIVED: HB World Publ. NY 1970. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3294 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "E.CANTON>S:brief", **LatLong:** "40.766669 -81.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:00 N 81:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.766669,-81.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9127 (0E378B0A) **Date:** Autumn 1953 **Locations:** Dutton, Montana; Conrad, Montana; Great Falls AFB [now Malmstrom AFB] **Description:** Dusk. Cecil Tenney is driving near Dutton, Montana, when he sees a cigar-shaped object about 200 feet away. Apparently in trouble, it belches fire and smoke, and after a few minutes he hears an explosion. Balls of fire rain down from the sky. He tells the story to a highway patrol officer at a nearby bar before driving on to Conrad, Montana. That evening a colonel from Great Falls AFB \[now Malmstrom AFB\] calls and tells him to show up at the base in the morning. He is interrogated there for 30 minutes, and on the way out sees soldiers carrying bags that he thinks might contain body parts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals of the Third Kind: A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody,” MUFON 1978 UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1978, pp. 77–105; Clark III 342 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2293 ### Event 9128 (10D337A3) **Date:** 9/24/1953 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** BEXLEY, OHIO **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Round silver disk follows plane. / Stringfield. / No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3295 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "241", **HatchDesc:** "BEXLEY,OHIO:GOC OBS:ROUND SLVR DISK FOLOS PLANE:/Stringfield:/NFD", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -82.938893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 82:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-82.938893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9129 (89386392) **Date:** 9/24/1953 **Location:** Columbus (Bexley), OH **Description:** Ground Observer Corps report: silvery disk followed plane. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1581 ### Event 9130 (B7486374) **Date:** Late 9/1953 **Location:** Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** Night. Baltimore, Maryland, astronomer [James C. Bartlett Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Bartlett%5Fpending.htm) is observing a transit of the star Fomalhaut when he notices four large lights moving slowly in the sky. He looks at them through binoculars and sees that they are on the noses of two enormous cigar-shaped objects at about 3,000 feet altitude. He can also see an apparent cabin and portholes and he hears a sound like a piston engine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Two Huge UFOs Sighted by](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf) [Baltimore Astronomer,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 1, 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2291 ### Event 9131 (3F688F33) **Date:** 9/26/1953 **Locations:** Castel Idris; Tripoli; Libya **Description:** British pilot [Mike Lithgow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FLithgow) attains an official world airspeed record of 736 mph in a Supermarine Swift F 4 at Castel Idris, Tripoli, Libya. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Mike Lithgow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FLithgow)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2288 ### Event 9132 (E03C0198) **Date:** 9/27/1953 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / MAQUOKETA, IA **Description:** 2 / car. Small domed saucer / treetops. Speeds away when neared. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 323) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3296 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "SW/MAQUOKETA,IA:2/CAR:SML DOMED SCR/TREETOPS:SPEEDS AWAY WHEN NEARED", **LatLong:** "42.050002 -90.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:03:00 N 90:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.050002,-90.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9133 (ADEF0F06) **Date:** 9/28/1953 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** Astronomer. 2 huge cigars / 3K' altitude. Cabin lights / nose and portholes / side. / r137#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3297 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:ASTRONOMER:2 HUGE CGRS/3K'alt:CABIN LITES/NOSE+PORTS/SIDE:/r137#3", **LatLong:** "39.283335 -76.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:17:00 N 76:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.283335,-76.583337)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9134 (BAF970E8) **Date:** 9/28/1953 **Location:** Palmdale, CA **Description:** (McDonald list) F-94C Tracks UFO at 200 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [530928](http://www.nicap.org/530928palmdale%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1578 ### Event 9135 (7C710BDA) **Date:** 9/28/1953 **Time:** 7 PM **Location:** Palmdale, California **Description:** Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. One object tracked at 2,000 kts. (2,300 m.p.h.) for 15 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_323 ### Event 9136 (F684FEA3) **Date:** 9/28/1953 **Time:** 7 PM **Location:** Newhall, California **Description:** Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. Visual observation one orange ball travelling 500-600 kts. (600-700 m.p.h.) for 6 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_324 ### Event 9137 (CA697BA7) **Date:** 9/28/1953 **Locations:** South Pole; Los Angeles **Description:** [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) confides to [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) and a few others that three menacing men dressed in black suits have called on him, told him the answer to the UFO mystery, and insisted that he will go to jail if he repeats it. The experience allegedly terrifies him, and he decides to close the International Flying Saucer Bureau. Barker immortalizes the episode in a 1956 book, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, and Bender breaks his long silence in 1962 with Flying Saucers and the Three Men, in which he claims that the visitors are not government agents but monsters from the distant planet Kazik. Even Barker concedes privately that he cannot swallow Bender’s fantastic tale of abduction to the South Pole by monstrous space beings. Bender does little to promote the book and soon moves to Los Angeles and secures an unlisted telephone number. However, the book does reveal Bender’s long-time obsession with science fiction, horror movies, and the occult. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gray Barker, [They Knew](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n1/mode/2up) [Too Much about Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n1/mode/2up) University Books, 1956; Albert K. Bender, Flying Saucers and the Three Men, Saucerian, 1962; Clark III 189–192, 623; Story, [pp. 50–51](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/50/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2289 ### Event 9138 (C196C9A5) **Date:** 9/28/1953 **Location:** Palmdale, California **Description:** 7:10 p.m. In Palmdale, California, a UFO appears on an F-94C radarscope for a period of 15 seconds. The object is traveling on a 60° course at an estimated speed of 2,300 mph. It is 4 miles away when first seen and compares with a C-47 in size on the radarscope. The F-94 was moving at 345 mph at 21,000 feet. The same or another object is observed visually from another F-94C for six seconds at 7:00 p.m. The object is described as round, orange in color, and traveling on the same course as the first object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-94C Tracks UFO at 200 Knots](http://www.nicap.org/530928palmdale%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 204 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2290 ### Event 9139 (56A4E92B) **Date:** 9/29/1953 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** CARCES, VAR, FR **Description:** Vineyard workers. Flying cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 15 minute(s). Strong red light beams going down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3298 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "CARCES,VAR,FR:VINYARD WORKERS:FLYING CGR HVRS/15min:STRONG RED LITE BEAMS ↓", **LatLong:** "43.466669 6.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:28:00 N 06:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.466669,6.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9140 (7093A8BF) **Date:** 9/29/1953 **Location:** Easton, PA **Description:** Television picture "began going up and down real fast," as UFO passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1579 ### Event 9141 (84E3D6DA) **Date:** 9/29/1953 **Description:** The vertical hold on a TV set went out when a UFO emitting white vapor passed overhead in Easton, Pennsylvania. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Paul Whalley, Flying Saucers magazine, October 1968, p. 26; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 73 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6416 ### Event 9142 (E65969E8) **Date:** 9/30/1953 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SILVER SPRING, MD **Description:** 1 observer. 8' silver spheroid glides 300' over house. Shiny. No glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3299 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER SPRING,MD:1 OBS:8'SLVR SPHEROID GLIDES 300' ovr HOUSE:SHINY:NO GLOW", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-77.033337)", **RelAlt:** "90", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9143 (0EF04EFD) **Date:** 9/30/1953 **Description:** Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#12. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 215–235 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2292 ### Event 9144 (D6EBB0D8) **Date:** 10/1953 (approximate) **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** (E.PANHANDLE), WV **Description:** Biologist and P38 pilot and 1. 8M saucer going up [to] and left and right and going down [to] below horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 634) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3300 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "(E.PANHANDLE),WV:BIOLOGIST+P38 PILOT+1:8M SCR ↑+LEFT+RIGHT+↓ below HRZN:", **LatLong:** "39.416669 -78.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:25:00 N 78:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.416669,-78.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9145 (D024A7D1) **Date:** 10/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** TAZA, MOROCCO **Description:** 5 / car. Luminous top saucer going north straight and level at high altitude. Absolute(ly) plain and silent. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3301 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TAZA,MOROCCO:5/CAR:LUMn.TOP SCR >N S/L at HIGH alt:ABS PLAIN+SILENT:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.266668 -4.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "34:16:00 N 04:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.266668,-4.016667)", **State/Prov:** "TZA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9146 (8434D687) **Date:** 10/1953 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SAO PAOLO, BRZ **Description:** Druggist. Black moon-size disk crosses sun 2X. Quickly going up [to] up / incredibly fast. Contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 634) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3302 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "638", **HatchDesc:** "SAO PAOLO,BRZ:DRUGGIST:BLK MOONSIZE DISK CROSSES SUN 2X:↑↑ UP/XXFAST:contrail", **LatLong:** "-23.533334 -46.600002", **LatLongDMS:** "23:32:00 S 46:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.533334,-46.600002)", **State/Prov:** "SP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9147 (F5363F61) **Date:** 10/1953 (approximate) **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** NEAR DUTTON, MT **Description:** Saucer crash? Observer(s) interrogated / USAF. Bodies in laundry bag. / MJ#129. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3303 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "3716", **HatchDesc:** "nr DUTTON,MT:SCR CRASH?:OBS INTERROGATED/USAF:BODIES IN LAUNDRY BAG:/MJ#129", **LatLong:** "47.850002 -111.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:51:00 N 111:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.850002,-111.716672)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 9148 (0F98AD66) **Date:** 10/1953 **Description:** The final issue of Space Review edited by [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) states that UFOs are “no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by orders from a higher source.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Statement of Importance,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Space%20Review%20%28Bender%29/Space%20Review%20-%20Volume%202%20number%204%20-%201953%2010.pdf)” Space Review 2, no. 4 \(October 1953\): 1; Clark III 189 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2294 ### Event 9149 (6BE92B75) **Date:** 10/1/1953 **Locations:** Henry Holt; USAF Secretary Harold E. Talbott **Description:** [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s Flying Saucers from Outer Space is published by Henry Holt. Excerpts appear in the October 20 issue of Look. His message is that aliens are here, the military knows it, and they are covering it up from the public to avoid panic. He has gotten clearance from [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and [Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) to include 51 classified UFO reports from the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which runs Project Blue Book. The Air Force states that Keyhoe is misrepresenting their analyses, so he sends a telegram to USAF Secretary [Harold E. Talbott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FTalbott) and Gen. [Sory Smith](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105625/major-general-sory-smith/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105625/major-general-sory-smith/) saying that if he really misrepresented anything, as a Marine Corps officer he should be disciplined. The Air Force offers no comment. In the book, he takes note of a curious document \(never published and now lost\) prepared by USAF Col. [William C. Odell](https://obits.gazette.com/obituaries/gazette/obituary.aspx?n=william-c-odell&pid=127051838&fhid=6109) titled “Planet Earth: Host to Extraterrestrial Life,” in which he speculates on aliens crossing space in search of new planets to live on once their own fails. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, [Flying Saucers from Outer Space](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/fsos.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/fsos.htm) Holt, 1953; Wikipedia, “[Flying Saucers from Outer Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%5FSaucers%5Ffrom%5FOuter%5FSpace)”; Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 55; Michael D. Swords, “Colonel Odell and the Invasion of Earth,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 3– 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2295 ### Event 9150 (FE3D9016) **Date:** 10/2/1953 **Location:** Lancaster, Ohio **Description:** Industrial engineer Jack W. Grant gives a presentation titled "Flying Saucers Have Landed" to the Federation of Women's Clubs at a hotel. He had travelled the country for the past 6 years and was convinced the topic was of immense significance. He said the government would eventually tell the public and his presentation would help soften the blow. **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116905302/jack-w-grant-flying-saucers-are-real/) **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116904993/jack-w-grant-on-flying-saucers-have/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_512 ### Event 9151 (35912577) **Date:** 10/2/1953 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OK **Description:** 2 observer(s). "Extra Venus" curves and zags over barracks. Slows. Stops. Turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 329) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3304 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "394", **HatchDesc:** "TINKER AFB,OK:2 OBS:"EXTRA VENUS" CURVES+ZAGS OVR BARRACKS:SLOWS:STOPS:TURNS", **LatLong:** "35.416668 -97.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:25:00 N 97:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.416668,-97.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9152 (0C0D5450) **Date:** 10/3/1953 **Location:** Salton Sea, California **Description:** USN pilot [James B. Verdin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3436976/james-bernard-verdin) reaches 753 mph in a Douglas F4D Skyray over the Salton Sea, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Douglas F4D Skyray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FF4D%5FSkyray)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2296 ### Event 9153 (71C4E668) **Date:** 10/4/1953 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** CHEVILLON-SUR-HUILLARD, FR **Description:** 4 observer(s). 5M fireball close / ground. Turns into cylinder/cigar-shape-shape. / r50p68. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3305 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHEVILLON-sur-HUILLARD,FR:4 OBS:5M FBL CLOSE/GND:TURNS INTO CGR-SHAPE:/r50p68", **LatLong:** "47.950002 2.627778", **LatLongDMS:** "47:57:00 N 02:37:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.950002,2.627778)", **State/Prov:** "Loiret", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9154 (2DBEC4B4) **Date:** 10/6/1953 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** NORWICH, ENGL **Description:** Astronomer and more / telescope. Saucer hovers / 3 minute(s). Lit windows / dome. 180° turn going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3306 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "NORWICH,ENGL:ASTRONOMER+/TELESCOPE:SCR HVRS/3min:LIT WINDOWS/DOME:180°TURN >SW", **LatLong:** "52.650003 1.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:39:00 N 01:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.650003,1.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9155 (079AA044) **Date:** 10/7/1953 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Eng. and 1 southwest / base. Silver saucer follows test missile right up exhaust. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3307 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:ENG.+1 SW/BASE:SLVR SCR FOLOS TEST MISSILE RIGHT UP EXHAUST", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -106.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 106:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-106.083338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9156 (CE40D55A) **Date:** 10/7/1953 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, IL **Description:** White sphere/orb/globe stands still / 4 minute(s). Flies going quickly north. Gone / 1 minute(s). / runway control Officer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3308 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "SCOTT AFB,IL:WHT ORB STANDS STILL/4min:FLIES>>N:GONE/1min:/RUNWAY CONTROL OFCR", **LatLong:** "38.572224 -89.794449", **LatLongDMS:** "38:34:20 N 89:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.572224,-89.794449)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9157 (ED0131A8) **Date:** 10/8/1953 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** Postman and several. 2 12' saucers. Slightly transparent. Retrace course. Going quickly west / ocean. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 331) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3309 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "LONG BEACH,CA:POSTMAN+SVRL:2 12'SCRS:SLIGHTLY XPARENT:RETRACE COURSE:>>W/OCEAN", **LatLong:** "33.783335 -118.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:00 N 118:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.783335,-118.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9158 (8AE8FFF4) **Date:** 10/8/1953 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** AKRON, OH **Description:** Glowing disk / high speed. 08 October. Ellipse hums and crosses sky / 1.5sec. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3310 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "AKRON,OH:GLOWING DISK/HIGH SPEED::08OCT:ELLIPSE HUMS+CROSSES SKY/1.5sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.100002 -81.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:06:00 N 81:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.100002,-81.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9159 (06F74507) **Date:** 10/8/1953 **Description:** A glowing disc flew at high speed over Akron, Ohio at 8:40 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, May 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6638 ### Event 9160 (7903A6D6) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at the Aerodex Management club **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_513 ### Event 9161 (C6D8CFA1) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** ENGLISH CHANNEL SOUTHEAST / LONDON **Description:** Pilots. Huge metallic saucer passes airliner going quickly southeast to Paris. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3311 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ENGLISH CHANNEL SE/LONDON:PILOTS:HUGE MTLC SCR PASSES AIRLINER >>SE to PARIS", **LatLong:** "50.500002 1.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:30:00 N 01:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.500002,1.000000)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9162 (BFBADD6B) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** SAMPSON AIR FORCE BASE, NY **Description:** 3 observer(s). Silver saucer makes deafening roar! Very large and very high. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 331) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3312 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "SAMPSON AFB,NY:3 OBS:SLVR SCR MAKES DEAFENING ROAR!:VLARGE+VHIGH:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.766669 -76.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 76:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,-76.866670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9163 (13363069) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** ZAANDAM, NETH **Description:** 2 orange oval blots cross sky / parallel. 3rd blot follows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3313 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ZAANDAM,NETH:2 ORANGE OVAL BLOTS CROSS SKY/PARALLEL:3rd BLOT FOLLOWS", **LatLong:** "52.416669 4.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:25:00 N 04:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.416669,4.816667)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9164 (036086CB) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SOUTH GATE, CA **Description:** Amateur astronomer. Ovoid with sharp edges / 1.5sec. 8 minute(s) / arc. Pale blue. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3314 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTH GATE,CA:AM.ASTRON:OVOID W/SHARP EDGES/1.5sec:8min/arc:PALE BLUE:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.955557 -118.211117", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:20 N 118:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.955557,-118.211117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9165 (374BB1B6) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** HAARLEM, NETH **Description:** Blue night light slowly descends. Swoops over north sea. Rises faster. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3315 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HAARLEM,NETH:BLUE NLT SLOWLY DESCENDS:SWOOPS OVR NORTH SEA:RISES FASTER", **LatLong:** "52.366669 4.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:22:00 N 04:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.366669,4.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9166 (58251A37) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Location:** Dutch Islands, Harwich area, UK **Description:** Three UFOs Flew Over Area, Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531009](http://www.nicap.org/531009unitedkingdom%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1755 ### Event 9167 (D5B18964) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Location:** Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria **Description:** 3:50 p.m. A UFO is seen at Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, discharging a white trail described as “strange shiney filaments” that cover wires and trees. A sample turns out to be a “nylon-like amorphous mass with traces of magnesuim, calcium, boron, and silicon.” It shrinks from 3 inches to one-half inch in an air-tight container. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Wispy Threads from Sky,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201966%2011%20-%20no%209%20UFOIC.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review \(UFOIC\), no. 9 \(November 1966\): 12; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2297 ### Event 9168 (C23A8324) **Date:** 10/9/1953 **Locations:** RAF Bawdsey [now Bawdsey Manor], Suffolk, England; Harwich area; RAF Waterbeach [now Waterbeach Barracks], Cambridgeshire; English Channel **Description:** 4:30 p.m. Three unidentified objects are tracked on radar at RAF Bawdsey \[now Bawdsey Manor\], Suffolk, England, at an altitude of 36,000 feet above the Netherlands. Soon they are tracked flying east to west over the Harwich area. Some jets at RAF Waterbeach \[now Waterbeach Barracks\], Cambridgeshire, are scrambled but can locate nothing. Airmen at Bawdsey can see nothing but four contrails heading north. The objects then reverse and move back across the English Channel at 32,000–34,000 feet. The apparent speed on the approach is 430 mph, increasing to 483 mph on the short leg over the UK and 564 mph on the return. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three UFOs Flew over](http://www.nicap.org/531009unitedkingdom%5Fdir.htm) [Area, Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/531009unitedkingdom%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2298 ### Event 9169 (CCFE0DD3) **Date:** 10/11/1953 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / WAUBUN, MN **Description:** Farmer. Slow saucer. Antenna / bottom. S-shape object / front. Delta/triangle/box-like craft going quickly south very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 332) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3316 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "457", **HatchDesc:** "NW/WAUBUN,MN:FARMER:SLOW SCR:ANTENNA/BOTTOM:S-SHAPE OBJ/FRONT:DLT>>S VFAST", **LatLong:** "47.233336 -95.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "47:14:00 N 95:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.233336,-95.983338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9170 (A2DE1987) **Date:** 10/11/1953 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** DJOUGOU, DAHOMEY(FWA) **Description:** Many observer(s). Luminous ovoid / 1500M altitude. Going quickly north. First seen in Benin. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3317 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "DJOUGOU,DAHOMEY(FWA):MANY OBS:LUM OVOID/1500M ALT:>>N:first seen in BENIN.", **LatLong:** "9.694445 2.494445", **LatLongDMS:** "09:41:40 N 02:29:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.694445,2.494445)", **State/Prov:** "DAH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9171 (41F07E28) **Date:** 10/12/1953 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** WATERVILLE, ME **Description:** 1 observer. Round silver-white object seen / 5 min. Enveloped in haziness. Going NNE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 333) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3318 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "WATERVILLE,ME:1 OBS:ROUND SLVR-WHT OBJ SEEN/5 min:ENVELOPED IN HAZINESS:>NNE", **LatLong:** "44.550002 -69.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:33:00 N 69:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.550002,-69.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9172 (7A7E1DC6) **Date:** 10/13/1953 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** PLEASANT HILL, CA **Description:** 4 discs / high altitude scare turkeys. Emit angel hair. / r107p209. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 194) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3319 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "PLEASANT HILL,CA:4 DISCS/HIGH ALT SCARE TURKEYS:EMIT ANGEL HAIR:/r107p209 ", **LatLong:** "37.950002 -122.061117", **LatLongDMS:** "37:57:00 N 122:03:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.950002,-122.061117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9173 (B09C80FE) **Date:** 10/13/1953 **Location:** Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE **Description:** Object Detected on SCR-584 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [531013](http://www.nicap.org/531013offuttdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1582 ### Event 9174 (75E58135) **Date:** 10/13/1953 **Location:** Dobbins AFB, GA **Description:** Object At 500' On Weather RADAR (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531013](http://www.nicap.org/531013dobbins%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1583 ### Event 9175 (1C66D032) **Date:** 10/13/1953 **Description:** Four maneuvering, nocturnal UFOs and the fall of "angel hair" was reported to have occurred in Pleasant Hill, California this night. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 201 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6804 ### Event 9176 (3AC07195) **Date:** 10/14/1953 **Time:** 22:30:00.0 **Location:** -28.0000 135.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Totem 1” Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1748 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-28.0000 135.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "28:00:00 S 135:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.0000,135.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Totem 1", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 9177 (9AD0888C) **Date:** 10/15/1953 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** 3 scientists(former pilots) see saucer maneuver at 45K' / theodolite. 40 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, J. Allen: The UFO EXPERIENCE, A Scientific Inquiry; Ballentine Books, NY 1974,1977. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3320 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:3 SCIENTISTS(FORMER PILOTS) SEE SCR MNVR @45K'/THEODOLITE:40sec", **LatLong:** "44.966669 -93.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:58:00 N 93:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.966669,-93.250004)", **RelAlt:** "13500", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9178 (1F68E61D) **Date:** 10/15/1953 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** DAYTON, OH **Description:** Aero eng. / theodolite. Grey-mass / 900mph. Silent "suicidal" dive. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3321 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "DAYTON,OH:AERO ENG./THEODOLITE:GREY-MASS/900mph:SILENT "SUICIDAL" DIVE:", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -84.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 84:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-84.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9179 (F707E43A) **Date:** 10/15/1953 **Location:** Minneapolis, MN **Description:** 40 ft object leaving brief vapor trail was seen by 3 gm employees (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [531015](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/minn.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1584 ### Event 9180 (A7FDA1C9) **Date:** 10/15/1953 **Time:** 10:10 AM **Location:** Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** Witnesses: three General Mills research engineers including Bartholomew. One glowing grey mass with a vapor trail dived for 10-15 seconds, levelled out and the trail stopped, leaving the grey mass visible. Total of 40 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_325 ### Event 9181 (686CFC9C) **Date:** 10/15/1953 **Location:** Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** 10:10 a.m. During the tracking of a Project Grab Bag balloon launch, a 40-foot object leaving a brief vapor trail is seen by three General Mills Aeronautical Lab research engineers \([James A. Winker](http://stratocat.com.ar/stratopedia/25.htm), [Fletcher L.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145580122/fletcher-lavallee-bartholomew) [Bartholomew](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145580122/fletcher-lavallee-bartholomew)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145580122/fletcher-lavallee-bartholomew) and [Richard J. Reilly](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088DJMYW4/ref%3Ddbs%5Fa%5Fdef%5Frwt%5Fhsch%5Fvapi%5Ftkin%5Fp1%5Fi0)\) near Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is traveling south in horizontal flight at 1,100 mph, moving 10° in nine seconds at about 40,000 ft altitude and 25° elevation. The object goes into a vertical dive for about 10-15 seconds, then glows or flashes in the sun two or three times for 1 second each. It is seen in the theodolite as a gray mass. It levels off and the vapor trail stops. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Project GRAB BAG Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/531015minneapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 205; Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine eds., 1974, [pp. 71–72](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/70/mode/2up); Hynek UFO Report, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/112/mode/2up) [113–114](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/112/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2299 ### Event 9182 (51A0DB58) **Date:** 10/15/1953 **Description:** At 10:10 a.m. a saucer maneuvered at 45,000 feet for 40 seconds over the General Mills Research Laboratory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was viewed through a theodolite by three scientists. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 113; UNICAT, case # 265 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6847 ### Event 9183 (A96CFD97) **Date:** 10/16/1953 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** BRIGANTINE, NJ **Description:** Large saucer going [to] WNW inland. 5-6 small spin-disks exit. All silent and extremely fast. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 624) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3322 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRIGANTINE,NJ:LRG SCR >WNW INLAND:5-6 SML SPIN-DISKS EXIT:ALL SLNT+XFAST:↑↑", **LatLong:** "39.411113 -74.366670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:24:40 N 74:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.411113,-74.366670)", **RelAlt:** "400", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9184 (F94CFD95) **Date:** 10/16/1953 **Location:** Presque Isle, ME **Description:** (McDonald list) 25 Targets on GCA Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [531016](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/531016presqudir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1585 ### Event 9185 (D2865EF8) **Date:** 10/16/1953 **Time:** 10 PM **Location:** Nicosia, Cyprus **Description:** Witness: USAF Capt. H.W. Watson, Maj. G. Watson. Two white or blue lights in trail formation, travelled very fast straight and level, then made a turn. Ten second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_326 ### Event 9186 (C9305323) **Date:** 10/16/1953 **Locations:** Harvard; Washington, D.C. **Description:** Harvard astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) writes to USAF Director of Intelligence Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) that he would like to meet with ATIC officers in Washington, D.C. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 278](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/278/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2300 ### Event 9187 (E37764BF) **Date:** 10/16/1953 **Locations:** Brigantine, New Jersey; Atlantic **Description:** 4:00–4:30 p.m. Emerson “Slim” F. Morris watches a large, cigar-shaped object as it approaches Brigantine, New Jersey, from over the Atlantic. It releases several smaller objects from both ends. The smaller discs are white, rotating counterclockwise, and rapidly speed away. Before the large object disappears, it emits a blinding ray of light toward the ground that hurts Morris’s eyes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2301 ### Event 9188 (CD0E8654) **Date:** 10/18/1953 **Location:** MANCHE DEPARTMENT, FR **Description:** 2 British airline(s)/airliner pilots. Classic metal saucer seen. No further details. / MJ#245+246 / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3323 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MANCHE Dept,FR:2 BRIT.AL PILOTS:CLASSIC MTL SCR SEEN:NFD:/MJ#245+246/r150", **LatLong:** "49.500002 -1.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:30:00 N 01:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.500002,-1.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Manche", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9189 (46A51A60) **Date:** 10/18/1953 **Location:** OVER SONDSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, GRNL **Description:** USAF pilots and ground observer(s). White night light going east passes C47 / 6621 Squadron. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3324 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "ovr SONDSTROM AFB,GRNL:USAF PILOTS+GND OBS:WHT NLT >E PASSES C47/6621 sqdr", **LatLong:** "67.000003 -50.700002", **LatLongDMS:** "67:00:00 N 50:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/67.000003,-50.700002)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 9190 (E59AE318) **Date:** 10/18/1953 **Location:** English Channel, UK **Description:** Fletcher/Lemon Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1586 ### Event 9191 (B87F570A) **Date:** 10/19/1953 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** OVER CONOWINGO DAM, MD **Description:** Near collision / AAL DC6 & UFO / same size. Passengers injured. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-SERIOUS BUSINESS; Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1966. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3325 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "111", **HatchDesc:** "OVR CONOWINGO DAM,MD:NEAR COLLISION/AAL DC6 & UFO/SAME SIZE:PASSENGERS INJURED", **LatLong:** "39.650002 -76.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:39:00 N 76:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.650002,-76.172226)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9192 (E83135A5) **Date:** 10/19/1953 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 3 airmen / ground / telescope. Night light leaves (something behind) moons image. Navigates and returns.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 333) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3326 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:3 AIRMEN/GND/TELESCOPE:NLT LVS MOONs IMAGE:NAVIGATES+RETURNS..", **LatLong:** "38.900002 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:54:00 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.900002,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9193 (8873652B) **Date:** 10/19/1953 **Time:** 9:35 PM **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Witnesses: T/Sgt. Rommanis, T/Sgt. Osiecki, two others. One white white sphere with a white or red tail, ascended at 20 degree angle, performed a loop and returned. Fifty second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_327 ### Event 9194 (4709FF25) **Date:** 10/19/1953 **Locations:** Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Conowingo Dam, Maryland; Washington National Airport [now Ronald Reagan International Airport] **Description:** 12:10 a.m. Capt. J. L. Kidd is flying an American Airlines DC-6 between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., when over the Conowingo Dam, Maryland, his copilot sees something gleaming in the moonlight dead ahead and closing rapidly. Kidd blinks on his landing lights and the UFO beams back a blinding light back at the DC-6. Kidd puts the plane into a steep dive. Caught unaware, the passengers are tossed about the cabin, many suffering injuries. Kidd radios Washington National Airport \[now Ronald Reagan International Airport\] to report a near collision and complain about air traffic. Air traffic control reports no known aircraft in his vicinity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 60–61; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 34, 38; Good Above, [p. 282](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2302 ### Event 9195 (CE294298) **Date:** 10/19/1953 **Description:** A near collision occurred between a UFO and an American Airlines DC-6 airliner at 12:10 a.m. over the Conowingo Dam near Baltimore, Maryland. The UFO, a dark mass with a blindingly bright white beam of light, was about the same size as the aircraft. Passengers were injured in the avoidance maneuver. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6965 ### Event 9196 (655B4CB3) **Date:** 10/20/1953 **Time:** 14:40 **Location:** NORFOLK, VA **Description:** USAF pilot. Large white saucer hovers. Vanishes and 3 small saucers seen instead! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 335) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3327 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,VA:USAF PILOT:LRG WHT SCR HVRS:VANISHES+3 SML SCRS SEEN INSTEAD!", **LatLong:** "36.850002 -76.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:51:00 N 76:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.850002,-76.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9197 (59338999) **Date:** 10/20/1953 **Description:** The NSA Robertson Committee report is completed and classified top secret. It recommends better and faster use of electronic intelligence in radar activity that might indicate an imminent attack, noting that the Air Force is not cooperating with the Army or Navy on these matters. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 55–56 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2303 ### Event 9198 (56DB8E2C) **Date:** 10/22/1953 **Locations:** USAF headquarters; Pentagon **Description:** [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) meets with USAF headquarters personnel \(including Col. [George E. Perry](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/16/col-george-perry-dies-taught-math-at-lee-high/b4f4157b-12bd-4762-8631-9c06cca74446/)\) and ATIC at the Pentagon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 279](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/278/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2304 ### Event 9199 (039DC535) **Date:** 10/23/1953 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** ALBANY, NY **Description:** 2 women. Shiny ovoid follows light plane going south. Maneuvers / all sides / higher altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3328 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "ALBANY,NY:2 WOMEN:SHINY OVOID FOLOS LITE PLANE >S:MNVRS/ALL SIDES/HIGHER alt", **LatLong:** "42.666669 -73.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:40:00 N 73:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.666669,-73.766670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9200 (493EFD9F) **Date:** 10/24/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** OFF MILFORD, CT **Description:** 2 / yacht. Large round silver object over 1000mph passes behind clouds and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3329 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off MILFORD,CT:2/YACHT:LRG RND SLVR OBJ ovr 1000mph PASSES BHND CLOUDS+AWAY", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -73.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 73:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-73.000003)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9201 (486B9238) **Date:** 10/24/1953 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** CASCADE, ID **Description:** State Highway Patrolman. Glowing blue-white saucer. / CSI bulletin. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 335) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3330 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1451", **HatchDesc:** "CASCADE,ID:STATE HWY PATROLMAN:GLOWING BLU-WHT SCR:/CSI BULLETIN:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.516669 -116.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:31:00 N 116:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.516669,-116.033339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9202 (DF28CF63) **Date:** 10/25/1953 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** SIMIUTAK, GREENLAND **Description:** White-glowing UFO hovers / one hour. 2nd maneuvers all over/all about Tsaid point/port/platinum metal and changes colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 335) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3331 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SIMIUTAK,GREENLAND:WHT-GLO UFO HVRS/1hr:2nd MNVRS ALLO TSAID Pt+CHANGES COLORS", **LatLong:** "60.666670 -46.583336", **LatLongDMS:** "60:40:00 N 46:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.666670,-46.583336)", **State/Prov:** "SIM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9203 (E5D93115) **Date:** 10/25/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SANTA FE, NM **Description:** Boy / 16. Metallic boat over road going [to] bushes. Takes off as observer(s) nears. / r137#6p33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3332 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2097", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA FE,NM:BOY/16:MTLC BOAT OVR ROAD>BUSHES:TAKES OFF as OBS NEARS:/r137#6p33", **LatLong:** "35.666668 -106.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 106:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,-106.000005)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9204 (610E9F3C) **Date:** 10/25/1953 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Santa Fe, New Mexico **Description:** Jim Milligan, 16, was driving through a park when he saw something fall in front of his car and stopped as the object landed in some bushes. He walked toward it, found a craft that looked like two ship hulls, about 3 m long, 2 m wide glued together. When he tried to touch it, the object flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins A 223 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_119 ### Event 9205 (7CBF000A) **Date:** 10/25/1953 **Location:** Lubbock, Texas **Description:** 8:15–8:30 p.m. Air Force weather observers at Lubbock, Texas, notice a V formation of 5–7 dull white lights sweep north to south. In three seconds, the formation goes from a point overhead to 3° above the horizon where they disappear. Other groups of two or more lights follow at about 5-minute intervals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 35–36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2305 ### Event 9206 (55DEE080) **Date:** 10/25/1953 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. Jim Milligan, age 16, was driving through a park in Santa Fe, New Mexico when he saw something fall in front of his car. He stopped his car when the object landed in some bushes. He walked toward it and found a craft that looked like two ship hulls glued together, about three meters (10 feet) in length. When he tried to touch it the object flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albuquerque Tribune, November 3, 1953; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 223; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7109 ### Event 9207 (AE3CC1AD) **Date:** 10/26/1953 **Time:** 22:30:00.0 **Location:** -28.0000 135.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Totem 2” Yield: 8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1749 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-28.0000 135.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "28:00:00 S 135:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.0000,135.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Totem 2", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "8" ### Event 9208 (CCF4B9C2) **Date:** 10/28/1953 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** BREVARD, NC **Description:** Blimp races over town. Glows pink and blue. Glow extends out some distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3333 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "680", **HatchDesc:** "BREVARD,NC:BLIMP RACES OVR TOWN:GLOWS PINK+BLUE:GLOW EXTENDS OUT SOME DISTANCE", **LatLong:** "35.233335 -82.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:14:00 N 82:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.233335,-82.733337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9209 (2EF5D28A) **Date:** 10/28/1953 **Location:** Omaha (Offutt AFB), NE **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1587 ### Event 9210 (2BDBB90E) **Date:** 10/29/1953 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** MAPLETON, ME **Description:** Observer(s) = Morrison and more. 3 orbs south going quickly north. Occasional "triangular" deviations / path. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3334 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "MAPLETON,ME:OBS=MORRISON+:3 ORBS S>>N:OCCASIONAL "TRIANGULAR" DEVIATIONS/PATH", **LatLong:** "46.683336 -68.150003", **LatLongDMS:** "46:41:00 N 68:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.683336,-68.150003)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9211 (148712A1) **Date:** 10/29/1953 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Mapleton, Maine **Description:** Witnesses: two high school students, including Morrison. One blue object with a flaming trail, and two dark green glowing objects with white and blue-green fringe, flew from south to north with some erratic motions for l hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_328 ### Event 9212 (74CC205B) **Date:** 10/29/1953 **Location:** Salton Sea, California **Description:** USAF pilot [Frank Kendall Everest Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FKendall%5FEverest%5FJr) reaches 755 mph in a North American F-100 Super Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Frank Kendall Everest Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FKendall%5FEverest%5FJr)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2306 ### Event 9213 (81A81A9E) **Date:** 10/30/1953 **Location:** Mt. Vernon, OH **Description:** Round, silver object circled at low altitude. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1588 ### Event 9214 (3A1978B1) **Date:** 10/30/1953 **Location:** Norton AFB, CA **Description:** Daytime Bright Object In Vertical Climb Near C-45 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531030](http://www.nicap.org/531030norton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1589 ### Event 9215 (EA1A7388) **Date:** 10/31/1953 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** LOGANSVILLE, OHIO **Description:** 'Huge ferris wheel / many lights'. 30cm / arms length. Going quickly west. Turns going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3335 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "309", **HatchDesc:** "LOGANSVILLE,OHIO:'HUGE FERRIS WHEEL/MANY LITES':30cm/arms length:>>W:TURNS>>S", **LatLong:** "40.333335 -83.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:20:00 N 83:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.333335,-83.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9216 (260169D9) **Date:** 10/31/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** UNION LAKE, MICH **Description:** 2 observer(s). Blue-green haze going quickly east. Circles Detroit 6X. 11 second(s) / cycle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3336 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "UNION LAKE,MICH:2 OBS:BLUE-GRN HAZE >>E:CIRCLES DETROIT 6X:11sec/CYCLE:", **LatLong:** "42.616669 -83.444448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:37:00 N 83:26:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.616669,-83.444448)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9217 (F1689F70) **Date:** 10/31/1953 **Description:** At Logansville, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. a huge, Ferris wheel shaped object with many multicolored lights appeared in the sky. It's apparent size was 30 cm at arms length. It flew rapidly to the west, and turned and shot off to the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7328 ### Event 9218 (8A605187) **Date:** 11/1953 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** TAPU, NZ **Description:** Saucer spins and going down / jerks. Hovers. Quickly going up / opposite spin. Portholes / dome. Beams. Reacts / lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 635) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3337 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "TAPU,NZ:SCR SPINS +↓/JERKS:HVRS:↑↑/OPP.SPIN:PORTHOLES/DOME:BEAMS:REACTS/LIGHTS", **LatLong:** "-36.983335 175.500008", **LatLongDMS:** "36:59:00 S 175:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.983335,175.500008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9219 (FD53008D) **Date:** 11/1953 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** SKI, NORW **Description:** 2 / car paced / domed saucer. Watches magnetized. Paint changes color. / APRO 3'62. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3338 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SKI,NORW:2/CAR PACED/DOMED SCR:WATCHES MAGNETIZD:PAINT CHANGES CLR:/APRO 3'62", **LatLong:** "59.727781 10.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "59:43:40 N 10:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.727781,10.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9220 (5123EDA1) **Date:** 11/1953 **Location:** Gjasjoen Bridge, Norway **Description:** Mr. Trygve, Mrs. Bufflot and a neighbor saw an object rise from behind a hill, oscillate over a lake, follow their car, and stop ahead of them just above the ground. They stopped, felt "pricklings" until the craft took off vertically. A watch stopped working, and numerous people vouch for the fact that the paint on the car changed from dark beige to bright green. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** APRO Mar., 62; FSR 56, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_120 ### Event 9221 (BD58F058) **Date:** 11/1953 **Description:** Capt. [Charles A. Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) takes charge of Project Blue Book. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2307 ### Event 9222 (44824BE4) **Date:** 11/1953 **Locations:** Gjersjøen bridge; Norway **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Trygve Jansen and two other witnesses are driving north on the Gamle Mossevei road at the Gjersjøen bridge, Norway, when they see an object rise from behind a hill, swing out over the lake, and move back to the road, circling and following their car. Suddenly it stops and hovers above the road 30 feet in front of them, emitting a green light. Jansen stops, and all three witnesses experience mild electrical shocks until the object rises and disappears. When he returns home, Jansen’s wife points out that the car’s beige paint has turned a bright green. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Carl Olsen, “[Chased by a Flying Saucer!](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1956\): 16; K. Gösta Rehn, “[Saucer Blocked Road in Norway,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201962%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, pp. 1, 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2308 ### Event 9223 (44D5C047) **Date:** 11/2/1953 **Description:** Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR 200–2A. **Type:** regulation **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_510 ### Event 9224 (5D2C9C4E) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** WEST MALLING RAF, KENT **Description:** 300' saucer zooms reconnaissance jet. RADAR blips / 1439hrs. / LDLN#332. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3339 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "WEST MALLING RAF,KENT:300'SCR ZOOMS RECON JET::RDR BLIPS/1439hrs:/LDLN#332", **LatLong:** "51.300002 0.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:18:00 N 00:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.300002,0.416667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9225 (223A7E9B) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** DENTON, GRAVESEND, KENT **Description:** Sphere/orb/globe / high altitude. Several observer(s). 400' metal object going quickly southeast according to Lee green RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3340 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "DENTON,GRAVESEND,KENT:ORB/HI ALT:SVRL OBS:400' MTL OBJ>>SE PER LEE GREEN RDR", **LatLong:** "51.450002 0.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:27:00 N 00:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.450002,0.400000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9226 (A25608FE) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST LONDON, ENG **Description:** 200' white metal sphere/orb/globe / 60K' altitude / theodolite. Strong RADAR blip. Hovers / 10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VESCO, Renato: INTERCEPT but DON'T SHOOT; transl. from Italian. Goofy. (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3341 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SE LONDON,ENG:200' WHT MTL ORB/60K'alt/THEODOLITE:STRONG RDR BLIP:HVRS/10min", **LatLong:** "51.433336 0.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:26:00 N 00:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.433336,0.050000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9227 (3928D8D3) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** NILES, OH AND SOUTH TRUMBULL CO **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and many. 30' orange object lights woods and countryside to 13 Nov. '53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 347) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3342 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "64", **Elev:** "271", **HatchDesc:** "NILES,OH+S.TRUMBULL co:GOC+MANY:30'ORG OBJ LITES WOODS+COUNTRYSIDE to 13NOV53", **LatLong:** "41.183335 -80.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:11:00 N 80:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.183335,-80.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9228 (7FA3EC66) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WESTWEGO, LA **Description:** White sphere/orb/globe leads 2 red / triangle-formation. Erratic course. Pause. Continue. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3343 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "WESTWEGO,LA:WHT ORB LEADS 2 RED/TRIANGLE-FORMN:ERRATIC COURSE:PAUSE:CONTINUE", **LatLong:** "29.905557 -90.144449", **LatLongDMS:** "29:54:20 N 90:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.905557,-90.144449)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9229 (DFE54D2D) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Location:** London, UK **Description:** London, England, G,V Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Tracks Huge UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531103](http://www.nicap.org/531103londondir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1590 ### Event 9230 (3EF42F03) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Locations:** RAF West Malling [now closed], Kent, England; Hyde Park; Holloman AFB in New Mexico **Description:** 10:00 a.m. An RAF NF.10 Vampire pilot \(Flight Lt. Terry S. Johnson\) and navigator \(Flying Officer Geoffrey Smythe\) flying at 30,000 feet near RAF West Malling \[now closed\], Kent, England, see a star-like light far above them. Suddenly it moves toward them at tremendous speed. They see it as circular and emitting a bright light around its periphery. The duration is 30 seconds. Air Minister [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) calls it a “balloon”; when author [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) calls him up to suggest this is incorrect, Ward tells him: “I know it wasn’t a balloon. You know it wasn’t a balloon. But until I’ve got a saucer on the ground in Hyde Park and can charge the public sixpence a go to enter, it must be balloons, otherwise the government would fall and I’d lose my job.” It is possible that this object was a Skyhook balloon launched from Holloman AFB in New Mexico on October 27 that failed to drop into the Atlantic after a 12-hour flight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Desmond Leslie, “[Politicians and the UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CMay-Jun%2CV%209%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1963\): 8–9; Good Above, [pp. 35](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/34/mode/2up), [53](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up); Good Need, [p. 154](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/154/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 57,](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n95/mode/2up) [62–63](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n101/mode/2up); David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2309 ### Event 9231 (DBDB62B9) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Location:** Lee, southeast London **Description:** 2:45 p.m. In Lee, southeast London, a solid target is tracked on radar by the 256th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment moving slowly at a distance of 17 miles. Through a telescope it appears to be a circular white object. The target is tracked for 25 minutes by four aircraft technicians, including Sgt. H. Waller, who says it is about 350–450 feet in diameter and definitely not a balloon. The War Office claims the object is a radiosonde balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Tracks UFO](http://www.nicap.org/531103londondir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 35–36](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/34/mode/2up); Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2310 ### Event 9232 (C1F32106) **Date:** 11/3/1953 **Description:** A very large, 300-foot diameter disc-shaped object zoomed by a RAF Vampire reconaisance jet from West Malling RAFB, Kent, England at 10:00 a.m. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. Radar returns were picked up from the same or another UFO at 1439 hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 35; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7423 ### Event 9233 (DAF458FE) **Date:** 11/4/1953 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** US7 NEAR SWANTON, VT **Description:** Round flat object shoots across sky going quickly west. Silent. Very fast. Meteor? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3344 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "US7 nr SWANTON,VT:RND FLAT OBJ SHOOTS acrs SKY >>W:SLNT:VFAST:meteor?", **LatLong:** "44.916669 -73.122226", **LatLongDMS:** "44:55:00 N 73:07:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.916669,-73.122226)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 9234 (9EA9C820) **Date:** 11/5/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** TENES, ALGERIA **Description:** Flying cigar seen here and Montenotte. / Jimmy Guieu. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3345 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TENES,ALGERIA:FLYING CIGAR SEEN HERE+MONTENOTTE:/JIMMY GUIEU:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.466668 1.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "36:28:00 N 01:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.466668,1.366667)", **State/Prov:** "ECH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9235 (97C29A50) **Date:** 11/5/1953 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** BORDJ-BOU-ARRERIDJ, ALGERIA **Description:** Hemisphere slowly descends leaving white smoke trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3346 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BORDJ-BOU-ARRERIDJ,ALGERIA:HEMISPHERE SLOWLY DESCENDS LEAVING WHT SMOKE TRAIL", **LatLong:** "36.050002 4.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "36:03:00 N 04:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.050002,4.800000)", **State/Prov:** "Constantine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9236 (B2E0947B) **Date:** 11/5/1953 **Description:** President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) issues Executive Order 10501, abolishing the classification of “Restricted.” UFO sightings are unaffected, as meaningful sightings are classified at higher levels. There are now explicit guidelines for the remaining three classification levels to prevent a systematic flood of classified documents coming from the Pentagon and other agencies. The Pentagon responds by creating its own “special access” labels to further insulate classified information from outside influence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Executive Order 10501](https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/eo10501.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2311 ### Event 9237 (7576CBC7) **Date:** 11/9/1953 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEAR OMAHA, NEBR **Description:** Several observer(s). Red cylinder/cylindrical object / sky. Night lights join and orbit. Phony Venus nearby? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3347 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "nr OMAHA,NEBR:SVRL OBS:RED CYL/SKY:NLTS JOIN+ORBIT:PHONY VENUS NEARBY?", **LatLong:** "41.283335 -95.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:17:00 N 95:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.283335,-95.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9238 (8B572B35) **Date:** 11/9/1953 **Description:** At 11:45 p.m. a large red, cigar-shaped or cylindrical object hovered in the sky over Omaha, Nebraska. Several satellite objects orbited around it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 136; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7557 ### Event 9239 (F4DEF38F) **Date:** 11/10/1953 **Description:** A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_128 ### Event 9240 (53367300) **Date:** 11/10/1953 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** KNUTSFORD, CHESHIRE **Description:** UFO whines overhead. Saucer portholes emit flw light. Several observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3348 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "KNUTSFORD,CHESHIRE:UFO WHINES OVHD:SCRL PORTHOLES EMIT FLW LITE:SVRL OBS", **LatLong:** "53.300003 -2.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:18:00 N 02:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.300003,-2.366667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9241 (D3395BBD) **Date:** 11/10/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** VIENNA, OH **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 30' glowing "barrel-shape" / 150' altitude. Roars. No planes down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 347) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3349 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "VIENNA,OH:2 SEP.OBS:30' GLOWING "BARREL-SHAPE"/150' ALT:ROARS:NO PLANES DOWN", **LatLong:** "41.238891 -80.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:14:20 N 80:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.238891,-80.650004)", **RelAlt:** "45", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9242 (A946D215) **Date:** 11/10/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** DETROIT, MI **Description:** Cops and many. Slow UFO. Vanishes when plane nears. Reappears. Going quickly [to] Canada. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 346) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3350 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "DETROIT,MI:COPS+MANY:SLOW UFO:VANISHES WHEN PLANE NEARS:REAPPEARS:>>CANADA", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -83.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 83:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-83.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9243 (A9EC73EE) **Date:** 11/12/1953 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** MEINERS OAKS, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 silver saucers exit only white cloud / sky. Hover / river bed. Vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3351 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "MEINERS OAKS,CA:2 OBS:2 SLVR SCRS EXIT ONLY WHT CLOUD/SKY:HVR/RIVER BED:VANISH", **LatLong:** "34.444446 -119.277783", **LatLongDMS:** "34:26:40 N 119:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.444446,-119.277783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9244 (A7FCE252) **Date:** 11/12/1953 **Description:** At 5 p.m. two silver discs exited a solidary white cloud in the sky, hover over the river bed in Ojai, California and then vanish. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7604 ### Event 9245 (BF882590) **Date:** 11/13/1953 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_514 ### Event 9246 (23836211) **Date:** 11/13/1953? **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTHEND, ESSEX **Description:** 2 RAF pilots. Saucer / low altitude trails sparks. Seen 1910hrs / Guildford. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3352 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTHEND,ESSEX:2 RAF PILOTS:SCR/LO ALT TRAILS SPARKS::SEEN 1910hrs/GUILDFORD", **LatLong:** "51.566669 0.683333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:34:00 N 00:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.566669,0.683333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9247 (61A3152A) **Date:** 11/13/1953 **Description:** At 7:00 p.m. 2 RAF pilots in Southend, Essex, England saw an orb and a disc in the sky. They noticed that orb the was actually also disc shaped when it banked sideways. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 62 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7625 ### Event 9248 (52241790) **Date:** 11/14/1953 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** NEW ORLEANS, LA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Sphere/orb/globe and disk. Sphere/orb/globe = disk also when it banks sideways. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 347) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3353 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ORLEANS,LA:2 OBS:ORB+DISK:ORB=DISK ALSO WHEN IT BANKS SIDEWAYS:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "29.933335 -90.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:56:00 N 90:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.933335,-90.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9249 (32BB636D) **Date:** 11/14/1953 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CHALONS-SUR-MARNE, FR **Description:** Separate observers. Large glowing green saucer going east. Sparks / rear. No further details. / r3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3354 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHALONS-sur-MARNE,FR:SEP.OBSs:LRG GLOWING GRN SCR >E:SPARKS/REAR:NFD:/r3", **LatLong:** "48.950002 4.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:57:00 N 04:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.950002,4.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9250 (EB78BC3F) **Date:** 11/14/1953 **Location:** Toledo (near), OH **Description:** UFO flashing various colors observed climbing. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1591 ### Event 9251 (7D6BACF2) **Date:** 11/14/1953 **Description:** In 1953, two disc-shaped objects bank and fly over New Orleans, Louisiana at 6:10 p.m.On the same date, a photographer using infrared film with a red filter obtained a photo of a disembodied globe of light **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1953, p. 47.) Source: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, May 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7662 ### Event 9252 (E7273044) **Date:** Mid 11/1953 **Location:** CA **Description:** Rumors a saucer and its occupant were in custody at Edwards AFB, originally heard up by ex-Naval aviator and intelligence officer George Williams. Recorded by author Frank Scully in his private notes now at the AHC. **Type:** private notes **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_515 ### Event 9253 (04C551A8) **Date:** 11/16/1953 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** RESEDA, CA **Description:** Huge silver sphere/orb/globe follows jets. Angel hair. Lockheed investigate / MJ#247 / r70p3-26E. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3355 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "RESEDA,CA:HUGE SLVR ORB FOLOS JETS:ANGEL HAIR:LOCKHEED INVST/MJ#247/r70p3-26E", **LatLong:** "34.183335 -118.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:00 N 118:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.183335,-118.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9254 (030074FD) **Date:** 11/16/1953 **Location:** San Fernando Valley, California **Description:** A fluffy material streams out of a UFO over the San Fernando Valley, California, and falls to the ground. A reporter who examines it describes it as “dead-white, almost ephemeral in its delicacy and apparently electrically charged.” A similar fall occurs in the same area on February 1, 1954. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 227–228; Clark III 124 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2312 ### Event 9255 (5DCCFA97) **Date:** 11/16/1953 **Description:** At shortly after ten o'clock in the morning a huge silver sphere was seen following some jet aircraft in the San Fernando Valley. In Reseda, California some "angel hair" residue was seen falling to the ground after the UFO flyby. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** ed jets. Lockheed investigation. (Sources: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 49; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 100; Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 227; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7714 ### Event 9256 (E7CF9127) **Date:** 11/18/1953 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** MARIETTA, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Observer(s) = Atha. Bright red UFO. 2 jets chase. Ordered very silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 298) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3356 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "188", **HatchDesc:** "MARIETTA,OH:BBK#UNK:OBS=ATHA:BRITE RED UFO:2 JETS CHASE:ORDERED VERY SILENT", **LatLong:** "39.416669 -81.455559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:25:00 N 81:27:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.416669,-81.455559)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9257 (C731A0A4) **Date:** 11/18/1953 **Time:** 12:45 PM **Location:** Manitowoc, Wisconsin **Description:** Witness: R.J. Bassett, a pilot for 31 years. One silver sphere or disc hovered several times during 45 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_329 ### Event 9258 (4D328DFA) **Date:** 11/19/1953 **Location:** LE VIGAN, GARD, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Whistle. White sphere/orb/globe plunges going down. Stops. Shoots back going up. Thunder. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3357 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "le VIGAN,GARD,FR:MANY OBS:WHISTLE:WHT ORB PLUNGES ↓:STOPS:SHOOTS BACK↑:THUNDER", **LatLong:** "44.000002 3.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:00:00 N 03:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.000002,3.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9259 (8FC60618) **Date:** 11/19/1953 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** PANAMA CITY, FL **Description:** Very large saucer circles Navy Anti-Mine base. Goes going north. Going up [to] very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3358 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PANAMA CITY,FL:VLARGE SCR CIRCLES NAVY ANTI-MINE BASE:GOES>N:↑VFAST", **LatLong:** "30.161113 -85.661115", **LatLongDMS:** "30:09:40 N 85:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.161113,-85.661115)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9260 (0A5172BF) **Date:** 11/19/1953 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** 300MI SOUTHWEST / ICELAND **Description:** RAF B29. Long cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly [to] by. Row / portholes. Flames / rear. No navigation lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 350) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3359 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "300mi SW/ICELAND:RAF B29:LONG CGR >>BY:ROW/PORTHOLES:FLAMES/REAR:NO NAV.LITES", **LatLong:** "60.583336 -28.400001", **LatLongDMS:** "60:35:00 N 28:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.583336,-28.400001)", **State/Prov:** "AIR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9261 (7656BA70) **Date:** 11/19/1953 **Location:** Fort Detrick, Maryland **Description:** Bacteriologist [Frank Olson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FOlson) is a leading scientist at the army’s Chemical Corps, Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Maryland. SOD supplies the CIA with an array of deadly microbes and chemicals that cannot be detected in an autopsy. It also supplies delivery methods for anthrax. The CIA pays SOD $200,000 a year for these services until 1969. Olson is duped into a meeting with MKUltra Director [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) at a secluded cabin. Olson has a very bad trip and still hasn’t recovered after several days. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. P. Albarelli Jr., [A](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up) [Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War Experiments](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up), Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “[The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments,](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/)” Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2313 ### Event 9262 (23E8492B) **Date:** 11/20/1953 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** SCRANTON, PA **Description:** 2 high-altitude night lights reverse direction. Joined / 3+3 amber night lights. / L. Gross. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3360 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "SCRANTON,PA:2 HI-ALT NLTS REVERSE DIRECTION:JOINED/3+3 AMBER NLTS:/L.GROSS", **LatLong:** "41.416669 -75.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:25:00 N 75:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.416669,-75.666670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9263 (F544BA4E) **Date:** 11/20/1953 **Location:** 36.55N 76.00 (Atlantic), At Sea **Description:** Silver Egg Observed By Navy Unit (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531120](http://www.nicap.org/531120atlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1592 ### Event 9264 (E52CAA07) **Date:** 11/20/1953 **Location:** Australia **Description:** Australian Minister for Air [William McMahon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FMcMahon) tells Parliament that all UFO reports “are still being investigated closely and recorded as an aid to further research,” but the RAAF’s approach is a bit more ad hoc. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 377 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2314 ### Event 9265 (F3422759) **Date:** 11/22/1953 **Description:** Navy Capt. [Walter Karig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FKarig)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FKarig) author of the 1947 novel Zotz!, writes “Operation UFO: The Official Truth about Flying Saucers” for The American Weekly newspaper insert. He covers Secretary of the Navy [Kimball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball)’s 1952 UFO sighting and the ONR saucer probe. He emphasizes the Air Force’s 20% unexplained rate and does not rule out the extraterrestrial hypothesis. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter Karig, “[Operation UFO:](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93713891/) [The Official Truth about Flying Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93713929/)” American Weekly insert, San Francisco Examiner, November 22, 1953, pp. 4–5; Swords 217 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2315 ### Event 9266 (B4124AAE) **Date:** 11/22/1953 **Locations:** Woomera, South Australia; Woocalla; Birthday Siding; Pimba **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A man who works in the supply transport office of the RAAF Woomera Rocket Range near Woomera, South Australia, sees a green object like a saucer fly to the north between Woocalla and Birthday Siding. It is emitting blue exhaust. Another man driving the same route around 2:00 a.m. about 50 miles from Woomera sees a bluish-green circular object moving north. It is seen again by another man in the same area around 2:30 a.m. A fourth party sees two orange flares dropping from the sky near Pimba at 3:15 a.m. All of the objects are at an altitude of more than 5,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keith Basterfield, “[Listing of Reports from Woomera, South](https://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kbwoomera.htm) [Australia,](https://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kbwoomera.htm)” 2008 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2316 ### Event 9267 (97040764) **Date:** 11/23/1953 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** 70 MI EAST / KEENEENAW PT, MI **Description:** RADAR's. F89 joins UFO over lake. Both gone / no trace. / r173p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: SMITH, Willy: ON PILOTS and UFO's. UNICAT Project, 8011 SW 189th St. Miami, FL 33175 USA. March 1997. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3361 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "70mi E/KEENEENAW Pt,MI:RDRS:F89 JOINS UFO OVR LAKE:BOTH GONE/no trace:/r173p13", **LatLong:** "47.250002 -86.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "47:15:00 N 86:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.250002,-86.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9268 (9710D056) **Date:** 11/23/1953 **Location:** Kinross AFB, MI **Description:** Kinross AFB, Michigan, G; UFO Intercept/Missing F-89 Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531123](http://www.nicap.org/531123kinrossdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1593 ### Event 9269 (58A91349) **Date:** 11/23/1953 **Locations:** Lake Superior; Kinross AFB; Chippewa County International Airport; Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Soo Locks **Description:** Evening. ADC radar detects an unknown object moving at 500 mph over Lake Superior. An F-89C Scorpion interceptor, piloted by Lt. [Felix Moncla Jr.,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FMoncla) with radar observer Lt. [Robert L. Wilson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81072331/robert-l%5F-wilson) in the rear cockpit, is dispatched from Kinross AFB \[now Chippewa County International Airport\], south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The jet heads toward the target under radar guidance. At 8,000 feet, 160 miles northwest of the Soo Locks, the blips of the F-89 and the UFO merge then fade from the screen. Nothing more is heard from the plane and no trace of it is found. A Pentagon spokesman claims the UFO was an RCAF C-47 that was never closer than 3-4 miles to the F-89, which has crashed for unknown reasons. In 2006, a group of divers claimed to have discovered the F-89 and taken photos on side-scan sonar, but the claim is a hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[UFO Intercept /](http://www.nicap.org/531123kinrossdir.htm) [Missing F-89 Case](http://www.nicap.org/531123kinrossdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 13–23; UFOEv, [pp. 114–115](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=126&skin=2021); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 106–109; Good Above, [p. 273](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up); Andrew Griffin, “[Missing! Avoyelles Parish Man’s Disappearance](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90642412/lt-felix-e-moncla-disappeared-after/) [Still a Mystery after 50 Years,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90642479/2nd-half-of-lt-felix-moncla-missing/)” Alexandria \(La.\) Town Talk, July 20, 2003, pp. E1, E3; Clark III 654–656 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2317 ### Event 9270 (1F96B368) **Date:** 11/23/1953 **Description:** The famous Kinross Air Force Base disappearance of an F-89 fighter plane occurred on this date. An F-89 was scrambled from Kinross AFB at 6:41 p.m. to pursue a UFO over Lake Michigan and the Upper Pennisula of Michigan. The radar blips of the UFO and the jet merged into one near Soo Locks and Keeneenaw Point, Michigan then the jet disappeared and the UFO flew away. An extensive air search and rescue found no trace of the missing aircraft, with the two airmen named Moncla and Wilson. The radio communication between the pilot and Air Traffic Controllers has never been released. The massive search and recovery effort went on for an extensive period of time, and failed to find any wreckage. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Sault Ste. Marie Evening News, November 24, 1953; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 670; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 406; UNICAT database, case # 670 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7835 ### Event 9271 (9D427B66) **Date:** 11/24/1953 **Location:** British Parliament **Description:** The British Parliament discusses the November 3 Lee case and others. [Nigel Birch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%5FBirch%2C%5FBaron%5FRhyl), Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, explains the sightings as experimental weather balloons. MP [George Isaacs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FIsaacs) asks, “Will the Minister agree that this story of flying saucers is all ballooney?” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 36](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/36/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2318 ### Event 9272 (26539A26) **Date:** 11/27/1953 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SURREY, BC **Description:** 2 scientists. 7 brilliant silver disks hover and move vertically. Silent. Fade / view. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 641) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3362 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "114", **HatchDesc:** "SURREY,BC:2 SCIENTISTS:7 BRILL.SLVR DISKS HVR+MOVE VERTICALLY:SLNT:FADE/VIEW", **LatLong:** "49.100002 -122.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "49:06:00 N 122:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.100002,-122.683339)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9273 (2EF4B38B) **Date:** 11/27/1953 **Location:** Keflavik AFB, Iceland **Description:** Climbing Blue Light Observed From C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531127](http://www.nicap.org/531127keflavik%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1594 ### Event 9274 (D33F69F3) **Date:** 11/28/1953 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** GUAPORE R., BOLIVIA **Description:** Saucer over river. Pipes. Water pours out. 6 pseudo-human/entity. Fly when observer(s) seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3363 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Bolivia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "194", **HatchDesc:** "GUAPORE R.,BOLIVIA:SCR OVR RIVER:PIPES:WATER POURS OUT:6 PSH:FLY WHEN OBS SEEN", **LatLong:** "-13.016667 -62.800003", **LatLongDMS:** "13:01:00 S 62:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-13.016667,-62.800003)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "BNI", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9275 (68861615) **Date:** 11/28/1953 **Locations:** New York City; Hotel Statler; Camp Detrick [later Fort Detrick] in Frederick, Maryland **Description:** [Frank Olson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FOlson) is depressed, incoherent, and uncommunicative after his LSD dose nine days earlier. His CIA contacts take him to a “doctor” in New York City, who prescribes him alcohol. He then plunges to his death from the 10th floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York City. The US government calls it a suicide, the Olson family alleges murder because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he has become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly classified CIA programs of which he has direct personal knowledge. A few days before his death, Olson quits his position as acting chief of the Special Operations Division at Camp Detrick \[later Fort Detrick\] in Frederick, Maryland, because of a severe moral crisis concerning the nature of his biological weapons research. Among Olson’s concerns are the development of assassination materials used by the CIA. The CIA’s use of biological warfare materials in covert operations, experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas, collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD mind-control research, and the use of psychoactive drugs during “terminal” interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE. Later forensic evidence conflicts with the official version of events; when Olson’s body is exhumed in 1994, cranial injuries indicate that Olson was knocked unconscious before he exited the window. The medical examiner terms Olson’s death a “homicide.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Ignatieff, “[What Did the C.I.A. Do to His Father?](https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/cia-what-did-the-cia-do-to-his-father.html)” New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2001, pp. 56– 61; H. P. Albarelli Jr., [A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War Experiments](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up), Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “[The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/) [Experiments,](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/)” Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2319 ### Event 9276 (AF450A8F) **Date:** 11/28/1953 **Description:** On this day two men, Pedro Serrate and Francisco Teixeira, were duck hunting on the Baia dos Patos, near the city of Pedras Negras in Maranhao State, Brazil when a disc-shaped UFO hovered over and then alighted on the bay, only 15 feet away from one of them. The dark blue hull was like two “basins” put together; 16 feet long, 8 feet high, and 6 feet wide. Around the perimeter was a three foot rim of transparent glass. It had two curved pipes or tubes that were pouring out water, and behind the hull was a sort of rudder three feet long. Sr. Serrate could see four young human looking men and two young women sitting in a row inside the craft. They all had red hair with pinkish faces, and the women had long hair. All of them wore dark blue uniforms. When then noticed that they were watched, the craft took off at a fantastic speed, and disappeared from sight within seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** O Cruzeiro newspaper, November 13, 1954; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 196; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1953-13 (A0223), citing J. Escobar Faria and Richard Hall **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7981 ### Event 9277 (8241B914) **Date:** 12/1953 **Location:** CA **Description:** Meeting of a private “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” concerning custody of several beings off a saucer. Meeting was to be held at “Muroc Dry Lake” (Edwards AFB), but it was held somewhere else. **Type:** private notes **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_516 ### Event 9278 (D3A135A4) **Date:** 12/1953 **Location:** Sherbrook, Canada **Description:** Mrs. Orfei heard a knock at the door in the middle of the night and obtained no answer when she asked who it was. When more furious knocks were heard, her Alsatian dog jumped toward the door, but suddenly retreated, trembling as if terrified and retired to a corner. Mrs. Orfei went to an upper door and saw two "indescribable" shadows go away from the house. A while later a big, round object took off 100 m away with a blue-green lightning. The police found broken bushes as evidence of an enormous weight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_121 ### Event 9279 (D93C94DE) **Date:** 12/1953 **Location:** Shirley's Bay, Ontario **Description:** [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) sets up his Department of Transport observatory at Shirley’s Bay, Ontario. His equipment includes an ionospheric reactor, electronic sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter, magnetometer, and radio set. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project Magnet \(UFO\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMagnet%5F%28UFO%29)”; Good Above, [pp. 185–186](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2320 ### Event 9280 (6A1DE539) **Date:** 12/1953 **Locations:** Lowry AFB; Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum; Denver, Colorado **Description:** [Noall Bryce Cornwell](https://rr0.org/people/k/KirkwoodGuy/) \(who uses the pseudonyms Mel Noel and Guy Kirkwood\) claims to have been stationed at Lowry AFB \[now Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum\] in Denver, Colorado, and engaged in several dogfight-type maneuvers with UFOs involving gun-camera film. His stories are bogus, and later he runs phony investment scams and becomes a contactee who describes meeting pink-haired, platinum- skinned, fish-eating Martians said to be running a Mars-Earth transportation system. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Mel Noel, The Mel Noel Story, Saucerian, 1960; Good Above, [pp. 273–277](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “[Mel Noel / Guy Kirkwood in the 1960s,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/12/mel-noelguy-kirkwood-in-1960s.html)” A Different Perspective, December 20, 2010; Adam Gorightly, “[Mel Noel’s Phony Flying Saucer Trip to the](https://chasingufosblog.com/2020/04/17/mel-noels-phony-flying-saucer-trip-to-the-stars/) [Stars,](https://chasingufosblog.com/2020/04/17/mel-noels-phony-flying-saucer-trip-to-the-stars/)” Chasing UFOs, April 17, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2321 ### Event 9281 (F7D259BF) **Date:** 12/1953 **Locations:** Australia; New Zealand **Description:** Australian UFO researcher [Edgar Jarrold](http://theozfiles1.rssing.com/chan-25625913/all%5Fp4.html) is visited four times by a mysterious man who swears him to secrecy. What the visitor tells him amazes him “beyond belief,” but he never publicly reveals who the man is. However, it turns out that the man is Gordon Deller, a minor figure in Australian ufology who has some quaint and original theories about the saucers. He believes that UFOs are piloted by etherians from another dimension. He tells Jarrold this, along with some insights into a geological cataclysm and telepathic communication. [Harold](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/oct/m03-020.shtml) [Fulton](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/oct/m03-020.shtml)[,](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/oct/m03-020.shtml) a ufologist from New Zealand, suspects Deller is a nut. However, Jarrold’s obsession with UFOs leads to the breakup of his family and the disintegration of his personal life by 1955. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 632–633 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2322 ### Event 9282 (15918595) **Date:** 12/1/1953 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** The Air Force announced in Washington it had set up cameras around the country equipped with diffraction gratings to analyze the nature of light from UFOs. **Type:** public annoucement **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_877 ### Event 9283 (24F3FAC7) **Date:** 12/1/1953 **Location:** STRASBOURG, FR **Description:** 2 gardeners. Brilliant disk back and forth / sky. Going quickly south / very high-speed. / J. Guieu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 356) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3364 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STRASBOURG,FR:2 GARDENERS:BRILL.DISK BACK+FORTH/SKY:>>S/VHI-SPEED:/J.GUIEU", **LatLong:** "48.616669 7.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:37:00 N 07:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.616669,7.800000)", **State/Prov:** "Bas-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9284 (FB47EE43) **Date:** 12/1/1953 **Description:** On this day in 1953, some gardeners in Strasbourg, France watched a brilliant disc move back and forth in the sky. It shot off to the south at a very high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1953, p. 056 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8100 ### Event 9285 (BF1AAEAF) **Date:** 12/3/1953 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** BELLMORE, LI, NY **Description:** 1 observer. Pulsating orange ovoid-night light / sudden 90-turn. 1800mph. Very high. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 357) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3365 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "BELLMORE,LI,NY:1 OBS:PULSATING ORG OVOID-NLT/SUDDEN 90-TURN:1800mph:VHIGH", **LatLong:** "40.677780 -73.527781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:40 N 73:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.677780,-73.527781)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9286 (E913DC44) **Date:** 12/3/1953 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** NORTH TRURO, MA **Description:** Jet scrambled. Ground and RADAR shows rapid changes / speed and altitude. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 358) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3366 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH TRURO,MA:JET SCRAMBLED:GND+RDR SHOWS RAPID CHANGES/SPEED+ALT:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "42.033335 -70.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:02:00 N 70:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.033335,-70.094448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9287 (D1961665) **Date:** 12/3/1953 **Location:** North Truro, MA **Description:** (McDonald list) B-25 / (Gnd) Radar/Visual of 700 MPH Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [531203](http://www.nicap.org/531203ntrurodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1595 ### Event 9288 (2A186AAE) **Date:** 12/3/1953 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** (McDonald list) Four Objects Detected on Ground Radar PPI (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [531203](http://www.nicap.org/531203hollomanAFB%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1596 ### Event 9289 (834853AA) **Date:** 12/3/1953 **Location:** Newark, NJ **Description:** A tiny reddish-brown oval luminous object flying steady (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1597 ### Event 9290 (9C44F9D5) **Date:** 12/3/1953 **Location:** Houston (Ellington AFB), TX **Description:** Silver grey bright light with "skipping" motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1598 ### Event 9291 (B9B1E378) **Date:** 12/3/1953 **Description:** In 1953 at 6:02 p.m. Eastern Standard Time jets were scrambled from North Truro, Massachusetts in response to a radar bogey. Ground radar showed rapid changes in the UFO’s speed and altitude. At 7:35 p.m. a pulsating orange ovoid object was seen over Bellmore, New York. It made a sudden, ninety-degree turn and shot away at over 1800 miles per hour. Unidentified radar returns were also reported that day at Holloman AFB, New Mexico and Ellington AFB, Texas. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1953, cases 2, 3 and 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8156 ### Event 9292 (FBE9B61C) **Date:** 12/5/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** TUCKERS TOWN, BERMUDA **Description:** Saucer circles island during US and UK and FR summit talks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 644) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3367 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "TUCKERS TOWN,BERMUDA:SCR CCLs ISLAND during US+UK+FR SUMMIT TALKS:", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -64.688892", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 64:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-64.688892)", **State/Prov:** "Bermuda", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9293 (076D021B) **Date:** 12/5/1953 **Location:** Houston, TX **Description:** Children saw yellow-orange ellipse with 40x telescope (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1599 ### Event 9294 (FD5C2588) **Date:** 12/6/1953 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** TAURANGA, NZ **Description:** Round chandelier saucer hovers / sky. Shoots up with loud hiss. Going quickly southeast. Pink cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 645) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3368 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TAURANGA,NZ:RND CHANDELIER SCR HVRS/SKY:SHOOTS UP W/LOUD HISS:>>SE:PINK CLOUD", **LatLong:** "-37.688891 176.166675", **LatLongDMS:** "37:41:20 S 176:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.688891,176.166675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9295 (E28F72F2) **Date:** 12/7/1953 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** OVER FORT MEADE, MD(PRE-NSA) **Description:** Round ashtray-saucer. Whirring sound. Erratic moves. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3369 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "OVR FORT MEADE,MD(PRE-NSA):RND ASHTRAY-SCR:WHIRRING SOUND:ERRATIC MOVES:", **LatLong:** "39.088891 -76.716670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:05:20 N 76:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.088891,-76.716670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9296 (55CC3561) **Date:** 12/7/1953 **Location:** Fort George G. Meade, Maryland **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Pfc Alfred V. De Bonise and Sgt1C James Conley of the 89th Anti-Aircraft Battalion at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, spot a white object, “shining like a star.” It makes a noise like an artillery shell in flight. It moves erratically and eventually falls out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 280](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) [History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2323 ### Event 9297 (1E569D66) **Date:** 12/7/1953 **Description:** Radio Moscow proclaims that saucers are “figments of the imagination of western warmongers.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p. 156](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/n195/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2324 ### Event 9298 (DA778403) **Date:** 12/8/1953 **Location:** Langley, VA **Description:** CIA Evaluation of the UFO situation: It was pleased to note that the number of sightings had decreased dramatically, due, it believed, to the success of its’ implemented policies. Some sightings still would have “possible scientific intelligence value”. The CIA concluded that the panel’s (name?) recommendations might have been interpreted by saucer believers as “debunking”. **Type:** report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_518 ### Event 9299 (7415A28E) **Date:** 12/8/1953 (approximate) **Location:** CONNEAUT, OH **Description:** Multiple observer(s). Brown pie-plate going east over Lake Erie shore. Formal report / Ground Observer Corps (GOC.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 645) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3370 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "202", **HatchDesc:** "CONNEAUT,OH:MULT.OBS:BROWN PIE-PLATE >E OVR LAKE ERIE SHORE:formal report/GOC", **LatLong:** "41.950002 -80.555559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:57:00 N 80:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.950002,-80.555559)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9300 (B8480695) **Date:** 12/8/1953 **Description:** The CIA reports that UFO sightings have fallen dramatically in 1953, though there are some of “possible scientific intelligence value.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [p. 45](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/44/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2325 ### Event 9301 (537092A5) **Date:** 12/9/1953 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** SURGERES, 17, FR **Description:** Oblong luminous object seen going quickly south at very high speeds. All colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3371 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SURGERES,17,FR:OBLONG LUM OBJ SEEN >>S @ VHI SPEEDS:ALL COLORS.", **LatLong:** "46.105558 -0.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:06:20 N 00:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.105558,-0.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9302 (52819E7C) **Date:** 12/9/1953 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** ST. EMILION, GROUNDED, FR **Description:** High-still saucer turns to horseshoe shapes, 100M / DIA. Disappears! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3372 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "ST EMILION,GRND,FR:HI-STILL SCR TURNS TO HORSESHOE SHAPES,100M/DIA:DISAPPEARS!", **LatLong:** "44.900002 -0.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:54:00 N 00:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.900002,-0.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9303 (903EEC84) **Date:** 12/9/1953 **Location:** Saint-Émilion, Gironde, France **Description:** 3:45 p.m. Charles Huaut sees a luminous, golden, round object poised motionless at a high altitude over Saint-Émilion, Gironde, France. After 10 minutes it noiselessly changes position and assumes the form of several horseshoes enveloped in smoke trails. Then it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Central Intelligence Agency, “[Sightings of](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005516168.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005516168.pdf)” April 20, 1954, p. 2; ClearIntent, [p. 130](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/130/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2326 ### Event 9304 (ABB09CBE) **Date:** 12/10/1953 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** LAGNY, S&M, FR **Description:** 4 luminous spheres west going east / high speed to horizon. Green & blue. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3373 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LAGNY,S&M,FR:4 LUM SPHERES W>E /HI SPEED to HORIZON:GREEN & BLUE:ABS SILENT", **LatLong:** "48.866669 2.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:52:00 N 02:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.866669,2.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9305 (291682E4) **Date:** 12/10/1953? **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEAR SEYMOUR, IN **Description:** 3 / car. 2 rings / white smoke with lights / edges. Stop. Make abrupt turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 357) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3374 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "nr SEYMOUR,IN:3/CAR:2 RINGS/WHT SMOKE W/LITES/EDGES:STOP:MAKE ABRUPT TURNS", **LatLong:** "38.961113 -85.888893", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:40 N 85:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.961113,-85.888893)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9306 (24BD7627) **Date:** 12/10/1953 **Description:** In 1953, two rings of white smoke appeared over Seymour, Indiana. These unusual smoke rings had lights around the perimeter. They seemed to stand in place, then made abrupt turns. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953, p. 57 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8293 ### Event 9307 (6FE95EB4) **Date:** 12/11/1953 **Location:** MARCILLAT-EN-COMBRAILLE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Huge white saucer brilliant rays going down. Red crescent object. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 361) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3375 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MARCILLAT-en-COMBRAILLE,FR:1 OBS:HUGE WHT SCR BRILL.RAYS ↓::RED CRESCENT OBJ", **LatLong:** "46.166669 2.627778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:10:00 N 02:37:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.166669,2.627778)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9308 (BB6BC239) **Date:** 12/11/1953 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BOWLING GREEN, OH **Description:** 30cm diameter disk buzzes and circles small plane then shoots away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3376 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "213", **HatchDesc:** "BOWLING GREEN,OH:30cm diam.DISK BUZZES+CCLs SMALL PLANE then SHOOTS AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.366669 -83.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:22:00 N 83:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.366669,-83.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9309 (ABE28F28) **Date:** 12/11/1953 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** WENSLEYDALE, NORTH YORKS **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape glides over valley. 1615hrs similar going up / fast in Yorkshire. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3377 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "186", **HatchDesc:** "WENSLEYDALE,N.YORKS:CGR GLIDES OVR VALLEY::1615hrs SIMILAR ↑/FAST in YORKSHIRE", **LatLong:** "54.283336 -1.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "54:17:00 N 01:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.283336,-1.933333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9310 (B38DECDC) **Date:** 12/11/1953 **Description:** At around 1 p.m. a huge white disc-shaped UFO with brilliant beams of light was seen over Marcillat-en-Combraille, Allier department, France. It shot up and away, leaving behind a red crescent-shaped object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8335 ### Event 9311 (2C45E238) **Date:** 12/12/1953 **Location:** BROOKLYN, NY **Description:** Accountant and 2. 12 glowing saucers. 11 north going quickly south very fast. 1 circles / 2 miles radius. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 362) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3378 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKLYN,NY:ACCOUNTANT+2:12 GLOWING SCRS:11 N>>S VFAST:1 CIRCLES/2mi RADIUS", **LatLong:** "40.683335 -73.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:41:00 N 73:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.683335,-73.950004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9312 (3019052D) **Date:** 12/12/1953 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** BLACK ROCK, AUSTR **Description:** 5 observer(s). Lightbulb shape going [to] over town to horizon. No further details. Balloon? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 300) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3379 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BLACK ROCK,AUSTR:5 OBS:LIGHTBULB SHAPE > OVR TOWN TO HORIZON:NFD:balloon?", **LatLong:** "-37.983335 145.016674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:59:00 S 145:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.983335,145.016674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9313 (B48FC296) **Date:** 12/13/1953 **Location:** Central, OH **Description:** Rocket-like UFO with white lights at both ends observed by Ground Observer Corps. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1600 ### Event 9314 (A7368F8F) **Date:** 12/14/1953 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** EXMOUTH, DEVON **Description:** Many observer(s). Dagger-shape passes handle-first! Bright colors. Big news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3380 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "EXMOUTH,DEVON:MANY OBS:DAGGER-SHAPE PASSES HANDLE-FIRST!:BRITE COLORS:BIG NEWS", **LatLong:** "50.666669 -3.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:40:00 N 03:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.666669,-3.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9315 (0A5B1152) **Date:** 12/14/1953 **Description:** In 1953 in England at 5 p.m. GMT many city residents saw a dagger-shaped object with many bright colors pass over Exmouth, Devon handle-end first. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 139 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8389 ### Event 9316 (B2DC9B71) **Date:** 12/15/1953? **Time:** ~01:00 **Location:** SHERBROOK, QBC **Description:** Knock / door. Dog terrified. 100M UFO flies off. Crushed bushes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3381 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "SHERBROOK,QBC:KNOCK/DOOR:DOG TERRIFIED:100M UFO FLIES OFF:CRUSHED BUSHES", **LatLong:** "45.400002 -71.900003", **LatLongDMS:** "45:24:00 N 71:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.400002,-71.900003)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9317 (87900F93) **Date:** 12/15/1953 **Locations:** Hässleholm, Skåne, Sweden; Sweden; Hässleholm **Description:** 2:37 p.m. While flying a Transair Sweden DC-3 in the vicinity of Hässleholm, Skåne, Sweden, pilot [Ulf](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FChristiernsson) [Christiernsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FChristiernsson) and flight mechanic Olle Johansson encounter an “unorthodox, metallic, symmetric, round object” closing in on their aircraft for about 10 seconds. It passes about 1,970 feet under the DC-3 at an altitude of 7,055 feet. Air Force Gen. [Bengt Nordenskiöld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%5FNordenski%C3%B6ld) calls in reports from all relevant Swedish radar stations to identify the object, and the Defence Research Institute spends many hours reconstructing the event. However, the owner of a local perfume company confessed in late December to releasing 300 hydrogen-filled balloons south of Hässleholm as an advertising promotion around 12:30 p.m. that day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 365 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2327 ### Event 9318 (08771224) **Date:** 12/15/1953 **Description:** At one o’clock in the morning a terrified growling dog alerted the witness to a presence outside the house in Sherbrooke, Quebec. There was a knock on the door heard next. Checking outside the witness could see a 100-meter wide UFO flying off. Crushed bushes were discovered at the landing site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case no. 121 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8404 ### Event 9319 (2651F112) **Date:** 12/16/1953 (approximate) **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** TOME, NM **Description:** 2 / farm. Dog barks and hides. 4M glowing-object near ground. Rises / 45° angle going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 649) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3382 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1468", **HatchDesc:** "TOME,NM:2/FARM:DOG BARKS+HIDES:4M GLOW-OBJ nr GND:RISES/45° ANGLE >>SE:", **LatLong:** "34.738891 -106.727783", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:20 N 106:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.738891,-106.727783)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9320 (15AA1FCB) **Date:** 12/16/1953 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** OFF PT MUGU, CA **Description:** 4 aero engineers / WV2 test-flight and ground observer(s). Huge fast white saucer going quickly west. / r97#56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3383 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off Pt MUGU,CA:4 AERO ENGs/WV2 TEST-FLITE+GND OBS:HUGE FAST WHT SCR>>W:/r97#56", **LatLong:** "34.033335 -119.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:00 N 119:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.033335,-119.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9321 (F8E087B1) **Date:** 12/16/1953 **Location:** Toledo, OH **Description:** Group of lights changing from red to white, each appearing to revolve. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1601 ### Event 9322 (5CE5FCE9) **Date:** 12/16/1953 **Location:** Mediterranean, At Sea **Description:** (McDonald list) Ground Radar Picks Up Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [531216](http://www.nicap.org/531216meddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1602 ### Event 9323 (7DA5475C) **Date:** 12/16/1953 **Location:** Agoura (Ground site 3 miles WNW of), CA **Description:** The Lockheed UFO Case (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [531216](http://www.nicap.org/531216agoura%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1603 ### Event 9324 (E9694F55) **Date:** 12/16/1953 **Locations:** British Air Ministry; air intelligence branch DDI (Tech) **Description:** The British Air Ministry sends orders to all RAF stations saying that UFO reports are to be classified “Restricted” and personnel must not communicate any sighting information to unauthorized persons. Reports must be sent to the air intelligence branch DDI \(Tech\) that is now responsible for UFO investigations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [pp. 57–60](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n95/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2328 ### Event 9325 (D7C6775D) **Date:** 12/16/1953 **Locations:** Agoura, California; Long Beach, California; Pacific **Description:** 4:58 p.m. Lockheed Skunk Works chief [Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) and his wife Althea \(near Agoura, California\) and a Lockheed crew \(Rudy Thoren, [Roy Wimmer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18629149/roy-edwin-wimmer), and 3 others\) flying the WV-2 Warning Star aircraft near Long Beach, California, independently of each other observe a black flying-wing \(or ellipse or crescent-shaped\) object about 170–230 feet wide flying at about 15,000 ±2,000 feet altitude to the west, hovering about 30–60 miles away. At 5:04 p.m., after four minutes \(to the Johnsons\) and six minutes \(to WV-2 crew\) the UFO suddenly takes off in a shallow climb accelerating to approximately earth escape velocity \(25,000 mph\) to the west over the Pacific. It disappears in 10–13 seconds \(to WV-2 crew\) or in 90 seconds \(to Johnson using 8x binoculars\) after reaching 90+ miles altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Lockheed UFO Case](http://www.nicap.org/531216agoura%5Fdir.htm)”; Joel Carpenter, “The Lockheed UFO Case, 1953,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 6–9, 33; Joel Carpenter, “[The Lockheed UFO Case,](http://cufos.org/cases/The%5FLockheed%5FUFO%5Fcase.pdf)” 2001; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 206 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2329 ### Event 9326 (1350947A) **Date:** 12/16/1953 **Description:** At the test launch of a V-2 rocket at Point Mugu, California many ground observers watched a huge, fast moving white disc fly off toward the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 64 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8439 ### Event 9327 (6BC88439) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Time:** 06:10 **Location:** MARSEILLES, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Great white disk / blue-short fringe going quickly southeast. X-fast. Fork-trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 368) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3384 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARSEILLES,FR:MANY OBS:GREAT WHT DISK/BLU-SHT FRINGE>>SE:X-FAST:FORK-TRAIL", **LatLong:** "43.300002 5.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:18:00 N 05:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.300002,5.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9328 (BEA1B76A) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Time:** 14:40 **Location:** HASSLEHOLM, SWD **Description:** DC3 pilot. Brilliant metallic sphere/orb/globe / 700M altitude. 700mph. Big investigate. / LDLN#332. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3385 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HASSLEHOLM,SWD:DC3 PILOT:BRILL.MTLC ORB/700M alt:700mph:BIG INVESTG:/LDLN#332", **LatLong:** "59.150003 13.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:09:00 N 13:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.150003,13.750001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9329 (88243E64) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Location:** Hassleholm, Sweden **Description:** (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2838) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1604 ### Event 9330 (EF03C858) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Time:** 2:37 PM **Location:** Hasslehom, Sweden **Description:** Witness: Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, chief pilot for Transair, flying a DC-3. One shiny metal spherical ellipse, 2,000' below DC-3, flew at approximately 700 m.p.h. for 6-7 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_330 ### Event 9331 (7F9890AB) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Location:** Hässleholm, Sweden **Description:** After the crew of a Swedish airliner reports a wingless circular UFO over Hässleholm, Sweden, the Swedish Armed Forces orders a full-scale investigation. Capt. [Ulf Christiernsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FChristiernsson) says the object is an “entirely unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical, and circular object.” Later reports claim it is a radiosonde balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=133&skin=2021) [121](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=133&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 206 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2330 ### Event 9332 (9B014B5D) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Description:** A memo from [Todos M. Odarenko](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/08/archives/dr-todos-m-odarenko.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/08/archives/dr-todos-m-odarenko.html) chief of the CIA/OSI physics and electronics division, condescendingly reviews the status of various government UFO efforts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Todos M. Odarenko, “[Current Status of](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515979.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOB\) Project,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515979.pdf)” December 17, 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2331 ### Event 9333 (63488B3E) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Description:** In Marseilles, France at 6:10 a.m. a huge white disc with a blue fringe flew off toward the southeast at an extremely fast speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 68 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8458 ### Event 9334 (60378F11) **Date:** 12/17/1953 **Description:** At 2:37 p.m. transair chief pilot Ulf Christiernsson and airline mechanic Johansson saw a nearly round, slightly elliptical UFO with a metallic shine flying close to the speed of sound in the opposite direction from their aircraft, while they were flying over Hassleholm, Sweden. The object was in sight for ten seconds. This case is a Project Blue Book unknown, but the possibility of the object having been a Russian drone was not fully discarded at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 121; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2838; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 769 citing Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8459 ### Event 9335 (6168A717) **Date:** Winter 1953 **Location:** Salisbury Plain, England **Description:** Salisbury Plain, England: Flight Lt. C.G. Townsend- Withers was flying an experimental Canberra aircraft at 55,000 ft. when he picked up on the new experimental radar an UFO following his plane. The science officer went up to the turret for a visual and spotted a circular craft five miles behind them. They tried to outpace the UFO by accelerating to 225 knots but it kept up with their plane. Townsend-Withers initiated a wide sweeping turn and lost radar contact with the UFO but came into direct visual on a collision course with the UFO. Then the UFO flipped vertically in the air and climbed from 50 to 70 thousand feet, as quickly as you could say it. Description: Round, thin disc with two tail fins at the rear, appearing metallic and enormous. Leaving no vapor trail, wake or detectable sound, it vanished within a couple of seconds up into the blue sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_517 ### Event 9336 (F054B45B) **Date:** 12/21/1953 **Location:** PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN **Description:** 2 brilliant objects southwest going quickly northeast toward(s) Afghanistan / French papers. CIA report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 370) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3386 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pakistan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PESHAWAR,PAKISTAN:2 BRILL.OBJS SW>>NE TWRD AFGHANISTAN/FRENCH PAPERS:CIA RPT", **LatLong:** "34.000002 71.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 71:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,71.583337)", **State/Prov:** "NWF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9337 (02C17FCB) **Date:** 12/21/1953 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** QUANTICO, VA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1654. Marines. Unknown round object lands. Emits red light. Back 01 Jan. '54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3387 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "170", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "QUANTICO,VA:BBK#1654:MARINES:UNK.ROUND OBJ LANDS:EMITS RED LITE:BACK 01JAN54", **LatLong:** "38.533335 -77.316670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:32:00 N 77:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.533335,-77.316670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9338 (93ABBDF7) **Date:** 12/23/1953 **Location:** Bismarck, ND **Description:** 4 yellowish-white oval objects in trail formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1605 ### Event 9339 (37A21C18) **Date:** 12/23/1953 **Locations:** USAF Intelligence; Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton, Ohio **Description:** USAF Intelligence Col. [George E. Perry](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/16/col-george-perry-dies-taught-math-at-lee-high/b4f4157b-12bd-4762-8631-9c06cca74446/) writes to Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) ADC Deputy for Intelligence at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, recommending that when the 4602nd investigates a UFO sighting and it is not a conventional object, personnel should state “The information on this sighting will be analyzed by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton, Ohio,” and leave it at that. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. George E. Perry, [Letter to Brig. Gen. W. M. Burgess](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia20.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia20.htm) December 23, 1953 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2332 ### Event 9340 (AACB71D0) **Date:** 12/24/1953 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** OVER EL CAJON, CA **Description:** 2 Navy F9Fs. 10 silver ovoids going quickly east / 50K' and altitude. 400+knts. Can't catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3388 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "112", **HatchDesc:** "ovr EL CAJON,CA:2 NAVY F9Fs:10 SLVR OVOIDS >>E/50K'+alt:400+knts:CANT CATCH", **LatLong:** "32.800002 -116.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:48:00 N 116:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.800002,-116.950006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9341 (1F73A5AB) **Date:** 12/24/1953 **Location:** El Cajon, CA **Description:** Navy Lts. Encounter 10 Oval Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2840) **Reference:** NICAP: [531224](http://www.nicap.org/531224elcajon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1606 ### Event 9342 (17868029) **Date:** 12/24/1953 **Location:** Scott AFB, IL **Description:** 2 oval extremely brilliant silver objects with mirror-like reflections (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1607 ### Event 9343 (5D47B6E6) **Date:** 12/24/1953 **Time:** 8:04 AM **Location:** El Cajon, California **Description:** Witnesses: U.S. Navy Lts. J.B. Howard and L.D. Linhard, flying F9F-2 jet fighters. Ten silver, oval objects flew at more than 400 kts. (450 m.p.h.), straight and level, for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_331 ### Event 9344 (ED3C1074) **Date:** 12/24/1953 **Location:** El Cajon, California **Description:** 8:04 a.m. US Navy Lts. J. B. Howard and L. D. Linhard, flying F9F-2 jet fighters, see 10 silver oval objects flying in formation at 450+ mph, straight and level, over El Cajon, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Navy Lts.](http://www.nicap.org/531224elcajon%5Fdir.htm) [Encounter 10 Oval Objects](http://www.nicap.org/531224elcajon%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 206 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2333 ### Event 9345 (5EFB7B82) **Date:** 12/24/1953 **Description:** Ten silverly oval-shaped objects were sighted flying horizontally over El Cajon, California at 8:04 a.m. Two Navy F-9F Panther jets attempted to catch up with them but failed. The UFOs were flying at 50,000' altitude at a speed in excess of 400 knots. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2840; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 71; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 184 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8585 ### Event 9346 (A81C2A7F) **Date:** 12/26/1953 **Location:** CS 4859 (Mil Grid), Korea **Description:** T-6 Encounters Strange Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [531226](http://www.nicap.org/531226nkorea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1608 ### Event 9347 (A966549C) **Date:** 12/26/1953 **Location:** Washington (D.C.) **Description:** The first of a series of articles in the Washington \(D.C.\) Times-Herald by Richard Reilly questions the Air Force’s openness about UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dolan, [p. 145](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/page/145/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2334 ### Event 9348 (7D3574D6) **Date:** 12/26/1953 **Description:** A kite-shaped or diamond-shaped object turned towards a T-6 aircraft flying over Grid Area CS in Korea at 4:25 p.m. It was orange in color and seemed translucent, with what appeared to be sparks extending a short distance behind it The object was estimated to be six feet long and a foot and a half in thickness. The military pilot got to within 600 and 800 feet distance from it. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8611 ### Event 9349 (67FC387A) **Date:** 12/27/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / SHREWSBURY, SHROPS **Description:** Gavin Gibbons. Bright large silent disk hovers. Vanishes in place! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3389 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "NW/SHREWSBURY,SHROPs:GAVIN GIBBONS:BRITE LRG SLNT DISK HVRS:VANISHES IN PLACE!", **LatLong:** "52.738891 -2.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:44:20 N 02:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.738891,-2.800000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9350 (B8E6BCCD) **Date:** 12/27/1953 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** "Meteor" passes under clouds. Silent. Bright green with yellow band / center. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 374) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3390 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:"METEOR" PASSES UNDER CLOUDS:SILENT:BRITE GRN W/YEL BAND/CENTER", **LatLong:** "44.983335 -93.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:59:00 N 93:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.983335,-93.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9351 (39E8F412) **Date:** 12/28/1953 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** YUBA CO AIRPORT, CA **Description:** Brilliant blue saucer hovers 300' over airport building. Wobbles. Abrupt motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3391 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "YUBA co AIRPORT,CA:BRILL.BLU SCR HVRS 300'OVR AIRPT BLDG:WOBBLES:ABRUPT MOTION", **LatLong:** "39.111113 -121.566672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:40 N 121:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.111113,-121.566672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9352 (4AC61F8C) **Date:** 12/28/1953 **Location:** Marysville, CA **Description:** Saucer with a brilliant blue light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2844) **Reference:** NICAP: [531228](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/531228marysvilledir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1609 ### Event 9353 (EAD05A9B) **Date:** 12/28/1953 **Time:** 11:55 AM **Location:** Marysville, California **Description:** Witness: Yuba County Airport Manager Dick Brandt. One saucer, with a brilliant blue light, reflecting on a nearby building, hovered briefly during the 1.5 minute observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_332 ### Event 9354 (E06C3D3B) **Date:** 12/29/1953 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** PARIS, FR **Description:** Saucer near Eiffel Tower studies city center? 2 minute(s) photograph exposure. / r147p74. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STONE, Reuben: UFO INVESTIGATION; 1993 Blitz/Bookmark, Enderby, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3392 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS,FR:SCR nr EIFFEL TOWER STUDIES CITY CENTER?:2min FOTO EXPOSURE:/r147p74", **LatLong:** "48.850002 2.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:00 N 02:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.850002,2.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9355 (D2F70CD1) **Date:** 12/29/1953 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** 60 MI EAST / ROCK SPRINGS, WY **Description:** C47 pilot. 2 red night lights / 1800mph. 1 zigzags and going up. Other going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1953 (6 booklets) Self published. (Index 375) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3393 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "2055", **HatchDesc:** "60mi E/ROCK SPRINGS,WY:C47 PILOT:2 RED NLTS/1800mph:1 ZIGZAGS+↑:OTHER >>N", **LatLong:** "41.583335 -108.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:00 N 108:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.583335,-108.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9356 (A644A67C) **Date:** 12/29/1953 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) has a confrontation with [Delos Smith](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/06/02/79859540.html?pageNumber=34), the science editor of the United Press wire service, and a UP executive editor. Smith is preparing a three-part series debunking Keyhoe’s claims because a “certain Air Force general swears your book is a complete fraud.” Forewarned by [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29), Keyhoe counters his arguments with documentation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 85–88 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2335 ### Event 9357 (77BBE817) **Date:** 12/30/1953 **Location:** JOHANNESBURG, RSA **Description:** Newspaper report. Saucer follows car on road in town. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3394 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "JOHANNESBURG,RSA:NEWSPAPER REPORT:SCR FOLLOWS CAR ON ROAD IN TOWN:NFD", **LatLong:** "-26.083335 27.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "26:05:00 S 27:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.083335,27.900001)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9358 (2232FB23) **Date:** 12/30/1953 **Location:** BENTWATERS AIR FORCE BASE, SUFFOLK **Description:** Blue saucer makes crackling sound. Flashes and hisses over base. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3395 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BENTWATERS AFB,SUFFOLK:BLUE SCR MAKES CRACKLING SOUND:FLASHES+HISSES OVR BASE", **LatLong:** "52.100002 1.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:06:00 N 01:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.100002,1.416667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9359 (3F92541A) **Date:** 12/30/1953 **Location:** Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia **Description:** 9:05 p.m. Pfc Norman Viet, on guard duty at the tank park in Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, watches a blinking red light about 18 inches in diameter moving slowly over a tree line about 200 feet away. It soon drops down out of sight. Fifteen minutes later it is seen again, rising up and floating toward the tank shed. Viet says it is completely soundless. At 10:15 p.m. it returns, also witnessed by Sgt. Francis R. Salinder, who alerts the base and a combat team searches the area. At midnight, a red light appears above the search area, spooking a guard. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 202](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/202/mode/2up); Washington \(D.C.\) Daily News, January 5, 1954; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 75 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2336 ### Event 9360 (170421B9) **Date:** 12/30/1953 **Description:** On this day in Johannesburg, South Africa a disc-shaped object followed a car on a road into an outlying town. On the same day a blue disc-shaped object flew over Bentwaters RAF Airbase in Suffolk County, England. It made crackling sounds, flashed and hissed as it went over. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3236 & # 3237, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, pp. 136 & 65 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8650 ### Event 9361 (24897B21) **Date:** 12/31/1953 **Location:** Quantico Marine Base, Virginia **Description:** Marines observed the landing of an unknown round object which throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 210 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_122 ### Event 9362 (3CE9813B) **Date:** 12/31/1953 **Description:** Two marines at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia observed the landing of a round UFO that throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 210; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8665 --- ## Year: 1954 (Back to Top) ### Event 9363 (52D1BCF3) **Date:** 1954 **Location:** US **Description:** US Satellite Program: “The U.S. Earth satellite program began in 1954 as a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year. The proposal, using a military Redstone missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor of the Navy’s Project Vanguard, using a booster advertised as more civilian in nature. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.” **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_519 ### Event 9364 (0BC1FE75) **Date:** 1954 **Location:** US **Description:** Project SIGMA established as part of Project xxxx (name CENSURED). Top Secret project that looked into how to communicate with aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a desert in New Mexico. Became a separate project in 1976. **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, SIGMA) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_520 **Attributes:** Majestic ### Event 9365 (9D499D7B) **Date:** 1954 **End date:** 1964 **Location:** US **Description:** USAF Investigation Summary: Evidence again challenged as "proof," this time by panel of scientists. Conflicting versions of whether expanded investigation was recommended (and adopted) to obtain more data. Public relations program adopted to assure public UFOs posed no danger, or threat to national security. **Type:** investigation **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_899 ### Event 9366 (BD3821A8) **Date:** 1954 **Location:** White Plains, NY **Description:** August or September 1954; White Plains, New York, G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1610 ### Event 9367 (0AA0AEFB) **Date:** 1954 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Air Force Lt. Colonel saw two maneuvering UFOs. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1611 ### Event 9368 (4C6D2E56) **Date:** 1954 **Locations:** Wisconsin; Alamogordo, New Mexico; Holloman AFB **Description:** [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) move from Wisconsin to Alamogordo, New Mexico, to work as civilian employees at Holloman AFB. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 50 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2337 ### Event 9369 (8F08420C) **Date:** 1954 **Location:** Giant Rock, California **Description:** Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) begins building the Integratron at Giant Rock, California, based on the rejuvenation techniques imparted to him by space aliens from Venus. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Integratron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron)”; Jody Rosen, “[Welcome to the Integratron,](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html)” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla Miller Schnur, “[G. W. Van](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/) [Tassel’s Integratron,](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/)” The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2338 ### Event 9370 (B375FB62) **Date:** 1954 **Description:** An official in the UK Deputy Directorate of Intelligence \(Technical\) mentions to investigator Ronald N. Russell that the DDI has 15,000 reports on file since 1947 stored in nine drawers in three wooden filing cabinets with Yale locks, doubly secured by a hinged plate locked with a large padlock. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Pitt, “[‘Tell Us Please, Mr.](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf) [Birch,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1956\): 10–13; Good Above, [p. 33](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/32/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2339 ### Event 9371 (7B04FB5D) **Date:** 1954 **Locations:** Edwards Air Force Base; California **Description:** A promotional photo of a Martin B-57 Canberra bomber taken near Edwards Air Force Base in California shows a saucer-like object in the upper right portion of the frame. No one actually reports seeing the object, which seems to be trailing the B-57 in flight. NICAP photoanalyst Ralph Rankow points out that the object has dimension, does not appear to be a scratch or rub on the film, and has a pattern of light and shadow consistent with the rest of the photo. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Story, [pp. 36–37](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/36/mode/2up); Robert A. Schmidt, “[The Strange Case of the B-57 Photographs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 6 \(August 1971\): 1–2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2340 ### Event 9372 (677040CA) **Date:** 1954 **Location:** UK **Description:** The powerful Type 80 centimetric radars introduced in the UK this year are plagued by radar “angels” that become a hazard for air traffic controllers. A Fighter Command investigation concludes that most of them are caused by migrating seabirds, and others are the result of “anomalous propagation.” Later computers filter out smaller echoes and increase the strength of those created by aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Clarke, “Gremlins and Black Projects,” Fortean Times 291 \(August 2012\): 26–27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2341 ### Event 9373 (DEEE55B6) **Date:** 1954 **Location:** Suffield Experimental Station [now CFB Suffield], Alberta **Description:** After RCAF pilots fail to intercept several UFOs in Canadian air space, the Defence Research Board sets up a restricted landing field near the Suffield Experimental Station \[now CFB Suffield\], Alberta. All RCAF planes and commercial aircraft are restricted from the area. However, the effort is abandoned after the government determines that UFOs are not a national security risk. The project is kept secret until July 1967 when it is revealed by Defence Minister [Paul Hellyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHellyer). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[UFO Landing Site was 13-Year Secret,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102277109/the-ottawa-journal/)” Ottawa \(Ont.\) Journal, July 20, 1967, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2342 ### Event 9374 (D4DCE3CC) **Date:** 1/1954 **Description:** Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_129 ### Event 9375 (BDCB401D) **Date:** 1/1954 **Location:** California **Description:** Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US government has an “object” under examination in California. **Type:** radio **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_521 ### Event 9376 (F37FB273) **Date:** 1/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** BRIGHTON, VCT, AUSTR **Description:** Gold saucers / V-formation over golf course. Later over Armidale. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3396 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "BRIGHTON,VCT,AUSTR:GOLD SCRS/V-FORMATION OVR GOLF COURSE:LATER OVR ARMIDALE", **LatLong:** "-38.000002 145.050007", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 S 145:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.000002,145.050007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9377 (39226BED) **Date:** 1/1954 **Location:** Los Angeles **Description:** [Ed J. Sullivan](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/)‘s Civilian Saucer Investigation Los Angeles disbands. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[CSI Conclusions,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201954%20Winter.pdf)” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1954\): 7–9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2343 ### Event 9378 (E60914A5) **Date:** 1/1954 **Locations:** Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia; Mount Gillen, Northern Territory **Description:** 5:00 a.m. A strange object streaks across the sky over Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia, seen and heard by four Native Australians. On the same day, an anonymous photographer is taking photos of Mount Gillen, Northern Territory, when suddenly an enormous \(150 feet\) round object appears from behind it. It moves high, then drops low. He takes a photo, then it shoots off at high speed to the west. The photo, reproduced in the newspaper, shows a dubious-looking round object on edge with six spokes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, January 15, 1954; Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, February 5, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “[Cold Case: The](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/cold-case-mount-gillen-photograph-alice.html) [Mount Gillen Photograph, Alice Springs, 1954,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/cold-case-mount-gillen-photograph-alice.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, January 12, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2344 ### Event 9379 (531825FD) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** YARRA VALLEY, AUS **Description:** DC3 pilot. Huge metal mushroom. Shafts / light. Going quickly northwest / 700mph. / r174p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 602) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3397 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "YARRA VALLEY,AUS:DC3 PILOT:HUGE MTL MUSHROOM:SHAFTS/LITE:>>NW/700mph:/r174p75", **LatLong:** "-37.766668 145.566674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:46:00 S 145:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.766668,145.566674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9380 (727DD5F9) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** HAMPTON BEACH, VCT, AUS **Description:** Clear plastic-like dish rushes across skyline. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3398 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAMPTON BEACH,VCT,AUS:CLEAR PLASTIC-LIKE DISH RUSHES ACROSS SKYLINE:", **LatLong:** "-37.933335 145.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:56:00 S 145:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.933335,145.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9381 (E441D202) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **Time:** ~20:50 **Location:** HANGING ROCK, AUSTRALIA **Description:** Crowd / racetrack. Saucer hover / 2 minute(s). Turns on side and flies away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3399 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HANGING ROCK,AUSTRL:CROWD/RACETRACK:SCR HVR/2min:TURNS ON SIDE+FLIES AWAY.", **LatLong:** "-37.322224 144.627785", **LatLongDMS:** "37:19:20 S 144:37:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.322224,144.627785)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9382 (61C31190) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** BEACH HAVEN, NJ AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Cops and, many. Small ovoids circle large sphere. Trade places. Going quickly SSW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: CUFOS documents on file here in folder 1JAN54. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3400 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BEACH HAVEN,NJ++:COPS+,MANY:SML OVOIDS CCL LRG SPHERE:TRADE PLACES:>>SSW", **LatLong:** "39.561113 -74.244448", **LatLongDMS:** "39:33:40 N 74:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.561113,-74.244448)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9383 (0FA05C48) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **Location:** Unknown City, AU **Description:** Airline pilot saw huge, apparently metallic, elliptical UFO. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1612 ### Event 9384 (72942A51) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **Location:** Toms River, Marlton, Woodbury, and Surf City, NJ **Description:** Multiple-Witness Sightings Triangulate Location (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540101](http://www.nicap.org/540101tomsriver%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1613 ### Event 9385 (5DC206CD) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **Locations:** Doncaster East, Melbourne, Victoria; Yarra River valley; Templestowe brickworks **Description:** 10:15 a.m. Capt. Douglas Barker, a pilot with Australian National Airways, is at his home in Doncaster East, Melbourne, Victoria. He sees a “metallic, mushroom-shaped object” flying over the Yarra River valley toward the Templestowe brickworks in the northwest. He estimates it is traveling at 700 mph at a height of 2,000 feet. Its apparent size is four times that of a DC-4 aircraft. It is oscillating rapidly in and out of thick cloud. It is elliptical with a “long shaft about the same length as its body hanging below it.” Total duration of the sighting is 12 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Mushroom Flying over Yarra Valley](http://www.nicap.org/540101australia%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2345 ### Event 9386 (631BA5F9) **Date:** 1/1/1954 **End date:** 1/2/1954 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Lakehurst [now Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst], Toms River, New Jersey; Beach Haven, New Jersey **Description:** 10:35 p.m.–12:05 a.m. Navy pilot Lt. JG George G. Morgan of Naval Air Station Lakehurst \[now Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst\], Toms River, New Jersey, police chief [Richard Clement](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78778369/richard-d-clement), police officer [Oliver G.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79222140/oliver-g-osborne) [Osborne](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79222140/oliver-g-osborne), and other witnesses see 3–12 round white objects with fuzzy edges slightly smaller than the full moon hovering in the south for 90 minutes as 2 objects circled around another one. They then switch places. Some witnesses attempt to drive toward the objects to investigate. The objects suddenly depart to the southwest at extremely high speed, growing smaller until they disappear in 1–2 seconds. Multiple independent witnesses across a baseline of at least 12 miles allow for triangulation that locates the objects near Beach Haven, New Jersey, from distances of 15–40 miles. At least five witnesses use binoculars. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) calculates a departure speed of 90,000 mph, a hovering altitude of 4 miles, and a diameter of 1,500 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Multiple-Witness Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/540101tomsriver%5Fdir.htm) [Triangulate Location](http://www.nicap.org/540101tomsriver%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 207; Swords 223–224 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2346 ### Event 9387 (29A3074E) **Date:** 1/3/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** BOX HILL, VCT, AUS **Description:** Also Melbourne. Odd box turns / sky. Vapor ball joins it. Both vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3401 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOX HILL,VCT,AUS:+MELBOURNE:ODD BOX TURNS/SKY:VAPOR BALL JOINS IT:BOTH VANISH", **LatLong:** "-37.816668 145.133340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:00 S 145:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.816668,145.133340)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9388 (14DE1CCC) **Date:** 1/3/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** FOOTSCRAY, VCT, AUS **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer flashes across sky. Melbourne airport/apartment inundated / reports. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3402 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FOOTSCRAY,VCT,AUS:3 OBS:SCR FLASHES ACRS SKY:MELBOURNE APT INUNDATED/REPORTS", **LatLong:** "-37.800002 144.900007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:48:00 S 144:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.800002,144.900007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9389 (FD2C7D9D) **Date:** 1/4/1954 **Location:** QUANTICO, VA **Description:** 30+observer(s). Night lights hover and maneuver / treetop level / 6 days. Back 27 Jan. Jets chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3403 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "QUANTICO,VA:30+OBS:NLTS HVR+MNVR/TREETOP LVL/6days::BACK 27JAN:JETS CHASE", **LatLong:** "38.533335 -77.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:32:00 N 77:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.533335,-77.300004)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9390 (C2894DCF) **Date:** 1/4/1954 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** SIESTA KEY, FL **Description:** Writer and doctor. Classic saucer hovers. Shoots going quickly southwest / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3404 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SIESTA KEY,FL:WRITER+DOCTOR:CLASSIC SCR HVRS:SHOOTS >>SW/INCREDIBLE SPEED.", **LatLong:** "27.261112 -82.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:15:40 N 82:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.261112,-82.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9391 (1C4F407C) **Date:** 1/4/1954 **Location:** Quantico, VA **Description:** Red revolving or blinking lights, hovering and moving soundlessly at tree-top height reportedly seen for six nights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1614 ### Event 9392 (3DE3AC95) **Date:** 1/4/1954 **Location:** Marignane Airfield, France **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Shortly after, a round luminous machine, coming from the South, landed at the Marignane airfield in Bouches-du-Rhone Department. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1615 ### Event 9393 (DF7BE0C9) **Date:** 1/4/1954 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Marignane Airport, France **Description:** Mr. Chesneau, fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out again, the object had disappeared. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Guieu ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_123 ### Event 9394 (2CB688A3) **Date:** 1/4/1954 **Locations:** Marignane Airfield [now Marseille Provence Airport], Bouches-du-Rhône, France; Arles to Marseille **Description:** Shortly after 9:00 p.m. A round luminous machine, coming from the south, lands at the Marignane Airfield \[now Marseille Provence Airport\], Bouches-du-Rhône, France. There is only one witness present, a fireman at the airport named Chesneau. The machine disappears while he is telephoning the control tower. Careful scrutiny of the runway the next morning turns up a few pieces of metallic debris. The story is confirmed by a Marseille resident who is driving from Arles to Marseille and sees a large, round, reddish fireball, but places the time at 10:45 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jimmy Guieu, Les soucoupes volantes viennent d’un autre monde, Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, [p.](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up) [132](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/4jan1954marignane.htm)” March 15, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2347 ### Event 9395 (42F40FEC) **Date:** 1/4/1954 **Description:** Mr. Chesneau, a fireman at the Marignane Airport in France, saw a round luminous object slowly coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out again, the object had disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 205 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_82 ### Event 9396 (F9AA805C) **Date:** 1/5/1954 **Location:** SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN **Description:** Observer(s) unknown. Red circular object lands and takes off. No further details. / LDLN#104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3405 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAN SEBASTIAN,SPAIN:OBS UNK:RED CIRC.OBJ LANDS+TAKES OFF:NFD:/LDLN#104", **LatLong:** "43.316669 -1.983333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:19:00 N 01:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.316669,-1.983333)", **State/Prov:** "GPZ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9397 (72D36E94) **Date:** 1/5/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** TOOMA, NSW, AUSTRALIA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 bright orbs very fast going quickly west. Orbit one Anther. Turn going south in-line. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3406 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TOOMA,NSW,AUSTRL:2 OBS:3 BRITE ORBS VFAST>>W:ORBIT ONE ANTHER:TURN>S IN-LINE", **LatLong:** "-35.966668 148.050007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:58:00 S 148:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.966668,148.050007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9398 (363A2098) **Date:** 1/5/1954 **Time:** ~12:00 **Location:** MURCHISON, TX **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). Bright silver saucer hovers / 3 minute(s). Gone / seconds. Also seen / Tyler, TX. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3407 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "MURCHISON,TX:3 SEP.OBS:BRITE SLVR SCR HVRS/3min:GONE/secs:ALSO SEEN/TYLER,TX", **LatLong:** "32.277779 -95.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:16:40 N 95:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.277779,-95.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9399 (677D58F7) **Date:** 1/5/1954 **Description:** In Tooma, New South Wales, Australia three bright orbs moved very fast through the sky to the west at noon, orbited one another, then turned to the south in a line. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_108 ### Event 9400 (6D1FDC1C) **Date:** 1/5/1954 **Description:** A red circular object landed and took off at night in San Sebastian, Spain. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3178; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 104 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_109 ### Event 9401 (A7759C47) **Date:** 1/5/1954 **Description:** Mr. Chesneau, a fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly descend toward the Marignane Airport, France at 9:00 p.m. He went inside and called the control tower to report it. When he came outside again, the object had gone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 123, citing Jimmy Guieu **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_110 ### Event 9402 (472AA386) **Date:** 1/5/1954 **Description:** Three separate observers in Murchison, Texas witnessed a bright silver, saucer-shaped UFO that hovered for 3 minutes. It was gone in seconds. It was also seen in Tyler, Texas. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3179; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_111 ### Event 9403 (AF7898AE) **Date:** 1/6/1954 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** Reporters seeking information on UFOs were banned from Wright-Patterson AFB. [Cleveland Press] **Type:** historical event **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_878 ### Event 9404 (7DA16886) **Date:** 1/6/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** WURTSMITH AIR FORCE BASE **Description:** Guard. Extra moon hovers over airsock / 16 minute(s). Edge glows. Zips away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3408 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "193", **HatchDesc:** "WURTSMITH AFB:GUARD:EXTRA MOON HVRS OVR AIRSOCK/16min:EDGE GLOWS:ZIPS AWAY", **LatLong:** "44.433335 -83.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:26:00 N 83:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.433335,-83.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9405 (083414E1) **Date:** 1/6/1954 **Locations:** Cleveland; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; Utah **Description:** The Cleveland Press runs the headline “Brass Curtain Hides Flying Saucers” and reveals that ATIC will no longer allow reporters seeking UFO information into Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Its reporter is given the runaround on the Utah film. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Closes Brass Curtain,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93761020/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) News-Sentinel, January 14, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2348 ### Event 9406 (801AA783) **Date:** 1/7/1954 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** BROOKLYN, NY **Description:** Several women. Vibrant bright "dinner-plate" 3 nights / row to 8 Jan / 2300hrs. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3409 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKLYN,NY:SVRL WOMEN:VBRITE "DINNER-PLATE" 3 NITES/ROW to 8JAN/2300hrs:VFAST", **LatLong:** "40.683335 -73.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:41:00 N 73:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.683335,-73.966670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9407 (C15A07AE) **Date:** 1/7/1954 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** GIPPSLAND LAKE, VCT **Description:** 3 / boat. Wingless DC3-size hemisphere / 300M altitude. Turns going quickly east and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 601) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3410 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GIPPSLAND LAKE,VCT:3/BOAT:WINGLESS DC3-SIZE HEMISPHERE/300M alt:TURNS >>E+away", **LatLong:** "-38.133335 147.466674", **LatLongDMS:** "38:08:00 S 147:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.133335,147.466674)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9408 (97E78B9E) **Date:** 1/7/1954 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** DIEPPE, FR **Description:** Meteor makes fast sharp turn. Skyquake breaks windows. / r173p201. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3411 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DIEPPE,FR:METEOR MAKES FAST SHARP TURN:SKYQUAKE BREAKS WINDOWS:/r173p201", **LatLong:** "49.883336 1.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:53:00 N 01:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.883336,1.083333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 9409 (00F15D49) **Date:** 1/7/1954 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** ARRAS, FR **Description:** Fiery disk stops. Rocks. Flash. Going quickly northwest to coast. / fireball seen widely / same time. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3412 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARRAS,FR:FIERY DISK STOPS:ROCKS:FLASH:>>NW to COAST:/FBL seen widely/same time", **LatLong:** "50.283336 2.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:17:00 N 02:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.283336,2.783333)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9410 (25725DCC) **Date:** 1/7/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BONBEACH, VCT **Description:** Loud humming. Moon-size gold object circles. Going [to] horizon. Large cylinder/cigar-shape rises / same spot. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 602) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3413 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BONBEACH,VCT:LOUD HUM:MOONSIZE GOLD OBJ CCLS:>HORIZON:LRG CGR RISES/SAME SPOT:", **LatLong:** "-38.050002 145.116674", **LatLongDMS:** "38:03:00 S 145:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.050002,145.116674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9411 (9A6073E2) **Date:** 1/7/1954 **Location:** Arras, France **Description:** 4:27 a.m. A fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, was sighted in Arras, Pas-deCalais department (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1616 ### Event 9412 (025031AE) **Date:** 1/7/1954 **Location:** Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France **Description:** 4:27 a.m. A fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, is seen in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. The disc remains motionless in the sky for an instant, after which it flies away and disappears over the horizon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 133](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7jan1954arras.htm)” December 4, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2349 ### Event 9413 (7E6DAEC4) **Date:** 1/8/1954 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** OREANA NORTHEAST / LOVELOCK, NV **Description:** Railroad/railway engineer. Yellow sphere/orb/globe hovers bobs going up [to] going down. Going quickly west / wavy trajectory and dims away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3414 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1188", **HatchDesc:** "OREANA NE/LOVELOCK,NV:RR ENG:YLW ORB HVRS BOBS↑↓:>>W/WAVY TRAJECTORY+DIMS AWAY", **LatLong:** "40.327780 -118.372228", **LatLongDMS:** "40:19:40 N 118:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.327780,-118.372228)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9414 (A3953E7E) **Date:** 1/8/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LAKE TIMISKAMING, ONT **Description:** 3 observer(s). Single saucer zips around / 2 hours! Local wave. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 603) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3415 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE TIMISKAMING,ONT:3 OBS:SINGLE SCR ZIPS AROUND/2 HRS!:local wave", **LatLong:** "47.333336 -79.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "47:20:00 N 79:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.333336,-79.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9415 (DA99C81E) **Date:** 1/8/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BERLIN, GER **Description:** 'Full moon' flies northwest going quickly southeast over American sector / 7 second(s). Slower / meteor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3416 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BERLIN,GER:'FULL MOON' FLIES NW>>SE ovr AMERICAN SECTOR/7sec:SLOWER/METEOR", **LatLong:** "52.483336 13.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:29:00 N 13:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.483336,13.383334)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9416 (DEA463F5) **Date:** 1/8/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** HAMILTON, VCT, AUS **Description:** Vibrant bright orange classic saucer going quickly [to] east-northeast. Vapor trail / 30 minute(s). / r242p143. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 602) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3417 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON,VCT,AUS:VBRITE ORG CLASSIC SCR >>ENE:VAPOR TRAIL/30min:/r242p143", **LatLong:** "-37.733335 142.016673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:44:00 S 142:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.733335,142.016673)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9417 (492C19C6) **Date:** 1/8/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SALE, VCT, AUS **Description:** Odd UFO corrugated on top. Changes color(s). Goes going up and down. Flashes. Gone. P309. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3418 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SALE,VCT,AUS:ODD UFO CORRUGATED ON TOP:CHANGES CLRS:GOES ↑+↓:FLASHES:GONE:p309", **LatLong:** "-38.066668 147.100007", **LatLongDMS:** "38:04:00 S 147:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.066668,147.100007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9418 (DF5E4F0E) **Date:** 1/9/1954 **Location:** 100MI NORTHEAST / ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** Flight crew. Object / erratic maneuvers. Can't catch. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3419 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "100mi NE/ADELAIDE,S.AUSTR:FLITE CREW:OBJ/ERRATIC MNVRS:CANT CATCH:type unknown", **LatLong:** "-33.533335 140.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:32:00 S 140:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.533335,140.000007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9419 (11AC33E3) **Date:** 1/9/1954 **Location:** WARRENTON, VA **Description:** Orange night light 10m over treetops. Seems to search / scan area. "Undulates". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3420 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "WARRENTON,VA:ORG NLT 10m ovr TREETOPS:SEEMS to SEARCH/SCAN AREA:"UNDULATES"", **LatLong:** "38.711113 -77.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:42:40 N 77:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.711113,-77.800004)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9420 (FC9CD2F9) **Date:** 1/9/1954 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** Blue-white disk over US101+radio tower. Shoots sparks. Turns red and going quickly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3421 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:BLU-WHT DISK OVR US101+RADIO TOWER:SHOOTS SPARKS:TURNS RED+>>", **LatLong:** "37.750002 -122.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:45:00 N 122:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.750002,-122.416673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9421 (BA15A3EA) **Date:** 1/9/1954 **Location:** Luneville, France **Description:** 6:00 a.m. Three residents of Meurthe-et-Moselle Department claim to have seen a round object flying from North to South (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1617 ### Event 9422 (0F08FAF1) **Date:** 1/9/1954 **Locations:** Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France; College de Lunéville **Description:** Three residents of Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, see a round object flying from north to south. The object flies more slowly than a jet plane and leaves a luminous yellow trail. It flies noiselessly, although it appears to be at a low altitude. Several students of the College de Lunéville also see the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 132](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9jan1954luneville.htm)” December 28, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2350 ### Event 9423 (C11351AA) **Date:** 1/10/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** Planet-like object hovers. Goes going up and down [to], left and right. Point night light orbits 'planet'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3422 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "ADELAIDE,S.AUSTR:PLANETLIKE OBJ HVRS:GOES↑+↓,<+>:POINT NLT ORBITS 'PLANET'", **LatLong:** "-34.950002 138.600007", **LatLongDMS:** "34:57:00 S 138:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.950002,138.600007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9424 (35FEFA10) **Date:** 1/10/1954 **Location:** Sonoita (5 mi N of), AZ **Description:** Brilliant white stationary object, stellar magnitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1618 ### Event 9425 (5981184E) **Date:** 1/10/1954 **Locations:** Hwy 83 north of Sonoita, Arizona; Santa Rita Mountains **Description:** 5:25–5:40 p.m. [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald), two other University of Chicago meteorologists, and another passenger are driving on Hwy 83 north of Sonoita, Arizona, when McDonald spots a brilliant white stationary object in the southwest above the Santa Rita Mountains about 10 miles away. They lose sight of it as the car moves on. McDonald searches carefully for alternate explanations, but can find none, so he reports the sighting to the Air Force in a 4-page letter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 695; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 207 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2351 ### Event 9426 (B4C99AB0) **Date:** 1/11/1954 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** PAINTED DESERT, AZ **Description:** 2 / camp. Rotating object hovers / 20 minute(s). Shines red and green and white. Gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3423 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1620", **HatchDesc:** "PAINTED DESERT,AZ:2/CAMP:ROTATING OBJ HVRS/20min:SHINES RED+GRN+WHT:gone", **LatLong:** "35.500002 -111.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 111:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,-111.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9427 (16470EAF) **Date:** 1/12/1954 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** ST. ARNAUD, CONSTANTINE, ALG **Description:** Huge saucer. Noise. Trails / smoke. Slow and very fast. Back 18 Jan. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3424 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "St ARNAUD,CONSTANTINE,ALG:HUGE SCR:NOISE:TRAILS/SMOKE:SLO+VFAST:BACK 18JAN", **LatLong:** "36.416668 6.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "36:25:00 N 06:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.416668,6.533334)", **State/Prov:** "Constantine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9428 (33694B1A) **Date:** 1/12/1954 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** KWINANA, WEST AUS **Description:** Several / beach. Round silver-blue semi transparent object rises / odd delta/triangle/box-like craft cloud.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 603) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3425 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KWINANA,W.AUS:SVRL/BEACH:RND SLVR-BLUE SEMI XPRNT OBJ RISES/ODD DLT CLOUD..", **LatLong:** "-32.233335 115.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:14:00 S 115:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.233335,115.516672)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9429 (A7C27ED0) **Date:** 1/13/1954 **Location:** West Coast military field **Description:** Mutual Radio broadcaster [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) alleges on his show that the wreckage of a flying saucer is being held in a “West Coast military field.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 330–331 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2352 ### Event 9430 (7A5B6482) **Date:** 1/13/1954 **End date:** 1/16/1954 **Locations:** Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) chairs a conference at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with 4602nd officers Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski and Capt. Bellovin and emphasizes that it is now the agency responsible to ATIC for investigating UFOs. Cybulski says that “We here in Headquarters will keep a complete file on all the sightings. That’s why we want the information copied. We will file them under separate headings, such as the type of personnel involved, military or civilian, or air-lines. We will record it under the type of object it was eventually determined to be.” Capt. Cybulski leaves for Dayton, Ohio, the next day to coordinate activities more closely. He reports that [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is “ready to quit” because he is “ridiculed by members of my profession for chasing these imaginary objects.” But Burgess persuades him to stay. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 3 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl3.htm)”; Brian Skow and Terry Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 9–10; Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski, “How the Air Force Investigated UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 11, 30–32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2353 ### Event 9431 (E0A9D7BB) **Date:** 1/14/1954 **Location:** KELLY AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** RADAR blips 100-6000mph. 3 join and separate. Vanish / planes near and reappear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3426 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "110", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "KELLY AFB,TX:RDR BLIPS 100-6000mph:3 JOIN+SEPARATE:VANISH/PLANES NEAR+REAPPEAR", **LatLong:** "29.350001 -98.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:21:00 N 98:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.350001,-98.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9432 (8A020D3A) **Date:** 1/14/1954 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** LA GUARDIA AIRPORT/APARTMENT, NY **Description:** Several / ground. Fireball drops / low altitude. B47 buzzed / fireball just after. / MJ#249. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3427 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "La GUARDIA Apt,NY:SVRL/GND:FBL DROPS/LO alt:B47 BUZZED/FBL JUST AFTER:/MJ#249", **LatLong:** "40.733335 -73.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:00 N 73:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.733335,-73.950004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9433 (D22FA6CF) **Date:** 1/14/1954 **Location:** Kelly AFB, TX **Description:** (McDonald list) One to three blips on PPI Scope with speeds of 100 to 6,000 mph in 30 mile area. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540114](http://www.nicap.org/540114kellyAFB%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1619 ### Event 9434 (0CB97CCE) **Date:** 1/14/1954 **Location:** New York City, NY **Description:** Passengers saw a fiery object hit the aircraft wing without any damage (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1620 ### Event 9435 (E01C3489) **Date:** 1/15/1954 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** MT. GILLEN, AUS **Description:** Man photographs 30M and saucer. Hovers and speeds going quickly west. 4 separate observer(s) / r106p312+/ r138#1p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3428 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.GILLEN,AUS:MAN FOTOS 30M+SCR:HVRS+SPEEDS >>W:4 SEP.OBS/r106p312+/r138#1p4", **LatLong:** "-23.700001 134.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "23:42:00 S 134:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.700001,134.800006)", **State/Prov:** "Northern Territory", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9436 (4BEB947B) **Date:** 1/15/1954 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** ITANHAEM, SP, BRAZIL **Description:** 1 / beach. DC3 size silent object hovers. Odd unreflective glow. Going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 605) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3429 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ITANHAEM,SP,BRZL:1/BEACH:DC3 SIZE SLNT OBJ HVRS:ODD UNREFLECTIVE GLOW:>W:", **LatLong:** "-24.183334 -46.783336", **LatLongDMS:** "24:11:00 S 46:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.183334,-46.783336)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9437 (8DC2B073) **Date:** 1/15/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MANSFIELD, VCT **Description:** 2 observer(s). 45M x 18M mushroom-saucer with green lights. WHIRRs. Speeds and hovers / 20 mn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3430 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "MANSFIELD,VCT:2 OBS:45M x 18M MUSHROOM-SCR W/GRN.LITES:WHIRRs:SPEEDS+HVRS/20mn", **LatLong:** "-37.050002 146.083340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:00 S 146:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.050002,146.083340)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9438 (C1B873CD) **Date:** 1/15/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ST. KILDA BEACH, VCT **Description:** Ex-RAAF man. 3 large circular night lights going south to Port Ormond. 1 lags behind.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 604) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3431 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.KILDA BEACH,VCT:EX-RAAF MAN:3 LRG CIRC.NLTS >S to PORT ORMOND:1 LAGS BHND..", **LatLong:** "-37.866668 144.966674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:52:00 S 144:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.866668,144.966674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9439 (49A9AA73) **Date:** 1/18/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** SETIF, ALGERIA **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape circles town / high altitude. Leaves (something behind) blue-smoke trail. Going quickly east toward(s) St. Arnaud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3432 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SETIF,ALGERIA:CGR CCLS TOWN/HI ALT:LVS BLU-SMOKE TRAIL:>>E twrd St.ARNAUD", **LatLong:** "35.383335 5.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:23:00 N 05:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.383335,5.316667)", **State/Prov:** "Constantine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9440 (B1A738D8) **Date:** 1/18/1954 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** AWLED DJELLAL, ALGERIA **Description:** Large luminous rectangle-object goes straight east going west / 30 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3433 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "AWLED DJELLAL,ALGERIA:LRG LUM RECTANGLE-OBJ GOES STRAIGHT E>W/30min", **LatLong:** "34.466668 5.033334", **LatLongDMS:** "34:28:00 N 05:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.466668,5.033334)", **State/Prov:** "BSK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9441 (9C32D9BF) **Date:** 1/18/1954 **Location:** Constantine Department, Algeria **Description:** 1:30 p.m. Many persons in Saint Arnaud observed an object leaving a double trail of white smoke, describing an immense circle over the town. Several officers at La Remonte Military base nearby even heard a strange sound made by the object which seemed to have come from the north. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1621 ### Event 9442 (864BC527) **Date:** 1/18/1954 **Locations:** Las Cruces, New Mexico; Kilbourne Hole; Potrillo Volcanic Field; White Sands Proving Grounds **Description:** Cosette Weiss of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is visiting the Kilbourne Hole, a maar volcanic crater in the Potrillo Volcanic Field of southern New Mexico, to collect gemstones with a companion, Mrs. Sanders. They discover 25–30 disc-shaped tracks in the sand. The largest are about 2 feet in diameter, perfectly round, and consist of four concentric rings. They find more fresh tracks on January 22. Sanders reports this to White Sands Proving Grounds. Two Army security agents, Capt. [Ross Orcutt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8773133/ross-dana-orcutt) and CID agent Henry Herman, spend the night of February 6 at the location and report that the tracks are “nothing more than a combination of wind, sand, and roots.” The mystery lights seen in the area by Weiss are labeled “vehicular traffic.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 7, no. 6 \(June 1954\): 109–129; Michael D. Swords, “Fun and Games in the Desert near Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2354 ### Event 9443 (0E1A8F74) **Date:** 1/18/1954 **Locations:** Saint-Arnaud [now El Eulma], Algeria; Bordj de la Remonte fort (southwest of Magra); Oued Hmimim (southeast of Constantine); Sétif; Ouled Djellal (125 miles southwest of Sétif) **Description:** 1:30 p.m. Many people in Saint-Arnaud \[now El Eulma\], Algeria, observe an object that leaves a double trail of white smoke, making an immense circle over the town. Several officers at Bordj de la Remonte fort \(southwest of Magra\) hear the object make a strange sound. It seems to arrive from the north. A meteorological station near Oued Hmimim \(southeast of Constantine\) observes a double trail of smoke at 2:00 p.m., but it concludes that the smoke comes from a plane flying at great altitude. At 2:30 p.m., inhabitants of Sétif see an object arrive from the east, emitting bluish smoke trails and moving relatively slowly. After circling above the town for several seconds, it suddenly heads back in the direction of Saint-Arnaud at great speed. Witnesses describe it as it being cigar-shaped and flying at high altitude. Finally, at 4:45 p.m., a large, luminous, rectangular- shaped object is seen over Ouled Djellal \(125 miles southwest of Sétif\) for over 30 minutes following a rectilinear course. The object comes from the east and disappears toward the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 133](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2355 ### Event 9444 (A5153B5B) **Date:** 1/18/1954 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object circled the town of Setif, Algeria at a high altitude. It left a blue smoke trail as it flew off toward Saint Arnaud in the east, where it was also seen. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History: 1954: January-May, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_364 ### Event 9445 (5CFEA572) **Date:** 1/24/1954 **Location:** Edwards AFB **Description:** Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/1953 rumors of a saucer and its occupant in custody at Edwards AFB. He also records that an “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” will be meeting at Muroc Dry Lake concerning the custody of several beings off a saucer. **Type:** private notes **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_522 **See also:** 11/1953 **See also:** 12/1953 ### Event 9446 (145AA5DC) **Date:** 1/25/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** HOLLYWOOD, CA **Description:** Observer(s) unknown. 200' disk seen over Mulholland drive / several seconds. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3434 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLYWOOD,CA:OBS UNK:200'DISK SEEN OVR MULHOLLAND DRIVE/SVRL SECONDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -118.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 118:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-118.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9447 (3F719D7E) **Date:** 1/25/1954 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** DURHAM, NC **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner crew and 1 / ground. Vibrant bright slow meteor-sphere exits odd cloud. / Jan Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3435 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "119", **HatchDesc:** "DURHAM,NC:AL CREW+1/GND:VBRITE SLOW METEOR-SPHERE EXITS ODD CLOUD:/Jan Aldrich", **LatLong:** "35.994446 -78.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "35:59:40 N 78:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.994446,-78.900004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9448 (D3F6A5DE) **Date:** 1/25/1954 **Description:** The British Air Ministry and the British War Office order airmen and soldiers to tell the public nothing about UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, [p. 318](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersona00wilk/page/317/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2356 ### Event 9449 (FB967C9D) **Date:** 1/25/1954 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A civilian employee and astronomer, [Robert D. Schaldach](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FD.%5FSchaldach) in the Technical Service Unit at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, is setting up his ballistic camera to monitor a missile test. As he looks at the stars to calibrate his instrument, he notices a yellow-white light moving from northeast to southeast in a shallow arc. It pulses in brightness at regular intervals. At the same time, another observer 17 miles to the southeast also sees the object. They perform some triangulation measurements and determine that the object is about 12 miles distant and moving at 12,000 mph. Schaldach says it is not a meteor. Blue Book, no doubt [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) labels it as a meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Fun and Games in the Desert near Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 20–21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2357 ### Event 9450 (2D23C465) **Date:** 1/27/1954 **Location:** FAIRFIELD, CA **Description:** 6 Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Orange saucer / 5K' altitude. Horizontal flight then shoots going up / lost in clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3436 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "FAIRFIELD,CA:6 GOC:ORG SCR/5K'alt:HORIZONTAL FLITE THEN SHOOTS ↑/LOST/CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "38.250002 -122.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:15:00 N 122:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.250002,-122.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9451 (ECFA457C) **Date:** 1/27/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** ALGIERS, ALGERIA **Description:** Several observer(s). Yellow-orange saucer going quickly north / Cape Mantifou until "sinks into sea". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3437 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ALGIERS,ALGERIA:SVRL OBS:YEL-ORG SCR >>N/CAPE MANTIFOU UNTIL "SINKS INTO SEA"", **LatLong:** "36.816668 2.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:00 N 02:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.816668,2.933333)", **State/Prov:** "Alger", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9452 (B12AE93B) **Date:** 1/27/1954 **Locations:** US; Cape Canaveral, Florida **Description:** The US successfully launches a Redstone surface-to-surface missile that flies 55 miles from Cape Canaveral, Florida. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[PGM-11 Redstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-11%5FRedstone)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2358 ### Event 9453 (DD1008EB) **Date:** 1/28/1954 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** COLD BAY, AK **Description:** 9 / C54 crew. Red fireball-night light going up [to] going down [to] 1500'. Stops and paces C54. Drops back and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3438 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "COLD BAY,AK:9/C54 CREW:RED FBL-NLT ↑↓ 1500':STOPS+PACES C54:DROPS BACK+GONE", **LatLong:** "55.200003 -162.700008", **LatLongDMS:** "55:12:00 N 162:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.200003,-162.700008)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9454 (6C9B098A) **Date:** 1/28/1954 **Location:** Cold Bay, AK **Description:** Red Fireball Hovers Near C-54 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540128](http://www.nicap.org/540129coldbay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1622 ### Event 9455 (EFE119EC) **Date:** 1/28/1954 **Location:** Blackstone, VA **Description:** Circular Bright Light Observed by Air & Ground Observers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [540128](http://www.nicap.org/540128blackstone%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1623 ### Event 9456 (E0DE1AF0) **Date:** 1/28/1954 **Time:** 110-10:15 AM **Location:** Rangeley, Maine **Description:** Witness: Wilhelm Reich. Two bright lights moved into valley, and were seen against the mountain background, for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_333 ### Event 9457 (B0CBAEE4) **Date:** 1/28/1954 **Location:** Australia **Description:** Australian Minister for External Affairs [Richard Casey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FCasey%2C%5FBaron%5FCasey) suggests there is a correlation between UFO sightings and “periods of intense meteorite activity.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 374 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2359 ### Event 9458 (5CD8353E) **Date:** 1/29/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** 6MI SOUTH / SANTA ANA, CA **Description:** 60' saucer glows. Going [to] 25' over car. 600mph. Radio and engine electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r138#6p8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3439 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "6mi S/SANTA ANA,CA:60'SCR GLOWS:>25' OVR CAR:600mph:RADIO+ENGINE EME:/r138#6p8", **LatLong:** "33.666668 -117.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:40:00 N 117:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.666668,-117.850006)", **RelAlt:** "8", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9459 (819A26FC) **Date:** 1/29/1954 **Location:** Rangeley, ME **Description:** Two bright lights moved into valley (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1624 ### Event 9460 (6F8B6FF2) **Date:** 1/29/1954 **Location:** Santa Ana (near), CA **Description:** Car radio quit and motor missed as UFO passed low over car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1625 ### Event 9461 (C69C4F53) **Date:** 1/29/1954 **Location:** 6 miles south of Santa Ana, California **Description:** Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Whitaker are driving 6 miles south of Santa Ana, California, when they see a round object emitting a blurry light-blue light moving off a hilly field. It passes over their car at an altitude of 25 feet. The radio goes blank and the motor coughs and continues to act roughly after the UFO had gone. Whitaker estimates it is 60 feet in diameter and traveling at 600 mph. It makes a vertical ascent and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2360 ### Event 9462 (568C0C3A) **Date:** 1/29/1954 **Description:** A married couple was driving six miles south of Santa Ana, California in the afternoon when their car radio quit and the engine missed as a disc-shaped UFO passed low over their car. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_573 ### Event 9463 (8B0726EA) **Date:** 2/1954 **Location:** TODD RIVER DOWNS, AUSTR **Description:** 13M saucer nearly knocks man / horse. Rumble and wind. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3440 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TODD RIVER DOWNS,AUSTR:13M SCR NEARLY KNOCKS MAN/HORSE:RUMBLE+WIND:/FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "-23.633334 134.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "23:38:00 S 134:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.633334,134.000006)", **State/Prov:** "Northern Territory", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9464 (A2022D73) **Date:** 2/1954 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / JAKARTA, INDNS **Description:** Several / military boat. Flat silvery disk hovers. Tilts. Circles. Away / incredibly fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 615) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3441 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "NE/JAKARTA,INDNS:SVRL/MIL.BOAT:FLAT SLVRY DISK HVRS:TILTS:CCLS:AWAY/XXFAST", **LatLong:** "-6.111111 106.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "06:06:40 S 106:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.111111,106.900005)", **State/Prov:** "TMR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9465 (57E890A4) **Date:** 2/1954 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** LOMBEZ, FR **Description:** Separate observer(s). Grey metallic ovoid hovers / bridge. Watches traffic? Going quickly SSE. / r217p235. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3442 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LOMBEZ,FR:SEP.OBS:GRY MTLC OVOID HVRS/BRIDGE:watches traffic?:>>SSE:/r217p235", **LatLong:** "43.477780 0.911111", **LatLongDMS:** "43:28:40 N 00:54:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.477780,0.911111)", **State/Prov:** "Gers", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9466 (A4966A10) **Date:** 2/1954 **Location:** Todd River Downs, Australia **Description:** A native was riding a horse over a low ridge when a spherial object about 13 m in diameter "nearly skittled me off my horse." It went up suddenly with a heavy wind, rumbling and emitting four columns of smoke. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 211 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_124 ### Event 9467 (0AA050C7) **Date:** 2/1954 **Location:** Peakskill, New York **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Forster stated they saw a craft on the ground, with a woman close by. She was wearing luminous clothing, a sort of hood, and thick glasses and held a tube in one hand and a box in the other. Mrs. Forster had to be taken to the hospital in a state of shock. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Barker ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_125 ### Event 9468 (9235CD85) **Date:** 2/1954 **Location:** New York **Description:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York is founded by [Ted Bloecher](http://www.noufors.com/Ted%5FBloecher.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Ted%5FBloecher.htm) Isabel Davis, and [Alexander Mebane](https://rr0.org/people/m/MebaneAlexander/). The group holds regular meetings, sponsors lecturers, and begins publishing a CSI Newsletter in February 1955. It disbands in 1959. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Civilian Saucer Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian%5FSaucer%5FIntelligence)”; [CSI Publication](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2300.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2300.pdf) no. 0 \(April 23, 1954\); Clark III 241 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2361 ### Event 9469 (82AD2DF6) **Date:** 2/1954 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** [Clara John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john) begins publishing The Little Listening Post newsletter in Washington, D.C. It continues through August 1965. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Little Listening Post](http://cufos.org/Little%5FListening%5FPost/LLP%5F1954%5F02-04%5FPreVol.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/Little%5FListening%5FPost/LLP%5F1954%5F02-04%5FPreVol.pdf) February 9, 1954 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2362 ### Event 9470 (A05EDABC) **Date:** 2/1954 **Location:** Peekskill, New York **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Forster of Peekskill, New York, see a UFO on the ground with a woman close by. She holds a tube in one hand and a box in the other, wears luminous clothing and a hood over part of her head. Mrs. Forster has to be taken to the hospital in a state of shock. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dominick C. Lucchesi, “[They Saw a Saucer Woman,](http://cufos.org/Saucerian/1954%5F09%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-2%232%28W%234%29.pdf)” The Saucerian 2, no. 2 \(September 1954\): 12–17; Vallée, Magonia, [p. 205](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/204/mode/2up); Clark III 267 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2363 ### Event 9471 (799B143B) **Date:** 2/1954 **Locations:** Los Angeles, California; El Cajon, California **Description:** Newlyweds [Ernest L. Norman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FL.%5FNorman) and [Ruth E. Norman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%5FNorman) found a contactee group, the Unarius Academy of Science, in Los Angeles, California. Ernest, a spiritualist medium, wants the group to promote the interdimensional science of life expounded in the books he has written, all of them channeled psychically from extraterrestrial intelligences. Both claim impressive credentials from past lives. Ruth styles herself the Archangel Uriel and after the death of Ernest in 1971, she becomes the public face of Unarius. Before her death in 1993, she predicts a mass landing of flying saucers in 2001 on a piece of scrubland near the Unarius headquarters in El Cajon, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Unarius Academy of Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unarius%5FAcademy%5Fof%5FScience)”; Clark III 1186–1187; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [pp. 27–37](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/26/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2364 ### Event 9472 (050D323D) **Date:** 2/1/1954 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** LA PUENTE, CA **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. Classic saucer / 30 second(s). Angel hair sample / jar taken / military intelligence. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DAVID, Jay (ed.): FLYING SAUCERS HAVE ARRIVED: HB World Publ. NY 1970. (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3443 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "LA PUENTE,CA:1/BINOCS:CLASSIC SCR/30 SEC:ANGEL HAIR SAMPLE/JAR TAKEN/MIL INT.", **LatLong:** "34.016668 -117.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:01:00 N 117:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.016668,-117.950006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9473 (EBF05FBD) **Date:** 2/1/1954 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** NEAR TUSCALOOSA, AL **Description:** 2 / plane. 2+6 white objects circle balloon. Going quickly [to] east-northeast. Photographs. / FSRv29#4+r114. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3444 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "69", **HatchDesc:** "nr TUSCALOOSA,AL:2/PLANE:2+6 WHT OBJs CCL BALLOON:>>ENE:FOTOS:/FSRv29#4+r114", **LatLong:** "33.211113 -87.572226", **LatLongDMS:** "33:12:40 N 87:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.211113,-87.572226)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9474 (5E7625F3) **Date:** 2/1/1954 **Location:** Tuscaloosa (35 miles SW of, AL **Description:** Naval Research A/c Encounters 6 Objects Nr Cosmic Ray Balloon (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540201](http://www.nicap.org/540201tuscaloosa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1626 ### Event 9475 (B4C183DC) **Date:** 2/1/1954 **Locations:** La Puente, California; Mount Wilson Observatory **Description:** 10:00 a.m. Mrs. W. J. Daily of La Puente, California, sees a silvery, bright, round object through binoculars. It tilts, revealing a fiery-red bottom. The UFO spins and drifts away with an odd-looking vapor trail. A large amount of cobwebby substance falls on her property. She takes three samples to the Mount Wilson Observatory. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** San Fernando \(Calif.\) Valley Times, February 15, 1954; James C. McNamara, “Angel’s Hair,” Pageant 10 \(November 1954\): 52–56; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 24–25; Story, [p. 19](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/18/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 4–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2365 ### Event 9476 (DB7FB0A8) **Date:** 2/1/1954 **Description:** Two bright white objects approached a cosmic ray research balloon over Tuscaloosa, Alabama at 2:00 p.m. It was witnessed by several scientists from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and one of them named Baumgartner took some photographs. The first two objects were joined by four others. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 152, citing Loren Gross **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_651 ### Event 9477 (68AF69C9) **Date:** 2/2/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** GREENWICH, CT **Description:** 2 scared boys. Classic saucer turns going north and follows river. Glows from inside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3445 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "GREENWICH,CT:2 SCARED BOYS:CLASSIC SCR TURNS >N+FOLOS RIVER:GLOWS fm INSIDE", **LatLong:** "41.027780 -73.627781", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:40 N 73:37:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.027780,-73.627781)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9478 (F5894D1E) **Date:** 2/2/1954 **Description:** At 7:45 p.m. in Greenwich, Connecticut a low-flying luminous disc-shaped object turned north and followed the local river upstream. It glowed from the inside, and scared the two boys named Morrell and Moshier who observed it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_660 ### Event 9479 (134D66E7) **Date:** 2/3/1954 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** DARLINGHURST, NSW **Description:** Ex-RAAF and cop. Flat saucer hovers high near Queen's yacht. Going quickly / blue contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 612) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3446 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DARLINGHURST,NSW:EX-RAAF+COP:FLAT SCR HVRS HI nr QUEEN'S YACHT:>>/BLU CONTRAIL", **LatLong:** "-33.866668 151.216674", **LatLongDMS:** "33:52:00 S 151:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.866668,151.216674)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9480 (704B63EB) **Date:** 2/3/1954 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** NEAR BARQUISIMETO, VNZLA **Description:** All / airliner. Rotating top-saucer. Light streams / portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3447 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "580", **HatchDesc:** "nr BARQUISIMETO,VNZLA:ALL/AIRLINER:ROTATING TOP-SCR:LITE STREAMS/PORTHOLES:", **LatLong:** "10.066667 -69.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:04:00 N 69:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.066667,-69.266670)", **State/Prov:** "LRA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9481 (718A8A56) **Date:** 2/3/1954 **Description:** At 11:15 a.m. a rotating top-shaped object, with beams of light streaming from its portholes, was seen by several on board an airliner flying near Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Radio contact with the control tower was interrupted when the plane's radio operator tried to tell the airport about the UFO. The UFO was green with a red strip in middle, and descended very rapidly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 34; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 65 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_675 ### Event 9482 (2143CD32) **Date:** 2/4/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** CARSWELL AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** 4 Air Traffic Controllers and RADAR and more. Huge silent cylinder/cigar-shape / 4K'. Separate blips part and rejoin. / MJ#250. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 281) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3448 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "191", **HatchDesc:** "CARSWELL AFB,TX:4 ATCs+RDR+:HUGE SLNT CGR/4K':SEP.BLIPS PART+REJOIN:/MJ#250", **LatLong:** "32.766668 -97.427782", **LatLongDMS:** "32:46:00 N 97:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.766668,-97.427782)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9483 (5DDED95F) **Date:** 2/4/1954 **Location:** Ft. Worth (Carswell AFB), TX **Description:** (Shough) Radar/Visual With Two Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540204](http://www.nicap.org/540204carswell%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1627 ### Event 9484 (7DB26A23) **Date:** 2/4/1954 **Locations:** Carswell AFB [now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth]; Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A target is detected by the Carswell AFB \[now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth\] Ground Control Approach radar, near Fort Worth, Texas, at a distance of 13–15 miles to the southwest. A “mystery aircraft” passes over Carswell tower at just over 3,000 feet. Seen through binoculars, the UFO has a long fuselage, elliptical wings, some kind of stabilizer, a bright light on its nose and tail, two yellowish lights on the bottom, and possible lights on each wing tip. It is silent. The report is sent directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, and NSA. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Radar/Visual with Two Radars](http://www.nicap.org/540204carswell%5Fdir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 281–282](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up) [495–496](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/494/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 208 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2366 ### Event 9485 (508C70B2) **Date:** 2/4/1954 **Description:** At 5:29 p.m. four air traffic controllers at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, Texas sighted and tracked on radar a huge cigar-shaped object that flew without making any noise at 4,000 feet altitude. Separate blips on the radar screen parted and rejoined. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 281 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_687 ### Event 9486 (CC8092F4) **Date:** 2/5/1954 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** CUNDERDIN, WEST AUST **Description:** Big flat shiny disk hovers. Going west slow over Major water pipeline. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 615) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3449 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "CUNDERDIN,W.AUST:BIG FLAT SHINY DISK HVRS:>W SLOW ovr MAJOR WATER PIPELINE", **LatLong:** "-31.666668 117.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "31:40:00 S 117:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.666668,117.250006)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9487 (BCC16D3C) **Date:** 2/6/1954 **Location:** Carswell AFB, TX **Description:** CONFIDENTIAL Air Force Staff Message: (DTG 061800Z) From Commander 19, A-Division, Carswell AFB, TX: UFO sighted over base. Had long fuselage, elliptical wings, stabilizer and no visible means of propulsion. It was larger than a B-36, had no tail, left no trail of exhaust and emitted no sound. Passed directly over tower at an Alt. of 3000 to 4000 ft. and was visible to all persons on duty. The UFO, when viewed on 10 mile scope gave a return of 1 inch. Copy of this report sent to: CSAF, WASH DC; COMDR ADC, ENT AFB, COLO; COMDR ATINTEL, CRT WPAFB, OHIO; COMDR 8TH AF, CARSWELL AFB, TEX. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p495) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_523 ### Event 9488 (1C70E9B3) **Date:** 2/11/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MIRAFLORES, PERU **Description:** Many observer(s). Large disk hovers. Vanishes. Plane appears in same spot! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 428) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3450 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "MIRAFLORES,PERU:MANY OBS:LRG DISK HVRS:VANISHES:PLANE APPEARS in same spot!", **LatLong:** "-12.133334 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "12:08:00 S 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.133334,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9489 (28DACD29) **Date:** 2/13/1954 **Locations:** Los Angeles; US **Description:** [Jim G. Lucas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%5FG.%5FLucas) of Scripps-Howard papers reports that representatives of major US airlines will meet in Los Angeles with Military Air Transport Service intelligence officers to discuss speeding up UFO reporting procedures. “Airline pilots are asked not to discuss their sightings publicly or give them to newspapers.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airline](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779227/) [Pilots Sighting](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779227/) [5–10 ‘Saucers’ Nightly,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779340/)” Pittsburgh \(Pa.\) Press, February 13, 1954, pp. 1, 3; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2367 ### Event 9490 (B3C203D3) **Date:** 2/13/1954 **Location:** Las Cruces, New Mexico **Description:** Astronomer [Clyde Tombaugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTombaugh) gives a talk to the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces, New Mexico. He predicts an increase in UFO sightings and tells the audience to keep its eyes open and be ready to report sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 99 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2368 ### Event 9491 (3C20AABB) **Date:** 2/14/1954 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MA **Description:** Saucer rises / field. Chases 3 kids. Windows / edge. Going [to] between houses then quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3451 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MA:SCR RISES/FIELD:CHASES 3 KIDS:WINDOWS/EDGE:> BTWN HOUSES then ↑↑", **LatLong:** "42.700002 -72.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:42:00 N 72:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.700002,-72.616670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9492 (A9910EB1) **Date:** 2/15/1954 **Location:** Coniston, England **Description:** Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston, England. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_131 **Attributes:** ufo photo ### Event 9493 (385B975B) **Date:** 2/15/1954 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** CONISTON, LANCS **Description:** 2 lads photograph fuzzy domed-saucer. Going north. 1 observer adamant / 1991. / r90p1+/ VJBO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3452 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "1", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "CONISTON,Lancs:2 LADS FOTO FUZZY DOMED-SCR:>N:1 OBS adamant/1991:/r90p1+/VJBO", **LatLong:** "54.372225 -3.072222", **LatLongDMS:** "54:22:20 N 03:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.372225,-3.072222)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9494 (41AFE635) **Date:** 2/15/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** AUCKLAND, NZ **Description:** All in a dither. 9-12 saucers fly over city in broad daylight. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3453 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "AUCKLAND,NZ:ALL IN A DITHER:9-12 SCRS FLY OVR CITY IN BROAD DAYLITE:NFD", **LatLong:** "-36.883335 174.733342", **LatLongDMS:** "36:53:00 S 174:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.883335,174.733342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9495 (E054DEC6) **Date:** 2/15/1954 **Location:** Savannah River AEC (near), SC **Description:** Radar tracked high speed unidentified target the size of 2 normal aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [540215](http://www.nicap.org/540215savannah%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1628 ### Event 9496 (2D1396AD) **Date:** 2/15/1954 **Location:** America **Description:** American syndicated columnist [Dorothy Kilgallen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%5FKilgallen) writes: “Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of world military heads next summer.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dorothy Kilgallen, [“Voice of Broadway” column,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779981/) Dover \(Ohio\) Daily Reporter, February 15, 1954, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2369 ### Event 9497 (88F0A0B9) **Date:** 2/15/1954 **Locations:** US; Soviet Union **Description:** Aviation Week publishes an article describing new Soviet jet bombers capable of carrying a nuclear bomb to the US. The aircraft is the Myasishchev M-4 Bison. The rumors are soon debated publicly in the press and Congress. The Air Force begins promoting its unfounded myth of a bomber gap, in which the Soviet Union has 500 bombers capable of delivering nuclear weapons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Myasishchev M-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasishchev%5FM-4)”; David A. Anderton, “[Pictures Reveal Reds’ New ‘Sunday Punch,’](https://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19540215)” Aviation Week, February 15, 1954, pp. 12–13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2370 ### Event 9498 (8B123DD8) **Date:** 2/15/1954 **Locations:** Old Man of Coniston; Lake District, England; Dow Crag; US **Description:** Morning. [Stephen Darbishire](https://www.beckstonesartgallery.co.uk/index.php/artists/stephen-darbishire.html), 13, and his cousin Adrian Meyer, 8, set off for an expedition to the Old Man of Coniston, a fell in the Lake District, England, armed with a Kodak box camera. Meyer notices an object above Dow Crag with a silvery, glassy appearance, shining like aluminum. It glides toward them and approaches within 400 yards, travelling at tremendous speed, and then stops suddenly and hovers noiselessly, in the sky. Darbishire takes two photos, which resemble those of scoutships taken by [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) in the US. A probable hoax, although Darbishire still refuses to say anything explicit about the photos, which no longer exist. \(Clark III 42; Leonard G. Cramp, Space, Gravity, and the Flying Saucer, British Book Centre, 1955; Good Above, [p. 377](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/376/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “[UFO Hoaxing and the Story of Stephen Darbishire,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/12/darbishire.html)” Magonia, no. 75 **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** July 2001 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2371 ### Event 9499 (A521F6DB) **Date:** 2/17/1954 **Locations:** Roosevelt Hotel; Los Angeles, California **Description:** Commercial airline representatives meet with Military Air Transport Service officers at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and are told that pilots are subject to JANAP 146 \(CIRVIS\) and must radio reports to the nearest airport and make no public statements or face a prison term of 10 years and/or a fine of $10,000. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 146](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up) [283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2372 ### Event 9500 (A3C79E4D) **Date:** 2/18/1954 **Description:** Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from Mars and saucer. **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_130 ### Event 9501 (0E8E57D2) **Date:** 2/18/1954 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** ALICE SPRINGS, NT, AUSTR **Description:** Strange object roars overhead. "Not known air traffic" / Air Traffic Controllers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3454 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALICE SPRINGS,NT,AUSTR:STRANGE OBJ ROARS OVHD:"NOT KNOWN AIR TRAFFIC"/ATCs", **LatLong:** "-23.616668 133.933340", **LatLongDMS:** "23:37:00 S 133:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.616668,133.933340)", **State/Prov:** "NT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9502 (42D78F9D) **Date:** 2/18/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Amateur astronomer. Huge elliptical cylinder/cylindrical object going west then instantly going quickly north. 1200MPH. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3455 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:AM.ASTRONOMER:HUGE ELLIPTICAL CYL>W THEN INSTANTLY>>N:1200MPH", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -118.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 118:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-118.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9503 (BE6A1685) **Date:** 2/18/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** VAN NUYS, CA **Description:** Former Air Force pilot and 4. Silent saucer / impossible maneuvers. Going quickly west. 2nd saucer circles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3456 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "VAN NUYS,CA:FORMER AF PILOT+4:SILENT SCR/IMPOSSIBLE MNVRS:>>W:2nd SCR CRCLS", **LatLong:** "34.183335 -118.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:00 N 118:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.183335,-118.433339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9504 (6F2399E7) **Date:** 2/18/1954 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. while walking along the coast near Lossiemouth, Scotland UFO contactee Cedric Allingham heard a swishing sound and looked up. He saw a flying saucer that through binoculars looked only slightly different from the one reported by UFO contactee George Adamski. Three hours later he heard and saw it again as it came in for a landing only 50 yards away. "The whole metallic body seemed to glow faintly," but was not translucent. The disc was 50 feet wide and 20 feet high and looked like polished aluminum. A six-foot-tall man with a deep tan and a high forehead got out. His garment covered him from the neck down and he wore no shoes. In each nostril was a tiny tube. When Allingham drew a sketch of planetary orbits, he nodded when Mars was pointed out, and repeated "Mars." In further exchanges he verified Allingham's suggestions that the Martian canals consisted of a central string of water surrounded by vegetation. Allingham touched and photographed the saucer and also photographed the pilot, from a side rear angle. These photos are reproduced in his book. A slight humming sound marked the take off of the saucer. The interview had lasted ½ hour. Allingham's contact claims are regarded with extreme skepticism by most UFO investigators. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-03, citing Cedric Allingham, Flying Saucers From Mars **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_977 ### Event 9505 (E8C9FC9B) **Date:** 2/18/1954 **Description:** On the same day as Cedric Allingham alleged UFO contact UFO sightings were reported in southern California. In Los Angeles an astronomer reported sighting a huge ellipsoidal object that was first seen flying toward the west, but made an instant turn to the north at an estimated speed of 1200 mph. At the same time a retired U.S. Air Force pilot sighted a flying disc in Van Nuys that made incredible maneuvers but no sound. It flew off toward the west as a second disc circled. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1954: January-May, p. 39; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3288 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_978 ### Event 9506 (B14E2CE3) **Date:** 2/19/1954 (approximate) **Location:** Rome **Description:** Around the year 2000, Cristoforo Barbato, editor of *Stargate Magazine*, received many e-mails from a person who qualified himself as a Vatican insider. From those e-mails rose up the story of a presumed Vatican Intelligence Agency named S.I.V.: "Servizio Informazioni del Vaticano" After one year of such contacts, where he revealed to him that he was a S.I.V. member from the Jesuit order working in structures of the Holy See, they finally met in a public place in Rome. According to this person, the reason to establish the S.I.V. was the meeting with an Alien delegation at [Muroc Air Field (Edwards AFB)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base) in February 1954, in presence of president Dwight Eisenhower and [James Francis McIntyre, bishop of Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_McIntyre). After that incredible event, McIntyre flew to Rome to refer everything to [Pope Pius XII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII), who decided to found the S.I.V with the aim to get every possible information about Aliens and how they interacted with the American government. From then on Bishop McIntyre and Detroit [Archbishop Edward Mooney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Aloysius_Mooney) became the main information co-ordinators between the USA and the Vatican State. **Type:** intelligence agency formation **Reference:** [Usenet: "Conspiracy Journal", Cristoforo Barbato, 12/23/2005](https://groups.google.com/g/ccoonnssppiirraacciieess/c/BpAcpptWfLQ/m/PzqjunEwTaIJ) **Reference:** [archive.org - "The Vatican UFOs & Secretum Omega", Cristoforo Barbato](https://web.archive.org/web/20060501095316/https://uforeview.tripod.com/conspiracyjournal345.html) **Reference:** [www.bibliotecapleyades.net: Vatican and UFO - Secretum Omega](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_secretumomega01.htm) **Reference:** ["SECRETUM OMEGA - A Jesuit Confesses a Pact Between Aliens and the Vatican"](https://thechurchandtheextraterrestrials.wordpress.com/2018/09/01/secretum-omega-a-jesuit-confesses-a-pact-between-aliens-and-the-vatican/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_924 ### Event 9507 (F99788BE) **Date:** 2/19/1954 **Description:** CIA agent [Morris “Morse” Allen](http://visupview.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-office-of-security-tale-of-sex%5F86.html) simulates the ultimate experiment in hypnosis: the creation of a “Manchurian Candidate,” or programmed assassin. Allen’s victim is a secretary whom he puts into a deep trance and tells to keep sleeping until he orders otherwise. He then hypnotizes a second secretary and tells her that if she cannot wake up her friend, “her rage would be so great that she would not hesitate to ‘kill.’” Allen leaves a pistol nearby, which the secretary has no way of knowing is unloaded. Even though she has earlier expressed a fear of firearms of any kind, she picks up the gun and pulls the trigger on her sleeping friend. After Allen brings the “killer” out of her trance, she has apparent amnesia for the event, denying she could ever shoot anyone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John D. Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control, Times Books, 1978, [pp. 182–](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john/page/182/mode/2up) [186](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john/page/182/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2373 ### Event 9508 (7C498DA6) **Date:** 2/20/1954 **Location:** Edwards AFB, CA **Description:** Rumors of President Eisenhower disappearing from reporters at Palm Springs for a secret meeting at Edwards AFB to captured saucers and perhaps have a meeting. One reporter issues and then immediately retracts a wire story that the President was dead. Dentist visit a cover story. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [book link](https://www.amazon.com/President-Eisenhowers-Close-Encounters-Blake-ebook/dp/B08KFM46H3) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_524 **See also:** 4/2/1954 ### Event 9509 (9E2DB84E) **Date:** 2/20/1954 **End date:** 2/21/1954 **Locations:** Smoke Tree Ranch; Palm Springs, California; Edwards Air Force Base; Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is on a golf vacation at Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs, California, when he breaks the porcelain cap of his “upper left central incisor” and has it repaired by Dr. [Francis A. Purcell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25177579/francis-andrew-purcell). However, the incident is not reported in the press, and rumors start buzzing that he made a secret trip to Edwards Air Force Base to view the remains of aliens who had crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Later stories claim he actually visited with live aliens and conducted a treaty with them. The lack of any dental record from Purcell’s office has fueled the rumors, but Ike’s dental history is thoroughly covered in the November 1995 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Dentistry. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Object’ Studied at Edwards Air Base as ‘Brass Curtain’ Falls around](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%5Fv1%5Fn09%2Bn10%5F1955%5FAug%2BSept.pdf) [Saucer Data,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%5Fv1%5Fn09%2Bn10%5F1955%5FAug%2BSept.pdf)” Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin 1, no. 9 \(August 20, 1955\): 3; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 45–48](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/44/mode/2up); Riley Crabb, Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes, The Author, 1959; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 4–10; Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 18, 24; James M. Mixson, “[A History of](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9482088/) [Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Oral Health,](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9482088/)” Journal of the History of Dentistry 43, no. 3 \(November 1995\): 93–103; Good Need, [pp. 208–209](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/208/mode/2up); Juan A. Lorenzo Rivas, “[President Eisenhower’s ‘E.T.’ Encounter: What](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf) [Really](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf) [Happened at Muroc Base?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 \(Autumn 1999\): 2–6; Gordon Creighton, “[More on](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf) [the ‘Muroc’ Story,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 \(Autumn 1999\): 6–10; Michael E. Salla, “Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting with Extraterrestrials: The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?” Research Study No. 8, Exopolitics, February 12, 2004; Peter Carlson, “[Ike and the Alien Ambassadors,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/02/19/ike-and-the-alien-ambassadors/4698e544-1dc8-4573-8b8d-2b48d2a6305e/)” Washington Post, February 19, 2004; John Joyce, “[Ike’s Space Alien Encounter,](https://www.nps.gov/eise/learn/news/ike-blog-nov-dec-2011.htm)” The Ike Blog, November 10, 2011; Clark III 330–331 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2374 ### Event 9510 (FF58BA4D) **Date:** 2/21/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** ROCKFORD, IL **Description:** CAA Air Traffic Controller. Saucer flashes / high altitude going west. 0230h same circles at freeport / cops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3457 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKFORD,IL:CAA ATC:SCR FLASHES/HI ALT >W::0230h SAME CIRCLES at FREEPORT/COPS", **LatLong:** "42.266669 -89.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:00 N 89:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.266669,-89.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9511 (9D37500D) **Date:** 2/22/1954 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Lecturer and engineer Norman S. Bean states that saucers are already in “captivity”, one saucer was or still is in Dayton OH, military is investigating the saucer, saucer people look like humans, after the British atomic bomb tests in Australia saucer reports took off there, claimed Air Force permission to talk. **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_525 ### Event 9512 (92E99D22) **Date:** 2/22/1954 **Time:** ~02:00 **Location:** YORK, PA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observers. 14 disks going quickly [to] steamship in formation. 15K' altitude. Objects quickly going up [to] very fast as jets scramble. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3458 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "YORK,PA:GOC OBSs:14 DISKS >>SS/FORMn:15K'alt:OBJs ↑↑ VFAST AS JETS SCRAMBLE", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -76.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 76:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-76.733337)", **RelAlt:** "4570", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9513 (93E675CE) **Date:** 2/22/1954 **Location:** York, PA **Description:** Observers saw 14 discs climb when the fighters approached (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1629 ### Event 9514 (BB103869) **Date:** 2/23/1954 **Location:** US **Description:** Scripps-Howard papers said the Air Force had worked out a plan with commercial airline companies to report sightings quickly. **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_879 ### Event 9515 (4E212FB0) **Date:** 2/23/1954 **Location:** Los Angeles, California **Description:** Scripps-Howard papers report that the “nation’s 8,500 commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of unusual objects while flying at night, here and overseas.” They confirm that plans for a detailed reporting system were agreed upon at the February 17 meeting in Los Angeles, California, so that the Air Force can investigate quickly. Each airline is to have an “internal security specialist” as a liaison with the military. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucers](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93785307/) [Reports System to Be Organized,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93785307/)” Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Tribune, February 23, 1954, p. 10; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2375 ### Event 9516 (F57BCA7F) **Date:** 2/26/1954 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** ALLIANCE, OH **Description:** Astronomer / space scientist/science and 1. UFO zips. Stops dead. Reverses direction. Jet sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DAVID, Jay (ed.): FLYING SAUCERS HAVE ARRIVED: HB World Publ. NY 1970. (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3459 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "358", **HatchDesc:** "ALLIANCE,OH:ASTRONOMER/SPACE SCI+1:UFO ZIPS:STOPS DEAD:REVERSES DIR:JET SOUND", **LatLong:** "40.916669 -81.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 81:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,-81.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9517 (E693F56B) **Date:** 2/26/1954 **Location:** Newburyport, MA **Description:** Silver disc, with a white trail make a loud roar (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2913) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1630 ### Event 9518 (5B1B7144) **Date:** 2/26/1954 **Time:** 2:30 PM **Location:** Newburyport, Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses: architect R.M. Pierce, marine engineer George Avery and one other person. One silver disc, with a white trail, made a loud roar for 30-60 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_334 ### Event 9519 (9D342FC0) **Date:** 2/26/1954 **Description:** Architect R.M. Pierce, Marine Engineer George Avery and one other witness sighted a silver flying disc at 2:30 p.m. in Newburyport, Massachusetts. It had a white trail and made a loud roaring noise for 30-60 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1127 ### Event 9520 (BA99DF36) **Date:** 2/27/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** HILLSBORO, OR **Description:** 6 birdlike UFO's fly into and out of clouds. Then fly going west. "Not birds". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3460 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "46", **HatchDesc:** "HILLSBORO,OR:6 BIRDLIKE UFOS FLY INTO+OUT OF CLOUDS:THEN FLY>W:"NOT BIRDS"", **LatLong:** "45.522224 -122.988895", **LatLongDMS:** "45:31:20 N 122:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.522224,-122.988895)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9521 (4CBAC5D8) **Date:** 2/28/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** MONTEVIDEO, URG **Description:** Many / beach and airport/apartment Air Traffic Controllers. Metal saucer offloads smaller object. All going north. / r138#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3461 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEVIDEO,URG:MANY/BEACH+Apt.ATCs:MTL SCR OFFLOADS SMALLER OBJ:ALL >N:/r138#6", **LatLong:** "-34.850002 -56.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "34:51:00 S 56:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.850002,-56.166669)", **State/Prov:** "MON", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9522 (E95F92FF) **Date:** 2/28/1954 **Time:** 18:45:00.0 **Location:** 11.6908 165.2736 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Bravo” Yield: 15000KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_45 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6908 165.2736", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:27 N 165:16:25 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6908,165.2736)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Bravo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "15000" ### Event 9523 (A2098146) **Date:** 3/1954 **Location:** Fresno, CA **Description:** Sec. of Air Force Talbott's aircraft paced by UFO over Fresno, CA **Type:** ufo encounter **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_132 ### Event 9524 (12E5A4B6) **Date:** 3/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SANTA MARIA, BRZ **Description:** 2 pseudo-human/entity / saucer take grass. "Need some ammonia". Contactee repeater.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3462 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "141", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA MARIA,BRZ:2 PSH/SCR TAKE GRASS:"NEED SOME AMMONIA":contactee repeater..", **LatLong:** "-29.683335 -53.783336", **LatLongDMS:** "29:41:00 S 53:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.683335,-53.783336)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 9525 (9CFA1A29) **Date:** 3/1954 **Location:** Rouen, France **Description:** Disc-shaped UFO photographed. (UFOE) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1631 ### Event 9526 (096E5348) **Date:** 3/1954 **Time:** 1700 **Location:** Santa Maria, Brazil **Description:** Rubem Hellwig was driving when he saw a football-shaped machine, the size of a Volkswagen, on the ground. He walked toward it and met two men of slim build, normal height, their faces brownish, wearing no helmets. One was inside the object while the other collected grass samples. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, and yet he said he understood they were asking for ammonia. He directed them to a nearby town. The craft vanished silently and instantly with blue and yellow flames. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 1; Humanoids 33 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_126 ### Event 9527 (B0A00203) **Date:** 3/1954 **Time:** early **Location:** Santa Maria, Brazil **Description:** Rubem Hellwig again saw a strange machine the next day. He observed a tall, faircomplexioned man and two women, who had light brown skin, long black hair, dark, slanted eyes. All three wore one-piece garments of a fabric resembling suede, with zippers. They told Hellwig that they were scientists, spoke of the natural riches of Brazil, and expressed surprise that he did not run away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 1; Humanoids 33 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_127 ### Event 9528 (B03E5B37) **Date:** 3/1954? **Location:** 100 miles south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory **Description:** Two Native Australians, employees of Arthur Pope, see a UFO at close range 100 miles south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. One named Sonny is riding up over a ridge when a spherical object flies directly toward him then veers away. Sonny feels a heavy wind when the UFO passes. Others see the object, which has a glassy appearance, with four trails of smoke coming from each side. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, April 2, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “[Alice Springs: 1954 Encounter,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/alice-springs-1954-encounter.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, February 7, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2376 ### Event 9529 (93D90EF3) **Date:** 3/1954 **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas B. Eickhoff informs [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that Flying Saucers from Outer Space was “not submitted to the air force for authentication prior to publication,” although it contains official UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 108 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2377 ### Event 9530 (E4B5D885) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Location:** Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands **Description:** "Castle Bravo" hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the United States at 15mt. **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_526 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic MT:** 15 ### Event 9531 (FE02587D) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Time:** 06:40 **Location:** BIKINI ATOLL **Description:** Castle-bravo H-bomb test. Much stronger than expected. Many observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: McCAMPBELL, James M.: Personal meetings/interviews. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3463 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "15", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BIKINI ATOLL:CASTLE-BRAVO H-BOMB TEST:much stronger than expected:many obs", **LatLong:** "11.583334 165.333341", **LatLongDMS:** "11:35:00 N 165:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.583334,165.333341)", **State/Prov:** "MRS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9532 (4E7D90DE) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Location:** Montevideo, Uruguay **Description:** Time not given. Numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo observed a "flying saucer," a sort of metallic disk emitting yellowish reflections (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1632 ### Event 9533 (C9375652) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Locations:** Castle Bravo; Bikini Atoll; Marshall Islands; Rongelap; Utirik; Daigo Fukuryū Maru **Description:** 6:45 a.m. Castle Bravo is the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the US and its first lithium deuteride–fueled thermonuclear weapon. The test’s yield is 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons \(due to unforeseen additional reactions involving lithium-7\), which leads to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. At the time, it is the most powerful artificial explosion in history. Fallout, the heaviest of which in the form of pulverized surface coral from the detonation, falls on residents of Rongelap and Utirik atolls, while the more particulate and gaseous fallout spreads around the world. The inhabitants of the islands are not evacuated until three days later and suffer radiation sickness. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel [Daigo Fukuryū Maru](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo%5FFukury%C5%AB%5FMaru) are also contaminated by the heavy fallout, experiencing acute radiation syndrome. The blast incites international reaction over atmospheric thermonuclear testing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Castle Bravo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%5FBravo)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2378 ### Event 9534 (7E96F722) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Locations:** Morning; Bikini Atoll **Description:** Morning. Airborne Radar Operator W/O [Olin H. Hasty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92487387/olin-hallman-hasty) is aboard an RB-36 controller aircraft monitoring the Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll. Shortly after the detonation, the RB-36 is flying at 40,000 feet and Hasty picks up two or three unidentified targets operating above 60,000 feet. From the cockpit the pilot and copilot can see the objects, which are flying in holding patterns above the area of the blast. Task force headquarters advises them that the objects are Canberra aircraft flown by the Royal Australian Air Force on air-sampling missions. However, there is only one British Canberra in the area at the time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 110–113 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2379 ### Event 9535 (81D8EDA0) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Description:** An article in American Aviation planted by the Air Force attributes the latest wave of sightings to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s 1953 book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Saucers Again,” American Aviation 17 \(March 1, 1954\): 3; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 104; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 49 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2380 ### Event 9536 (EEC1B488) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Locations:** Montevideo, Uruguay; Beaches near Montevideo, Uruguay **Description:** Numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo, Uruguay, observe a metallic disc emitting yellowish reflections. It remains stationary for 2 minutes at an altitude of several thousand feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 133](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Lorenzen, The Whole Story, Signet, 1969; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2381 ### Event 9537 (1CE1AF59) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Locations:** Carrasco International Airport; Montevideo, Uruguay **Description:** 2:30 p.m. Employees at Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay, watch a strange oval object above the northeast horizon. It changes shape and ejects a smaller body that moves below and behind. An operator named de Rizzardo in the control tower sees an oval object with protuberances, accompanied by a pair of smaller bodies. Chief Controller Pedro V. Ocamp is still fumbling with binoculars as the objects speed away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2382 ### Event 9538 (52DA4B36) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Description:** The Castle-Bravo H-Bomb test occurred this day at 6:40 a.m. on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The explosion and energy release was much stronger than expected. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors and led to the most significant accidental radiological contamination ever caused by the United States. Radioactive fallout from the detonation—intended to be a secret test—poisoned some of the Bikini islanders on their return, as well as the crew of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5"), a Japanese fishing boat, and created an international incident nearly severing diplomatic relations with Japan. The irony of the name "Lucky Dragon" of the fishing boat was not lost on any of the newspapers reporting the incident at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database; Gerard DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1198 ### Event 9539 (D2ED12B2) **Date:** 3/1/1954 **Description:** Three daylight discs were spotted over Carrasco Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay at 2:30 p.m. They were swinging back and forth in a falling leaf motion. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 55; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1199 ### Event 9540 (A47BD399) **Date:** 3/2/1954 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SOUTH / KATTERBACH, GERM **Description:** 3 observer(s). Small white disk hovers. Curves up fast as US military plane nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 620) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3464 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "S/KATTERBACH,GERM:3 OBS:SML WHT DISK HVRS:CURVES UP FAST as US MIL PLANE NEARS", **LatLong:** "49.300002 10.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:18:00 N 10:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.300002,10.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9541 (71882F16) **Date:** 3/2/1954 **Location:** Harrisburg (near), PA **Description:** Saw 3 objects, each with two lights, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2923) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1633 ### Event 9542 (709D61B0) **Date:** 3/2/1954 **Time:** 10 PM **Location:** vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: research engineer R.C. Swengel. Three objects, each with two lights, flew straight and level at medium speed for an unknown length of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_335 ### Event 9543 (205CFEA4) **Date:** 3/5/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** ROUEN, FR **Description:** Fighter pilot photos saucer identical to McMinnville, or craft / 1950. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-HERE AND NOW; 1967 Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1968. (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3465 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROUEN,FR:FIGHTER PILOT PHOTOS SCR IDENTICAL TO McMINNVILLE,OR CRAFT/1950", **LatLong:** "49.416669 1.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:25:00 N 01:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.416669,1.083333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9544 (60617AEF) **Date:** 3/5/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NOUASSEUR, FR. MAROC **Description:** Several USAF KC97 tankers. 2 night lights maneuver. 1 passes plane. 1 quickly going up / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3466 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NOUASSEUR,FR.MAROC:SVRL USAF KC97 TANKERS:2 NLTS MNVR:1 PASSES PLANE:1↑↑/r150", **LatLong:** "33.500002 -7.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "33:30:00 N 07:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.500002,-7.166667)", **State/Prov:** "SAH", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9545 (235C543A) **Date:** 3/5/1954 **Location:** Nouasseur, Fr. Morocco **Description:** Aircraft (2) Encounter Lights On Collision Course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2926) **Reference:** NICAP: [540305](http://www.nicap.org/540305frenchmorocco%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1634 ### Event 9546 (27A3CF20) **Date:** 3/5/1954 **Time:** 8 PM **Location:** Nouasseur, French Morocco **Description:** Witnesses: crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes. One object or light made passes at KC-97s, the other flew straight and level. Sighting duration unknown. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_336 ### Event 9547 (D9A16C66) **Date:** 3/5/1954 **Locations:** Nouasseur Air Base; Casablanca, Morocco **Description:** Evening. At Nouasseur Air Base \[now closed\] near Casablanca, Morocco, crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes and a C-54 transport see one or two white or amber objects or lights make passes at the aircraft on collision courses as they practice ground-controlled approach landings. At 7:15 p.m., KC-97 pilots Capt. G. E. Brown, 1st Lt. L. B. Gordon, and 1st Lt. J. P. Glover, 301st Air Refueling Squadron, 301st Bomb Wing, while flying a KC-97 to a practice landing at 1,500 feet about 5-8 miles southwest of the base, see two white lights to the right on an apparent collision course. The KC-97 takes evasive action. Later \[at 8:20 p.m.? 9:20 p.m.?\], after landing and takeoff, they see the same or similar two white lights on the same course from the south on a collision course and they made an evasive 360° turn. At 7:38 p.m., pilots Capt. Robert R. Zadnick, Lt. Paul R. Fisher, and Lt. George A. Kerr flying another KC-97 at 1,500 feet about 5 miles southwest of Nouasseur base see a light at about the same altitude and to the left, apparently headed west on a collision course. As it crosses, they see 2 lights like jets but with no aircraft running lights. One light passes over and one under the KC-97. At 9:55 p.m., senior pilot Capt. [William M. Pond](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87659448/william-martin-pond)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87659448/william-martin-pond) copilot Lt. I. W. Gilchrist, and navigator Capt. James F. Pullen, while flying a C-54 at 2,000 feet at Nouasseur base see a white or amber light like an aircraft landing light at about the same altitude approaching on a collision course heading west 2–3 miles away. It then turns onto a direct head-on course, passing within 2 miles, then suddenly disappears like turning off a light. It then reappears 10–15 seconds later, hovers, descends to the ground, then rises and disappears behind the C-54 after completing its turn onto final landing approach. No radar or other visual contact is made. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Aircraft \(2\) Encounter Lights on Collision](http://www.nicap.org/540305frenchmorocco%5Fdir.htm) [Course](http://www.nicap.org/540305frenchmorocco%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 210 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2383 ### Event 9548 (FAFF04EE) **Date:** 3/5/1954 **Locations:** Rouen, France; McMinnville, Oregon **Description:** A photo supposedly taken near Rouen, France, by a fighter pilot is actually a retouched photo showing the 1950 McMinnville, Oregon, UFO photo taken by [Paul Trent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[RAF Flying Review Photo](http://www.nicap.org/france57rep.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2384 ### Event 9549 (DF675C71) **Date:** 3/6/1954 **Location:** HOLLYWOOD, CA **Description:** Newsman. 3 luminous saucers hover / tilted attitude. 2 shoot going up [to] going quickly northwest. 3rd folos. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3467 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLYWOOD,CA:NEWSMAN:3 LUM.SCRS HVR/TILTED ATTITUDE:2 SHOOT ↑>>NW:3rd FOLOS.", **LatLong:** "34.100002 -118.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:06:00 N 118:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.100002,-118.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9550 (88CEF57B) **Date:** 3/6/1954 **Description:** On this night in Hollywood, California three luminous discs hovered at a tilted angle. Two shot away toward the northwest and a short time later the third followed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 49 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1328 ### Event 9551 (5F963AA5) **Date:** 3/8/1954 **Location:** LAREDO, TX **Description:** 20+observer(s). Disk going east over Air Force Base. Tilts vertical and shoots straight up. / r138#1p52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3468 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "LAREDO,TX:20+OBS:DISK >E OVR AFB:TILTS VERTICAL+SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP:/r138#1p52", **LatLong:** "27.527779 -99.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "27:31:40 N 99:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.527779,-99.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9552 (ACA26E22) **Date:** 3/8/1954 **Locations:** Laredo AFB [now Laredo International Airport], Texas; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** 11:07 p.m. A red disc-shaped UFO flies over Laredo AFB \[now Laredo International Airport\], Texas. It tilts to a vertical orientation and then shoots straight up into the sky. It is reported by a pilot. Ten to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent formation—possibly a single crescent-shaped object—fly over San Antonio, Texas. They make no sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 110 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2385 ### Event 9553 (A168FA2F) **Date:** 3/8/1954 **Description:** A red disc-shaped UFO flew over the Laredo Air Force Base in Laredo, Texas on this day. It tilted to a vertical orientation and then shot straight up into the sky. It was reported by a pilot at the base. At 11:07 p.m. ten to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent formation--possibly a single crescent-shaped object--flew over San Antonio, Texas. It made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, May 1954; Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 110 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1376 ### Event 9554 (DCC58635) **Date:** 3/9/1954 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** 10-20 night lights / crescent form. Single structure? Glows. Silent. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3469 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:10-20 NLTS/CRESCENT FORM:SINGLE STRUCTURE?:GLOWS:SILENT:>>S", **LatLong:** "29.416668 -98.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:25:00 N 98:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.416668,-98.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9555 (EA93CCB1) **Date:** 3/9/1954 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Pilot / car. Dark ovoid / blue glowing stops over GE plant / 4 minute(s). Going quickly east and going up [to] and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3470 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "206", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:PILOT/CAR:DARK OVOID/BLU GLO STOPS ovr GE PLANT/4min:>>E+↑+GONE", **LatLong:** "39.133335 -84.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:00 N 84:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.133335,-84.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9556 (F80A0990) **Date:** 3/9/1954 **Location:** Cincinnati, OH **Description:** Pulsating bluish-white luminous halo surrounding a dark ellipsoidal object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540309](http://www.nicap.org/540309cincindir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1635 ### Event 9557 (9154CDC6) **Date:** 3/9/1954 **Description:** Mr. J. Stewart, a pilot driving in his car, observed a dark ovoid UFO with a blue glow that stopped and hovered over the Cincinnati GE plant in Hamilton County, Ohio for four minutes before flying off toward the east at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, April 1954, p. 4; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 37 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1390 ### Event 9558 (4F2D0CE0) **Date:** 3/10/1954 **Description:** JANAP 146 \(C\), “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft and Waterborne Sources.” This directive allows waterborne sources for CIRVIS and adds MERINT reports. Civilian pilots must also report UFOs to the Air Force and refrain from talking about it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Communications–Electronics Committee, “[JANAP 146\(C\) Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/janp146c.htm) [Intelligence Sightings from Airborne and Waterborne Sources,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/janp146c.htm)” March 10, 1954; Good Above, [p. 283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up); Antonio F. Rullán, “[Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf)” December 10, 2002 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2386 ### Event 9559 (80AA14D3) **Date:** 3/10/1954 **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) founds Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects \(CRIFO\) in Cincinnati, Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2387 ### Event 9560 (0BE06CE6) **Date:** 3/11/1954 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers. **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_527 ### Event 9561 (D97475D0) **Date:** 3/11/1954 **End date:** 3/12/1954 **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA **Description:** (McDonald list) Anti-Aircraft Units Track Objects For Over 6 Hours (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540311-12](http://www.nicap.org/540311pittsburgh%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1636 ### Event 9562 (32E4F350) **Date:** 3/12/1954 **Time:** 09:40 **Location:** NEAR NOUASSEUR AB, MAROC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2937. F86 can't catch UFO / going quickly north 530mph. Loses it. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3471 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr NOUASSEUR AB,MAROC:BBK#2937:F86 CANT CATCH UFO/>>N 530mph:LOSES IT:/r185", **LatLong:** "33.522224 -7.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:31:20 N 07:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.522224,-7.183334)", **State/Prov:** "CSB", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9563 (BA620B0A) **Date:** 3/12/1954 **Location:** Nouasseur AFB, Fr. Morocco **Description:** F-86 Chases Object At 500 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2937) **Reference:** NICAP: [540312](http://www.nicap.org/540312fmorocco%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1637 ### Event 9564 (46BD8D27) **Date:** 3/12/1954 **Time:** 9:35 AM **Location:** Nouasseur, French Morocco **Description:** Witness: USAF lst Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 jet fighter. He chased an object at more than 530 m.p.h. for 30 seconds, but was unable to catch it. It appeared to be the size of a fighter plane but had neither tanks nor trails. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_337 ### Event 9565 (8A583A9C) **Date:** 3/12/1954 **Locations:** Nouasseur Air Base; Casablanca, Morocco **Description:** 9:35 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 over Nouasseur Air Base \[now closed\] near Casablanca, Morocco, chases an object at more than 530 mph for 30 seconds, but is unable to catch it. The object appears to be the size of a fighter plane but has neither tanks nor vapor trails. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-86 Chases Object at](http://www.nicap.org/540312fmorocco%5Fdir.htm) [500 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/540312fmorocco%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 210 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2388 ### Event 9566 (C02F33EC) **Date:** 3/12/1954 **Description:** A torpedo shaped UFO was seen on this afternoon at 3:20 p.m. over Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. It shot straight up into the sky when it left. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1431 ### Event 9567 (83CB55B5) **Date:** 3/12/1954 **Description:** A U.S. Air Force F-86 fighter jet was scrambled to pursue a UFO over Nouasseur AFB in Morocco at 10:35 a.m. The UFO flew off toward the north, and the jet couldn't catch up with it despite accelerating to 530 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2937; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 53 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1432 ### Event 9568 (ED71B424) **Date:** 3/13/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** KEY BISCAYNE, FL **Description:** 6 separate observers. Moon-size blue-green disk or sphere hovers. Suddenly going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 622) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3472 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "KEY BISCAYNE,FL:6 SEP.OBSs:MOONSIZE BLU-GRN DISK or SPHERE HVRS:SUDDENLY >>S:", **LatLong:** "25.694446 -80.161115", **LatLongDMS:** "25:41:40 N 80:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.694446,-80.161115)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9569 (FF7A06BC) **Date:** 3/15/1954 **Description:** A memo about a recent Project Second Storey meeting show that experiments at [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)’s Shirley’s Bay detecting station is running experiments correlating UFO reports with magnetic disturbances and gamma radiation. It recommends looking into as yet undiscovered gravity waves. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 187–188](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2389 ### Event 9570 (07195355) **Date:** Mid 3/1954 **Locations:** Buckingham Palace; London, England; Australia **Description:** [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh) Duke of Edinburgh, invites probable UFO photo hoaxer [Stephen Darbishire](https://www.beckstonesartgallery.co.uk/index.php/artists/stephen-darbishire.html) to Buckingham Palace in London, England, to relate his story to an aide. A full report of the interview is sent to the duke, who is in Australia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 39](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/38/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2390 ### Event 9571 (D9BCC81D) **Date:** 3/16/1954 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** SANTA MARIA, BRZ **Description:** Same saucer 3 new pseudo-human/entity. "Scientists studying natural riches / Brazil". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin D.: The OCTOBER SCENARIO; Berkley Books, NY 1988. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3473 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "141", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA MARIA,BRZ:SAME SCR 3 NEW PSH:"SCIENTISTS STUDYING NATURAL RICHES/BRAZIL"", **LatLong:** "-29.683335 -53.816669", **LatLongDMS:** "29:41:00 S 53:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.683335,-53.816669)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 9572 (1673E1F9) **Date:** 3/17/1954 **Location:** ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTR **Description:** Several observer(s). 40' saucer / smoke. Big wind / rising. Drum-rattle noise. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3474 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALICE SPRINGS,AUSTR:SVRL OBS:40' SCR/SMOKE:BIG WIND/RISING:DRUM-RATTLE NOISE", **LatLong:** "-23.650001 133.933340", **LatLongDMS:** "23:39:00 S 133:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.650001,133.933340)", **State/Prov:** "NT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9573 (AD127706) **Date:** 3/17/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** PRESTON, LANCASHIRE **Description:** Flying saucer flies over football match. All see. Going quickly west. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3475 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "PRESTON,LANCASHIRE:FLYING SCR FLIES OVR FOOTBALL MATCH:ALL SEE:>>W:NFD", **LatLong:** "53.766669 -2.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:46:00 N 02:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.766669,-2.700000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9574 (1AAE8F38) **Date:** 3/18/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** Electric engineer and 3 / roof / (seen thru) binoculars. Disk follows B36 going east. Both objects lost / large cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 622) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3476 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:ELEC.ENG+3/ROOF/BINOCS:DISK FOLOS B36 >E:BOTH OBJS LOST/LRG CLOUD", **LatLong:** "25.794446 -80.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "25:47:40 N 80:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.794446,-80.172226)", **RelAlt:** "9000", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9575 (B45C0685) **Date:** 3/18/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** HECLA ISLAND, MBA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 30M thin silver cylinder/cigar-shape going east. Stops. Going west. Stops. Tilts. Levels. Going SSW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 623) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3477 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "223", **HatchDesc:** "HECLA ISL,MBA:2 OBS:30M THIN SLVR CGR >E:STOPS:>W:STOPS:TILTS:LEVELS:>SSW", **LatLong:** "51.033336 -96.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "51:02:00 N 96:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.033336,-96.750005)", **State/Prov:** "MAN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9576 (7B88F8BF) **Date:** 3/18/1954 **Location:** Alexandria, VA **Description:** Six round or disc-shaped, shiny aluminum objects were observed traveling in a "V" shaped formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [540318](http://www.nicap.org/alexandria540318dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1638 ### Event 9577 (DE4ECC14) **Date:** 3/18/1954 **Locations:** Hecla Island; Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba **Description:** 4:25 p.m. Two conservation officers stationed on Hecla Island in Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, are driving their snowmobile across the frozen lake when they see a slim silver object 100 feet long and only 8 feet thick. They watch the object as it changes orientation from vertical to horizontal and back again. They estimate it is 15,000 feet high and 10 miles away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2391 ### Event 9578 (978B1577) **Date:** 3/19/1954 **Time:** 14:40 **Location:** WHANGAMOA, NZ **Description:** Farmer. Sonic booms? Domed saucer quickly going down. Flips. 2X moon-size. Going south. Going quickly east and quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 623) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3478 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "WHANGAMOA,NZ:FARMER:SONIC BOOMS?:DOMED SCR ↓↓:FLIPS:2X MOONSIZE:>S:>>E+↑↑", **LatLong:** "-41.166669 173.500008", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 S 173:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.166669,173.500008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9579 (9E8DCF7C) **Date:** 3/22/1954 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** HAZLETON, PA **Description:** Several ground and air. 4 large silent domed saucers going down [to] and circle airliner. / MJ#251. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3479 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "494", **HatchDesc:** "HAZLETON,PA:SVRL GND+AIR:4 LRG SLNT DOMED SCRS ↓+CIRCLE AIRLINER:/MJ#251", **LatLong:** "40.950002 -75.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:57:00 N 75:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.950002,-75.966670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9580 (49BBA690) **Date:** 3/23/1954 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** WEST / ROCKFORD, IL **Description:** 1 / car. Saturn saucer south / road. Ring low and portholes lower. Fast whirr sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 625) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3480 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "W/ROCKFORD,IL:1/CAR:SATURN SCR S/ROAD:RING LOW+PORTHs LOWER:FAST WHIRR SOUND", **LatLong:** "42.283335 -89.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:00 N 89:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.283335,-89.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9581 (1C360006) **Date:** 3/23/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** NORWICH, NORFOLK **Description:** Many observer(s). Disk / very high altitude. Edge glows. Center dark. Goes going quickly west / 1830h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3481 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "NORWICH,NORFOLK:MANY OBS:DISK/VHI ALT:EDGE GLOWS:CENTER DARK:GOES>>W/1830h", **LatLong:** "52.633336 1.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:38:00 N 01:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.633336,1.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9582 (1E1409FD) **Date:** 3/23/1954 **Locations:** Greater Miami (Florida); Seven Seas Restaurant **Description:** Capt. [William B.](https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/) [Nash](https://www.fortmyersmemorial.com/obituaries/William-Nash-21291/%23!/Obituary) gives a talk at a Greater Miami \(Florida\) Aviation Association luncheon at the Seven Seas Restaurant and offers his assessment of the Air Force’s handling of UFO investigations. He suspects that the Air Force has concluded that UFOs are a real phenomenon, but they fear creating a state of panic by admitting as much. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2392 ### Event 9583 (0852BBAB) **Date:** 3/23/1954 **Description:** A disc at very high altitude was seen hovering over Norwich, England at 4:00 p.m. The edges glowed while the center of the object was dark. It flew off to the west at 6:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1620 ### Event 9584 (9E7C5569) **Date:** 3/24/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** OVER FRESNO, CA **Description:** Air Force Secretary Talbot and several. Plane paced metal UFO. Flashes away. / MJ#251. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3482 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "ovr FRESNO,CA:AF SECR.TALBOT+SVRL:PLANE PACED MTL UFO:FLASHES AWAY:/MJ#251", **LatLong:** "36.750002 -119.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:45:00 N 119:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.750002,-119.766672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9585 (34C47641) **Date:** 3/24/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and more/others. 13 20' delta/triangle/box-like crafts. 6 buzz plane. 8 going east. Also huge object. / MJ#251+/ r173p144. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3483 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:GOC++:13 20'DLTs:6 BUZZ PLANE:8>E:+HUGE OBJ:/MJ#251+/r173p144", **LatLong:** "39.300002 -76.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:18:00 N 76:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.300002,-76.616670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9586 (D3C9B476) **Date:** 3/24/1954 **Location:** Baltimore, MD **Description:** Maneuvering formation of UFOs observed by Civil Defense official. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1639 ### Event 9587 (5259F7C9) **Date:** 3/24/1954 **Location:** Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** Night. Civil Defense Deputy Coordinator Adolph Wagner sees 13 sharply defined triangular objects moving west to east over Baltimore, Maryland, in a V formation. They are glowing a fluorescent blue. From the north, a larger object approaches and stations itself in front of the V. When a commercial airliner appears, the objects split formation. Six execute a sharp turn, the color shifts to purplish, and they head toward the airplane in single file. The other 8 objects continue flying east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Multiple Object Sightings by Creditable Observers Continue,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit, July 2, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, [p. 66](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=78&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2393 ### Event 9588 (65438147) **Date:** 3/24/1954 **Description:** A U.S. Marine Corps pilot named Holland, flying a military transport, pursued a silver flying disc-shaped object with extreme maneuverability over Fresno, California on this day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1954, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 406 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1634 ### Event 9589 (A1CB5777) **Date:** 3/25/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** EAST / FT. LAUDERDALE, FL **Description:** U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) pilot. Saucer going down / 900m. Evades gun camera. / MJ#251+/ r173p115. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 626) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3484 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "E/Ft.LAUDERDALE,FL:USMC PILOT:SCR ↓/900m:EVADES GUN CAMERA:/MJ#251+/r173p115", **LatLong:** "26.133335 -80.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "26:08:00 N 80:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.133335,-80.083337)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9590 (8B023015) **Date:** 3/25/1954 **Location:** Ft Lauderdale, FL **Description:** Ball With Golden Ring Stops Near F-9F (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540325](http://www.nicap.org/540325ftlauderdale%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1640 ### Event 9591 (08D7BA98) **Date:** 3/25/1954 **Location:** Fort Lauderdale, Florida **Description:** 3:20 p.m. USMC Capt. [Dan C. Holland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80227535/daniel-clark-holland) is flying one of three jets with the 3rd Marine Air Wing on an easterly heading at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at about 26,000 feet and 400+ mph. He sees a gleaming white, ball- shaped object with a gold ring around the lower third, about 2 times size of his jet, descending vertically on a collision course. He takes evasive action and radios the other jet pilots to look. The object suddenly stops 3,000– 4,000 feet above his jet. He banks toward it and activates the gun camera, but the UFO accelerates and disappears to the east at tremendous speed in about 15 seconds. The other two pilots flying ahead of him do not see the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Ball with Golden Rings Stops near F-9F](http://www.nicap.org/540325ftlauderdale%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 211; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) [1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 61–62 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2394 ### Event 9592 (EC608771) **Date:** 3/25/1954 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. a U.S. Marine Corps pilot sighted a disc-shaped object flying at 3000 feet altitude over Cape Canaveral, Florida. The UFO evaded being filmed by the warplane's gun camera. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 115; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1648 ### Event 9593 (4BFB790F) **Date:** 3/26/1954 **Time:** 18:30:00.4 **Location:** 11.6908 165.2730 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Romeo” Yield: 11000KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_46 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6908 165.2730", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:27 N 165:16:23 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6908,165.2730)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Romeo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11000" ### Event 9594 (127BBCAE) **Date:** 3/28/1954 **Locations:** Cherokee (near Creston), Wyoming; Sinclair, Wyoming **Description:** 1:25 a.m. Capt. [Willis T. Sperry](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf) and his copilot on United Air Lines Flight 600, flying east at 19,000 feet 12 miles east of Cherokee \(near Creston\), Wyoming, spot a bright green glowing object at 12°–15° above the horizon coming downward at an angle of 30° to the left of vertical and disappearing behind a cloud bank. It is also seen by the pilot of a DC-3 west of Sinclair, Wyoming, at 13,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 283–284](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 211 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2395 ### Event 9595 (6C288B9B) **Date:** 3/28/1954 **Locations:** Detroit, Michigan; Masonic Temple **Description:** Following the success of Flying Saucers Have Landed, [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) gives a talk to the Detroit Flying Saucer Club at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, which draws 4,700 people. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2396 ### Event 9596 (9DED76E0) **Date:** 3/28/1954 **Description:** After seeing mysterious lights descend over Sumner, Washington five witnesses drove on this evening to an isolated area near some power lines and soon saw a white glowing ball of light wobbling and gliding down from the sky. It apparently went into a clump of nearby trees. The light then approached their vehicle, and moments later the white globe of light passed in front of their car. At that same moment one of the witnesses saw a tall, well-built, broad-shouldered man standing at the same spot where the globe of light had been seen. The figure was encased in a glowing white light. It suddenly disappeared in plain sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1862, citing George Hunt Williamson, Other Tongues Other Flesh **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1707 ### Event 9597 (43FF87A3) **Date:** 3/29/1954 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** 2+observer(s). 25 silver saucers / FORMs / 3. 500-'altitude. Waver going up [to] going down. 1 shoots away and back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3485 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:2+OBS:25 SLVR SCRS/FORMs/3:500-'alt:WAVER↑↓:1 SHOOTS AWAY+BACK", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -75.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 75:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-75.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9598 (5C0C36A8) **Date:** 3/30/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** NEWTON, MASS **Description:** 15' silver sphere over kite-flying contest. Still / 30mph wind. Away slow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3486 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NEWTON,MASS:15'SLVR SPHERE OVR KITE-FLYING CONTEST:STILL/30mph WIND:AWAY SLOW", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -71.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 71:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-71.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9599 (D94EA2A7) **Date:** 3/30/1954 **Description:** A 15-foot diameter silvery sphere hovered over a kite-flying contest in Newton, Massachusetts at 3:30 in the afternoon. It remained stationary in one place despite the 30 mph wind. After 30 minutes in moved away slowly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, July 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1730 ### Event 9600 (2ED5D95B) **Date:** 3/31/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** HAMMERSMITH, LONDON **Description:** Several observer(s). Small saucer going quickly south / extreme speed. Misty looking in clear sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3487 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAMMERSMITH,LONDON:SVRL OBS:SML SCR>>S/XTREME SPEED:MISTY LOOKING IN CLEAR SKY", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -0.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 00:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-0.233333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9601 (49DA415C) **Date:** 3/31/1954 **Description:** A small disc-shaped UFO flew over Hammersmith, England at 8:10 p.m. at a high rate of speed. It had a misty looking appearance despite the clear sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3316 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1759 ### Event 9602 (8F56D98B) **Date:** 4/1954 **Location:** US **Description:** SOM1–01 "MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual" document **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/som101_part1.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_528 **See also:** 12/1994 ### Event 9603 (5A7CAE24) **Date:** 4/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** GORBIO, FR **Description:** Domed saucer / ground. 2 5' small humanoids (or Greys) strike with a disabling beam observer(s) / tube. Gestures. Paralyzed. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v21#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3488 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "GORBIO,FR:DOMED SCR/GND:2 5'OIDS ZAP OBS/TUBE:GESTURES:PRLZD:/FSR v21#2", **LatLong:** "43.783335 7.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:47:00 N 07:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.783335,7.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 9604 (1153FF49) **Date:** 4/1954 **Location:** Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands **Description:** 2:00 p.m. Two male witnesses watch through binoculars a vividly white object hovering high in the sky for 10 minutes above Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. A cone-shaped mist appears on its leeward side, then the object shoots straight up and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel, 1956; Nukes 114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2398 ### Event 9605 (FF816C27) **Date:** 4/1954 **Location:** Royal Australian Air Force **Description:** The Royal Australian Air Force issues its first statement of policy on UFOs, admitting that it does attempt to evaluate reports: “There is no doubt that reliable observers have reported sightings which today are inexplicable within the resources available to the RAAF.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[The Former Air Board / Department of Air / Current](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab) [RAAF](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2399 ### Event 9606 (07A35E1F) **Date:** 4/1954 **Locations:** Oak Park, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan **Description:** Oak Park, Illinois, contactee [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) has been channeling entities through automatic writing. One introduces himself as Sananda, who lives on the utopian planet Clarion. She begins typing up the messages in newsletters and distributing them to readers, including Charles and Lilian Loughead from Detroit, Michigan, whom she met in March. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 717 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2400 ### Event 9607 (9539845C) **Date:** 4/1/1954? **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** MENTON, FR **Description:** Clank-sounds. 5M domed saucer lands. 2 pseudo-human/entity exit. Observer(s) frozen / beam. / r30p69. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3489 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MENTON,FR:CLANK-SOUNDS:5M DOMED SCR LANDS:2 PSH EXIT:OBS FROZEN/BEAM:/r30p69", **LatLong:** "43.766669 7.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:46:00 N 07:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.766669,7.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9608 (E91B9857) **Date:** 4/1/1954 **Description:** The witness heard a clanking sound at 2:40 a.m., then saw a five-meter wide domed disc land in Menton, France. Two human-looking occupants left the craft. The witness was paralyzed by a beam of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3317 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1780 ### Event 9609 (E6A32ACB) **Date:** 4/3/1954 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** OVER ATLANTA, GA **Description:** USAF Teletype. Orange white object zigzags west going quickly east. 2nd goes going north then going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3490 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "ovr ATLANTA,GA:USAF TELETYPE:ORG WHT OBJ ZIGZAGS W>>E:2nd GOES> N THEN >>E", **LatLong:** "33.766668 -84.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:46:00 N 84:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.766668,-84.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9610 (9A185104) **Date:** 4/3/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** 1 observer. 8 night lights south going quickly north / V formation. 1 night light going [to] out and back several X. Silent. No contrails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3491 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:1 OBS:8 NLTS S>>N/VFORM:1 NLT>OUT+BACK SVRL X:SILENT:NO CONTRAILS", **LatLong:** "37.666668 -97.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 97:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,-97.350005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9611 (6B266EB3) **Date:** 4/4/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** WAITAKERE MOUNTAIN, NZ **Description:** Flat bottom/underside silver saucer going quickly south toward(s) Manukau harbor. See drawing / reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 631) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3492 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WAITAKERE Mtn,NZ:FLAT BTM SLVR SCR >>S twrd MANUKAU HARBOR:see drawing/ref", **LatLong:** "-36.966668 174.516675", **LatLongDMS:** "36:58:00 S 174:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.966668,174.516675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9612 (568DEC3D) **Date:** 4/4/1954 **Location:** Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Anegels, California, and shares recent UFO reports. Ruppelt agrees to write a letter supporting the claim that Keyhoe has used genuine ATIC reports for his book. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 116–120 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2401 ### Event 9613 (D13391DC) **Date:** 4/4/1954 **End date:** 4/5/1954 **Locations:** Giant Rock; Mojave Desert; Landers, California **Description:** Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) holds the first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock, a huge boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California. Speakers include [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci), [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) [Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum), [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry) and [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson). It draws a crowd variously estimated at 2,500–6,000. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention Draws 6,000,” San Bernardino County \(Calif.\) Sun, April 5, 1954, p. 9; Clark III 531, 717 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2402 ### Event 9614 (20D13E5D) **Date:** 4/5/1954 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) appears on [The Betty White Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%5FWhite) and asserts that, contrary to what the Air Force claims, some UFO reports are kept secret. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 117–118 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2403 ### Event 9615 (C538DE70) **Date:** 4/6/1954 **Time:** 18:20:00.4 **Location:** 11.4967 165.3675 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Koon” Yield: 110KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_47 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.4967 165.3675", **LatLongDMS:** "11:29:48 N 165:22:03 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.4967,165.3675)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Koon", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "110" ### Event 9616 (0922208C) **Date:** 4/7/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** WEST / DRUMMOND LAKE, VA **Description:** F6F pilot. 2 saucers / 3500' altitude going quickly east. 4Kmph. Look dark against clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3493 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "W/DRUMMOND LAKE,VA:F6F PILOT:2 SCRS/3500'alt>>E:4Kmph:LOOK DARK AGAINST CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "36.605557 -76.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:36:20 N 76:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.605557,-76.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9617 (501E67E2) **Date:** 4/7/1954 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** WEST / BIKINI ATOLL **Description:** Luminous yellow-orange object going [to] bow to Stern / USS Curtiss after H-test. / r138#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: DEFENSE NUCLEAR AGENCY docm# DNA 6035F: Castle Series Nuclear Weapons Tests. pp 64+274+341 c/o Daniel Wilson 15 Parkview Dr., Painesville, OH 44077 **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3494 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "W/BIKINI ATOLL:LUMN.YLW-ORG OBJ> BOW to STERN/USS CURTISS after H-test:/r138#6", **LatLong:** "11.500001 164.333341", **LatLongDMS:** "11:30:00 N 164:20:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.500001,164.333341)", **State/Prov:** "BKN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9618 (6B1076B0) **Date:** 4/7/1954 **Location:** Fentress (3 miles SW of), VA **Description:** Navy F-6F Follows Two Saucers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540407](http://www.nicap.org/540407fentress%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1641 ### Event 9619 (F7DBDF5C) **Date:** 4/7/1954 **Location:** At Sea (USS Curtiss), At Sea **Description:** US Carrier Carrying Nuclear Weapons Buzzed By UFO (USS Curtiss) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [540407](http://www.nicap.org/docs/castle/castdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1642 ### Event 9620 (6FA2C595) **Date:** 4/7/1954 **Description:** [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) publishes the first issue of CRIFO Newsletter. \([CRIFO Newsletter](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf) 1, no. 1 **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** April 7, 1954; Clark III 1114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2404 ### Event 9621 (1573E2D2) **Date:** 4/7/1954 **Locations:** Los Alamos; Sandia Laboratories; Bikini; Enewetak; Marshall Islands **Description:** 11:05 p.m. US Navy sailors and Marines, as well as nuclear scientists from Los Alamos and Sandia Laboratories in New Mexico, are aboard the AEC flagship [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29) [Curtiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29) cruising between Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the Marshall Islands just hours after the Castle Koon thermonuclear test on Bikini. An unidentified oval- shaped luminous object, yellowish-orange in color, passes silently over the ship from bow to stern, traveling at a high rate of speed and low altitude. Once it is clear of the ship, the object performs some zigzag maneuvers before racing away at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 107–109 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2405 ### Event 9622 (FAF2D59A) **Date:** 4/8/1954 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2962. 3 observer(s). Saucer skims lake. Hovers. Small humanoid (or Grey) descends / green suit. / r138#6p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3495 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:BBK#2962:3 OBS:SCR SKIMS LAKE:HVRS:OID DESCENDS/GRN SUIT:/r138#6p32", **LatLong:** "41.866669 -87.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 87:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,-87.616671)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 9623 (242403D0) **Date:** 4/8/1954 **Location:** Chicago, IL **Description:** Lady Observes Saucer / Small Entity Gets Out (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: 2962) **Reference:** NICAP: [540408](http://www.nicap.org/540408chicago%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1643 ### Event 9624 (CB7FA1F9) **Date:** 4/8/1954 **Time:** 4:30 PM **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** Witness: Lelah Stoker. One white round-topped disc, with a humanoid suspended beneath it, skimmed over the water, landed, and an occupant in a green suit walked around. It then took off very, very fast. Sighting lasted 30 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_338 ### Event 9625 (B891F438) **Date:** 4/8/1954 **Locations:** 3121 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois; Lake Michigan **Description:** 4:30–5:00 p.m. Lelah H. Stoker of 3121 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois, sees a brilliant white round- topped disc, parachute-shaped, with a humanoid suspended beneath it, skim back and forth over the water of Lake Michigan. Stoker calls the Coast Guard. A cutter appears after 10 minutes, then the UFO approaches the shore. Stoker sees a short human-like occupant in a green, tight, one-piece suit suspended below the object. It gets out in undergrowth along the shore then walks around. When the cutter gives up searching, the occupant returns to the object which moves back over the lake then takes off at high speed to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Lady Observes Saucer /](http://www.nicap.org/540408chicago%5Fdir.htm) [Small Entity Gets Out](http://www.nicap.org/540408chicago%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 270; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 211 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2406 ### Event 9626 (3B796617) **Date:** 4/8/1954 **Description:** In Chicago, Illinois Lelah Stoker sighted a white, domed disc with a humanoid suspended beneath it over Lake Michigan at 4:30 p.m. It skimmed above the surface of the lake in all directions. She called in another tenant of the building, Mr. Boruszak, who also saw the object. She called the Coast Guard to report it. The object diminished in size till it was no bigger than a piece of newspaper, as it descended and landed. The human figure, now on the ground, was short and wore a tight-fitting, green, one-piece suit that covered even the head. He walked up and down the lakefront until the Coast Guard search boat had passed. Then the UFO enlarged and rose up again; the suspended "pilot" entered it, and it took off very, very fast with no sound. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-06; citing Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1898 ### Event 9627 (106D8D0F) **Date:** 4/9/1954 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** KAPUNDA, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** Teachers and kids. Open-umbrella shape south going north. Silent. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3496 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KAPUNDA,S.AUSTR:TEACHERS+KIDS:OPEN-UMBRELLA SHAPE S>N:SLNT:NFD", **LatLong:** "-34.333335 138.900007", **LatLongDMS:** "34:20:00 S 138:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.333335,138.900007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9628 (A5FF72AD) **Date:** 4/10/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** COLUMBIA, MO **Description:** Several / airport. Bright white saucer east going quickly west. Sudden silent climb going quickly [to] 2000'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3497 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "227", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBIA,MO:SVRL/AIRPORT:BRITE WHT SCR E>>W:SUDDEN SILENT CLIMB>>2000'", **LatLong:** "38.950002 -92.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:00 N 92:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.950002,-92.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9629 (28952E39) **Date:** 4/10/1954 **Description:** On this night near Caracas, Venezuela Sr. Emelino Martinez was walking back from hunting in the hills outside of the city when there was a sudden movement in the nearby bushes. Martinez stopped and stood motionless, shotgun at the ready, when the thrashing noise happened again. He waited briefly before resuming his walk toward his parked automobile. He next heard a blood curling guttural noise. Terrified, he dropped his day's catch and ran for his car. An unintelligible shout behind him indicated that whatever creature it was, it was close to him. He stopped for an instant to glance back toward his pursuer. He then saw two bizarre creatures running after him. They were short, and looked like a half man, half monkey. They were covered with dark hair. Martinez reached the car fumbling with his pockets for the keys. He dropped the keys and picked them up and attempted to open the car. He was then suddenly grabbed from behind. He fell together with his assailant into a ditch besides the road. He dropped his shotgun as two powerful arms closed over his throat. He managed to break free and scrambled towards the car. The creature jumped on top of him, screaming, growling, and biting like a mad animal. He could not reach his shotgun, so he grabbed a large rock and repeatedly smashed his attacker on the head. Screams of pain slashed through the dark night.

Martinez saw his attacker move backward, blood spurting from his head wounds. He then dashed to his car. He snapped the door locked as the two creatures lunged against the car, pounding their hairy fists against the windows in frustrated rage. He managed to start the car and drove away at very high speed directly to the police station. The next day, Martinez and some friends returned to the site and recovered his shotgun they also found some blood stained leaves. They questioned locals and were told that strange disc shaped objects had been seen in the area and that; cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and two young farmhands had disappeared on the mountain. The farmers have also seen black, bristly haired dwarfs that hid in caves and kidnapped both livestock and humans. Martinez never returned to the area to hunt again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 2992, citing Warren Smith, Triangle of The Lost **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1937 ### Event 9630 (C93ED811) **Date:** 4/11/1954 **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s letter to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) states that the request to clear classified UFO reports came from both AF Intelligence and the Office of Public Information, after which his superiors cleared them; Keyhoe has correctly quoted the ATIC material; the Utah film analysis is classified; a 1953 letter from [Al Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) to Henry Holt & Co. attacking the “silence group” is quoted accurately; and except in a very few cases, ATIC rejects [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)’s explanations of halos, sundogs, and mirages for UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 119–120, 307–308 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2407 ### Event 9631 (8A0D5849) **Date:** 4/12/1954 **Location:** NM **Description:** Between 6:30 and 7:15 PM a saucer crashed in the desert, NM. K.A. (initials) and Rescue Team 4 were sent from Roswell AFB to investigate the crashed disc. The saucer was 40–50 ft. in diameter. There were 4 dead Aliens scattered about the desert by the saucer. Alien description (seen from helicopter at 30 ft. alt.): Height was between 4.0 to 4.5 ft. Large proportioned heads, no helmets. Tight fitting dark blue suite. Faces, under ‘copter spotlight, were light green with a luminous tint. The saucer was stored in Hanger-18, Top Security. Hanger-18 was later expanded to 9 stories high and 11 stories deep with heavy refrigeration equipment, radar equip., and sophisticated computer equip. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_529 **See also:** 2/10/1954 **See also:** 4/24/1954 **See also:** 3/7/1955 ### Event 9632 (2921FB8A) **Date:** 4/12/1954 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE **Description:** Ex-RAF man. Saucer makes slow turn. Speeds off / 700mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3498 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "253", **HatchDesc:** "MACCLESFIELD,CHESHIRE:EX-RAF MAN:SCR MAKES SLOW TURN:SPEEDS OFF/700mph:", **LatLong:** "53.266669 -2.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:16:00 N 02:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.266669,-2.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9633 (25F3C836) **Date:** 4/13/1954 **Location:** Edwards AFB **Description:** Approximate date of Eisenhower meeting with others at Edwards AFB. Event witnessed by occultist, medium and author “Gerald Light” (possibly R.G. McFarland, his “publisher”) and a detailed account along with 3 other witness names is immediately published by the BSRA. Einstein, Paperclip scientists, and government officials were present according to witnesses. **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_530 **See also:** 4/15/1954 ### Event 9634 (04D902D2) **Date:** 4/13/1954 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** NEAR ANNAPOLIS, MD **Description:** 3 flat saucers / diagonal formation fly / treetop level. / Blue Book report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3499 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "nr ANNAPOLIS,MD:3 FLAT SCRS/DIAGONAL FORMATION FLY/TREETOP LEVEL:/BBK REPORT", **LatLong:** "38.983335 -76.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:59:00 N 76:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.983335,-76.533337)", **RelAlt:** "12", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9635 (6BCA836E) **Date:** 4/14/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** ROSWELL, NM **Description:** Military observer(s). Dull red glow maneuvers. 1945hrs same north / Capitan mountains going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3500 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1089", **HatchDesc:** "ROSWELL,NM:MIL OBS:DULL RED GLOW MNVRS::1945hrs SAME N/CAPITAN Mtns >>W", **LatLong:** "33.400002 -104.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:24:00 N 104:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.400002,-104.516672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9636 (3EB8B146) **Date:** 4/14/1954 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** OVER LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** United Airlines (UAL) FLT193 near collision / UFO. 2 aboard break bones. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-SERIOUS BUSINESS; Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1966. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3501 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "OVR LONG BEACH,CA:UAL FLT193 NEAR COLLISION/UFO:2 ABOARD BREAK BONES:", **LatLong:** "33.788891 -118.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:20 N 118:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.788891,-118.200006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9637 (69EA2BD8) **Date:** 4/14/1954 **Location:** Long Beach, California **Description:** Night. Capt. John M. Schidel of United Air Lines Flight 193 is forced to make a sharp climbing turn in order to avoid colliding with an unknown object over Long Beach, California. One passenger \(Coles Barber\) is thrown to the floor and suffers a knee fracture, and stewardess [Naomi J. Penaat](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88933667/naomi-j-penaat) breaks an ankle. The object is only in sight for 2 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Two Injured As Airliner Banks in Sudden Turn,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93788135/)” Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1954, p. II- 3; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 130–132 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2408 ### Event 9638 (6990DA0A) **Date:** 4/15/1954 **Location:** Edwards AFB **Description:** Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with others at Edwards AFB. **Type:** public bulletin **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_531 **See also:** 4/13/1954 ### Event 9639 (95618599) **Date:** 4/15/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** ST. MEXANT, 19, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Long cone object with red and green lights. Northwest going southwest / high altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3502 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ST MEXANT,19,FR:2 OBS:LONG CONE OBJ W/RED+GREEN LITES:NW>SW/HI ALTITUDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.288891 1.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:17:20 N 01:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.288891,1.650000)", **State/Prov:** "CRZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9640 (43EECF74) **Date:** 4/15/1954 **Location:** Saint Mexant, France **Description:** Two residents of Correge Department, observed an elongated, cone-shaped object with two red and green lights at the base, flying at a high altitude from the northwest toward the southwest. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1644 ### Event 9641 (1DC22FA9) **Date:** 4/16/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** HAVASU CANYON, AZ **Description:** 2+2 / (seen thru) binoculars. White cylinder/cylindrical object with portholes going quickly SSW horizon / 1 minute(s). 5K' altitude. / MJ#252. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3503 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "975", **HatchDesc:** "HAVASU CANYON,AZ:2+2/BINOCS:WHT CYL W/PORTS >>SSW HRZN/1min:5K'alt:/MJ#252", **LatLong:** "36.227780 -112.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:13:40 N 112:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.227780,-112.666672)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9642 (9F7CDAD6) **Date:** 4/16/1954 **Location:** Grand Canton, AZ **Description:** School superintendent, explorer, watched elongated UFO with "portholes" pass overhead. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1645 ### Event 9643 (BBDB29D3) **Date:** 4/18/1954 **Locations:** Australian outback; Western Australia; South Australia **Description:** Colin McCarthy and two other men are driving an Austin sedan in the Australian outback near the border of Western Australia and South Australia when a UFO begins pacing them. They snap some 200 photos and take some ciné film of the object. Shortly after they report the incident, a helicopter suddenly appears and lands in front of their car. An RAAF officer gets out, walks over to their car, and confiscates the photos and film. They are never returned. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stan Seers and William Lasich, “[North Queensland UFO Saga, 1966,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2029%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1 \(October 1983\): 20–21; Good Above, [p. 163](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2409 ### Event 9644 (E06FC78A) **Date:** 4/18/1954 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; New York City; National Airport **Description:** Airline pilot [William B.](https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/) [Nash](https://www.fortmyersmemorial.com/obituaries/William-Nash-21291/%23!/Obituary) writes to his friend Capt. [William Joseph Hull](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166663770/willam-j%5F-hull) about the emphatic denials of UFO reality issued by the Air Force shortly after his March 23 speech. He reveals that in August 1952 he was participating in a TV panel in New York City when someone in the WJZ-TV studio said he had just gotten back from Washington, D.C., where he has been given the “whole story” about the National Airport sightings. He claims the Air Force had operated a radio found in a retrieved saucer and that had caused the flurry of sightings. Nash also admits hearing rumors, especially one from syndicated aviation columnist [Robert S. Allen,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FS.%5FAllen) about a pro- UFO report that USAF was going to release in the fall of 1952 but never did. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 11–12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2410 ### Event 9645 (1F267FF8) **Date:** 4/21/1954 **Location:** PISTAKEE LK, IL **Description:** Architect. Object whistles and flutters overhead. Air pulsates. TVs blank out. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3504 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "PISTAKEE Lk,IL:ARCHITECT:OBJ WHISTLES+FLUTTERS OVHD:AIR PULSATES:TVs BLANK OUT", **LatLong:** "42.400002 -88.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:24:00 N 88:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.400002,-88.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9646 (8E5532A2) **Date:** 4/21/1954 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** COOK INLET, AK **Description:** Glowing UFO crosses bay 4X. Fireball paces plane. Busy all month / USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3505 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "156", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "COOK INLET,AK:GLOWING UFO CROSSES BAY 4X:FBL PACES PLANE:BUSY ALL MONTH/USAF", **LatLong:** "61.000003 -151.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "61:00:00 N 151:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.000003,-151.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9647 (60932704) **Date:** 4/22/1954 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** SAN NICHOLAS ISLAND, CA **Description:** Military observer(s). 120cm cylinder/cigar-shape lands. Smoke rises. No traces. / r67p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3506 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SAN NICHOLAS ISL,CA:MIL OBS:120cm CGR LANDS:SMOKE RISES:NO TRACES:/r67p30", **LatLong:** "33.233335 -119.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:14:00 N 119:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.233335,-119.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9648 (8ADA7701) **Date:** 4/22/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** HOT SPRINGS, ARK **Description:** 6 observer(s). 10' sphere/orb/globe circles house. Chases men on foot and in car. Dodges light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3507 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "193", **HatchDesc:** "HOT SPRINGS,ARK:6 OBS:10'ORB CCLS HOUSE:CHASES MEN ON FOOT+IN CAR:DODGES LITE", **LatLong:** "34.505557 -93.055560", **LatLongDMS:** "34:30:20 N 93:03:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.505557,-93.055560)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9649 (B29031E3) **Date:** 4/22/1954 **Location:** San Nicholas Island, CA **Description:** 4-6 ft long gray cigar-shaped object with pointed nose (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1646 ### Event 9650 (E45EC8F8) **Date:** 4/22/1954 **Time:** 1400 **Location:** San Nicholas Island, California **Description:** American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a gray color coming to the ground. Smoke was seen to rise where it landed, but a search yielded no results. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_128 ### Event 9651 (0B39790A) **Date:** 4/22/1954 **Locations:** Seaman Bernard G. Klein Jr.; Naval Outlying Field San Nicolas Island, California **Description:** 2:00 p.m. USN Seaman Apprentice James B. Stephens Jr. and Seaman Bernard G. Klein Jr., are driving a vehicle on the Naval Outlying Field San Nicolas Island, California, when they see a 4–6-foot long, gray, cigar- shaped object with a pointed nose traveling just above the ground on a near-parallel course. The object suddenly hits the ground, sends up a cloud of dirt, and disappears from sight. They stop and search for 20+ minutes but find nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “April 22, 1954: San Nicholas Island, Calif.”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 212 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2411 ### Event 9652 (63A401E1) **Date:** 4/22/1954 **Locations:** Reynolds Metals plant in Jones Mills, Arkansas; Pearcy, Arkansas **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Six workers from the Reynolds Metals plant in Jones Mills, Arkansas, are waiting on a carpool near Pearcy, Arkansas, to go to work when they see a gleaming white ball about 10 feet in diameter float 50 feet above a house. It appears alternately as a sphere and an oblong, and sometimes circles and sometimes hovers above the house for a total of 20 minutes. One man claims it approaches him to within a few feet, causing him to duck behind a car. One of the vehicles has a spotlight that they try to point at the object, but it always avoids the beam. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hot Springs \(Ark.\) Sentinel-Rhview, April 23, 1954, pp. 1, 3; “[Fire Ball Sighted in Arkansas Skies,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93788644/)” Montgomery Alabama Journal, April 23, 1954, p. 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2412 ### Event 9653 (B69E5142) **Date:** 4/22/1954 **Description:** American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a gray color come down to the ground on San Nicholas Island on the California coast. Smoke was seen to rise from where it landed, but a search yielded no results. At 11:00 p.m. in Hot Springs, Arkansas a ten-foot diameter sphere chased men on foot and in their car. It dodged a beam of light that was directed at it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 206; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2209 ### Event 9654 (703CFEAB) **Date:** 4/23/1954 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** PITTSFIELD, ME **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2974. 2 observer(s). Domed coin-disk buzzes flashes and maneuvers. Stones move. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3508 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "PITTSFIELD,ME:BBK#2974:2 OBS:DOMED COIN-DISK BUZZES FLASHES+MNVRS:STONES MOVE", **LatLong:** "44.788891 -69.394448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:47:20 N 69:23:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.788891,-69.394448)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9655 (D875F471) **Date:** 4/23/1954 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** PEARCY, ARK **Description:** 6 men. White 3M luminous ball spins wildly over house. Dives / observer(s). / LDLN#339. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 635) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3509 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "188", **HatchDesc:** "PEARCY,ARK:6 MEN:WHT 3M LUMn.BALL SPINS WILDLY OVR HOUSE:DIVES/OBS:/LDLN#339", **LatLong:** "34.427779 -93.288893", **LatLongDMS:** "34:25:40 N 93:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.427779,-93.288893)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9656 (9D910AD8) **Date:** 4/23/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** ATL. SSE / NY, NY **Description:** Pulsing saucer passes 3 PAA airliners / 22K' altitude. / MJ#252+/ r173p133. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3510 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATL. SSE/NY,NY:PULSING SCR PASSES 3 PAA AIRLINERS/22K'alt:/MJ#252+/r173p133", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -71.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 71:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-71.000003)", **RelAlt:** "6700", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9657 (E501E8B8) **Date:** 4/23/1954 **Location:** Pittsfield, ME **Description:** Silver circular saucer shaped object with a dome (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2974) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1647 ### Event 9658 (FC7E88A6) **Date:** 4/23/1954 **Time:** 9:30 AM **Location:** Pittsfield, Maine **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Robinson. One silver dollar-shaped object with a dome and a flashing light made a sound like a swarm of bees. It hovered and tilted, flew horizontally, then rose vertically without tilting. Stones underneath it moved. Four minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_339 ### Event 9659 (CAF1A685) **Date:** 4/23/1954 **Description:** On this evening a three meter wide glowing ball of light circled a house in Pearcy, Arkansas slowly, stopping at irregular intervals. It then dove at a man walking in the yard. When he tried to put a spotlight on it, it would dodge the beam every time. There were six male witnesses, and the encounter lasted 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated April 24, 1954; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339, Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 165, citing AP report **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2251 ### Event 9660 (D15AE8BC) **Date:** 4/24/1954 **Location:** Mt. View, MO **Description:** Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in saucer. **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_140 ### Event 9661 (FDD180AD) **Date:** 4/24/1954 **Location:** Edwards AFB **Description:** A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A. (initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_532 **See also:** 4/12/1954 ### Event 9662 (745F32CB) **Date:** 4/24/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** MORTAGNE, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 200M blimp lands. Observer(s) feels and hits it. Temp paralyzed. / FSRv32#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3511 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MORTAGNE,FR:2 OBS:200M BLIMP LANDS:OBS FEELS+HITS IT:TEMP PRLZd:/FSRv32#5", **LatLong:** "48.250002 6.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:00 N 06:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.250002,6.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9663 (CD0405E1) **Date:** 4/24/1954 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** HARTLAND, ME **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2976. Flashy domed silver ovoid going quickly straight and level 15 minute(s) then straight up quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3512 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "79", **HatchDesc:** "HARTLAND,ME:BBK#2976:FLASHY DOMED SLVR OVOID >> S/L 15min THEN STRAIGHT UP↑↑", **LatLong:** "44.883335 -69.450003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:53:00 N 69:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.883335,-69.450003)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9664 (C3BFF19B) **Date:** 4/24/1954 **Location:** Hartland, ME **Description:** Very large silver, oblong object with a dome on top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2976) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1648 ### Event 9665 (3832A0DF) **Date:** 4/24/1954 **Time:** 6:10 PM **Location:** Hartland, Maine **Description:** Witness: D. Robinson. One large, silver, oblong object with a dome and a flashing light flew straight and level and then straight up. Total of 15 minutes under observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_340 ### Event 9666 (6FFAA394) **Date:** 4/25/1954 **Time:** 18:10:00.6 **Location:** 11.6664 165.3872 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Union” Yield: 6900KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_48 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6664 165.3872", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:59 N 165:23:14 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6664,165.3872)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Union", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "6900" ### Event 9667 (3E8250C6) **Date:** Late 4/1954 **Location:** Bois-de-Champ, Vosges, France **Description:** Afternoon. Roger Mougeolle and Gilbert Doridant are logging in a clearing in a forest area near Bois-de- Champ, Vosges, France, when they hear a noise above them “like the sound of a train passing over a metal bridge.” They then see three metallic, cigar-shaped objects silently approaching them from over a nearby hill. Two pass over them, but the third slowly descends above their clearing and stops only a few feet from the ground. It is over 600 feet long. Doridant flees, but Mougeolle walks toward it and touches it. The object is smooth, cold, and hard like steel. He touches it with his woodsman’s axe, and he is instantly thrown about 18 feet away toward the base of a large rock. He feels paralyzed for a few minutes, but the object ascends and disappears, and he can move again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joël Mesnard, “[The ‘Steel Airship’ at Bois-de-Champ \(April 1954\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 \(August 1987\): 16–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2413 ### Event 9668 (9280488D) **Date:** 4/25/1954 **Description:** Three trained weather observers at Kadena Air Force Base in Kadena, Japan sighted bluish-white circular objects overhead at 11:30 p.m. The USAF specialists named Spillem, Duracher, and Conner watched the UFOs make two circles, then zigzag to the south. They made another circle, and then went off to the southeast. Circular, bluish-white in color. No sound, no radar tracks, no balloons aloft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2292 ### Event 9669 (26F02777) **Date:** 4/26/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** NEWBURYPORT, MA **Description:** 3+observer(s). Flaming ring / sharp turns. = solid silver disc. Roar. / r185p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3513 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "NEWBURYPORT,MA:3+OBS:FLAMING RING/SHARP TURNS:=SOLID SLVR DISC:ROAR:/r185p21", **LatLong:** "42.805558 -70.877781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:48:20 N 70:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.805558,-70.877781)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9670 (E84402F6) **Date:** 4/26/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** ATHENS, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2983. 5 observer(s). Orbs / V formation buzz professor of aero tactics / C54. South going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3514 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "231", **HatchDesc:** "ATHENS,GA:BBK#2983:5 OBS:ORBS/VFORM BUZZ PROFESSOR of AERO TACTICS/C54:S>>N", **LatLong:** "33.950002 -83.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:00 N 83:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.950002,-83.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9671 (0E25CA16) **Date:** 4/26/1954 **Location:** Athens, GA **Description:** Saw 15-20 yellow objects in a V shaped formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2983) **Reference:** NICAP: [540426](http://www.nicap.org/540426athensdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1649 ### Event 9672 (5C78A897) **Date:** 4/26/1954 **Location:** Newburyport, MA **Description:** Round UFO making sharp turn observed by architect. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1650 ### Event 9673 (15C15D60) **Date:** 4/26/1954 **Time:** 7:35 PM **Location:** Athens, Georgia **Description:** Witnesses: C. Cartey, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hopkins and their daughter. Fifteen to twenty yellow objects in a V-formation, flew from south to north for 10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_341 ### Event 9674 (9780D92E) **Date:** 4/26/1954 **Description:** What first appeared to be a flaming ring made sharp turns in the sky over a school in Newburyport, Massachusetts at around 3:30 p.m. It resolved into a solid silver, disc-shaped object with a dark center and protruding top. It made an intense roaring sound that lasted five seconds. It left a bright white tail in descent, and flew off rapidly to the southeast. At 8:35 p.m. 15 balls of light in a V-formation buzzed a University of Georgia professor of aeronautics and four other witnesses in Athens, Georgia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 66; UNICAT database, case 773, citing Project Blue Book; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2983; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 59; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 79 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2331 ### Event 9675 (4A9EEA02) **Date:** 4/27/1954 **Location:** SOUTH / LITTLETON, CO **Description:** 3 observer(s). Scary green-faced ape-man plays catch with dead chicken. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3515 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **NFO:** No craft seen, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "1", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1645", **HatchDesc:** "S/LITTLETON,CO:3 OBS:SCARY GREEN-FACED APE-MAN PLAYS CATCH with DEAD CHICKEN", **LatLong:** "39.583335 -105.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:35:00 N 105:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.583335,-105.016672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 9676 (93CE51AE) **Date:** 4/28/1954 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** 40 MI WITH GEELONG, AUST **Description:** 300m saucer dives going [to] train and up and hovers. Clear day. / r107p124+/ r98#30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3516 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "40mi W/GEELONG,AUST:300m SCR DIVES> TRAIN+UP+HVRs:CLEAR DAY:/r107p124+/r98#30", **LatLong:** "-38.100002 143.550007", **LatLongDMS:** "38:06:00 S 143:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.100002,143.550007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9677 (D5DBABDC) **Date:** 4/28/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SARE, PYRENEES ATLANTIC OCEAN., FR **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape at 2KM altitude goes rapidly going south to Spain. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3517 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SARE,PYRENEES ATL,FR:CGR @2KM ALT GOES RAPIDLY >S to SPAIN:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.300002 -1.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:18:00 N 01:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.300002,-1.583333)", **State/Prov:** "PYA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9678 (B7339740) **Date:** 4/28/1954 **Location:** Pyrenees, France **Description:** A group of persons taking a walk near Sare in the region close to the Pyrenees border observed a cigar-shaped object traveling rapidly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1651 ### Event 9679 (1E4483CF) **Date:** 4/28/1954 **Description:** A huge blue disc buzzed two men, Smith and Beacon, 45 miles west of Geelong, Victoria, Australia at 6:30 a.m. It then shot straight up into the sky until gone from view. At noon a cigar-shaped UFO flew over Sare, France heading south towards Spain. It flew at an estimated 2,000 meters altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3343, citing Larry Fawcett and Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 133 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2390 ### Event 9680 (C89026CB) **Date:** 4/29/1954 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** FORT MEADE, MD **Description:** 3 radiomen. Classic saucer flies level. Then turns straight up! No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 281) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3518 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "FORT MEADE,MD:3 RADIOMEN:CLASSIC SCR FLIES LEVEL:THEN TURNS STRAIGHT UP!:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -76.716670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 76:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-76.716670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9681 (83C66F89) **Date:** 4/29/1954 **Location:** Second Army Radio Station, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland **Description:** 10:11 p.m. An unidentified illuminated object is seen above the Second Army Radio Station, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, by the supervisor radio operator and two coworkers, Cpl. Flath and Pfc. Hough. Described as round, the color of the sun, and 3–4 times the size of a star, the UFO appears in the southwest, blinking on and off. As it reaches the station, it stops blinking and disappears by going straight up. The sighting lasts 7 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 86; Good Above, [p. 281](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2414 ### Event 9682 (D15479A9) **Date:** 5/1954 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** SOUTH COLE CREEK, WY **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 8 shiny silent round objects maneuver all over/all about oilfield. Line up and going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 637) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3519 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "1529", **HatchDesc:** "S.COLE CREEK,WY:NMRS OBS:8 SHINY SLNT RND OBJS MNVR ALLO OILFIELD:LINE UP+>>W:", **LatLong:** "42.916669 -106.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:55:00 N 106:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.916669,-106.000005)", **RelAlt:** "23", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9683 (BB0F3B5A) **Date:** 5/1954 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** NORTHEAST / CANBY, CA **Description:** Railroad/railway crew. 2 large saucers. 2 rows / orange portholes top and bottom/underside. Sudden lateral leaps. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 636) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3520 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1315", **HatchDesc:** "NE/CANBY,CA:RR CREW:2 LRG SCRS:2 ROWS/ORG PORTS TOP+BTM:SUDDEN LATERAL LEAPS", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -120.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 120:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-120.833339)", **RelAlt:** "360", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9684 (8C2A2DC2) **Date:** 5/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** KORAT AB, THAILAND **Description:** 4 pilots. 6' orange fireball buzzes and paces T6 trainers. Rapid maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3521 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Thailand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KORAT AB, THAILAND:4 PILOTS:6'ORG FBL BUZZES+PACES T6 TRAINERS:RPD MNVRS", **LatLong:** "14.933334 102.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "14:56:00 N 102:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.933334,102.083338)", **State/Prov:** "NKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9685 (441F3688) **Date:** 5/1954 **Location:** La Porte, IN **Description:** Car lights and radio went off, motorist saw three round or oval UFOs moving as unit, emitting beams of light toward ground (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1652 ### Event 9686 (F0CD0F24) **Date:** 5/1954 **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s article appears in True magazine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, “[What Our Air Force Found Out about Flying](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1954%2005%2000%5FTrue%5FEdward%20Ruppelt%5FLagrance%20scan.pdf) [Saucers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1954%2005%2000%5FTrue%5FEdward%20Ruppelt%5FLagrance%20scan.pdf)” True, May 1954, pp. 18–30, 124–134 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2415 ### Event 9687 (E7C334CC) **Date:** 5/1/1954 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** 1 observer. 2 small ovoids play tag near daytime moon. Many planes chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3522 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:1 OBS:2 SML OVOIDS PLAY TAG nr DAYTIME MOON:many planes chase", **LatLong:** "45.516669 -122.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:31:00 N 122:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.516669,-122.700006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9688 (4B75D29E) **Date:** 5/1/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** PORT TOWNSEND, WA **Description:** Sheriff reports 6 saucers to Payne Air Force Base. Jets sent / live ammunition. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 225) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3523 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "PORT TOWNSEND,WA:SHERIFF REPORTS 6 SCRS to PAYNE AFB:JETS SENT/LIVE AMMO:", **LatLong:** "48.116669 -122.761117", **LatLongDMS:** "48:07:00 N 122:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.116669,-122.761117)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9689 (E7B17EF6) **Date:** 5/1/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEAR LOGAN, UT **Description:** Brilliant red fireball rises / ground. Blast and crater. No meteor fragments. / r173p138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3524 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1360", **HatchDesc:** "nr LOGAN,UT:BRILL.RED FBL RISES/GND:blast+crater:NO METEOR FRAGS:/r173p138", **LatLong:** "41.716669 -111.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:43:00 N 111:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.716669,-111.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9690 (ACE045BD) **Date:** 5/1/1954 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** TV pictures distorted as UFO passed over (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1653 ### Event 9691 (F200B458) **Date:** 5/1/1954 **Locations:** Logan, Utah; Utah State Agricultural College [now Utah State University] **Description:** 11:55 p.m. A large explosion is heard, felt, and seen over an 8-mile area near Logan, Utah. The blast nearly upsets cars, throws open heavy doors, and sends an earthquake-like shock through the area. Some people report seeing a glowing ball before the explosion; other witnesses report a flash of light at ground level. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) investigates, along with [J. Stewart Williams](https://geo.usu.edu/information/giving-to-usu-geology/j-stewart-williams) and Clyde T. Hardy at Utah State Agricultural College \[now Utah State University\]. LaPaz says it is either a falling object of an explosive nature or buried high explosives set off by pranksters. A crater 16 feet in diameter and at least 6 feet deep is found, but no debris, even though LaPaz digs down 25 feet for five days. Nearly 50 years later, Theron Blazzard admits to the Logan Herald-Journal that as a geology student at Utah State he had detonated some dynamite at the spot because he had to dispose of it in order to move out of state. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Meteor Sought in Crater](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93794709/) [after Logan Explosion,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93794729/)” Salt Lake Tribune, May 3, 1954, p. 21; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 138–139; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 223–224](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/222/mode/2up); “[Friday Finishers:](https://www.hjnews.com/opinion/columns/friday-finishers-when-meteor-mania-struck-cache-valley/article%5F18054429-6d95-5d09-b43f-20e409ef97cb.html) [When Meteor Mania Struck Cache Valley,](https://www.hjnews.com/opinion/columns/friday-finishers-when-meteor-mania-struck-cache-valley/article%5F18054429-6d95-5d09-b43f-20e409ef97cb.html)” Logan \(Utah\) Herald-Journal, November 30, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2416 ### Event 9692 (CD47C339) **Date:** 5/4/1954 **Location:** CANFIELD, OH **Description:** 3 cops watch orange-red glowing saucer fly out of sight. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3525 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "354", **HatchDesc:** "CANFIELD,OH:3 COPS WATCH ORANGE-RED GLOWING SAUCER FLY OUT OF SIGHT:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.022224 -80.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:20 N 80:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.022224,-80.761115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9693 (35E18396) **Date:** 5/4/1954 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** HORSHAM, VCT **Description:** Massive fireball going quickly south / 1600+kph under overcast / 10 second(s). Wavy trajectory not straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 639) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3526 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HORSHAM,VCT:MASSIVE FBL >>S/1600+kph UNDER OVERCAST/10sec:WAVY TRAJ not S/L", **LatLong:** "-36.700002 142.200007", **LatLongDMS:** "36:42:00 S 142:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.700002,142.200007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9694 (D14CEF49) **Date:** 5/4/1954 **Time:** 18:10:00.1 **Location:** 11.6656 165.3869 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Yankee” Yield: 13500KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_49 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6656 165.3869", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:56 N 165:23:13 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6656,165.3869)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Yankee", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "13500" ### Event 9695 (BD6C2BFC) **Date:** 5/4/1954 **Description:** On the night of May 4th, 1954, three police officers in Canfield, Ohio watched a reddish orange, glowing disc fly out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 144 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2502 ### Event 9696 (21F5148A) **Date:** 5/5/1954 **Location:** GOODLAND, KS **Description:** Farmer sees saucer / field-retracts legs. Rises / 100'. Rocks. Shoots off going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin D.: The OCTOBER SCENARIO; Berkley Books, NY 1988. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3527 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1114", **HatchDesc:** "GOODLAND,KS:FARMER SEES SCR/FIELD-RETRACTS LEGS:RISES/100':ROCKS:SHOOTS OFF>E.", **LatLong:** "39.350002 -101.711116", **LatLongDMS:** "39:21:00 N 101:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.350002,-101.711116)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9697 (13F7D63C) **Date:** 5/5/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** WOOMERA TEST RANGE, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** RADAR-visual (observation) / (seen thru) binoculars. 3 observer(s). 10' disk going south. Going quickly west. Away / 5800kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3528 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "WOOMERA TEST RANGE,S.AUSTR:RDR-VIS/BINOCS:3 OBS:10'DISK > S:>>W:away/5800kph", **LatLong:** "-30.000001 134.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 134:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.000001,134.000006)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9698 (70C752B9) **Date:** 5/5/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** Group / astronomy students. V formation / small white orbs horizon going quickly [to] horizon. Fast and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3529 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:GRP/ASTRONOMY STUDENTS:VFORM/SML WHT ORBS HZN>>HZN:FAST+SILENT", **LatLong:** "44.966669 -93.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:58:00 N 93:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.966669,-93.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9699 (75029943) **Date:** 5/5/1954 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** WASHINGTON AIRPORT, VA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #2997. RADAR and many. 2 saucers going quickly south / several passes. Back 6+11 May. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3530 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "244", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON AIRPT,VA:BBK#2997:RDR+MANY:2 SCRS >>S/SVRL PASSES::BACK 6+11 MAY", **LatLong:** "38.850002 -77.055559", **LatLongDMS:** "38:51:00 N 77:03:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.850002,-77.055559)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9700 (3846C507) **Date:** 5/5/1954 **Locations:** Sydney; RAAF Woomera Range Complex, South Australia **Description:** 4:45 p.m. Sydney Baker is at a radar post in the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South Australia when he notices a gray, circular object at 60,000 feet maneuvering around an English Electric Canberra aircraft he is monitoring from about 35 miles away. It appears to be traveling three times as fast as the Canberra. He watches it for about 5 minutes before it shoots out of sight to the south at about 3,600 mph. The same object is apparently tracked on Woomera radar at approximately the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, \[[case documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1955%5FMay%5F5%5FSouth%5FAustralia.pdf)\]; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996, p. 85; Swords 381–383 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2417 ### Event 9701 (5D131ECA) **Date:** 5/5/1954 **Description:** Over the Woomera Missile Test Range in South Australia a disc-shaped object was viewed throuth binoculars flying to the west. It then turned and shot off to the south and out of sight at a speed estimated to be 5,800 kph. The object was estimated to be 10 feet in diameter, and the sighting reportedly lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 85 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2536 ### Event 9702 (13726733) **Date:** 5/5/1954 **Description:** The young boy was sitting with his goat on a small hill near the village of Fregim Amarante, Portugal when he heard a whistling sound at around four o'clock in the afternoon. He ran in the direction of the sound, which came from a nearby hollow. Once there he saw one dome-shaped object leaving the area headed towards a nearby river, but an identical object still rested on the ground. It was a metallic colored, dome shaped, and had a metal ring on the bottom and a transparent section on top. It also had a conical protrusion, brown in color, on the top. As the object left the boy felt a wave of heat. Inside this second object he could see two beings with large heads and large eyes that were wide apart; both appeared to have antennae on top of their heads, and their mouths appeared like round holes. They wore metallic blue outfits, and appeared seated with one of them operating levers while the other looked out at the witness. Ground traces were later found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case HC # 104, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2537 ### Event 9703 (3086EDB0) **Date:** 5/6/1954 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** Several / (seen thru) binoculars. Round object going east slow. Very long rod extends and retracts going east every 15 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 640) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3531 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:SVRL/BINOCS:RND OBJ >E SLOW:VLONG ROD EXTENDS+RETRACTS >E EVERY 15sec", **LatLong:** "25.822223 -80.216670", **LatLongDMS:** "25:49:20 N 80:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.822223,-80.216670)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9704 (DAC36682) **Date:** 5/6/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** HEPPNER, OR **Description:** 3 linemen. 3 36M domed saucers cross sky / V-formation / 2200kph. / APRO v3#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3532 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "496", **HatchDesc:** "HEPPNER,OR:3 LINEMEN:3 36M DOMED SCRS CROSS SKY/VFORMn/2200kph:/APRO v3#1", **LatLong:** "45.355558 -119.555561", **LatLongDMS:** "45:21:20 N 119:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.355558,-119.555561)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9705 (B2D78117) **Date:** 5/6/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** ASTRONOMERS F.MANNING ET AL **Description:** Large dark straight/strait(s)-line found / moons crater Piccolomini. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3533 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ASTRONOMERS F.MANNING et al:LRG DRK STRT-LINE FOUND/MOONS CRATER PICCOLOMINI.", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "PCC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9706 (AA42614E) **Date:** 5/6/1954 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Washington, DC, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1654 ### Event 9707 (C8AA843D) **Date:** 5/6/1954 **Description:** At noon, three linemen working in Heppner, Oregon watched three - 36m domed discs cross the sky in a V-formation, traveling at 2200 kph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 144; NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated July 1, 1954; APRO Bulletin, volume 3, number 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2580 ### Event 9708 (0BB44886) **Date:** 5/7/1954 **Location:** Washington (near), D.C. **Description:** Nr. Washington, DC, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1655 ### Event 9709 (D95B772E) **Date:** 5/7/1954 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Naval radar around Washington, D.C., tracks a huge object maneuvering at 90,000 feet and moving down to 15 miles altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 144–145 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2418 ### Event 9710 (0B7CF178) **Date:** 5/8/1954 **Location:** Maida Vale, London, England **Description:** [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/) is washing dishes in his flat in Maida Vale, London, England, when he receives a psychic message telling him that he has been chosen to be the voice of the Interplanetary Parliament. Several days later, while he is in a meditative trance, an Indian yoga master enters his flat and tells him he has been selected to act as the Primary Terrestrial Channel for messages from cosmic intelligences who are visiting Earth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [p. 63](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/62/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2419 ### Event 9711 (80E3B4E7) **Date:** 5/9/1954 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** NNW / LINDEN, MI **Description:** 5 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Ovoid going northwest. Glows / distinct colored bands. / r136#6p41. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3534 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "281", **HatchDesc:** "NNW/LINDEN,MI:5 OBS/BINOCS:OVOID >NW:GLOWS/DISTINCT CLRD BANDS:/r136#6p41", **LatLong:** "42.833335 -83.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:50:00 N 83:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.833335,-83.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9712 (C5D29A50) **Date:** 5/9/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** PT. MELBOURNE, VCT **Description:** 20 / docks. Large red clam-saucer going south. Hovers low / pier. Going quickly east and way up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 641) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3535 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Pt.MELBOURNE,VCT:20/DOCKS:LRG RED CLAM-SCR >S:HVRS LO/PIER:>>E + WAY UP", **LatLong:** "-37.816668 144.900007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:00 S 144:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.816668,144.900007)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9713 (2CCADDD0) **Date:** 5/9/1954 **Description:** At 1:10 a.m. five observers with binoculars north-northwest of Linden, Michigan spotted a glowing ovoid flying to the northwest. It was glowing with distinct colored bands, none on the rim. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing APRO Bulletin, July 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2676 ### Event 9714 (090F01AE) **Date:** 5/10/1954 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** ATLANTA AIRPORT, GA **Description:** 1 observer. 3 silent 20' metal saucers / triangle-formation. 550mph going quickly south straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3536 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTA AIRPORT,GA:1 OBS:3 SLNT 20'MTL SCRS/TRIANGLE-FORMn:550mph >>S S/L ", **LatLong:** "33.816668 -84.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:49:00 N 84:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.816668,-84.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9715 (8DDED1DB) **Date:** 5/10/1954 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** ELSINORE, CA **Description:** U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) F3D-2 pilots. 22' delta object 10' wide. Fin / top. Buzzes plane formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3537 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "538", **HatchDesc:** "ELSINORE,CA:USMC F3D-2 PILOTS:22'DELTA OBJ 10'WIDE:FIN/TOP:BUZZES PLANE FORMn", **LatLong:** "33.650002 -117.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:00 N 117:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.650002,-117.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9716 (03473D6A) **Date:** 5/10/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** HOLLENBERG, AUS **Description:** 5 observer(s). 3 round dark disks going southeast / 10 seconds. Spout fire and drop night lights. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 642) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3538 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLENBERG,AUS:5 OBS:3 RND DRK DISKS >SE/10secs:SPOUT FIRE+DROP NLTS:SLNT", **LatLong:** "46.550002 14.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "46:33:00 N 14:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.550002,14.250001)", **State/Prov:** "CRN", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9717 (D7EEE40B) **Date:** 5/10/1954 **Location:** Northern Area, Sweden **Description:** Week of UFO sightings investigated by military authorities. Scores of residents reported strange glowing objects maneuvering low over forests. (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1656 ### Event 9718 (C2AB49F9) **Date:** 5/10/1954 **Time:** 12:40 PM **Location:** Elsinore, California **Description:** Witness: U.S. Marine Corps Squadron Leader D.R. Higgin, flying an F3D-2 jet fighter. One dark gunmetal delta-shaped object, 22' long and 10' wide, with a fin on the top, descended at a 25-30' angle under the lead airplane of a formation, and over the airplane of Higgin. Sighting lasted a few seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_342 ### Event 9719 (C1396577) **Date:** 5/10/1954 **Description:** RAF squadron leader Donald Higgin, flying in the second of two Navy F3D-2 jet fighters over Elsinore, California at 12:40 p.m. sighted a delta winged UFO as it passed the first Navy jet at a speed in excess of 240 knots. The UFO was half the length of the F3D-s (which is 22 feet long), had a wing span about equal to it (20 feet), and had a third fin on its upper half. It was the color of gun metal. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2994; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; UNICAT database, case 309, citing Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2713 ### Event 9720 (63D6120C) **Date:** 5/11/1954 **Location:** LAWTON, OKLA **Description:** Saucer hovers / 3m altitude. Small humanoid (or Grey) on ground beneath. Flash. Small humanoid (or Grey) gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin D.: The OCTOBER SCENARIO; Berkley Books, NY 1988. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3539 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "338", **HatchDesc:** "LAWTON,OKLA:SCR HOVERS/3m alt:OID ON GROUND BENEATH:FLASH:OID GONE.", **LatLong:** "34.616668 -98.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:37:00 N 98:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.616668,-98.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9721 (ACCA56E3) **Date:** 5/11/1954 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Piloceman saw 2 bright lights on 3 occasions fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2997) **Reference:** NICAP: [540511](http://www.nicap.org/washdc540511dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1657 ### Event 9722 (6C37298F) **Date:** 5/11/1954 **Time:** 10:45 PM **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Witnesses: three USAF. air policemen at Washington National Airport. Two bright lights were seen on three occasions to fly straight and level, make 90 degree turns and fade. Each sighting lasted about 45 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_343 ### Event 9723 (7A2B5E6D) **Date:** 5/11/1954 **Description:** On this day in 1954 a lone witness in Lawton, Oklahoma watched a disc-shaped object hovering ten feet above the ground. Below the object stood a four-foot tall figure. The humanoid disappeared in a flash of light after seeing the witness, then the object shot away at high speed towards the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1412, citing Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2735 ### Event 9724 (827AA96F) **Date:** 5/12/1954 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954 **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_533 ### Event 9725 (92CA4486) **Date:** 5/12/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** DAYTON, OH **Description:** 6 observer(s). Red "dinner-plate" on edge / 15 minute(s). Tips. Changes shape. Speeds off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3540 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "DAYTON,OH:6 OBS:RED "DINNER-PLATE" ON EDGE/15min:TIPS:CHANGES SHAPE:SPEEDS OFF", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -84.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 84:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-84.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9726 (B2D4647E) **Date:** 5/12/1954 **Locations:** National Airport in Washington, D.C.; Capitol building **Description:** 4:45 a.m. Three USAF Air Policemen \(A/1C [Mason W. Augst](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101683167/mason-wilbert-augst)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101683167/mason-wilbert-augst) A/1C George F. Wright, and A/1C Elmer A. Cruver\) are standing guard next to a hangar at National Airport in Washington, D.C. They see a formation of two UFOs fly over the Capitol building, and again at 5:15 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. The objects are glowing white. They appear just above the horizon to the northeast in a straight line, make a 90° turn, then move away to the south. Each pass takes 45 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 94; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 212; Edwards, FS—Here and Now!, Lyle Stuart, 1967, [pp. 84–85](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersher00edwa/page/84/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2420 ### Event 9727 (FE923CB6) **Date:** 5/12/1954 **Location:** Shepparton, Victoria, Australia **Description:** 4:00 p.m. White, silky filaments fall in strands averaging 30 feet in length over Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. A witness gathers some and, although they become wrinkled, they do not disintegrate. An analysis indicates in is a “pure white, silky, odorless, warm on touch like cotton, and different from cobwebs.” The threads are not sticky and stretch easily. It resembles raw silk or nylon, is not water soluble, and burns rapidly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 6–7; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2421 ### Event 9728 (E6820CA6) **Date:** 5/12/1954 **Description:** In 1954 a UFO shaped like a red dinner plate hung in the sky on edge for 15 minutes over Dayton, Ohio at around 7 p.m. It tipped, changed shaped, and then sped off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, June 1954, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2755 ### Event 9729 (21A0F6F3) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** PACIFIC 147° 12W-26° 05N **Description:** Night light paces Air Force-C124 / 5 minute(s). Returns blinks! Climbs going quickly northeast very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 194) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3541 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC 147°12W-26°05N:NLT PACES AF-C124/5min:RETURNS BLINKS!:CLIMBS>>NE VFAST", **LatLong:** "26.083335 -147.200007", **LatLongDMS:** "26:05:00 N 147:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.083335,-147.200007)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9730 (D560ED81) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** NEAR HAMMARFEST, NRWY **Description:** 3 bright object / V-formation going quickly southwest / fantastic speeds rotating. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3542 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr HAMMARFEST,NRWY:3 BRITE OBJ/V-FORMATION >>SW/FANTASTIC SPEEDS ROTATING", **LatLong:** "70.633337 23.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "70:38:00 N 23:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.633337,23.983334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9731 (41C0D701) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** NORRBOTTEN PROV, SWDN **Description:** 3 observer(s) / 3 separate towns. Brill saucer. Many UFO's in north all week. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3543 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NORRBOTTEN PROV,SWDN:3 OBS/3 SEP TOWNS:BRILL SCR::MANY UFOS IN NORTH ALL WEEK", **LatLong:** "67.000003 20.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "67:00:00 N 20:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/67.000003,20.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9732 (F026BE36) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** New-type RADAR tracks 350' UFO 15 mile(s) over DC. Moves / rectangular-box shaped pattern / 3 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-HERE AND NOW; 1967 Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1968. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3544 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:NEW-TYPE RDR TRACKS 350' UFO 15mi OVR DC:MOVES/RECT PATTERN/3hrs", **LatLong:** "38.916669 -77.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:55:00 N 77:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.916669,-77.000004)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9733 (020A10E6) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** KAUTOKEINO, NORWAY AND FINNMARK PROV **Description:** 3 cops and 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. 3 delta/triangle/box-like crafts in formation / 5 minute(s). 7K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3545 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KAUTOKEINO,NORWAY+FINNMARK PROV:3 COPS+2/BINOCS:3 DLTS/FORMATION/5min:7K'alt", **LatLong:** "69.016670 23.016668", **LatLongDMS:** "69:01:00 N 23:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.016670,23.016668)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9734 (4B4E275D) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Location:** Norrbotten Province, Sweden **Description:** Morning. Three persons in three different areas observed a "brilliant, silver colored sphere with a tail." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1658 ### Event 9735 (EAFBBF11) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Location:** Pacific bet. Hawaii and Calif, At Sea **Description:** Object Signals In Reponse To A/C Blink Lights (LBR) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540513](http://www.nicap.org/540513pacific%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1659 ### Event 9736 (1352C87E) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Ground Visual Over WNA For 3 Hours (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [540513](http://www.nicap.org/540513washington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1660 ### Event 9737 (5C5D5A5C) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Time:** 18:20:00.1 **Location:** 11.6705 162.1964 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Nectar” Yield: 1690KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_50 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6705 162.1964", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:14 N 162:11:47 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6705,162.1964)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Nectar", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1690" ### Event 9738 (7F0B561F) **Date:** 5/13/1954 **Description:** At 11:30 p.m. Navy Commander H. R. Penrose was driving homeward from Derby to Burton in Derbyshire, England when a bright light appeared ahead of his car, heading towards him. When it reached him he experienced a crash and was thrown forward against the windshield. The car then seemed to be lifted from the ground, and he was moved through the air while the bright light stayed above him. The car came to rest atop some metal railings, and he was lifted from it by a man in a one piece uniform, who effortlessly carried him through an entrance on the underside of a large round object that was hovering overhead, giving out a bright light. He was taken inside to a room, which had some controls that were being operated by men and women with short hair in coveralls. They questioned him telepathically about his naval experiences and his work with radar. Then a woman injected some green fluid into his arm, after which he had no more conscious memories of the experience. He was found, suffering from concussion, in his car atop some iron railings it had knocked down, and was taken to hospital. After his recovery he revisited the spot and succeeded in finding a railway signalman who said he had seen a car, with an extremely bright light above it, go past his signal box. Hypnotic regression was planned at the time of the report in 1978. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Margaret & Geoffrey Westwood, FSR, January 1978, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-11, citing Westwood **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2793 ### Event 9739 (D0E09F8F) **Date:** 5/14/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** 6MI WITH DALLAS, TX **Description:** 4 U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) jets chase 16 saucers / 10km altitude. Going quickly north. / MJ#253+/ r242p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3546 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "6mi W/DALLAS,TX:4 USMC JETS CHASE 16 SCRS/10km alt:>>N:/MJ#253+/r242p32", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -96.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 96:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-96.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9740 (366F802B) **Date:** 5/14/1954 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** NNE / GREAT YARMOUTH, UK **Description:** RAF jets chase huge disk / 50K' altitude. Fast 180° turn. Multiple RADAR-visual (observation.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3547 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "NNE/Gt.YARMOUTH,UK:RAF JETS CHASE HUGE DISK/50K'alt:FAST 180°TURN:MULT.RDR-VIS", **LatLong:** "52.783336 1.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:47:00 N 01:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.783336,1.733333)", **RelAlt:** "15000", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9741 (5158170D) **Date:** 5/14/1954 **Location:** Great Yarmouth (10 miles NNW of), UK **Description:** 30 ft silver or gray round object as seen from below, showing thin silhouette (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540514](http://www.nicap.org/540514greatyarmouth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1661 ### Event 9742 (AB447E0D) **Date:** 5/14/1954 **Location:** Dallas, TX **Description:** Four Navy Fighters Encounter 16 UFOs (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540514](http://www.nicap.org/540514dallas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1662 ### Event 9743 (D738D737) **Date:** 5/14/1954 **Location:** Dallas, Texas **Description:** Around 12 noon. A flight of Marine Reserve jets led by Maj. Charles Scarborough is headed north near Dallas, Texas. At a point 6 miles west of the city, Scarborough sights 16 unidentified objects in groups of four, dead ahead but at higher altitude, 15° above. He radios Capt. Roy L. Jorgensen, whose jet he has in sight by its contrail. Jorgensen, at a higher altitude, sees the UFOs below his left wing. Just as the two pilots try to box in the UFOs, Scarborough sees them fade from glowing white to orange and disappear, apparently speeding away due north. Triangulation shows that the UFOs were at about 32,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[4 Jet Fighters Report Race with ‘Saucers’ over](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1954a.htm) [Dallas,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1954a.htm)” Dallas \(Tex.\) Times Herald, May 18, 1954; NICAP, “[Four Navy Fighters Encounter 16 UFOs](http://www.nicap.org/540514dallas%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 32](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=44&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 213 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2422 ### Event 9744 (99839B63) **Date:** 5/15/1954 **Location:** Amarillo, TX **Description:** Air Force Chief Nathan Twining tells audience in Amarillo that best brains of Air Force are trying to solve the riddle of the flying saucers: "If they come from Mars, there is nothing to be alarmed about!" **Type:** statement **Reference:** ["My First 10,000,000 Sponsors" by Frank Edwards](https://www.amazon.com/My-First-10-000-Sponsors/dp/B0018MZV76), page 123 **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_534 ### Event 9745 (1DB5C769) **Date:** 5/15/1954 **Location:** US **Description:** General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, stated the best brains in the country were working on the UFO problem; Air Force could not explain 10 per cent of the sightings. [Quoted by United Press; Amarillo, Texas]. **Type:** public statement **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_880 ### Event 9746 (F48324BB) **Date:** 5/15/1954 **Location:** VIENNA, AUSTR **Description:** 5 observer(s). 3 saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation / r107p243. Also 06 October. Weathermen see odd UFO very high. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3548 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VIENNA,AUSTR:5 OBS:3 SCRS/DLT FORMn/r107p243:+06OCT:WEATHERMEN SEE ODD UFO VHI", **LatLong:** "48.200002 16.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:12:00 N 16:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.200002,16.366667)", **State/Prov:** "VIE", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9747 (4A5CA66E) **Date:** 5/15/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** BERLIN, GER **Description:** Many observer(s). 3 saucers zigzag. 300 reports / recent weeks. Ongoing. US military inv. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3549 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "BERLIN,GER:MANY OBS:3 SCRS ZIGZAG:300 REPORTS/RECENT WEEKS:ONGOING:US MIL INV.", **LatLong:** "52.500003 13.400001", **LatLongDMS:** "52:30:00 N 13:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.500003,13.400001)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9748 (5DBFE023) **Date:** 5/15/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPS **Description:** Man / (seen thru) telescope. Glowing-domed saucers pass moons face west going east. 5 lit windows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3550 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTHAMPTON,HAMPs:MAN/TSCOPE:GLOW-DOMED SCRS PASS MOONS FACE W>E:5 LIT WINDOWS", **LatLong:** "50.900002 -1.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:54:00 N 01:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.900002,-1.516667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9749 (60856649) **Date:** 5/15/1954 **Location:** Vienna, Austria **Description:** Three discs in formation. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1663 ### Event 9750 (54B12B8E) **Date:** Late Spring 1954 **Locations:** Norco, California; outskirts of Norco, California **Description:** Noon. A family living in a cottage on the outskirts of Norco, California, is sitting down for lunch when they hear a metallic droning sound. The mother and daughter go outside and see an object like a rowboat with a transparent dome, 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, pass slowly overhead, then stop and hover over a nearby tree. Inside the dome are five helmeted men staring at the witnesses. Their “rather long faces” are olive-colored, and their eyes and hair are dark. After a minute the droning sound resumes, and the object takes off slowly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald B. Hanlon, “[Occupants Observed at Norco,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 3 \(May/June 1968\): 15–16; Clark III 267 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2397 ### Event 9751 (57C5140F) **Date:** 5/15/1954 **Locations:** Amarillo AFB; Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport; Texas **Description:** Gen. [Nathan F. Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) USAF Chief of Staff, speaking at an Armed Forces Day dinner at Amarillo AFB \[now Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport\], Texas, says that the Air Force has the best brains in the country working on the “flying saucer problem.” He adds that about 90% of the reports are pure imagination, with the rest unexplained. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Looks into ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93824927/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, May 17, 1954, p. 38; Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 145–146 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2423 ### Event 9752 (5B76D196) **Date:** 5/16/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** ROMA, AUSTRALIA **Description:** 6+observer(s) / 65km area. Yellow 4M V-delta/triangle/box-like craft going quickly east. Turns over house. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3551 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROMA,AUSTRL:6+OBS/65km area:YLW 4M V-DLT >>E:TURNS OVR HOUSE:ABS SLNT:", **LatLong:** "-26.500001 148.800007", **LatLongDMS:** "26:30:00 S 148:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.500001,148.800007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9753 (7DE71F60) **Date:** 5/16/1954 **Description:** At least six observers in a 65 square kilometer area around Roma, Queensland, Australia sighted a yellow, V-shaped object flying to the east. It was estimated to be four meters wide. It turned over a house, and was absolutely silent as it flew. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3371, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2885 ### Event 9754 (36C45BC1) **Date:** 5/18/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** "Lens-saucer lands on base according to J. A. Hynek". No further details [in].. no cross reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILSON, Clifford: The ALIEN AGENDA; 1974 & Signet PB 1988. (religious interpretation.) (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3552 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1288", **HatchDesc:** "CANNON AFB,NM:"LENS-SCR LANDS ON BASE PER J.A.HYNEK":NFD..no cross reference.", **LatLong:** "34.383335 -103.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:23:00 N 103:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.383335,-103.333338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9755 (3012CEBF) **Date:** 5/18/1954 **Location:** Cannon AFB, NM **Description:** House-size lens-shaped object land near railroad tracks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1664 ### Event 9756 (153FF6B9) **Date:** 5/18/1954 **Location:** Elsinore, CA **Description:** Dark blue almost black gun-metal "glint" delta-shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2994) **Reference:** NICAP: [540518](http://www.nicap.org/540518elsinore%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1665 ### Event 9757 (7462AC88) **Date:** 5/18/1954 **Time:** 1900 **Location:** Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico **Description:** Two persons witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object the size of a house. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks, kicking up a small sand storm in the desert. One witness first decided to approach it, then ran away in fear. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Binder ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_129 ### Event 9758 (4E36856A) **Date:** 5/18/1954 **Description:** [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) mentions CRIFO on his radio program, and within a week [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) gets 6,000 letters. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 10–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2424 ### Event 9759 (921E5E6E) **Date:** 5/18/1954 **Description:** Two people witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object, the size of a house, at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks, kicking up a small sandstorm in the desert. One witness started to approach it, then ran away in fear. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Otto Binder, What We Really Know about Flying Saucers; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 206 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2950 ### Event 9760 (8E690C37) **Date:** 5/19/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BAY ST. LOUIS, MS **Description:** Fisherman. 3 red-yellow objects hang / sky / 45 minute(s). Bob going up and down. Glide away going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3553 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BAY St LOUIS,MS:FISHERMAN:3 RED-YEL OBJS HANG/SKY/45min:BOB↑+↓:GLIDE AWAY>>NE", **LatLong:** "30.311113 -89.327782", **LatLongDMS:** "30:18:40 N 89:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.311113,-89.327782)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9761 (E3D4E7B7) **Date:** 5/19/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SHOBLEY, HAMPS **Description:** Intense glare. 50' sphere/orb/globe going down / treetops. Glides down road going [to] Bruton, Somerset. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3554 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "SHOBLEY,HAMPS:INTENSE GLARE:50'ORB ↓/TREETOPS:GLIDES DOWN ROAD>BRUTON,SOMERSET", **LatLong:** "50.788891 -1.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:47:20 N 01:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.788891,-1.783333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9762 (E785905F) **Date:** 5/19/1954 **Description:** A Ms. Heffer in the hamlet of Shobley, in the New Forest, Hampshire, England saw an intense glare in the sky at around 11 p.m. A 50-foot orb descended to the treetops; it then glided down road toward Bruton, Somerset where a close encounter occurred at 2 a.m. the next morning. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2971 ### Event 9763 (A7721E3B) **Date:** 5/19/1954 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. a fisherman in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi watched three reddish-yellow objects that hung in the sky for 45 minuts. They bobbed up and down, and glided away fast to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 100 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2972 ### Event 9764 (61D06FCE) **Date:** 5/20/1954 **Location:** California **Description:** Private Frank Scully note at AHC: CIC officers told 3 weeks ago by Maj. May that 30 diamond drill bits were destroyed attempting to drill into a saucer with no effect (actual event could have been a long time before). **Type:** private notes **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_535 ### Event 9765 (ED8FAE64) **Date:** 5/20/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** 3MI / BRUTON, UK **Description:** Cyclist. 15m bright saucer / 6m altitude 27m away. / r3p247. Burning haystack? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3555 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "3mi/BRUTON,UK:CYCLIST:15m BRITE SCR/6m alt 27m away:/r3p247:burning haystack?", **LatLong:** "51.100002 -2.444445", **LatLongDMS:** "51:06:00 N 02:26:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.100002,-2.444445)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 9766 (B0041208) **Date:** 5/20/1954 **Time:** 0200 **Location:** Bruton, Great Britain **Description:** Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton. At Redlynch crossroads, he saw an orange glow in a field and observed it from a hedge. It came from a huge object 35 m away, less than 7 m above the ground, which made a throbbing sound. After 1 min, it moved toward the northwest, accelerating and climbing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 2; Humanoids 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_130 ### Event 9767 (062155B2) **Date:** 5/20/1954 **Location:** Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. **Description:** FBI officials recommend that Attorney General [Herbert Brownell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FBrownell%5FJr) authorize FBI break-ins to install bugs during national security investigations. The FBI would seek the Attorney General’s prior approval, as with wiretaps. Brownell concurs, but concludes that he “would be in a much better position to defend the Bureau in the event there should be a technical trespass if he had not heretofore approved it.” His directive empowers the FBI to break into homes and offices and install surveillance microphones without having to notify him or obtain advance approval in each case. The FBI has carte blanche on this until 1965. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bernie Horowitz, “[Wiretapping and J. Edgar](https://unredacted.com/2010/12/20/wiretapping-and-j-edgar-hoover/) [Hoover,](https://unredacted.com/2010/12/20/wiretapping-and-j-edgar-hoover/)” Unredacted, December 20, 2010 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2425 ### Event 9768 (1033A0CA) **Date:** 5/20/1954 **Description:** Mr. Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton, England. At Redlynch crossroads he saw an orange glow in a field and stopped to observe it from a hedge. The glow came from a huge object on the other side of the hedge only 35 meters away, hovering less than seven meters above the ground. It made a throbbing sound. After a minute it moved toward away the northwest, accelerating and climbing into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 206-207 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3004 ### Event 9769 (B2A84512) **Date:** 5/21/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** NASHVILLE, TN **Description:** Yellow cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / hills. Beams / fog. Shakes violently. Away extremely fast. / r136#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3556 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "133", **HatchDesc:** "NASHVILLE,TN:YLW CGR HVRs/HILLS:BEAMS/FOG:SHAKES VIOLENTLY:AWAY XFAST:/r136#6", **LatLong:** "36.166668 -86.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:10:00 N 86:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.166668,-86.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9770 (505A9AD6) **Date:** 5/22/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** LA PORTE, IN **Description:** Car radio and lights die as 3 saucers pass overhead. Beams / light to ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3557 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "LA PORTE,IN:CAR RADIO+LITES DIE AS 3 SCRS PASS OVHD:BEAMS/LITE TO GROUND", **LatLong:** "41.616669 -86.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:37:00 N 86:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.616669,-86.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9771 (29EB7FFF) **Date:** 5/22/1954 **Location:** La Porte, IN **Description:** A bright light make a shallow climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3009) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1666 ### Event 9772 (54B6C703) **Date:** 5/22/1954 **Time:** 9:15 PM **Location:** LaPorte, Indiana **Description:** Witnesses: highway engineer R.W. Dring, engineer Geert Tibma. One bright light made a shallow climb for 45 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_344 ### Event 9773 (14DE7E4F) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** EAST / TAHORA, NI, NZ **Description:** 3 pilots. Several huge disks / row. All going up [to] fast / steep angle. / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 646) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3558 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "E/TAHORA,NI,NZ:3 PILOTS:SVRL HUGE DISKS/ROW:ALL ↑ FAST/STEEP ANGLE:/r171", **LatLong:** "-39.000002 175.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 S 175:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.000002,175.000008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9774 (15653A69) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** NEAR RICHMOND, IN **Description:** Blue Book. USAF RB29. Reconnaissance photographs / 125' saucer. = Indianapolis / r237p159. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 355) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3559 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "340", **HatchDesc:** "nr RICHMOND,IN:BBK:USAF RB29:RECON FOTOS/125' SCR:=INDIANAPOLIS/r237p159", **LatLong:** "39.833335 -84.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:50:00 N 84:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.833335,-84.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9775 (D0845C5E) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SANTA ANA CANYON, CA **Description:** 2 / car. 2 shiny objects rise / dam and shoot quickly going up / sequence. Comet tails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3560 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA ANA CANYON,CA:2/CAR:2 SHINY OBJs RISE/DAM+SHOOT ↑↑/sequence:comet tails", **LatLong:** "33.833335 -117.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 N 117:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.833335,-117.750006)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9776 (F6017CA8) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEAR COR.BRANDSEN, ARG **Description:** Classic luminous saucer going down / 1M altitude. 2 human-like shadows inside.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3561 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "nr Cor.BRANDSEN,ARG:CLASSIC LUMn.SCR ↓/1M alt:2 HUMAN-LIKE SHADOWS INSIDE..", **LatLong:** "-35.172224 -58.227781", **LatLongDMS:** "35:10:20 S 58:13:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.172224,-58.227781)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9777 (E4876719) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Location:** Dayton (15 miles NW of ), OH **Description:** 2 USAF crew members of RB-29 saw circular object below the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1667 ### Event 9778 (173C077A) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Location:** Richmond, IN **Description:** B-17 Photographic Mission Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540524](http://www.nicap.org/540524richmond%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1668 ### Event 9779 (5AA723BE) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Location:** Richmond, Indiana **Description:** 12:25 p.m. While flying on a photographic mapping mission 10 miles west-northwest of Richmond, Indiana, in a B-17, USAF Maj. [Leo N. Brubaker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8793163/leo-nace-brubaker) observes and photographs a bright object below the plane for 45 seconds. The aircraft is flying at an altitude of 18,500 feet at 253 mph. The speed of the object is estimated at 506 mph. The object travels six miles at that speed. The photos are taken with a USAF T-11 mapping camera. Brubaker denies the object is a sundog. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[B-17 Photographic Mission Case](http://www.nicap.org/540524richmond%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 213 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2426 ### Event 9780 (F72E4E0D) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Description:** At 12:25 p.m. a B-17 on a photo mapping mission over Richmond, Indiana and flying at an altitude of 18,500 feet, suddenly noticed a UFO below and to the right of the plane, moving on a different heading. Leo Brubaker, one of the crewmembers, took a photograph of the object, directed downward toward the clouds, which shows an overexposed bright round blob of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report form dated May 24, 1954; UNICAT database, case 604, citing David R. Saunders, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee went wrong, p. 69 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3060 ### Event 9781 (B4954C79) **Date:** 5/24/1954 **Description:** A classic disc-shaped, luminous UFO hovered only a meter above the ground along Highway 3, 15 kilometers outside of Colonel Brandsen, Argentina at 11:50 p.m. Two human-like shadows were seen moving around inside the object. There were two witnesses named Atencio and Garcia and the sighting lasted for about a minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Roberto Enrique Banchs, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1976, p. 25; UNICAT datbase, case 541, citing Roberto Banchs, OVNIS y sus Ocupantes, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3061 ### Event 9782 (A20BB639) **Date:** 5/25/1954 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** NEAR MITCHELL, QLD, AUS **Description:** Several report(s) / 100mi stretch / road. Silent saucer-delta and more / orange cylinder/cigar-shape. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3562 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "nr MITCHELL,QLD,AUS:SVRL RPTS/100mi STRETCH/ROAD:SILENT SCR-DELTA+/ORG.CGR:NFD", **LatLong:** "-27.000001 147.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "27:00:00 S 147:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.000001,147.750007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9783 (158B1305) **Date:** 5/25/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ST. IVES, CORNWALL **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape / 5000' altitude. Hissing sound. Blue-black. Terrific speed. 2nd observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3563 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "118", **HatchDesc:** "St IVES,CORNWALL:CGR/5000' ALT:HISSING SOUND:BLUE-BLACK:TERRIFIC SPEED:2nd OBS", **LatLong:** "50.200002 -5.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:12:00 N 05:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.200002,-5.483334)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9784 (7C792A7E) **Date:** 5/27/1954 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** ROGERSVILLE, TN **Description:** 3 TVA men. 2 silver orbs / 20K' altitude near steam-plant. Instant speed going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3564 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "394", **HatchDesc:** "ROGERSVILLE,TN:3 TVA MEN:2 SLVR ORBS/20K'alt nr STEAM-PLANT:INSTANT SPEED >>W", **LatLong:** "36.405557 -83.005560", **LatLongDMS:** "36:24:20 N 83:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.405557,-83.005560)", **RelAlt:** "6000", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9785 (5ACF113E) **Date:** 5/28/1954 **Description:** Test pilot [Arthur W. Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FMurray) reaches an unofficial record altitude of 90,440 feet in a Bell X-1A. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Arthur W. Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FMurray)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2427 ### Event 9786 (9A5C6232) **Date:** 5/29/1954 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SR 86 / WILLCOX TO/FROM BENSON, AZ **Description:** 50' silver saucer tilts toward(s) car. Rights itself. Continues going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3565 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1180", **HatchDesc:** "SR 86/WILLCOX>E", **LatLong:** "32.116668 -110.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:07:00 N 110:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.116668,-110.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9787 (1A46E741) **Date:** 5/29/1954 **End date:** 5/31/1954 **Location:** Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands **Description:** The first conference of European and North American political, business, finance, academic, and media leaders later to become known as the Bilderberg group, meets at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. Its agenda, originally to prevent another world war, is now defined as bolstering a consensus around free market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe. The first meeting is initiated by several people, including Polish politician-in-exile [Józef Retinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef%5FRetinger) who, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, proposes an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting Atlanticism. Retinger approaches [Prince Bernhard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FBernhard%5Fof%5FLippe-Biesterfeld) of the Netherlands who agrees to promote the idea, together with former Belgian prime minister [Paul van Zeeland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5Fvan%5FZeeland) and the then-head of Unilever, [Paul Rykens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FRykens)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FRykens)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Bilderberg meeting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg%5Fmeeting)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2428 ### Event 9788 (3C7FCD4A) **Date:** 5/30/1954 **Location:** CEDAR CITY, UT **Description:** Cop Jack Miller. Glowing circular object hovers over US91. No planes up. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3566 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1778", **HatchDesc:** "CEDAR CITY,UT:COP Jack Miller:GLOWING CIRC.OBJ HVRS ovr US91:no planes up:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.677780 -113.061117", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:40 N 113:03:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.677780,-113.061117)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9789 (428186BD) **Date:** 5/30/1954 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** EAST MALVERN, AUS **Description:** 6 observer(s). Saucer / ground level. Figures move / portholes / bottom/underside. / r174p79+/ r107p47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 646) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3567 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "E.MALVERN,AUS:6 OBS:SCR/GND LVL:FIGURES MOVE/PORTHOLES/BTM:/r174p79+/r107p47", **LatLong:** "-37.866668 145.066674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:52:00 S 145:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.866668,145.066674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9790 (D96C8BB5) **Date:** 5/30/1954 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** NEAR LAS VEGAS, NV **Description:** C47 crew. Wingless fuselage / phenomenal speed going quickly [to] east-northeast. = meteor / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3568 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "nr LAS VEGAS,NV:C47 CREW:WINGLESS FUSELAGE/PHENOMENAL SPEED>>ENE:=METEOR/BBK", **LatLong:** "36.183335 -115.150005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:11:00 N 115:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.183335,-115.150005)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9791 (FB3E48AE) **Date:** 5/30/1954 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** BAINBRIDGE, NY **Description:** Silver saucer with 4 portholes. Accelerates and shoots away. / LDLN#326 p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3569 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "307", **HatchDesc:** "BAINBRIDGE,NY:SLVR SCR W/4 PORTHOLES:ACCELERATES+SHOOTS AWAY:/LDLN#326 p19.", **LatLong:** "42.294446 -75.477781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:40 N 75:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.294446,-75.477781)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9792 (A26277DE) **Date:** 5/30/1954 **Location:** Bambridge, NY **Description:** Silvery elliptical UFO with four "portholes" accelerated and shot away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1669 ### Event 9793 (0EB36B3B) **Date:** 5/30/1954 **Location:** East Malvern, Victoria, Australia **Description:** 12:25 a.m. David Reese, [Christopher Muir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FMuir), and four others are at the doorstep of a house in East Malvern, Victoria, Australia, when they see an orange, oval-shaped UFO appear in the sky at close range. The UFO maneuvers in a downward curve and then pulls up. A cloud of yellow smoke and flame is seen at the rear. Three of the witnesses see shapes that look like human-shaped shadows inside the craft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996; UFO Evidence, “Human Figures Seen in Saucer”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 January–May, Supplemental Notes](http://www.cufos.org/UFO%5FHistory%5FGross/1954%5F01%5F05%5FHistorySN.pdf), The Author, 2002, pp. 46–50 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2429 ### Event 9794 (A18A324D) **Date:** 5/30/1954 **Description:** Five men and a woman on the doorstep of a house in East Malvern, Victoria, Australia watched an orange, oval-shaped UFO appear in the sky at close range at 12:25 a.m. The UFO maneuvered in a downward curve and then pulled up. A cloud of yellow smoke and flame was seen at the rear. Three of the witnesses saw shapes that looked like human-shaped shadows inside the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Melbourne Argus, May 31, 1954; Melbourne Daily Telegram, May 31, 1964; James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, p. 53; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3164 ### Event 9795 (27F3125F) **Date:** 5/31/1954 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** CONCORD, NH **Description:** 1 observer. Elongated very-white object at extreme speed. Blinks out / 10 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3570 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "87", **HatchDesc:** "CONCORD,NH:1 OBS:ELONGATED VERY-WHT OBJ AT EXTREME SPEED:BLINKS OUT/10sec", **LatLong:** "43.200002 -71.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "43:12:00 N 71:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.200002,-71.550003)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 9796 (8A15E6A6) **Date:** 5/31/1954 **Time:** 21:20? **Location:** SR 6 / DOTY TO/FROM CHELAHIS, WA **Description:** Cop and 1. Saucer going north / terrific speed. Stops. Shoots going quickly east. / news report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3571 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "SR 6/DOTY> N/TERRIFIC SPEED:STOPS:SHOOTS>>E:/NEWS RPT", **LatLong:** "46.633336 -122.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:38:00 N 122:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.633336,-122.250006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9797 (30F9B121) **Date:** 5/31/1954 **Location:** Concord, NH **Description:** Very white, elongated object fly extremely fast then blink out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3020) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1670 ### Event 9798 (A35812B1) **Date:** 5/31/1954 **Time:** 10:15 AM **Location:** Concord, New Hampshire **Description:** Witness: Mrs. L.K. Stevens. One very white, elongated object flew very, very fast, and then blinked out after 8-10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_345 ### Event 9799 (846AF690) **Date:** 6/1954 **Location:** UTICA, MI **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC). 10 saucers / V formation follow B29 going quickly west. 3 break away and check Piper cubs. / MJ#254. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3572 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "192", **HatchDesc:** "UTICA,MI:GOC:10 SCRS/VFORM FOLO B29>>W:3 BREAK AWAY+CHECK PIPER CUBS:/MJ#254", **LatLong:** "42.633335 -83.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:38:00 N 83:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.633335,-83.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9800 (908696FE) **Date:** 6/1954 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** HARPTREE, SSK **Description:** Droning sound. 50' transparent saucer. 2 men operate lever. Going south. / LDLN#339p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS & CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3573 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "730", **HatchDesc:** "HARPTREE,SSK:DRONING SOUND:50' XPARENT SCR:2 MEN OPERATE LEVER:>S:/LDLN#339p7.", **LatLong:** "49.316669 -105.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "49:19:00 N 105:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.316669,-105.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9801 (9F0017A5) **Date:** 6/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** TORRE DE'PICENARDI, ITL **Description:** 10M teardrop lands / tripod. 2 2M pseudo-human/entity exit and look / plants. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3574 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "TORRE de'PICENARDI,ITL:10M TEARDROP LANDS/TRIPOD:2 2M PSH EXIT+LOOK/PLANTS", **LatLong:** "45.133335 10.283334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:00 N 10:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.133335,10.283334)", **State/Prov:** "CR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9802 (A9A3DC78) **Date:** 6/1/1954 **Time:** 09:30? **Location:** 10 MI NORTH / BOSTON, MA **Description:** TWA crew. Large white saucer flies into wind. Hides / clouds. / r242p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 702) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3575 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "10mi N/BOSTON,MA:TWA CREW:LRG WHT SCR FLIES INTO WIND:HIDES/CLOUDS:/r242p40", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -71.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 71:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-71.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9803 (9642AFFF) **Date:** 6/1/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 17:30? **Location:** MALDON, VCT **Description:** Cop. Saucer hovers near ground. Figure(s) move inside. Dives. Spins on edge. Leaves (something behind) trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3576 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MALDON,VCT:COP:SCR HVRS nr GND:FIGs MOVE INSIDE:DIVES:SPINS on EDGE:LVS TRAIL", **LatLong:** "-37.000002 144.066674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 S 144:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.000002,144.066674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9804 (A5D12AF8) **Date:** 6/1/1954 **Location:** Boston (near), MA **Description:** TWA Crew Spot White Disc / Kratovil Case (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540601](http://www.nicap.org/540601boston%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1671 ### Event 9805 (2B67E3E3) **Date:** 6/1/1954 **Location:** Minneapolis, MN **Description:** Object with running lights fly at 24,000-44,000 ft altitude (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3029) **Reference:** NICAP: [540601](http://www.nicap.org/540601minneap%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1672 ### Event 9806 (A3748C68) **Date:** 6/1/1954 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** from 400 miles south to Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** Witnesses: crew of USAF B-47 jet bomber at 34,000' altitude. One object with running lights flew at 24-44,000' altitude for 1 hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_346 ### Event 9807 (5870B1BB) **Date:** 6/1/1954 **Locations:** Paris; New York; Boston, Massachusetts **Description:** 9:30–9:40 a.m. TWA pilot Capt. [Charles J. Kratovil](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47885416/charles-joseph-kratovil)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47885416/charles-joseph-kratovil) copilot W. R. Davis, and flight engineer Harold Raney, on a Paris to New York TWA Constellation heading southwest, spot near Boston, Massachusetts, “a large, white- colored disc-like object” overhead, occasionally losing it behind overlying clouds. Flying into west-southwest headwinds at 300 mph, they conclude it cannot be a balloon, and radio Boston airport control tower, which tells them jets are scrambled. They then see the object at about 10,000 feet higher than their 10,000 feet altitude but cannot close with the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[TWA Crew Spot White Disc / Kratovil Case](http://www.nicap.org/540601boston%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 214; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 68–69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2432 ### Event 9808 (173B4548) **Date:** 6/1/1954 **Description:** The Air Force announces that it only received 87 UFO sightings in January–April. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Most ‘Saucers’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93830164/) [Explainable,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93830164/)” Traverse City \(Mich.\) Record-Eagle, June 1, 1954, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2433 ### Event 9809 (E8ECFB70) **Date:** 6/1/1954 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. the crew of a USAF B-47 jet bomber was flying at 34,000' altitude located 400 miles south of Minneapolis, Minnesota when they spotted an unknown craft with running lights that flew at 24,000-44,000' altitude for one hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3029; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 45 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3198 ### Event 9810 (DAD51DB5) **Date:** 6/3/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** DE KALB, TX **Description:** 3 observer(s). Silver saucer going quickly ESE. Blue Book report cites telex / Ramey Air Force Base, PR = UFO / 1930hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 206) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3577 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "124", **HatchDesc:** "De KALB,TX:3 OBS:SLVR SCR>>ESE::BBK REPORT CITES TWX/RAMEY AFB, PR=UFO/1930hrs", **LatLong:** "33.516668 -94.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:31:00 N 94:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.516668,-94.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9811 (BF655B78) **Date:** 6/4/1954 **Location:** Edwards AFB **Description:** From Leonard Stringfield’s CRIFO newsletter: “Mantle of Mystery Shrouds Muroc”. A source in CA writes in a letter that the US government has “captured discs”. “In the strictness secrecy these objects are being examined by the top ‘brains’ in the country…Information regarding the discs propulsion, metal and structure would be sugar in the hands of the Russians.” **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_536 ### Event 9812 (2C965932) **Date:** 6/5/1954 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** EAST DANDENONG, AUS **Description:** 14 observer(s). Silent 10M domed cylinder/cylindrical object hovers. Size = railroad/railway car. / r229'82#2+/ r138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3578 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "E.DANDENONG,AUS:14 OBS:SLNT 10M DOMED CYL HVRS:SIZE=RR CAR:/r229'82#2+/r138", **LatLong:** "-37.983335 145.216674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:59:00 S 145:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.983335,145.216674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9813 (DE654517) **Date:** 6/5/1954 **Locations:** Princes Highway (M1); Dandenong, Victoria, Australia; University of Melbourne **Description:** 6:23 p.m. Janette Brown, 16, is standing on Princes Highway \(M1\) at Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, when she hears a loud drumming noise. A large, dark cylinder, about 30 feet long and 15 feet high with a canopy and window on top and a window at each end, appears above a nearby factory. She shines a flashlight on it, and it whirrs toward her. It hovers about 60 feet away. Her friend, Jeanette Johnston, 13, arrives and watches it before it disappears behind trees. Janette’s wristwatch stops, although it starts running again when it is demagnetized. The case is investigated for the RAAF by University of Melbourne physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFO Evidence, “[Teenage Girls See Saucer](http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case19.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2434 ### Event 9814 (451B6CEE) **Date:** 6/5/1954 **Description:** In East Dandenong, Victoria at 6:23 p.m. on this evening in 1954, a sixteen-year-old girl and her best friend were terrified by a 10 meter long cylinder that hovered only 20 meters above them. A wristwatch stopped working and their flashlight's battery was reportedly drained. The craft had a window on top and a bluish light on each end, and made a drumming noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP case investigation files. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3292 ### Event 9815 (3B8CF54A) **Date:** 6/6/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR MODOC POINT, OR **Description:** 2 / plane. 2 saucers fly / parallel / 1500M altitude. Bright / overcast sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3579 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1300", **HatchDesc:** "nr MODOC POINT,OR:2/PLANE:2 SCRs FLY/PARALLEL/1500M alt:BRITE/OVERCAST SKY", **LatLong:** "42.433335 -121.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "42:26:00 N 121:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.433335,-121.850006)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9816 (72BB09E7) **Date:** 6/7/1954 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Local news only. Round object glows. Sharp turns / airliner speed. 1km altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3580 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:local news only:RND OBJ GLOWS:SHARP TURNS/AIRLINER SPEED:1km alt", **LatLong:** "38.950002 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.950002,-77.033337)", **RelAlt:** "1000", **State/Prov:** "DC", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9817 (42D374D2) **Date:** 6/7/1954 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, CA **Description:** 1 / car / US99. 12M metallic saucer hovers over summit / 15+min. 1 mile(s) altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3581 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "231", **HatchDesc:** "SUPERSTITION Mtn,CA:1/CAR/US99:12M MTLC SCR HVRS ovr SUMMIT/15+min:1mi.alt", **LatLong:** "33.350002 -115.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:21:00 N 115:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.350002,-115.866672)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9818 (D9B3AAB5) **Date:** 6/7/1954 **Location:** unknown Location, West Germany **Description:** 2 glowing discs descend vertically then rise rapidly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1673 ### Event 9819 (3D6CDC19) **Date:** 6/7/1954 **End date:** 6/8/1954 **Locations:** Pentagon; Cincinnati, Ohio; Utah **Description:** PIO Capt. Robert White at the Pentagon repeats the 87 reports statistic from June 1 and counters that reports are at a three-year-low because of less publicity. [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)’s colleague, Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Tom Eickhoff, storms into the office of ATIC Deputy Commander of Intelligence Col. [John O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm) and demands that ATIC press legal action against contactees [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) O’Mara replies that these people are obvious hoaxers and need no special action. But he lets slip that USAF fighters regularly carry movie cameras to take photos of UFOs. Eickhoff says that is a big waste of money if there is nothing to UFOs. O’Mara then states to Stringfield the next day that the Air Force actually receives 700 UFO reports a week, the 87 figure only applies to cases under “special analysis,” over 1,000 leading scientists are working on government UFO projects, the material used by [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) in his book was not cleared through official channels, and the Utah film exists but only shows conventional objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 157–160; “[700 ‘Saucer’ Sightings Weekly Reported to Air Force,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(July 2, 1954\): 1; “[Proof of](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf) [Air Force Cover-Up,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(July 2, 1954\): 1–2; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 85, 167–168; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 137–138](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/136/mode/2up); Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! Lyle Stuart, 1967, [p. 86](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersher00edwa/page/86/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2435 ### Event 9820 (B35EFF73) **Date:** 6/7/1954 **Description:** On this day in 1954, while driving between Indio and Brawley, California on US highway 99, a witness spotted a 12-meter diameter metallic disc hovering one mile above Mount Superstition for more than 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 339 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3348 ### Event 9821 (B4C40894) **Date:** 6/8/1954 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** NORTH / DARMSTADT, GERM **Description:** Electric engineer and 1 / bus. 2 bright objects swoop down and back up and gone. 0 / RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 710) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3582 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "N/DARMSTADT,GERM:ELEC.ENG+1/BUS:2 BRITE OBJS SWOOP DOWN+BACK UP+gone:0/RDR", **LatLong:** "50.000002 8.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:00:00 N 08:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.000002,8.683334)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9822 (0E64751A) **Date:** 6/8/1954 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** SELBITZ, GERM **Description:** 2+1 separate observer(s). 25cm bright disk going quickly west. 180° turn going quickly east. 5 repeats in all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 710) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3583 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SELBITZ,GERM:2+1 SEP.OBS:25cm BRITE DISK >>W:180°TURN >>E:5 REPEATS IN ALL:", **LatLong:** "50.316669 11.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "50:19:00 N 11:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.316669,11.750001)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9823 (A589C8A6) **Date:** 6/8/1954 **Time:** 1 AM or 2:30 AM **Location:** Texarkana, Texas **Description:** (file not clear). Witness: L.T. Prewitt, employee of Red River Arsenal. One golden yellow light flew over his house, making a "shhh" or buzzing sound for 2 minutes. 9:09 PM Witness: USAF pilot ht. One white light descended at **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_347 ### Event 9824 (2016F85C) **Date:** 6/8/1954 **Location:** Eliot, Maine **Description:** Contactee Frances Swan of Eliot, Maine, has been in telepathic contact with Affa, a spaceman from Uranus, since 1954. She manages to impress her next-door neighbor, retired Adm. [Herbert B.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Knowles.htm) [Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23), sufficiently for him to write Rear Adm. [Carl F. Espe](https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=525257), head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He encloses some of Affa’s transcribed messages and suggests that ONI try to communicate with Affa through Band CMM-306, repeating the signal M4M4 AFFA. Two ONI officers, Captains John Bromley and [Harry Baltazzi](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18708343/harry-warner-baltazzi), visit Swan and through her interview Affa, who agrees to communicate with them by radio on June 10. When that does not happen, Espe writes to Knowles saying that ONI will pursue the matter no further. He turns the letters over to the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1118 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2436 ### Event 9825 (291CCAEC) **Date:** 6/8/1954 **Description:** Sometime after one o'clock in the morning and before 2:30 a.m. Mr. L. T. Prewitt, an employee of the Red River Arsenal, sighted a golden yellow light fly over his house in Texarkana, Texas for two minutes, making a "shhhh" or buzzing sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3037; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3368 ### Event 9826 (1CFA41F1) **Date:** 6/9/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 black saucers wobble going quickly west. Ash falls. Disintegrates. / r138#2p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3584 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MA:2 OBS:2 BLK SCRS WOBBLE >>W:ASH FALLS:DISINTEGRATES:/r138#2p15", **LatLong:** "42.700002 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:42:00 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.700002,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9827 (92E16C3F) **Date:** 6/9/1954 **Location:** Texarkana, TX **Description:** Man saw golden yellow light fly over his house (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3037) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1674 ### Event 9828 (BBBC61CD) **Date:** 6/9/1954 **Time:** 1820 **Location:** East Dandenong, Australia **Description:** Janet Brown, 16, and a 13-year-old friend heard a loud noise and saw a large, dark object that "burst into light" hovering 20 m away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 m long, 5 m high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind some trees. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 216 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_131 ### Event 9829 (CB8F82C2) **Date:** 6/9/1954 **Location:** Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** Col. [Frank Milani](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95411954/frank-milani)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95411954/frank-milani) director of Civil Defense in Baltimore, Maryland, demands that the Air Force ease its restrictions on UFO information and blasts its policy on [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html)’s radio show. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “A Lot of People Are Upset,” Washington \(D.C.\) Daily News, June 10, 1954; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1954](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/1954goc.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2437 ### Event 9830 (7C3AB8EA) **Date:** 6/9/1954 **Description:** Janet Brown, age 16, and a 13-year-old friend of East Dandenong, Victoria heard a loud noise at 6:20 p.m. and saw a large, dark object that "burst into light" hovering 20 meters away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 meters long, 5 meters high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind some trees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 216; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3383 ### Event 9831 (61FB4FE8) **Date:** 6/10/1954 **Location:** MELBOURNE, AUST **Description:** 12 observer(s). Ovoid buzzes over suburbs. Size = railroad car. / r30p68. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3585 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MELBOURNE,AUST:12 OBS:OVOID BUZZES OVER SUBURBS:SIZE=RAILROAD CAR:/r30p68:NFD", **LatLong:** "-37.783335 145.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:00 S 145:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.783335,145.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9832 (68825A14) **Date:** 6/10/1954 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** DUSSELDORF, GERM **Description:** Airport/apartment officers. Metallic saucer / 18000' altitude. Tremendous speed. Reflects sun. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3586 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DUSSELDORF,GERM:APT OFFICERS:MTLC SCR/18000' ALT:TREMENDOUS SPEED:REFLECTS SUN", **LatLong:** "51.233336 6.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "51:14:00 N 06:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.233336,6.783334)", **State/Prov:** "NRW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9833 (3F643DD9) **Date:** 6/10/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** OVER LLANO ESTACADO, TX **Description:** Air Force pilot and 1. 100' white night light going down / sky. Blinks. 360-turns. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 215) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3587 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "975", **HatchDesc:** "ovr LLANO ESTACADO,TX:AF PILOT+1:100'WHT NLT↓/SKY:BLINKS:360-TURNS:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "33.500002 -102.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:30:00 N 102:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.500002,-102.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9834 (BED2B3CD) **Date:** 6/10/1954 **Location:** Estacado, TX **Description:** AF Pilots See Light Descend, Maneuver (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3042) **Reference:** NICAP: [540610](http://www.nicap.org/540610estacado%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1675 ### Event 9835 (13D931C3) **Date:** 6/10/1954 **Time:** 9:09 PM **Location:** Estacado, Texas **Description:** Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Bill McDonald, in flight. One white light descended at 45 degrees from great altitude, passed under his aircraft, made two 360' turns and went out after 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_348 ### Event 9836 (C5F1CEBC) **Date:** 6/11/1954 **Location:** ZURICH, SWITZ **Description:** 50 calls going [to] police. Saucer circles city / 20 minute(s). / German reports. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3588 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "ZURICH,SWITZ:50 CALLS>POLICE:SCR CIRCLES CITY/20min:/GERMAN REPORTS", **LatLong:** "47.366669 8.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:22:00 N 08:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.366669,8.533334)", **State/Prov:** "ZRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9837 (22F53F24) **Date:** 6/11/1954 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** NNW / ATLANTA, GA **Description:** Astronomer HP Wilkins / plane. 2 50' saucers emerge / cloud. 3rd joins. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-SERIOUS BUSINESS; Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1966. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3589 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "NNW/ATLANTA,GA:ASTRONOMER HP WILKINS/PLANE:2 50' SCRS EMERGE/CLOUD:3rd JOINS:", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-84.500004)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9838 (06AED440) **Date:** 6/11/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** PERTH, WEST AUS **Description:** 30M shiny bronze ovoid with 3 lit portholes / dull dome going northeast / plane speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3590 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PERTH,W.AUS:30M SHINY BRONZE OVOID W/3 LIT PORTHOLES/DULL DOME >NE/PLANE SPEED", **LatLong:** "-31.866668 115.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "31:52:00 S 115:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.866668,115.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9839 (7BD6257F) **Date:** 6/11/1954 **Location:** Baltimore, MD **Description:** Huge glowing object seen by GOC observers; alternately hovered, moved rapidly. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1676 ### Event 9840 (B38CA2D0) **Date:** 6/11/1954 **Description:** While flying from Charleston, West Virginia to Atlanta on this morning, British astronomer H. Percy Wilkins observed two brilliant, oval shaped objects above the clouds 2 miles away. "Sharp edged," bright gold in color, they "looked exactly like polished metal plates reflecting the sunlight," he wrote. They moved in slow motion northwards as the clouds drifted south. He also noticed a third UFO, this one gray in color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers --Serious Business, pg. 47. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3416 ### Event 9841 (EFEE6B11) **Date:** 6/12/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** WILMINGTON, DE **Description:** Huge object / 22km altitude. Square trajectory. Jets can't reach. BACK14JUN. / r173p161. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3591 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,DE:HUGE OBJ/22km alt:SQR.TRAJ:JETS CANT REACH:BACK14JUN:/r173p161", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -75.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 75:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-75.566670)", **RelAlt:** "22000", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9842 (3011BFD1) **Date:** 6/12/1954 **Location:** Baltimore & Washington, DC area, Various **Description:** Baltimore & Washington, DC area, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [540612](http://www.nicap.org/540612baltimore%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1677 ### Event 9843 (10E1F127) **Date:** 6/12/1954? **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and [Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) find out about the [O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm) interview, and Edwards puts it on his radio broadcast, generating more press calls to ATIC. Capt. [Charles A. Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) head of Blue Book, states that “Colonel O’Mara’s words were misinterpreted. What he meant to say was that if all the sightings were reported to the Air Force, they would total about 700 a week.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 157–160; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf) [June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 11–14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2438 ### Event 9844 (7AEC7E71) **Date:** 6/12/1954 **Locations:** Hyattsville, Maryland; Wilmington, Delaware **Description:** 11:30 p.m. [Walter L. Tatspaugh](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65740781/walter-ludlow-tatspaugh) of Hyattsville, Maryland, observes a large bluish-green oval or round object circling and hovering in the sky for at least 45 minutes. The Baltimore GOC Filter Center allegedly tracks an object on radar over Wilmington, Delaware, for an hour. Two F-86D fighters are scrambled but cannot reach it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Tracked / Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/540612baltimore%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 161–162 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2439 ### Event 9845 (CD71BFE7) **Date:** 6/13/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BOSTON, MASS **Description:** White ball hovers / 15 minute(s). 2 night lights exit and return. Vanishes. Reappears. Shrinks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3592 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON,MASS:WHT BALL HVRS/15min:2 NLTS EXIT+RETURN:VANISHES:REAPPEARS:SHRINKS", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -71.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 71:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-71.050003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9846 (FE3CA63C) **Date:** 6/13/1954 **Description:** A sphere was observed hovering over Boston, Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. Two lights exited from the sphere and returned to it. The object then vanished, but shortly reappeared, then shrank in size and brightness. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. June-August 1954, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3455 ### Event 9847 (9D391B0F) **Date:** 6/14/1954 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** STATEN ISLAND, NY **Description:** 1 observer. White sphere appears / nowhere. Moves / arc / 2 second(s). Drops. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3593 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "STATEN ISL,NY:1 OBS:WHT SPHERE APPEARS/NOWHERE:MOVES/ARC/2sec:DROPS:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -74.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 74:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-74.150004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9848 (C2D81F1B) **Date:** 6/14/1954 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** SYDNEY, AUST **Description:** Night lights play. Flaming "Trolley" going west from botany bay / 15 June. / r138#2p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3594 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "SYDNEY,AUST:NLTS PLAY:FLAMING "TROLLEY" >W from BOTANY BAY/15JUNE:/r138#2p20", **LatLong:** "-33.916668 151.183341", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 S 151:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.916668,151.183341)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9849 (A7A31383) **Date:** 6/14/1954 **Location:** Wilmington, Delaware **Description:** A UFO is again tracked over Wilmington, Delaware, flying in a rectangular course at 75,000 feet for more than 2 hours. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 161–162; UFOEv, [p. 66](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=78&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2440 ### Event 9850 (4B52E683) **Date:** 6/14/1954 **Description:** Jets were scrambled but could not reach a hovering craft at high altitude in the sky between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State: A chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3472 ### Event 9851 (34F4B9FA) **Date:** 6/15/1954 (approximate) **Location:** KIRIMUKUYU, KENYA **Description:** Night lights strike with a disabling beam noisy wedding. All found dead! / r5p116+/ NICAP and more / APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3595 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kenya", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "KIRIMUKUYU,KENYA:NLT'S ZAP NOISY WEDDING:ALL FOUND DEAD!:/r5p116+/NICAP+/APRO", **LatLong:** "1.016667 36.900002", **LatLongDMS:** "01:01:00 N 36:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.016667,36.900002)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9852 (F79293C1) **Date:** 6/15/1954 **Location:** FOUR ELMS, KENT **Description:** Yellow night light and 2 small blue night lights rise / ground. Going quickly northwest toward(s) London. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3596 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FOUR ELMS,KENT:YELLOW NLT+2 SML BLU NLTS RISE/GND:>>NW TWRD LONDON:NFD", **LatLong:** "51.216669 0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:13:00 N 00:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.216669,0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 9853 (E7AC82D8) **Date:** 6/15/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** NEAR BARQUISIMETO, VNZ **Description:** 4 observer(s). Luminous saucer going up [to] going down. Observer(s) shoots. Going south. Separate observer(s) / 0200hrs. / r138#2p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3597 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "584", **HatchDesc:** "nr BARQUISIMETO,VNZ:4 OBS:LUM SCR ↑↓:OBS SHOOTS:>S::SEP.OBS/0200hrs:/r138#2p21", **LatLong:** "10.083334 -69.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:05:00 N 69:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.083334,-69.333337)", **State/Prov:** "LRA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9854 (A9AD5561) **Date:** 6/15/1954 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, FL **Description:** Guard. Formless night light moves going up [to] going down [to] and changes color(s). Crescent UFO next day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 225) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3598 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PATRICK AFB,FL:GUARD:FORMLESS NLT MOVES ↑↓+CHANGES CLRS:CRESCENT UFO NEXT DAY", **LatLong:** "28.200001 -80.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "28:12:00 N 80:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.200001,-80.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9855 (E57AA366) **Date:** 6/18/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** LIKETI, LIKUALA, CONGO **Description:** Luminous sphere stops and checks out mission / I5 min. Goes back going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3599 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Congo states", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "LIKETI,LIKUALA,CONGO:LUM SPHERE STOPS+CHECKS OUT MISSION/I5 MIN:GOES BACK >N", **LatLong:** "0.166667 16.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "00:10:00 N 16:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/0.166667,16.500001)", **State/Prov:** "ZAI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9856 (2A10FF80) **Date:** 6/18/1954 **Location:** French Equatorial, Africa **Description:** Sighted an unidentified flying object over Laketi in the Likuala Mossaka region of the middle Congo. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1678 ### Event 9857 (2C19869D) **Date:** 6/18/1954 **Locations:** Fort-Rousset; Owando; Republic of the Congo; Brazzaville; La Semaine de L’akf; Laketi Mission; Mossaka District **Description:** 7:35 p.m. Monsignor [Émile Élie Verhille](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%5F%C3%89lie%5FVerhille), Apostolic Vicar of Fort-Rousset \[modern Owando, Republic of the Congo\], reports in the Brazzaville newspaper La Semaine de L’akf that he and others had seen a UFO over Laketi Mission in the Mossaka District. A luminous globe arrives from the north and heads towards Laketi. It suddenly stops, rises and falls, stops again, gyrates, and seems to shake. A noise like that of an airplane engine is heard until the moment when it also stops. Seen through binoculars, the object has a dark mass in the center with light rays of unequal length coming out of it alternately. It goes through its maneuvers for 15 minutes then shoots back over the northern horizon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2441 ### Event 9858 (36309CAA) **Date:** 6/19/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** FARM SOUTH / WHANGAREI, NZ **Description:** Dogs cry. Thud and whoosh! No object seen. Dog scratched and cut. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3600 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FARM S/WHANGAREI,NZ:DOGS CRY:THUD+WHOOSH!:NO OBJ SEEN:DOG SCRATCHED AND CUT", **LatLong:** "-35.916668 174.250008", **LatLongDMS:** "35:55:00 S 174:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.916668,174.250008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9859 (04D21C03) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** RIDGEWAY, ONT **Description:** 10M saucer. Car chases and malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Lands / woods. Large brown colored circle / ground. / r79p2+APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 712) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3601 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "RIDGEWAY,ONT:10M SCR:CAR CHASES+EMEs:LANDS/WOODS:LRG BRN CCL/GND:/r79p2+APRO", **LatLong:** "42.883335 -79.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:53:00 N 79:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.883335,-79.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9860 (CE65D0F6) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** DELRAY BEACH, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer spins. Tilts toward(s) observer(s). Going quickly east slowly over ocean. Zooms away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3602 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "DELRAY BEACH,FL:2 OBS:SCR SPINS:TILTS TWRD OBS:>>E SLOWLY OVR OCEAN:ZOOMS AWAY", **LatLong:** "26.466668 -80.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "26:28:00 N 80:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.466668,-80.083337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9861 (DC4FA7D3) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Location:** Ridgeway, Ontario, CAN **Description:** Car motor quit as UFO crossed highway ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1679 ### Event 9862 (6189E068) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Location:** Savannah, GA **Description:** Object appeared to be similar to an airplane with a glass bottom with orange lights shining through the object. Mr. XXXXX had sighted the same object on 21 and 23 June 1954. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [540621](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/aca%5F540621.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1680 ### Event 9863 (C1B0C719) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Location:** Delray Beach, FL **Description:** Bright round disc-shaped object with dome-like stucture on top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1681 ### Event 9864 (79B55A53) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Location:** Ridgeway, Canada **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a disk, about 14 m in diameter, with a dome and several rotating lights. They had to push their car, which could not be started until the object left the ground. They found a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been resting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 104 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_132 ### Event 9865 (01B87013) **Date:** Summer 1954 **Location:** Noblesville, Indiana **Description:** [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) spends a few months in Noblesville, Indiana, working at Soulcraft Publications, run by mystic and fascist [William Dudley Pelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDudley%5FPelley)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDudley%5FPelley) Mostly he contributes UFO news for the magazine, but some of Pelley’s anti-Semitic attitudes creep into Williamson’s later writings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1285; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 100–103 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2430 ### Event 9866 (CF8BF423) **Date:** Summer 1954 **Location:** Arbutus, Maryland **Description:** Late night. A young girl in Arbutus, Maryland, wakes up when a bright light shines into her bedroom window. Looking outside, she sees a triangle of brilliant white lights parallel to the ground, illuminating everything, hanging in the air, and pointing directly at her. All of a sudden they are gone. Fort the next two days, she has a fever that forces her to stay home from school. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2431 ### Event 9867 (4F00FA68) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Location:** Ridgeway, Ontario **Description:** 1:00 a.m. Near Ridgeway, Ontario, [Guy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157706195/guy-h%5F-baker) and [Valeria Baker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157706288/valeria-b%5F-baker) see a hovering, domed disc about 40 feet in diameter with several rotating, flashing lights around the rim. They drive to get a closer look. The object crosses the road in front of them and lands in a field. The car stalls, and they watch as the lights move around the area. They find a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disc has been resting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 6–7; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 2; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 June–August, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug-SN.pdf), The Author, 2002, pp. 12–13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2442 ### Event 9868 (129FE74D) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Locations:** central Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Naselle Air Force Station radar site; Fort Stevens Historic Site; southwestern Washington State; McChord AFB; Joint Base Lewis-McChord; Tacoma **Description:** 8:14 p.m. An unidentified radar blip located over central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, responds to coded IFF Mode 1 signals from the Naselle Air Force Station radar site \[now Fort Stevens Historic Site\] in southwestern Washington State, and instantly transmits back the correct coded responses. The blip is tracked on 3 ground radars at both Naselle and McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] in Tacoma. The UFO splits into two \(or consists of two objects in close formation\), separates, and outmaneuvers one of two F-86D jet interceptors, both of which also radar-tracked the UFOs. Possible visual sightings of the radar target are called in to sheriff’s offices and news media. The case is forwarded to Project Blue Book, but it does not appear in its files. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Coded IFF Signal from UFO](https://www.nicap.org/540622wash%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 215 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2443 ### Event 9869 (412ED192) **Date:** Summer 1954 **Alternate date:** Summer 1955 **Location:** Marietta, Ohio **Description:** Evening. Dianne Vezza and two other teen girls are sitting in a backyard in Marietta, Ohio, when they see a star-like light moving at great speed. Suddenly it comes to a dead stop and two other stars speed in and come to an abrupt stop. The three objects form a perfect triangle. An oval object then becomes visible as the starlike objects disappear. Two other oval objects take up the same triangular position with the first. They then begin a light display with wildly colored lights that continues for a few seconds. The lights go out, and each of the objects beams a bright white light to the center of the triangle. The beams meet in the center for a few seconds and then go out. The oval objects disappear and the starlike lights return, but they soon speed off in different directions faster than a jet. The display is completely soundless. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Another Type of UFO Display,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2452 ### Event 9870 (CF392E12) **Date:** 6/21/1954 **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a hovering, domed disc-shaped object in Ridgeway, Ontario. It was about 14 meters in diameter (40 feet) and had several rotating, flashing lights around the rim. They drove their car to get a closer look. The object crossed the road in front of the car and landed in a field. The car stalled and they had to push it because it would not re-start, although it had never given them trouble before the incident or since. They watched as the lights moved around in the area. They found a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been resting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2, case 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3569 ### Event 9871 (5AFEF987) **Date:** 6/22/1954 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** 1 observer. Grey 80' blimp-shape. Drifts / 300' altitude. Veers. Up and away sharply. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3603 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:1 OBS:GREY 80'BLIMP-SHAPE:DRIFTS/300'alt:VEERS:UP+AWAY SHARPLY:", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -81.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 81:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-81.666671)", **RelAlt:** "90", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9872 (09414853) **Date:** 6/22/1954 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Grey cylinder/cigar-shape size = 2 houses. 200' over treetops. Sulfur odor. Silent and fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3604 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "206", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:GRY CGR SIZE=2 HOUSES:200' ovr TREETOPS:SULFUR ODOR:SILENT+FAST", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-84.500004)", **RelAlt:** "70", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9873 (C684C52E) **Date:** 6/22/1954 **Location:** Miami Beach, FL **Description:** Meteor like object descend, stop, and become extremely bright (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3062) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1682 ### Event 9874 (7A1929D9) **Date:** 6/22/1954 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** Miami Beach, Florida **Description:** Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps Maj. E. Buchser and Maj. J.V. Wilkins. One meteor-like object descended, stopped, and became extremely bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_349 ### Event 9875 (ADF2B2DA) **Date:** 6/22/1954 **Description:** At around 9 p.m. U.S. Marine Corps Major E. Buchser and Major J. V. Wilkins In Miami Beach, Florida witnessed a meteor-like object descend, stop, and become extremely bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3600 ### Event 9876 (2E216469) **Date:** 6/22/1954 **Description:** Also in 1954 an eighty-foot long blimp-shaped UFO drifted over Cleveland, Ohio at 300 feet altitude. The object veered up sharply and shot away after about 5-10 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3601 ### Event 9877 (7F0696E7) **Date:** 6/23/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** DAVENPORT, IA **Description:** 3 / Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Aluminum disk zigzags going quickly north on edge. Soon returns going quickly south. / r138#7p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3605 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "DAVENPORT,IA:3/GOC:ALUM.DISK ZIGZAGS >> N on EDGE:SOON RETURNS >>S:/r138#7p7", **LatLong:** "41.522224 -90.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "41:31:20 N 90:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.522224,-90.577782)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9878 (A46D7081) **Date:** 6/23/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** FRANKLIN, IN **Description:** Many observer(s). 4 bright 150m saucers. Dayton jets chase. All denied after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RIDGE, Francis: REGIONAL ENCOUNTERS in the FC Files. 170pp. UFO FILTER CENTER, Mt. Vernon, IN 1994 (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3606 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "FRANKLIN,IN:MANY OBS:4 BRITE 150m SCRS:DAYTON JETS CHASE:ALL DENIED AFTER", **LatLong:** "39.483335 -86.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:00 N 86:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.483335,-86.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9879 (6828B92C) **Date:** 6/23/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** VANDALIA, OH **Description:** Crew and Air Traffic Controllers and F51. Night light paces F81 / 45 minute(s). Turns going southeast. Big investigation/investigators. / r242p41+/ MJ. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3607 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "296", **HatchDesc:** "VANDALIA,OH:CREW+ATCs+F51:NLT PACES F81/45min:TURNS>SE:BIG INV:/r242p41+/MJ", **LatLong:** "39.883335 -84.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:53:00 N 84:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.883335,-84.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9880 (3A8418BB) **Date:** 6/23/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Night lights / western sky. Extremely bright silent night light curves northeast going quickly west. Then shoots up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3608 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:NLTS/WESTERN SKY:XBRITE SLNT NLT CURVES NE>>W:then shoots up.", **LatLong:** "39.116669 -84.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 84:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,-84.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9881 (D87EE247) **Date:** 6/23/1954 **Location:** Columbus (near), OH **Description:** F-51 Trailed By Object / Lt. Roe Sighting (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540623](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1683 ### Event 9882 (CF8F33AB) **Date:** 6/23/1954 **Location:** Bt. Dayton & Columbus, OH **Description:** Something Follows C-47 & Observed By RB-47 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540623](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus2%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1684 ### Event 9883 (13D44E23) **Date:** 6/23/1954 **Locations:** Dayton; Columbus, Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB; Columbus area **Description:** 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. Pilot Capt. [Harry Roe Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137887279/harry-l%5F-roe)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137887279/harry-l%5F-roe) flying an Ohio Air National Guard F-51 Mustang fighter at 240 mph from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, sees a round white object with no exhaust trailing him in the same position a little above and behind at close range, possibly detected on airborne radar. Roe maneuvers to try to lose it or collide with it, but the UFO remains in relatively the same position until it departs to the southeast. S/Sgt Maynard Harris at Wright-Patterson AFB picks up the plane and the UFO on radar. He scrambles two F-86s in the Columbus area to check it out, but they see nothing. At 10:00 p.m., Maj. Frank J. Gshwandtner and 2nd Lt. Robert P. Lommori, flying in the Columbus area in an RB-47E aircraft, observe a white object the size of a baseball at 25,000 feet. The object is extremely fast and makes a gradual turn to begin a slight climb. It then flies out of sight. The duration is 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-51 Trailed by Object / Lt. Roe Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Something Follows C-47 and Observed by RB-47 Crew](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus2%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 167–168; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 216 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2444 ### Event 9884 (A8787D68) **Date:** 6/24/1954 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** LYME REGIS, DORSET **Description:** 2 observer(s). Fireball over bay hovers and moves in jerks / 25 minute(s). Finally going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3609 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LYME REGIS,DORSET:2 OBS:FBL OVR BAY HVRS+MOVES in JERKS/25min:FINALLY >>W", **LatLong:** "50.733336 -2.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:44:00 N 02:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.733336,-2.916667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9885 (8F457C45) **Date:** 6/24/1954 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** DANVERS, MASS **Description:** Engineer. White ovoid covers 45° / sky in 30 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3610 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "DANVERS,MASS:ENGINEER:WHT OVOID COVERS 45°/SKY IN 30sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.566669 -70.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:34:00 N 70:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.566669,-70.916670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 9886 (CEC349C7) **Date:** 6/24/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** DAYTON, OH **Description:** Round white night light maneuvers near plane. Climbs going north. 3 fireballs / separate ground observer(s). No further details. / r107p87. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3611 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "71", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "DAYTON,OH:RND.WHT NLT MNVRs nr PLANE:CLIMBS>N:3 FBLS/SEP.GND OBS:NFD:/r107p87", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -84.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 84:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-84.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9887 (875DDC2B) **Date:** 6/24/1954 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** NORTH DANVILLE, VT AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** 2 cops and several. 3 night lights bob going up [to] going down / sky. 1 quickly going up. Others follow. / r138#7p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3612 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "279", **HatchDesc:** "N.DANVILLE,VT++:2 COPS+SVRL:3 NLTS BOB↑↓/SKY:1 ↑↑:OTHERS FOLO:/r138#7p7", **LatLong:** "44.461113 -72.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:27:40 N 72:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.461113,-72.094448)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9888 (A2BF9181) **Date:** 6/24/1954 **Location:** Danvers, MA **Description:** White, elliptical-shaped object cover 45° of sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3067) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1685 ### Event 9889 (A582468D) **Date:** 6/24/1954 **Time:** 12:45 PM **Location:** Danvers, Massachusetts **Description:** Witness: R.B. Tomer, director of commercial engineering for CBS-Hytron. One white, elliptical-shaped object covered 45^ of sky in 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_350 ### Event 9890 (E0A27A17) **Date:** 6/25/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** INDIAN LAKE, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3072. Private pilot. 40' saucer / cone / top. Goes on radio report! Jets chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 235) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3613 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "304", **HatchDesc:** "INDIAN LAKE,OH:BBK#3072:Pvt PILOT:40'SCR/CONE/TOP:GOES on RDO Rpt!:JETS CHASE", **LatLong:** "40.466669 -83.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:28:00 N 83:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.466669,-83.877782)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9891 (24F0029D) **Date:** 6/25/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SEIGHFORD, STAFFS **Description:** 3 observer(s). Silent domed saucer / crab-legs! All over town / low-altitude / 2.5hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3614 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "79", **HatchDesc:** "SEIGHFORD,STAFFS:3 OBS:SILENT DOMED SCR/CRAB-LEGS!:ALL OVR TOWN/LO-ALT/2.5hrs", **LatLong:** "52.822225 -2.172222", **LatLongDMS:** "52:49:20 N 02:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.822225,-2.172222)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9892 (6F1F3CB3) **Date:** 6/25/1954 **Location:** Indian Lake, OH **Description:** Navion Encounters Flat-Bottomed Object / Tracked On Ground Radar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3072) **Reference:** NICAP: [540625](http://www.nicap.org/540625indianlake%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1686 ### Event 9893 (BB60E08F) **Date:** 6/25/1954 **Time:** 5:05 PM **Location:** Indian Lake, Ohio **Description:** Witnesses: experienced private pilot John Mark, flying Navion lightplane; radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, tracked very fast target at same location. One silver or aluminum round object with a flat bottom, raised front edge, inverted cone on top, and a diameter of about 60'. Flew horizontally, hovered, made a high-G pull up and then a steep climb into an overcast. Sighting lasted 3-5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_351 ### Event 9894 (0323432F) **Date:** Late 6/1954 **Locations:** West Berlin, Germany; Tempelhof Airport **Description:** Some 300 people in West Berlin, Germany, see three silvery UFOs on several occasions. Moving in a zigzag motion and accelerating at high speed. Rudolf Hermes, a director at Tempelhof Airport \[now closed\], says the witnesses describe the objects as “shiny.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Triangle Saucers Reported Seen near Berlin,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98856881/)” Lancaster \(Pa.\) Sunday News, July 4, 1954, p. 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2445 ### Event 9895 (9CBD5E23) **Date:** 6/25/1954 **Description:** A 40-foot diameter disc with a cone-shaped top was sighted by a private pilot over Indian Lake, Ohio at 4:05 p.m. Jets were seen pursuing the object. Ground radar returns confirmed the presence of the UFO. Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3072 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3649 ### Event 9896 (779BA7AD) **Date:** 6/26/1954 **Time:** 00:40 **Location:** BUTTE CO, ID **Description:** Several observer(s). Brilliant flash over Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) National test center. Fireball going up / incredibly fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3615 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1450", **HatchDesc:** "BUTTE co,ID:SVRL OBS:BRILL.FLASH OVR AEC NAT'l TEST CENTER:FBL ↑/XXFAST", **LatLong:** "43.627780 -112.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:40 N 112:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.627780,-112.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9897 (4E4F62A2) **Date:** 6/26/1954 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** 2+60 / United Airlines (UAL) liner. Saucer low over houses. Entire area silent! / APRO v3#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3616 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "14", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:2+60/UAL LINER:SCR LO OVR HOUSES:ENTIRE AREA SILENT!:/APRO v3#1", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -82.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 82:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-82.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9898 (E92B68C2) **Date:** 6/26/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LEEDS WEST YORKS **Description:** Several observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Flame-colored cone-shape maneuvers / 15 minute(s). Flames / bottom. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3617 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "LEEDS W.YORKS:SVRL OBS/BINOCS:FLAME-CLRD CONE-SHAPE MNVRS/15min:FLAMES/BOTTOM", **LatLong:** "53.783336 -1.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:47:00 N 01:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.783336,-1.550000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9899 (B3E85099) **Date:** 6/26/1954 **Location:** Columbus (near), OH **Description:** Airliner Investigates Strange Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [540626](http://www.nicap.org/540626ohio%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1687 ### Event 9900 (E23DA437) **Date:** 6/26/1954 **Locations:** Idaho Falls, Idaho; National Reactor Testing Station **Description:** 12:40 a.m. The Atomic Energy Commission’s National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho, is suddenly lit up by a blinding glow that explodes in the night sky. Kelly Brooks and A. L. Taylor say the source of the light remains motionless for a few seconds, then shoots upwards at a tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 168 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2446 ### Event 9901 (3A58AC7E) **Date:** 6/26/1954 **Locations:** Columbus, Ohio; Zanesville, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware **Description:** Around 7:30 a.m. A metallic blob is seen high in the sky near Columbus, Ohio. According to a newspaper article, a crew of an airliner is asked to investigate; the crew circles under the object while the 60 passengers take a look. Zanesville Radio says at 5:55 a.m. a round, silvery object is detected on an azimuth of 80°. At 5:35 a.m., an Air Force charter flight, No. 46 AF 23-24 to Wilmington, Delaware, flying at 3,000 feet observes an object in the Zanesville, Ohio, area at approximately 18,000 to 20,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Airliner Investigates Strange](http://www.nicap.org/540626ohio%5Fdir.htm) [Object](http://www.nicap.org/540626ohio%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2447 ### Event 9902 (EBAA9623) **Date:** 6/27/1954 **Location:** REGENTS PARK, LONDON **Description:** Several observer(s). 'Bowler hat' extends luminous rays. Disks appear / ends. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3618 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "REGENTS PARK,LONDON:SVRL OBS:'BOWLER HAT' EXTENDS LUM.RAYS:DISKS APPEAR/ENDS", **LatLong:** "51.533336 -0.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:32:00 N 00:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.533336,-0.150000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9903 (0FA5DAD2) **Date:** 6/27/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** MONTMORENCY, AUS **Description:** Huge sphere spins and maneuvers / all directions. 8k' altitude. Red glow / beneath. Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL UFO FLYING SAUCER RESEARCH Inc Colin O.Norris, ed; GPO 2004, Adelaide, S.Australia 5001. (Subterranean reptiles etc.) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3619 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTMORENCY,AUS:HUGE SPHERE SPINS+MNVRS/ALL DIRs:8k'alt:RED GLOW/BENEATH:XFAST", **LatLong:** "-37.716668 145.122229", **LatLongDMS:** "37:43:00 S 145:07:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.716668,145.122229)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9904 (E046000F) **Date:** 6/27/1954 **Locations:** Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant; Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia; Moscow **Description:** The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia, becomes the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world. The plan achieves criticality on May 6 and now is set up to provide electrical power to Moscow. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obninsk%5FNuclear%5FPower%5FPlant)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2448 ### Event 9905 (5A059827) **Date:** 6/29/1954 **Location:** Atlantic Ocean **Description:** A BOAC Strato Cruiser (British Airways) on a trans Atlantic flight with Capt. James Howard in command was traveling at 260 knots at 19,000 ft. when the crew saw a large CIGAR shaped UFO with six smaller UFOs flying close to it. Among the others to witness these events were First Officer Lee Boyd and Navigator Capt. H. McDonnell. After 15 minutes of observing the UFOs, Capt. Howard radioed Goose Bay, Canada, for backup escort, upon which the smaller UFOs entered the bigger Cigar shaped one which then shot away. Upon landing, Howard and Boyd were debriefed by intelligence officers and their flight logs were confiscated by USAF personnel. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_537 ### Event 9906 (59821EEE) **Date:** 6/29/1954 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** USS EDISTO 5555N-5810W **Description:** Tty going [to] Blue Book with reference to BOAC Case. Blob / sky changes shape going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 718) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3620 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "USS EDISTO 5555N-5810W:TTY>BBK W/ref to BOAC CASE:BLOB/SKY CHANGES SHAPE >SE", **LatLong:** "55.916669 -58.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "55:55:00 N 58:10:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.916669,-58.166669)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 9907 (8E8BF4C2) **Date:** 6/29/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** NORTHEAST / SEPTEMBER ILES, QB **Description:** BOAC crew and more/others. Huge ship and 5 saucers pace going northeast / 20 minute(s). / r173p170+/ r179p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3621 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "450", **HatchDesc:** "NE/SEPT ILES,QB:BOAC CREW++:HUGE SHIP+5 SCRS PACE >NE/20min:/r173p170+/r179p40", **LatLong:** "51.883336 -63.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "51:53:00 N 63:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.883336,-63.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9908 (43EAB4C7) **Date:** 6/29/1954 **End date:** 6/30/1954 **Location:** E of Seven Isles, Quebec, CAN **Description:** Large opaque or black object with 6 smaller satellite objects on a horizontal line BOAC Case (AL) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540629-30](http://www.nicap.org/540629boac%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1688 ### Event 9909 (A219F48A) **Date:** 6/29/1954 **Locations:** New York City; London, England; Rhode Island coast; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Sept-Îles, Quebec; Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador; Colorado project; Everybody's Magazine **Description:** 5:03 p.m. A BOAC Stratocruiser leaves New York City bound for London, England. 30 minutes later, Capt. James R. Howard receives directions from Boston Air Traffic Center to hold his position over the Rhode Island coast. Howard circles for 10–12 minutes, after which Boston tells him to detour over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Around 11:30 p.m. while crossing at 19,000 feet near Sept-Îles, Quebec, Howard, his copilot Lee Boyd, and navigator H. McDonnell see a large cigar-shaped object and six smaller black ovals moving the same speed as his airliner, 265 mph, on a parallel course. The small objects are strung out in a line, changing relative positions but always at the same level. The large object slowly and continually changes shape, “in a way that a swarm of bees might alter its appearance.” They appear opaque, hard-edged, gray in color, with no lights or flames visible. Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, orders an F-94 to vector toward the location. Just as Howard is giving the pilot his position, the small objects disappear. McDonnell says they enter the large object. As the F- 94 approaches, the large object dwindles in size and disappears. Howard lands at Goose Bay and is questioned by RCAF and USAF officials \(McConnell says they take the flight logs\); when he lands in London, the Air Ministry does the same, telling the pilots they viewed a solar eclipse \(which took place at 7:00 a.m. on June 30\). Howard later hears that there are UFO sightings in Massachusetts while he is in a holding pattern, and he contests in the December 11 issue of Everybody’s Magazine that what he saw was solid, not a mirage. [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) of the Colorado project identifies the objects as superior mirages, reflections of the “dark terrain below seen against the bright, ‘silvery’ sky to the left of the setting sun,” a “phenomenon so rare that it apparently has never been reported before or since.” [James McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) disagrees. In 2010, ufologist [Martin Shough](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) reexamines the case and concludes that the object might well have been an unusual mirage. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[BOAC Stratocruiser Case](http://www.nicap.org/540629boac%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 216; Clark III 195; Condon, [pp. 139–140](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/138/mode/2up); James Howard, “We Were Shadowed from Outer Space,” Everybody’s Weekly, December 11, 1954; John Carnell, “[BOAC’s Flying Jellyfish,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1954-11%5F202110/page/16/mode/2up)” Fate 7, no. 11 \(November 1954\): 16–23; Leonard Cramp, “[Mystery over Labrador,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1955\): 6–8; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 46; “[Captain James Howard Reflects on His Sighting of 1954 \(BOAC\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oq%5FiWc0HTM)” nutsandbolts ufo YouTube channel, March 7, 2009; Good Above, [pp. 189–191](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/188/mode/2up); Phillip Robertson, “[Some Considerations on the Seven Isles, Quebec,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/robertson%5Fboac.htm) [Canada, Case of June 29, 1954,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/robertson%5Fboac.htm)” May 31, 1991; Martin Shough, “[Study of an Unusual Phenomenon Observed by](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/BOAC%20aircrew%20sighting.pdf) [BOAC Aircrew over Labrador, Newfoundland, June 29, 1954,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/BOAC%20aircrew%20sighting.pdf)” September 2009; Martin Shough, “[The BOAC](https://www.caelestia.be/BOAC.html) [Labrador Sighting of June 29, 1954,](https://www.caelestia.be/BOAC.html)” Caelestia, October 31, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2449 ### Event 9910 (021DD4C1) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Location:** SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** Hundreds watch 2 orange-red disks maneuver over city. / news. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3622 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "SALT LAKE CITY,UT:100s WATCH 2 ORG-RED DISKS MNVR OVR CITY:/NEWS:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -111.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 111:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-111.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9911 (4FF1E85A) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** 2 orbs appear / photograph / solar eclipse. Exact same / Norway / APRO v3#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3623 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "185", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:2 ORBS APPEAR/FOTO/SOLAR ECLIPSE::EXACT SAME/NORWAY/APRO v3#1", **LatLong:** "41.883335 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:00 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.883335,-87.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9912 (706679C1) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** NEAR OSLO, NORWAY **Description:** 50 scientists and more/others. 2 silver DISKs / eclipse films. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v2#1+/ r138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3624 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr OSLO,NORWAY:50 SCIENTISTS++:2 SLVR DISKs/ECLIPSE FILMS:/FSR v2#1+/r138", **LatLong:** "59.833336 10.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:50:00 N 10:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.833336,10.750001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 9913 (AABDD545) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, AL **Description:** Saucer going north. Circles bay. Tracked / RADAR. Many observer(s) / 2 states. / r173p176. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3625 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKLEY AFB,AL:SCR >N:CIRCLES BAY:TRACKED/RDR:MANY OBS/2 STATES:/r173p176", **LatLong:** "30.700001 -88.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:42:00 N 88:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.700001,-88.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9914 (DB9426BF) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Location:** Brookley AFB (Mobile), AL **Description:** Object With Short Stubby Wings Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540630](http://www.nicap.org/540630mobile%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1689 ### Event 9915 (186BC3B0) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** Two silvery disks observed and photographed from eclipse expedition planes. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1690 ### Event 9916 (B2BDED21) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Location:** Lifjell plateau, Telemark, Norway **Description:** 2:17 p.m. Johnny Björnulf and Raun Conradi are aboard one of three Scandinavian Airlines planes flying above the Lifjell plateau, Telemark, Norway, to observe a total solar eclipse. Conradi takes some footage through a window on the north \(port\) side of one airplane. When developed it shows two small light sources that are fairly obvious window reflections, but media coverage causes much confusion about the circumstances under which the film is shot. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** E. Graham, “[Scandinavian Eclipse Expedition Films U.F.O.s,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CJan-Feb%2CV%202%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1956\): 6–7; UFOEv, [p. 5](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=17&skin=2021); Clas Svahn, “[The Björnulf Solar Eclipse Film,](https://csblogg.ufo.se/csblogg3/?p=5240)” Clas Svahns Blogg, October 6, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2450 ### Event 9917 (CC1EE144) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Locations:** Brookley AFB; Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley; Mobile, Alabama **Description:** 6:50 p.m. Four civilians and several military personnel at Brookley AFB \[now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley\] in Mobile, Alabama, see a brilliant silver or white object with short stubby wings approach from the south, circle over Mobile, then depart to the northeast. A radar contact at 6:30 p.m. with a stationary object is evidently unrelated anomalous propagation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object with Short Stubby Wings Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/540630mobile%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 216 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2451 ### Event 9918 (AB4B505C) **Date:** 6/30/1954 **Description:** At 6:50 p.m. a silvery metallic fuselage-shaped UFO with stubby wings was tracked on radar and also observed from the tower by two air traffic controllers at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama. The object came from the south and circled the city. There was no sound detected from the craft as it flew in what was described as a highly maneuverable manner and at a high speed, shooting off to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 176; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 23; UNICAT case # 447, citing Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 58; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3741 ### Event 9919 (0797D6DF) **Date:** 7/1954 **Location:** DANVILLE, IL **Description:** TV Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Metallic saucer outside changes color(s). TV blank and needed repair. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3626 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "182", **HatchDesc:** "DANVILLE,IL:TV RFI:MTLC SCR OUTSIDE CHANGES CLRS:TV BLANK+NEEDED REPAIR:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "40.116669 -87.627782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:00 N 87:37:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.116669,-87.627782)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9920 (70A6EBAF) **Date:** 7/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** ENKELDOORN, RHODESIA **Description:** 13 observer(s). Group / planes going southwest. Instant reversal going northeast. Repeats 3 times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3627 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ENKELDOORN,RHODESIA:13 OBS:GRP/PLANES >SW:INSTANT REVERSAL >NE:REPEATS 3 TIMES", **LatLong:** "-18.961112 30.711113", **LatLongDMS:** "18:57:40 S 30:42:40 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-18.961112,30.711113)", **State/Prov:** "RHD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9921 (63E7875F) **Date:** 7/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** RENFREW, ONT **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent silver domed cylinder/cylindrical object hovers / 2-3K' altitude. Size / plane. No wings. Quickly going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CAMERON, Vicky: UFO EXPERIENCES in CANADA, Don't tell anyone but.. ; 1995 General Store Publishing ; Burnstown, Ontario ISBN 1-896182-20-8 (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3628 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "135", **HatchDesc:** "RENFREW,ONT:2 OBS:SLNT SLVR DOMED CYL HVRS/2-3K'alt:SIZE/PLANE:NO WINGS:↑↑FAST", **LatLong:** "45.466669 -76.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:28:00 N 76:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.466669,-76.683337)", **RelAlt:** "2500", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9922 (79D970A9) **Date:** 7/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** OFF ORAN, ALGERIA **Description:** Several cars stop. Large red-orange ball rises / sea. Shrinks / distance going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3629 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "off ORAN,ALGERIA:SVRL CARS STOP:LRG RED-ORG BALL RISES/SEA:SHRINKS/DISTANCE >N", **LatLong:** "35.833335 -0.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "35:50:00 N 00:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.833335,-0.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Oran", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9923 (FFB260BD) **Date:** 7/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** WEST BERLIN, GERM **Description:** 300 observer(s). 3 glowing-disks in formation seen as weather permits. / r173p179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3641 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "W.BERLIN,GERM:300 OBS:3 GLOW-DISKS/FORMn SEEN as WEATHER PERMITS:/r173p179", **LatLong:** "52.483336 13.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:29:00 N 13:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.483336,13.333334)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9924 (CC524D97) **Date:** 7/1954 **Location:** New Jersey **Description:** A saucer-buff zine titled Nexus is first published by [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) in New Jersey. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Nexus](http://cufos.org/Nexus/1954%5F07%5F00%5FNexus01.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(July 1954\); Clark III 1032 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2453 ### Event 9925 (AF1CB8A1) **Date:** 7/2/1954 **Location:** KIMBERLEY, RSA **Description:** Saucer seen. Marks on surface look like "I3" or letter "B". No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3630 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KIMBERLEY,RSA:SCR SEEN:MARKS ON SURFACE look like "I3" or letter "B":NFD", **LatLong:** "-28.666668 24.833335", **LatLongDMS:** "28:40:00 S 24:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.666668,24.833335)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9926 (459B2E9C) **Date:** 7/2/1954 **Location:** WALLSEND-ON-TYNE, ENGL **Description:** Several. Crescent flies / tight circles. Spins. Fast silent exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 248) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3631 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "WALLSEND-on-TYNE,ENGL:SVRL:CRESCENT FLIES/TIGHT CIRCLES:SPINS:FAST SILENT EXIT", **LatLong:** "55.000003 -1.572222", **LatLongDMS:** "55:00:00 N 01:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.000003,-1.572222)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9927 (1BB61DF1) **Date:** 7/2/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** VICTORVILLE, CA **Description:** "White-hot" sphere/orb/globe / sky near F86's / George Air Force Base. Shoots going quickly east over mountains. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3632 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "876", **HatchDesc:** "VICTORVILLE,CA:"WHITE-HOT" ORB/SKY NEAR F86s/GEORGE AFB:SHOOTS>>E ovr MTNS", **LatLong:** "34.550002 -117.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:33:00 N 117:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.550002,-117.300006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9928 (451589C9) **Date:** 7/2/1954 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** WALESVILLE, NY **Description:** Air Force jet chases ovoid into cloud and burns up! Balloon? / FSRv32#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 174) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3633 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "154", **HatchDesc:** "WALESVILLE,NY:AF JET CHASES OVOID INTO CLOUD+BURNS UP!:BALLOON?:/FSRv32#3", **LatLong:** "43.266669 -75.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:16:00 N 75:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.266669,-75.383337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 9929 (D813BA02) **Date:** 7/2/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** RIDGEWOOD, NJ **Description:** Translucent disk going ESE toward(s) Yonkers. Disk going quickly west later / crowd / Patterson, NJ. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3634 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "RIDGEWOOD,NJ:XLUCENT DISK >ESE twrd YONKERS::DISK >>W LATER/CROWD/PATTERSON,NJ", **LatLong:** "40.977780 -74.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:58:40 N 74:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.977780,-74.116670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9930 (9B848E94) **Date:** 7/2/1954 **Location:** Walesville, NY **Description:** Walesville, New York, G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [540702](http://www.nicap.org/540702walesville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1691 ### Event 9931 (CC58CF6C) **Date:** 7/2/1954 **Locations:** Griffiss AFB [now Griffiss Business and Technology Park] in Rome, New York; Walesville, west of Utica; Frankfort, New York **Description:** 11:05 a.m. An F-94C Starfire takes off from Griffiss AFB \[now Griffiss Business and Technology Park\] in Rome, New York, on an operational training mission. It is only a few miles out when the Griffiss control tower orders the plane diverted to intercept an unidentified aircraft. When Pilot Lt. William E. Atkins cannot find the aircraft, the controller tells him about a second unidentified aircraft, which Atkins identifies as an Air Force C-47. The control tower vectors him back to the first target. Atkins cannot see any aircraft above the cloud cover, so he descends below the clouds. During the descent, a furnace-like heat fills the cockpit and the engine plenum chamber fire warning light goes on. Atkins shuts the engine off, but the light remains on. Atkins and his radar man, Henry F. Coudon \[or Condon\], eject, landing without injury. At 11:27 a.m., the plane crashes into the town of Walesville, west of Utica, striking a building and an auto, killing 4 people, and injuring 5 others. Atkins tells reporters about the heat but clams up under Air Force pressure. The official investigation confirms the fire was caused by a malfunction of the fire detector circuit. There is no evidence of an in-flight fire. [Kevin Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) suspects a balloon is responsible for one of the radar targets, because an apparent balloon is sighted later, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m., in a 25-square-mile area from Rome to Frankfort, New York. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Abandoned Jet Kills 3 in Car,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/03/84614854.pdf) [1 in House,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/03/84614854.pdf)” New York Times, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 6; “[Jet Plane Crashes in Flames,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93872663/) [Kills 3 in Auto, One in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93872710/) [House,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93872710/)” Syracuse \(N.Y.\) Post-Standard, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 3; NICAP, “[The Walesville Incident / F-94 Crash](http://www.nicap.org/540702walesville%5Fdir.htm)”; Kevin D. Randle, “Walesville Revisited,” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 3–5; Frank J. Reid, “Keyhoe’s Context,” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 6–7, 28–29; Kevin D. Randle, “[Walesville UFO Jet Chase,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/03/walesville-ufo-jet-chase.html)” A Different Perspective, March 28, 2009; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 174–177; Condon, [p. 161](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/160/mode/2up); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 22–23](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/22/mode/2up); “[‘Balloon’ Excites Utica,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/03/84615056.pdf)” New York Times, July 3, 1954, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2454 ### Event 9932 (2ABAE38F) **Date:** 7/3/1954 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** NEAR ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 9 green fireball-saucers. RADAR-visual (observation) / military radio message. Going quickly NNW / 2600mph. / r242p85. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3635 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1600", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALBUQUERQUE,NM:9 GRN FBL-SCRS:RDR-VIS/MIL RADIO MSG:>>NNW/2600mph:/r242p85", **LatLong:** "35.366668 -106.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:22:00 N 106:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.366668,-106.616672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9933 (B8B21A39) **Date:** 7/3/1954 **Time:** 01:40 **Location:** NEAR BERMUDA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3088. B56 RADAR. 6 saucers around large saucer / center. Low altitude. Scope photographs / r55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3636 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr BERMUDA:BBK#3088:B56 RDR:6 SCRS AROUND LRG SCR/CENTR:LO ALT:SCOPE FOTOS/r55", **LatLong:** "32.322224 -64.855559", **LatLongDMS:** "32:19:20 N 64:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.322224,-64.855559)", **State/Prov:** "Bermuda", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9934 (57DDC95A) **Date:** 7/3/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** LAKEWOOD, OH **Description:** 2+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Crescent with portholes / 1 side. Hovers / 30M altitude. 140° turn going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3637 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "0", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "LAKEWOOD,OH:2+OBS/BINOCS:CRESCENT W/PORTHOLES/1 SIDE:HVRS/30M alt:140°TURN>SE", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -81.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 81:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-81.800004)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9935 (BADBDBCD) **Date:** 7/3/1954 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Albuquerque, New Mexico, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [540703](http://www.nicap.org/540703albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1693 ### Event 9936 (9756C822) **Date:** 7/3/1954 **Location:** Bermuda (near), At Sea **Description:** Radar scope photos of a geometric formation of 7 objects. G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540703](http://www.nicap.org/540703bermuda%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1694 ### Event 9937 (0F4EBA4B) **Date:** 7/3/1954 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Nine green spheres hover, speed away at 2,600 mph, and are tracked on radar at 24,000 feet 20 miles north of Albuquerque, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 85](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=97&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2455 ### Event 9938 (2A0BA3A5) **Date:** 7/3/1954 **Location:** Dutch ocean liner **Description:** 8:15 a.m. The captain, officers, and 463 passengers of a Dutch ocean liner watch a “greenish-colored, saucer- shaped object about half the size of a full moon” speed across the sky and disappear in clouds. \[same as July 29 entry?\] **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/236/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2456 ### Event 9939 (4DF22B59) **Date:** 7/5/1954 **Location:** WILLIAMSTOWN, AUSTR **Description:** 2 wingless cigars fly over in sequence. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3638 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WILLIAMSTOWN,AUSTR:2 WINGLESS CIGARS FLY OVR IN SEQUENCE:NFD", **LatLong:** "-37.866668 144.900007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:52:00 S 144:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.866668,144.900007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9940 (C081FD69) **Date:** 7/5/1954 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** ARCATA, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Huge object hovers / 15 minute(s). 100 night lights orbit. All vanish! / r173p179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3639 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ARCATA,CA:2 OBS:HUGE OBJ HVRS/15min:100 NLTS ORBIT:ALL VANISH!:/r173p179", **LatLong:** "40.866669 -124.077784", **LatLongDMS:** "40:52:00 N 124:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.866669,-124.077784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9941 (7283E2E1) **Date:** 7/5/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** LITTLETON, MA **Description:** Teen. Saturn-saucer going south under clouds. 1 / 3 moon-size. Ring low / sphere/orb/globe. / r138#7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3640 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLETON,MA:TEEN:SATURN-SCR >S UNDER CLOUDS:1/3 MOONSIZE:RING LOW/ORB:/r138#7", **LatLong:** "42.538891 -71.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:32:20 N 71:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.538891,-71.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9942 (3B358F33) **Date:** 7/5/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX **Description:** 1 observer. Bright sharp saucer going quickly southwest. Photograph shows 3 concentric rings. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3642 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRIGHTON,E.SUSSEX:1 OBS:BRITE SHARP SCR >>SW:FOTO SHOWS 3 CONCENTRIC RINGS", **LatLong:** "50.766669 -0.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:46:00 N 00:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.766669,-0.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9943 (47AC7545) **Date:** 7/5/1954 **Location:** West Berlin, West Germany **Description:** (Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1695 ### Event 9944 (B369E565) **Date:** 7/6/1954 **Location:** NEAR QUEANBEYAN, AUSTR **Description:** NSW, Australia. 2 politicians and more. 1 wingless cigar flies ovr. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3643 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr QUEANBEYAN,AUSTR:NSW,AUSTRL:2 POLITICIANS+:1 WINGLESS CIGAR FLIES OVR.", **LatLong:** "-35.400002 149.283340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:24:00 S 149:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.400002,149.283340)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9945 (A0337BE6) **Date:** 7/7/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** 1 / car. Smoke-saucer / falling-leaf motion. Circles and banks. Going quickly south / fantastic speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3644 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:1/CAR:SMOKE-SCR/FALLING-LEAF MOTION:CCLS+BANKS:>>S/FANTASTIC SPD", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -81.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 81:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-81.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9946 (5DE073CB) **Date:** 7/7/1954 **Location:** Garson, Canada **Description:** A miner saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, object and entity had vanished. Investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Keyhoe C 184 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_133 ### Event 9947 (1D62BC53) **Date:** 7/7/1954 **Description:** A miner in Garson, Canada saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, the object and entity had vanished. This case was investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 184 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3902 ### Event 9948 (BC296944) **Date:** 7/8/1954 **Location:** VERNON, TX **Description:** Newsmen and several. Night. 2 glowing disks hover. Then speed away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3645 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "369", **HatchDesc:** "VERNON,TX:NEWSMEN+SVRL:NIGHT:2 GLOWING DISKS HVR:then SPEED AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.155557 -99.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:20 N 99:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.155557,-99.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9949 (EC04E8FD) **Date:** 7/8/1954 **Location:** Lancashire, UK **Description:** British astronomer saw a silvery object with 15-20 smaller satellite objects. \[NICAP, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1696 ### Event 9950 (22E180C8) **Date:** 7/8/1954 **Location:** Orrell, Greater Manchester, England **Description:** 9:25 p.m. Amateur astronomer [Harold Hill](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2006JBAA..116..203S) is at his observatory in Orrell, Greater Manchester, England, when he sees a bright star in the southern sky that he at first thinks is a supernova. Soon it resolves itself into a bright, metallic globe with a cluster of 15–20 smaller, dimmer objects moving around. Clouds intervene and when they clear, he sees two bright objects, gyrating and flashing and moving slowly around each other. The objects are at a great altitude, because even through binoculars they have “shown no sensible size.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1, 1947–December 31, 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 80– 81; “An Unusual Sky Phenomenon,” Strolling Astronomer 9 \(1955\): 48 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2457 ### Event 9951 (DBD6E147) **Date:** 7/9/1954 **Location:** Lowry AFB, CO **Description:** 6-7 objects appeared to be triangular in shape (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [540709](http://www.nicap.org/lowry540709dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1697 ### Event 9952 (EA8EF7BD) **Date:** 7/9/1954 **Location:** Zürich, Switzerland **Description:** Die Weltwoche in Zürich, Switzerland, publishes two letters by psychologist [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung), who says he has been interested in UFOs since 1946, but he has difficulty comprehending what they might be, since they seem to have both subjective and objective properties. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 636–637 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2458 ### Event 9953 (B13B6938) **Date:** 7/10/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEWMARKET, NH **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brill orange disk zigzags then straight and level going quickly south. Light glow and trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 724) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3646 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "NEWMARKET,NH:2 OBS:BRILL ORG.DISK ZIGZAGS then S/L >>S:LIGHT GLOW+TRAIL", **LatLong:** "43.077780 -70.944448", **LatLongDMS:** "43:04:40 N 70:56:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.077780,-70.944448)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9954 (DEE55275) **Date:** 7/11/1954 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** ALLERTON, NJ AND MORE **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 4 USAF bombers going west paced / saucers. / r242p22+/ r173p190. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 716) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3647 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "79", **HatchDesc:** "ALLERTON,NJ+:SVRL SEP.OBS:4 USAF BOMBERS >W PACED/SCRS:/r242p22+/r173p190", **LatLong:** "40.611113 -74.877781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:40 N 74:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.611113,-74.877781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9955 (D840291E) **Date:** 7/11/1954 **Location:** Hunterdon County, NJ **Description:** 4 bombers saw a disc-shaped object pace their planes (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1698 ### Event 9956 (B1EE52ED) **Date:** 7/11/1954 **Locations:** UK; London **Description:** UK Air Chief Marshal [Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding) states in an article in the London Sunday Telegraph that “I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 122](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021); Good Above, [pp. 47–48](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/46/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2459 ### Event 9957 (8D099D9A) **Date:** 7/12/1954 **Location:** CHELTENHAM, GLOUCS **Description:** Several observer(s). Flying trashcan-lid shoots away just as jet nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3648 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "CHELTENHAM,GLOUCs:SVRL OBS:FLYING TRASHCAN-LID SHOOTS AWAY JUST AS JET NEARS", **LatLong:** "51.916669 -2.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:55:00 N 02:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.916669,-2.083333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9958 (EE49F16F) **Date:** 7/12/1954 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** FLAGSTAFF, AZ **Description:** 2 loggers. Silent low-flying saucer rotates and flashes lights. Going quickly [to] behind mountains. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3649 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2080", **HatchDesc:** "FLAGSTAFF,AZ:2 LOGGERS:SILENT LO-FLYING SCR ROTATES+FLASHES LITES:>>BHND MTNS", **LatLong:** "35.200002 -111.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:12:00 N 111:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.200002,-111.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9959 (7FD744A8) **Date:** 7/13/1954 **Location:** NORFOLK, VA **Description:** 1 observer. Silent 200' disk flies over countryside / 3000' altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 190) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3650 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,VA:1 OBS:SILENT 200'DISK FLIES OVR COUNTRYSIDE/3000'alt:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.816668 -76.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:00 N 76:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.816668,-76.266670)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9960 (040A49F1) **Date:** 7/13/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** DARGAVILLE, NZ **Description:** 6 women. Huge silent cylinder/cigar-shape going southwest toward(s) coast. Slow / low altitude. Flames / rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3651 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "DARGAVILLE,NZ:6 WOMEN:HUGE SLNT CGR >SW TWRD COAST:SLOW/LO ALT:FLAMES/REAR:", **LatLong:** "-35.944446 173.866675", **LatLongDMS:** "35:56:40 S 173:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.944446,173.866675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9961 (224BBC1E) **Date:** 7/14/1954 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** MJ-12 SSP briefing letter, briefing scheduled for July 16, 1954. MEMO to General Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4) requesting his presence at an MAJESTIC-12 meeting with President Eisenhower on July 16. Note by Stanton Friedman: Letter was discovered in the National Archives by Wm. Moore and Jamie Shandera on 1985 in the 126th box of USAF files. Carbon of the original form. **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/) **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p84, majic) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_538 **Attributes:** Majestic ### Event 9962 (CB4BCA77) **Date:** 7/14/1954 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** ST. LOUIS, MO **Description:** McDonnell propulsion lab. 10 observer(s). 50cm rectangular object maneuvers. Quickly going up. / r138#7p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3652 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "ST LOUIS,MO:McDONNELL PROPULSION LAB:10 OBS:50cm RECT.OBJ MNVRS:↑↑:/r138#7p26", **LatLong:** "38.633335 -90.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:38:00 N 90:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.633335,-90.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9963 (11E4BB8D) **Date:** 7/14/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** GREAT EASTON, LEICS **Description:** Farmer. Saucer chases jet. Clearly defined yet nearly transparent! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3653 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT EASTON,LEICS:FARMER:SCR CHASES JET:CLEARLY DEFINED yet NRLY TRANSPARENT!", **LatLong:** "52.533336 -0.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:32:00 N 00:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.533336,-0.733333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 9964 (8C508DA2) **Date:** 7/14/1954 **Location:** St. Louis, MO **Description:** 1.5-foot sheet-like object maneuvering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1699 ### Event 9965 (5B1DEE58) **Date:** 7/14/1954 **Locations:** White House; Europe **Description:** A fake memo, supposedly written by or for [Robert Cutler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FCutler)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FCutler) special assistant to President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) to Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) indicates that an MJ-12 briefing should take place at the White House July 16. Cutler is in Europe at the time of the memo, although the memo could have been prepared by NSC Executive Secretary [James](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jslayjr.htm) [S. Lay Jr.](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jslayjr.htm) or his associate, J. Patrick Coyne. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Robert Cutler, “[Memorandum for General Twining: NSC/MJ-12](http://brumac.mysite.com/CutlerTwiningMemo/CutlerTwining.html) [Special Studies Project,](http://brumac.mysite.com/CutlerTwiningMemo/CutlerTwining.html)” July 14, 1954; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[Majestic-12](http://www.noufors.com/majestic-12.htm)”; Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ-12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 14–18; Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC, Marlowe, 1996, [pp. 86–102](https://archive.org/details/topsecretmajic0000frie/page/86/mode/2up); “[Majestic-12 or ‘MJ-12’ Reference Report,](https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos\#mj12)” US National Archives, September 29, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2460 ### Event 9966 (1310B029) **Date:** 7/15/1954? **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** WEGIERSKA GORA, POLAND **Description:** Girl, 11 abduction. Human looking men with humps / back. / r11p320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John & EVANS, Hillary (ed): PHENOMENON - 40 YEARS of F.S.; BUFORA/Avon Books, NY 1988 (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3654 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "164", **HatchDesc:** "WEGIERSKA GORA,POLAND:GIRL,11 ABD:HUMAN LOOKING MEN W/HUMPS/BACK:/r11p320", **LatLong:** "49.600002 19.127779", **LatLongDMS:** "49:36:00 N 19:07:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.600002,19.127779)", **State/Prov:** "Krakow", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 9967 (14D3EDBB) **Date:** 7/15/1954 **Description:** A woman recalled in 1986, that as an eleven year old girl collecting mushrooms in Poland she had a close encounter and missing time experience with UFOnauts. While walking alone near a cliff in Wegierska Gorka, Cracow, Poland she saw a glowing, oval-shaped UFO. She felt drawn to it, and was met by five entities, who had the height, skin and hands of humans. They wore tight fitting clothes, and had small mouthes and no noses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4068 ### Event 9968 (ADCE6B8A) **Date:** 7/16/1954 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and President Eisenhower. **Type:** secret meeting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (MJ-4) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_539 ### Event 9969 (8E2A0483) **Date:** 7/18/1954 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** NEUSTADT / WEINSTRASSE, GERM **Description:** Blue Book. 15 Foo-Fighters seen at once. Several since 1947. Gold 5' sphere/orb/globe. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3655 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NEUSTADT/WEINSTRASSE,GERM:BBK:15 FOOS SEEN AT ONCE:SVRL SINCE 1947:GOLD 5' ORB", **LatLong:** "49.350002 8.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:21:00 N 08:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.350002,8.133334)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9970 (D4CB1150) **Date:** 7/18/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NEW ORLEANS, LA **Description:** 3+2 kids. 25' saucer 1K' over city park. Blue-white flashes. Going up / very high speeds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 255) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3656 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ORLEANS,LA:3+2 KIDS:25'SCR 1K' ovr CITY PARK:BLU-WHT FLASHES:↑/VHI SPEEDS", **LatLong:** "29.966668 -90.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:58:00 N 90:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.966668,-90.066671)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9971 (2529D2EC) **Date:** 7/18/1954 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** NORMANDY, MO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3116. Unidentified. Observer(s) = Chamblin. Green-white saucer seen / 30 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3657 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "181", **HatchDesc:** "NORMANDY,MO:BBK#3116:UID:OBS=CHAMBLIN:GREEN-WHT SCR SEEN/30min:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.727780 -90.294449", **LatLongDMS:** "38:43:40 N 90:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.727780,-90.294449)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9972 (DB669E75) **Date:** 7/18/1954 **Location:** Normandy, MO **Description:** Greenish-white disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3116) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1700 ### Event 9973 (B3D5B841) **Date:** 7/18/1954 **Time:** 8:40 PM **Location:** Normandy, Missouri **Description:** Witness: A.T. Chamblin. One greenish-white disc was seen for 30 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_352 ### Event 9974 (282118DA) **Date:** 7/18/1954 **Description:** At 8:40 p.m. Mr. A.T. Chamblin saw a greenish-white disc flying over Normandy, Missouri. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3116; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4163 ### Event 9975 (32DE7D06) **Date:** 7/19/1954 **Location:** French Equatorial, Africa **Description:** (Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1701 ### Event 9976 (656B91EB) **Date:** 7/20/1954 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** Near this city, two men were chased by an object and stopped their car to observe it. After the sighting, a watch stopped working and the paint on the car allegedly changed color. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Challenge 129; 3; cf. Case 120 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_134 ### Event 9977 (4B180AC1) **Date:** 7/20/1954 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** Two men are chased in their car by a UFO near Oslo, Norway, and stop to observe it. Afterward, one of the witnesses’ watches stops working and the car’s paint changes color. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [p. 207](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/206/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2461 ### Event 9978 (E0F10E5A) **Date:** 7/20/1954 **End date:** 7/21/1954 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits the Project Blue Book office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to gather information for his upcoming book. He is told that all UFO publicity is handled by a lieutenant colonel in Air Force intelligence. He writes in an August 3 letter to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe): “They claim to have gotten the unknowns down to about 10% but from what I saw this was just due to a more skeptical attitude. The reports are just as good as the ones we got and their analysis procedures are a hell of a lot worse.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, “[The Captain Ruppelt Letters,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/014%20OCT%201961.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 \(October 1961\): 6; Clark III 1023 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2462 ### Event 9979 (D7D36A99) **Date:** 7/20/1954 **Description:** Two men were chased by a UFO near Oslo, Norway when they had stopped their car to look at it. After the sighting a watch stopped working and the paint on their car changed color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4228 ### Event 9980 (AE28BB6B) **Date:** 7/22/1954 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** PORT HURON, MI **Description:** 1 observer. Domed silver saucer zigzags. Stops. Shoots going down [to] and going up. Going east against wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 732) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3658 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "PORT HURON,MI:1 OBS:DOMED SLVR SCR ZIGZAGS:STOPS:SHOOTS ↓+↑:>E AGAINST WIND", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -82.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 82:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-82.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9981 (09F73350) **Date:** 7/22/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** CLEARWATER BAY WITH KENORA, ON **Description:** 3 grey metal saucers going quickly west. Stop over island / 2 minute(s). Swoosh-gone! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3659 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "135", **HatchDesc:** "CLEARWATER BAY W/KENORA,ON:3 GRY MTL SCRS>>W:STOP ovr ISLAND/2min:SWOOSH-GONE!", **LatLong:** "49.783336 -94.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "49:47:00 N 94:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.783336,-94.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9982 (E50CE690) **Date:** 7/22/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** WINNIPEG, MBA **Description:** RCAF and more/others. 5 metal balls / ovoids going west / V formation / 30 second(s). "Christmas tree ornaments". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3660 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "WINNIPEG,MBa:RCAF++:5 MTL BALLS/OVOIDS >W/VFORM/30sec:"XMAS TREE ORNAMENTS"", **LatLong:** "49.883336 -97.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "49:53:00 N 97:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.883336,-97.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9983 (27A2C7F7) **Date:** 7/22/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** SELKIRK, MBA **Description:** 4 observer(s). 5-7 silver orbs drift west. Suddenly vanish like a light! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: UFOROM/Manitoba, Canada: Chris Rutkowski: www.iufog.org/zines/sgj/uforom.html **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3661 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "SELKIRK,MBa:4 OBS:5-7 SLVR ORBS DRIFT WEST:SUDDENLY VANISH LIKE A LIGHT!", **LatLong:** "50.150002 -96.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "50:09:00 N 96:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.150002,-96.883338)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9984 (80EBE5E0) **Date:** 7/22/1954 **Description:** At 7:15 p.m. five metallic spheres or ovoid shaped objects flew toward the west in a V formation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They were in sight for 30 seconds, and they reportedly looked like "Christmas tree ornaments." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 57 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4291 ### Event 9985 (6D2089A3) **Date:** 7/23/1954 **Location:** SHANKLIN, ISLE OF WIGHT **Description:** 1 observer. 1 large and 6 small balloon-like objects. Weave all about.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3662 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SHANKLIN,ISLE of WIGHT:1 OBS:1 LRG+6 SML BALLOON-LIKE OBJS:WEAVE ALL ABOUT..", **LatLong:** "50.633336 -1.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:38:00 N 01:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.633336,-1.166667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9986 (C84E9D51) **Date:** 7/23/1954 **Time:** 14:40 **Location:** MILFORD, OH **Description:** Blue Book report. 2 observer(s). Silver circular or spherical object 45 degree over horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3663 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "MILFORD,OH:BBK REPORT:2 OBS:SLVR CIRCULAR or SPHERICAL OBJ 45dgr ovr HORIZON", **LatLong:** "39.172224 -84.288893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:20 N 84:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.172224,-84.288893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9987 (7B68AE48) **Date:** 7/23/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** KENORA, ON **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars and more. 6 orange-yellow orbs pass over town. Seen as discs when tilted. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3664 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "328", **HatchDesc:** "KENORA,ON:2/BINOCS+:6 ORG-YEL ORBS PASS ovr TOWN:SEEN as DISCS when TILTED", **LatLong:** "49.800002 -94.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "49:48:00 N 94:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.800002,-94.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9988 (4C6677E1) **Date:** 7/23/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** FRANKLIN, IN **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and newsman. 4 saucers. 1 stays. Jets chase. "Officially denied" / USAF! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 191) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3665 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "FRANKLIN,IN:GOC+NEWSMAN:4 SCRS:1 STAYS:JETS CHASE:"OFFICIALLY DENIED"/USAF!", **LatLong:** "39.483335 -86.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:00 N 86:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.483335,-86.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9989 (EA815B31) **Date:** 7/23/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** MODESTO, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and more/others. Round green fast object stops and hovers. Going northwest toward(s) Stockton for reasons unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3666 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "28", **HatchDesc:** "MODESTO,CA:GOC++:RND GRN FAST OBJ STOPS+HVRS:>NW twrd STOCKTON for reasons unk", **LatLong:** "37.633335 -120.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:38:00 N 120:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.633335,-120.983339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9990 (9C2AFC2E) **Date:** 7/23/1954 **Location:** Eastern ADC **Description:** The US Navy issues a new directive that orders the immediate reporting of UFO sightings \(FLYOBRPTs\) to the director of AFOSI, ATIC, commanding officer of Eastern ADC, director of Naval Intelligence, commanding officer of the Eastern Sea Frontier, and the commandant of the Potomac River Naval Command. The directive cites JANAP 146, AFR 200-2, OPNAV 3820, and Directive 3820.2 and is intended to plug leaks coming from navy and marine personnel. It is unpublicized but unclassified, so it threatens disclosure of AFR 200-2, which is still classified. USAF begins work on a new version of AFR 200-2 without the “restricted” label. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 188–189, 309–311 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2463 ### Event 9991 (898CFC89) **Date:** 7/24/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** CHISAMBA, NORTH RHD **Description:** 30M x 9M saucer stops over tree. 2 green beams going down. Buzzes / 30 seconds. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 732) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3667 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHISAMBA,N.RHD:30M x 9M SCR STOPS ovr TREE:2 GRN BEAMS ↓:BUZZES/30secs:>>NW", **LatLong:** "-14.983334 28.383335", **LatLongDMS:** "14:59:00 S 28:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-14.983334,28.383335)", **State/Prov:** "ZAM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9992 (63FEC26D) **Date:** 7/24/1954 **End date:** 7/25/1954 **Locations:** Eliot, Maine; Rear Adm. Carl F. Espe **Description:** A security officer at the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics develops a personal interest in the Frances Swan contact case and accepts Adm. [Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23)’s invitation to Eliot, Maine, to visit with Swan. On his return, he gives the FBI a report on his visit. On July 29 an FBI agent interviews him, and on August 9 [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) sends an account of the interview to Rear Adm. [Carl F. Espe](https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=525257) and to the Army’s Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2. Hoover writes, “No further action is being taken in this matter by this Bureau.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1118 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2464 ### Event 9993 (ADB3856A) **Date:** 7/25/1954 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** MIDDLE SISTER ISLAND, OH **Description:** Black cylinder scoots just over Lake Erie. Length = 12X diameter. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3668 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "174", **HatchDesc:** "MIDDLE SISTER ISL,OH:BLACK CYLINDER SCOOTS JUST OVR LAKE ERIE:LENGTH=12X DIAM.", **LatLong:** "41.750002 -83.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:45:00 N 83:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.750002,-83.133337)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 9994 (F81D57A4) **Date:** 7/25/1954 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** BONDOWOSO, JAVA, INDONESIA **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Disk goes over village. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) List page 20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3669 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BONDOWOSO,JAVA,INDONESIA:NMRS OBS:DISK GOES OVR VILLAGE:/LDLN LIST pg 20", **LatLong:** "-6.894445 112.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "06:53:40 S 112:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.894445,112.833339)", **State/Prov:** "JVA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 9995 (5DA5F8F4) **Date:** 7/25/1954 **Location:** Middle Sister Island, CAN **Description:** Black cylinder, 12:1 length/width ratio, moving fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1702 ### Event 9996 (1B9E1A64) **Date:** 7/25/1954 **Location:** Southern Rhodesia, Africa **Description:** J. H. Flanagan (a policeman) and some friends recently observed six unidentified objects in the sky over Enkeldoorn (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1703 ### Event 9997 (0768BEFE) **Date:** 7/25/1954 **Time:** 7:12 PM **Location:** Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake Erie **Description:** Witness: attorney L.B. Tussing. One black cylinder, 12 times long as wide, moved fast along the surface of the lake. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_353 ### Event 9998 (6AA444DF) **Date:** 7/25/1954 **Location:** Enkeldoorn [now Chivhu], Zimbabwe **Description:** Policeman J. H. Flanagan and friends see 6 UFOs over Enkeldoorn \[now Chivhu\], Zimbabwe. Nearly stationary, they are visible for about 20 minutes and disappear when night falls. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2465 ### Event 9999 (58C00BBE) **Date:** 7/25/1954 **Description:** Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake Erie. At 7:12 p.m. L.B. Tussing, an attorney, saw a black cylindrical object, 12 times longer as it was wide, moving fast across the surface of the lake. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3483 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4373 ### Event 10000 (83041D45) **Date:** 7/26/1954 **Location:** LAKE MCILWAINE, RHOD **Description:** 2 / plane. Flat-grey 12M saucer hovers flips and gone / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HIND, Cynthia: UFO'S, AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS; Gemini Books, Salisbury, Zimbabwe 1982. 236pp (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3670 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE McILWAINE,RHOD:2/PLANE:FLAT-GREY 12M SCR HVRS FLIPS+GONE/INCRED.SPEED", **LatLong:** "-17.927779 30.822224", **LatLongDMS:** "17:55:40 S 30:49:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.927779,30.822224)", **State/Prov:** "SLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10001 (7814B45D) **Date:** 7/27/1954 **Location:** Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Two Objects From Aircraft Radar Tracked (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540727](http://www.nicap.org/540727pepperrellafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1704 ### Event 10002 (CF5E7028) **Date:** 7/28/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** 70 MI EAST / CAPE COD **Description:** Dutch ship to NY. Saucer with portholes rises / sea. Away / extremely fast. / r107p237. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3671 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "70mi E/CAPE COD:DUTCH SHIP to NY:SCR W/PORTS RISES/SEA:AWAY/XFAST:/r107p237", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -68.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 68:30:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-68.500003)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10003 (4C98A943) **Date:** 7/28/1954 **Location:** Brentwood, CA **Description:** "Sparkling green light" appeared to land in orchard, television reception interrupted (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1705 ### Event 10004 (BC46B932) **Date:** 7/28/1954 **Location:** North Atlantic, At Sea **Description:** Dutch ship observed disc with apparent portholes. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1706 ### Event 10005 (6B9FEFFA) **Date:** 7/28/1954 **Locations:** Eliot, Maine; Canada **Description:** [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) at the invitation of retired Navy Adm. [Herbert B. Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23)[,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23) visits contactee Frances Swan in Eliot, Maine, his neighbor. Her two space friends, Affa and Alomar, direct Swan’s hand to draw a series of circles demonstrating the use of magnetic fields in spacecraft propulsion. Smith asks the aliens to communicate by radio at an appointed time a few days later, but the message does not come through. Nevertheless, Smith attempts to decipher the alien charts in hopes of learning how to build a saucer for Canada. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1079–1080, 1118 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2466 ### Event 10006 (552352FD) **Date:** 7/29/1954 **Time:** ~05:40 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** 1 observer. Large saucer rises / ground. Rhythmic sound. Hovers / 200'. Going north. Going south. Going north. Lengthens! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3672 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:1 OBS:LRG SCR RISES/GND:RHYTHMIC SOUND:HVRS/200':>N:> S:>N:LENGTHENS!", **LatLong:** "25.788890 -80.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "25:47:20 N 80:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.788890,-80.194448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10007 (7AD272CE) **Date:** 7/29/1954 **Location:** unknown location, Korea **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1707 ### Event 10008 (60EFA311) **Date:** 7/29/1954 **Location:** Key Largo, FL **Description:** Huge, bright pale blue or whitish-blue egg or blimp-shaped 300-500 ft object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1708 ### Event 10009 (D404B82B) **Date:** 7/29/1954 **Locations:** Atlantic Ocean; Cape Cod, Massachusetts **Description:** Capt. Jan P. Bos and five officers of the Dutch ocean liner [Groote Beer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groote%5FBeer) see a moon-like object rising out of the Atlantic Ocean 90 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They watch it through a sextant, allowing them to estimate its rate of ascent at a half degree in 2 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2467 ### Event 10010 (6AF25E73) **Date:** 7/30/1954 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** B25 Test Pilot. Metal pencil-shape hovers / goes slowly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3673 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:B25 TEST PILOT:MTL PENCIL-SHAPE HOVERS/GOES SLOWLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.033335 -118.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:00 N 118:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.033335,-118.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10011 (2147BDBC) **Date:** 7/30/1954 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** YONKERS, NY **Description:** Spinning top in sharp maneuvers high / sky until midnight. Several observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3674 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "YONKERS,NY:SPINNING TOP IN SHARP MNVRS HIGH/SKY UNTIL MIDNITE:SVRL OBS", **LatLong:** "40.950002 -73.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:57:00 N 73:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.950002,-73.883337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10012 (5FC80735) **Date:** 7/30/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** DAR ES SALAAM, TNZ **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Football shaped saucer seen / 30 minutes. Shoot straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 733) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3675 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Tanzania", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "DAR ES SALAAM,TNZ:NMRS OBS:FOOTBALL SHAPED SCR SEEN/30mins:SHOOT STRAIGHT UP.", **LatLong:** "-6.866667 39.283335", **LatLongDMS:** "06:52:00 S 39:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.866667,39.283335)", **State/Prov:** "DES", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10013 (15A2A5F7) **Date:** 7/30/1954 **Location:** Los Angeles (15 miles SE of), CA **Description:** Pencil-Shaped Object Encountered By B-25 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3140) **Reference:** NICAP: [540730](http://www.nicap.org/540730losangeles%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1709 ### Event 10014 (B78564EF) **Date:** 7/30/1954 **Time:** 10:15 AM **Location:** Los Angeles, California **Description:** Witness: Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson, flying a B-25 bomber. One metallic, pencil-shaped object flew slowly or hovered for an unstated length of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_354 ### Event 10015 (4159DF5A) **Date:** 7/31/1954 **Location:** DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA **Description:** Several observer(s). Grey saucer moves slowly going up [to] going down [to] back and forth over trees. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3676 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DURBAN,S.AFRICA:SVRL OBS:GRY SCR MOVES SLOWLY ↑↓ BACK+FORTH OVR TREES:", **LatLong:** "-29.750001 30.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "29:45:00 S 30:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.750001,30.950001)", **State/Prov:** "KwaZulu-Natal", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10016 (ECC8B529) **Date:** 7/31/1954 **Description:** On this day in Durban, Natal province, South Africa a good photograph was taken of a gray elliptical object that moved slowly back and forth over some trees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, p. 41, citing Outspan, December 1954, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4521 ### Event 10017 (4FB3E1E8) **Date:** 8/1954 **Description:** Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_133 ### Event 10018 (D0F80B52) **Date:** 8/1954 **Description:** Statement by Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of the RAF during WWII: “Of course the flying saucers are real! And, they are inter planetary!” **Type:** public statement **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_540 **See also:** 9/23/1947 **See also:** 10/9/1955 ### Event 10019 (21107432) **Date:** 8/1954 **Location:** GALFINGUE, FR **Description:** Luminous/glowing sphere / cut wheatfield. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) busy outside. Observer(s) runs. / LDLN#267. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3677 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GALFINGUE,FR:LUMn SPHERE/CUT WHEATFIELD:2 OIDS BUSY OUTSIDE:obs runs:/LDLN#267", **LatLong:** "47.700002 7.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:42:00 N 07:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.700002,7.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10020 (40F0E18F) **Date:** 8/1954 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** ST. SAUVER-LA-SAGNE, FR **Description:** 3 / farm. Black sphere going down. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) exit. Cows fall. Observer(s) paralyzed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3678 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.SAUVER-la-SAGNE,FR:3/FARM:BLK SPHERE ↓:2 OIDS EXIT:COWS FALL:OBS PARALYZED", **LatLong:** "45.400002 3.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:24:00 N 03:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.400002,3.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10021 (566E2800) **Date:** 8/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** WEST / LA BASSE-GORCE, FR **Description:** Lens-saucer / tripod. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) gather something / field. / r217p160. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3679 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "W/La BASSE-GORCE,FR:LENS-SCR/TRIPOD:2 OIDs GATHER SOMETHING/FIELD:/r217p160", **LatLong:** "45.883336 1.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:53:00 N 01:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.883336,1.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Vienne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10022 (ADC44693) **Date:** 8/1954 (approximate) **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** HYANNIS, MA **Description:** 2 downtown. 3 silver disks pass / incredibly fast. Instant 45° turn. Separate observer(s) / sea? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 703) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3680 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "HYANNIS,MA:2 DOWNTOWN:3 SLVR DISKS PASS/XXFAST:INSTANT 45°TURN:sep.obs/sea?", **LatLong:** "41.650002 -70.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:39:00 N 70:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.650002,-70.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10023 (D9989CE5) **Date:** 8/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** COUDES, FR **Description:** Teen kids. 2 1M 'men' put stones from fence in box. Helmets and silver suits. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3681 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "COUDES,FR:TEEN KIDS:2 1M 'MEN' PUT STONES from FENCE in BOX:HELMETS+SLVR SUITS", **LatLong:** "45.616669 3.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:37:00 N 03:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.616669,3.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10024 (957C3318) **Date:** 8/1954? **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** SOUTH / MONTGOMERY, AL **Description:** Military pilots and engineers. 20M metallic saucer. Dives / ground as plane nears. Must see. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 822) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3682 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "S/MONTGOMERY,AL:MIL.PILOTS+ENGs:20M MTLC SCR:DIVES/GND as PLANE NEARS:must see", **LatLong:** "32.000002 -86.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:00:00 N 86:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.000002,-86.333337)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10025 (80193AC5) **Date:** 8/1954 (approximate) **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** ROXBURY, CT **Description:** 2 / car. Metallic saucer hovers just below lone cloud over farmhouse. See dwg. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 722) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3683 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "ROXBURY,CT:2/CAR:MTLC SCR HVRS JUST BLW LONE CLOUD ovr FARMHOUSE:see dwg", **LatLong:** "41.561113 -73.288892", **LatLongDMS:** "41:33:40 N 73:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.561113,-73.288892)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10026 (E2459989) **Date:** 8/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BUCK LAKE, MN **Description:** 2 / boat. 20M flat disk exits woods and stops over cabin / 20M altitude. Humming. Dwg. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 721) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3684 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "400", **HatchDesc:** "BUCK LAKE,MN:2/BOAT:20M FLAT DISK EXITS WOODS+STOPS ovr CABIN/20M alt:HUM:dwg", **LatLong:** "47.466669 -94.555560", **LatLongDMS:** "47:28:00 N 94:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.466669,-94.555560)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10027 (03983672) **Date:** 8/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** MANSFIELD, OH **Description:** 2 / car. 2 3M yellow-glowing ovoids 30M away. Beams going down / field. Rotate slow counterclockwise. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 702) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3685 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "381", **HatchDesc:** "MANSFIELD,OH:2/CAR:2 3M YLW-GLO OVOIDS 30M away:BEAMS ↓/FLD:ROTATE SLOW CCW", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -82.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 82:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-82.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10028 (20E8E3E4) **Date:** 8/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / SANPUITS, FR **Description:** 12 kids / camp. Glowing saucer / ground. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) outside. Go / observer(s) near. / r217p163. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 200) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3686 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NE/SANPUITS,FR:12 KIDS/CAMP:GLOW.SCR/GND:2 OIDS OUTSIDE:GO/OBS NEAR:/r217p163", **LatLong:** "47.550002 3.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:33:00 N 03:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.550002,3.300000)", **State/Prov:** "YNN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10029 (3C3B4353) **Date:** 8/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** PARK HILLS, KY **Description:** Astronomer. 30m white saucer west going quickly northeast fast. Silent. 150m altitude. Vanishes in place. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3687 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "PARK HILLS,KY:ASTRONOMR:30m WHT SCR W>>NE FAST:SLNT:150m alt:VANISHES IN PLACE", **LatLong:** "39.072224 -84.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:20 N 84:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.072224,-84.533337)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10030 (4B768C54) **Date:** 8/1954 **Location:** New York State, NY **Description:** Round UFO Tracked By RADAR & GOC (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [5408xx](http://www.nicap.org/5408XXnewyork%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1710 ### Event 10031 (4D3A0733) **Date:** 8/1954 **Location:** Park Hills, Kentucky **Description:** 10:30 p.m. An astronomer sees a bright white disc, 20 times the apparent size of the moon, moving from west to northeast at a high rate of speed over Park Hills, Kentucky. The seemingly solid object is about 100 feet in diameter and flying at an altitude of 500 feet. It disappears abruptly after 3–4 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2468 ### Event 10032 (93ED82C9) **Date:** 8/1/1954 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** A 1954 letter addressed to broadcaster Frank Edwards, found in the BSRA/BSRF archives at the [Archives for the Unexplained in Sweden](https://afu.info/). It was composed by Edward W. Hermann, Manager, Agency and Advertiser Service, McGraw Hill. The physical letter was scanned by AFU staff, and was marked item #540801. The letter covers Pan-American airline pilot UFO sightings of 8-10 flying discs, which were not reported to the press. It also mentions that Aviation Week was trying to get any news out of Edwards AFB about 5 UFO's landing there earlier that year, but all they received was "utter silence to our wires". **Type:** letter **Reference:** [archive.org letter PDF](https://archive.org/details/540801-letter-from-edward-w-hermann-to-frank-edwards-437) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_934 ### Event 10033 (9DA5AF38) **Date:** 8/1/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** BURRUMBEET, VCT **Description:** 2+/ tram. Large Saturn night light hover over town. Shoots up changing color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 735) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3688 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BURRUMBEET,VCT:2+/TRAM:LRG SATURN NLT HVR ovr TOWN:SHOOTS UP CHANGING CLRS", **LatLong:** "-37.450002 143.716674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:27:00 S 143:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.450002,143.716674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10034 (26AB136E) **Date:** 8/1/1954? **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** ST. JUST DE MALMONT, FR **Description:** Ball / light going down / field. Approaches 2 / car. They go. UFO quickly going up. / r30p71. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3689 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St JUST de MALMONT,FR:BALL/LITE ↓/FLD:APPROACHES 2/CAR:THEY GO:UFO ↑↑:/r30p71", **LatLong:** "45.344447 4.311111", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:40 N 04:18:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.344447,4.311111)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10035 (F3677324) **Date:** 8/1/1954 **Locations:** Templeogue Tennis Club; Dublin, Ireland; Dublin Mountains; Howth **Description:** 11:15 p.m. Desmond O’Reilly and others at Templeogue Tennis Club in Dublin, Ireland, watch an object fly over the Dublin Mountains in the direction of Howth. Initially he thinks he is looking at a meteor because he can only see it when it passes by gaps in the clouds. He watches it split into two pieces. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Irish Times, August 5, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2469 ### Event 10036 (1EF3DC21) **Date:** 8/1/1954 **Locations:** Dublin Mountains, Ireland; River Dargle near Powerscourt, County Wicklow; North Beach in Rush, County Dublin **Description:** 11:30 p.m. P. D. McCormack sees a bluish-white object flying at 1,000 mph at an altitude of 5,000 feet above the Dublin Mountains, Ireland, to the south. The trails seem to “fall away from the object at each side.” Two men fishing in the River Dargle near Powerscourt, County Wicklow, see a rocket-shaped object dropping balls of fire. At 11:35 p.m., on the North Beach in Rush, County Dublin, Mrs. W. Gray and others watch an object “like a bright electric bulb” fly overhead from the mountains and out to sea. Possible meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Irish Times, August 3, 5, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2470 ### Event 10037 (68A30F73) **Date:** 8/2/1954 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** WESTLAKE, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3149. Observer(s) = Schroeder. Silver ovoid / 5K' going down [to] 1K' altitude. Fades away in place! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3690 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "213", **HatchDesc:** "WESTLAKE,OH:BBK#3149:OBS=SCHROEDER:SLVR OVOID/5K'↓1K'alt:FADES AWAY IN PLACE!", **LatLong:** "41.450002 -81.927782", **LatLongDMS:** "41:27:00 N 81:55:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.450002,-81.927782)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10038 (A8EC3975) **Date:** 8/2/1954 **Location:** Westlake, OH **Description:** Thin bright ellipse, like polished metal, hover for 5-8 secs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3149) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1711 ### Event 10039 (18A326DC) **Date:** 8/2/1954 **Time:** 5:17 PM **Location:** Westlake, Ohio **Description:** Witness: ex-AAF B-17 gunner (19 missions) N.E. Schroeder. One thin, bright ellipse, like polished metal, hovered for 5-8 seconds, dropped down 3,000' in 3 seconds, hovered again and faded out after a total of 20 seconds in view. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_355 ### Event 10040 (EB200BB9) **Date:** 8/2/1954 **Locations:** US; Continental Air Defense Command **Description:** The US Joint Chiefs of Staff direct the establishment of a Continental Air Defense Command. Secretary of Defense [Charles Erwin Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FErwin%5FWilson) announces the command’s formation publicly later in the month to integrate “the air defense capabilities of the three military departments into an air defense system responsible to the control of one military commander.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Continental Air Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%5FAir%5FDefense%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2471 ### Event 10041 (2768C324) **Date:** 8/2/1954 **Description:** At 5:17 p.m. in Westlake, Ohio amateur astronomer Mr. N. E. Schroeder, an ex-Army Air Force B-17 gunner--who had flown on 19 combat missions--saw a thin, bright silver ovoid hovering in the sky for 5-8 seconds. It then dropped down 3,000 feet in three seconds and hovered again for ten seconds, and finally faded out after being in view a total of 20 seconds. It looked like it was made of highly polished metal, and was at a minimum distance of six miles from the observer. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3149; UNICAT, case # 777; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 62; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4590 ### Event 10042 (53D2E755) **Date:** 8/3/1954 **Location:** HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Saucers circle / sky. Stop. Assume diamond-formation. No further details. / Kehoe. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 269) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3691 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON AFB,CA:SCRS CIRCLE/SKY:STOP:ASSUME DIAMOND-FORMN:NFD:/KEHOE", **LatLong:** "38.066668 -122.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:04:00 N 122:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.066668,-122.550006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10043 (BD211845) **Date:** 8/3/1954 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** MOUNTAINS NEAR ADMONT, AUSTRIA **Description:** 4 observer(s). Good photograph. 3-4 mushroom-cap saucers on edge-in a row. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3692 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MTNs nr ADMONT,AUSTRIA:4 OBS:GOOD FOTO:3-4 MUSHROOM-CAP SCRS ON EDGE-IN A ROW:", **LatLong:** "47.550002 14.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "47:33:00 N 14:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.550002,14.500001)", **State/Prov:** "STY", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10044 (00D3A575) **Date:** 8/4/1954 **Location:** The Hague, Netherlands **Description:** Bt. 11:00 and 12:00 p.m. Ten firemen and their chief observed the two flying saucers. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1712 ### Event 10045 (F7EB0970) **Date:** 8/4/1954 **Location:** The Hague, Netherlands **Description:** 11:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. Ten firemen and their chief observe two flying saucers over The Hague, Netherlands. The objects are seen in the clear night air at a high altitude. They move at incredible speed, at times remaining motionless for as long as 30 seconds. They are described as flat ovals with whitish-gray light. All agree that the objects are neither aircraft or balloons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2472 ### Event 10046 (58304E4B) **Date:** 8/5/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** OFF PARANAGUA, BRZ **Description:** Orange fireball buzzes DC3 / 2 hours. Turns blue / accelerations. Jets chase. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 691) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3693 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off PARANAGUA,BRZ:ORG FBL BUZZES DC3/2hrs:TURNS BLUE/ACCELs:JETS CHASE:>>SE", **LatLong:** "-25.500001 -47.500002", **LatLongDMS:** "25:30:00 S 47:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-25.500001,-47.500002)", **State/Prov:** "PRN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10047 (3AD394BD) **Date:** 8/6/1954 **Location:** SANTA FE, NM **Description:** Brill white sphere/orb/globe leaves (something behind) luminous trail. TV and aircraft radio electro-magnetic effect (EME). Ham radio OK! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3694 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2098", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA FE,NM:BRILL WHT ORB LVS LUM TRAIL:TV+AIRCRAFT RADIO EME:HAM RDO OK!", **LatLong:** "35.683335 -106.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:41:00 N 106:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.683335,-106.000005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10048 (5B570CD5) **Date:** 8/6/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** DARMSTADT, GERM **Description:** Air Traffic Controller and cops and more/others fiery Tlw-red objects circle / 6km altitude. Clearly seen. Shape unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 736) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3695 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "DARMSTADT,GERM:ATC+COPS++FIERY TLW-RED OBJS CCL/6km alt:CLEARLY SEEN:SHAPE UNK", **LatLong:** "49.866669 8.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:52:00 N 08:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.866669,8.666667)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10049 (BE65F98A) **Date:** 8/6/1954 **Location:** San Antonio, TX **Description:** White elliptical light change to yellow, orange, pink (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3155) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1713 ### Event 10050 (E838DC02) **Date:** 8/6/1954 **Time:** 6 PM **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Witness: mechanical engineer L.H. Hormer. One intensely white elliptical light changed to yellow, then orange, then pink, four or five times while flying straight and level for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_356 ### Event 10051 (6EE4D6B0) **Date:** 8/6/1954 **Location:** Santa Fe, New Mexico **Description:** A bright white ball shoots across the sky over Santa Fe, New Mexico, leaving a luminous trail that persists for 15 minutes. Meteorite expert [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) says it is not a meteor. It apparently disrupts TV signals and aircraft transmissions, but not ham radio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 226](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/226/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2473 ### Event 10052 (3C0FE4EC) **Date:** 8/6/1954 **Description:** In Santa Fe, New Mexico a brilliant white ball of light left a luminous trail as it flew over. There was TV and aircraft radio interference reported, but an amateur radio was not effected. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, pp. 226, 237 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4720 ### Event 10053 (7C0B6E21) **Date:** 8/6/1954 **Description:** Starting at 10 p.m. a DC-3 flying over the ocean at Baranagua Bay, Parana State, Brazil was continuously buzzed by an orange fireball for two hours. It would turn blue on acceleration. Jets were scrambled and gave chase, where upon it shot off to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UNICAT, case # 559, citing Olavo T. Fontes **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4721 ### Event 10054 (EF65217F) **Date:** 8/7/1954 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** ZURICH, SWZ **Description:** Military airman / (seen thru) binoculars. 15M domed metal saucer. Also several observer(s) / 2230h / airport. / r138#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3696 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "134", **HatchDesc:** "ZURICH,SWZ:MIL AIRMAN/BINOCS:15M DOMED MTL SCR:+SVRL OBS/2230h/AIRPORT:/r138#2", **LatLong:** "47.366669 8.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:22:00 N 08:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.366669,8.550000)", **State/Prov:** "ZRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10055 (23E57928) **Date:** 8/7/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** HEMMINGFORD, QB **Description:** Many observer(s). Sphere going down. 7' figure chases kids. 15M / trace. / r54p42+/ r138#7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3697 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "HEMMINGFORD,QB:MANY OBS:SPHERE ↓:7'FIG CHASES KIDS:15M/TRACE:/r54p42+/r138#7", **LatLong:** "45.050002 -73.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:03:00 N 73:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.050002,-73.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10056 (02D97C21) **Date:** 8/7/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** KAISERSLAUTERN, RHP, GERM **Description:** Military observer(s). 1 UFO / 4 shapes. Ovoid / sphere/orb/globe / half-sphere/orb/globe.. All over. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 266) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3698 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "KAISERSLAUTERN,RHP,GERM:MIL OBS:1 UFO/4 SHAPES:OVOID/ORB/HALF-ORB..:ALL OVR", **LatLong:** "49.433336 7.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:26:00 N 07:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.433336,7.766667)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10057 (3485AF62) **Date:** 8/7/1954 **Location:** unknown location, West Germany **Description:** (Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1714 ### Event 10058 (8E0ED23A) **Date:** 8/7/1954 **End date:** 8/8/1954 **Locations:** California; Palomar Mountain **Description:** One of the first UFO meetings in California is held on the slopes of Palomar Mountain, with lectures by [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski), [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry) [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) and [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2474 ### Event 10059 (0C56C188) **Date:** 8/7/1954 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. Gabriel Coupal, age 13, and another boy were out riding a horse when they saw a luminous, nine foot wide sphere land 150 feet away from them in Hemmingford, Quebec. After landing the sphere turned black. A door opened, and "a big tall man with big round eyes" got out. He was dressed in a skintight black rubber diver suit that covered his entire body except his head, and was carrying what looked like a "machine gun." There was a "buzz like a bee." The man approached and the boys galloped their horse for the house. The UFO rose, passed close by them, and landed again near the horse barn. It "had a black cable with a square thing hanging" from it. In the moonlight the landed UFO looked "like a soap bubble," and three men were seen walking around it. Mrs. Coupal telephoned Hemmingford to get another witness, but when three more people arrived the object took off, glowing orange. It had been present for an hour or more. There was a circle of flattened grass 30 feet in diameter where the object had rested. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-42, citing Dr. Adolph Dittmar, Civilian Saucer Intelligence; newspaper clipping, August 17, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4758 ### Event 10060 (2C2785FA) **Date:** 8/7/1954 **Description:** On the same evening at 11:28 p.m. the German military in Kaiserlautern, Rhineland-Palatine, Germany witnessed a UFO that changed shape from an ovoid object to a sphere, and then to a dome. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 66 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4759 ### Event 10061 (EE536254) **Date:** 8/8/1954 **Location:** SHIRLEYS BAY, ON **Description:** Project magnet. Big electro-magnetic effect (EME) and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and radiation/radioactivity and gravity pulse. Meteor / France / 0300lt. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3699 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "SHIRLEYS BAY,ON:PROJ.MAGNET:BIG EME+RFI+RDA+GRAVITY PULSE:meteor/France/0300lt", **LatLong:** "45.400002 -75.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:24:00 N 75:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.400002,-75.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 10062 (2A56C208) **Date:** 8/8/1954 **Location:** Shirley's Bay, Ontario **Description:** 3:01 p.m. Project Magnet’s only UFO incident of note occurs when the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, gravimeter indicates a greater deflection in the gravitational field than a conventional object would cause. Heavy clouds obstruct [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)’s view of the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1079; “[Wilbert B. Smith,](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Good Above, [p. 186](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2475 ### Event 10063 (77CBC204) **Date:** 8/10/1954 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Hemmingford, Canada **Description:** The Coupal childrm said that a brightly lighted object followed them to the farm. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise and speed off to the west. Grass was flattened over 15 m, with two tracks about 5 m long. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 237 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_135 ### Event 10064 (878E4E54) **Date:** 8/10/1954 **Description:** The Canadian Department of Transport officially folds Project Magnet but permits [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) to continue using its facility on his own time at no expense to the government. Smith continues his work privately until his death in December 1962. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Story, [p. 276](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/276/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2476 ### Event 10065 (AD579B5A) **Date:** 8/10/1954 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. 13-year-old Gabriel Coupal and his younger siblings said they saw a brightly lighted object follow them to their farm in Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada. It landed and a figure wearing a black diver suit and with round eyes exited, and appeared to engage in some repair activity. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise from the ground and speed off to the west. The grass was flattened down over a 15-meter area, with two tracks about five meters long. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Huntingdon Gleaner, August 18, 1954; Fate, March 1955, p. 19; Albany (NY) Times-Union, November 27, 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 135 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4817 ### Event 10066 (B336D162) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Location:** REMIREMONT, FR AND 3 SEPARATE TOWNS **Description:** Compasses spin. Electro-magnetic effect (EME) / all types. Start of wave? / r3p151. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3700 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "REMIREMONT,FR+3 SEP.TOWNS:COMPASSES SPIN:EME/ALL TYPES:START OF WAVE?:/r3p151", **LatLong:** "48.016669 6.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:01:00 N 06:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.016669,6.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10067 (D1F48C5E) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** SS OFF YORON JIMA, JP **Description:** 100' oval glow going quickly [to] over salvage ship. Going up / clouds agitating them. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3701 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SS off YORON JIMA,JP:100'OVAL GLOW>>OVR SALVAGE SHIP:↑/CLOUDS AGITATING THEM", **LatLong:** "27.033335 128.466673", **LatLongDMS:** "27:02:00 N 128:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.033335,128.466673)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10068 (9FD70387) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Location:** Yoron-Jima Island, Okinawa **Description:** Line of blue lights underneath a blue circle with a black center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3162) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1715 ### Event 10069 (31ADCE0B) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Location:** Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL **Description:** Two Helicopters Encounter Saucer (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540811](http://www.nicap.org/540811maxwellafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1716 ### Event 10070 (2A694C60) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Time:** 8:55 PM **Location:** Yoron Jima, near Okinawa **Description:** Witness: P.L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant manager of Moeller Shipwrecker Co., of Okinawa. A line of blue lights, underneath. a blue circle with a black center. Flew over ship and climbed, illuminating and agitating the clouds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_357 ### Event 10071 (0B1C1FC0) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Location:** Mutual Broadcasting Network **Description:** [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) is fired by his sponsor at the Mutual Broadcasting Network, the American Federation of Labor. He had offered to resign on August 7, citing a conflict over the type of material he has been required to report on, including AFL interests and [George Meany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMeany)’s personal outlook. His UFO reportage may or may not be an issue. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 435; Frank Edwards, “[The Plot to Silence Me,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1957-06/page/16/mode/2up)” Fate 10, no. 6 \(June 1957\): 17–23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2477 ### Event 10072 (061B859B) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Locations:** Lawson AFB [now Lawson Army Airfield] in Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia; 20 miles west of Lawson **Description:** 8:54 p.m. A1C Chase E. Lewis, tower operator at Lawson AFB \[now Lawson Army Airfield\] in Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, sees a strange stationary object in the west. It varies in brightness, changing color from white to red to orange to white again, with seemingly high-speed motions. An Army helicopter piloted by WO R. T. Wade is sent to investigate; he locates the object 20 miles west of Lawson at 2,000 feet. Wade abandons the chase due to low fuel after 2 minutes. At 9:05 p.m., two additional tower operators \(including A1C William N. Watson\) view the object. A second Army helicopter, piloted by U. S. Tarma, is diverted to the object at 9:27 p.m. He sees it, but it disappears at 9:29 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Helicopters Encounter Venus \(CIRVIS\)](http://www.nicap.org/540811lawson%5Fdir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 284–285](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 219 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2478 ### Event 10073 (75AFC688) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Locations:** Okinawa; Yoron-Jima, Japan **Description:** 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Company, of Okinawa, sees a line of blue lights underneath a blue circle with a black center fly over the SS Docteur Angier off Yoron-Jima, Japan, and climb, illuminating and agitating the clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[Disk Seen from SS](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/drangier54.htm) [Docteur Angier, August 11, 1954](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/drangier54.htm)”; Sparks, [p. 219](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2479 ### Event 10074 (23F8DE68) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Description:** Off Yoron Jima, near Okinawa at 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, an electrical engineer and assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Co., and Kosei Nakamoto sighted a line of blue lights that flew over their ship at the site of the S.S. Docteur Angier shipwreck. When overhead the two men could see that underneath the lights was a blue ring with a black center. After passing over the ship it climbed vertically, illuminating and agitating the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UNICAT, case 778, citing Project Blue Book report IR-4-54; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 76; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4857 ### Event 10075 (EE9ADA7D) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Description:** At three o'clock in the morning a compass started spinning wildly and other types of EM effects occurred in Remiremont, Vosges department, France and two other towns when at least one UFO briefly flew over. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 129, citing Jimmy Guieu; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 262 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4858 ### Event 10076 (40FB3E98) **Date:** 8/11/1954 **Description:** At 1:30 p.m. a flaming object bashed a hole in the side of a house in Lawrence, Massachusetts. That evening, at 7:54 p.m., a disc-shaped object glowed and soared around the control tower at Maxwell Field in Alabama. It was seen by both ground and air observers, and confirmed on radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Blue Book files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4859 ### Event 10077 (A7505B73) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Location:** Maxwell AFB **Description:** EMERGENCY CIA MESSAGE: Sighted Saucer hovering at 2000 ft. above Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dispatched local helicopter NBR ARMY267 to investigate. Definitely NOT a star. Helicopters fuel low, returned to base. In coming helicopter ARMY294 proceeded toward UFO which then completely disappeared. Pilot of ARMY294 lost sight of it, would be glad to be called upon to verify saucer light. Pilots of Army helicopters were: R.T. Wade, 506th helicopter Co., U.S. Tarma, also of the 506th, Ft. Genning, GA. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p493) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_541 ### Event 10078 (7F00EB39) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** New updated reporting of UFOs. Regulation AFR 200–2, (see Aug. 26, 1953), by order of N.F. Twining (MJ-4), Chief of Staff, USAF. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p489) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_542 **See also:** 8/26/1953 ### Event 10079 (2A8ACD04) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, AL **Description:** Ground and air observer(s) and RADAR's. Saucer glows and soars around Air Force Base tower. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 284) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3702 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "52", **HatchDesc:** "MAXWELL AFB,AL:GND+AIR OBS+RDRS:SCR GLOWS+SOARS AROUND AFB TOWER:NFD", **LatLong:** "32.400002 -86.344449", **LatLongDMS:** "32:24:00 N 86:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.400002,-86.344449)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10080 (F42A6287) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** FT. BENNING, GA **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucer hovers west / tower. Away and back. Vanishes as helicopter nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3703 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "94", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.BENNING,GA:SVRL OBS:SCR HVRS WEST/TOWER:AWAY+BACK:vanishes as copter nears", **LatLong:** "32.344446 -84.955560", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:40 N 84:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.344446,-84.955560)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10081 (F14DEE77) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** PRECY-SOUS-THIL, 21, FR **Description:** Shiny UFO moves in sudden jerks. Leaves vapor trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3704 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PRECY-sous-THIL,21,FR:SHINY UFO MOVES IN SUDDEN JERKS:LEAVES VAPOR TRAIL", **LatLong:** "47.383336 4.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:23:00 N 04:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.383336,4.316667)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10082 (A7C83873) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Location:** Yoron-Jima Island, Okinawa **Description:** S. S. Docteur Close Encounter (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540812](http://nicap.org/540812yoron-jima%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1717 ### Event 10083 (2CF91075) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Locations:** Maxwell AFB; Montgomery, Alabama **Description:** 2:29 a.m. Four military men on US Army helicopters at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, see a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There are both ground and air witnesses, as well as radar-visual confirmation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 284–285](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up) [493–494](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/492/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2480 ### Event 10084 (E1A389C5) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Description:** An updated version of AFR 200-2 is issued by the Department of the Air Force and declassified by Air Force Chief of Staff [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) The public can now know that the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron was brought in to assist ATIC \(Blue Book\) with preliminary and field UFO investigations, and that USAF considers UFOs to be “any airborne object which by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features, does not conform to any presently known aircraft or missile type, or which cannot be positively identified as a familiar object.” It lists the objectives of UFO reporting as: “First as a possible threat to the security of the United States and its forces, and secondly, to determine technical aspects involved.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Department of the Air Force, “[Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting,](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FRegulation%5F200-2%2C%5FUnidentified%5FFlying%5FObjects%5FReporting)” Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 12, 1954; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/488/mode/2up) [489–492](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/488/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2481 ### Event 10085 (0CC23069) **Date:** 8/12/1954 **Description:** UFOs seemingly visited two U.S. military bases on the same night in the southern United States. At 2:30 a.m. EDT in Georgia, a disc-shaped object hovered to the west of the tower at Fort Benning. It flew away and then came back, but finally vanished when a helicopter approached. At Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama nearly an hour later, at 2:29 a.m. CDT, four military men on U.S. Army helicopters saw a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There were both ground and air observers to this second sighting, as well as radar-visual confirmation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 22; (2) Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 284; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4935 ### Event 10086 (AA980CA4) **Date:** 8/13/1954 **Location:** STAVERN, NORWAY **Description:** 50 military observer(s). Silver saucer / line-of-fire / Anti-Aircraft guns/teams practice / 7 minute(s). Extreme speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3705 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "STAVERN,NORWAY:50 MIL OBS:SLVR SCR/LINE-OF-FIRE/AA PRACTICE/7min:EXTREME SPEED", **LatLong:** "59.000003 10.033334", **LatLongDMS:** "59:00:00 N 10:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.000003,10.033334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10087 (BC08F666) **Date:** 8/15/1954? **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** BOSTON, MA **Description:** 6+observer(s). 4 orbs circle reflector experiment. Jets chase? Photographs confiscated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 733) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3706 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON,MA:6+OBS:4 ORBS CCL REFLECTOR EXPERIMENT:JETS CHASE?:FOTOS CONFISCATED", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -71.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 71:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-71.033337)", **RelAlt:** "750", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10088 (963CD936) **Date:** 8/15/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** SAN MARCOS AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3166. C47 crew. Saucer makes 45° turn to avoid collision. / r185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3707 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "182", **HatchDesc:** "SAN MARCOS AFB,TX:BBK#3166:C47 CREW:SCR MAKES 45°TURN TO AVOID COLLISION:/r185", **LatLong:** "29.683335 -98.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:41:00 N 98:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.683335,-98.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10089 (0971D111) **Date:** 8/15/1954 **Location:** San Marcos, TX **Description:** C-47 Encounters Blue Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3166) **Reference:** NICAP: [540815](http://www.nicap.org/540815sanmarcos%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1718 ### Event 10090 (554B6FB7) **Date:** 8/15/1954 **Time:** 10:20 PM **Location:** San Marcos, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: USAF Maj. W.J. Davis, Capt. R.D. Sauers, flying a C-47 transport plane. One dark blue oblong object paced the C-47, veered away, then crossed in front of it. Five minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_358 ### Event 10091 (D73B1B52) **Date:** 8/15/1954 **Description:** At 10:20 p.m. USAF Major W. J. Davis and Captain R. D. Sauers were flying a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane over San Marcos AFB, Texas when they sighted a dark blue oblong object that paced the C-47, veered away, then crossed in front of it. The incident lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 77 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5030 ### Event 10092 (3B9107E9) **Date:** 8/16/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** TANANARIVE, MDGSCR **Description:** 20000 observer(s). Saucer circles town. Going [to] main street / 2 minute(s). Going quickly west. / LDLN#330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3708 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast,Ghana,Togo,Benin,Liberia etc.", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TANANARIVE,MDGSCR:20000 OBS:SCR CCLs TOWN:> MAIN STREET/2min:>>W:/LDLN#330", **LatLong:** "-18.911112 47.261113", **LatLongDMS:** "18:54:40 S 47:15:40 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-18.911112,47.261113)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "TAN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10093 (12D393F0) **Date:** 8/16/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** A458 SHREWSBURY TO/FROM CRESSAGE, SHROPS **Description:** Gibbons and 3 observer(s). Brill silver ovoid going quickly southwest. 700-1Kmph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3709 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "68", **HatchDesc:** "A458 SHREWSBURY>>SW:700-1Kmph", **LatLong:** "52.650003 -2.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:39:00 N 02:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.650003,-2.666667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10094 (33024010) **Date:** 8/16/1954 **Location:** Tananarive [now Antananarivo], Madagascar **Description:** 5:00 p.m. A green ball is seen in the sky over Tananarive \[now Antananarivo\], Madagascar, and disappears behind a hill. It reappears a minute later and flies over the higher part of Tananarive. When the object flies in front of them, some witnesses see a lentil-shaped device with a silvery metallic aspect enveloped in electric luminous gas. According to Jean-Luc Bruneau, inspector general at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Gen. [Charles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5Fde%5FGaulle) [de Gaulle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5Fde%5FGaulle) is concerned about this sighting and quietly approves having a French study group involved with investigating UFO cases. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[1954, Tananarive, Madagascar: Multiple Witnesses to UFOs,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/2010/madagascar1954.html)” UFO Casebook, July 30, 2008; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 11; Patrick Gross, “[Tananarive, Madagascar, August 1954](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tana54.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2482 ### Event 10095 (E8A6C001) **Date:** 8/17/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** GARDEN CITY, NY **Description:** Night light all over. Gone and reappears elsewhere. Searchlights. 3 jets chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 282) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3710 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "225", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "GARDEN CITY,NY:NLT ALL OVR:GONE+REAPPEARS ELSEWHERE:SEARCHLITES:3 JETS CHASE", **LatLong:** "40.727780 -73.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:43:40 N 73:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.727780,-73.633337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10096 (8C341DBC) **Date:** 8/18/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** COIRE = CHUR, SWZL **Description:** Brilliant metallic ball going quickly west toward(s) Ilanz / 3km altitude. Suddenly turns quickly going up [to] and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3711 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COIRE=CHUR,SWZL:BRILL.MTLC BALL >>W twrd ILANZ/3km alt:SUDDENLY TURNS ↑↑+gone", **LatLong:** "46.850002 9.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:51:00 N 09:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.850002,9.550000)", **State/Prov:** "GRB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10097 (F42C8462) **Date:** 8/18/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** STEIN-SACKINGEN, SWZ **Description:** Red-yellow disk seen over town / 12 min. No further details. / Grepi. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3712 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "STEIN-SACKINGEN,SWZ:RED-YELLOW DISK SEEN OVER TOWN/12 min:NFD:/GREPI ", **LatLong:** "47.533336 7.950000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:32:00 N 07:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.533336,7.950000)", **State/Prov:** "ARG", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10098 (185917A7) **Date:** 8/18/1954 **Description:** A brilliant metallic sphere was witnessed at 6:30 p.m. by a witness while driving between the towns of Coire and Chur, Switzerland. The sphere maneuvered in the western sky toward Ilanz at three kilometers altitude, making sudden turns. It finally shot straight up into the sky and was gone. At 8:00 p.m. a reddish yellow disc seen over the town of Stein-Saeckingen, Switzerland for 12 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3518 & 3519; unsourced newspaper clipping dated August 25, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5121 ### Event 10099 (4F59F30C) **Date:** 8/19/1954 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** DOLE, JURA, FR **Description:** Cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape hovers and lights whole town. Saucers all over area / next day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3713 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "DOLE,JURA,FR:CLOUD-CGR HOVERS+LITES WHOLE TOWN:SCRS ALL OVER AREA/NEXT DAY", **LatLong:** "47.116669 5.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:07:00 N 05:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.116669,5.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Jura", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10100 (219F458B) **Date:** 8/20/1954 **Location:** ULITHI / URUSHI, CAROLINE ISLAND **Description:** United States Navy (USN) ship sees '30cm bar'. Glows red. Going north toward(s) Japan. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3714 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ULITHI/URUSHI,CAROLINE ISL:USN SHIP SEES '30cm BAR':GLOWS RED:>N twrd JAPAN", **LatLong:** "10.000000 140.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "10:00:00 N 140:00:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.000000,140.000007)", **State/Prov:** "CRL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10101 (4FD59C03) **Date:** 8/20/1954 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** MOSJOEN, NRWY **Description:** 2 women. Pseudo-human/entity draws planets / orbit. Offers ride / 10' saucer. / MJ#161. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3715 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "MOSJOEN,NRWY:2 WOMEN:PSH DRAWS PLANETS/ORBIT:OFFERS RIDE/10'SCR:/MJ#161", **LatLong:** "65.866670 13.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "65:52:00 N 13:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.866670,13.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10102 (5512978F) **Date:** 8/20/1954 **Locations:** Oak Park, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Europe **Description:** Contactee [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) of Oak Park, Illinois, and Charles and Lilian Laughead of Detroit, Michigan, send out a 7-page press release announcing that a geological disaster will cause great environmental changes in North America and Europe. It warns that December 20 will be the last available date for evacuation, as a great flood will strike on December 21. Martin and her followers hope to board a landed flying saucer before doom falls. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 718 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2483 ### Event 10103 (687CF7D4) **Date:** 8/20/1954 **Locations:** Øyfjellet; Mosjøen; Norway **Description:** Morning. Edith Jacobsen, 2, and Åsta Solvang, 32, are on a blueberry-picking trip to Øyfjellet, near Mosjøen, Norway, with their uncle, Halvdan Jacobsen. The two sisters wander off to a fen when suddenly they see a man in the distance. They approach him and he smiles and stretches out his hand, but he only brushes Edith’s palm with it. He has long hair with a natural wave, a dark complexion, and a tight-fitting suit with a wide belt. He begins to talk but they can’t understand him. It does not sound like Norwegian, English, German, Spanish, French, or Russian. He takes out a “little mirror” from a pocket and with something like a pencil draws circles, apparently representing planets. He finally indicates he wants the women to accompany him and he takes them to a landed disc in a clearing. It is gray-blue and looks like two giant pot lids put together. He makes a sign to not come too close, then he opens a hatch on the top, crawls in, and shuts the door. The sisters hear a faint humming and the UFO rises while rotating on its own axis. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gordon Creighton, “[Mosjøen: An Early Norwegian](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201989%20V%2034%20N%202.pdf) [CE-III Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201989%20V%2034%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 34, no. 2 \(June 1989\): 1–7; Clark III 267–268 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2484 ### Event 10104 (DDB87B85) **Date:** 8/20/1954 **Description:** On this afternoon two sisters in Norway met the pilot of a UFO. While picking blueberries in fields around Ceydalen, near Mosjoen, Norway 24-year-old Edith Jacobsen and her sister, Asta Solvang, were approached by a man with a tanned complexion and long hair who smiled and made friendly hand gestures. Curious, they decided not to run away. The stranger wore a greenish one-piece coverall, which covered him all the way up to his neck, and they could not see any buttons or seams. He also wore a very wide belt around his waist. But what really grabbed their attention was the man’s long, light brown hair. His eyes were light blue and somewhat slanted, and his skin was a bronze color. After waving back to the visitor, they asked who he was. The man extended his hand towards the women but instead of shaking hands he slightly brushed their palms, and then spoke in a "sing song type manner” and in a language they could not comprehend, even though both women were fluent in English, German, and Russian and were knowledgeable in Spanish and French. “His hands were beautiful,” said one of the women, “with long well manicured fingers like that of an artist”. The stranger took something out of his coverall that resembled a pencil and what appeared to be a piece of paper, when he then proceeded to draw a central point surrounded by several circles, which seemed to represent the orbits of the planets within our solar system. After pointing out the Earth and the moon, the stranger pointed at a ‘planet’ which the women were unable to distinguish due to their state of excitement. Moments later he put both items back into his tunic through a seam that neither woman was able to see. At this point both women were starting to feel a little concerned, but the smiling man motioned for them to follow him. Both women obeyed and soon arrived in a small clearing in which rested a metallic lenticular-shaped object with a small dome on top. The object measured some 4 to 5 meters in diameter and was about 1.30 meters in height, and was grayish-blue in color. As they started to approach the craft the man motioned for them to step back. He then opened a hatch at the base of the object and climbed in, and then closed the hatch. The women then heard a slight whistling sound, and moments later the object began to rise up into air with a rotating motion. Once the craft had climbed to about 45 meters it stopped momentarily, and then it increased its rotation, quickly rising up into the sky in a diagonal trajectory and disappearing from sight. The women notified the police after the encounter and according to police officials both women were of sound mind and well respected in the community. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-44 (A0243), citing Oddvar J. Larsen; Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5170 ### Event 10105 (97301DE1) **Date:** 8/21/1954 **Location:** Hopkinsville, Kentucky **Description:** Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen. **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_141 ### Event 10106 (0EE2D9CE) **Date:** 8/21/1954 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** EAST / DIETIKON, SWZL **Description:** 2 brilliant red disks hover and spin / 15 minute(s). 1 going east over Zurich. Both going quickly SSE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3716 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "E/DIETIKON,SWZL:2 BRILL.RED DISKS HVR+SPIN/15min:1 >E OVR ZURICH:BOTH >>SSE", **LatLong:** "47.350002 8.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:21:00 N 08:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.350002,8.516667)", **State/Prov:** "ZRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10107 (453B0499) **Date:** 8/21/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 1 observer. 12 dim night lights going quickly west / 5000mph. Stay in formation. Possibly huge structure. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 282) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3717 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:1 OBS:12 DIM NLTS>>W/5000mph:STAY/FORMATION:POSSIBLY HUGE STRUCTURE", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -104.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 104:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-104.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10108 (874B4BA1) **Date:** 8/22/1954 **Location:** EAST CHICAGO, IN **Description:** 2 workers. Half-moon object darts going up [to] going down [to] and all over/all about oil refinery. 750m altitude. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 286) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3718 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "E.CHICAGO,IN:2 WORKERS:HALF-MOON OBJ DARTS ↑↓+ALLO OIL REFINERY:750m alt:>>S", **LatLong:** "41.627780 -87.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:37:40 N 87:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.627780,-87.466671)", **RelAlt:** "750", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10109 (75F88BA4) **Date:** 8/22/1954 **Location:** N France or W Germany, Europe **Description:** Jan Aldrich (date could be 23rd) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1719 ### Event 10110 (95557E9E) **Date:** 8/22/1954 **Description:** In East Chicago, Indiana on this day two refinery workers sighted a crescent-shaped object that darted all over the sky above the oil refinery were they worked for two minutes. It flew at an estimated altitude of 2,500 feet and left going south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 155 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5217 ### Event 10111 (FCF28E9E) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** VERNON, FR **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Huge vertical CCG offloads 5 saucers. Wobble and going quickly north / r70p3-28 / r114. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 91) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3719 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "VERNON,FR:SVRL SEP.OBS:HUGE VERT CCG OFFLOADS 5 SCRS:WOBBLE+>>N/r70p3-28/r114", **LatLong:** "49.100002 1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:06:00 N 01:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.100002,1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "EUR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10112 (B05C9469) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LUGRIN, FR **Description:** 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / silver suits 'grunt like pigs'. Enter glow saucer and away. / r217p164. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3720 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "LUGRIN,FR:2 OIDS/SLVER SUITS 'GRUNT like PIGS':ENTER GLOW SCR+away:/r217p164", **LatLong:** "46.350002 6.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:21:00 N 06:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.350002,6.466667)", **State/Prov:** "HSV", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10113 (82F18A92) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** KONGWAK, VCT **Description:** Several observer(s). Orange-glowing saucer going northeast. Turns green as plane nears. Turns white and going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 746) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3721 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KONGWAK,VCT:SVRL OBS:ORG-GLO SCR >NE:TURNS GRN AS PLANE NEARS:TURNS WHT+>>N", **LatLong:** "-38.516669 145.700007", **LatLongDMS:** "38:31:00 S 145:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.516669,145.700007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10114 (CD09AC8D) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Location:** Varennes, near Diges, France **Description:** Approximate date. A strange object hovered low over the house of Mr. Lucas and left straight up. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_136 ### Event 10115 (CC6719AD) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Location:** Lugrin, near Thonon, France **Description:** Elise Blanc approached an object looking like an aluminum trailer with two small beings in silvery dress, grunting like pigs, standing close by. The craft took on a fiery color and flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Challenge 129 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_137 ### Event 10116 (7A5FDAD2) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Locations:** Vernon, Eure, France; Seine River **Description:** 1:00 a.m. Businessman [Bernard Miserey](https://www.societe.com/societe/monsieur-bernard-miserey-733641336.html) has just parked his car in a garage at Vernon, Eure, France, when he notices a sudden illumination. He sees an object like an enormous \(300 feet long\) cigar standing on end, hovering above the north bank of the Seine River about 1,000 feet away. Suddenly from the bottom of the object comes a horizontal disc that drops, slows, and suddenly dives horizontally across the river at him. It vanishes at a high rate of speed toward the southwest. Three other discs follow in sequence. A fifth disc drops much lower than the earlier ones and remains still for an instant, swaying slightly. During this time the cigar has faded and sinks into darkness. The spectacle has lasted 45 minutes. Two police officers and an Army engineer also see the display. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 293; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 85–86; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/23aug1954vernon.htm),” February 2, 2007; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 4–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2485 ### Event 10117 (9331536A) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Description:** Outside of Vernon, near Paris, France a giant cigar-shaped object was observed standing on end at 1:00 a.m. It emitted a disc-shaped object, dropped in free fall, then slowed and swayed. The disc was surrounded by a red halo. Over the next 45 minutes it emitted four more discs. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 82; APRO Bulletin, January 1980, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 483 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5248 ### Event 10118 (A124DBB6) **Date:** 8/23/1954 **Description:** On this day Elise Blanc approached an object that looked like an aluminum trailer in Lugrin, France. Standing close to it were two small beings dressed in silver uniforms. They made grunting sounds like pigs. The object took on a glowing, fiery color and flew away. [Note: the Airstream model of trailer, common for this period, is aluminum in color and somewhat ovoid shaped.] **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129; Passport to Magonia, p. 208 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5249 ### Event 10119 (F3B54614) **Date:** 8/24/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** EGILSTADIR, ICELAND **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3180. Farmer. 2' x 5' cylinder/cylindrical object whizzes. Straight and level fast and slow. Drops / sand. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3722 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greenland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "38", **HatchDesc:** "EGILSTADIR,ICELAND:BBK#3180:FARMER:2'x 5'CYL WHIZZES:S/L FAST+SLOW:DROPS/SAND", **LatLong:** "63.900003 -20.716668", **LatLongDMS:** "63:54:00 N 20:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.900003,-20.716668)", **State/Prov:** "LAG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10120 (C9105DB0) **Date:** 8/24/1954 **Location:** Egilstadir, Iceland **Description:** Flat cylinder, 2-2.5 ft long, 4-5 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3180) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1720 ### Event 10121 (7CFFC88D) **Date:** 8/24/1954 **Time:** 8:30 PM **Location:** Egilstadir, Iceland **Description:** Witness: one unnamed farmer. A cylinder, 2-2.5' long, 4-5' in diameter, made a loud whizzing sound, flew straight and level fast, then slow, then fell into sandbar. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_359 ### Event 10122 (B4E2A4D3) **Date:** 8/24/1954 **Description:** Egilstadir, Iceland. At 8:30 p.m. a farmer saw a small cylindrical flying object, 2-2.5 feet long and 4-5 feet in diameter that made a loud whizzing sound. It flew straight, level and fast; then slowed down and fell into a sandbar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5288 ### Event 10123 (CE6C8211) **Date:** 8/25/1954 **Location:** Norway **Description:** Two girls in Norway meet spaceman. **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_134 ### Event 10124 (DB2EE368) **Date:** 8/26/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** DANVILLE, VA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3182. 2 6m domed saucers hover. Orange glow extends / 3m. Going up / terrific speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3723 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "152", **HatchDesc:** "DANVILLE,VA:BBK#3182:2 6m DOMED SCRS HVR:ORG GLOW EXTENDS/3m:↑/TERRIFIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "36.616668 -79.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:37:00 N 79:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.616668,-79.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10125 (8701ADEC) **Date:** 8/26/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SOUTHSEA, HAMPS **Description:** Ex RAF woman sees very large UFO / 20 miles altitude! Leaves (something behind) long trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3724 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTHSEA,HAMPS:EX RAF WOMAN SEES VLARGE UFO/20 MILES ALTITUDE!:LVS LONG TRAIL", **LatLong:** "50.766669 -1.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:46:00 N 01:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.766669,-1.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10126 (7C8E1BEB) **Date:** 8/26/1954 **Location:** Danville, VA **Description:** 2 domed ellipses, 20 ft long, 8 ft thick, 10 ft at ends (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3182) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1721 ### Event 10127 (60E487B4) **Date:** 8/26/1954 **Time:** 6:15 AM **Location:** Danville, Virginia **Description:** Witness: Rev. W.L. Shelton. Two domed ellipses, 20' long, 8' thick, 10' at ends; glowing silver or orange. Hovered, then climbed side-by-side while getting brighter. Observed for 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_360 ### Event 10128 (35922782) **Date:** 8/26/1954 **Locations:** Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland; Bray Head; Wicklow **Description:** 9:35 p.m. Crowds of people in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. see an object traveling at great speed over Bray Head. It is a brilliant blue light, traveling at “2,000 miles an hour” toward the sea before changing direction and moving toward Wicklow. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Irish Times, August 27, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2486 ### Event 10129 (1826897C) **Date:** 8/26/1954 **Description:** Rev. W. L. Shelton saw two domed ellipses in Danville, Virginia at 6:15 a.m. They were 20-feet wide, 8-feet thick, and glowed silver and orange. The orange glow extended about ten feet. They hovered at first, then climbed vertically at a terrific speed side-by-side while getting brighter. He observed them for two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3182; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 93 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5357 ### Event 10130 (4F9B20DA) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** DORCHESTER, MASS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3185. Unidentified. 7 teardrop-shapes single file. Turn blue. Speed up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3725 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "DORCHESTER,MASS:BBK#3185:UID:7 TEARDROP-SHAPES SINGLE FILE:TURN BLUE:SPEED UP", **LatLong:** "42.300002 -71.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:18:00 N 71:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.300002,-71.050003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10131 (6620A056) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LAMBERT FIELD, MO **Description:** Navy Lt. 3M diameter black object going [to] 370 kph over airport / 300M altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 746) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3726 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "184", **HatchDesc:** "LAMBERT FIELD,MO:NAVY Lt.:3M diam BLK OBJ >370 kph ovr AIRPORT/300M alt:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.750002 -90.361115", **LatLongDMS:** "38:45:00 N 90:21:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.750002,-90.361115)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10132 (422D9DAD) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BOSTON CREEK, ONT **Description:** Saucer lands 1.5mi away. Observer(s) walks within 300' when it flies. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3727 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "273", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON CREEK,ONT:SCR LANDS 1.5mi AWAY:OBS WALKS WITHIN 300' WHEN IT FLIES", **LatLong:** "48.016669 -79.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "48:01:00 N 79:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.016669,-79.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10133 (887C4914) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Location:** Dorchester, MA **Description:** 7 large, white, teardrop-shaped objects turn blue (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3185) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1722 ### Event 10134 (F5B32D26) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Boston Creek, Canada **Description:** A wingless flying object was seen by Bill Supa, an employee of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about 2 km way from the witness, who approached within 300 m before it took off and flew away. Grass was flattened where it had landed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 227 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_138 ### Event 10135 (FC7BCB93) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Time:** 1 PM **Location:** Dorchester, Massachusetts **Description:** Witness: E.A. Srazdes. Seven large, white, teardrop-shaped objects turned blue. Flew in line formation and increased speed during the 2 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_361 ### Event 10136 (94F78C15) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Description:** Seven large white teardrop-shaped objects flew in a single file over Dorchester, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the afternoon, EDT. They turned the color blue when they sped up. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5390 ### Event 10137 (D0621B8C) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Description:** In Woodside, California a mystery explosion was followed by an asphalt fire at 4:15 p.m. A rectangular area 70' x 270' on Portola Road was engulfed in the blaze. Metal pellets were found. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, October 1954, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5391 ### Event 10138 (E5D4ED99) **Date:** 8/27/1954 **Description:** At 10:30 p.m. in Boston Creek, Ontario a wingless, circular UFO was seen by Bill Supa, an employee of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about two kilometers away from him. He approached to within 300 meters before it took off and flew away. The grass had been flattened where it had rested. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 218 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5392 ### Event 10139 (F0023DD2) **Date:** 8/28/1954 **Location:** Quebec, Canada **Description:** Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three men get out. **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_135 ### Event 10140 (4F72C22C) **Date:** 8/28/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** WOODSIDE, CA **Description:** Bang! 70x270' rectangular section / Portola Road ablaze. Metal pellets found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3728 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "116", **HatchDesc:** "WOODSIDE,CA:BANG!:70x270' RECT.SECTION/PORTOLA ROAD ABLAZE:MTL PELLETS FOUND", **LatLong:** "37.427780 -122.255561", **LatLongDMS:** "37:25:40 N 122:15:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.427780,-122.255561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10141 (7B74A4C5) **Date:** 8/28/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** OKLAHOMA CITY, OK **Description:** Hundreds. 15 saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. Tinker Air Force Base RADAR. Jets chase. Going quickly west. Denied! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3729 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "359", **HatchDesc:** "OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:100s:15 SCRS/DLT FORMn:TINKER AFB RDR:JETS CHASE:>>W:denied!", **LatLong:** "35.483335 -97.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:29:00 N 97:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.483335,-97.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10142 (861D80A5) **Date:** 8/28/1954 **Location:** Tinker AFB, OK **Description:** A triangular formation of 15 objects, tracked by ground radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540828](http://www.nicap.org/540828tinker%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1723 ### Event 10143 (F82CC974) **Date:** 8/28/1954 **Location:** Quebec, Canada **Description:** Two boys saw a craft land and two or three men come out. No details given. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Constance 277 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_139 ### Event 10144 (FA7B7F55) **Date:** 8/28/1954 **Locations:** Tinker AFB; Oklahoma City **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Several USAF fighter pilots pursue a triangular formation of 15 objects near Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, tracked by ground radar. As the jets approach, the formation breaks, changes to a semicircle, and the objects speed up and vanish to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “USAF Fighters Report Formation Tracked by Radar”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 25–26; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 220 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2487 ### Event 10145 (5FBA29DF) **Date:** 8/28/1954 **Description:** Two boys in Quebec saw an unidentified craft land and two or three men were seen exiting the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 277 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5409 ### Event 10146 (3617B96E) **Date:** 8/29/1954 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** NEAR PRINCE CHRISTIAN, GREENL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3189. KLM DC4 pilot. 3 dark lens saucers in formation. Turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 295) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3730 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr PRINCE CHRISTIAN,GREENL:BBK#3189:KLM DC4 PILOT:3 DRK LENS SCRS/FORMn:TURNS", **LatLong:** "60.116670 -43.333335", **LatLongDMS:** "60:07:00 N 43:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.116670,-43.333335)", **State/Prov:** "AIR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10147 (E8E1FC2F) **Date:** 8/29/1954 **Location:** Prince Christian, Greenland **Description:** Lens-shaped objects veer north (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3189) **Reference:** NICAP: [540829](http://www.nicap.org/540829greenland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1724 ### Event 10148 (037A5978) **Date:** 8/29/1954 **Time:** 11:05 AM **Location:** Prince Christian, Greenland **Description:** Witnesses: lst Officer H.G. Gardner, engineer J.V.D. Whitisy, flying Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ). Three or four dark, lens-shaped objects veered north and changed position in formation during the 10 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_362 ### Event 10149 (5BB75FE2) **Date:** 8/29/1954 **Locations:** Mérida, Venezuela; Sierra Nevada de Mérida **Description:** A witness in Mérida, Venezuela, sees a large, intensely yellow, glowing object moving at great speed from west to east. When it reaches the Sierra Nevada de Mérida, it suddenly stops and two disc-shaped blue objects emerge from it. All three continue to the east and disappear behind buildings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 58 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2488 ### Event 10150 (FB4ACD81) **Date:** 8/29/1954 **Location:** Prins Christianssund radio and weather station, Greenland **Description:** 11:05 p.m. First Officer H. G. Gardner and Engineer J. V. D. Whitisy, flying on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC- 4, see 3–4 dark, lens-shaped objects over Prins Christianssund radio and weather station, Greenland. They veer north and change position in formation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Lens-Shaped Objects Veer North](http://www.nicap.org/540829greenland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 220 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2489 ### Event 10151 (CE6474EC) **Date:** 8/29/1954 **Description:** First Officer H.G. Gardner and engineer J. V. D. Whitisy, flying a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ) at 11:05 a.m. near Prince Christian, Greenland sighted three or four dark, lens-shaped objects that veered to the north and changed position in formation for ten minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 779 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5458 ### Event 10152 (281C1A5E) **Date:** 8/30/1954 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** NORTH BAY, ONT **Description:** 1+4 observer(s). Saucer going [to] over lake. Going quickly [to] RCAF base. 6 cords hang down. / r107p227. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3731 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH BAY,ONT:1+4 OBS:SCR > OVR LAKE:>>RCAF BASE:6 CORDS HANG DOWN:/r107p227", **LatLong:** "46.216669 -79.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:00 N 79:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.216669,-79.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10153 (8902860A) **Date:** 8/30/1954? **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NEAR MARENGO, ALGERIA **Description:** 2 / mopod/motorscooter/motorbike. Brilliant yellow disk low and silent. Going north over mountains to sea / 120kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3732 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr MARENGO,ALGERIA:2/MOTO:BRILL.YLW DISK LOW+SLNT:>N ovr MTNS to SEA/120kph", **LatLong:** "36.716668 2.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "36:43:00 N 02:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.716668,2.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Alger", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10154 (B3DE1924) **Date:** 8/30/1954 **Location:** Porto Alegre, Brazil **Description:** House lights failed as UFO passed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1725 ### Event 10155 (CBB05611) **Date:** 8/30/1954 **Time:** 0525 **Location:** North Bay, Canada **Description:** Sgt. Durdle saw a brilliant, circular object flying across Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hanging down from a central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning globe on top. When it tilted, the witness was able to observe regulatorlike devices inside the machine through a vertical lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages, which looked like necklaces, were hanging from the craft. Durdle woke up four Air Force men, who observed the object spiraling away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 227 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_140 ### Event 10156 (0BD3B730) **Date:** 8/30/1954 **Description:** North Bay, Ontario. At 5:25 a.m. Sgt. Durdle of the R.C.A.F. saw a brilliant, circular object fly across Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hung down from the central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning globe on top. When the object tilted he was able to see regulator-looking devices inside the machine through a vertical lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages that looked like necklaces hung from the craft. Sgt. Durdle woke up four other Air Force men, who observed the object spiraling away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 227; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 140 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5486 ### Event 10157 (69FDFFA7) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** KIRKLAND LAKE, ONT **Description:** Cop sees shiny ovoid go slowly going north. Vanishes / sparks. Blue rain. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3733 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "170", **Elev:** "325", **HatchDesc:** "KIRKLAND LAKE,ONT:COP SEES SHINY OVOID GO SLOWLY>N:VANISHES/SPARKS:BLUE RAIN", **LatLong:** "48.200002 -80.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "48:12:00 N 80:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.200002,-80.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10158 (2E9B9CB8) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** ASNIERES-LE-DIJON, FR **Description:** 6 watch planes maneuver. Saucer goes east going west over planes! Not meteor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3734 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ASNIERES-LE-DIJON,FR:6 WATCH PLANES MNVR:SCR GOES E>W OVR PLANES!:NOT METEOR", **LatLong:** "47.416669 5.044445", **LatLongDMS:** "47:25:00 N 05:02:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.416669,5.044445)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10159 (107BF6B9) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / GOULBURN, NSW **Description:** 2 50M saucers near Navy plane. Nowra RADAR. Going quickly northeast. / r242p36 / r138#5p58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3735 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SW/GOULBURN,NSW:2 50M SCRs nr NAVY PLANE:NOWRA RDR:>>NE:/r242p36 /r138#5p58", **LatLong:** "-34.800002 149.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "34:48:00 S 149:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.800002,149.500007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10160 (72E0C48C) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** PARIS, FR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Several separate observer(s). 2 orange cigars going quickly [to] east. 3rd cylinder/cigar-shape follows later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3736 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS,FR:BBK#UNK:SVRL SEP.OBS:2 ORG CGRs >>EAST:3rd CGR FOLOS LATER", **LatLong:** "48.850002 2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:00 N 02:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.850002,2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10161 (C016D03B) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** STAFFORD, ENG **Description:** Red-yellow sphere/orb/globe going north / 5mph. 2055h sombrero-saucer at stone, STAFFs. Going quickly [to] Meaford. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3737 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "STAFFORD,ENG:RED-YEL ORB>N/5mph::2055h SOMBRERO-SCR at STONE,STAFFs:>>MEAFORD", **LatLong:** "52.800003 -2.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:48:00 N 02:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.800003,-2.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10162 (220E2303) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Location:** Nowra, AU **Description:** O'Farrell Case (Sea Fury Incident), G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [540831](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1726 ### Event 10163 (2CB8028D) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Location:** Nowra, AU **Description:** O'Farrell Case (Sea Fury Incident) (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [540831](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1727 ### Event 10164 (46FDCBA1) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Location:** HMAS Albatross Naval Air Station near Nowra, New South Wales **Description:** 7:10 p.m. RAN Lieutenant J. A. “Shamus” O’Farrell is returning to HMAS Albatross Naval Air Station near Nowra, New South Wales, after a night cross-country in a Hawker Sea Fury aircraft. After contacting Nowra, O’Farrell sees a very bright light closing fast at one o’clock. It crosses in front of his aircraft, taking up position on his port beam, where it appears to orbit. A second and similar light is observed at nine o’clock. It passes about a mile in front of the Sea Fury and then turns in the position where the first light was observed. According to O’Farrell, the apparent crossing speeds of the lights are the fastest he has ever encountered. He has been flying at 250 mph. O’Farrell contacts Albatross, which in turn confirms that it has two radar “paints” in company with him. Radar operator Petty Officer Keith Jessop confirms the presence of 2 objects near the Sea Fury on the GCI remote display. The two lights reform at nine o’clock and then disappear on a northeasterly heading. O’Farrell can only make out “a vague shape with the white light situated centrally on top.” The Directorate of Naval Intelligence at the time writes that O’Farrell is “an entirely credible witness” and that he “was visibly shaken by his experience but remains adamant that he saw these objects.” News of the incident leaks out in December, but the official RAN file remains classified until 1982. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[‘Sea Fury’ Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 379–380; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 70; Good Above, [p. 162](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up); An Adelaide UFO Researcher, “[The ‘Sea Fury’ Radar Incident Revisited,](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm)” 2017; “[The Sea Fury Incident,](http://australiandisclosureproject.blogspot.com/2006/04/sea-fury-incident-date-august-31-1954.html)” Australian Disclosure Project, April 30, 2006; Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 18–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2490 ### Event 10165 (6228B0B4) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Location:** Shirley's Bay, Ontario **Description:** Deputy Department of Transport Minister [John Baldwin](https://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/john-baldwin-1066080489) closes the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, UFO station to save money, although he says [Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) can work on his own time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Station Closes,](http://www.cufos.org/Saucerian/1955%5F03%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-3%232%28W%2306%29.pdf)” The Saucerian, no. 6 \(Spring 1955\): 12; Clark III 1079 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2491 ### Event 10166 (C3E37B3D) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. an Australian Navy Hawker Sea Fury II was paced on either side by two dark, 50 meter long cigar-shaped objects flying near Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. The UFOs were tracked on radar for 10 minutes before shooting off toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 82 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5517 ### Event 10167 (B788EE5A) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Description:** At 12:25 a.m. in the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario Police Constable Grabovski saw a shiny ovoid UFO sail slowly through the sky headed north. It vanished in sparks, which were followed by a blue rain. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 219 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5518 ### Event 10168 (93E65BD3) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Description:** In Asnieres-le-Dijon, France a disc travelled through the sky at 12:50 p.m. from east to west at great speed without stopping. It changed color from red to orange tosilver. It was observed near military aircraft. In Orly, France at 7:30 p.m. two luminous orange objects at high altitude came from the west at high speed and crossed the sky rapidly flying toward the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 31, citing C. Garreau **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5519 ### Event 10169 (6A95E691) **Date:** 8/31/1954 **Description:** At 8:50 p.m. a reddish yellow sphere flew very slowly at an estimated 5 mph to the north in Stafford, England. At 8:55 p.m. a sombrero-shaped saucer was sighted at Stone, Staffordshire, England. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3542, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 58 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5520 ### Event 10170 (327FDC24) **Date:** 9/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** HOTOT-EN-AUGE, FR **Description:** Clicking noise. Huge saucer just over ground / 15 minute(s). Then quickly going up. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3738 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "HOTOT-en-AUGE,FR:CLICKING NOISE:HUGE SCR JUST OVR GND/15min:THEN ↑↑:/news", **LatLong:** "49.166669 -0.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:10:00 N 00:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.166669,-0.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Calvados", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10171 (72434DA8) **Date:** 9/1954 **Location:** City not noted, UK **Description:** England, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1728 ### Event 10172 (09CA4294) **Date:** 9/1/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** ANGERS GOING QUICKLY [TO] ANJOU, FR **Description:** Many observer(s) / 50 miles. Saucer going north. Dull red with green aura. No further details. / r49p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3739 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ANGERS>>ANJOU,FR:MANY OBS/50 MILES:SCR>N:DULL RED W/GREEN AURA:NFD:/r49p32", **LatLong:** "47.483336 -0.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:29:00 N 00:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.483336,-0.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10173 (35CE5161) **Date:** 9/1/1954? **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** TROIS-FONDS, FR **Description:** Saucer going down / field. 2 pseudo-human/entity / helmets / antennas emerge. Observer(s) dazed. / r217p161. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3740 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TROIS-FONDS,FR:SCR ↓/FIELD:2 PSH/HELMETS/ANTENNAS EMERGE:OBS DAZED:/r217p161", **LatLong:** "46.244447 2.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:14:40 N 02:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.244447,2.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10174 (24075CD0) **Date:** 9/1/1954 **Locations:** Continental United States; Pacific; Atlantic; Caribbean; Alaska; Northeast; Strategic Air Command **Description:** The Continental Air Defense Command is established, primarily to defend the continental United States against air attack. It is also tasked to support US commanders in the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, Alaska, Northeast, and of Strategic Air Command in their missions to the maximum extent consistent with its primary mission. ADC’s commander, Gen. [Benjamin W. Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) becomes the first CINCONAD, and USAF is designated as the executive agency. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Continental Air Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%5FAir%5FDefense%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2492 ### Event 10175 (55B2DAA8) **Date:** 9/2/1954 (approximate) **Location:** PORT PHILLIP BAY, VCT, AUSTR **Description:** Saucer passes then cylinder/cigar-shape loops with puffs / smoke. / Irish news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3741 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PORT PHILLIP BAY,VCT,AUSTR:SCR PASSES THEN CGR LOOPS W/PUFFS/SMOKE:/IRISH NEWS", **LatLong:** "-38.016668 144.950007", **LatLongDMS:** "38:01:00 S 144:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.016668,144.950007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10176 (F11B0487) **Date:** 9/2/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** RYE, EAST SUSSEX **Description:** 2 'feathers-shapes' descend. Then engine sounds and UFO's go northwest going quickly [to] London. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3742 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RYE,E.SUSSEX:2 'FEATHERS-SHAPES' DESCEND:THEN ENGINE SOUNDS+UFOS GO NW>>LONDON", **LatLong:** "50.950002 0.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:57:00 N 00:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.950002,0.733333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10177 (AD7A22EE) **Date:** 9/2/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** COLDWATER, KS **Description:** Farm boy. Small humanoid (or Grey) / long nose and ears flies to silent cylinder/cigar-shape and takes off. Footprints. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3743 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "610", **HatchDesc:** "COLDWATER,KS:FARM BOY:OID/LONG NOSE+EARS FLIES TO SILENT CGR+TAKES OFF:FPRINTS", **LatLong:** "37.233335 -99.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:14:00 N 99:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.233335,-99.350005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10178 (69B2FFCC) **Date:** 9/2/1954 **Location:** Coldwater, Kansas **Description:** Dusk. John Jacob Swaim, 12, is working on a tractor at his family’s farm in Coldwater, Kansas, when he sees a small man about 3 feet tall with long, pointed ears and a pointed nose standing in a crouched position about 20 feet away. It is dressed in a shiny garment and has two cylinders strapped on its back. The being floats to a nearby UFO hovering 5 feet from the ground. The next day his father and Sheriff Floyd Hadley find pear-shaped footprints, wide at the toes and tapering to a narrow heel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Little Man in Kansas Wheat Field,](http://www.cufos.org/Saucerian/1955%5F03%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-3%232%28W%2306%29.pdf)” The Saucerian, no. 6 \(Spring 1955\): 12–13; Clark III 270–271; Curt Collins, “[A Flying Cucumber Comes to Kansas, Sept. 1954,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-flying-cucumber-comes-to-kansas-sept.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 23, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2493 ### Event 10179 (F6D697CA) **Date:** 9/2/1954 **Description:** Twelve-year-old John Jacob Swain of Coldwater, Kansas had just finished driving a tractor at 10:00 p.m. when he saw a dark complexioned little man about the size of a five year old child crouching about 20 feet away. The man had pointed ears and a pointed nose, and wore shiny clothing. He also was carrying two two-foot long cylinders on his back. He ran or glided, apparently floating across the ground, to a 50 foot wide disc-shaped object hovering five feet above the ground. He jumped in and took off without tilting the saucer. Lights shone from windows or the craft as it flew off faster than a jet. At the site were found numerous pear-shaped footprints 2 inches wide x 4.5 inches in length, with very narrow heels. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Wichita Evening Eagle, September 8, 1954; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 677; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-46, citing Sheriff Floyd Hadley & Rev. Albert Baller **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5565 ### Event 10180 (8BD2A562) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** OBERSUSSBACH, GERM **Description:** Teacher and several. Circular object going west fast. Sharply seen. / r138#8p1 / Le Soir. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3744 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OBERSUSSBACH,GERM:TEACHER+SVRL:CIRC.OBJ >W FAST:SHARPLY SEEN:/r138#8p1/Le Soir", **LatLong:** "48.627780 11.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "48:37:40 N 11:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.627780,11.950001)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10181 (9FE1AC1F) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SOUK-EL-KHEMIS, TUNISIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Semi-transparent disk maneuvers. Swings. Jumps and going [to] away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3745 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Tunisia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SOUK-EL-KHEMIS,TUNISIA:MANY OBS:SEMI-XPRNT DISK MNVRS:SWINGS:JUMPS+ > away", **LatLong:** "36.611113 8.972223", **LatLongDMS:** "36:36:40 N 08:58:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.611113,8.972223)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10182 (0E884EA8) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** NEAR DALLAS, TX **Description:** B47 crew and ground RADAR. Metal cylinder/cigar-shape with portholes and more. Flame / rear. Going up and down [to] and circles. / r138#8p2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3746 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "nr DALLAS,TX:B47 CREW+GND RDR:MTL CGR W/PORTS+:FLAME/REAR:↑+↓+CCLS:/r138#8p2", **LatLong:** "32.750002 -96.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:45:00 N 96:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.750002,-96.750005)", **RelAlt:** "7500", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10183 (0CF1434B) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** WESTON, STAFFS, ENG **Description:** 1 / car. Dazzling cylinder/cigar-shape loops. Turns vertical. Going quickly south. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3747 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "88", **HatchDesc:** "WESTON,STAFFs,ENG:1/CAR:DAZZLING CGR LOOPS:TURNS VERTICAL:>>S:ABS SILENT", **LatLong:** "52.838891 -2.038889", **LatLongDMS:** "52:50:20 N 02:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.838891,-2.038889)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10184 (53677203) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Location:** Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia **Description:** Many workers in the fields 12 km south of the town saw an object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop on edge, and swing like a pendulum a few meters above the ground. It made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_141 ### Event 10185 (D99197BB) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Locations:** Dallas, Texas; Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, Louisiana; Carswell AFB [now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth] in Texas **Description:** 4:30 p.m. USAF Maj. [Robert J. Waste](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63524631/robert-jackson-waste) and the 9-man crew of his B-47 bomber are flying at 25,000 feet in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, on their way to Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, Louisiana. Carswell AFB \[now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth\] in Texas directs them to be on the lookout for unusual objects. The crew discovers they are being paced by a missile-shaped object only 100 feet overhead that is slightly larger and longer than their own fuselage. It has two rows of oval-shaped portholes along the sides and an orange exhaust. The bottom of the object seems to be glowing. After pacing the B-47 a short time, it shoots ahead and zooms upward at incredible speed. Carswell tells them to pursue, but they can’t keep up. The UFO then descends to within 300 feet of the bomber and begins circling it. The UFO stays with the plane, pacing it above and below, and performing figure-eights and other maneuvers for over an hour. Two other B-47s in the squadron are behind the lead bomber and also view the object. The UFO finally shoots upward and disappears again. Waste takes 32 frames of 35mm color film of the UFO with his personal camera, but his film and that of his copilot is confiscated during a 3-day debriefing at Barksdale. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Paul Cerny, “Close Encounter at 25,000 Feet: Government Coverup,”: IUR 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 6–7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2494 ### Event 10186 (9682A1CC) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Description:** At 1:00 p.m. many workers in the fields 12 kilometers south of the town of Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia saw an object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop on its edge, and swing like a pendulum just a few meters above the ground. It made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 141 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5587 ### Event 10187 (74ECF8DC) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Description:** A dazzling cigar-shaped UFO did loops over Weston, Staffordshire, England at 7:30 p.m. It turned vertical and moved off quickly toward the south. It was absolutely silent during the entire two minutes of the sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3552, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5588 ### Event 10188 (9869B788) **Date:** 9/3/1954 **Description:** U.S.A.F. Major R. J. Waste and the nine man crew of his B-47 bomber were flying near Dallas, Texas at 4:30 p.m. when they were directed to investigate a UFO. It was a missle shaped object that dogged them for more than an hour, then disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UNICAT, case #3, citing Paul Cerny, International UFO Reporter, September 1983, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5589 ### Event 10189 (17EE0EEC) **Date:** 9/4/1954 **Location:** MARSTON NORTH / STAFFORD, ENG **Description:** 2 observer(s). Orange ball going up and down [to] oddly. / Gavin Gibbons. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3748 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "MARSTON N/STAFFORD,ENG:2 OBS:ORANGE BALL ↑+↓ ODDLY:/GAVIN GIBBONS:NFD", **LatLong:** "52.833336 -2.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:50:00 N 02:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.833336,-2.083333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10190 (3FE98FC1) **Date:** 9/4/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** BUTLER, MO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3185 / 89. 2 observer(s). 25 night lights / single file. Also silver ovoid going quickly south / 05 September / 0023hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3749 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "272", **HatchDesc:** "BUTLER,MO:BBK#3185/89:2 OBS:25 NLTS/SNGL FILE:+SLVR OVOID >>S/05 SEPT/0023hrs", **LatLong:** "38.255557 -94.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:15:20 N 94:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.255557,-94.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10191 (3A3BE5A5) **Date:** 9/4/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SOUTH / KALADAR, ON **Description:** Several cars stop. Domed silver cylinder/cylindrical object hovers over road. Turns 90° and shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CAMERON, Vicky: UFO EXPERIENCES in CANADA, Don't tell anyone but.. ; 1995 General Store Publishing ; Burnstown, Ontario ISBN 1-896182-20-8 (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3750 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "S/KALADAR,ON:SVRL CARS STOP:DOMED SLVR CYL HVRS OVR ROAD:TURNS 90°+SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "44.583335 -77.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:35:00 N 77:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.583335,-77.116670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10192 (F768838A) **Date:** 9/4/1954 **Time:** 3 AM **Location:** Butler, Missouri **Description:** Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. Twenty-thirty lights, as if on a string, flew straight and level for 1.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_363 ### Event 10193 (AF4029FA) **Date:** 9/4/1954 **Description:** On this morning in Obersuessbach, Bavaria, Germany between ten and eleven a.m. a schoolteacher and four others sighted a flat circular, silver colored object that had a funny looking rim. The edge of the craft gave them the impression of fringe. It passed over at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5625 ### Event 10194 (8C6C3327) **Date:** 9/5/1954? **Location:** MOON **Description:** Astronomers. Lights flash / Kepler and Copernicus craters. Up to 2 minute(s) / duration. / r111p50. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3751 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:ASTRONOMERS:LITES FLASH/KEPLER+COPERNICUS CRATERS:UP TO 2min/DUR:/r111p50", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "KPL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10195 (878D112B) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** NORTH BAY, ON **Description:** 2 / car. Saucer hovers as RCAF plane circles and exits. Saucer blasts red and going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 803) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3752 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH BAY,ON:2/CAR:SCR HVRS as RCAF PLANE CCLS+EXITS:SCR BLASTS RED+>>S", **LatLong:** "46.216669 -79.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:00 N 79:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.216669,-79.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10196 (B31422AD) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** GRAZ, AUSTRIA **Description:** 10 including/include 3 cops. Saucer east going west. Back again / 90 minute(s). Also seen in Bavaria. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3753 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "GRAZ,AUSTRIA:10 INC 3 COPS:SCR E>W:BACK AGAIN/90min:also seen in BAVARIA", **LatLong:** "47.083336 15.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:05:00 N 15:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.083336,15.433334)", **State/Prov:** "STY", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10197 (B6AEED43) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** HILLCREST HEIGHTS, MD **Description:** Air Force Major. Circular white night light wavers going quickly ESE / 2 minute(s). 10-50k'. No plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3754 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "HILLCREST HEIGHTS,MD:AF MAJOR:CIRC.WHT NLT WAVERS >>ESE/2min:10-50k':NO PLANE", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -76.961115", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 76:57:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-76.961115)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10198 (E0384123) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** TANGIERS, MOROCCO **Description:** Disk-UFO = size of airplane. Seen / 10 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3755 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "TANGIERS,MOROCCO:DISK-UFO=SIZE OF AIRPLANE:SEEN/10min:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.783335 -5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "35:47:00 N 05:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.783335,-5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "TAN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10199 (4952A1A0) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** MOON **Description:** 3 amateur astronomers / Illinois. 2.5mile disk-sphere/orb/globe rises / Mare Humboldt and off into space. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3756 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "9999", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:3 AM.ASTRONs/ILLINOIS:2.5mile DISK-ORB RISES/MARE HUMBOLDT+off into space", **LatLong:** "0.000000 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "00:00:00 S 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/0.000000,-0.000000)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "MHM", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 10200 (D6ABA455) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Location:** Butler, MO **Description:** 3 AM CST 20-30 lights, as if on a string, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3196) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1729 ### Event 10201 (91023920) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Location:** Butler, MO **Description:** 12:23 AM CST silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3198) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1730 ### Event 10202 (42EA8D19) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Time:** 12:23 AM **Location:** Butler, Missouri **Description:** Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. One silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge and a following exhaust, flew straight and level, then veered southwest to south after 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_364 ### Event 10203 (9929F3F8) **Date:** 9/5/1954 **Description:** Ten witnesses including three police officers saw a disc-shaped object that flew over the city of Graz, Austria from east to west at 9:30 a.m. It came back again 90 minutes later, and was also seen in Bavaria, Germany. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5649 ### Event 10204 (CE4B4ABB) **Date:** 9/6/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** Astronomer. Line / 4 night lights climb and reform as plane passes. Back to line. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3757 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:ASTRONOMER:LINE/4 NLTS CLIMB+REFORM AS PLANE PASSES:BACK TO LINE", **LatLong:** "39.283335 -76.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:17:00 N 76:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.283335,-76.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10205 (837B17F1) **Date:** 9/6/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** AIN KHABBEB, MAROC **Description:** Numerous military observer(s). 2 attached spheres hover. Green lines dangle. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3758 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "AIN KHABBEB,MAROC:NMRS MIL.OBS:2 ATTACHED SPHERES HVR:GRN LINES DANGLE:>>W", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -4.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 04:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-4.050000)", **State/Prov:** "TZA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10206 (9300FD58) **Date:** 9/6/1954 **Description:** Two spheres hovered over Ain Khabbeb, Morocco at 10:30 p.m., attached to each other. With green lines dangling from the attached spheres, they flew off quickly toward the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 228 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5678 ### Event 10207 (8C15FC97) **Date:** 9/7/1954 (approximate) **Location:** LISBON, PORTUGAL **Description:** Ovoid leaves (something behind) trail / blue light across sky. / Diario de Noticias. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3759 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LISBON,PORTUGAL:OVOID LVS TRAIL/BLU LITE ACROSS SKY:/DIARIO de NOTICIAS", **LatLong:** "38.716669 -9.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "38:43:00 N 09:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.716669,-9.083334)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10208 (28A11977) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** BUIRE, FR **Description:** 3 / N363. Saucer over railroad/railway tracks. Going quickly SSW when car headlights hit it. / r148p272. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3760 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BUIRE,FR:3/N363:SCR OVR RR TRACKS:>>SSW WHEN CAR HEADLITES HIT IT:/r148p272", **LatLong:** "49.900002 4.055556", **LatLongDMS:** "49:54:00 N 04:03:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.900002,4.055556)", **State/Prov:** "Aisne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10209 (82D558BC) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** NEAR CONTAY, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent 12M saucer / field. Wide door / side. Plate / top. Quickly going up. / r197p01. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3761 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr CONTAY,FR:2 OBS:SLNT 12M SCR/FLD:WIDE DOOR/SIDE:PLATE/TOP:↑↑:/r197p01", **LatLong:** "50.016669 2.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:01:00 N 02:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.016669,2.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10210 (ED382012) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MARSEILLE, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer loops and maneuvers. Generally going west. Glows different color(s). / r138#8p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3762 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "MARSEILLE,FR:3 OBS:SCR LOOPS+MNVRs:GENERALLY >W:GLOWS DIFF.CLRS:/r138#8p3", **LatLong:** "43.300002 5.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:18:00 N 05:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.300002,5.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10211 (40FB4383) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Location:** Origny, France **Description:** 12:30 a.m. Robert Chovel and his wife and father-in-law were driving home from the theater in Hirson, Aisne Department when they saw a luminous, red-orange "disk" flying above the railroad tracks. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1731 ### Event 10212 (C26E792C) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Time:** 0715 **Location:** Harponville, France **Description:** Between Harponville and Contay, two bricklayers, Emile Renard, 27, and Yves Degillerboz, 23 saw an object floating in mid-air over a field: "It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate turned upside down on top of it." When they approached, it took off. Diameter 10 m, height 3 m. A kind of door was noticed. The observation lasted over 3 min. The object released smoke when it departed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 6; M 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_142 ### Event 10213 (659F93CE) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Locations:** Hirson, Aisne, France; Buire **Description:** 12:30 a.m. Robert Chovel and two others are driving home from the theater in Hirson, Aisne, France, when they see a luminous red-orange disc flying above the railroad tracks. It stops suddenly across the road, 900– 1,200 feet from the ground. When the car reaches the bridge at Buire, the object shoots away at great speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6sep1954orignyenthierache.htm)” May 12, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2495 ### Event 10214 (61AEE628) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Locations:** Harponville; Contay, Somme, France **Description:** 7:15 a.m. Two bricklayers, Emile Renard, 27, and Yves DeGillerboz, 23, see a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a field as they are bicycling between Harponville and Contay, Somme, France. It looks like an unfinished haystack “with a plate turned upside down on top of it.” When they try to approach, it takes off. It has a diameter of 33 feet, and they notice it has a kind of door. The observation lasts more than 3 minutes, at which point the object releases some smoke as it departs straight up. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight Line, p. 35; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7sep1954harponville.htm)” March 20, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2496 ### Event 10215 (A9B0F527) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. three members of the Chovel family saw an orange-red disc with a luminous plume coming from the opposite side of its direction of movement above some railroad tracks in Origny-en-Theirache, Aisne department, France. It changed direction suddenly, rose, then hovered, and finally flew off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 38; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5709 ### Event 10216 (A4299BBA) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Description:** Between Harponville and Contay, Somme department, France two bricklayers, Emile Renard, age 27, and Yves DeGillerboz, age 23, saw a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a field at 7:15 a.m. "It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate turned upside down on top of it." When they tried to approach it took off. It had a diameter of ten meters (33 feet), and they noticed it had a kind of door. The observation lasted over three minutes, at which point the object released some smoke as it departed straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Figaro, September 9, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 35; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 208-209 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5710 ### Event 10217 (266A0BDA) **Date:** 9/7/1954 **Description:** At eight o'clock in the evening three members of the Guibert family in the city of Marseille, France sighted a red luminous spherical object that hovered for 30 seconds, then flew in a complicated course. It was seen through binoculars, and swayed when it turned. The entire sighting lasted seven minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 39; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5711 ### Event 10218 (205DC815) **Date:** 9/8/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** STAFFORD, ENG **Description:** 1 observer. Cylinder/cigar-shape / 20 minute(s). Glow / underside travels in waves / 4 minute(s)-turns off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 311) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3763 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "STAFFORD,ENG:1 OBS:CGR/20min:GLOW/UNDERSIDE TRAVELS IN WAVES/4min-TURNS OFF", **LatLong:** "52.783336 -2.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:47:00 N 02:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.783336,-2.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10219 (88CE5032) **Date:** 9/8/1954 **Locations:** Derryhubbert, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland; Carrickfergus, County Antrim; Belfast **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Thomas Farquhar sees a “large oval-shaped disc,” crackling and hissing, fly over Derryhubbert, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He thinks it is about 3 feet wide and flying at a height of 2,000 feet. Daniel McWilliam and James Bingham, in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, see a rocket soar into the sky and explode silently. Mr. L. Hauser is on a boat leaving Belfast when he sees a rocket come up out of the sea and explode when it reaches about 15,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Belfast Telegraph, September 9–11, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2497 ### Event 10220 (04CA3573) **Date:** 9/8/1954 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object with a glowing underside was seen for 20 minutes in Stafford, England. It traveled in waves, moving every four minutes. It finally turned off its light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5754 ### Event 10221 (EC741A7A) **Date:** 9/9/1954 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** NELSON, SI, NZ **Description:** 3 saucers hover / 450' altitude / 6 minute(s). Telephoto photograph. 5 saucers back 2350hrs / 10 September. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3764 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NELSON,SI,NZ:3 SCRS HVR/450' ALT/6min:TELEFOTO PIX:5 SCRS BACK 2350hrs/10SEPT", **LatLong:** "-41.283335 173.300008", **LatLongDMS:** "41:17:00 S 173:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.283335,173.300008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10222 (B5F0D209) **Date:** 9/9/1954 **Location:** Nelson, NZ **Description:** Hovering disc photographed. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1732 ### Event 10223 (F7149906) **Date:** 9/9/1954 **Location:** Nelson, New Zealand **Description:** 2:20 a.m. Mr. K. M. Gibbons of Nelson, New Zealand, gets out of bed and sees through the window three discs hovering above a mudflat 3 miles away in a V-formation. They radiate a blue-white light from their edges. He grabs a camera with a telephoto lens and takes a photo. After 5 minutes, the discs begin to wobble, tip on edge, then shoot vertically out of sight. Other reports come from the area that morning. The photo shows a blurry oval with a small dark area on top. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 89](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021) [92](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=104&skin=2021); Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [opp. p. 96](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/96/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2498 ### Event 10224 (DA64AA9D) **Date:** 9/9/1954 **Description:** A photograph of three disc-shaped UFOs was taken on this night at 2:20 a.m. by witnesses Gibbons and Ingram in Nelson, New Zealand. It has been rated as a highly reliable unknown. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 5, 1954, pp. 5-6; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 89-92; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-30; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 95; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, pp. 13 & 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5785 ### Event 10225 (732F7121) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** MOURIERAS, FR **Description:** Farmer. Pseudo-human/entity with helmet gestures. Boards 4M cylinder/cigar-shape. Going west. / r30p74+/ LDLN#105. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3765 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MOURIERAS,FR:FARMER:PSH W/HELMET GESTURES:BOARDS 4M CGR:>W:/r30p74+/LDLN#105", **LatLong:** "45.616669 1.927778", **LatLongDMS:** "45:37:00 N 01:55:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.616669,1.927778)", **State/Prov:** "CRZ", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10226 (4C9BFC52) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** QUAROUBLE, FR **Description:** 30-ton saucer on railroad/railway tracks. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / helmets take dirt and rocks. Going quickly southwest. / r217. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3766 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "QUAROUBLE,FR:30-TON SCR ON RR TRACKS:2 OIDS/HELMETS TAKE DIRT+ROCKS:>>SW:/r217", **LatLong:** "50.394447 3.627778", **LatLongDMS:** "50:23:40 N 03:37:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.394447,3.627778)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10227 (01AE893E) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** VALENCIENNES, FR **Description:** Night lights play. Bus headlights and motor stop. Passengers in near panic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3767 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VALENCIENNES,FR:NLTS PLAY:BUS HEADLITES+MOTOR STOP:PASSENGERS IN NEAR PANIC.", **LatLong:** "50.366669 3.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:22:00 N 03:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.366669,3.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10228 (B8D51C88) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** OAKLEIGH, VCT **Description:** 6+observer(s). Funnel saucer over technical school going south toward(s) airport. Drops lit object. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 805) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3768 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "OAKLEIGH,VCT:6+OBS:FUNNEL SCR ovr TECHN.SCHOOL >S twrd AIRPORT:DROPS LIT OBJ", **LatLong:** "-37.900002 145.066674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:54:00 S 145:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.900002,145.066674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10229 (E25FF34B) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Mourieras, France **Description:** A farmer, Mr. Mazaud was walking home when he was suddenly confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object about 4 m long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later witnesses in Limoges reported a disk-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 7; M 40 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_143 ### Event 10230 (98C7D3E9) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Quarouble, France **Description:** A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, 34, came out of his house as a dog was barking and saw a dark object on the railroad tracks, then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself paralyzed as a strong orange light was projected at him.The creatures were under 1 m tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits. No face or arms were visible. Traces made by an object of estimated weight 30 tons were noted by French Air Force and police on the ballast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 8; M 44; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_144 ### Event 10231 (2CDD59C9) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Locations:** Mourieras; Bugeat; Corrèze; France; Limoges **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Antoine Mazaud is walking home from his fields at Mourieras, north of Bugeat, Corrèze, France, when he is confronted by a helmeted being of average height who makes friendly gestures. It shakes hands with him and embraces him while uttering unintelligible words. Then it goes back into the brush, enters a cigar-shaped object about 13 feet long, which takes off to the northwest. A few minutes later, witnesses in Limoges report a disc-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/10sep1954mourieras.htm)” June 21, 2005; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2499 ### Event 10232 (48AD5A19) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Location:** Quarouble, Nord, France **Description:** Around 10:30 p.m. 34-year-old metal worker Marius Dewilde comes out of his house at Quarouble, Nord, France, to see why his dog is barking. He hears hurried footsteps on his right and with his flashlight sees two creatures just beyond his fence walking in single file toward a dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. The creatures are about 3.5 feet tall with wide shoulders, short legs, and helmets covering large heads. No faces or arms are visible. When he tries to cut them off and gets within 6 feet, he finds himself paralyzed as a powerful orange beam of light is projected at him from a square opening in the dark object. The creatures continue toward the railroad tracks, a door closes, the dark object rises to 100 feet, hovers, and speeds away. Five imprints on three wooden railroad ties are found, made by an object that an engineer estimates must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air Force investigate the case. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Marius Dewilde](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius%5FDewilde)”; Aimé Michel, Straight Line, 44–46; Marc Thirouin, “[Marius Dewilde n’a pas menti,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2025%20-%201960.pdf)” Ouranos, no. 25 \(1960\): 20–25; Vallée, Magonia, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/16/mode/2up) [17–18](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/16/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/16/mode/2up) [209](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/208/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/10sep1954quarouble.htm)” July 22, 2004; Jean F. Gilles, “[The Bankruptcy of the French](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%205.pdf) [UFO Research Body, GEPAN,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 5 \(June 1983\): 15–16; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2500 ### Event 10233 (61FCD79D) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Description:** Mourieras, France. A farmer, Mr. Mazaud, age 50, was walking home when he was suddenly confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object about four meters long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later witnesses in Limoges reported a disc-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, September 14, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5821 ### Event 10234 (7ACC6D53) **Date:** 9/10/1954 **Description:** A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, age 34, came out of his house in Quarouble, France at 10:30 p.m. when his dog was barking and saw a dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. He then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself blinded and paralyzed by a strong orange beam of light that was projected at him. The beings were under 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits with diver's helmets. No faces or arms were visible. Imprints were made by an object, that an engineer estimated must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air Force investigated the case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, September 13, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 467 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5822 ### Event 10235 (7198653D) **Date:** 9/11/1954 **Description:** On this afternoon a merchant driving a van near Quarouble, Nord department, France saw a domed disc descend vertically, and then hover near a grove of trees. Several human-looking beings were then seen in front of the craft. When the witness walked toward it, he was hit by a luminous beam of light and paralyzed. The object took off going straight up vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-15 (A1688), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne, p. 131; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 77-78 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5856 ### Event 10236 (CF889736) **Date:** 9/12/1954 **Alternate date:** 9/13/1954 **Location:** Quarouble, Nord, France **Description:** Late afternoon. A witness is driving a van in the vicinity of Quarouble, Nord, France, when he sees a domed disc descending vertically into a small thicket about 160 feet off the road and land. He can see a kind of gallery around the dome where human-like beings are standing. He stops the car, gets out, and walks toward the object, but when he gets closer the object shines a green ray at him. The disc immediately ascends vertically, then moves gently away. His paralysis ceases. A rush of air shakes him at the time it takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Marc Thirouin, “[Marius Dewilde n’a pas menti,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2025%20-%201960.pdf)” Ouranos, no. 25 \(1960\): 25; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/12sep1954quarouble.htm)” March 23, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2501 ### Event 10237 (FF76FCA9) **Date:** 9/13/1954? **Location:** GRONINGEN AND ZUIDLAARDERNEEN, NETHERLANDS **Description:** 7-day wave starts. Also many towns. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3769 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GRONINGEN+ZUIDLAARDERNEEN,NETHERLANDS:7-DAY WAVE STARTS:+MANY TOWNS:NFD", **LatLong:** "53.216669 6.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:13:00 N 06:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.216669,6.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10238 (0990F695) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Location:** VABRE-TIZAC, FR **Description:** Several / farm. Noise. Glowing-rings = saucer. Possible landing. No trace. / r217p85. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3770 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VABRE-TIZAC,FR:SVRL/FARM:NOISE:GLO-RINGS=SCR:POSS.LANDING:no trace:/r217p85", **LatLong:** "44.272224 2.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:16:20 N 02:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.272224,2.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Aveyron", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10239 (E886ACBD) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** CASTELFRANCO, VITERBO, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). Noisy saucer glides. Stops. Zips off. Returns.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3771 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CASTELFRANCO,VITERBO,ITL:SVRL OBS:NOISY SCR GLIDES:STOPS:ZIPS OFF:RETURNS..", **LatLong:** "42.433335 12.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:26:00 N 12:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.433335,12.916667)", **State/Prov:** "LAZ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10240 (34AC99EB) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** NEAR ST. PROUANT, FR **Description:** 30+observer(s). Carrot-clouds spew white smoke. Disk going quickly [to] out and back. / r138#8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3772 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "nr St.PROUANT,FR:30+OBS:CARROT-CLOUDS SPEW WHT SMOKE:DISK >> OUT+BACK:/r138#8", **LatLong:** "46.727780 -0.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:43:40 N 00:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.727780,-0.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10241 (AD7FD0E7) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** HELSINKI, FNL **Description:** Many observer(s). Saucer object / 800M. Intense light and trail / red smoke. / r138#3p88. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3773 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HELSINKI,FNL:MANY OBS:SCR OBJ/800M:INTENSE LITE+TRAIL/RED SMOKE:/r138#3p88", **LatLong:** "60.183336 24.883335", **LatLongDMS:** "60:11:00 N 24:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.183336,24.883335)", **RelAlt:** "800", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10242 (B4BE43CE) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Location:** Helsinki, Finland **Description:** Several people reported having seen a circular flying object. The object, flying at an altitude of 800 meters, gave off an intense light and left a trail of reddish smoke about three times its diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1733 ### Event 10243 (2422A3FE) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Coldwater, Kansas **Description:** John J. Swain, 12, was driving a tractor back from the fields when he saw a small man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to "fly" when he moved toward a saucershaped craft hovering less than 2 m above ground. It "opened up" and the creature "popped inside." The craft became luminous and went out of sight. Strange traces were found by police. The creature was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed to have "fins." He carried two cylinders on his back and had long, pointed ears. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 9; Humanoids 53; Wilkins U 239 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_145 ### Event 10244 (478C20A7) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Location:** 52.64418 52.80547 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 40KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1040 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "52.64418 52.80547", **LatLongDMS:** "52:38:39 N 52:48:20 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.64418,52.80547)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "40" ### Event 10245 (7074EBF9) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Location:** Saint-Prouant, Vendée, France **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Farm worker Georges Fortin, 34, and more than 200 other witnesses in Saint-Prouant, Vendée, France, watch a cigar or carrot-shaped UFO as it emerges from a cloud, tilts toward the ground, hovers, and then elevates its front end quickly into a vertical position. It emits vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc- shaped object flies out, spins around the cigar, and then reenters the vertical object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14sep1954saintprouant.htm) [French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14sep1954saintprouant.htm)” July 2, 2004; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 5; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 10–12; Clark III 293; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “[‘Cloud Cigar’ over Saint-Prouant, France,](https://www.caelestia.be/saintprouant.html)” June 13, 2011 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2502 ### Event 10246 (DBB48DFB) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Location:** Helsinki, Finland **Description:** Night. Several people see a circular UFO over Helsinki, Finland. Flying at 2,600 feet, it gives off an intense light and leaves a trail of reddish smoke about 3 times its diameter. It is visible 7 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p.](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) [134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2503 ### Event 10247 (30D1C9C7) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Description:** At 5:00 p.m. over 200 witnesses in St.-Prouant, Vendee department, France watched a cigar or carrot-shaped UFO as it emerged from a cloud, tilted toward the ground, hovered, and then elevated its front end quickly into a vertical position. It emitted vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc-shaped object flew out, spun around the cigar, and then re-entered the mothership. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 23, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 16; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5948 ### Event 10248 (49436C7B) **Date:** 9/14/1954 **Description:** John J. Swain, age 12, was driving a tractor back from his family's fields in Coldwater, Kansas when he saw a little man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to fly or glide as he moved toward a saucer-shaped craft hovering just two meters above ground. It "opened up" and the creature "popped inside." The craft became luminous and shot out of sight. Unusual traces were found by police. The being was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed to have "fins" attached. He carried two cylinders on his back and had long, pointed ears. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 239; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 53; Lincoln Nebraska Star, late September 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 209 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5949 ### Event 10249 (539A27FD) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** ROUBAIX, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brill red disk with luminous/glowing green halo. Quickly going up / terrific acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3774 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROUBAIX,FR:2 OBS:BRILL RED DISK W/LUMn GRN HALO:↑↑/TERRIFIC ACCELERATION", **LatLong:** "50.700002 3.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:42:00 N 03:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.700002,3.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10250 (A3C99CDB) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** CARPIQUET AND THEON, FR **Description:** Observer(s) / separate towns. Luminous white saucer going quickly north toward(s) English channel. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3775 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CARPIQUET+THEON,FR:OBS/SEP.TOWNS:LUMn.WHT SCR >>N twrd ENGLISH CHANNEL", **LatLong:** "49.200002 -0.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:12:00 N 00:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.200002,-0.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Calvados", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10251 (57764FEC) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** MANBHUM, INDIA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Saucer hovers / Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) beryllium mine. Going up / very fast. Panic. / r70p3-33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 808) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3776 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MANBHUM,INDIA:100s/OBS:SCR HVRS/AEC BERYLLIUM MINE:↑/VFAST:PANIC:/r70p3-33", **LatLong:** "23.333334 86.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "23:20:00 N 86:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.333334,86.366671)", **State/Prov:** "BHR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10252 (8DC4F106) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** BOIS-EN-ARDRES, PDC, FR **Description:** Red cylinder/cigar-shape reappears and circles area. Several observer(s). Red and white glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3777 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOIS-en-ARDRES,PDC,FR:RED CGR REAPPEARS+CIRCLES AREA:SVRL OBS:RED+WHT GLOW", **LatLong:** "50.888891 1.983333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:53:20 N 01:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.888891,1.983333)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10253 (BAA93578) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** FEURS, FR **Description:** Car quits. Saucer going down. Hitler-figure / runs by several observer(s). Dog excited. / r197p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3778 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FEURS,FR:CAR QUITS:SCR ↓:HITLER-FIG/RUNS BY SVRL OBS:DOG EXCITED:/r197p12", **LatLong:** "45.750002 4.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:45:00 N 04:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.750002,4.233334)", **State/Prov:** "Loire", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10254 (F6A88450) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** FEYZIN, FR **Description:** Light beams / large dark object 50M away / 30' altitude. Sputters. Sparks and away. / r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3779 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "FEYZIN,FR:LITE BEAMS/LRG DARK OBJ 50M AWAY/30'alt:SPUTTERS:SPARKS+away:/r8", **LatLong:** "45.666669 4.855556", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:00 N 04:51:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.666669,4.855556)", **State/Prov:** "Rhône", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10255 (6C80CD3B) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Location:** Bihar, India **Description:** Gray disc hovered, emitted smoke and climbed away at high speed. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1734 ### Event 10256 (9BCE5EED) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Time:** 2320 **Location:** Feyzin, France **Description:** A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland M., 19, who observed that it came from a large, dark object 10 m above ground. It flew away with the noise of a wet firework, throwing magnesiumlike sparks. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 10; M 49 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_146 ### Event 10257 (FE6EEA8B) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Locations:** Kadori; Barshi; Mangalda; Manbhum district, West Bengal, India **Description:** Ijapada Chatterjee, the manager of the Kadori mica mine, and hundreds of others watch a disc descend to an altitude of 500 feet over three adjoining villages \(Kadori, Barshi, and Mangalda\) in the Manbhum district, West Bengal, India. It hovers, then soars upwards at terrific speed, creating a tremendous gust of wind. The UFO is over a mine that supplies beryllium for the US Atomic Energy Commission. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “800 Biharis See Flying Saucer,” Times of India \(Bombay\), October 3, 1954; UFOEv, [p. 124](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=136&skin=2021); Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1954](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1954a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2504 ### Event 10258 (2BAE1D5C) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Description:** At 3:20 a.m. a red disc-shaped object surrounded by a green halo was sighted by a married couple in Roubaix, Nord department, France for 35 seconds. It rose vertically until a point of light, and disappeared when at the zenith. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5978 ### Event 10259 (3F238C00) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Description:** On this afternoon in Kadori, Bihar, India a noisy disc-shaped object approximately 20 feet in diameter was sighted by over 800 people, hovering for a few minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 45 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5979 ### Event 10260 (5B446DBA) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Description:** At 8:45 p.m. a red cigar-shaped shaped object reappeared over the town of Bois-en-Ardres, Pas-de-Calais, France and circled the area, giving off a red and white glow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5980 ### Event 10261 (39A18DFF) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Description:** Driving on a secondary road at around 11:00 p.m. in Feurs, St. Etienne, Loire department, France the witness's car engine quit. Soon a bright saucer-shaped object descended and landed very close to the car. A small being, described as wearing a Hitler-like uniform, ran by the car and was seen by several observers. It ran away from the group of witnesses when they attempted to approach and communicate with him. The craft soon took off. A dog was supposedly excited during the encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3582; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5981 ### Event 10262 (94750974) **Date:** 9/15/1954 **Description:** A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland M., age 19, who was driving in Feyzin, Rhone department, France at 11:30 p.m. He observed that it came from a large, dark object shaped like an ellipse about ten meters above the ground, 50 meters away. It flew away, making a noise like wet fireworks, and throwing magnesium-like sparks. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, September 29, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5982 ### Event 10263 (B6840DE4) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Location:** DOANOKE, VA **Description:** Shiny saucer buzzes radio tower. Transmitter malfunctions. / r78p172. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3780 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "282", **HatchDesc:** "DOANOKE,VA:SHINY SCR BUZZES RADIO TOWER:TRANSMITTER MALFUNCTIONS:/r78p172", **LatLong:** "37.266668 -79.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:00 N 79:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.266668,-79.916670)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10264 (4F03732B) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** ANNONAY, ARDECHE, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer passes entire sky. Shoots straight up at horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 337) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3781 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ANNONAY,ARDECHE,FR:2 OBS:SCR PASSES ENTIRE SKY:SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP AT HORIZON", **LatLong:** "45.266669 4.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:16:00 N 04:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.266669,4.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Ardèche", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10265 (F837B4AB) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** LE PIN, FR **Description:** Math professor and several. Gleaming saucer going SSW. 30s to horizon. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3782 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LE PIN,FR:MATH PROFESSOR+SVRL:GLEAMING SCR >SSW:30s TO HORIZON:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.455558 5.505556", **LatLongDMS:** "45:27:20 N 05:30:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.455558,5.505556)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10266 (78DB3A8D) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SAUTENS, AUSTRIA **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver double-dome disk going west / tilt and away. Reappears / new trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 808) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3783 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SAUTENS,AUSTRIA:1/BINOCS:SLVR DBL-DOME DISK >W/TILT+AWAY:REAPPEARS/NEW TRAJ", **LatLong:** "47.166669 10.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:10:00 N 10:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.166669,10.883334)", **State/Prov:** "TYR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10267 (36A64E3F) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Location:** Roanoke (near), VA **Description:** Shiny, round object buzzed radio tower; transmitter failed to operate properly. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1735 ### Event 10268 (C9225B17) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Location:** Marion, VA **Description:** Radio station transmitter failed to operate properly as round shiny UFO passed tower (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1736 ### Event 10269 (A1A4AE42) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Location:** Marion, Virginia **Description:** 6:00 a.m. The radio transmitter for WMEV in Marion, Virginia, fails as a round, shiny object, 10–15 feet in diameter, flies over the tower toward the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucers Are Sighted in Virginia,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99712060/)” Lancaster \(Pa.\) Intelligencer-Journal, September 17, 1954, p. 44; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2505 ### Event 10270 (B1542951) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Description:** At 5:45 p.m. a metallic round flat object, was seen gliding along rapidly in calm air over Le Pin, Isere, France by four witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6006 ### Event 10271 (B5DFC839) **Date:** 9/16/1954 **Description:** In Marion, Virginia a radio station transmitter failed as a round shiny UFO passed by the tower. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6007 ### Event 10272 (2A66F595) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** PRATICA DI MARE AND ROMA, ITL **Description:** Thousands / observer(s) and RADAR's. Cylinder/cigar-shape. Instant acceleration going [to] 300kph. Going quickly northwest. / r3p153. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3784 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "PRATICA di MARE+ROMA,ITL:1000s/OBS+RDRs:CGR:INSTANT ACCEL>300kph:>>NW:/r3p153", **LatLong:** "41.666669 12.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 12:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,12.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Rome", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10273 (DF53D42A) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** WEST / ROMA, ITL **Description:** Truncated cone seen / 25km coastline. Smoke and blasts. On RADAR / 39 minute(s). Extremely quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3785 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "W/ROMA,ITL:TRUNCATED CONE SEEN/25km COASTLINE:SMOKE+BLASTS:on RDR/39min:↑↑↑", **LatLong:** "41.916669 12.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "41:55:00 N 12:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.916669,12.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Rome", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10274 (1663409F) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** WEST / CLERMONT-FERRAND, FR **Description:** 12+separate observer(s) / (seen thru) telescope. Saucer going quickly west toward(s) Puy-de-dome. / LDLN#125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3786 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "W/CLERMONT-FERRAND,FR:12+SEP.OBS/TSCOPE:SCR >>W twrd PUY-de-DOME:/LDLN#125", **LatLong:** "45.772224 3.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:46:20 N 03:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.772224,3.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10275 (9D3F92B2) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** GELLES, FR **Description:** Fast silent luminous cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly northeast straight and level. Also 24 Sep. '54 luminous cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly north / r3p71. / LDLN#125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3787 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GELLES,FR:FAST SLNT LUMn.CGR >>NE S/L::+24SEP54 LUMn.CGR >>N/r3p71:/LDLN#125", **LatLong:** "45.766669 2.777778", **LatLongDMS:** "45:46:00 N 02:46:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.766669,2.777778)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10276 (F4B1B656) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** OMONT, FR **Description:** Farmer. 4M metallic top-saucer going down. Hairy figure exits to woods. Reboards and quickly going up. Weird. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3788 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "OMONT,FR:FARMER:4M MTLC TOP-SCR ↓:HAIRY FIG EXITS to WOODS:REBOARDS+↑↑:wierd", **LatLong:** "49.600002 4.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:36:00 N 04:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.600002,4.733334)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10277 (34589D37) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Rome, Italy, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1737 ### Event 10278 (6CA42528) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Cenon, France **Description:** Between Cenon and Vouneuil, Yves David, 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. He was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter an object on the road, about 3 m by 1 m in size; it took off "like lightning," throwing a greenish light. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 11; M 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_147 ### Event 10279 (8AE8D028) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Locations:** Rome, Italy; Ciampino Airport in Rome; Pratica di Mare Air Base south of Rome **Description:** Around 4:45 p.m. Hundreds of people see a UFO over Rome, Italy, making staccato thunder sounds as it hovers. It makes a brief dive, returns to position, then zooms straight up, leaving a stream of white smoke behind. Around 5:45 p.m., Lt. Bruno Giustiniani and other personnel at a military unit at Ciampino Airport in Rome see it as a “half cigar” moving at 179 mph at 3,500 feet. Blue Book receives a teletype about the object, saying it is in the shape of a jellyfish when stationary but in the shape of a cigar when in motion. At 6:49 p.m., radar at Pratica di Mare Air Base south of Rome picks up a target for 20–45 minutes, plotting a slow course along the coast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954 September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Sept.pdf), The Author, 1994, pp. 24–27; 1Pinotti 54–58 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2506 ### Event 10280 (C1BCFAC5) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Location:** Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France **Description:** 7:15 p.m. A widow named Mellé sees a luminous, orange-yellow, cigar-shaped object near her villa in Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France. Her neighbors also see it and watch for 5 minutes. Possible contrail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/17sep1954gelles.htm),” April 11, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2507 ### Event 10281 (74CA4D6D) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Description:** At 4:45 p.m. a silver bullet-shaped object was seen in the sky by over a thousand people including military witnesses near the Ciampino Airport, ten miles outside of Rome, Italy. It rotated from a horizontal orientation to vertical with the point down. It had an estimated altitude of 2500 feet and a speed of 150-180 miles per hour. It left a luminous vapor trail and was tracked on radar. At the same time in Pitigliano, Italy in Tuscany two hunters, Bacherini and Formiconi, heard a series of detonations and then saw a round white craft moving slowly with lateral oscillation as it advanced. It blew toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 55-57; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6039 ### Event 10282 (024D2D02) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Description:** At 7:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen through a 25x telescope and was witnessed by at least 11 people in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was black with a luminous tail, and the trail was exceptionally luminous. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 57 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6040 ### Event 10283 (0571CC7B) **Date:** 9/17/1954 **Description:** Between Cenon and Vouneuil, France at 10:30 p.m. Yves David, age 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. The being was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter a three-meter wide by one-meter tall object sitting on the road, and it took off "like lightning." It cast a greenish light as it did so. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Figaro, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 58; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-50 (A0249), citing Aime Michel **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6041 ### Event 10284 (F899D23D) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** KIMPO AIR FORCE BASE, KOREA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3213. 1 Air Traffic Controllers and weathermen. Round polished-aluminum saucer straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3789 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "KIMPO AFB,KOREA:BBK#3213:1 ATCS+WEATHERMEN:ROUND POLISHED-ALUMINUM SCR S/L", **LatLong:** "37.350002 126.766673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:21:00 N 126:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.350002,126.766673)", **State/Prov:** "SEO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10285 (F45CBB41) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** NEW BADEN, IL **Description:** Electric eng. fishing. Glowing car-size rectangular box crosses lake going quickly [to] trees. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 329) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3790 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "141", **HatchDesc:** "NEW BADEN,IL:ELEC.ENG. FISHING:GLOWING CAR-SIZE RECT.BOX CROSSES LAKE>>TREES", **LatLong:** "38.533335 -89.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:32:00 N 89:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.533335,-89.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10286 (7C264C4E) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / BOUZNIKA, MAROC **Description:** Small grey saucer going southeast over car. Cold winds. / r194#102+#326+/ r49p60. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3791 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SW/BOUZNIKA,MAROC:SML GRY SCR >SE OVR CAR:COLD WINDS:/r194#102+#326+/r49p60", **LatLong:** "33.700002 -7.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "33:42:00 N 07:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.700002,-7.266667)", **State/Prov:** "CAS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10287 (79DF9EA3) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** SOUBRE, IVORY COAST **Description:** Several HIQ observer(s). Saucer zips in. Hovers / several min and away fast. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3792 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "SOUBRE,IVORY COAST:SVRL HIQ OBS:SCR ZIPS IN:HOVERS/SVRL MIN+AWAY FAST:/r242", **LatLong:** "5.788889 -6.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "05:47:20 N 06:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.788889,-6.583334)", **State/Prov:** "FWA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10288 (47713AF5) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** DANANE, IVORY COAST **Description:** Domed saucer going quickly [to] over town. Hovers / 35 minute(s). Beams search and away. / r3p143. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3793 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "DANANE,IVORY COAST:DOMED SCR >>OVR TOWN:HVRS/35min:BEAMS SEARCH+AWAY:/r3p143", **LatLong:** "7.233334 -8.144445", **LatLongDMS:** "07:14:00 N 08:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/7.233334,-8.144445)", **State/Prov:** "FWA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10289 (BFC811FC) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Location:** City not noted, NM **Description:** Large green fireball observed; radio and television interference noted over wide area (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1738 ### Event 10290 (E53C8DB2) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Location:** Kimpo AB, Korea **Description:** Round object, like polished aluminum, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3213) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1739 ### Event 10291 (D19E3645) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Location:** Denver (near), CO **Description:** Green fireball seen by thousands of witnesses heading SE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1740 ### Event 10292 (CE1ED283) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Time:** 2015 **Location:** Casablanca, Morocco **Description:** A small gray disk flew over a car at very high speed, followed by cold air currents. This was reported by Mr. Guitta of Casablana. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Ouranos ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_148 ### Event 10293 (797A55C1) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Time:** 5:55 AM **Location:** Kimpo Air Base, Japan **Description:** Witnesses: two control tower operators, a weather forecaster and a weather observer. One round object, like polished aluminum, flew straight and level for 11-13 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_365 ### Event 10294 (156470CD) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Location:** Danané, Ivory Coast **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A round glowing UFO is seen approaching then hovering above Danané, Ivory Coast, by many people: a Catholic priest named Fr. Myard, the local chief of police, a Dr. Mariani, a businessman named Sory Diallo, and a group of women. The object moves again at 9:05 p.m., changes from a circle to an ellipse, then flies away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight Line, 61; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954 September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Sept.pdf), The Author, 1994, pp. 28–29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2508 ### Event 10295 (3198AE3F) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Locations:** Colorado; New Mexico; Santa Fe, New Mexico **Description:** 8:40 p.m. A huge green fireball streaks across Colorado and New Mexico. It zooms above Santa Fe, New Mexico, giving off a blinding glare and takes 30 seconds to cross the sky, disturbing TV and radio signals. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) remarks that it does not seem to be an ordinary meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 198–199; Ruppelt, [p. 47](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/46/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 220 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2509 ### Event 10296 (0E465242) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Description:** At 5:55 a.m. two control tower operators, a weather forecaster and a weather observer at Kimpo Air Base in Korea watched a round object, like polished aluminum, fly straight and level for 11-13 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3213; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6065 ### Event 10297 (9985B228) **Date:** 9/18/1954 **Description:** At 8:15 p.m. a small gray disc flew over a car from the rear at very high speed in Casablanca, Morocco. The car was being driven by a Mr. Guitta. The car was pulled to the left by an unseen force, and this was followed by a blast of cold air. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ouranos magazine; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6066 ### Event 10298 (093EB285) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** RONGERES, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape going south. Brilliant globe circles town and going quickly southeast. / r30p80+/ LDLN#128. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3794 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RONGERES,FR:MANY OBS:CGR > S:BRILL.GLOBE CCLS TOWN+>>SE:/r30p80+/LDLN#128", **LatLong:** "46.294447 3.455556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:17:40 N 03:27:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.294447,3.455556)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10299 (600373A0) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** COL.-DU-BEAL, FR **Description:** 4 observer(s). Metallic grey saucer stops / 30 second(s). Zooms going northwest. A remote mountain pass. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3795 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COL-DU-BEAL,FR:4 OBS:MTLC GREY SCR STOPS/30 SEC:ZOOMS>NW:a remote mtn. pass", **LatLong:** "45.694447 3.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:41:40 N 03:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.694447,3.783334)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10300 (DF76A4AB) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** MONTLUCON, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Grey metallic saucer hovers and maneuvers. No further details. / Aime Michele. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3796 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MONTLUCON,FR:MANY OBS:GREY MTLC SCR HOVERS+MANEUVERS:NFD:/Aime Michele", **LatLong:** "46.344447 2.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:20:40 N 02:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.344447,2.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10301 (6F1C3997) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** EPINAL, VOSGES, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Red disk / halo crosses entire sky / 1 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3797 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EPINAL,VOSGES,FR:1 OBS:RED DISK/HALO CROSSES ENTIRE SKY/1min:NFD", **LatLong:** "48.183336 6.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:11:00 N 06:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.183336,6.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10302 (377FAF5C) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NEAR TROMBORN, FR **Description:** Cop and 1. Bus-size object lands. Silhouette / front. Going southeast. / r8#149+/ r197p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3798 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr TROMBORN,FR:COP+1:BUS-SIZE OBJ LANDS:SILHOUETTE/FRONT:>SE:/r8#149+/r197p16", **LatLong:** "49.272225 6.594445", **LatLongDMS:** "49:16:20 N 06:35:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.272225,6.594445)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10303 (A451D174) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SOUTH / CENON, FR **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) / diving suit gestures. Exits / 10' saucer. Observer(s) paralyzed. / r112p91+/ r217p71. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3799 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "S/CENON,FR:OID/DIVING SUIT GESTURES:EXITS/10'SCR:OBS PRLZD:/r112p91+/r217p71", **LatLong:** "46.733336 0.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:44:00 N 00:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.733336,0.533333)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10304 (CD885253) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** PORRENTRUY, SWZ **Description:** Saucer spins going quickly west. Seen all across SWZ / military. / r197p16 = news / 22 September. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3800 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PORRENTRUY,SWZ:SCR SPINS >>W:SEEN ALL ACROSS SWZ/MIL:/r197p16=news/22SEPT", **LatLong:** "47.416669 7.072223", **LatLongDMS:** "47:25:00 N 07:04:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.416669,7.072223)", **State/Prov:** "JUR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10305 (27429269) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Location:** Danane, Fr. West Africa **Description:** Officials watched oval UFO with dome and "searchlights". \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1741 ### Event 10306 (773ABD3D) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Time:** 2115 **Location:** Oberdorff, France **Description:** A bright light was seen in the east, came to the ground, lost its brightness, remained on the spot about 40 sec. It was the size of a small bus, and there was a figure in front of it. It rose and took on the appearance of a red ball. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 12; M 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_149 ### Event 10307 (C2589347) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Location:** D-1 road south of Cenon-sur-Vienne, France **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Yves David, 28, is riding his moped on the D-1 road south of Cenon-sur-Vienne, France, when his headlight begins malfunctioning and he feels a prickling sensation like electricity. He sees a 9-foot-long UFO in the road ahead and a small man in a diving suit coming toward him. It touches David on the shoulder, mutters something incomprehensible, and returns to the object. The object emits a green light that temporarily stuns David before it takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/19sep1954cenon.htm),” March 20, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2510 ### Event 10308 (626FD742) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Description:** At 4:30 p.m. five women in Col du Beal, Puy-de-Dome, France saw a flat gray, metallic disc-shaped object that hovered for 30 seconds, then accelerated rapidly and flew away to the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 62 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6080 ### Event 10309 (EEA37F5C) **Date:** 9/19/1954 **Description:** At 9:15 p.m. a policeman, Louis Moll, saw a bright light land on the heights in Oberdoff, Moselle department, France, then darken. The object was the size of a small bus. The light from the object became reddish, and he could see a black silhouetted figure moving around in front of it. After 40 seconds the object then rose up into the air again, and took on the appearance of a red ball. It flew off to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-51 (A0250); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 149 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6081 ### Event 10310 (A401B0CF) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Location:** CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH **Description:** Dark circular-object arcs overhead. Levels off and lost in the distance. / r78p172. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3801 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "CUYAHOGA FALLS,OH:DARK CIRC-OBJ ARCS OVHD:LEVELS OFF+LOST/DISTANCE:/r78p172", **LatLong:** "41.133335 -81.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:08:00 N 81:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.133335,-81.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10311 (AF6A769C) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** RAMORE, ONT **Description:** Cop and separate pilot. Saucer seems to explode / sparks. Mildly radioactive dust. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3802 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "278", **HatchDesc:** "RAMORE,ONT:COP+SEP.PILOT:SCR SEEMS TO EXPLODE/SPARKS:MILDLY RADIOACTIVE DUST", **LatLong:** "48.583336 -80.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "48:35:00 N 80:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.583336,-80.266670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10312 (5D8A5D99) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LA CHASSAGNE, FR **Description:** 3 / farmers. Saucer brushes tree. Burnt leaves. Marks / dirt. / r8#155. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3803 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "La CHASSAGNE,FR:3/FARMERS:SCR BRUSHES TREE:BURNT LEAVES:MARKS/DIRT:/r8#155", **LatLong:** "45.544447 2.311111", **LatLongDMS:** "45:32:40 N 02:18:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.544447,2.311111)", **State/Prov:** "CRZ", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10313 (D6BC4F49) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** IONIA, MI **Description:** Amateur astronomers. 3 glowing UFO's / tremendous speed and altitude. / naval speedmail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3804 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "192", **HatchDesc:** "IONIA,MI:AM.ASTRONOMERS:3 GLOWING UFOS/TREMENDOUS SPEED+ALT:/NAVAL SPEEDMAIL", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -85.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 85:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-85.083337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 10314 (20C46823) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Location:** Cuyahoga Falls, OH **Description:** Dark saucer-shaped UFO arced overhead, levelled off and moved into distance. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1742 ### Event 10315 (14298C3A) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Santa Maria Airport, Azores **Description:** A guard saw a craft, 3.5 m in diameter and 1.5 m thick, land on the airfield. The witness, Vitorino Lourenco Monteiro, said a figure emerged from the craft and said something he could not understand, before taking off again. There were antennalike protrusions on top of the object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_150 ### Event 10316 (D9723C2E) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Locations:** La Chassagne; Ussac; Corrèze; France **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Elie Cisterne, a farm worker in the hamlet of La Chassagne, Ussac, Corrèze, France, is returning home on his tractor when he sees a luminous object coming toward him. He jumps off the tractor and lies down, fearful, as the object stops a short distance above the road and hovers silently for several minutes. Cisterne runs away when the UFO starts moving again, flying over his tractor and into the distance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20sep1954ussel.htm),” December 29, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2511 ### Event 10317 (ABE676F3) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Description:** A bright light was seen in the east by residents of Oberdorff, France at 9:15 p.m. It came to the ground, lost its brightness, and remained in one spot for approximately 40 seconds. It was reported to be about the size of a small bus, and there was a figure standing in front of it. The object rose and took on the appearance of a red ball. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, September 23, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6119 ### Event 10318 (3111B964) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Description:** Three farmers saw a saucer land in La Chassagne, Correze department, France at 11:00 p.m. It brushed a tree, leaving behind burnt leaves and ground marks in the dirt. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 85 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6120 ### Event 10319 (E16A7D8E) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Description:** In the North Atlantic on Santa Maria Island in the Azores, at 11:00 p.m. Vitorino Monteiro, an airport guard at Santa Maria Airport, saw a bluish metallic pecan shaped object 5’ x 10’ land on 4 legs, with a hum or whine. In its nose was an orange light. There was a Plexiglas type section in the forward end, which contained the pilot. There were four pole-like appendages, two at each end, which supported parallel aerials. A blond man 5’10” tall, wearing a gray aviator suit got out of a door located in the Plexiglas section, he approached the witness & spoke in an unknown language; he understood neither Portuguese nor French. He patted the guard’s shoulder, got back into his craft, fastened safety belts, and took off, turning almost straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-52, citing Robert D. Gammell, Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6121 ### Event 10320 (CD04A00A) **Date:** 9/20/1954 **Description:** Late on this night two men, Srs. Atencio and Garcia, watched a luminous object in the sky for about an hour as they waited for roadside assistance next to their stranded vehicle that they had driven into a ditch. Later, they saw a luminous craft, which resembled a full moon, land behind a grove near Monte-Brandsen, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Two one-meter tall dwarves dressed in white with big silver helmets got out and walked in their direction. When they saw the two frightened witnesses they glided back in the direction of the craft, which promptly took off fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** La Razon, April 19, 1973; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0251; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #1325, citing Hector P. Anganuzzi, Historia de Los Platos Voladores en Argentina **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6122 ### Event 10321 (33160180) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / BARSTOW, CA **Description:** Cops and more/others. Orange ball zigzags all over/all about and sparks. Descends going quickly southwest. Night light near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 813) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3805 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "SE/BARSTOW,CA:COPS++:ORG BALL ZIGZAGS ALLO+SPARKS:DESCENDS>>SW:NLT NEAR", **LatLong:** "34.850002 -116.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:51:00 N 116:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.850002,-116.983339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10322 (299E5A35) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** ZURICH, SWZ **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 brilliant rose colored objects. 1 stops. 1 circles. / r96#200. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3806 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ZURICH,SWZ:SVRL OBS:2 BRILL.ROSE CLRD OBJS:1 STOPS:1 CIRCLES:/r96#200", **LatLong:** "47.350002 8.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:21:00 N 08:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.350002,8.550000)", **State/Prov:** "ZRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10323 (E5E25B29) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA **Description:** 2 weathermen / theodolite. Delta-object much larger / balloon maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3807 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "DURBAN,S.AFRICA:2 WEATHERMEN/THEODOLITE:DELTA-OBJ MUCH LARGER/BALLOON MNVRS", **LatLong:** "-29.766668 30.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "29:46:00 S 30:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.766668,30.950001)", **State/Prov:** "KwaZulu-Natal", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10324 (6ED3C447) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** STA.MARIA AIRPORT/APARTMENT, AZORES **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3224. 10' saucer lands. Aerials. Pseudo-human/entity unintelligible. / r190#17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3808 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "Sta.MARIA Apt,AZORES:BBK#3224:10'SCR LANDS:AERIALS:PSH UNINTELLIGIBLE:/r190#17", **LatLong:** "37.133335 -25.166668", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:00 N 25:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.133335,-25.166668)", **State/Prov:** "Azores", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10325 (6EBDB552) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Location:** Barstow, CA **Description:** A red-orange ball giving off sparks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3222) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1744 ### Event 10326 (0A523A1B) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Location:** Santa Maria Airport, Azores **Description:** 10 ft x 5 ft light metallic blue, pecan-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3224) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1745 ### Event 10327 (E7320C14) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Time:** 1 AM **Location:** Barstow, California **Description:** Witnesses: two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps police, one highway patrolman. One red-orange ball giving off sparks, and a smaller light, made a zigzag descent and then hovered. Total of 20 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_366 ### Event 10328 (0DFDA700) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Time:** 9:45 PM **Location:** Santa Maria, Azores Islands **Description:** Witness: airport guard. One 10'x5' light metallic blue, pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose having a door, and with poles or aerials on the nose. Humming or whining, it hovered, landed vertically, 50' away. A blond man, 5' 10" tall appeared, spoke in a strange language, patted the guard on the shoulder, got in the object, hooked up his harness, pushed a button, took off with the object's nose pointed up, then levelled off and climbed vertically. Sighting lasted 2-3 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_367 ### Event 10329 (45E0B0A9) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Locations:** Santa Maria Airport; Vila do Porto, Azores **Description:** 9:45 p.m. A guard at the Santa Maria Airport in Vila so Porto, Azores, sees a 10 x 5-foot, light metallic blue, pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose and door, poles or aerials on its nose. It hums or whines as it hovers, then lands vertically 50 feet away. A blond man, 5 feet 10 inches tall, appears, speaks in a strange language, pats the guard on the shoulder, gets in the object, hooks up his harness, pushes a button, takes off with the object’s nose pointed up, then levels off and climbs vertically. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Blond Humanoid Reported](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20sep1954ussel.htm) [by Airport Guard](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20sep1954ussel.htm)”; Sparks, p. 220 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2512 ### Event 10330 (DE7B99F5) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Description:** [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) has a private talk for 26 minutes with Lt. Col. [John O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm), USAF Deputy Commander for Intelligence, who tells him that flying saucers do exist—three types, actually: a craft from outer space, a secret US aircraft, and unexplained natural phenomena. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, “[Private Talk with Lt.](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf) [Colonel John O’Mara, Deputy Commander, Intelligence, Confirms the Existence of ‘Flying Saucers,’](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 7 \(October 1, 1954\): 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2513 ### Event 10331 (B1389C21) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Description:** Two weathermen with a theodolite watch a delta-shaped object, larger than balloon, maneuver thru sky over Durban, South Africa and ten o'clock in the morning. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6177 ### Event 10332 (93C197CB) **Date:** 9/21/1954 **Description:** At one o'clock in the morning in Barstow, California two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps police, and a California highway patrolman watched a reddish-orange ball of light giving off sparks. A smaller orange ball of light make a zigzag descent and then hovered. Their sighting lasted a total of 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3222; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6178 ### Event 10333 (4FFD2256) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** BULLS, NZ **Description:** Classic saucer spins and glows with halo. Exits upward through clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 815) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3809 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BULLS,NZ:CLASSIC SCR SPINS+GLOWS W/HALO:EXITS UPWARD THRU CLOUDS:", **LatLong:** "-40.177780 175.372231", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:40 S 175:22:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-40.177780,175.372231)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10334 (4276869E) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** 3M EAST / MARSHFIELD, MO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3226. 4 observer(s) and more. Odd shape UFO / low altitude / 15 mn. Dump catches fire. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3810 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "472", **HatchDesc:** "3M E/MARSHFIELD,MO:BBK#3226:4 OBS+:ODD SHAPE UFO/LO ALT/15mn:DUMP CATCHES FIRE", **LatLong:** "37.338891 -92.855560", **LatLongDMS:** "37:20:20 N 92:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.338891,-92.855560)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10335 (8CDD879F) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** FONTAINEBLEU, FR **Description:** Cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape offloads saucers. Cylinder/cigar-shape flies to avoid passing plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3811 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "FONTAINEBLEU,FR:CLOUD-CGR OFFLOADS SAUCERS:CGR FLIES TO AVOID PASSING PLANE", **LatLong:** "48.450002 2.633333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:27:00 N 02:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.450002,2.633333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10336 (7AB050BA) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** MT. VALERIEN, PARIS, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Small glowing ball nears. Rises going up / clouds. / Paris Soir. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 343) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3812 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.VALERIEN,PARIS,FR:1 OBS:SML GLOWING BALL NEARS:RISES ↑/CLOUDS:/PARIS SOIR", **LatLong:** "48.872225 2.211111", **LatLongDMS:** "48:52:20 N 02:12:40 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.872225,2.211111)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10337 (6E3413D7) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PONTHIERRY, FR **Description:** Large luminous cloud offloads smaller UFO's. Zips off to avoid airliner. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3813 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PONTHIERRY,FR:LRG LUM CLOUD OFFLOADS SMALLER UFOS:ZIPS OFF TO AVOID AIRLINER:", **LatLong:** "48.533336 2.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:32:00 N 02:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.533336,2.533333)", **State/Prov:** "Essonne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10338 (300BF5AA) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** NAVARRE, OH **Description:** Navy pilot and 1. Round object lit / sky. Hovers and fast maneuvers. Darkens / plane passes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 814) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3814 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "293", **HatchDesc:** "NAVARRE,OH:NAVY PILOT+1:RND OBJ LIT/SKY:HVRS+FAST MNVRS:DARKENS/PLANE PASSES", **LatLong:** "40.722224 -81.522226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:43:20 N 81:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.722224,-81.522226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10339 (8C83E43A) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Location:** Marshfield (3 miles E of), MO **Description:** Thin, translucent, tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3226) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1746 ### Event 10340 (51763798) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Time:** 9 AM **Location:** Marshfield, Missouri **Description:** Witnesses: private pilot J.N. Williams, E.J. Ash. A thin, translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object revolved, then tumbled down behind some trees. Marks were found in the dirt. Sighting lasted 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_368 ### Event 10341 (5E1DC165) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Locations:** N7 north of Fontainebleau, France; Orly Airport **Description:** Shortly after 8:00 p.m. Mme. Gamundi is driving on the N7 north of Fontainebleau, France, when she notices a light in the sky. She stops and gets out and sees a huge luminous ball hanging motionless. It is reddish and surrounded by a luminous, moving smoke. Suddenly, another bright ball emerges from the bottom, falls, slows, turns, and disappears at high speed. At least 4 other objects emerge. When an aircraft from Orly Airport approaches, the ball rises at high speed and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22sep1954fontainebleau.htm),” April 9, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2514 ### Event 10342 (C0FB86B1) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Location:** Tulle, Corrèze, France **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Jean Besse, a draftsman for a power company in Tulle, Corrèze, France, watches a UFO through binoculars. It changes color three times in a few seconds. Probably astronomical. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22sep1954tulle.htm) [1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22sep1954tulle.htm)” March 23, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2515 ### Event 10343 (0BE61EB6) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. red luminous cloud-cigar was seen by three people emitting disc-shaped UFOs in Fontainebleu, France. The object was surrounded by a luminous vapor. The cigar-shaped UFO flew in a manner to avoid a passing airplane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 66 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6218 ### Event 10344 (78A504DC) **Date:** 9/22/1954 **Description:** In Marshfield, Missouri at eleven o'clock in the morning private pilot J. N. Williams and his friend E. J. Ash observed a thin, translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object as it came down behind some trees. The object appeared to be revolving, and it then tumbled down behind the trees. Marks were found in the dirt at the supposed landing site. The ground was "pulverized" with dirt torn up and small rocks disturbed. Their sighting lasted 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3226; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 178; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6219 ### Event 10345 (3BE624A4) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NEAR VIERZON, 18, FR **Description:** Observer(s) = Edmond Trochu. Red 'flying glowing kettle'. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3815 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr VIERZON,18,FR:obs=EDMOND TROCHU:RED 'FLYING GLOWING KETTLE':NFD", **LatLong:** "47.233336 2.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:14:00 N 02:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.233336,2.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10346 (A2FB962A) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** MOUSSOULENS, FR **Description:** Ovoid on N269. 2 pseudo-human/entity exit. Gestures. Re-enter and going up [to] and going quickly north. Possible traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3816 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MOUSSOULENS,FR:OVOID on N269:2 PSH EXIT:GESTURES:RE-ENTER+↑+>>N:poss.traces", **LatLong:** "43.283335 2.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:17:00 N 02:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.283335,2.233333)", **State/Prov:** "Aude", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10347 (BDAC6CA1) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** GATLINBURG, TN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3227. Unidentified. 2 observer(s)? 2 "4-inch" silver saucers reflect sunlight. North going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3817 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "393", **HatchDesc:** "GATLINBURG,TN:BBK#3227:UID:2 OBS?:2 "4-INCH" SLVR SCRS REFLECT SUNLITE:N>>S", **LatLong:** "35.716668 -83.511115", **LatLongDMS:** "35:43:00 N 83:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.716668,-83.511115)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10348 (A74866A0) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** ST. LAURENT-MEDOC, GIRONDE, FR **Description:** Luminous cylinder moves / jerks. Shoots away / great speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3818 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St LAURENT-MEDOC,GIRONDE,FR:LUM CYLINDER MOVES/JERKS:SHOOTS AWAY/GREAT SPEED", **LatLong:** "45.150002 -0.822222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:09:00 N 00:49:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.150002,-0.822222)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10349 (43373A48) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** LE PUY, FR **Description:** Red cylinder/cigar-shape / continuous trajectory. On Michele line / Tulle-Langeac / r49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3819 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LE PUY,FR:RED CGR/CONTINUOUS TRAJECTORY:ON MICHELE LINE/TULLE-LANGEAC /r49", **LatLong:** "45.050002 3.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:03:00 N 03:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.050002,3.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10350 (0B41B9EA) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** MT. BALDY, CA **Description:** 2 / camp. 100 silver saucers going down / 45° / U and X formations. Going up [to] going east / 45° / south and vertical formations. / LDLN#343. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 816) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3820 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3060", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.BALDY,CA:2/CAMP:100 SLVR SCRS↓/45°/U+X FORMns:↑>E/45°/S+VFORMs:/LDLN#343", **LatLong:** "34.288891 -117.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:17:20 N 117:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.288891,-117.650006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10351 (AD7994EA) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** LUX, 21, FR **Description:** Metal sphere circles. Divides / 3. 1 part vanishes. 2 go off separately. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3821 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "LUX,21,FR:METAL SPHERE CIRCLES:DIVIDES/3:1 PART VANISHES:2 GO OFF SEPARATELY", **LatLong:** "47.466669 5.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:28:00 N 05:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.466669,5.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10352 (0A58C4BC) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** THENON, FR **Description:** 12 hunters. Saucer / dizzy speed over treetops. Hoax by hunters alleged. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3822 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "THENON,FR:12 HUNTERS:SCR/DIZZY SPEED OVR TREETOPS:hoax by hunters alleged.", **LatLong:** "45.133335 1.072222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:00 N 01:04:20 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.133335,1.072222)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10353 (8353281B) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MULHOUSE, FR **Description:** Transparent CIGARs going quickly east very fast. 30 September cylinder/cigar-shape and 12 small objects. / r107p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3823 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MULHOUSE,FR:XPARENT CIGARs >>E VFAST::30SEPT CGR+12 SML OBJs:/r107p56", **LatLong:** "47.750002 7.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:45:00 N 07:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.750002,7.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10354 (F4730474) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** WEST / RIVERSIDE, CA **Description:** Aircraft worker. Glowing object changes color(s). 180° turn back going quickly west extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 349) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3824 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "W/RIVERSIDE,CA:AIRCRAFT WORKER:GLOW.OBJ CHANGES CLRS:180°TURN BACK >>W XFAST", **LatLong:** "33.955557 -117.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:20 N 117:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.955557,-117.433339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10355 (E3C77307) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** LE JOU, FR **Description:** 5 observer(s). Bright UFO lands. Beams. Follows car going NNW / Fonland. / r67p31+/ LDLN#102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3825 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "Le JOU,FR:5 OBS:BRIGHT UFO LANDS:BEAMS:FOLOS CAR>NNW/FONLAND:/r67p31+/LDLN#102", **LatLong:** "47.138891 2.405556", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:20 N 02:24:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.138891,2.405556)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10356 (5F60ACB7) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** N20 NORTH / DEOLS, FR **Description:** Cops and more/others. 3 saucers going quickly east in jumps. 2nd / low altitude spins. 1 stop = 15 minute(s)! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3826 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "N20 N/DEOLS,FR:COPS++:3 SCRS >>E in JUMPS:2nd/LO alt SPINS:1 STOP=15min!", **LatLong:** "46.861113 1.711111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:51:40 N 01:42:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.861113,1.711111)", **State/Prov:** "Indre", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10357 (8BD2EDCA) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** FONLAND, FRN **Description:** Cops and many / 1 hour. Bright/brilliant object follows car into town. / r30p182+/ r8#151. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3827 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "FONLAND,FRN:COPS+MANY/1 HOUR:BRT OBJ FOLOS CAR INTO TOWN:/r30p182+/r8#151", **LatLong:** "47.144447 2.044445", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:40 N 02:02:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.144447,2.044445)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10358 (71751FD5) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** PLOMBIERES, 21, FR **Description:** N5 = A38. Cops. Red ball / sky blinks on / off. Jerky motion. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3828 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PLOMBIERES,21,FR:N5=A38:COPS:RED BALL/SKY BLINKS ON/OFF:JERKY MOTION:", **LatLong:** "47.350002 4.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:21:00 N 04:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.350002,4.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10359 (3A708334) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ST. PIERRE LE MOUTIER, NIEVRE, FR **Description:** Saucer glows orange. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3829 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St PIERRE le MOUTIER,NIEVRE,FR:SCR GLOWS ORANGE:NFD:", **LatLong:** "46.783336 3.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:47:00 N 03:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.783336,3.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10360 (DF9D055F) **Date:** Fall 1954 **Location:** Unknown City, Korea **Description:** Marine Corps weather observer saw 7 discs oscillating in formation.\[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1743 ### Event 10361 (3D5F22A0) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Location:** Gatlinburg, TN **Description:** 2 bright silver, wheel-shaped objects fly N to S in trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3227) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1747 ### Event 10362 (37ED2C63) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Le Jou, France **Description:** The Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object giving off a magnesiumlike light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several independent witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 13; M 69 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_151 ### Event 10363 (34369A24) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Lencouacq, France **Description:** Mrs. Vignolles saw a luminous object come down rapidly, without noise, and land in a field near the church. It took off very fast a few seconds later. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 15; M 77 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_152 ### Event 10364 (897F0BA6) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Time:** 9:45 AM **Location:** Gatlinburg, Tennessee **Description:** Witness: Dave Owenby. Two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from north to south in trail for 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_369 ### Event 10365 (FF841B14) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Location:** Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France **Description:** Afternoon. Several residents of Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see three mysterious objects high in the sky. One witness, policeman M. Corrions, says they are arranged in the shape of a triangle. Possible helicopters. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/23sep1954bayonne.htm),” April 20, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2516 ### Event 10366 (8E11E825) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Location:** Lencouacq, Landes, France **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Irene Vrignolles sees a “flying cigar” that lands slowly in a meadow behind a rectory in Lencouacq, Landes, France. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/23sep1954lencouacq.htm)” December 16, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2517 ### Event 10367 (247108B2) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Description:** At three o'clock in the morning an ovoid-shaped UFO was sighted on Highway N269 in Moussoulens, France. Two human-looking occupants exited the craft, gestured, then re-entered it and the object took off, flying to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3617; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 166 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6247 ### Event 10368 (46525739) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Description:** In Gatlinburg, Tennessee at 9:45 a.m. Dave Owenby sighted two daylight UFOs. The two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from north to south in trail formation for two minutes **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6248 ### Event 10369 (F0F692B3) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. in Le Jou, France the Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object that gave off a magnesium-like light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several other independent witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 69; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6249 ### Event 10370 (F535662E) **Date:** 9/23/1954 **Description:** At the same time as the Patient family sighting, Mrs. Vignolles of Lencouacq, France saw a luminous object come down from the sky very rapidly. It made no noise as it landed in a nearby field, next to a church. It took off very fast a few seconds later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 77; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6250 ### Event 10371 (B5D42EF2) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Location:** NEAR GRENOBLE, FR **Description:** Photograph = black saucer or sphere/orb/globe. Leaves (something behind) dark trail behind. See photograph section. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3830 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr GRENOBLE,FR:FOTO=BLK SCR or ORB:LVS DRK TRAIL BEHIND:see foto section:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.250002 5.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:15:00 N 05:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.250002,5.733334)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10372 (90C3CB48) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** BECAR, FR **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Dark silent 6M disk / woods. Pseudo-human/entity fixes it. Traces. / r194#10+/ r30p84. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3831 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BECAR,FR:2 SEP OBS:DRK SLNT 6M DISK/WOODS:PSH FIXES IT:TRACES:/r194#10+/r30p84", **LatLong:** "47.727780 3.383333", **LatLongDMS:** "47:43:40 N 03:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.727780,3.383333)", **State/Prov:** "YNN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10373 (97C3B972) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** DURBAN, RSA **Description:** Many / beach. Shiny ovoid parks over radio mast / several min. Shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 354) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3832 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DURBAN,RSA:MANY/BEACH:SHINY OVOID PARKS ovr RADIO MAST/SVRL min:SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "-29.750001 30.966668", **LatLongDMS:** "29:45:00 S 30:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.750001,30.966668)", **State/Prov:** "KwaZulu-Natal", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10374 (582963DB) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** BAYONNE, FR **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 3 metallic ovoids hover / triangle / 1 minute(s) and more. Away fast. No further details. / r30p85. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3833 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BAYONNE,FR:NMRS OBS:3 MTLC OVOIDS HVR/TRIANGLE/1min+:AWAY FAST:NFD:/r30p85", **LatLong:** "43.483335 -1.483333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:29:00 N 01:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.483335,-1.483333)", **State/Prov:** "PYA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10375 (7288EE5B) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** VICHY, FR **Description:** Stadium / observer(s). Fast silent cylinder/cigar-shape crosses sky straight and level. = origin / Bavic theory. / r3p71. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3834 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VICHY,FR:STADIUM/OBS:FAST SLNT CGR CROSSES SKY S/L:=origin/BAVIC theory:/r3p71", **LatLong:** "46.100002 3.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:06:00 N 03:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.100002,3.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10376 (FD8197F0) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** US 71 SOUTH / NEOSHO, MO **Description:** Kelly and 1. Silent 25' saucer / 15K' altitude rolls and loops about. / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 355) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3835 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "383", **HatchDesc:** "US 71 S/NEOSHO,MO:KELLY+1:SILENT 25'SCR/15K'alt ROLLS+LOOPS ABOUT:/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "36.833335 -94.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:50:00 N 94:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.833335,-94.350004)", **RelAlt:** "4500", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10377 (E813F6E8) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** LENCOUACQ, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Fast silent luminous object lands / seconds / field by church. / r8#152. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3836 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LENCOUACQ,FR:1 OBS:FAST SLNT LUMn.OBJ LANDS/secs/FIELD by CHURCH:/r8#152", **LatLong:** "44.100002 -0.405556", **LatLongDMS:** "44:06:00 N 00:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.100002,-0.405556)", **State/Prov:** "Landes", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10378 (9F9A0657) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** BILOXI, MS **Description:** USAF radar instructor. 1+1+2 small objects join formation and rise impossibly going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3837 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BILOXI,MS:USAF RADAR INSTRUCTOR:1+1+2 SML OBJS JOIN FORMn+RISE IMPOSSIBLY >>NE", **LatLong:** "30.400001 -88.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:24:00 N 88:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.400001,-88.883338)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10379 (9C3FADA9) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 0900 **Location:** Becar, near Diges and "Les Michauts" or "Les Jolivets", France **Description:** Two women (Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisele Fin) made independent reports of a dark gray disk, 6 m in diameter, 1 m high, seen in a clearing. A man of normal height was standing close to it. He wore dark clothes and a kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 m of the craft and stated the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the grass. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 14; Carrouges 98 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_153 ### Event 10380 (9EEFE2A4) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 1000 **Location:** Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal **Description:** Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 m tall, dressed in shiny clothes, emerge from a landed craft and gather flowers, shrubs, and twigs in a shiny box, then take off. They seemed to be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not understood. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 55, 245; 24 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_154 ### Event 10381 (3C004BCE) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France **Description:** Mr. Cisterne, who was coming back with his tractor, saw a luminous object fly very low over him. Two other witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 16;M 76 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_155 ### Event 10382 (C234D8C2) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Location:** Castelo Branco, Portugal **Description:** Hoaxed story of an alleged sighting by Cesar Cardoso at Castelo Branco, Portugal, who sees two entities in shining metal suits emerge from a landed UFO and pick up flowers, shrubs, and twigs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-09-24-portugal-almaseda.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-09-24-portugal-almaseda.htm) December 8, 2006; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2518 ### Event 10383 (EDB5FF4B) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Description:** At nine o'clock in the morning two women, Mrs. Geoffroy and Miss Gazelle Fin, independently witnessed a dark gray disc, six meters in diameter, in a clearing in Becar, near Diges, Yonne, France. A man of normal height was seen standing close to it. He wore dark clothes and some kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 meters of the craft and said that it looked like the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the grass. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, September 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6278 ### Event 10384 (797AF0DF) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Description:** At 10 o'clock in the morning Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 meters (8.3 feet) tall emerge from a landed craft in Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal. They were dressed in shiny uniforms, and were gathering flowers, shrubs, and other vegetation and putting it in a shiny box. Before they took off they seemed to be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not understood. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 55; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6279 ### Event 10385 (6A44A661) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Description:** At sometime before 3:00 p.m. in Bayonne, Pyrenees-Atlantique, France three metallic ovoid objects hovered in a triangular formation for over one minute, then flew away fast. At 3:00 p.m. a fast silent cigar-shaped object crossed the sky slowly over the Vichy stadium, Allier, France and was seen by many. These are two of the defining sightings of the Bayonne to Vichy (BAVIC) orthotenic line discovered by Aime Michel and confirmed by Dr. David R. Saunders. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 76; David R. Saunders, Is BAVIC Remarkable?, FSR, Vol. 17, No. 4, July-August 1971 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6280 ### Event 10386 (00EDA773) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Description:** At dusk a fast, silent, luminous object landed for a few seconds in a field by a church in Lencouacq, Landes, France and was seen by a Miss Vignolles. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 77 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6281 ### Event 10387 (9462130A) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. a large 40-50 meter in diameter domed disc, which was bright red with an orange glow and a blue-violet colored dome, was sighted south-southwest of Civray, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, vol. 24 (1978), p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6282 ### Event 10388 (0E78739A) **Date:** 9/24/1954 **Description:** Mr. Cisterne lived on the Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France. He was driving back to the barn at 11:00 p.m. with his tractor when he saw a luminous object fly very low over him. There were two other witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 76; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6283 ### Event 10389 (89BC8B1F) **Date:** 9/25/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** JOINVILLE-LE-PONT, FR **Description:** Silent saucer going down. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) exit. Observer(s) temp paralyzed / ray. / r30p86. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3838 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "JOINVILLE-le-PONT,FR:SLNT SCR ↓:2 OIDS EXIT:OBS TEMP PARLYZD/RAY:/r30p86", **LatLong:** "48.816669 2.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:49:00 N 02:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.816669,2.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Val-de-Marne", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10390 (A455AE9F) **Date:** 9/25/1954 **Description:** A disc-shaped object descended and landed along the banks of the River Marne in Joinville-le-Pont, France at 9:20 p.m. Two humanoids about 1.10 meters tall exited the machine. Their faces were covered with hair. A beam of light paralyzed both of the witnesses, and one of the humanoids approaches the witness with the initials M.P. and tore off his trousers. The short humanoids then boarded their machine, which rose vertically and disappeared at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 168 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6310 ### Event 10391 (22716EA7) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** NEAR LOUHANS, FR **Description:** Domed cylinder/cylindrical object by railroad/railway tracks. Yellow light shines / opening. / r8#179+/ r30p107. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3839 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr LOUHANS,FR:DOMED CYL by RR TRACKS:YLW LITE SHINES/OPENING:/r8#179+/r30p107", **LatLong:** "46.616669 5.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:37:00 N 05:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.616669,5.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10392 (8DD97150) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** CHABEUIL, FR **Description:** 3' small humanoid (or Grey) / diving suit nears. Domed saucer going quickly northeast. Crushed plants. / r217p170. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3840 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHABEUIL,FR:3' OID/DIVING SUIT NEARS:DOMED SCR >>NE:CRUSHED PLANTS:/r217p170", **LatLong:** "44.900002 5.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:54:00 N 05:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.900002,5.016667)", **State/Prov:** "Drôme", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10393 (F988FB38) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** MT. REVARD, FR **Description:** 15+observer(s). Saucer maneuvers. Hovers over radio station/depot/facility / peak. Photograph. / r217p60+/ r49p81. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3841 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.REVARD,FR:15+ OBS:SCR MNVRS:HVRS OVR RADIO STN/peak:FOTO:/r217p60+/r49p81", **LatLong:** "45.666669 5.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:00 N 05:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.666669,5.983334)", **State/Prov:** "SVO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10394 (CD1660D3) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** CHALLES, SAVOIE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Small humanoid (or Grey) in suit waddles quickly to saucer. 10' circle found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 248) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3842 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHALLES,SAVOIE,FR:1 OBS:OID IN SUIT WADDLES QUICKLY TO SCR:10' CIRCLE FOUND", **LatLong:** "45.550002 5.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:33:00 N 05:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.550002,5.983334)", **State/Prov:** "SVO", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10395 (2C9F4886) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Location:** Altoona, PA **Description:** DC-6 Crew Paced By Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [540926](http://www.nicap.org/540926altoona%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1748 ### Event 10396 (F3B5294D) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Time:** 1430 **Location:** Chabeuil, France **Description:** Mrs. Leboeuf was suddenly confronted with a creature resembling "a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes." This creature entered a flat, circular machine, which took off toward the northeast with a soft whistling. Traces. Witnesses in state of shock. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 17; Carrouges 116; Anatomy 70; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_156 ### Event 10397 (B602FD73) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Location:** Chabeuil, Drôme, France **Description:** 2:30 p.m. At Chabeuil, Drôme, France, Lucette Leboeuf is walking her dog when she sees a short being wearing a translucent helmet and diving suit. She can see large eyes looking at her through the helmet. The creature approaches her, hopping. The dog barks at it and she runs away and hides in a bush. About 15 feet away, she sees an object about 16 feet in diameter resembling a top with a flat top. It rises above the cornfield and takes off at tremendous speed. Other people notice a circular area about 10 feet in diameter where the ground and grass are tightly packed. Tree branches are broken from above. Shocked, she stays in bed for two days. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/26sep1954chabeuil.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2519 ### Event 10398 (69FC088B) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Description:** Hearing her dogs barking and howling at 2:30 p.m., Ms. Lucette Leboeuf of Chabeuil, Drome, France saw what first resembled a "scarecrow" in a cornfield. After approaching to within eight feet she saw it to be a "diving suit" of transparent plastic, 3.5 feet high. A little man with large eyes was inside, resembling "a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes." She could see no arms on the creature. When he began waddling toward her she fled. A flat, circular four meter wide disc was seen to rise up making a whistling sound and fly away toward the northeast. An eleven foot wide circle of crushed foliage was found at the site. Ms. Leboeuf was in a state of shock and was in bed for the next two days. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 70; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 67; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-55, citing Aime Michel; UNICAT, case # 611 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6343 ### Event 10399 (B8A72520) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Description:** A disc-shaped object maneuvered around the sky and then hovered over a radio station on a mountain peak in Col-de-Chat, Savoie department, France at 5:14 p.m. There were 15 witnesses, and the sighting lasted at least 4 minutes. A photograph was taken. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 50; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6344 ### Event 10400 (B1A895D9) **Date:** 9/26/1954 **Description:** One minute after the radio station sighting a short humanoid in a diver suit was seen by a Mr. Guyard at the Challes Airport in Savoie department, France. The being waddled quickly toward and got into a saucer-shaped craft. A ten-foot circle was found at the landing site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6345 ### Event 10401 (69A7F62B) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** FOUSSIGNARGUES AND REVETY, FR **Description:** Busload / observer(s). Glowing-tomato with antennas lands / hours. / r8#157. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3843 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "FOUSSIGNARGUES+REVETY,FR:BUSLOAD/OBS:GLOW-TOMATO W/ANTENNAS LANDS/HRS:/r8#157", **LatLong:** "44.277780 4.155556", **LatLongDMS:** "44:16:40 N 04:09:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.277780,4.155556)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10402 (89C9F4ED) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** CIVIL FLIGHT, NY GOING [TO] LISBON **Description:** Pilot. Extraordinary light at sea surface. No ship. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3844 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CIV FLIGHT,NY>LISBON:PILOT:EXTRAORDINARY LITE AT SEA SURFACE:NO SHIP:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.200002 -37.600002", **LatLongDMS:** "38:12:00 N 37:36:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.200002,-37.600002)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10403 (B4C95600) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / FIGEAC, FR **Description:** Kids. Odd man runs to box. Going up [to] and going quickly south. / r8#158+LDLN#102+/ r217p37+/ r67p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3845 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SW/FIGEAC,FR:KIDS:ODD MAN RUNS to BOX:↑+>>S:/r8#158+LDLN#102+/r217p37+/r67p32", **LatLong:** "44.583335 2.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:35:00 N 02:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.583335,2.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Lot", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10404 (B948FC73) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** FRONCLES, HT MARNE, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Disk follows 3 planes. Returns 5X. Going quickly northwest. / IFS#27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3846 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FRONCLES,Ht MARNE,FR:2 OBS/BINOCS:DISK FOLOS 3 PLANES:RETURNS 5X:>>NW:/IFS#27", **LatLong:** "48.133336 5.155556", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:00 N 05:09:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.133336,5.155556)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10405 (55F81D00) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** CANET-PLAGE, FR **Description:** Disk makes circles / sky. Stops. Suddenly speeds away. / r49 page unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3847 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CANET-PLAGE,FR:DISK MAKES CIRCLES/SKY:STOPS:SUDDENLY SPEEDS AWAY:/r49 pg unkn", **LatLong:** "42.683335 3.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:00 N 03:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.683335,3.033333)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10406 (49176F75) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** PERPIGNAN, FR **Description:** Several groups / observer(s) in shock. Saucer lands. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) exit and reboard. Going quickly SSE / IFS#27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3848 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PERPIGNAN,FR:SVRL Grps/OBS IN SHOCK:SCR LANDS:2 OIDS EXIT+REBOARD:>>SSE/IFS#27", **LatLong:** "42.700002 2.905556", **LatLongDMS:** "42:42:00 N 02:54:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.700002,2.905556)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10407 (46D7966F) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** CUGES-LES-PINS, FR **Description:** Mopod/motorscooter/motorbike malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 8M domed saucer / hill. Watch stops. Quickly going up / 45°. Missing time? / r217p86. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3849 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CUGES-les-PINS,FR:MOTO EMEs:8M DOMED SCR/HILL:WATCH STOPS:↑↑/45°:MST?:/r217p86", **LatLong:** "43.283335 5.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:17:00 N 05:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.283335,5.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10408 (543E5D80) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** LA VARENNE EAST / PARIS, FR **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 1 or more saucers maneuver. Part and rejoin. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3850 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "La VARENNE E/PARIS,FR:SVRL SEP.OBS:1 OR MORE SCRS MANEUVER:PART AND REJOIN", **LatLong:** "48.872225 2.388889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:52:20 N 02:23:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.872225,2.388889)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10409 (B2CA44C3) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LANTA, FR **Description:** D1 11 mile(s) east / Toulouse. Teacher and 2. Luminous/glowing red saucer crosses sky going south / 40 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3851 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LANTA,FR:D1 11mi E/TOULOUSE:TEACHER+2:LUMn RED SCR CROSSES SKY >S/40sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.577780 1.655556", **LatLongDMS:** "43:34:40 N 01:39:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.577780,1.655556)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10410 (1141BE1B) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** ANGERS, M&L, FR **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). 'Neon-lit disk' east going west. Stops / 6 second(s). Shoots going quickly north. / A. Michel. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 92) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3852 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANGERS,M&L,FR:2+1 OBS:'NEON-LIT DISK' E > W:STOPS/6sec:SHOOTS >>N:/A.MICHEL", **LatLong:** "47.483336 -0.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "47:29:00 N 00:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.483336,-0.583333)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10411 (D5C56506) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** PREMANON, FR **Description:** 4 kids. Saucer and 'ghost'. Aluminum boxes walk. Traces. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3+/ LDLN#102+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3853 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PREMANON,FR:4 KIDS:SCR+'GHOST':ALUM BOXES WALK:TRACES:/FSR v16#3+/LDLN#102+/r8", **LatLong:** "46.466669 6.033334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:28:00 N 06:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.466669,6.033334)", **State/Prov:** "Jura", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10412 (0EC04337) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** ALTOONA AND PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** 3 airline(s)/airliner crews and more/others. Huge glowing disc crosses state. Air Force investigate. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 200) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3854 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "357", **HatchDesc:** "ALTOONA+PHILADELPHIA,PA:3 AL CREWS++:HUGE GLOWING DISC CROSSES STATE:AF INVSTG", **LatLong:** "40.500002 -77.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:30:00 N 77:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.500002,-77.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10413 (02E4EB06) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** LEMPS, ARDECHE, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). 1 then 10 luminous saucers zigzag / sky. Going quickly northeast. / IFS#27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3855 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "LEMPS,ARDECHE,FR:SVRL OBS:1 THEN 10 LUM SCRS ZIGZAG/SKY:>>NE:/IFS#27", **LatLong:** "45.111113 4.772222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:06:40 N 04:46:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.111113,4.772222)", **State/Prov:** "Ardèche", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10414 (18A68C73) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** RIXHEIM, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Huge cylinder/cigar-shape. 12 smaller UFO's orbit in all directions. / IFS#27 / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 369) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3856 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "RIXHEIM,FR:3 OBS:HUGE CGR:12 SMALLER UFOS ORBIT IN ALL DIRECTIONS:/IFS#27/r171", **LatLong:** "47.750002 7.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:45:00 N 07:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.750002,7.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10415 (E7BF177F) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 0230 **Location:** Foussignargues, France **Description:** At "Revety," people in a bus saw a reddish light coming down. Later Mr. and Mrs. Roche noticed an object on the ground, softly glowing, a short distance from their home, but were afraid to approach it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as "a sort of glowing tomato, with antennae on top." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 18; M 84; Anatomy 71 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_157 ### Event 10416 (A7479CBB) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 0840 **Location:** Figeac, France **Description:** Children saw "a box" and "an unknown man" standing nearby. The object took off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_158 ### Event 10417 (373E663C) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** Perpignan, France **Description:** A college student saw a circular object on the ground. Two beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. Witness in a state of shock. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 19;M 88 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_159 ### Event 10418 (22C1A30F) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Premanon, France **Description:** Four children came out of their home as dog barked furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones at the intruder. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 20; Challenge 170 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_160 ### Event 10419 (89193266) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Location:** Prémanon, Jura, France **Description:** 8:30 p.m. 12-year-old Raymond Romand and two other children on an isolated farm near Prémanon, Jura, France, see a brilliant rectangular object. He sees two occupants and throws stones at them, but he is thrown to the ground by an “ice-cold invisible force.” Raymond confesses 6 weeks later that he made up the whole story, including making some physical trace marks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/27sep1954premanon.htm),” March 7, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2520 ### Event 10420 (3893D858) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Description:** Foussignargues, France. At "Revety," people on a bus saw a reddish light with a halo come down from the sky at 2:30 a.m.. Later Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roche noticed a softly glowing red object on the ground a short distance from their house, but were afraid to approach it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as "a sort of glowing tomato, with antennae on top." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 89-90 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6373 ### Event 10421 (2ED77D2C) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Description:** Children in Figeac, France saw "a box" and "an unknown man" standing nearby it at 8:40 a.m. The object took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 90 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6374 ### Event 10422 (A6CAB4F7) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Description:** Perpignan, France. A college student saw a circular object on the ground this afternoon. Two beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. The witness was reportedly in a state of shock. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6375 ### Event 10423 (C8DDEB35) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Description:** A luminous disc-shaped object was observed in Lanta, Haute-Garonne, France at 8 o'clock in the evening. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6376 ### Event 10424 (EF1418EE) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Description:** Four children in Premanon, France came outside of their home at 8:30 p.m. because their dog was barking furiously. They saw a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in their yard. Raymond Romand (or Rolland), age 12, threw stones at the intruder. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 91-92 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6377 ### Event 10425 (A02FC284) **Date:** 9/27/1954 **Description:** Two flying cigars were seen in Sauzet, Drome, France at 9:40 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6378 ### Event 10426 (1ABB64DE) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** ATLANTIC WITH AZORES **Description:** Crew and passengers / PAA DC6. Huge saucer lights large area. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3857 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC W/AZORES:CREW+PASSENGERS/PAA DC6:HUGE SCR LITES LARGE AREA:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "37.833335 -38.600002", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:00 N 38:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.833335,-38.600002)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10427 (B05B4E33) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** FRONCLES, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Large bright UFO oscillates and lands. Changes color. Going [to] behind trees. / LDLN#102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3858 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FRONCLES,FR:3 OBS:LRG BRITE UFO OSCs+LANDS:CHANGES COLOR:>BHND TREES:/LDLN#102", **LatLong:** "48.138891 5.144445", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:20 N 05:08:40 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.138891,5.144445)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10428 (A8396E4F) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** ST. NICOLAS DE REDON, FR **Description:** 2 railroad/railway men. Dark object follows train / 15s. Lights clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 93) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3859 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.NICOLAS de REDON,FR:2 RR MEN:DARK OBJ FOLOS TRAIN/15s:LITES CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "47.644447 -2.072222", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:40 N 02:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.644447,-2.072222)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10429 (D002CA13) **Date:** 9/28/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** ALBIAS, FR **Description:** 1 / car. 3M saucer on legs / field. 3 figure(s) outside / 2 min. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly [to] horizontal. / LDLN#195. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 173) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3860 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ALBIAS,FR:1/CAR:3M SCR on LEGS/FLD:3 FIGs OUTSIDE/2 min:↑↑+>> HZNTL:/LDLN#195", **LatLong:** "44.083335 1.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:00 N 01:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.083335,1.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Tarn-et-Garonne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10430 (136C1AFC) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Froncles, France **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot and Georgette Mongot observed a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was lost to sight behind some trees. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 21; M 94 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_161 ### Event 10431 (05E0133C) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Bouzais, France **Description:** At "Le Grand Tertre" Mr. Mercier observed that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the "robbers." He was amazed when he saw a luminous mass fall from the sky about 50 m away, and found himself "paralyzed" as three figures emerged from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, everything had vanished. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 22; M 97 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_162 ### Event 10432 (917E6799) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Time:** 2310 **Location:** Saint Nicolas de Redon, France **Description:** At "La Butte Rouge" two railroad engineers, Bernard and Potraux, who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 15 sec before veering off. Potraux had to see a doctor. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 23; M 95; Anatomy 70 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_163 ### Event 10433 (798EA4CC) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Location:** Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, France **Description:** Around 12:00 midnight. Two witnesses at Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, France, watch an elongated luminous object through binoculars. Ten or more smaller luminous points are circling it in all directions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/28sep1954rixheim.htm)” April 1, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2521 ### Event 10434 (389C75FA) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Location:** Saint-Armand-Montrond, Cher, France **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Vintner M. Mercier of Saint-Armand-Montrond, Cher, France, notices that someone has stolen grapes from his vineyard and decides to stay up late and catch the thief. He sees a luminous object descend and three figures emerge. He is then paralyzed and loses consciousness. There is no sign of anything when he wakes up. Probable hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/28sep1954saintamandmontrond.htm),” April 5, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2522 ### Event 10435 (E0EC6790) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. Georgette Mongot and Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot in Froncles, France observed a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was lost to sight behind some trees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Aime Michel, Mysterieux Objets celestes, p. 94; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 92 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6388 ### Event 10436 (2E93F5F9) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Description:** At "Le Grand Tertre" in St-Amand-Montrond, France Mr. Mercier, a vintner, observed that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the "robbers." Around 10:30 p.m. he was amazed when he saw a luminous mass descend from the sky about 50 meters away, and found himself paralyzed while three figures emerged from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, everything had vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6389 ### Event 10437 (BDA111F5) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Description:** At 11:10 p.m. near St. Nicolas de Redon, France two railroad engineers, Emile Gerard, age 49, and Victor Paroux, age 40, were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray. When they reached "La Butte Rouge" they saw a dark object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 10-15 seconds before veering off. Mr. Paroux was so agitated he had to see a doctor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 112; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212-213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93-94 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6390 ### Event 10438 (3AB2A524) **Date:** 9/28/1954 **Description:** At 11:45 p.m. in Albias, Tarn-Garonne department, France a three meter wide disc was seen resting on legs in a field by a single witness. Three beings were seen outside the craft for two minutes. When they reboarded the UFO rose vertically up into the air, then shot away horizontally at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #3661, citing J. Sider, p. 173 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6391 ### Event 10439 (BBEC798E) **Date:** 9/29/1954 (approximate) **Location:** LYON, FR **Description:** Doctor and 15. Fleet / large dinner-plate saucers. Silver with dark spots / sides. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3861 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LYON,FR:DOCTOR+15:FLEET/LRG DINNER-PLATE SCRS:SLVR W/DARK SPOTS/SIDES", **LatLong:** "45.733336 4.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:44:00 N 04:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.733336,4.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Rhône", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10440 (97EBB852) **Date:** 9/29/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SAFI, MOROCCO **Description:** Several observer(s). Fast glowing cylinder/cigar-shape leaves luminous trail. / LDLN#326 p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3862 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAFI,MOROCCO:SVRL OBS:FAST GLOWING CGR LEAVES LUMINOUS TRAIL:/LDLN#326 p20", **LatLong:** "32.416668 -9.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "32:25:00 N 09:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.416668,-9.233334)", **State/Prov:** "CSB", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10441 (89AC5840) **Date:** 9/29/1954 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** LA RICHE / TOURS, FR **Description:** 3 / truck. Extremely bright 7M ovoid / ground. Rises quickly going up [to] then going quickly south. / r217p86. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3863 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "La RICHE/TOURS,FR:3/TRUCK:XBRITE 7M OVOID/GND:RISES ↑↑ then >>S:/r217p86", **LatLong:** "47.394447 0.655556", **LatLongDMS:** "47:23:40 N 00:39:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.394447,0.655556)", **State/Prov:** "Indre-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10442 (1317AE74) **Date:** 9/29/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MONTAGNEY, 25, FR **Description:** Multiple observer(s). Huge bright UFO lights countryside. East going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3864 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTAGNEY,25,FR:MULTIPLE OBS:HUGE BRITE UFO LITES COUNTRYSIDE:E>>W:", **LatLong:** "47.477780 6.311111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:28:40 N 06:18:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.477780,6.311111)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10443 (D0479BFF) **Date:** 9/29/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** PAINBLANC, 21, FR **Description:** Night lights play / sky. Large UFO passes over observer(s) / N470. Spins. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3865 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PAINBLANC,21,FR:NLTS PLAY/SKY:LRG UFO PASSES OVR OBS/N470:SPINS", **LatLong:** "47.150002 4.627778", **LatLongDMS:** "47:09:00 N 04:37:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.150002,4.627778)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10444 (A172D990) **Date:** 9/29/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** LANGERON, NIEVRE, FR **Description:** N151. Silent orange hemisphere goes west going northeast over horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3866 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LANGERON,NIEVRE,FR:N151:SILENT ORG HEMISPHERE GOES W>NE OVER HORIZON.", **LatLong:** "46.800002 3.088889", **LatLongDMS:** "46:48:00 N 03:05:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.800002,3.088889)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10445 (BF32EDF5) **Date:** 9/29/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1041 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** ".2" ### Event 10446 (E656DD2B) **Date:** 9/29/1954 **Description:** In La Riche, near Tours, France three witnesses in a truck saw a seven-meter long ovoid object on the ground near the road at 1:20 p.m. It rose vertically, then flew off to the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 319 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6417 ### Event 10447 (B51D0FBC) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** DEARBORN, MI **Description:** 18 odd pseudo-human/entity / roadside. Saucer 4M tall / flashing lights. Observer(s) drives away.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3867 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "184", **HatchDesc:** "DEARBORN,MI:18 ODD PSH/ROADSIDE:SCR 4M TALL/FLASHING LITES:OBS DRIVES AWAY..", **LatLong:** "42.316669 -83.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:19:00 N 83:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.316669,-83.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10448 (C46D35D2) **Date:** 9/30/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SCHIEDAM, NETHL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Big circular luminous/glowing object going quickly west. No further details. / LDLN#326 p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3868 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SCHIEDAM,NETHL:2 OBS:BIG CIRC. LUMn OBJ >>W:NFD:/LDLN#326 p20", **LatLong:** "51.911114 4.361111", **LatLongDMS:** "51:54:40 N 04:21:40 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.911114,4.361111)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10449 (9B6DE363) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** BLANZY / MONTCEAU-LES-MINES, FR **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape rests / 2 legs. Whistles away / 2 cyclists near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3869 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BLANZY/MONTCEAU-les-MINES,FR:CGR RESTS/2 LEGS:WHISTLES AWAY/2 CYCLISTS NEAR", **LatLong:** "46.700002 4.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:42:00 N 04:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.700002,4.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10450 (C28D1AE4) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** CHERENG, FR **Description:** 3M sphere lands / field near woods. 16cm webbed footprints found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3870 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHERENG,FR:3M SPHERE LANDS/FIELD nr WOODS:16cm WEBBED FOOTPRINTS FOUND", **LatLong:** "50.616669 3.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:37:00 N 03:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.616669,3.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10451 (A4EE627F) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** QUINCY-VOISINS, FR **Description:** 3M aluminum mushroom saucer / ground. 3 portholes. 2 observer(s) stopped / shocks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3871 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "QUINCY-VOISINS,FR:3M ALUM.MUSHROOM SCR/GND:3 PORTHOLES:2 OBS STOPPED/SHOCKS", **LatLong:** "48.900002 2.883333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:54:00 N 02:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.900002,2.883333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10452 (6B75E465) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** JOUY-SUR-MORIN, FR **Description:** Civil engineer. 10M saucer hovers overhead. Spins and whistles. Going quickly south. / r197p53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3872 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "JOUY-sur-MORIN,FR:Cvl ENGINEER:10M SCR HVRS OVHD:SPINS+WHISTLES:>>S:/r197p53", **LatLong:** "48.794447 3.272222", **LatLongDMS:** "48:47:40 N 03:16:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.794447,3.272222)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10453 (B91344A1) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** ~20:30 **Location:** SHIPS CREW ROUEN TO/FROM BREST, FR **Description:** Object descends touches water. Quickly going up / red flame. Longitude & latitude coords. unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3873 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "14", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SHIPS CREW ROUEN> Event 10454 (2B269524) **Date:** 9/30/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEOULES TO/FROM GAREOULT, VAR **Description:** 2 / car / D554. Luminous/glowing cylinder/cigar-shape landed / field. Observers keep driving.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3874 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEOULES> Event 10455 (B2754F84) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LA FLOTTE-EN-RE, FR **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). 12M white sphere 1M over R. Seine. Going up [to] quietly. / r8#168. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3875 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LA FLOTTE-EN-RE,FR:1+2 OBS:12M WHT SPHERE 1M ovr R.SEINE:↑ QUIETLY:/r8#168", **LatLong:** "46.183336 -1.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:11:00 N 01:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.183336,-1.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10456 (6CB70793) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 0445 **Location:** Dearborn, Michigan **Description:** While driving to work, Lawrence Cardenas, 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight-fitting skull caps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be giving them instructions. About 80 m away was a craft 4 m high with colored lights flickering on and off. The witness did not wait. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 230 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_164 ### Event 10457 (872C550D) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 1630 **Location:** Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France **Description:** Georges Gatay and seven construction workers saw a disk at ground level, with a humanoid standing close by. Both vanished in a very strange manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 25; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_165 ### Event 10458 (1B35C48F) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** dusk **Location:** Brest, France **Description:** At sea between Brest and Roven, the crew of the tanker "Port Lyautey" observed an object touch the surface of the sea, then take off vertically and give off a red flame before being lost to view. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 26 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_166 ### Event 10459 (34DA1364) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Grand-Couronne, France **Description:** Jean Andrieux, ferry operator, saw a large white sphere, with a smaller green sphere below, hang motionless above the Seine for 20 min. Two witnesses. It eventually flew away to the southwest. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 27 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_167 ### Event 10460 (B935846C) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Isle of Re, France **Description:** As he was returning home near La Flotte-en-Re, Celeste Simonutti saw a bright light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter hovering at 1 m altitude, turning red, blue, and taking off. Two other witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 28 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_168 ### Event 10461 (BD40006E) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** Gen. [Jimmy Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) submits a 69-page classified report on clandestine operations directly to President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) It negates the Second Hoover Commission’s recommendation on intelligence oversight. It says: “We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard A. Best Jr. and Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “[Proposals for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949–1996,](https://irp.fas.org/congress/1996%5Frpt/ic21/ic21018.htm)” Report to the US House Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional Research Service, February 28, 1996, p. 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2523 ### Event 10462 (C1994CAC) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Locations:** Jouy-sue-Morin, Seine-et-Marne, France; Marignane **Description:** Aviation pioneer [Eugène Farnier](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne%5FFarnier) watches an unknown object for 20 minutes above his property at Jouy- sue-Morin, Seine-et-Marne, France. It is swinging back and forth over an area of about 984 feet. Farnier thinks it looks similar to the cigar-shaped object seen at Marignane in October 1952. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[UFOs in the Daily](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lecourrierdelouest19oct1954.htm) [Press](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lecourrierdelouest19oct1954.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2524 ### Event 10463 (5C433DE3) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Location:** Marcilly-sur-Vienne, Indre-et-Loire, France **Description:** Around 4:30 p.m. Georges Gatay and his team of construction workers at Marcilly-sur-Vienne, Indre-et- Loire, France, see a disc-shaped object on the ground with a small, helmeted being standing nearby. In his hand he holds an elongated object: “It could have been a pistol, or it could have been a metal rod.” On his chest is a light projector. Gatay tries to run, but he finds himself helplessly nailed to the spot. He is thus “paralyzed” during the whole observation until the object leaves. So are his seven coworkers, in a unique case of collective physiological reaction. Almost certainly a hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/30sep1954marcillysurvienne.htm),” November 8, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2525 ### Event 10464 (9E9DD75E) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** There are 20 UFO reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day in 1954: one humanoid report from Michigan, one luminous daylight disc from Holland, and the rest were from France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6432 ### Event 10465 (6C5B687D) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** While driving to work in Dearborn, Michigan Lawrence Cardenas, age 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms along the side of the road to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight fitting skullcaps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be their leader and giving them instructions. About 80 meters away from them was a 4-meter high craft with colored lights, flickering on and off. The witness drove away as fast as he could. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 230; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6433 ### Event 10466 (08AA681F) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** At one o'clock in the afternoon in Blanzy, France two bricklayers, Romain de Bastiani, age 21, and Bruno Burato, age 20, witnessed a partially yellow, partially maroon colored cigar-shaped object landed on the ground. They started to approach the three-meter long object when it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow; the rest of the object was reddish-brown. Two foot-like appendages extended to the ground from the fore section. (Note: Vallee incorrectly lists the date as October 1.) **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 94-95 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6434 ### Event 10467 (88417C09) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. in Chereng, France, 10-year old Jean-Claude Delmotte, a school student, saw a three-meter diameter sphere at the edge of some woods, about 300 meters away. It was yellow-orange in color and quite bright. There were landing traces: a circle 1.5 meters in diameter and landing pad imprints 16 cm long. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** La Voix du Nord, October 6, 1954; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 95-96 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6435 ### Event 10468 (44C0AEF6) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** At 4:30 in the afternoon, Georges Gatay, construction supervisor, and seven construction workers in Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France saw a disc at ground level, with a humanoid standing next to it. Both vanished in a very odd manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Carrouges, Les apparitions de Martiens, pp. 123 & 125; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 96 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6436 ### Event 10469 (3C4B9809) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** At sea between Brest and Roven, France on the Atlantic Ocean, the crew of the tanker "Port Lyautey" observed a UFO touch the surface of the sea. It then took off vertically, giving off a red flame before being lost to view. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 97 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6437 ### Event 10470 (837A7DC5) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** Jean Andrieux, a ferry operator in Grand-Couronne, France and another witness, saw a large white sphere at 10:00 p.m. A smaller green sphere accompanied it and hung below, both object remaining stationary above the Seine River for 20 minutes. It eventually flew away to the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6438 ### Event 10471 (387EF687) **Date:** 9/30/1954 **Description:** Mr. Celeste Simonutti was returning home at 10:00 p.m. near La Flotte-en-Re, on the Ile de Re, France when he saw a brilliant light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a luminous sphere 12 meters in diameter, hovering one meter above the ground. The object changed colors from red to blue, and took off. Two other witnesses also saw it leave. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 214; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 98 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6439 ### Event 10472 (8E049524) **Date:** 10/1954 **Location:** Canada **Description:** Project "Magnet" discontinued **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_136 ### Event 10473 (FD95A0EA) **Date:** 10/1954 **Location:** SOISSONS, FR **Description:** Man and son. 'Little man' climbs ladder into classic saucer / field. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3876 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SOISSONS,FR:MAN+SON:'LITTLE MAN' CLIMBS LADDER into CLASSIC SCR/FIELD", **LatLong:** "49.400002 3.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:24:00 N 03:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.400002,3.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Aisne", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10474 (C6D6C8FB) **Date:** 10/1954 **Location:** BOVES AND DEMUIN, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). 'Lampshade-saucer' glows. Maneuvers as if landing. / r217p89. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3877 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOVES+DEMUIN,FR:SVRL OBS:'LAMPSHADE-SCR' GLOWS:MNVRS as if LANDING:/r217p89", **LatLong:** "49.850002 2.372222", **LatLongDMS:** "49:51:00 N 02:22:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.850002,2.372222)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10475 (B2899EA0) **Date:** 10/1954 **Location:** PARTHENAY, FR **Description:** 2 / truck. Glowing-disk lands / road. Vanishes as truck nears. / r217p89. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3878 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PARTHENAY,FR:2/TRUCK:GLOW-DISK LANDS/ROAD:VANISHES AS TRUCK NEARS:/r217p89", **LatLong:** "46.633336 -0.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:38:00 N 00:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.633336,-0.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Deux-Sèvres", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10476 (AD6F0FC4) **Date:** 10/1954 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** DOMMARTIN, FR **Description:** Girl. Saucer near ground. 2 odd beings with 'long knives'. / r217p176. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3879 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DOMMARTIN,FR:GIRL:SCR NEAR GND:2 ODD BEINGS W/'LONG KNIVES':/r217p176", **LatLong:** "46.338891 5.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:20:20 N 05:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.338891,5.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Ain", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10477 (5F0E5A6B) **Date:** 10/1954 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** LA FEUILLADE, FR **Description:** ~50 40cm spheres / tight T-formation roll going [to] WNW just over woods! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3880 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "La FEUILLADE,FR:~50 40cm SPHERES/TIGHT T-FORMATION ROLL >WNW JUST OVR WOODS!", **LatLong:** "45.750002 1.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:45:00 N 01:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.750002,1.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10478 (FBA393A7) **Date:** 10/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** VILLENEUVE-SUR-LOT, FR **Description:** Saucer lands silently. Small humanoid (or Grey) exits and fills bottle / river water! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3881 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "VILLENEUVE-sur-LOT,FR:SCR LANDS SILENTLY:OID EXITS+FILLS BOTTLE/RIVER WATER!", **LatLong:** "44.400002 0.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:24:00 N 00:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.400002,0.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Lot-et-Garonne", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10479 (84696469) **Date:** 10/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** SEMONS, FR **Description:** Farmer. Small humanoids (or Greys) run to saucer / field. Bleat like calves! / LDLN#319+local news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3882 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SEMONS,FR:FARMER:OIDS RUN to SCR/FIELD:BLEAT like CALVES!:/LDLN#319+local news", **LatLong:** "45.433335 5.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:26:00 N 05:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.433335,5.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10480 (030BB98F) **Date:** 10/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** POHANGDONG, SOUTH KOREA **Description:** U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) weatherman. 7 saucers oscillate/oscillation side-to-side. Going quickly south. / r78p173+/ r116. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3883 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "POHANGDONG,S.KOREA:USMC WEATHERMAN:7 SCRS OSC. SIDE-to-SIDE:>>S:/r78p173+/r116", **LatLong:** "35.950002 129.383340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:57:00 N 129:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.950002,129.383340)", **State/Prov:** "KYN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10481 (06146AD7) **Date:** 10/1954 **Location:** Cherry Valley, NY **Description:** Engineer sighted maneuvering disc. \[UFOE, I\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1749 ### Event 10482 (C910FFB2) **Date:** 10/1954 **Locations:** London; Scotland; Mars **Description:** London publishing house Frederick Muller publishes a contactee book, Flying Saucer from Mars, allegedly written by one [Cedric Allingham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric%5FAllingham), who claims that while vacationing in Scotland in February 1954 he saw a saucer land and talked to its occupant, a human-looking Martian. In 1969, science writer Robert Chapman concludes that no such person as Allingham existed. Christopher Allan and [Steuart Campbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuart%5FCampbell) allege in 1986 that the book was written by arch-skeptical astronomer [Patrick Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FMoore) using a pseudonym. His motive was to spoof Adamski and embarrass ufologists, but Moore never admits to the hoax. The photo of “Cedric Allingham” is really Peter Davies, who posed for the photograph with Moore’s reflecting telescope. Davies also edited the book to conceal Moore’s distinctive style of writing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Cedric Allingham, Flying Saucer from Mars, Frederick Muller, 1954; Clark III 98; Robert Chapman, Unidentified Flying Objects, Barker, 1969; Christopher Allen and Steuart Campbell, “[Flying Saucer from Moore’s?](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/10/allingham.html)” Magonia 23 \(July 1986\): 15–18; Curt Collins, “[Contact! A Close](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/10/contact-close-encounter-of-third-kind.html) [Encounter of the Third Kind from 1954,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/10/contact-close-encounter-of-third-kind.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, October 13, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2526 ### Event 10483 (CC6FACC7) **Date:** 10/1954 **Locations:** RAF Sek Kong; Shek Kong Airfield; China **Description:** Day. RAF pilot Michael Forrest, stationed at RAF Sek Kong \[now Shek Kong Airfield\] near Hong Kong is scrambled in a de Haviland Vampire ground attack fighter to intercept a target detected by ground radar approaching from China. The target appears to be the size of an aircraft and traveling at high speed with a continuous track. Ground control tells him that at times it is stationary, but it has the ability to change direction and height at fantastic speeds. Forrest and another pilot are vectored into the blip at 30,000 feet, but they can see nothing. Ground radar insists the blip is right there with them. After 15 minutes the aircraft break off and head home. On the base, he is told that the blip was caused by “anomalous propagation.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “‘Scrambled for Bogies’: An Incident at RAF Sek Kong,” Fortean Times 403 \(March 2021\): 45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2527 ### Event 10484 (F3B17FC4) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Location:** DHUBRI, INDIA **Description:** Woman. "Luminous plate" lands in field. Flies off again. No further details. / r8#169. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3884 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "DHUBRI,INDIA:WOMAN:"LUMINOUS PLATE" LANDS IN FIELD:FLIES OFF AGAIN:NFD:/r8#169", **LatLong:** "26.033335 89.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "26:02:00 N 89:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.033335,89.966671)", **State/Prov:** "ASM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10485 (22485C46) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** SUCE-SUR-ERDRE, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Long cylinder/cylindrical object / 5M diameter. Going up / 300M. Hovers. Away very fast. / r217p90. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3885 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SUCE-sur-ERDRE,FR:SVRL OBS:LONG CYL/5M diam:↑/300M:HVRS:AWAY VFAST:/r217p90", **LatLong:** "47.344447 -1.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:20:40 N 01:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.344447,-1.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10486 (2A9DCA2A) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 06:50 **Location:** NEAR CAUDRY, NORD, FR **Description:** Top-shaped UFO follows road west going quickly east. Bright light. 2 separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3886 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr CAUDRY,NORD,FR:TOP-SHAPED UFO FOLLOWS ROAD W>>E:BRITE LITE:2 SEP.OBS:", **LatLong:** "50.116669 3.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:07:00 N 03:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.116669,3.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10487 (E22FE030) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** TOULOUSE, FR **Description:** 2 Brill saucers / ground. Small humanoid (or Grey) exits each UFO. Meet and talk. Reboard and quickly going up. / r217p175. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3887 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TOULOUSE,FR:2 BRILL SCRS/GND:OID EXITS EACH UFO:MEET+TALK:REBOARD+↑↑:/r217p175", **LatLong:** "43.616669 1.433333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:00 N 01:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.616669,1.433333)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10488 (BF252995) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** BRY, FR **Description:** Man and dog paralyzed / luminous white object dives at them. OK after. / LDLN#102+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3888 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BRY,FR:MAN+DOG PRLYZd/LUM.WHT OBJ DIVES AT THEM:OK AFTER:/LDLN#102+FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "50.100002 4.033334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:06:00 N 04:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.100002,4.033334)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10489 (9FF68D6C) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** LUC-EN-DIOIS, 26, FR **Description:** Saucer changes red going [to] yellow going [to] red etc. Hovers over mountain. Then shoots going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3889 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LUC-en-DIOIS,26,FR:SCR CHANGES RED>YEL>RED etc.:HVRS OVR MTN:THEN SHOOTS >S", **LatLong:** "44.616669 5.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:37:00 N 05:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.616669,5.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Drôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10490 (35D862ED) **Date:** 10/1/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** RESSONS SUR MATZ, FR **Description:** Farmer. Saucer / field. Flattened grass found after. / LDLN#102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3890 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RESSONS sur MATZ,FR:FARMER:SCR/FIELD:FLATTENED GRASS FOUND AFTER:/LDLN#102", **LatLong:** "49.538891 2.727778", **LatLongDMS:** "49:32:20 N 02:43:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.538891,2.727778)", **State/Prov:** "Oise", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10491 (815354D8) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** D27 NEAR CRECY, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Small humanoid (or Grey) / diving suit enters silent 3M disk and away. / r112p93. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3891 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "D27 nr CRECY,FR:2 OBS:OID/DIVING SUIT ENTERS SLNT 3M DISK+away:/r112p93", **LatLong:** "50.294447 1.872222", **LatLongDMS:** "50:17:40 N 01:52:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.294447,1.872222)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10492 (FD87BE71) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BOURGNEUF, FR **Description:** Students. Glowing object in garden. Spins and rises very fast and gone. No description. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3892 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOURGNEUF,FR:STUDENTS:GLOWING OBJ IN GARDEN:SPINS+RISES VFAST+GONE:no descript", **LatLong:** "46.172224 -1.027778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:10:20 N 01:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.172224,-1.027778)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10493 (8B26B792) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEAR JUSSEY, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Luminous white saucer going down. 2 tall men exit and gesture. / LDLN#102+/ r217p177. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3893 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "nr JUSSEY,FR:2 OBS:LUM WHT SCR ↓:2 TALL MEN EXIT+GESTURE:/LDLN#102+/r217p177", **LatLong:** "47.772225 5.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:46:20 N 05:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.772225,5.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Saône", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10494 (EEBD5233) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** CROIX D'EPINE / MERU, FR **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). 5M saucer / road. 2 80cm potato sacks near. / r30p104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3894 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CROIX d'EPINE/MERU,FR:1+2 OBS:5M SCR/ROAD:2 80cm POTATO SACKS near:/r30p104", **LatLong:** "49.261113 2.094445", **LatLongDMS:** "49:15:40 N 02:05:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.261113,2.094445)", **State/Prov:** "Oise", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10495 (0008AD85) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ST.-MICHEL-SUR-MEURTHE, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape shoots light beams. High altitude. Goes going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3895 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "St-MICHEL-sur-MEURTHE,FR:SVRL OBS:CGR SHOOTS LITE BEAMS:HIGH ALT:GOES >N", **LatLong:** "48.316669 6.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:19:00 N 06:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.316669,6.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10496 (2963744F) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** ST. JEAN D'ANGELY, FR **Description:** 2 / car. Small humanoid (or Grey) crosses road. Enters woods nearby. / LDLN#102+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3896 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ST JEAN d'ANGELY,FR:2/CAR:OID CROSSES ROAD:ENTERS WOODS NEARBY:/LDLN#102+/r8", **LatLong:** "45.944447 -0.522222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:56:40 N 00:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.944447,-0.522222)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10497 (F5920F9A) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BRANGES, FR **Description:** Classic saucer / roadside. Goes dark. Rises / soft whistle. / LDLN#102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3897 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BRANGES,FR:CLASSIC SCR/ROADSIDE:GOES DARK:RISES/SOFT WHISTLE:/LDLN#102", **LatLong:** "46.650002 5.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:39:00 N 05:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.650002,5.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10498 (5BE68FE1) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BERGERAC, FR **Description:** 2 men. 3M saucer / tripod rises / yard with whistling rush / air. / LDLN#102+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3898 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BERGERAC,FR:2 MEN:3M SCR/TRIPOD RISES/YARD W/WHISTLING RUSH/AIR:/LDLN#102+/r8", **LatLong:** "44.866669 0.483333", **LatLongDMS:** "44:52:00 N 00:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.866669,0.483333)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10499 (9A1A172F) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** BASSING, MOSL, FR **Description:** Ellipse going southeast. Stops turns rises falls and maneuvers / minutes. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3899 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BASSING,MOSL,FR:ELLIPSE>SE:STOPS TURNS RISES FALLS+MNVRS/minutes:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "48.872225 6.805556", **LatLongDMS:** "48:52:20 N 06:48:20 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.872225,6.805556)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10500 (804EA706) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** MAUBREUIL, FR **Description:** Big round red object / ground. Glows and quickly going up [to] as 3 hunters near. Going quickly southwest. / r217p90. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3900 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MAUBREUIL,FR:BIG ROUND RED OBJ/GND:GLOWS+↑↑ as 3 HUNTERS NEAR:>>SW:/r217p90", **LatLong:** "47.294447 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:17:40 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.294447,-1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10501 (FD110BCE) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Location:** Dhubri, India **Description:** A woman reported to police she had seen a luminous disk leaving a long trail. It landed in a field, then took off again. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 29; Challenge 132 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_169 ### Event 10502 (6EE43E47) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 1300 **Location:** Blanzy, France **Description:** Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 30 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_170 ### Event 10503 (07B3278A) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 1600 **Location:** Bry, France **Description:** A man and his dog were "paralyzed" as a luminous white object dived toward them and climbed again. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_171 ### Event 10504 (167A698B) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 1815 **Location:** Ressons-sur-Matz, France **Description:** Approximate date. A farmer saw a white craft in a field. Flattened grass was later found at the site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_172 ### Event 10505 (22523CDF) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 1900 **Location:** Jussey, France **Description:** Two young men saw a luminous white disk moving in the sky. It dived to the ground and two men, described as being very tall and dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_173 ### Event 10506 (C28E2669) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 2000 **Location:** La Roulerie, France **Description:** Near Saint Jan d'Angely, two businessmen, Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan, saw a little man cross ing the road in front of their car. Having stopped, they saw the figure disappear into the woods. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 28 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_174 ### Event 10507 (8204C75E) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Branges, near Louhans, France **Description:** Coming home at night, Gilbert Prudent saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of "mushroom" on top. As he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with a soft whistling sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_175 ### Event 10508 (BBCED89A) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Bergerac, France **Description:** Returning home, fireman Jean Dufix, 26, saw an oval light in the sky and thought it was a shooting star. Later he was alarmed when his yard seemed to be ablaze. Rushing out again, he saw a disk rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, and took off at fantastic speed. A neighbor, Jean Labonne, 61, saw the disk, 3 m in diameter, resting on three legs in the yard. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 31 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_176 ### Event 10509 (0F83AE21) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .03KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1042 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** ".03" ### Event 10510 (685344BF) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** The Swedish Defense Ministry allegedly requests a secret investigation into UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2529 ### Event 10511 (DDFF4615) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Locations:** Montreal, Quebec; Lake Champlain **Description:** 9:20 a.m. An RCAF test pilot is flying at 30,000 feet over Montreal, Quebec, in an F-86 Sabre Mk 5 jet fighter when he notices a contrail high over the north end of Lake Champlain. He climbs to 51,000 feet at 540 mph but is unable to close on the object, which appears to him as a black dot. He turns to a different heading and sees that the contrail makes a similar turn abiut 10,000 feet above him. As he returns to Montreal, the contrail climbs at a 45° angle and disppears to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2002, pp. 91–92 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2530 ### Event 10512 (0F842E2A) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Location:** Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France **Description:** 4:00 p.m. An anonymous man and his dog are paralyzed as a luminous white object dives toward them and climbs away again at Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954bry.htm),” March 25, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2531 ### Event 10513 (BB16665D) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Locations:** Ligescourt; Vron, Somme, France **Description:** 6:45 p.m. Bernard Devoisin and René Condette are bicycling west of Ligescourt in the direction of Vron, Somme, France. They see a glowing orange object shaped like a beehive in the middle of the road. A small entity, about 3 feet tall and dressed in a “diving suit,” is standing close to it. When they get to within 200 feet of it, the object takes off at great speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954ligescourt.htm)” May 8, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2532 ### Event 10514 (072D9B51) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Location:** Croix d’Épine, Oise, France **Description:** 7:50 p.m. Mechanic Ernest Delattre, 19, is riding to his home in Croix d’Épine, Oise, France, on his motor scooter when a bright egg-shaped object lands on the left side of the road 45 feet away. He sees short, dark shapes “like potato bags” moving around the object. He speeds up and the UFO changes its color and takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954croixdepine.htm),” March 27, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2533 ### Event 10515 (D1B2F669) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Location:** Bergerac, Dordogne, France **Description:** Around 10:00 p.m. Jean Defiz, a factory worker in Bergerac, Dordogne, France, is returning home on his bicycle when he sees a large shooting star. Later, he sees an intense light in his yard and rushes out to see a disc rise with a whistling sound. It becomes luminous and flies off. A neighbor also sees it and estimates it is 10 feet wide. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954bergerac.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2534 ### Event 10516 (FD5FDA2D) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** There are 26 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day. There is one from the Assam region of India, two are from Italy, and the remainder are from France, which appears to have been at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Notice how the humanoid cases tend to occur at intersections of the major great circle routes described by four or more points on a straight line. Below are some of the more interesting reports on this day: **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6460 ### Event 10517 (F1E37B51) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** A woman in Dhubri, Assam, India reported to police that she had seen a luminous disc leaving a long trail in the sky. It landed in a field, and then took off again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 169 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6461 ### Event 10518 (D84CE1D2) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** At 1:00 p.m. two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object in Blanzy, Saone-Loire department, France that was sitting on the ground. It was three meters long, 80 cm wide, and it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 170 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6462 ### Event 10519 (28EAC5C9) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** At 4:00 p.m. a man and his dog in Bry, Nord department, France were "paralyzed" and frozen in place when a luminous white object dove toward them, then climbed back into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 171 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6463 ### Event 10520 (87F1562C) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** Two young men in Jussey, Haute-Saone department, France saw a luminous white disc moving in the sky at 7:00 p.m. It dove to the ground and two very tall beings, dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 173; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6464 ### Event 10521 (63A96C03) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** Near St. Jean d'Angely, France two businessmen, Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan at eight o'clock at night, saw a little man crossing the road in front of their car. When they stopped the car the figure disappeared into the woods. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 174; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6465 ### Event 10522 (6E82F025) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** Mechanic Ernest Delattre, age 19, was riding home on his motor scooter between Lormaison and St-Crepin-Ibouvillers, France at eight o'clock when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw short, dark shapes "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported observing the object. (Note: Vallee lists the date as October 2nd but Figuet & Ruchon believe the correct date is October 1st.) **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6466 ### Event 10523 (F3107147) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. several inhabitants of St-Michel-sur-Meurthe, France saw a cigar-shaped object in the sky with very bright white lights fly towards the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6467 ### Event 10524 (E81CA96A) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** In Branges, near Louhans in Saone-Loire department, France. While coming home at night around 10:00 p.m., Gilbert Prudent and one other witness saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of large "mushroom" on top (domed disc). As he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with a soft whistling sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 175; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6468 ### Event 10525 (A5FAA988) **Date:** 10/1/1954 **Description:** Returning home from work in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France fireman Jean Dufix, age 26, saw an oval light in the sky at 10 o'clock. He first took it to be a shooting star, but later he was alarmed when his yard looked to be ablaze. Rushing outside, he saw a disc rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, and then shot off at a fantastic speed. His neighbor, Jean Labonne, age 61, also saw the disc resting on three legs in the yard. They estimated the disc was three meters (10 feet) in diameter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Figaro, October 6, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 214, case 176 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6469 ### Event 10526 (99C7BF46) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** MAUPERTHUIS, FR **Description:** Saucer on tripod. Green ray freezes trucker and rider. Big RADAR station/depot/facility here. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3901 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MAUPERTHUIS,FR:SCR ON TRIPOD:GREEN RAY FREEZES TRUCKER+RIDER:big RDR Stn here", **LatLong:** "48.772225 3.038889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:46:20 N 03:02:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.772225,3.038889)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10527 (CBB70585) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** LEVROUX, FR **Description:** 2 separate women. Luminous/glowing 3M saucer / going [to] very low over village. No further details. / LDLN#102+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3902 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LEVROUX,FR:2 SEP WOMEN:LUMn 3M SCR/> VERY LO OVR VILLAGE:NFD:/LDLN#102+/r8", **LatLong:** "46.977780 1.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:58:40 N 01:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.977780,1.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Indre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10528 (39451431) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** MORVAN MOUNTAINS, FR **Description:** Government weathermen. Ovoid passes / amazing speed. Altitude = 3000'. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3903 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MORVAN Mtns.,FR:GOVT.WEATHERMEN:OVOID PASSES/AMAZING SPEED:ALT=3000':NFD", **LatLong:** "47.183336 4.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:11:00 N 04:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.183336,4.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10529 (79677FAB) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** AUREC SUR LOIRE, FR **Description:** Several disks in formation seen. = intersection / 3 ortho-lines / A. Michel. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3904 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AUREC sur LOIRE,FR:SVRL DISKS/FORMn SEEN:=INTERSECTION/3 ORTHO-LINES/A.MICHEL", **LatLong:** "45.372224 4.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:22:20 N 04:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.372224,4.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10530 (F8F938C1) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** MONTAREN AND UZES AND SERVIERS, FR **Description:** 8 observer(s). Orange ovoid wobbles / low altitude. Right date / LDLN#345. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3905 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MONTAREN+UZES+SERVIERS,FR:8 OBS:ORG OVOID WOBBLES/LO ALT:right date/LDLN#345", **LatLong:** "44.027780 4.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:01:40 N 04:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.027780,4.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10531 (60B8E294) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** CLERMONT-FERRAND, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver UFO oscillate/oscillation hover then quickly going up [to] going NNE to space. Back 03 October. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3906 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CLERMONT-FERRAND,FR:SVRL OBS:SLVR UFO OSC HVR THEN ↑↑>NNE TO SPACE:BACK 03OCT", **LatLong:** "45.772224 3.072222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:46:20 N 03:04:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.772224,3.072222)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10532 (9D7D3905) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** ESPARTIGNAC, FR **Description:** 1+girl. Brilliant cylinder/cylindrical object spins fast. Going up [to] until lost. / r217p92+/ r197p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3907 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ESPARTIGNAC,FR:1+GIRL:BRILL.CYL SPINS FAST:↑ UNTIL LOST:/r217p92+/r197p75", **LatLong:** "45.416669 1.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:25:00 N 01:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.416669,1.600000)", **State/Prov:** "CRZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10533 (626B19A3) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** LES ROUSSES, FR **Description:** Horizontal cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape turns vertical. Saucer seen briefly. Going northwest. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3908 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LES ROUSSES,FR:HZNTL CLOUD-CGR TURNS VERTICAL:SCR SEEN BRIEFLY:>NW:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "46.483336 6.061111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:29:00 N 06:03:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.483336,6.061111)", **State/Prov:** "Jura", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10534 (C3C6FED1) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** BOURG-EN-BRESSE, 01, FR **Description:** Sighting on northeast-southwest line. Back again 10 / 14 / 54 at 1813 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3909 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOURG-en-BRESSE,01,FR:SIGHTING ON NE-SW LINE:BACK AGAIN 10/14/54 @1813 hrs", **LatLong:** "46.205558 5.227778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:20 N 05:13:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.205558,5.227778)", **State/Prov:** "Ain", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10535 (E107569F) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** JONCHES, FR **Description:** 2 odd men watch airfield. Red object quickly going up [to] and going northeast. / r8#178+/ r67p34+/ r217p180. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3910 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "JONCHES,FR:2 ODD MEN WATCH AIRFIELD:RED OBJ ↑↑+>NE:/r8#178+/r67p34+/r217p180", **LatLong:** "47.827780 3.588889", **LatLongDMS:** "47:49:40 N 03:35:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.827780,3.588889)", **State/Prov:** "YNN", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10536 (8FF7CDB9) **Date:** 10/2/1954 (approximate) **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** ANDUZE, FR **Description:** Large silent circular mass hovers. Alternates red and blue. Rocks and quickly going down / open field. / r3p67. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3911 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ANDUZE,FR:LRG SLNT CIRC.MASS HVRS:ALTERNATES RED+BLU:ROCKS+↓↓/OPEN FLD:/r3p67", **LatLong:** "44.050002 3.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:00 N 03:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.050002,3.983334)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10537 (D72C5488) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** VATAN, INDRE, FR **Description:** Vertical hangs vertical. Going quickly southwest toward(s) Chateax-Roux. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3912 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VATAN,INDRE,FR:VERTICAL HANGS VERTICAL:>>SW TWRD CHATEAX-ROUX:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.072224 1.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:04:20 N 01:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.072224,1.816667)", **State/Prov:** "Indre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10538 (13B8B890) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** FENIERS / CROCQ, FR **Description:** 5 observer(s). Saucer with portholes. Blinding. Lands / distance. / LDLN#345p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3913 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "FENIERS/CROCQ,FR:5 OBS:SCR W/PORTHOLES:BLINDING:LANDS/DISTANCE:/LDLN#345p32", **LatLong:** "45.877780 2.377778", **LatLongDMS:** "45:52:40 N 02:22:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.877780,2.377778)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10539 (7635F469) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** PONCEY-SUR-L'IGNON, FR **Description:** Many. 1.5M silent cylinder/cylindrical object going south. Dogs run and bay. / r109p109+/ Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3914 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "PONCEY-sur-l'IGNON,FR:MANY:1.5M SLNT CYL>S:DOGS RUN+BAY:/r109p109+/FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "47.500002 4.761111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 04:45:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,4.761111)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10540 (84A6C62B) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** CHAMONIX AND VALLEY, FR **Description:** Several 100 observer(s). Metal ovoid hovers / one hour. Vibrant bright. Going quickly west extremely fast. See Dieuze. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3915 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "CHAMONIX+VALLEY,FR:SVRL 100 OBS:MTL OVOID HVRS/1hr:VBRITE:>>W XFAST:see DIEUZE", **LatLong:** "45.916669 6.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:55:00 N 06:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.916669,6.833334)", **State/Prov:** "HSV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10541 (7424233E) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** RIANS, 18, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous/glowing ball going down [to] slowly southwest / town. Going west toward(s) Vatan. / LDLN#319p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3916 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RIANS,18,FR:SVRL OBS:LUMn BALL ↓ SLOWLY SW/TOWN:>W TWRD VATAN:/LDLN#319p26", **LatLong:** "47.188891 2.622222", **LatLongDMS:** "47:11:20 N 02:37:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.188891,2.622222)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10542 (C088AEED) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** DIEUZE, FR **Description:** Ovoid going down. Climbs and hovers and maneuvers / one hour. Fantastic display. / LDLN#108+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3917 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "DIEUZE,FR:OVOID↓:CLIMBS+HVRS+MNVRS/1HR:FANTASTIC DISPLAY:/LDLN#108+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "48.816669 6.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:49:00 N 06:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.816669,6.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10543 (55A376B9) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** PELLERY, 21, FRANCE **Description:** Vertical cloud cigar here too. Several observer(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3918 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "PELLERY,21,FRANCE:VERTICAL CLOUD CIGAR HERE TOO:SVRL OBS:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.505558 4.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:20 N 04:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.505558,4.783334)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10544 (BC2F42F9) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** AZE, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Fiery orange 6M cylinder/cylindrical object over garden / 30 minute(s). Going down [to] behind wall. No trace. / r217p92. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3919 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "AZE,FR:2 OBS:FIERY ORG 6M CYL OVR GARDEN/30min:↓ BHND WALL:NO TRACE:/r217p92", **LatLong:** "47.850002 1.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:51:00 N 01:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.850002,1.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Loir-et-Cher", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10545 (89C34D20) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BLANCHE-EGLISE, MSL, FR **Description:** 3 separate observer(s) / 2 hours. Oval UFO maneuvers. Going up [to] going [to] going down [to] <. Seen all over/all about. / r138#9p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3920 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "BLANCHE-EGLISE,MSL,FR:3 SEP.OBS/2hrs:OVAL UFO MNVRS:↑>↓<:SEEN ALLO:/r138#9p4", **LatLong:** "48.788891 6.677778", **LatLongDMS:** "48:47:20 N 06:40:40 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.788891,6.677778)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10546 (C93E9A8E) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NESSIER, FR **Description:** 5M saucer / 1M altitude going up [to] as 2 observer(s) near. Going [to] WSW. Oily traces. / LDLN#102p2+/ r217p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3921 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NESSIER,FR:5M SCR/1M alt ↑ AS 2 OBS NEAR:>WSW:OILY TRACES:/LDLN#102p2+/r217p56", **LatLong:** "46.338891 -0.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:20:20 N 00:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.338891,-0.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10547 (29953DD3) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** TREGON, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous/glowing cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / low altitude. Going up [to] and going quickly north when neared. / LDLN#102+/ r30p122. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3922 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TREGON,FR:SVRL OBS:LUMn CGR HVRS/lo alt:↑+>>N WHEN NEARED:/LDLN#102+/r30p122", **LatLong:** "48.566669 -2.183333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:34:00 N 02:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.566669,-2.183333)", **State/Prov:** "CDN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10548 (B5DB7423) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** MEGRIT, FR **Description:** 2M and saucer hovers 50M over garage. Figure(s) move inside. Going up [to] when neared. / r30p122. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3923 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MEGRIT,FR:2M+ SCR HVRS 50M OVR GARAGE:FIGs MOVE INSIDE:↑ when neared:/r30p122", **LatLong:** "48.372225 -2.244445", **LatLongDMS:** "48:22:20 N 02:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.372225,-2.244445)", **State/Prov:** "CDN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10549 (5064B5D0) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** GUEBLING, FR **Description:** 2+? observer(s). Green-glow saucer lands / field. Away and returns later. / r8#181. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3924 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "GUEBLING,FR:2+? OBS:GRN-GLOW SCR LANDS/FIELD:AWAY+RETURNS LATER:/r8#181", **LatLong:** "48.861113 6.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:40 N 06:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.861113,6.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10550 (195796F0) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** Levroux, France **Description:** At the Bourg du Cerisier, two women (Janiki and Lacotte) independently reported to police that a luminous disk about 3 m in diameter had flown very low over the village. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 32 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_177 ### Event 10551 (A9207910) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** Jonches, France **Description:** Two creatures were seen on the ground, and two hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at very low altitude. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_178 ### Event 10552 (9DD00AB9) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 0230 **Location:** Louhans, France **Description:** In the immediate vicinity of case 175, Mr. Nicolas saw a craft with a dome on top, on the ground between the road and the railroad tracks. Through some openings a strong yellow light shone. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 33;M 109 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_179 ### Event 10553 (F749D860) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 2000 **Location:** Croix d'Epine, France **Description:** A mechanic, Ernest Delattre, 19, was riding home on his motor scooter when an egg-shaped object, brilliantly illuminated, landed on the left side of the road 15 m away. He saw short, dark shapes "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported observing the object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_180 ### Event 10554 (0E4C6552) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Time:** 2345 **Location:** Guebling, France **Description:** A disk emitting a weak green glow landed in a field. Witnesses: Messrs. Domant and Gilcher. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 105 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_181 ### Event 10555 (A7617C63) **Date:** Early 10/1954 **Locations:** Durance River; Corbières; Alpes-de-Hautes-Provence; France **Description:** Maxime Pignatelli, 65, is hunting with his dog on the banks of the Durance River near Corbières, Alpes- de-Hautes-Provence, France. He sees a gray object about 12 feet long and 3 feet high on the ground about 130 feet away. Two helmeted figures emerge from a dome. The man flees. His dog also retreats a bit later, walking awkwardly as if partly paralyzed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacques Vallée, “[Un siècle d’atterrissages,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20103.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 103 \(December 1969\): 7; Francis Schaefer and Pierre Delval, “[Un recit d’atterrissage inedit à Corbières,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Phenomenes%20Inconnus/Phenomenes%20Inconnus%20-%20No%2014%20-%201971-%20CFRS-CFRU.pdf)” Phénomènes Inconnus 1, no. 14 \(1971\): 10–13; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/17oct1954cabasson.htm)” May 20, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2528 ### Event 10556 (73DED240) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** The French Air Ministry allegedly launches a UFO investigation after 267 citizens come forward to report UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 60–61](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/60/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2535 ### Event 10557 (8FD812FB) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Location:** Les Rousses, Jura, France **Description:** 3:45 p.m. A teacher, Mlle. Jaillet, along with 23 schoolchildren, see an elongated object in the sky to the southeast at Les Rousses, Jura, France. It approaches rapidly and they see it is a “cloud cigar.” It switches from horizontal to vertical and hovers. At one point, a gleaming yellow disc emerges from it and moves away. The long object switches to horizontal again and moves away to the northwest. The incident lasts 4–5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/2oct1954lesrousses.htm),” March 25, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2536 ### Event 10558 (B6CDF325) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** There are 39 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in the UFOCAT database for this day. There is one from Denmark and one from the Orkney Islands of Great Britain. The rest are from France, which appears to have been at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6482 ### Event 10559 (72036E0D) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** In Levroux, France two single women (Janicki and Lacotte) independently reported to police that a luminous disc about three meters in diameter had flown very low over their village of Cerisier. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6483 ### Event 10560 (322CDE66) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** Two creatures were seen on the ground in Jonches, France. Two hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at a very low altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6484 ### Event 10561 (CB5E8C09) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** In the immediate vicinity of the sighting on the day before (October 1) in Louhans, France, Mr. Nicolas saw a domed disc on the ground at 2:30 a.m. between the road and the railroad tracks. Through some openings in the object a strong yellow light shone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bourgogne Republicaine, October 3, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 109; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6485 ### Event 10562 (54554F04) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** At 10:00 o'clock in the morning several people in the city of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department, France saw a luminous, metallic object oscillating in the sky, then fly off rapidly to the north-northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6486 ### Event 10563 (5BD47BF0) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** In Vichy, Allier department, France at 6:30 p.m., bus passengers observed a luminous object rapidly traverse the sky flying in the direction of Cote St.-Amand. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6487 ### Event 10564 (53949891) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. in Poncey-sur-Lignon and the region of Cote-d'Or, France several persons observed a huge cigar-shaped luminous object that flew silently to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6488 ### Event 10565 (6BBEDCD7) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. in Croix d’Epine, Oise department, France Ernest Delattre, age 19, a mechanic, was riding home on his motor scooter when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw some short, dark shapes, “like potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, then saw the object, which was the size of a small bus, take off. During the ascent the object's color changed from orange to blue. The object was observed by two other witnesses. As an additional note, Mr. Delattre fainted while telling his story **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-65 (A0267); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 215 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6489 ### Event 10566 (17C4CD68) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France a luminous mushroom-shaped object was seen in the garden by J. Labonne, who described it as "constructed of plexiglass." Three meters away moved a short shadowy figure that "slid over to the machine." The object rose into the sky, leaving behind a luminous trail. There were three imprints found in the ground and some black mushrooms. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0268 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6490 ### Event 10567 (1EEF52E8) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw a red glowing round object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. (Note: Vallee lists the date as October 3rd, but Figuet & Ruchon believe this is in error and that October 2nd is the correct date). **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 216; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 110 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6491 ### Event 10568 (9BD70323) **Date:** 10/2/1954 **Description:** At 11:45 p.m. Messrs. Domant and Gilcher saw a disc-shaped UFO in a field in Guebling, France. It was emitting a weak green glow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6492 ### Event 10569 (C6EE3297) **Date:** 10/3/1954 (approximate) **Location:** PATNA, BIHAR, INDIA **Description:** 800 observer(s). 15' saucer going down / 300' altitude over crematorium. Blows smoke / sides. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3925 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PATNA,BIHAR,INDIA:800 OBS:15'SCR ↓/300'ALT OVR CREMATORIUM:BLOWS SMOKE/SIDES", **LatLong:** "25.550001 85.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "25:33:00 N 85:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.550001,85.300004)", **State/Prov:** "BHR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10570 (0D5DDA60) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Location:** LA TESTE, FR **Description:** 7 observer(s). Huge red ball / low altitude. Leaves (something behind) green trail. Area = forest and gas field. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3926 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LA TESTE,FR:7 OBS:HUGE RED BALL/LO ALT:LVS GREEN TRAIL:area=forest+gas field", **LatLong:** "44.550002 -1.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:33:00 N 01:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.550002,-1.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10571 (AEA4F07D) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Location:** SAINT-MAIXENT, 79, FR **Description:** Red-orange cylinder/cigar-shape goes overhead. 2 ortho-lines cross here. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3927 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAINT-MAIXENT,79,FR:RED-ORG CGR GOES OVHD:2 ORTHO-LINES CROSS HERE", **LatLong:** "46.411113 -0.205556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:40 N 00:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.411113,-0.205556)", **State/Prov:** "Deux-Sèvres", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10572 (EDEA9B05) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** HEYRIEUX, ISERE, FR **Description:** Deputy mayor sees orange disc / white glow on top. 3x moon-size. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3928 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HEYRIEUX,ISERE,FR:DEPUTY MAYOR SEES ORG DISC/WHT GLOW ON TOP:3x MOON-SIZE:", **LatLong:** "45.616669 5.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:37:00 N 05:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.616669,5.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10573 (1064DD4D) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** NIVELLES, FR **Description:** Luminous disk / roadside. 2 1M small humanoids (or Greys) talk! No TRACEs. / r30p111+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3929 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NIVELLES,FR:LUM DISK/ROADSIDE:2 1M OIDS TALK!:NO TRACEs:/r30p111+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "50.466669 3.461111", **LatLongDMS:** "50:28:00 N 03:27:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.466669,3.461111)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10574 (2D278A41) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** 4KM ESE / BRESSUIRE, FR **Description:** 3M saucer / ground. Small humanoid (or Grey) / diving suit boards and flies. / LDLN#102+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3930 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "4KM ESE/BRESSUIRE,FR:3M SCR/GND:OID/DIVING SUIT BOARDS+FLIES:/LDLN#102+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "46.833336 -0.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:50:00 N 00:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.833336,-0.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Deux-Sèvres", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10575 (DDB795B7) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** VERSOUD, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver football hovers still by Belledonne peak / several min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3931 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "VERSOUD,FR:SVRL OBS:SLVR FOOTBALL HVRS STILL by BELLEDONNE PEAK/SVRL min.", **LatLong:** "45.216669 5.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:13:00 N 05:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.216669,5.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10576 (C92DB6C4) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** LUSENS GLACIER, AUS **Description:** Cop / (seen thru) binoculars. Silent 10M and metal saucer hovers / 20 minutes. Shoots behind mountain. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 907) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3932 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2641", **HatchDesc:** "LUSENS GLACIER,AUS:COP/BINOCS:SLNT 10M+ MTL SCR HVRS/20mins:SHOOTS BHND MTN:", **LatLong:** "47.100002 11.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:06:00 N 11:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.100002,11.116667)", **State/Prov:** "TYR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10577 (77660CB9) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** EAST / VRON, FR **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) / diving suit and beehive UFO / RTE D27. Quickly going up [to] as 2 bicycles near. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3933 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "E/VRON,FR:OID/DIVING SUIT+BEEHIVE UFO/Rte D27:↑↑ as 2 BICYCLES near:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "50.300002 1.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:18:00 N 01:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.300002,1.783333)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10578 (BEEB145F) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEUVY AND COULANDON AND MARIGNY, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Odd UFO's all over area. Types unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3934 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NEUVY+COULANDON+MARIGNY,FR:MANY OBS:ODD UFOs ALL OVR AREA:TYPES UNK.", **LatLong:** "46.566669 3.288889", **LatLongDMS:** "46:34:00 N 03:17:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.566669,3.288889)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10579 (D490DC1B) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** CHERENG, FR **Description:** Crowd at fair. Silent mushroom maneuvers. Misidentified (conventional phenomena) / moon? / LDLN#102p2+/ r217p94. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 217) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3935 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHERENG,FR:CROWD at FAIR:SLNT MUSHROOM MNVRS:MID/MOON?:/LDLN#102p2+/r217p94", **LatLong:** "50.600002 3.205556", **LatLongDMS:** "50:36:00 N 03:12:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.600002,3.205556)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10580 (7F50944E) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** BILLOM, FR **Description:** 30+observer(s). Brill object circles and maneuvers. Going up [to] and away. Type unknown. No traces. / LDLN#125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3936 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "BILLOM,FR:30+OBS:BRILL OBJ CCLS+MNVRS:↑+AWAY:TYPE UNK:NO TRACES:/LDLN#125", **LatLong:** "45.733336 3.344445", **LatLongDMS:** "45:44:00 N 03:20:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.733336,3.344445)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10581 (A7BD87AF) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LE PERTRE, FR **Description:** 2 farmers. Silent orange ovoid / 300M altitude. Possible landing going SW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3937 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Le PERTRE,FR:2 FARMERS:SLNT ORG OVOID/300M alt:POSSIBLE LANDING >SW.", **LatLong:** "48.038891 -1.038889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:02:20 N 01:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.038891,-1.038889)", **State/Prov:** "Ille-et-Vilaine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10582 (A8844A23) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** AMIENS, 80, FR **Description:** Luminous/glowing mushroom cap hovers. Cables hang / underside. Changes colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3938 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "AMIENS,80,FR:LUMn MUSHROOM CAP HVRS:CABLES HANG/UNDERSIDE:CHANGES COLORS", **LatLong:** "49.900002 2.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:54:00 N 02:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.900002,2.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10583 (01739123) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** BIDESTROFF, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Night lights play and maneuver / one hour. Saucer lands. Colored lights seen. / r217p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3939 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "BIDESTROFF,FR:MANY OBS:NLTS PLAY+MNVR/1hr:SCR LANDS:CLRD LITES SEEN:/r217p30", **LatLong:** "48.850002 6.788889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:00 N 06:47:20 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.850002,6.788889)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10584 (F2B83638) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** DIJON, 21, FR **Description:** Sphere sends out green beams / light. Going quickly south faster / any plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3940 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DIJON,21,FR:SPHERE SENDS OUT GREEN BEAMS/LITE:>>S FASTER/ANY PLANE", **LatLong:** "47.333336 5.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:20:00 N 05:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.333336,5.016667)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10585 (CA764626) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** EPINAC AND SANTENAY, FR **Description:** Several cars / D43 stop. Orange luminous domed cylinder/cigar-shape / saucer. Going south and going quickly southwest. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3941 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "EPINAC+SANTENAY,FR:SVRL CARS/D43 STOP:ORG LUM DOMED CGR/SCR:>S+>>SW:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "46.994447 4.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:59:40 N 04:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.994447,4.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10586 (2922EE63) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** N720 NEAR LA CHAPELLE HUGON, FR **Description:** Several / car. Saucer going north. Hovers several min. Going quickly east. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3942 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "N720 nr La CHAPELLE HUGON,FR:SVRL/CAR:SCR >N:HVRS SVRL MIN:>>E:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "46.905558 2.950000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:54:20 N 02:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.905558,2.950000)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10587 (EDE5F297) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CHATEAU-CHINON, FR **Description:** 5 observer(s). CIRF. luminous blot splits and rejoins 5 X. Maneuvers. Color(s). / r197p53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3943 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHATEAU-CHINON,FR:5 OBS:CIRF.LUMN.BLOT SPLITS+REJOINS 5 X:MNVRS:CLRS:/r197p53", **LatLong:** "47.066669 3.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:04:00 N 03:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.066669,3.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10588 (7F77D723) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** RAPHELE-LES-ARLES, FR **Description:** N113. 2 / car. 2 SAUCERs maneuver. Seen as disk, then as cigar.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3944 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RAPHELE-les-ARLES,FR:N113:2/CAR:2 SAUCERs MNVR:SEEN AS DISK,THEN AS CIGAR..", **LatLong:** "43.644447 4.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:38:40 N 04:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.644447,4.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10589 (E413BCFC) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** WABEN TO/FROM RUE, FR **Description:** Saucer paces 3 / car / several km. Going quickly west to sea over N40 / D940. / r217p53+/ r8#185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3945 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WABEN>>W to SEA ovr N40/D940:/r217p53+/r8#185", **LatLong:** "50.311114 1.638889", **LatLongDMS:** "50:18:40 N 01:38:20 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.311114,1.638889)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10590 (17B229E7) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** HERISSART AND MORE/OTHERS, FR **Description:** 7M saucer follows car. Hides / towns and resumes after. Cables hang. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3946 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HERISSART++,FR:7M SCR FOLOS CAR:HIDES/TOWNS+RESUMES AFTER:CABLES HANG:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "50.027780 2.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:01:40 N 02:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.027780,2.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10591 (DD1E2736) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** MONTBELIARD, FR **Description:** Several observer(s) with (seen thru) binoculars. Saucer turns and changes color(s). Going quickly northeast to Belfort. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3947 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTBELIARD,FR:SVRL OBS W/BINOCS:SCR TURNS+CHANGES CLRS:>>NE to BELFORT:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.500002 6.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 06:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,6.816667)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10592 (6AD04E74) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** ARMENTIERES, FR **Description:** Dozens / (seen thru) binoculars. Mushroom-cap saucer hovers still. Then going SSW. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3948 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ARMENTIERES,FR:DOZENS/BINOCS:MUSHROOM-CAP SCR HVRS STILL:THEN >SSW:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "50.716669 2.883333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:43:00 N 02:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.716669,2.883333)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10593 (B808BCBB) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MILLY-LA-FORET, FR **Description:** Red night light divides and maneuvers and reunites. Going quickly south. Same seen east / Paris. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 221) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3949 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "MILLY-LA-FORET,FR:RED NLT DIVIDES+MNVRS+REUNITES:>>S:same seen E/PARIS:NFD", **LatLong:** "48.400002 2.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:24:00 N 02:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.400002,2.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Essonne", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10594 (231FD1C3) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LIEVIN AND ABLAIN, PDC, FR **Description:** 100 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape north going south. Stops. Divides. Bottom part going down / ground. Rejoins and going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3950 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LIEVIN+ABLAIN,PDC,FR:100 OBS:CGR N>S:STOPS:DIVIDES:BOTTOM PART ↓/GND:REJOINS+↑", **LatLong:** "50.394447 2.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:23:40 N 02:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.394447,2.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10595 (43755D4B) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** POMMIERS, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent brilliant yellow-orange cylinder/cigar-shape north going south. Low altitude. No further details. / LDLN#319p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3951 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "POMMIERS,FR:2 OBS:SLNT BRILL.YEL-ORG.CGR N>S:LO alt:NFD:/LDLN#319p26", **LatLong:** "46.522224 1.661111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:31:20 N 01:39:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.522224,1.661111)", **State/Prov:** "Indre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10596 (5CABFB7E) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** CHAMPIGNY SUR MARNE, FR **Description:** Red night lights divide and recombine into saucer form! Assembly going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3952 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHAMPIGNY sur MARNE,FR:RED NLTS DIVIDE+RECOMBINE INTO SCR FORM!:ASSEMBLY >S", **LatLong:** "48.816669 2.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:49:00 N 02:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.816669,2.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Val-de-Marne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10597 (2D6284CD) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ANDUZE, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Large red-blue saucer spins over Pointe-St.-Felix. Falling-leaf descent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3953 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ANDUZE,FR:3 OBS:LRG RED-BLU SCR SPINS OVR POINTE-St-FELIX:FALLING-LEAF DESCENT", **LatLong:** "44.033335 4.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:02:00 N 04:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.033335,4.983334)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10598 (6F3D46ED) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** LEIGNES / FONTAINE, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Luminous/glowing red object going quickly west overhead / low altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3954 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LEIGNES/FONTAINE,FR:MANY OBS:LUMn RED OBJ >>W OVHD/LO ALTITUDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.511113 0.777778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:30:40 N 00:46:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.511113,0.777778)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10599 (721C39D1) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** RONSENAC, FR **Description:** 1.8M barrel tilts / road. Gone / seconds. 7M trace / flat grass. / r8#186. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3955 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RONSENAC,FR:1.8M BARREL TILTS/ROAD:GONE/SECONDS:7M TRACE/FLAT GRASS:/r8#186", **LatLong:** "45.483336 0.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:29:00 N 00:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.483336,0.233333)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10600 (B1F27528) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** ANGOULEME, FR **Description:** Red saucer turns green overhead. Turns going quickly south. Cylinder/cigar-shape and orbiting saucers seen / 05 October / r30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3956 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANGOULEME,FR:RED SCR TURNS GRN OVHD:TURNS>>S::CGR+ORBITING SCRS SEEN/05OCT/r30", **LatLong:** "45.650002 0.161111", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:00 N 00:09:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.650002,0.161111)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10601 (F711C8E2) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LUSIGNAN, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Ovoid going west. Others see crescent-UFO rise vertically. / r197p042. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3957 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LUSIGNAN,FR:2 OBS:OVOID >W:OTHERS SEE CRESCENT-UFO RISE VERTICALLY:/r197p042", **LatLong:** "46.433336 0.122222", **LatLongDMS:** "46:26:00 N 00:07:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.433336,0.122222)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10602 (8F3F2883) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Location:** Waben (near), France **Description:** UFO paced car. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1750 ### Event 10603 (E6BBC850) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** dawn **Location:** Bressuire, France **Description:** Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work when he saw a circular craft 3 m diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 32; M 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_182 ### Event 10604 (447CF69D) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 1845 **Location:** Vron, France **Description:** Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A strange "man" wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they got within 70 m of it, the object took off very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 3Z; M 118 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_183 ### Event 10605 (1DADBDF7) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 1920 **Location:** Chereng, France **Description:** The crowd at a fair saw a luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the spot, it took off again. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 113 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_184 ### Event 10606 (4CF7F657) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 2110 **Location:** Quend, France **Description:** Less than 3 hrs after case 183, an orange object chased a car for 8 km, then flew away toward the sea. Witness: Georges Galant, a butcher. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 35; M 116 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_185 ### Event 10607 (6DD23A74) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 1245 **Location:** Ronsenac, France **Description:** A circular craft was seen by Jean Allary between Montmoreau and Villebois-Lavalette. It seemed to be gliding on the ground. It showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It was about 1.20 m high. Grass was found flattened and scorched over an area 7 m across. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 36; M 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_186 ### Event 10608 (7124D7E0) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Time:** 1300 **Location:** Benet, France **Description:** Near La Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, 2.5 m high, 5 m diameter, hover for several minutes 1 m above ground, then rise vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 34; M 131 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_187 ### Event 10609 (F06A1A05) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1043 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "2" ### Event 10610 (1279F7A9) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Location:** Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France **Description:** Dawn. Stockyard employee Angelo Girardo is going to his job in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he sees a small being wearing a diving suit standing near a circular craft about 10 feet in diameter. It swiftly takes off. Hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/3oct1954bressuire.htm),” August 3, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2537 ### Event 10611 (4DB72095) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Location:** Chereng, Nord, France **Description:** 7:20 p.m. Villagers of Chereng, Nord, France, are having their Ducasse festival meal when they see a fast, luminous object in the sky suddenly stop, give off sparks, and descend to ground level. As people run to the spot, it takes off again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/3oct1954chereng.htm)” January 9, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2538 ### Event 10612 (5C554D07) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Location:** Ronsenac, Charente, France **Description:** 11:15 p.m. Young farmer Jean Allary sees a circular object near Ronsenac, Charente, France, that seems to be gliding on or near the ground, has luminous spots, and lights up as it takes off. He finds flattened and scorched grass over an area 25 feet across. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/3oct1954ronsenac.htm),” January 31, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2539 ### Event 10613 (50D68C2F) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Description:** There are 81 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day. There is one from India, one from Lebanon, one from Quebec, one from Switzerland, two each from England and Italy, and three from Austria. The rest are from France, which appears to be at the center of this massive wave of UFO sightings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6519 ### Event 10614 (DD392921) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Description:** Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work in Bressuire, France at dawn when he saw a circular craft with a three-meter diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 111 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6520 ### Event 10615 (13B2A960) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Description:** Between Rue and Quend, France on Route D27, near the village of Vron, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a beehive, on the road ahead of them. A small strange "man" wearing a diving suit, about 0.9 meters (3 foot) tall, was standing close to it. When they got within 70 meters of it, the object took off very fast. Less than three hours later, the same or a similar orange object chased a car down a road in Quend for eight kilometers, then flew away toward the sea. The witness was a butcher named Georges Galant. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 118, 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6521 ### Event 10616 (5CC57CC1) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Description:** At 7:20 p.m. the crowd at a fair in Chereng, France saw a luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the spot it took off again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 113; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6522 ### Event 10617 (2ED943E0) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Description:** At 10:45 p.m. a circular craft was seen by Mr. Jean Allary, age 22, while riding a motorcycle between Montmoreau and Villebois Lavalette, France. It seemed to be gliding over the ground. It showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It was about 1.2 meters high. Grass was found flattened and scorched over an area seven meters across. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 114 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6523 ### Event 10618 (47ADDAF2) **Date:** 10/3/1954 **Description:** Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6524 ### Event 10619 (8B482FAD) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** LAGRASSE, FR **Description:** Truckers / D3. Luminous UFO lands. Burst / light / takeoff. Type unknown. / LDLN#102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3958 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LAGRASSE,FR:TRUCKERS/D3:LUM UFO LANDS:BURST/LITE/TAKEOFF:type unk:/LDLN#102", **LatLong:** "43.100002 2.622222", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:00 N 02:37:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.100002,2.622222)", **State/Prov:** "Aude", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10620 (F96171C5) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** LIMOGES, FR **Description:** Strange object lands in railroad-man's yard. No further details. Type unknown. / LDLN#102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3959 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LIMOGES,FR:STRANGE OBJ LANDS IN RAILROAD-MAN'S YARD:NFD:type unk:/LDLN#102", **LatLong:** "45.850002 1.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:51:00 N 01:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.850002,1.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Vienne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10621 (B170F85E) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** VALENCE, 26, FR **Description:** Military-air observers. Lone UFO very high / broad daylight. Spirals / several min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3960 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "VALENCE,26,FR:MIL-AIR OBSs:LONE UFO VHIGH/BROAD DAYLITE:SPIRALS/SVRL MIN.", **LatLong:** "44.916669 4.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:55:00 N 04:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.916669,4.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Drôme", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10622 (6482BB1F) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 08:10 **Location:** ST. PERDOUX, FR **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) / streambed. Puts water going [to] bottle and pebbles going [to] belt. Going up [to] and vanishes. R217p181. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3961 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St PERDOUX,FR:OID/STREAMBED:PUTS WATER>BOTTLE+PEBBLES>BELT:↑+VANISHES:r217p181", **LatLong:** "44.672224 2.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:40:20 N 02:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.672224,2.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Lot", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10623 (BC5A76D4) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** NANTES, FR **Description:** 'Aviator / flight-suit' on bridge. Saucer with clear dome / field. / LDLN#319. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3962 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CNT:** Contactee related, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "NANTES,FR:'AVIATOR/FLITE-SUIT' on BRIDGE:SCR W/CLEAR DOME/FLD:/LDLN#319", **LatLong:** "47.233336 -1.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:14:00 N 01:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.233336,-1.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10624 (75B216A6) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** AMBES, FR **Description:** Truck-size mass. Luminous/glowing and partly transparent. Hovers then rises very fast going up [to] space. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3963 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AMBES,FR:TRUCK-SIZE MASS:LUMn+PARTLY XPARENT:HVRS THEN RISES VFAST ↑ SPACE", **LatLong:** "45.016669 -0.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:01:00 N 00:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.016669,-0.533333)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10625 (23DE38E7) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LES CHAVANNES, SANVIGNY, FR **Description:** 20+cops. Saucer silently going up / railroad/railway tracks. / r138#9+LDLN#102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3964 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "Les CHAVANNES,SANVIGNY,FR:20+COPS:SCR SILENTLY ↑/RR TRACKS:/r138#9+LDLN#102", **LatLong:** "46.705558 4.405556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:42:20 N 04:24:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.705558,4.405556)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10626 (CFF1475A) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** VILLERS-LE-TILLEUL, FR **Description:** Child. 3M tentlike object lands. Odd man outside. / r217p185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3965 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VILLERS-le-TILLEUL,FR:CHILD:3M TENTLIKE OBJ LANDS:ODD MAN OUTSIDE:/r217p185", **LatLong:** "49.616669 4.727778", **LatLongDMS:** "49:37:00 N 04:43:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.616669,4.727778)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10627 (6CD72DDC) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MILLENCOURT-EN-PONTHIEU, FR **Description:** Huge luminous/glowing mass / ground. Observer(s) dazzled and suddenly tired.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3966 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MILLENCOURT-en-PONTHIEU,FR:HUGE LUMn MASS/GND:OBS DAZZLED+SUDDENLY TIRED..", **LatLong:** "50.150002 1.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:09:00 N 01:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.150002,1.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10628 (D617F17A) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** LESSARD-LE-NATIONAL, FR **Description:** 1 / car. Silver cylinder/cigar-shape stops vertical when hit / headlights. Traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3967 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LESSARD-le-NATIONAL,FR:1/CAR:SLVR CGR STOPS VERTICAL WHEN HIT/HEADLITES:TRACES", **LatLong:** "46.872224 4.838889", **LatLongDMS:** "46:52:20 N 04:50:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.872224,4.838889)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10629 (C13B4F53) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** CHIRAT, PROMPSAT, FR **Description:** Cylinder/cylindrical object lands / hilltop. Gone later. 1M ruts 50cm deep. / LDLN#125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3968 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHIRAT,PROMPSAT,FR:CYL.LANDS/HILLTOP:GONE LATER:1M RUTS 50cm DEEP:/LDLN#125", **LatLong:** "45.950002 3.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:57:00 N 03:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.950002,3.083333)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10630 (DE64787C) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** PONCEY-SUR-L'IGNON, FR **Description:** 3M saucer lands / farm. 1M3 / soil sucked up and cast aside. Not dug. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3969 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "PONCEY-SUR-l'IGNON,FR:3M SCR LANDS/FARM:1M3/SOIL SUCKED UP+CAST ASIDE:NOT DUG", **LatLong:** "47.500002 4.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 04:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,4.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10631 (C426DC9F) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** TAUPIGNAC, FR **Description:** 4 small humanoids (or Greys) work / saucer / field. Small humanoids (or Greys) see and strike with a disabling beam 2 observer(s) / car. Board and fly. / r217p185. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3970 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "TAUPIGNAC,FR:4 OIDS WORK/SCR/FIELD:OIDS SEE+ZAP 2 OBS/CAR:BOARD+FLY:/r217p185", **LatLong:** "45.672224 -1.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:20 N 01:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.672224,-1.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10632 (ACCD72E8) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** IRLEAU, FR **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). Big domed saucer on road. Quickly going up [to] silently as car nears. Going quickly [to] WSW. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3971 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "IRLEAU,FR:2+2 OBS:BIG DOMED SCR ON ROAD:↑↑ SILENTLY AS CAR NEARS:>>WSW:/news", **LatLong:** "46.300002 -0.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:18:00 N 00:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.300002,-0.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Deux-Sèvres", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10633 (A7543CF5) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** VILLERS-LE-LAC, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Night light lands. Darkens as car nears. Shoots sparks. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3972 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "VILLERS-LE-LAC,FR:MANY OBS:NLT LANDS:DARKENS AS CAR NEARS:SHOOTS SPARKS:>>SE", **LatLong:** "47.083336 6.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:05:00 N 06:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.083336,6.533334)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10634 (7ECE42B2) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PERROS-GUIREC, 22, FR **Description:** 10 observer(s). Luminous/glowing disk going quickly west. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3973 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PERROS-GUIREC,22,FR:10 OBS:LUMn DISK >>W:NFD", **LatLong:** "48.816669 -3.438889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:49:00 N 03:26:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.816669,-3.438889)", **State/Prov:** "CDN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10635 (61B2A8EA) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** PONT REMY, FR **Description:** 2 / car. 3M domed saucer with violet (UV?) halo at ground level. Rises / 45° angle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3974 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PONT REMY,FR:2/CAR:3M DOMED SCR W/VIOLET (UV?) HALO AT GND LVL:RISES/45°ANGLE", **LatLong:** "50.066669 1.911111", **LatLongDMS:** "50:04:00 N 01:54:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.066669,1.911111)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10636 (E4D245D1) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** North Weald, Essex, UK **Description:** Gloster "Meteor" Encounters Disc / Salandin Case (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [541004](http://www.nicap.org/541004essex%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1751 ### Event 10637 (97A7E7C2) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** Limoges, France **Description:** An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_188 ### Event 10638 (BB908B0F) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** Lezignan, France **Description:** Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck betwem Lagrasse and Villemagne when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It measured about 10 m diameter and took off with a burst of light. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_189 ### Event 10639 (0A645857) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** Chaleix, France **Description:** A farmer, Mr. Garreau, saw an object the size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook hands with the witness and said something like: "Paris? Nord?" (According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog and took off at an amazing speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 37; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_190 ### Event 10640 (FE9FCEAB) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** evening **Location:** Tregon, France **Description:** Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seems to be the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, emitting light **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 38;M 139 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_191 ### Event 10641 (D50D7CE7) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Montceau-les-Mines, France **Description:** At Les Chavannes, about 20 people, among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. It took off vertically. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 138 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_192 ### Event 10642 (C8F65C0B) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 1840 **Location:** Villers-le-Tilleul, France **Description:** Ten-year-old Bertiaux saw an object "like a tent" and an unknown man near it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_193 ### Event 10643 (53F3F6A2) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Time:** 2000 **Location:** Poncey-sur-Lignon, France **Description:** Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular object 3 m in diameter swung in mid-air and landed near her farm. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been "sucked up" over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air Force and police. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 37; M 134; Anatomy 71 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_194 ### Event 10644 (3836AFFA) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Location:** Poncey-sur-l’Ignon, Côte-d’Or, France **Description:** 8:00 p.m. In Poncey-sur-l’Ignon, Côte-d’Or, France, Mme. Yvette \(or Thérèse\) Fourneret sees a luminous orange object about 10 feet wide land in a meadow on her farm. She runs to tell some men, who arrive at the spot with rifles but find nothing. Instead, they discover a strange quadrilateral hole from which soil appears to be sucked up. The roots of plants are not damaged. The French Air Force and local police investigate and learn there are other witnesses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/4oct1954poncey.htm),” March 10, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2540 ### Event 10645 (E605C8A2) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** There are 41 UFO and humanoid reports on this date in UFOCAT, including six CE-III reports. One report is from Tel Aviv, Israel and one of the humanoid reports is from Salta, Argentina. The rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6542 ### Event 10646 (81F19118) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee, in Limoges, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6543 ### Event 10647 (3BE4CB98) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck between Lagrasse and Villemagne and were near the village of Lezignan, France when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It measured about 10 meters in diameter and took off with a burst of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6544 ### Event 10648 (BE0E9EB0) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** Mr. Garreau, a farmer in Chaleix, France saw an object the size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook hands with the witness and said some thing like: "Paris? Nord?" (According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog and took off at an amazing speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Liberation, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6545 ### Event 10649 (AE3509D4) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** At 8:10 a.m. Mr. Lacambre, a forester, saw a little man or dwarf in a streambed 200 meters from his house in St-Perdoux, Lot, France. The being wore a wide leather belt or girdle, boots, and a tunic. He put water in a bottle, and some pebbles in a belt pouch; he then rose up into air and vanished. The creature had two pear-shaped boxes under his arms that may have assisted his ascent. Footprints were found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 116-117 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6546 ### Event 10650 (D7008F8D) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop in the evening in Tregon, France. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seemed to have been the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, and emitting light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6547 ### Event 10651 (DE046913) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** Montceau-les-Mines, France. At 6:30 p.m. about 20 people, among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise vertically from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. There were no traces found. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 118 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6548 ### Event 10652 (4FB5378E) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** Villers-le-Tilleul, France. Ten year old Bertiaux saw an object at 6:40 p.m. "like a tent" with an unknown man nearby. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6549 ### Event 10653 (9325F9B4) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** On a road in Lessard-le-National, France at 7:20 p.m., a silver cigar-shaped object stopped in a vertical position when illuminated by car headlights. Landing traces found nearby. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 319 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6550 ### Event 10654 (CE4969CB) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. a six-meter in diameter red, round, domed object, hovered 10-12 meters above the ground in Taupignac, France. Four little men, one meter tall (3.3 feet) exited. As the three male witnesses approached they quickly entered the object. The domed disc changed color from blue to orange and then to red, and made no noise as it took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6551 ### Event 10655 (2E98F157) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. Mr. Henry Leherisse, age 23, in Megrit, France saw two shadows moving about inside a flat luminous, metallic, three-meters wide object, that hovered 50 meters above his garage. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6552 ### Event 10656 (54BD1178) **Date:** 10/4/1954 **Description:** Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular object 3 meters in diameter that swung in midair and landed near her farm in Poncey-sur-Lignon, France. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been "sucked up" over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air Force and police. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Liberation, October 7, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 71; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6553 ### Event 10657 (AF085719) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** EL QANTARA, EGYPT **Description:** Military man photographs rotating saucer over Suez canal. Emits smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3975 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Egypt", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "EL QANTARA,EGYPT:MIL MAN FOTOS ROTATING SCR OVR SUEZ CANAL:EMITS SMOKE", **LatLong:** "30.861113 32.327779", **LatLongDMS:** "30:51:40 N 32:19:40 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.861113,32.327779)", **State/Prov:** "SNI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10658 (BA330199) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** EL QAHIRA = CAIRO, EGYPT **Description:** Astronomers and pilots ordered to watch saucer seen over city. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3976 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Egypt", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "EL QAHIRA=CAIRO,EGYPT:ASTRONOMERS+PILOTS ORDERED TO WATCH SCR SEEN OVR CITY", **LatLong:** "30.066668 31.266668", **LatLongDMS:** "30:04:00 N 31:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.066668,31.266668)", **State/Prov:** "EQH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10659 (B4F92336) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** BRIGNOLES, FR **Description:** Milkman. Bright silent fireball going quickly northeast. Blazing cylinder/cigar-shape / ground late separate / 54. / r30p125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3977 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BRIGNOLES,FR:MILKMAN:BRITE SLNT FBL >>NE::BLAZING CGR/GND LATE SEP/54:/r30p125", **LatLong:** "43.400002 6.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:24:00 N 06:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.400002,6.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 10660 (FA14BFAD) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** EL MAHALLA EL KUBRA, EGYPT **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Odd spindle-shaped object hovers / 20 minutes. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3978 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Egypt", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "EL MAHALLA el KUBRA,EGYPT:100s/OBS:ODD SPINDLE-SHAPED OBJ HVRS/20 MINs:NFD", **LatLong:** "30.950001 31.183335", **LatLongDMS:** "30:57:00 N 31:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.950001,31.183335)", **State/Prov:** "DLT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10661 (667B5D7D) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** SARLAT-LE-CANEDA, FR **Description:** Grocer sees cylinder/cigar-shape and 3 flying saucers! No further details [in] at all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3979 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SARLAT-le-CANEDA,FR:GROCER sees CGR and 3 FLYING SAUCERS!:NFD at all.", **LatLong:** "44.883335 1.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:53:00 N 01:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.883335,1.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10662 (E895D876) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** LOCTUDY, FR **Description:** 3M saucer going down. Small humanoid (or Grey) / hairy face unintelligible. / r251p103+/ r113p121+/ r217p186. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3980 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "LOCTUDY,FR:3M SCR↓:OID/HAIRY FACE UNINTELLIGIBLE:/r251p103+/r113p121+/r217p186", **LatLong:** "47.833336 -4.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:50:00 N 04:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.833336,-4.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10663 (EA70BE08) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** BORDEAUX, FR **Description:** 5 workers. 2 bright metallic disks over factory. / Sud Ouest 6 / 10 / 54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3981 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BORDEAUX,FR:5 WORKERS:2 BRITE MTLC DISKS OVR FACTORY:/Sud Ouest 6/10/54", **LatLong:** "44.833335 -0.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:50:00 N 00:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.833335,-0.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10664 (FEE07161) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** NEAR BEAUMONT, FR **Description:** Observer(s) cannot move. UFO / 50M altitude west going quickly east. Nitrobenzine odor. / LDLN#125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3982 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "nr BEAUMONT,FR:OBS CANNOT MOVE:UFO/50M alt W>>E:NITROBENZINE ODOR:/LDLN#125", **LatLong:** "45.733336 3.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:44:00 N 03:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.733336,3.100000)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10665 (845E7069) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** PARIS, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver disk larger / plane. 1 sees 'flying wing'. / La Montagne. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3983 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS,FR:SVRL OBS:SLVR DISK LARGER/PLANE:1 sees 'flying wing':/La Montagne", **LatLong:** "48.833336 2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:50:00 N 02:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.833336,2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10666 (EF9A7996) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** DERVAL, FR **Description:** 2 / separate farms. Grey cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] all over/all about / 300M altitude. Lands behind trees. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) #319. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3984 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "DERVAL,FR:2/SEP.FARMS:GRY CGR >ALLO/300M alt:LANDS BHND TREES:/LDLN #319", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -1.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 01:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-1.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10667 (98AE422E) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SAINT GERMAIN-EN-LAYE, FR **Description:** Ovoid with vibrant bright halo. Moves very slowly. No further details. / AFP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3985 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SAINT GERMAIN-en-LAYE,FR:OVOID W/VBRITE HALO:MOVES VERY SLOWLY:NFD:/AFP", **LatLong:** "48.894447 2.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:53:40 N 02:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.894447,2.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Yvelines", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10668 (7AA7E72C) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** VALENCE, 26, FR **Description:** 2 railroad/railway-men / station. Saucer going up / sky. 10 October. Green fireball over Rhone Valley. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3986 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VALENCE,26,FR:2 RR-MEN/STATION:SCR ↑/SKY::10 OCT:GREEN FBL OVR RHONE VALLEY", **LatLong:** "44.916669 4.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:55:00 N 04:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.916669,4.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Drôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10669 (F1B9D88B) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** PORT-DE-CAVERNES, FR **Description:** Misty sphere/orb/globe going [to] slow near ground. Away / dizzy speed when approached. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3987 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PORT-de-CAVERNES,FR:MISTY ORB > SLO nr GND:AWAY/DIZZY SPEED WHEN APPROACHED", **LatLong:** "44.933335 -0.438889", **LatLongDMS:** "44:56:00 N 00:26:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.933335,-0.438889)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10670 (5644FC89) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** Houston, TX **Description:** (McDonald list; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [541005](http://www.nicap.org/541005houston%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1752 ### Event 10671 (C49959D5) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** Roverbello, Italy **Description:** A fisherman met with a red-clad being who spoke an unknown language. No details. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_195 ### Event 10672 (2ABFDAF4) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Loctudy, France **Description:** A baker, P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance away. It was circular, about 3 m diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval face covered with hair and eyes "as large as raven eggs" who touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf went away, and the object took off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 34 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_196 ### Event 10673 (60BFBC95) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 0630 **Location:** Le Mans, France **Description:** East of Le Mans on Route N23, Renault employees were going to work when they saw near the road a luminous object on the ground and felt "pricklings and a sort of paralysis." The object emitted a burst of green light and flew away very low over the fields. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 42; Vuillequez; M 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_197 ### Event 10674 (362C95EB) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 0715 **Location:** Mertrud, France **Description:** A roadmender, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road between Voillecomte and La Neuville. In a report to police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight-fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted of a cigarshaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at the spot. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 38, 39 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_198 ### Event 10675 (7BE95827) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Time:** 1545 **Location:** Beaumont, France **Description:** Ten km from here, several persons saw an object coming toward them and getting brighter. When it was about 150 m away, they felt "a strange sensation" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzine. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 34; Challenge 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_199 ### Event 10676 (F7FB912B) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 4KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1044 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "4" ### Event 10677 (817EF493) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Locations:** El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt; Bahnay; El-Qantara el-Sharqîya; Suez Canal; Helwan; Cairo **Description:** A spindle-shaped UFO is seen for 20 minutes by hundreds of people over El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt. At Bahnay, aerial cylinders emit dark smoke. One explodes, knocking a farmer to the ground, and kills two cows, whose hides show burn marks. Lt. Tewrik takes a photo of a rotating UFO that emits smoke above El-Qantara el- Sharqîya on the western side of the Suez Canal. He sends it to the Egyptian Army and to Khedivial Astronomical Observatory in Helwan. Adm. Youssef Hammad, director of the Egyptian Ports and Lights Administration, alerts pilots and astronomers to keep watch for UFOs over Cairo. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 231–232](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/230/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2541 ### Event 10678 (9811E385) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** Loctudy, Finistère, France **Description:** 4:00 a.m. M. P. Lucas, a baker in Loctudy, Finistère, France, is getting water from his well when he sees a UFO hovering nearby. A small being comes out of the object; it has an oval head covered with hair and large eyes. The creature touches Lucas’s shoulder and speaks to him in an unknown language. He calls for his boss, and the creature runs into the object and takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5oct1954loctudy.htm),” October 3, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2542 ### Event 10679 (F252217E) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** Mertrud, Haute Marne, France **Description:** 7:15 a.m. A road worker named Narcy sees an object near a road in Mertrud, Haute Marne, France. He also sees a hairy dwarf wearing an orange, tight-fitting jacket climb through a porthole on the UFO, which consists of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disc. Tracks are found. Probable hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5oct1954mertrud.htm),” March 25, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2543 ### Event 10680 (C2438F83) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Location:** Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France **Description:** 3:45 p.m. In Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France, witnesses Brun, Marfaron, Douti, and Marplat see a luminous ball moving west to east 1,500 feet away from them. It approaches to within 450 feet, and they feel paralyzed with faintness as a nitrobenzene odor spreads around them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5oct1954beaumont.htm),” March 24, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2544 ### Event 10681 (FFFD6B36) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** There are 43 UFO reports recorded for this date in UFOCAT, including nine close encounters. Five reports are from North Africa, one each from Germany and Italy, and the rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6563 ### Event 10682 (7EBD5077) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** Roverbello, Italy. A red clad being who spoke an unknown language approached a fisherman. It quickly left when the witness called to his wife. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6564 ### Event 10683 (74A0EF27) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** Loctudy, France. At 4:00 a.m. a baker, Mr. P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance away. It was circular and about three meters in diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval-shaped face, covered with hair, and big eyes "as large as raven eggs." The short being touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf then went away and the object took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6565 ### Event 10684 (AA0F0922) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** An Egyptian military officer in Behnay, Egypt photographed a "rotating saucer." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 232 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6566 ### Event 10685 (2B452F54) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 a.m., east of Le Mans, France on Route N23, some Renault employees were going to work when they saw by the road a luminous object on the ground and felt a prickling sensation and a form of paralysis. The glowing UFO emitted a burst of green light and flew away, very low over the fields. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6567 ### Event 10686 (1DB0AD5A) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** Mertrud, France. A road crew member, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road between Voillecomte and La Neuville at 7:15 a.m. In a report to the police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6568 ### Event 10687 (35AE9232) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** In Wassy, France a golden-orange sphere with a dome on top plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field this morning. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall dwarf emerge and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Paris Radar, October 17, 1954; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT Humanoid Report Database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6569 ### Event 10688 (FA9C3F2F) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** At 11:45 a.m. in Bordeaux, France, five people saw two bright metallic discs fly over a factory. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 125 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6570 ### Event 10689 (5C31466E) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** Ten kilometers from Beaumont, France several people saw an flying object coming toward them and getting brighter at 3:45 in the afternoon. When it was about 150 meters away they felt "a strange sensation" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzene. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6571 ### Event 10690 (9022A93E) **Date:** 10/5/1954 **Description:** A farmer saw a humanoid occupant inside a UFO on this evening in Cote du Nord, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jimmy Guieu, Fying Saucers come from another world, p. 195; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 217 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6572 ### Event 10691 (E15FC4BE) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** ST.-LUPERCE, FR **Description:** 2 silent ovoids swing over horizon. / Echo Republicain and more / r30p128. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3988 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St-LUPERCE,FR:2 SLNT OVOIDS SWING OVR HORIZON:/Echo Republicain+/r30p128", **LatLong:** "48.422225 1.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:25:20 N 01:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.422225,1.316667)", **State/Prov:** "Eure-et-Loir", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10692 (506E3EBE) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** ISLES / SUIPPES, FR **Description:** Flash! 3M cylinder/cigar-shape / field. Lit portholes. Dark figure outside. Traces. / r138#9p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3989 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ISLES/SUIPPES,FR:FLASH!:3M CGR/FLD:LIT PORTs:DRK FIG OUTSIDE:TRACES:/r138#9p19", **LatLong:** "49.355558 4.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:21:20 N 04:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.355558,4.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Marne", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10693 (CD12600E) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** NEAR LANEUVILLE, FR **Description:** Hairy 120cm figure by 10M sphere. Jet takeoff! Ground physical traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3990 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr LANEUVILLE,FR:HAIRY 120cm FIG by 10M SPHERE:JET TAKEOFF!:GND TRCS:", **LatLong:** "48.483336 4.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:29:00 N 04:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.483336,4.866667)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10694 (CCF14770) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** ROSBRUCK, FR **Description:** 1 observer. 9M silent blue saucer lands / road. Beams rays going down. Rises / 20M and shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3991 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROSBRUCK,FR:1 OBS:9M SLNT BLU SCR LANDS/ROAD:BEAMS RAYS↓:RISES/20M+SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "49.155558 6.861111", **LatLongDMS:** "49:09:20 N 06:51:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.155558,6.861111)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10695 (573AF977) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MURS-ERIGNE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. 2M tall 'elongated side-car' up close. Clover crushed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3992 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MURS-ERIGNE,FR:1 OBS:2M TALL 'ELONGATED SIDE-CAR' UP CLOSE:CLOVER CRUSHED", **LatLong:** "47.400002 -0.522222", **LatLongDMS:** "47:24:00 N 00:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.400002,-0.522222)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10696 (C64B9423) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** CASERNE LA FERE, 02, FR **Description:** UFO lands 300M / soldiers. 2 frozen. 2nd UFO hovers near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3993 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CASERNE LA FERE,02,FR:UFO LANDS 300M/SOLDIERS:2 FROZEN:2nd UFO HOVERS NEAR", **LatLong:** "49.666669 3.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:40:00 N 03:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.666669,3.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Aisne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10697 (173AC4F4) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** LA ROCHELLE, FR **Description:** 5 Mx3M saucer hovers 1M over ground. Flies off. Oily marks left in grass. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3994 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "La ROCHELLE,FR:5Mx3M SCR HOVERS 1M OVER GND:FLIES OFF:OILY MARKS LEFT IN GRASS", **LatLong:** "46.166669 -1.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:10:00 N 01:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.166669,-1.133333)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10698 (62AC77D8) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** COZES, FR **Description:** Domed saucer / field. 2 noseless Cyclops search ground outside. / r217p188+r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3995 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "COZES,FR:DOMED SCR/FLD:2 NOSELESS CYCLOPS SEARCH GND OUTSIDE:/r217p188+r138#9", **LatLong:** "45.583336 -0.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:35:00 N 00:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.583336,-0.833333)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 10699 (56829055) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Location:** Monchamps, France **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Laroche, from Paris, saw a fiery sphere landing near Chantonnay. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 40 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_200 ### Event 10700 (07B515B6) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** La Fere, France **Description:** Near the military barracks, soldiers saw a strange object on the ground 300 m away. As one of them approached the torpedo-shaped object, which was about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_201 ### Event 10701 (55D7E51E) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Villers-le-Lac, France **Description:** Two women (Mrs. Salabrino and her daughter) saw a whitish light in the western sky. It seemed slowly to come toward the ground, and was later seen between the railroad station and the bridge 100 m away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for a moment and flew away rapidly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 138 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_202 ### Event 10702 (46A2320D) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Location:** Isles-sur-Suippe, Marne, France **Description:** Around 6:00 a.m. Mechanic Joseph Roy is riding to work on his bicycle at Isles-sur-Suippe, Marne, France, and sees a dazzling light at low altitude. It blinks out. When he gets to the spot where it disappeared, he sees a large object like an artillery shell 9 feet long. A small, dark form is standing in front of it. Roy becomes frightened and races to the nearest gendarmerie. Probable confusion, helicopter, and military personnel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6oct1954islessursuippe.htm) [1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6oct1954islessursuippe.htm)” January 16, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2545 ### Event 10703 (7E44A10D) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Location:** La Fère, Aisne, France **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Two soldiers at the military barracks in La Fère, Aisne, France, watch a luminous craft in the shape of an artillery shell landed on the ground less than a quarter-mile away. As one soldier approaches it, he becomes paralyzed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6oct1954lafere.htm)” April 9, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2546 ### Event 10704 (1838EBFB) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Description:** In the predawn hours a 30-year-old mechanic, Joseph Roy, was returning home by motorcycle on National Highway 51 from Reims to Rethel, France. Near the Isles-sur-Suippe he noticed a sharp reddish gleam on the road ahead of him. It suddenly disappeared, and when he arrived at the point where he had seen the light he noticed an odd looking object in a field. It was about three meters in length and had the form of a large artillery shell with several portholes on the front. He was also able to distinguish a vague dark silhouette of a small humanoid figure. However, seized with fright he did not stay longer to investigate and sped away as quickly as he could. Three other workmen reported seeing the same gleaming light in the area. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-23 (A0280), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 126; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1978), p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6595 ### Event 10705 (EED21CD0) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Description:** At 7:15 a.m. a 1.2 meter tall hairy dwarf was seen next to a sphere that was 10 meter in diameter. The object made a jet powered takeoff, leaving behind ground traces. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case , citing Dominique Weinstein **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6596 ### Event 10706 (29539A8E) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Description:** At 7:15 p.m. an astronomer named Potter and one other witness in Norwich, England viewed a domed disc hovering for three minutes through a telescope. It had lit windows in the dome, and at one point made a 180 degree turn. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard L. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 374; Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 140 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6597 ### Event 10707 (6A566766) **Date:** 10/6/1954 **Description:** On this evening Mr. and Mrs. Laroche from Paris saw a fiery sphere land near Chantonnay, Monchamps, France. At 9:30 p.m. near the military barracks in La Fere, Aisne, France two soldiers saw a strange luminous torpedo-shaped object on the ground 300 meters away. As one of them approached the four meter long craft, which stood about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed. Finally, at 10:30 p.m. two women, Mrs. Salabrino and her adult daughter, saw a whitish light in the western sky in Villers-le-Lac, France. It seemed to slowly approach the ground, and was later seen between the railway station and the bridge 100 meters away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for a moment, and then flew away rapidly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 200-201; (2) The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 12; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 127; (3) Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6598 ### Event 10708 (79AD75E8) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Location:** RIMINI, ITALY **Description:** Professor sees rotating saucer over town. Military orders saucer spotters and astronomers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3996 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RIMINI,ITALY:PROF SEES ROTATING SCR OVR TOWN:MIL ORDERS SCR SPOTTERS+ASTRONMRS", **LatLong:** "44.050002 12.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:00 N 12:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.050002,12.583334)", **State/Prov:** "RN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10709 (10E29B01) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Location:** CHERBOURG, FR **Description:** 3 luminous/glowing disks. Also luminous sphere 8 Oct. '54 / r138#9p21. Hovers then going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3997 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHERBOURG,FR:3 LUMn DISKS:+LUMN.SPHERE 8 OCT54/r138#9p21:HVRS then >>S", **LatLong:** "49.633336 -1.633333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:38:00 N 01:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.633336,-1.633333)", **State/Prov:** "Manche", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10710 (381B9563) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Location:** MONTLEVICQ, FR **Description:** Large vertical cylinder/cigar-shape and 2 small saucers. Several lines / sightings meet here. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3998 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTLEVICQ,FR:LRG VERTICAL CGR+2 SML SCRS:SVRL LINES/SIGHTINGS MEET HERE", **LatLong:** "46.577780 2.072222", **LatLongDMS:** "46:34:40 N 02:04:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.577780,2.072222)", **State/Prov:** "Indre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10711 (60680E56) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** MONTPEZAT D'AGENAIS AND AGEN, FR **Description:** Cop and 7 observer(s). Luminous/glowing cylinder/cigar-shape / sky. No further details. Date approximate. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_3999 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTPEZAT d'AGENAIS+AGEN,FR:COP +7 OBS:LUMn CGR/SKY:NFD:date aprx", **LatLong:** "44.216669 0.522222", **LatLongDMS:** "44:13:00 N 00:31:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.216669,0.522222)", **State/Prov:** "Lot-et-Garonne", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10712 (82FBA3D3) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** MARCILLAC DE BLAYE, FR **Description:** Funnel-shape UFO northeast going quickly southwest / 70M altitude. 8 October casserole-UFO seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4000 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARCILLAC de BLAYE,FR:FUNNEL-SHAPE UFO NE>>SW/70M ALT::8OCT CASSEROLE-UFO SEEN", **LatLong:** "45.272224 -0.522222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:16:20 N 00:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.272224,-0.522222)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10713 (5C80463F) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** BERUGES, FR **Description:** Intense heat. Saucer lands. Sweeps area / light beam. Antennas. / r8#205. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4001 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BERUGES,FR:INTENSE HEAT:SCR LANDS:SWEEPS AREA/LITE BEAM:ANTENNAS:/r8#205", **LatLong:** "46.566669 0.205556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:34:00 N 00:12:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.566669,0.205556)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10714 (2591F8B8) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** BOURNEL, L&G, FR **Description:** Surveyors. Silent saucer maneuvers. Going down / 180M altitude. Shoots away. No further details. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4002 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOURNEL,L&G,FR:SURVEYORS:SLNT SCR MNVRs:↓/180M alt:SHOOTS AWAY:NFD:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "44.622224 0.677778", **LatLongDMS:** "44:37:20 N 00:40:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.622224,0.677778)", **RelAlt:** "180", **State/Prov:** "Lot-et-Garonne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10715 (9FA36546) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** OFF PLOZEVET, FR **Description:** Several boat crews. Orange saucer hovers in smoke / hours. Light beam. Going quickly southeast. / r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4003 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off PLOZEVET,FR:SVRL BOAT CREWS:ORG SCR HVRS IN SMOKE/HOURS:LITE BEAM:>>SE:/r8", **LatLong:** "47.933336 -4.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:56:00 N 04:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.933336,-4.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10716 (2A31FB0B) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** ST.-JEAN-D'ASSE, FR **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape and blue beam. Milk truck malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Restarts! / r8+/ r217p61+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4004 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "St-JEAN-d'ASSE,FR:CGR+BLU BEAM:MILK TRUCK EMEs:RESTARTS!:/r8+/r217p61+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "48.150002 0.122222", **LatLongDMS:** "48:09:00 N 00:07:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.150002,0.122222)", **State/Prov:** "SRT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10717 (38FBBF9E) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** N23 EAST / LE MANS, FR **Description:** Luminous object / ground. Partial paralysis / bicyclers. Gone / flash. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4005 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "N23 E/Le MANS,FR:LUMn.OBJ/GND:PARTIAL PARALYSIS/BICYCLERS:GONE/FLASH:", **LatLong:** "48.016669 0.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:01:00 N 00:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.016669,0.250000)", **State/Prov:** "SRT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10718 (5C82F8C0) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** LAVENAY, SARTHE, FR **Description:** Luminous ovoid passes overhead going quickly southeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4006 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LAVENAY,SARTHE,FR:LUMINOUS OVOID PASSES OVERHEAD >>SE:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.783336 0.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:47:00 N 00:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.783336,0.700000)", **State/Prov:** "SRT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10719 (C74E55D8) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** CORBIGNY, FR **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape with 2 saucers on rear. Large separate saucer and cylinder/cylindrical object nearby. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). / r30p133. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4007 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CORBIGNY,FR:CGR W/2 SCRS on REAR:LRG SEP.SCR+CYL NEARBY:CAR EMEs:/r30p133", **LatLong:** "47.255558 3.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:15:20 N 03:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.255558,3.683334)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10720 (B02DFBF6) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** MONTEUX, FR **Description:** 9' hemisphere lands / field. Farmer temp paralyzed and gasps for air. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4008 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEUX,FR:9' HEMISPHERE LANDS/FIELD:FARMER TEMP PARALYZED+GASPS FOR AIR:/LDLN", **LatLong:** "44.038891 5.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:02:20 N 05:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.038891,5.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Vaucluse", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10721 (1D7202AA) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CONDEIXA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Hunter. Saucer crosses sky. Makes instant turn without slowing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4009 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CONDEIXA,PORTUGAL:HUNTER:SCR CROSSES SKY:MAKES INSTANT TURN W/O SLOWING", **LatLong:** "40.111113 -8.494445", **LatLongDMS:** "40:06:40 N 08:29:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.111113,-8.494445)", **State/Prov:** "Beira littoral", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10722 (61025C5C) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NEAR HENNEZIS, FR **Description:** 2 kids. Black domed saucer going down / field. 2 pseudo-human/entity / helmets by. / r30p132+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4010 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr HENNEZIS,FR:2 KIDS:BLK DOMED SCR ↓/FLD:2 PSH/HELMETS BY:/r30p132+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "49.194447 1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:11:40 N 01:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.194447,1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "EUR", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10723 (B9894010) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** EURRE, FR **Description:** 3M ovoid with clear red glow. North going south over wooded hill. Fast and silent. / r30p133. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4011 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EURRE,FR:3M OVOID W/CLEAR RED GLOW:N>S OVR WOODED HILL:FAST+SLNT:/r30p133", **LatLong:** "44.744447 4.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:44:40 N 04:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.744447,4.983334)", **State/Prov:** "Drôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10724 (20563FBC) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** JONZAC, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous/glowing sphere lands in pasture. No further details. / r8 #216. / l'Oeste-11 Oct. '54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4012 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "JONZAC,FR:SVRL OBS:LUMN SPHERE LANDS IN PASTURE:NFD:/r8 #216:/l'Oeste-11 OCT54", **LatLong:** "45.355558 -0.511111", **LatLongDMS:** "45:21:20 N 00:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.355558,-0.511111)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10725 (8B297329) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Location:** St.-Jean-d'Asse, France **Description:** Car motor and headlights failed; UFO over road. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1753 ### Event 10726 (D27C23AE) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Location:** Hennezis, France **Description:** The two Lanssellin children witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object shaped like a half-egg, and saw two occupants who looked like normal men. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 145 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_203 ### Event 10727 (44FAC87B) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** early **Location:** Plozevet, France **Description:** The crew of several fishing boats saw a luminous, orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense smoke. Villagers saw the same object and stated independently that it came within 10 m of the ground, then flew away to the southeast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 41; M 140 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_204 ### Event 10728 (FDA7DC1F) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Beruges, France **Description:** A farmer, Mr. Thebault, saw a luminous object, 2 or 3 m in diameter, emitting a beam of light which swept the countryside. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 41; M 142 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_205 ### Event 10729 (B662682A) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** dawn **Location:** Jettingen, France **Description:** A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object 3 m in diameter, in a field 3 m away from Route N16 and 1 m above ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took off and flew about 5 m above the witness, following him to the next village. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 41; M 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_206 ### Event 10730 (33F4CC0A) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Location:** Saint-Jean-d'Asse, France **Description:** On Route N138, a truckdriver, Mr. Tremblay, saw an intense, blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was cigarshaped, red and blue. Engine and headlights died. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 41;M 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_207 ### Event 10731 (49E835CA) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 1430 **Location:** Monteux, France **Description:** R. Margaillan saw an object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical, about 2.5 m in diameter. The witness gasped for air and felt "paralyzed." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 145; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_208 ### Event 10732 (2F1021F8) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 1930 **Location:** St **Description:** Etienne-sous-Barbuise (France). Marcel Guyot was coming from work near this village, and his son Jacques followed the same road 10 min later. Both saw, at a railroad crossing, three objects on the ground that gave a bright white light. One was circular, the others cigar-shaped. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 42; M 146 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_209 ### Event 10733 (A3001E9D) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Time:** 2400 **Location:** Bompas, France **Description:** Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village. He called his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 43; M 146 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_210 ### Event 10734 (4D2DF8AE) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Locations:** Le Mans, Sarthe, France; Route N23 road **Description:** 6:20 a.m. A group of workers at the Renault manufacturing plant at Le Mans, Sarthe, France, are bicycling to work when they feel an unpleasant tickling at the same moment an intense greenish light is emitted from a luminous object hovering above the Route N23 road. They are almost paralyzed, then the UFO leaves, flying low over the fields. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 143; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 8–9; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://www.ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7oct1954lemans.htm)” October 22, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2547 ### Event 10735 (1489930F) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** The Italian Air Ministry allegedly sets up UFO detection posts for 24/7 vigilance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 232](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2548 ### Event 10736 (CD4AEDFE) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Locations:** Monteux; Althen-des-Paluds; Vauclude; France **Description:** 2:30 p.m. Farmer René Margaillon goes to work and notices a mysterious object about 300 feet away in a field between Monteux and Althen-des-Paluds, Vauclude, France. He approaches the object, which is about 8 feet tall and phosphorescent. Suddenly it disappears and he feels suffocated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7oct1954monteux.htm)” April 5, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2549 ### Event 10737 (601C3ABE) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Location:** Corbigny, Nièvre, France **Description:** Night. Witnesses at Corbigny, Nièvre, France, see a luminous cylinder that appears orange when vertical and motionless, and white when moving forward horizontally. At one point, two small discs emerge from its lower part. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7oct1954corbigny.htm),” September 12, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2550 ### Event 10738 (A30E8919) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Beruges, France. A farmer, Edouard Thebault, age 31, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to see a luminous object, two or three meters in diameter, emitting a beam of light that swept the countryside. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 129 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6619 ### Event 10739 (3C32ED34) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** St.-Jean-d'Asse, France. Mr. Alexandre Tremblay, a café owner, was driving on Route N138 at 6:20 a.m. when he saw an intense, blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was a one-meter long cigar, red and blue in color. The engine and headlights of his vehicle died. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 129-130 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6620 ### Event 10740 (6CE22680) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Hennezis, France. At 6:30 p.m. Claude and Francoise Lanssellin, ages 10 and 9, witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object. It was shaped like a half egg (sliced lengthwise), They saw two occupants who looked like normal men. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Jimmy Guieu, Black Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, pp. 199-202; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 182; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 132-133 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6621 ### Event 10741 (DD73117E) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Plozevet, France. Early in the day the crew of several fishing boats at sea saw a luminous, orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense smoke. Villagers in Plozevet saw the same object and stated independently that it came within 10 meters of the ground, then flew away to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** France-Soir, October 9, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6622 ### Event 10742 (480570A0) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Two red mushroom-shaped objects, six feet in diameter, landed this morning in Mendionde, France. Two little men, 2.5 feet tall stood beside it, speaking an unknown language and gesticulating to the witness to come closer. However, when he did they shut the door in his face, and the UFO took off straight up. The grass at the site was crushed and turned yellow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1689 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6623 ### Event 10743 (9AEEA94E) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Jettingen, France. A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object three meters in diameter, in a field three meters away from Route N16 and one meter above the ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took off and flew about five meters over the head of the witness, following him to the next village. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6624 ### Event 10744 (AFAF9A54) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Monteux, France. At 2:30 p.m. Rene Margaillon, a farmer, was traveling between Monteux and Althen-des-Paluds when saw a metallic object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical, about 2.5 meters in diameter. The witness gasped for air and felt "paralyzed." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6625 ### Event 10745 (D1B84AFB) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** A red ovoid object was seen in Eurre, Drome, France at 7 o'clock in the evening. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 133 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6626 ### Event 10746 (107A8700) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Marcel Guyot was coming home from work at 7:30 p.m. near the village of St.-Etienne-sous-Barbuise, France, and his son Jacques followed the same road 10 minutes later. Both saw three objects on the ground at a railroad crossing that gave off a bright white light. One was circular, the other two were cigar-shaped. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6627 ### Event 10747 (ABA07A90) **Date:** 10/7/1954 **Description:** Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village of Bompas, France shortly before midnight. He called his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6628 ### Event 10748 (21ABCA92) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** BOMBAY, INDIA **Description:** 100+observer(s). Dark silent disk with halo going [to] over Chowpatty Beach. / Jan Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4013 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOMBAY,INDIA:100+OBS:DRK SLNT DISK W/HALO > OVR CHOWPATTY BEACH:/Jan Aldrich", **LatLong:** "18.966668 72.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "18:58:00 N 72:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.966668,72.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Maharashtra", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10749 (D9A705CA) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** TEHERAN, IRAN **Description:** Saucer hovers. Small humanoid (or Grey) / black suit inside. Man pulled going up. Crowd gathers. / MJ#210. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4014 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Iran", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TEHERAN,IRAN:SCR HVRS:OID/BLK SUIT INSIDE:MAN PULLED ↑:CROWD GATHERS:/MJ#210", **LatLong:** "35.700002 51.383336", **LatLongDMS:** "35:42:00 N 51:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.700002,51.383336)", **State/Prov:** "TEH", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10750 (C0327FCB) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** ~05:40 **Location:** D16 NEAR JETTINGEN, FR **Description:** 3M mushroom-cap follows man going [to] town / 5M altitude. Open door. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4015 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "D16 nr JETTINGEN,FR:3M MUSHROOM-CAP FOLOS MAN > TOWN/5M alt:OPEN DOOR:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "47.583336 7.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:35:00 N 07:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.583336,7.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10751 (16FB0C16) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** RIED, UPPER AUSTRIA **Description:** Thousands / reports / police. 4 luminous objects over town. / L. Stringfield. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 422) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4016 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "RIED,UPPER AUSTRIA:1000s/REPORTS/POLICE:4 LUMn.OBJS OVR TOWN:/L.STRINGFIELD", **LatLong:** "48.216669 13.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:13:00 N 13:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.216669,13.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Upper Austria", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 10752 (5FF98F8E) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** LYON, RHONE, FR **Description:** Red saucer surrounded / white glow going quickly north at high speed. Photo taken. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4017 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LYON,RHONE,FR:RED SCR SURROUNDED/WHT GLOW >>N AT HI SPEED:PHOTO TAKEN", **LatLong:** "45.716669 4.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:43:00 N 04:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.716669,4.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10753 (70DFE01E) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LA GRANGE-AUX-BOIS, FR **Description:** Dark 3M mass with halo on road. Going up [to] buzzing like bees. / LDLN#319. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4018 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "La GRANGE-AUX-BOIS,FR:DRK 3M MASS W/HALO on ROAD:↑ buzzing like bees:/LDLN#319", **LatLong:** "49.088891 4.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:05:20 N 04:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.088891,4.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10754 (70DD43BC) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** BORDAS, FR **Description:** 2 / N21. 3M saucer / road! Beam stops engine. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Vertical exit. / r217p100. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4019 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BORDAS,FR:2/N21:3M SCR/ROAD!:BEAM STOPS ENGINE:RFI:VERTICAL EXIT:/r217p100", **LatLong:** "45.038891 0.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:20 N 00:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.038891,0.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10755 (CC451FAD) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** N1 SOUTHWEST / CALAIS, FR **Description:** Bluish domed saucer dives / ground. Turns going quickly northeast. Same thing next day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4020 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "N1 SW/CALAIS,FR:BLUISH DOMED SCR DIVES/GROUND:TURNS >>NE:SAME THING NEXT DAY.", **LatLong:** "50.900002 1.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:54:00 N 01:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.900002,1.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10756 (C7803CD5) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ST.-LAURENT-DU-VAR, AM, FR **Description:** Mayor sees disc with luminous trail of light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4021 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St-LAURENT-du-VAR,AM,FR:MAYOR SEES DISC W/LUMINOUS TRAIL OF LITE", **LatLong:** "43.666669 7.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:00 N 07:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.666669,7.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10757 (CB9473D6) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ST. CLAUDE, FR **Description:** 1 / car. Huge luminous/glowing ovoid going down / hedge. Quickly going up. Manlike shadow remains. / LDLN#319. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4022 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.CLAUDE,FR:1/CAR:HUGE LUMn OVOID ↓/HEDGE:↑↑:MANLIKE SHADOW REMAINS:/LDLN#319", **LatLong:** "45.900002 0.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:54:00 N 00:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.900002,0.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10758 (B154D59A) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** NICE, FR **Description:** Orange saucer dances / sky. Back 9 October and in St.-Chamas / 2000-2315hr going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4023 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NICE,FR:ORG SCR DANCES/SKY:BACK 9OCT+IN St-CHAMAS/2000-2315hr >S", **LatLong:** "43.700002 7.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:42:00 N 07:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.700002,7.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10759 (D19BE0C7) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** TOURRIERS, FR **Description:** 30 observer(s). 4.5M cylinder/cigar-shape going up. Hovers / 40M / 20 minute(s). / r30p135+/ LDLN#319. / r217p101. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4024 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "TOURRIERS,FR:30 OBS:4.5M CGR ↑:HVRS/40M/20min:/r30p135+/LDLN#319:/r217p101", **LatLong:** "45.794447 0.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:47:40 N 00:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.794447,0.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10760 (CD592E65) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 0230 **Location:** Teheran, Iran **Description:** Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, was on the second floor of his house when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air 2O m away. lights were shining from the rear and the sides of the craft, inside which could be seen a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask with a trunk like an elephant. "I was standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet." Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 52, 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_211 ### Event 10761 (6564E1CB) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Time:** 2115 **Location:** Calais,, France **Description:** On the road to Boulogne a bluish object, clearly seen with a dome on top, dived toward the ground, became white and went away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 44, 45;M 154 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_212 ### Event 10762 (317530AD) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1045 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** ".8" ### Event 10763 (5B37D235) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Location:** Pournoy-la-Chétive, Moselle, France **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Four children—Gilbert Calda, 12, Daniel Hirsch, 9, J. P. Hirsch, 5, and Robert Maguin, 16—are roller skating at Pournoy-la-Chétive, Moselle, France, when they see a luminous object near the cemetery. It is round, about 8 feet in diameter, and standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 4 feet tall, dressed in black, with a face covered in hair and large eyes, emerges and shines a blinding light at them. It says something in an unknown language. The children run away but look back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 269; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, 154; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/8oct1954pournoylachetive.htm)” March 7, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2551 ### Event 10764 (22EB6948) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Description:** Mr. Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, Teheran, Iran was on the balcony of the second floor of his house at 2:30 a.m. when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air, only 20 meters away from him. Lights shone from the rear and the sides of the craft, and inside there was a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask or breathing apparatus that resembled the trunk of an elephant. "I was standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet." Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967, p. 23; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6639 ### Event 10765 (2C3A46D0) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Description:** In the predawn hours a motorcyclist, R. Ott, riding through farm county in Jettingen, Haut-Rhin department, France saw a 10 foot wide mushroom-shaped object with an open 5 foot by 2 foot wide doorway near the ground. He saw no UFO occupants, but after driving by he was struck by a powerful beam of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0283, citing Mulhouse Alsace, October 9, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6640 ### Event 10766 (EB00027A) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Description:** At 7:00 a.m in the town of Stintino on the island of Sardegna, Italy a single witness named Milia watched a white UFO that looked like "an oval sail" descend to five feet above the ground about 60 feet away. Attached to it was a man dressed in black, who wore a helmet. When the UFOnaut saw the witness, the witness claims he threw out some pamphlets that were written in an unknown language. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0284 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6641 ### Event 10767 (906DCC5D) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Description:** At 9:15 p.m., on the road to Boulogne in Pas de Calais department, France a bluish domed disc-shaped object dove toward the ground, became white and then flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 212 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6642 ### Event 10768 (25AB8F88) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. in St. Claude, Charente, France a human silhouette was seen standing motionless near where a luminous ovoid shaped UFO had landed. Strip of burnt, crushed grass found at spot, trodden down. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1690, citing Charente Libre, October 11, 1954; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 189 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6643 ### Event 10769 (68F3B9BE) **Date:** 10/8/1954 **Description:** At 11:15 p.m. an orange disc-shaped object danced "arabesques" in the sky over the city of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3823; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 135 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6644 ### Event 10770 (9D379B33) **Date:** 10/9/1954? **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** OCKSTADT, GERM **Description:** 12 airmen. Silent silver saucer maneuvers 3km / airfield. "No illusion". / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4025 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "OCKSTADT,GERM:12 AIRMEN:SLNT SLVR SCR MNVRS 3km/AIRFIELD:"no illusion":/r138#9", **LatLong:** "50.333336 8.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:20:00 N 08:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.333336,8.716667)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10771 (111852B4) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** ~11:50 **Location:** ALES, GARD, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucer hovers and spins in sky. Speeds away. Rapid acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4026 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ALES,GARD,FR:SVRL OBS:SCR HOVERS+SPINS IN SKY:SPEEDS AWAY:RAPID ACCELERATION", **LatLong:** "44.116669 4.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:07:00 N 04:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.116669,4.100000)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10772 (940FC575) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SIDNEY, BC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright plain metallic ovoid crosses sky / 30 second(s). 2700M altitude. No contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4027 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "SIDNEY,BC:2 OBS:BRITE PLAIN MTLC OVOID CROSSES SKY/30sec:2700M alt:no contrail", **LatLong:** "48.650002 -123.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "48:39:00 N 123:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.650002,-123.416673)", **RelAlt:** "2700", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10773 (452FA62A) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR HUY, BELGIUM **Description:** Postman. Ovoid lands. 2 appproximate human silhouettes aboard. / r8#213. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4028 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "nr HUY,BELGIUM:POSTMAN:OVOID LANDS:2 APROX.HUMAN SILHOUETTES ABOARD:/r8#213", **LatLong:** "50.550002 5.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:33:00 N 05:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.550002,5.233334)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10774 (B1E851C4) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** NEAR ARZENS, FR **Description:** Metallic sphere on road. 2 pseudo-human/entity / translucent dome / top. Going quickly east. / r30p136+/ r197p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 190) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4029 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr ARZENS,FR:MTLC SPHERE ON ROAD:2 PSH/XLUCENT DOME/TOP:>>E:/r30p136+/r197p75", **LatLong:** "43.200002 2.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:12:00 N 02:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.200002,2.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Aude", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10775 (0AAEAC67) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** POURNOY-LA-CHETIVE, FR **Description:** 2.5M saucer / 3 legs. Small humanoid (or Grey) freezes 4 kids. / LDLN#176+/ r217p190. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4030 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "POURNOY-la-CHETIVE,FR:2.5M SCR/3 LEGS:OID FREEZES 4 KIDS:/LDLN#176+/r217p190", **LatLong:** "49.022225 6.155556", **LatLongDMS:** "49:01:20 N 06:09:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.022225,6.155556)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10776 (62A11452) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEAR BEAUVAIN, ORNE, FR **Description:** 4 meter fiery domed sphere/orb/globe / treetop level. Near Landeforet Reservoir. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4031 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr BEAUVAIN,ORNE,FR:4 METER FIERY DOMED ORB/TREETOP LEVEL:nr LANDEFORET RSVR", **LatLong:** "48.611113 -0.305556", **LatLongDMS:** "48:36:40 N 00:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.611113,-0.305556)", **State/Prov:** "ORN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10777 (1FC5CE2B) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NORTH / CLOYES-SUR-LE-LOIR, FR **Description:** 2M fireball lands / road. Black silhouette. Observer(s) frozen / fear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4032 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N/CLOYES-sur-le-LOIR,FR:2M FBL LANDS/ROAD:BLACK SILHOUETTE:OBS FROZEN/FEAR", **LatLong:** "48.016669 1.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:01:00 N 01:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.016669,1.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Eure-et-Loir", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10778 (7EFCBC24) **Date:** 10/9/1954 (approximate) **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** YAOUNDE, CAMEROON **Description:** Doctor and more/others. Huge mushroom with stalk hovers / 600M altitude. Going quickly east. / r3p67+/ r138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4033 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Congo states", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "YAOUNDE,CAMEROON:DOCTOR++:HUGE MUSHROOM W/STALK HVRS/600M alt:>>E:/r3p67+/r138", **LatLong:** "3.866667 11.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "03:52:00 N 11:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/3.866667,11.516667)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "CAM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10779 (6736299A) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BRIATEXTE, FR **Description:** 3 / car. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) cross N631. 6M saucer quickly going up. Oily spots. / r217p191+/ 30p138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4034 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BRIATEXTE,FR:3/CAR:2 OIDS CROSS N631:6M SCR ↑↑:OILY SPOTS:/r217p191+/30p138", **LatLong:** "43.750002 1.911111", **LatLongDMS:** "43:45:00 N 01:54:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.750002,1.911111)", **State/Prov:** "Tarn", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10780 (46F38806) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** 12KM NORTH / DREUX, FR **Description:** Hunters. Luminous sphere rises from ground. Going southwest. (Sans precisions.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4035 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "12km N/DREUX,FR:HUNTERS:LUM SPHERE RISES FROM GROUND:>SW:(sans precisions)", **LatLong:** "48.733336 1.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:44:00 N 01:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.733336,1.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Eure-et-Loir", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10781 (89A81E6F) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CUISY = DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, FR **Description:** Orange glow. Car eng. and lights electro-magnetic effect (EME). Cylinder/cigar-shape. Mechanic. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4036 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CUISY=DAMMARTIN-en-GOELE,FR:ORG GLOW:CAR ENG.+LITES EME:CGR:MECHANIC:SEE REF.", **LatLong:** "49.066669 2.683333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:04:00 N 02:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.066669,2.683333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10782 (6200D88E) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ALEXANDRIA AND MUZHA, EGYPT **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s) and Air Traffic Controllers and more/others. Luminous/glowing ovoid changes colors. / r107p244. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4037 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Egypt", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA+MUZHA,EGYPT:100S/OBS+ATCS++:LUMn OVOID CHANGES COLORS:/r107p244", **LatLong:** "31.200001 29.966668", **LatLongDMS:** "31:12:00 N 29:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.200001,29.966668)", **State/Prov:** "ALX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10783 (F14BC1CD) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** BEIRUT, LEBN **Description:** Germ.salesman. Red sphere/orb/globe hovers. White light. Quickly going up [to] spinning. / r67p40+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4038 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Lebanon", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BEIRUT,LEBN:GERM.SALESMAN:RED ORB HVRs:WHITE LITE:↑↑ SPINNING:/r67p40+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "33.883335 35.533335", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 N 35:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.883335,35.533335)", **State/Prov:** "Beirut", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10784 (3FFB331E) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** RINKERODE, GRM **Description:** 4 small humanoids (or Greys) / rubber overalls work on underside of ovoid / roadside. 1 observer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4039 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "RINKERODE,GRM:4 OIDS/RUBBER OVERALLS WORK ON UNDERSIDE OF OVOID/ROADSIDE:1 OBS", **LatLong:** "51.850002 7.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "51:51:00 N 07:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.850002,7.683334)", **State/Prov:** "NRW", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10785 (44E2354B) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** BOMPAS, FR **Description:** Baker Sebelli and more/others. 2M cylinder/cigar-shape / village street. Lights / rim. Away fast. / r30p140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4040 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BOMPAS,FR:BAKER SEBELLI++:2M CGR/VILLAGE STREET:LITES/RIM:AWAY FAST:/r30p140", **LatLong:** "42.733335 2.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "42:44:00 N 02:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.733335,2.933333)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10786 (893774FC) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Cuisy (Seine-Et-Marne), France **Description:** Car motor and headlights failed as cigar-shaped UFO passed above (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1754 ### Event 10787 (3A6A4A27) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Huy, Belgium **Description:** A mailman saw a cigar-shaped object land. Twn silhouettes "approximately human" were seen aboard. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 45; M 154 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_213 ### Event 10788 (6F8F2571) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Montaren, France **Description:** Between Montaren and Serviers, 1 km from "Le Mas Blanc," Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object oscillating in mid-air. It was very bright and "fiery," and it came very low. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_214 ### Event 10789 (E11C22EF) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Dreux, France **Description:** People out hunting saw a luminous sphere take off and fly toward the southwest. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; M 153 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_215 ### Event 10790 (ED091A77) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Soubran, France **Description:** Several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land in a pasture. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 46; M 154 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_216 ### Event 10791 (9423DB56) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** evening **Location:** Rinkerode, Germany **Description:** Willi Hoge, a projectionist, saw four occupants of an object that had come to ground level 70 m from the road. He was returning home when he observed a blue light and thought an airplane had made an emergency landing. The object was cigar-shaped, and four men wearing rubber coveralls were working under it. They were about 1.2 m tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 47 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_217 ### Event 10792 (1869A886) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** evening **Location:** Beauvain, France **Description:** Near the Landeforet pool, Christain Carette saw for 10 sec a fiery sphere flying at treetop level. Diameter: 4 m. Protuberance on top. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 48;M 152 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_218 ### Event 10793 (E3DDF5F9) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 1600 **Location:** Carcassonne, France **Description:** As he was driving near Carcassonne, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere on the road ahead. The top half seemed to be made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were standing inside. It took off rapidly, flying east. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 48; M 145 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_219 ### Event 10794 (A0586DE0) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Pournoy-la-Chetive, France **Description:** Four children-Gilbert Calda, 12; Daniel Hirsch, 9; J. P. Hirsch, 5; and Robed Maguin 16-were roller-skating when they saw a luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 m in diameter, standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 m tall, dressed in black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and shone a blinding light at them, and said something in an unknown language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 49; M 154; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_220 ### Event 10795 (470DA603) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 1900 **Location:** Lavoux, France **Description:** Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes, walked on the road for one minute and went into the forest. The witness was "paralyzed" throughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of him. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 45, 48; M 153; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_221 ### Event 10796 (1C3D96D5) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Briatexte, France **Description:** On Route N631 at "La Caiffe," a technician, J. P. Mitto, was coming back from Toulouse with two other persons when they saw two small figures, the height of 11-year-old children, cross the road about 5 m in front of the car and jump into a pasture. Stopping immediately, the witnesess saw a large convex disk take off vertically. It was about 6 m in diameter, orange in color and was literally "sucked up" into the sky. Brown oily spots were found at the site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 43, 50 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_222 ### Event 10797 (C4D8637A) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Time:** 2215 **Location:** Beirut, Lebanon **Description:** The local representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an object give off a white light and land. It took off vertically, with a spinning motion, and was lost to sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 51 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_223 ### Event 10798 (D2A0F81F) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** The US Air Force releases a press statement saying that after studying 3,500 reports, it has found “no authentic physical evidence” that UFOs are spaceships or weapons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2552 ### Event 10799 (33B983A7) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Carcassonne, Aude, France **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Jean Bertrand is driving near Carcassonne, Aude, France, when he comes upon a metallic sphere in the road ahead. The top half seems to be transparent, and he sees two human-shaped figures inside. As he approaches, the object takes off at high speed. Probable helicopter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954carcassonne.htm),” March 26, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2553 ### Event 10800 (1446FA7B) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Lavoux, Vienne, France **Description:** Around 7:00 p.m. Roger Barrault, a worker in Lavoux, Vienne, France, is riding a bicycle when he is stopped on the road by a double beam of light coming from a 4-foot-tall figure that looks like a diver. It wears boots without heels and has brilliant eyes and a large moustache. Hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954lavoux.htm)” March 26, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2554 ### Event 10801 (090D2B18) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Locations:** Toulouse; Briatexte, Tarn, France; La Caiffe **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Jean-Pierre Mitto and his two cousins are driving on Road 631 from Toulouse to Briatexte, Tarn, France, at a crossroads known as “La Caiffe” when they see two small figures about the size of 11-year-old children cross the road. They enter a pasture where a convex disc rises vertically and shoots upwards rapidly. It is about 20 feet in diameter and orange. Brown, oily residue is found at the site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954briatexte.htm) [Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954briatexte.htm)” March 26, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2555 ### Event 10802 (9AFFEAAF) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Cuisy, Seine-et-Marne, France **Description:** 9:20 p.m. Mechanics André Bartoli and Jean-Jacques Lalevée see the sky light up with a yellow-orange glow in Cuisy, Seine-et-Marne, France. Bartoli’s car motor and headlights fail, and they both see a yellow-orange cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 150–152; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 9–11; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954cuisy.htm)” August 26, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2556 ### Event 10803 (C517C7A8) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Location:** Beirut, Lebanon **Description:** 10:15 p.m. Max Favell, a representative of a German firm in Beirut, Lebanon, sees a white flying object land. It takes off vertically, spinning, and is lost to sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 222–223](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/222/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2557 ### Event 10804 (35EF139F) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Locations:** Rinkerode; Drensteinfurt; North Rhine-Westphalia; West Germany **Description:** Evening. As he is driving home from his job as a movie projectionist in Rinkerode \[now part of Drensteinfurt\], North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, Willi Hoge sees a blue light to one side of the road. He looks closer and sees four small figures with big heads and chests and small, thin legs, apparently doing repair work on a spindle-shaped machine. All are dressed in one-piece elastic body suits. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 24; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2558 ### Event 10805 (DFB18067) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** A mailman in Huy, Belgium saw a cigar-shaped object land. Two silhouettes "approximately human" in appearance were seen on board the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6684 ### Event 10806 (E0125ED6) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** Between Montaren and Serviers, France, 1 kilometer from "Le Mas Blanc," Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object oscillating in midair. It was very bright and "fiery," and came very low to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6685 ### Event 10807 (26F0D9DD) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** Some men out hunting in Dreux, France saw a luminous sphere take off and fly toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6686 ### Event 10808 (025F6518) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** In Soubran, France several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land in a pasture. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6687 ### Event 10809 (D8699126) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** In Rinkerode, Germany Willi Hoge, a projectionist, was returning home in the evening when he saw four occupants of an object that had descended to ground level 70 meters from the road he was on. Seeing a blue light at first, he thought that an airplane had made an emergency landing. However, the cigar-shaped object was wingless. There were four humanoid beings wearing some type of rubber coveralls working under it. They were about 1.2 meters tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6688 ### Event 10810 (F8E5CFD3) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** Near the Landeforet pool in Beauvain, France Christopher Carette saw a fiery sphere flying at treetop level for ten seconds. It had a protuberance or dome on top, and was estimated to be about 4 meters in diameter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 152; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6689 ### Event 10811 (07EE55C0) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** As he was driving near Carcassonne, France at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere ahead on the road. The top half appeared to be made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were seen standing inside. It took off quickly, flying away to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 221-222 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6690 ### Event 10812 (4A5664D3) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** Pournoy-la-Chetive, France. Four children--Gilbert Calda, age 12; Daniel Hirsch, age 9; J. P. Hirsch, age 5; and Robert Maguin, age 16--were roller skating at 6:30 p.m. when they saw a luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 meters in diameter, on stood on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 meters tall, dressed in black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and shone a blinding light at them. It said something in an unknown language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6691 ### Event 10813 (D7ED3B70) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle in Lavoux, France at seven o'clock in the evening when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes. It walked along the road for about a minute and then went into the forest. The witness was paralyzed and was unable to movethroughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of him. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6692 ### Event 10814 (C3F6B4D4) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** Briatexte, France. At 8:30 p.m. on Route N631 at "La Caiffe," a technician named J. P. Mitto was returning from Toulouse with two other friends when they saw two small figures cross the road in front of their car and jump into a pasture. The beings were about the height of 11-year-old children and crossed only five meters in front of them. Stopping immediately, the witnesses saw a large convex disc take off vertically. It was about six meters in diameter, orange in color, and was literally "sucked up" into the sky. Brown oily spots were found at the landing site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6693 ### Event 10815 (FED122D6) **Date:** 10/9/1954 **Description:** In Beirut, Lebanon at 10:15 p.m. the local company representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an white flying object land. It took off vertically, spinning, and was lost from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6694 ### Event 10816 (028505F2) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Location:** BELLENAVES-ST.-BONNET, FR **Description:** Brill round object / high altitude leaves luminous/glowing trail going quickly northeast. / r30p175. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4041 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BELLENAVES-St-BONNET,FR:BRILL ROUND OBJ/HI alt LEAVES LUMn TRAIL >>NE:/r30p175", **LatLong:** "46.200002 3.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:00 N 03:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.200002,3.083333)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10817 (59FEF3D1) **Date:** 10/10/1954 (approximate) **Location:** BLANZAY, FR **Description:** 1 / car. Saucer in field. Short squat figure with luminous/glowing eyes outside. / LDLN#319. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4042 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BLANZAY,FR:1/CAR:SCR in FIELD:SHORT SQUAT FIG. W/LUMn EYES OUTSIDE:/LDLN#319", **LatLong:** "46.205558 0.255556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:20 N 00:15:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.205558,0.255556)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10818 (6EBCC754) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 02:00? **Location:** D954 / TOUTRY TO/FROM EPOISES, FR **Description:** 2 / motorcycle. 3.5M luminous/glowing goes going up and down / sky. Same / similar sits on road! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4043 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "D954/TOUTRY> Event 10819 (2CD18540) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** NEAR CAVANAC, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Brilliant bulging ovoid on road ahead. Sparks. Going up [to] silent. / r217p101. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4044 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr CAVANAC,FR:1 OBS:BRILL.BULGING OVOID on ROAD AHEAD:SPARKS:↑ SLNT:/r217p101", **LatLong:** "43.166669 2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:10:00 N 02:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.166669,2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Aude", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10820 (80BB67FA) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** MARVILLE-MOUTIER-BRULE, E&L, FR **Description:** Bike hits invisible wall. 4M saucer. 4 figure(s) in shrubs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4045 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MARVILLE-MOUTIER-BRULE,E&L,FR:BIKE HITS INVISBL WALL:4M SCR:4 FIGS IN SHRUBS", **LatLong:** "48.683336 1.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:41:00 N 01:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.683336,1.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Eure-et-Loir", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10821 (014C2B44) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** BLENOD-LES-TOUL, FR **Description:** Jailer. Domed 2M saucer / 2 portholes / N60. Going up [to] silent. / LDLN#324+/ r8#227. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4046 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BLENOD-les-TOUL,FR:JAILER:DOMED 2M SCR/2 PORTS/N60:↑ SLNT:/LDLN#324+/r8#227", **LatLong:** "48.600002 5.827778", **LatLongDMS:** "48:36:00 N 05:49:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.600002,5.827778)", **State/Prov:** "Meurthe-et-Moselle", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10822 (011A6077) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** QUAROUBLE, NORD, FR **Description:** Saucer / tracks again. Gibberish / 7 small humanoids (or Greys)! Dewilde refuses to report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4047 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "QUAROUBLE,NORD,FR:SCR/TRACKS AGAIN:GIBBERISH/7 OIDS!:DEWILDE REFUSES TO REPORT", **LatLong:** "50.411114 3.627778", **LatLongDMS:** "50:24:40 N 03:37:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.411114,3.627778)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10823 (079F083B) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** ST. GERMAINE-DE-LIVET, FR **Description:** Math Prof. 7M saucer quickly going up [to] and quickly going down [to] and spins / amazing speed. / r8#228. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4048 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ST GERMAINE-de-LIVET,FR:MATH PROF.:7M SCR ↑↑+↓↓+SPINS/AMAZING SPEED:/r8#228", **LatLong:** "49.083336 0.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:05:00 N 00:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.083336,0.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Calvados", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10824 (323800CA) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** MONTLUCON, FR **Description:** Metallic torpedo by railroad/railway fuel tanks. Small humanoid (or Grey) exits. Unintelligible. Going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4049 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MONTLUCON,FR:MTLC TORPEDO by RR FUEL TANKS:OID EXITS:UNINTELLIGIBLE:↑+away", **LatLong:** "46.350002 2.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:21:00 N 02:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.350002,2.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10825 (EDA4A132) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** ST.-POURCAIN-SUR-SIOULE, FR **Description:** Luminous 2-3M saucer going quickly south fast toward(s) Vichy. No further details. / LDLN#128. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4050 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St-POURCAIN-sur-SIOULE,FR:LUM 2-3M SCR >>S FAST TWRD VICHY:NFD:/LDLN#128", **LatLong:** "46.300002 3.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:18:00 N 03:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.300002,3.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10826 (8812BE19) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LE DONJON, FR **Description:** 6 hunters fire 4 shots going [to] 15M glowing-disk / woods. Metal traces. / LDLN#128. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4051 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Le DONJON,FR:6 HUNTERS FIRE 4 SHOTS>15M GLO-DISK/WOODS:MTL TRACES:/LDLN#128", **LatLong:** "46.350002 3.794445", **LatLongDMS:** "46:21:00 N 03:47:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.350002,3.794445)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10827 (A94905D4) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** CHAZEY WOOD NEAR GUEUGNON, FR **Description:** Red glow going [to] over car / D25. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). OK after. / LDLN#345. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4052 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "CHAZEY WOOD nr GUEUGNON,FR:RED GLOW > OVR CAR/D25:CAR EMES:OK AFTER:/LDLN#345", **LatLong:** "46.688891 4.077778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:41:20 N 04:04:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.688891,4.077778)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10828 (2C5F80E5) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** SAILLAT-SUR-VIENNE, FR **Description:** Family sees V-bright object come close / ground at nightfall. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4053 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "SAILLAT-SUR-VIENNE,FR:FAMILY SEES V-BRIGHT OBJ COME CLOSE/GROUND at NIGHTFALL", **LatLong:** "45.872224 0.827778", **LatLongDMS:** "45:52:20 N 00:49:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.872224,0.827778)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Vienne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10829 (C0D6A163) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** VIGNEUX-SUR-SEINE, FR **Description:** M. Marais. Silent luminous/glowing saucer with portholes quickly going up [to] vertical. / r217p102. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4054 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VIGNEUX-sur-SEINE,FR:M.MARAIS:SLNT LUMn SCR W/PORTHOLES ↑↑ VERTICAL:/r217p102", **LatLong:** "48.711113 2.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:42:40 N 02:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.711113,2.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Essonne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10830 (955B45AD) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** METZ, MSL, FR **Description:** Blue Book. Large crowd and spotlight beams. Odd cloud over fair / 3 hours and more. Never moves. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4055 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "METZ,MSL,FR:BBK:LRG CROWD+SPOTLITE BEAMS:ODD CLOUD OVR FAIR/3hrs+:NEVER MOVES:", **LatLong:** "49.133336 6.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:08:00 N 06:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.133336,6.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10831 (28C1579D) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Location:** Mahallat, Persia **Description:** Approximate date. Many farmers observed the landing of a "marvelous luminous object," hemispherical in shape, emitting multicolored beams. The central part appeared to be metallic. The object shot straight up suddenly and vanished while the crowd watched. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Creighton; 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_224 ### Event 10832 (6DB5996D) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Location:** Epoisses, France **Description:** Between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, topographers saw a luminous sphere 3.5 m diameter on the ground near Route N454. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_225 ### Event 10833 (062FA0B2) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Location:** Quarouble, France **Description:** Second landing here, seen by Marius Dewilde (cf. Case 144) and his 4-year-old son. A disk, 6 m diameter, about 1 m high, landed again on the tracks. Seven little men emerged and spoke in an unknown language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_226 ### Event 10834 (A20EEB61) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 0630 **Location:** Charmes-la-Cote, France **Description:** Roger Thiriet, jailer in Ecouvres detention center, was riding his motorcycle when he suddenly saw an aluminum colored object shaped like a plate, with a dome and two portholes. It was about 2 m in diameter and 1 m high. It took off immediately. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 54 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_227 ### Event 10835 (049D207A) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** 1400 **Location:** Saint-Germain-de-Livet, France **Description:** A math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disk about 7 m in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 m to the side of the road. Spinning, it dived to the ground from an altitude of about 800 m, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 55, 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_228 ### Event 10836 (61DBEBEC) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Saillat-sur-Vienne, France **Description:** Roger Gayout and family saw a very bright object come very close to the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 56; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_229 ### Event 10837 (BDCF48E9) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Locations:** Uccle; Belgium **Description:** The Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle announces it will act as a clearinghouse for UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2559 ### Event 10838 (781E587E) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Location:** Alexandria, Egypt **Description:** A cylindrical UFO with red and green lights is seen over Alexandria, Egypt. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 232–233](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2560 ### Event 10839 (48F7DEC9) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Location:** Quarouble, Nord, France **Description:** 11:30 a.m. Marius Dewilde, along with his 14-year-old son, allegedly has a second encounter with a UFO occupant at Quarouble, Nord, France. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/10oct1954quarouble.htm)” April 3, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2561 ### Event 10840 (88757DDF) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** In a newspaper interview, [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) alludes to the 1948 Estimate of the Situation without calling it that. Loedding shows a study of some 100+ UFO reports to one of the “country’s leading scientists,” who glances at it briefly, then declares that “flying saucers are a figment of the imagination.” Shortly afterwards, the skeptics in Project Sign win out, and Loedding’s efforts are ignored. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Trenton \(N.J.\) Sunday Times-Advertiser, October 10, 1954; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 13, 32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2562 ### Event 10841 (6399ACEC) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** On or about this day a large group of farmers in Mahallat, Iran witnessed a luminous hemispherical object land. It emitted multi-colored beams of light. The central part of the object appeared to be metallic. The object suddenly shot straight up and was soon gone from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 224 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6699 ### Event 10842 (7BA95C95) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** At around 2:00 a.m. in Epoisses, Côte-d'Or, France between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, two topographers, saw a luminous sphere 3.5 meters in diameter on the ground near Route N454. The encounter lasted four minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 225; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 208; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6700 ### Event 10843 (018C9D25) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** At 4:30 a.m. a bulging ovoid object was seen on the road ahead in Cavanac, Aude, France. It gave off sparks, and took off vertically making no noise during its ascent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3845 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6701 ### Event 10844 (1C7DD963) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** In the predawn hours four beings 1.2 meters tall were busy underneath a blue cigar-shaped object hovering 1.5 meters over a field in Rinckerode, Lower Saxony, Germany. The witness was a 42-year-old man named Hogl. They had thin legs, broad chests, large heads, and they wore rubber suits.They re-entered the craft via a ladder; the object then tilted to one side, and shot up and away at an angle. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6702 ### Event 10845 (CF3C5126) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** At 6:15 a.m. Michel Toutain was bicycling in Marville-Moutier-Brule, Eure-et-Loir department, France when he saw a red ball of light above which was a greenish circular disc resembling the cover of a washbasin, four meters in diameter. Inside the green dome he could see that there were four dark silhouettes. He was unable to advance towards the object, stopped by some unseen force. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141, citing La Gazette Francaise, October 16, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6703 ### Event 10846 (569720C2) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 a.m. Roger Thiriet, a jailer in the Ecouvres detention center, was riding his motorcycle in Charmes-la-Cote, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France when he suddenly saw an aluminum-colored object shaped like a plate, with a dome on top and two portholes. It was about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It took off immediately. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** France Soir, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 227 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6704 ### Event 10847 (AB9478A6) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** At 2:02 p.m. a math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disc about seven meters in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 meters to the side of the road in St-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France. Spinning, it dove towards the ground from an altitude of about 800 meters, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** France Soir, October 14, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 228 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6705 ### Event 10848 (D6A0F432) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** In the evening at Saillat-sur-Vienne, Haute-Vienne, France Mssr. Roger Gayout and his family saw a very bright object come very close to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223-224, case 229 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6706 ### Event 10849 (E59C3679) **Date:** 10/10/1954 **Description:** Quarouble, Nord, France. At 11:30 p.m. a second landing with occupants was witnessed here by Marius Dewilde and his four-year-old son. A disc, six meters in diameter and about one meter tall, landed again on the railroad tracks. Seven little men about one meter tall emerged from the craft and spoke in an unknown language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case to the authorities. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 226 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6707 ### Event 10850 (65ED8BD0) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Location:** ELLIANT, FNS, FR **Description:** Farmer can't describe UFO. From 200M altitude comes very close to ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4056 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ELLIANT,FNS,FR:FARMER CANT DESCRIBE UFO:FROM 200M ALT COMES VERY CLOSE TO GND", **LatLong:** "47.994447 -3.894445", **LatLongDMS:** "47:59:40 N 03:53:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.994447,-3.894445)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10851 (47EED7CB) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** RIOM, FR **Description:** 2 cops. Large cylinder/cigar-shape going north steady. 3 shiny orbs exit and away. / LDLN#125+/ r30p152. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4057 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RIOM,FR:2 COPS:LRG CGR >N STEADY:3 SHINY ORBS EXIT and away:/LDLN#125+/r30p152", **LatLong:** "45.900002 3.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:54:00 N 03:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.900002,3.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10852 (7F6B86E8) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** MONCOURT, FR **Description:** Whistle! Saucer going down [to] near woods. Ground burnt. / r8#230+/ r30p146+/ r217p39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4058 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MONCOURT,FR:WHISTLE!:SCR ↓ nr WOODS:GROUND BURNT:/r8#230+/r30p146+/r217p39", **LatLong:** "48.716669 6.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:43:00 N 06:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.716669,6.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10853 (6F090CA8) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NEAR ACQUIGNY, FR **Description:** 2.5M bell-saucer hovers / railroad/railway line. Quickly going up / 10M altitude / one hour. Going quickly east. / r30p146+/ Le Soir. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4059 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "nr ACQUIGNY,FR:2.5M BELL-SCR HVRS/RR LINE:↑↑/10M alt/1hr:>>E:/r30p146+/Le Soir", **LatLong:** "49.172225 1.177778", **LatLongDMS:** "49:10:20 N 01:10:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.172225,1.177778)", **State/Prov:** "EUR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10854 (1D915868) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** FONFREDE, FR **Description:** Milktruck malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Night light passes going quickly northeast. Now engine and lights OK. / r79p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 934) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4060 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "FONFREDE,FR:MILKTRUCK EMEs:NLT PASSES >>NE:NOW ENGINE+LIGHTS OK:/r79p3", **LatLong:** "45.344447 4.388889", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:40 N 04:23:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.344447,4.388889)", **State/Prov:** "Loire", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10855 (2ED3D648) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** D104 / VERNUSSE, FR **Description:** 90cm red globe follows car / turns. Quickly going up [to] near Lacanche. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4061 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "D104/VERNUSSE,FR:90cm RED GLOBE FOLOS CAR/TURNS:↑↑ nr LACANCHE:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "46.877780 4.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:52:40 N 04:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.877780,4.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10856 (9C55BC39) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** LACANCHE, FR **Description:** D14 / D104. Same 2M red glow sphere/orb/globe follows car here. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4062 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "LACANCHE,FR:D14/D104:SAME 2M RED GLOW ORB FOLLOWS CAR HERE", **LatLong:** "47.077780 4.561111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:04:40 N 04:33:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.077780,4.561111)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10857 (31EB5D97) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** SASSIER, FR **Description:** 2 / car / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) feel shock. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) near cylinder/cylindrical object UFO. UFO goes and car AOK. / r243p23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4063 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SASSIER,FR:2/CAR/EMEs FEEL SHOCK:3 OIDS nr CYL UFO:UFO GOES+CAR AOK:/r243p23", **LatLong:** "47.372224 3.594445", **LatLongDMS:** "47:22:20 N 03:35:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.372224,3.594445)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10858 (E09E7065) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** LAVARANDE, ALGERIA **Description:** Gasoline truck drivers run. Saucer low over road going quickly east toward(s) Medea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4064 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LAVARANDE,ALGERIA:GASOLINE TRUCK DRIVERS RUN:SCR LO OVR ROAD >>E twrd MEDEA", **LatLong:** "35.700002 -0.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:42:00 N 00:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.700002,-0.716667)", **State/Prov:** "MDA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10859 (BD13133F) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** BEAUQUAY, 14, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Large red cylinder/cigar-shape very fast over treetops. Cows panic. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 935) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4065 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUQUAY,14,FR:3 OBS:LRG RED CGR VFAST OVR TREETOPS:COWS PANIC:/FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "49.033336 -0.644444", **LatLongDMS:** "49:02:00 N 00:38:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.033336,-0.644444)", **State/Prov:** "Calvados", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10860 (0FBB0DAA) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** HEIMERSDORF, FR **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). Silent luminous/glowing disk / field turns red and quickly going up [to] as 2 girls near. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4066 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "HEIMERSDORF,FR:2+2 OBS:SLNT LUMn DISK/FLD TURNS RED+↑↑ as 2 GIRLS NEAR:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "47.544447 7.238889", **LatLongDMS:** "47:32:40 N 07:14:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.544447,7.238889)", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10861 (E21C9C39) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CHERRY VALLEY, NY **Description:** Engineer. 30' saucer makes sharp maneuvers. 300' altitude. No wings. Going up [to] clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 244) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4067 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "607", **HatchDesc:** "CHERRY VALLEY,NY:ENGINEER:30' SCR MAKES SHARP MNVRS:300' ALT:NO WINGS:↑ CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "42.794446 -74.755559", **LatLongDMS:** "42:47:40 N 74:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.794446,-74.755559)", **RelAlt:** "90", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10862 (D2E994DC) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** V.N.DE FAMALICAO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Several observer(s). Ovoid in cloud / white smoke over 2 villages. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4068 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "V.N.de FAMALICAO,PORTUGAL:SVRL OBS:OVOID in CLOUD/WHT SMOKE OVR 2 VILLAGES", **LatLong:** "41.405558 -8.494445", **LatLongDMS:** "41:24:20 N 08:29:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.405558,-8.494445)", **State/Prov:** "Douro", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10863 (DDDC2DDF) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** WEST / NIMES, FR **Description:** Cop. Metallic object like stack of cigars. Shiny reflections. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4069 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "W/NIMES,FR:COP:MTLC OBJ like STACK OF CIGARS:SHINY REFLECTIONS:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.816669 4.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:49:00 N 04:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.816669,4.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10864 (2C157B67) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** BREMONDANS, FR **Description:** 2 / farm. Blue-yellow saucer 20M away. Horses run. Figure seen / 2 minute(s). / LDLN#319. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4070 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BREMONDANS,FR:2/FARM:BLU-YLW SCR 20M AWAY:HORSES RUN:FIG.SEEN/2min:/LDLN#319", **LatLong:** "47.233336 6.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:14:00 N 06:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.233336,6.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10865 (ED7271C4) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** NEAR BIRAC, FR **Description:** 3 / car. 2 luminous/glowing orbs / large and small land / distance. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). / r8#239+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4071 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr BIRAC,FR:3/CAR:2 LUMn ORBS/LRG+SMALL LAND/DISTANCE:CAR EMES:/r8#239+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "45.561113 -0.061111", **LatLongDMS:** "45:33:40 N 00:03:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.561113,-0.061111)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10866 (4F80C01B) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** FONTENAY-LE-COMPTE, FR **Description:** Light envelops car. Separate / object quickly going up / shower of sparks. / r217p103. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4072 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FONTENAY-le-COMPTE,FR:LITE ENVELOPS CAR:SEP/OBJ ↑↑/SHOWER of SPARKS:/r217p103", **LatLong:** "46.466669 -0.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:28:00 N 00:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.466669,-0.800000)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10867 (B5D9E762) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FR **Description:** Mme Drouillard. Luminous/glowing mushroom. Fast silent maneuvers. / r138#4p48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4073 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LA ROCHE-sur-YON,FR:Mme DROUILLARD:LUMn MUSHROOM:FAST SLNT MNVRS:/r138#4p48", **LatLong:** "46.650002 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:39:00 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.650002,-1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10868 (052DD401) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Location:** Brosses-Thillot, Saone-Et-Loire (near), France **Description:** Motorcycle stalled, round lighted UFO observed about 50 yards ahead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1756 ### Event 10869 (7FABA0DA) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Location:** Chateauneuf-Sur-Charente, France **Description:** Car motor and headlights failed; two UFOs observed at low altitude ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1757 ### Event 10870 (44998287) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Location:** Clamecy (Nievre), France **Description:** Car motor and headlights failed, passengers felt shock and numbness; round UFO took off from nearby field (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1758 ### Event 10871 (434EC80C) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Location:** Fronfrede (Loire), France **Description:** Car motor and headlights failed as UFO crossed road ahead of car, below cloud cover (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1759 ### Event 10872 (C4C5A8B2) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 0130 **Location:** Doncourt-Village, France **Description:** Farmers awakened by a whistling sound saw a flat object land near the woods. It soon rose very fast, vertically, and flew away. The ground was found calcined. Samples were taken by police officials for analysis. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_230 ### Event 10873 (9D13B577) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 0300 **Location:** Acquigny, France **Description:** Two men riding motorcycles saw a bell-shaped craft about 2.5 m high, hovered 1 m above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 m high, then it remained motionless for about 1 hr, during which time a third witness joined the first two. It ultimately turned brighter and flew away toward the east. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 55; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_231 ### Event 10874 (A6964725) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 0415 **Location:** Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, France **Description:** Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of milk, was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_232 ### Event 10875 (88771AE1) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 0420 **Location:** Lacanche, France **Description:** Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a reddish glow, about 2 m in size. It stayed within 25 m of the car. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 58; M 158 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_233 ### Event 10876 (6EDCE1D7) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 0430 **Location:** Sassier, near La Carie, France **Description:** Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron who were driving from Clamecy to Corbigny felt an "electric shock" as the car headlights died. They then saw a craft in a pasture 50 m away. It was cylindrical, fairly thick, and three dwarfs were standing close by. No light was seen, except a small, reddish point. Both witnesses were "paralyzed" until the craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly over the woods at La Carie. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 57; M 158 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_234 ### Event 10877 (BDCBC2DD) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** dawn **Location:** Heimersdorf, France **Description:** Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other persons saw a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew away when they came near. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 56; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_235 ### Event 10878 (C23395EF) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** dawn **Location:** Bauquay, France **Description:** A large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop level while cattle panicked. Three witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_236 ### Event 10879 (25C752DF) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 0500 **Location:** Lavarande, Algeria **Description:** A large disk flying very low over a road scared two truck drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline truck and ran away into the fields while the object flew on toward Medea in silence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_237 ### Event 10880 (F07ECFB7) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 1930 **Location:** Taupignac, France **Description:** Three men driving near Taupignac got out of their car to observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round machine with a dome, 6 m diameter, giving off a yellowred light, 200 m away at 10 m altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, 1 m tall, who seemed busy with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived within 15 m. The witnesses wae blinded by a sudden burst of light, blue, then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_238 ### Event 10881 (11E8CE63) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 2150 **Location:** Birac, France **Description:** Four persons, among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac, saw two luminous spheres flying in the same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; M 160 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_239 ### Event 10882 (7B630F63) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Montbazens, France **Description:** A round craft, 4 m diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave off a powerful red light, took off with a formidable acceleration when witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; Mr. Gardelle, farmer; Mr. Ginestre, shoemaker; and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle felt "an electric shock." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 60, 61; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_240 ### Event 10883 (CE0AB97E) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Location:** Fonfrède, Loire, France **Description:** 4:15 a.m. Baptiste Jourdy is delivering milk near Fonfrède, Loire, France, when the truck engine dies and the headlights fail. He gets out to investigate and sees a glowing, multicolored object, moving at great speed, cross the road and disappear in the distance. The headlights return and he starts the truck again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 157; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 11–12; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954fonfrede.htm)” April 6, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2563 ### Event 10884 (18DCE566) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Location:** Clamercy, Nièvre, France **Description:** 4:30 a.m. Two merchants, Henri Gallois and Louis Vigneron, are traveling to a fair in a van near Clamercy, Nièvre, France, when they both feel electrical shocks. The van motor dies, and the headlights go out. They become paralyzed and see on the ground, 150 feet away, a round object with three small figures around it. The figures go inside the object, which then leaves rapidly. The headlights come back on, the paralysis ends, and the engine can be restarted. Hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 158; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 12–13; Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954clamecy.htm) [1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954clamecy.htm)” April 7, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2564 ### Event 10885 (00AA75B3) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Locations:** Méral, Mayenne, France; Saint-Poix **Description:** 6:00 a.m. Baptiste Potin of Méral, Mayenne, France, is riding a bicycle to his workplace when he spots a huge orange ball in the sky that seems to be above Saint-Poix. It apparently descends to the ground as he approaches, barring the road. After watching it 8–10 minutes, it rises slowly and disappears in the northwest. He finds when he arrives at a farm that he is covered in white fluff embedded in his clothes. Probably an observation of the moon, accompanied by plant seeds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954meral.htm),” April 14, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2565 ### Event 10886 (18A74E96) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** The Romanian magazine Contemporanul claims that UFOs are US propaganda designed to “stir up against Moscow a flying-saucer psychosis.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucers Are Not!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93914297/)” Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 12, 1954, p. 4; Ruppelt, [p.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) [238](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2566 ### Event 10887 (2086BAE5) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Locations:** Chateauneuf-sur-Charente, Charente, France; Charente valley **Description:** 9:50 p.m. Julia Juste, Maria Barbereau, and Marion Tanneur are driving along D14 about 1 mile from Chateauneuf-sur-Charente, Charente, France. Two luminous globes, one smaller than the other, appear in the sky ahead of them at low altitude, and their car stalls and the headlights go out. The larger one becomes brilliant white with a reddish halo. After 5 minutes, they move out of sight in the Charente valley. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 160; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 13; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954birac.htm)” April 6, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2567 ### Event 10888 (0469737B) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** Farmers in Doncourt-Village, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France were awakened by a whistling sound and saw a flat object land near the woods. It soon rose up vertically very fast, and flew away. The ground was found calcified. Soil samples were taken by the police for analysis. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Figaro, October 13, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 230 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6746 ### Event 10889 (36115B8E) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** Two men riding motorcycles near Acquigny, Eure, France saw a bell-shaped craft about 2.5 meters tall while it hovered just a meter above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 meters high, then it remained motionless for about one hour. During this time a third witness joined the first two. The UFO ultimately brightened and flew away toward the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 231 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6747 ### Event 10890 (F75F308E) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** In Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, Loire, France. Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of milk at 4:15 a.m., was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 157; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 232 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6748 ### Event 10891 (3A3C4C4E) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** At 4:20 a.m. in Lacanche, Côte-d'or, France Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a reddish glow, about two meters in size. It stayed within 25 meters of his car. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 233 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6749 ### Event 10892 (00C5AF1B) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** At 4:30 a.m. in Sassier, near La Carie, Nievre, France two men, Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron, were driving from Clamecy to Corbigny when felt an "electric shock" at the same time their car headlights died. They then saw a craft in a pasture 50 meters away. It was cylindrical and fairly thick in shape. Three dwarf humanoids were standing close by. No light was seen, except a small, reddish point of light. Both witnesses were paralyzeduntil the craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly over the woods at La Carie, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 224-225, case # 234; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 52 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6750 ### Event 10893 (7DBCB4EF) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** Ms. Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other witnesses in Heimersdorf, Haut-Rhin, France saw a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew away when they came near. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 235 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6751 ### Event 10894 (9AD5EAF8) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** In Bauquay, Calvados, France a large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop level while cattle panicked. There were three witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 236 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6752 ### Event 10895 (31D5104A) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** In Lavarande, Algeria a large disc flew very low over a road and scared two truck drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline truck and ran away into some fields while the object flew on toward Medea in silence. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225; France Soir, October 17, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6753 ### Event 10896 (C88D5351) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** At 6:40 p.m. horses panicked and ran when a bluish yellow saucer approached them to within 20 meters in Bremondans, Doubs, France. A figure was seen for two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3872, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 196 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6754 ### Event 10897 (368B124C) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. three men driving near Taupignac, Charente-Maritime, France got out of their car to observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round disc-shaped machine with a dome, six meters in diameter, giving off a yellow-red light, only 200 meters away from them at 10 meters altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, one meter tall, who seemed busy with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived within 15 m. The witnesses was blinded by a sudden burst of light blue, then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 238; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 468 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6755 ### Event 10898 (CFE19EC8) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** At 9:50 p.m. four persons in Birac, Charente, France--among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac--saw two luminous spheres flying in the same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait around to investigate further. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 160; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 225-226, case # 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6756 ### Event 10899 (398CE297) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. in Montbazens, Herault, France a round craft, four meters in diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave off a powerful red light and took off with extreme acceleration when witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; farmer Mr. Gardelle, shoemaker Mr. Ginestre, and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle felt an electric shock. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 240 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6757 ### Event 10900 (248A2499) **Date:** 10/11/1954 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. a luminous, mushroom-shaped saucer made fast, silent maneuvers over La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendee, France. A Mrs. Drouillard was the single witness. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 48 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6758 ### Event 10901 (6A75B82B) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Location:** PONT-DE-SALARS AND MORE/OTHERS, FR **Description:** Saucer with unbearable glow. Cylinder/cigar-shape / wide maneuvers. / r30p158. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4074 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PONT-de-SALARS++,FR:SCR W/UNBEARABLE GLOW:CGR/WIDE MNVRS:/r30p158", **LatLong:** "44.283335 2.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "44:17:00 N 02:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.283335,2.733333)", **State/Prov:** "Aveyron", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10902 (17FC37EE) **Date:** 10/12/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NORTH / EVREUX, FR **Description:** 2+1 separate observer(s). 2.5M bell-shape glows. Hovers / 1M altitude. Sparks. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4075 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "N/EVREUX,FR:2+1 SEP.OBS:2.5M BELL-SHAPE GLOWS:HVRS/1M alt:SPARKS:↑↑+>>E", **LatLong:** "49.116669 1.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:07:00 N 01:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.116669,1.150000)", **State/Prov:** "EUR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10903 (B11CBA39) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** LA CROIX-DAURADE, FR **Description:** Rocket quickly going up / ground. 5M / flat grass. Oily smell. / r30p152+/ r217p198. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4076 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "La CROIX-DAURADE,FR:ROCKET ↑↑/GND:5M/FLAT GRASS:OILY SMELL:/r30p152+/r217p198", **LatLong:** "43.633335 1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:38:00 N 01:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.633335,1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10904 (7F0E99EE) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** VERNOSC-LES-ANNONAY, FR **Description:** Transparent saucer and lands. Large and small figure(s) inside. Shoot up valley. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4077 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VERNOSC-les-ANNONAY,FR:XPRNT SCR+LANDS:LRG+SML FIGs INSIDE:SHOOT UP VALLEY", **LatLong:** "45.227780 4.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:13:40 N 04:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.227780,4.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Ardèche", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10905 (2451BC97) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** LOUHANS, FR **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). Fiery mushroom-cap rises from side / railroad. / r217p90+103. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4078 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LOUHANS,FR:1+2 OBS:FIERY MUSHROOM-CAP RISES from SIDE/RAILROAD:/r217p90+103", **LatLong:** "46.633336 5.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:38:00 N 05:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.633336,5.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10906 (672BA487) **Date:** 10/12/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SEEFELD, AUSTRIA **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Saucer going quickly north over Tyrol Village. To fast to photograph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4079 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SEEFELD,AUSTRIA:SVRL SEP.OBS:SCR >>N ovr TYROL VILLAGE:to fast to photograph", **LatLong:** "47.333336 11.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:20:00 N 11:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.333336,11.183334)", **State/Prov:** "TRL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10907 (65E4EF04) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** MAMORA-FOREST, MAROC **Description:** Engineer. 4' small humanoid (or Grey) boards saucer and flies. On road to Port Lyautey. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin D.: The OCTOBER SCENARIO; Berkley Books, NY 1988. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4080 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey" **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MAMORA-FOREST,MAROC:ENGINEER:4' OID BOARDS SCR+FLIES:on road to Port Lyautey", **LatLong:** "34.300002 -6.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:18:00 N 06:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.300002,-6.500000)", **State/Prov:** "KNT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10908 (D0C6446D) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** PLOGASTEL-ST. GERMAINE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. 1.5M sphere rises / field. No further details. / r217p104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4081 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PLOGASTEL-St.GERMAINE,FR:1 OBS:1.5M SPHERE RISES/FIELD:NFD:/r217p104", **LatLong:** "47.972225 -4.283334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:58:20 N 04:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.972225,-4.283334)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10909 (45871A1E) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ORCHAMPS, FR **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) boards phony car! Glides over road / 30 minute(s) then going up [to] fast. / r30p154. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 197) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4082 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ORCHAMPS,FR:OID BOARDS PHONY CAR!:GLIDES OVER ROAD/30min THEN ↑ FAST:/r30p154", **LatLong:** "47.133336 6.527778", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:00 N 06:31:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.133336,6.527778)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10910 (6B5EF41C) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** PELOTAS, BRAZIL **Description:** Firemen and more/others. Large silent luminous/glowing disk going west fairly fast. Wave starts / O. Fontes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 940) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4083 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "PELOTAS,BRZL:FIREMEN++:LRG SLNT LUMN DISK >W FAIRLY FAST:WAVE STARTS/O.Fontes", **LatLong:** "-31.766668 -52.300002", **LatLongDMS:** "31:46:00 S 52:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.766668,-52.300002)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10911 (C7E45726) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** ERBRAY, FR **Description:** Boy. Cylinder/cigar-shape / field. Pseudo-human/entity says look but don't touch. Door opens. / r217p197+/ r30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4084 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ERBRAY,FR:BOY:CGR/FLD:PSH says LOOK but DON'T TOUCH:DOOR OPENS:/r217p197+/r30", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -1.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 01:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-1.316667)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10912 (BE803797) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** LEGUEVIN, FR **Description:** 6-7M X 2.5M saucer lands. Vertical takeoff / fantastic speed. / r30p155. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4085 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "LEGUEVIN,FR:6-7M X 2.5M SCR LANDS:VERTICAL TAKEOFF/FANTASTIC SPEED:/r30p155", **LatLong:** "43.600002 1.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:00 N 01:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.600002,1.233333)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10913 (07167128) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** NEAR FRASNE, FR **Description:** Saucer follows N471 going southwest / low altitude. 2 / car follow saucer! Up and away fast. / r30p157. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4086 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr FRASNE,FR:SCR FOLOS N471>SW/LO ALT:2/CAR FOLLOW SCR!:UP+AWAY FAST:/r30p157", **LatLong:** "46.855558 6.161111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:51:20 N 06:09:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.855558,6.161111)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10914 (E8962753) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** VIELMUR-SUR-AGOUT, FR **Description:** Fiery orange ovoid lands vineyard / 3 hours. Turns vertical and flies. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4087 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "VIELMUR-sur-AGOUT,FR:FIERY ORG.OVOID LANDS VINYARD/3 HRS:TURNS VERT+FLIES", **LatLong:** "43.622224 2.094445", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:20 N 02:05:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.622224,2.094445)", **State/Prov:** "Tarn", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10915 (83A8DCA3) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** Mamora Forest, Morocco **Description:** A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey saw a dwarf about 1.2 m in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was wearing silver coveralls. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_241 ### Event 10916 (18709663) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Orchamps, France **Description:** A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object. It glided over the road for 30 m, then rose rapidly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 167; Carrouges 98 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_242 ### Event 10917 (FDDEF0A7) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** evening **Location:** Montlucon, France **Description:** A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped, metallic craft on the ground near a gas-oil tank. An individual covered with hair was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. The witness went to get his friends, but the thing disappeared in the meantime. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 63; M 167 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_243 ### Event 10918 (45FB30E1) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Leguevin, France **Description:** Jan Marty, 42, mechanic, was in his shop when he saw a luminous disk about 6.5 m diameter and 2.5 m thick, land. He tried to approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 62, 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_244 ### Event 10919 (3F4F4271) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Sainte-Marie d'Herblay, France **Description:** Gilbert Lelay, 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar in a pasture and a man near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back inside the craft, which flew in loops and vanished. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Carrouges 103; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_245 ### Event 10920 (9EBD38E8) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Location:** Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France **Description:** A businessman, Mr. Vielle, was on Route N471 between Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft, which gave off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and rose again in the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; M 167 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_246 ### Event 10921 (5C00E675) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Time:** 2330 **Location:** Vielmur, France **Description:** Roger Ramond, a nightwatchman saw a great light and noticed an oval object which landed 300 m away. It looked like a fieryorange ball, illuminated the vinyard for nearly 3 hrs, then assumed a vertical position, rose slowly, hovered 30 m above ground for a few seconds, and took off at fantastic speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 64; M 168 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_247 ### Event 10922 (39CD552A) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Locations:** Tehran, Iran; south side of Tehran, Iran **Description:** Morning. A UFO supposedly lands in a populous district on the south side of Tehran, Iran. It is said to have tried to kidnap a terrified man, Ghasim Faili, who says that on waking up he sees the UFO within 60 feet of him. It emits a magnetic force to capture him, but he shouts and neighbors gather, forcing the apparatus to take off. Later sources add some dubious details. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-10-12-iran-tehran.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-10-12-iran-tehran.htm) July 20, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2568 ### Event 10923 (9B256B23) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Locations:** Kenitra, Morocco; Mamora Forest; Mehdya, on the coast **Description:** Afternoon. A French engineer driving to Kenitra, Morocco, sees a small figure in a metallic suit climbing abroad a UFO that quickly lifts off and flies away. The location is said to be Mamora Forest, which could be modern Mehdya, on the coast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [p. 95](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/94/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2569 ### Event 10924 (F616C955) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Locations:** Lisieux; Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France **Description:** Around 2:00 p.m. A math professor at Lisieux named Bon is in Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France, when he sees a silvery disc with a diameter of 21–24 feet hovering over a wooden area off the road. It dives toward the ground, then rises suddenly and silently into the sky at tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/12oct1954saintgermaindelivet.htm) [French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/12oct1954saintgermaindelivet.htm)” October 24, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2570 ### Event 10925 (332ED84B) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Description:** Mamora Forest, Morocco - A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey in the afternoon saw a dwarf about 1.2 meters in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was wearing silver coveralls. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6794 ### Event 10926 (327BC318) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Description:** A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object in Orchamps, France. It glided over the road for 30 meters and then rose rapidly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6795 ### Event 10927 (92D08422) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Description:** A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped, metallic craft on the ground near a gas/oil tank in Montlucon, France. An hairy humanoid was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. The witness went to get his friends, but the thing had disappeared in the meantime. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6796 ### Event 10928 (27584B04) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Description:** Jan Marty, age 42, a mechanic, was in his shop in Leguevin, France when he saw a luminous disc land. It was about 6.5 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters thick. He tried to approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6797 ### Event 10929 (38C84FBE) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Description:** Ste.-Marie d'Herblay, France. Gilbert Lelay, age 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar-shaped UFO in a pasture and a man standing near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back inside the craft, which flew in loops and then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6798 ### Event 10930 (8F87CDCD) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Description:** Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France - Mr. Vielle, a businessman, was on Route N471 between Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft that gave off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and then rose again in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6799 ### Event 10931 (D5227089) **Date:** 10/12/1954 **Description:** Roger Ramond, a night watchman, saw a great light and noticed an oval object land 300 meters away in Vielmur, France. It looked like a fiery orange ball, illuminated the vineyard for nearly 3 hours, then assumed a vertical position, rose slowly, hovered 30 meters above the ground for a few seconds, and took off at fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 168; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6800 ### Event 10932 (794EE569) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Location:** CHATELLERAULT, VIENNE **Description:** Pseudo-human/entity talks unintelligibly. Enters cylinder/cigar-shape-shaped saucer and flies. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4088 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHATELLERAULT,VIENNE:PSH TALKS UNINTELLIGIBLY:ENTERS CGR-SHAPED SCR + FLIES", **LatLong:** "46.800002 0.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:48:00 N 00:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.800002,0.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10933 (2256C666) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Location:** ALBUSSAC, 19, FR **Description:** Farmer. Saucer shoots colored flames. Low altitude flight. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4089 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUSSAC,19,FR:FARMER:SCR SHOOTS COLORED FLAMES:LO ALTITUDE FLIGHT:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.133335 1.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:00 N 01:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.133335,1.833333)", **State/Prov:** "CRZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10934 (0EAEC5EF) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Location:** SANTO TIRSO, DOURO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape leaves trail / smoke in sky. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4090 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SANTO TIRSO,DOURO,PORTUGAL:SVRL OBS:CGR LEAVES TRAIL/SMOKE IN SKY:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.333335 -8.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "41:20:00 N 08:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.333335,-8.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Douro", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10935 (FD47E197) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** NOUASSEUR, FR MOROCCO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3260. Weatherman / theodolite. Flat silver saucer straight and level 30 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4091 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NOUASSEUR,FR MOROCCO:BBK#3260:WEATHERMAN/THEODOLITE:FLAT SLVR SCR S/L 30sec", **LatLong:** "33.266668 -7.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "33:16:00 N 07:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.266668,-7.700000)", **State/Prov:** "CSB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10936 (92805D4F) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** ULUS, ANKARA, TURKEY **Description:** "Saucer" hovers / long time. Suddenly away very fast. No further details. / AFP / r197. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 942) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4092 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Turkey", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ULUS,ANKARA,TURKEY:"SCR" HVRS/LONG TIME:SUDDENLY AWAY VFAST:NFD:/AFP/r197", **LatLong:** "39.933335 32.866668", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:00 N 32:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.933335,32.866668)", **State/Prov:** "Ankara", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10937 (5B85FAC1) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** GRAULHET, FR **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Huge disk going south. Boom! Angel hair all over/all about. Small saucer going south. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4093 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "GRAULHET,FR:NMRS OBS:HUGE DISK >S:BOOM!:ANGEL HAIR ALLO:SML SCR >S:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "43.766669 1.983333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:46:00 N 01:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.766669,1.983333)", **State/Prov:** "Tarn", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10938 (89F20A40) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** RANCE, 01, FR **Description:** Extremely bright object slowly drops. Flashes and shoots off / idiotic speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4094 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RANCE,01,FR:EXTREMELY BRITE OBJ SLOWLY DROPS:FLASHES+SHOOTS OFF/IDIOTIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "45.966669 4.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:58:00 N 04:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.966669,4.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Ain", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10939 (E171320B) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MONTIMONT, FR **Description:** Truck malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 3 green-glow small humanoids (or Greys) / road! Vanish and truck AOK. Police inquiry. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4095 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTIMONT,FR:TRUCK EMEs:3 GRN-GLOW OIDS/ROAD!:VANISH+TRUCK AOK:police inquiry", **LatLong:** "49.716669 4.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:43:00 N 04:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.716669,4.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10940 (890850CE) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** ST. PIERRE-DE-FURSAC, 23, FR **Description:** Huge UFO touches ground. Goes going quickly [to] Mailletard. No description. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4096 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St PIERRE-de-FURSAC,23,FR:HUGE UFO TOUCHES GND:GOES>>MAILLETARD:NO DESCRIPT", **LatLong:** "46.150002 1.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:09:00 N 01:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.150002,1.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10941 (29680F0F) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NEAR NEULISE, FR **Description:** 1 / car. Luminous globe going / low altitude. Lands / field a few seconds. Going up [to] and going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4097 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr NEULISE,FR:1/CAR:LUMn.GLOBE >/lo alt:LANDS/FIELD a few seconds:↑ + >N", **LatLong:** "45.900002 4.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:54:00 N 04:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.900002,4.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10942 (F5F1B2DE) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Location:** Nouasseur, Fr. Morocco **Description:** Round, flat, silver object fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3260) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1760 ### Event 10943 (56BB8888) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 1930 **Location:** Crocq, France **Description:** At Donjon de Montlaur, five persons, among them J. Dubois, saw a round craft maneuver, give off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed to land far from them. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_248 ### Event 10944 (163311A1) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 1935 **Location:** Bourrasole, France **Description:** Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man saw a reddish disk about 4 m diameter with a small being close by, about 1.2 rn tall, wearing a diving suit: "His head was large with respect to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny like glass." The craft was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of the men came within 2O m of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing him to the ground, and rose very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 62, 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_249 ### Event 10945 (3FEB645B) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Time:** 10:05 AM **Location:** Nouasseur, French Morocco **Description:** Witness: weather observer, following a balloon with his theodolite. One round, flat, silver object flew straight and level for 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_370 ### Event 10946 (1293DAF8) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Locations:** Bourrasol; Toulouse, France **Description:** 7:35 p.m. Three witnesses \(Olivier, Perano, and a third man\) see a reddish disc about 12 feet in diameter near Bourrasol, a suburb of Toulouse, France. A small being about 4 feet tall is standing nearby wearing a diver’s suit. Its head is large, and it has enormous eyes. One witness approaches to within 60–70 feet and is paralyzed. The UFO soon takes off. Definite hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/13oct1954toulouse.htm),” April 24, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2571 ### Event 10947 (0E236FA5) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Description:** At 10:05 a.m. a weather observer in Nouasseur, French Morocco, following a balloon in his theodolite, saw a round, flat, silver object fly straight and level. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6805 ### Event 10948 (CE91A8D6) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Description:** At 4:30 p.m. in Graulhet, Tarn department, France, numerous witnesses consistently reported that a white object flew southward at full speed without leaving a vapor trail and then exploded. At the same time a circular object, much smaller and silvery, seemed to spurt out of the mass of debris and continue straight toward the south. The burst of fragments scattered throughout the sky and fell gently down like shreds of paper or cloth. The debris, which resembled silvery filaments clinging together like cobwebs, "wilted away" when handled. This volatile "angel hair" dropped by UFOs, usually in the month of October, has been described many times since 1947. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 170 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6806 ### Event 10949 (B0F01896) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Description:** Three hours later in Crocq, France, at Donjon de Montlaur, J. Dubois and four other witnesses saw a round craft maneuver, giving off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed to come down and land far away from them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6807 ### Event 10950 (3D7FC398) **Date:** 10/13/1954 **Description:** On that same night Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man in Bourrasole, France saw a reddish disc about 4 meters in diameter with a small humanoid close by. The being stood about 1.2 meters (5 feet) tall, wearing a diving suit. "His head was large with respect to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny like glass." The Disc was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of the witnesses came within 20 meters of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing the man who stood closest to the ground, and rose into the sky very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6808 ### Event 10951 (759D01DF) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** North Weald Airfield, Essex, England **Description:** Flight Lt. Jimmy Salandin took off in his Meteor jet at 4:15pm and climbed up to 16,000 ft. When he was over Southend, England, two circular UFOs shot past him at 9o’clock high. One UFO was silvery and the other gold in color. A third UFO appeared ahead of him on a collision course. It had a bun-shaped top, a flange like two saucers in the center and a bun shaped dome underneath and was silvery in color. It flew close enough to his jet to overlap his windshield. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_543 ### Event 10952 (EF385B91) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** VOLONNE, 04, FR **Description:** Vintners. Big red ball turns and spins rapidly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4098 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VOLONNE,04,FR:VINTNERS:BIG RED BALL TURNS+SPINS RAPIDLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.116669 6.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:07:00 N 06:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.116669,6.016667)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes de Haute Provence", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10953 (B906E8A0) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** ST.-AUBAN, 04, FR **Description:** Hundreds / workers. Brilliant sphere with 2 large tubes on the side. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4099 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "St-AUBAN,04,FR:100s/WORKERS:BRILL.SPHERE W/2 LARGE TUBES ON THE SIDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.072224 5.994445", **LatLongDMS:** "44:04:20 N 05:59:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.072224,5.994445)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes de Haute Provence", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10954 (1C5F8582) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** CARPENTRAS, VAUCLUSE, FR **Description:** Brilliant cylinder/cigar-shape shoots out lights or sparks / rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4100 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CARPENTRAS,VAUCLUSE,FR:BRILLIANT CGR SHOOTS OUT LITES or SPARKS/REAR", **LatLong:** "44.061113 5.044445", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:40 N 05:02:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.061113,5.044445)", **State/Prov:** "Vaucluse", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10955 (92EEDF5F) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** 5KM NORTH / NIMES, GARD **Description:** Saucer on legs in field. Green light / 3 windows. Rises / slight sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4101 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "5km N/NIMES,GARD:SCR ON LEGS IN FIELD:GREEN LITE/3 WINDOWS:RISES/SLIGHT SOUND", **LatLong:** "43.866669 4.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:52:00 N 04:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.866669,4.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10956 (1219115D) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** SHAMSABAD, INDIA **Description:** 5M saucer / ground. Small humanoid (or Grey) laughs at frightened observer. Flies / very high speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4102 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SHAMSABAD,INDIA:5M SCR/GND:OID LAUGHS AT FRIGHTENED OBSERVER:FLIES/VHI SPEED", **LatLong:** "27.016668 78.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:01:00 N 78:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.016668,78.133337)", **State/Prov:** "UTP", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10957 (718D4344) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** PIERREFONTAINE-LES-VARANS, FR **Description:** Baker. Reddish saucer going northwest slowly / low altitude. No further details. / r30p166. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4103 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PIERREFONTAINE-les-VARANS,FR:BAKER:REDDISH SCR >NW SLOWLY/LOW ALT:NFD:/r30p166", **LatLong:** "47.222224 6.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:13:20 N 06:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.222224,6.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10958 (84E2E286) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** CA' PISANI, ITL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Dark rectangle going down. Stops / 10M altitude. Window / side. Kids terrorized. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4104 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CA' PISANI,ITL:2 OBS:DRK RECTANGLE ↓:STOPS/10M alt:WINDOW/SIDE:kids terrorized", **LatLong:** "44.966669 12.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:58:00 N 12:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.966669,12.316667)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10959 (B73383E9) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** FONTAINE, VCL, FR **Description:** Very odd object hangs / sky / 90 minute(s). 2 jets chase. Escapes. Government coverup. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4105 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FONTAINE,VCL,FR:VERY ODD OBJ HANGS/SKY/90min:2 JETS CHASE:ESCAPES:GOVT COVERUP", **LatLong:** "43.933335 5.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:56:00 N 05:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.933335,5.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Vaucluse", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10960 (08942450) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** BARBAMARCO, ITL **Description:** Ovoid maneuvers. Going down / canal. Up and away. Milky liquid left / water. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4106 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BARBAMARCO,ITL:OVOID MNVRS:↓/CANAL:UP+AWAY:MILKY LIQUID LEFT/WATER", **LatLong:** "44.950002 12.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 12:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,12.333334)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10961 (AE1B4E21) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** NORTHEAST / SOUTHEND, ENG **Description:** 3 large silver saucers. 1 buzzes Salandin / RAF MK8. / NICAP v1#1+/ r213p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4107 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NE/SOUTHEND,ENG:3 LRG SLVR SCRS:1 BUZZES SALANDIN/RAF MK8:/NICAP v1#1+/r213p3", **LatLong:** "51.583336 0.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:35:00 N 00:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.583336,0.616667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10962 (B3494B67) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** TRESQUES, GARD, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Intensely bright UFO leaves (something behind) glowing trail / air. No description. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4108 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TRESQUES,GARD,FR:2 OBS:INTENSELY BRITE UFO LVS GLOWING TRAIL/AIR:NO DESCRIPT", **LatLong:** "44.100002 4.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:06:00 N 04:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.100002,4.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10963 (9C3FED34) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** ENTRAIGES-SUR-SORGUE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. 8M saucer / all color(s) 2M over farm. Going quickly northeast / mountains. / r217p105. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4109 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ENTRAIGES-sur-SORGUE,FR:1 OBS:8M SCR/ALL CLRS 2M OVR FARM:>>NE/Mtns:/r217p105", **LatLong:** "44.000002 4.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:00:00 N 04:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.000002,4.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Vaucluse", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10964 (DB43FB0E) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** MERAL, FR **Description:** 6M saucer going down. Dark figure inside. Going up [to] and going quickly north. Waxy angel hair falls. / r138#9+/ r217p195. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4110 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "MERAL,FR:6M SCR ↓:DRK FIG.INSIDE:↑+>>N:WAXY ANGEL HAIR FALLS:/r138#9+/r217p195", **LatLong:** "47.961113 -0.977778", **LatLongDMS:** "47:57:40 N 00:58:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.961113,-0.977778)", **State/Prov:** "MYN", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 10965 (AB629052) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ARAMON, GARD **Description:** 4 teens and adults. Flying cigar emits sparks like a fuse. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4111 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARAMON,GARD:4 TEENS+ADULTS:FLYING CIGAR EMITS SPARKS LIKE A FUSE:", **LatLong:** "43.877780 4.677778", **LatLongDMS:** "43:52:40 N 04:40:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.877780,4.677778)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10966 (58E1BA34) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** CHARDONNAY, FR **Description:** 2 farm hands. Red saucer passes behind hill. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4112 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHARDONNAY,FR:2 FARM HANDS:RED SCR PASSES BEHIND HILL:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.511113 4.861111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:30:40 N 04:51:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.511113,4.861111)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10967 (6442CFE7) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** BIOT, FR **Description:** Cycler and more/others. 6M silver domed ovoid / road. Goes very fast when neared. / r8+/ LDLN#103. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4113 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BIOT,FR:CYCLER++:6M SLVR DOMED OVOID/ROAD:GOES VFAST WHEN NEARED:/r8+/LDLN#103", **LatLong:** "43.627780 7.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:40 N 07:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.627780,7.100000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10968 (5A6CEEB0) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** CHALON-SUR-SAONE, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Long slow silent object leaves (something behind) green trail. Maneuvers. / LDLN#320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4114 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHALON-sur-SAONE,FR:SVRL OBS:LONG SLO SLNT OBJ LVS GRN TRAIL:MNVRS:/LDLN#320", **LatLong:** "46.783336 4.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:47:00 N 04:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.783336,4.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 10969 (459943EC) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** D111 / MEURSANGES, FR **Description:** 2+several separate observer(s). Fast luminous object maneuvers. Type unknown. / r138#9+/ r49p173. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 215) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4115 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "D111/MEURSANGES,FR:2+SVRL SEP OBS:FAST LUM OBJ MNVRs:TYPE UNK:/r138#9+/r49p173", **LatLong:** "46.983336 4.950000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:59:00 N 04:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.983336,4.950000)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10970 (C93901FF) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** CHEVIGNY-EN-VALIERE, FRN **Description:** Farmer. Same object as Meursanges. Same time. / r49p173. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4116 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHEVIGNY-en-VALIERE,FRN:FARMER:SAME OBJ as MEURSANGES:SAME TIME:/r49p173", **LatLong:** "46.966669 4.977778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:58:00 N 04:58:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.966669,4.977778)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10971 (9D4187E1) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** ANDLAU, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape erect / roadside. Going up [to] and away when struck / headlights. / LDLN#320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4117 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANDLAU,FR:2 OBS:CGR ERECT/ROADSIDE:↑+AWAY WHEN STRUCK/HEADLITES:/LDLN#320", **LatLong:** "48.377780 7.422223", **LatLongDMS:** "48:22:40 N 07:25:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.377780,7.422223)", **State/Prov:** "Bas-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10972 (2DB1B94B) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** ANGLES, FR **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Blinding jellyfish going down [to] low. Changes shape. Going up. / LDLN#103+/ r49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 946) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4118 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "ANGLES,FR:SVRL SEP.OBS:BLINDING JELLYFISH ↓ LOW:CHANGES SHAPE:↑:/LDLN#103+/r49", **LatLong:** "46.411113 -1.405556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:40 N 01:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.411113,-1.405556)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10973 (8B03EC04) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** ST.-GERMAIN-DU-BOIS, FR **Description:** 1 / bicycle. Luminous orange dome on field. / r49p175+/ r138#9+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4119 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ST-GERMAIN-DU-BOIS,FR:1/BICYCLE:LUMN.ORG.DOME ON FIELD:/r49p175+/r138#9+/r8", **LatLong:** "46.755558 5.244445", **LatLongDMS:** "46:45:20 N 05:14:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.755558,5.244445)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10974 (FFC14A82) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** COMMENTRY, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Fiery disk passes radio antenna. Changes color(s). Going quickly [to] woods. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4120 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "COMMENTRY,FR:SVRL OBS:FIERY DISK PASSES RADIO ANTENNA:CHANGES CLRS:>> WOODS", **LatLong:** "46.283336 2.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:17:00 N 02:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.283336,2.733333)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10975 (97E351E3) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** D60 GUEUGNAN GOING [TO] CIRY-LE-NOBLE, FR **Description:** Saucer with blinding beam / light. Going west slow. / r49p175+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4121 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "D60 GUEUGNAN>CIRY-le-NOBLE,FR:SCR W/BLINDING BEAM/LITE:>W SLO:/r49p175+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "46.600002 4.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:36:00 N 04:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.600002,4.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10976 (B453C2ED) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** NEAR BROSSES TILLOTS, FR **Description:** Motorcycle dies. 7M classic saucer / Chazey woods. / r217p28+/ r2p179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 945) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4122 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "nr BROSSES TILLOTS,FR:MCYCLE DIES:7M CLASSIC SCR/CHAZEY WOODS:/r217p28+/r2p179", **LatLong:** "46.622224 4.422222", **LatLongDMS:** "46:37:20 N 04:25:20 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.622224,4.422222)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10977 (F1B53B2A) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** ST. ASSISCLE, FR **Description:** Luminous ovoid going down. Man / diving suit exits. Dogs bark. Going up [to] silent. / r217p261. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4123 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "St ASSISCLE,FR:LUM OVOID ↓:MAN/DIVING SUIT EXITS:DOGS BARK:↑ SLNT:/r217p261", **LatLong:** "42.688891 2.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:20 N 02:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.688891,2.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10978 (ECAB0B89) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** FERRARA, ITL **Description:** Chemist at factory. Ovoid hovers / 2M altitude. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) going down / ladder. / newspaper. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4124 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FERRARA,ITL:CHEMIST at FACTORY:OVOID HVRS/2M alt:3 OIDS ↓/LADDER:/newspaper", **LatLong:** "44.833335 11.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:50:00 N 11:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.833335,11.583334)", **State/Prov:** "FE", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10979 (2C0C044D) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** BRIENNE, FR **Description:** 4 Mx2M domed saucer lands / 60cm tripod. Observer(s) frozen on approach. Going quickly south. / r30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4125 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRIENNE,FR:4Mx2M DOMED SCR LANDS/60cm TRIPOD:OBS FROZEN ON APPROACH:>>S:/r30", **LatLong:** "48.400002 4.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:24:00 N 04:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.400002,4.533334)", **State/Prov:** "Aube", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10980 (E4F7E4D2) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** THIEULOY-LA-VILLE TO/FROM BEAUVAIS, FR **Description:** Object flies over car. Lights fail. Follows train going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4126 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "THIEULOY-la-VILLE>>N", **LatLong:** "49.750002 1.927778", **LatLongDMS:** "49:45:00 N 01:55:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.750002,1.927778)", **State/Prov:** "Oise", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 10981 (AE259138) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** CIRY-LE-NOBLE TO/FROM MONTCEAU-LES-MINES, FR **Description:** Engineer sees huge silent object fall to ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4127 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CIRY-LE-NOBLE> Event 10982 (02C8032F) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** TOULON TO/FROM HYERES, VAR **Description:** Man exits saucer. Observer(s) asks "Martian?". Answer = "no, French". / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4128 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TOULON> Event 10983 (9C6BB4B7) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR DOMART-EN-PONTHIEU, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Big glow / field. 6-7 small humanoids (or Greys) walk single file. / r30p167. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 203) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4129 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr DOMART-en-PONTHIEU,FR:3 OBS:BIG GLOW/FLD:6-7 OIDS WALK SINGLE FILE:/r30p167", **LatLong:** "50.066669 2.122222", **LatLongDMS:** "50:04:00 N 02:07:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.066669,2.122222)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 10984 (0B2CC212) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** LA TOUR-D'AIGUES, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). 7M saucer with glowing-tail takes off. 1 observer sick. / r30p167. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4130 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "La TOUR-d'AIGUES,FR:SVRL OBS:7M SCR W/GLO-TAIL TAKES OFF:1 OBS SICK:/r30p167", **LatLong:** "43.733335 5.544445", **LatLongDMS:** "43:44:00 N 05:32:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.733335,5.544445)", **State/Prov:** "Vaucluse", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 10985 (8E825E56) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** CA' VENIER, ITL **Description:** 2 / farm. Saucer on field / several min. Fast flaming takeoff. / Gaz.Padana. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4131 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "CA' VENIER,ITL:2/FARM:SCR ON FIELD/SVRL MIN:FAST FLAMING TAKEOFF:/Gaz.Padana", **LatLong:** "44.961113 12.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:40 N 12:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.961113,12.333334)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 10986 (B3606EB4) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** SOUTHEND, ESSEX **Description:** 10' domed saucer lands / curbside. Flexible tube loops / side to bottom. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 453) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4132 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTHEND,ESSEX:10'DOMED SCR LANDS/CURBSIDE:FLEXIBLE TUBE LOOPS/SIDE to BOTTOM", **LatLong:** "51.550002 0.683333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:33:00 N 00:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.550002,0.683333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 10987 (26CB86ED) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** Meral, Mayenne, France **Description:** A farmer was getting ready to leave his home when he saw an orange colored ball arrive and land on the ground not far from him. He approached the object and saw that it was a dome shaped disk with a flat bottom, and it emitted a blinding light which illuminated the field for about 600' around. The craft appeared to be translucent, and a dark shape could be seen silhouetted inside it. For approximately 10 minutes, the farmer watched the thing. Then the color of the object changed from white to red and it took off and disappeared into the north at great speed. After the thing had left, the witness went to the spot where the craft had been and found a sort of luminescent stream that was falling to the ground. He watched for a while and then went home. When he arrived there and took off his jacket, he found that his clothes were covered with a layer of white, somewhat sticky residue, not unlike paraffin, which soon disappeared without leaving any trace. This particular phenomenon is very similar to the substance called angel hair which has been seen streaming from the objects in flight. It usually melts when it comes into contact with heat, and this may be the reason for the fact that the witness in the Meral sighting did not discover any of the stuff on his face or hands. His body heat would have dissipated it as it came into contact with his skin. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) **Source:** Trace, **ID:** Magnonia_1 ### Event 10988 (05E21353) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** Saint-Ambroix, France **Description:** Several witnesses saw seven small beings flee into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off immediately. It is claimed that "unknown seeds" were found at the site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_250 ### Event 10989 (8496D6D9) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 0630 **Location:** Shamsabad, Iran **Description:** A man coming out of his house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. Coming near, he observed it was an object 5 m long, near which a "short young man" was standing on a circular piece of metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness was 20 m away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_251 ### Event 10990 (C44EA396) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 1530 **Location:** Lewarde, France **Description:** In Erchin Wood, Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 143; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_252 ### Event 10991 (2F03FDED) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 1815 **Location:** Biot, France **Description:** A municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home when he suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the object took off at very high speed. Several persons confirmed the sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft whistle. It took off when Casella was only 6 m away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_253 ### Event 10992 (2AA1F908) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Angles, France **Description:** A farmer saw a bright object, which came almost to the ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense "screen of light" and vanished without a noise. Several persons in Angles observed the scene. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_254 ### Event 10993 (C8D649FE) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Meral, France **Description:** A farmer observed an orange sphere land and went near it. He found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 m in diameter, and gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 m. It was transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 min it flew north, while a bright cloud slowly fell to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his clothes covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not unlike paraffin wax. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 62; M 174 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_255 ### Event 10994 (52853305) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Saint-Germain-du-Bois, France **Description:** Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous orange object on the ground near a corn field. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; M 175 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_256 ### Event 10995 (6C351DD0) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 1930 **Location:** Chazey Wood, France **Description:** South of Gueugnon, Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 175) Anatomy 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_257 ### Event 10996 (11F569F7) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Chazey Wood, France **Description:** Andre Cognard, coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light as a diskshaped object flew low over his car. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_258 ### Event 10997 (2002C7D5) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Saint-Romain, France **Description:** Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down plate. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. In the same area an engineer saw a luminous object coming down rapidly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_259 ### Event 10998 (78A573B4) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Time:** 2010 **Location:** Thieulloy-la-Ville, France **Description:** On the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly following a train. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_260 ### Event 10999 (D693B9DA) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** Shamsabad, Iran **Description:** 6:30 a.m. A resident of Shamsabad \[which one?\], Iran, sees a star-like object about 300 feet away from his house. Approaching to 60 feet, he sees a “short young man” who is standing on a circular piece of metal in the middle of the object and glancing around him. The man seems to be “laughing” at the witness. The UFO shoots up into the air and vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2572 ### Event 11000 (DDAFA321) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) hears from an informant that the 4602nd AISS has a “crashed object” program. His contact [Lou](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) [Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) thinks the Air Force already has some recovered material. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 214–215 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2573 ### Event 11001 (9CC831C7) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** Kenya **Description:** A farmer and his wife see a light green object traveling at tremendous speed, possibly 3,000 mph, in Kenya. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 234](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/234/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2574 ### Event 11002 (84FB0CE8) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** Ca’ Pisani, Rovigo, Italy **Description:** 12:00 noon. Farmer Antonio Crepaldi is leading his cows to a pond near Ca’ Pisani, Rovigo, Italy, when an egg-shaped object emitting intense heat swoop over his house at an altitude of 50 feet. The cows panic and run away, apparently suffering burns. Some haystacks catch fire. The sighting lats 2 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** 1Pinotti 59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2575 ### Event 11003 (0F2CE3CE) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Locations:** Erchin Forest; Lewarde; Nord; France **Description:** 3:30 p.m. Casimir Starovski, a miner, meets a strange figure in Erchin Forest, near Lewarde, Nord, France. It has large, slanted, protruding eyes and a squat, furry body. Its nose is flat, it has thick lips, and it wears a skullcap on its oversized head. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22oct1954lewarde.htm),” December 21, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2576 ### Event 11004 (5A75306C) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** North Weald Airfield, Essex, England **Description:** 4:15 p.m. Flight Lt. James R. Salandin of the 604th Fighter Squadron is flying a Gloster Meteor Mk.8 out of North Weald Airfield, Essex, England, at 16,000 feet. He sees three objects heading towards him. Two of them \(one gold, one silver\) veer off to his port side, while the third closes to within a few hundred yards before veering to his port side. It is saucer-shaped with “buns” on top and underneath, silvery and metallic, with no portholes or flames. The report is sent to the Air Ministry where it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Gloster ‘Meteor’ Encounters Disc /](http://www.nicap.org/541004essex%5Fdir.htm) [Salandin Case](http://www.nicap.org/541004essex%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Week-end Pilot in Near Collision with Flying Saucer,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1955\): 2; “[The Famous Salandin Sighting,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2030%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 \(December 1984\): 13–15; Good Above, [pp. 36–38](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/36/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 154–155](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/154/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[October 14, 1954, North Weald, Essex, UFO](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/salandin54.htm) [Encounters RAF Meteor Jet](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/salandin54.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2577 ### Event 11005 (4634C8EE) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Location:** Gueugnon, Saône-et-Loire, France **Description:** 6:20 p.m. André Cognard is driving on the D60 road to the east of Gueugnon, Saône-et-Loire, France, when a brilliant reddish fireball passes near his car to the west at low altitude. It is so bright that he stops his car. Probable meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14oct1954gueugnon.htm)” April 20, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2578 ### Event 11006 (B8FE7F51) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Locations:** Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon; Les Brosses Tillots; Saône-et-Loire; France **Description:** Twilight. A witness is riding a moped on the road between Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and Les Brosses Tillots, Saône-et-Loire, France. Suddenly his motor fails and, as he gets off the cycle, a bright circular object bursts ahead of him. He walks back with his moped and is able to start it again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight- Line, p. 175; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 14; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14oct1954saintromainsousgourdon.htm)” September 25, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2579 ### Event 11007 (3F08755F) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At 12:15 a.m. five kilometers north of Nimes, France Mr. & Mrs. Dupuy saw an object shaped like a rugby ball resting on crutch-like landing gear. It was lit by a greenish light and had three portholes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 159-160, citing Le Provencal, October 15, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6820 ### Event 11008 (B205A2B9) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At 3:40 a.m. a brilliant, yellow machine in the shape of a mushroom, two meters in height and four meters in diameter, was seen resting on railroad tracks in Saint-Pierre Halte, France by a baker's assistant from Calais. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 160, citing La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 220 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6821 ### Event 11009 (A2C3581A) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** Several witnesses including one named Chasseurs in Saint-Ambroix, Gard department, France saw seven small beings flee into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off immediately. It is claimed that "unknown seeds" were found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 250; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 104 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6822 ### Event 11010 (14C136A8) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** Shamsabad, Iran. At 6:30 a.m. a man coming out of his house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. When he approached, he observed that it was a 5-meter long object, next to which a "short young man" was standing on a circular piece of metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness was 20 meters away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 251 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6823 ### Event 11011 (D70D2954) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. in Erchin Wood in Lewarde, Nord department, France Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur. Its nose was flat, and it had thick lips. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case # 252; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0301 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6824 ### Event 11012 (396ED6BF) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At 6:15 p.m. a municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes department, France when he suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the object took off at very high speed. Sev- eral persons confirmed the sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft whistle. It took off when Casella was only six meters away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Paris Presse, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 253; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 160-161, citing Jimmy Guieu, Black-out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, p. 219 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6825 ### Event 11013 (0548DFEC) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At dusk, around 6:00 p.m., a farmer in Angles, Vendee department, France saw a bright object, which came almost to the ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense "screen of light" and vanished without a noise. Several other persons in Angles also observed the scene. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 254 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6826 ### Event 11014 (772CA88D) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. a grocer and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Vitre, inhabitants of the village of Chevigny-en-Valiere, together with some farmers, watched a fast luminous disc-shaped UFO maneuver and change colors over Rte. D111 in Meursanges, Cote-d'or department, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 173; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6827 ### Event 11015 (0C454C8E) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At around 7:00 p.m. Messr. Duvivier, a farmer in Meral, Mayenne department, France observed an orange sphere land and he walked out to approach it. When he got close he found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 meters in diameter, and it gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 meters. It was also transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 minutes it left by flying to the north, while a bright cloudy misty material fell slowly to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his clothes were covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not unlike paraffin wax. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 174; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 255; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 97; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6828 ### Event 11016 (1D584CD6) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** Just after dark, around 7:00 p.m., in Saint-Germain-du-Bois, Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous circular orange object on the ground near a corn field off of highway D91. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 256, citing Quincy; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6829 ### Event 11017 (5C8DD4AB) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** In Chazey Wood, south of Gueugnon, Saone-et- Loire department, France at 7:30 p.m. Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 257).

1954 - Again in Chazey Wood, Saone-et-Loire department, France a short time later, Andre Cognard, who was coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light from a luminous disc-shaped object as it flew low over his car. The projected light beam was so bright and blinding that he was forced to stop his car. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 258; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 163-164 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6830 ### Event 11018 (D29B6C1E) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** Between Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and les Brosses-Tillots, Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down plate just after dark. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. After watching for some time, he pushed the motorcycle down the road, where it could be restarted. In the same area an engineer also saw a luminous object coming down rapidly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3919; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 128 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6831 ### Event 11019 (86F0927E) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At 8:10 p.m. on the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, Somme, France Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly following a train. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6832 ### Event 11020 (7940204A) **Date:** 10/14/1954 **Description:** At 8:50 p.m. an engineer, Mr. G. Mouillon from Genelard, was driving between Ciry-le-Noble and Montceau-les-Mines, Saone-et-Loire, France when he witnessed an enormous luminous object that descended toward the ground without any noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 166 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6833 ### Event 11021 (9863D253) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 03:40 **Location:** ST. PIERRE HALTE, FR **Description:** Baker. 4M mushroom lands / railroad/railway tracks. / LDLN#103p2+/ r49p180+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 949) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4133 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ST PIERRE HALTE,FR:BAKER:4M MUSHROOM LANDS/RR TRACKS:/LDLN#103p2+/r49p180+/r8", **LatLong:** "50.911114 1.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:54:40 N 01:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.911114,1.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11022 (B69805B4) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** GYOR, HUNGARY **Description:** Also other locations. 1500 reports. Saucer east-northeast going southwest. Official line = comet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4134 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Hungary", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GYOR,HUNGARY:+OTHER LOCS:1500 REPORTS:SCR ENE>SW:OFFICIAL LINE=COMET", **LatLong:** "47.683336 17.650001", **LatLongDMS:** "47:41:00 N 17:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.683336,17.650001)", **State/Prov:** "GYR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11023 (F3E8AAD2) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** AIX-EN-PROVENCE, BDR, FR **Description:** Saucer hangs high / sky 1 minute(s) and more. Very brilliant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4135 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AIX-en-PROVENCE,BDR,FR:SCR HANGS HI/SKY 1min+:VERY BRILLIANT", **LatLong:** "43.533335 5.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 05:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,5.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11024 (FCD2A4B2) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** LUINO, ITL **Description:** Saucer passes over / range of trees. 2 catch fire. East / shore Lago Maggiore. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4136 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LUINO,ITL:SCR PASSES OVR/RANGE OF TREES:2 CATCH FIRE:E/SHORE LAGO MAGGIORE", **LatLong:** "46.000002 8.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:00:00 N 08:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.000002,8.733334)", **State/Prov:** "Varese", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11025 (D45FD83D) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** BOARIA, ITL **Description:** 4 observer(s). Ovoid over house. Burns haystacks and cattle. Dries pond. / r138#9p52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4137 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BOARIA,ITL:4 OBS:OVOID OVR HOUSE:BURNS HAYSTACKS+CATTLE:DRIES POND:/r138#9p52", **LatLong:** "45.100002 11.800001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:06:00 N 11:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.100002,11.800001)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11026 (6EB87EC6) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** PO-DI-GNOCCA, ITL **Description:** Saucer lands and quickly going up. 6M / dirt gone. Trees scorched. / r67p47+/ r138#9p49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4138 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "PO-di-GNOCCA,ITL:SCR LANDS+↑↑:6M/DIRT GONE:TREES SCORCHED:/r67p47+/r138#9p49", **LatLong:** "44.888891 12.327778", **LatLongDMS:** "44:53:20 N 12:19:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.888891,12.327778)", **State/Prov:** "RO,", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11027 (54C7C911) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** TEOLO, ITL **Description:** 1 observer. Adamski-saucer with 4 balls / bottom. 2 "eyes" shoot beams. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4139 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TEOLO,ITL:1 OBS:ADAMSKI-SCR W/4 BALLS/BOTTOM:2 "EYES" SHOOT BEAMS:", **LatLong:** "45.350002 11.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:21:00 N 11:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.350002,11.666667)", **State/Prov:** "PD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11028 (C87C2CF2) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** NNE / LE VIGAN, GARD, FR **Description:** 30M x 6M cylinder/cigar-shape lands. 2 helmeted figure(s) in lit portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4140 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NNE/Le VIGAN,GARD,FR:30M x 6M CGR LANDS:2 HELMETED FIGS in LIT PORTHOLES:", **LatLong:** "44.033335 3.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:02:00 N 03:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.033335,3.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11029 (11798935) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** ~19:30 **Location:** AIRE-SUR-LA-LYS, FR **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Saucer lands / FLDs. Turns color(s). Beams. / r8+/ r49p181. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 951) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4141 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "AIRE-sur-la-LYS,FR:NMRS SEP.OBS:SCR LANDS/FLDs:TURNS CLRS:BEAMS:/r8+/r49p181", **LatLong:** "50.616669 2.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:37:00 N 02:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.616669,2.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11030 (5EDA8FB6) **Date:** 10/15/1954? **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** NAIROBI, KENYA **Description:** Astronomer and 4. Large night light / 2K' altitude. Brightens. Rises. Drops. Rises. Going up / clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 487) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4142 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kenya", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NAIROBI,KENYA:ASTRONOMER+4:LRG NLT/2K'alt:BRIGHTENS:RISES:DROPS:RISES:↑/CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "-1.283333 36.816668", **LatLongDMS:** "01:17:00 S 36:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-1.283333,36.816668)", **State/Prov:** "NRB", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11031 (31A61E3F) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** BAILLY-EN-CAMPAGNE, FR **Description:** 4 saucers. 1 going down. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Shocks. Small humanoid (or Grey)? Missing time? Going quickly north. / r144p94+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 203) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4143 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BAILLY-en-CAMPAGNE,FR:4 SCRS:1 ↓:CAR EMES:SHOCKS:OID?:MST?:>>N:/r144p94+/r8", **LatLong:** "49.866669 1.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:52:00 N 01:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.866669,1.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11032 (A6039941) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** NEAR NIMES-COURBESSAC AIRFIELD, FR **Description:** 30M cylinder/cigar-shape lands. Helmeted figure(s) behind portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 266) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4144 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr NIMES-COURBESSAC AIRFIELD,FR:30M CGR LANDS:HELMETED FIGs BEHIND PORTHOLES", **LatLong:** "43.855558 4.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:51:20 N 04:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.855558,4.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11033 (F451405D) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MONTARGIS, FR **Description:** Luminous yellow ovoid passes over. No further details [in] at all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4145 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTARGIS,FR:LUMn.YELLOW OVOID PASSES OVER:NFD at all:", **LatLong:** "48.000002 2.738889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:00:00 N 02:44:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.000002,2.738889)", **State/Prov:** "Loiret", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11034 (ABFA8182) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** KINGFISHER, OK **Description:** 50 fast objects / V-formation. Same back 16+17 October. Bottoms lit up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4146 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "124", **Elev:** "352", **HatchDesc:** "KINGFISHER,OK:50 FAST OBJS/V-FORMATION:SAME BACK 16+17 OCT:BOTTOMS LIT UP", **LatLong:** "35.861113 -97.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:51:40 N 97:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.861113,-97.933338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11035 (641AFD79) **Date:** 10/15/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ST. PRIVAT / VALLONGUE, FR **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape lands. Quickly going up [to] vertical with whistle sound and blazing red. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4147 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.PRIVAT/VALLONGUE,FR:CGR LANDS:↑↑ VERTICAL W/WHISTLE SOUND+BLAZING RED", **LatLong:** "44.283335 3.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:17:00 N 03:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.283335,3.833334)", **State/Prov:** "Lozère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11036 (2B6E1F20) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NIFFER TO/FROM KEMBS, FR **Description:** 2 / cars. Fireball zigzags over road. Going quickly southeast toward(s) river. / r49p182+/ r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4148 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NIFFER>>SE twrd Rvr:/r49p182+/r138#9", **LatLong:** "47.700002 7.505556", **LatLongDMS:** "47:42:00 N 07:30:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.700002,7.505556)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11037 (07453711) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** FOUESNANT, FR **Description:** Trucker. Saucer going south toward(s) coast / low altitude. 2nd saucer follows. / r251p104. / r67p47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4149 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FOUESNANT,FR:TRUCKER:SCR >S twrd COAST/lo alt:2nd SCR FOLOS:/r251p104:/r67p47", **LatLong:** "47.894447 -4.011111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:53:40 N 04:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.894447,-4.011111)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11038 (5F9519A3) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** RONSENAC, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Power out. Dogs howl. Half barrel saucer wavers / 10M altitude. / LDLN#320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4150 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RONSENAC,FR:3 OBS:POWER OUT:DOGS HOWL:HALF BARREL SCR WAVERS/10M alt:/LDLN#320", **LatLong:** "45.466669 0.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:28:00 N 00:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.466669,0.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11039 (D303AB8F) **Date:** 10/15/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** VALLONGUE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Cylinder/cigar-shape lands / field. Shoots going up [to] whistling and flashing red. / Le Provencal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4151 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VALLONGUE,FR:1 OBS:CGR LANDS/FLD:SHOOTS ↑ WHISTLING+FLASHING RED:/Le Provencal", **LatLong:** "44.300002 3.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:18:00 N 03:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.300002,3.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Lozère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11040 (A67CC11D) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** AMBES, FR **Description:** 6 silent giant 'eggplants' pass. Hover. Away / at dizzy speed. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4152 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AMBES,FR:6 SLNT GIANT 'EGGPLANTS' PASS:HOVER:AWAY/AT DIZZY SPEED:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.016669 -0.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:01:00 N 00:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.016669,-0.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11041 (17D328A5) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CONFOLENS, FR **Description:** 3.5M saucer on ground. Quickly going up [to] vertically as carpenter nears. / LDLN#320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4153 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CONFOLENS,FR:3.5M SCR on GND:↑↑ VERTICALLY as CARPENTER NEARS:/LDLN#320", **LatLong:** "46.016669 0.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:01:00 N 00:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.016669,0.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11042 (EB779177) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **End date:** 10/16/1954 **Location:** Kingfisher, OK **Description:** 50 objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3269) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1761 ### Event 11043 (C1E032CD) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Location:** Perpignan, France **Description:** Near the swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Damien Figueres, 56, was walking with his dogs when a reddish, luminous sphere landed 30 m away and an individual in a diving suit walked around it. The dogs barked at him. He boarded the machine, and it flew away in silence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 65; Carrouges 120 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_261 ### Event 11044 (E922C332) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Location:** Boaria, Italy **Description:** A farmer leading cows to a pond suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, throwing a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The witness ran to the house and fainted; three other persons saw the craft depart. Dark, surrounded by short blue and yellow flames, the object was egg-shaped, flew 15 m above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over, while the cattle suffered burns. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 67; Plantier 104 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_262 ### Event 11045 (603D8C63) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 0340 **Location:** Saint-Pierre-Halte, France **Description:** A baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and land on the railroad tracks. It was shaped like a mushroom, about 4 m diameter, 2 m high. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 62; M 180 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_263 ### Event 11046 (15122A0E) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 1300 **Location:** Luino, Italy **Description:** An ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two caught fire. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 83 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_264 ### Event 11047 (BD4831A2) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** Po-di-Gnocca, Italy **Description:** Farmers saw a disk-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 65; M 181 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_265 ### Event 11048 (DD8D6DC5) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 1950 **Location:** Nimes-Courbessac Airfield, France **Description:** A yellow, cigarshaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering the head could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends of the craft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_266 ### Event 11049 (DF3DACAD) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Southend, Great Britain **Description:** Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the road near Chalkwell Park. It had vanished silently when she looked back. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 182; Humanoids 4; FSR 62, 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_267 ### Event 11050 (367FE12E) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Isbergues, France **Description:** A steelworker observed a luminous sphere land in the countryside; it then emitted lights of various colors. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 54, 68; M 181 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_268 ### Event 11051 (F2EF86EE) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Fouesnant, France **Description:** Truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, shaped like an inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disk followed shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 69; M 182 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_269 ### Event 11052 (1F7BC8E5) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Time:** 8:45 PM **Location:** Kingfisher, Oklahoma **Description:** Oct. 15, 16 and 17, 1954. Fifty objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying in a V-formation, very fast, on successive nights. Only data is on summary card. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_371 ### Event 11053 (B3E714F5) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Locations:** Hungary; Györ-Moson-Sopron county **Description:** Early in the morning. A large, luminous, red object streaks across the sky above Hungary. A teacher from Györ-Moson-Sopron county takes two photos of what is an apparent meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 199–201 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2580 ### Event 11054 (37C9FC80) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Location:** Boaria Pisani, Padua, Italy **Description:** In Boaria Pisani, Padua, Italy, a farmer is leading his cows to a pond when he sees an object fly over his house. The cows panic and run away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emits a burst of light. The farmer runs to the house and then faints. Three other persons see the craft depart. It is dark in color but surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. The object is egg-shaped, flies at 50 feet above the ground, and emits intense heat. The little pond is found desiccated, and haystacks catch fire as it flies over while the cattle suffers burns. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 229–230](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/228/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2581 ### Event 11055 (C2F18A35) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Location:** Po della Donzella river channel, Veneto, Italy **Description:** Afternoon. Farmers near the Po della Donzella river channel, Veneto, Italy, see a disc-shaped object land then take off vertically. At the site is a deep crater about 18 feet in diameter. Poplar trees are partially burned. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight Line, p. 181 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2582 ### Event 11056 (EC925691) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Locations:** Londinières; Normandy, France; Baillolet, Seine-Maritime, France; Bailleul-Neuville **Description:** Evening. Veterinarian Henri Robert of Londinières in Normandy, France, is driving on route RN 314, near Baillolet, Seine-Maritime, France. He sees four orange objects flying one above the other at 1,000 feet. One floats down like a leaf, landing about 350 feet in front of his car. Robert feels an electric shock and his engine dies for 20 seconds and the object disappears. Robert continues driving. As he is going through the village of Bailleul- Neuville, he sees in his headlights a four-foot-tall bluish-gray figure with arms and legs spread. His headlights go off then on again. He then sees on his left a 27-foot-long cigar-shaped object at the edge of a slope. It takes off vertically and quickly moves toward the north. Possible hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 184–185; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 15–16; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/15oct1954londiniere.htm)” April 7, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2583 ### Event 11057 (135258E4) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **End date:** 10/25/1954 **Locations:** Ljubljana, Slovenia; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Belgrade, Serbia **Description:** Thousands of witnesses in the former Yugoslavia report low-flying UFOs and high-flying cigar-shaped objects, especially around Ljubljana, Slovenia; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Belgrade, Serbia. Yugoslavia announces on October 27 that it intends to launch an official investigation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 61; Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2584 ### Event 11058 (0AEBD778) **Date:** Mid 10/1954 **Locations:** Erquières, Pas-de-Calais, France; Northeast of Erquières **Description:** A merchant and his deliveryman are driving a van northeast of the village of Erquières, Pas-de-Calais, France, when they see a blinding light in front of them. As it passes over the van, the engine stalls and the headlights fail. Both men feel an electric shock. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 204–205; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 19; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/2225oct1954erquieres.htm)” March 12, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2597 ### Event 11059 (2BFB7CE9) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** Near the community swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Perpignan, France Damien Figueres, age 56, was walking with his dogs when a red luminous sphere landed 30 meters away. A humanoid being in a diving suit got out and walked around it. The dogs barked at him. The being then boarded the craft and it flew away in silence. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 229, case # 261; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6848 ### Event 11060 (6A6A572A) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** In Boaria, Italy a farmer was leading his cows to a pond when he suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The farmer ran to the house and then fainted. Three other persons saw the craft depart. It was dark in color but surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. It was egg-shaped, flew at 15 meters above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over while the cattle suffered burns. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 229-230, case # 262 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6849 ### Event 11061 (CD6A0367) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** St.-Pierre-Halte, France. At 3:40 a.m. a baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and land on some railroad tracks. It was mushroom shaped, about four meters diameter, and two meters high. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6850 ### Event 11062 (BEF945C0) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** In Luino, Italy an ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two of the trees caught fire. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 264 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6851 ### Event 11063 (78F0C6EE) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** On this afternoon in Po-di-Gnocca, Italy farmers saw a disc-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 265 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6852 ### Event 11064 (2F2151C4) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** At 7:50 p.m. at the Courbessac Airfield in Nimes, France a yellow, cigar-shaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering their heads could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends of the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 266 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6853 ### Event 11065 (5C1CFD8A) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** On this night Ms. Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the road near Chalkwell Park, Southend, England. It had vanished silently when she looked back. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 267).

Starting on this date in 1954 and for the next two nights, fifty objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying very fast in a V-formation on successive nights over Kingfisher, Oklahoma at around 8:45 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3269; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6854 ### Event 11066 (5ECC6FF5) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** A steelworker in Isbergues, France observed a luminous sphere land in the countryside on this night. After landing it then emitted lights of various colors. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 268 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6855 ### Event 11067 (628BDFC6) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** While driving at night in Fouesnant, France truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, -shaped like an inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disc followed shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 269 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6856 ### Event 11068 (718D96B9) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object landed in Saint Privat, Vallongue, Lozere department, France. It took off vertically making a whistle sound and blazing red in color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 107 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6857 ### Event 11069 (F86A6AF5) **Date:** 10/15/1954 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. a fireball was seen by two witnesses driving in a car as it zig-zagged over the N68 highway between Niffer and Kembs, France

nThisDay

. It headed off to the southeast toward the Rhine River. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6858 ### Event 11070 (042F383F) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Location:** LESPARRE-MEDOC, FR **Description:** Teacher. Orange round object / roadside. Small humanoid (or Grey) says "Ka-a-low-O-Tri-to-Onn". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4154 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LESPARRE-MEDOC,FR:TEACHER:ORG RND.OBJ/ROADSIDE:OID SAYS "KA-A-LO-O-TRI-TO-ONN"", **LatLong:** "45.300002 -0.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:18:00 N 00:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.300002,-0.933333)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11071 (6D0B1DA3) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Location:** ST.-LEGER-SUR-DHEUNE, FR **Description:** Classic flying saucer seen. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4155 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St-LEGER-sur-DHEUNE,FR:CLASSIC FLYING SCR SEEN:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.850002 4.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:51:00 N 04:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.850002,4.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11072 (CF4CD74F) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** NEUILLY L'EVEQUE, FR **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) / road runs to 2.5M saucer. Glides 30M and quickly going up. Silent. / / r217p204. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4156 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NEUILLY l'EVEQUE,FR:OID/ROAD RUNS to 2.5M SCR:GLIDES 30M+↑↑:SLNT://r217p204", **LatLong:** "47.916669 5.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:55:00 N 05:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.916669,5.433334)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11073 (C43BFACF) **Date:** 10/16/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** THIN-LE-MOUTIER, FR **Description:** UFO lands 30M away. Woman faints. Gets skin disease. / LDLN#103. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4157 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "THIN-le-MOUTIER,FR:UFO LANDS 30M AWAY:WOMAN FAINTS:GETS SKIN DISEASE:/LDLN#103", **LatLong:** "49.716669 4.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:43:00 N 04:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.716669,4.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11074 (4C70B7B5) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** DURY, FR **Description:** Boy / 15. 12M cylinder/cigar-shape / ground. 3M high. Blows blue smoke / rear. Observer(s) flees. / LDLN#320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4158 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DURY,FR:BOY/15:12M CGR/GND:3M HIGH:BLOWS BLUE SMOKE/REAR:OBS FLEES:/LDLN#320", **LatLong:** "49.850002 2.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:51:00 N 02:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.850002,2.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11075 (CF2DD41A) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 19:00? **Location:** PONT-L'ABBE D'ARNOULT, FR **Description:** Object rises / ground. Observer(s) terrified. No further details / r8 / r30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 283) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4159 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PONT-l'ABBE d'ARNOULT,FR:OBJ RISES/GND:OBS TERRIFIED:NFD/r8/r30:", **LatLong:** "45.827780 -0.877778", **LatLongDMS:** "45:49:40 N 00:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.827780,-0.877778)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11076 (E24A4F04) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ARLON MARTELANGE AND SIBRET, BELGIUM **Description:** 'Slow meteor' going quickly NNW. Several observer(s). Luminous trail / sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 458) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4160 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ARLON MARTELANGE+SIBRET,BELGIUM:'SLOW METEOR' >>NNW:SVRL OBS:LUM.TRAIL/SKY", **LatLong:** "49.672225 5.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:40:20 N 05:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.672225,5.800000)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 11077 (7784CB27) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** MONTAMISE, FR **Description:** 3 / car and 2 / town. UFO / ground quickly going up [to] fast. Green and white lights. Type unknown. / LDLN#320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4161 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTAMISE,FR:3/CAR+2/TOWN:UFO/GND ↑↑ FAST:GRN+WHT LITES:type unk:/LDLN#320", **LatLong:** "46.600002 0.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:36:00 N 00:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.600002,0.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11078 (B72F036A) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** BELESTA, FR **Description:** Intense bright ovoid quickly going up [to] and quickly going down [to] several x. Going quickly ESE. / r217p62. Hoax! / M. Figuet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 173) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4162 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BELESTA,FR:INTENSE BRITE OVOID ↑↑+↓↓ svrl x:>>ESE:/r217p62::HOAX!/M.Figuet", **LatLong:** "42.900002 1.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "42:54:00 N 01:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.900002,1.933333)", **State/Prov:** "Ariège", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11079 (CA84CE24) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** HAM, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Disk and cone going east in sequence. Orange object buzzes motorbikes that quit / electro-magnetic effect (EME.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4163 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HAM,FR:2 OBS:DISK+CONE >E in SEQUENCE:ORG OBJ BUZZES MOTORBIKES that QUIT/EME", **LatLong:** "49.738891 3.072222", **LatLongDMS:** "49:44:20 N 03:04:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.738891,3.072222)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11080 (66A1EE2D) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** DOMPIERRE-BECQUINCORT, 80, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 20X2M saucer. Altitude = 4M / 3 minute(s). Glow radiates = 4M. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4164 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DOMPIERRE-BECQUINCORT,80,FR:2 OBS:20X2M SCR:ALT=4M/3min:GLOW RADIATES=4M", **LatLong:** "49.905558 2.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:54:20 N 02:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.905558,2.800000)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11081 (2375FDBB) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SAULIEU, 21, FR **Description:** 5 / car. Bright fireball rises / ground. Going quickly south fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4165 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAULIEU,21,FR:5/CAR:BRITE FBL RISES/GROUND:>>S FAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.283336 4.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:17:00 N 04:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.283336,4.233334)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11082 (5A9CE6FC) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** NEAR BEAUFORT, FR **Description:** 2 / car. Bullet-UFO going down / 3 legs / ditch. Lights out. Figure exits. / r30p206. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 191) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4166 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr BEAUFORT,FR:2/CAR:BULLET-UFO ↓/3 LEGS/DITCH:LITES OUT:FIG.EXITS:/r30p206", **LatLong:** "50.233336 3.972222", **LatLongDMS:** "50:14:00 N 03:58:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.233336,3.972222)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11083 (68337227) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** SIENA, TUSCANY, ITALY **Description:** Several observer(s). Glowing UFO lands / meadow. Takes off suddenly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4167 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SIENA,TUSCANY,ITALY:SVRL OBS:GLOWING UFO LANDS/MEADOW:TAKES OFF SUDDENLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.350002 11.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:21:00 N 11:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.350002,11.366667)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11084 (AF501629) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Location:** Banlolet, Seine-Infeneure, France **Description:** 4 UFOs at low altitude ahead of car. One descended toward road; driver felt shock, numbness, car motor, headlights failed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1762 ### Event 11085 (7FB6CB05) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Location:** Quasso, Italy **Description:** Two objects were seen, one of which made a pass at treetop level. It top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_270 ### Event 11086 (72B2AAA7) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Location:** Thin le Moutiers, France **Description:** Approximate date. An object landed about 30 m away from a woman, who fainted. The witness suffered from a skin disease following the incident. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Challenge 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_271 ### Event 11087 (34B90B85) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Location:** Cier-de-Riviere, France **Description:** Guy Puyfourcat, 22, who was coming back from the fields, leading a mare by the bridle, was surprised when the animal became restless. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 m in diameter flew over them. The mare rose about 3 m in the air, and the witness had to release the bridle. Then the animal fell like a mass and for 10 min was unable to move. At last, it rose and attempted to walk, but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely nothing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_272 ### Event 11088 (574ED305) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 1730 **Location:** Mazaye, France **Description:** Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52-E between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down and he felt "paralyzed." He then saw in a field near the road a brown object about 10 m long, 2.5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and showed no opening. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 70;M 198 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_273 ### Event 11089 (D95CBC39) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Baillolet, France **Description:** Dr. Robert, while driving through this village, saw four objects, at about 300 m altitude, flying slowly in echelon formation. Suddenly one of them dropped to the ground with a dead-leaf motion, 100 m away. The witness felt an electric shock as engine and headlights died, and the car stopped when the object touched the ground. Incapable of moving, Dr. Robert saw a figure about 1.2 m tall moving in the light of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights resumed operation by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off toward the north. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 71; M 185 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_274 ### Event 11090 (424E8BC7) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 2145 **Location:** Dompierre, France **Description:** Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 m diameter, 2 m high, come within 4 m of the ground for 3 or 4 min. It gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended for 4 m around. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_275 ### Event 11091 (A6ABE8C7) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Time:** 2400 **Location:** Siena, Italy **Description:** Several people saw a landed object in a meadow. It appeared phosphorescent and of large size. It took off very suddenly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 83 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_276 ### Event 11092 (2AA4DA20) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Description:** On or about this date a UFO landed in Thin le Moutiers, France only thirty meters away from a woman, who promptly fainted. Following the incident the witness suffered from a skin condition that she linked to the encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: the UFO Enigma, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6886 ### Event 11093 (E899B0C7) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Description:** In Cier-de-Riviere, France Guy Puyfourcat, age 22, was coming back from the fields leading a mare by her halter when the horse surprised him by suddenly becoming restless and jumpy. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 meters in diameter flew over them. The mare rose about three meters into the air and the witness had to release her. Then the animal fell to the ground like a mass and for 10 minutes was unable to move. At last, it got up and attempted to walk, but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely nothing. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6887 ### Event 11094 (16C1D7E0) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. in Mazaye, France Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52E between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down and he felt "paralyzed. " He then saw in a field near the road a brown object about 10 m long, 2. 5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and showed no opening. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6888 ### Event 11095 (0C89FDAD) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Description:** Dr. Robert, driving through Baillolet, France at nightfall, saw four objects flying slowly in echelon formation at about 300 meters altitude. One of UFOs dropped abruptly to the ground with a falling leaf motion, landing only 100 meters away. The witness felt an electric shock as the engine and headlights of his car died, and his car stopped the moment the object touched the ground. Incapable of moving, Dr. Robert watched as a figure about 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall moved around in the light of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights came back on by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off toward the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 185; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 231-232 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6889 ### Event 11096 (D424E061) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Description:** Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 meters in diameter and two meters tall come within four meters of the ground in Dompierre, France. The object stayed near the ground for 3-4 minutes. It gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended around it for an estimated distance of four meters. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6890 ### Event 11097 (044BBB79) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Description:** Two objects were seen in Quasso, Italy one of which made a pass at treetop level. It was top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 270, citing Il Tiempo, October 17, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6891 ### Event 11098 (8E92CFC0) **Date:** 10/16/1954 **Description:** At midnight several people saw a landed object in a meadow in Siena, Italy. It appeared phosphorescent and to be large in size. It took off very suddenly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, citing Il Tiempo, October 16, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6892 ### Event 11099 (041B7C20) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Location:** PACO DE ARCOS, PORTUGAL **Description:** Observers saw disk-shaped object. No further details. / Joaquim Fernandes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4168 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PACO de ARCOS,PORTUGAL:OBSs SAW DISK-SHAPED OBJ:NFD:/JOAQUIM FERNANDES", **LatLong:** "38.733335 -9.283334", **LatLongDMS:** "38:44:00 N 09:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.733335,-9.283334)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11100 (FFB7F697) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Location:** O ALVITO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Hunter. Cylinder/cigar-shape takes off vertically in a cloud / dust when neared. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4169 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "O ALVITO,PORTUGAL:HUNTER:CGR TAKES OFF VERTICALLY in a CLOUD/DUST WHEN NEARED", **LatLong:** "38.272224 -7.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "38:16:20 N 07:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.272224,-7.983334)", **State/Prov:** "BXA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11101 (3F42D9F1) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Location:** CAPRI, ITL **Description:** Painter. Fat silent metallic 4M glowing-saucer maneuvers / all over/all about. Going down. 4 'men' exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4170 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CAPRI,ITL:PAINTER:FAT SLNT MTLC 4M GLOW-SCR MNVRS/ALLO:↓:4 'MEN' EXIT", **LatLong:** "40.500002 14.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "40:30:00 N 14:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.500002,14.233334)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11102 (C9124612) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** SAINT-CYR-SUR-MER, NEAR BANDOL, FR **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Councilman sees orange saucer take off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4171 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "SAINT-CYR-sur-MER,nr BANDOL,FR:CAR EMEs:COUNCILMAN SEES ORANGE SCR TAKE OFF", **LatLong:** "43.183335 5.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:11:00 N 05:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.183335,5.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11103 (0F6BBF23) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** CIER DE RIVIERE, FR **Description:** 5' UFO levitates horse going up [to] 10'. Then drops it! Going quickly east. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4172 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "CIER de RIVIERE,FR:5'UFO LEVITATES HORSE ↑ 10':THEN DROPS IT!:>>E:/FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "43.066669 0.633333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:04:00 N 00:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.066669,0.633333)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 11104 (0B40BBEB) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** PRECHAC, FR **Description:** 4M tadpole-object landed / forest. Not a helicopter according to secret details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4173 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PRECHAC,FR:4M TADPOLE-OBJ LANDED/FOREST:NOT A HELICOPTER per SECRET DETAILS", **LatLong:** "44.400002 -0.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:24:00 N 00:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.400002,-0.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11105 (8A467527) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** CABASSON, FR **Description:** 1+dog. 4M saucer and helmeted small humanoids (or Greys) / woods. Dog walks oddly after. / r113p123. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 207) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4174 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CABASSON,FR:1+DOG:4M SCR+HELMETED OIDS/WOODS:DOG WALKS ODDLY AFTER:/r113p123", **LatLong:** "43.766669 5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:46:00 N 05:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.766669,5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes de Haute Provence", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11106 (EB7726A4) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** LE BOUQUET, FR **Description:** Hunter. Chain noise. Blue-metallic cylinder/cylindrical object going down / 4 legs. Going up / same sound. / LDLN#320. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4175 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Le BOUQUET,FR:HUNTER:CHAIN NOISE:BLU-MTLC CYL ↓/4 LEGS:↑/SAME SOUND:/LDLN#320", **LatLong:** "44.133335 4.288889", **LatLongDMS:** "44:08:00 N 04:17:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.133335,4.288889)", **State/Prov:** "Gard", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11107 (4E2901E6) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** COURNON, FR **Description:** 6 observer(s). 80cm fireball lands. Floats going [to] woods. Bright beams. Vanishes! / LDLN#321. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4176 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "COURNON,FR:6 OBS:80cm FBL LANDS:FLOATS > WOODS:BRITE BEAMS:VANISHES!:/LDLN#321", **LatLong:** "47.750002 -2.111111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:45:00 N 02:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.750002,-2.111111)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11108 (2673644E) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** REIMS, FR **Description:** 8M x 2M cylinder/cigar-shape by canal. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) exit / door. Red ray freezes observer(s). / r138#9p59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 206) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4177 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "REIMS,FR:8M x 2M CGR by CANAL:3 OIDS EXIT/DOOR:RED RAY FREEZES OBS:/r138#9p59", **LatLong:** "49.250002 4.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:15:00 N 04:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.250002,4.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Marne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11109 (3185BD48) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** NAPOLI, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous/glowing globe going down. Stops 5M over ground. Rises again and going quickly north. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4178 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NAPOLI,ITL:SVRL OBS:LUMN GLOBE ↓:STOPS 5M ovr GND:RISES AGAIN + >>N:/news", **LatLong:** "40.833335 14.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "40:50:00 N 14:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.833335,14.250001)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11110 (40EEF9C9) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LUZY, FR **Description:** 2+kids. Metallic blimp extremely fast / low altitude. Spotlights light ground like day. / p36. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4179 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LUZY,FR:2+KIDS:MTLC BLIMP XFAST/LO ALT:SPOTLITES LITE GND LIKE DAY:/p36", **LatLong:** "46.788891 3.972222", **LatLongDMS:** "46:47:20 N 03:58:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.788891,3.972222)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11111 (D3507069) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** D10 NEAR VARIGNEY, FR **Description:** Cop and several. Saucer nearly lands. Rises when approached. / r70p3-37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4180 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "D10 nr VARIGNEY,FR:COP+SVRL:SCR NEARLY LANDS:RISES when APPROACHED:/r70p3-37", **LatLong:** "47.833336 6.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:50:00 N 06:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.833336,6.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Saône", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11112 (3E805171) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** GRAY, JURA, FR **Description:** Luminous object changes color(s). Each color / several min. Away / amazing speed. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 187) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4181 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "GRAY,JURA,FR:LUM OBJ CHANGES CLRS:EACH CLR/SVRL min:AWAY/AMAZING SPEED:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.133336 5.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:08:00 N 05:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.133336,5.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Jura", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11113 (448785B6) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** AVANNE, FR **Description:** 5 observer(s). Strange glow. 4M saucer on ground takes off going up. Fireball going quickly southwest. / r230v2#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4182 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "AVANNE,FR:5 OBS:STRANGE GLOW:4M SCR ON GND TAKES OFF ↑::FBL>>SW:/r230v2#5", **LatLong:** "47.200002 5.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:12:00 N 05:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.200002,5.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11114 (A87DD8E9) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** ASCOLI PISCENO, ITL **Description:** Several observers. Umbrella saucer slows down. Shoots up. / Voce Adriatica. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4183 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ASCOLI PISCENO,ITL:SVRL OBSs:UMBRELLA SCR SLOWS DOWN:SHOOTS UP:/Voce Adriatica", **LatLong:** "42.850002 13.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:00 N 13:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.850002,13.566667)", **State/Prov:** "AP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11115 (C51644D0) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** AMIGNY-ROUY, FR **Description:** 4M fireball stops over village. Lands. Going quickly northeast toward Beaufort-la Fere. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4184 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "AMIGNY-ROUY,FR:4M FBL STOPS OVR VILLAGE:LANDS:>>NE toward BEAUFORT-la FERE", **LatLong:** "49.616669 3.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:37:00 N 03:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.616669,3.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Aisne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11116 (8048F61D) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Location:** Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France **Description:** Leon B., a city council member, saw a circular, orange craft take off from the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_277 ### Event 11117 (4A1BC605) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Location:** O Alvito, Portugal **Description:** A hunter, Manuel Madeira, saw an object, which flew away as he approached it, rose in the sky, and was lost to sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_278 ### Event 11118 (4D48EBA5) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Cabasson, France **Description:** A 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog, near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River, when he saw a gray object, about 4 m long and 1 m high on the ground and 40 m away. It showed a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if partialIy paralyzed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_279 ### Event 11119 (7EEB9E9F) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Varigney, France **Description:** Several witnesses, among them Mr. Beuclair a policeman, saw a bright red domeshaped object descend to ground level 20 m away. The underside showed red and white lights. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 188 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_280 ### Event 11120 (628CB337) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Cape Massulo, Italy **Description:** On Capri, an artist Raffael Castelle, saw a disk 5 m in diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte. Upon approaching it, he discovered it was not a helicopter and saw four dwarfs wearing coveralIs emerge from it. After 30 min the craft made a soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 72 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_281 ### Event 11121 (B946B4F0) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Location:** Cier-de-Rivière, Haute-Garonne, France **Description:** Around 9:30 a.m. Guy Puyfourcat is returning from the fields near Cier-de-Rivière, Haute-Garonne, France, with his mare on a halter. The horse suddenly becomes restless and jumpy. A gray object about 4 feet in diameter rises from one side of the road and passes over them. The mare rises about 9 feet into the air and Puyfourcat releases her, and the animal falls to the ground and is unable to move for 10 minutes. The UFO moves away at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/17oct1954cier.htm)” October 16, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2585 ### Event 11122 (58A49A26) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** Leon B., a city councilor in St-Cyr-sur-Mer, France saw a circular, orange craft take off from the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6912 ### Event 11123 (6D11685C) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** Manuel Madeira saw a landed object while out hunting in O Alvito, Portugal. It took off and flew away as he approached it, rose quickly into the sky, and was lost to sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 278 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6913 ### Event 11124 (D4EEF192) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** In Cabasson, France a 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog at 2:30 p.m. near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River. He saw a gray object, about four meters long and one meter high on the ground and 40 meters away. It had a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if partially paralyzed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 279; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0310 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6914 ### Event 11125 (34C4B9DE) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** A man was returning from fishing along the canal at Reims, Marne, France in the earlty evening when he saw a brightly lit cigar-shaped object resting on the grass near the canal. As he approached he saw it was about 26 feet long and 7 feet high. From one end came “phosphorescent” lights, which reflected on the metallic hull of the object. A door appeared from which emerged three hairy dwarves, about 3 feet 9 inches tall, walking “crab-wise,” or sideways. Then an even smaller being, a little more than a meter tall appeared, whose lower legs appeared transparent. The witness tried to get closer, but the beings rushed back inside the object at surprising speed. Just then the witness was paralyzed by a red beam of light coming from a porthole in the craft, which turned yellow. The object took off and flew rapidly towards Tinquex. The witness was then able to recover his freedom of movement. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-31 (A0340); Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 206 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6915 ### Event 11126 (A8A8FFB1) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. three witnesses in Dole Gray, Jura department, France reported watching a luminous object maneuver in the sky, changing colors for ten minutes. Each color lasted several minutes. It finally shot away at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 187 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6916 ### Event 11127 (5854ABAF) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. in Varigney, Haute-Saone department, France several witnesses, among them policeman Beuclair, saw a bright red dome-shaped object descend to ground level 20 meters away. The underside displayed red and white lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 188; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 280; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 56 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6917 ### Event 11128 (0CDBAB22) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** At 7:20 p.m. a luminous orb descended over Naples, Italy. It stopped and hovered just five meters above the ground. It rose again, then flew away to the north, generating a great deal of national excitement and press coverage. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3977 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6918 ### Event 11129 (FADEEAA7) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** Cape Massulo, Italy. On the Isle of Capri an artist, Raffael Castelle, saw a disc five meters in diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte on this night. Upon approaching it he discovered it was not a helicopter as he first thought, and he saw four dwarfs wearing coveralls emerge from it. After 30 minutes the craft made a soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** France Soir, October 20, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232-233, case # 281; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-103 (A0311) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6919 ### Event 11130 (E9FED8BD) **Date:** 10/17/1954 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. several people in the town of Ascoli Pisceno, Marche, Italy witnessed an umbrella-shaped disc that slowed down, then shot straight up vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, citing Voce Adriatic **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6920 ### Event 11131 (C66ADCAE) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** PONS, FR **Description:** 6M egg going down [to] by road. 2 4' small humanoids (or Greys) exit and return fast. Quickly going up / red trail. / r8+/ r30p193. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4185 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PONS,FR:6M EGG ↓ by ROAD:2 4'OIDS EXIT+RETURN FAST:↑↑/RED TRAIL:/r8+/r30p193", **LatLong:** "45.583336 -0.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:35:00 N 00:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.583336,-0.533333)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11132 (42C9F4E3) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** SAUSSAY, FR **Description:** Hissing 18M cylinder/cigar-shape with domed saucer attached / top going [to] over town. (Aussay Dne.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4186 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAUSSAY,FR:HISSING 18M CGR W/DOMED SCR ATTACHED/TOP > OVR TOWN:(Aussay DNE)", **LatLong:** "49.627780 0.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:37:40 N 00:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.627780,0.933333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11133 (5C6D3D4B) **Date:** 10/18/1954 (approximate) **Location:** SANDRANS, FR **Description:** 3M cylinder/cigar-shape lands / field. 1M diameter. Small humanoid (or Grey) outside. String whistle / takeoff. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 294) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4187 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SANDRANS,FR:3M CGR LANDS/FIELD:1M diam:OID OUTSIDE:STRING WHISTLE/TAKEOFF", **LatLong:** "46.066669 4.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:04:00 N 04:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.066669,4.983334)", **State/Prov:** "Ain", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11134 (FD130EEB) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** D216 SOUTH / ST. MARTIN-DU-BOIS, FR **Description:** Saucer lands / road. Hairy small humanoid (or Grey) / owls eyes inside. Going quickly SSE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4188 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "D216 S/St.MARTIN-du-BOIS,FR:SCR LANDS/ROAD:HAIRY OID/OWLS EYES INSIDE:>>SSE", **LatLong:** "47.683336 -0.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:41:00 N 00:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.683336,-0.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11135 (F8E9BFD3) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** CISTERNES-LA-FORET, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Domed saucer lands / field. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly northeast when neared. / r8#282. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4189 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CISTERNES-la-FORET,FR:2 OBS:DOMED SCR LANDS/FIELD:↑↑+>>NE WHEN NEARED:/r8#282", **LatLong:** "45.788891 2.705556", **LatLongDMS:** "45:47:20 N 02:42:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.788891,2.705556)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11136 (3FA567CB) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** NORTH / ISSENHEIM, FR **Description:** Luminous UFO lands near N83. 0530hrs 5 see it take off / fantastic speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4190 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "N/ISSENHEIM,FR:LUM UFO LANDS nr N83:0530hrs 5 SEE IT TAKE OFF/FANTASTIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "47.905558 7.261111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:54:20 N 07:15:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.905558,7.261111)", **State/Prov:** "Haut-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11137 (F62AE540) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** ANGLES, FR **Description:** Councilman. 1M and saucer very close. Bars protrude. Vanishes / instant! / LDLN#321. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4191 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANGLES,FR:COUNCILMAN:1M+SCR VCLOSE:BARS PROTRUDE:VANISHES/INSTANT!:/LDLN#321", **LatLong:** "46.400002 -1.411111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:00 N 01:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.400002,-1.411111)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11138 (464A5F35) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** MOUTIER-ROZEILLE, FR **Description:** 2 odd talking men / briar patch. 2 more descend. Dark cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4192 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "MOUTIER-ROZEILLE,FR:2 ODD TALKING MEN/BRIAR PATCH:2 MORE DESCEND:DRK CGR >>SE", **LatLong:** "45.916669 2.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:55:00 N 02:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.916669,2.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11139 (0E30E3ED) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** VIENNE, ISERE **Description:** White UFO's maneuver dance / clouds. Change form. Angel hair falls and sublimes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4193 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "VIENNE,ISERE:WHT UFOS MNVR DANCE/CLOUDS:CHANGE FORM:ANGEL HAIR FALLS+SUBLIMES", **LatLong:** "45.533336 4.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:32:00 N 04:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.533336,4.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11140 (27DB3187) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** ANCY AND MORE/OTHERS, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Glaring sphere/orb/globe over town. Dims and changes color(s). Going quickly south. / r217p113. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 113) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4194 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "ANCY++,FR:SVRL OBS:GLARING ORB OVR TOWN:DIMS+CHANGES CLRS:>>S:/r217p113", **LatLong:** "48.966669 6.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:58:00 N 06:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.966669,6.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11141 (4DDED1C0) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** D52 / CHAMBOIS, FR **Description:** Separate observer(s). 10M saucer / field. Truck malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Cop frozen and moved. Missing time. / LDLN#97. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FSR CASE HISTORIES. Bimonthly/London. Supplements 2 - 18 (final issue) (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4195 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "D52/CHAMBOIS,FR:SEP.OBS:10M SCR/FIELD:TRUCK EMES:COP FROZEN+MOVED:MST:/LDLN#97", **LatLong:** "45.788891 2.883333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:47:20 N 02:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.788891,2.883333)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11142 (A5E0B327) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ST. CIRGUES, FR **Description:** Dumbell-scale teeters / 1 hour. Then shoots going [to] horizon. / r138#9p62. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4196 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "St.CIRGUES,FR:DUMBELL-SCALE TEETERS/1 HOUR:then SHOOTS >HRZN:/r138#9p62", **LatLong:** "45.144447 3.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:40 N 03:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.144447,3.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11143 (2AD5C722) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** LEPANGES-SUR-VOLOGNE, FR **Description:** 15 observer(s). Odd-machine jerks across sky. Stop and go. Many color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4197 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LEPANGES-sur-VOLOGNE,FR:15 OBS:ODD-MACHINE JERKS ACRS SKY:STOP+GO:MANY CLRs", **LatLong:** "48.172225 6.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:10:20 N 06:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.172225,6.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11144 (3EE60E31) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** FONTENAY-TORCY, FR **Description:** 6 separate observer(s). Saucer lands. Helmeted small humanoid (or Grey). Area lit. Going quickly west. / r30+/ r217p210. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4198 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "FONTENAY-TORCY,FR:6 SEP.OBS:SCR LANDS:HELMETED OID:AREA LIT:>>W:/r30+/r217p210", **LatLong:** "49.572225 1.772222", **LatLongDMS:** "49:34:20 N 01:46:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.572225,1.772222)", **State/Prov:** "Oise", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11145 (ED55BEE5) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** MAHANE-YEHUDA AND TEL-AVIV, ISR **Description:** Many observer(s). Luminous egg or "house" going [to] WNW. Over horizon fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 962) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4199 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "MAHANE-YEHUDA+TEL-AVIV,ISR:MANY OBS:LUMN.EGG or "HOUSE" >WNW:OVR HRZN FAST", **LatLong:** "32.016668 34.900002", **LatLongDMS:** "32:01:00 N 34:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.016668,34.900002)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "TAV", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11146 (C643FC3F) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** AMIENS, FR **Description:** 1 girl. Luminous cylinder/cigar-shape crosses sky going quickly north fast. No further details. / Le Courrier Picard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4200 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AMIENS,FR:1 GIRL:LUMn.CGR CROSSES SKY >>N FAST:NFD:/Le Courrier Picard", **LatLong:** "49.916669 2.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:55:00 N 02:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.916669,2.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11147 (02DD654B) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** MOREUIL, FR **Description:** Bank teller. Saucer 100M from roadside quickly going up / shower of sparks. / LDLN#321. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 113) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4201 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOREUIL,FR:BANK TELLER:SCR 100M from ROADSIDE ↑↑/SHOWER of SPARKS:/LDLN#321", **LatLong:** "49.783336 2.483333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:47:00 N 02:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.783336,2.483333)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11148 (51A7DA0C) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SAINTES TO/FROM ROYAN, FR **Description:** Dumbell quickly going down. Small humanoid (or Grey) from each disk exits and boards the other. / r112p97. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4202 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SAINTES> Event 11149 (EE54F38A) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** VEZENEY, FR **Description:** 1 / mopod/motorscooter/motorbike. Red glow. 1 pseudo-human/entity and 2 small humanoids (or Greys) cross D437. Ovoid going up [to] over lake. / r217p210. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4203 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "VEZENEY,FR:1/MOTO:RED GLOW:1 PSH+2 OIDS CROSS D437:OVOID ↑ ovr LAKE:/r217p210", **LatLong:** "47.077780 6.311111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:04:40 N 06:18:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.077780,6.311111)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11150 (9F9C598E) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** VILLEPINTE, FR **Description:** 1+several observer(s). Luminous orange disk lands / farm / 20 minute(s). Silent takeoff. / r217p114. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4204 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VILLEPINTE,FR:1+SVRL OBS:LUMn.ORG DISK LANDS/FARM/20min:SLNT TAKEOFF:/r217p114", **LatLong:** "43.283335 2.088889", **LatLongDMS:** "43:17:00 N 02:05:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.283335,2.088889)", **State/Prov:** "Aude", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11151 (0B47C6BE) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** Coheix, Puy-De-Dorne, France **Description:** Driver of light truck felt half paralyzed, motor began missing; dark elongated object seen in nearby field (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1763 ### Event 11152 (DF9FFB93) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** Cisternes-la-Foret, France **Description:** J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, emitting a bright white light, resting in a field. When they approached it, the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew to the northeast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 70; M 198 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_282 ### Event 11153 (C733C1CE) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** Pont l'Abbe d'Arnoult, France **Description:** Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had never been so afraid, even during the war. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 73; M 196 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_283 ### Event 11154 (F172C380) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 2040 **Location:** Fontenay-Torcy, France **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a cigar-shaped red object dive toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they were confronted with a bulky human figure, about 1 m tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was illuminated over 2 or 3 km. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_284 ### Event 11155 (6627C2F3) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Royan, France **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two disks in the sky, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous "bridge" between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots both objects flew away with a tremendous flash. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 74 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_285 ### Event 11156 (B8D5DAA0) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Time:** 2245 **Location:** Saint-Point Lake, France **Description:** Miss Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near the old factory. Near it were three beings: two, dwarfs, crossed the road ahead of her; the third was a man of medium size. The craft took off, flying over the lake at high speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; M 197; LDLN 97; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_286 ### Event 11157 (244CE63F) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Locations:** Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France; Coheix **Description:** 5:30 p.m. A M. Bachelard is driving a light truck southeast of Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France. As he goes around a bend, he feels paralyzed and his truck slows down to less than 20 mph. In a nearby field he sees an elongated object about 5 feet high. A few minutes later he reaches the village of Coheix, which is off his normal route, and starts telling people about the event. Later ufologists suspect there may be some missing time involved. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 198; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 16–17; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/18oct1954chambois.htm)” March 20, 2003; “[The Landing at Gelles,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 5 \(June 1971\): iii **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2586 ### Event 11158 (5586A3DF) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** Saint-Cirgues, Haute-Loire, France **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Two farmers near Saint-Cirgues, Haute-Loire, France, watch two bright balls connected by a rod for 15 minutes. They disappear at a fast pace. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/18oct1954saintcirgues.htm)” December 21, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2587 ### Event 11159 (842A3276) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Location:** N150 southwest of Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France **Description:** 9:00 p.m. M. and Mme. Labussière are driving on the N150 southwest of Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France, when they see a balance-shaped object in the sky. One side is red and the other orange, while the rod connecting them is a luminous green. The object pauses above a field near their car, which they pull over to watch more closely. The green rod soon dissipates, and the two balls settle in the field. In the dim light emitted by the objects, the Labussières see a small creature emerge from each, walk toward each other, pass without stopping, and enter the other object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/18oct1954saintes.htm)” December 29, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2588 ### Event 11160 (27EF6AF5) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** Mrs. Paquet was tending her cows in a field in Moutier-Rozeille, Creuse, France at around ten o'clock in the morning when she suddenly heard a peculiar sounding language which she could not understand. The conversation came from a nearby heather field. Then two men approached to within 50 meters of Mrs. Paquet. One of them turned towards the mill of Mr. Blanchon, emitting a yell and making gestures. Two more men next showed up, and walked in the direction of the Rozeille River, where they then joined the first two and all four vanished. Fiteen minutes later Mrs. Paquet's dog began to bark furiously, and she see a silent dark cigar-shaped object rise into the air and disappear towards the southwest. The men were approximately 1.80 meters in height and wore dark blue combinations suits. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 184-185, citing La Montagne, October 27, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6947 ### Event 11161 (E9E81400) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** Cisternes-la-Foret, Puy-de-Dome, France. Messrs. J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, emitting a bright white light and resting in a field. When they approached it the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew off toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6948 ### Event 11162 (04F5C1FB) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** At Pont l’Abbe d’Arnoult, Charente-Maritime, France Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had never been so afraid, even during the war. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 196; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 283 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6949 ### Event 11163 (EACABD56) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** Driving a van four miles from Coheix, Puy-de-Dome, France Mr. Bachelard, age 42, was going around a bend in the road at 5:30 p.m. when he felt half paralyzed and his van's motor began missing and slowed to 20 mph. He then saw hovering in a nearby field a motionless, silent elongated or flattened object 30 feet long. A police investigation was conducted. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6950 ### Event 11164 (BEB3C447) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** An anonymous schoolboy returning from his evening studies in Louvigne-Du-Desert, Ille-Et-Vilaine, France was approaching the hamlet of Salmoniere when he suddenly saw a small being with an odd face, which frightened him enormously. The creature entered a machine that was lying in a ditch, and then the machine rose up in the air at a tremendous rate of speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6951 ### Event 11165 (B708211F) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** Fontenay-Torey, Oise, France. At 8:40 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a red, cigar-shaped object dive toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they were confronted by a bulky human figure about one meter (3.3 feet) tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was illuminated over 2 or 3 kilometers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-104 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6952 ### Event 11166 (B0BAB2EA) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** At 8:45 p.m. three witnesses observed a cylinder or rocket shaped device with several illuminated portholes following a complex trajectory along a river in Formerie, Oise department, France. The craft then landed close to the witnesses and several humanoids described as about 1.50 meters in height, with dark skin and wearing metallic helmets and metallic garments, exited the craft. As the witnesses watched stupefied, they suddenly experienced headaches and memory loss. Apparently they did not see the object and its occupants depart. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Claude Poher, GEPA “Statistics from 735 UFO observations” **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6953 ### Event 11167 (7EB32AAE) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** In Royan, Charente-Maritime, France Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two discs in the sky at 9:00 p.m, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous "bridge" between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots both objects flew away with a tremendous flash. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 193; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 285 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6954 ### Event 11168 (0EAE1C4C) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** At 10:45 p.m. Miss Marie Louise Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near an old factory in St.-Point Lake, Le Vezenay, Doubs, France. She was on a motorbike and saw that the luminous object was over the road. Next to it stood a man of normal stature in a trenchcoat. He was motionless, and he was joined by two dwarves who crossed the road ahead of her. She had to swerve to avoid hitting them.The craft took off, flying over the lake at a high speed. Small footprints were later found at the site. Jean-Luc Rivera thinks that woman was witnessing an abduction taking place, and that the man in trenchcoat was an abductee, and not one of the UFO occupants. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 97; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 197; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 233-234; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-106 (A0314); J. Tyrode, FSR Case Histories, October 1970, p. 16; Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6955 ### Event 11169 (80962057) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** Sometime before midnight 15-year-old Albert Geraud was on his bicycle on route D216 between Andigne and Saint-Martin du Bois, France when he saw a light that turned from green to red. It descended in a jerky motion and landed on the road, revealing a saucer-shaped object giving off a red gleam on the ground. The panicked witness felt like his legs were paralyzed. Inside the object he could see a small being covered with hair, that stared at him with large eyes. Abruptly the object lifted off, emitting a strong gush of wind toward the teenager, and it zipped away in the direction of Lyon. After the incident the witness had to lie prostrate in bed for several days. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 182-183, citing Ouest France, October 20, 1954; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 2435, citing Figuet & Ruchon **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6956 ### Event 11170 (2EAB3B34) **Date:** 10/18/1954 **Description:** At just before midnight salesman Renzo Pugina, age 37, was parking his car in Erba, Como, Italy after returning home from seeing a movie. Pugina noticed a soft glow in the park of the villa, but he attributed this to the moon. After he had climbed a half-flight of stairs connecting the lane to the villa, he observed a strange figure at the top of the steps, near to a tree. The creature was 1.3 meters tall, and facing to the right. The creature was surrounded by a soft, warm light and appeared to be wearing armor. It wore a helmet with a transparent visor, and it seemed most of the light emitted by the creature was concentrated at the top of its head. Its upper body was covered in slightly luminous overalls comprised of metallic scales while the lower part was contained by a large “pipe” 50 cm high and 20 centimeters wide (no legs were visible). A much smaller pipe 1.5 meters in length was attached horizontally to the first one, just centimeters above the ground. Near the end of this pipe was a luminous disc “as large as a bicycle wheel.” Its upper part was dome-shaped and orientated horizontally over the pipe, but there was no contact between the two elements. Pugina continued to climb the steps, but after a few seconds, the creature rotated his trunk towards him. He also slowly rotated his head, as if manipulated by a mechanism. The creature held a flashlight type device in its right hand, and it was directed at the witness, who instantly felt paralyzed when struck by a beam of light. He remained unable to move for some time. Pugina noticed that the outer features of the creature’s face were rather normal yet striking, featuring almost no forehead and eyes that were almond-shaped. Its face was olive in shade “as if it had been splashed with motor oil.” Once Pugina was able to grasp a bunch of keys in his hand he regained control of his body . Pugina took a few more steps forward, pronouncing in Italian the word “Marte!” (Mars!). He did this because he thought the being was a Martian, and in order to tell him not to leave. The creature appeared to grimace, and when Pugina advanced another step the creature alighted one meter off the ground and flew away along the villa lane, maintaining a flight path below the tree branches. The flight produced a soft buzzing noise. Pugina ran after him, but the creature disappeared around a curve. The entire sighting lasted but a few minutes. His wife was at home asleep but she woke up when Pugina made a hasty entrance. She saw he was in shock and could not speak, and was shivering. Pugina’s wife said that her husband shivered the rest of the night. The press reported that Pugina remained in bed for two days after his encounter. Some form of trace material was found on the gravel lane of the villa the following day. It was odorless, dry and greaseless. A couple of days later this trace area had greatly expanded. The local Carabinieri claimed that Pugina was a “normal” individual not known to drink or to suffer from psychological problems. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Maurizio Verga, When Saucers Came to Earth **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6957 ### Event 11171 (157DF06B) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Location:** LIVORNO, ITALY **Description:** UFO lands / field. Type unknown. 2 small red monsters chase farmer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 287) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4205 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LIVORNO,ITALY:UFO LANDS/FIELD:type unk:2 SML RED MONSTERS CHASE FARMER:", **LatLong:** "43.550002 10.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:33:00 N 10:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.550002,10.316667)", **State/Prov:** "LI", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11172 (192DA1DD) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Location:** OVER AVIGNON, FR **Description:** 2 Fr. Air Force jets chase white saucer / colored lights. Too fast. / Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO) NL and more / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 467) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4206 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ovr AVIGNON,FR:2 FR.AF JETS CHASE WHT SCR/CLRD LITES:TOO FAST:/Crifo NL+/r171", **LatLong:** "43.933335 4.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:56:00 N 04:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.933335,4.816667)", **State/Prov:** "Vaucluse", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11173 (B77FB3F6) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** TAZA, MAROC **Description:** Many civil and military observer(s). Silent aluminum cylinder/cigar-shape going southeast. Curves going east. Becomes spherical.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4207 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TAZA,MAROC:MANY CIV+MIL OBS:SLNT ALUM.CGR > SE:CURVES >E:becomes spherical..", **LatLong:** "34.233335 -4.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:00 N 04:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.233335,-4.000000)", **State/Prov:** "TZA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11174 (67852669) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** AMIENS, FR **Description:** 70 observer(s). Flaming object spins high / sky. Shoots green beams / light. / p34. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4208 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "AMIENS,FR:70 OBS:FLAMING OBJ SPINS HIGH/SKY:SHOOTS GREEN BEAMS/LITE:/p34", **LatLong:** "49.883336 2.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:53:00 N 02:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.883336,2.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11175 (8A018DCA) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** MONTLANDON, FR **Description:** Teen. Saucer going down [to] by woods near pasture. Man / white in space-suit exits. Police inquire. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4209 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTLANDON,FR:TEEN:SCR ↓ by WOODS nr PASTURE:MAN/WHT SPC-SUIT EXITS:POLICE INQ", **LatLong:** "47.850002 5.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:51:00 N 05:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.850002,5.483334)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11176 (113F5CBC) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** FAULQUEMONT, FR **Description:** 1 / car. Luminous/glowing object takes off from field. Night lights maneuver / separate observers. / LDLN#324. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4210 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "FAULQUEMONT,FR:1/CAR:LUMn OBJ TAKES OFF fm FIELD:NLTS MNVR/SEP.OBSs:/LDLN#324", **LatLong:** "49.050002 6.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:03:00 N 06:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.050002,6.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11177 (B5D0968A) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 19:00? **Location:** NEAR ST. AVOLD, FR **Description:** Saucer lands / field. Trees scorched and ground plowed up. Pigs? / LDLN#324. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4211 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr St.AVOLD,FR:SCR LANDS/FIELD:TREES SCORCHED+GND PLOWED UP:PIGS?:/LDLN#324", **LatLong:** "49.100002 6.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:06:00 N 06:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.100002,6.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11178 (BA9090FC) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** GORIZIA, ITL **Description:** 10M domed saucer / portholes lands. Quickly going up. Drags deflated balloon! / r8#288. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4212 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "GORIZIA,ITL:10M DOMED SCR/PORTHOLES LANDS:↑↑:DRAGS DEFLATED BALLOON!:/r8#288", **LatLong:** "45.933336 13.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:56:00 N 13:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.933336,13.583334)", **State/Prov:** "GO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11179 (5B77A8F0) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** ST. DIDIER-EN-VELAY, FR **Description:** 'Flame' buzzes truck. Motor and lights out. AOK after. / LDLN#321. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4213 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "St.DIDIER-en-VELAY,FR:'FLAME' BUZZES TRUCK:MOTOR+LITES OUT:AOK AFTER:/LDLN#321", **LatLong:** "45.300002 4.272222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:18:00 N 04:16:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.300002,4.272222)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11180 (BA254313) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** FABRIANO, MARCHE, ITL **Description:** 6M saucer / antenna hovers low. Robot(s)/android(s) going down [to] ladder. Gibberish. Reboard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4214 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FABRIANO,MARCHE,ITL:6M SCR/ANTENNA HOVERS LOW:RBTS ↓ LADDER:GIBBERISH:REBOARD", **LatLong:** "43.333335 12.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:20:00 N 12:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.333335,12.900001)", **State/Prov:** "Ancona", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11181 (A1CAD6E2) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** NORTH / KANKAKEE, IL **Description:** Several observer(s). 3 fast white disks going northeast. Hover. Pass plane. Turn going east and going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 962) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4215 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "N/KANKAKEE,IL:SVRL OBS:3 FAST WHT DISKS >NE:HVR:PASS PLANE:TURN >E+>SW", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -87.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 87:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-87.850004)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11182 (C9AAB234) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** LAQUEUILLE, FR **Description:** 2 / truck. Disk-sphere/orb/globe / ground level in woods. 'Arc-welder' glare. / LDLN#321. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4216 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LAQUEUILLE,FR:2/TRUCK:DISK-ORB/GND LVL IN WOODS:'ARC-WELDER' GLARE:/LDLN#321", **LatLong:** "45.650002 2.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:00 N 02:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.650002,2.733333)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11183 (96FC4361) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Location:** Livorno, Italy **Description:** Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in a field. Out of them came small, red, monstrous beings who chased him. In a state of great excitement Senesi was brought to a hospital, where he tried to hide under a bed, screaming and trembling in terror. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 85 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_287 ### Event 11184 (5ED7EA4C) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 1920 **Location:** Gorizia, Italy **Description:** Filippo Corridoni saw a half-empty balloon at ground level near the Isonzo River. Near it, a disk 10 m in diameter was resting on a strange frame. The upper part was white with a black domelike turret, around which was a series of portholes, some illuminated with a very bright, bluish-white light, which suddenly went out as the object took off spinning and rising vertically, pulling the balloon with it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 86 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_288 ### Event 11185 (E00CD49B) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Fabriano, Italy **Description:** Two men saw a disk-shaped object, 6 m diameter, hovering and emitting small violet flashes. On top of it was a very high antenna. Two small robotlike beings, 1.2 m tall, descended from it on a long ladder. Their eyes were "sharp" and dark red. They said something that sounded like "Dbano da skigyay o dbano," went back aboard their craft, and flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 87 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_289 ### Event 11186 (8DAFD7CB) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 0KT YieldMax: .001KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1046 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** ".001" ### Event 11187 (2DCAFCD3) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Location:** Criteuil-la-Madeleine, Charente, France **Description:** 8:00 p.m. A M. Fillonneau is driving in Criteuil-la-Madeleine, Charente, France, when he sees a bright fireball. His headlights go out and the engine stops, and he finds that his battery is completely dead and the headlight bulbs burned out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/19oct1954criteuil.htm)” February 5, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2589 ### Event 11188 (320538CD) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Location:** Parravicino, Como, Italy **Description:** Around 12:00 midnight. Renzo Pugina has just put his car in his garage at Parravicino, Como, Italy, when he sees a humanoid about 4 feet 3 inches tall in a scaly, luminous suit standing near a tree. The lower part of its body is like a cone. It aims a light beam at Pugina that paralyzes him briefly. He only manages to move some fingers, but with some concentration makes a clenching motion with his fist on the garage keys that he holds in his hand. Freed from the temporary paralysis, he runs to attack the intruder, who flees with a soft whirring sound. A police investigation finds a spot of oil at the location. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 235–236](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/234/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2590 ### Event 11189 (CE0C61F4) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At 9:10 a.m. a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object flew to the southeast over Taza, Tetouan, Morocco, then curved its trajectory to the east, becoming spherical. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4005, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #228 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6966 ### Event 11190 (E5D5CE41) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** On this day two French Air Force jets chased a white disc-shaped object with colored lights over Avignon, Vaucluse, France.The flying disc easily outpaced them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 1954, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6967 ### Event 11191 (356CADE8) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At noon 70 people in the city of Amiens, Somme, France saw a fiery object spinning high in sky, shooting out green beams of light. Also, at the same time in Montandon, Haute-Marne, France a teenager saw a saucer-shaped object land by some woods near a pasture. A man wearing a white spacesuit exited the craft. His report was investigated by the police. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues # 321 & 260 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6968 ### Event 11192 (DA37F773) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in a field in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. Out of the craft came several small, monstrous red beings that chased after him. Mr. Senesi was brought to a hospital in a state of great distress , where he tried to hide under a bed while screaming and trembling in terror. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 287, citing Il Messagero, October 20, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6969 ### Event 11193 (F835CF29) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** A 14-year-old girl in Montlandon, France reported seeing a strange disc-shaped object descend and land in a field next to some woods. A man dressed in a sort of white cassock or smock was seen briefly onboard the object. The craft immediately took off again and disappeared from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6970 ### Event 11194 (4F310AD5) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At 7:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object landed in a field in St. Avold, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Trees were scorched and the ground was plowed up at the landing site. Figures may have been seen. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 116 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6971 ### Event 11195 (A203C99E) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At 7:20 p.m. Filippo Corridoni saw what he thought was a half empty balloon at ground level near the Isonzo River in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. Near it, a ten-meter wide disc-shaped object was resting on a strange frame. The upper part of the disc was white with a black dome, around which was a series of portholes. Some of the portholes gave off a very bright, bluish-white light that suddenly went out as the object took off. The disc rose vertically while spinning and pulling the balloon with it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 288, citing Il Messagero, October 21, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6972 ### Event 11196 (41C87109) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At 8:45 p.m a flaming object buzzed a truck driving in St. Didier-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France causing the engine and headlights to die. They functioned again after the object departed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6973 ### Event 11197 (DE6ED8A3) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** Also at 8:45 p.m. near St. Samson-La-Poterie, France 25-year-old Andre Vasseur and his wife were returning home on their tandem bicycle and were approaching the descent that precedes Hericourt-St. Samson when their attention was drawn to a hovering red cigar shape gleaming in the sky. The shiny cigar-shaped object plunged abruptly towards the ground at a terrific clip, leaving behind a red trail and disappearing behind a hedge a few hundred meters from the road. When the young couple arrived at the top of the hill, Mrs. Vasseur cried about when she was confronted by a strange being on the edge of the road, just inches from her handlebars. The figure was of human shape, but squat, and his head was capped with a helmet that came down to the shoulders. The strange being stood staring fixedly at her, and a pencil beam of orange light came from his eyes, which followed the woman. His wife lost consciousness and fell into her husband's arms, but Andre continued on with his wife. When he turned around to look back the being had still not moved. They both suffered from insomnia after the incident. Police reportedly found mysterious footprints at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing LDLN **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6974 ### Event 11198 (3B9F330D) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. several UFOs flew over Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP files; Jacques Vallee citing Jimmy Guieu and Aime Michel **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6975 ### Event 11199 (E79E55FF) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At 10:30 p.m. in Fabriano, Marche, Italy two men, satirist Paolo Cutizi and writer Guilio Emery, were in a local park when they saw a disc-shaped object, six meters in diameter, hovering and emitting small violet flashes. On top of the object was a very tall antenna. Two small robot-like beings, 1.2 meters or four feet tall, descended from it on a long ladder. Their eyes were dark red and "sharp." They spoke something that sounded like "Dbanoda skigyay o dbano," then went back aboard their craft and flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 289, citing Il Messagero, October 24, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6976 ### Event 11200 (BF6EB0A2) **Date:** 10/19/1954 **Description:** At 11:50 p.m. a disc or orb-shaped object was seen at ground level in some woods in Laqueuille, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was seen by two witnesses from a truck, and reportedly had an 'arc-welder' glare. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6977 ### Event 11201 (85F55FE9) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Location:** ST.-VALERY-SUR-SOMME, FR **Description:** 2 groups / UFO's. 1 group lands / pasture. Both signal other / lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4217 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "St-VALERY-sur-SOMME,FR:2 GRPS/UFOS:1 GRP LANDS/PASTURE:BOTH SIGNAL OTHER/LITES", **LatLong:** "50.100002 1.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:06:00 N 01:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.100002,1.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11202 (F73790E2) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Location:** KYRENIA, CYPRUS **Description:** US diplomat. Fat silver cigar. Silent. No trail. Blue Book says British plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 473) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4218 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Cyprus", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KYRENIA,CYPRUS:US DIPLOMAT:FAT SLVR CIGAR:SILENT:NO TRAIL:BBK SAYS BRIT.PLANE", **LatLong:** "35.316668 33.344446", **LatLongDMS:** "35:19:00 N 33:20:40 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.316668,33.344446)", **State/Prov:** "TRK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11203 (60469568) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** ST.-REMY, FR **Description:** Observer(s) / very odd exchange with lost pseudo-human/entity. Saucer going up [to] and going quickly southeast. Must see / r30p190+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4219 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "St-REMY,FR:OBS/VERY ODD EXCHANGE W/LOST PSH:SCR ↑+>>SE:must see /r30p190+/r8", **LatLong:** "48.366669 6.827778", **LatLongDMS:** "48:22:00 N 06:49:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.366669,6.827778)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 11204 (07CB17AD) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** JEAN-MERMOZ, ALG **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous/glowing domed object going down. Going up [to] and sweeps area / blue beam. / LDLN#326. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4220 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "JEAN-MERMOZ,ALG:SVRL OBS:LUMn DOMED OBJ ↓:↑+ SWEEPS AREA/BLUE BEAM:/LDLN#326", **LatLong:** "35.561113 -0.094444", **LatLongDMS:** "35:33:40 N 00:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.561113,-0.094444)", **State/Prov:** "Oran", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11205 (3651F51E) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** NEVERS AND SAZI-BOURDON, NIEVRE **Description:** 30+observer(s). Brilliant saucer maneuvers. Rises until lost in clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4221 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NEVERS+SAZI-BOURDON,NIEVRE:30+ OBS:BRILL.SCR MNVRS:RISES until LOST/CLOUDS:", **LatLong:** "46.983336 3.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:59:00 N 03:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.983336,3.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11206 (1875559F) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** CHEVENON AND RAVEAU, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Red saucer going quickly southeast. Shines white beam going down. Leaves (something behind) trail. LDLN#321. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 193) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4222 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHEVENON+RAVEAU,FR:SVRL OBS:RED SCR >>SE:SHINES WHT BEAM↓:LVS TRAIL:LDLN#321", **LatLong:** "46.927780 3.227778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:55:40 N 03:13:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.927780,3.227778)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11207 (F36F5B20) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** CURCHY, FR **Description:** 1 observer riding train. Featureless silver saucer in sky. No further details. / p34. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4223 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CURCHY,FR:1 OBS RIDING TRAIN:FEATURELESS SLVR SCR IN SKY:NFD:/p34", **LatLong:** "49.766669 2.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:46:00 N 02:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.766669,2.850000)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11208 (350E2E31) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** SAFAD, ISRAEL **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape 1.5M thick circles city / 2 minutes. Smoke from rear. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 966) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4224 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "794", **HatchDesc:** "SAFAD,ISRAEL:SVRL OBS:CGR 1.5M THICK CCLS CITY/2 mins:SMOKE from REAR:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "32.966668 35.483335", **LatLongDMS:** "32:58:00 N 35:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.966668,35.483335)", **State/Prov:** "SFD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11209 (D57B6CC6) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NEAR GAVRES, FR **Description:** Ball / light going north and going down. 5 hairy small humanoids (or Greys) with pig noses. Bottle cracks. / r217p214. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4225 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr GAVRES,FR:BALL/LITE >N+↓:5 HAIRY OIDS W/ PIG NOSES:BOTTLE CRACKS:/r217p214", **LatLong:** "47.700002 -3.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:42:00 N 03:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.700002,-3.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11210 (2BEE3328) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** ~18:30 **Location:** TURQUENSTEIN FR **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Driver paralyzed and feels heat. Luminous UFO flies and symptoms gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4226 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "TURQUENSTEIN FR:CAR EMEs:DRIVER PRLZED+FEELS HEAT:LUM UFO FLIES+SYMPTOMS GONE.", **LatLong:** "48.561113 7.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:33:40 N 07:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.561113,7.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11211 (D6BDBB0E) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LUSIGNY FOREST, FR **Description:** 6M ovoid / treetops. Intense heat. Rain going [to] dense steam. Area dried! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 292) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4227 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "LUSIGNY FOREST,FR:6M OVOID/TREETOPS:INTENSE HEAT:RAIN>DENSE STEAM:AREA DRIED!", **LatLong:** "48.233336 4.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:14:00 N 04:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.233336,4.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Aube", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11212 (840A818E) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** ERBA / COMO, ITL **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) zaps man / tube. Temp paralysis. Flies / cone-saucer. Whirr! / r4p23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 979) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4228 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "ERBA/COMO,ITL:OID ZAPS MAN/TUBE:TEMP PARALYSIS:FLIES/CONE-SCR:WHIRR!:/r4p23", **LatLong:** "45.666669 9.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:00 N 09:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.666669,9.050000)", **State/Prov:** "CO", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11213 (3F2C4E3E) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Location:** Schirmeck, France **Description:** Motorist felt paralyzed, motor stalled, heat felt; UFO on road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1764 ### Event 11214 (5575C538) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Location:** Issenheim, France **Description:** Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83. It was luminous. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; 75 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_290 ### Event 11215 (42A5EF8B) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 0230 **Location:** Raon-l'Etage, France **Description:** Forty-year-old Lazlo Ujvari was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and cloth headgear (like a pilot's) who pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language, asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. When he asked the time, Ujvari said: "2:30." The man took his watch and said "You lie; it's 4:00." Then he wanted to know how far and in what direction Marseilles was. He made Ujvari walk on the road with him, and they came close to a gray craft with an antenna on top. When he was about 200 m away, he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly straight up, then take an oblique trajectory. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Carrouges 99; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_291 ### Event 11216 (4E773563) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Location:** Lusigny Forest, France **Description:** Roger Reveille saw an oval object, 6 m long, at treetop level, and felt intense heat from it. It took off vertically at great speed. Inside the woods, the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of dense smoke was forming under the rain. After 15 min the witness was able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground perfectly dry. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy; M 204 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_292 ### Event 11217 (A8DC3EA2) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Location:** Saint-Valery, France **Description:** Several unknown objects maneuvered for 2 hrs near this village. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two others were seen near the cliff in Mers, and seemed to be in communication by means of light signals with objects in another group. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 75 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_293 ### Event 11218 (43CE88B3) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Turquenstein, France **Description:** Mr. Schoubrenner, 25, a truck driver, saw a bright light in the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The engine died, and he felt paralyzed: "My hands were as though glued to the wheel." The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part phosphorescent, the middle dull, the top luminous with a yellow or orange point. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 76; M 204 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_294 ### Event 11219 (3F25FF13) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Panavicino d'Erba, Italy **Description:** Renzo Pugina, 37, bad just put his car in the garage when he saw a strange being covered with a "scaly" luminous suit, about 1.3 m tall, standing near a tree. The creature aimed the beam from a sort of flashlight at him, and he felt paralyzed, until a motion he made when clenching his fist on the garage keys seemed to free him. He attacked the intruder, who rose and fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot was found at the site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 77;Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_295 ### Event 11220 (E97D6B72) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Location:** Turquestein-Blancrupt, Moselle, France **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Jean Schonbrenner is driving a truck southbound near Turquestein-Blancrupt, Moselle, France, when he sees a bright glow ahead on route N393. He continues to drive but feels paralyzed, his hands glued to the wheel. At about 30 feet away, his engine stops and the yellow-orange glow rises slowly and heads northwest. He feels a sensation of warmth and sees that the glow contains a cone-shaped object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 203; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 17–18; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20oct1954turquestein.htm)” April 21, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2591 ### Event 11221 (63B04BB2) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Locations:** Biozat; Alliers; Effiat; Puy-de-Dome, France **Description:** 9:15 p.m. Jean Lalle \(or Jean Lasse\) is riding a motorcycle between Biozat, Alliers, and Effiat, Puy-de- Dome, France, when his engine dies suddenly. He sees an egg-shaped object with a bright trail climbing in the sky. The motorcycle restarts once the object has left. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20oct1954effiat.htm)” December 21, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2592 ### Event 11222 (DAB0DC2F) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Description:** Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83 in Issenheim, Haut-Rhin, France. It was luminous. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 290 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6994 ### Event 11223 (D023E551) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Description:** At 2:30 a.m. Lazlo Ujvari, age 40, saw a dark domed disc in Raon-l'Etape, Vosges, France that made a whining noise. He was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and some type of cloth headgear, like a pilot's leather helmet. The man pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language. He asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. When he asked the time, Ujvari said "2:30." The man took out a watch and said "You lie, it's 4:00." Then he wanted to know how far away and in what direction was Marseilles. He forced Ujvari to walk with him on the road, and they soon came to a gray craft with an antenna on top. The man left him there and went aboard. When Ujvari had walked about 200 meters from the craft he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly straight up, then take an oblique trajectory. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 291; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 99 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6995 ### Event 11224 (3C3BD7C3) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Description:** On or about this date, in Binghamton, New York a Mr. White reported that he met two humanoids dressed in metallic snowsuits on the golf course. They spoke English with a peculiar accent, and said they would intervene in the event of a nuclear war. The UFO they arrived in was round, disc-shaped with a glass ring on the rim. Ground traces included burnt soil in a circle 14 feet in diameter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP case files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6996 ### Event 11225 (D678A09B) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Description:** During a rainstorm on this late afternoon in the Lusigny Forest in Aube department, France Roger Reveille saw an oval flying object close to the ground. It was six meters long and hovered at treetop level. He felt intense heat coming from it. It shot up vertically at great speed. Inside the woods the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of dense smoke had formed under the rain. After 15 minutes the witness was able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground perfectly dry. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 292 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6997 ### Event 11226 (614F4704) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Description:** Several unknown objects maneuvered for two hours near the village of St-Valery, Somme, France. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two others were seen near a cliff in Mers, France. They appeared to be in communication with UFOs in another group by means of light signals. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 293; Paris Presse, October 22, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6998 ### Event 11227 (A371A0A8) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Description:** In Turquenstein, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Schoubrenner, a 25-year-old truck driver, saw a bright light in the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The engine died, and he felt paralyzed: "My hands were as though glued to the wheel." He also felt a sensation of heat inside his vehicle. The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part phosphorescent, the middle dull, and the top luminous with a yellow or orange point. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 203-204; Flying Saucers, September 1962, p. 34; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 294 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6999 ### Event 11228 (0F2441B5) **Date:** 10/20/1954 **Description:** On this evening Mr. Renzo Pugina, age 37, had just parked his car in the garage at his residence in Parravicino d'Erba, Italy when he saw a strange being wearing a "scaly" luminous suit. It stood near a tree and was about 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) tall. The entity had what looked like a flashlight, and aimed a beam of light from it at him. He felt paralyzed and was unable to move until he made a clenching motion with his fist on the garage keys that he held in his hand. Freed from the temporary paralysis he ran to attack the intruder, who fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot was found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 235-236, case 295 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7000 ### Event 11229 (98CD75F0) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** MELITO, ITL **Description:** UFO lands. Figure / diving suit lights area. Observer(s) frozen / beam. / r8#297. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4229 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MELITO,ITL:UFO LANDS:FIG/DIVING SUIT LITES AREA:OBS FROZEN/BEAM:/r8#297", **LatLong:** "37.933335 15.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "37:56:00 N 15:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.933335,15.783334)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11230 (BAA4E528) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** GIRANCOURT, VOSGES **Description:** Many observer(s) / separate areas. Vertical cylinder/cylindrical object hangs / sky. Changes color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 194) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4230 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "GIRANCOURT,VOSGES:MANY OBS/SEP.AREAS:VERTICAL CYL HANGS/SKY:CHANGES CLRS", **LatLong:** "48.150002 6.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:09:00 N 06:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.150002,6.316667)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11231 (9C3F78BC) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** POZZUOLI, ITALY **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver saucer stops overhead. Dog sees and yelps and falls dead / FSRv18#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 474) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4231 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "POZZUOLI,ITALY:SVRL OBS:SLVR SCR STOPS OVHD:DOG SEES+YELPS+FALLS DEAD/FSRv18#3", **LatLong:** "40.816669 14.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "40:49:00 N 14:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.816669,14.133334)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11232 (B83D1BDF) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / RANTON, STAFFS **Description:** 4 observer(s). Saucer hovers low over house. 2 pseudo-human/entity / clear dome. Missing time? Going north. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4232 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **TLP:** Telepathy, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "86", **HatchDesc:** "SE/RANTON,STAFFs:4 OBS:SCR HVRS LO OVR HOUSE:2 PSH/CLR DOME:MST?:>N:/FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "52.800003 -2.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:48:00 N 02:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.800003,-2.200000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11233 (BB0BB78B) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** REUTINGER WEST GERM **Description:** 2 white ovoids going quickly northwest 'at dizzying speed'. Est altitude 5-6 KM. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 155) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4233 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "REUTINGER W GERM:2 WHITE OVOIDS >>NW 'AT DIZZYING SPEED':EST ALT 5-6 KM.", **LatLong:** "48.483336 9.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:29:00 N 09:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.483336,9.683334)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11234 (49BA2E4F) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** BRAY-SUR-SEINE AND LAGNY AND MORET AND THOMERY, FR **Description:** 20M yellow-orange disk hovers. Away / 10000kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 971) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4234 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRAY-sur-SEINE+LAGNY+MORET+THOMERY,FR:20M YLW-ORG DISK HVRS:AWAY/10000kph", **LatLong:** "48.433336 3.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:26:00 N 03:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.433336,3.233333)", **RelAlt:** "350", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11235 (E71E7C13) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** TEXEL ISLAND, NETHERLANDS **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Red-glowing saucer speeds going quickly northeast. Jet-speed and more. 1200' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4235 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TEXEL Isl,NETHERLANDS:NMRS OBS:RED-GLO SCR SPEEDS>>NE:JET-SPEED+:1200'alt", **LatLong:** "53.166669 4.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:10:00 N 04:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.166669,4.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11236 (232E79CD) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NEAR ST. MARTIN-AUX-CHARTRAINS **Description:** 2+several separate observer(s). Saucer rises / roadside brush. / LDLN#324. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4236 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr St.MARTIN-aux-CHARTRAINS:2+SVRL SEP.OBS:SCR RISES/ROADSIDE BRUSH:/LDLN#324", **LatLong:** "49.305558 0.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:18:20 N 00:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.305558,0.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Calvados", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11237 (091FF4BE) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** CRITEUIL-LA-MAGDELEINE, FR **Description:** Fireball stops car. Big electro-magnetic effect (EME). Violent gusts. / r217p31. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4237 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CRITEUIL-la-MAGDELEINE,FR:FBL STOPS CAR:BIG EME:VIOLENT GUSTS:/r217p31", **LatLong:** "45.538891 -0.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:32:20 N 00:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.538891,-0.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11238 (1612E559) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / PLOUGASTEL, FR **Description:** Naval Engineer and 1. Very luminous lens disk hovers / 8km altitude. Clouds intervene.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 971) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4238 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NE/PLOUGASTEL,FR:NAVAL ENGNR+1:VLUMn.LENS DISK HVRS/8km alt:CLOUDS INTERVENE..", **LatLong:** "48.077780 -4.311111", **LatLongDMS:** "48:04:40 N 04:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.077780,-4.311111)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11239 (B983A5C3) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEAR POUZOU, FR **Description:** 2 / car. Electric shocks. Motor and lights electro-magnetic effect (EME). Bright saucer hovers. / r217p31+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4239 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "nr POUZOU,FR:2/CAR:ELECTR SHOCKS:MOTOR+LITES EME:BRITE SCR HVRS:/r217p31+/r8", **LatLong:** "45.988891 -0.422222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:59:20 N 00:25:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.988891,-0.422222)", **State/Prov:** "Charente-Maritime", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11240 (7EB20526) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Location:** La Rochelle (near), France **Description:** Motorist and child felt shock and heat, motor and headlights failed; then luminous UFO became visible ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1765 ### Event 11241 (C19559E8) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Location:** Pons, France **Description:** An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 m diameter, hovered and landed near the road. Two dwarfs, about 1.25 m tall, emerged from it, and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically leaving a red trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_296 ### Event 11242 (3F6C7AA8) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Location:** Melito, Italy **Description:** A young man walking in a field heard a rustling noise and saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of the pilot into the craft, which took off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 88 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_297 ### Event 11243 (BE198652) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 1645 **Location:** Ranton, Great Britain **Description:** Near Shrewsbury, Jennie Roestenberg and her two children observed a diskshaped, aluminum object hovering above the house. Through two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene "sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_298 ### Event 11244 (66F5B576) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 2000 **Location:** Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France **Description:** The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stoped as a large ball of fire flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. "The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out." Thorough police investigation failed to identify the cause of the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 79 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_299 ### Event 11245 (2824D662) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Pouzou, France **Description:** Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his 4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when it went away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 80; M 341 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_300 ### Event 11246 (4457ACC7) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Location:** Melito di Napoli, Italy **Description:** A young man hears a rustling sound and sees a landed UFO outside Melito di Napoli, Italy. It gives off a powerful bronze-green light. He then sees an occupant dressed in a diving suit emerge. A dog begins barking and the entity retreats inside and takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 61 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2593 ### Event 11247 (965AB260) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Location:** Ranton, Stafford, England **Description:** 4:45 p.m. Jessie Roestenburg and her two children observe a disc-shaped, aluminum object hovering above their house in Ranton, Stafford, England. Through two transparent panels they see two men with white skin, having shoulder-length hair and high foreheads. They wear transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing resembling ski suits. The object hovers at a tilted angle while the two occupants look at the scene “sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 268; Charles Bowen, “[Few and Far Between,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 4; Gordon Creighton, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201993%20V%2038%20N%201.pdf) [Roestenburg Story \(1954\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201993%20V%2038%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 38, no. 1 \(Spring 1993\): 6–9; Curt Collins, “[Jessie](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2018/10/jessie-roestenburgs-1954-ufo-encounter.html) [Roestenburg’s 1954 UFO Encounter and Beyond,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2018/10/jessie-roestenburgs-1954-ufo-encounter.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, October 19, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2594 ### Event 11248 (74D95490) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Locations:** Paillé; Pouzou; Charente-Maritime, France **Description:** Evening. A motorist is driving on the D220 road with his 4-year-old son between Paillé and Pouzou, Charente-Maritime, France. He feels a tingling like electric shocks all over his body. The child cries, the engine stops, and the headlights go out as a luminous red body with a tail flashes briefly in front of them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 204; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 18–19; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/21oct1954pouzou.htm)” April 21, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2595 ### Event 11249 (31EEAC34) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Location:** Woomera Test Range in South Australia **Description:** 9:25 p.m. Three observers at the Woomera Test Range in South Australia see an erratic, dancing light adjacent to rocket Launcher Apron 1, Range B, approximately 500 feet away. The light alternates from deep orange to yellow and is egg-shaped. Its apparent size is three times the magnitude of Venus. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Dancing](http://www.nicap.org/541021australia%5Fdir.htm) [Light Adjacent to Rocket Launcher](http://www.nicap.org/541021australia%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2596 ### Event 11250 (5CD96508) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Description:** An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 meters in diameter, hovered and landed near the road in Pons, France. Two dwarf humanoids, about 1.25 meters (4.1 feet) tall, emerged from it, and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically leaving a red trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7007 ### Event 11251 (479DA99F) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Description:** A young man walking in a field in Melito, Italy heard a rustling noise and saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of the pilot into the craft, which took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7008 ### Event 11252 (B3BB551A) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Description:** Ranton, England. Near Shrewsbury, England Jennie Roestenberg and her two children observed a disc-shaped, aluminium object hovering above their house at 4:45 p.m. Through two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene "sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon Creighton, FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7009 ### Event 11253 (DEF41939) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Description:** Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France. The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stopped when a large fiery ball flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. "The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out. " Thorough police investigation failed to identify the cause of the phenomenon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236; Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7010 ### Event 11254 (FF7100F1) **Date:** 10/21/1954 **Description:** Pouzou, France. Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his 4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when it went away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236-237 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7011 ### Event 11255 (9B48EE95) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Location:** AVELLINO, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucer over railroad/railway station. All fluoro lights dim. Separate observer(s) / Atripalda. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 977) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4240 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AVELLINO,ITL:SVRL OBS:SCR OVR RR STATn:ALL FLUORO LITES DIM:SEP.OBS/ATRIPALDA", **LatLong:** "40.966669 14.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:58:00 N 14:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.966669,14.766667)", **State/Prov:** "AVL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11256 (5991693A) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Radio shrieks. Dog barks. Huge silent red disk with halo circles. / Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4241 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "206", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:RADIO SHRIEKS:DOG BARKS:HUGE SLNT RED DISK W/HALO CIRCLES:/CRIFO", **LatLong:** "39.111113 -84.538893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:40 N 84:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.111113,-84.538893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11257 (D49FA828) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** SEGRE, FR **Description:** 3 / farm. Odd white cloud going down. Lights / ends. Lights road like day! / LDLN#324. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4242 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SEGRE,FR:3/FARM:ODD WHT CLOUD ↓:LITES/ENDS:LITES ROAD LIKE DAY!:/LDLN#324", **LatLong:** "47.688891 -0.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:41:20 N 00:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.688891,-0.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11258 (8C9D4E84) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** LUNEVILLE, FR **Description:** Oval landing traces / carrot patch. Flat ground. Indents and burns. / r217p116. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 324) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4243 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "LUNEVILLE,FR:OVAL LANDING TRACES/CARROT PATCH:FLAT GND:INDENTS+BURNS:/r217p116", **LatLong:** "48.566669 6.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:34:00 N 06:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.566669,6.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Meurthe-et-Moselle", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11259 (357BB49C) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** JEROME, OH **Description:** School principal and 62. Cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers. Portholes. Going quickly west. Angel hair going down. / r49p158. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 973) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4244 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "299", **HatchDesc:** "JEROME,OH:SCHOOL PRINCIPAL+62:CGR MNVRS:PORTHOLES:>>W:ANGEL HAIR ↓:/r49p158 ", **LatLong:** "40.155557 -83.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:09:20 N 83:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.155557,-83.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11260 (2909B017) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** ERCHIN WOOD SOUTH / LEWARDE, FR **Description:** Miner. Small furry small humanoid (or Grey) with brown skullcap. No UFO seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4245 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ERCHIN WOOD S/LEWARDE,FR:MINER:SML FURRY OID W/BROWN SKULLCAP:NO UFO SEEN", **LatLong:** "50.333336 3.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:20:00 N 03:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.333336,3.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11261 (E81288D2) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** N42 NEAR ECAILLON, FR **Description:** Motorcycle malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Cylinder/cigar-shape / field. 4+figure(s) inside. 1 speaks chinese. / r30p195. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4246 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "N42 nr ECAILLON,FR:MCYCLE EMES:CGR/FLD:4+FIGS INSIDE:1 speaks chinese:/r30p195", **LatLong:** "50.316669 3.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:19:00 N 03:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.316669,3.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11262 (83262BA0) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** GUETHARY, FR **Description:** 1 / beach. Disk emerges / sea! 3-4 beams. Dives. Lights / water. Going up [to] and away fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4247 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GUETHARY,FR:1/BEACH:DISK EMERGES/SEA!:3-4 BEAMS:DIVES:LITES/WATER:↑+AWAY FAST", **LatLong:** "43.427780 -1.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:25:40 N 01:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.427780,-1.616667)", **State/Prov:** "PYA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11263 (346EEEE6) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Location:** Marysville, OH **Description:** School principal, teacher, 60 students saw silver cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes" hover over school, then speed away; "angel's hair" fell. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1766 ### Event 11264 (441426ED) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Location:** Fôret de Lusigny, Aube, France **Description:** Afternoon. Roger Reveillé is walking in the Fôret de Lusigny, Aube, France, when he hears a rustling noise. He looks up and sees an oval-shaped object about 20 feet long at treetop level. At the same time he feels an intense heat that also seems to be creating a thick fog. After a few minutes the object disappears upward, but the heat continues. Although it is raining, the ground underneath where the object had been is dry. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 204; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 18; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22oct1954lusigny.htm)” September 28, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2598 ### Event 11265 (245EAD25) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Location:** Jerome, Ohio **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Principal [Rodney Warrick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202448597/rodney-r-warrick) and teacher Mrs. George Dittmar of Jerome, Ohio, Special School watch a large, silvery, cigar-shaped object hanging motionless in the sky. Soon it takes off, and in its wake it leaves a trail of whitish, web-like substance that floats down and begins to hang from wires along the road. It descends in both strands and balls for 45 minutes. Both adults get greenish stains on their hands from it. All of it dissipates, but the substance placed in closed jars dissipates more slowly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Strange ‘Flying Cigar’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93774701/) [Puzzles Union](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93774857/) [Countians,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93774857/)” Marion \(Ohio\) Star, November 2, 1954, pp. 1, 10; “[Web-Spinning Saucer Visits Marysville, Ohio,](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter, December 3, 1954, p. 5; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 3–4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2599 ### Event 11266 (98627DBF) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Description:** At four o'clock in the morning an object that resembled a white cloud with lights on each end descended over a country road in Segre, Maine-et-Loire, France. It illuminated the road like daylight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 119 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7014 ### Event 11267 (D7E94C6A) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Description:** At 7:20 p.m. engine of a motorcycle died in Ecaillon, Nord, France and then a cigar-shaped UFO was seen in a field by the rider. Four of more beings were seen inside the craft. One spoke an unintelligible language which sounded like "Chinese" to the listener. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 216 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7015 ### Event 11268 (7CAC750A) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object emerged from the ocean off the coast of Guethary, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France. When it dove down it illuminated the surface of the water. It then made a final ascent and flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4040, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 118 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7016 ### Event 11269 (FA64BD02) **Date:** 10/22/1954 **Description:** At 3:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with portholes maneuvered in the sky over a school in Marysville, Ohio accompanied by many smaller discs. It was witnessed by 60 students of Jerome Elementary School and teachers Rodney Warrick and Mrs. George Dittmar, as well as thousands of witnesses at an afternoon high school football game. The silver cigar-shaped object traveled at high speed, and wafted a blanket of a web-like material, commonly referred to as "angel hair," which fell to the ground over a three mile area. The UFO flew off quickly in a westward direction. Within minutes of touching the substance it would disappear, leaving a green stain on the fingers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Marysville (OH) Journal-Tribune, October 25, 1954 & July 22, 1958; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, December 1954, p. 5; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 59; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7017 ### Event 11270 (FB2A27BD) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Location:** BUENOS AIRES, ARG **Description:** Cops and workers. Disk maneuvers over town. Luminous rays alternate colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4248 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "BUENOS AIRES,ARG:COPS+WORKERS:DISK MNVRs OVR TOWN:LUM RAYS ALTERNATE COLORS", **LatLong:** "-34.600002 -58.483336", **LatLongDMS:** "34:36:00 S 58:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.600002,-58.483336)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11271 (87EC8759) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Location:** LA CUMBRE AIRPORT, ARG **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers. Star-like disk maneuvers / high altitude. Brightens and dims. Then going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4249 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1130", **HatchDesc:** "La CUMBRE AIRPORT,ARG:ATCs:STARLIKE DISK MNVRS/HI ALT:BRIGHTENS+DIMS:then >>W", **LatLong:** "-30.966668 -64.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "30:58:00 S 64:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.966668,-64.500003)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11272 (81482538) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** SAN GIUSEPPI VESUVIANO, ITL **Description:** 2M UFO / roadside. White light going quickly [to] red glowing on takeoff. / r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4250 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SAN GIUSEPPI VESUVIANO,ITL:2M UFO/ROADSIDE:WHT LITE>>RED GLO ON TAKEOFF:/r8", **LatLong:** "40.838891 14.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "40:50:20 N 14:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.838891,14.533334)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11273 (4AFCA4FE) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NEAR TRIPOLI, LIBYA **Description:** Farmer. Saucer with wheels and tubes and antennas and ladder and portholes.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4251 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Libya", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "nr TRIPOLI,LIBYA:FARMER:SCR W/WHEELS+TUBES+ANTNNAS+LADDER+PORTHOLES..", **LatLong:** "32.800002 13.200001", **LatLongDMS:** "32:48:00 N 13:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.800002,13.200001)", **State/Prov:** "TRI", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11274 (F66C0815) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 05:10 **Location:** ERNEMONT / BUCHY, FR **Description:** Brill crescent going down. 3 shadows exit / different directions. Outages. Repeats! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4252 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "ERNEMONT/BUCHY,FR:BRILL CRESCENT ↓:3 SHADOWS EXIT/diff dirs:OUTAGES:repeats!", **LatLong:** "49.533336 1.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:32:00 N 01:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.533336,1.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11275 (AA81E56A) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** MENDOZA, ARG **Description:** 5+cop. Shiny disks maneuver over steel framing construction. Colored beams. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 977) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4253 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "823", **HatchDesc:** "MENDOZA,ARG:5+COP:SHINY DISKS MNVR ovr STEEL FRAMING CONTRUCTION:COLORED BEAMS", **LatLong:** "-32.883335 -68.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:53:00 S 68:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.883335,-68.783337)", **State/Prov:** "MND", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11276 (62B0F9B7) **Date:** 10/23/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** SHABANI, SOUTH RHODESIA **Description:** Miners panic. Illuminated object hovers over gold mine. "God has come!". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 978) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4254 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SHABANI,S.RHODESIA:MINERS PANIC:ILLUMN.OBJ HVRS OVR GOLD MINE:"God has come!"", **LatLong:** "-20.300001 30.016668", **LatLongDMS:** "20:18:00 S 30:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.300001,30.016668)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "ZIM", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11277 (83A33AB3) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ST. HILAIRE-DES-LOGES, FR **Description:** Saucer / sky nears. Family hides. Great silence. / LDLN#321. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4255 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ST HILAIRE-des-LOGES,FR:SCR/SKY NEARS:FAMILY HIDES:GREAT SILENCE:/LDLN#321", **LatLong:** "46.472224 -0.661111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:28:20 N 00:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.472224,-0.661111)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11278 (F5E58A94) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NHILL, VCT **Description:** 3 observer(s). "3M" glowing-saucer hovers / 3 minutes / 100' altitude. Vanishes or goes dark. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 993) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4256 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "151", **HatchDesc:** "NHILL,VCT:3 OBS:"3M" GLOW-SCR HVRS/3mins/100'alt:VANISHES or goes dark", **LatLong:** "-36.333335 141.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "36:20:00 S 141:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.333335,141.666673)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11279 (9DBD348C) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Location:** Cincinnati, OH **Description:** Radio made harsh shrieking noise, volume increased; then reddish disc seen circling overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1768 ### Event 11280 (90670CE3) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Location:** Tinker AFB, OK **Description:** (McDonald list) FPS-10 Tracks UFO at 3200 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [541023](http://www.nicap.org/541023tinkerdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1769 ### Event 11281 (E85F10D2) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Location:** Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges, France **Description:** Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a luminous disk in the sky and alled her family. When everyone saw the object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night. They did not observe the object's departure. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 81 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_301 ### Event 11282 (53273B21) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 0100 **Location:** San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy **Description:** Two persons in a car saw an object resting by fhe side of the road. They stopped and walked toward the craft, 2 m diameter, which suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 89 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_302 ### Event 11283 (94FEBD52) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Time:** 0300 **Location:** Tripoli, Libya **Description:** A farmer saw a flying craft descend to ground level about 50 m away, with a sound like that of a compressor. It was an egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was transparent, flooded with bright white light. Aboard were six men in yellowish coveralls, having human faces and masks. When he touched part of the craft, the witness felt a strong electric shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next 2O min, the witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with instruments. Reliable investigations were made. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_303 ### Event 11284 (CB34ABA3) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 62KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1047 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "62" ### Event 11285 (FAD27FBB) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** 1:30 a.m. A woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, has fallen asleep listening to the radio. Suddenly it makes a harsh shrieking noise and the volume increases. Dogs begin barking in the neighborhood, so she looks outside and sees a large reddish-orange disc with a halo around it moving in a circle overhead. After a minute it moves off to the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Fort Wayne and Cincinnati Tie-In,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9 \(December 3, 1954\): 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2600 ### Event 11286 (7ADB9C90) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Locations:** Tripoli; Verona; Italy **Description:** 3:00 a.m. A farmer named Carmelo Papotto near Tripoli, Verona, Italy, watches a UFO land 150 feet away with a sound like a compressor. It seems to be an oval machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half is transparent and flooded with bright light. Aboard are six men in yellowish overalls with human faces. When he touches part of the object, he gets an electric shock. One occupant warns him to stay away. For the next 20 minutes he watches them fiddle with instruments. The object then rises to 150 feet and takes off at a dizzying speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/236/mode/2up); 1Pinotti 61–62; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 17–18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2601 ### Event 11287 (6CFE483C) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Description:** At one o'clock in the morning two persons in a car saw an object resting by the side of the road in San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy. They stopped and walked toward the craft, which was two meters in diameter. As they approached it suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Il Tempo, October 23, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 302 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7035 ### Event 11288 (23AF7E34) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m. EDT in Cincinnati, Ohio a witness heard his radio shriek and his dog began barking. He looked out and saw a huge silent red disc surrounded by halo circles. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, December 1954, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7036 ### Event 11289 (6287D270) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Description:** A farmer named Carmelo Papotto in Tripoli, Libya saw a flying craft descend to ground level at 3:00 a.m. It hovered about 50 meters away, making a sound like that of an air compressor. It was an egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was transparent and flooded with a bright white light. Aboard were six men in yellowish coveralls; they looked human and had on facemasks. When he touched part of the craft he got a strong electric shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next twenty minutes the witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with their instruments. Reliable investigations were made. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 303; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-113 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7037 ### Event 11290 (AB44D42F) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Description:** At 5:10 a.m. a brilliant crescent-shaped object landed in Ernemont, France. Three shadowy figures exited the object and went in different directions. This was followed by a power outage. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4044 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7038 ### Event 11291 (A3FF2953) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Description:** On this afternoon baker M. Lelu was in his vehicle on Route 101 in Trondes, France and had come to a bend on the road when he spotted two phosphorescent points of light near a glade. He approached the area, thinking it was another car, when he saw a tall blond haired man standing immobile in a nearby field. Thinking that the figure might be an extraterrestrial he drove away from the area in order to get additional witnesses. Later, the harassed owner of the field claimed that the mysterious blond figure was merely a Polish farmer, but this was never confirmed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7039 ### Event 11292 (EE6D104A) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Description:** Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse in the evening in St. Hilaire-des-Loges, Vendee, France when she saw a luminous disc hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless night inside. They did not observe the object's departure, but noticed an unnatural silence that pervaded the area. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** France-Soir, October 26, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 301 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7040 ### Event 11293 (6B864ADA) **Date:** 10/23/1954 **Description:** That same night a big, bifurcated "black radish" shaped creature was seen walking around Wittenheim, Haut-Rhin department, France. Mr. Muller, a policeman, saw the being in his garden. There were three other witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Paris Radar, October 31, 1954; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-114 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7041 ### Event 11294 (CD0DC779) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Location:** AIN-EL-TURCK, ALG **Description:** Small man with glowing eyes on beach near Oran. No further details. / r8#304. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4257 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey" **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AIN-el-TURCK,ALG:SMALL MAN WITH GLOWING EYES on BEACH nr ORAN:NFD:/r8#304", **LatLong:** "35.766668 -0.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "35:46:00 N 00:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.766668,-0.783333)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11295 (76E3ED3C) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** CASTIGLIONE D / PESCAIA, ITL **Description:** Buzz. Small humanoid (or Grey) boards 2M saucer / marsh. Going / low altitude. Traces. / r8#308. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4258 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CASTIGLIONE d/PESCAIA,ITL:BUZZ:OID BOARDS 2M SCR/MARSH:>/LO alt:traces:/r8#308", **LatLong:** "42.766669 10.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 10:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,10.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Grosseto", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11296 (1F6E3A8F) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LALIZOLLE, FR **Description:** 3M saucer going down [to] in woods. 3M / flat grass. Dogs refuse / go near. / r30p197. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4259 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LALIZOLLE,FR:3M SCR ↓ in WOODS:3M/FLAT GRASS:DOGS REFUSE/GO NEAR:/r30p197", **LatLong:** "46.155558 3.005556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:09:20 N 03:00:20 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.155558,3.005556)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11297 (8B474C53) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** GRAVATAI AIR FORCE BASE, BRZ **Description:** Many. Silver 30M saucers circle. Abrupt maneuvers. 1 going quickly southwest. / r111p48+/ r242p119. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 979) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4260 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "210", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "GRAVATAI AFB,BRZ:MANY:SLVR 30M SCRS CCL:ABRUPT MNVRS:1>>SW:/r111p48+/r242p119", **LatLong:** "-29.900001 -50.983336", **LatLongDMS:** "29:54:00 S 50:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.900001,-50.983336)", **RelAlt:** "12000", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11298 (26B1F760) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / RANTON, STAFFS **Description:** 3+observer(s). Huge wingless aluminum fuselage curves into clouds going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4261 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "86", **HatchDesc:** "SE/RANTON,STAFFs:3+OBS:HUGE WINGLESS ALUM.FUSELAGE CURVES into CLOUDS >N", **LatLong:** "52.783336 -2.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:47:00 N 02:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.783336,-2.216667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11299 (CE7A1014) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** POINTE-AUX-OIES, FR **Description:** Railroad/railway inspector takes 2 photographs / saucer. Parabolic arc going down [to] and going up / 20 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4262 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "POINTE-aux-OIES,FR:RR INSPECTOR takes 2 FOTOS/SCR:PARABOLIC ARC ↓+↑/20sec", **LatLong:** "50.783336 1.633333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:47:00 N 01:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.783336,1.633333)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11300 (902877C3) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** LES EGOTS, FR **Description:** Girl. Basket-saucer going down. Windows. Small humanoid (or Grey) walks stiffly. Hairy face.. / r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4263 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "LES EGOTS,FR:GIRL:BASKET-SCR↓:WINDOWS:OID WALKS STIFFLY:HAIRY FACE..:/r8", **LatLong:** "45.600002 4.577778", **LatLongDMS:** "45:36:00 N 04:34:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.600002,4.577778)", **State/Prov:** "Rhône", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11301 (32D03A61) **Date:** 10/24/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTH / PAIMBOEUF, FR **Description:** 1+1+1 observer(s). Saucer / marsh by railroad/railway tracks. Glows. Going up [to] and shoots away. / LDLN#324. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4264 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "S/PAIMBOEUF,FR:1+1+1 OBS:SCR/MARSH by RR TRACKS:GLOWS:↑+SHOOTS AWAY:/LDLN#324", **LatLong:** "47.272224 -2.022222", **LatLongDMS:** "47:16:20 N 02:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.272224,-2.022222)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11302 (CDEFA5BE) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** D984 NEAR BIOZAT, FR **Description:** Scooter electro-magnetic effects (EME). Ovoid silently rises / roadside. Bright trail. / r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4265 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "D984 nr BIOZAT,FR:SCOOTER EME'S:OVOID SILENTLY RISES/ROADSIDE:BRITE TRAIL:/r8", **LatLong:** "46.055558 3.277778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:03:20 N 03:16:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.055558,3.277778)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11303 (C1E9ED66) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** PANCOLE, ITL **Description:** Doctor / car. Luminous/glowing globe stops / 20M altitude 50M away. Quickly going up [to] when car stops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4266 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PANCOLE,ITL:DOCTOR/CAR:LUMN GLOBE STOPS/20M alt 50M away:↑↑ when car stops", **LatLong:** "42.716669 11.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "42:43:00 N 11:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.716669,11.300001)", **State/Prov:** "Grosseto", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11304 (E3FA009B) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Location:** Porto Alegre, Brazil **Description:** Formation of silver, circular objects sped over Air Force base. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1770 ### Event 11305 (7632BE08) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Location:** Ain-el-Turck, Algeria **Description:** A small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the Mediterranean shore. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_304 ### Event 11306 (AB6E5D86) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 1730 **Location:** Les Egots, France **Description:** Near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a strange craft. He was "dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron. He walked with his legs stiff, had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were large, like those of the cows." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_305 ### Event 11307 (D62ECD34) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Biozat, France **Description:** Between Biozat and Effiat, on the road from Clermont to Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died as an egg-shaped object took off from the side of the road and rose without noise, leaving a bright trail behind. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_306 ### Event 11308 (83F38487) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** Rocket expert [Hermann Oberth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%5FOberth) writes in the American Weekly: “It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.” He thinks UFOs might fly by “distorting the gravitational field.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hermann Oberth, “[Flying Saucers Come](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6301707/the-cincinnati-enquirer/) [from a Distant World,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6301726/the-cincinnati-enquirer/)” American Weekly, October 24, 1954, in Cincinnati Enquirer; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 83; Hermann Oberth, “[Lecture Notes for](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%201991%2009%20-%20September.pdf) [Lecture about Flying Saucers, 1954,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%201991%2009%20-%20September.pdf)” Australian UFO Bulletin, September 1991, pp. 4–9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2602 ### Event 11309 (0E39B42B) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Location:** Aïn El Turk, Algeria **Description:** A small man with strange glowing eyes is seen near Aïn El Turk, Algeria, along the coast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/236/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2603 ### Event 11310 (B75E6D30) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Locations:** Canoas Air Force Base; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro **Description:** 1:00–6:00 p.m. Officers and men at the Canoas Air Force Base near Porto Alegre, Brazil, watch a number of “circular silver-colored” objects moving at high speed. They are also seen by personnel of Varig airlines and some civilians. There are more than 100 witnesses. The chief military witness, jet pilot Lt. H. Ferraz de Almeida, sees a dull silver object moving apparently slowly above the base in a zigzag fashion. He estimates its altitude as 40,000–45,000 feet and suggests that its real speed must be tremendous. Maj. J. Magalhaes Mota is watching the same object as another one rapidly approaches the first and stops next to it. The second object then moves rapidly, abruptly changes course, and flies off in an arc. When the object is in motion, it is surrounded by a misty halo, and when it stops the halo disappears. Their movements appear mechanical and intermittent. The report is forwarded to the Air Ministry in Rio de Janeiro with a request to investigate. Brazilian Air Force Chief of Intelligence Col. João Adil de Oliviera heads the investigation, which concludes on December 2 that the “saucers appear to be some kind of revolutionary aircraft” that are not “conventional phenomena or illusions.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=131&skin=2021) [119](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=131&skin=2021); Swords 461–462 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2604 ### Event 11311 (06F85319) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** At around six o'clock in the morning Ulderico Cardinali, a farmworker, was walking down a path in a marshy meadow in Castiglion Della Pescaia, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. He entered a patch of fog and started hearing a buzzing noise. When the fog became less dense, he could see a strange object on the ground which he first thought was a downed airplane. It resembled a large "plate" resting on the ground; it was two meters wide and made of some sort of highly polished material. There was a very peculiar looking creature standing beside the craft, who appeared to be no taller than 1.40 meters and was dressed in a yellowish-brown uniform. It seemed that the being was performing some sort of task, moving about the craft. Once it had stopped moving about it went inside the object, entering a sort of cabin, and disappeared from sight. Then the object took off from the location, emitting a slight buzzing noise and flying at very low altitude, nearly brushing the tops of the trees in the meadow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1600, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing ITACAT **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7069 ### Event 11312 (749C393C) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. a three-meter in diameter disc-shaped object landed in the woods near Lalizolle, Allier, France. Dogs refused to go near it. It left behind a three-meter wide area of flattened grass. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4048, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 128 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7070 ### Event 11313 (AC4C0509) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** In Saint Etienne de Baigorry, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France at around 3:00 p.m. a shepherd watching his flock on a mountain peak called “Moumboa”, located at about 800 meters, reported seeing two “men” standing on the slope opposite him, looking around. At first he thought they were excursionists, but he soon noticed a brown craft shaped like a large shell between them, so he did not dare approach. It was three to four meters in diameter and a little more than a meter in height. In the center there was a small cabin, and at the two ends he could distinguish a number of small propellers. He said he did not notice any portholes. At the broad back end there was a bent tripod. After awhile the two men approached the machine, which they then placed upright on the tripod. The witness supposed that the machine must have been made out of some very light weight material. One of the men then opened a narrow door and both individuals disappeared into the cabin. Without any noise the two groups of propellers started to turn, but in opposite directions. The machine took off vertically to an altitude of about 100 meters, and then flew off quickly to the north. The two men were similar to humans, Caucasian in appearance, and between 1.70-1.75 meters tall. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, computerized catalog (N=3073), case 1793, citing Jimmy Guieu; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7071 ### Event 11314 (B6106AA4) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. in Les Egots, Rhone, France near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a strange craft. He was "dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron." He walked stiff-legged, and had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were large, "like those of the cows." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, pp. 237-238, case 305; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-115 (A0323) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7072 ### Event 11315 (EF1A1154) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** On this night a small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the Mediterranean shore in Ain-el-Turck, Oran, Algeria. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 304; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-116 (A0325) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7073 ### Event 11316 (0FE02D5C) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** Between Biozat and Effiat, Puy-de-Dome, France at nine o'clock in the evening, on the road from Clermont to Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died when an egg-shaped object took off from the side of the road and rose without a noise, leaving a bright trail behind. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 306; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7074 ### Event 11317 (60BF91F4) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. a doctor driving his car in Pancole, Tuscany, Italy saw a luminous globe stop at 20 meters altitude, just 50 meters away. It took off when he stopped his car. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #4055, citingMaurizio Verga, ITACAT **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7075 ### Event 11318 (97AFE09C) **Date:** 10/24/1954 **Description:** At first, a dull white aluminum colored UFO was seen zig-zagging in the sky, starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, over Gravatai Air Force Base in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It began making fast, tight circular turns through the clear blue sky, and kept up this behavior for over two hours. There was a misty halo around the object when it moved. A second UFO arrived sometime after two hours had elapsed, and circled the first one. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 212; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119; UNICAT, case 561; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 104; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7076 ### Event 11319 (A3113CE7) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** BELGRADE, SERB **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Many / silver saucers / V formation. 9K' altitude. Going [to] 3000kph. / r114p58+/ r242p123. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4267 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Former Yugoslavia", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BELGRADE,SERB:100s/OBS:MANY/SLVR SCRS/VFORM:9K'alt:>3000kph:/r114p58+/r242p123", **LatLong:** "44.833335 20.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "44:50:00 N 20:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.833335,20.500001)", **State/Prov:** "SRB", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11320 (D149FC00) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** VIENNA, AUSTRIA **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Brilliant disk spins over city. Leaves (something behind) trail. No further details / p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4268 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VIENNA,AUSTRIA:THOUSANDS/OBS:BRILLIANT DISK SPINS OVR CITY:LVS TRAIL:NFD/p21", **LatLong:** "48.283336 16.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:17:00 N 16:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.283336,16.333334)", **State/Prov:** "VNN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11321 (E51E146C) **Date:** 10/25/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** NEAR CALAIS, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Saucer rises / field by beet scales. Absolute(ly) silent. Light glow. / LDLN#324. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4269 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr CALAIS,FR:1 OBS:SCR RISES/FIELD by BEET SCALES:ABS SLNT:LITE GLOW:/LDLN#324", **LatLong:** "50.833336 1.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:50:00 N 01:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.833336,1.833333)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11322 (8D9B2CA4) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** VARENNES-SUR-TECHE, 03, FR **Description:** Round silver saucer with flashing light crosses sky quickly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4270 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VARENNES-sur-TECHE,03,FR:ROUND SLVR SCR W/FLASHING LITE CROSSES SKY QUICKLY", **LatLong:** "46.327780 3.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:19:40 N 03:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.327780,3.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11323 (501BBC00) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** COLCERASA, IT **Description:** 2 boys. 3 35cm figure(s) enter 150cm ovoid. PROPs.spin and going up. / r8+LDLN#104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4271 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COLCERASA,IT:2 BOYS:3 35cm FIGS ENTER 150cm OVOID:PROPs.SPIN+↑:/r8+LDLN#104", **LatLong:** "43.316669 13.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:19:00 N 13:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.316669,13.183334)", **State/Prov:** "MC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11324 (AD9187FE) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND **Description:** Cop and railwayman. 5+3 silent luminous disks going south in neat formation. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 986) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4272 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "36", **HatchDesc:** "ABERDEEN,SCOTL:COP+RAILWAYMAN:5+3 SLNT LUMn.DISKS >S IN NEAT FORMATION:NFD", **LatLong:** "57.150003 -2.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "57:09:00 N 02:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.150003,-2.133333)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11325 (8AB046BB) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ARRAYE-ET-HAN, FR **Description:** Glowing 2M saucer rises going up / road vertical. Luminous/glowing trail. / France Soir. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4273 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARRAYE-et-HAN,FR:GLOWING 2M SCR RISES ↑/ROAD VERTICAL:LUMn TRAIL:/France Soir", **LatLong:** "48.838891 6.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:50:20 N 06:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.838891,6.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Meurthe-et-Moselle", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11326 (6DEF0E99) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** JONQUERETS-DE-LIVET, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Mopod/motorscooter/motorbike malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Cylinder/cigar-shape / ground. Small humanoids (or Greys) walk stiffly. / LDLN#260. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4274 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "JONQUERETS-de-LIVET,FR:SVRL OBS:MOTO EMES:CGR/GND:OIDS WALK STIFFLY:/LDLN#260", **LatLong:** "49.033336 0.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:02:00 N 00:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.033336,0.616667)", **State/Prov:** "EUR", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11327 (9EA4D625) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / ST. SAMSON, FR **Description:** 2 / car. Blinding 4M disk going down / field. Silent. Beams going down. / r8#307+/ r30p200. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4275 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NE/St.SAMSON,FR:2/CAR:BLINDING 4M DISK ↓/FIELD:SLNT:BEAMS ↓:/r8#307+/r30p200", **LatLong:** "48.100002 -2.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:06:00 N 02:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.100002,-2.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11328 (BE3CEB94) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** BENABBIO, ITL **Description:** Red 'saucer' / ground. 2 figure(s) exit. Reboard and take off. / Nuovo Corriere. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4276 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BENABBIO,ITL:RED 'SCR'/GND:2 FIGs EXIT:REBOARD AND TAKE OFF:/Nuovo Corriere", **LatLong:** "44.000002 10.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:00:00 N 10:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.000002,10.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Lucques", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11329 (61795B3F) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** METAIRIES-ST. QUIRIN, FR **Description:** 6M saucer flies over tractor. Engine and lights die. Dead battery. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4277 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "METAIRIES-St QUIRIN,FR:6M SCR FLIES OVR TRACTOR:ENGINE+LITES DIE:DEAD BATTERY", **LatLong:** "48.627780 7.022223", **LatLongDMS:** "48:37:40 N 07:01:20 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.627780,7.022223)", **State/Prov:** "Moselle", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11330 (782454BA) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** TERCIERA ISLAND, AZORES **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3287. Many observer(s). 4M cylinder/cigar-shape with smoke and fire. Sounds. Going quickly north inland. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4278 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TERCIERA ISL,AZORES:BBK#3287:MANY OBS:4M CGR W/SMOKE+FIRE:SOUNDS:>>N INLAND", **LatLong:** "38.683335 -27.233335", **LatLongDMS:** "38:41:00 N 27:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.683335,-27.233335)", **State/Prov:** "Azores", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11331 (0D45355B) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Location:** Belgrade, Yugoslavia **Description:** High speed objects some egg-shaped seen by hundreds. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1771 ### Event 11332 (96AEA2F7) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Location:** Plemet, France **Description:** Approximate date. A. Treussard and a friend were almost blinded by a luminous disk, which landed in a pasture. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_307 ### Event 11333 (07678F55) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 0600 **Location:** Northern Italy, exact place unknown **Description:** Ulderico Cardinali saw a disk-shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp. It was 2 m in diameter, and near it was a small being, 1.40 m tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 90 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_308 ### Event 11334 (4BAF7016) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Arraye-et-Han, France **Description:** G. Mahou, municipal muncilor, 30, saw a phosphorescent craft shaped like a brooder, about 2 m in diameter, 1 m high, rise vertically from the road, leaving a luminous trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 91 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_309 ### Event 11335 (1D98AE9A) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Locations:** Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]; Zemun Polje Airport **Description:** 6:15 a.m. Several UFOs, some described as spear-shaped and others as egg-shaped, speed over Belgrade, Yugoslavia \[now Serbia\], trailing bluish tails for about an hour. Witnesses include aeronautical engineer Vladimir Ajvas, AF Capt. Stjepan Djitkol, and staff at the nearby Zemun Polje Airport. The event is a culmination of UFO sightings over Yugoslavia since October 15, few of which make the newspapers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 123](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=135&skin=2021); Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2605 ### Event 11336 (D8EF7D3A) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Location:** Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse, France **Description:** Lucien Jeune, mayor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse, France, following numerous UFO sightings, issues a police order prohibiting “The overflight, landing, and take-off of aircraft, so-called flying saucers or flying cigars, on the communal territory.” The announcement, which also threatens the confiscation of any craft and the arrest of occupants, is done as a publicity stunt. Claude Avril, the city mayor in 2016, refuses to rescind it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Louis de Gouyon Matignon, “[The French Anti-UFO Municipal Law of 1954,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://www.spacelegalissues.com/the-french-anti-ufo-municipal-law-of-1954/)” Space Legal Issues, May 29, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2606 ### Event 11337 (8685BEDC) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Location:** Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet [now Mesnil-en-Ouche], Eure, France **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Farmer Gilbert Hée is gathering pears on his farm at Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet \[now Mesnil-en- Ouche\], Eure, France, when he sees an elongated object about 7 feet long with a green and a red light at both ends resting in the pasture. Some cows have gathered around it. The object is moving slowly and stops at a barbed wire fence. Hée goes inside. At 11:00 p.m., his son-in-law René Marais and a friend, Jean Chéradame, arrive on a motorcycle. Chéradame agrees to ride into the field and take a look, but he only goes 300 feet along the road before the engine fails. He falls from the bike and sees two short creatures walking stiffly and wearing bright clothes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/25oct1954lesjonqueretsdelivet.htm)” April 11, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2607 ### Event 11338 (05DB4E9D) **Date:** Late 10/1954 **End date:** Early 11/1954 **Description:** The UK War Office receives six reports of 40–50 unidentified radar targets that appear from nowhere, usually at midday, flying at a height of 12,000 feet. The targets first appear in a U-formation, then converge into two parallel lines and take up a Z-formation before disappearing. The location of the radar trackings is not revealed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 38–39](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/38/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2613 ### Event 11339 (DE2A299D) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** On or about this date Mr. A. Treussard and a friend were nearly blinded by a brilliant, luminous disc that landed in a pasture in Plemet, Cotes-du-Nord, France **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 307 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7110 ### Event 11340 (6DEDC49F) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At six o'clock in the morning Ulderico Cardinali saw a disc-shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp in northern Italy. It was two meters in diameter and near it stood a small being, 1.40 m (4.6 feet) tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds as it flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 308; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0326, citing Oltre il Cielo-Missili e Razzi **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7111 ### Event 11341 (D44DA79E) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At 6:15 a.m. at least four witnesses at the Belgrade, Yugoslavia airport sighted over twenty UFOs. There was one large cigar shaped object and some high speed circular and egg-shaped objects, which were reportedly seen by hundreds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 58 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7112 ### Event 11342 (21D19458) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At 6:15 a.m. a brilliant disc-shaped object was seen by many independent observers spinning over the city of Vienna, Austria. It left a trail behind, and the event lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 326 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7113 ### Event 11343 (912FCAEB) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 a.m. a round silver disc with a flashing light crossed the sky quickly in Varennes-sur-Teche, Allier, France. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 199 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7114 ### Event 11344 (947B9C8D) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 a.m. a luminous disc-shaped object with a glowing light was seen rising from a field nearby some beet scales in Calais, France. It was absolutely silent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7115 ### Event 11345 (BECA3CCB) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. Mr. G. Mahou, age 30, a municipal councilor in Arraye-et-Han, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France saw a phosphorescent craft shaped like a chicken brooder, about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It rose vertically from the road leaving a luminous trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Parisien, October 27, 1954; France-Soir, October 27, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 309 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7116 ### Event 11346 (C6628925) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** Two twelve year olds, Giampieri and Santucci, were walking home next to a field in Colcerasa Di Cing, Marche, Italy at around 5:00 p.m. when their dog became agitated and started barking. One of the youths went ahead to see what was wrong and observed three very short, dark figures with huge flattened heads standing next to a large keg like object. They wore shiny black outfits. The first boy yelled for his friend to come and look, whereupon the short humanoids ran into the object. It took off emitting a loud whistling sound, knocking the first witness down with a strong gust of wind. Another witness who was nearby saw the same or a similar object fly over the area. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0327; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7117 ### Event 11347 (A446E17F) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** A reddish disc-shaped object that emitted a luminous streak from its rear landed near a witness in Benabbio, Liguria, Italy at around eight o'clock in the evening. Two human like figures briefly emerged from the object, then went back inside. The object then took off at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1569, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database, quoting from Nuovo Corrier **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7118 ### Event 11348 (36F1C489) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. many observers on Terceira Island, The Azores in the Atlantic Ocean watched a four meter long cigar-shaped object fly through the sky for two minutes, making a noise and emitting smoke and fire. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lourenco Victor, PORTUCAT - Portuguese UFO database; Project Blue Book case # 3287 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7119 ### Event 11349 (92988DF6) **Date:** 10/25/1954 **Description:** At eleven o'clock at night in Jonquerets-de-Livet, Eure, France two 18-year-old farm workers, Jean Cheradame and Rene Marais, encountered a bright light source in a field. When they approached the light, two featureless illuminated humanoid forms emerged from the light source. They lacked both arms and legs, and essentially resembled "white plastic bags" lit from within. The figures emerged from the light source in the field and separated into two distinct forms as they approached. When they receded they again merged into one form before merging with the light source. They were about five feet tall. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-117, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 220 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7120 ### Event 11350 (891E3E67) **Date:** 10/26/1954 (approximate) **Location:** RANES, FR **Description:** 1 observer. 5M cylinder/cigar-shape going down [to] down / woods. Rises slow and going quickly [to] away as observer(s) nears. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4279 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RANES,FR:1 OBS:5M CGR ↓DOWN/WOODS:RISES SLOW+>> AWAY AS OBS NEARS:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "48.633336 -0.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:38:00 N 00:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.633336,-0.216667)", **State/Prov:** "ORN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11351 (90080A2B) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Location:** ANCONA, ITL **Description:** Silent luminous/glowing green cone going. Luminous globes in and out / sea since September / r138#8p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4280 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANCONA,ITL:SLNT LUMn GRN CONE >::LUMN.GLOBES IN+OUT/SEA since SEPT/r138#8p20", **LatLong:** "43.616669 13.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:00 N 13:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.616669,13.500001)", **State/Prov:** "Ancona", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11352 (EDE7F178) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Location:** RIMINI, ITL **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Dark green cigar flys over. No further details. / LDLN#326 p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4281 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RIMINI,ITL:100s/OBS:DARK GREEN CIGAR FLYS OVER:NFD:/LDLN#326 p21", **LatLong:** "44.066669 12.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:04:00 N 12:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.066669,12.566667)", **State/Prov:** "RN", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11353 (B56C5747) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** BELEM VELHO, RGS.BRZ **Description:** Air Force officer. Moon-size globe hovers over Guaiba River. Flash and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 989) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4282 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "95", **HatchDesc:** "BELEM VELHO,RGS.BRZ:AF OFFICER:MOONSIZE GLOBE HVRS OVR GUAIBA Rvr:FLASH+AWAY", **LatLong:** "-30.116668 -51.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "30:07:00 S 51:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.116668,-51.166669)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11354 (51896218) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** 18KM SOUTH / ANGOULEME, FR **Description:** Silent 7M cauldron going up / roadside 50M away. White trail. / r8#310. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique: French Newsclippings: Sept-Dec 1954. 100s/articles by date. Privately Publ., Paris, 1999. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4283 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "18km S/ANGOULEME,FR:SLNT 7M CAULDRON ↑/ROADSIDE 50M AWAY:WHT TRAIL:/r8#310", **LatLong:** "45.500002 0.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 00:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,0.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11355 (DCBC76B4) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** BARIKA, ALGERIA **Description:** Every day / days. Saucers pass north to/from/between south / 5 minute(s) intervals. High and fast / 20x (seen thru) telescope. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4284 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "BARIKA,ALGERIA:EVERY DAY/DAYS:SCRS PASS N<>S/5min INTERVALS:HI+FAST/20x TSCOPE", **LatLong:** "35.383335 5.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "35:23:00 N 05:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.383335,5.183334)", **State/Prov:** "BSK", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11356 (422E7DA4) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** PORTO ALEGRE, BRZ **Description:** Air Force officer. Grey disk west going quickly east. High fast and level. No further details. / O. Fontes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 989) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4285 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "PORTO ALEGRE,BRZ:AF OFFICER:GRY DISK W>>E:HIGH FAST+LEVEL:NFD:/O.Fontes", **LatLong:** "-30.000001 -51.216669", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 51:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.000001,-51.216669)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11357 (9C795F55) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** CHATEAUDUN, FR **Description:** Several railroad/railway men run toward(s) luminous ball over tracks. Going [to] out over field and vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4286 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHATEAUDUN,FR:SVRL RR MEN RUN twrd LUMn.BALL OVR TRACKS:>OUT OVR FLD+VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "48.083336 1.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:05:00 N 01:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.083336,1.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Eure-et-Loir", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11358 (732C609F) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Location:** Angouleme, France **Description:** Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped craft, the size of a truck (about 7 m) at 50 m distance, near the road, 18 km from this town, going toward Paris. It took off without noise, leaving a white trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 9Z ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_310 ### Event 11359 (1A3DF603) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** evening **Location:** La Madiere, France **Description:** Aime Boussard, 47, a farmer, was suddenly confronted with an individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit with a pale-green light on either side of the helmet. The individual aimed at the witness the beam of two blue lights, and he was thrown backward. No craft was observed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 92 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_311 ### Event 11360 (AAA78BBB) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Les Metairies, France **Description:** Approximate date. At this place situated near Saint Quirin, Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed an orange craft, 6 m diameter and 3 m high, fly over them as their tractor engine died. The lights also went out, and the battery was found dead after the sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_312 ### Event 11361 (680BB6E1) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Heiteren, France **Description:** Mrs. Spinner and another witness saw a flying object come from the west and land 1 km away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_313 ### Event 11362 (1283E158) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 2.8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1048 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "2.8" ### Event 11363 (12D2D33A) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Locations:** Alleyrat, Creuse, France; La Vaureille **Description:** 10:45 p.m. Aimé Bousard is returning on his bicycle from the town hall at Alleyrat, Creuse, France, to his residence at La Vaureille when he sees a figure crouching on the roadway. When he stops, the figure stands up and points two powerful light-blue lights at him. The entity is 5 feet 3 inches tall and dressed in a diver’s suit. It has two green lights on either side of its head. Bousard is paralyzed for 10 minutes while the lights are aimed at him. Then the entity crosses the road and disappears and Bousard can move again. Gendarmes investigate and note that his right hand is swollen and he has difficulty writing. They find a 27-inch circle of disturbed earth at the site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/26oct1954labadiere.htm)” September 6, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2608 ### Event 11364 (E658775E) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Description:** At six o'clock in the morning Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped craft, the size of a truck (about seven meters long) at 50 meters distance. It was near the road to Paris, 18 kilometers from the town of Angouleme, Charente, France. It took off without a sound, leaving a white trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, October 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 310 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7138 ### Event 11365 (AE8534CF) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Description:** On this day a five meter long cigar-shaped object came down in some woods in Ranes, Orne, France. It began to rise off the ground slowly, then shot away when the witness approached. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7139 ### Event 11366 (276EB3C8) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. several railroad workers in Chateaudun, Eure-et-Loir, France ran toward a luminous ball of light over the railroad tracks. It floated out over a field and then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7140 ### Event 11367 (734CBDC1) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Description:** On this evening in La Madiere, Creuse, France Aime Boussard, a 47-year-old farmer, was suddenly confronted by an unusual individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit with a pale green light emitted from either side of the helmet. The being aimed two beams of blue light at the witness, who was thrown backward when struck by the rays. No craft was observed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Le Parisien, October 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 311; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7141 ### Event 11368 (C653EF77) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Description:** Late in the day at Les Metairies, situated near Saint Quirin, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed a six-meter diameter orange craft that flew over them as their tractor engine died. The headlights on the tractor also went out, and the battery was found to be dead after the sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 312; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7142 ### Event 11369 (9C42027C) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. Mrs. Spinner and another witness in Heiteren, Haut-Rhin department, France saw a flying object come from the west and land a kilometer away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 313 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7143 ### Event 11370 (96498EED) **Date:** 10/26/1954 **Description:** On this night Mrs. Irene Sarris and Mr. Socrates Caraliamis saw a flying object emitting a blinding light in the sky over Antimachia, Kos Island, Greece. The UFO had the shape of a basket, and for a while it headed toward Antimachia, but changed course suddenly and went away. That same night Mr. George Cacamoundis saw a "winged man" crossing the sky over the village, at approximately the same time as the luminous UFO. The witness, terrified, ran to hide in the nearby church, where he stayed for a long time refusing to come out. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Thanassis Vembos, Hellenicos Vorras **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7144 ### Event 11371 (C623B477) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Location:** CHICAMA VALLEY, PERU **Description:** Brill saucer flashes. Moves slow and fast. Drops diagonally. Hovers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4287 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAMA VALLEY,PERU:BRILL SCR FLASHES:MOVES SLO+FAST:DROPS DIAGONALLY:HOVERS", **LatLong:** "-7.933334 -79.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "07:56:00 S 79:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-7.933334,-79.283337)", **State/Prov:** "LBR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11372 (D2A370C1) **Date:** 10/27/1954 (approximate) **Location:** D46 NORTHEAST / PLOUEZOCH, FR **Description:** Girl / 12 nears 1M ovoid. Electric shocks and temporarily paralysis. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4288 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "D46 NE/PLOUEZOCH,FR:GIRL/12 NEARS 1M OVOID:ELE.SHOCKS+TEMP.PARALYSIS:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "48.666669 -3.788889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:40:00 N 03:47:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.666669,-3.788889)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11373 (7A6337E6) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, FR **Description:** Dawn. Policemen. UFO takes off. Type unknown. No further details. / r8#315. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4289 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES,FR:DAWN:POLICEMEN:UFO TAKES OFF:TYPE UNK:NFD:/r8#315 ", **LatLong:** "49.761113 4.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:45:40 N 04:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.761113,4.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11374 (A5C88FC2) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** PRATO, ITALY **Description:** 2+hundreds. 2 luminous cigars spew white vapor. Going quickly southeast toward(s) Firenze. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4290 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PRATO,ITALY:2+100s:2 LUM.CGRS SPEW WHT VAPOR:>>SE TWRD FIRENZE:/FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "43.883335 11.050001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:53:00 N 11:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.883335,11.050001)", **State/Prov:** "Firenze", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11375 (CA1222E9) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** FIRENZE, ITL **Description:** 15K / ballgame. 2 orbs drops angel hair. = boron-Si-glass! / r138#4p88. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4291 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "14", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "FIRENZE,ITL:15K/BALLGAME:2 ORBS DROPS ANGEL HAIR:=BORON-Si-GLASS!:/r138#4p88", **LatLong:** "43.783335 11.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:47:00 N 11:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.783335,11.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Firenze", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11376 (2F48EEA0) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** SAINT-MARCEL, FR **Description:** 2 cops. Sparkle object quickly going up / field. Ruined fences. Cows scared. / r138#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4292 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAINT-MARCEL,FR:2 COPS:SPARKLE OBJ ↑↑/FIELD:RUINED FENCES:COWS SCARED:/r138#9", **LatLong:** "49.766669 4.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:46:00 N 04:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.766669,4.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11377 (3C545529) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** RHODES, GREECE **Description:** Huge disk maneuvers / 5 minute(s) over voice of America transmitter. Going quickly west very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4293 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "RHODES,GREECE:HUGE DISK MNVRS/5min OVR VOICE of AMERICA TRANSMITTER:>>W VFAST", **LatLong:** "36.400002 28.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "36:24:00 N 28:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.400002,28.250001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11378 (41DA7A84) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** HESDIN FOREST, PDC, FR **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Luminous sphere/orb/globe flies west going quickly east over woods. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4294 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HESDIN FOREST,PDC,FR:NMRS OBS:LUM ORB FLIES W>>E OVR WOODS:NFD", **LatLong:** "50.394447 2.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:23:40 N 02:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.394447,2.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11379 (26B0ED94) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MARANVILLE, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucer going down / 50M altitude. Going quickly [to] WNW. Lands. Flash. Observer(s) feel numb. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4295 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MARANVILLE,FR:SVRL OBS:SCR ↓/50M ALT:>>WNW:LANDS:FLASH:OBS FEEL NUMB:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "48.133336 4.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:00 N 04:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.133336,4.866667)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11380 (144DB134) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MOUSSEY, FR **Description:** D49. Dark 5M saucer landed / field. Takes off / red glowing. Triangular traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4296 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MOUSSEY,FR:D49:DARK 5M SCR LANDED/FLD:TAKES OFF/RED GLO:TRIANGULAR TRACES", **LatLong:** "48.433336 7.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:26:00 N 07:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.433336,7.016667)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11381 (80D14CC2) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** EFFIAT TO/FROM VICHY, FR **Description:** 1 / car. Silent yellow saucer with lights going up / ground. Glows. / LDLN#325+/ r30p203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4297 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EFFIAT> Event 11382 (AEE03043) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** LINZEUX, FR **Description:** V-bright UFO flies low over car. Motor and lights electro-magnetic effect (EME). 2 / car feel El shocks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4298 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "LINZEUX,FR:V-BRITE UFO FLIES LOW OVER CAR:MOTOR+LITES EME:2/CAR FEEL EL SHOCKS", **LatLong:** "50.344447 2.222222", **LatLongDMS:** "50:20:40 N 02:13:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.344447,2.222222)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11383 (37F1E259) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** OFF RHODES ISLAND, GREECE **Description:** Luminous disk hovers over floating VOA transmitter! Going quickly west. / AFP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 990) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4299 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off RHODES Isl,GREECE:LUMn.DISK HVRS ovr FLOATING VOA TRANSMITTER!:>>W:/AFP", **LatLong:** "36.166668 28.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "36:10:00 N 28:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.166668,28.000001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11384 (9E86F966) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** OYE PLAGE, FR **Description:** N40. Cylinder/cigar-shape flies 20M altitude. Follows turns / road. Turns 90 degree and shoots off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4300 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "OYE PLAGE,FR:N40:CGR FLIES 20M ALT:FOLLOWS TURNS/ROAD:TURNS 90dgr+SHOOTS OFF.", **LatLong:** "50.966669 2.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:58:00 N 02:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.966669,2.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11385 (02641A66) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** NEAR GROSSETO, TUSC, ITL **Description:** Woman sees fat ugly being with helmet in garden. No UFO seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4301 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr GROSSETO,TUSC,ITL:WOMAN SEES FAT UGLY BEING W/HELMET IN GARDEN:no ufo seen", **LatLong:** "42.766669 11.150001", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 11:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,11.150001)", **State/Prov:** "Grosseto", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11386 (FEB667DE) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Location:** Linzeux (near), France **Description:** Headlights and motor failed, passengers felt ''electric shock"; UFO passed ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1772 ### Event 11387 (411CCCEE) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Location:** Linzeux, France **Description:** A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the lights on their car. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 92; M 204 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_314 ### Event 11388 (A37296C3) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Location:** Mezieres, France **Description:** Policemen saw a craft, which took off from the ground. No details were given. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_315 ### Event 11389 (5435C76E) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 1400 **Location:** Ciolica Alta, Italy **Description:** A young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing sound and saw an object in a field. It was stationary, 1 m above the ground, seemed transparent and emitted a blinding glare. The witness fell on the ground "because of his strong emotions" at the sight. The object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, glistening threads were found on the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 93 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_316 ### Event 11390 (5440B33E) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 1930 **Location:** Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France **Description:** A farmer, Gilbert Hee, was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He dared not investigate, but he saw cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights went out, and the witness lost interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle as it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were about 1 m tall, walked in stiff fashion, and had clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without noise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_317 ### Event 11391 (0D55E955) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Moussey, France **Description:** An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_318 ### Event 11392 (15C68FEA) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 2315 **Location:** Oye-Plage, France **Description:** On Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw for 15 min a bright, cigar-shaped object, flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 m altitude. Suddenly it tumed at a right angle from the road and flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_319 ### Event 11393 (6FB871C2) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Time:** 2330 **Location:** Grosseto, Italy **Description:** Near Grosseto, Ermellina Lanzillo, who was looking for her cat, saw from her window a strange entity standing in the garden. The being appeared fat and had narrow shoulders, apelike eyes, and a head like a diving helmet. Paralyzed with terror, she regained self-control when called by her niece and withdrew from the window. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 94 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_320 ### Event 11394 (FBD16B14) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Locations:** Florence, Italy; Institute of Chemistry at the University of Florence **Description:** 1:30 p.m. More than 10,000 soccer fans witness two luminous discs during a game at Florence, Italy. A large amount of “white filaments” falls that clings to everything. Engineering student Alfredo Jacopozzi collects samples in a jar and takes it to Prof. Cozzi at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Florence. The lab finds the samples have a “fibrous structure, with mechanical resistance to contraction and torsion, burns rapidly, leaving a transparent residue.” It contains calcium, silicon, aluminum, magnesium, iron, and boron. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Italy, Too!](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20%28BFSB%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20-%20No%2007%20-%201954-55%20Winter.pdf)” Flying Saucer News, no. 7 \(Winter 1954–1955\): 6; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 5–6; 1Pinotti 63–64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2609 ### Event 11395 (0FA3DA67) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Description:** Several sightings and close encounters occurred this day in France and Italy, and a photograph was taken of a UFO in Und, Hungary. On this night in the Chicama Valley of Peru a brilliant disc flashed in the sky, moved slowly at first, then sped up, dropped diagonally, then hovered in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 48 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7184 ### Event 11396 (6850AD0A) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Description:** A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the lights on their car in Linzeux, France. In Mezieres, France two policemen on bicycles saw a craft which took off from a field. They noted that the cows in the field appeared to be afraid, bellowing and grouping in the pasture. They saw a trail of sparks trailing from the object about 5 meters in length, heard a whistling, purring noise as it moved away. The minimum distance to the object was 150 m. They found that a fence had been damaged. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 314 & 315; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; UNICAT, case # 424, citing Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 200-201 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7185 ### Event 11397 (0E3E593A) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Description:** At two o'clock in the afternoon in Ciolica Alta, Italy a young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing sound and saw an object in a field that was emitting a blinding glare. It was stationary, hovering one meter above the ground, and seemed transparent. The witness fell to the ground "because of his strong emotions" experiencing thae sight of sruch a ts. The object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, glistening threads were found on the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 316 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7186 ### Event 11398 (150BFD60) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Description:** The close encounter experiences continued unabated during that evening. At 7:30 p.m. farmer Gilbert Hee, in Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He didn't dare get closer to investigate, but he did see cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights on the object went out, and the witness lost interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle when it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were short, about one meter tall, and walked in a stiff fashion. They had on clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without making a sound. At 8:30 p.m. a schoolboy and his school director saw a UFO on the ground in Moussey, France. Triangular ground traces were reported. At 11:15 p.m. in Oye-Plage, France on Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw a bright, cigar-shaped object for 15 minutes. It was flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 meters altitude. It suddenly tumed at a right angle from the road and flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 317-319; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-120, citing Vallee **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7187 ### Event 11399 (F5870CA0) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Description:** A 12-year-old girl approached a one-meter long ovoid object on the road northeast of Plouezoch, Finistere, France. She received electric shocks and was temporarily paralyzed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4074, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7188 ### Event 11400 (4B348E42) **Date:** 10/27/1954 **Description:** Finally, at 11:30 p.m. Ms. Ermellina Lanzillo was in her house near Grosseto, Italy looking for her cat, when she saw from her window a strange entity standing in her garden. The being appeared fat but had narrow shoulders, ape-like eyes, and a head like a diving helmet. At first she was paralyzed with terror, but she was able to regain self-control when called by her niece and withdrew from the window. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 320; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-121, citing Vallee **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7189 ### Event 11401 (8D36F241) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** MIHO AB, JAPAN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3281. USAF pilots / ground / (seen thru) binoculars. Brilliant white saucer makes 90° turn going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4302 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MIHO AB,JAPAN:BBK#3281:USAF PILOTS/GND/BINOCs:BRILL.WHT SCR MAKES 90°TURN>>N", **LatLong:** "35.666668 139.800007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 139:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,139.800007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11402 (7DAFDA32) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** PADOVA, ITL **Description:** 3 observer(s). 8M ovoid / 12M altitude over tree. Aims beams going [to] house. Observer(s) eyes red / days. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4303 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PADOVA,ITL:3 OBS:8M OVOID/12M alt OVR TREE:AIMS BEAMS >HOUSE:OBS EYES RED/DAYS", **LatLong:** "45.400002 11.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:24:00 N 11:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.400002,11.883334)", **State/Prov:** "PD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11403 (42E7D97F) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** THOURY, FR AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Separate observer(s). Orange football saucer goes up and down. Blinks out. / La Montagne 5 November. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4304 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "THOURY,FR++:SEP.OBS:ORG.FOOTBALL SCR GOES UP+DOWN:BLINKS OUT:/La Montagne 5NOV", **LatLong:** "46.466669 3.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:28:00 N 03:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.466669,3.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11404 (F6B1C7D7) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** CHATEL-BLANC, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Odd group / night lights zigzags. Possible landing. Observer(s) flees. / LDLN#319. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4305 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHATEL-BLANC,FR:1 OBS:ODD GROUP/NLTs ZIGZAGS:poss.LANDING:OBS FLEES:/LDLN#319", **LatLong:** "46.677780 6.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:40:40 N 06:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.677780,6.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11405 (9C4A387C) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** TRADATE, IT **Description:** 150 observer(s). 3 gutteral small humanoids (or Greys). Saucer / tripod. Bad date and location going quickly / r8#331+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MAUGE, Claude: French sightings catalog by author.; Recontres de Lyon symposium, 1988. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4306 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **TLP:** Telepathy, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "TRADATE,IT:150 OBS:3 GUTTERAL OIDS:SCR/TRIPOD:bad date+loc>>/r8#331+FSR v16#3", **LatLong:** "45.711113 8.911112", **LatLongDMS:** "45:42:40 N 08:54:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.711113,8.911112)", **State/Prov:** "Varese", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11406 (19AE91A2) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, American Ambassador, others sighted luminous, round UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1773 ### Event 11407 (EE12EDA7) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Location:** Miho AB, Japan **Description:** Brilliant white, round-oval object climb in front of clouds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3281) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1774 ### Event 11408 (C5BC646A) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Time:** 5:32 PM **Location:** Miho Air Base, Japan **Description:** Witnesses: USAF pilots Lt. Col. O.C. Cook and Lt. J.W. Brown, on ground using 7x50 binoculars. One brilliant white, round-oval object climbed in front of clouds, brightened, turned 90 to the north. Seen for 45 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_372 ### Event 11409 (1319FBF5) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Locations:** Tradate, Italy; Milan **Description:** Hoaxed report of a landed UFO and occupants at Tradate, Italy, near Milan. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 108–109](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/108/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 89; 1Pinotti 64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2610 ### Event 11410 (2443F764) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Three luminous UFOs soar over Rome, Italy, seen by Associated Press reporter Maurizio Andreolo and US Ambassador [Clare Booth Luce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare%5FBoothe%5FLuce). Some witnesses report “fine cotton or wool particles” falling from them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 212–213; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 91; 1Pinotti 64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2611 ### Event 11411 (B7132BB6) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Description:** There are several reports for this day from France and Italy and one from Japan. To view the distribution of reports, click on map. In Japan, Olen C. Cook and James W. Brown, both military pilots, viewed a round or oval object approaching the Miho AFB at 5:32 p.m. after sunset. The object was silhouetted against the clouds, and climbed and turned to the north. It entered a cloud but did not emerge. It was viewed through binoculars. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3281; UNICAT database, case 780 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7215 ### Event 11412 (E6A285C8) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Description:** In Padua (Padova), Italy three witnesses watched an eight meter long ovoid object hover just 12 meters over a tree at 9:00 p.m. It directed a beam of light at the house, and one of the witness's eyes were red and irritated for days following the encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4088; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7216 ### Event 11413 (4A0F87E0) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Description:** Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, American Ambassador to Italy, and others sighted a luminous, round UFO. Angel hair residue reportedly fell to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; Charles A. Maney, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7217 ### Event 11414 (DF8D9408) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Description:** In Thoury, Allier, France an orange football shaped object bounced up and down, then blinked out at 9:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4089; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7218 ### Event 11415 (6776AF32) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Description:** At ten p.m., on or about this date, according to the Milan, Italy newspaper Milano Notte dated October 29, 1954 a large number of witnesses in Tradate watched a saucer land on tripod landing gear, and saw three humanoids emerge who spoke in a gutteral, uncomprehensible language. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Milano Notte, October 29, 1954; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0330; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 191 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7219 ### Event 11416 (6431841D) **Date:** 10/28/1954 **Description:** At the same time in Chatel-Blanc, Doubs, France a group of nocturnal lights zigzagged through the sky and may have landed, but the witness fled the scene. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4090, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 123 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7220 ### Event 11417 (3E99D24D) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** NEAR COULOGNE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Glowing-cylinder/cylindrical object / roadside. Row / portholes. 4 tubes and 4 fins. Quickly going up. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4307 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "nr COULOGNE,FR:1 OBS:GLO-CYL/ROADSIDE:ROW/PORTS:4 TUBES+4 FINS:↑↑:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "50.927780 1.888889", **LatLongDMS:** "50:55:40 N 01:53:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.927780,1.888889)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11418 (149BA604) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** MESPLES NORTHWEST / MONTLUCON, FR **Description:** Saucer on edge chases girl. Drops. Vanishes in thin air! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4308 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MESPLES NW/MONTLUCON,FR:SCR ON EDGE CHASES GIRL:DROPS:VANISHES IN THIN AIR!", **LatLong:** "46.433336 2.355556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:26:00 N 02:21:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.433336,2.355556)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11419 (BB52D00D) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** PALAGONIA, ITL **Description:** Semi-transparent saucer hovers. Figure inside watches men work. Going down [to] and going up / great noise. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4309 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PALAGONIA,ITL:SEMI-XPRNT SCR HVRS:FIG INSIDE WATCHES MEN WORK:↓+↑/GREAT NOISE", **LatLong:** "37.316668 14.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "37:19:00 N 14:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.316668,14.750001)", **State/Prov:** "CT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11420 (03206362) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** PACIFIC SOUTHEAST / TAIWAN **Description:** USAF C47 crew. Long narrow blue object sparks front and rear. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4310 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC SE/TAIWAN:USAF C47 CREW:LONG NARROW BLUE OBJ SPARKS FRONT+REAR:NFD", **LatLong:** "21.833334 123.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "21:50:00 N 123:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.833334,123.500006)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11421 (DCB6C003) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Location:** SE of Taiwan, Taiwan **Description:** Long narrow bright blue object emitting deep-orange sparks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1775 ### Event 11422 (2364F1C1) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Location:** Terciera Islands, Azores **Description:** Grey object, shaped like a stovepipe (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3287) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1776 ### Event 11423 (91CABB27) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Time:** 0745 **Location:** Mesples, France **Description:** A 14-year-old child sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by Mrs. Gentil, crying that he had been chased by a saucer. A disk three times as large as the sun, red and purple, spinning rapidly, was seen descending swiftly toward the ground and then it vanished. Investigation by local police. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_321 ### Event 11424 (F829367E) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** Terciera Islands, Azores **Description:** Witnesses: four Portuguese nationals. One object, shaped like a stovepipe with a center bulge and short wings (10' long, 3' in diameter, 3' wings) having concave wingtips, and grey colored. Made a gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared in the glare of airplane landing lights. Sighting lasted 4-5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_373 ### Event 11425 (C747FA41) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m. a glowing cylindrical object was seen along the roadside in Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. It had a row of portholes on its side, four tubes and four fins, and took off vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4092, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 124 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7266 ### Event 11426 (2DED1FC2) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Description:** At 7:45 a.m. in Mesples, France a 14-year-old boy sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by Mrs. Gentil, screaming that he was being chased by a flying saucer. A disc three times the apparent diameter of the sun, red and purple in color, and spinning rapidly, was seen descending swiftly toward the ground. It then vanished. There was an investigation of the incident by the local police. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 321; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 232 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7267 ### Event 11427 (32A7203C) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Description:** At 2:25 p.m. several workers in a field in Palagonia, Italy sighted a luminous translucent disc-shaped object with two red lights on top descend and then hover above them. From inside of the object an unknown creature (not described) could be seen staring at the workers. As the creature scrutinized them they became frightened. The object suddenly descended then shot back up into the sky, emitting a very loud sound as it quickly disappeared from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1598; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7268 ### Event 11428 (8476F6F7) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. the crew of a U. S. Air Force C-47D transport plane flying over the Philippines saw a long narrow bright blue oblong object emitting deep ­orange sparks from the front and rear. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7269 ### Event 11429 (C048901D) **Date:** 10/29/1954 **Description:** At nine o'clock in the evening four Portuguese nationals at the airport on Terciera Island in the Azores sighted a UFO shaped like a stovepipe. It had a central bulge and short wings; they estimated it was 10 in length, three feet in diameter, and had wings three feet long. The wings of the object had concave wingtips, and it was gray in color. The UFO made a gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared into the glare of the airplane's landing lights. The sighting lasted 4-5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3287; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos files, newspaper clipping dated November 3, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7270 ### Event 11430 (00002B90) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Location:** BOLZANO, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). Large cigar-object followed by 3 smaller ovoids. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4311 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOLZANO,ITL:SVRL OBS:LARGE CIGAR-OBJ FOLLOWED BY 3 SMALLER OVOIDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.516669 11.350001", **LatLongDMS:** "46:31:00 N 11:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.516669,11.350001)", **State/Prov:** "BZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11431 (D2A85EDF) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Location:** ROMA, ITL **Description:** 100+observer(s). 2 white dots maneuver / 2km altitude. Going quickly south. Absolute(ly) silent. Big news. / r120p141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4312 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "ROMA,ITL:100+OBS:2 WHT DOTS MNVR/2km alt:>>S:ABS.SLNT:big news:/r120p141", **LatLong:** "41.883335 12.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:00 N 12:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.883335,12.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Rome", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11432 (022A6B5D) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Location:** LA SPEZIA AND GLORENZA AND VERONA AND CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, IT AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Cigars and spheres all over. Pg22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4313 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "La SPEZIA+GLORENZA+VERONA+CORTINA d'AMPEZZO,IT++:CIGARS+SPHERES ALL OVER:pg22", **LatLong:** "44.116669 9.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:07:00 N 09:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.116669,9.800000)", **State/Prov:** "SP", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11433 (479456D4) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** MURO LUCANO, ITL **Description:** 2 UFO's. Rhomboid and cylinder/cylindrical object / hits trees and lands. Bounces. Bluish trail / air. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4314 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MURO LUCANO,ITL:2 UFOS:RHOMBOID+CYL/HITS TREES+LANDS:BOUNCES:BLUISH TRAIL/AIR", **LatLong:** "40.755557 15.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:20 N 15:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.755557,15.483334)", **State/Prov:** "MT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11434 (FB616B39) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** WEST / TAPES, RGS, BRZ **Description:** 4 / car. Dome maneuvers low / roadside. Colored lights don't reflect / ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 995) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4315 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "W/TAPES,RGS,BRZ:4/CAR:DOME MNVRS LOW/ROADSIDE:CLRD LITES DONT REFLECT/GND", **LatLong:** "-30.666668 -51.383336", **LatLongDMS:** "30:40:00 S 51:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.666668,-51.383336)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11435 (EBA8A8CC) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Time:** 0930 **Location:** Muro Lucano, Italy **Description:** Two objects were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50 m away. It was rhomboidic, and from the bottom a cylinder was hanging. A peculiar sound could be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. Then the craft gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 82 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_322 ### Event 11436 (E343ADCD) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1049 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 11437 (E7E699FC) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Locations:** Rome, Italy; Santa Maria Maggiore **Description:** 1:00 p.m. UFO researcher [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) is driving past the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, when he notices a crowd of about 100 people gazing up at the sky. He sees two “white dots” moving toward the south then vanish in opposite directions. Later, two other objects appear and move to the north at an altitude of about 6,500 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alberto Perego, “[The Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2612 ### Event 11438 (F676E79B) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Description:** Two UFOs were seen by hunters in Muro Lucano, Italy. One touched the ground 50 meters away. It was rhomboid in shape, and a cylinder was hanging from the bottom. A peculiar sound could also be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. The craft then gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 322 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7299 ### Event 11439 (B64DE650) **Date:** 10/30/1954 **Description:** Twenty eight kilometers north of Tapas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil at 11:35 p.m. four lights approached, then surrounded a car until the four witnesses drove away. The UFO changed color from white to blue to violet to orange to red. When the round lights on the object changed color they saw the shape was that of either a dome or sphere. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UNICAT, case # 558 citing Olavo T. Fontes **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7300 ### Event 11440 (379DA896) **Date:** 10/31/1954 **Location:** NEAR LONG, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). 4.5M saucer / ground. Tractor malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) / takeoff. Returns. Sounds / bees. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 323) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4316 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr LONG,FR:3 OBS:4.5M SCR/GND:TRACTOR EMEs/TAKEOFF:RETURNS:SOUNDS/BEES:>> SW", **LatLong:** "50.044447 1.977778", **LatLongDMS:** "50:02:40 N 01:58:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.044447,1.977778)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11441 (4387BC9C) **Date:** 10/31/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NEAR CALCUTTA, INDIA **Description:** Airport Air Traffic Controller and more/others. Vibrant bright silent object leaves (something behind) trail. Turns. "No meteor". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4317 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr CALCUTTA,INDIA:AIRPORT ATC++:VBRITE SLNT OBJ LVS TRAIL:TURNS:"no meteor"", **LatLong:** "22.500001 88.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "22:30:00 N 88:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/22.500001,88.333338)", **State/Prov:** "WBG", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11442 (76791503) **Date:** 10/31/1954 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LAGES, BRAZIL **Description:** Farmer. Glowing-disk going west. Stops here / minutes. Going quickly south. Report going [to] Air Force Base / Florianopolis. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 997) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4318 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "913", **HatchDesc:** "LAGES,BRZL:FARMER:GLOW-DISK >W:STOPS HERE/MINUTES:>>S:REPt >AFB/FLORIANOPOLIS", **LatLong:** "-27.800001 -50.316669", **LatLongDMS:** "27:48:00 S 50:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.800001,-50.316669)", **State/Prov:** "STC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11443 (56EDC007) **Date:** 10/31/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** A5 / QUEENS HEAD NEAR OSWESTRY, SHROPS **Description:** Small slow silent silver probe turns ovoid. Going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4319 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "96", **HatchDesc:** "A5/QUEENS HEAD nr OSWESTRY,SHROPS:SML SLOW SLNT SLVR PROBE TURNS OVOID:>SW", **LatLong:** "52.844447 -3.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:50:40 N 03:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.844447,-3.016667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11444 (4F0CC56E) **Date:** 10/31/1954 **Location:** Corrompu, France **Description:** Near Long, P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with a shop owner, Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took off, the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 m, emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew to the southwest. It made the same noise as a swarm of bees. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_323 ### Event 11445 (466D8DAB) **Date:** 10/31/1954 **Description:** Mr. P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with shop owner Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground in Corrompu, Somme, France. When it took off the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 meters (15 feet) in length and emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew off toward the southwest. It reportedly made the same noise as a swarm of bees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 323; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7329 ### Event 11446 (26793923) **Date:** 11/1954 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** LA FLAMENGRIE, FR **Description:** Bike lamp flashes. 4M fireball nears. Shrinks to nothing. / r30p205. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4320 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "LA FLAMENGRIE,FR:BIKE LAMP FLASHES:4M FBL NEARS:SHRINKS to NOTHING:/r30p205", **LatLong:** "50.316669 3.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:19:00 N 03:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.316669,3.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11447 (E3B42543) **Date:** 11/1954 **Location:** EAST / SAN CARLOS, COSTA RICA **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucers hover. Dirt and animals melted impossibly. Slag. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4321 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Costa Rica", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "E/SAN CARLOS,COSTA RICA:SVRL OBS:SCRS HVR:DIRT+ANIMALS MELTED IMPOSSIBLY:SLAG", **LatLong:** "9.233334 -83.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "09:14:00 N 83:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.233334,-83.416671)", **State/Prov:** "GNC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11448 (02BB03F3) **Date:** 11/1954 **Location:** AGIASOS, LESBOS, GRC **Description:** 100+observer(s). Shiny saucer circles high / hospital. Quickly going up. Quickly going down. 2 more show and vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4322 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "AGIASOS,LESBOS,GRC:100+OBS:SHINY SCR CCLS hi/HOSPITAL:↑↑:↓↓:2 MORE SHOW+VANISH", **LatLong:** "39.083335 26.205557", **LatLongDMS:** "39:05:00 N 26:12:20 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.083335,26.205557)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11449 (6755855A) **Date:** 11/1954 **Location:** HIGH SLOPES / MT. PELION, GREECE **Description:** 2 observer(s). Soup-bowl / cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / village. Vanishes. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4323 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1200", **HatchDesc:** "HIGH SLOPES/Mt.PELION,GREECE:2 OBS:SOUP-BOWL/CGR HVRS/VILLAGE:VANISHES:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.400002 23.033334", **LatLongDMS:** "39:24:00 N 23:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.400002,23.033334)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11450 (8B2B7BBF) **Date:** 11/1954 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** ST.-SILVAIN-BELGARDE, 23, FR **Description:** Yellow glow. Elongated saucer 'like a calfskin couch'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4324 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St-SILVAIN-BELGARDE,23,FR:YLW GLOW:ELONGATED SCR 'LIKE A CALFSKIN COUCH'", **LatLong:** "45.966669 2.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:58:00 N 02:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.966669,2.300000)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11451 (43D54448) **Date:** 11/1954 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** NEAR LONDON, ONT **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Inverted silver bowl going quickly south. "Far bigger / full moon". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 301) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4325 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "nr LONDON,ONT:2 SEP.OBS:INVERTED SLVR BOWL >>S:"FAR BIGGER/FULL MOON":", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -81.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 81:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-81.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11452 (3B13106B) **Date:** 11/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** BEUZEVILLE-LA-GUERARD, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3M top saucer hides / trees / 6M altitude 6M away. Exits and going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4326 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BEUZEVILLE-la-GUERARD,FR:2 OBS:3M TOP SCR HIDES/TREES/6M alt 6M away:EXITS+>>S", **LatLong:** "49.716669 0.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:43:00 N 00:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.716669,0.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11453 (9AA61BEC) **Date:** 11/1954 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** NEAR AKRON, OH **Description:** Very large round glowing-object drops / 30M altitude. Maneuvers. Shoots up. Returns 2X more. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4327 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "316", **HatchDesc:** "nr AKRON,OH:VLRG RND GLOW-OBJ DROPS/30M alt:MNVRS:SHOOTS UP:RETURNS 2X MORE", **LatLong:** "41.066669 -81.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:04:00 N 81:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.066669,-81.533337)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11454 (C9ED288D) **Date:** 11/1954 **Location:** Dayton **Description:** Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) summons Col. [John O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm) from Dayton and directs him to clear up any confusion about [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s use of USAF data. O’Mara writes Eickhoff and says he had misunderstood and that Keyhoe’s book does contain officially released Air Force UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 231 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2614 ### Event 11455 (11FC5E2C) **Date:** 11/1954 **Description:** The Hungarian government gets an “expert” to state that UFOs do not exist because all reports “originate in bourgeois countries, where they are invented by the capitalist warmongers.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 238](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2615 ### Event 11456 (27E29E58) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** NEAR CENNINA, ITL **Description:** 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / small vertical cylinder/cigar-shape grab flowers and stocking / woman. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v18#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4328 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "nr CENNINA,ITL:2 OIDS/SML VRTCL CGR GRAB FLOWERS+STOCKING/WOMAN:/FSR v18#5", **LatLong:** "43.450002 11.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:27:00 N 11:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.450002,11.766667)", **State/Prov:** "AR", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 11457 (0D65B743) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** MODIGLIANA, ITL **Description:** Farmer. Dark object 500M away. Figure visible on one side. Stranded car? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4329 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MODIGLIANA,ITL:FARMER:DRK OBJ 500M AWAY:FIG VISIBLE ON ONE SIDE:stranded car?", **LatLong:** "44.150002 11.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:09:00 N 11:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.150002,11.783334)", **State/Prov:** "FO", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11458 (8B3BC1D0) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** ORDENES, CORUNA, SP **Description:** Several observer(s). Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 6M sphere flies. Radio reception affected. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4330 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ORDENES,CORUNA,SP:SVRL OBS:CAR EMES:6M SPHERE FLIES:RADIO RECEPTION AFFECTED", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -8.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 08:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-8.400000)", **State/Prov:** "LAC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11459 (1EEE702F) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** MAROCCO, ITL **Description:** Green glowing saucer hovers low. Figure(s) move inside. Ignore fisherman. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4331 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MAROCCO,ITL:GRN GLO SCR HVRS LOW:FIGs MOVE INSIDE:IGNORE FISHERMAN:↑↑", **LatLong:** "45.550002 12.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:33:00 N 12:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.550002,12.233334)", **State/Prov:** "TV", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11460 (EE4D6DD1) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** NEAR BUCINE, ITL **Description:** Man / mopod/motorscooter/motorbike. Red ovoid passes / low altitude. Brilliant blinding light lights area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4332 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr BUCINE,ITL:MAN/MOTO:RED OVOID PASSES/LO ALT:BRILL.BLINDING LIGHT LITES AREA", **LatLong:** "43.483335 11.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:29:00 N 11:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.483335,11.616667)", **State/Prov:** "AR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11461 (51FA62A6) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Time:** 0730 **Location:** Poggio d'Ambra, Italy **Description:** A 40-year-old lady going to a cemetery suddenly observed an object, shaped like two cones with a common base, resting on a grassy space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind the object appared two dwarfs, 1 m tall, wearing gray coveralls and reddish helmets. Speaking words she could not understand, and with smiles that showed fine white teeth, they took a pot of flowers from the witness and flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_324 ### Event 11462 (5C2A65E6) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Location:** Salem, Oregon **Description:** 6:00 a.m. Jack Holloway sees a large, round object that leaves a vapor trail that sprays sparks and moves at high speed for a few seconds to the south of Salem, Oregon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2616 ### Event 11463 (DE9DFA2A) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Location:** church at the castle of Cennina, Arezzo, Italy **Description:** 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti Dainelli sets out for the church at the castle of Cennina, Arezzo, Italy. As she passes through a wooded area, she sees a spindle-shaped object standing upright next to a cypress tree. It has two portholes and a little door, through which she can see two chairs. Two little men come out from behind the object; they are dressed in gray suits, cloaks that come down to their waists, and red helmets. They speak in an unintelligible language and snatch flowers from her hands and throw them inside the UFO. Dainelli flees, glancing back only once. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 228–229; 1Pinotti 65–74; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[The](http://www.noufors.com/the%5F1954%5FCennina%5Flanding%5Fand%5Fencounter%5Fwith%5Fhumanoids.html) [1954 Cennina Landing and Encounter with Humanoids](http://www.noufors.com/the%5F1954%5FCennina%5Flanding%5Fand%5Fencounter%5Fwith%5Fhumanoids.html)”; Società Cooperativa Dramatica Filarmonica di Ambra, “[Incontro con umanoidi di Rosa Dainelli nei Lotti](http://www.ambrafilarmonica.it/archivio/cennina%5Fufo/cennina%5F1954.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2617 ### Event 11464 (48EDE724) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Locations:** Curva del Obispo; A Coruña, Galicia, Spain **Description:** 10:40 p.m. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos is driving at a spot called Curva del Obispo 42 kilometers from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, when his engine stalls and the lights go out. He sees a large glowing red object near the road. After a while it moves upwards with a “soft explosion.” At the same time, the radio-telegraph station in A Coruña is affected by severe interference and static. Probable meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Antonio Ribera, “[A UFO Survey of Spain:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CJan-Feb%2CV%209%2CN%201.pdf) [More Evidence,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CJan-Feb%2CV%209%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1963\): 16; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 18; Juan Carlos Victorio, “[El ‘platillo volante’ de](http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2018/04/el-platillo-volante-de-ordenes-coruna.html) [Órdenes \(A Coruña\),](http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2018/04/el-platillo-volante-de-ordenes-coruna.html)” Misterios del Aire, April 17, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2618 ### Event 11465 (CCEEF51C) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti Dainelli, age 40, was walking into Cennina, Toscana, Italy carrying her stockings and shoes, and a bunch of carnations on her way to visit the cemetery, when she suddenly observed an object, shaped like double cone with a common base, resting vertically on a grassy space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind the object appeared two dwarfs, each about one meter tall, who approached her with friendly expressions, the older one laughing. They wore a sort of gray, tight fitting, one-piece coverall that covered their feet, short gray cloaks, and doublets with shiny buttons; on their heads were reddish helmets with what looked like leather earflaps. They were speaking in an unintelligible language that sounded like Chinese, ‘liu, lai, loi.” Their mouths showed strong, rather protruding white teeth. Approaching Sr. Dainelli, they abruptly snatched the carnations from her and one of her stockings, wrapped the flowers in the stocking, and then threw them into the “spindle” shaped UFO. Then one of them took out a brown wrapped circular object, carrying it in the crook of its arm. Lotti ran away, and when she looked back, after running 100 yards, she saw that the little men were still there. A stonemason, R. Berti, saw the object, which he described as a luminous “rocket,” rise up into the air. A deep hole in the ground was later found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Sergio Conti, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-123 (A0331); UNICAT, case # 615; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241, case # 324 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7365 ### Event 11466 (E34FA93F) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. a farmer in Modigliana, Emilia-Romagna, Italy named Adelmo Monti saw a “dark spot” just over the ground, about 500 meters away from him. The object had an apparent diameter of one meter and was surrounded by a number of small cylinders. Monti observed a “very tiny, hard to make out figure” to one side of the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0332; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1567, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7366 ### Event 11467 (AE1FB2D7) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Description:** A fisherman, G. Seenza, was on the Dese River in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso, Italy on this foggy night placing nets in the water. He noticed a greenish light through the thick fog. Because there were no houses in the area, Sr. Seenza began shouting in order to make contact with the people he thought were associated with the light. When he got no reply he decided to get closer. Seenza sighted a mushroom-shaped object that had landed on the river bank. The object was emitting a green light and around it there were several small stocky beings. They were moving back and forth in an erratic manner. Seenza shouted again and made gestures so as to be noticed, but was unsuccessful. Then suddenly, the object silently took off straight up. Some beams of silver colored light emanated from the object’s “stem” illuminating the surrounding area. The object made aerial maneuvers and then disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1568, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7367 ### Event 11468 (DD66FC05) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Description:** At 10:40 p.m. taxi driver Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos' cab broke down in Ordenes, La Coruna, Spain. He saw a strange white spherical object take off, estimated to be six meters in diameter, while at the same time all the dogs in the area were barking. Other witnesses nearby reported seeing the UFO, estimated to have been 400 meters away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 15, citing Oscar Rey; UNICAT, case # 437 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7368 ### Event 11469 (DB016CED) **Date:** 11/1/1954 **Description:** At 11:45 p.m. a red ovoid object buzzed a man on a motorcycle at a low altitude on a road near Bucine, Tuscany, Italy. It had a blinding light that illuminated the area. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7369 ### Event 11470 (B771F31B) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Location:** NABLUS, JORDAN **Description:** Oblong saucer with lights all around scares Bedoin. Passes all over town. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 248) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4333 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Jordan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NABLUS,JORDAN:OBLONG SCR W/LITES ALL AROUND SCARES BEDOIN:PASSES ALL OVR TOWN", **LatLong:** "32.216668 35.283335", **LatLongDMS:** "32:13:00 N 35:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.216668,35.283335)", **State/Prov:** "PLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11471 (F575F523) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Location:** LOOE, CORNWALL **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars and more/others. Thin-cylinder/cigar-shape glows all over/all about. Going west. Turns going north. Lost / cloud. / r107p248. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4334 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "39", **HatchDesc:** "LOOE,CORNWALL:2/BINOCS++:THIN-CGR GLOWS ALLO:> W:TURNS >N:LOST/CLOUD:/r107p248", **LatLong:** "50.400002 -4.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:24:00 N 04:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.400002,-4.416667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11472 (AC784F29) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** SANTO AMARO, BRZ **Description:** Man enters open saucer. Maps / S. American / table. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) come. / r138#10p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 372) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4335 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "664", **HatchDesc:** "SANTO AMARO,BRZ:MAN ENTERS OPEN SCR:MAPS/S.AMER./TABLE:3 OIDS COME:/r138#10p3", **LatLong:** "-23.633334 -46.700002", **LatLongDMS:** "23:38:00 S 46:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.633334,-46.700002)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11473 (B8170CF9) **Date:** 11/2/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** FREJUS, FR **Description:** 4 soldiers. Metallic sphere/orb/globe / ravine. Pseudo-human/entity / Pilor suit unintelligible. / r30p207. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4336 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "FREJUS,FR:4 SOLDIERS:MTLC ORB/RAVINE:PSH/PILOR SUIT UNINTELLIGIBLE:/r30p207", **LatLong:** "43.433335 6.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:26:00 N 06:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.433335,6.733334)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11474 (4802E6DD) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** VIOMENIL AND THOLLOY, FR **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Green disk lands. No traces. Separate saucer going quickly west. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4337 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "VIOMENIL+THOLLOY,FR:SVRL SEP.OBS:GRN DISK LANDS:NO TRACES:SEP.SCR>>W:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "48.088891 6.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:05:20 N 06:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.088891,6.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11475 (3EEA26AD) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** CHURCH STRETTON, SHROPS **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Dark cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly NNE. Red glowing / front. Green light behind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4338 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "304", **HatchDesc:** "CHURCH STRETTON,SHROPs:NMRS OBS:DARK CGR>>NNE:RED GLO/FRONT:GRN LITE BEHIND", **LatLong:** "52.538891 -2.805556", **LatLongDMS:** "52:32:20 N 02:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.538891,-2.805556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11476 (2E451F6C) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** CREMONA, LOMB, ITALY **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) / tank on back. Tube leads / face. Hides / blue cloud! No UFO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4339 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CREMONA,LOMB,ITALY:OID/TANK ON BACK:TUBE LEADS/FACE:HIDES/BLU CLOUD!:no ufo", **LatLong:** "45.150002 10.033334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:09:00 N 10:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.150002,10.033334)", **State/Prov:** "CR", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11477 (3BD2756D) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** 2+observer(s). 2nd moon hovers / 45 second(s). Blue halo. Going quickly northeast extremely fast. / APRO files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4340 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1355", **HatchDesc:** "ALAMOGORDO,NM:2+OBS:2nd MOON HVRS/45sec:BLUE HALO:>>NE XFAST:/APRO files", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -105.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 105:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-105.933338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11478 (1AEBC44D) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** ST. LOUIS, MO **Description:** Ground observer(s). UFO behind flight / B47s east going quickly west. Peels off and vanishes east going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 508) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4341 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "ST LOUIS,MO:GND OBS:UFO BEHIND FLITE/B47s E>>W:PEELS OFF+VANISHES E>>W", **LatLong:** "38.616669 -90.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:37:00 N 90:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.616669,-90.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11479 (0836640C) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MATTOSINHOS, BRZ **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. Saucer circles town 2x. 2 orange lights. Going quickly NNW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4342 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "895", **HatchDesc:** "MATTOSINHOS,BRZ:NMRS SEP.OBS:CGR HVRS:SCR CCLS TOWN 2x:2 ORG LITES:>>NNW", **LatLong:** "-19.583334 -44.116669", **LatLongDMS:** "19:35:00 S 44:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-19.583334,-44.116669)", **State/Prov:** "MGR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11480 (9716CD5F) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** GIULIANOVA, ITL **Description:** 1M small humanoid (or Grey) jerks about. Says "Anx Eleta Nui". Blue light / soft helmet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4343 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GIULIANOVA,ITL:1M OID JERKS ABOUT:SAYS "ANX ELETA NUI":BLUE LITE/SOFT HELMET", **LatLong:** "42.750002 13.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:45:00 N 13:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.750002,13.966667)", **State/Prov:** "TRM", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11481 (06AD3E80) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Time:** 1800 **Location:** Cremona, Italy **Description:** Two students, Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, who were hunting, saw a dwarf 1 m tall with a "rubber" head and a flexible tube connecting his face to a cylindrial container on his back. When they came close to it, the being wrapped itself in a bluish cloud. The witnesses ran away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 90 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_325 ### Event 11482 (BC0B43DA) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Locations:** Santo Amaro; Rua Andaguara; São Paulo, Brazil; South America **Description:** 10:30 a.m. Taxi driver Maurilio Braga Godoi leaves the streetcar trailer at Santo Amaro, a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil, and starts to walk home. When he arrives at the corner of Rua Andaguara, he is startled to find a glowing, circular object landed in an empty lot. It is about 90–120 feet in diameter and surrounded in a violet glow. He approaches it hesitantly from 60 feet away, feeling like running but he is rooted to the spot and is unable to call for help. The anxiety dissipates, and he walks toward it again, noticing a sliding door on the object. He goes inside, entering a circular room illuminated by a soft light. On a table he sees some maps, including one of South America with mushroom-shaped marks on it. He looks up and sees three humanoids less than 5 feet tall with dark brown skin and dressed in a light gray coverall and a belt that holds what might be a weapon. They appear to be conversing in an unknown language. He tries talking to them, but they don’t understand. He backs out of the object, dragging his feet. He jumps out of the door and runs away. Looking back at the object from 30 feet away, he sees it is hovering 30 feet above the ground then takes off swiftly and silently. Godoi is examined by psychiatrists, who find him neither neurotic nor psychotic. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 198–199](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/202/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2619 ### Event 11483 (7291A317) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Description:** A green disc landed on a farm near Viomenil-Bataille, France at 6:15 a.m. It left no physical traces, but there were independent witnesses to the event, who reported seeing a second disc fly over heading quickly to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7412 ### Event 11484 (B43E2EDF) **Date:** 11/2/1954 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. Maurilio Braga Godoi left the Santo Amaro, Brazil streetcar terminal and started to walk home. The area was deserted at that hour, and when he arrived at a street corner he was surprised to see a large circular object sitting in an empty lot between two houses. The UFO was 90 to 120 feet in diameter and surrounded by a strange bluish-red or violet glow. Curious, he decided to investigate and approached. He soon realized it was much larger than he originally thought and became somewhat apprehensive. It was like nothing he had ever seen before and he thought about going to the police to report it. He felt like running but felt rooted to the ground. He tried to call for help but no sound would come from his mouth. This strange sensation persisted for awhile but finally left him. Godoi noticed that there was an open sliding door in the object, and he went in. He saw a large circular room illuminated by a soft light. He saw no lamps. There was no one in sight and the craft seemed to be deserted. At the center was an oddly shaped table and on it were charts and maps. One of these was a map of the South American continent and it had a glowing or phosphorescent quality. Upon closer examination he noticed little mushroom-shaped symbols scattered about the map.

He had just finished scrutinizing the map when he looked up and confronted three men. They seemed normal in appearance except that they were less than five feet tall. They had dark brown skin, short black hair, and were dressed in one-piece garments like an overall, which were light gray in color. Each wore a belt around his waist which appeared to support an object that Godoi worried might be a weapon. They made no move toward Godoi, but stood staring at him, occasionally conversing among themselves in an unknown language. He noticed that the "K" sound was repeated quite often at the beginning of words more than other sounds.Bynowhisfear had returned and he tried to converse with them to convince them that he meant no harm, but they were expressionless and continued to stare at him intently. He suddenly became aware that, without intention, he was backing out of the craft, literally dragging his feet backwards one step after another. They made no attempt to stop him. When he reached the door he jumped to the ground and started to run away. When about 30 feet away he turned to look back and saw that the craft was now hovering about 30 feet above the ground, having at the bottom center a spinning "screw without end." The UFO climbed silently at high speed with a violet glow around its edges. The witness was examined by several psychiatrists in Sao Paulo who concluded that he showed no signs of mental illness. The case is listed as an "unknown" by the Brazilian Air Force. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 198-199 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7413 ### Event 11485 (7B0D6796) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Location:** BURLESON, TX **Description:** 10' saucer / red-orange glow. Silent. Trails white sparks. Gone in burst / speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 508) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4344 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "223", **HatchDesc:** "BURLESON,TX:10'SCR/RED-ORG GLOW:SILENT:TRAILS WHT SPARKS:GONE IN BURST/SPEED", **LatLong:** "32.394446 -97.322227", **LatLongDMS:** "32:23:40 N 97:19:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.394446,-97.322227)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11486 (3832DF1B) **Date:** 11/3/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** PALAVAS, FR **Description:** Trusted observer(s). Thick fog. Blue disk hovers. Shoots quickly going up [to] extremely fast. No physical trace(s). / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 223) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4345 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PALAVAS,FR:TRUSTED OBS:THICK FOG:BLU DISK HVRS:SHOOTS↑↑ XFAST:NO TRC:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "43.533335 3.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 03:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,3.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Hérault", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11487 (1B88C706) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** MAREIL-SUR-LOIR, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / metal suits / fog. Helmets. Glide! Missing time? / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 224) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4346 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MAREIL-sur-LOIR,FR:2 OBS:2 OIDS/MTL SUITS/FOG:HELMETS:GLIDE!:MST?:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "47.750002 0.011111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:45:00 N 00:00:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.750002,0.011111)", **State/Prov:** "SRT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11488 (5933B640) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** OUED BETH, MAROC **Description:** Saucer going [to] over river. Flips over. Gently lands on edge / field. Quickly going up. / r8#326. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4347 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "OUED BETH,MAROC:SCR > OVR RVR:FLIPS OVR:GENTLY LANDS ON EDGE/FIELD:↑↑:/r8#326", **LatLong:** "33.883335 -5.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 N 05:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.883335,-5.933334)", **State/Prov:** "MEK", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11489 (E1A05E61) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** MONTEBOUNO, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape / 30-40M altitude. Lights and porthole. Going down [to] riverbed. Quickly going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4348 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEBOUNO,ITL:SVRL OBS:CGR/30-40M alt:LITES+PORTHOLE:↓ RIVERBED:↑↑ FAST:", **LatLong:** "42.700002 11.650001", **LatLongDMS:** "42:42:00 N 11:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.700002,11.650001)", **State/Prov:** "Grosseto", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11490 (14971FE8) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** LONDON **Description:** Several observer(s). 'Flattened tennis ball' visually and on radar. No further details. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4349 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON:SVRL OBS:'FLATTENED TENNIS BALL' VISUALLY+ON RADAR:NFD:/LDLN p22", **LatLong:** "51.483336 -0.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:29:00 N 00:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.483336,-0.066667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11491 (69F5E287) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** PERRIER, PDD, FR **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). 4M saucer-cloud lands / field. Dome glows pink. / La Montagne. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4350 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PERRIER,PDD,FR:3 SEP.OBS:4M SCR-CLOUD LANDS/FIELD:DOME GLOWS PINK:/La Montagne", **LatLong:** "45.550002 3.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:33:00 N 03:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.550002,3.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11492 (CA950CDB) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Time:** 0700 **Location:** Oued Beth, Morocco **Description:** Maroc-Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., driver of a delivery truck, "a man of sane judgment and excellent eyesight," observed an object flying over the Beth River. "I am positive it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, then it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disk and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 95 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_326 ### Event 11493 (25659462) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Description:** Oued Beth, Morocco. Maroc Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., the driver of a delivery truck and "a man of sane judgment and excellent eyesight," observed an object flying over the Beth River. "I am positive it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, and then it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disc and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241; Maroc-Presse, November 4, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7424 ### Event 11494 (112A3537) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Description:** At 6:00 a.m. a reportedly reliable witness encountered a thick fog in Palavas, Herault, France. Inside was a hovering blue, disc-shaped UFO. It stayed stationary a short while, and then shot straight up at an extremely fast speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4122, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 223 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7425 ### Event 11495 (97463B49) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Description:** Two dwarf humanoids wearing metallic suits with helmets were seen in a thick fog at 6:30 a.m. at a farm in Mareil-sur-Loir, France. They glided over ground. There is the possibility that the two witnesses experienced an episode of missing time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4123, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 224 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7426 ### Event 11496 (C89BE73E) **Date:** 11/3/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 a.m. in Burleson, Texas a witness named McDowell saw a 10-foot diameter disc-shaped object with a red-orange glow. It flew silently with trails of white sparks for more than two minutes. It was gone in a sudden burst of speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7427 ### Event 11497 (61C2D846) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Location:** ORINOCO DELTA, VNZL **Description:** 3-4 dwarfs on ground near hovering sphere. No further details / this sketchy reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4351 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ORINOCO DELTA,VNZL:3-4 DWARFS ON GND nr HOVERING SPHERE:NFD/this sketchy ref.", **LatLong:** "9.000000 -61.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "09:00:00 N 61:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.000000,-61.500003)", **State/Prov:** "DLT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11498 (F7E99D0A) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** LE SOURN, FR AND 7 TOWNS **Description:** 6M saucer spins going quickly south. Landings. Beams. Animals scared. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4352 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "Le SOURN,FR+7 TOWNS:6M SCR SPINS >>S:LANDINGS:BEAMS:ANIMALS SCARED:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "48.066669 -2.988889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:04:00 N 02:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.066669,-2.988889)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11499 (602E202E) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** VALLET AND REDOUX AND CHALLANS AND COURERES, FR AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Wave / saucers and night lights. / r217p126. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4353 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "VALLET+REDOUX+CHALLANS+COURERES,FR++:WAVE/SCRS+NLTS:/r217p126", **LatLong:** "47.166669 -1.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:10:00 N 01:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.166669,-1.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Loire Atlantique", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11500 (6692ED15) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** NEAR MONTE ORTOBENE, ITL **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). 15M domed saucer / roadside. Grates / bottom. Quickly going up. / r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4354 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "nr MONTE ORTOBENE,ITL:3 SEP.OBS:15M DOMED SCR/ROADSIDE:GRATES/BOTTOM:↑↑:/r8", **LatLong:** "40.316669 9.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:19:00 N 09:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.316669,9.366667)", **State/Prov:** "NU", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11501 (D8CBD19C) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** Ground observer(s). Bright round night light maneuvers / 20 minute(s). Circles base 3X. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 509) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4355 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "ELMENDORF AFB,AK:GND OBS:BRITE ROUND NLT MNVRS/20min:CIRCLES BASE 3X", **LatLong:** "61.250003 -149.800007", **LatLongDMS:** "61:15:00 N 149:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.250003,-149.800007)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11502 (CE03AFE5) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / FIRENZE, ITL **Description:** 6 observer(s). Round glowing-sphere/orb/globe shoots 2 beams / forward and down. 5 photographs. Going quickly ESE. / r138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4356 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "SE/FIRENZE,ITL:6 OBS:RND GLO-ORB SHOOTS 2 BEAMS/FWD+DOWN:5 FOTOS:>>ESE:/r138", **LatLong:** "43.666669 11.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:00 N 11:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.666669,11.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Firenze", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11503 (01CF62AC) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** CAMPIGLIA MARITTIMA, ITL **Description:** Farmer / bike. Red-glow torpedo / low altitude. 90° turns and maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4357 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CAMPIGLIA MARITTIMA,ITL:FARMER/BIKE:RED-GLOW TORPEDO/LO ALT:90°TURNS+MNVRS", **LatLong:** "43.050002 10.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:03:00 N 10:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.050002,10.616667)", **State/Prov:** "LI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11504 (BFBD70E0) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** D2 NEAR PLAISSAN, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Brilliant red sphere / field. Gone when observer(s) arrives. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4358 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "D2 nr PLAISSAN,FR:1 OBS:BRILL.RED SPHERE/FIELD:GONE when OBS ARRIVES:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "43.566669 3.522222", **LatLongDMS:** "43:34:00 N 03:31:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.566669,3.522222)", **State/Prov:** "Hérault", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11505 (6385E5C2) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** PONTAL, SP, BRAZIL **Description:** 4M saucer going down. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) take leaves and grass and water / Pardo River. / r113p146. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4359 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "551", **HatchDesc:** "PONTAL,SP,BRZL:4M SCR ↓:3 OIDS TAKE LEAVES+GRASS+WATER/PARDO Rvr:/r113p146", **LatLong:** "-21.050001 -48.083336", **LatLongDMS:** "21:03:00 S 48:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.050001,-48.083336)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11506 (B7395226) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** SOUTH CARLTON, LINCOLNS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Humming! Large saucer with 2 orange lights. 2 small saucers follow. Lost / cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4360 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "S.CARLTON,LINCOLNs:2 OBS:HUM!:LRG SCR W/2 ORG LITES:2 SML SCRS FOLO:LOST/CLOUD", **LatLong:** "53.266669 -0.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:16:00 N 00:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.266669,-0.583333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11507 (E69F97B3) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** WEST / ST. VRAN, FR **Description:** 3 / road. 2 bright cylinders 50M overhead. 1 small. 1 huge. All color(s). Both vanish! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4361 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "W/St.VRAN,FR:3/ROAD:2 BRITE CYLS 50M OVHD:1 SML:1 HUGE:ALL CLRS:BOTH VANISH!", **LatLong:** "48.250002 -2.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:00 N 02:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.250002,-2.500000)", **State/Prov:** "CDN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11508 (47F684D3) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Pontal, Brazil **Description:** Jose Alves was fishing in the Pardo River when he suddenly saw a craft approach with a wobbling motion and landing near him. Shaped like two washbowls placed together, it was about 4.5 m in diameter. Too terrified to move, the witness saw three little men, dressed in white, wearing tight-fitting skull caps, with dark skin, come out of the craft, gather vegetables and water and fly away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 33; Lor. I 44 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_327 ### Event 11509 (099EF289) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Locations:** Pontal, São Paulo, Brazil; Rio Pardo **Description:** A laborer named Jose Alves of Pontal, São Paulo, Brazil, is night fishing in the Rio Pardo in a deserted spot. He sees a silvery, glowing UFO like two washbowls placed on top of each other, closing in from a westerly direction and wobbling. It lands near him and three little men emerge from a window, 3 feet tall with dark brown skin. They are dressed in white clothes with tightly fitting skullcaps, and collect samples of grass, herbs, and leaves, as well as water, which they put into a metal tube. They jump back into the object, which takes off vertically. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-04-brazil-pontal.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-04-brazil-pontal.htm) November 22, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2620 ### Event 11510 (533EDD9D) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Alternate date:** 11/7/1954 **Location:** Monte Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy **Description:** 3:15 p.m. A motorcyclist, Gianni Cambosu, sees a silvery, disc-shaped object about 50 feet in diameter land near the road at Monte Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy. He swerves sharply to avoid it and falls off his cycle. A taxi driver, Francesco Tanca, stops to observe the object, which is making a soft whirring sound before it takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 237–238](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/236/mode/2up); 1Pinotti 76 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2621 ### Event 11511 (A57F23B1) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Description:** At 6:30 a.m. a six-meter wide diameter disc was seen spinning in the sky over a farm in Le Sourn, Morbihan department, France. It flew toward the south, making multiple landings and emitting beams of light. The farm animals were frightened by it. The incident lasted 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4129, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7457 ### Event 11512 (2421ECDB) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Description:** At quarter past three in the afternoon on the island of Sardinia a domed disc-shaped UFO, estimated to be 15 meters in diameter, was observed on the roadside in Nuoro, Italy near Monte Ortobene. It had grates on the bottom. After eight minutes it took off vertically making a noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 5; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, Italian UFO Catalogue **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7458 ### Event 11513 (405C9ECC) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Description:** On this evening Jose Alves was fishing on the river in Pontal, Sao Paulo state, Brazil when he saw a luminous object come "wobbling" down from the sky. It was 3-4 meters (10-15 feet) in diameter, and it looked like "two washbowls joined together." It came down and hovered six feet above the ground and only a few feet away from the witness. Three small dwarfish men with dark skin and wearing white uniforms with "skull caps" emerged from the disc. They collected foliage and a sample of the river water in a metal tube. They then jumped back in the craft. The UFO rose vertically, making no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4136, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 146; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-126 (A0338), citing Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7459 ### Event 11514 (BCEF26CA) **Date:** 11/4/1954 **Description:** On or about this date, at night in the Amacuro Delta, Venezuela Fernando de Moya, age 39, was hunting from his launch, when he saw a luminous sphere hovering six feet above the ground. The two Indians with him fled in terror, but he approached and saw two three-foot tall figures with round heads andlarge eyes running back and forth to the sphere. They ran making little jumps, and picking up various things. They entered through one of two windows in the UFO. When they saw De Moya, they jumped into the object, which ascended vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-127 (A0338), citing APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 68 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7460 ### Event 11515 (7A44E54D) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Location:** LOOKOUT POINT, OAMARU, NZ **Description:** Orange ovoid with blue 'portholes' seen. No further details. / r78p173. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4362 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LOOKOUT POINT,OAMARU,NZ:ORANGE OVOID WITH BLUE 'PORTHOLES' SEEN:NFD:/r78p173", **LatLong:** "-45.000002 170.916675", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:00 S 170:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.000002,170.916675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11516 (799E1F70) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** RESSONS-SUR-MATZ, FR **Description:** Silent 4M bell-saucer follows road going northwest toward(s) town. / LDLN#138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4363 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "RESSONS-sur-MATZ,FR:SLNT 4M BELL-SCR FOLOS ROAD >NW twrd TOWN:/LDLN#138", **LatLong:** "49.550002 2.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:33:00 N 02:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.550002,2.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Oise", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11517 (639A1A2C) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** SOUTH / LA-ROCHE-EN-BRENIL, FR **Description:** 9M saucer / ground. 3 men. Box emits 3M beam. 7 photographs. Going west / 1805h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4364 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "S/La-ROCHE-en-BRENIL,FR:9M SCR/GND:3 MEN:BOX EMITS 3M BEAM:7 FOTOS:>W/1805h", **LatLong:** "47.366669 4.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:22:00 N 04:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.366669,4.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11518 (29ECEE5B) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MILITARY BASE 40 MI SOUTHEAST / SAN JUAN, PR **Description:** Vibrant bright "clam-shell" saucer / 2000mph. Going quickly [to] small cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 516) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4365 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MIL BASE 40mi SE/SAN JUAN,PR:VBRITE "CLAM-SHELL" SCR/2000mph:>> SMALL CLOUD", **LatLong:** "18.083334 -65.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "18:05:00 N 65:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.083334,-65.916670)", **State/Prov:** "Puerto Rico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11519 (D93B103D) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** LOUROUX-HODEMENT, FR AND CHANAT, PDD **Description:** Big luminous sphere south going quickly north. Leaves (something behind) sparks. Bolide? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4366 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LOUROUX-HODEMENT,FR+CHANAT,PDD:BIG LUMn.SPHERE S>>N:LVS SPARKS:bolide?", **LatLong:** "46.455558 2.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:27:20 N 02:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.455558,2.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11520 (F00D7912) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** FONTAINGUET, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3M multi-colored glowing-tube hovers. 30cm diameter. Bigger tube nearby. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4367 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FONTAINGUET,FR:2 OBS:3M MULTI-CLRD GLOW-TUBE HVRS:30cm diam:BIGGER TUBE NEARBY", **LatLong:** "48.255558 -2.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:20 N 02:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.255558,-2.516667)", **State/Prov:** "CDN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11521 (2A942C25) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Location:** Lookout Point, NZ **Description:** Orange elliptical object with blue "portholes" observed. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1777 ### Event 11522 (313A9AE4) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Location:** La Coruna, Spain **Description:** Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a large, shining disk rise 150 m away with a slight noise like an explosion and fly away at fantastic speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 96 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_328 ### Event 11523 (3A27FAC3) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Time:** 1010 **Location:** La Roche-en-Brenil, France **Description:** Raymond R. saw a craft, which made a noise like a large transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, "which emitted a beam of light three meters long." The other two were holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were taken. Traces: a whitish substance and a circle 3 m in diameter where the ground had an ashlike appearance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_329 ### Event 11524 (E2F40037) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Location:** La Roche-en-Brénil, Côte d’Or, France **Description:** 10:09 a.m. A witness in La Roche-en-Brénil, Côte d’Or, France, sees an orange object making a noise like a generator land in a nearby pasture. He notices three men standing near it. One is holding a box that emits a beam of light and the other two hold objects that look like weapons. Physical traces are found at the landing site: a white substance and a circle 10 feet in diameter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5nov1954larocheenbrenil.htm)” April 16, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2622 ### Event 11525 (DCB8F70C) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Description:** La Coruna, Spain. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a large, shining disc rise 150 meters away with a slight noise like an explosion. It flew away at fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 328, citing Le Parisien, November 8, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7466 ### Event 11526 (5888A1AB) **Date:** 11/5/1954 **Description:** In La Roche-en-Brenil, France at 10:10 a.m. Raymond R. saw a craft that made a noise like a large transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, "which emitted a beam of light three meters long." The other two were holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were taken. Traces included a whitish substance and a circle three meters in diameter where the ground had an ashlike appearance. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 329; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 445 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7467 ### Event 11527 (5855D2AD) **Date:** 11/6/1954 **Location:** Padre Island, TX **Description:** Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_137 ### Event 11528 (70B920F3) **Date:** 11/6/1954 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** ROME **Description:** Many observer(s) 20+20 white dots / V formation converge going [to] transform. 7500M altitude. 1200+kph. / r114p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4368 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "ROME:MANY OBS 20+20 WHT DOTS/VFORM CONVERGE>XFORM:7500M alt:1200+kph:/r114p56", **LatLong:** "41.883335 12.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:00 N 12:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.883335,12.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Rome", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11529 (12DDAC97) **Date:** 11/6/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NEW CASTLE, DEL **Description:** 2 / US40. 2 domed saucers beam going down / road. Vibration felt. Back 3X. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 511) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4369 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "NEW CASTLE,DEL:2/US40:2 DOMED SCRS BEAM↓/ROAD:VIBRATION FELT:BACK 3X:>>E ", **LatLong:** "39.661113 -75.561115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:39:40 N 75:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.661113,-75.561115)", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11530 (47B0088A) **Date:** 11/6/1954 **Locations:** Tuscolana district in Rome, Italy; Trastevere–Monte Mario district above Vatican City **Description:** 11:00 a.m. [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) is in the Tuscolana district in Rome, Italy, when he sees dozens of small, white objects in the sky at a height of 4–5 miles. They are moving at variable speeds, as high as 750–850 mph. At first he calculates that there are about 50 of them, but later realizes there are 100. Sometimes they are single, other times in pairs, threes, fours, sevens, or twelves. Frequently they are in diamond formations of four or V- formations of seven. At 12:00 noon, a formation of 20 objects appears from the east, followed by another 20 moving from the west. The two V-formations converge until their vertices form a St. Andrews cross, with 10 objects to each bar. The convergence takes place over the Trastevere–Monte Mario district above Vatican City. The cross then performs a three-quarter turn on its axis, turning into an X-formation, then breaks off into two separate curves that take off in opposite directions. Another concentration of about 100 objects appears 10 minutes later and Perego notices shining filaments falling from the sky. He grabs a handful of the glassy substance, which evaporates in a few hours. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alberto Perego, “[The Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 4–5; 1Pinotti 76–80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2623 ### Event 11531 (6B632A4E) **Date:** 11/6/1954 **Description:** At 11:00 a.m. in the morning Alberto Perego watched about 100 white spots traveling in the sky over Rome, Italy with short white trails. They flew in formations of two, three, four, seven, and twelve for over a two hour period. They often would form lozenge-shaped formations of four objects ov V-shaped formations of seven. They executed curves, and an "angel hair" residue fell to the ground. On the same day several unknown radar blips were tracked over England for a two hour period. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alberto Perego, Flying Saucers, March-April 1970, p. 17; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 37 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7488 ### Event 11532 (2E629C11) **Date:** 11/7/1954 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** Professor and 1. Luminous vertical cylinder/cigar-shape turns horizontal. Going quickly [to] through clouds and lost. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 516) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4370 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:PROFESSOR+1:LUM VERTICAL CGR TURNS HRZNTAL:>>THRU CLOUDS+LOST", **LatLong:** "39.283335 -76.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:17:00 N 76:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.283335,-76.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11533 (3DF169B8) **Date:** 11/7/1954 **Time:** 1515 **Location:** Monte Ortobene, Sardinia **Description:** A motorcyclist saw a disk-shaped machine land near the road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell 50 m away. A taxi driver stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly away. The disk, about 15 m in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 97; Wilkins U 237 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_330 ### Event 11534 (7A46D9D5) **Date:** 11/7/1954 **Location:** Tuscolana district of Rome, Italy **Description:** 11:30 a.m. [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) is returning from the Tuscolana district of Rome, Italy, when he sees more formations of about 50 white objects that remain for about two-and-a-half hours. They arrive from different directions and always in formation. More filamentous material falls from the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alberto Perego, “[The Great](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf) [‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 5; 1Pinotti 80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2624 ### Event 11535 (065E7763) **Date:** 11/7/1954 **Description:** In Monte Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy a motorcyclist saw a disc-shaped machine land near the road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell off his motocycle 50 meters away from it. A taxi driver stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly away. The disc, about 15 meters in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7522 ### Event 11536 (41E5467F) **Date:** 11/8/1954 (approximate) **Location:** LIVORNO, ITL **Description:** Fishermen spooked. Waves / night lights and saucers in formation. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4371 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "LIVORNO,ITL:FISHERMEN SPOOKED:WAVES/NLTS+SCRS IN FORMATION:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.533335 10.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 10:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,10.333334)", **State/Prov:** "LI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11537 (DF9CEE3B) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** CROYDON, LONDON **Description:** Boy sees small saucer. 9 November 3 small humanoids (or Greys) cure illness. Gets psychic talent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN ABDUCTIONS - the Mystery Solved; Inner Light, NJ 1988. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4372 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CROYDON,LONDON:BOY SEES SMALL SCR:9NOV 3 OIDS CURE ILLNESS:GETS PSYCHIC TALENT", **LatLong:** "51.366669 -0.105556", **LatLongDMS:** "51:22:00 N 00:06:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.366669,-0.105556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 11538 (C86CE095) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CHAUNAY, FR **Description:** 2 girls. Squat 1M glass cylinder/cylindrical object with neck to side. Landing traces. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4373 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHAUNAY,FR:2 GIRLS:SQUAT 1M GLASS CYL W/NECK TO SIDE:LANDING TRACES:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "46.216669 0.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:00 N 00:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.216669,0.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11539 (7DDC9755) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** VOUSSAC, FR **Description:** Luminous sphere lands by Vacheresse woods. Darkens. Dirt found dug up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 332) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4374 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VOUSSAC,FR:LUMn.SPHERE LANDS BY VACHERESSE WOODS:DARKENS:DIRT FOUND DUG UP.", **LatLong:** "46.316669 3.061111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:19:00 N 03:03:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.316669,3.061111)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11540 (C763F64D) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** LA TESSOUALLE, FR **Description:** Saucer malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) motorcycle. Rider frozen. Away and back as 6M cone. Going north. / r8#333. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4375 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "La TESSOUALLE,FR:SCR EMEs MCYCLE:RIDER FROZEN:AWAY+BACK as 6M CONE:>N:/r8#333", **LatLong:** "47.000002 -0.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:00:00 N 00:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.000002,-0.850000)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11541 (AE4F868C) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Time:** 1030 **Location:** Monza, Italy **Description:** A crowd of about 150 people, destroying barriers to come closer, gathered to observe a luminous craft landed in a stadium. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white light and supporting an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 238 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_331 ### Event 11542 (78D4FA92) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Time:** 1800 **Location:** Voussac, France **Description:** In the Vacheresse Forest, reliable persons reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and become dark. The next morning, investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 m in diameter had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have been dug up. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_332 ### Event 11543 (D6BA5159) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Time:** dusk **Location:** La Tessoualle, France **Description:** Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, "in spite of his gloves," when a blue disk came close to his motorcycle and his electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 m away. He saw the object, a cone 5.5 m in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, then fly horizonally to the north. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 98 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_333 ### Event 11544 (180BDCB2) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Locations:** Voussac, Allier, France; Vacheresse Forest **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Witnesses near Voussac, Allier, France, in the Vacheresse Forest watch a luminous sphere land and then dim, fading to black. Investigators find an area 12–15 feet in diameter where there are no leaves and the ground seems excavated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/8nov1954voussac.htm)” April 18, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2625 ### Event 11545 (BE0FFD91) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Locations:** Blacksmith André Chaillou; Loublande, Deux-Sèvres, France **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Blacksmith André Chaillou is riding a moped one mile north of Loublande, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he notices a small blue light in front of him. His engine fails and he nearly falls off the bike. The blue dot is projecting a strong light and hovering about 6 feet in the air. He finds himself temporarily paralyzed with a tingling in his hands. The blue light goes out and he is able to move again and restart his moped, but the light reappears about 450 feet away, seemingly 18 feet long and cone-shaped. It takes off vertically with a whistling sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/8nov1954latessoualle.htm)” October 22, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2626 ### Event 11546 (85029401) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Description:** At 1:00 a.m. a man in Croydon, London, England was outside looking after his rabbits when a small disc-shaped object flew over. The next day he became sick to his stomach and ended up in the hospital. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 70 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7525 ### Event 11547 (86ECCE26) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. a crowd of about 150 people jumped barriers to get closer to a luminous craft that had landed in the stadium in Monza, Italy. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white light and supported an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly. Probable fabrication according to Italian researchers on the Project 1947 list. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242, case 331 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7526 ### Event 11548 (50AB50CE) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. a number of people in the Vacheresse Forest in Voussac, France reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and then become dark. The next morning, an investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 meters in diameter had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have been dug up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 238; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 332 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7527 ### Event 11549 (9A32C27C) **Date:** 11/8/1954 **Description:** At dusk in La Tessoualle, France Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, "in spite of his gloves," when a blue disc came close to his motorcycle and his electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 meters away. He saw the object, a cone 5.5 meters in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, then fly horizontally to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 333 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7528 ### Event 11550 (B929AA34) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** DAMASCUS, OH **Description:** House shakes. 30M metallic glowing-ovoid hovers / school. Jet circles. / APRO v3#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4376 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "372", **HatchDesc:** "DAMASCUS,OH:HOUSE SHAKES:30M MTLC GLOW-OVOID HVRs/SCHOOL:jet ccls:/APRO v3#5", **LatLong:** "40.900002 -80.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:00 N 80:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.900002,-80.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11551 (996C9627) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** NEAR INCHY, FR **Description:** 2 / car. 25M saucer tilts 50M over field. Going up [to] and vanishes as observers near. / r30p211. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4377 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr INCHY,FR:2/CAR:25M SCR TILTS 50M OVR FIELD:↑+VANISHES as OBSs NEAR:/r30p211", **LatLong:** "50.116669 3.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:07:00 N 03:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.116669,3.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11552 (3D92234D) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NEAR WILCANNIA, AUS **Description:** Sheep-man takes 3 photographs. Invisible saucer with invisible teacup atop. 500' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4378 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr WILCANNIA,AUS:SHEEP-MAN TAKES 3 FOTOS:INVIS SCR W/INVIS TEACUP ATOP:500'ALT", **LatLong:** "-31.500002 143.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "31:30:00 S 143:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.500002,143.500007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11553 (EAA42D3A) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** BOIS DE VILLERS, BELGIUM **Description:** 2 locals hear screams from 2M flying egg landed / pasture. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4379 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BOIS de VILLERS,BELG:2 LOCALS HEAR SCREAMS fm 2M FLYING EGG LANDED/PASTURE.", **LatLong:** "50.383336 4.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:23:00 N 04:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.383336,4.833334)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11554 (9C5B42AF) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** FROBERVILLE, FR **Description:** 9M bullet-cylinder/cigar-shape / 30M altitude. 2 observer(s) run beneath. Whistles and brightens and quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4380 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FROBERVILLE,FR:9M BULLET-CGR/30M alt:2 OBS RUN BENEATH:WHISTLES+BRIGHTENS+↑↑", **LatLong:** "49.716669 0.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:43:00 N 00:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.716669,0.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11555 (79AC8303) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Location:** Bois de Villers, Belgium **Description:** Two villagers reported the landing of a 2-m-high "flying egg" in a pasture. Screams seemed to emanate from it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Wilkins U 251 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_334 ### Event 11556 (EDBAE683) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Description:** Phillip Molava, age 13, living at an orphanage in Shirley, Surrey, England at the time, had been mysteriously losing baby rabbits from his locked rabbit hutch, so he was keeping watch on it by night. At around 1:00 a.m. he noticed a small, white, discus-shaped object floating toward him at about five mph. It had no lights and no markings, and was only as big as a large plate. As it flew low over him, he jumped up trying to grab it, but could not quite reach it and it flew away. The next day, or perhaps a day later, he felt almost paralyzed all day, and was in the infirmary. That night, he was awaked in his bed when he saw a misty mass, as wide as the bed, form at the foot of the bed. It passed up the bed toward his head, “freezing” his body with cold as it passed. Then it stopped, and three figures materialized from the mist at the foot of his bed. They next moved up to him, two on one side, one on the other, and bent over him. He had the feeling they were going to help him, to “make me at ease with myself.” They were dressed in black, or dark, robes, like the habits worn by monks, so he could not see their faces, and could not describe their hands. He tried to speak to them, but they did not answer. He had no memory of their departure. The next day he felt well again. The rabbits were shortly afterwards taken from him by the orphanage. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Janet & Colin Bord, FSR, November 1978, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-36, citing Janet & Colin Bord **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7558 ### Event 11557 (27277E02) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Description:** At 6:00 a.m. a 25 meter in diameter disc-shaped object tilted, 50 meters over a field in Inchy, Nord department, France. It then rose vertically and vanished as the witnesses approached. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 129 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7559 ### Event 11558 (3AE8B2C3) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Description:** Two villagers in Bois de Villers, Belgium reported the landing of a two-meter-high "flying egg" in a pasture. Screams seemed to be emanating from it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 251; Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 334 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7560 ### Event 11559 (DCCB6F27) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Description:** A nine meter long, bullet-shaped cigar hovered at 30 meters altitude over a farm in Froberville, Seine-Maritime department, France. Two observers ran beneath it. The object then made a whistling sound, brightened, and shot up into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 260 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7561 ### Event 11560 (6120A79A) **Date:** 11/9/1954 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. a house in Damascus, Ohio was shaken by some outside force. Next, the witness looked out and observed a 30 meter long, glowing metallic ovoid object hovering over a nearby school. When a jet circled the area, the UFO vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Walter N.Webb, NICAP case files; APRO Bulletin, March 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7562 ### Event 11561 (9047E8B5) **Date:** 11/10/1954 **Location:** NEAR PORTO ALEGRE, BRZ **Description:** 2 long-haired pseudo-human/entity / saucer approach car / hands up. Car drives off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 335) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4381 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "nr PORTO ALEGRE,BRZ:2 LONG-HAIRED PSH/SCR APPROACH CAR/HANDS UP:CAR DRIVES OFF", **LatLong:** "-30.000001 -51.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 51:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.000001,-51.166669)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11562 (D404306B) **Date:** 11/10/1954 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** STEMBERT, BELGIUM **Description:** 13 observer(s). White-yellow ovoid / 7km altitude. 4 small dark objects orbit. / LDLN#260. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4382 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "STEMBERT,BELGIUM:13 OBS:WHT-YLW OVOID/7km alt:4 SML DRK OBJs ORBIT:/LDLN#260", **LatLong:** "50.588891 5.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:35:20 N 05:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.588891,5.900000)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11563 (7A995A84) **Date:** 11/10/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** TRAVERSONE, ITL **Description:** Red beam / low altitude sweeps 2 tractors. Gas engine malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) diesel not! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4383 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "TRAVERSONE,ITL:RED BEAM/LO ALT SWEEPS 2 TRACTORS:GAS ENGINE EMEs diesel not!", **LatLong:** "44.600002 11.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:36:00 N 11:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.600002,11.833334)", **State/Prov:** "FE", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11564 (6139F3AE) **Date:** 11/10/1954 **Location:** Porto Alegre, Brazil **Description:** An agronomist and his family in their car saw a landed disk from which two men, normal in height, with long hair and coverall-like clothes, emerged and came toward the car with arms raised. As the frightened witnesses sped away, they saw the men reenter the disk, which rose and flew off at very great speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 42 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_335 ### Event 11565 (DEBE1F30) **Date:** 11/10/1954 **Locations:** Porto Alegre; Rio Grande do Sul; Brazil **Description:** An agronomist and his family encounter a landed UFO along a road in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Two men with long hair and one-piece suits emerge and approach them with raised arms. The witnesses speed away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 268; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n45/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2627 ### Event 11566 (A37471C0) **Date:** 11/11/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** LOUISVILLE, KY **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Huge glowing sphere/orb/globe / saucer. Hovers. 1 F86 can't see. 1 can. / r50p52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4384 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "LOUISVILLE,KY:1000s/OBS:HUGE GLOWING ORB/SCR:HVRS:1 F86 CANT SEE:1 CAN:/r50p52", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -85.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 85:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-85.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11567 (53B1C90E) **Date:** 11/11/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** WHITSTABLE, KENT **Description:** Small dull-red cylinder/cigar-shape passes over town at 600mph. Possibly a saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4385 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WHITSTABLE,KENT:SMALL DULL-RED CGR PASSES OVR TOWN @ 600mph:POSSIBLY A SCR", **LatLong:** "51.350002 1.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:21:00 N 01:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.350002,1.050000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11568 (6C6A487C) **Date:** 11/11/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** ISOLA / ORTONOVO, ITL **Description:** 3 small humanoids (or Greys) / saucer take rabbits. Gun disabled. / r219p07+/ r8+/ r112p99. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4386 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "ISOLA/ORTONOVO,ITL:3 OIDS/SCR TAKE RABBITS:GUN DISABLED:/r219p07+/r8+/r112p99", **LatLong:** "44.083335 10.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:00 N 10:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.083335,10.066667)", **State/Prov:** "SP", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11569 (05257385) **Date:** 11/12/1954 (approximate) **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** ARQUA'POLESINE, ITL **Description:** Fisherman. 3M transparent globe going down. Stops. Dives / canal. Cloud / vapor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4387 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARQUA'POLESINE,ITL:FISHERMAN:3M XPRNT GLOBE ↓:STOPS:DIVES/CANAL:cloud/vapor", **LatLong:** "45.011113 11.738889", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:40 N 11:44:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.011113,11.738889)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11570 (4A9E4F9B) **Date:** 11/12/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** WALDERALM, AUSTRIA **Description:** 2+observer(s). Fireball high over peak. Small cylinder/cigar-shape drops / fireball and passes Ifo trees! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4388 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "WALDERALM,AUSTRIA:2+OBS:FBL HI OVR PEAK:SML CGR DROPS/FBL+PASSES IFO TREES!", **LatLong:** "47.350002 11.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:21:00 N 11:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.350002,11.583334)", **State/Prov:** "TRL", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11571 (150EEC40) **Date:** 11/12/1954 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** FUNCHAL, MADEIRA ISLANDS, PORTUGAL **Description:** / Diario popular. Flying saucer seen over bay / 10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4389 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "FUNCHAL,MADEIRA ISls,PORTUGAL:/DIARIO POPULAR:FLYING SCR SEEN OVR BAY/10min", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -16.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 16:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-16.883334)", **State/Prov:** "MDR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11572 (637FB157) **Date:** 11/12/1954 **Location:** Kentucky (Indiana & Ohio), Various **Description:** Kentucky (Indiana & Ohio), G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1778 ### Event 11573 (23771910) **Date:** 11/12/1954 **Locations:** Rome; Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy **Description:** 11:30 a.m. [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) watches even more formations of white objects over Rome. He has contacted the Italian air defense office, which tells him that the objects would be out of radar range. This time the objects are also observed by Fr. Zilwes, a Brazilian priest at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alberto Perego, “[The Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 5–6; 1Pinotti 81–82 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2628 ### Event 11574 (B3877F57) **Date:** 11/12/1954 **Locations:** Louisville, Kentucky; Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox; Bedford, Indiana; Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio; Standiford Field [now Louisville International Airport] **Description:** 3:00–6:00 p.m. A white, motionless object appears over Louisville, Kentucky. A radar unit 30 miles southwest of Louisville tracks the object but loses sight about 12 miles northwest of Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox. It is later sighted at Bedford, Indiana. Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. [Lee J. Merkel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3303252/lee-joseph-merkel) notifies Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, which sends an F-86 to investigate. The pilot sees nothing and returns to the base. Merkel and another National Guard pilot give chase in F-51 Mustangs, but they are also unsuccessful. Merkel says the object is moving into the wind, which is not likely for a balloon. [Henry P. Julliard](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/857079/henry-p-julliard), deputy director of Standiford Field \[now Louisville International Airport\] follows the object for 45 minutes on the weather bureau’s theodolite; he says the object has no more motion than a star and that after sundown the object turns amber. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[That ‘Thing’ in the Sky](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93930189/) [Still ‘Unidentified Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93930381/)” Louisville \(Ky.\) Courier-Journal, November 13, 1954, pp. 1, 12; “[Louisville Stops Work to Watch Saucer,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9 \(December 3, 1954\): 3–4; NICAP, “[Sphere Startles Thousands](http://www.nicap.org/541112louisville%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021); Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2629 ### Event 11575 (8FA08A7D) **Date:** 11/12/1954 **Description:** A fisherman watched a three meter wide transparent globe descend at eight o'clock in the morning, stop and hover momentarily, and then dive into the canal in Arqua'Polesine, Italy leaving behind a cloud of vapor. At eleven o'clock that same morning a Brazilian priest working at the Vatican's Castel Gandolfo mountain residence in Italy had a close encounter with two UFOs. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Verga Maurizio, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue; Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7605 ### Event 11576 (046AAE77) **Date:** 11/12/1954 **Description:** A spherical UFO hovered for a long period over Louisville, Kentucky. U.S. Air Force jets chased it over Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. It was also observed from the ground through a theodolite. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7606 ### Event 11577 (E70578EA) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** NEAR AIRPORT / BERCK, FR **Description:** Landed 'round hut' craft takes off silently. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4390 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr AIRPORT/BERCK,FR:LANDED 'ROUND HUT' CRAFT TAKES OFF SILENTLY. ", **LatLong:** "50.433336 1.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:00 N 01:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.433336,1.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11578 (39C93100) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** EAST / URAI, BRZ **Description:** Saucer on railroad/railway tracks. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) study ballast with light. Go when seen. / r222p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4391 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "E/URAI,BRZ:SCR ON RR TRACKS:3 OIDS STUDY BALLAST W/LITE:GO when seen:/r222p26", **LatLong:** "-23.200001 -50.783336", **LatLongDMS:** "23:12:00 S 50:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.200001,-50.783336)", **State/Prov:** "PRN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11579 (4EC94D8A) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** BUCHY, FR **Description:** Car slows. Luminous/glowing object lands and takes off. Observer(s) paralyzed briefly. / r79p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 337) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4392 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BUCHY,FR:CAR SLOWS:LUMn OBJ LANDS+TAKES OFF:OBS PARALYZED BRIEFLY:/r79p5.", **LatLong:** "49.577780 1.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:34:40 N 01:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.577780,1.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11580 (2298186B) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** COROMANDEL, NZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cylindrical object cylinder/cigar-shape going west / 300kph. Large well-lit windows! Close and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4393 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "COROMANDEL,NZ:SVRL OBS:CYL CGR >W/300kph:LRG WELL-LIT WINDOWS!:CLOSE+SLNT", **LatLong:** "-36.766668 175.483342", **LatLongDMS:** "36:46:00 S 175:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.766668,175.483342)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11581 (FA4DA9A1) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Time:** 0330 **Location:** Berck, France **Description:** Near the local airport, Mr. Davril saw a craft like a round hut 300 m away. It took off without noise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_336 ### Event 11582 (FA5DFDCE) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Location:** Buchy, France **Description:** At intersection of Routes N28 and N319, Mr. R. L., of Rouen, saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was paralyzed. The engine of the car slowed down but did not stall. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_337 ### Event 11583 (A6E40A2F) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Time:** 0330 **Location:** Curitiba, Brazil **Description:** A lens-shaped object was seen on the railroad tracks. Near it, three dwarfs wearing tight-fitting suits were looking at the tracks with a light. When the witness approached, the machine took off very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 99; Humanoids 33 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_338 ### Event 11584 (13A0B37A) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Location:** Buchy, Seine-Maritime, France **Description:** 2:00 a.m. A witness is driving in Buchy, Seine-Maritime, France, and sees a luminous object take off as he feels a mild electric shock and is paralyzed. His car engine slows but does not stall. The object leaves, the paralysis goes away, and the car returns to normal. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/13nov1954buchy.htm)” October 22, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2630 ### Event 11585 (537A1953) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Description:** At 3:30 a.m. near the local airport in Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France, Mr. Davril saw a craft shaped like a round hut 300 meters away. It took off without making any noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 336 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7626 ### Event 11586 (8B3AEF19) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Description:** At the intersection of Routes N28 and N319 in Buchy, Seine-Maritime, France Mr. R. L. of Rouen saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was paralyzed. The engine of his car slowed down but did not stall. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Paris-Normandie, November 15, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 337 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7627 ### Event 11587 (900A204F) **Date:** 11/13/1954 **Description:** Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil - At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Cheminot, a Brazilian railway employee, saw three short beings in tight fitting, luminous coveralls examining the railroad tracks with a lantern. When they saw him, they entered a lens-shaped craft, which rose rapidly into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 109-110; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 33; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-129 [A0343]; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 338 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7628 ### Event 11588 (4A82A09A) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Location:** BERNAL, ARG **Description:** 300 soldiers / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver saucer leaves (something behind) reddish trail. 9000' altitude. Going south / very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4394 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "BERNAL,ARG:300 SOLDIERS/BINOCS:SLVR SCR lvs REDDISH TRAIL:9000' ALT:>S/VFAST", **LatLong:** "-34.716668 -58.283336", **LatLongDMS:** "34:43:00 S 58:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.716668,-58.283336)", **RelAlt:** "2700", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11589 (1744C825) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** GRAY AIR FORCE BASE / KILLEEN, TX **Description:** 3 MPs. 4' sphere/orb/globe descends over 'danger area 343'. Streaks away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 521) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4395 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "GRAY AFB/KILLEEN,TX:3 MPs:4'ORB DESCENDS OVR 'DANGER AREA 343':STREAKS AWAY", **LatLong:** "31.111113 -97.722227", **LatLongDMS:** "31:06:40 N 97:43:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.111113,-97.722227)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11590 (D7971E7E) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** FREDERICK, MD **Description:** Civil observer(s). Car radio Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Large silver saucer rotates going overhead. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 522) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4396 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "88", **HatchDesc:** "FREDERICK,MD:CIV OBS:CAR RADIO RFI:LRG SLVR SCR ROTATES GOING OVHD:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.416669 -77.411115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:25:00 N 77:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.416669,-77.411115)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11591 (067024B9) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** WASMES TO/FROM AUDEMETS, BELGIUM **Description:** Saucer lands near road. Mans clothes burnt / approach. / r67p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4397 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WASMES> Event 11592 (C2B55F05) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Location:** Forli, Italy **Description:** UFO Disables One Tractor But Not The Diesel (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [541114](http://nicap.org/541114forli%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1779 ### Event 11593 (C3BF8B37) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** Isola, Italy **Description:** Amerigo Lorenzini, a farmer, saw a bright, cigar-shaped craft land near him and took cover. Out of it came three dwarfs dressed in metallic diving suits. They centered their attention on rabbits in a cage while speaking among themselves in an unknown language. Thinking they were going to steal the animals, the farmer aimed a rifle at the intruders, but it failed to fire and the witness suddenly felt so weak that he had to drop the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and their craft departed, leaving a bright trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 100 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_339 ### Event 11594 (2AE5B839) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Wasmes, Belgium **Description:** Approximate date. Marcel Pipers a gardener saw a craft resting near the road give off a very bright light. His clothing was partially burned when he went close to it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_340 ### Event 11595 (EE96869C) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Forli, Italy **Description:** A shange beam of red light, apparently from some flying source, was reported sweeping the countryside. As it illuminated two tractors, one of them stalled, but the other, a diesel, continued. The beam was seen for about one hour by a large number of persons. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 211 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_341 ### Event 11596 (1D655268) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Location:** Urai, Paraná, Brazil **Description:** 3:30 a.m. Railroad worker Jose Rodrigues comes across three figures in tight-fitting suits inspecting the ground with the help of luminous objects near railroad tracks near Urai, Paraná, Brazil. They see him and run back into the UFO. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Railroad Men See ‘Men’ Inspecting Tracks](http://www.nicap.org/54113brazil%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2631 ### Event 11597 (42C45350) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Location:** Forli, Italy **Description:** Two or three tractor drivers in Forli, Italy, watch a bright-red, luminous UFO approach them in a farm field. As it approaches, the engine that works by internal combustion fail, but the diesel engine still runs. The men run away; when they return, the UFO has departed. The engine that failed still causes some trouble after the sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 62–63, 145 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2632 ### Event 11598 (32C4336B) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Alternate date:** 11/11/1954 **Location:** Isola, Spezia, Italy **Description:** 7:45 p.m. Near Isola, Spezia, Italy, Amerigo \(or Americo\) Lorenzini sees a cigar-shaped UFO land and a trio of small creatures wearing diving suits emerge. They walk over to Lorenzini’s rabbit cages and stare at the animals, talking in a strange language. He runs inside to grab his gun and tries to pull the trigger as they are taking some rabbits to the UFO, but he becomes paralyzed. The UFO takes off, leaving a bright trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 20–21; 1Pinotti 88 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2633 ### Event 11599 (005B485A) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Description:** On this date in 1954, a well-known UFO vehicle ignition interference case occurred in Forli, Italy. Two tractors, one diesel powered and the other powered by a gasoline-combustion engine, were driving down a farm road in the evening when a red beam of light from a dark flying object overhead swept the field, hitting both vehicles. The tractor with the gas-powered engine stalled but the diesel tractor did not. The beam of light was seen for over an hour by a large number of witnesses throughout the countryside. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, p. 211. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7663 ### Event 11600 (40EE39BB) **Date:** 11/14/1954 **Description:** On the same day in La Spezia, Italy at 7:45 p.m. a bright cigar-shaped object landed in a farmer's field. Three dwarf humanoids wearing metallic "diving suits" emerged from the craft, speaking among themselves in an unintelligible language. When the farmer became convinced that the humanoids were intent on stealing some of his rabbits, he attempted to shoot at them with his shotgun, but the gun suddenly felt heavy, failed to fire, and he was unable to move or speak, and suddenly felt so weak that he dropped the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and the paralysis wore off when the UFO took off. At about the same time but in the Eastern US time zone, around 2:00 p.m., in Frederick, Maryland, another electro-magnetic interference effect case occurred. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 339; Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7664 ### Event 11601 (AD759DC0) **Date:** 11/15/1954 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** AUGUSTA, ME **Description:** Observer(s) = Gallant. 10 gold circular objects in vertical V-formation straight and level 3 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4398 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "AUGUSTA,ME:OBS=GALLANT:10 GOLD CIRC.OBJS IN VERTICAL V-FORMATION S/L 3min", **LatLong:** "44.316669 -69.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:19:00 N 69:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.316669,-69.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11602 (413AFF4A) **Date:** 11/15/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** TREZELLES, FR **Description:** Mme. Edelin. Big luminous disk seen. No further details. / La Montagne 26 Nov. '53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4399 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TREZELLES,FR:Mme.EDELIN:BIG LUMn.DISK SEEN:NFD:/La Montagne 26NOV53", **LatLong:** "46.327780 3.594445", **LatLongDMS:** "46:19:40 N 03:35:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.327780,3.594445)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11603 (20F8FFC2) **Date:** 11/15/1954 **Location:** Augusta, ME **Description:** 10 gold, circular objects fly in vertical V-formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3326) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1780 ### Event 11604 (4E5334F8) **Date:** 11/15/1954 **Time:** 44 PM **Location:** Augusta, Maine **Description:** Witness: N. Gallant, manager of radio station WFAV. Ten gold, circular objects flew in vertical V-formation, straight and level for 3 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_374 ### Event 11605 (1AD756E9) **Date:** 11/15/1954 **Description:** In Augusta, Maine 10 gold circular objects flew slowly in a vertical V formation at a low altitude at four o'clock in the afternoon. The civilian witness was named Gallant, and the sighting lasted three minutes. This is a Project Blue Book case classified as "unidentified". **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3326; Don Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7685 ### Event 11606 (DAB60681) **Date:** 11/16/1954 (approximate) **Location:** ZEFAT, ISR AND LEBANON AND JORDAN **Description:** Wave / cigars and saucers and night lights and orbs. Daylight flight / saucers in formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 252) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4400 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "ZEFAT,ISR+LEBANON+JORDAN:WAVE/CGRS+SCRS+NLTS+ORBS:DAYLITE FLITE/SCRS/FORMATION", **LatLong:** "32.950002 35.500002", **LatLongDMS:** "32:57:00 N 35:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.950002,35.500002)", **State/Prov:** "GLL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11607 (F412CA7D) **Date:** 11/16/1954 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** CATANIA, ITL **Description:** 4 / car. Metallic disk going down [to] 50M over cemetery. Port opens and head sticks out! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4401 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CATANIA,ITL:4/CAR:MTLC DISK ↓ 50M ovr CEMETERY:PORT OPENS+HEAD STICKS OUT!", **LatLong:** "37.500002 15.100001", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:00 N 15:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.500002,15.100001)", **State/Prov:** "CT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11608 (76A7CB63) **Date:** 11/17/1954 **Locations:** Oregon City, Oregon; Willamette Falls Locks; Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill **Description:** 4:10 p.m. [Iden K. Zimmerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121158001/iden-k-zimmerman) is standing just under the roof of a shed by the railing of gate number six of the Willamette Falls Locks in Oregon City, Oregon. His gloved hands are resting on the railing. He feels something like “icy rain” on his hands. The rain seems to penetrate his clothing and gloves as if his arms are bare. He feels the same thing on his legs, from the knees down. Looking up, he sees a bright orange object as large as the full moon flying in a straight line from west to east. It disappears over the Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill roof across the river. He can find no trace of rain on the wooden deck or cement walks, and the moisture disappears from his clothing. A few minutes later he begins to feel dizzy and has trouble maintaining his balance. The effect wears off in about one hour. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 16–17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2634 ### Event 11609 (F00A4391) **Date:** 11/17/1954 **End date:** 11/18/1954 **Location:** Ent AFB **Description:** Blue Book head Capt. [Charles Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) and [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) meet with Col. John M. White Jr., commander of the 4602nd AISS at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in order to help out with a guide for investigating and processing UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. John M. White Jr., “[Report of Visit of ATIC](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/4602HistoryUFOs.pdf) [Representatives,](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/4602HistoryUFOs.pdf)” November 23, 1954, in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 1, January 1– June 30, 1955, pp. 55–57 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2635 ### Event 11610 (96E2F58C) **Date:** 11/18/1954 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** NORTH / CLARBEC, FR **Description:** 3 / car. 10M domed saucer / road. Going up [to] and tilts / avoid wires. Silent. Quickly going up. / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4402 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N/CLARBEC,FR:3/CAR:10M DOMED SCR/ROAD:↑+TILTS/AVOID WIRES:SLNT:↑↑:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "49.250002 0.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:15:00 N 00:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.250002,0.133333)", **State/Prov:** "Calvados", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11611 (7612282B) **Date:** 11/18/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** ST. MAUDAN, FR **Description:** Girl / 12. Glowing-boat going down / field. 3 hairy small humanoids (or Greys) pick apples! / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 225) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4403 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.MAUDAN,FR:GIRL/12:GLOW-BOAT ↓/FIELD:3 HAIRY OIDS PICK APPLES!:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "48.116669 -2.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:07:00 N 02:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.116669,-2.783333)", **State/Prov:** "CDN", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11612 (0B5BAA3D) **Date:** 11/18/1954 **Description:** At six o'clock in the morning a 12-year old girl in St. Maudan, Cotes-Nord, France saw a UFO looking like "a glowing boat" land in a nearby field. Three hairy dwarf humanoids emerged from the object and began to gather apples from the nearby orchard. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue #325; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4177; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 225 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7726 ### Event 11613 (574D3002) **Date:** 11/19/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** ALTHOVEN, AUSTRIA **Description:** 2 cops. Flattened star hovers. Then shoots going quickly south to lone cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4404 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "396", **HatchDesc:** "ALTHOVEN,AUSTRIA:2 COPS:FLATTENED STAR HVRS:THEN SHOOTS >>S to LONE CLOUD", **LatLong:** "46.616669 14.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "46:37:00 N 14:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.616669,14.500001)", **State/Prov:** "CRN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11614 (83B0A860) **Date:** 11/19/1954 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** TAORMINA, SICILY **Description:** Famous United Press International photograph / 2 white saucers over shoreline. Many observers. Date / VJBO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4405 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "TAORMINA,SICILY:FAMOUS UPI FOTO/2 WHT SCRS OVR SHORELINE:MANY OBSs:date/VJBO", **LatLong:** "37.883335 15.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "37:53:00 N 15:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.883335,15.300001)", **State/Prov:** "ME", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11615 (4EBB5F87) **Date:** 11/19/1954 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** CORVALLIS, OR **Description:** Professor = ex-pilot. Bright white night light hovers / 9 minute(s). Then crosses sky / 3 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4406 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "69", **HatchDesc:** "CORVALLIS,OR:PROFESSOR=EX-PILOT:BRITE WHT NLT HVRS/9min:THEN CROSSES SKY/3min", **LatLong:** "44.583335 -123.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "44:35:00 N 123:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.583335,-123.250006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11616 (59CD4780) **Date:** 11/19/1954 **Location:** New Orleans (130 miles ESE of), LA **Description:** DC-6 Crew Encounters Blue Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [541119](http://www.nicap.org/541119neworleans%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1781 ### Event 11617 (8449B4AD) **Date:** 11/19/1954 **Location:** Corvallis, OR **Description:** Bright white light hover 8.5-9 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3331) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1782 ### Event 11618 (98690AD6) **Date:** 11/19/1954 **Time:** 4:15 PM **Location:** Corvallis, Oregon **Description:** Witness: P.J. Gunn, assistant professor of art at Oregon State University and ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet. One bright white light hovered 8.5-9 minutes, then crossed 20 of sky in 3-3.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_375 ### Event 11619 (B5B3E671) **Date:** 11/19/1954 **Description:** P. J. Gunn, an assistant professor of art at Oregon State University and an ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet, sighted a bright white light hovering over Corvallis, Oregon at 4:15 p.m. It remained stationary for 8.5 to nine minutes, then crossed 20 degrees of sky in 3-3.5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7736 ### Event 11620 (D6070F25) **Date:** 11/20/1954 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** NORTH / IGUARAPA, BRZ **Description:** Domed saucer on / over small island. Going quickly east as mail plane dives to look. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4407 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "610", **HatchDesc:** "n/IGUARAPA,BRZ:DOMED SCR ON/OVR SML ISLAND:>>E as MAIL PLANE DIVES TO LOOK", **LatLong:** "-20.016668 -47.783336", **LatLongDMS:** "20:01:00 S 47:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.016668,-47.783336)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11621 (4AD0D78A) **Date:** 11/20/1954 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** BLAISON, FR **Description:** Saucer going down / farm. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) exit. 1 takes onions from paralyzed observer(s)! Missing time? / LDLN#325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4408 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "BLAISON,FR:SCR ↓/FARM:2 OIDS EXIT:1 TAKES ONIONS fm PRLZD OBS!:MST?:/LDLN#325", **LatLong:** "47.400002 -0.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:24:00 N 00:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.400002,-0.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11622 (86F708B1) **Date:** 11/20/1954 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** EL PARAISO, VNZL **Description:** Several observer(s). Flying saucer buzzes going quickly west. No further details / El Universal / 30 Nov. '54. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4409 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "EL PARAISO,VNZL:SVRL OBS:FLYING SCR BUZZES >>W:NFD/El Universal/30NOV54", **LatLong:** "10.183334 -64.655559", **LatLongDMS:** "10:11:00 N 64:39:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.183334,-64.655559)", **State/Prov:** "ANZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11623 (BF9ED96E) **Date:** 11/20/1954 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** LAIZE-LA-VILLE, FR **Description:** Boy / 15. Huge top-saucer crosses road / ground level. Rotates. Glows red. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4410 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LAIZE-la-VILLE,FR:BOY/15:HUGE TOP-SCR CROSSES ROAD/GND LVL:ROTATES:GLOWS RED", **LatLong:** "49.083336 -0.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:05:00 N 00:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.083336,-0.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Calvados", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11624 (F21170BD) **Date:** 11/21/1954 **Location:** PARAIBA RIVER, SP, BRZ **Description:** All / airliner panic. 19 100' saucers pace. / MJ#259+/ r242p119. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4411 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "570", **HatchDesc:** "PARAIBA RIVER,SP,BRZ:ALL/AIRLINER PANIC:19 100'SCRS PACE:/MJ#259+/r242p119", **LatLong:** "-23.033334 -45.716669", **LatLongDMS:** "23:02:00 S 45:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.033334,-45.716669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11625 (F580322E) **Date:** 11/21/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** TEIGNMOUTH, DEVON **Description:** 20 gold orbs race going quickly south in formation. Huge wave / RADAR blips. / r138 #5p28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4412 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TEIGNMOUTH,DEVON:20 GOLD ORBS RACE>>S/FORMn:HUGE WAVE/RDR BLIPS:/r138 #5p28", **LatLong:** "50.550002 -3.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:33:00 N 03:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.550002,-3.500000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11626 (60D0973A) **Date:** 11/21/1954 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** NEAR CHRISTCHURCH, NZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brilliant cylinder/cigar-shape going west toward(s) mountains. Circles. Going quickly north to clouds. Balloon? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 530) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4413 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr CHRISTCHURCH,NZ:2 OBS:BRILL.CGR> W twrd MTNS:CIRCLES:>>N to CLOUDS:BALLOON?", **LatLong:** "-43.466669 172.583342", **LatLongDMS:** "43:28:00 S 172:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-43.466669,172.583342)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11627 (E4807376) **Date:** 11/21/1954 **Location:** Rio de Janeiro, Brazil **Description:** Shiny Objects Encountered By Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [541121](http://www.nicap.org/541121rio%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1783 ### Event 11628 (4510400D) **Date:** 11/21/1954 **Location:** Paraíbo do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil **Description:** 11:30 a.m. Copilot Cmdr. Armando Braulino, pilot Cmdr. Pedro Luiz Teixeira, steward, radio operator, and passengers of National Airlines Douglas PP-ANM airliner at 9,000 feet over Paraíbo do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, see a UFO formation, described as disc-shaped with cupola or dome on top, like aluminum with a polished surface. The formation is coming from the northeast at 7,200 feet and passes below the airliner at high speed. The duration is 40–50 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Shiny Objects Encountered by Airliner](http://www.nicap.org/541121rio%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2636 ### Event 11629 (47153355) **Date:** 11/21/1954 **Description:** At noon in Teignmouth, Devon, England 20 golden spheres raced across the sky in formation, causing a huge wave of radar blips. They flew off to the south out to sea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4182, citing FSR **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7766 ### Event 11630 (DE26487F) **Date:** 11/21/1954 **Description:** On this night a round-shaped UFO buzzed an airliner flying over the Paraiba River near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There were more than 16 witnesses onboard, and the passengers panicked. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers - Top Secret, p. 224; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7767 ### Event 11631 (098D48FB) **Date:** 11/22/1954 **Location:** Northwest Miami, FL **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in Northwest Miami **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_544 ### Event 11632 (231A6074) **Date:** 11/22/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** SANTA MARIA AIR FORCE BASE, BRZ **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 50M dark cloud = disk near ground. Glows. Maneuvers. Going north. / r111p51. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 691) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4414 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "142", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA MARIA AFB,BRZ:NMRS OBS:50M DRK CLOUD=DISK nr GND:GLOWS:MNVRs:>N:/r111p51", **LatLong:** "-29.733335 -53.833336", **LatLongDMS:** "29:44:00 S 53:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.733335,-53.833336)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11633 (FFC35E93) **Date:** 11/22/1954 **Time:** 2145 **Location:** Santa Maria, Brazil **Description:** A radio operator at the local air base saw a huge, dark object about 30 m in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four other persons he saw it for several hours, sometimes softly glowing, sometimes coming down almost to the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 4511 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_342 ### Event 11634 (10142CAB) **Date:** 11/22/1954 **Locations:** Michigan State College; East Lansing, Michigan **Description:** Charles Laughead is forced to resign his position at Michigan State College \[now Michigan State University\] in East Lansing, Michigan, because of his flying saucer activities. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 718 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2637 ### Event 11635 (C57223F2) **Date:** 11/22/1954 **Locations:** Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Belo Horizonte **Description:** Anor Ferreira da Silva, a bored telegraph operator in Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil, transmits a Morse code message to his friend Geraldo Bastos in Belo Horizonte, claiming that a flying saucer has crashed in a nearby quarry. His messages continue for an hour, repeatedly asking the authorities to defend the city from Martian invaders. Bastos takes the messages seriously, and a friend looking over his shoulder runs out to the nearest newspaper office to relay the news. The telephone system of Caratinga shuts down from all the press inquiries, and soon the Brazilian military investigates, finding nothing amiss in the city. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, pp. 114–119 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2638 ### Event 11636 (D5D421E0) **Date:** 11/22/1954 **Locations:** Santa Maria Air Force Base; Rio Grande do Sul; Brazil; Porto Alegre **Description:** 9:45 p.m. At Santa Maria Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, radio operator Arquimedes Fernandez sees a strange cloud above the trees, like an upside-down washbowl. It is a solid body 160 feet across, oscillating with a small light on top. Fernandez radios a report to weather headquarters at Porto Alegre. The object remains in view until his duty shift ends at 1:15 a.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n47/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 28–29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2639 ### Event 11637 (82E55363) **Date:** 11/22/1954 **Description:** At 9:45 p.m. a radio operator at the Santa Maria Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil saw a huge, dark disc-shaped object about 30 meters in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four other persons he watched it for several hours, sometimes glowing softly, sometimes coming down almost to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, July 1957; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 51; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 342 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7793 ### Event 11638 (D621EB2F) **Date:** 11/23/1954 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** TORPO, NORW **Description:** Black saucer going down. Pseudo-human/entity / clear dome stares / 3 girls / red glasses. Traces / snow and more/others and more. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4415 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "TORPO,NORW:BLK SCR ↓:PSH/CLR DOME STARES/3 GIRLS/RED GLASSES:TRACES/SNOW+++", **LatLong:** "60.666670 8.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "60:40:00 N 08:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.666670,8.716667)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11639 (B2B5592B) **Date:** 11/23/1954 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** EAST / CHEBABAT, MAROC **Description:** Many / train. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape makes sharp fast turns. Away going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4416 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "E/CHEBABAT,MAROC:MANY/TRAIN:HUGE CGR MAKES SHARP FAST TURNS:AWAY >>N", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -4.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 04:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-4.366667)", **State/Prov:** "TZA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11640 (FD0B7033) **Date:** 11/23/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CAMBERWELL AND MORE/OTHERS, AUS **Description:** White fireball with orange flames / sides. Circles. Then going quickly south. High-pitched whine. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4417 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "CAMBERWELL++,AUS:WHT FBL W/ORG FLAMES/SIDES:CCLS:THEN >>S:HI-PITCHED WHINE", **LatLong:** "-37.833335 145.066674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:00 S 145:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.833335,145.066674)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11641 (8CC42DCA) **Date:** 11/23/1954 **Location:** Torpo, Viken County, Norway **Description:** Afternoon. A UFO follows three 10-year-old girls \(Anne Storedal, Tora Storedal, and Tora Moy Haugo\) returning home from school in Torpo, Viken County, Norway. It descends and hovers only 3 or 4 feet away from them. It is round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom is black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a number of small “red jags.” The upper part is a transparent dome; a man who is operating controls is visible inside. He wears black trousers, a black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stares at one of the girls. When the craft ascends it collides with a high-tension power line making a shower of sparks, and the girls run away. They notice a smell “like fried sausages.” A “streak” is found in the snow, apparently left by the craft having brushed the surface of the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 268; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1954,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1954.pdf) p. 160 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2640 ### Event 11642 (A7F213C8) **Date:** 11/23/1954 **Description:** At around five o'clock in the evening two young shepherds, M. G. and P. T., age 12, were returning to their flock in Colcerasa, Macerata, Italy when they noticed that the sheep had moved from were they had left them and that their sheep dog was barking. M. G. observed three “dark colored, animal like creatures” moving between some bushes and a couple of bonfires that the shepherds had lit earlier. They also saw what looked like a small barrel, 60-70 centimeters wide by 1.5 meters long. The edges of the object were flattened. M. G. was unable to view the beings clearly; they stood approximately 35 cm tall and had rather disproportionately large, flat-topped heads. They appeared to be dressed in dark shiny suits, as if made out of plastic. The creatures quickly retreated into the object, which quickly took off producing a hissing sound. When the object had reached an altitude of 20 meters it expelled a large fireball. This exploded just before touching the ground, and a strong gust of wind struck both boys. The object sported something like “antennae” situated on its forward section, which vibrated when the object lifted off. The craft zipped rapidly in an easterly direction and disappeared from view to the left of Mount La Cesa. Both boys ran home to relate what they had just seen. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7836 ### Event 11643 (F36674CF) **Date:** 11/23/1954 **Description:** On this afternoon three 10-year-old girls returning from school in Torpo, Norway--Anne & Tora Storedal and Tora Moy Hauge--found themselves being followed by a flying saucer. It came down to hover only 3 or 4 feet away from them. It was round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom was black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a number of small, "red jags." The upper part was a transparent dome, and a man who was operating controls was visible inside. He wore black trousers, a black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stared at one of the girls. When the craft rose it collided with a high-tension power line with a shower of sparks, and the girls ran away. They noticed a smell "like fried sausages." A "streak" was found in the snow, apparently left by the craft having brushed the surface of the snow covered ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-132 (A0345), citing Oddvar J. Larsen, CSI-New York **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7837 ### Event 11644 (CAD15C44) **Date:** 11/24/1954 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE **Description:** Astronomer / (seen thru) telescope. Small white disk going south. Sudden 180° turn going quickly north! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 529) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4418 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTHAMPTON,HAMPSHIRE:ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE:SML WHT DISK> S:SUDDEN 180°TURN >>N!", **LatLong:** "50.900002 -1.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:54:00 N 01:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.900002,-1.500000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11645 (C4FD6065) **Date:** 11/24/1954 **Description:** A woman astronomer named Marley, with a telescope in Southampton, England saw a small white disc-shaped object fly to the south at 12:15 a.m., and then suddenly turn 180 degrees to fly off rapidly to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7867 ### Event 11646 (34D9BE56) **Date:** 11/25/1954 **Location:** CORDOBA, ARG **Description:** Weatherman and Air Traffic Controller. 2 luminous objects hover over airport / 2 hours. / r242p50. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 529) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4419 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "384", **HatchDesc:** "CORDOBA,ARG:WEATHERMAN+ATC:2 LUM OBJs HVR OVR AIRPORT/2hrs:/r242p50 ", **LatLong:** "-31.400001 -64.183336", **LatLongDMS:** "31:24:00 S 64:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.400001,-64.183336)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11647 (A16CBE81) **Date:** 11/25/1954 **Location:** Cordoba, Argentina **Description:** Meteorologist, control tower operator at airport watched two hovering luminous objects (official report from Argentine Embassy). \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1784 ### Event 11648 (CD993540) **Date:** 11/25/1954 **Time:** 1700 **Location:** Calcerosa, Italy **Description:** Two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, suddenly saw three figures who, as soon as they were discovered, entered a small spherical craft concealed 10 m away behind some bushes. The beings were small, about 35 cm tall, had very large heads and lead-gray skin. The craft had two sharppointed propellers in front, which started spinning. The craft took off suddenly with a hissing sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 90 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_343 ### Event 11649 (831DA6DB) **Date:** 11/25/1954 **Description:** On this evening in Calcerosa, Sicily, Italy two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, watched three 1.2-foot-tall beings with very large heads and gray skin enter a small sphere concealed 10 meters away from them, behind some bushes. The UFO had two propellers in front that started spinning. The object took off with a hissing sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 136; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 343, citing Oltre Cielo **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7900 ### Event 11650 (189B7F8B) **Date:** 11/25/1954 **Description:** A weatherman and an air traffic controller watched two luminous objects hover over the Cordoba, Argentina airport for two hours starting at 5:25 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, June 1955, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7901 ### Event 11651 (C6624F99) **Date:** 11/26/1954 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** RUPAR, INDIA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Saucer going quickly south / terrific speed over Hydel Canal. Smoke changes color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4420 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RUPAR,INDIA:100s/OBS:SCR >>S/TERRIFIC SPEED ovr HYDEL CANAL:SMOKE CHANGES CLRS", **LatLong:** "31.966668 76.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "31:58:00 N 76:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.966668,76.783337)", **State/Prov:** "PNJ", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11652 (4D6D1C9B) **Date:** 11/26/1954 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** MILLVILLE, NJ **Description:** Blue Book. Several observer(s). Saucer with 4 lights / rim. Away when spotlight hits. / r148p63. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4421 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "MILLVILLE,NJ:BBK:SVRL OBS:SCR W/4 LITES/RIM:AWAY WHEN SPOTLIGHT HITS:/r148p63 ", **LatLong:** "39.400002 -75.038892", **LatLongDMS:** "39:24:00 N 75:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.400002,-75.038892)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11653 (47033563) **Date:** 11/26/1954 **Time:** 19:30? **Location:** MANASQUAN, NJ **Description:** College Professor and several. ~20 round luminous/glowing objects north going quickly south. / r242p68+/ r78p173. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4422 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "MANASQUAN,NJ:COLLEGE PROF+SVRL:~20 ROUND LUMn OBJs N>>S:/r242p68+/r78p173:", **LatLong:** "40.127780 -74.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:40 N 74:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.127780,-74.050004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11654 (FE3897EF) **Date:** 11/26/1954 **Location:** Matasquan, NJ **Description:** Formation of round objects. (Confidential report from college professor.) \[UFOE, VII\] Millville, N. J. Disc with four body lights. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1785 ### Event 11655 (77D7DC62) **Date:** 11/26/1954 **Description:** On this night in 1954, an object with four reddish-yellow lights forming a rectangle circled over Millville, New Jersey. Shortly afterward a searchlight caught the object, revealing it to be a huge disc. As soon as the light touched it, the UFO sped up and swiftly disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 232 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7934 ### Event 11656 (2DC6B347) **Date:** 11/27/1954 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** MOSCOW, RUSSIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Cylinder 250M over red square! Rises like a jet. Away going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4423 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "MOSCOW,RUSS:MANY OBS:CYLINDER 250M OVR RED SQUARE!:RISES LIKE A JET:AWAY >>NW", **LatLong:** "55.750003 37.666668", **LatLongDMS:** "55:45:00 N 37:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.750003,37.666668)", **State/Prov:** "MOS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11657 (FDD8CCC0) **Date:** 11/27/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** KARUMBAKHAM, INDIA **Description:** 100 observer(s). Saucer lands / roadside. 3 pseudo-human/entity exit / European clothes. / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4424 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KARUMBAKHAM,INDIA:100 OBS:SCR LANDS/ROADSIDE:3 PSH EXIT/EUROPEAN CLOTHES:/r171", **LatLong:** "12.700001 80.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "12:42:00 N 80:05:40 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/12.700001,80.094448)", **State/Prov:** "TMN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11658 (B1D957A4) **Date:** 11/27/1954 **Description:** At 10:15 a.m. a green colored cylindrical object hovered over Red Square in Moscow, Russia for more than 25 minutes. It was estimated to be about 250 meters in length. It rose into the sky like a jet, and flew off toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 133; Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 282 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7953 ### Event 11659 (34A109A0) **Date:** 11/27/1954 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. about a hundred people in Kariambkam, Madras, India saw the passage of a UFO described as “a flying boat” with a brilliant light on the back. The object then approached the ground and performed a vertical landing. Three people wearing “western” suits emerged and made hand gestures to the locals, who panicked and ran to their houses. The object remained on the ground for five minutes and took off in a vertical ascent, disappearing at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7954 ### Event 11660 (25FA9240) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** PETARE, VNZ **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). 3 hairy small humanoids (or Greys) block road / saucer. Take rocks and plants. / r173p239. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4425 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "900", **HatchDesc:** "PETARE,VNZ:3 SEP.OBS:3 HAIRY OIDS BLOCK ROAD/SCR:TAKE ROCKS+PLANTS:/r173p239", **LatLong:** "10.483334 -66.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:29:00 N 66:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.483334,-66.816670)", **State/Prov:** "CAR", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11661 (D83BDDDC) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** PALMARITO, VNZL **Description:** Farmers. Globe lands. Several small humanoids (or Greys) exit and take something from ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4426 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "628", **HatchDesc:** "PALMARITO,VNZL:FARMERS:GLOBE LANDS:SVRL OIDS EXIT+TAKE SOMETHING FROM GROUND", **LatLong:** "7.588889 -72.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "07:35:20 N 72:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/7.588889,-72.016670)", **State/Prov:** "MRD", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11662 (0FE9243C) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** SOUTH / MANILA, PHL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3341. Unidentified. Physicist. 65' saucer stops / 3 minute(s). Goes back going quickly south. / r70p3-39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 529) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4427 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Philippines", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "S/MANILA,PHL:BBK#3341:UID:PHYSICIST:65'SCR STOPS/3min:GOES BACK>>S:/r70p3-39", **LatLong:** "14.555556 121.050006", **LatLongDMS:** "14:33:20 N 121:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.555556,121.050006)", **State/Prov:** "LZN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11663 (F32F601B) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** BORBURATA, VNZL **Description:** 1+several observer(s). Sci-Fi saucer hovers / very low altitude in center of town. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4428 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "138", **HatchDesc:** "BORBURATA,VNZL:1+SVRL OBS:SCI-FI SCR HVRS/VLO ALT in CENTER OF TOWN:", **LatLong:** "10.444445 -67.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:26:40 N 67:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.444445,-67.966670)", **State/Prov:** "CRB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11664 (B732C326) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Location:** Manila, Philippines **Description:** Flat-bottomed, domed object 65-70 ft across, 18-20 ft high (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3341) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1786 ### Event 11665 (F98C384B) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Time:** 0200 **Location:** Caracas, Venezuela **Description:** G. Gonzales and Jose Ponce, truck drivers, found their road blocked by a luminous sphere over 3 m diameter, hovering 2 m above ground. A small creature with claws and glowing eyes came toward them. Gonzales grabbed it, found it strangely light (less than 2O kg), and observed its body was very hard and covered with fur. But the creature pushed him back, while two other dwarfs emerged from the bushes and leaped into the sphere, carrying stones and other samples. Gonzales was blinded by a light from the craft and the strange beings flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor I 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_344 ### Event 11666 (04AA4823) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Time:** 10:50 AM **Location:** Manilla, Phillipine Islands **Description:** Witness: one anonymous medical doctor. One flat-bottomed, domed object (65-70' across, 18-20' high), bright orange with yellow discs attached and an exhaust trail. Flew north, stopped, reversed its course during 4 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_376 ### Event 11667 (78C8AAEE) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Locations:** Calle Bella Vista; Petare; Caracas; Venezuela; Esquina de Sálas hospital **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Meat merchants José Ponce and Gustavo Gonzáles are driving a panel truck along Calle Bella Vista in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. They find their way blocked by a 10-foot-wide, glowing ball hovering 6 feet above the street. When they get out to investigate, they are confronted by a dwarfish creature covered with stiff, bristly hair. Gonzáles grabs it, but it tosses him to one side. Two more dwarfs, gathering dirt and rocks nearby, approach. Ponce sees them and runs to find a police station. Gonzáles recovers in time to see two of the entities climb through an opening in the UFO. The third comes toward him, claws extended, and Gonzáles tries to stab it in the shoulder with his knife, but the blade glances off. One of the dwarfs inside the UFO points a tube at Gonzáles that emits a brilliant beam of energy. He is paralyzed and temporarily blinded but manages to stagger to the police station. A doctor at the emergency room at Esquina de Sálas hospital treats an abrasion on Gonzáles’s left side. Other witnesses to a UFO in the area come forward. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 57–58](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n53/mode/2up); Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 144–145; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 32–33; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 31; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-29-venezuela-petare.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-29-venezuela-petare.htm) November 4, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2641 ### Event 11668 (855B1E62) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Locations:** Palmarito; Mérida; Venezuela **Description:** A group of peasants at Palmarito, Mérida, Venezuela, see a strange craft land. Three small-statured beings emerge from it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-28-venezuela-palmarito.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-28-venezuela-palmarito.htm) November 5, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2642 ### Event 11669 (E90D5D22) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Description:** At 2:00 a.m. in the city of Petare, Venezuela two men had a violent encounter with three hairy dwarfs. They first saw a luminous sphere on the ground with a hatch door open. Out of it came three hairy dwarfs wearing loincloths. They were about three feet tall with clawed fingers. The dwarves fought with the men, who reported that they appeared to have phenomenal strength. At one point one of the man attempted to stab one of the creatures with a knife, but the blade glanced off as if the creature’s body was made of steel. There was a blinding light and the creatures and the craft were gone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated November 30, 1954; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52 & 103; APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 344; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-135).

On that same night in 1954 in Palmarito, Venezuela a group of peasants saw a sphere land and discharge three very short dwarfish men. When they re-boarded and the object flew away, they reported the craft left behind a slightly visible trail in the sky. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen and Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 63; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 239; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-134 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7982 ### Event 11670 (A4F25B91) **Date:** 11/28/1954 **Description:** Also in 1954 at 12:45 p.m. five miles east of the city of Manila in the Philippines, two 39-year-old men, one of them a doctor with a degree in physics, watched an orange domed disc maneuver through the sky. The craft was about 70 feet in diameter, and had five evenly spaced yellow portholes. The body of the object itself was flecked with red streaks, and it made no sound as it moved. The UFO reversed direction and was gone in three seconds. Listed as a Project Blue Book “unknown” case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case number 3341; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 61; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 59 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7983 ### Event 11671 (50243075) **Date:** 11/29/1954 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** MOZE-SUR-LOUET, FR **Description:** 1 / bicycle. Beam searches to and fro. Shocks. Same again. No object seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SIDER, Jean: DOSSIER 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste; 1997 Editions RAMUEL, Paris. ISBN 2-910401-23-5 (2 volumes) (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4429 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MOZE-sur-LOUET,FR:1/BICYCLE:BEAM SEARCHES TO+FRO:SHOCKS:SAME AGAIN:no OBJ seen", **LatLong:** "47.350002 -0.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:21:00 N 00:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.350002,-0.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11672 (FBFDE916) **Date:** 11/29/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** ST. MARTIN-DL-PLACE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Luminous/glowing object going down / wheatfield and 1.2M small humanoid (or Grey) outside. Power outage. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4430 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.MARTIN-dl-PLACE,FR:1 OBS:LUMN OBJ↓/WHEATFIELD+1.2M OID OUTSIDE:POWER OUTAGE", **LatLong:** "47.316669 -0.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:19:00 N 00:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.316669,-0.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Maine-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11673 (ADCF3991) **Date:** 11/29/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BOURBON-L'ARCHAMBAULT, FR **Description:** Orange cylinder/cigar-shape going northeast. Stops. Shoots back going quickly southwest into clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4431 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOURBON-l'ARCHAMBAULT,FR:ORG.CGR > NE:STOPS:SHOOTS BACK >>SW INTO CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "46.583336 3.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:35:00 N 03:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.583336,3.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11674 (01DBD55D) **Date:** 11/29/1954 **Description:** At 6:00 a.m. in Moze-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, France a beam of light from the sky searched back and forth, then struck and gave an electric shock to a bicyclist. It then shocked him a second time, but no object was seen. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4196, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 132 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8025 ### Event 11675 (0963C58A) **Date:** 11/29/1954 **Description:** At seven p.m. a single witness saw a luminous object that had landed in a wheatfield in St. Martin-d'L-Place, Maine-et-Loire, France at the same time as a power outage. A 1.2 meter (4 foot) tall humanoid was seen standing next to it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4197, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #325 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8026 ### Event 11676 (73B664B9) **Date:** 11/29/1954 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. an orange cigar-shaped object flew toward the northeast from Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, France. It stopped in midair, then shot back toward the southwest into the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4198, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8027 ### Event 11677 (B088F32A) **Date:** 11/30/1954 **Location:** Alabama **Description:** Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in Alabama. **Type:** anomalous event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_138 ### Event 11678 (0B225E9B) **Date:** 11/30/1954 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, ENG **Description:** Mayor sees long flaming tube / rounded ends. White flame / end. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4432 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ABBEY WOOD,LONDON,ENG:MAYOR SEES LONG FLAMING TUBE/ROUNDED ENDS:WHT FLAME/END", **LatLong:** "51.400002 -0.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:24:00 N 00:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.400002,-0.050000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11679 (3F5DC331) **Date:** 12/1954 **Location:** Guanare, Venezuela **Description:** Early in December, the director of Barquisimeto College was chased by a luminous disk as he was driving near Guanare. He fired at the object with his revolver, without effect. He stopped another car in which a lawyer and two policemen were traveling. All four saw the machine fly away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 43 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_345 ### Event 11680 (7E73FAF5) **Date:** 12/1954 **Location:** Palm Springs, California **Description:** Aviation inventor [Bill Lear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FLear) sees a flying disc giving off greenish light near Palm Springs, California. It hovers for 2 seconds then swiftly moves out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p, 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2643 ### Event 11681 (E1F6F026) **Date:** 12/1954 **Locations:** US; Soviet Union; United States **Description:** The US Air Force acknowledges that it is contemplating a “New type of jet aircraft, powered by a turbine larger than any now in use, \[that\] is expected to take off, land vertically, and be able to hover. It may cruise at 1,500 knots and have a range of 15,000 nautical miles.” It speculates: “If the Soviets now have such an aircraft in operational use, would the United States air defense system be able to detect, identify, intercept and destroy a bomber or reconnaissance aircraft moving at a 1,500 knot clip at an altitude of 65,000 feet?” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Flying Disc,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/flydisc.htm)” Air Intelligence Digest 7, no 12 \(December 1954\): 6+ **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2644 ### Event 11682 (4AFEDFBE) **Date:** 12/1954 **Locations:** Twentynine Palms, California; Tiny’s Café **Description:** Contactee [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci), now working in Twentynine Palms, California, is at Tiny’s Café when he meets someone named Adam, who claims to have read his book and gives him some kind of mind-altering pill. After taking the pill, Angelucci finds himself in an “exalted state” and talks freely with Adam about outer space and politics. Prior to this time, Angelucci has caught the attention of the FBI because he has been approached several times by a group of seeming left-wing agents. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Orfeo Angelucci, [The Son of the Sun](https://archive.org/details/angelucci-orfeo-son-of-the-sun%5F202012/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/angelucci-orfeo-son-of-the-sun%5F202012/page/n1/mode/2up) DeVorss, 1959; Kremlin 100–107 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2645 ### Event 11683 (D3A9025C) **Date:** 12/1954 **Location:** Detroit, Michigan **Description:** Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian meet [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) at a lecture he is giving in Detroit, Michigan. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 103 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2646 ### Event 11684 (827EABAC) **Date:** 12/1/1954 **Location:** CORO, VNZ **Description:** Catholic bishop. Luminous/glowing disk(?) passes. No further details. / APRO v3#5+/ r173p240. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4433 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "CORO,VNZ:CATHOLIC BISHOP:LUMn DISK(?) PASSES:NFD:/APRO v3#5+/r173p240", **LatLong:** "11.400001 -69.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "11:24:00 N 69:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.400001,-69.666670)", **State/Prov:** "FLC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11685 (9E2375A0) **Date:** 12/1/1954 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** BASSOUES, GERS, FR **Description:** Ovoid lights countryside. Maneuvers and oscillates. Lands / 2 minute(s). Going quickly east. / r8#346. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4434 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "BASSOUES,GERS,FR:OVOID LITES COUNTRYSIDE:MNVRS+OSCS:LANDS/2min:>>E:/r8#346", **LatLong:** "43.583335 0.244444", **LatLongDMS:** "43:35:00 N 00:14:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.583335,0.244444)", **State/Prov:** "Gers", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11686 (D330560E) **Date:** 12/1/1954 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CHAUMONT, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent luminous red fish-saucer going quickly northwest. Big window / top. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4435 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHAUMONT,FR:2 OBS:SLNT LUMn.RED FISH-SCR >>NW:BIG WINDOW/TOP:/news", **LatLong:** "47.966669 5.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:58:00 N 05:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.966669,5.050000)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11687 (89A57724) **Date:** 12/1/1954 **Time:** 0430 **Location:** Bassoues, France **Description:** A 39-year-old civilian saw an oval light, very bright, illuminating the countryside. After some maneuvers and oscillations in mid-air, it landed for a couple of minutes less than 3 km away, then flew off to the east. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_346 ### Event 11688 (F034C89E) **Date:** 12/1/1954 **Description:** President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) approves the development of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane as a CIA project under the direction of [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lockheed U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2647 ### Event 11689 (879AA54F) **Date:** 12/2/1954 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** CEUTA, SPANISH MOROCCO **Description:** RADAR-visual. Precise speed and altitude charts made / military pilots. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4436 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CEUTA,SPANISH MOROCCO:RDR-VISUAL:PRECISE SPEED+ALTITUDE CHARTS MADE/MIL PILOTS", **LatLong:** "35.933335 -5.288889", **LatLongDMS:** "35:56:00 N 05:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.933335,-5.288889)", **State/Prov:** "SNA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11690 (D7C50E04) **Date:** 12/2/1954 **Location:** Cueta, Sp. Morocco **Description:** Gnd Radar/ Air Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [541202](http://www.nicap.org/541202ceuta%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1787 ### Event 11691 (94B43F42) **Date:** 12/3/1954? **Location:** GUANARE, VNZ **Description:** College direction and lawyer and cops. Luminous saucer hovers. Cop fires shots. Going quickly south. / r148p192. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 544) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4437 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "153", **HatchDesc:** "GUANARE,VNZ:COLLEGE Dir+LAWYER+COPS:LUM SCR HVRS:COP FIRES SHOTS:>>S:/r148p192", **LatLong:** "9.033334 -69.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "09:02:00 N 69:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.033334,-69.766670)", **State/Prov:** "CAR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11692 (82523628) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Location:** MIRASSOL, CYPRUS **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Round silver saucer going northwest / several Minites. Lost in clouds. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4438 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Cyprus", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MIRASSOL,CYPRUS:NMRS OBS:RND SLVR SCR >NW/SVRL MINITES:LOST/CLOUDS:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "34.666668 33.033335", **LatLongDMS:** "34:40:00 N 33:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.666668,33.033335)", **State/Prov:** "MIR", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11693 (2D952D0F) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** MONTEBUONO, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). 10M cylinder/cigar-shape passes / 40M altitude. Big porthole / side. Suddenly quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4439 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEBUONO,ITL:SVRL OBS:10M CGR PASSES/40M alt:BIG PORTHOLE/SIDE:SUDDENLY ↑↑", **LatLong:** "42.683335 11.650001", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:00 N 11:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.683335,11.650001)", **State/Prov:** "Grosseto", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11694 (62E37C7A) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** GULFPORT, MS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3352. Observer(s) Mellen / boat. Grey translucent saucer spins / high RPM. 500mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 544) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4440 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "GULFPORT,MS:BBK#3352:OBS MELLEN/BOAT:GRY TRANSLUCENT SCR SPINS/HI RPM:500mph", **LatLong:** "30.366668 -89.094449", **LatLongDMS:** "30:22:00 N 89:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.366668,-89.094449)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11695 (88A17342) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** WILMINGTON, NC **Description:** 2 CAA Air Traffic Controllers / (seen thru) binoculars. Yellowish object going quickly southwest overhead. 500mph est. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4441 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,NC:2 CAA ATCs/BINOCS:YELLOWISH OBJ >>SW OVHD:500mph est:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.233335 -77.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:00 N 77:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.233335,-77.950004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11696 (D18BEF35) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Location:** Gulfport, MS **Description:** A translucent grey, round, flat object rotating (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3352) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1788 ### Event 11697 (71FBA6BD) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Location:** Wilmington, NC **Description:** Civil Aeronautics Administration personnel watched round, yellowish UFO through binoculars. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1789 ### Event 11698 (6F09E434) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Time:** 12:12 PM **Location:** Gulfport, Mississippi **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Mellen. One translucent grey, round, flat object rotated on its vertical axis at high r.PM for 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_377 ### Event 11699 (81CF9392) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Locations:** Las Gastanas farm; Granja de Torrehermosa, Badajoz, Spain **Description:** Morning. Victoriano Maeso, Luis Brugeda, and Francisco Huertos are at Las Gastanas farm about 3 miles from Granja de Torrehermosa, Badajoz, Spain, when they hear an unusual noise and notice an object in the branches of an oak tree about 165 feet away. It is pyramid-shaped and about 8 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, with four fins and a box suspended from it by apparent ropes. They approach it, but the object rises and disappears toward the west. This observation is the first of about a dozen others reported over the next two weeks in Badajoz, Zaragoza, Teruel, Guipúzcoa, and Huelva provinces that seem to involve wayward balloons released in Germany by Radio Free Europe that carry leaflets intended to be dropped in the Soviet bloc. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “[Los ovnis de diciembre de 1954,](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954)” Academia.edu **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2648 ### Event 11700 (018F98C4) **Date:** 12/3/1954 **Description:** On this morning in 1954 in the town of Montebuono, Italy a 10 meter long cigar-shaped object passed overhead at 40-meters altitude. It had a large porthole on its side. It abruptly changed direction and shot straight up into the sky and away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Verga Maurizio, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8157 ### Event 11701 (7E285A35) **Date:** 12/4/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** CASELLE DI NOGARA, ITL **Description:** Saucer / field several min. Observer(s) fires 2 shots / giant exiting. / r39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 348) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4442 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CASELLE di NOGARA,ITL:SCR/FIELD SVRL MIN:OBS FIRES 2 SHOTS/GIANT EXITING:/r39", **LatLong:** "45.183335 11.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:11:00 N 11:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.183335,11.066667)", **State/Prov:** "VR", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11702 (6C29817A) **Date:** 12/4/1954 **Location:** Zuaga, Spain **Description:** Twelve workers saw what they described as a square machine, with a side of 10 m, land and take off at great speed, flying toward the south. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_347 ### Event 11703 (E9E72D2A) **Date:** 12/4/1954 **Time:** night **Location:** Caselle di Nogara, Italy **Description:** For several minutes a waiter saw a circular object stationary in a pasture 50 m away. It was blue with symmetrical openings, from which a bright red light was emitted. The witness got a rifle and fired twice at the very tall figure who came out of the turret on the craft. Immediately a very strong wind was felt, and the craft took off amidst a reddish glow. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 101 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_348 ### Event 11704 (5158BB45) **Date:** 12/4/1954 **Description:** On this night a waiter saw a circular object in a pasture in Caselle di Nogara, Italy. It remained stationary for several minutes, and was about 50 meters away. It was blue with symmetrical openings which emitted a bright red light. The witness got a rifle and fired twice at a very tall figure that emerged from the turret on the craft. Immediately, a very strong wind was felt and the craft took off amidst a reddish glow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-137, citing Vallee). **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8173 ### Event 11705 (FD2022CB) **Date:** 12/4/1954 **Description:** At six o'clock in the morning in the city of Coronel Pringles, Argentina Sr. E. Aguirre Zavala, an employee of a commercial firm, observed a very bright disc come down to just 20 inches above the ground, where it remained suspended. In the middle of this disc there moved about a strange looking figure, which seemed to be a dwarf with an enormous head. The UFO rose up shortly afterward after emitting a very bright light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-136, citing a newspaper source **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8174 ### Event 11706 (BA848EF6) **Date:** 12/5/1954 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** HAWTHORNE, VCT, AUS **Description:** Orange glowing saucer spins slowly / 3K' altitude. Going northwest. Dark "portholes" / edge. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4443 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HAWTHORNE,VCT,AUS:ORG.GLO SCR SPINS SLOWLY/3K'alt:>NW:DRK "PORTHOLES"/EDGE", **LatLong:** "-37.827780 145.033340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:40 S 145:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.827780,145.033340)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11707 (CD939CBA) **Date:** 12/5/1954 **Time:** 01:40 **Location:** NORTH / NORTH EAST, PA **Description:** Domed object with double row / portholes hovers low over Lake Erie. Going quickly west. / r138#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 547) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4444 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "174", **HatchDesc:** "N/NORTH EAST,PA:DOMED OBJ W/DBL ROW/PORTHOLES HVRS LO OVR Lk.ERIE:>>W:/r138#10", **LatLong:** "42.216669 -79.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:13:00 N 79:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.216669,-79.833337)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11708 (01B770AB) **Date:** 12/5/1954 **Location:** North East, PA **Description:** House radio "pulsated" as UFO observed hovering low over Lake Erie (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1790 ### Event 11709 (B162C583) **Date:** 12/5/1954 **Locations:** Montes de Zuera; Zaragoza, Spain **Description:** 8:15 a.m. Miguel Sevil is hunting in the Montes de Zuera north of Zaragoza, Spain, when he hears a prolonged whistle and sees a luminous, transparent object landed about 165 feet away. It has several rods protruding from it, each apparently with a propeller. Two men about 6 feet tall with blond hair and speaking an unintelligible language enter the UFO through a door on the side. It rises vertically at tremendous speed and disappears. Probable hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “[Los ovnis de](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954) [diciembre de 1954,](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954)” Academia.edu **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2649 ### Event 11710 (C1AF4DC2) **Date:** 12/6/1954 **Location:** SAO PAOLO, BRZ **Description:** Huge cylinder/cigar-shape blows smoke. 3 disks exit. 1 going north and 1 going south. Jet scrambles. / r138#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4445 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "638", **HatchDesc:** "SAO PAOLO,BRZ:HUGE CGR BLOWS SMOKE:3 DISKS EXIT:1>N+1>S:JET SCRAMBLES:/r138#10", **LatLong:** "-23.533334 -46.616669", **LatLongDMS:** "23:32:00 S 46:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.533334,-46.616669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11711 (823C5E6E) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** IRUN, SP **Description:** 3M saucer comes north going south / sea. Lands. Headlight and 4 fins. 12cm footprints and metallic physical traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4446 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "IRUN,SP:3M SCR COMES N>S/SEA:LANDS:HEADLITE+4 FINS:12cm FOOTPRINTS+MTLC TRCS", **LatLong:** "43.333335 -1.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:20:00 N 01:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.333335,-1.783333)", **State/Prov:** "GUI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11712 (040FC54B) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** UPINGTON, RSA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3356. Weatherman. White dome drifts / theodolite. Then going quickly northeast. / r242p124. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 546) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4447 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "UPINGTON,RSA:BBK#3356:WEATHERMAN:WHT DOME DRIFTS/THEODOLITE:then>>NE:/r242p124", **LatLong:** "-28.416668 21.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "28:25:00 S 21:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.416668,21.250001)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11713 (33B329FE) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ISLA / FRANCES, URUG **Description:** 4 / boat. 10M luminous/glowing ovoid lands / river. Water boiled. 200+dead fish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4448 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "ISLA/FRANCES,URUG:4/BOAT:10M LUMn OVOID LANDS/RIVER:WATER BOILED:200+DEAD FISH", **LatLong:** "-34.583335 -56.466669", **LatLongDMS:** "34:35:00 S 56:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.583335,-56.466669)", **State/Prov:** "CNL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11714 (ED185AA8) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Location:** Cape Province, S. Africa **Description:** White, semi-circular, flat object with a dome (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3356) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1791 ### Event 11715 (33A7A46F) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Location:** Edenton, NC **Description:** Object Accelerates Away From Marine TV-2 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [541207](http://nicap.org/541207edenton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1792 ### Event 11716 (40F56FE0) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Time:** 1:15 PM **Location:** Cape Province, South Africa **Description:** Witness: weather officer, using a theodolite. One white, semi-circular, flat object with a dome flew from west to east, then turned north. Sighting lasted 7 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_378 ### Event 11717 (399D6AB4) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Location:** Europe **Description:** A Project Blue Book memo acknowledges the many “Foreign Sightings” in Europe, but attributes the cause to an increase in “meteorite activity” and overseas translations of [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 49 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2650 ### Event 11718 (70A8A416) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Location:** Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa **Description:** 1:15 p.m. R. H. Kleyweg, officer-in-charge of the meteorological station at Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa, is looking for a red balloon he has just released. He sees an object just east of the sun, moving slowly west, but when he begins tracking it with a theodolite, he realizes it is white, not red. It looks like a half circle with sunlight gleaming from its sloped top. He follows it for 3 minutes, but then it accelerates and he cannot keep it in sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 63 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2651 ### Event 11719 (35C134F3) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Description:** A 26-year-old man riding a bicycle near a farm in Gainchurizqueta, Irun, Spain saw an object land nearby. It came from the sea on a north to south flight path, and passed within six meters. It was round, three meters in diameter, with a headlight and four fins. Traces: ground marks and metallic samples. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8254 ### Event 11720 (0D64B942) **Date:** 12/7/1954 **Description:** At 1:15 p.m. a weather officer in Cape Province, South Africa using a theodolite, saw a white, semi-circular, flat object with a dome fly from west to east, then turned north. The sighting lasted seven minutes. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3356 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8255 ### Event 11721 (10E3378B) **Date:** 12/8/1954 **Location:** ZUERSA, SPAIN **Description:** 1 observer. 70' luminous saucer lands. Antenna and props. Pseudo-human/entity exit. Hiss and away. / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4449 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ZUERSA,SPAIN:1 OBS:70'LUMn.SCR LANDS:ANTENNA+PROPS:PSH EXIT:HISS+AWAY:/r171", **LatLong:** "41.883335 -0.794444", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:00 N 00:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.883335,-0.794444)", **State/Prov:** "ZRG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11722 (C3BC04DE) **Date:** 12/8/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** CHACAO AND FLORESTA, VNZ **Description:** Separate observer(s). Silver disk lands and takes off. Small humanoids (or Greys) seen. / r138#10p49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 550) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4450 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "898", **HatchDesc:** "CHACAO+FLORESTA,VNZ:SEP.OBS:SLVR DISK LANDS+TAKES OFF:OIDS SEEN:/r138#10p49", **LatLong:** "10.500001 -66.855559", **LatLongDMS:** "10:30:00 N 66:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.500001,-66.855559)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11723 (29B05109) **Date:** 12/8/1954 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LA FLORESTA, VNZ **Description:** 2 small humanoids (or Greys) run / bushes. Saucer takes off fast / sizzle sounds. / r67p95. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4451 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "856", **HatchDesc:** "La FLORESTA,VNZ:2 OIDS RUN/BUSHES:SCR TAKES OFF FAST/SIZZLE SOUNDS:/r67p95", **LatLong:** "10.483334 -66.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:29:00 N 66:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.483334,-66.966670)", **State/Prov:** "CAR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11724 (923CE0DA) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Time:** 05:00? **Location:** MELBOURNE, VCT, AUSTR **Description:** 1 observer. Loud buzzing. Enormous saucer just over field nearby. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 551) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4452 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MELBOURNE,VCT,AUSTR:1 OBS:LOUD BUZZING:ENORMOUS SCR JUST OVR FIELD NEARBY.", **LatLong:** "-37.783335 144.966674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:00 S 144:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.783335,144.966674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11725 (5F9F9F2B) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** GRICIGNANO D'AVERSA, ITL **Description:** Man abduction / 2 days / 2 pseudo-human/entity. Weightless. = 13 Jan. '55 / r139#4p9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 557) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4453 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "GRICIGNANO D'AVERSA,ITL:MAN ABD/2days/2PSH:WEIGHTLESS:=13JAN55/r139#4p9", **LatLong:** "40.983335 14.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "40:59:00 N 14:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.983335,14.233334)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11726 (5374593F) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** LINHA BELA VISTA, BRZ **Description:** Saucer and 3 pseudo-human/entity. Check hoe and fence. Take tobacco tomato and chicken? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4454 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "108", **HatchDesc:** "LINHA BELA VISTA,BRZ:SCR+3 PSH:CHECK HOE+FENCE:TAKE TOBACCO TOMATO+CHICKEN?", **LatLong:** "-29.600001 -52.150002", **LatLongDMS:** "29:36:00 S 52:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.600001,-52.150002)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11727 (865A3A80) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** DORF-GULL, HESSEN, GERM **Description:** 5 x2M cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / road. Lights go off. Flies / forest. Several observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 350) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4455 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DORF-GULL,HESSEN,GERM:5x2M CGR HOVERS/ROAD:LITES GO OFF:FLIES/FOREST:SVRL OBS", **LatLong:** "50.516669 8.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:31:00 N 08:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.516669,8.716667)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11728 (B6818942) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** RIO DE JANEIRO, BRZ **Description:** Banker photographs saucer over munitions plant. See / r111p152. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 703) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4456 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "RIO DE JANEIRO,BRZ:BANKER FOTOS SCR OVR MUNITIONS PLANT:see /r111p152", **LatLong:** "-22.933334 -43.216669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:56:00 S 43:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.933334,-43.216669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11729 (12FE507A) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Time:** evening **Location:** Linha Bela Vista, Brazil **Description:** A farmer, O. da Costa e Rosa, observed a stranger standing near a machine shaped like "a tropical helmet," cream-colored, surrounded with haze, making the same noise as a sewing machine. Another man was looking at a fence, and the head and arms of a third one were visible inside the craft. As the witness dropped his hoe, the man smiled, picked it up, and gave it back to him, after which they motioned him to stay away and took off. They were of average height, had broad shoulders, long hair, very white skin, and slanted eyes. They wore brown coveralls ending with shoes without heels. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 46; Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_349 ### Event 11730 (CAB4FD53) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Time:** 1930 **Location:** Dorf-Gull, Germany **Description:** Ernst Jung and his wife saw an intense red, luminous object descending toward them at great speed. It hovered 5 m above ground when they stopped their motorcycle. It was cigarshaped, 5 m long, 2 m wide. They saw it turn off its lights and fly toward the forest. Other people in a bus saw the same thing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Nachrichten Oct., 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_350 ### Event 11731 (461D82F7) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Location:** Gricignano d’Aversa, Caserta, Italy **Description:** Giovanni Aquilante, a farmer of Gricignano d’Aversa, Caserta, Italy, disappears after leaving home to work in the fields. His family and police fail to find him. On December 10, near 12:00 midnight, two of Aquilante’s sons and a friend see two mysterious entities with luminous eyes in a field. They quickly vanish. Aquilante returns home on the morning of December 11, silent and shocked, and explains that he met two “dwarfs” in the field wearing multicolored suits. They float him in the air and take him to “unknown places.” They release him, but promise to come back for him later. Aquilante is terrified of being abducted again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** 1Pinotti 89 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2652 ### Event 11732 (F9CABE49) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Locations:** Linha Bela Vista; Venâncio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil **Description:** Evening. Farmer Olmiro de Costa e Rosa is feeding his animals at Linha Bela Vista, said to be 2.5 miles from Venâncio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he hears a sound like a sewing machine that causes some of his cows to run. An object shaped like an “enormous polished brass kettle” with a rectangular structure on top is hovering in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids “enveloped in a kind of yellow sack from head to toe” are standing in a nearby field. As he approaches, one runs toward him and the other raises its arm. The first one kneels down and plucks a tobacco plant from the field, then both jump into the craft, which vanishes within a few seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-12-09-brazil-linhabelavista.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-12-09-brazil-linhabelavista.htm) December 27, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2653 ### Event 11733 (12421E48) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Locations:** Carera; Transandean Highway; Venezuela **Description:** Night. Lorenzo Flores and Jésus Gómez are hunting rabbits near an unfindable town called Carera along the Transandean Highway in Venezuela. They run across a huge red UFO like two washbowls put together hovering above the road with flames spurting out. Four small hairy figures, 3 feet tall, scramble out and grab Gómez and try to drag him toward the craft. Flores strikes one with his gun butt, but it has no effect and feels like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracks from the impact. Gómez faints from fright, and both men are scratched and bruised. A passing motorist takes them to a police station, their clothes torn and skin abraded. When they tell their story to the police, it is obvious that their shirts have been shredded into ribbons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Hunters Clawed and](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf) [Beaten,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 \(January 15, 1955\): 2; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 56–57](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n53/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 51–52; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2654 ### Event 11734 (4F007455) **Date:** 12/9/1954 **Description:** On this evening Sr. Da Costa e Rosa, a farmer living in Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil heard a sound something like a sewing machine, and saw a cream-colored object "shaped like a tropical helmet" hovering just above the ground. A broad-shouldered man with pale skin was inside the craft. Another was outside examining a fence, while a third was closer to the farmer. Da Costa dropped his hoe, and this third man, with a smile, picked it up and gave it back to him. All three men were broad shouldered, with very pale skin, slanted eyes, and long blond hair. They wore light brown coveralls fastened to shoes without heels. After plucking a few plants, the men returned to their craft, which rose into the air slowly for 30 feet and then shot off at a high speed. The witness had never previously heard about flying saucers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 52; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-139 (A0351), citing Donald Hanlon, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8280 ### Event 11735 (DBA65D36) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EL TIGRE, VNZ **Description:** Engineer photographs 5 saucers south going quickly north. Beams / light each end. / r111p50. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4457 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "273", **HatchDesc:** "EL TIGRE,VNZ:ENGINEER FOTOS 5 SCRS S>>N:BEAMS/LITE each END:/r111p50", **LatLong:** "8.816667 -64.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "08:49:00 N 64:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.816667,-64.250003)", **State/Prov:** "ANZ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11736 (2DEA2045) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** LISBON, PORTUGAL **Description:** 1 observer. Silver ball expels blue flame / 10 minute(s). / Noticias. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4458 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LISBON,PORTUGAL:1 OBS:SILVER BALL EXPELS BLUE FLAME/10min:/NOTICIAS:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.683335 -9.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "38:41:00 N 09:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.683335,-9.083334)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11737 (3311A05D) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** CARORA, VNZ **Description:** 2 teens. 3M saucer going down. 4 hairy small humanoids (or Greys) try to grab boy. Report going [to] police. / r112p104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4459 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "508", **HatchDesc:** "CARORA,VNZ:2 TEENS:3M SCR ↓:4 HAIRY OIDS TRY to GRAB BOY:Rpt>POLICE:/r112p104", **LatLong:** "10.150000 -70.200003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:09:00 N 70:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.150000,-70.200003)", **State/Prov:** "CAR", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11738 (F6F688AD) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Floresta, Venezuela **Description:** A doctor from Caracas who was driving with his father near this town stopped his car as two little men were running into the bushes. Soon thereafter, a luminous disk rose from the side of the road with a sizzling sound and flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 43 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_351 ### Event 11739 (5B285B3D) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Time:** evening **Location:** Chico, Venezuela **Description:** Having seen a bright object land near the Trans-Andean Highway, two young men approached it, found it was shaped like two bowls g]ued together, about 3 m diameter. The underside was a source of fiery light. Four small beings emerged and attacked them, in an apparent kidnapping attempt. The dwarfs were extremely strong, their bodies covered with hair. They fled into the machine, and it took off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 51 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_352 ### Event 11740 (BE74AAE0) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Location:** El Tigre, Venezuela **Description:** An American petroleum engineer takes a photo of a formation of UFOs over El Tigre, Venezuela. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2655 ### Event 11741 (F7C5CC66) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Locations:** Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base; Caracas, Venezuela **Description:** 6:30 p.m. A doctor is driving near Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base in Caracas, Venezuela, when he and his father see two little men running near the road and ducking into shrubbery. Moments later a UFO rises up from the same spot and zooms away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 52; “[Doctor Sees Little Men, Disc,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 \(January 15, 1955\): 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2656 ### Event 11742 (D64ED0ED) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Description:** In Lisbon, Portugal at around 2:45 p.m. local time a witness reported seeing a flying silver ball expelling a blue flame for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Victor Lourenco, PORTUGAT UFO computer catalog, case #25, citing Noticias **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8294 ### Event 11743 (A61BDE7C) **Date:** 12/10/1954 **Description:** Several daylight disc sightings and two humanoid encounters, one at night, occurred in Venezuela on this date in 1954. A photograph of five objects was taken in El Tigre. At 6:30 p.m. a doctor driving with his father in Floresta, Venezuela stopped his car to watch two little men run into some bushes. Shortly afterward they saw a luminous, disc-shaped object take off from behind the bushes at a high speed and dart off into the sky with a sharp "sizzling" sound. Later that same night in Chico-Cerro de las Tres Torres, Venezuela two hunters, Lorenzo Flores and Jesus Gomez, saw a luminous object "like two washbowls put together." It was three meters wide and hovering just two feet off the ground. Flames emanated from the base of the object. Four hairy dwarfs, three feet tall, emerged and grabbed Gomez and tried to drag him toward their craft. Flores struck one with his gun butt, but it had no effect and felt like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracked from the impact. Gomez fainted from fright, and both young men were scratched and bruised. When they told their story to the police it was obvious that their shirts had been shredded into ribbons. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion From Outer Space, p. 49; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-141, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8295 ### Event 11744 (68C82680) **Date:** 12/11/1954 **Location:** PREDALE, CASINA, ITL **Description:** Luminous/glowing barrel hovers vertical / field. 'Man' watches girl observer(s) / window. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4460 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "PREDALE,CASINA,ITL:LUMn BARREL HVRS VERTICAL/FLD:'MAN' WATCHES GIRL OBS/WINDOW", **LatLong:** "44.516669 10.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "44:31:00 N 10:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.516669,10.500001)", **State/Prov:** "RE", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11745 (576D1193) **Date:** 12/11/1954 **Time:** 1700 **Location:** Linha Bela Vista, Brazil **Description:** Near the site of Case 349, Pedro Morais saw two human beings dressed in "yellow bags" take a tobacco plant and a chicken, then go away. Their craft "had a bottom like an enormous polished brass kettle," hovered with an oscillating motion, and made a noise like a sewing machine. Its upper part resembled a jeep hood. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 46; Humanoids 34 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_353 ### Event 11746 (A32F5C77) **Date:** 12/11/1954 **Description:** On this morning a young girl, Miss Frassinetti, saw a luminous barrel hovering vertically over a nearby field in Predale, Casina, Italy. She said that a "man" was watching her through a window in the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0354 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8336 ### Event 11747 (7F91C586) **Date:** 12/11/1954 **Description:** At 5:00 p.m. farmer Pedro Morais of Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil first noticed a disturbance among his chickens in the farmyard. He then saw a UFO shaped like an "enormous polished brass kettle" with a rectangular structure on top, making a sound like a sewing machine, hovering in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids "enveloped in a kind of yellow sack from head to toe" were standing in a nearby field. As he approached, one ran toward him, the other raised its arm. The first one knelt down and plucked a tobacco plant from the field, then both jumped into the craft, which vanished within a few seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald Hanlon, FSR Special Report #1: The Humanoids, p. 34; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 53; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 171; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-142 (A0355), citing Donald Hanlon & Coral Lorenzen; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 80, citing O Cruzeiro, January 15, 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8337 ### Event 11748 (86071B63) **Date:** 12/12/1954 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** MONTREAL, QBC **Description:** Flash. Large saucer stops. Makes 90° turns. Absolute(ly) silent. Blue flames and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4461 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "MONTREAL,QBC:FLASH:LRG SCR STOPS:MAKES 90°TURNS:ABS SLNT:BLUE FLAMES+AWAY", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -73.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 73:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-73.616670)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11749 (34808998) **Date:** 12/13/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** CAMPINAS, BRZ **Description:** Several observer(s). 3 cone-saucers going southwest. Maneuver. Molten tin quickly going down. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v6#6+/ APRO Jul. '57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STURROCK, Dr. Peter A.: The UFO ENIGMA; Warner Books, NY 1999; ISBN 0-446-52565-0 HB 404pp. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4462 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "662", **HatchDesc:** "CAMPINAS,BRZ:SVRL OBS:3 CONE-SCRS >SW:MNVR:MOLTEN TIN ↓↓:/FSR v6#6+/APRO Jly57", **LatLong:** "-22.883334 -47.083336", **LatLongDMS:** "22:53:00 S 47:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.883334,-47.083336)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11750 (3B5E119C) **Date:** 12/13/1954 **Description:** Three gray discs performed acrobatics over farmland in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil at dusk. One peeled off from the others, diving low over the roof of a woman's house, where it dropped a liquid substance "like silver rain." Chemical analysis revealed that the metallic material collected at the site was 90% tin with some other alloys. Jacques Vallee believes this case may provide clues to the propulsion system employed by the vehicles. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, in Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, p. 242 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8368 ### Event 11751 (2DAF6E61) **Date:** 12/14/1954 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** COL.PRINGLES, ARG **Description:** Luminous saucer circles down / 1M altitude. Dwarf visible / dome. Up and going quickly north. / AFP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4463 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "Col.PRINGLES,ARG:LUMN.SCR CCLS DOWN/1M alt:DWARF VISIBLE/DOME:UP+>>N:/AFP", **LatLong:** "-37.916668 -61.366670", **LatLongDMS:** "37:55:00 S 61:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.916668,-61.366670)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11752 (03E7A2C1) **Date:** 12/14/1954 **Locations:** Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro **Description:** 11:00 a.m. Three bright lights appear in the sky above Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Around 12:00 noon, they descend to a lower altitude, and witnesses see they are metallic discs. The Brazilian Air Force scrambles some jets, but they fail to intercept any of the objects. By 1:00 p.m., several groups of witnesses around the city are watching when two of the objects take off to the south, while the third comes closer and approaches some buildings in the city center. Chief of Police Col. Carlos Assunção sees a “reddish and slightly bluish object” moving at incredible speed. Maxim Cicaida, a professional photographer for Foto Heisler, snaps a photo of the disc above a building. He sends the negatives to the Brazilian Naval School in Rio de Janeiro, but they are never returned, and no analysis is released. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brazil 29–31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2657 ### Event 11753 (EE1DC23E) **Date:** 12/14/1954 **Description:** Three gray disc performed aerobatics over the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on this afternoon in 1954. One of the UFOs peeled off, dove low over the roof of a local woman's house, and dropped a liquid substance "like silver rain." Chemical analysis revealed that the solidified material was 90% tin with other alloys. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 49 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8390 ### Event 11754 (4479CD69) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Location:** LOWELL, MA **Description:** Mystery plane circles / 10 hours. No radio contact. None missing. Many calls. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 557) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4464 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "88", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "LOWELL,MA:MYSTERY PLANE CIRCLES/10hrs:NO RDO CONTACT:NONE MISSING:MANY CALLS", **LatLong:** "42.633335 -71.316670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:38:00 N 71:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.633335,-71.316670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11755 (80F4F27B) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Location:** CAMPO GRANDE, BRZ **Description:** Large and small orbs. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) take river muck. SiO2+Al2O3+Mg2O and Fe and more/others. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4465 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "586", **HatchDesc:** "CAMPO GRANDE,BRZ:LRG+SML ORBS:3 OIDS TAKE RIVER MUCK:SiO2+Al2O3+Mg2O+Fe++:", **LatLong:** "-20.466668 -54.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "20:28:00 S 54:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.466668,-54.600003)", **State/Prov:** "MGS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11756 (37A328A3) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** SOUTH / CARNARVON, WEST AUST **Description:** Dark object paces car / 25km. Flash pattern repeats 40 times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4466 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "S/CARNARVON,W.AUST:DRK OBJ PACES CAR/25km:FLASH PATTERN REPEATS 40 TIMES", **LatLong:** "-26.166668 114.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "26:10:00 S 114:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.166668,114.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11757 (EDF82BC9) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** BACHAQUERO, VNZL **Description:** Engineer and many. Saucer hovers 1M over hill. Strong blue flashes. / APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4467 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "71", **HatchDesc:** "BACHAQUERO,VNZL:ENGINEER+MANY:SCR HVRS 1M ovr HILL:STRONG BLUE FLASHES:/APRO", **LatLong:** "8.766667 -71.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "08:46:00 N 71:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.766667,-71.816670)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "MRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11758 (A455BEFE) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS **Description:** Many observer(s). Large glowing body goes over city. / radio news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 558) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4468 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Honduras", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "980", **HatchDesc:** "TEGUCIGALPA,HONDURAS:MANY OBS:LRG GLOWING BODY GOES OVR CITY:/RADIO NEWS", **LatLong:** "14.100001 -87.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "14:06:00 N 87:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.100001,-87.216671)", **State/Prov:** "TGC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11759 (7CDE8B24) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** SAN LORENZO, VNZL **Description:** 900+observer(s). Strange objects whirl / sky. Nearby birds fall dead! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4469 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LORENZO,VNZL:900+OBS:STRANGE OBJS WHIRL/SKY:NEARBY BIRDS FALL DEAD!", **LatLong:** "9.783334 -71.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "09:47:00 N 71:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.783334,-71.066670)", **State/Prov:** "ZUL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11760 (6D52D2D5) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Location:** Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil **Description:** A man is fishing in a river near Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, when he sees an unusual object landing a few hundred feet away. His dog gets nervous and begins to howl. He uses his telescopic gunsight to get a closer look. He sees two spheres of different sizes, the smaller one revolving around the larger one, which is about 6 feet above the ground and has three balls attached to its underside. Soon he sees small beings come down from the large object, moving rapidly. One is holding a phosphorescent bucket, and another has a metallic tube that is cone-shaped at one end. They use these tools to collect calcareous soil from the riverbank. They take two buckets’ worth inside the craft, which then takes off. The witness later finds square-shaped holes in the riverbank. Col. Adil de Oliveira of the Brazilian Air Force has the soil analyzed and it yields a composition of 61% silica, 19% aluminum oxide, 11% magnesium and iron, with other trace elements. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 195–196](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/198/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2658 ### Event 11761 (6A584AAF) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Description:** Asked about UFOs at a press conference, [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) says that it is “completely inaccurate to believe that they came from any outside planet or other place.” Immediately after the press conference, Eisenhower asks for a full briefing on UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[President Discounts ‘Saucer’ from Space,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/12/16/84446420.pdf)” New York Times, December 16, 1954, pp. 1, 26; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 62; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 238 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2659 ### Event 11762 (901C9DB7) **Date:** 12/15/1954 **Description:** On this day in 1954 a man had a close encounter with three aliens in Brazil. While fishing in the river in Campo Grande in the state of Mato Grosso del Sol, he saw a small sphere revolving around a larger sphere, about two meters above the ground. The larger object had landing gear shaped like three round balls. Three human-looking occupants who were small in stature got out. They had with them a luminous basket and a metal tube with a cone-shaped end. They used these tools to collect soil samples. On the same day a Royal Australian Navy pilot reported that two UFOs paced his aircraft. The UFOs appeared on radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 195, citing an investigation by Olavo T. Fontes; Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8405 ### Event 11763 (04AE1C9F) **Date:** 12/16/1954 **Location:** CD.BOLIVAR, VNZL **Description:** Several observer(s). Night. Huge luminous/glowing silent circle going [to] overhead. Leaves green trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4470 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "Cd.BOLIVAR,VNZL:SVRL OBS:NIGHT:HUGE LUMN SLNT CCL >OVHD:LEAVES GRN TRAIL.", **LatLong:** "8.133334 -63.533336", **LatLongDMS:** "08:08:00 N 63:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.133334,-63.533336)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11764 (3F4C620C) **Date:** 12/16/1954 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** CARACAS, VNZL **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Silver saucer hovers over city. Brightens and descends. Soars up and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4471 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "910", **HatchDesc:** "CARACAS,VNZL:1000s/OBS:SLVR SCR HVRS OVR CITY:BRIGHTENS+DESCENDS:SOARS UP+GONE", **LatLong:** "10.516667 -66.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:31:00 N 66:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.516667,-66.966670)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11765 (7222BDE7) **Date:** 12/16/1954 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** APPLE VALLEY, CA **Description:** 50+observer(s). Bright silver cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 18 hours! Windows. Photographs confiscated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4472 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "56", **Elev:** "898", **HatchDesc:** "APPLE VALLEY,CA:50+OBS:BRITE SLVR CGR HVRS/18 HRS!:WINDOWS:FOTOS CONFISCATED", **LatLong:** "34.533335 -117.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:32:00 N 117:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.533335,-117.216672)", **RelAlt:** "7600", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11766 (B9684B1F) **Date:** 12/16/1954 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** SAN CARLOS, VNZ **Description:** 3 observer(s). Man knocked down / short hairy small humanoid (or Grey). Runs going [to] saucer and quickly going up. / APRO v3#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4473 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "SAN CARLOS,VNZ:3 OBS:MAN KNOCKED DOWN/SHORT HAIRY OID:RUNS>SCR+↑↑:/APRO v3#4", **LatLong:** "9.650000 -68.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "09:39:00 N 68:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.650000,-68.583337)", **State/Prov:** "CJD", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11767 (382EEAB3) **Date:** 12/16/1954 **Location:** San Carlos, Venezuela **Description:** Three young men saw a dwarf, who attacked one of them, Jesus Paz, before fleeing into a disk-shaped machine, which flew off immediately. It was flat and shiny and had been hovering 1 m above ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 50; Humanoids 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_354 ### Event 11768 (BC46739B) **Date:** 12/16/1954 **Location:** San Carlos, Venezuela **Description:** Jésus Paz, Luis Mejia, and another young man are driving home after dinner at a restaurant in San Carlos, Venezuela, when Paz stops to relieve himself in a park. He claims he is jumped by a hairy dwarf from a flying disc \(both of which his friends see when he screams\). His friends rush the unconscious Paz to a hospital. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 60; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2660 ### Event 11769 (24AC281F) **Date:** 12/16/1954 **Description:** Taking a rest stop while driving along the Pan-American highway near San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela, Jesus Paz left his two friends in their car and walked off a short distance to relieve himself. They heard him screaming and then saw him fall unconscious. A small hairy dwarf ran off from the spot to a flat, shiny hovering UFO. The machine shot off with a loud whistle. Jesus Paz had deep scratches on his body from the creature. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 55 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8440 ### Event 11770 (36012CAC) **Date:** 12/17/1954 **Location:** STOCKHOLM TO/FROM MALMO, SWD **Description:** Perfect metal sphere flashes under airliner. Amazing speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4474 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKHOLM> Event 11771 (AD31EC44) **Date:** 12/17/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** PUERTO PIRITU, VNZL **Description:** Crew and riders / Lav airliner. 3 turtle-saucers shoot vibrant bright rays. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4475 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PUERTO PIRITU,VNZL:CREW+RIDERS/LAV AIRLINER:3 TURTLE-SCRS SHOOT VBRITE RAYS:", **LatLong:** "10.066667 -65.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:04:00 N 65:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.066667,-65.050003)", **State/Prov:** "ANZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11772 (DA76C49D) **Date:** 12/17/1954 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** BERSAILLIN TO/FROM COLONNE, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Intense light and heat / road from dark object / type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 355) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4476 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BERSAILLIN> Event 11773 (7C8CF67D) **Date:** 12/17/1954 **Time:** 1700 **Location:** Bersaillin, France **Description:** A woodsman from Poligny saw a very bright light on the road, first thought it was an American car with its headlights on, but soon observed it came from a dark craft about 80 m away. The light turned brighter; the witness felt an intense heat wave and thought he was going to die. Finally, the light went away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_355 ### Event 11774 (4F720CAE) **Date:** 12/17/1954 **Description:** At 5:00 p.m. on a country road in Bersaillin, France in Jura department, a woodsman sighted a very bright light on the road, coming from a dark craft some 80 meters away. When the light became brighter the man felt an intense wave of heat and he thought that he would die. After a short while the light moved away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 355; Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8460 ### Event 11775 (0387E3DB) **Date:** 12/18/1954 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** RIO DJ, BRAZIL **Description:** Palace guards and thousands. Luminous ovoid going northeast. Stops and lights bay. Hovers / 20 minute(s). Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 691) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4477 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "RIO DJ,BRZL:PALACE GUARDS+1000s:LUMn.OVOID >NE:STOPS+LITES BAY:HVRS/20min:↑↑", **LatLong:** "-22.916668 -43.200002", **LatLongDMS:** "22:55:00 S 43:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.916668,-43.200002)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11776 (906A7BE3) **Date:** 12/18/1954 **Description:** At 3:45 a.m. several hundred people, including sentries guarding the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed a yellow glowing ovoid object that slowed from a high speed and stopped in just three seconds, and then hovered for 20 minutes. It illuminated the surface of the water in Guanabara Bay, and finally climbed up at an oblique angle, and was gone in 4-5 seconds. Two small jets of exhaust were seen flowing from the lower part of the object while it was accelerating. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UNICAT, case 557, citing Colonel Adil de Oliveira, Brazilian Government report dated October 1956; APRO Bulletin, July 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8486 ### Event 11777 (88BE91C0) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Location:** ST. LOUIS, MO **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer is white when moving. Red hovering / seconds. Rises and going quickly [to] away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 568) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4478 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "ST LOUIS,MO:2 OBS:SCR IS WHT WHEN MOVING:RED HOVERING/SECONDS:RISES+>>AWAY", **LatLong:** "38.616669 -90.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:37:00 N 90:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.616669,-90.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11778 (F8000A97) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Location:** VIENNA, AUSTRIA **Description:** Many report(s) and cops. UFO's speed over city. Type unknown. (Ins). / r242p122. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 565) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4479 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "VIENNA,AUSTRIA:MANY RPTS+COPS:UFOS SPEED OVR CITY:TYPE UNKN:(INS):/r242p122", **LatLong:** "48.250002 16.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:00 N 16:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.250002,16.383334)", **State/Prov:** "VNN", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 11779 (AF1DA41A) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Time:** ~02:00 **Location:** VALENCIA, VNZ **Description:** 6 small humanoids (or Greys) load rocks / saucer! Ray-device paralyzes observer(s). / r111p57+/ r138#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4480 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "552", **HatchDesc:** "VALENCIA,VNZ:6 OIDS LOAD ROCKS/SCR!:RAY-DEVICE PARALYZES OBS:/r111p57+/r138#5", **LatLong:** "10.183334 -68.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:11:00 N 68:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.183334,-68.000003)", **State/Prov:** "CRB", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11780 (20946B56) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** CARTAYA, SP **Description:** Saucer on ground. Rises and going quickly west toward(s) Portugal as observers near. Noisy" / r138#10p61. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4481 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CARTAYA,SP:SCR ON GND:RISES+>>W TWRD PORTUGAL as OBSs NEAR:NOISY"/r138#10p61", **LatLong:** "37.277780 -7.155556", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:40 N 07:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.277780,-7.155556)", **State/Prov:** "HLV", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11781 (933FC03B) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Location:** Vienna, Austria **Description:** High-speed UFOs reported. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1793 ### Event 11782 (491D56F4) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Valencia, Venezuela **Description:** Jose Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, saw six small creatures loading stones into a disk-shaped machine hovering about 3 m above ground. He tried to run away but was paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the creatures entered the craft, and it took off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_356 ### Event 11783 (D842504A) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Location:** Valencia, Venezuela **Description:** 11:00 p.m. José Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, watches a disc-shaped UFO land in Valencia, Venezuela. Six 3-foot-tall humanoids disembark and set about collecting vegetation samples and loading stones into the disc. When he tries to approach them, he is paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the short beings enter the craft and it takes off. The UFO leaves behind ground traces. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 270; “[‘Little Men’](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf) [Fail in Kidnap Attempt!!](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 \(January 15, 1955\): 3; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-12-19-venezuela-valencia.htm), November 24, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2661 ### Event 11784 (D4DF0AFC) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Description:** UFOs shot through the sky over Vienna, Austria. There were many reports including several from police witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8505 ### Event 11785 (13C06CBF) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Description:** On the same night in Cartaya, Huelva Province, Spain a circular craft landed 50 meters away from two witnesses. As the witnesses walked towards it the UFO rose up to a very high altitude and flew away toward Portugal, making a great deal of noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8506 ### Event 11786 (CD389A9F) **Date:** 12/19/1954 **Description:** At eleven o’clock in the evening Mr. Parra, an 18-year-old resident of Valencia, Venezuela watched a disc-shaped UFO land and six three foot tall humanoids disembarked and set about collecting vegetation samples. When he attempted to approach he was paralyzed. The UFO left behind ground traces. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Newspaper clipping dated December 21, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8507 ### Event 11787 (B3529BC3) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **Location:** PIEDRAS COLORADAS, URUG **Description:** Several / highway 90. Large metallic disk blazes going quickly south. Fireball? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4482 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "PIEDRAS COLORADAS,URUG:SVRL/Hwy 90:LRG MTLC DISK BLAZES >>S:FBL?", **LatLong:** "-32.383335 -57.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "32:23:00 S 57:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.383335,-57.600003)", **RelAlt:** "800", **State/Prov:** "RNG", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11788 (FD8627CD) **Date:** 12/20/1954 (approximate) **Location:** BELLA VISTA, URUG **Description:** Many observer(s). "Flying saucer" hovers briefly then away. No further details / brief account. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4483 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BELLA VISTA,URUG:MANY OBS:"FLYING SCR" HVRS BRIEFLY then AWAY:NFD/BRIEF ACCT ", **LatLong:** "-34.883335 -56.200003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 S 56:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.883335,-56.200003)", **State/Prov:** "MNT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11789 (C105A5EE) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** CARRIZAL, VNZL **Description:** Several / picnic. 2 saucers maneuver over town. Stop / mountains. Going quickly north toward(s) Los Teques. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4484 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1160", **HatchDesc:** "CARRIZAL,VNZL:SVRL/PICNIC:2 SCRS MNVR OVR TOWN:STOP/MTNs:>>N twrd LOS TEQUES", **LatLong:** "10.350000 -66.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:21:00 N 66:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.350000,-66.983337)", **State/Prov:** "MDA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11790 (1D0AB185) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** NUEVA IMPERIAL, CHL **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Saucer hovers overhead then shoots going quickly west to sea. / El Mercurio. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4485 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "NUEVA IMPERIAL,CHL:100s/OBS:SCR HVRS OVHD then SHOOTS >>W to sea:/El Mercurio ", **LatLong:** "-38.733335 -72.950003", **LatLongDMS:** "38:44:00 S 72:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.733335,-72.950003)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11791 (D6FFE776) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** PONTIAC, MI **Description:** Red-orange saucer. White glow portholes in front. Speeds over. No further details. / r78p173. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4486 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "292", **HatchDesc:** "PONTIAC,MI:RED-ORG SCR:WHT GLOW PORTHOLES IN FRONT:SPEEDS OVER:NFD:/r78p173", **LatLong:** "42.633335 -83.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:38:00 N 83:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.633335,-83.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11792 (2752AEF5) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **Location:** Pontiac, MI **Description:** Red-orange circular UFO, with white glow from "portholes" at front, sped overhead. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1794 ### Event 11793 (6F4BC67C) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **Time:** 0000 **Location:** Valencia, Venezuela **Description:** An employee of the Barbula sanatorium saw an object on the ground but did not report it. Three hours later, another employee saw the craft. It was luminous and took off soon afterward. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_357 ### Event 11794 (5009253D) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **End date:** 12/21/1954 **Location:** Oak Park, Illinois **Description:** A group of [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/)’s followers has gathered at her Oak Park, Illinois, home to await the midnight arrival of a flying saucer that is to rescue them from planetary disaster. They have left jobs, college, and spouses, and given away money and possessions to prepare for their departure. When no spaceman arrives, the group sits in stunned silence. Martin begins to cry, and at 4:45 a.m. she receives a message by automatic writing saying that the God of Earth has decided to spare the planet from destruction. The cataclysm has been called off: “The little group, sitting all night long, had spread so much light that God had saved the world from destruction.” The group begins an urgent campaign to spread its message to a broader audience. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails, Harper Torchbooks, 1956; Wikipedia, “[When Prophecy](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf) [Fails](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)”; Clark III 718–719 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2662 ### Event 11795 (95493AB5) **Date:** 12/20/1954 **Description:** At 3:00 a.m. on this day in Valencia, Venezuela an employee of the Barbula Sanatorium saw a luminous UFO on the ground but decided not to report it until another employee, three hours later, saw the same craft. It took off soon after the second witness spotted it **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 357; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8526 ### Event 11796 (777291EF) **Date:** 12/21/1954 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** Several observer(s). Night lights (etc) circle city. 1930h meteor crosses sky. Big deal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 572) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4487 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:SVRL OBS:NLTS (etc) CIRCLE CITY::1930h METEOR CROSSES SKY:big deal.", **LatLong:** "25.772223 -80.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:46:20 N 80:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.772223,-80.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11797 (BF24DACF) **Date:** 12/22/1954 **Description:** World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy Martin. **Type:** channelling **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_139 ### Event 11798 (06789BA7) **Date:** 12/22/1954 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CASTELLUCCIO DI NORCIA, ITL **Description:** Luminous/glowing triangle going down / mountain top. Darkens. Night lights join and take off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4488 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CASTELLUCCIO di NORCIA,ITL:LUMN TRIANGLE ↓/Mtn.TOP:DARKENS:NLTS JOIN+TAKE OFF", **LatLong:** "42.783335 13.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "42:47:00 N 13:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.783335,13.083334)", **State/Prov:** "PG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11799 (F36E5404) **Date:** 12/23/1954 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** BARINAS, VNZL **Description:** Numerous prominent observer(s). 6-12 domed saucers pass overhead. Direction unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4489 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "197", **HatchDesc:** "BARINAS,VNZL:NMRS PROMINENT OBS:6-12 DOMED SCRS PASS OVHD:DIRECTION UNKN:NFD", **LatLong:** "9.583334 -70.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "09:35:00 N 70:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.583334,-70.233337)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11800 (22C71AAA) **Date:** 12/23/1954 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** NORTHEAST / NOGALES, AZ **Description:** RADAR and F86 pilot. UFO / 10K' altitude chased going quickly south. Hazy glow. Flashes red and green. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 572) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4490 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1170", **HatchDesc:** "NE/NOGALES,AZ:RDR+F86 PILOT:UFO/10K'alt CHASED >>S:HAZY GLOW:FLASHES RED+GRN", **LatLong:** "31.516668 -110.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:31:00 N 110:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.516668,-110.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11801 (7DE42AAB) **Date:** 12/23/1954 **Location:** Nogales (NE of), AZ **Description:** Air Radar/Visual For 40 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [541223](http://www.nicap.org/541223nogales%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1795 ### Event 11802 (0F518A2F) **Date:** 12/24/1954 **Location:** BARRANQUILLA, COL. **Description:** Hubcap / wheel-cover saucer maneuvers up and down / several minutes. Flashes. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4491 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Colombia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "BARRANQUILLA,COL:HUBCAP/WHEEL-COVER SCR MNVRS UP+DOWN/SVRL MINS:FLASHES:NFD", **LatLong:** "10.983334 -74.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:59:00 N 74:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.983334,-74.783337)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11803 (FE693DC4) **Date:** 12/25/1954 **Location:** NORTHWEST / ESSENDON, AUSTR **Description:** Gold prospectors. Saucer going [to] over camp. Regular plane follows after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4492 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NW/ESSENDON,AUSTR:GOLD PROSPECTORS:SCR >OVR CAMP:regular plane folos after", **LatLong:** "-37.583335 144.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:35:00 S 144:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.583335,144.666674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11804 (A7CC0075) **Date:** 12/25/1954 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** PUERTO AYACUCHO, VNZ **Description:** 100 observer(s). Full moon saucer and smaller objects going south. Circle town / low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4493 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PUERTO AYACUCHO,VNZ:100 OBS:FULL MOON SCR+SMALLER OBJS >S:CIRCLE TOWN/LOW ALT", **LatLong:** "5.661111 -67.605559", **LatLongDMS:** "05:39:40 N 67:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.661111,-67.605559)", **State/Prov:** "DF", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11805 (391F7B78) **Date:** 12/26/1954 **Location:** ONERAHI, NI, NZ **Description:** 5+observer(s). 3 luminous objects spin over harbor / 45 minute(s). 2 maneuver. / r138 #5p74. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4494 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "ONERAHI,NI,NZ:5+OBS:3 LUMn.OBJS SPIN OVR HARBOR/45min:2 MNVR:/r138 #5p74", **LatLong:** "-35.766668 174.366675", **LatLongDMS:** "35:46:00 S 174:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.766668,174.366675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11806 (3D4678B0) **Date:** 12/26/1954 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** COBALT, ONT **Description:** Brilliant saucer hovers / mine / 5 hours. Goes going up [to] & going down [to] fast and slow. Going quickly north toward(s) lake. / r107p259. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4495 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "311", **HatchDesc:** "COBALT,ONT:BRILL.SCR HVRS/MINE/5hrs:GOES↑&↓ FAST+SLO:>>N twrd LAKE:/r107p259", **LatLong:** "47.383336 -79.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "47:23:00 N 79:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.383336,-79.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11807 (7A93A44B) **Date:** 12/26/1954 **Locations:** Australia; England; Melbourne, Victoria **Description:** Australian physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner has been tasked with reviewing UFO reports in the RAAF files and writing an assessment for the Australian Directorate of Air Force Intelligence. Now in England, he sends the report to the Secretary, Department of Air, in Melbourne, Victoria. He writes: “If one assumes these Intelligence reports are authentic, then the evidence presented is such that it is difficult to assume any interpretation other than that unidentified flying objects are being observed…. Indeed, the superiority is such that it is highly improbable that such objects have a terrestrial origin… the evidence presented by the reports held by the RAAF tend to support the above conclusion—namely that certain strange aircraft have been observed to behave in a manner suggestive of an extra-terrestrial origin.” Turner goes on to recommend appointing at least one full-time investigator; publicity to encourage more people to report sightings; a liaison with the USAF to exchange information and verify [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s claims; liaison with the RAF and the possibility of forming a panel to assist in analyzing reports. The Director of RAAF Intelligence checks with USAF on the reliability of Keyhoe’s work, and they ultimately reject it as impractical and unjustified. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[The Former Air Board /](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab) [Department of Air / Current RAAF](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab)”; Bill Chalker, “[UFOs Sub Rosa, Down Under: The Australian Military and](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcoz1.htm) [Government Role in the UFO Controversy,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcoz1.htm)” 1996; “[The Project Interviews Harry Turner,](http://www.auforn.com/NEWSLETTER-SIXTEEN.html)” Disclosure Australia Newsletter, no. 16, September 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2663 ### Event 11808 (894C7811) **Date:** 12/26/1954 **Locations:** Willis St.-Jean; Agaunico Mine; Lake Timiskaming; Cobalt, Ontario; North Bay Nugget office **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Willis St.-Jean, a hoistman at the Agaunico Mine on the shore of Lake Timiskaming northeast of Cobalt, Ontario, sees a bright white light maneuvering in the sky. He calls John Hunt, a reporter at the North Bay Nugget office in Cobalt, to drive 3 miles to the mine to view it. The light is emanating from a large, rotating, slightly wedge-shaped disc. They watch the object for an hour after he arrives there. It circles, moves away, dances in the sky, disappears \(apparently when it banks\), and returns repeatedly, and at one point it flies over the lake, illuminating the surface. It disappears for good shortly after 10:15 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Hunt, “[Reporter Sees ‘Saucer’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98861495/) [over Cobalt Mine,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98861495/)” North Bay \(Ont.\) Nugget, December 27, 1954, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2664 ### Event 11809 (2EF3455C) **Date:** 12/27/1954 **Locations:** Johannesburg, South Africa; Rosetta, KwaZulu Natal; Flying Saucer Hill **Description:** [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) having been alerted by her sister May that the local Zulu people are reporting appearances of a mythical lightning bird in the sky, travels from Johannesburg, South Africa, with her children to a hill southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu Natal, that she later calls Flying Saucer Hill. There she claims to see a star ship descend and hover 8 feet above the ground, emitting a soft hum. Its hull is spinning, though its central dome remains stationary. The friendly extraterrestrial Akon, with whom she has been in telepathic contact, is clearly visible through one of three portholes, but a blast of heat emanating from the ship prevents her from approaching. The UFO leaves by shooting high into the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, [Beyond the Light Barrier](https://archive.org/details/beyond-the-light-barrier), Howard Timmins, 1980 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2665 ### Event 11810 (F20A8EED) **Date:** 12/27/1954 **Description:** Alerted by some children to the presence of a UFO around ten o'clock in the morning, Elizabeth Klarer ran to a nearby hill in Mooi River, South Africa. Twenty yards away was a domed disc-shaped object, about 60 feet in diameter, that silently descended to 10-12 feet above the ground. It had a flat hull rotating around a flattish dome, which contained portholes. In one of the porthole windows she saw a man "with a thin face, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones," who looked at her with hypnotic intensity. Then, with a blast of hot air, the craft rose and shot away at tremendous speed. Ms. Klarer had a contactee experience 18 months later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Cynthia Hind, Fate, August 1969; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 146; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-146 (A0359), citing Cynthia Hind **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8621 ### Event 11811 (FD4BC8D5) **Date:** 12/28/1954 **Location:** CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI **Description:** Red 8cm metallic object hits car antenna and trim. Flies away! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4496 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "274", **HatchDesc:** "CHIPPEWA FALLS,WI:RED 8cm MTLC OBJ HITS CAR ANTENNA+TRIM:FLIES AWAY!", **LatLong:** "44.938891 -91.394449", **LatLongDMS:** "44:56:20 N 91:23:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.938891,-91.394449)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11812 (4B472BDE) **Date:** 12/28/1954 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** N143 NORTHWEST / SAN RAFAEL, ARG **Description:** 7 / car. 50' saucer lands / field. 2 pseudo-human/entity outside re-enter and fly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4497 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "N143 NW/SAN RAFAEL,ARG:7/CAR:50'SCR LANDS/FIELD:2 PSH OUTSIDE RE-ENTER+FLY", **LatLong:** "-34.333335 -68.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:20:00 S 68:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.333335,-68.583337)", **State/Prov:** "MND", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11813 (586A0681) **Date:** 12/28/1954 **Locations:** US National Security Council; Robert McNamara; McGeorge Bundy; Gordon Gray **Description:** The NSC 5412/2 Special Group, often referred simply as the Special Group, is an initially secret, but later public, subcommittee of the US National Security Council responsible for coordinating government covert operations. Presidential Directive NSC 5412/2 assigns responsibility for coordination of covert actions to representatives of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President respectively. All proposals pass through the Special Group on the way to [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) at the CIA, who is responsible for covert operations. It changes names several times to avoid public exposure. In 1964, it is known as the 303 Committee, and in 1970 it is renamed the 40 Committee. Within this organization—which includes such familiar names as [Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%5FRockefeller) [Rockefeller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%5FRockefeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%5FRockefeller) [Robert McNamara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara) [McGeorge Bundy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge%5FBundy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge%5FBundy) [Gordon Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29) and [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles)—is a subcommittee dealing with science and technology. It is here that the connection between the corporate and financial world and government-held technological secrets can be found. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Oversight of United States covert operations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversight%5Fof%5FUnited%5FStates%5Fcovert%5Foperations%23From%5FNSC%5F10/2%5Fto%5FNSC%5F5412%5F%28June%5F1948%E2%80%93March%5F1955%29)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2666 ### Event 11814 (489B3AAE) **Date:** 12/28/1954 **Description:** Traveling by car to Mendoza on Route # 143, a concert pianist and six others traveling together saw a brilliant glow at the side of the road near San Rafael Moreno, Argentina at 3:30 a.m. It was a luminous object about 100-200 meters away in a nearby field, and it was emitting a bluish light like that from a welding torch. According to the description by Professor Maria Luisa de Amaya, it had the form of two deep dishes placed together rim to rim. They could not make out any structural details. The witnesses stopped their car and got out, then walked toward the object. When they were about 50 meters away they noticed two human figures next to it. The beings were of normal height, wearing dark one piece diver's suits, with their heads covered with a kind of cowl. One of the humanoids was crouching next to the object. After he got up, the two individuals entered the UFO through a rectangular door. The object began to emit smoke from its central region and rose up vertically, stopping a few meters from the ground and throwing out two flickering red lights. Alarmed, the witnesses rushed back to their car and took off driving at high speed. The object pursued them for 20 minutes, until by the first light of dawn they could no longer see it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Oscar A Uriondo, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 10, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-38, citing Roberto Banchs **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8628 ### Event 11815 (42708D6C) **Date:** 12/29/1954 **Location:** BERGAMO, ITL **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape / 25M altitude. Silhouettes visible in transparent compartment. Pg23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4498 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "249", **HatchDesc:** "BERGAMO,ITL:CGR/25M alt:SILHOUETTES VISIBLE IN TRANSPARENT COMPARTMENT:pg23", **LatLong:** "45.716669 9.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:43:00 N 09:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.716669,9.683334)", **RelAlt:** "25", **State/Prov:** "Bergamo", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11816 (D58316FF) **Date:** 12/29/1954 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SAN DIEGO, CA **Description:** Navy observer(s). Metal saucer going quickly [to] under B47. 2nd saucer joins. Both hover and fly away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 576) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4499 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SAN DIEGO,CA:NAVY OBS:MTL SCR >>UNDER B47:2nd SCR JOINS:BOTH HOVER+FLY AWAY", **LatLong:** "32.733335 -117.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:44:00 N 117:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.733335,-117.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11817 (2BA79A02) **Date:** 12/29/1954 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BRU / GARDONNE, FR **Description:** Red saucer / field. Observer(s) frozen. Ground dug oddly. Trees split. / LDLN#104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 358) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4500 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BRU/GARDONNE,FR:RED SCR/FLD:OBS FROZEN:GROUND DUG ODDLY:TREES SPLIT:/LDLN#104", **LatLong:** "44.766669 0.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:46:00 N 00:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.766669,0.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11818 (0F2EF741) **Date:** 12/29/1954 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** Crew flying B-47 saw 2 objects pass the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1796 ### Event 11819 (46D1B07F) **Date:** 12/29/1954 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Bru, France **Description:** Near Gardonne, Mr. Gamba saw an oval red object 50 m away. When he tried to approach it, he found he was unable to move. As soon as this "paralysis" subsided, he ran to get his brothers and came back to the craft, which turned white, then red. It rose and flew away toward the east. It had been on the ground for at least 15 min. Strange traces were found, as if the ground had been dug up. Small trees near the river were found damaged, as if they had been cut with a knife. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 103 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_358 ### Event 11820 (A9DB1E75) **Date:** 12/29/1954 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. a red oval-shaped object was seen on the ground near a river in Bru, Gironde, France, 50 meters away from witnesses. The main witness, a Mr. Gamba, tried to approach it but was unable to move. The object rose up into the air, and as it did it changed color from white to red. Traces found at the site showed that the ground had been dug up, and some small trees had been cut. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 358, citing Sud Quest, December 31, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8640 ### Event 11821 (64601D64) **Date:** 12/29/1954 **Description:** In Bergamo, near Clusone, Italy a cigar-shaped object was seen hovering 25 meters from the ground at midnight. Several figures could be seen inside a transparent compartment. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 240; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #326 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8641 ### Event 11822 (48419E62) **Date:** 12/30/1954 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** SOMMAPRADA, LOZIO, ITL **Description:** Fat cylinder/cigar-shape going down / 5M altitude. 3 propellers / top and 3 below! Possible landing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4501 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SOMMAPRADA,LOZIO,ITL:FAT CGR ↓/5M alt:3 PROPELLERS/TOP+3 BELOW!:poss.landing", **LatLong:** "45.983336 10.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:59:00 N 10:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.983336,10.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Bergamo", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11823 (1A945123) **Date:** 12/30/1954 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LIMA, PERU **Description:** 50+observer(s). 5 brilliant metallic saucers over city / 8 minute(s). Intense silvery light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4502 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "LIMA,PERU:50+OBS:5 BRILL.MTLC SCRS OVR CITY/8min:INTENSE SILVERY LITE:", **LatLong:** "-12.050001 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "12:03:00 S 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.050001,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "LMA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11824 (5201D7F9) **Date:** 12/30/1954 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** NEAR AUFHAUSEN, AUS **Description:** Dome hovers / valley at mountain-top altitude. Drops / roof level near railroad. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4503 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr AUFHAUSEN,AUS:DOME HVRS/VLY @ MTN-TOP ALT:DROPS/ROOF LEVEL nr RAILROAD:>>W", **LatLong:** "47.283336 12.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "47:17:00 N 12:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.283336,12.750001)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11825 (1B8BCFC0) **Date:** 12/30/1954 **Location:** Lima, Peru **Description:** Fifty residents of Lima, Peru, watch a flight of 5 iridescent silver UFOs for at least 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** La Nación, December 31, 1954 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2667 ### Event 11826 (FBBD4788) **Date:** 12/30/1954 **Description:** A man was walking along a path near a local church in Sommaprado, Italy at 6:30 a.m. when he heard a sound like a motor. He looked around but did not see anything, but moments later he heard the noise again. This time he saw a shiny brass colored cigar-shaped object hovering nearby. It had a "bump" or dome in the middle and six rotor blades, three in front and three in the rear. The rear of the object was transparent and inside he could see two short beings dressed in black and wearing large helmets. The beings looked human with olive colored skin and black hair. They looked at the witness and smiled at him. The frightened witness fell to the ground and watched as the object departed at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4251; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1564, citing ITACAT **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8651 ### Event 11827 (9983F662) **Date:** 12/31/1954 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** CAMAQUA, BRAZIL **Description:** 4 observer(s). Silent 30M disk stops / 1M altitude. Pseudo-human/entity exits and walks. Lights ground / lamp. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4504 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "CAMAQUA,BRZL:4 OBS:SLNT 30M DISK STOPS/1M ALT:PSH EXITS+WALKS:LITES GND/LAMP", **LatLong:** "-30.850001 -51.816669", **LatLongDMS:** "30:51:00 S 51:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.850001,-51.816669)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11828 (53A3384B) **Date:** 12/31/1954 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** PESEUX, SWZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Huge metal ovoid shoots sparks. Beam turns. Going up [to] and smokes. / r138#10p80. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4505 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "PESEUX,SWZ:2 OBS:HUGE MTL OVOID SHOOTS SPARKS:BEAM TURNS:↑+SMOKES:/r138#10p80", **LatLong:** "46.983336 6.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:59:00 N 06:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.983336,6.883334)", **State/Prov:** "NCH", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11829 (6A29080D) **Date:** 12/31/1954 **Description:** At ten minutes after midnight, four men in a forest in Camaqua, Brazil in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, saw a 30-meter wide disc stop and hover silently one meter above the ground. A human looking occupant got out of the craft and walked around it with a lamp of some kind. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Felipe Machado Carrion, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1971, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8666 --- ## Year: 1955 (Back to Top) ### Event 11830 (0DB91A90) **Date:** 1955 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, USSR’s Ministry of Defence formed a UFO Research Committee. Stroganov claimed that Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the problem in 1956. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research grounds. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [“The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69](https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Gene-Interactions-Humanity-Visitors/dp/0958704538) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_546 ### Event 11831 (71070380) **Date:** 1955 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly) **Type:** atomic plant **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_547 ### Event 11832 (EBCF3333) **Date:** 1955 **End date:** 1957 **Location:** US **Description:** UFOs all but faded out of the news. Queries to the Air Force were answered by a "fact sheet" referring back to the 1955 report. A 1957 "fact sheet" stated the unexplained cases had been reduced "from approximately 10% in 1954 to 3%, as of now." **Type:** USAF fact sheets **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_883 ### Event 11833 (C5DBFFEF) **Date:** 1955 **Location:** Groom Lake, NV **Description:** The site for [Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51) was selected after an aerial survey by the CIA and USAF. It was originally used for the [U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2) program. **Type:** secret base **Reference:** [bbc.com: "Area 51 'declassified' in U-2 spy plane history"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23731759) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_927 ### Event 11834 (1B578A98) **Date:** 1955 **Location:** Agrinion, Greece **Description:** Truck driver and hotel manager driving over mountain road saw luminous object fly overhead, truck engine stopped (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1797 ### Event 11835 (43C2125A) **Date:** 1955 **Location:** Virginia, nr. Washington, D. C, VA **Description:** Navy pilot observed domed disc. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1798 ### Event 11836 (AF5A7541) **Date:** 1955 **Location:** Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico **Description:** Project Rover, a US project to develop a nuclear-thermal rocket, is initiated at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, and runs until January 1973. It begins as an Air Force project to develop a nuclear- powered upper stage for an intercontinental ballistic missile. The project is transferred to NASA in 1958 after the Sputnik crisis. It is managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, a joint agency of the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA. Project Rover becomes part of NASA’s Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application \(NERVA\) project and henceforth deals with the research into nuclear rocket reactor design, while NERVA involves the overall development and deployment of nuclear rocket engines and the planning for space missions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project Rover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FRover)”; Wikipedia, “[NERVA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 303–312](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/302/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2669 ### Event 11837 (33CB8335) **Date:** 1955 **Description:** The US nuclear stockpile totals 2,422 bombs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ryan Crierie, “[U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/ABC%5FWeapons/US%5FNuclear%5FStockpile.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2670 ### Event 11838 (1010EE10) **Date:** 1955 **Locations:** Baltimore, Maryland; New York City; Hotel Pennsylvania **Description:** [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) founds OTC Enterprises in Baltimore, Maryland, to advance and supply technology originating from ideas of [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla) Carr claims he met Tesla while working as a night clerk in New York City’s Hotel Pennsylvania, where Tesla was living in the late 1920s. Tesla befriended Carr and revealed to him secrets he was not ready to make public yet. Carr attracts the funding of local businessman [Wilfred C. Gosnell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711706/wilfred-claude-gosnell). Soon he hires a promotions man named Norman Evans Colton and sends out regular information bulletins to investors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 860 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2671 ### Event 11839 (72F7C451) **Date:** 1955 **Description:** After selling his share of Fate magazine to [Curtis](https://occulthealth.com/fuller-curtis-1912%E2%80%931991/) and [Mary Margaret Stiehm Fuller](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-07-21-9203050547-story.html)[,](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-07-21-9203050547-story.html) [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) founds a would- be competitor, Mystic \(later Search\) and several short-lived SF titles. Other Worlds evolves in 1957 into Flying Saucers, a more or less nonfiction magazine that features articles of widely varying credibility and a column of saucer fan-club news. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 873 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2672 ### Event 11840 (3C78D874) **Date:** 1955 **Locations:** United States; Canada; Solar System; Southern California **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Inside the Space Ships, ghostwritten by Adamski follower Charlotte Blodget, is published by Abelard Schuman in the United States and Foster and Scott in Canada. Adamski claims that Orthon arranged for him to be taken on a trip to see the Solar System, including the planet [Venus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus) the location where Orthon said the late Mary Adamski had been reincarnated. He claims that in another voyage he met the 1,000-year-old “elder philosopher of the space people,” who is called “the Master.” Adamski says he and the Master discussed philosophy, religion, and the “Earth’s place in the universe.” Adamski learns that he has been selected by Nordic aliens to bring their message of peace to Earth people and that other humans throughout history have also served as their messengers, including Jesus Christ. Adamski further claims that aliens are peacefully living on Earth, and that he has met with them in bars and restaurants in Southern California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Adamski, [Inside the Space](https://archive.org/details/insidespaceships00adam/page/n3/mode/2up) [Ships](https://archive.org/details/insidespaceships00adam/page/n3/mode/2up), Abelard-Schuman, 1955; Clark III 40; Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983; David Stupple, “The Man Who Talked with Venusians,” Fate 32, no. 1 \(January 1979\): 30–39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2673 ### Event 11841 (0F8EBE65) **Date:** Early 1955 **Locations:** Groom Lake, Nevada; Yucca Flat **Description:** A secure test site is needed for the CIA Project Aquatone \(the Lockheed U-2 spy plane\). Lockheed test pilot [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) sends project pilot [Tony LeVier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeVier) and Skunk Works chief foreman Dorsey Kammerer on a two- week survey mission to scout locations for a new base in an unmarked Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza. CIA official [Richard M. Bissell Jr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) reviews 50 potential sites with USAF liaison Col. [Osmond J. Ritland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105825/major-general-osmond-j-ritland/). None seem to meet the stringent requirements of the program. They reject Johnson’s proposed Site I \(Mud Lake?\) because it is too close to populated areas. Ritland recalls a “little X-shaped field” just off the eastern side of Groom Lake, Nevada, just outside the AEC nuclear proving ground at Yucca Flat. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html) [Fifty Years,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2668 ### Event 11842 (94503CBE) **Date:** 1/1955 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** WILMINGTON, CA **Description:** WW1-helmet saucer going / low altitude. Green beam / top. Green / light / portholes. Clanks and whine. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4506 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,CA:WW1-HELMET SCR >/lo alt:GRN BEAM/TOP:GRN/LITE/PORTS:CLANKS+WHINE", **LatLong:** "33.783335 -118.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:00 N 118:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.783335,-118.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11843 (EC332B44) **Date:** 1/1955 **Location:** Caxton Hall, London, England **Description:** [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/) gives the first public demonstration of his contacts with the Cosmic Masters in Caxton Hall, London, England. After mounting the platform, he enters a trance, and Aetherius \(the Cosmic Master from Venus\) reveals a plan for human peace and enlightenment. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [p. 63](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/62/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2674 ### Event 11844 (52CBDD6A) **Date:** 1/1/1955 **Time:** 06:40 **Location:** 30 MI EAST / COCHISE, AZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3382. B25 pilot and 1. 130' metal saucer ESE going quickly [to] WNW. Paces jet / 7 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4507 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "2500", **HatchDesc:** "30mi E/COCHISE,AZ:BBK#3382:B25 PILOT+1:130'MTL SCR ESE>>WNW:PACES JET/7min", **LatLong:** "32.111113 -109.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:06:40 N 109:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.111113,-109.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11845 (FC9C7FD9) **Date:** 1/1/1955 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** BLOEMFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA **Description:** Several observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver cigar hovers / 3 hours. / F. S. review. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4508 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "BLOEMFONTEIN,S.AFRICA:SVRL OBS/BINOCS:SLVR CIGAR HOVERS/3hrs:/F.S.REVIEW", **LatLong:** "-29.150001 26.266668", **LatLongDMS:** "29:09:00 S 26:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.150001,26.266668)", **State/Prov:** "Orange Free State", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11846 (BE808C35) **Date:** 1/1/1955 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** SYDNEY, AUSTR **Description:** 1 then 2 luminous clouds. 1 splits into 4 ovoids. Another appears and splits. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4509 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SYDNEY,AUSTR:1 THEN 2 LUM CLOUDS:1 SPLITS INTO 4 OVOIDS:ANOTHER APPEARS+SPLITS", **LatLong:** "-33.900002 151.166674", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 S 151:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.900002,151.166674)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11847 (D6D82528) **Date:** 1/1/1955 **Location:** Cochise, NM **Description:** Huge Metallic Disc Paces B-25 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3382, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [550101](http://www.nicap.org/550101cochise%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1799 ### Event 11848 (5F129D37) **Date:** 1/1/1955 **Time:** 6:44 AM **Location:** Cochise, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: instructor and student pilot in USAF B-25 bomber/trainer. A metallic disc, shaped like two pie pans face-to-face, and 120-130' in diameter, paced the B-25, showing both its edge and its face, for 5-7 minutes. Only item in case file was summary form. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_379 ### Event 11849 (49C31760) **Date:** 1/2/1955 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** SOUTH / CERRO MORENO, CHILE **Description:** 3 / airport. Elongated disk overhead. Shoots going quickly west. Clearly outlined. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 404) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4510 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "249", **HatchDesc:** "S/CERRO MORENO,CHILE:3/AIRPORT:ELONGATED DISK OVHD:SHOOTS >>W:CLEARLY OUTLINED", **LatLong:** "-23.433334 -70.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "23:26:00 S 70:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.433334,-70.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Antofagasta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11850 (C02540BC) **Date:** 1/2/1955 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** NEAR PUNTA SAN JUAN, VNZ **Description:** 2 airline(s)/airliner crews. Night light maneuvers. Beams light going [to] cockpit. / r242+/ r173p247. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4511 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr PUNTA SAN JUAN,VNZ:2 AL CREWS:NLT MNVRs:BEAMS LITE>COCKPIT:/r242+/r173p247", **LatLong:** "11.033334 -68.216670", **LatLongDMS:** "11:02:00 N 68:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.033334,-68.216670)", **State/Prov:** "FLC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11851 (8D3A08D4) **Date:** 1/2/1955 **Location:** Punta San Juan (near), Venezula **Description:** Airliner enroute to Maracaibo approached by luminous UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1800 ### Event 11852 (490279F4) **Date:** Early 1/1955 **Locations:** Chicago area; Prescott, Arizona **Description:** [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) leaves the Chicago area for Prescott, Arizona, home of the like-minded [George Hunt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) after being threatened with arrest and involuntary commitment. She later founds the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara. Under the name Sister Thedra, she continues to practice channeling and participate in contactee groups until her death in 1992. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 719 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2675 ### Event 11853 (B033A0B0) **Date:** 1/3/1955 **Location:** STEYR, AUSTRIA **Description:** 6 silver saucers hover and leave red trails. In news / 6 Jan. / r78p173+/ r107p261. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1954 (5 booklets) 1994 (2nd edition) (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4512 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "STEYR,AUSTRIA:6 SLVR SCRS HVR+LEAVE RED TRAILS:in NEWS/6JAN:/r78p173+/r107p261", **LatLong:** "48.050002 14.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:03:00 N 14:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.050002,14.416667)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11854 (87B2163F) **Date:** 1/3/1955 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / CD.BOLIVAR, VNZL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer stops near dam. Continues extremely fast. Lost behind hill. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 404) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4513 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "SE/Cd.BOLIVAR,VNZL:2 OBS:SCR STOPS nr DAM:CONTINUES XFAST:LOST BEHIND HILL.", **LatLong:** "8.116667 -63.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "08:07:00 N 63:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.116667,-63.500003)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11855 (F262695D) **Date:** 1/3/1955 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** MELBOURNE, AUSTR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 2 / car. UFO comes within 70M. Car engine stalls. / r79p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 359) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4514 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MELBOURNE,AUSTR:BBK#UNK:2/CAR:UFO COMES WITHIN 70M:CAR ENGINE STALLS:/r79p5", **LatLong:** "-37.816668 144.966674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:00 S 144:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.816668,144.966674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11856 (3EAF0378) **Date:** 1/3/1955 **Time:** 0725 **Location:** Melbourne, Australia **Description:** Two persons in a car saw a flying object come within 70 m of them after their vehicle was stopped. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_359 ### Event 11857 (B89D80F5) **Date:** 1/3/1955 **Location:** Oiartzun, Spain **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Félix Galarraga and Gerardo Izuesta see a red balloon-like object about 7–10 feet in diameter land near Oiartzun, Spain. Galarraga rushes towards it, but the UFO rises and speeds away. From a separate location, brothers Miguel and Martín Arraspio also see the object descend. Possibly another Radio Free Europe balloon with leaflets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) The Author, 1992, p. 4; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Vistorio Uranga, “[Los ovnis de diciembre de](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954) [1954,](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954)” Academia.edu **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2676 ### Event 11858 (F0194CF3) **Date:** 1/3/1955 **Description:** At 7:25 a.m. two people in a car in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia saw a flying object approach to within 70 meters of them after their vehicle was stalled. On that same day in Vienna, Austria six silver discs flew overhead, leaving a trail of red vapor. Some citizens were panicked. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 248; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4260; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 30, citing Vallee **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_50 ### Event 11859 (22322843) **Date:** 1/5/1955 (approximate) **Location:** NORTHWEST BRITISH GUIANA **Description:** Sketchy news report(s). Umbrella saucers pass / airplane speed. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 407) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4515 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guyanas (all 3 of them)", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "71", **HatchDesc:** "NW BRITISH GUIANA:SKETCHY NEWS RPTS:UMBRELLA SCRS PASS/AIRPLANE SPEED:NFD", **LatLong:** "7.500000 -60.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "07:30:00 N 60:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/7.500000,-60.000003)", **State/Prov:** "BGU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11860 (77B27C67) **Date:** 1/5/1955 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** IROQUOIS FALLS, ON **Description:** 3 / farm. Bright silent washtub saucer hovers low near barn. Shoots going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 406) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4516 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "264", **HatchDesc:** "IROQUOIS FALLS,ON:3/FARM:BRITE SLNT WASHTUB SCR HVRS LO nr BARN:SHOOTS >>N", **LatLong:** "48.766669 -80.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "48:46:00 N 80:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.766669,-80.666671)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11861 (0080274F) **Date:** 1/5/1955 **Location:** San Sebastian, Spain **Description:** A red circular object 3 m in diameter was observed to land and take off again. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_360 ### Event 11862 (2BC4328C) **Date:** 1/5/1955 **Description:** A red circular object three meters in diameter was observed to land and take off again in San Sebastian, Spain. Three independent witnesses saw the object come to ground. They described it as a very bright red globe 2.5 meters in diameter, which they thought was made of a metallic material. When one witness approached to within 100 meters, the object took off. The principal witness was a 23-year-old man named Galarraga. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 248; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 18; UNICAT database, case 565, citing Stendek **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_112 ### Event 11863 (3EB5F74B) **Date:** 1/6/1955 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** BRADENTON, FL **Description:** 3 airmen / car. Dark saucer 1000' near US41. 2 very bright flashes. Photos? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4517 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BRADENTON,FL:3 AIRMEN/CAR:DARK SCR 1000' nr US41:2 VERY BRITE FLASHES:PHOTOS?", **LatLong:** "27.500001 -82.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "27:30:00 N 82:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.500001,-82.577782)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11864 (BC8F3CCA) **Date:** 1/7/1955 **Location:** MT. GREYLOCK, MASS **Description:** 1 observer. Glowing saucer-shaped white body hovers just below overcast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4518 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1064", **HatchDesc:** "Mt GREYLOCK,MASS:1 OBS:GLOWING SCR-SHAPED WHT BODY HVRS JUST BELOW OVERCAST", **LatLong:** "42.638891 -73.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:38:20 N 73:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.638891,-73.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11865 (00C79CE3) **Date:** 1/7/1955 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** COBALT, ON **Description:** Several observer(s) / 2 days. Bright white disk plays near mine. Maneuvers near light-pole. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 407) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4519 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "231", **Elev:** "311", **HatchDesc:** "COBALT,ON:SVRL OBS/2 DAYS:BRITE WHT DISK PLAYS nr MINE:MNVRS nr LIGHT-POLE", **LatLong:** "47.366669 -79.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "47:22:00 N 79:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.366669,-79.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11866 (8954456F) **Date:** 1/7/1955 **Description:** The Air Force Information Services Letter warns that service members are talking too much about UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2677 ### Event 11867 (CE10B104) **Date:** 1/10/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MAJUNGA, MDG **Description:** Many observer(s). Moon-size luminous blue disk going quickly southwest / 6 seconds. Out to sea / Mitsinjo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 410) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4520 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast,Ghana,Togo,Benin,Liberia etc.", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MAJUNGA,MDG:MANY OBS:MOONSIZE LUMN.BLUE DISK >>SW/6 secs:OUT TO SEA/MITSINJO", **LatLong:** "-15.716667 46.300002", **LatLongDMS:** "15:43:00 S 46:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-15.716667,46.300002)", **State/Prov:** "MDJ", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11868 (05D0A874) **Date:** 1/11/1955 **Location:** NEAR TORQUAY, AUS **Description:** Engineer. Roar! 40' silver propeller spins. Shoots up. / r160#261. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4521 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr TORQUAY,AUS:ENGINEER:ROAR!:40'SLVR PROPELLER SPINS:SHOOTS UP:/r160#261", **LatLong:** "-38.500002 144.316674", **LatLongDMS:** "38:30:00 S 144:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.500002,144.316674)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11869 (CFFC1EE9) **Date:** 1/12/1955 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** OVER FORSYTH, GA **Description:** Civil and? / B47. Metal ovoid changes position as plane turns. / r43p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4522 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "218", **HatchDesc:** "ovr FORSYTH,GA:CIV+?/B47:MTL OVOID CHANGES POSITION AS PLANE TURNS:/r43p24", **LatLong:** "33.033335 -83.938893", **LatLongDMS:** "33:02:00 N 83:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.033335,-83.938893)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11870 (60F5AE27) **Date:** 1/12/1955 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** TALARA, PERU **Description:** Disk maneuvers / 6km altitude. Lit dome. Going [to] too high for chasing plane. / r139#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4523 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "TALARA,PERU:DISK MNVRs/6km alt:LIT DOME:> TOO HIGH for CHASING PLANE:/r139#5", **LatLong:** "-4.566667 -81.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "04:34:00 S 81:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-4.566667,-81.283337)", **State/Prov:** "PIU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11871 (AFF11888) **Date:** 1/14/1955 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** IDYLLWILD, CA **Description:** Large fireball drops / sky. Hits bomber wing / badly damaged. No crash. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 248) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4524 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1646", **HatchDesc:** "IDYLLWILD,CA:LRG FBL DROPS/SKY:HITS BOMBER WING/BADLY DAMAGED:NO CRASH", **LatLong:** "33.738890 -116.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:20 N 116:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.738890,-116.716672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11872 (18F2EE0C) **Date:** 1/14/1955 **Location:** Bet. Virginia and Kansas, air space **Description:** Airliner pilot saw a dark object leaving a contrail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1801 ### Event 11873 (24F9BB8F) **Date:** 1/14/1955 **Locations:** Idyllwild, California; March Air Reserve Base, Riverside, California **Description:** 5:30 p.m. A luminous UFO drops from the sky near Idyllwild, California. Immediately afterwards, a B-47 pilot reports to March AFB \[now March Air Reserve Base\] near Riverside, California, that an “unknown object just hit our wing.” The pilot guides the plane to a landing. No trace of a crashed object can be found. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 247–248 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2678 ### Event 11874 (16927CB8) **Date:** 1/14/1955 **Description:** An unknown object struck the wing of a USAF B-47 flying over California. The plane was able to make a safe emergency landing. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_309 ### Event 11875 (87528E4C) **Date:** 1/16/1955 **Description:** At 1:00 p.m. a pilot of a light plane flying over Talara, Peru encountered a domed, disc-shaped UFO maneuvering at 20,000 feet. It focused a beam of light onto his plane. He gave chase but the disc ascended to an altitude too high to follow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24, citing the APRO Bulletin **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_345 ### Event 11876 (48FCC214) **Date:** 1/19/1955 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** NORWICH AND WROXHAM, NORFOLK **Description:** Several observer(s). Circular object races over / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4525 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NORWICH+WROXHAM,NORFOLK:SVRL OBS:CIRCULAR OBJ RACES OVR/INCREDIBLE SPEED", **LatLong:** "52.666669 1.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:40:00 N 01:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.666669,1.350000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11877 (4730F834) **Date:** 1/19/1955 **Location:** Pacific Ocean, At Sea **Description:** Military pilot saw a white-reddish globular object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1802 ### Event 11878 (570730EA) **Date:** 1/20/1955 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** PRICE HILL, OH **Description:** Weird black 15M object going down / Height / airport/apartment tower. All baffled. / r107p262. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 411) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4526 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "PRICE HILL,OH:WEIRD BLK 15M OBJ ↓/Height/APT TOWER:ALL BAFFLED:/r107p262", **LatLong:** "39.111113 -84.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:40 N 84:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.111113,-84.577782)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11879 (D5E1F6CC) **Date:** 1/21/1955 **Location:** PORT ELIZABETH, RSA **Description:** Purple sausage leads 10 large ovoids in formation going quickly south to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4527 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PORT ELIZABETH,RSA:PURPLE SAUSAGE LEADS 10 LRG OVOIDS/FORMn >>S TO SEA", **LatLong:** "-33.950002 25.616668", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:00 S 25:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.950002,25.616668)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11880 (F15DF54A) **Date:** 1/24/1955 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** CERRO STA.ELENA, COL. **Description:** Several observer(s). Umbrella saucer east going west. Shoots fireballs which make clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 412) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4528 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Colombia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CERRO Sta.ELENA,COL:SVRL OBS:UMBRELLA SCR E>W:SHOOTS FBLS WHICH MAKE CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "9.250000 -75.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "09:15:00 N 75:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.250000,-75.400004)", **State/Prov:** "MDL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11881 (3EA2A3F6) **Date:** 1/25/1955 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** NORTH / HAKATERE, NZ **Description:** 3 / car. Large metallic parachute saucer descends. Stops. Going quickly north toward(s) Ashburton. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 413) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4529 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "N/HAKATERE,NZ:3/CAR:LRG MTLC PARACHUTE SCR DESCENDS:STOPS:>>N twrd ASHBURTON", **LatLong:** "-44.000002 171.783342", **LatLongDMS:** "44:00:00 S 171:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-44.000002,171.783342)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11882 (9D8EC676) **Date:** 1/26/1955 **Location:** Lakeland, FL **Description:** A black smoke trail/circle-explosion and some objects fell (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3401) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1803 ### Event 11883 (AB3CCCBF) **Date:** 1/26/1955 **Time:** 6:15 PM **Location:** Lakeland, Florida **Description:** Witness: J.M. Holland. A black smoke trail made a circle. There was an explosion and some objects fell. No further information in file. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_380 ### Event 11884 (72277A11) **Date:** 1/26/1955 **Description:** At 6:15 p.m. J. M. Holland saw a black smoke trail make a circle in Lakeland, Florida. There was an explosion and some objects fell from sky. A Project Blue Book unknown. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3401; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 102; Don Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_515 ### Event 11885 (E2EC0037) **Date:** 1/27/1955 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** CECILVILLE, CA **Description:** 1 observer. Motionless saucer / air. Flips over and disappears in place.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4530 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "719", **HatchDesc:** "CECILVILLE,CA:1 OBS:MOTIONLESS SCR/AIR:FLIPS OVER AND DISAPPEARS IN PLACE..", **LatLong:** "41.138891 -123.138895", **LatLongDMS:** "41:08:20 N 123:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.138891,-123.138895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11886 (4C6227D3) **Date:** 1/28/1955 **Location:** BLUE MOUNTAINS, OR **Description:** Blue night light follows SNOWPLOWs. Hides. Back as plowing resumes. / r107p264. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4531 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1000", **HatchDesc:** "BLUE MTNs,OR:BLUE NLT FOLOS SNOWPLOWs:HIDES:BACK as PLOWING RESUMES:/r107p264", **LatLong:** "45.250002 -118.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:15:00 N 118:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.250002,-118.833339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11887 (1415C496) **Date:** 1/28/1955 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** VALLEY CENTER, CA **Description:** 1+2 kids / (seen thru) telescope. 7 small saucers frolic to 2230hrs. Then gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4532 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "396", **HatchDesc:** "VALLEY CENTER,CA:1+2 KIDS/TSCOPE:7 SML SCRS FROLIC to 2230hrs:THEN GONE.", **LatLong:** "33.216668 -117.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:13:00 N 117:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.216668,-117.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11888 (34F570DB) **Date:** 1/28/1955 **Location:** Fairbanks, AK **Description:** GCI Tracks Uncorrelated Target Over Alaska (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550128](http://www.nicap.org/550128fairbanksdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1804 ### Event 11889 (306EC6FA) **Date:** 1/28/1955 **Description:** On this night in 1955, a blue nocturnal light followed a snowplow in the Blue Mountains in Oregon. It moved away when the snowplow stopped, but came back when plowing resumed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, March 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_551 ### Event 11890 (9C206575) **Date:** 1/29/1955 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** WINTERSET, IA **Description:** 2 / T33. White night light buzzes military plane. Counters all T33 maneuvers. Great speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4533 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "339", **HatchDesc:** "WINTERSET,IA:2/T33:WHT NLT BUZZES MIL PLANE:COUNTERS ALL T33 MNVRS:GREAT SPEED", **LatLong:** "41.333335 -94.011116", **LatLongDMS:** "41:20:00 N 94:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.333335,-94.011116)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11891 (B5D468ED) **Date:** 1/29/1955 **Location:** Winterset, IA **Description:** Light Outmaneuvers T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550129](http://www.nicap.org/550129winterset%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1805 ### Event 11892 (102FA413) **Date:** 1/31/1955 **Location:** NEW CALEDONIA ISLAND **Description:** Gypsum mine. Luminous "fish net" hovers / 20 minute(s). Away very fast. / r139 #1p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4534 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "NEW CALEDONIA Isl:GYPSUM MINE:LUM "FISH NET" HVRS/20min:AWAY VFAST:/r139 #1p16", **LatLong:** "-22.250001 166.666675", **LatLongDMS:** "22:15:00 S 166:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.250001,166.666675)", **State/Prov:** "NCL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11893 (8B7F8F16) **Date:** 1/31/1955 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** 200KM SSE / PIURA, PRU **Description:** 2 Air Force officers. Domed orange-glowing saucer buzzes car / desert. 20cm apparent size. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 414) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4535 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "200km SSE/PIURA,PRU:2 AF OFCs:DOMED ORG-GLO SCR BUZZES CAR/DESERT:20cm BDB:", **LatLong:** "-5.333334 -80.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "05:20:00 S 80:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-5.333334,-80.500004)", **State/Prov:** "PIU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11894 (9176AC22) **Date:** 1/31/1955 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** FUJU, JAPAN **Description:** Pilots. White circular object moves against wind. No contrail. / J. Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4536 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FUJU,JAPAN:PILOTS:WHT CIRC.OBJ MOVES AGAINST WIND:NO CONTRAIL:/J.Aldrich", **LatLong:** "34.133335 132.194451", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 132:11:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,132.194451)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11895 (58CBDC16) **Date:** 1/31/1955 **Location:** Fuju \[?\],, Japan **Description:** Military pilots saw a white circular object, no trail moving against wind (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1806 ### Event 11896 (06376AE0) **Date:** 1/31/1955 **Locations:** El Pata Air Force Base; Talara, Peru; Sechura Desert; Pan-American Highway 1N **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Peruvian Air Force Commander Guillermo Serpa and Col. Juan Rodriguez Cavero are returning to El Pata Air Force Base near Talara, Peru, by car through the Sechura Desert on the Pan-American Highway 1N when they see a bright light in the sky ahead. The object, a deep red domed disc, draws nearer and Serpa stops the car to observe it. It tilts slightly toward them, making occasional clicking sounds. Several minutes later it accelerates quickly in their direction, changing to a bright orange color then to a bright white as it shoots past them at terrific speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1955, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) [June, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf), The Author, 2002, pp. 14–18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2679 ### Event 11897 (2914D1B8) **Date:** 2/1/1955 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** 20 MI EAST / COCHISE, AZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3414. Vibrant bright. Red and white sphere/orb/globe paces jet / 5 minute(s). Steady climb / 3 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4537 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "20mi E/COCHISE,AZ:BBK#3414:VBRITE:RED+WHT ORB PACES JET/5min:STEADY CLIMB/3min", **LatLong:** "32.116668 -109.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:07:00 N 109:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.116668,-109.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11898 (7D3E3EF9) **Date:** 2/1/1955 **Location:** Cochise (20 miles E of ), NM **Description:** Pilot saw a very bright round object with red and white hues (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3414, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1807 ### Event 11899 (D870A29E) **Date:** 2/1/1955 **Time:** 7:55 PM **Location:** 20 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Instructor Capt. D.F. Ritzdorf, aviation cadet F.W. Miller in TB-25 bomber/trainer. One red and white ball hovered off the left wing of the TB-25 for 5 minutes, then made a very fast climb. Total time of sighting was 8 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_381 ### Event 11900 (336B3C82) **Date:** 2/1/1955 **Location:** Cochise, Arizona **Description:** 7:55 p.m. Instructor Capt. [Delwyn F. Ritzdorf](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49361425/delwyn-franklin-ritzdorf) and aviation cadet Frederick W. Miller are flying a TB-25 bomber-trainer about 20 miles east of Cochise, Arizona, at 13,000 feet and 238 mph when they see a bright round object with red and white hues. It approaches them then hovers off the left wing for 5 minutes about 5° above the horizontal. Radio interference prevents Ritzdorf from reporting the sighting. The object climbs rapidly on a parallel flight track for 3 minutes before pulling away at 500–600 mph and disappearing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Huge](http://www.nicap.org/550101cochise%5Fdir.htm) [Metallic Disc Paces B-25](http://www.nicap.org/550101cochise%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2680 ### Event 11901 (698B9829) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** NEAR MERIDA, VNZ **Description:** Top-saucer with portholes and rings paces airliner. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). / r173p249+/ FSRv1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4538 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "nr MERIDA,VNZ:TOP-SCR W/PORTHOLES+RINGS PACES AIRLINER:RFI:/r173p249+/FSRv1#2", **LatLong:** "8.600000 -71.150003", **LatLongDMS:** "08:36:00 N 71:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.600000,-71.150003)", **State/Prov:** "BRN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11902 (61EE3565) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** MIRAMAR NAS, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3416. Navy Commander. 100' object drops from jets. Hovers. Zips away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4539 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "114", **HatchDesc:** "MIRAMAR NAS,CA:BBK#3416:NAVY COMMANDER:100' OBJ DROPS FROM JETS:HVRS:ZIPS AWAY", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -117.127783", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 117:07:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-117.127783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11903 (92389F4B) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** GRIMSBY, HUMBERSIDE **Description:** 2 observer(s). Odd star dives and stops. Shoots and stops again. Swerves. Going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4540 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GRIMSBY,HUMBERSIDE:2 OBS:ODD STAR DIVES+STOPS:SHOOTS+STOPS AGAIN:SWERVES:↑", **LatLong:** "53.583336 -0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:35:00 N 00:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.583336,-0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11904 (6963BC53) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Location:** Miramar NAS, CA **Description:** Highly polished sphere, with reddish-brown coloring (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3416) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1808 ### Event 11905 (1A6DD62D) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Location:** Valera (near), Venezula **Description:** Airliner en route fr Barquisimeto; radio went dead both at Valera and Barq. as pilot started to report a UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1809 ### Event 11906 (A70783D6) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Time:** 11:50 AM **Location:** Miramar Naval Air Station, California **Description:** Witness: USN Cmdr. J.L. Ingersoll. One highly polished sphere, with reddish-brown coloring, fell, then instantly accelerated to 1,000-1,500 m.p.h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_382 ### Event 11907 (2E54AACB) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Location:** Bogotá, Colombia **Description:** Aviation inventor [Bill Lear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FLear), during a press conference in Bogotá, Colombia, states his belief that “flying saucers came from outer space and are piloted by beings of superior intelligence.” He suspects that they might use gravitational fields as propulsion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) The Author, 1992, p. 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2681 ### Event 11908 (CE099030) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Locations:** Barquisimeto; Valera, Venezuela **Description:** 11:15 a.m. A Venezuelan Aeropostal airliner piloted by Captain Dario Celis is flying between Barquisimeto and Valera, Venezuela, at 7,500 feet. Celis and his copilot B. J. Cortes spot a strange, round “apparatus” flying swiftly toward the plane. Rotating counterclockwise, the object shines with a greenish light. Around its center is a red ring or band that emits flashes of brilliant light. Above and below this band are lighted portholes. Hurriedly the pilot cuts in his mike to call the Barquisimeto radio station. After reporting the UFO, he waits for an answer, but the receiver is dead. Later the radio operators state that just as the pilot began his report, communication is cut off. The copilot banks toward the rotating UFO. Instantly the object whirls downward, then levels off, and races away at tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Plane Encounters Saucer and Radio Goes Dead](http://www.nicap.org/550202venezuela%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 249–250 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2682 ### Event 11909 (1BF4D434) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Description:** At 11:15 a.m. Dario Celis and his co-pilot Cortes were flying 25 miles southwest of Barquisimento, Venezuela when their radio cut out. Their aircraft was then buzzed by a multicolored Saturn or top-shaped object that was rotating counterclockwise. The body of the craft was green, but around the center of the object was a red ring or band that emitted flashes of brilliant light. Above and below this band were lighted portholes. The UFO leveled off and raced away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 249; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_661 ### Event 11910 (9EF8E306) **Date:** 2/2/1955 **Description:** At the Miramar Naval Air Station, California at 11:50 a.m. USN Cmdr. J. L. Ingersoll sighted a highly polished sphere with reddish-brown coloring. The object appeared to be falling in the sky, then it instantly accelerated to between 1,000-1,500 m.p.h. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3416; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 19; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_662 ### Event 11911 (4535135B) **Date:** 2/3/1955 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** PASADENA, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Round silvery object easily passes airliner / higher altitude. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4541 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "PASADENA,CA:2 OBS:ROUND SILVERY OBJ EASILY PASSES AIRLINER/HIGHER ALTITUDE:>>W", **LatLong:** "34.150002 -118.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:00 N 118:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.150002,-118.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11912 (92E6B8EE) **Date:** 2/4/1955 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / CERET, FR **Description:** 1 / D115. 4 portholes / ground level. No saucer visible. 2 large men stand / ditch.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4542 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NE/CERET,FR:1/D115:4 PORTHOLES/GND LVL:no scr vsbl:2 LRG MEN STAND/DITCH..", **LatLong:** "42.505558 2.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:20 N 02:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.505558,2.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11913 (1D12D93A) **Date:** 2/4/1955 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** PACHUCA, MX **Description:** Scientists and more/others / theodolites. Vibrant bright saucer drops. Stops. Shoots up again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 420) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4543 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2397", **HatchDesc:** "PACHUCA,MX:SCIENTISTS++/THEODOLITES:VBRITE SCR DROPS:STOPS:SHOOTS UP AGAIN:", **LatLong:** "20.133334 -98.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "20:08:00 N 98:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/20.133334,-98.716671)", **State/Prov:** "HDG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11914 (74136556) **Date:** 2/4/1955 **Description:** A woman on a moped saw four blue-green lights in the middle of a vineyard in Cerat, Pyrennes-Orientales, France at 7:25 p.m. The lights were arranged in an arc, five feet above the ground. Two tall beings stood motionless nearby. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_688 ### Event 11915 (371CC80B) **Date:** 2/6/1955 **Location:** INCHBONNIE, NZ **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Rocket-UFO hovers. Turns. Going quickly northwest and explodes / mountains. / r46p142. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4544 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "INCHBONNIE,NZ:100s/OBS:ROCKET-UFO HVRS:TURNS:>>NW+EXPLODES/Mtns:/r46p142", **LatLong:** "-42.733335 171.466675", **LatLongDMS:** "42:44:00 S 171:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-42.733335,171.466675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11916 (8977AD37) **Date:** 2/6/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** KOOWEERUP, VCT **Description:** Fireball and flying railroad/railway-carriage buzz family / car. Vanishes over swamp. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4545 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KOOWEERUP,VCT:FBL+FLYING RR-CARRIAGE BUZZ FAMILY/CAR:VANISHES ovr SWAMP", **LatLong:** "-38.200002 145.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "38:12:00 S 145:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.200002,145.500007)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11917 (933E0AEC) **Date:** 2/6/1955 **Location:** Greymouth, New Zealand **Description:** Several witnesses in Greymouth, New Zealand, see a dazzling, silvery, cigar-shaped object moving inland at a high speed. Two observers see it consisting of two parts, with the leading part larger than the other. A loud explosion like a thunderclap is heard, causing the earth to tremble slightly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Roundup,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMay-Jun%2CV%201%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 \(May/June 1955\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2683 ### Event 11918 (82064202) **Date:** 2/7/1955 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** RAGLAN HARBOR, NZ **Description:** 2 / ground and pilot / air. Odd night light maneuvers. Then paces passing plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 422) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4546 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RAGLAN HARBOR,NZ:2/GND+PILOT/AIR:ODD NLT MNVRS:THEN PACES PASSING PLANE:", **LatLong:** "-37.800002 174.900008", **LatLongDMS:** "37:48:00 S 174:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.800002,174.900008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 11919 (30F7D56D) **Date:** 2/7/1955 **Location:** Knights Landing, CA **Description:** Winged Unidentified Executes Verical Climb Near Jets (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550207](http://www.nicap.org/550207knightslanding%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1810 ### Event 11920 (6EEEC143) **Date:** 2/7/1955 **Location:** Harrisburg, PA **Description:** Flying Tiger Pilot Sees Brilliant Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550207](http://www.nicap.org/550207harrisburg%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1811 ### Event 11921 (FF695474) **Date:** 2/7/1955 **Location:** Ft. Wayne, IN **Description:** Airliner Encounters 5 Objects That Departed At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550207](http://www.nicap.org/550207ftwayne%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1812 ### Event 11922 (C4CEA6C1) **Date:** 2/8/1955 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** HEMET, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer / low altitude glows high-intensity blue. 2 separate observer(s) / San Jacinto / 2000hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4547 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "486", **HatchDesc:** "HEMET,CA:2 OBS:SCR/LO ALT GLOWS HI-INTENSITY BLU:2 SEP.OBS/SAN JACINTO/2000hrs", **LatLong:** "33.744446 -116.972228", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:40 N 116:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.744446,-116.972228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11923 (E05D4096) **Date:** 2/9/1955 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** OVER DOBBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** Eastern Airlines pilot. Red sphere hovers. Green / bottom. Blows smoke etc. and going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4548 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "326", **HatchDesc:** "ovr DOBBINS AFB,GA:EAL PILOT:RED SPHERE HVRS:GRN/BOTTOM:BLOWS SMOKE etc +>>NE", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-84.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11924 (13FA951A) **Date:** 2/9/1955 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** MALVERN AND MELBOURNE, AUSTR **Description:** Many calls. Huge "flying poached-egg" going quickly south out to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4549 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MALVERN+MELBOURNE,AUSTR:MANY CALLS:HUGE "FLYING POACHED-EGG" >>S OUT TO SEA:", **LatLong:** "-37.866668 145.033340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:52:00 S 145:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.866668,145.033340)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11925 (8853F883) **Date:** 2/10/1955 (approximate) **Location:** MOSCOW, RUSSIA **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / great height. Then vanishes. / (AP)14FEB55. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 282) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4550 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MOSCOW,RUSS:SVRL OBS:CGR HVRS/GREAT HEIGHT:THEN VANISHES:/(AP)14FEB55:NFD", **LatLong:** "55.733336 37.616668", **LatLongDMS:** "55:44:00 N 37:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.733336,37.616668)", **State/Prov:** "MOS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11926 (CFD5864E) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** DUNEDIN, SI, NZ **Description:** Schoolteacher. Brilliant ovoid bobs going up and down. Away sideways. / r139 #1p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4551 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "DUNEDIN,SI,NZ:SCHOOLTEACHER:BRILL.OVOID BOBS ↑+↓:AWAY SIDEWAYS:/r139 #1p22", **LatLong:** "-45.800002 170.500008", **LatLongDMS:** "45:48:00 S 170:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.800002,170.500008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11927 (8C42F343) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** OVERTON-ON-DEE, WALES **Description:** 1 observer. Long pink object rushes over silently. Low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4552 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "OVERTON-on-DEE,WALES:1 OBS:LONG PINK OBJ RUSHES OVR SILENTLY:LO ALTITUDE", **LatLong:** "52.966669 -2.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:58:00 N 02:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.966669,-2.933333)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 11928 (9235A88A) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** CARACAS, VNZL **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge saucer horizon going quickly [to] horizon. 2 blue lights pulse / bottom. / r139#4p27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4553 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "910", **HatchDesc:** "CARACAS,VNZL:MANY OBS:HUGE SCR HRZN>>HRZN:2 BLU LITES PULSE/BOTTOM:/r139#4p27", **LatLong:** "10.500001 -66.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:30:00 N 66:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.500001,-66.933337)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11929 (90B324BD) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BETHESDA, MD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3427. HIQ observer(s) = Stein. Yellow spherical section hovers. Bottom = funnel. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4554 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "92", **HatchDesc:** "BETHESDA,MD:BBK#3427:HIQ OBS=STEIN:YLW SPHERICAL SECTION HVRS:BOTTOM=FUNNEL", **LatLong:** "38.983335 -77.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:59:00 N 77:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.983335,-77.116670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11930 (2166B66D) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Location:** Bethesda, MD **Description:** Object, shaped like a small portion of the bottom of moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3427) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1813 ### Event 11931 (460AA8BF) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Time:** 10:03 PM **Location:** Bethesda, Maryland **Description:** Witness: E.J. Stein, model maker at U.S. Navy ship design facility. One object, shaped like a small portion of the bottom of the Moon, with a radiant yellow color, hovered for 30 seconds. Its bottom changed to a funnel shape. Total sighting lasted 1.5-2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_383 ### Event 11932 (0874EF58) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Locations:** Caracas, Venezuela; Altamira **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Many residents of Caracas, Venezuela, see a strange object crossing the sky silently from northeast to southwest. José Agustín Díaz in Altamira clocks its time as 6–8 minutes. It looks like a disc with two bright, pulsating, bluish lights on the underside. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2684 ### Event 11933 (7843F18E) **Date:** 2/10/1955 **Description:** In Altamira, Venezuela at 9:30 p.m. a teenage couple saw a huge disc-shaped UFO fly from horizon to horizon. It had two pulsing blue lights on the bottom, and was in view for more than six minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 64 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_794 ### Event 11934 (982BA7C4) **Date:** 2/11/1955 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN **Description:** USAF Military Air Transport Service (MATS, US) C124 crew. Yellow-orange "Jack-O-lantern" flies / 1000mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4555 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RYUKYU Isls,JAPAN:USAF MATS C124 CREW:YLW-ORG "JACK-O-LANTERN" FLIES/1000mph", **LatLong:** "27.500001 127.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "27:30:00 N 127:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.500001,127.000006)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11935 (3D9AAB29) **Date:** 2/11/1955 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** CHICHESTER AND WITTERING, SUSSEX **Description:** 3 observer(s). 6 saucers play like tadpoles / clouds. Cylinder/cigar-shape seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4556 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHICHESTER+WITTERING,SUSSEX:3 OBS:6 SCRS PLAY like TADPOLES/CLOUDS:CGR seen", **LatLong:** "50.833336 -0.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:50:00 N 00:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.833336,-0.916667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11936 (950AEF44) **Date:** 2/11/1955 **Location:** Ryukyu Islands, South Japan **Description:** C-124 Encounters 1,000 MPH Jack 'o' Lantern (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550211](http://www.nicap.org/550211ryukyu%5Fisles%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1814 ### Event 11937 (0AE83DAC) **Date:** 2/11/1955 **Location:** Miami to New York, In Airspace **Description:** Pan American Airways flight saw two reddish-green objects speed past under wing. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1815 ### Event 11938 (0A3220B6) **Date:** 2/11/1955 **Description:** At 7:15 p.m. a US Air Force C-124 crew flying over Ryuku Island, near Okinawa, Japan sighted a yellow or amber object, shaped like a "Jack-O-Lantern", flying at 1,000 miles per hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_819 ### Event 11939 (E6D59368) **Date:** 2/13/1955 **Locations:** east Texas; Tyler; Lufkin **Description:** Midnight. A green fireball shoots across east Texas like a “huge electric arc,” passing from Tyler towards Lufkin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2685 ### Event 11940 (5AAA069D) **Date:** 2/14/1955 **Location:** Green City, MO **Description:** Disc Hovers At 500' / Air Force Doesn't Investigate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550214](http://www.nicap.org/550214greencity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1816 ### Event 11941 (65C04631) **Date:** 2/15/1955 **Location:** CONCEPCION, CHILE **Description:** Family / car. Saucer landed / pasture. Silently rises when approached. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4557 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "CONCEPCION,CHILE:FAMILY/CAR:SCR LANDED/PASTURE:SILENTLY RISES WHEN APPROACHED", **LatLong:** "-36.850002 -73.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "36:51:00 S 73:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.850002,-73.050003)", **State/Prov:** "BIO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 11942 (52C72242) **Date:** 2/15/1955 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** CHATHAM, KENT **Description:** 2 surveyors. Cylinder/cigar-shape / great height and speed going quickly west toward(s) London. Smooth and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4558 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHATHAM,KENT:2 SURVEYORS:CGR/GREAT HEIGHT+SPEED>>W twrd LONDON:SMOOTH+SILENT", **LatLong:** "51.383336 0.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:23:00 N 00:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.383336,0.533333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11943 (804594B3) **Date:** 2/15/1955 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** 4 MILES WITH GREEN CITY, MO **Description:** Man / SR6. 100' saucer with windows / edge. 150m altitude. News and USAF investigation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4559 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "319", **HatchDesc:** "4mi W/GREEN CITY,MO:MAN/SR6:100'SCR W/WINDOWS/EDGE:150m alt:NEWS+USAF INVESTGN", **LatLong:** "40.266669 -93.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:00 N 93:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.266669,-93.016671)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11944 (2A9947CF) **Date:** 2/15/1955 **Locations:** Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** ATIC sends a memo to Maj. Joseph A. Cybulski, commander of the 4602nd AISS at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, complaining about the high number of unknowns. It suggests that AISS and ATIC “strive to reach as many case solutions as possible, thereby reducing the percentage of the unknowns to a bare minimum.” As long as there is sufficient information, most cases “will fit to some extent one of the hypotheses.” The probable and possible cases are merged into the “identified” category. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. T. G. Connair Jr., “Evaluation of Unidentified Flying Objects,” February 15, 1955, in CUFON, “[4602d](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl7.htm) [AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl7.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2686 ### Event 11945 (F4C66BCB) **Date:** 2/16/1955 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / QUITO, EQDR **Description:** Air Force pilots and 100 / ground. Aluminum domed saucer hovers / volcano. Going quickly east. Probe exits going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4560 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ecuador", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "2800", **HatchDesc:** "SE/QUITO,EQDR:AF PILOTS+100/GND:ALUMn.DOMED SCR HVRS/VOLCANO:>>E:PROBE EXITS>W", **LatLong:** "-0.166667 -78.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "00:10:00 S 78:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-0.166667,-78.300004)", **RelAlt:** "5500", **State/Prov:** "QTO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11946 (4C3E84E2) **Date:** 2/16/1955 **Description:** An aluminum colored hemisphere with a dome on top (a domed disc) hovered for a couple of minutes over a volcano at 1:00 p.m., then flew off quickly to the east. It emitted a small object, which flew off to the west. It was sighted by several pilots and crew members of the Peruvian Air Force, flying to the southeast of Quito, Ecuador. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, March 1955; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_941 ### Event 11947 (C74419E7) **Date:** 2/17/1955 **Location:** Blackstone, VA **Description:** Pilot saw an extremely large light-blue object at 35,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1817 ### Event 11948 (5C18F1FE) **Date:** 2/18/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BOWLING GREEN, KY **Description:** 2 observer(s). Orange flat ovoid glows. Figure 8s etc. all over sky. Night lights in formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4561 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "153", **HatchDesc:** "BOWLING GREEN,KY:2 OBS:ORG FLAT OVOID GLOWS:Fig.8s ETC ALL OVR SKY:NLTS/FORMn", **LatLong:** "36.972224 -86.444449", **LatLongDMS:** "36:58:20 N 86:26:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.972224,-86.444449)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11949 (DB10908C) **Date:** 2/18/1955 **Time:** 19:59:59.2 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0219 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Wasp” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_51 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0219", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:19 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0219)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.23", **NukeName:** "Wasp", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 11950 (2397F2E2) **Date:** 2/18/1955 **Location:** Nevada Test Site **Description:** The nuclear Teapot Wasp test takes place at the Nevada Test Site. Ground forces take part in Exercise Desert Rock VI, which includes an armored task force Razor moving to within 3,000 feet of ground zero, under the still-forming mushroom cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Teapot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FTeapot\#Wasp)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2687 ### Event 11951 (F916B2AB) **Date:** 2/21/1955 **Locations:** Horseheads, New York; Elmira College in Elmira, New York; Nevada atomic test; Dairylea milk processing plant in Elmira **Description:** Early morning. “Cobwebby gray fibers” fall in Horseheads, New York, covering one-half square mile. Some “ragged sheets” are many feet in length. Chemist [Charles B. Rutenber](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110704304/charles-blackman-rutenber) of Elmira College in Elmira, New York, describes it as “badly damaged, slightly radioactive cotton fiber” that might have come from a Nevada atomic test. He concludes it is a “short-staple cotton, possibly lint from waste cotton used in industrial plants.” [John B. Diffenderfer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99576762/john-b-diffenderfer)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99576762/john-b-diffenderfer) a chemist at a local Westinghouse laboratory, finds it is 30% carbon, with calcium, silica, aluminum, iron, and 10 other trace elements. He thinks it comes from powdered milk residue, perhaps from the Dairylea milk processing plant in Elmira. But milk plant chemists Louis R. Hermani and Robert L. Mix say the material is composed of “cotton and wool fibers with pieces of fine copper wire mixed in” and looks like it comes from a carpet sweeper bag. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Further Tests Made of Fibers Collected in Horseheads Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93406826/)” Elmira \(N.Y.\) Star- Gazette, February 23, 1955, p. 13; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101–102 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2688 ### Event 11952 (D2161206) **Date:** 2/22/1955 **Time:** 13:45:00.0 **Location:** 37.0478 -116.0211 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Moth” Yield: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_52 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0478 -116.0211", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:52 N 116:01:16 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0478,-116.0211)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Moth", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "2" ### Event 11953 (C2769AE3) **Date:** 2/23/1955 **Location:** Britain **Description:** Broadlands Archives Record: Sworn statement by Lord Mountbatten and Frederick Briggs describing a Saucer that landed on Lord Mountbattens property. It was shaped like a child’s humming top, between 10 to 30 ft. diameter. Looked like kitchen saucepan. Had cylindrical column about the size of a man descending from the center. Had portholes all around the middle, like a steamer boat. I noticed a man standing on the end of the central column. He was dressed in a dark suit of overalls, and wearing a close fitting hat or helmet. As the Saucer powered up a bright blue light came from one of the portholes (like a mercury-vapor lamp). A force knocked me over. The Flying Saucer proceeded to rise and retract the central column. (See movie ”Earth vs. the F.S.”) **Type:** ce2 event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p451-453, ALIEN) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_548 **See also:** 8/23/1952 ### Event 11954 (ABA9C51B) **Date:** 2/23/1955 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** NEAR ROMSEY, ENGL **Description:** 30' saucer drops beam with small humanoid (or Grey) / Mountbatten Estate. Conversation (any communication between us and them) / 24 February. / r120p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4562 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr ROMSEY,ENGL:30'SCR DROPS BEAM W/OID/MOUNTBATTEN ESTATE:CVS/24FEB:/r120p40", **LatLong:** "50.983336 -1.494445", **LatLongDMS:** "50:59:00 N 01:29:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.983336,-1.494445)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 11955 (D8AF1AAF) **Date:** 2/23/1955 **Location:** Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, England **Description:** 8:30 a.m. Frederick S. Briggs, a bricklayer and former army sergeant employed at Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, England, the manor then owned by [Lord Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma), [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh)’s uncle, sees a large disc-shaped UFO over a nearby meadow as he is bicycling to work. The object is shaped like a spinning top, metallic, and about 20–30 feet in diameter with portholes around the center. Watching from less than 100 yards away, Briggs estimates that the object is 80 feet above the ground. He sees a humanoid figure dressed in what look like overalls and a helmet descend from the craft on some sort of column with a platform at the bottom. He is then dazzled by a bright blue light from the craft and falls over, unable to move, as if held by a strange force. The UFO then flies off at high speed. Mountbatten takes a personal interest in this incident, interviews Briggs, and searches the area of the meadow over which the UFO is seen. He subsequently has a statement prepared, detailing Briggs’s claims. This story is written up by [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) in Flying Saucer Review in 1981. Mountbatten’s signed statement on the incident is held with many of his other private papers at the Broadlands Archive. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Desmond Leslie, “[Did](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf) [Flying Saucers Land at Broadlands?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 \(January 1981\): 2–4; Good Above, [pp. 40–](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/40/mode/2up) [42](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/40/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/40/mode/2up) [451–454](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/450/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2689 ### Event 11956 (9A5A926B) **Date:** 2/23/1955 **Description:** A 30-foot diameter top-shaped object with portholes was seen hovering over a field on the Lord Montbatten estate in Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire, England by a cyclist at 8:30 in the morning. A shaft of light came from the center of the silver top. There was a man on a platform on the object, who wore dark colored overalls and a helmet. When a blue flash shot from one of the portholes the witness fell to the ground, paralyzed. The shaft of energy was then retracted, and the UFO rose silently away. When it was gone the witness could move again, but was still dizzy. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1955, citing Timothy Good, Above Top Secret; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4301, citing FSR **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1060 ### Event 11957 (06A0E095) **Date:** 2/24/1955 **Description:** On this morning a cyclist riding his bicycle in Broadlands, Hampshire, England saw a man wearing blue coveralls signal him to stop. The man then grabbed the witness by his hand, and using telepathy invited him to board a UFO hovering above a nearby field. The man accepted the invitation and was allegedly flown on a trip to see the pyramids in Egypt. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 858, citing Flying Saucer Review **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1076 ### Event 11958 (EB2A6FAC) **Date:** 2/25/1955 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** GREAT HANWOOD, SHROPS **Description:** Brilliant green sphere/orb/globe. Sharply outline. Curves / sky. Pea / arms length. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4563 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT HANWOOD,SHROPs:BRILL.GRN ORB:SHARPLY OUTLINE:CURVES/SKY:PEA/ARMS LENGTH", **LatLong:** "52.677780 -2.822222", **LatLongDMS:** "52:40:40 N 02:49:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.677780,-2.822222)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11959 (CF192CF2) **Date:** 3/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** MONTORNES TO/FROM LA ROCA, SP **Description:** 2 small humanoids (or Greys) atop "gyroscope". Electro-magnetic effect (EME). Burnt grass and tripod traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4564 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MONTORNES> Event 11960 (0C426FB4) **Date:** 3/1955 **Location:** Los Angeles (SW OF), CA **Description:** M-33 Radar Tracks Unidentified A/C At 2000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550300](http://www.nicap.org/550300losangelesdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1818 ### Event 11961 (CDEB667B) **Date:** 3/1955 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Branch Hill, Ohio **Description:** Robert Hunnicutt, a businessman, saw three men kneeling on the side of the road. They were about 1 m tall, had gray skin, and wore tight-fitting gray clothes. They had froglike face, long slender arms, normal eyes, but no eyebrows. One of them held a dark object (emitting blue flashes) between his raised arms. Hunnicutt tried to go near but "must have lost consciousness," because he found himself driving to the police station without remembering what took place in the meantime. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Stringfield; FS May., 61; Sanderson 147 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_361 ### Event 11962 (8D45DB07) **Date:** 3/1955 **Description:** Technician and businessman [Morris K.](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/morris-ketchum-jessup-as-a-fortean) [Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) publishes The Case for the UFO, the first book to use the relatively new US Air Force term “UFO” instead of flying saucer. He engages in speculation about Fortean phenomena, ancient astronauts, levitating forces to explain megalithic structures, and experiments in ancient times with flight and even space flight. He identifies 1877–1887 as an “Incredible Decade,” in which astronomers observe strange space objects, and meteorologists note strange falls from the sky. He speculates that mysterious disappearances of ship crews might constitute a curiosity among “our space friends” on “what has happened to us since they put us down here.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, Citadel, 1955; Clark III 634; Story, [p.](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/50/mode/2up) [51](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2690 ### Event 11963 (7BF454A3) **Date:** 3/1955 **Location:** New York City **Description:** [James S. Rigberg](https://richardaguilar.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/in-search-ofjames-s-rigberg-and-the-flying-saucer-news-bookstore-and-prosperity-clinic/)[,](https://richardaguilar.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/in-search-ofjames-s-rigberg-and-the-flying-saucer-news-bookstore-and-prosperity-clinic/) owner of the Flying Saucer Bookstore in New York City, begins publishing Flying Saucer News as the official publication of the Flying Saucer News Club of America, founded in 1953. It is published twice a year until at least May 1982. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Flying Saucer News](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20%28Rigberg%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20-%201955%2003%20-%20March.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(March 1955\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2691 ### Event 11964 (76999F08) **Date:** 3/1955 **Locations:** Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland; Florida’s Gulf Coast **Description:** The CIA obtains quantities of Hemophilus pertussis, whooping cough bacteria, from Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. The agency field tests it covertly along Florida’s Gulf Coast. The incidence of whooping cough triples this year, but the CIA’s role remains unknown until 1979. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Richards, “[Report Suggests CIA Involvement in](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/12/17/report-suggests-cia-involvement-in-fla-illnesses/5b10205e-170b-4e38-b64e-2e9bca8f50df/) [Fla. Illnesses,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/12/17/report-suggests-cia-involvement-in-fla-illnesses/5b10205e-170b-4e38-b64e-2e9bca8f50df/)” Washington Post, December 17, 1979 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2692 ### Event 11965 (B5280E76) **Date:** 3/1/1955 **Time:** 13:30:00.3 **Location:** 37.1255 -116.0475 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Tesla” Yield: 7KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_53 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1255 -116.0475", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:32 N 116:02:51 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1255,-116.0475)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Tesla", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "7" ### Event 11966 (D5217DF4) **Date:** 3/1/1955 **Location:** USAF Air Technical Information Center **Description:** The Douglas Aircraft Company is conducting a study of “Unconventional Propulsion Schemes/Systems” for the USAF Air Technical Information Center from 1954 to 1955, headed by [Wolfgang Klemperer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%5FKlemperer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%5FKlemperer) who writes a memo to E. P. Wheaton that says: “Our studies of the possible merit or significance of occasionally appearing publications concerning Unconventional Propulsion Systems have been carefully continuing since the first memo \(MTM-622\) about the progress to mid-December 1954.” Apparently the project examined some UFO reports \(including Willis Sperry’s\) and UFO books. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Douglas Aircraft Company, “[Unconventional Propulsion Schemes,](https://rense.com/general96/DouglasDocsPreface.pdf)” MTM-622, March 1, 1955; Keith Basterfield, “[Documents Located from that 1955 ‘Secret’ UAP Study by](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/01/documents-located-from-that-1955-secret.html) [Douglas Aircraft Company,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/01/documents-located-from-that-1955-secret.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, January 11, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2693 ### Event 11967 (9635F177) **Date:** 3/2/1955 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** HUNTLEY, IL **Description:** Car followed 10 / min by 3 7M "balloons" with 8 red lights. / USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 362) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4565 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "274", **HatchDesc:** "HUNTLEY,IL:CAR FOLLOWED 10/min BY 3 7M "BALLOONS" WITH 8 RED LITES:/atic:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.166669 -88.427782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:10:00 N 88:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.166669,-88.427782)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11968 (4DCF1C22) **Date:** 3/2/1955 **Location:** Huntley, IL **Description:** Car Followed By Three Black Objects With Lights (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550302](http://www.nicap.org/550302huntley%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1819 ### Event 11969 (71AB4E9F) **Date:** 3/2/1955 **Time:** 1700 **Location:** Huntley, Illinois **Description:** A car was followed for 10 min by three elongated "balloons," each showing eight red lights and about 7 m long. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_362 ### Event 11970 (23B42446) **Date:** 3/2/1955 **Description:** At 3:00 p.m. MST a hovering, rectangular-shaped object was seen rocking in the sky over Tucson, Arizona. One hour later, at about 5:00 p.m. CST, a car driving ten miles north of Huntley, Illinois was followed for ten minutes by three elongated "balloons." The objects were each about seven meters long and showed eight red lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, p. 249 case 362 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1239 ### Event 11971 (BDE8DD8C) **Date:** 3/3/1955 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** NEAR GUDENSBERG, GERM **Description:** 5 truckers. Silent cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly northeast / 3 minute(s). Blue lights / ends and red light / center. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4566 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr GUDENSBERG,GERM:5 TRUCKERS:SLNT CGR>>NE/3min:BLU LITES/ENDS+RED LITE/CENTER", **LatLong:** "51.205558 9.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:12:20 N 09:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.205558,9.400000)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11972 (7281581A) **Date:** 3/5/1955 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** BALDWIN HILLS, CA **Description:** Domed saucers / infrared film. No visual. Nevada atomic test in progress. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 436) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4567 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "BALDWIN HILLS,CA:DOMED SCRS/INFRARED FILM:NO VISUAL:NEVADA A-TEST in progress", **LatLong:** "34.005557 -118.361117", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:20 N 118:21:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.005557,-118.361117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11973 (6D1C09A4) **Date:** 3/7/1955 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** K.A. (initials) from Rescue Team 4, Roswell AFB, N.M. given a general discharge from the USAF because he told his Sergeant about the Top Secret recovery of a UFO on April 12, 1954. **Type:** personnel discharged **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_549 **See also:** 4/12/1954 ### Event 11974 (FECBDE47) **Date:** 3/7/1955 **Location:** BEAUMONT, TX **Description:** 1 observer. 30' silver saucer 3K' over highway. Going quickly [to] Beaumont. Turns up until gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4568 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUMONT,TX:1 OBS:30'SLVR SCR 3K' ovr HIGHWAY:>>BEAUMONT:TURNS UP UNTIL GONE", **LatLong:** "30.083335 -94.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:05:00 N 94:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.083335,-94.100004)", **RelAlt:** "90", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11975 (42BB0BCA) **Date:** 3/7/1955 **Time:** 13:20:00.2 **Location:** 37.1383 -116.1175 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Turk” Yield: 43KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_54 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1383 -116.1175", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:18 N 116:07:03 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1383,-116.1175)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Turk", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "43" ### Event 11976 (537F6994) **Date:** 3/9/1955 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** PARIS, IL **Description:** 2+observer(s). Silver bell-shape "swallows jet plane". / L. Stringfield etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 437) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4569 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS,IL:2+OBS:SLVR BELL-SHAPE "SWALLOWS JET PLANE":/L.Stringfield etc.", **LatLong:** "39.616669 -87.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:37:00 N 87:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.616669,-87.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 11977 (4C746400) **Date:** 3/9/1955 **Description:** On this day at 5:50 p.m. a witness named Metcalfe on the ground in Paris, Illinois reported seeing a bell-shaped flying "swallow" an airplane. No aircraft were reported missing at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Brent Raynes, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1391 ### Event 11978 (C85A4066) **Date:** 3/11/1955 **Location:** BEXLEY, LONDON **Description:** 1 observer. Glow disk going southwest stops. Turns back going quickly northeast toward(s) river. / FSRv1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4570 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BEXLEY,LONDON:1 OBS:GLOW DISK > SW STOPS:TURNS BACK >>NE TWRD RIVER:/FSRv1#2", **LatLong:** "51.466669 0.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 00:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,0.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11979 (0062312E) **Date:** 3/11/1955 **Location:** 714 West Lakeside Street, Madison, Wisconsin **Description:** 7:50 p.m. Lawrence Grab and his son see a brilliant flash of light from their home at 714 West Lakeside Street in Madison, Wisconsin, then watch a phosphorescent object speed over the city from southwest to northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Season’s First Saucer Flies in at High Speed,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94013731/)” Madison Wisconsin State Journal, March 12, 1955, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2694 ### Event 11980 (FC744C30) **Date:** 3/11/1955 **Description:** At 1:15 a.m. in Bexley, London, England a glowing disc-shaped object flew toward the southwest, stopped, then turned back toward the Thames Rivers, then flew off quickly to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1422 ### Event 11981 (1D6A69E8) **Date:** 3/12/1955 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** LINCOLN AIR FORCE BASE, NEBR **Description:** Large "teardrop-fuselage". No wings. Blurry edges. Flies overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4571 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "372", **HatchDesc:** "LINCOLN AFB,NEBR:LARGE "TEARDROP-FUSELAGE":NO WINGS:BLURRY EDGES:FLIES OVHD", **LatLong:** "40.850002 -96.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:51:00 N 96:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.850002,-96.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11982 (99881BDF) **Date:** 3/12/1955 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** TORONTO, ON **Description:** Many observer(s). Fireball with long tail circled downtown! 3km altitude below clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4572 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "TORONTO,ON:MANY OBS:FBL W/LONG TAIL CIRCLED DOWNTOWN!:3km alt BELOW CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "43.683335 -79.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:41:00 N 79:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.683335,-79.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11983 (D229DE7C) **Date:** 3/12/1955 **Time:** 13:19:59.8 **Location:** 37.0403 -116.0253 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Hornet” Yield: 4KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_55 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0403 -116.0253", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:25 N 116:01:31 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0403,-116.0253)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Hornet", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "4" ### Event 11984 (5F627C5B) **Date:** 3/12/1955 **End date:** 3/13/1955 **Locations:** Mojave Desert; Landers, California **Description:** [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel)’s second Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, attracts a smaller crowd than the first. This time [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) is in attendance, along with Charles Laughead, [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/)[,](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), [Dana Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%5FHoward%5F%28contactee%29), [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry), [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum), and Dick Miller. Retired USAF Project Blue Book head [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is in the audience and writes up a report. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, “Among the Contactees,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 3–6, 23–24; Clark III 531; “[Six](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94013959/) [Claim Rides on](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94013959/) [Interplanetary](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94014068/) [Ships,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94014103/)” Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1955, pp. 3, 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2695 ### Event 11985 (5915774C) **Date:** 3/13/1955 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MACON, GA **Description:** 3 observer(s). Black sphere/orb/globe horizon going quickly [to] horizon / 1 minute(s). Much faster / any jet. Silent. No trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4573 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "MACON,GA:3 OBS:BLACK ORB HRZN>>HRZN/1min:MUCH FASTER/ANY JET:SILENT:NO TRAIL", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -83.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 83:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-83.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11986 (CA52461B) **Date:** 3/14/1955 **Description:** A V-shaped formation of lights flew over Lake Harris, Florida at 8:50 p.m. They were reported by two witnesses, Tetrault and Boltman. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 115 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1477 ### Event 11987 (BF718BD4) **Date:** 3/15/1955 **Description:** The 4602nd AISS guide to investigating UFOs is complete and gets distributed to appropriate personnel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** 4602d AISS, “[UFOB Guide,](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/4602HistoryUFOs.pdf)” in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 1, January 1–June 30, 1955, reprinted in CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 6 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl6.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2696 ### Event 11988 (46E27C11) **Date:** 3/16/1955 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** JOSHUA TREE PARK, CA **Description:** Strategic Air Command (SAC) B47 pilot. Silver circular object going quickly south straight and level. / r150+/ J. Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4574 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "890", **HatchDesc:** "JOSHUA TREE PARK,CA:SAC B47 PILOT:SLVR CIRC.OBJ >>S S/L:/r150+/J.Aldrich", **LatLong:** "33.833335 -115.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 N 115:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.833335,-115.833339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11989 (703B9A0C) **Date:** 3/16/1955 **Location:** Salton Sea (35 miles N of), CA **Description:** B-47 Pilot Sees Circular Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550316](http://www.nicap.org/550316saltonsea%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1820 ### Event 11990 (330A9A52) **Date:** 3/20/1955 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Pilots flying 2 aircraft tracked an unidentified target by airborne radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550320](http://www.nicap.org/550320tokyodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1821 ### Event 11991 (51267749) **Date:** Spring 1955 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Flying Saucer Review is launched in London, England, as a small-circulation quarterly, with aviation journalist and former RAF pilot [Derek Dempster](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html) as its first editor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Denis Montgomery, “[How It All Began: Founding the](http://www.fsr.org.uk/fsrintroduction.html) [Flying Saucer Review,](http://www.fsr.org.uk/fsrintroduction.html)” May 5, 2004; [Flying Saucer Review](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1955\); Clark III 498 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2699 ### Event 11992 (088BC83C) **Date:** 3/22/1955 **Time:** 13:04:59.9 **Location:** 37.0947 -116.0239 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Bee” Yield: 8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_56 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0947 -116.0239", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:41 N 116:01:26 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0947,-116.0239)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Bee", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "8" ### Event 11993 (C77EB370) **Date:** 3/23/1955 **Time:** 20:30:00.0 **Location:** 37.1683 -116.0439 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Ess” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_57 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1683 -116.0439", **LatLongDMS:** "37:10:06 N 116:02:38 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1683,-116.0439)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.02", **NukeName:** "Ess", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 11994 (16641F7E) **Date:** 3/24/1955 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** RYUKYU ISLANDS, JPN **Description:** Hat-saucer with windows scouts all over/all about light plane. All instruments electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r175. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4575 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "RYUKYU Isls,JPN:HAT-SCR W/WINDOWS SCOUTS ALLO LITE PLANE:ALL INSTRM.EME:/r175", **LatLong:** "25.500001 127.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "25:30:00 N 127:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.500001,127.000006)", **State/Prov:** "RYU", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 11995 (2B2236FA) **Date:** 3/24/1955 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** LANDS END GOING QUICKLY [TO] GLASGOW **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Fireball zigzags going north across Britain / 45 minute(s). Jets chase.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4576 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LANDS END>>GLASGOW:1000s/OBS:FBL ZIGZAGS >N ACRS BRITAIN/45min:JETS CHASE..", **LatLong:** "50.083336 -5.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:05:00 N 05:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.083336,-5.666667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 11996 (3400B3E5) **Date:** 3/24/1955 **Location:** Ryukyu Islands, South Japan **Description:** Hat-shaped object with 3 windows on top section change color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1822 ### Event 11997 (922593E6) **Date:** 3/24/1955 **Locations:** Ryukyu Islands, Japan; Naha Airport on Okinawa; US Kadena Air Base **Description:** 2:30 p.m. The pilot of a private Beechcraft plane is flying at 1,500 feet with a student in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. They see a domed disc with three windows about 900 feet on their left that appears to change color from white to orange and back again. Over the next few minutes, the object flies over, in front of, and under the airplane. When the pilot puts the plane into a dive, the craft stays with it. The plane’s instruments stop working. The pilot makes a steep right turn but the object still paces the plane. When the Beechcraft’s engine begins to stall, the pilot calls Naha Airport on Okinawa, which alerts the US Kadena Air Base. Two jets are scrambled, but by the time they arrive the object is long gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 65–66 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2697 ### Event 11998 (DFFE93C6) **Date:** 3/24/1955 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. a hat-shaped metallic disc with three windows in the top section flew in front of and under a Beechcraft airplane over the Ryuku Islands, Okinawa, Japan. The plane's Instruments ceased to function, and the engine experienced interference. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 65; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 10; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1635 ### Event 11999 (1E86E400) **Date:** 3/25/1955 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** MONTMORILLON, FR **Description:** 2 young men. Saucer hovers / town. Beams red rays. Going quickly west. / r139 #1p43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4577 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTMORILLON,FR:2 YOUNG MEN:SCR HVRS/TOWN:BEAMS RED RAYS:>>W:/r139 #1p43", **LatLong:** "46.433336 0.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:26:00 N 00:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.433336,0.833333)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12000 (FCABC4B3) **Date:** 3/27/1955 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** HAWICK, SCOTLAND **Description:** 4 / car. Black cloud darts about. Changes shapes. Spins. Shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4578 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "HAWICK,SCOTLAND:4/CAR:BLACK CLOUD DARTS ABOUT:CHANGES SHAPES:SPINS:SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "55.416669 -2.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:25:00 N 02:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.416669,-2.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12001 (451DBEAA) **Date:** 3/28/1955 **Location:** JOSEPH CITY, AZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Huge circular cloud. 50 separate objects break formation / high speed. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4579 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1531", **HatchDesc:** "JOSEPH CITY,AZ:2 OBS:HUGE CIRC.CLOUD:50 SEP.OBJs BREAK FORMATION/HI SPEED:>>SW", **LatLong:** "34.955557 -110.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:57:20 N 110:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.955557,-110.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12002 (D459C5AD) **Date:** 3/28/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** SOUTH / METHOW, WA **Description:** Ex pilot and 1. Disk hovers / 11K' altitude. Shoots 3mi going quickly north. Instant turn then gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 311) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4580 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "351", **HatchDesc:** "S/METHOW,WA:EX PILOT+1:DISK HVRS/11K'alt:SHOOTS 3mi>>N:INSTANT TURN then GONE", **LatLong:** "48.105558 -120.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "48:06:20 N 120:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.105558,-120.000006)", **RelAlt:** "3350", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12003 (37D1C3A4) **Date:** 3/29/1955 **Location:** Sonoma (and Soledad), CA **Description:** (McDonald list) Object Rises Almost Vertically, Blip On Radar (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550329](http://www.nicap.org/550329sonomadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1823 ### Event 12004 (ED8D19FF) **Date:** 3/29/1955 **Time:** 12:55:00.1 **Location:** 37.0956 -116.1028 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Apple-1” Yield: 14KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_58 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0956 -116.1028", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:44 N 116:06:10 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0956,-116.1028)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Apple-1", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "14" ### Event 12005 (A3BA2661) **Date:** 3/29/1955 **Time:** 17:59:54.8 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0578 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Wasp Prime” Yield: 3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_59 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0578", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:03:28 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0578)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.23", **NukeName:** "Wasp Prime", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "3" ### Event 12006 (A88743F1) **Date:** 3/29/1955? **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** Early morning. A bus driving past Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, sees a silver, triangular object hovering above the base for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2008%2000%20-%20August%5F%28underlinings%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2698 ### Event 12007 (BB32FCF1) **Date:** 3/30/1955 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** EAST / TUCSON, AZ **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 100' saucer. Beam burns paint and observer(s) skin. Electrical damage. / r79p6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FALLA, GEOFFREY: VEHICLE INTERFERENCE PROJECT. BUFORA Ltd. 1979. C.F. Lockwood & A.R. Rice editors. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4581 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "720", **HatchDesc:** "E/TUCSON,AZ:CAR EMES:100'SCR:BEAM BURNS PAINT+OBS SKIN:ELECTRCL DAMAGE:/r79p6", **LatLong:** "32.216668 -110.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:13:00 N 110:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.216668,-110.666672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12008 (7B57D2D5) **Date:** 3/30/1955 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** WRIGHT-PAT.AFB, OH **Description:** Chemist and many. Triangle / box flashes over airbase / 15 minute(s). / r139#1p46. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4582 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "17", **Elev:** "251", **HatchDesc:** "WRIGHT-PAT.AFB,OH:CHEMIST+MANY:TRIANGLE/BOX FLASHES OVR AB/15min:/r139#1p46", **LatLong:** "39.816669 -84.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:49:00 N 84:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.816669,-84.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12009 (941A3C8B) **Date:** 3/30/1955 **Description:** Andy Florio sighted a disc-shaped object at least 100 feet in diameter while driving near Tucson, Arizona. It made a humming sound and had bluish-green lights on its top and amber lights around the rim. He stopped his car when his car radio failed, his headlights dimmed, and the car lost power and slowed to 12-15 mph. The UFO swayed back and forth while hovering and shot a beam of white light at the witness, burning his elbow and bubbling paint on the car. Mr. Florio also felt heat and a tingling sensation. After the sighting the car was checked by a mechanic, and was found to have a defective battery, a dead radio, and only three spark plugs were still firing. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1731 ### Event 12010 (DCD974A3) **Date:** 4/1955 **Location:** HONTIANSKY-NEMCE, KRUPINA, SLOVAKIA **Description:** Retired pilot sees classic saucer. Convinced. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4583 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Czech and Slovak Republics", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HONTIANSKY-NEMCE,KRUPINA,SLOVAKIA:RETIRED PILOT SEES CLASSIC SCR:CONVINCED", **LatLong:** "48.288891 19.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "48:17:20 N 19:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.288891,19.000001)", **State/Prov:** "STS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12011 (A375869E) **Date:** 4/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** FORET DE CHIZE, FR **Description:** Small humanoids (or Greys) with "cone-hats" by domed UFO with cone / top. (Bottom hidden.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4584 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FORET de CHIZE,FR:OIDS W/"CONE-HATS" BY DOMED UFO W/CONE/TOP:(BOTTOM HIDDEN)", **LatLong:** "46.155558 -0.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:09:20 N 00:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.155558,-0.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Deux-Sèvres", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12012 (42C544FA) **Date:** 4/1955 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** NEAR WORCESTER, MA **Description:** FAA official / light plane. Dark blue cylinder/cigar-shape. Sudden turn up! Returns.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 441) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4585 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "145", **HatchDesc:** "nr WORCESTER,MA:FAA OFFICIAL/LITE PLANE:DRK BLU CGR:SUDDEN TURN UP!:RETURNS..", **LatLong:** "42.266669 -71.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:00 N 71:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.266669,-71.816670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12013 (5CF1C82B) **Date:** 4/1955 **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** NASHVILLE, TN **Description:** Kids / school. Shiny 6M disk hovers close / 2 minutes. Away incredibly fast. / APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 447) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4586 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "133", **HatchDesc:** "NASHVILLE,TN:KIDS/SCHOOL:SHINY 6M DISK HVRS CLOSE/2mins:AWAY XXFAST:/APRO", **LatLong:** "36.150002 -86.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:09:00 N 86:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.150002,-86.800004)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12014 (02DF62F7) **Date:** 4/1955 (approximate) **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** RIVOLI, ITL **Description:** Metallic disk / ground. 3 pseudo-human/entity outside. 1 like Christ! Give observer(s) a warning.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4587 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RIVOLI,ITL:MTLC DISK/GND:3 PSH OUTSIDE:1 like Christ!:give OBS a warning..", **LatLong:** "45.066669 7.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:04:00 N 07:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.066669,7.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Torino", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12015 (621C4468) **Date:** 4/1955 **Locations:** Groom Lake area in Nevada; Washington, D.C. **Description:** U-2 project director [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) secures a presidential action adding the Groom Lake area in Nevada to the AEC proving grounds for CIA use. [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) meets with CIA officials in Washington, D.C., and discusses progress on Project Aquatone, proposing to use the name “Paradise Ranch” for the new base. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2701 ### Event 12016 (9BA0B7CB) **Date:** 4/2/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MANSA TO/FROM KASAMA NORTH RHODESIA **Description:** 2 / car. Night light / ovoid buzzes car 3x. Separate observer(s). / r139#1p46. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4588 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "MANSA> Event 12017 (D8B31C13) **Date:** Early 4/1955 **Locations:** Pentagon; Colorado **Description:** Pentagon press officer Capt. Robert White writes to [Claude H. Marck Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204706550/claude-h%5F-marck)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204706550/claude-h%5F-marck) an interested citizen in Colorado, that Dewey Fournet’s motion studies project was a personal endeavor, that the probability of UFOs being spacecraft is “extremely remote,” and that the Air Force does not try to influence public opinion on the matter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 209–210 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2700 ### Event 12018 (331FEF58) **Date:** 4/5/1955 **Locations:** Southern New Mexico; Sacramento Peak near Cloudcroft; Biggs Air Force Base [now Biggs Army Airfield] in El Paso, Texas; Weed, New Mexico; Oil Center, New Mexico **Description:** 9:55–10:15 a.m. Three or four fireballs fall in various places in southern New Mexico. Air Force Sgt. Camilla Saenz is stationed on Sacramento Peak near Cloudcroft when she sees a yellow fireball with a red tail traveling fast from east to west on the south side of the peak. An airplane from Biggs Air Force Base \[now Biggs Army Airfield\] in El Paso, Texas, sees an apparent meteor strike near Weed, New Mexico, but USAF planes comb the area for 2 hours afterward without finding anything. Bill Watson sees a dark object smash into the earth near Oil Center, New Mexico, but he can find no fragments. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) reports that heavy shortwave and TV interference accompany the appearance of the fireballs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Fireballs Shower on State,](https://www.newspapers.com/image/87916164/)” Alamogordo \(N.Mex.\) Daily News, April 6, 1955, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2702 ### Event 12019 (9ADE7026) **Date:** 4/5/1955 **Description:** Producer [Ivan Tors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FTors) debuts Science Fiction Theatre, a science fiction anthology TV series that presents scientifically plausible stories in an unsensational manner. Many episodes deal with UFO or alien themes, including the season opener, “Beyond,” in which a test pilot bails out and loses his plane because he thinks he’s going to crash into a UFO. The program runs 78 episodes through 1957 and is hosted by veteran announcer [Truman Bradley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBradley%5F%28actor%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBradley%5F%28actor%29) Each episode opens with Bradley on a laboratory set, sometimes quoting from a recent Scientific American article, and he discusses and demonstrates a scientific principle that plays a role in the story he is introducing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Internet Movie Database, “[Science Fiction Theatre](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047767/)”; Curt Collins, “[The UFO Message of](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html) [Science](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html) [Fiction Theatre](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html)[,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 18, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2703 ### Event 12020 (AF16385D) **Date:** 4/6/1955 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** BEAUMONT, CA **Description:** Teen. Saucer = silver dollar / arms length. Fades away. = airport beacon / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4589 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "799", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUMONT,CA:TEEN:SCR=SLVR DOLLAR/ARMS LENGTH:FADES AWAY:=AIRPORT BEACON/BBK", **LatLong:** "33.927779 -116.977783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:40 N 116:58:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.927779,-116.977783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12021 (0502804B) **Date:** 4/6/1955 **Location:** Beaumont, CA **Description:** Briggs. (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 44; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1824 ### Event 12022 (E75D45CA) **Date:** 4/6/1955 **Time:** 18:00:04.1 **Location:** 37.0286 -116.0578 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “HA (High Altitude)” Yield: 3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_60 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0286 -116.0578", **LatLongDMS:** "37:01:43 N 116:03:28 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0286,-116.0578)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-11.16", **NukeName:** "HA (High Altitude)", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "3" ### Event 12023 (E4D30384) **Date:** 4/6/1955 **Location:** New Mexico **Description:** Night. Three unusual green fireballs pass over New Mexico. Radio and TV interference are reported over a wide area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 264–265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2704 ### Event 12024 (325F29C2) **Date:** 4/8/1955 **Location:** GANDER AIR FORCE BASE, NFLD **Description:** RCAF ground observer(s). White "magnetic flare" disk. Very fast and erratic and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4590 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "GANDER AFB,NFLD:RCAF GND OBS:WHT "MAGN.FLARE" DISK:VFAST+ERRATIC+SILENT", **LatLong:** "48.950002 -54.572225", **LatLongDMS:** "48:57:00 N 54:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.950002,-54.572225)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12025 (AE6DDEB8) **Date:** 4/8/1955 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** CHERRY VALLEY, IL **Description:** Air Force jets shoot weather balloon. Saucer shoots past / same time. / MJ#264. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4591 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "223", **HatchDesc:** "CHERRY VALLEY,IL:AF JETS SHOOT WTHR BALLOON:SCR SHOOTS PAST/SAME TIME:/MJ#264", **LatLong:** "42.238891 -89.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:14:20 N 89:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.238891,-89.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12026 (79ED8619) **Date:** 4/8/1955 **Location:** Rockford, IL **Description:** Silver Disc Shot Down Over Rockford (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550408](http://www.nicap.org/550408rockford%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1825 ### Event 12027 (4F8C6949) **Date:** 4/8/1955 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 9:25 p.m. Three residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, watch a blue-green fireball streak west over the city. It appears to have a rose-orange tail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Fire Balls Again Seen over City,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94015061/)” Albuquerque Journal, April 9, 1955, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2705 ### Event 12028 (3C136C17) **Date:** 4/9/1955 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** PLATTSBURGH, NY **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and newsmen. Saucers and cylinder/cigar-shape to 0408hrs. Back 21+28 May / 36 saucers. / r139#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4592 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "156", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "PLATTSBURGH,NY:GOC+NEWSMEN:SCRS+CGR to 0408hrs:BACK 21+28 MAY/36 SCRS:/r139#4", **LatLong:** "44.700002 -73.455559", **LatLongDMS:** "44:42:00 N 73:27:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.700002,-73.455559)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12029 (60C4F4AA) **Date:** 4/9/1955 **Time:** 12:30:00.2 **Location:** 37.1222 -116.0344 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Post” Yield: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_61 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1222 -116.0344", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:20 N 116:02:04 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1222,-116.0344)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Post", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "2" ### Event 12030 (B6A35088) **Date:** 4/11/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR ARENAL, C.RICA **Description:** "Several observer(s)". Volcano crater opens trapdoor. 100M saucer exits.. . **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4593 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Costa Rica", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "nr ARENAL,C.RICA:"SVRL OBS":VOLCANO CRATER OPENS TRAPDOOR:100M SCR EXITS...", **LatLong:** "10.666667 -85.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "10:40:00 N 85:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.666667,-85.000004)", **State/Prov:** "GNC", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 12031 (3E76934C) **Date:** 4/15/1955? **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** NUBIAN DESERT, SUDAN **Description:** 2 / light plane. Classic saucer nears / 3 minutes. Going quickly northwest. / Flying Magazine. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 440) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4594 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Sudan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NUBIAN DESERT,SUDAN:2/LITE PLANE:CLASSIC SCR NEARS/3mins:>>NW:/Flying Magazine", **LatLong:** "18.666668 32.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "18:40:00 N 32:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.666668,32.000002)", **State/Prov:** "NSD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12032 (E142F927) **Date:** 4/15/1955 **Time:** 19:15:00.3 **Location:** 36.7981 -115.9289 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Met” Yield: 22KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_62 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.7981 -115.9289", **LatLongDMS:** "36:47:53 N 115:55:44 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.7981,-115.9289)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.12", **NukeName:** "Met", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "22" ### Event 12033 (A241E6FE) **Date:** 4/18/1955 **Location:** Princeton, NJ **Description:** Albert Einstein dies **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_550 ### Event 12034 (6E806281) **Date:** 4/21/1955 **Location:** Hopkinsville, KY **Description:** Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, 5 adult and 7 child witnesses, UFO spotted, “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [link](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/the-hopkinsville-alien-invasion-of-1955/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_551 ### Event 12035 (69D9E05B) **Date:** 4/21/1955 **Location:** New Orleans (3 miles NE of Moisant Airport), LA **Description:** L-19 Encounters Silver Delta (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550421](http://www.nicap.org/550421neworleans%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1826 ### Event 12036 (9027EDAF) **Date:** 4/22/1955 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** TINTINARA, SOUTH AUS **Description:** 10M Saturn-saucer slow over road. 90° turn. Speeds going east and quickly going up. / r242p150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 444) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4595 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TINTINARA,S.AUS:10M SATURN-SCR SLO ovr ROAD:90°TURN:SPEEDS >E+↑↑:/r242p150", **LatLong:** "-35.866668 140.066673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:00 S 140:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.866668,140.066673)", **RelAlt:** "52", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12037 (BE68C299) **Date:** 4/22/1955 **Location:** Tintinara, AU **Description:** Saturn-shaped UFO made sharp turn, ascended. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1827 ### Event 12038 (2B2BCE6E) **Date:** 4/22/1955 **Description:** At 7:45 a.m. a ten-meter diameter Saturn-shaped sphere flew slowly over a road in Tintinara, South Australia, then made a ninety-degree turn. It then sped away to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Australian Centre for UFO Studies, case SA55001; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 135 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2210 ### Event 12039 (B5D1DDB7) **Date:** 4/25/1955 **Locations:** Council Bluffs, Iowa; Nebraska; Waverly, Nebraska **Description:** 1:00–1:30 a.m. Residents and motorists see a brilliant fireball streak across the sky above Council Bluffs, Iowa. State Highway Patrolman John Ebert says the light was as bright as an arc welder. One resident sees the light burst into flame and drop to earth. Witnesses in Nebraska think the fireball descends abut 3 miles southeast of Waverly, Nebraska. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Council Bluffs \(Iowa\) Nonpareil, April 25, 1955; Nukes 93 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2706 ### Event 12040 (BDD781DB) **Date:** 4/28/1955 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** LOUP CITY GOING [TO] ORD, NE **Description:** 1 / car. 6M vertical cylinder/cigar-shape over road. Hides. Paces. Cows stampede. / r139#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4596 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "631", **HatchDesc:** "LOUP CITY>ORD,NE:1/CAR:6M VRTCL CGR OVR ROAD:HIDES:PACES:COWS STAMPEDE:/r139#4", **LatLong:** "41.366669 -98.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:22:00 N 98:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.366669,-98.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12041 (2F2945A2) **Date:** 4/28/1955 **Location:** Dahlgren, VA **Description:** (McDonald list) Theodolite Tracks UFO & Radar Confirms (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550428](http://www.nicap.org/550428dahlgrendir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1828 ### Event 12042 (FDF7D984) **Date:** 4/30/1955 **Location:** Travis County, TX **Description:** 4 black objects in a cluster make a whooshing sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3517) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1829 ### Event 12043 (00DC023D) **Date:** 4/30/1955 **Time:** 7:30 AM **Location:** Travis County, Texas **Description:** Witness USAF Wing Intelligence Officer Maj. L..J. Pagozalski. Four black objects in a cluster made a whooshing sound like a zephyr. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_384 ### Event 12044 (2EC862E6) **Date:** 4/30/1955 **Description:** A member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences tells a radio audience that UFOs do not exist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) [238–239](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2707 ### Event 12045 (7BB9C36F) **Date:** 4/30/1955 **Description:** In Travis County, Texas USAF Intelligence Officer Major L. J. Pagozalski sighted four black objects at 7:30 a.m. flying in a cluster. They made a whooshing sound like a zephyr. The sighting was very brief and lasted for only 2-3 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3517; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2420 ### Event 12046 (8B1A041D) **Date:** 5/1955 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** YULE ISL., PAPUA-NG **Description:** Doctor and wife. Green-glow disk half-moon-size. Going [to] slow. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 739) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4597 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "YULE Isl.,PAPUA-NG:DOCTOR+WIFE:GRN-GLOW DISK HALF-MOONSIZE:> SLOW:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "-8.816667 146.533340", **LatLongDMS:** "08:49:00 S 146:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-8.816667,146.533340)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12047 (C985E950) **Date:** 5/1955 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** ALGHERO, SARDINIA **Description:** 1 observer. Circle / light going down [to] vertically. Light reflects off soil. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4598 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALGHERO,SARDINIA:1 OBS:CIRCLE/LITE ↓ VERTICALLY:LITE REFLECTS OFF SOIL:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.561113 8.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:33:40 N 08:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.561113,8.316667)", **State/Prov:** "SS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12048 (9EDCFC73) **Date:** 5/1955 **Location:** UK **Description:** The UK Air Ministry announces that the report in March on a five-year investigation into UFOs by the RAF has been submitted to high-ranking officers, but the results cannot be released publicly for security reasons. MP Maj. [Patrick Wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FWall) asks the Under-Secretary of State for Air [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) to confirm whether or not he would publish a report. Ward replies that only 10% of UFO reports are unidentified and that is because of lack of data. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Derek Dempster, \[[Editorial](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMay-Jun%2CV%201%2CN%202.pdf)\], Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 \(May/June 1955\): 1; Good Above, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/42/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [p. 60–](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n99/mode/2up) [61](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n99/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2708 ### Event 12049 (55ED6296) **Date:** 5/1955 **Location:** Pontoise, France **Description:** 15-year-old Jacques Vallée and his mother see a “gray, metallic disc with a clear bubble on top” hovering above a church in Pontoise, France. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, [pp. 15–16](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/15/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2709 ### Event 12050 (DB0BD9D2) **Date:** 5/1/1955 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** WEIDEN, BAVARIA **Description:** 3+observer(s). Brilliant sphere zips back and forth / one hour. Spirals. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4599 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "WEIDEN,BAVARIA:3+OBS:BRILL.SPHERE ZIPS BACK+FORTH/1hr:SPIRALS:ABS.SLNT", **LatLong:** "49.683336 12.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:41:00 N 12:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.683336,12.083334)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12051 (19E80B5D) **Date:** 5/1/1955 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** GRAFENWOHR, BAVARIA **Description:** Soldiers. Strange white sphere/orb/globe / 4 passes. Hovers. No planes here. / r70p3-40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4600 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "GRAFENWOHR,BAVARIA:GIs:STRANGE WHT ORB/4 PASSES:HVRS:no planes here:/r70p3-40", **LatLong:** "49.700002 11.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "49:42:00 N 11:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.700002,11.900001)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12052 (7A5C051D) **Date:** 5/4/1955 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** KEFLAVIK, ICEL **Description:** Air Force Colonel and 1. 10+60' saucers / 25K' altitude / loose formation. 1000knts and more/others. / r70p3-40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4601 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greenland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "KEFLAVIK,ICEL:AF COLONEL+1:10+60'SCRS/25K'alt/LOOSE FORMn:1000knts++:/r70p3-40", **LatLong:** "63.983336 -22.550001", **LatLongDMS:** "63:59:00 N 22:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.983336,-22.550001)", **RelAlt:** "7620", **State/Prov:** "KEF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12053 (16385428) **Date:** 5/4/1955 **Location:** Keflavik Airport, Iceland **Description:** 10 round, white objects, one of which left a brief smoke trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3523) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1830 ### Event 12054 (600CD721) **Date:** 5/4/1955 **Time:** 12:38 PM **Location:** Keflavik, Iceland **Description:** Witnesses: Lt. Col. E.J. Stealy, lst Lt. J.W. Burt. About 10 round, white objects, one of which left a brief smoke trail, flew in an irregular formation, some of them making erratic movements during the 5-8 second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_385 ### Event 12055 (2F72ECF8) **Date:** 5/4/1955 **Locations:** Groom Lake, Nevada; southwest corner of the lakebed **Description:** A survey team arrives at Groom Lake, Nevada, and lays out a 5,000-foot north to south runway on the southwest corner of the lakebed and designates a site for a base support facility. The “Ranch” initially consists of little more than a few shelters, workshops, and trailer homes in which to house its small team. In a little over three months, the base consists of a single paved runway, three hangars, a control tower, and rudimentary accommodations for test personnel. The few amenities include a movie theater and volleyball court. There is also a mess hall, several wells, and fuel storage tanks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)”; Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html) [Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2710 ### Event 12056 (52467A56) **Date:** 5/4/1955 **Location:** Keflavík Airfield, Iceland **Description:** Afternoon. Lt. Col. [Edward J. Stealy](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tampabaytimes/obituary.aspx?n=edward-j-stealy&pid=101444799)[,](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tampabaytimes/obituary.aspx?n=edward-j-stealy&pid=101444799) commander of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Keflavík Airfield, Iceland, and 1stLt. Joseph Burt see 10–15 flying objects, 60–70 feet in diameter, at about 25,000 feet. They fly in loose formation for about 4–5 seconds and are traveling at a tremendous rate of speed \(perhaps 1,150 mph\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, pp. 5–58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 226; Clark III 376 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2711 ### Event 12057 (40A5FA65) **Date:** 5/4/1955 **Description:** One year later, at 1:38 p.m. at the Keflavik Air Force Base in Iceland, two USAF officers, USAF Lt. Col. E. J. Stealy and 1st Lt. J. W. Burt, spotted 10 white oval-shaped objects, some 60-70 feet in diameter, moving "rapidly and jerkily." One of them left a brief smoke trail. The UFOs moved at a tremendous rate of speed, and were gone from sight in five seconds. This case was listed as an "unknown" by Project Blue Book. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book case files counted in official statistics, case #3523; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2503 ### Event 12058 (39FC37BF) **Date:** 5/5/1955 **Location:** US **Description:** Project Blue Book "Special Report No. 14" declassified. **Type:** declassified report **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_881 ### Event 12059 (6957AED1) **Date:** 5/5/1955 **Time:** 12:10:00.0 **Location:** 36.0531 -116.1025 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Apple-2” Yield: 29KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_63 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.0531 -116.1025", **LatLongDMS:** "36:03:11 N 116:06:09 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.0531,-116.1025)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Apple-2", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "29" ### Event 12060 (F3C582EB) **Date:** 5/5/1955 **Description:** ATIC declassifies Battelle Memorial Institute’s 1951–1954 study of UFOs, completed in March 1954, as Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 but does not release it until October 25. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Special Report No. 14: Analysis of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/pbbsr/BBA-PBSR14.pdf) [Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects](http://www.nicap.org/docs/pbbsr/BBA-PBSR14.pdf), US Air Force, 1955; Clark III 929–932 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2712 ### Event 12061 (538C39A7) **Date:** 5/8/1955 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** DETROIT, MI **Description:** Several observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. White perfect cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly west tilted 30°. Center part glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4602 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "DETROIT,MI:SVRL OBS/BINOCS:WHT PERFECT CYL >>W TILTED 30°:CENTER PART GLOWS", **LatLong:** "42.316669 -83.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:19:00 N 83:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.316669,-83.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12062 (E9DD65C9) **Date:** 5/9/1955 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** ARROYO SECO CANYON, CA **Description:** 1 / car. Many 2' white silver saucers circle and flip over. Near Mt. Wilson. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4603 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "350", **HatchDesc:** "ARROYO SECO CANYON,CA:1/CAR:MANY 2'WHT SLVR SCRS CIRCLE+FLIP OVR:nr Mt WILSON", **LatLong:** "34.350002 -118.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:21:00 N 118:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.350002,-118.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12063 (A81E15E0) **Date:** 5/9/1955 **Description:** At 12:05 p.m. four witnesses in Arroyo Seco Canyon, California watched many 2-foot white silver saucers circle and flip over near Mount Wilson. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2677 ### Event 12064 (3ABD8D6D) **Date:** 5/11/1955 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** TERRYVILLE, CT **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer maneuvers all over sky. 3 jets chase. Big military investigation/investigators and news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4604 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "130", **Elev:** "186", **HatchDesc:** "TERRYVILLE,CT:3 OBS:SCR MNVRS ALL OVR SKY:3 JETS CHASE:BIG MIL INV+NEWS", **LatLong:** "41.677780 -73.022226", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:40 N 73:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.677780,-73.022226)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12065 (A1A939C7) **Date:** 5/12/1955 **Location:** Thurmon, CO **Description:** DC-7 Encounters Object At 20,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550512](http://www.nicap.org/550511thurmon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1831 ### Event 12066 (EA07BB2C) **Date:** 5/13/1955 **Location:** Duluth, MN **Description:** (McDonald list) F-89D Locks Onto Target at 1000 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550513](http://www.nicap.org/550513duluthdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1832 ### Event 12067 (A72EA174) **Date:** 5/14/1955 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** DINAN, FR **Description:** Domed saucer / low altitude. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / Sp-suits exit. Box / chests. Observer(s) frozen. / r30p216. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4605 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "DINAN,FR:DOMED SCR/LO ALT:2 OIDS/SP-SUITS EXIT:BOX/CHESTS:OBS FROZEN:/r30p216", **LatLong:** "48.450002 -2.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:27:00 N 02:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.450002,-2.050000)", **State/Prov:** "CDN", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12068 (7A2D3A92) **Date:** 5/14/1955 **Time:** 20:00:00.0 **Location:** 28.7333 -126.2667 **Description:** Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Wigwam” Yield: 30KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_64 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "28.7333 -126.2667", **LatLongDMS:** "28:44:00 N 126:16:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.7333,-126.2667)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.61", **NukeName:** "Wigwam", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NWCU", **NukeY:** "30" ### Event 12069 (D7D53671) **Date:** 5/14/1955 **Description:** At 12:15 a.m. in Dinan, Cotes-Nord, France Mr. M. Droguet sighted a large domed disc hovering five feet above the courtyard outside his house. Two short humanoids in Michelin Man spacesuits exited the craft. Both wore boxes on their chests. Mr. Droguet was paralyzed in place and could not move during the encounter, and he was temporarily blinded by a blue-green light. The men walked with an ackward gait. The UFO left silently by making a vertical ascent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Cresson, FSR Case Histories, October 1970, p. 13; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0365 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2824 ### Event 12070 (F5F05E24) **Date:** 5/15/1955 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** MANHATTAN, NY **Description:** Many observer(s) and photographs. Blazing ovoid loops over city. Darkens. Going east. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v2#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4606 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MANHATTAN,NY:MANY OBS+FOTOS:BLAZING OVOID LOOPS OVR CITY:DARKENS:>E:/FSR v2#3", **LatLong:** "40.761113 -73.961115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:40 N 73:57:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.761113,-73.961115)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12071 (29778C7B) **Date:** 5/15/1955 **Time:** 11:59:59.9 **Location:** 37.0947 -116.0239 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Zucchini” Yield: 28KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_65 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0947 -116.0239", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:41 N 116:01:26 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0947,-116.0239)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Zucchini", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "28" ### Event 12072 (E04E7C9B) **Date:** 5/17/1955 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, FL **Description:** Saucer seen as large square glow / 30K' altitude. 90-turns. Leaves (something behind) straight up! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4607 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MACDILL AFB,FL:SCR SEEN as LRG SQUARE GLOW/30K'alt:90-TURNS:LVS STRAIGHT UP!", **LatLong:** "27.850001 -82.477782", **LatLongDMS:** "27:51:00 N 82:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.850001,-82.477782)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12073 (F0280B72) **Date:** 5/17/1955 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** MOJAVE, CA **Description:** 9 grapefruit-size objects seen / 10 minute(s). TV Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). 6 fade. 1 flares. 2 vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4608 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "840", **HatchDesc:** "MOJAVE,CA:9 GRAPEFRUIT-SIZE OJS SEEN/10min:TV RFI:6 FADE:1 FLARES:2 VANISH", **LatLong:** "35.055557 -118.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:20 N 118:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.055557,-118.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12074 (371D5D96) **Date:** 5/17/1955 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** Bright round object hangs / W. sky / minutes. Goes / tremendous speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4609 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:BRITE ROUND OBJ HANGS/W.SKY/minutes:GOES/TREMENDOUS SPEED", **LatLong:** "37.783335 -122.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:00 N 122:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.783335,-122.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12075 (63BEC91A) **Date:** 5/17/1955 **Location:** Mojave, CA **Description:** Nine Moving Red Objects / TV Interference (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550517](http://www.nicap.org/550517mojave%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1833 ### Event 12076 (13F58220) **Date:** 5/17/1955 **Description:** At McDill Air Force Base, Florida a disc appeared at 7:00 p.m. as a large, square glowing object. It was at an estimated 30,000 feet altitude. It made 90 degree turns for 3 minutes, and then left by shooting straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2917 ### Event 12077 (1E2CBF67) **Date:** 5/18/1955 **Location:** Groom Lake **Description:** News release from AEC announcing “preliminary work” had begun “on a small satellite installation” within the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. Contractor was adding “Limited additional facilities and modifications” to a small installation near Groom Lake (now known as Area 51). **Type:** news release **Reference:** [“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar](https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-Autobiography-Bob-Lazar/dp/0578437058) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_552 ### Event 12078 (50C7C14D) **Date:** 5/18/1955 **Location:** Niagara Falls, NY **Description:** F-86 Pilot Encounters 10' Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550518](http://www.nicap.org/550518niagarafalls%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1834 ### Event 12079 (00B5F9CA) **Date:** 5/19/1955 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** TUJUNGA AND MONTROSE AND MORE/OTHERS, CA **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). 3 silver disks play tag over Mt. Wilson. / r32p151. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4610 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "538", **HatchDesc:** "TUJUNGA+MONTROSE++,CA:1000s/OBS:3 SLVR DISKS PLAY TAG ovr Mt WILSON:/r32p151", **LatLong:** "34.233335 -118.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:00 N 118:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.233335,-118.100006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12080 (A1CD9C52) **Date:** 5/19/1955 **Description:** At 7:15 p.m. three silver disc-shaped UFOs played tag over Mount Wilson for 50 minutes. They were seen by several thousand from Pasadena, Tujunga, and Montrose, California. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 5; Lenoard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1955, p. 5; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 115 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2973 ### Event 12081 (C0DFA03B) **Date:** 5/20/1955 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** HAM-SUR-MEUSE, FR **Description:** Cops. Saucer going northwest against wind. Multi-color beams going down. Interior lit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOURRET, Jean-Claude: Le NOUVEAU DEFI des OVNI. Editions France Loisirs, Paris. 1976 ISBN 2-7242-0104-3 395pp. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4611 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAM-sur-MEUSE,FR:COPS:SCR >NW AGAINST WIND:MULTI-CLR BEAMS ↓:INTERIOR LIT:", **LatLong:** "50.116669 4.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:07:00 N 04:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.116669,4.783334)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12082 (80ABA5FE) **Date:** 5/20/1955 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Swept Wing Object Over Tokyo (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550520](http://www.nicap.org/550520tokyo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1835 ### Event 12083 (248A5A01) **Date:** 5/21/1955 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** NORTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Ground-visual military observer(s). 3 silver-grey orbs / V-formation. Going quickly east and climb O / O / south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4612 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "343", **HatchDesc:** "NORTON AFB,CA:GND-VISUAL MIL OBS:3 SILVER-GREY ORBS/V-FORMn:>>E+CLIMB O/O/S", **LatLong:** "34.100002 -117.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:06:00 N 117:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.100002,-117.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12084 (1520CE21) **Date:** 5/22/1955 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** US85 SOUTH / CHEYENNE, WY **Description:** 2 / USAF. Thin white-glowing cylinder/cylindrical object vanishes. 2 hat saucers appear. Up and going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 450) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4613 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1900", **HatchDesc:** "US85 S/CHEYENNE,WY:2/USAF:THIN WHT-GLO CYL VANISHES:2 HAT SCRS APPEAR:UP+>S", **LatLong:** "41.033335 -104.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:02:00 N 104:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.033335,-104.766672)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12085 (911DABE2) **Date:** 5/22/1955 **Location:** Los Angeles Examiner **Description:** Journalist [Dorothy Kilgallen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%5FKilgallen) writes in the Los Angeles Examiner that “British scientists and airmen” have examined the wreckage of a crashed flying saucer. Her informant is a “British official of Cabinet rank,” who tells her that the “saucers were staffed by small men—probably under four feet tall.” Flying Saucer Review editor [Gordon Creighton](https://www.ufoinfo.com/news/gordoncreighton.shtml) later researches this story in detail and thinks Kilgallen’s source is First Sea Lord [Louis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) [Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) Some suggest that Kilgallen picked the story up at a cocktail party hosted by Mountbatten. Her story is widely dismissed as a hoax, but other events put her claims in a new light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[U.F.O. Crash in Britain?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CJul-Aug%2CV%201%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 \(July/Aug. 1955\): 6; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 69; Good Above, [pp. 43–44](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/42/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2713 ### Event 12086 (A33B9AEA) **Date:** 5/23/1955 **Location:** Cheyenne, WY **Description:** 2 slender, vertical rectangles low on the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3565) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1836 ### Event 12087 (7D053BBA) **Date:** 5/23/1955 **Time:** Midnight **Location:** Cheyenne, Wyoming **Description:** Witnesses: USAF Airman/Basic I.J. Shapiro and E.C. Ingber. During a 5 minute period, two slender, vertical rectangles were seen low on the horizon, and two ovals with tops (dark, with dark blue illumination) flew higher. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_386 ### Event 12088 (0B4C4BC6) **Date:** 5/23/1955 **End date:** 5/26/1955 **Location:** Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** At the Fifth AISS Commander’s Conference at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\], Colorado Springs, Colorado, an analysis of UFOs and science fiction is presented that notes: “General public not qualified to evaluate material propounded in science fiction. Absurd and fantastic theories given credence solely on the basis of ignorance.” Also, “Abnormal predisposition to attach belief to the more fanciful aspects of UFOBs, e.g. ‘Flying Saucers’ would tend to negate the source’s reliability as a factual observer.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report of Fifth Commander’s Conference, 23 May to 26 May 1955,” in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 2, January 1–June 30, 1955, reprinted in CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl7.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2714 ### Event 12089 (D2C99AD4) **Date:** 5/24/1955 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Astronomer Firsoff. Flashes / lunar south pole resemble lightning / discharges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4614 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:ASTRONOMER FIRSOFF:FLASHES/LUNAR SOUTH POLE RESEMBLE LIGHTNING/DISCHARGES", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "SPL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12090 (3AD1285D) **Date:** 5/24/1955 (approximate) **Location:** WEST / DORKING, SURREY **Description:** Silver cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast under nose / Portuguese airliner. / r139 #1p72. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4615 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "W/DORKING,SURREY:SLVR CGR >>SE UNDER NOSE/PORTUGUESE AIRLINER:/r139 #1p72", **LatLong:** "51.233336 -0.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:14:00 N 00:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.233336,-0.416667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12091 (4F33A608) **Date:** 5/24/1955 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** LOVELAND, OH **Description:** 4 saucers pass low over Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post. 2 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) run. Jets scramble / local papers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4616 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "178", **HatchDesc:** "LOVELAND,OH:4 SCRS PASS LO OVR GOC POST:2 GOC RUN:JETS SCRAMBLE/LOCAL PAPERS", **LatLong:** "39.261113 -84.261115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:15:40 N 84:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.261113,-84.261115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12092 (6A8C3CC2) **Date:** 5/24/1955 **Locations:** Loveland, Ohio; Columbus Filter Center **Description:** 7:48 p.m. GOC spotter [Charlotte Whitecotton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141227881/charlotte-whitecotton) and another woman at Loveland, Ohio, watch four UFOs in formation pass low over their enclosure, then zoom to the north. They report the incident to the Columbus Filter Center. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 71; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf), CUFOS, 1978, pp. 145–146 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2715 ### Event 12093 (6D2BDF02) **Date:** 5/25/1955 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** BRANCH HILLS, OH **Description:** 1 observer. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) / roadside / sparkling tool. Possible missing time. / r41p468. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4617 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "174", **HatchDesc:** "BRANCH HILLS,OH:1 OBS:3 OIDS/ROADSIDE/SPARKLING TOOL:POSS.MST:/r41p468", **LatLong:** "39.238891 -84.277782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:14:20 N 84:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.238891,-84.277782)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 12094 (E86D47A9) **Date:** 5/25/1955 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** LONDON, ENGL **Description:** Luminous/glowing saucer-cylinder/cigar-shape buzzes B17+airline(s)/airliner. Fast 180 turns. Going quickly southwest. / APRO v4#1+/ r139#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4618 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON,ENGL:LUMn SCR-CGR BUZZES B17+AL:FAST 180 TURNS:>>SW:/APRO v4#1+/r139#4 ", **LatLong:** "51.466669 -0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 00:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,-0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12095 (07D52C5E) **Date:** 5/25/1955 **Location:** Alexandra Park, London, UK **Description:** Circular, luminous object approached B-47, quickly reversed direction and shot away. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1837 ### Event 12096 (FA06C328) **Date:** 5/25/1955 **Locations:** Loveland-Madeira Road; Branch Hill area of Loveland, Ohio; Hopewell Road intersection **Description:** Around 3:30 a.m. Robert Hunnicut is driving along the Loveland-Madeira Road in the Branch Hill area of Loveland, Ohio. At the Hopewell Road intersection, his headlights illuminate three short figures kneeling next to the road. They are grayish humanoids with a wide slit for a mouth, an indistinct nose, and normal eyes without eyebrows. The heads are hairless with prominent wrinkles on the forehead. They are wearing one-piece grayish garments. One arm seems longer than the other and the upper torso is lopsided. One of the figures is holding a rod emitting blue-white sparks. Hunnicut gets out of the car and walks towards them. They look towards him and there is a 3-minute standoff. Hunnicut goes to the police station and returns with Police Chief John K. Fritz. No trace of anything is found. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, [3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm) CRIFO, 1957, pp. 66–68; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 115–116; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf), CUFOS, 1978, pp. 138–148; Clark III 270; Rob Ryder, “On the Trail of the Loveland Frogman,” Fortean Times 361 \(Christmas 2017\): 38–41 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2716 ### Event 12097 (357DFFF6) **Date:** 5/25/1955 **Description:** Mr. Robert Hunnicutt was driving down a road in Branch Hill, Ohio at 3:30 a.m. when he saw three 3.5 foot tall hunchbacked gray entities by the side of the road. They had forehead folds, slit mouths, and lopsided chests. They were standing by the roadside as his car passed. Mr. Hunnicutt reported an odor like alfalfa and almonds. No UFO was seen. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Isabel Davis, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, p. 138; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 60; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0366; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 115 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3082 ### Event 12098 (CA3ACFC1) **Date:** 5/27/1955 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** ECCLESFIELD, YORKS **Description:** Perfectly circular chrome disk going quickly northwest fast. Reflects sun. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4619 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "ECCLESFIELD,YORKs:PERFECTLY CIRCULAR CHROME DISK >>NW FAST:REFLECTS SUN:NFD", **LatLong:** "53.433336 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:26:00 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.433336,-1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12099 (711E966E) **Date:** 5/27/1955 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** PISCO, PERU **Description:** Several / theodolite and air observer(s). 5 rhomboids circle airport / 2km altitude. / APRO 8'55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 453) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4620 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "PISCO,PERU:SVRL/THEODOLITE+AIR OBS:5 RHOMBOIDS CCL AIRPORT/2km alt:/APRO 8'55", **LatLong:** "-13.716667 -76.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "13:43:00 S 76:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-13.716667,-76.166670)", **RelAlt:** "1000", **State/Prov:** "ICA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12100 (318A9903) **Date:** 5/27/1955 **Description:** A perfectly circular chrome disc flew over Ecclesfield, England at 1:00 p.m. at high speed. The disc reflected sunlight and went off toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4354 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3113 ### Event 12101 (3DADBD12) **Date:** 5/28/1955 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** LUSAKA, NORTH RHODESIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Night light changes color(s) and shapes going south. Returns. Maneuvers. / r90p147. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4621 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LUSAKA,N.RHODESIA:MANY OBS:NLT CHANGES CLRS+SHAPES >S:RETURNS:MNVRS:/r90p147", **LatLong:** "-15.416667 28.283335", **LatLongDMS:** "15:25:00 S 28:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-15.416667,28.283335)", **State/Prov:** "ZAM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12102 (2835A343) **Date:** 5/29/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** SMITHFIELD / CAIRNS, AUS **Description:** Night light lights entire area. Follows edge / swamp. Maneuvers. / LDLN#104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 363) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4622 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SMITHFIELD/CAIRNS,AUS:NLT LITES ENTIRE AREA:FOLOS EDGE/SWAMP:MNVRS:/LDLN#104", **LatLong:** "-17.166667 145.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "17:10:00 S 145:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.166667,145.666674)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12103 (1CE73B8E) **Date:** 5/29/1955 **Time:** 1920 **Location:** Smithfield, near Cairns, Australia **Description:** Approximate date. Three farmers, among them Thomas Robinson, saw a light growing in size for 2 min and flying between them and Mt. Williams. Looking like a "light airplane on fire," it changed course, losing altitude and trailing flames. It touched the ground, lighting up the whole area, rose again, and began to "feel its way along the crooked edge of the cane field and the swamp toward our house." It returned to earth four times. The dogs ran out barking as it landed within 100 m of the witnesses before taking off again. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_363 ### Event 12104 (E1B2BE7E) **Date:** 5/29/1955 **Description:** Five rhomboid-shaped objects circled the airport at Pisco, Peru at 11:00 p.m. They flew at one kilometer altitude, and were viewed through a theodolite. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, August 1955; Richard F Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3147 ### Event 12105 (2ABC169A) **Date:** 5/31/1955 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** PUY ST. GULMIER, PDD, FR **Description:** 1.1M saucer flies / edge. Maneuvers over hedge. Filaments radiate. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4623 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PUY St GULMIER,PDD,FR:1.1M SCR FLIES/EDGE:MNVRS OVR HEDGE:FILAMENTS RADIATE", **LatLong:** "45.788891 2.594445", **LatLongDMS:** "45:47:20 N 02:35:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.788891,2.594445)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12106 (F6575877) **Date:** 5/31/1955 **Time:** 1110 **Location:** Puy-Saint-Gulmier, France **Description:** A farmer, 74-year-old J. B. Collange, was watching his cows on a clear, calm morning when he suddenly observed, in an easterly direction, a vertical circular object about 3 m away, the bottom edge about 30 cm from the ground. It measured about 1.10 m in diameter, was very luminous, white, but not blinding. Many filaments of various colors were radiating from the disk. Their length varied between 0.5 and 2 m. The object rose over a hedge and was lost to sight behind some woods. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Ouranos 14, 15, 22 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_364 ### Event 12107 (619DAAD4) **Date:** 5/31/1955 **Description:** At 11 o'clock in the morning on the farm of Messr. Coulange, in Puy St. Gulmier, France a 1.1 meter (5 feet) in diameter luminous white disc hovered vertically only a few meters away from the 74-year-old farmer, and only three meters from the ground. Many multi-colored filaments of light radiated from the UFO. The object rose up, went over the old man's head, and flew out of sight behind some nearby woods. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 253 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3178 ### Event 12108 (DAABE598) **Date:** 6/1955 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** MUROS, SP **Description:** Sailor zapped / blue light. Temporarily paralysis. Small humanoid (or Grey) on deck with hood and overalls. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4624 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MUROS,SP:SAILOR ZAPPED/BLU LITE:TEMP.PARALYSIS:OID ON DECK W/HOOD+OVERALLS ", **LatLong:** "42.800002 -9.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:48:00 N 09:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.800002,-9.000000)", **State/Prov:** "LAC", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12109 (8E116BE6) **Date:** 6/1955 **Description:** [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) renames Nexus as Saucer News and it becomes a popular bimonthly UFO magazine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1032 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2718 ### Event 12110 (67BEA1F6) **Date:** 6/1955 **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas Eickhoff buys a copy of [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Inside the Space Ships. Upset with Adamski’s statement that his space contacts can be corroborated, he takes steps to take him to federal court to make him prove his story or face fraud for using the US mail system to sell his book. Eickhoff’s lawyer brings in a government adviser who advises them to drop the lawsuit. Eickhoff’s efforts eventually bring a reply from a lawyer for CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) who says the problem is that Adamski could “prevent anyone from testifying in court concerning this book because maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” The lawyer says he would be subject to a countersuit. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 169–170; Good Above, [pp. 341–342](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/340/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2719 ### Event 12111 (7C1A9C0F) **Date:** 6/1/1955 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** DINGLE, LIVERPOOL, ENG **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3+1 very large silver saucers from sea going quickly east toward(s) Warrington. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 174) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4625 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "DINGLE,LIVERPOOL,ENG:2 OBS:3+1 VLARGE SLVR SCRS from SEA>>E twrd WARRINGTON", **LatLong:** "53.438891 -2.955556", **LatLongDMS:** "53:26:20 N 02:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.438891,-2.955556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12112 (06153C61) **Date:** 6/2/1955 **Location:** CATIA LA MARCH, VNZL **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge fireball going down. Hovers / 10M. Windows. Going [to] along beach. / r139#1p74. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4626 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "82", **HatchDesc:** "CATIA la MAR,VNZL:MANY OBS:HUGE FBL ↓:HVRS/10M:WINDOWS:>ALONG BEACH:/r139#1p74", **LatLong:** "10.600001 -67.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:36:00 N 67:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.600001,-67.033337)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "DF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12113 (9B1F237B) **Date:** 6/2/1955 **Description:** A huge luminous sphere hovered at ten meters over the beach at Catia La Mar, Venezuela and then flew along the beach. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, August 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3223 ### Event 12114 (8D113779) **Date:** 6/4/1955 **Location:** MELVILLE SOUND, NWT, CND **Description:** NSA RB47 RADAR-visual (observation)-Pht / saucer / 9 min. Near North magnetic pole. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 285) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4627 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MELVILLE SOUND,NWT,CND:NSA RB47 RDR-VIS-PHT/SCR/9 MIN:NR North MAGNETIC POLE.", **LatLong:** "74.000004 -105.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "74:00:00 N 105:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/74.000004,-105.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Northwest Territories", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12115 (DDD07173) **Date:** 6/4/1955 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** PARKER, AZ **Description:** USAF T33 pilot. Yellow-white-red object hovers still. Suddenly vanishes. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4628 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "PARKER,AZ:USAF T33 PILOT:YLW-WHT-RED OBJ HVRS STILL:SUDDENLY VANISHES:type unk", **LatLong:** "34.150002 -114.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:00 N 114:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.150002,-114.283339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 12116 (A3FBD1D0) **Date:** 6/4/1955 **Location:** Parker, AZ **Description:** Two Sightings From T-33 / Magnetic Variations Reported (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550604](http://www.nicap.org/550604parker%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1838 ### Event 12117 (D3AF308A) **Date:** 6/4/1955 **Location:** Melville Sound, Nunavut, Canada **Description:** A Boeing RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force Special Security Service \(air arm of NSA?\) tracks an unknown object visually and by radar for 9 minutes near Melville Sound, Nunavut, Canada. The crew chief describes it as “glistening silver metallic.” The crew obtains gun camera film, but of poor quality. The object speeds off to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 285](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 226 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2720 ### Event 12118 (BF5484F0) **Date:** 6/4/1955 **Description:** Over the Melville Sound in the Northwest Territories of Canada, a National Security Agency RB-47 jet bomber, newly re-fitted for aerial electronic surveillance, made radar and visual contact with a disc-shaped UFO for 9 minutes. This encounter occurred in 1955 near the north magnetic pole. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #4362; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3268 ### Event 12119 (411C9B71) **Date:** 6/5/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** NEW ULM, MN **Description:** Saucer spirals out of storm cloud. See DWG. Oval windows / dome. Good view. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 455) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4629 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "308", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ULM,MN:SCR SPIRALS OUT OF STORM CLOUD:SEE DWG:OVAL WINDOWS/DOME:GOOD VIEW ", **LatLong:** "44.300002 -94.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "44:18:00 N 94:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.300002,-94.450005)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12120 (9079CA12) **Date:** 6/5/1955 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** OFF NORTH HOLLAND **Description:** UK trawler crew. Silver disk / 3km altitude. Crosses sky / 5 minutes. "No plane". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4630 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "off N.HOLLAND:UK TRAWLER CREW:SLVR DISK/3km alt:CROSSES SKY/5 mins:"no plane"", **LatLong:** "53.583336 5.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:35:00 N 05:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.583336,5.166667)", **State/Prov:** "NSE", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12121 (E9ECA528) **Date:** 6/5/1955 **Time:** ~19:30 **Location:** NAMUR, BELGIUM **Description:** Classic saucer / 1.5km altitude. Photographs pass fake tests. / r219p10+/ Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v7#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4631 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "NAMUR,BELG:CLASSIC SCR/1.5km alt:FOTOS PASS FAKE TESTS:/r219p10+/FSR v7#1", **LatLong:** "50.483336 4.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:29:00 N 04:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.483336,4.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12122 (709D4A4E) **Date:** 6/5/1955 **Location:** Namur, Belgium **Description:** Namur, Belgium (images) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [550605](http://www.nicap.org/belg55.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1839 ### Event 12123 (44B6A18B) **Date:** 6/5/1955 **Locations:** Saint-Marc; Namur; Belgium **Description:** 7:30 p.m. François-Gilbert Muyldermans is cycling on a deserted road near Saint-Marc, near Namur, Belgium, when he sees a bright disc moving at a high speed at an altitude of around 4,900 feet. He takes out his camera and snaps a photo. The object descends, then rises again emitting a cloud of white smoke. He takes two more photos. Anomalies in the blurred grain, inconsistencies in orientation, and the circumstances by which the story entered UFO lore suggest a deliberate hoax, perhaps with the help of a journalist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A ‘Classic’ from Belgium,](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORAJournalVolume4No.12MarchApril1976.pdf)” BUFORA Journal 4, no. 12 \(March/April 1976\): 12–13; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, [Belgium in](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) [UFO Photographs, Volume 1 \(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F)[,](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 38–69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2721 ### Event 12124 (D735DB06) **Date:** 6/5/1955 **Description:** In 1955 a British fishing trawler crew spotted a silver daylight disc flying over the North Sea off the coast of Holland at 7:30 p.m. It flew at an estimated 3000 meters altitude, and crossed the sky in five minutes. It was definitely "not a plane," according to the witnesses. At the same time, a sequence of three photographs were taken in St. Marc, Belgium showing a convex, lens-shaped disc object in front of some clouds. The object had a bright bottom and dark, shadowed top. Motion is implied by the different angles in the photos. The UFO was seen low nearby the witness's car. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4364; Jacques Bonabot, Catalogue of Belgian UFO Cases, case #77 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3293 ### Event 12125 (1BA3CE88) **Date:** 6/6/1955 **Location:** City not noted, NM **Description:** Three unusual green fire balls; heavy radio and TV disturbance reported (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1840 ### Event 12126 (BCB5849E) **Date:** 6/7/1955 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / BANKS I, NWT, CND **Description:** NSA RB47 ELINT jet / Eilson Air Force Base gets small square RADAR blip. P286. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 286) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4632 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SE/BANKS I,NWT,CND:NSA RB47 ELINT JET/EILSON AFB GETS SMALL SQR RDR BLIP:p286", **LatLong:** "70.083337 -120.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "70:05:00 N 120:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.083337,-120.000006)", **State/Prov:** "Northwest Territories", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12127 (B43D4AC0) **Date:** 6/7/1955 **Locations:** Eielson AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska; Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada **Description:** An RB-47 en route to Eielson AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska, registers an electronic contact southeast of Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, at 10,500 feet range. The radar return is small and rectangular. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/286/mode/2up) [286](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/286/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 227 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2722 ### Event 12128 (F6D3F13D) **Date:** 6/9/1955 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ENID, OK **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright saucer swoops / various directions and cuts fancy turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4633 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "374", **HatchDesc:** "ENID,OK:SVRL OBS:BRITE SCR SWOOPS/VARIOUS DIRECTIONS+CUTS FANCY TURNS:", **LatLong:** "36.400002 -97.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "36:24:00 N 97:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.400002,-97.877782)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12129 (95176275) **Date:** 6/10/1955 **Location:** US **Description:** Science fiction movie “This Island Earth” is released. A group of scientists receive special materials that are technologically more sophisticated than anything available at the time from a secret research group. **Type:** movie **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Island_Earth) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_553 ### Event 12130 (D19AD105) **Date:** 6/10/1955 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** PETARE, VNZ **Description:** Family. 5 ovoids going down / hillside. Smoke and beams. Figure(s) move inside. Going quickly east. / r139. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4634 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "890", **HatchDesc:** "PETARE,VNZ:FAMILY:5 OVOIDS ↓/HILLSIDE:SMOKE+BEAMS:FIGs MOVE INSIDE:>>E:/r139", **LatLong:** "10.466667 -66.800003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:28:00 N 66:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.466667,-66.800003)", **State/Prov:** "MRN", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12131 (D0CDF84E) **Date:** 6/10/1955 **Description:** In Petare, Venezuela five ovoid objects descended on a hillside. They emitted smoke or fog and beams of light. Figures could be seen moving around inside the haze. The objects took off flying to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, August 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3406 ### Event 12132 (0E210AE1) **Date:** 6/12/1955 **Location:** OFF KIGOMA, TANZANIA **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver sphere/orb/globe going north. Stops over bay / 5 minute(s). Going quickly west into cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4635 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Tanzania", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "off KIGOMA,TANZANIA:SVRL OBS:SLVR ORB > N:STOPS OVR BAY/5min:>>W INTO CLOUD", **LatLong:** "-4.866667 29.600001", **LatLongDMS:** "04:52:00 S 29:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-4.866667,29.600001)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12133 (F18E4792) **Date:** 6/13/1955 **Location:** Navy Department at the Pentagon **Description:** [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) travels with a TV film producer to the Navy Department at the Pentagon and asks for some unclassified photos of rockets. When the Navy learns that Edwards wants to show them on TV during a panel discussion on UFOs, the office refuses to cooperate. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 269 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2723 ### Event 12134 (826FD1CA) **Date:** 6/15/1955 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** BRYAN, TX **Description:** Airport/apartment tower. Cylinder/cylindrical object makes 3 30 second(s) passes / 10 minute(s) intervals. 500mph. See Dallas. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4636 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "84", **HatchDesc:** "BRYAN,TX:APT TOWER:CYL MAKES 3 30sec PASSES/10min INTERVALS:500mph:SEE DALLAS", **LatLong:** "30.633335 -96.372227", **LatLongDMS:** "30:38:00 N 96:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.633335,-96.372227)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12135 (AC50E448) **Date:** 6/15/1955 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** ANITA, IA **Description:** Blue and white glowing cylinder/cigar-shape at 500-1000' altitude. Red "jet". Soft hissing sounds (made by UFO's). Project Bluebook Case #unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4637 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "381", **HatchDesc:** "ANITA,IA:BLU+WHT GLOWING CGR @500-1000' ALT:RED "JET":SOFT HISSING SND:BBK#UNK", **LatLong:** "41.450002 -94.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:27:00 N 94:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.450002,-94.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12136 (F72BA77A) **Date:** 6/15/1955 **Description:** A cigar-shaped craft zoomed over the town of Anita, Iowa at an altitude under 1000 feet at 9:47 p.m. It was luminous with a white and blue glow, and red exhaust. It made a hissing sound. The file on the case is missing from the US Air Force records. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, June 1955; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 103 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3496 ### Event 12137 (64C5598A) **Date:** 6/16/1955 **Location:** EASTERN USA **Description:** Many and dozens / pilots. UFO's over very wide area. Jets scramble all over. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4638 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "EASTERN USA:MANY+DOZENS/PILOTS:UFOs OVR VERY WIDE AREA:JETS SCRAMBLE ALL OVER", **LatLong:** "40.000002 -74.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:00:00 N 74:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.000002,-74.000004)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12138 (FB708F80) **Date:** 6/16/1955 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** 40 MI NORTHEAST / SPRINGFIELD, MO **Description:** Blue-white saucer circles flying-tiger plane. Tilts up and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 270) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4639 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "393", **HatchDesc:** "40mi NE/SPRINGFIELD,MO:BLU-WHT SCR CIRCLES FLYING-TIGER PLANE:TILTS UP+AWAY", **LatLong:** "37.633335 -92.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:38:00 N 92:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.633335,-92.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12139 (572BE11A) **Date:** 6/17/1955 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver Oblong object hovers. Hides / clouds when plane nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4640 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ADELAIDE,S.AUSTR:1/BINOCs:SLVR OBLONG OBJ HVRs:HIDES/CLOUDS WHEN PLANE NEARS", **LatLong:** "-34.916668 138.616673", **LatLongDMS:** "34:55:00 S 138:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.916668,138.616673)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12140 (3889AEF6) **Date:** 6/17/1955 **Location:** Adelaide (near), AU **Description:** Silver oblong UFO viewed through binoculars; hovered; moved away behind clouds as an aircraft neared. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1841 ### Event 12141 (ACF79CBC) **Date:** 6/17/1955 **Description:** In 1955 a silver, oblong object hovered over Adelaide, South Australia at 2:15 p.m. The object was viewed through binoculars, and was seen to hide in some clouds when a plane approached. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 135 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3527 ### Event 12142 (361BF0CE) **Date:** 6/20/1955 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** DALLAS, TX **Description:** 2 observer(s). Red saucer makes 3 90 second(s) passes / 10 minute(s) intervals. See Bryan, TX. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4641 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS,TX:2 OBS:RED SCR MAKES 3 90sec PASSES/10min INTERVALS:SEE BRYAN,TX", **LatLong:** "32.783335 -96.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 96:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,-96.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12143 (D9DEEDF0) **Date:** Summer 1955 **Location:** Hârşeni, Romania **Description:** 12:30 a.m. Dumitru Coca watches a strange object emitting a ring of white sparks at an altitude of 3,000 feet above Hârşeni, Romania. It is blue with white stripes and flying noiselessly at high speed. He watches it for 3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverberh 229–230; Romania 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2717 ### Event 12144 (9F3C13BC) **Date:** 6/23/1955 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** ALBANY, NY **Description:** 3 airline(s)/airliner crews and Air Traffic Controllers and Boston RADAR. Saucer / 4 windows. 4500MPH. 3500' altitude. / r37p143. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4642 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "ALBANY,NY:3 AL CREWS+ATCs+BOSTON RDR:SCR/4 WINDOWS:4500MPH:3500'alt:/r37p143", **LatLong:** "42.650002 -73.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:39:00 N 73:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.650002,-73.750004)", **RelAlt:** "1066", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12145 (A96C6D14) **Date:** 6/23/1955 **Location:** Utica, NY / Boston, MA, Various **Description:** 150' Object Passes Over DC-3 Crew From Behind (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550623](http://www.nicap.org/550623utica%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1842 ### Event 12146 (155E8F78) **Date:** 6/23/1955 **Locations:** Utica, New York; Albany; Boston **Description:** 12:15 p.m. A Mohawk Airlines DC-3 is cruising at 3,000 feet in good daylight visibility about 15 miles east of Utica, New York, on a heading to Albany. Both pilot and copilot see an object come over the top of the aircraft from behind, an estimated 500 feet above their altitude. They estimate the length of the object at about 150 feet. It is described as “light gray, almost round, with a center line        Beneath the line there were several \(at least four\) windows which emitted a bright blue-green light. It was not rotating but went straight. \[The lights\] seemed to change color slightly from greenish to bluish or vice versa \[as the object receded\]. A few minutes after it went out of sight, two other aircraft \(one, a Colonial DC-3, the other I did not catch the number\) reported that they saw it and wondered if anyone else had seen it. The Albany control tower also reported that they had seen an object go by on Victor-2 \[airway\]. As we approached Albany, we overheard that Boston radar had also tracked an object along Victor-2, passing Boston.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[150ʹ Object Passes over DC-3 Crew from Behind](http://www.nicap.org/550623utica%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [p. 143](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/142/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2724 ### Event 12147 (207D09A7) **Date:** 6/25/1955 **Location:** Hillcrest Heights, Maryland **Description:** 10:45 p.m. Two civilian and two military witnesses see a yellow, shining sphere with a trail 4–5 times its length over Hillcrest Heights, Maryland. It appears to oscillate in the air, stops, oscillates again, then finally moves away at high speed. It travels nearly overhead and then is lost in the sky at a 45° elevation. It is visible for 7 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 8– 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2725 ### Event 12148 (E53DB10D) **Date:** Late 6/1955 **Alternate date:** Early 7/1955 **Locations:** Little Miami River; Loveland, Ohio **Description:** Early evening. A 19-year-old Civil Defense worker named Carlos Flannigan is driving a truck across a bridge over the Little Miami River near Loveland, Ohio, when he notices 4 small figures about 3 feet high on the riverbank. A terrible smell hangs over the area. He only watches them for about 10 seconds then immediately drives to police headquarters to report the incident. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) [at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) CUFOS, 1978, pp. 129–132; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-usa-loveland.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-usa-loveland.htm) February 14, 2008 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2730 ### Event 12149 (2D39BA98) **Date:** 6/26/1955 **Location:** HOLT, FL **Description:** Several civil and military observer(s). Blue-white disc-UFO with 10-14 blinking lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4643 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "HOLT,FL:SVRL CIV+MIL OBS:BLU-WHT DISC-UFO W/10-14 BLINKING LITES.", **LatLong:** "30.716668 -86.744449", **LatLongDMS:** "30:43:00 N 86:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.716668,-86.744449)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12150 (73A0D91B) **Date:** 6/26/1955 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Yellow-saucer / National airport/apartment. Lights electro-magnetic effect (EME). Spotlights quit when pointed at saucer! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 236) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4644 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:YEL-SCR/NATL Apt:LITES EME:SPOTLITES QUIT WHEN POINTED at SCR!", **LatLong:** "38.866669 -76.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:52:00 N 76:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.866669,-76.966670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12151 (08F77F84) **Date:** 6/26/1955 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** A brilliant round object with trail 4 or 5 times its own length approached National Airport, stopped, oscillated, and moved off at high speed. Ceiling lights at airport went out when object approached; returned to operation when UFO left. \[UFOE, VIII, XII\] (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1843 ### Event 12152 (AB9A4C0F) **Date:** 6/26/1955 **Location:** Holt, FL **Description:** Civilian and military witnesees. (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 45) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1844 ### Event 12153 (E590DAAB) **Date:** 6/26/1955 **Location:** Holt, Florida **Description:** Several civilian and military witnesses in Holt, Florida, see a disc with blinking lights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 227; Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 10; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 45](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/44/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2726 ### Event 12154 (6210C0CD) **Date:** 6/26/1955 **Locations:** National Airport in Washington, D.C.; Silver Hill Observatory in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland **Description:** 10:45 p.m. A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times its own length approaches National Airport in Washington, D.C., stops, oscillates, and moves off at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport go out when the object approaches and return to operation when the UFO leaves. Searchlights are trained on the object, but when they catch it in their beams, the searchlights go out. A check with the Silver Hill Observatory in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, determined that a small weather balloon carrying a magnesium flare was released aboiut the same time as the visual sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 236; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 21; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) The Author, 1992, pp. 84–85 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2727 ### Event 12155 (5F79345D) **Date:** 6/28/1955 **Location:** 15 MI NORTH / SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** 2+observer(s). 2 / US281. 2 coin-shaped saucers going quickly east. High-altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4645 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "15mi N/SAN ANTONIO,TX:2+OBS:2/US281:2 COIN-SHAPED SCRS >>E:HI-ALTITUDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "29.633335 -98.494449", **LatLongDMS:** "29:38:00 N 98:29:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.633335,-98.494449)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12156 (4FFE806A) **Date:** 6/29/1955 **Location:** Congress **Description:** The Second Hoover Commission presents its final report to Congress on streamlining procedures in the executive branch. Gen. [Mark W. Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FW.%5FClark), heading the commission’s task force on intelligence, notes the CIA’s lack of accountability and recommends establishing an intelligence oversight committee. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover%5FCommission\#Second%5FHoover%5FCommission) [Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover%5FCommission\#Second%5FHoover%5FCommission)”; Richard A. Best Jr. and Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “[Proposals for Intelligence Reorganization,](https://irp.fas.org/congress/1996%5Frpt/ic21/ic21018.htm) [1949–1996,](https://irp.fas.org/congress/1996%5Frpt/ic21/ic21018.htm)” Report to the US House Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional Research Service, February 28, 1996, pp. 9–10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2728 ### Event 12157 (169DAE0A) **Date:** 6/30/1955 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** NEAR PANTELLERIA ISLAND, ITALY **Description:** Different tanker crews. Cylinder/cigar-shape / 7K' altitude / 16 minute(s). Strong beams / light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4646 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr PANTELLERIA ISL,ITALY:DIFF.TANKER CREWS:CGR/7K'alt/16min:STRONG BEAMS/LITE:", **LatLong:** "36.777780 12.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "36:46:40 N 12:00:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.777780,12.000001)", **State/Prov:** "PNT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12158 (6EF4413D) **Date:** 6/30/1955 **Description:** The 4602nd AISS reports that of its 194 preliminary UFO reports for 1955, it has made 23 field investigations and has 25 unsolved reports, or an unknown rate of 13%. Going back to August 12, 1954, and removing cases of insufficient evidence, the percentage of unknowns is lower: 23 unknowns from 306 reports, or about 7.5%. In reality, however, none of these numbers mean much; they reflect the creativity and audacity of the explainers at ADC and ATIC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2729 ### Event 12159 (C28CAF65) **Date:** 6/30/1955 **Description:** A tanker crew in a vessel near Pantelleria Island off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, at around ten o'clock in the morning, sighted a cigar-shaped object at 7,000 feet altitude, emitting strong beams of light. The crew watched it for more than 16 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 86 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3742 ### Event 12160 (9403F023) **Date:** 7/1955 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** VASTERNORRLAND, SWD **Description:** Woodsmen. Cylinder/cigar-shape crashes. Small humanoid (or Grey) / ground badly injured. Converses. Dies. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: UFO-NORWAY NEWS (Norway, in English) No. 1 1989. Mentz Kaarbo ed. PO Box 14; N-3133 DUKEN,Norway. 1-2 issues/year **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4647 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CNT:** Contactee related, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "VASTERNORRLAND,SWD:WOODSMEN:CGR CRASHES:OID/GND BADLY INJURED:CONVERSES:DIES", **LatLong:** "63.500003 18.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "63:30:00 N 18:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.500003,18.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12161 (1C614A23) **Date:** 7/1955 **Location:** In air over S. Alabama, AL **Description:** Col. Coleman Case / Chases UFO At Low Altitude (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550700](http://www.nicap.org/5507XXs%5Falabama%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1845 ### Event 12162 (99675D96) **Date:** 7/1955 **Locations:** Groom Lake base in Nevada; Area 51 **Description:** Construction of the Groom Lake base in Nevada is completed and the CIA begins utilizing it, along with the US Air Force, for Project Aquatone, the development of the Lockheed U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft, the nation’s first aerial espionage program. It consists of one paved runway, three hangars, a control tower, a makeshift mess hall, and rudimentary accommodations. A movie theater and volleyball court are added. CIA officer Richard Newton is assigned as base commander. Other key organizations are briefed on Area 51’s existence—the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the US Navy, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. A small group of four Lockheed test pilots, two dozen Lockheed mechanics and engineers, a handful of CIA officers who double as security guards, and some of Col. [Ritland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105825/major-general-osmond-j-ritland/)’s staff take up residence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 5](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/4/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/4/mode/2up) [51–53](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/50/mode/2up); Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021; “[Pilots of the U-2,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/u2%5Fpilots.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2731 ### Event 12163 (5571D50F) **Date:** 7/1955 **Locations:** Miami, Florida; Southern Alabama **Description:** 2:00 p.m. Col. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1) is flying a B-25 out of Miami, Florida, with a copilot, flight engineer, a Lockheed test engineer, and a General Motors jet engine technician. As he is moving northward into southern Alabama, he spots at 2 o’clock high what he calls a “craze” in the windshield. He calls the others’ attention to it. He gives chase to it at low altitude over farmland and sees its shadow on the ground, as well as two vortices coming out of the shiny metallic disc that kicks up dust on the ground. When he tries to cut it off at a maximum speed of 345 mph, the object is gone, leaving behind the vortices on the ground. Duration of the sighting is 10–11 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Col. Coleman Case / Chases UFO at Low Altitude](http://www.nicap.org/5507XXs%5Falabama%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2732 ### Event 12164 (07DAE7F2) **Date:** 7/1/1955 **Location:** Sacramento, CA **Description:** Air/Grd Radar Tracks Vertical Descent of Silver Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550701](http://www.nicap.org/550701sacramentodir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1846 ### Event 12165 (FBB8D686) **Date:** 7/1/1955 **Location:** China Lake, CA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1847 ### Event 12166 (B9B62708) **Date:** 7/1/1955 **Description:** CRIFO Newsletter becomes CRIFO Orbit. This issue reviews several airplane crashes and disappearances that [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) thinks might be related to UFO activity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World’s Air Forces, in Joint Operations, Challenge](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf) [Incursion of UFO’s,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 4 \(July 1, 1955\): 1– 2; Clark III 460, 1114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2733 ### Event 12167 (E3727D25) **Date:** 7/2/1955 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** SOUTH / STOCKTON, GA **Description:** 4 small humanoids (or Greys) / road. 1 pokes / asphalt with rod. Jumps back / avoid car. / r112p121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 502) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4648 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "56", **HatchDesc:** "S/STOCKTON,GA:4 OIDS/ROAD:1 POKES/ASPHALT W/ROD:JUMPS BACK/AVOID CAR:/r112p121", **LatLong:** "30.866668 -83.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:52:00 N 83:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.866668,-83.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12168 (B48781CD) **Date:** 7/3/1955 **Location:** Stockton, Georgia **Description:** Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near this town when she saw four "bug-eyed" creatures near the road. They were small beings with thin arms, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand; and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a chin which came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Stringfield; Humanoids 54 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_365 ### Event 12169 (C797241F) **Date:** 7/3/1955 **Location:** Stockton, Georgia **Description:** 3:30 a.m. [Margaret Symmonds](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46367235/margaret-susan-symmonds) is driving on US 129 seven miles south of Stockton, Georgia, when four small humanoid figures with caps and huge eyes are caught in the headlights. They seem to be digging a hole in the road with some sticks. She yells and swerves the car, driving past them. The figures seem oblivious. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf), The Author, 1992, pp. 2–3; Stringfield, [3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm) CRIFO, 1957, pp. 63–64; Clark III 270; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) [Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) CUFOS, 1978, pp. 149–160; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-07-03-usa-stockton.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-07-03-usa-stockton.htm) February 16, 2008 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2734 ### Event 12170 (71B85253) **Date:** 7/3/1955 **Description:** Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near Stockton, Georgia when she saw four "bug-eyed" creatures near the road. They were small beings with thin arms, wide shoulders, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand; and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a chin that came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 249-250 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3800 ### Event 12171 (CDEA99D2) **Date:** 7/5/1955 **Time:** 03:40 **Location:** OFF WEST, NFLD **Description:** 2 KC97 crews and ground RADAR. 2 bright objects and 5 small objects buzz tanker. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4649 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off W.,NFLD:2 KC97 CREWS+GND RDR:2 BRITE OBJs+5 SML OBJS BUZZ TANKER:>>NE", **LatLong:** "49.583336 -59.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "49:35:00 N 59:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.583336,-59.250003)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12172 (DC7629BD) **Date:** 7/5/1955 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** GEORGETOWN, MASS **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 70M silver white disk curves east going quickly north / 6 second(s). / Blue Book. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4650 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "24", **HatchDesc:** "GEORGETOWN,MASS:GOC OBS:70M SLVR WHT DISK CURVES E>>N/6sec:/BBK:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.733335 -70.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:44:00 N 70:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.733335,-70.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12173 (551FF17A) **Date:** 7/5/1955 **Location:** Goose Bay, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** During refueling mission pilots saw 2 bright objects at 20,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1848 ### Event 12174 (01500F90) **Date:** 7/5/1955 **Location:** Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Newfoundland, G,V; Archie 29 KC-97 Radar Case (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [550705](http://www.nicap.org/550705archie29dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1849 ### Event 12175 (39F4D76C) **Date:** 7/5/1955 **Location:** Newfoundland **Description:** 3:00 a.m. USAF pilot Lt. [Homer H. Speer Jr](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22005282/homer-h-speer) and copilot Lt. [Paul Daily](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147844977/paul-bryan-daily), call sign Archie 29, and pilot Lt. Robert W. Schneck and copilot Lt. David Cueldner, call sign Archie 91, are flying Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighters at 20,000 feet on a refueling mission off the coast of Newfoundland. They see two bright objects at 20,000 feet, apparently stationary. Ground radar picks up several objects, some in a distant cluster flying erratically. Speer is able to maintain visual contact, calling direction change of the object to the radar site by radio. The objects are tracked on radar for 49 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Archie 29 KC-97 Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/550705archie29dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 228; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 296–297; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 263–264 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2735 ### Event 12176 (814FC041) **Date:** 7/7/1955 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** 2+observer(s). 3 huge white saucers / 1 mile altitude. Going straight and level single file. Too late / scramble. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4651 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:2+OBS:3 HUGE WHT SCRS/1mi ALT:> S/L SINGLE FILE:TOO LATE/SCRAMBLE", **LatLong:** "39.266669 -76.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:16:00 N 76:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.266669,-76.616670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12177 (CD4B0940) **Date:** 7/8/1955 **Location:** BADIA POLESINE, ITL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Unusual double cone with thin cylinder/cylindrical object going down. Stops / 10M altitude. Going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4652 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BADIA POLESINE,ITL:2 OBS:UNUSUAL DOUBLE CONE W/THIN CYL ↓:STOPS/10M alt:↑+AWAY", **LatLong:** "45.083335 11.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:05:00 N 11:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.083335,11.483334)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12178 (3307579F) **Date:** 7/8/1955 **Location:** Augusta, ME **Description:** Green Object With Trail Tracked (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550708](http://www.nicap.org/550708augusta%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1851 ### Event 12179 (2CA8DDE4) **Date:** 7/9/1955 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** DEWEY, OK **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 15m saucer / 4500m altitude going quickly NNE / very fast. Stops. Circles. Continues. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4653 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "275", **HatchDesc:** "DEWEY,OK:2 SEP.OBS:15m SCR/4500m alt >>NNE/VFAST:STOPS:CIRCLES:CONTINUES", **LatLong:** "36.783335 -95.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:47:00 N 95:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.783335,-95.933338)", **RelAlt:** "4500", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12180 (3B11523A) **Date:** 7/9/1955 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** NEAR SANTA CATALINA IS, CA **Description:** Several / separate boats. 50' saucer spins and smokes. 10 July cylinder/cigar-shape seen too. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4654 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr SANTA CATALINA IS,CA:SVRL/SEP BOATS:50'SCR SPINS+SMOKES::10JLY CGR SEEN TOO", **LatLong:** "33.483335 -118.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:29:00 N 118:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.483335,-118.616672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12181 (7D50E466) **Date:** 7/9/1955 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** HARTFORD, CT **Description:** 1 observer. Orange saucer very high and very fast going quickly northeast. Turns going north. Turns going southeast. Returns going quickly northeast path. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4655 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "HARTFORD,CT:1 OBS:ORG SCR VHI+VFAST>>NE:TURNS> N:TURNS> SE:RETURNS>>NE PATH", **LatLong:** "41.783335 -72.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:47:00 N 72:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.783335,-72.666670)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12182 (DDD2618A) **Date:** 7/9/1955 **Location:** Santa Catalina Channel, CA **Description:** Family aboard boat saw a round cylinder, greyish and white, surrounded by a "haze of fumes." UFO zig-zagged upward, then sped away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1852 ### Event 12183 (3986CE31) **Date:** 7/9/1955 **Description:** A perfectly round, gray-white disc paced a pleasure boat for six minutes nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at 1:32 p.m. It was surrounded by a "haze of fumes." It suddenly rose upward in a zigzag motion and flew into a cloudbank. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Morris Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 225 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3951 ### Event 12184 (BCF5E7CA) **Date:** 7/10/1955 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** CHISWICK, ENG **Description:** 2 / ballgame. 2 silver domed disk going quickly southwest / 25K' altitude. Stack formation. / r139 #2p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4656 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHISWICK,ENG:2/BALLGAME:2 SLVR DOMED DISK >>SW/25K'alt:STACK FORMn:/r139 #2p15", **LatLong:** "51.466669 -0.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 00:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,-0.266667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12185 (87956FC4) **Date:** 7/10/1955 **Description:** About seven to nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at 2:32 in the afternoon, a perfectly round, grayish-white UFO paced a pleasure boat for six minutes. It was surrounded by a "haze of fumes." It suddenly rose upward in a zigzag flight path and flew into a cloud bank. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 167 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3982 ### Event 12186 (101BF40A) **Date:** 7/11/1955 **Time:** ~20:30 **Location:** GREENVILLE, ME **Description:** Civil observer(s). Silver-pink saucer circles observer(s) 4 times / 20 minute(s). Light flashes / top. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4657 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "316", **HatchDesc:** "GREENVILLE,ME:CIV OBS:SLVR-PINK SCR CIRCLES OBS 4 TIMES/20min:LITE FLASHES/TOP", **LatLong:** "45.461113 -69.588892", **LatLongDMS:** "45:27:40 N 69:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.461113,-69.588892)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12187 (0C749E5B) **Date:** 7/11/1955 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** CHINA LAKE NAS, CA **Description:** 3 military observer(s) and RADAR. Fireball makes 23 minute(s) south-curve / northwest sky. Unidentified / local headquarters. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 217) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4658 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "23", **Elev:** "690", **HatchDesc:** "CHINA LAKE NAS,CA:3 MIL OBS+RDR:FBL MAKES 23min S-CURVE/NW SKY:UID/LOCAL HQ", **LatLong:** "35.500002 -117.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 117:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,-117.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12188 (3838AB20) **Date:** 7/11/1955 **Location:** China Lake, CA **Description:** Round reddish-orange light changing color to bright white (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [550711](http://www.nicap.org/550711ChinaLakedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1853 ### Event 12189 (37462C39) **Date:** 7/11/1955 **Location:** Toulab, France **Description:** C-47 Pilot Sees Light Changing Color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550711](http://www.nicap.org/550511france%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1854 ### Event 12190 (F388D9D0) **Date:** 7/12/1955 **Location:** Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland **Description:** Unusual UFOB report from Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland. UFO sighted by a tanker aircraft (KC97) pilot and ground radar. “Unusual” in that the pilot of the Archie 29 called direction changes of the UFO to ground radar which correlated exactly with those painted by the radar scope. This observation went on for 49 minutes. Signed: Todos M. Odarenko. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_554 ### Event 12191 (B1C3C961) **Date:** 7/12/1955 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** WALLOWA, OR **Description:** 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) telescope. 10-12 aluminum saucers spin. Jets chase 20 July.. too high.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 219) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4659 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "899", **HatchDesc:** "WALLOWA,OR:2 OBS/TSCOPE:10-12 ALUM.SCRS SPIN::JETS CHASE 20JLY..TOO HIGH..", **LatLong:** "45.572224 -117.527783", **LatLongDMS:** "45:34:20 N 117:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.572224,-117.527783)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12192 (6CE4C738) **Date:** 7/12/1955 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** INNERKIP, ONT **Description:** 2 observer(s). 8 chrome dinner-PLATEs / 15 minute(s). Sharp edges. 1 huge. / r173p275. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4660 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "298", **HatchDesc:** "INNERKIP,ONT:2 OBS:8 CHROME DINNER-PLATEs/15min:SHARP EDGES:1 HUGE:/r173p275", **LatLong:** "43.211113 -80.694448", **LatLongDMS:** "43:12:40 N 80:41:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.211113,-80.694448)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12193 (5A770420) **Date:** 7/12/1955 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** PALMDALE, CA **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers / (seen thru) telescope and several. 3 silver triangles soar and dart all about themselves. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4661 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "775", **HatchDesc:** "PALMDALE,CA:ATCs/TSCOPE+SVRL:3 SLVR TRIANGLES SOAR+DART ALL ABOUT THEMSELVES", **LatLong:** "34.577779 -118.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:34:40 N 118:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.577779,-118.116672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12194 (D4DC86EC) **Date:** 7/13/1955 **Location:** LONDON, ONT **Description:** Several observer(s). 200' saucer going quickly south over Lake Erie. Suddenly shoots going up [to] and away. RCAF alert. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4662 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON,ONT:SVRL OBS:200'SCR>>S OVR LAKE ERIE:SUDDENLY SHOOTS ↑+AWAY:RCAF ALERT", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -81.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 81:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-81.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12195 (6435464C) **Date:** 7/13/1955 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** GLEN AVON, CA AND LONG BEACH **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Red round object drops. Rises. Going quickly west then going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4663 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "227", **HatchDesc:** "GLEN AVON,CA+LONG BEACH:2 SEP.OBS:RED ROUND OBJ DROPS:RISES:>>W THEN ↑:", **LatLong:** "34.011113 -117.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:40 N 117:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.011113,-117.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12196 (21944EA3) **Date:** 7/14/1955 **Location:** BOCA CHICA NAS, FL **Description:** Navy astronomer. 800' meteor / 40 mile(s) altitude / 63000mph "artificial".. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4664 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOCA CHICA NAS,FL:NAVY ASTRONOMER:800'METEOR/40mi ALT/63000mph "ARTIFICIAL"..", **LatLong:** "24.566668 -81.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "24:34:00 N 81:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.566668,-81.766671)", **RelAlt:** "19999", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12197 (164A31C9) **Date:** 7/14/1955 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** OTTER TAIL LAKE, MN **Description:** 2 / boat and several. Ovoid / windows / side hovers / 15 minute(s). Shift / no drift. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4665 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "402", **HatchDesc:** "OTTER TAIL LAKE,MN:2/BOAT+SVRL:OVOID/WINDOWS/SIDE HVRS/15min:SHIFT/NO DRIFT", **LatLong:** "46.400002 -95.661116", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:00 N 95:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.400002,-95.661116)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12198 (867C327C) **Date:** 7/16/1955 **Location:** Eastern United States, various **Description:** UFOs observed over wide area, jets scrambled. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1855 ### Event 12199 (B6B99D0A) **Date:** 7/17/1955 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BEXLEY, LONDON **Description:** 2 / car. Shadow follows car. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 18' dumbbell hovers overhead. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 303) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4666 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BEXLEY,LONDON:2/CAR:SHADOW FOLOS CAR:CAR EMES:18'DUMBBELL HVRS OVHD:SEP.OBS ", **LatLong:** "51.466669 0.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 00:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,0.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12200 (97B8CD84) **Date:** 7/17/1955 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** CANTON, OH **Description:** Silent domed saucer hovers. Climbs away as airliner nears. / r78p174. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4667 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "330", **HatchDesc:** "CANTON,OH:SILENT DOMED SCR HVRS:CLIMBS AWAY AS AIRLINER NEARS:/r78p174", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -81.372226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 81:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-81.372226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12201 (F423AE68) **Date:** 7/17/1955 **Location:** Nr. Adelaide, AU **Description:** Silver oblong UFO viewed through binoculars; hovered; moved away behind clouds as an aircraft neared. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1856 ### Event 12202 (46B6F681) **Date:** 7/17/1955 **Location:** Canton, OH **Description:** Disc hovered, climbed away as airliner approached. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1857 ### Event 12203 (C7577EF7) **Date:** 7/17/1955 **Description:** Shortly before noon in Bexleyheath, England and while driving a country road with two passengers, Mr. Fry noticed a dark shadow hanging over the road. His car began to slow down, and stop and start intermittently. Above was an gray oval-shaped disc 100 to 150 feet in diameter. It was spinning and making a swishing or humming noise. The UFO flipped over and rose up into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** FSR, November 1976, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4123 ### Event 12204 (B71080D1) **Date:** 7/17/1955 **Description:** At dusk a man in Meopham, Kent County, England had taken his dog out for a walk through some local fields when he suddenly felt that he was being watched. Also, his dog was acting peculiar and the hairs on his dog's back were standing straight up. He looked up and saw a very large, hovering cigar-shaped object with large rounded windows, almost directly overhead. The windows were brightly lit and inside he could see several humanoid figures who appeared to be observing him. The object followed him without making any noise, as he ran with his dog across the fields and to his home. The witness hid inside his house, and he last saw the object hovering over some nearby buildings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, case # 838, citing Mrs M. Fry, Contact, FSR, Volume. 27, # 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4124 ### Event 12205 (EDA2217C) **Date:** 7/18/1955 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** PLESSIEL FIELD / ABBEVILLE, FR **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Vibrant bright slow silent saucer southeast going quickly northwest. Leaves (something behind) trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 366) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4668 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "PLESSIEL FIELD/ABBEVILLE,FR:2 SEP.OBS:VBRITE SLOW SLNT SCR SE>>NW:LVS TRAIL", **LatLong:** "50.138891 1.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:08:20 N 01:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.138891,1.833333)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12206 (335942D6) **Date:** 7/18/1955 **Time:** 0300 **Location:** Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France **Description:** Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the airfield were blinded by a light from a disk-shaped object 150 m away. It left orange glows in its trail. Silent, flying slowly, it hovered near the Metro station, close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul-Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object half-an-hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_366 ### Event 12207 (11103A24) **Date:** 7/18/1955 **Description:** At 3 o'clock in the morning at Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the field were blinded by the light from a disc-shaped object 150 m away. The disc left an orange glowing trail. It was silent, flew slowly, and hovered near the Metro station close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object half an hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of UFO Landings, p. 250 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4164 ### Event 12208 (689EB939) **Date:** 7/20/1955 **Location:** WESTON, OR **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Silver saucer / 22km altitude. Jets chase. Rises / 32km. Jets can't reach. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 333) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4669 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "560", **HatchDesc:** "WESTON,OR:GOC OBS:SLVR SCR/22km ALT:JETS CHASE:RISES/32km:JETS CAN'T REACH", **LatLong:** "45.816669 -118.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "45:49:00 N 118:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.816669,-118.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12209 (F28FF3C7) **Date:** 7/20/1955 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LINCOLN, NE **Description:** Civil observer(s). Silver saucer = 4cm / arms-length. Clearly spins. Northeast going quickly southwest very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 223) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4670 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "345", **HatchDesc:** "LINCOLN,NE:CIV OBS:SLVR SCR = 4cm/ARMS-LENGTH:CLEARLY SPINS:NE>>SW VFAST", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -96.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 96:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-96.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12210 (B2749B44) **Date:** 7/20/1955 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** 2 fighter pilots saw round object with/silver lower part climb when approached (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1858 ### Event 12211 (685CBC06) **Date:** 7/20/1955 **Description:** In the afternoon a farmhand in Edison, Georgia saw a four-foot tall, hairy little gray man without clothes emerge from some nearby woods and walk along a fence. The dwarf was visible for 25 minutes before he returned to woods. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Atlanta (GA) Constitution, July 26, 1955; Ted Bloecher **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4229 ### Event 12212 (A66FF0DA) **Date:** 7/22/1955 **Location:** WEST / SANTA MARIA, CA **Description:** Long silvery object emerges / ocean and flies away. No further details. / r44p38. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4671 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "W/SANTA MARIA,CA:LONG SILVERY OBJ EMERGES/OCEAN AND FLIES AWAY:NFD:/r44p38", **LatLong:** "34.883335 -120.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 N 120:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.883335,-120.666672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12213 (58C39850) **Date:** 7/22/1955 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** 1 observer. Pear-UFO / 500' altitude sprays peach tree. Dead to roots in 24 hours! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4672 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:1 OBS:PEAR-UFO/500'alt SPRAYS PEACH TREE:DEAD TO ROOTS in 24hrs!", **LatLong:** "39.127780 -84.538893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:40 N 84:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.127780,-84.538893)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 12214 (151FF2C3) **Date:** 7/22/1955 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LEICESTER, ENGL **Description:** Formation / bright silver balls. Orbs change positions. Seen widely going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4673 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "LEICESTER,ENGL:FORMn/BRITE SLVR BALLS:ORBS CHANGE POSITIONS:SEEN WIDELY >>NE", **LatLong:** "52.616669 -1.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:37:00 N 01:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.616669,-1.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12215 (82BD7E4D) **Date:** 7/22/1955 **Description:** At eleven o'clock at night a formation of several bright silver balls was sighted that changed positions as they flew over Leicester, England. There were widely reported sightings of these objects as they flew off toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 38 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4292 ### Event 12216 (7B1F261F) **Date:** 7/22/1955 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. several witnesses including one name Estes saw a UFO land in the Atlantic Ocean. It was seen on the surface of the ocean near Santa Maria Island in the Azores. Project Blue Book's explanation of this sighting was that it might have been an aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 38 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4293 ### Event 12217 (1AB37B88) **Date:** 7/22/1955 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. Mr. E. Mootz was gardening in his yard in Cincinnati, Ohio when he was pelted with a dark reddish colored liquid from a pear-shaped object flying slowly at 1,000 feet altitude. The liquid caused his bare skin to feel like someone had poured kerosine on a wound. When he washed the substance off he felt better. The next day his peach tree was dead. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1955, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4294 ### Event 12218 (A92C5D09) **Date:** 7/23/1955 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** AGENVILLERS, 80, FR **Description:** Farmer. Aluminum saucer follows plane going south / 30 second(s). Suddenly shoots off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOURRET, Jean-Claude: Le NOUVEAU DEFI des OVNI. Editions France Loisirs, Paris. 1976 ISBN 2-7242-0104-3 395pp. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4674 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AGENVILLERS,80,FR:FARMER:ALUMINUM SCR FOLOS PLANE >S/30sec:SUDDENLY SHOOTS OFF", **LatLong:** "50.183336 1.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:11:00 N 01:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.183336,1.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12219 (F470908B) **Date:** 7/24/1955 **Location:** ATLANTA, GA **Description:** 40+reports. 100' ovoid-saucer / 2 miles altitude. Stops / 30 second(s) then out of sight / 2 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 225) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4675 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTA,GA:40+REPORTS:100'OVOID-SCR/2mi ALT:STOPS/30sec THEN OUT OF SIGHT/2sec", **LatLong:** "33.766668 -84.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:46:00 N 84:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.766668,-84.416671)", **RelAlt:** "3170", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12220 (319B10BC) **Date:** 7/24/1955 **Locations:** Groom Lake “Ranch” in Nebada; Burbank, California; Area 51; Lockheed’s offices in Burbank **Description:** The Groom Lake “Ranch” in Nebada receives it first delivery of U-2s from Burbank, California, in a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane, accompanied by Lockheed technicians on a Douglas DC-3. Regular Military Air Transport Service flights are set up between Area 51 and Lockheed’s offices in Burbank. To preserve secrecy, personnel fly to Nevada on Monday mornings and return to California on Friday evenings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51) [51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2737 ### Event 12221 (678B39EB) **Date:** 7/25/1955 **Location:** Syracuse (near), NY **Description:** Pilot flying F-86 fighter saw an orange object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1859 ### Event 12222 (09F4A8A1) **Date:** Late 7/1955 **Location:** Lake Ontario beach in St. Catharines, Ontario **Description:** A man, a female companion, and two children are picnicking on a Lake Ontario beach in St. Catharines, Ontario, when a silvery disc approaches them rapidly across the water, then hovers above them before heading to another family nearby. It swings back to the original group, “moving like a clock pendulum.” The man flees to his car but finds it will not start. Through the windows of the UFO, just a few feet above the ground, the witnesses see the faces of four pale-faced men with black hoods covering their ears and heads, sitting straight and rigid. The object shoots over the lake, ascends rapidly, and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 268 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2736 ### Event 12223 (CD47F74A) **Date:** 7/26/1955 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** LASHAM, ENGL **Description:** Boomerang hovers over glider-plane / 30 second(s). Going quickly northwest behind trees. / r139#5p10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4676 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LASHAM,ENGL:BOOMERANG HVRS ovr GLIDER-PLANE/30sec:>>NW bhnd TREES:/r139#5p10", **LatLong:** "51.183336 -1.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:11:00 N 01:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.183336,-1.050000)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12224 (598D9F75) **Date:** 7/26/1955 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** KANSAS CITY, MO **Description:** B47 pilot. White saucer / 66K' altitude. Going quickly southwest / 1300knts. "Possible balloon" / USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4677 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "224", **HatchDesc:** "KANSAS CITY,MO:B47 PILOT:WHT SCR/66K'alt:>>SW/1300knts:"POSSIBLE BALLOON"/USAF", **LatLong:** "39.116669 -94.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 94:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,-94.566671)", **RelAlt:** "20000", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12225 (36A0DC3D) **Date:** 7/26/1955 **Location:** Lasham, Hants, UK **Description:** Members of British Gliding Association watched boomerang -shaped object (or flattened triangle) hover above glider then speed away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1860 ### Event 12226 (7A176BB4) **Date:** 7/26/1955 **Location:** Kansas City, KS **Description:** B-47 Encounters Moving At 1,300 Knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550726](http://www.nicap.org/550726kansascity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1861 ### Event 12227 (36DE329D) **Date:** 7/26/1955 **Locations:** National Airport; Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport; Washington, D.C. **Description:** A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times its own length approaches National Airport \[now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport\] in Washington, D.C., stops, oscillates, and moves off at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport go out when the object approaches and returns to operation when the UFO departs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 135](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=147&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2738 ### Event 12228 (62FCA0A1) **Date:** 7/27/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** PATERSON, NJ **Description:** 1 observer and more. 1 observer. Ringed cylinder/cylindrical object = double-Derby / dwg. Rim-band turns. 10 minute(s). Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4678 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "PATERSON,NJ:1 OBS+:1 OBS:RINGED CYL=DOUBLE-DERBY/dwg:RIM-BAND TURNS:10min:>>W", **LatLong:** "40.916669 -74.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 74:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,-74.166670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12229 (2B93C185) **Date:** 7/28/1955 **Time:** ~00:10 **Location:** SOUTH / KEY WEST, FL **Description:** 2 / Navy jet paced / red night light. Shoots away / 2Kmph. Enormous "exhaust". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4679 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S/KEY WEST,FL:2/NAVY JET PACED/RED NLT:SHOOTS AWAY/2Kmph:ENORMOUS "EXHAUST"", **LatLong:** "24.333334 -81.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "24:20:00 N 81:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.333334,-81.783337)", **State/Prov:** "FLR", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12230 (7A069F5A) **Date:** 7/28/1955 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** UPLAND, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Orange-yellow fireball going [to] San Bernardino. Turns going quickly northeast. Silent. No sparks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4680 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "396", **HatchDesc:** "UPLAND,CA:2 OBS:ORG-YEL FBL > SAN BERNARDINO:TURNS>>NE:SILENT:NO SPARKS", **LatLong:** "34.100002 -117.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:06:00 N 117:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.100002,-117.650006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12231 (8E0DF5E8) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Neon sphere/orb/globe-light. Screech! Zigzags and square turns. Going quickly north. / r139#2p28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4681 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:GOC:NEON ORB-LITE:SCREECH!:ZIGZAGS+SQUARE TURNS:>>N:/r139#2p28", **LatLong:** "39.133335 -84.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:00 N 84:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.133335,-84.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12232 (530577C0) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** KEY BISCAYNE, FL **Description:** Humming noise abates when light on. Night light maneuvers. Dark ovoid near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4682 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KEY BISCAYNE,FL:HUMMING NOISE ABATES WHEN LITE ON:NLT MNVRS:DARK OVOID NEAR", **LatLong:** "25.700001 -80.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "25:42:00 N 80:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.700001,-80.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12233 (ECF541BB) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** COLUMBUS, NE **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3673. 1 observer. 4 orange and 1 white night light. All going up and down [to] like yoyos for 5-6 min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4683 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "440", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,NE:BBK#3673:1 OBS:4 ORG+1 WHT NLT:ALL ↑+↓ LIKE YOYOS FOR 5-6min.", **LatLong:** "41.416669 -97.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:25:00 N 97:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.416669,-97.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12234 (793F8AF7) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Location:** Cincinnati, OH **Description:** Zigzagging UFO made shrill sound. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1862 ### Event 12235 (A2634289) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Location:** Columbus, NE **Description:** 4 orange flashing lights and a white flashing light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3673) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1863 ### Event 12236 (814F0642) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Time:** 10:45 PM **Location:** Columbus, Nebraska **Description:** Witness: Morrice Raymond. Four orange flashing lights and one whIte flashing light moved up and down like yo-yos for 5-6 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_387 ### Event 12237 (029A7D25) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1.3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1050 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1.3" ### Event 12238 (C75A2A65) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Description:** President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) announces a program to launch a scientific satellite during the International Geophysical Year. The program will be run by the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, with advice coming from the Department of Defense. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Amy Shira Teitel, “[How the Stage Was Set for the Satellite](https://www.popsci.com/how-stage-was-set-for-satellite-race/) [Race,](https://www.popsci.com/how-stage-was-set-for-satellite-race/)” Popular Science, January 3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, [Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) [Spaceflight before NASA](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2739 ### Event 12239 (F4A8867E) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Locations:** Lake Ronkonkoma; Long Island, New York **Description:** 8:30–9:30 p.m. An aircraft engineer and four others notice a “2nd magnitude star” in the vicinity of Saturn at Lake Ronkonkoma on Long Island, New York. The star moves in a perfect circle around Saturn, heads east until it gets to the Moon, where it executes a half-circle pass and disappears. The object then appears 120° away and moves horizontally until it takes an abrupt turn vertically. It disappears again at about 70° above the horizon. Then it reappears in a straight dive-like descent until it reacquires its original 30° elevation. It proceeds horizontally again, makes an abrupt angular shift again downwards, and is lost in the trees. Through binoculars the object looks spherical and yellowish. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 8–9; Swords 227 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2740 ### Event 12240 (416C4266) **Date:** 7/29/1955 **Description:** In Columbus, Nebraska at 10:45 p.m.Morrice Raymond watched four orange flashing lights and one whIte flashing light move up and down like yo-yos for 5-6 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4478 ### Event 12241 (4A6A1D60) **Date:** 7/30/1955 **Location:** KING SALMON, AK **Description:** 2 Air Traffic Controllers. Comet-fireball makes several 90-turns / 5 minute(s). 25K' altitude. Supersonic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4684 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "KING SALMON,AK:2 ATCS:COMET-FBL MAKES SVRL 90-TURNS/5min:25K'alt:SUPERSONIC", **LatLong:** "58.694447 -156.661119", **LatLongDMS:** "58:41:40 N 156:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.694447,-156.661119)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12242 (AFF230DA) **Date:** 7/30/1955 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** WINSTED, CT **Description:** Civil observer(s). Round silver object flies west going quickly north. Size = baseball / arms length. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4685 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "217", **HatchDesc:** "WINSTED,CT:CIV OBS:ROUND SILVER OBJ FLIES W>>N:SIZE=BASEBALL/ARMS LENGTH", **LatLong:** "41.933335 -73.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:56:00 N 73:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.933335,-73.050003)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12243 (E2D13196) **Date:** 7/30/1955 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** NEAR NIAGARA FALLS, NY **Description:** Saucer rises / Lake Erie. Buzzes 2 families. Cars inoperative. 4 small humanoids (or Greys) / dome. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4686 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "nr NIAGARA FALLS,NY:SCR RISES/LAKE ERIE:BUZZES 2 FAMILYS:CARS INOP:4 OIDS/DOME", **LatLong:** "42.750002 -78.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:45:00 N 78:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.750002,-78.833337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12244 (7BC10A64) **Date:** 8/1955 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** JEDBURGH, SCOTLAND **Description:** Air Cadet. Dog panics. Silent 40' silver cylinder/cigar-shape going northeast / 10mph cloud to cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4687 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "129", **HatchDesc:** "JEDBURGH,SCOTL:AIR CADET:DOG PANICS:SLNT 40'SLVR CGR >NE/10mph CLOUD to CLOUD", **LatLong:** "55.483336 -2.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "55:29:00 N 02:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.483336,-2.533333)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12245 (DFD01336) **Date:** 8/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CAZERES, FR **Description:** 2 egg-yolks / field. 2 bald 90cm small humanoids (or Greys) near. Bits / aluminum found. / r30p218. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4688 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CAZERES,FR:2 EGG-YOLKS/FLD:2 BALD 90cm OIDS NEAR:BITS/ALUMINUM FOUND:/r30p218", **LatLong:** "43.216669 1.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:13:00 N 01:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.216669,1.083333)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12246 (3178EF35) **Date:** 8/1955 **Location:** Jedburgh, Scotland, UK **Description:** Dog bolts as cigar-shaped object flies by (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** NICAP: [550800](http://www.nicap.org/jedburghdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1864 ### Event 12247 (4C8307B8) **Date:** 8/1955 **Locations:** Black Arch; Antrim Coast Road; Larne, County Antrim; Northern Ireland **Description:** Hundreds of people gather each night at the Black Arch, on the Antrim Coast Road near Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to watch a mysterious display of lights at sea. The light flashes three or four times in quick succession, then flashes again about 6 minutes later. The Larne police suspect that the lights are flares dropped from aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Larne Times, August 18, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54–55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2741 ### Event 12248 (F4D920D7) **Date:** 8/1955 **Locations:** Luzern, Switzerland; Waldibrücke; Eschenbach **Description:** Police from Luzern, Switzerland, investigate a sighting of a shiny metallic disc seen at Waldibrücke and Eschenbach. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Forscher findet verschollene UFO-Akten der Schweiz,](http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com/2013/07/forscher-findet-verschollene-ufo-akten.html)” Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, July 8, 2013; “The Swiss X-Files,” Fortean Times 312 \(April 2014\): 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2742 ### Event 12249 (1A56CEA7) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** WILLOUGHBY, OH **Description:** 4 observer(s). 100' saucer with lit dome. Fan noise. Light beams / openings. / r2p183. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4689 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "203", **HatchDesc:** "WILLOUGHBY,OH:4 OBS:100'SCR W/LIT DOME:FAN NOISE:LITE BEAMS/OPENINGS:/r2p183", **LatLong:** "41.633335 -81.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:38:00 N 81:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.633335,-81.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12250 (32775098) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** SALON-DE-PROVENCE, FR **Description:** 12M saucer dives at & circles car. Silent. 2 observer(s) go to police. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 367) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4690 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SALON-de-PROVENCE,FR:12M SCR DIVES AT & CIRCLES CAR:SILENT:2 OBS GO TO POLICE", **LatLong:** "43.633335 5.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:38:00 N 05:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.633335,5.100000)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12251 (5DB08997) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Time:** night **Location:** Salon, near Arles, France **Description:** Two persons in a car saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover about 30 m above the road. A disk, 12 m in diameter, it flew around the car and went away without noise. The witnesses were tourists, who went straight to the Arles police. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 105 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_367 ### Event 12252 (CBA780BB) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Chardon Road, Ohio **Description:** Mr. Sheneman, who was coming from Willoughby, came out of his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it that came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward his house, and the object appeared to chase him at less than 70 m altitude. It measured about 30 m in diameter and supported a dome. Mr. Sheneman, his wife, and their two children saw it fly away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Evidence 114 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_368 ### Event 12253 (7207B559) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Location:** Groom Lake, Nevada **Description:** The first test flight of the Lockheed U-2 takes place at Groom Lake, Nevada. During a high-speed-taxi test in the first U-2, Lockheed’s chief test pilot, [Tony LeVier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeVier)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeVier) inadvertently becomes airborne after accelerating the U-2 to 70 knots. He is unable to land the U-2 on his first attempt, and it bounces back into the air, but he manages to successfully bring it down on a second try. Damage to the prototype U-2 is very minor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lockheed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2) [U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2)”; “[Area 51 and the Accidental Test Flight,](https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/area-51-and-the-accidental-test-flight/)” Central Intelligence Agency, August 6, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2743 ### Event 12254 (2551C6EF) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Location:** Willoughby, Ohio **Description:** 8:45 p.m. William M. Sheneman, the owner of a radio/TV store in Willoughby, Ohio, pulls into his driveway and walks across the street to check his mailbox. He sees a red light about 1,000 feet away coming at him at a right angle. He thinks it is a plane about to crash. Then the ground is illuminated with two brilliant lights aimed directly from the object. He runs back into the house as the UFO moves over his garage about 50–100 feet in the air. He sees a big red light at the front and a green light at the rear. Then all the lights turn off and the object moves away over the woods. He and his wife can now see the outline of a dome lit up with tiny lights inside. It hovers there for 5 minutes then moves away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 114](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=126&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) The Author, 1992, pp. 31–32; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) CUFOS, 1978, p. 180; Clark III 244–245 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2744 ### Event 12255 (ED519EE1) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Description:** Joseph Whaley, age 20, was cutting the grass along Highway 118 in Bronwood, Georgia when he saw a six-foot “gorilla” come running towards him. It was covered with shaggy gray hair and had tusk like teeth, and it grunted like a pig. Whaley struck at it with his scythe and then ran to this jeep, but it pursued him and clawed at him, ripping his shirt and scratching his shoulder. It moved “in a lumbering and slow moving” manner. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Atlanta Constitution, August 3, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-14 (A0376) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4560 ### Event 12256 (A1901793) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Description:** Mr. Sheneman had just driven home from Willoughby, Ohio and was preparing to go into his house at around 9:00 p.m. He got out of his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it. The UFO came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward his house while the object appeared to pursue him less than 70 meters above the ground. The domed disc was estimated to measure about 30 meters in diameter. His wife and their two children saw it fly away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 114; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4561 ### Event 12257 (2B2D9D87) **Date:** 8/1/1955 **Description:** On this night two tourists in a car in Salon, near Arles, France saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover 30 meters above the road. The disc-shaped object flew around the car and flew away without making a sound. The witnesses went straight to the Arles police. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4562 ### Event 12258 (FDDFA4BA) **Date:** 8/2/1955 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** SF BAY OFF RICHMOND, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). White fireball / colored lights going quickly east. Splits / 3 parts going quickly [to] different directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4691 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SF BAY off RICHMOND,CA:2 OBS:WHT FBL/CLRD LITES >>E:SPLITS/3 PARTS >>DIFF.DIRs", **LatLong:** "37.883335 -122.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:53:00 N 122:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.883335,-122.416673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12259 (FC866BC0) **Date:** 8/2/1955 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** FRESNO, CA **Description:** Weatherman / theodolite. Bright silver saucer near balloon. Going quickly [to] against wind. / r139#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4692 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "89", **HatchDesc:** "FRESNO,CA:WTHRMAN/THEODOLITE:BRITE SLVR SCR nr BALLOON:>>AGAINST WIND:/r139#2", **LatLong:** "36.733335 -119.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:44:00 N 119:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.733335,-119.766672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12260 (888ABF69) **Date:** 8/2/1955 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 12KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1051 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "12" ### Event 12261 (06E184C2) **Date:** 8/2/1955 **Locations:** Copenhagen, Denmark; Russia **Description:** [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) informs the Sixth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Copenhagen, Denmark, that President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) has decided to back the launch of a US scientific satellite during the upcoming International Geophysical Year. Not to be outdone, Soviet delegate [Leonid I. Sedov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%5FI.%5FSedov) calls a press conference and announces that Russia can launch an artificial satellite within the next 2 years that will be more sophisticated than the Americans’ efforts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Amy Shira Teitel, “[How the Stage Was Set for the Satellite Race,](https://www.popsci.com/how-stage-was-set-for-satellite-race/)” Popular Science, January 3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, [Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) [before NASA](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2745 ### Event 12262 (1D3FAFF1) **Date:** 8/3/1955 **Location:** BRONWOOD, GA **Description:** UFO seen. Jeep stalls. 6' hairy entity attacks / driven off. Jeep OK. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4693 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "112", **HatchDesc:** "BRONWOOD,GA:UFO SEEN:JEEP STALLS:6' HAIRY ENTITY ATTACKS/DRIVEN OFF:JEEP OK", **LatLong:** "31.833335 -84.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "31:50:00 N 84:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.833335,-84.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12263 (23610E18) **Date:** 8/3/1955 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** MCDONALD, PA **Description:** Civil observer(s). Red-orange-yellow saucer climbs / 45d angle going quickly north. Seen / 4 minute(s). Blue Book report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4694 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "McDONALD,PA:CIV OBS:RED-ORG-YEL SCR CLIMBS/45d ANGLE >>N:SEEN/4min:BBK REPORT", **LatLong:** "40.372224 -80.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:22:20 N 80:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.372224,-80.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12264 (4CF4D989) **Date:** 8/4/1955 **Location:** EAST ST. LOUIS, IL **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver "weather balloon" hovers / minutes. Zooms away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4695 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "E.St LOUIS,IL:SVRL OBS:SLVR "WEATHER BALLOON" HVRS/MINUTES:ZOOMS AWAY:", **LatLong:** "38.633335 -90.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:38:00 N 90:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.633335,-90.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12265 (11277123) **Date:** 8/5/1955 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** BUZANCY, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). 5 disks going down [to] and going up [to] very fast. 2 land / German cemetery. 3 going quickly south fast. / r8#369. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOURRET, Jean-Claude: Le NOUVEAU DEFI des OVNI. Editions France Loisirs, Paris. 1976 ISBN 2-7242-0104-3 395pp. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4696 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BUZANCY,FR:3 OBS:5 DISKS ↓+↑ VFAST:2 LAND/GERMAN CEMETERY:3 >>S FAST:/r8#369", **LatLong:** "49.427780 4.961111", **LatLongDMS:** "49:25:40 N 04:57:40 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.427780,4.961111)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12266 (61937B8D) **Date:** 8/5/1955 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Teardrop south going quickly north. Windows! 6 August saucer lands going quickly [to] atomic plant! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4697 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:1000s/OBS:TEARDROP S>>N:WINDOWS!::6AUG SCR LANDS>>ATOMIC PLANT!", **LatLong:** "39.094446 -84.538893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:05:40 N 84:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.094446,-84.538893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12267 (53485A7D) **Date:** 8/5/1955 **Time:** 1430 **Location:** Buzancy, Ardennes, France **Description:** Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disk-shaped machines coming down and up again at great speed. One of them flew under the others, then two disks appeared to land 300 m away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_369 ### Event 12268 (F7ECCB11) **Date:** 8/5/1955 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1.2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1052 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1.2" ### Event 12269 (34EA7EBC) **Date:** 8/5/1955 **Description:** Buzancy, Ardennes, France - At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped craft come down from the sky and fly back up again at a high rate of speed. One of them flew under the others. Two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4673 ### Event 12270 (76F5EDF1) **Date:** 8/5/1955 **Description:** A photograph of a spherical UFO was taken at a school in Anchorage, Alaska by a man named G. Henning. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Max Miller, Saucers, May 1956, p. 1; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, 1975, p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4674 ### Event 12271 (556ECA25) **Date:** 8/5/1955 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped machines coming down in Buzancy, Ardennes, France. They maneuvered at great speed. One of them flew under the others, then two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 369 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4675 ### Event 12272 (18CB836F) **Date:** 8/6/1955 **Location:** PUERTO CUMAREBO, VNZ **Description:** 3 observer(s). Brilliant object going quickly south through clouds. Retraces path south going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4698 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "PUERTO CUMAREBO,VNZ:3 OBS:BRILLIANT OBJ >> S THRU CLOUDS:RETRACES PATH S>>N", **LatLong:** "11.466667 -69.350003", **LatLongDMS:** "11:28:00 N 69:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.466667,-69.350003)", **State/Prov:** "FLC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12273 (99C743F6) **Date:** 8/6/1955 **Location:** Cincinnati, OH **Description:** Oval-shaped UFO observed ascending at high speed. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1865 ### Event 12274 (55FDC13C) **Date:** 8/6/1955 **Description:** A UFO witness watched an extremely brightly lit UFO over Cincinnati, Ohio for less than 10 seconds. He later suffered from red, irritated eyes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** CRIFO Orbit, September 1955, p. 2, Leonard Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 148; T. Scott Crain, Jr., Flying Saucers magazine, June-July 1971, p. 7, Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 85 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4722 ### Event 12275 (C8D048AA) **Date:** 8/7/1955 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** HOBART, IN **Description:** 1 observer / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver sphere/orb/globe criss-crosses entire sky. / letter to Bluebook. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4699 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "196", **HatchDesc:** "HOBART,IN:1 OBS/BINOCS:SLVR ORB CRISS-CROSSES ENTIRE SKY:/LETTER to BLUEBOOK", **LatLong:** "41.533335 -87.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:32:00 N 87:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.533335,-87.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12276 (2860F45F) **Date:** 8/7/1955 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** AKRON, OH **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Pink streak going quickly south / 10 minute(s). 15K' altitude. Exits going up. 9 August military and civil Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Saucer going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 244) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4700 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "AKRON,OH:GOC OBS:PINK STREAK>>S/10min:15K'alt:EXITS↑::9AUG MIL+CIV GOC:SCR>>SW", **LatLong:** "41.100002 -81.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:06:00 N 81:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.100002,-81.516671)", **RelAlt:** "4500", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12277 (E1853265) **Date:** 8/7/1955 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** FRASERBURGH, SCOTLAND **Description:** Sea cadets. Dark grey 'space-ship' over bay. Amazing speed. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4701 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "FRASERBURGH,SCOTL:SEA CADETS:DRK GRY 'SPACE-SHIP' OVR BAY:AMAZING SPEED:NFD", **LatLong:** "57.700003 -1.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "57:42:00 N 01:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.700003,-1.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12278 (A3AF2D0B) **Date:** 8/8/1955 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** MARENGO, IL **Description:** 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 4 bright saucers spin / southwest sky. Tilt-hover-zip-hover etc. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4702 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "MARENGO,IL:2 OBS/BINOCS:4 BRITE SCRS SPIN/SW SKY:TILT-HVR-ZIP-HVR etc:>>SE", **LatLong:** "42.266669 -88.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:00 N 88:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.266669,-88.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12279 (B9949DA0) **Date:** 8/8/1955 **Description:** The CIA’s [Todos Odarenko](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/08/archives/dr-todos-m-odarenko.html) writes an office memorandum recommending that the CIA should maintain a file of UFO sightings but deny that all investigations are inactive, and separate explainable UFOs from unidentifiable reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 75–76](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/74/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2746 ### Event 12280 (848F97D0) **Date:** 8/9/1955 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR MOON LAKE, NE **Description:** 3 farm families. Bright moon-size object hovers low / 2 hours. Night lights exit going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4703 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "807", **HatchDesc:** "nr MOON LAKE,NE:3 FARM FAMILIES:BRITE MOONSIZE OBJ HVRS LO/2hrs:NLTS EXIT >>N:", **LatLong:** "42.400002 -100.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:24:00 N 100:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.400002,-100.100005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12281 (B98958B3) **Date:** 8/9/1955 **Description:** A bright object, the apparent size of the Moon, hovered low near the horizon near Moon Lake, Nebraska for two hours. Nocturnal lights exited from it and flew off to the north. There were several witnesses from three families. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, August 1955; Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4790 ### Event 12282 (640D54C1) **Date:** 8/10/1955 **Location:** GRAND ISLAND, NE **Description:** Several observer(s). Many disks cross northeast sky. 1 or 2 at a time / several hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4704 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "563", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND ISLAND,NE:SVRL OBS:MANY DISKS CROSS NE SKY:1 OR 2 AT A TIME/SVRL HOURS", **LatLong:** "40.916669 -98.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 98:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,-98.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12283 (458C9E27) **Date:** 8/10/1955 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** ST. PAUL, MN **Description:** Silver hamburger-saucer going [to] over capitol building. Stops. Descends. Shoots going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 514) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4705 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "234", **HatchDesc:** "St.PAUL,MN:SLVR HAMBURGER-SCR >ovr CAPITOL BLDG:STOPS:DESCENDS:SHOOTS >>E", **LatLong:** "44.950002 -93.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 93:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,-93.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12284 (0C4F566B) **Date:** 8/10/1955 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** PERGINE-V, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver-green half-moon-size disk going quickly west. Stops. Changes color(s). Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 512) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4706 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PERGINE-V,ITL:SVRL OBS:SLVR-GRN HALF-MOONSIZE DISK >>W:STOPS:CHANGES CLRS:>>W", **LatLong:** "46.066669 11.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:04:00 N 11:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.066669,11.233334)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "TAA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12285 (3AC6B74E) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** STOCKPORT, ENGL **Description:** 6 kids. Bubble dome saucer hums going north. Spots = possible portholes. No maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 516) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4707 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKPORT,ENGL:6 KIDS:BUBBLE DOME SCR HUMS >N:SPOTS=POSS.PORTHOLES:NO MNVRS", **LatLong:** "53.400003 -2.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:24:00 N 02:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.400003,-2.150000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12286 (97544347) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** ALTAR, MEXICO **Description:** Many observer(s). Large luminous body hovers / 1 hour! Clouds pass beneath. Then extremely quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 515) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4708 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "495", **HatchDesc:** "ALTAR,MEXICO:MANY OBS:LRG LUMn.BODY HVRS/1 HOUR!:CLOUDS PASS BENEATH:THEN ↑↑↑", **LatLong:** "30.700001 -111.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "30:42:00 N 111:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.700001,-111.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Sonora", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12287 (31D6D697) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** CAIRO, IL **Description:** Lady. Vibrant bright triangle going quickly NNW low / horizon. Silent. No contrail. Seen / 20 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 668) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4709 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "CAIRO,IL:LADY:VBRITE TRIANGLE >>NNW LOW/HRZN:SLNT:NO CONTRAIL:seen/20sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.000002 -89.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 89:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,-89.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12288 (8DF7FDD9) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Location:** Unknown Location in Iceland, Iceland **Description:** 12 Objects Observed By AF Officer (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 3699) **Reference:** NICAP: [550811](http://www.nicap.org/550811iceland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1866 ### Event 12289 (2A57FD5E) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Time:** 11:45 AM **Location:** Iceland **Description:** Witness: 2nd Lt. E.J. Marlow. Twelve grey objects, from cigar to egg-shaped, varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speed varied from hover to 1,000 m.p.h. Sighting lasted 3-4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_388 ### Event 12290 (6D7BDFAB) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Location:** Cairo, Illinois **Description:** 9:30 p.m. A witness in Cairo, Illinois, sees a triangular-shaped UFO low on the horizon above the trees, heading silently north and slightly west. Its front end is dark, its middle section bluish green, and its end very bright. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2008%2000%20-%20August%5F%28underlinings%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2747 ### Event 12291 (943F894E) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Description:** Iceland. At 11:45 a.m. Lt. E. J. Marlow sighted twelve gray objects, from cigar to egg-shaped, flying in formation. The objects varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speeds varied from hovering to 1,000 mph. His sighting lasted 3-4 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4860 ### Event 12292 (B2CDB721) **Date:** 8/11/1955 **Description:** A very bright triangular object flew over Cairo, Illinois at 9:30 p.m. and rapidly flew off to the north-northwest low on the horizon. It was silent, and left no contrail. The sighting lasted for 20 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, August 1955 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4861 ### Event 12293 (19FC4352) **Date:** 8/12/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / MT. DORA, FL **Description:** 5 observer(s). Night lights playfully flit about / sky north / Lake Gertrude. To and fro going up and down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 248) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4710 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "NW/Mt DORA,FL:5 OBS:NLTS PLAYFULLY FLIT ABOUT/SKY N/LAKE GERTRUDE:TO+FRO ↑+↓", **LatLong:** "28.816668 -81.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "28:49:00 N 81:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.816668,-81.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12294 (ACFB0267) **Date:** 8/14/1955 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** WADENA, MN **Description:** Civil observer(s). Silent metal ovoid with windows going quickly [to] against wind. Extremely bright. Going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4711 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "417", **HatchDesc:** "WADENA,MN:CIV OBS:SILENT MTL OVOID W/WINDOWS >>AGAINST WIND:EXTREMELY BRITE:↑", **LatLong:** "46.444447 -95.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "46:26:40 N 95:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.444447,-95.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12295 (EC553C64) **Date:** 8/14/1955 **Description:** On this afternoon in Dogtown, Indiana a woman swimming in the Ohio River, a Mrs. Johnson, had her left leg grabbed by a hairy creature with large claws. It pulled her under the water twice, and she was left with scratches and brushes. A shiny round object was seen in the sky across the river a few minutes later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Evansville Press, August 15, 1955; Isabel L. Davis & Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, p. 181; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0377 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5001 ### Event 12296 (48BF3BB6) **Date:** 8/15/1955 (approximate) **Location:** CAISTOR, LINCOLNSHIRE **Description:** 1 observer. Silvery sphere/orb/globe going down. Releases red hoop going down. Sphere/orb/globe zooms going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4712 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "CAISTOR,LINCOLNSHIRE:1 OBS:SLVRY ORB ↓:RELEASES RED HOOP ↓:ORB ZOOMS ↑+AWAY.", **LatLong:** "53.494447 -0.322222", **LatLongDMS:** "53:29:40 N 00:19:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.494447,-0.322222)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12297 (88D83CD6) **Date:** 8/15/1955 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** KLAMATH FALLS, OR **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) Ustack and Taylor / (seen thru) binoculars. Bouncing sphere/orb/globe east going quickly west. / 22 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4713 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "1323", **HatchDesc:** "KLAMATH FALLS,OR:GOC USTACK+TAYLOR/BINOCS:BOUNCING ORB E>>W:/22min:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.222224 -121.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:13:20 N 121:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.222224,-121.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12298 (D9996673) **Date:** 8/15/1955 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** BETLEY, STAFFS **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). Adamski-saucer drops and hovers / 200' altitude. Shoots going quickly north. Back 22 Nov. '55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4714 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "BETLEY,STAFFs:3 SEP.OBS:ADAMSKII-SCR DROPS+HVRS/200'alt:SHOOTS>>N:BACK 22NOV55", **LatLong:** "53.038891 -2.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:02:20 N 02:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.038891,-2.366667)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12299 (F475E31A) **Date:** 8/16/1955 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** BRADFORD, WEST YORKS **Description:** 1.2M small humanoid (or Grey). Feet together. Hops into alley. Silver disk / chest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 370) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4715 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "152", **HatchDesc:** "BRADFORD,W.YORKS:1.2M OID:FEET TOGETHER:HOPS INTO ALLEY:SLVR DISK/CHEST:", **LatLong:** "53.783336 -1.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:47:00 N 01:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.783336,-1.733333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 12300 (5624B7F0) **Date:** 8/16/1955 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Bradford, England **Description:** Mr. Ernest Suddard, 35, and his 13-year-old son were in a lorry on Roundhill Street when they saw what seemed to be a human being about 1.20 m tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of jumps. On its chest was a silver disk perforated with holes. It turned off suddenly into a passageway and was lost to sight. The witnesses were too amazed to follow it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Constance 222 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_370 ### Event 12301 (DFB87EB9) **Date:** 8/16/1955 **Location:** Bradford, West Yorks, England **Description:** Early morning. Truck driver Ernest Suddard and his 13-year-old son are returning home to Bradford, West Yorks, England, when their headlights light up a small figure in the street. It is 4 feet tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes, and is hopping forward in a series of jerky movements. A circular, silvery object, perforated with holes, appears on the figure’s chest just below its throat. It approaches the truck then turns away abruptly into a passage. Suddard alerts the police, but they find nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) The Author, 1992, p. 50; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-08-16-uk-bradford.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-08-16-uk-bradford.htm) February 19, 2008 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2748 ### Event 12302 (1F730C93) **Date:** 8/16/1955 **Locations:** Belfast, Northern Ireland; Cave Hill **Description:** 3:55 p.m. Mechanic Hugh Saunders sees a silver object above a white cloudbank above Cave Hill in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is flat and moves swiftly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Belfast Telegraph, August 17, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2749 ### Event 12303 (D5D4C2E3) **Date:** 8/16/1955 **Description:** Mr. Ernest Suddard, age 35, and his 13-year-old son were driving in a truck in Bradford, England at 4:00 in the morning when they saw what seemed to be a short human being about 1.20 meters (4 feet) tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of jumps. On its chest was a silver disc perforated with holes. It turned off suddenly into a passageway and was lost from view. The witnesses were too amazed to follow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jack Ibson, Flying Saucer Review, September 1955, p. 4; Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 222; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 250-251; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0378 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5072 ### Event 12304 (6705DD95) **Date:** 8/17/1955 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** US95 NORTHWEST / LAS VEGAS, NV **Description:** Teacher. Pear-shaped object jumps all over and about car / 90 minute(s). Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4716 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "610", **HatchDesc:** "US95 NW/LAS VEGAS,NV:TEACHER:PEAR-SHAPED OBJ JUMPS ALL OVR+ABOUT CAR/90min:>>E", **LatLong:** "36.633335 -116.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:38:00 N 116:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.633335,-116.000006)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12305 (E2A00763) **Date:** 8/17/1955 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** BREMERTON, WA **Description:** 2 teens. 8 saucers / tight formation curve southwest going quickly west / seconds. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4717 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BREMERTON,WA:2 TEENS:8 SCRS/TIGHT FORMATION CURVE SW>>W/SECONDS:ABS SILENT:", **LatLong:** "47.566669 -122.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:34:00 N 122:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.566669,-122.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12306 (D912FA46) **Date:** 8/18/1955 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / OXFORD, NE **Description:** 3 observer(s). Dark silent circular object blocks stars. 12 lights / rim. Going west low and slow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 517) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4718 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "638", **HatchDesc:** "SE/OXFORD,NE:3 OBS:DRK SLNT CIRC.OBJ BLOCKS STARS:12 LITES/RIM:>W LO+SLOW:", **LatLong:** "40.200002 -99.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:12:00 N 99:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.200002,-99.550005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12307 (C44266E4) **Date:** 8/18/1955 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SAINT-PAIR, MANCHE, FR **Description:** Intense light. Saucer lands / field / total silence. Dog scared. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4719 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "SAINT-PAIR,MANCHE,FR:INTENSE LITE:SCR LANDS/FIELD/TOTAL SILENCE:DOG SCARED", **LatLong:** "48.816669 -1.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:49:00 N 01:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.816669,-1.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Manche", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12308 (91CA5918) **Date:** 8/19/1955 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** PISA, ITALY **Description:** 6 saucers fly over in backwards V-formation! 1 larger than others. Dusk. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 252) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4720 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PISA,ITALY:6 SCRS FLY OVR IN BACKWARDS V-FORMATION!:1 LARGER THAN OTHERS:DUSK", **LatLong:** "43.850002 10.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:51:00 N 10:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.850002,10.400000)", **State/Prov:** "PI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12309 (6EBB31C2) **Date:** 8/19/1955 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE **Description:** 1 observer. 4M-high bullet-shaped object behind hill. High-pitch-buzz. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4721 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "152", **HatchDesc:** "BRADFORD,W.YORKSHIRE:1 OBS:4M-HI BULLET-SHAPED OBJ BEHIND HILL:HI-PITCH-BUZZ", **LatLong:** "53.766669 -1.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:46:00 N 01:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.766669,-1.750000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12310 (A97A81A9) **Date:** 8/19/1955 **Time:** 2330 **Location:** Bradford, England **Description:** About 700 m away from Roundhill street, Mr. Wood, a warehouseman, saw a bright, bullet-shaped, silvery object behind a hillock. It measured about 4 m in height, 1.5 m in diameter, had a surface similar to chromium and made a highpitched buzzing sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Constance 222 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_371 ### Event 12311 (D1ED6666) **Date:** 8/19/1955 **Location:** Lisburn, Northern Ireland **Description:** 2:00 p.m. A “shining, glittering ball” zigzags across the sky over Lisburn, Northern Ireland. It is seen by many people for about 10 minutes. Jeffrey Moore, 17, says it looks like a steel ball at first, then as it gets closer it appears “cross-shaped.” It moves in a variety of directions before disappearing into the clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Belfast Telegraph, August 20, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2750 ### Event 12312 (D838060E) **Date:** 8/19/1955 **Description:** At 11:30 p.m. about 700 meters away from the site of another humanoid encounter only three days before in Bradford, England, Mr. Wood, a warehouseman, saw a bright, silvery, bullet-shaped object behind a hillock. It measured about four meters in height and 1.5 meters in diameter. It had a highly polished chrome-like surface and made a high-pitched buzzing sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 222; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 251 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5155 ### Event 12313 (AFA75143) **Date:** 8/20/1955 **Time:** ~12:00 **Location:** ROCKY MOUNTAINS, CO **Description:** NY going quickly [to] Los Angeles. 25 / airliner. Metal UFO paces / 45 minute(s). Not on RADAR! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4722 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "2700", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKY MTNS,CO:NY>>LOS ANGELES:25/AIRLINER:MTL UFO PACES/45min:NOT ON RDR!", **LatLong:** "38.000002 -107.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 107:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,-107.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12314 (262818BF) **Date:** 8/20/1955 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** KENORA, ONT **Description:** 2 civil airmen. 120cm x 23cm saucer checks out seaplanes. Shoots going quickly west. Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, J. Allen: The UFO EXPERIENCE, A Scientific Inquiry; Ballentine Books, NY 1974,1977. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4723 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "328", **HatchDesc:** "KENORA,ONT:2 CIV AIRMEN:120cm x 23cm SCR CHECKS OUT SEAPLANES:SHOOTS>>W:BBK", **LatLong:** "49.783336 -94.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "49:47:00 N 94:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.783336,-94.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12315 (6A2B93CC) **Date:** 8/20/1955 **Location:** Palmdale, California **Description:** Pilot [Horace A. Hanes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19085768/horace-a-hanes) attains an airspeed record of 822 mph in a North American F-100C Super Sabre at Palmdale, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[North American F-100 Super Sabre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-100%5FSuper%5FSabre)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2751 ### Event 12316 (BCC4D9B3) **Date:** 8/20/1955 **Location:** Kenora, Ontario **Description:** 10:45 p.m. The president of a small Canadian air service and his nightwatchman are checking their seaplanes in their dock at Kenora, Ontario, when they see an object “shaped like two saucers with their open tops touching, one above the other” streaking toward them from the west. It is silvery-white in color and sending out rays from its surface or sparkling “as if some electric force or very hot air was flowing from all the surfaces.” It tilts on its side about 600 feet from them, then straightens out with the flat side parallel with the ground and hovers about 225 feet from them and 40 feet above the surface of the lake. It is completely silent and looks to be only 4–5 feet across. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 111–112](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/110/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2752 ### Event 12317 (8956C435) **Date:** 8/20/1955 **Description:** At 10:45 p.m. two men on a lake in Kenora, Ontario, Canada saw a saucer-shaped UFO come in front of them, hovering just 40 feet over the water. It was silver white in color, four or five feet across, and at a distance of less than 75 meters. It slid sideways, hovered again, tilted on its side, straightened out, then shot away. It was gone in three seconds, covering 40 degrees of arc in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 97; UNICAT, case # 382 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5171 ### Event 12318 (F5DD8D48) **Date:** 8/21/1955 **Location:** CHALMETTE, LA **Description:** Saturn-object glows and hovers and rotates. Turns sideways. Shoots away. / r78p175. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4724 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHALMETTE,LA:SATURN-OBJ GLOWS+HVRS+ROTATES:TURNS SIDEWAYS:SHOOTS AWAY:/r78p175", **LatLong:** "29.950001 -89.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:57:00 N 89:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.950001,-89.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12319 (AF61602E) **Date:** 8/21/1955 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** KELLY, KY **Description:** Saucer lands. Suttons 4 hr shoot-out / floating small humanoids (or Greys). 7 observer(s). / r0p172+/ APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 518) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4725 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "211", **HatchDesc:** "KELLY,KY:SCR LANDS:SUTTONS 4 hr SHOOT-OUT/FLOATING OIDS:7 OBS:/r0p172+/APRO", **LatLong:** "36.966668 -87.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:58:00 N 87:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.966668,-87.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "14" ### Event 12320 (BA2C3FD9) **Date:** 8/21/1955 **End date:** 8/22/1955 **Location:** Kelly (7 miles N of Hopkinsville), KY **Description:** Sutton (Kelly / Hopkinsville) Encounter (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550821-22](http://www.nicap.org/550821hopkinsville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1867 ### Event 12321 (9F9A0B67) **Date:** 8/21/1955 **Location:** Chalmette, LA **Description:** Glowing-white Saturn-shaped object hovered, rotating; turned sideways and shot away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1868 ### Event 12322 (E4E0D2A3) **Date:** 8/21/1955 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Hopkinsville, Kentucky **Description:** The Sutton family saw a light landing near their farmhouse, then several nightmarish entities about 1 m tall, with glowing silver clothing, an oversized round head, huge eyes and ears, and a slit-like mouth harassed them for several hours, in spite of heavy gunfire. At one point, one of the entities was knocked down from the roof by a bullet: it "floated down." Running out of ammunition, the Suttons got the police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic, Anatomy 173; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_372 ### Event 12323 (1236A918) **Date:** 8/21/1955 **End date:** 8/22/1955 **Locations:** Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Elmer “Lucky” Sutton farmhouse; Kelly; Fort Campbell; Shady Oaks restaurant; Sutton farm **Description:** About 7:00 p.m. Billy Ray Taylor goes into the backyard of the Elmer “Lucky” Sutton farmhouse 7 miles north of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and sees a bright object come from the south-southwest, pass over, and descend into a gully about 500 feet north and about 35-40 feet lower elevation. [Glennie Lankford](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10354868/glennie-mae-lankford) and 6 other adults \(Elmer Sutton, Vera Sutton, John Charley Sutton, Alene Sutton, June Taylor, O. P. Baker\) plus 3 children \(Charlton, Lonnie, and Mary Lankford\), see several gremlin-like creatures float down from trees and approach the house from the dark. They are about 3 feet high with roundish heads, elephantine ears, slit-like mouths extending ear to ear, huge and wide-set eyes, no visible necks, and long arms ending in clawed hands. They wear glowing silver clothing. When they run, they drop on all fours. When one of them approaches the house, Sutton and Taylor fire shotguns through the window screen, scoring a direct hit. The creature is knocked over, but gets up and scuttles off. Taylor walks out the door and one of the creatures grabs at his head. This activity continues the greater part of the night and includes heavy gunfire at times. Sutton fires point blank at it, knocking it from the roof, but it just “floats down.” At about 11:00 p.m. they run out of ammunition, and the entire group flees in terror in two cars and drives at high speed into Hopkinsville to report the incident to the police. A state patrolman leaves the Shady Oaks restaurant 3 miles north of Hopkinsville in a car to respond to the call and sees several meteor- like objects streaking over him sounding like artillery fire. He sees two in a series looking like meteors coming from the southwest, headed towards Kelly from the direction of Fort Campbell, a US Army installation. City, county, state, and military police and reporters drive out to the Sutton farm to investigate from 11:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. The UFO entities return at about 2:30 a.m. Glennie Lankford is trying to get to sleep when she sees one outside her window stretching its claw-like hands up to the screen. Elmer Sutton again shoots at them without effect. The last one is seen at about 5:15 a.m. Clark writes that investigations by “police, Air Force officers from nearby Fort Campbell, and civilian ufologists found no evidence of a hoax”; however, [Brian Dunning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FDunning%5F%28author%29) reports that “the claim that Air Force investigators showed up the next day at Mrs. Lankford’s house has been published a number of times by later authors, but I could find no corroborating evidence of this.” Dunning also observes that “the four military police who accompanied the police officers on the night of the event were from an Army base, not an Air Force base.” Skeptic [Joe Nickell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FNickell) notes that the family could have misidentified great horned owls, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and aggressively defend their nests. He thinks Taylor and Sutton were drinking heavily. Meteor sightings also occurred at the time that could explain Billy Ray Taylor’s claim that he saw “a bright light streak across the sky and disappear beyond a tree line some distance from the house.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville%5Fencounter)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) The Author, 1992, pp. 54–75; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15-SN.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15-SN.pdf) The Author, 2002, pp. 18– 36; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 172–178](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/172/mode/2up); Story, [pp. 190–192](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/190/mode/2up); Clark III 642– 643; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 230; “The Close Encounter of the Third Kind at Kelly Re-examined,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 4–6; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 53–56; Joe Nickell, “[Siege of ‘Little Green Men’:](https://skepticalinquirer.org/2006/11/siege-of-little-green-men-the-1955-kelly-kentucky-incident/) [The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident,](https://skepticalinquirer.org/2006/11/siege-of-little-green-men-the-1955-kelly-kentucky-incident/)” Skeptical Inquirer 30, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 2006\); Brian Dunning, “[The Kelly-](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4331) [Hopkinsville Encounter,](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4331)” Skeptoid podcast no. 331, October 9, 2012; Patrick Gross, “[The Kelly-Hopkinsville](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kelly55.htm) [Case, 1955](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kelly55.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2753 ### Event 12324 (6FAF9D4B) **Date:** 8/21/1955 **Description:** Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The Sutton family saw a light land near their farmhouse. Shortly after several goblin-like entities about one meter tall, with glowing silver clothing, oversized round heads, big eyes and huge pointed ears harassed them for several hours. They got out their hunting rifles and started shooting at them. At one point one of the entities was struck by gunfire and was knocked off their roof, but inside of falling normally it "floated down" Close to running out of ammunition, the Suttons fled their farmhouse and got the police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying away very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book; Isabel Davis, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 173; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 251 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5207 ### Event 12325 (D60638E2) **Date:** 8/22/1955 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** NEAR RIVERSIDE, CA **Description:** 12 kids. Saucers hover. 1 lands. Small humanoids (or Greys) exit and speak. / r8#373+/ Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v13#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4726 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "nr RIVERSIDE,CA:12 KIDS:SCRS HVR:1 LANDS:OIDS EXIT+SPEAK:/r8#373+/FSR v13#1", **LatLong:** "33.966668 -117.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:00 N 117:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.966668,-117.400006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12326 (1DA266F3) **Date:** 8/22/1955 **Time:** 1400 **Location:** Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California **Description:** A group of children was playing in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object which disappared and reappeared as a spinning disk with curved lines radiating from it. Other objects, silvery and semi-transparent, soon appeared and were seen by all children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared. One of them landed, and a creature the size of a 4-year-old child, transparent, wearing a belt with a bright disk, was seen nearby. Another creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as "arms" which appeared to beckon to them. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** TSR 67, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_373 ### Event 12327 (3EAFFE7F) **Date:** 8/22/1955 **Description:** Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California. At two o'clock in the afternoon some children were playing in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object that disappeared and reappeared as a spinning disc with curved lines radiating from it. Other objects, silvery and semitransparent, soon appeared and were seen by all of the children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared. One of them landed, and a creature the size of a four-year-old child, transparent and wearing a belt with a bright disc on it, was seen nearby. Another creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as "arms" which appeared to beckon to them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 251, case 373 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5218 ### Event 12328 (2C7F61AD) **Date:** 8/22/1955 **Description:** One of the most famous humanoid reports ever, came to a conclusion on this date at the Sutton farm in Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. After the police had searched the Sutton farm and found no creatures, they left and at two a.m. the little “men” returned, with at least one of them putting its “little clawed hands” up on the window screen. Again they were fired at with rifles without apparent effect. The last of the creatures was seen about half an hour before sunrise. No ground traces of the creatures' presence could be found anywhere during the search that occurred later that same day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Isabel L. Davis & Ted Bloecher, Close Encounters at Kelly and Others of 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5219 ### Event 12329 (DDF9ABD4) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** MT. HEALTHY, OH AND LOVELAND AND FORESTVILLE **Description:** White orbs and disks swing in sky. Erratic maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4727 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "Mt HEALTHY,OH+LOVELAND+FORESTVILLE:WHT ORBS+DISKS SWING IN SKY:ERRATIC MNVRS", **LatLong:** "39.233335 -84.544448", **LatLongDMS:** "39:14:00 N 84:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.233335,-84.544448)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12330 (160514D7) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** ARLINGTON, VA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3720. Amateur astronomer. 5 separate night lights circle sky / different trajectories. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4728 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "ARLINGTON,VA:BBK#3720:AM.ASTRONOMER:5 SEP NLTS CIRCLE SKY/DIFF.TRAJECTORIES", **LatLong:** "38.866669 -77.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:52:00 N 77:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.866669,-77.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12331 (62014A22) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** HARRISBURG, PA **Description:** Observer(s) = Mclaren. Several objects wobble south going quickly north. 6mm / arms length. 10 second(s) each. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4729 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "HARRISBURG,PA:OBS=MCLAREN:SVRL OBJS WOBBLE S>>N:6mm/ARMS LENGTH:10sec EACH", **LatLong:** "40.266669 -76.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:00 N 76:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.266669,-76.883337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 12332 (16829D83) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** 3 bright orbs elude F84s / Max speed. Military observer(s) and RADAR's confirm. / r28p434. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4730 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:3 BRITE ORBS ELUDE F84s/MAX SPEED:MIL OBS+RDRs CONFIRM:/r28p434", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -84.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 84:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-84.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12333 (290BE9BB) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Location:** Cincinnati, OH **Description:** Jet Fighters Dogfight With UFO Picked Up On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [550823](http://www.nicap.org/550823cincinnati%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1869 ### Event 12334 (19858E52) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Location:** Arlington, VA **Description:** Several (6+) orange lights moving singly or in groups (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3720) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1871 ### Event 12335 (E830BDBA) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Time:** 10:45 AM **Location:** Arlington, Virginia **Description:** Witness: G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope. Several orange lights moved singly or in groups, circling and stopping during 30 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_389 ### Event 12336 (D9F33A4A) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **End date:** 8/24/1955 **Locations:** Hamilton County, Ohio; Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base]; Columbus; Cincinnati; Greater Cincinnati Airport; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** 11:50 p.m. Personnel at the Ground Observer Corps tower in Hamilton County, Ohio, notice three white spheres between Columbus and Cincinnati. Tracking the UFOs on radar, they notify SAC at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\], which scrambles jets to investigate. The UFO approaches the tower and hovers in pendulum-like motions directly above it. The interceptors give chase, but the UFO disappears at an incredible speed. The Greater Cincinnati Airport also tracks unidentified blips on radar. To his surprise, [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) obtains clearance to write about these sightings in CRIFO Orbit. But when he tries to interest the Cincinnati newspapers, they are not interested. A Wright-Patterson AFB spokesperson denies the incident to the press and claims to know nothing about Stringfield’s relationship with ADC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 12–14; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 230; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 75 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2754 ### Event 12337 (6E077841) **Date:** 8/23/1955 **Description:** In Arlington, Virginia at 10:45 a.m. G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope, witnessed several orange lights moving singly and in groups, circling and stopping for 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5250 ### Event 12338 (A0E79457) **Date:** 8/24/1955 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MARYSVILLE, OH **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and 2 observer(s). 10' saucer / terrific speed. "All lit up inside". Seen / 15 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4731 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "302", **HatchDesc:** "MARYSVILLE,OH:GOC+2 OBS:10'SCR/TERRIFIC SPEED:"ALL LIT UP INSIDE":SEEN/15sec", **LatLong:** "40.238891 -83.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:20 N 83:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.238891,-83.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12339 (02E080A9) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Location:** BEDFORD, IN **Description:** 2 / car. House lights dim / unison when UFO pulses over house. Imprints / ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4732 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "221", **HatchDesc:** "BEDFORD,IN:2/CAR:HOUSE LITES DIM/UNISON WHEN UFO PULSES OVR HOUSE:IMPRINTS/GND", **LatLong:** "38.861113 -86.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:51:40 N 86:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.861113,-86.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12340 (012C3113) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** FERNALD, OH **Description:** 2 separate cops. Light brown sphere/orb/globe hovers over atomic plant / nuclear facility. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4733 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "158", **HatchDesc:** "FERNALD,OH:2 SEP.COPS:LITE BROWN ORB HVRS OVR ATOMIC PLANT/NUCL FACILITY", **LatLong:** "39.277780 -84.688893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:16:40 N 84:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.277780,-84.688893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12341 (52F5BA9D) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM, ENGL **Description:** Navy man. 15 luminous object / stately in formation leave vapor trails. Very fast northwest going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4734 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "134", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM,ENGL:NAVY MAN:15 LUM.OBJ/STATELY/FORMn LV VAPOR TRAILS:VFAST NW>>S.", **LatLong:** "52.483336 -1.883333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:29:00 N 01:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.483336,-1.883333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12342 (4BBA5DF9) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Location:** Bedford, IN **Description:** House lights dimmed and brightened as hovering UFO pulsated (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1872 ### Event 12343 (0F832E6F) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Location:** Fordland, MO **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Catch-Me-If-You-Can UFO on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [550825](http://www.nicap.org/550825fordlanddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1873 ### Event 12344 (BAA419AD) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Location:** Greenhills, Ohio **Description:** Four adolescents in a car saw a creature with a luminous body, standing near a fireplug. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Stringfield 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_374 ### Event 12345 (ADCEC8B3) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Location:** Bedford, Indiana **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Lloyd Wright and Mrs. Lester Parsons of Bedford, Indiana, see a huge white object with a black streak down the center. The object seems to expand and contract regularly as it hovers over Mrs. Parsons’s home. The houselights appear to dim and pulsate in rhythm with the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2755 ### Event 12346 (D2E1336B) **Date:** 8/25/1955 **Description:** Four teenagers in a car in Greenhills, Ohio saw a creature with a luminous body, standing near a fireplug. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 64; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5313 ### Event 12347 (DBF26AB2) **Date:** 8/26/1955 **Location:** GUARENAS, VNZ **Description:** Humming! Silver sphere/orb/globe zips to and fro and hovers / town. Tickling sensation. / r139#2p78. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 671) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4735 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "512", **HatchDesc:** "GUARENAS,VNZ:HUM!:SLVR ORB ZIPS TO+FRO+HVRS/TOWN:TICKLING SENSATION:/r139#2p78", **LatLong:** "10.466667 -66.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:28:00 N 66:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.466667,-66.616670)", **State/Prov:** "DF", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12348 (09F4BF27) **Date:** 8/26/1955 **Description:** On this day many witnesses in Guarenas, Venezuela saw a silver orb zipping back-and-forth and hovering over the town, making a humming sound. The witnesses reported feeling a tickling sensation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 355 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5358 ### Event 12349 (7B26F436) **Date:** 8/26/1955 **Description:** There were three reports of unusual humanoids in Ohio on this date, two from Hamilton County and one from Franklin County. A child with the last name Perry, in Camp Washington, Ohio was reported in hysterics after seeing a "green man" at the window in the evening. Several people in Mount Air, Ohio saw a dwarf creature that night. A man from Cheviot, Ohio called Donna Meiers to tell her that he had experienced a similar incident involving a "little man" about the same time as the Winton Woods encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A0383, A0385, A0386; Cincinnati Times-Star, August 27, 1955; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 63 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5359 ### Event 12350 (6CB5F9CC) **Date:** 8/28/1955 **Location:** Yonkers, NY **Description:** Board of Education official and others saw a white Saturn-shaped object through a telescope. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1874 ### Event 12351 (2EAB5075) **Date:** 8/29/1955 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Bright metal saucer hovers over Ohio River. Speeds going quickly southwest when plane nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4736 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "205", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:BRITE MTL SCR HVRS OVR OHIO RIVER:SPEEDS >>SW WHEN PLANE NEARS", **LatLong:** "39.105557 -84.505560", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:20 N 84:30:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.105557,-84.505560)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12352 (844FF1F3) **Date:** 8/29/1955 **Location:** England **Description:** RAF pilot [Walter Gibb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FGibb) reaches an official record altitude of 65,876 feet in an English Electric Canberra B.2 turbojet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Walter Gibb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FGibb)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2756 ### Event 12353 (591DC1E6) **Date:** 8/29/1955 **Description:** Eight children in Casa Blanca, Riverside County, California, from 4-15 years of age, saw a “semi transparent” round object of various colors in the sky at around three o'clock in the afternoon. It would appear and disappear with musical “pings.” Some adults were called to come see it, but they saw nothing. An object, “as large as 3 houses,” came down to hover three feet from the ground. Beside it appeared a transparent being 3.5 feet tall, with red eyes and mouth, and a brilliant disc on its belt. Other similar objects also landed, one on a housetop. One boy started walking toward one of the vessels and was forcibly restrained. Another saw a beckoning, disembodied arm in mid-air. A creature with four arms appeared, and told two of the boys to climb a tree to be “picked up.” They did so, and a UFO started to approach with little men riding on its rim. One boy climbed down after a garden hose was turned on him by the other children; the other “slid” onto a nearby roof and then walked off it, landing on his head, stunned but with no apparent serious injury. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Riverside Daily Press, August 30, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1955-21 (A0387), citing Bob Boden, Jean Rowlands & Mary Starbuck for BSRA, Uranus, February 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5459 ### Event 12354 (FE2D09C8) **Date:** 8/30/1955 **Location:** DUDIGNAC, BA, ARG **Description:** 2 observer(s). Tremendous domed saucer. Photograph / wide attention. / r139#2p82. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 683) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4737 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "81", **HatchDesc:** "DUDIGNAC,BA,ARG:2 OBS:TREMENDOUS DOMED SCR:FOTO/WIDE ATTENTION:/r139#2p82", **LatLong:** "-35.650002 -60.733336", **LatLongDMS:** "35:39:00 S 60:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.650002,-60.733336)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12355 (A053714B) **Date:** 8/30/1955 **Location:** Dudignac, Buenos Aires province, Argentina **Description:** 9:30 a.m. Pedro Navarro, 25, takes a photograph of some swirling storm clouds over Dudignac, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. When he develops them, he notes that the disturbance looks more like a giant disc. The newspapers reproduce enhanced versions of the photo, but it is never critically analyzed until several decades later. The best guess is that the photo shows a round cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, “[Exigesis of the](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021%5F12%5F26%5Farchive.html) [Dudignac Saucer of 1955,](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021%5F12%5F26%5Farchive.html)” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, December 26, 2021; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[Exegesis](https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDudignac%5FSaucer%5Fof%5F1955) [of the Dudignac Saucer of 1955,](https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDudignac%5FSaucer%5Fof%5F1955)” January 2022 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2757 ### Event 12356 (624D37F7) **Date:** 8/31/1955 **Location:** PONTELAND, ENGL **Description:** 4 boys. Large saucer / windows / edge. Low altitude. Drone sound. / r139 #2p82. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4738 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "78", **HatchDesc:** "PONTELAND,ENGL:4 BOYS:LRG SCR/WINDOWS/EDGE:LO alt:DRONE SOUND:/r139 #2p82", **LatLong:** "55.055558 -1.755556", **LatLongDMS:** "55:03:20 N 01:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.055558,-1.755556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12357 (1A6983E9) **Date:** 8/31/1955 **Description:** A large disc-shaped object with windows around the rim flew at a low altitude in Ponteland, Northumberland, England. It made a droning sound as it flew. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5521 ### Event 12358 (7F3DF321) **Date:** 9/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** WHITE SANDS RANGE, NM **Description:** Small metallic football follows missile test up / close range. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 501) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4739 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE SANDS RANGE,NM:SML MTLC FOOTBALL FOLOS MISSILE TEST UP/CLOSE RANGE", **LatLong:** "32.883335 -106.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:53:00 N 106:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.883335,-106.216672)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12359 (7BE1AE2E) **Date:** 9/1955 **Locations:** Austrian; American **Description:** Austrian Countess [Zoe Wassilko von Serecki](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe%5FWassilko%5Fvon%5FSerecki) writes an article for American Astrology in which she conceives of UFOs as living animals that inhabit the ionosphere and are attracted to electrical sources. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, “Startling Theory on Flying Saucers,” American Astrology 23 \(September 1955\): 2–5; Clark III 1099–1100 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2758 ### Event 12360 (3325975D) **Date:** 9/1955 **Location:** Lima, Ohio **Description:** Day. Several witnesses see four silver discs flying in formation over Lima, Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2759 ### Event 12361 (FE6B8FA0) **Date:** 9/1/1955 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** EDMORE, MI **Description:** 4 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Thin silver-white coin-disk going quickly east / 9km altitude. 3000kph. Ash falls.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 540) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4740 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "EDMORE,MI:4 GOC OBS:THIN SLVR-WHT COIN-DISK >>E/9km alt:3000kph:ASH FALLS..", **LatLong:** "43.405558 -85.038893", **LatLongDMS:** "43:24:20 N 85:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.405558,-85.038893)", **RelAlt:** "9000", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12362 (B2BF9E70) **Date:** 9/2/1955 **End date:** 9/4/1955 **Locations:** Kalispell, Montana; Whitefish; Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls; Spokane, Washington **Description:** 9:05 p.m. [Eddy Geddes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17944025/eddy-stewart-geddes) notices a fireball as he is driving to Kalispell, Montana, from Whitefish. He stops at a Ground Observer post and notifies the women stationed there. Jets are scrambled from Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls and arrive shortly after midnight, long after the object is gone, but another fireball is apparently seen later. The same scenario occurs on September 4 when five F-94C Starfire jets \(as well as other aircraft from Great Falls and Spokane, Washington, are sent to the Kalispell area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Jets Called in Search for](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98864723/) [‘Fireball’ over Kalispell,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98864723/)” The Missoulian, September 5, 1955, p. 7; “[Recent Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201956%2009%2015%20-%20Sept%5F%28AFU%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 15, 1956, p. 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2760 ### Event 12363 (012B5C66) **Date:** 9/3/1955 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** 2 observer(s). 4' grey metal sphere/orb/globe just over ground. Quickly going up [to] when observer(s) yells. / r148p65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 269) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4741 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "206", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:2 OBS:4'GRY MTL ORB JUST OVR GND:↑↑ WHEN OBS YELLS:/r148p65", **LatLong:** "39.111113 -84.555560", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:40 N 84:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.111113,-84.555560)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12364 (12C6EED6) **Date:** 9/3/1955 **Location:** Bellingham, WA **Description:** White pinpoint move slowly across 30° of sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3743) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1875 ### Event 12365 (E8ADB2B2) **Date:** 9/3/1955 **Time:** Unknown time **Location:** Bellingham, Washington **Description:** Witness: Observer Saunders for Ground Observer Corps. One white pinhead moved slowly across 30 degrees of sky in 15 minutes. No further information. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_390 ### Event 12366 (7FF39BFA) **Date:** 9/6/1955 (approximate) **Location:** AGRINION, GREECE **Description:** 2 / truck faint. Engine stops as luminous/glowing object going [to] over. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v1#4p31+/ r79. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FALLA, GEOFFREY: VEHICLE INTERFERENCE PROJECT. BUFORA Ltd. 1979. C.F. Lockwood & A.R. Rice editors. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4742 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AGRINION,GREECE:2/TRUCK FAINT:ENGINE STOPS as LUMN OBJ >OVR:/FSR v1#4p31+/r79", **LatLong:** "38.633335 21.100001", **LatLongDMS:** "38:38:00 N 21:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.633335,21.100001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12367 (AF2C48E0) **Date:** 9/7/1955 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer crosses sky in an arc / 1 minute(s). Size = 4cm / arms length. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 288) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4743 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:3 OBS:SCR CROSSES SKY IN AN ARC/1min:SIZE = 4cm/ARMS LENGTH", **LatLong:** "38.916669 -76.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:55:00 N 76:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.916669,-76.983337)", **State/Prov:** "DC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12368 (FFD32C34) **Date:** 9/7/1955 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** NEAR DUNOON, SCOTLAND **Description:** Teacher and 10 / school-bus. 5 shiny metallic saucers reflect sun. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4744 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "nr DUNOON,SCOTL:TEACHER+10/SCHOOL-BUS:5 SHINY MTLC SCRS REFLECT SUN:NFD", **LatLong:** "55.950003 -4.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:57:00 N 04:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.950003,-4.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12369 (106F9B45) **Date:** 9/7/1955 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** COLFAX, IA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Rounded object / black spots. Rolls and circles / 10 minute(s). Direction unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 286) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4745 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "241", **HatchDesc:** "COLFAX,IA:BBK#UNK:GOC OBS:ROUNDED OBJ/BLACK SPOTS:ROLLS+CIRCLES/10min:DIR UNK", **LatLong:** "41.666669 -93.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 93:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,-93.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12370 (1B0EA5B6) **Date:** 9/7/1955 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Glowing round object fly an arc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3750) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1876 ### Event 12371 (AC3E2B7D) **Date:** 9/7/1955 **Time:** Unknown time **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Witnesses: Two photographers, one plate maker for the Army Map Service (one named Smith). One glowing round object flew an arc for 1 minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_391 ### Event 12372 (1282AAE7) **Date:** 9/7/1955 **Description:** At 8:00 a.m. GMT a teacher and ten students aboard a school bus in Dunoon, Scotland, UK sighted five shiny, metallic saucers that reflect sunlight as they flew. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, January 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5712 ### Event 12373 (5F569771) **Date:** 9/7/1955 **Description:** Washington, D.C. Two photographers and an engraving plate maker for the Army Map Service sighted a glowing round object that flew in an arc through the sky for one minute at 6:30 a.m. EST. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3750; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5713 ### Event 12374 (47AE76E8) **Date:** 9/8/1955 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Astronomer Lambert. 2 "lightning flashes" / side / mount Taurus. No atmosphere. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4746 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:ASTRONOMER LAMBERT:2 "LIGHTNING FLASHES"/SIDE/MOUNT TAURUS:no atmosphere", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "MTN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12375 (DB8B297E) **Date:** 9/8/1955 **Locations:** Groom Lake, Nevada; Pacific Ocean **Description:** Test pilot [Ray J. Goudey](http://m.roadrunnersinternationale.com/obits/goudey.html) reaches an altitude of 65,000 feet in a Lockheed U-2 at Groom Lake, Nevada, a feat not revealed until declassification in 1998. “From where I was up above Nevada I could see the Pacific Ocean, which was 300 miles away.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lockheed U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2761 ### Event 12376 (E6DBCFDC) **Date:** 9/9/1955 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** PORTLAND, IN **Description:** 2 men. Round black saucer hovers / 5500' altitude. Circles and maneuvers. Going east. Too fast / balloon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 542) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4747 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "277", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,IN:2 MEN:RND BLK SCR HVRS/5500'alt:CCLS+MNVRS:>E:TOO FAST/BALLOON.", **LatLong:** "40.433335 -84.977782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:00 N 84:58:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.433335,-84.977782)", **RelAlt:** "1676", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12377 (390CBDA3) **Date:** 9/9/1955 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** ALCOA, TN **Description:** 1 observer / (seen thru) binoculars. Brown nearly square object circles / 10-15 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4748 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "273", **HatchDesc:** "ALCOA,TN:1 OBS/BINOCS:BROWN NEARLY SQUARE OBJ CIRCLES/10-15min:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.788891 -83.972226", **LatLongDMS:** "35:47:20 N 83:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.788891,-83.972226)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12378 (220D55BD) **Date:** 9/9/1955 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** Moon-size red sphere going northwest over homes. Silent. No trail. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 541) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4749 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:MOONSIZE RED SPHERE >NW OVR HOMES:SLNT:NO TRAIL:NFD/NEWS", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -86.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 86:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-86.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12379 (8086C60C) **Date:** 9/9/1955 **Location:** Rock Garden, TN **Description:** Brown, almost square object fly with a circular motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3757) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1877 ### Event 12380 (38B7CA3D) **Date:** 9/9/1955 **Time:** 12 noon **Location:** near Alcoa, Tennessee **Description:** Witness: M.N. Dawkins, using binoculars. One brown, almost square object flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_392 ### Event 12381 (51B2E230) **Date:** 9/9/1955 **Locations:** Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati; Southwestern Ohio **Description:** Capt. Hugh McKenzie of the Air Defense Command in Columbus, Ohio, contacts UFO researcher [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) in Cincinnati and asks for CRIFO’s cooperation in providing them with new UFO reports. He also says that Ground Observer Corps in southwestern Ohio is to report UFO activity to CRIFO for screening. Screened reports are then to be forwarded to the ADC filter center using the code “Fox Trot Kilo 3-0 Blue.” All expenses will be reimbursed by the Air Force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 11; Clark III 1114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2762 ### Event 12382 (43722548) **Date:** 9/9/1955 **Description:** At noon on this day Mr. M. N. Dawkins, using binoculars, spotted a brown, almost square object near Alcoa, Tennessee that flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5786 ### Event 12383 (434B038B) **Date:** 9/11/1955 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** BOUNDARY PEAK, NV / CA **Description:** 2 hikers. Beams from crescent light valley and peak. Missing time? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 295) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4750 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "4000", **HatchDesc:** "BOUNDARY PEAK,NV/CA:2 HIKERS:BEAMS fm CRESCENT LITE VALLEY+PEAK:MISSING TIME?", **LatLong:** "37.844446 -118.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:40 N 118:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.844446,-118.350006)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12384 (AC251E61) **Date:** 9/11/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NEAR KOJONUP, AUST **Description:** 3 observer(s). Glowing-saucer / very low altitude. Rises / treetops and hovers again. Maneuvers. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 543) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4751 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "nr KOJONUP,AUST:3 OBS:GLO-SCR/VLO ALT:RISES/TREETOPS+HVRS AGAIN:MNVRS:>>S", **LatLong:** "-33.833335 117.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 S 117:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.833335,117.150006)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12385 (0927D7AA) **Date:** 9/12/1955 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** SANTA BARBARA, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Night light streaks over big fire / hills and going quickly south out to sea. Shoots going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 296) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4752 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA BARBARA,CA:2 OBS:NLT STREAKS OVR BIG FIRE/HILLS+>>S OUT TO SEA:SHOOTS ↑", **LatLong:** "34.416668 -119.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:25:00 N 119:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.416668,-119.716672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12386 (D03888EE) **Date:** 9/13/1955 **Location:** PALMDALE, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Saucer = silver dollar / arms length. Deep rumble and jets / side. 100mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 296) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4753 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "775", **HatchDesc:** "PALMDALE,CA:BBK:SCR=SLVR DOLLAR/ARMS LENGTH:DEEP RUMBLE+JETS/SIDE:100mph:", **LatLong:** "34.566668 -118.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:34:00 N 118:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.566668,-118.116672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12387 (D18D0D2E) **Date:** 9/13/1955 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** WEGENSTEDT, GERMANY **Description:** Civil observer(s). Rectangular object / lights / side. 1 / 4 of sky in 4 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 297) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4754 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WEGENSTEDT,GERMANY:CIV OBS:RECTANGULAR OBJ/LITES/SIDE:1/4 OF SKY IN 4sec:", **LatLong:** "52.416669 11.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:25:00 N 11:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.416669,11.416667)", **State/Prov:** "SXA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12388 (DFBE597B) **Date:** 9/13/1955 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** ST. LOUIS, SENEGAL **Description:** Silent red sphere going northeast. Curves. Spirals. Quickly going up [to] very high. Going southeast then going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4755 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "St.LOUIS,SENEGAL:SLNT RED SPHERE > NE:CURVES:SPIRALS:↑↑ VHI:> SE then >>W", **LatLong:** "16.033334 -16.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "16:02:00 N 16:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/16.033334,-16.500001)", **State/Prov:** "SNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12389 (6C4E759E) **Date:** 9/13/1955 **Description:** At 2:10 a.m. a silent red sphere flew across the sky to the northeast in St. Louis, Senegal, curving and spiraling. It made an ascent to a higher altitude, flew to the southeast, and then shot off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1968 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5909 ### Event 12390 (9E9D783A) **Date:** 9/14/1955 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** BAIROIL, WY **Description:** Oilmen. Round glowing-object with green stripe / center. Flashes colored lights. Local flap. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 544) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4756 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "2091", **HatchDesc:** "BAIROIL,WY:OILMEN:RND GLO-OBJ W/GRN STRIPE/CTR:FLASHES CLRD LITES:local flap", **LatLong:** "42.244446 -107.561116", **LatLongDMS:** "42:14:40 N 107:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.244446,-107.561116)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12391 (0D9855A9) **Date:** 9/15/1955? **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EAST / TROY, NY **Description:** Saucer / cemetery. Richard Price age 8 first abducted. Implants and long story.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4757 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "E/TROY,NY:SCR/CEMETERY:RICHARD PRICE age 8 FIRST ABD'd:IMPLANTS+LONG STORY..", **LatLong:** "42.733335 -73.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:44:00 N 73:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.733335,-73.666670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 12392 (611DA10C) **Date:** 9/16/1955 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BOISSEUGES, FR **Description:** 3.5M glowing saucer / pasture. Men descend / steps and take plants. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 375) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4758 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BOISSEUGES,FR:3.5M GLOWING SCR/PASTURE:MEN DESCEND/STEPS+TAKE PLANTS:>>NW", **LatLong:** "45.150002 3.072222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:09:00 N 03:04:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.150002,3.072222)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Loire", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 12393 (CC75C411) **Date:** 9/16/1955 **Time:** 1800 **Location:** Boisseuges, France **Description:** A young shepherd heard a whistling sound as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish face, a bald head and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 m diameter, 2 m high, lighted with neon-like light. The occupants gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_375 ### Event 12394 (193C2E64) **Date:** 9/16/1955 **Description:** Boisseuges, France. A young shepherd heard a whistling sound at 6:00 p.m. as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish face, a baldhead, and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 meters in diameter, and two meters high; it was lighted with a neon-like light. The occupants gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 (case 375); Gamard Alain, UFO Register 1978 (volume 7), p. 44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6008 ### Event 12395 (90F1DBE9) **Date:** 9/17/1955 **Time:** ~01:00 **Location:** TITICUS RESERVOIR, NY **Description:** 5M saucer rises / lake 2'. Dives. Trails boat. Away very fast. / r8#376. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4759 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "TITICUS RSVR,NY:5M SCR RISES/LAKE 2':DIVES:TRAILS BOAT:AWAY VFAST:/r8#376", **LatLong:** "41.300002 -73.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:18:00 N 73:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.300002,-73.866670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12396 (0387FF89) **Date:** 9/17/1955 **Time:** night **Location:** Bush Pine, New York **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Bordes, of New York City, were fishing when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling sound," saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm above the water, and sink into the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again, about 5 m long and surrounded with turbulence. It reversed direction several times without turning around and finally flew away very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Constance 226; FSR 55,5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_376 ### Event 12397 (0FFB0CED) **Date:** 9/17/1955 **Description:** Pine Bush, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Bordes of New York City were fishing at night when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling sound." They then saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm out of the water, then sink back into the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again. It was about five meters long and surrounded by turbulence. After it took off it reversed direction several times without turning around and finally flew away at a high rate of speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 226; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1955; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6042 ### Event 12398 (60E435E8) **Date:** 9/18/1955 **Location:** SPRINGFIELD, IL **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) flash. Glowing ovoid speeds east going quickly west. Makes 90 degree turn going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 301) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4760 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGFIELD,IL:GOC FLASH:GLOWING OVOID SPEEDS E>>W:MAKES 90dgr TURN>>S", **LatLong:** "39.783335 -89.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:47:00 N 89:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.783335,-89.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12399 (FD638398) **Date:** 9/19/1955 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** MIDAN AL TAHRIR, EGYPT **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Thin featureless white cylinder going quickly west. Slight turn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 602) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4761 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Egypt", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MIDAN al TAHRIR,EGYPT:NMRS OBS:THIN FEATURELESS WHT CYLINDER >>W:SLIGHT TURN", **LatLong:** "30.666668 30.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "30:40:00 N 30:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.666668,30.250001)", **State/Prov:** "CAI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12400 (9CCBC27C) **Date:** 9/20/1955 **Location:** Ohio **Description:** In response to a September 13 letter from Rep. [Gordon H. Scherer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FH.%5FScherer) \(R-Ohio\) about the contactee claims of [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) replies that the “CIA shall have no police, subpoena, law- enforcement powers, or internal-security functions” over mail fraud related to UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Allen W. Dulles, [Letter to](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01731R001600090043-3.pdf) [Gordon H. Scherer,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01731R001600090043-3.pdf) September 20, 1955 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2763 ### Event 12401 (FE069AF0) **Date:** 9/21/1955 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_555 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 3.5 ### Event 12402 (265ED6DC) **Date:** 9/21/1955 **Location:** 70.7030 54.60 **Description:** Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 3.5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1053 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "70.7030 54.60", **LatLongDMS:** "70:42:11 N 54:36:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.7030,54.60)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.01", **NukeSource:** "KHRISTOFOROV", **NukeType:** "NWCS", **NukeY:** "3.5" ### Event 12403 (8B4DD740) **Date:** 9/22/1955 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** HICKAM FIELD, OAHU, HI **Description:** Many observer(s). Large sausage shape overhead / 1700mph. Several RADAR's. 32K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 302) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4762 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "HICKAM FIELD,OAHU,HI:MANY OBS:LRG SAUSAGE SHAPE OVHD/1700mph:SVRL RDRS:32K'alt", **LatLong:** "21.350001 -157.900008", **LatLongDMS:** "21:21:00 N 157:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.350001,-157.900008)", **RelAlt:** "9750", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12404 (8B2F3734) **Date:** 9/22/1955 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** NEAR CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** 4 observer(s). Red-glowing ovoid maneuvers / all directions. Crushed corn found later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 603) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4763 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "nr CINCINNATI,OH:4 OBS:RED-GLO OVOID MNVRS/ALL DIRs:CRUSHED CORN FOUND LATER", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-84.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12405 (5F47EBF9) **Date:** 9/22/1955 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** LODI, OH **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 2 ovoids large and small orbit each other / counterclockwise. Rocket sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4764 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "282", **HatchDesc:** "LODI,OH:2 SEP.OBS:2 OVOIDS LRG+SML ORBIT EACH OTHER/CCW:ROCKET SOUND", **LatLong:** "41.033335 -82.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:02:00 N 82:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.033335,-82.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12406 (D6F24386) **Date:** 9/22/1955 **Description:** At Hickham Field in Honolulu, Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. a huge sausage-shaped craft, traveling at a speed of 1,700 mph and an altitude 32,000 feet, was tracked on several radar sets and seen visually by many. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence (New York) Newsletter, February 1956, p. 29, citing M. Myerson; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1955: September 15-December, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6220 ### Event 12407 (21C1B5C0) **Date:** 9/23/1955 **Location:** KREUZLINGEN, SWZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 8M grey plate / 50M altitude spins / 6 second(s). Slants going up [to] and away. / B. Mancusi. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ZINSTAG, Lou & ALLEMANN, Dr. T; UFO-SICHTUNGEN uber der SCHWEIZ; UFO-Verlag, Basel/Zurich 1958 (via Bruno Mancusi) (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4765 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KREUZLINGEN,SWZ:2 OBS:8M GRY PLATE/50M alt SPINS/6 sec:SLANTS↑+AWAY:/B.Mancusi", **LatLong:** "47.633336 9.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 09:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,9.166667)", **State/Prov:** "TRG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12408 (4A7BF729) **Date:** 9/23/1955 **Description:** An eight meter wide gray colored plate-shaped disc flew at only 50 meters altitude over the town of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland on this day. It was rotating as it flew by, six cycles per second. It tilted upward and flew away. There were two witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** L. Zinstag, UFO Sichtungen, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6251 ### Event 12409 (D48DAABF) **Date:** 9/25/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SALTSBURG, PA **Description:** 2+observer(s). UFO / fast flashing lights. Flies and hovers. Silent. Seen / reservoir earlier. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4766 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "274", **HatchDesc:** "SALTSBURG,PA:2+OBS:UFO/FAST FLASHING LITES:FLIES+HVRS:SILENT:SEEN/RSVR EARLIER", **LatLong:** "40.483335 -79.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:29:00 N 79:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.483335,-79.466670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12410 (3E47D556) **Date:** 10/1955 (approximate) **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** MT. LA SALLE, CA **Description:** Engineer. 2 large aluminum buttons with rims going south / 50kph. Air Force planes circle. / APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 601) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4767 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "650", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.LA SALLE,CA:ENGINEER:2 LRG ALUM BUTTONS W/RIMS >S/50kph:AF PLANES CCL:/APRO", **LatLong:** "38.338891 -122.388895", **LatLongDMS:** "38:20:20 N 122:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.338891,-122.388895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12411 (8AAA537F) **Date:** 10/1955 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ESE / DALLAS, TX **Description:** 2 / car. 15M ring / multicolor night lights rotates. 45M altitude. Absolute(ly) silent. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 604) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4768 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "450", **HatchDesc:** "ESE/DALLAS,TX:2/CAR:15M RING/MULTICLR NLTS ROTATES:45M alt:ABS SLNT:>>N", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -96.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 96:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-96.050005)", **RelAlt:** "45", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12412 (2F8201AE) **Date:** 10/1955 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** HARTFORD, KY **Description:** Farmer. 40cm fireball scouts barns and cabins / 1m altitude. Follows road and creek bed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 366) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4769 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "163", **HatchDesc:** "HARTFORD,KY:FARMER:40cm FBL SCOUTS BARNS+CABINS/1m alt:FOLOS ROAD+CREEK BED", **LatLong:** "37.450002 -86.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:27:00 N 86:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.450002,-86.900004)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12413 (E91E6205) **Date:** 10/1955 **Location:** Area 51 **Description:** President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) gives the CIA control over the U-2 spy plane program and Area 51. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 58](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/58/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2764 ### Event 12414 (7AD32E6A) **Date:** 10/1955 **Location:** St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary in Peterborough, New Hampshire **Description:** 8:00 p.m. A student at St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary in Peterborough, New Hampshire, sees four glowing, bluish-white objects to the southwest. One appears to be on the ground with 3–4 figures beside it. He goes into the recreation room to find more witnesses. When they go outside, the objects are slowly moving above the school building toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[New Hampshire,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 \(April/May 1985\): 4–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2765 ### Event 12415 (57884B6C) **Date:** 10/1/1955 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MELBOURNE, AUST AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Classic domed saucer with lit portholes. Slow and conical. Whines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 606) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4770 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "MELBOURNE,AUST++:100s/OBS:CLASSIC DOMED SCR W/LIT PORTS:SLOW+CONICAL:WHINES", **LatLong:** "-37.816668 144.983340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:00 S 144:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.816668,144.983340)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12416 (5AB6EE44) **Date:** 10/2/1955 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** UHRICHSVILLE, OH **Description:** Several observer(s). Several saucers / high-altitude. Away and back / 1300h. Angel hair / r64p275. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 605) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4771 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "262", **HatchDesc:** "UHRICHSVILLE,OH:SVRL OBS:SVRL SCRS/HI-ALT:AWAY+BACK/1300h:ANGEL HAIR/r64p275", **LatLong:** "40.394446 -81.344448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:23:40 N 81:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.394446,-81.344448)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12417 (759E3DD4) **Date:** 10/2/1955 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** HOLYOKE, MASS **Description:** Civil observer(s). 5-10 silver orbs. Hover. Crisscross sky. Sharp turns. Going quickly SSW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4772 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "HOLYOKE,MASS:CIV OBS:5-10 SLVR ORBS:HVR:CRISSCROSS SKY:SHARP TURNS:>>SSW", **LatLong:** "42.200002 -72.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:12:00 N 72:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.200002,-72.616670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12418 (E7E29AD6) **Date:** 10/2/1955 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** ALLIANCE, OH **Description:** 8 separate observer(s). Orange saucer / edge slowly turns. Tilts level. Seen widely. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4773 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "358", **HatchDesc:** "ALLIANCE,OH:8 SEP.OBS:ORG SCR/EDGE SLOWLY TURNS:TILTS LEVEL:SEEN WIDELY", **LatLong:** "40.933335 -81.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:56:00 N 81:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.933335,-81.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12419 (EC9FE5E6) **Date:** 10/2/1955 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** 5MI NNE / POUGHKEEPSIE, NY **Description:** Airline pilot. Meteor-night light passes plane. Hovers. Rises away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4774 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "5mi NNE/POUGHKEEPSIE,NY:AIRLINE PILOT:METEOR-NLT PASSES PLANE:HVRS:RISES AWAY", **LatLong:** "41.777780 -73.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:46:40 N 73:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.777780,-73.900004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12420 (CF18679A) **Date:** 10/2/1955 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Military observer(s). Fast silent orange-white night light darts and stops. Zigzag path / 40 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4775 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:MIL OBS:FAST SILENT ORG-WHT NLT DARTS+STOPS:ZIGZAG PATH/40min", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -83.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 83:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-83.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12421 (12D57211) **Date:** 10/2/1955 **Location:** Akron and Alliance, OH **Description:** Hovering disc- like UFO observed over wide area. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1878 ### Event 12422 (3DB3E116) **Date:** 10/2/1955 **Location:** Poughkeepsie, NY **Description:** Airline Pilots Report Round Blue-White Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [551002](http://www.nicap.org/551002poughkeepsie%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1879 ### Event 12423 (209EC814) **Date:** 10/3/1955 **Locations:** Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona; Lovington, New Mexico **Description:** A B-47 from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona, crashes northwest of Lovington, New Mexico. The lone survivor, 2nd Lt. William Daniel Borggen, says the plane is flying at 15,000 feet when three instruments go out after it breaks away from a refueling plane in a pre-dawn flight. The crew drops 5,000 feet, then the bomber hits something and crashes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[B-47 Crash Is Probed,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94020580/)” Clovis \(N.Mex.\) News-Journal, October 3, 1955, pp. 1-2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2766 ### Event 12424 (CBFFEEEF) **Date:** 10/4/1955 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** ATJATY TO/FROM ADZHIJABUL, AZERBAIJAN SSR **Description:** Sen.Russell and 3 / train. 2 saucers going up / 1 minute(s) apart. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4776 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Turkmen Republic", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ATJATY> Event 12425 (DF076CB0) **Date:** 10/4/1955 **Locations:** USSR; Baku, Azerbaijan; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Czech Republic **Description:** 7:10 p.m. Senator [Richard B. Russell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr) \(D-Ga.\), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on a trip to the USSR, is on a Soviet train near Baku, Azerbaijan, when he spots a disc-shaped craft taking off near the tracks. Russell sees the “first flying disc ascend and pass over the train” and goes “rushing in to get Mr. Efron \[Reuben Efron, his interpreter\] and Col. Hathaway \[Col. E. U. Hathaway, his aide\] to see it,” the report says. “Col. Hathaway stated that he got to the window with the Senator in time to see the first \[UFO\], while Mr. Efron said that he got only a short glimpse of the first. However, all three saw the second disc and all agreed that they saw the same round, disc-shaped craft…as the first.” A fourth witness is unidentified. “One disc ascended almost vertically, at a relatively slow speed, with its outer surface revolving slowly to the right, to an altitude of about 6,000 feet, where its speed then increased sharply as it headed north,” the report states. “The second flying disc was seen performing the same actions about one minute later. The take-off area was about 1–2 miles south of the rail line.” The Air Force report is written by Lieut. Col. Thomas Ryan, who interviews Russell’s companions in Prague, Czechoslovakia \[now Czech Republic\], on October 13, after they arrive there from Russia shortly after the sighting. The report remains Top Secret until April 30, 1959, and Secret until March 1985 when [Stanton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) [Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) manages to get it declassified following a FOIA request. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Senator Russell Observes UFO](http://www.nicap.org/551004russia%5Fdir.htm) [from Train](http://www.nicap.org/551004russia%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 1049–1050; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 231; Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 3–7; Swords 227–228; Good Above, [pp. 224–226](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/224/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2767 ### Event 12426 (09C3CCC4) **Date:** 10/4/1955 **Description:** United States Senator Richard Russell, Head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was on a high-level diplomatic mission to the Soviet Union and was traveling on the trans-Caucasus railway outside of Baku, Azerbaijan on this day in 1955. While on the train at 7:10 p.m. he and his aide saw a disc-shaped UFO slowly ascend to 6000 feet and then shoot to the North. A second disc appeared and maneuvered about the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 240 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6554 ### Event 12427 (172FE5B3) **Date:** 10/5/1955 **Location:** Pearl Harbor **Description:** Letter from US Navy Rear Admiral J. L. Herlihy at Pearl Harbor to the future director of the BSRA, Riley Crabb. They gave him an award of $200 in recognition of his superior performance in his duties. **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555631683269009410) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_556 ### Event 12428 (1F51A372) **Date:** 10/7/1955 **Locations:** Naples; New York City; Waldorf-Astoria Hotel **Description:** Retired Gen. [Douglas MacArthur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FMacArthur) tells [Achille Lauro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille%5FLauro), the mayor of Naples, that he does not think there will be a war with the Soviet bloc, but that “because of the developments of science all countries on earth will have to survive and to make a common front against attack by people from other planets.” The meeting takes place in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[M’Arthur Greets Mayor of Naples,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/10/08/83780778.pdf)” New York Times, October 8, 1955, p. 7; “[Space War Possible Is MacArthur Hint,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 8 \(November 4, 1955\): 1; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) The Author, 1993, pp. 15–17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2768 ### Event 12429 (1BFC14FB) **Date:** 10/8/1955 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** SCOTTS FORK, KY **Description:** Cop and 1. 18 1M and 2M silent white disks / various formations. Very fast maneuvers. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 607) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4777 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "SCOTTS FORK,KY:COP+1:18 1M+2M SLNT WHT DISKS/VARIOUS FORMNs:VFAST MNVRS:>>N", **LatLong:** "37.650002 -84.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:39:00 N 84:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.650002,-84.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12430 (207BF543) **Date:** 10/8/1955 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** LOOGOOTEE, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3800. Prather and Ahern. Silver-white saucer / 5K' altitude. 1000mph. Silent. No trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4778 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "164", **HatchDesc:** "LOOGOOTEE,IN:BBK#3800:PRATHER+AHERN:SLVR-WHT SCR/5K'alt:1000mph:SLNT:NO TRAIL", **LatLong:** "38.666669 -86.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:40:00 N 86:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.666669,-86.916671)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12431 (15C9C442) **Date:** 10/8/1955 **Location:** Loogootee, IN **Description:** Round, silver or white object fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3800) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1880 ### Event 12432 (C43825A0) **Date:** 10/8/1955 **Time:** 4:38 PM **Location:** Loogootee, Indiana **Description:** Witnesses: R.D. Prather, H. Ahern. One round, silver or white object flew straight and level at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for an unstated length of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_393 ### Event 12433 (DE422BEE) **Date:** 10/8/1955 **Description:** R. D. Prather and H. Ahern sighted a round, silverly white flying object at 4:38 p.m. in Loogootee, Indiana that zoomed through the sky at a speed in excess of 1,000 m.p.h. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3800; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6645 ### Event 12434 (1BD70FE7) **Date:** 10/10/1955 **Locations:** Fort Worth, Texas; US **Description:** The Air Force releases a statement from Fort Worth, Texas, saying that anyone reporting flashing lights for the next two months across the US is seeing wind-driven experimental plastic balloons that might travel as fast as 110 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 206; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2769 ### Event 12435 (0EBFF126) **Date:** 10/11/1955 **Location:** Point Lookout, MD **Description:** Round object, white in daylight and turning red (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3810) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1881 ### Event 12436 (173BDBDA) **Date:** 10/11/1955 **Time:** 4 PM **Location:** Pt. Lookout, Maryland **Description:** Witnesses: B. Hale, A. Ostrom. One round object which looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end of the 2.5 hour sighting, made a deep roar, unlike an aircraft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_394 ### Event 12437 (C9478E07) **Date:** 10/11/1955 **Description:** At four o'clock in the afternoon in Point Lookout, Maryland witnesses B. Hale and A. Ostrom sighted a round UFO that looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end of their two and a half hour long sighting. It made a deep roaring sound, unlike any known aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3810; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6759 ### Event 12438 (0A414C00) **Date:** 10/12/1955 **Location:** HARMON AIR FORCE BASE, NFLD **Description:** 3 observer(s). Night light stops and hovers and jumps / 4 times. Very fast. 50K' altitude. Exits going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4779 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "HARMON AFB,NFLD:3 OBS:NLT STOPS+HVRS+JUMPS/4 TIMES:VFAST:50K'alt:EXITS ↑", **LatLong:** "48.533336 -58.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "48:32:00 N 58:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.533336,-58.550003)", **RelAlt:** "15000", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12439 (E6DE6E51) **Date:** 10/12/1955 **Location:** MARSHALL, TX **Description:** 1+observer(s). Long silver rod-cylinder/cigar-shape passes going quickly northwest in very erratic manner. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4780 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "MARSHALL,TX:1+OBS:LONG SLVR ROD-CGR PASSES >>NW in VERY ERRATIC MANNER:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "32.550002 -94.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:33:00 N 94:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.550002,-94.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12440 (3D518E4D) **Date:** 10/14/1955 **Location:** Transcaucasus region, Russia **Description:** Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr. (D-GA)—then chairman of the Armed Services Committee—was on a Soviet train when he spotted a disc-shaped craft taking off near the tracks. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [551014](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/russia551014dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1882 ### Event 12441 (37E65D27) **Date:** 10/15/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** D3 ESE / WISSEMBOURG, FR **Description:** Wind stops. 400M UFO 6M over oaks. 76 portholes / 3 rows. / r30p221. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4781 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "D3 ESE/WISSEMBOURG,FR:WIND STOPS:400M UFO 6M OVR OAKS:76 PORTS/3 ROWS:/r30p221", **LatLong:** "49.000002 7.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:00:00 N 07:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.000002,7.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Bas-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12442 (1F49E4B2) **Date:** 10/15/1955 **Description:** In a forest east-southeast of Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France a huge, 400 meter long UFO was seen flying only six meters over some oak trees by a witness while driving on highway D3. It had 76 porthole-shaped windows in three rows. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6859 ### Event 12443 (F150D4DC) **Date:** 10/18/1955 **Description:** CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) informs the joint Intelligence Advisory Committee about Senator [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr)’s sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2770 ### Event 12444 (E49970C8) **Date:** 10/19/1955 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** WREXHAM, WALES **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver cylinder/cigar-shape-saucer going quickly southwest. 90° turn going quickly northwest. Trail / black smoke? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4782 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WREXHAM,WALES:2 OBS:SLVR CGR-SCR >> SW:90°TURN >>NW:TRAIL/BLK SMOKE?", **LatLong:** "53.066669 -3.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:04:00 N 03:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.066669,-3.000000)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12445 (14094142) **Date:** 10/19/1955 **Location:** Knoxville (40 miles NW of ), TN **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) F-86 Unable to Close on Radar/Visual Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [551019](http://www.nicap.org/551019knoxvilledir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1883 ### Event 12446 (A82C74D1) **Date:** 10/19/1955 **Description:** [Wilton E. Lexow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71325540/wilton-e-lexow)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71325540/wilton-e-lexow) head of the CIA Applied Science Division, notes the similarity of the objects seen by Sen. [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FB.%5FRussell) to the Avro Canada Project Y-2 \(Silver Bug\), a proposed vertical take-off gyroplane now under development by the US Air Force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada\#Supersonic%5FAvrodynes)”; Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)”; Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2771 ### Event 12447 (15C8BA81) **Date:** 10/20/1955 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** NORFOLK, VA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Shiny round object stops and maneuvers. Very fast. Shoots straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4783 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,VA:2 OBS:SHINY RND OBJ STOPS+MNVRS:VFAST:SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP:", **LatLong:** "36.866668 -76.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:52:00 N 76:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.866668,-76.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12448 (33C3A394) **Date:** 10/20/1955 **Location:** Minneapolis, MN **Description:** Object Makes 90-Degree Turns & Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [551020](http://www.nicap.org/551020minneapolis%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1884 ### Event 12449 (B9665A90) **Date:** 10/20/1955 **Description:** Manuel Gonzalez Vazquez and his neighbor Erminda where in a field tending some cattle in Portela de Pau, Orense, Spain in the late afternoon when they felt a slight tremor that lasted a few minutes. Moments later they saw an undetermined figure inside a “screen-like” image in the sky. The figure had a definite human shape. Seconds later they spotted a second flying figure approaching under the clouds. As the figure approached they could tell that it was a female figure, flying at three meters above the ground. It resembled an 18-year-old girl, and was a little over a meter in height. Her hair was gathered up in a bun and she was wearing a light turquoise colored cloak. The woman flew by the two witnesses and turned to look at them but did not say anything. It eventually glided away and disappeared from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1955, citing Gaceta OVNI **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7001 ### Event 12450 (96683B7B) **Date:** 10/21/1955 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** CREAM RIDGE, NJ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Dog barks. Bright glare. White cylinder/cylindrical object passes over house going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 329) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4784 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "CREAM RIDGE,NJ:2 OBS:DOG BARKS:BRITE GLARE:WHT CYL PASSES OVR HOUSE >>W", **LatLong:** "40.133335 -74.522226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:08:00 N 74:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.133335,-74.522226)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12451 (BD082AC1) **Date:** 10/21/1955 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Silent 15M hamburger-saucer with windows / edge. Going [to] over buildings and yards. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 329) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4785 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:2 SEP.OBS:SLNT 15M HAMBURGER-SCR W/WINDOWS/EDGE:>ovr BLDGS+YARDS", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -81.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 81:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-81.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12452 (3845D681) **Date:** 10/21/1955 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** RITTMAN, OH **Description:** 2 and more/others observer(s). Classic saucer circles and corkscrews going quickly southwest. Each circle = 2-3 second(s). / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 329) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4786 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "298", **HatchDesc:** "RITTMAN,OH:2++OBS:CLASSIC SCR CIRCLES+CORKSCREWS >>SW:EACH CIRCLE=2-3sec:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "40.977780 -81.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:58:40 N 81:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.977780,-81.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12453 (795D9469) **Date:** 10/21/1955 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** Jet pilot and ground and air RADAR's. White ovoid makes 90-turns / 1000mph. Very large. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4787 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:JET PILOT+GND+AIR RDRS:WHT OVOID MAKES 90-TURNS/1000mph:VLARGE", **LatLong:** "44.983335 -93.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:59:00 N 93:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.983335,-93.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12454 (6DE1B11C) **Date:** 10/25/1955 **Location:** US **Description:** Summary of Blue Book report released to press; linked with statement that Air Force would soon have its own saucer-shaped aircraft, the AVRO disc. (The AVRO disc project subsequently was scrapped without producing a flying model). Reported no evidence that UFOs "constituted a threat to the security of the United States. . ." **Type:** summary of report **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_882 ### Event 12455 (FAE3872D) **Date:** 10/25/1955 **Location:** Columbus, Ohio **Description:** Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 is released, months after it is completed by analysts at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, using cases supplied by the Air Force and tabulated on IBM punch cards. The original report by Battelle is about 300 pages, but the Air Force distills this down to 100. It is accompanied by a press release in which Secretary of the Air Force [Donald A. Quarles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FA.%5FQuarles) states: “On the basis of this study we believe that no objects such as those popularly described as flying saucers have overflown the United States.” \(At the same time, Quarles states that the Air Force is working on radical new aircraft that “are sure to be mistaken for flying saucers.”\) Only 100 copies are printed initially, but scientist [Leon Davidson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%5FDavidson) prints and sells copies of it beginning in 1956, along with his analysis and commentary. The report includes 3,201 reported UFO sightings. Battelle employs four scientific analysts, who divide cases into knowns, unknowns, and a third category of insufficient information. They also break down knowns and unknowns into four categories of quality, from excellent to poor. For a case to be called identified, two analysts must independently agree on a solution; for a case to be called unidentified, all four analysts must agree. A report classified as unidentified is defined as: “Those reports of sightings wherein the description of the object and its maneuvers could not be fitted to the pattern of any known object or phenomenon.” Out of 3,201 cases, 69% are judged to be identified, 22% are unidentified, and 9% have insufficient information to make a determination. The report further breaks these results down based on whether the identification is considered certain or merely doubtful. For example, in both the astronomical and aircraft IFO categories, 12% are considered certain and 9% are doubtful. Overall, of the 69% listed as IFOs, 42% are thought to be solved with certainty, while 27% are still considered doubtful. In addition, if a case is lacking in adequate data, it is placed in the insufficient information category, separate from both IFOs and UFOs. A key feature is to statistically compare IFOs and UFOs by six characteristics: color, number of objects, shape, duration, speed, and brightness. If there are no significant differences, the two classes are probably the same, the UFOs then representing merely a failure to properly identify prosaic phenomena that can already account for IFOs. On the other hand, if the differences are statistically significant, this suggests IFOs and UFOs are indeed distinctly different phenomena. In the initial results, all characteristics except brightness test significant at less or much less than 1% \(brightness is greater than 5%\). By removing astronomical sightings from the knowns and redoing the test, just two categories, number and speed, are significant at less than 1%, the remainder having results between 3% and 5%. This indicates that there is a statistically significant difference between the characteristics ascribed to UFOs and IFOs, but perhaps not as significant as the initial results suggested. For two characteristics, brightness and speed, the significance actually increases with the revised test. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) later calls the Battelle report a “shamefully biased interpretation of statistics to support a preconceived notion.” [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) asks [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) what he thinks. Ruppelt says the report “was a shock to me. I was the one that had the IBM system tried out. It didn’t prove a thing, and I had written it off as worthless before I left the project… also this report was drawn up in 1953, yet the Air Force released it as the latest hot dope in October, 1955.” The Air Force releases a second edition, with a new preface and an addendum that brings the subject up to date, in July 1957. In the 1990s, after interviewing three men \(Art Westerman, [Perry Rieppel](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/star-gazette/obituary.aspx?n=perry-rieppel&pid=87901417)[,](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/star-gazette/obituary.aspx?n=perry-rieppel&pid=87901417) and William T. Reid\) who had participated in the Battelle project, [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) and [Jennie Zeidman](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jennie-zeidman-obituary?pid=195927848) of the Center for UFO Studies conclude that the engineering mindset at Battelle had caused a disconnect between its data and its conclusions. Because the project cannot reverse engineer a UFO from the reports \(because of faulty witness testimony, multicausal UFOs, etc.\), the engineers conclude that a structured craft does not exist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Identification studies of UFOs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification%5Fstudies%5Fof%5FUFOs\#Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5FNo.%5F14)”; Wikipedia, “[Project Blue Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FBlue%5FBook\#Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5FNo.%5F14)”; US Air Force Air Technical Intelligence Center, [Special Report No. 14; Analysis of Reports](https://www.academia.edu/49680297/Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14) [of Unidentified Flying Objects](https://www.academia.edu/49680297/Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14), May 5, 1955; Leon Davidson, [Flying Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book](http://cufos.org/books/Air%5FForce%5FProject%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14R.pdf) [Special Report No. 14](http://cufos.org/books/Air%5FForce%5FProject%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14R.pdf), \[1956\], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; “[Plan Radical New Aircraft,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3391549/the-news-herald/)” Franklin \(Pa.\) News-Herald, October 26, 1955, p. 1; Clark III 929–932; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 123–126](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/56/mode/2up); Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 770; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 4–12, 19–21; Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 3, 9; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) [15th–December 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) The Author, 1993, pp. 30–63; Swords 220–224, 239–241 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2772 ### Event 12456 (6C7ECBCF) **Date:** 10/25/1955 **Locations:** Serbia; Belgrade Observatory **Description:** A mysterious object passes over Serbia and is seen throughout the country. [Milorad B. Protić](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorad%5FB.%5FProti%C4%87) and other astronomers at Belgrade Observatory track the object and determine that it is not a meteor. After the launch of Sputnik in November 1957, Protić decides that the object must have been an experimental Soviet satellite. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2773 ### Event 12457 (83082831) **Date:** 10/26/1955 **Location:** Minneapolis, MN **Description:** \[Same as Oct. 21, 1955, case?\] (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1885 ### Event 12458 (91E926ED) **Date:** 10/27/1955 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** WHITSETT, NC **Description:** All / Elementary School. Steely spheres cavort. Angel hair falls. / r139#6p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4788 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "WHITSETT,NC:ALL/ELEM.SCHOOL:STEELY SPHERES CAVORT:ANGEL HAIR FALLS:/r139#6p24", **LatLong:** "36.066668 -79.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:04:00 N 79:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.066668,-79.566670)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12459 (395237A5) **Date:** 10/27/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** INGLESIDE, IL **Description:** Deep rumble. Glowing ovoid going [to] overhead. Fizzy-fuzzy edges. Stops. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 622) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4789 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "INGLESIDE,IL:DEEP RUMBLE:GLOWING OVOID >OVHD:FIZZY-FUZZY EDGES:STOPS:>>SE", **LatLong:** "42.383335 -88.138893", **LatLongDMS:** "42:23:00 N 88:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.383335,-88.138893)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12460 (E4F7E464) **Date:** 10/27/1955 **Locations:** Whitsett Elementary School, North Carolina; Burlington Industries **Description:** Afternoon. [Hosea D. Lambeth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204660895/hosea-dewood-lambeth), principal of Whitsett Elementary School, North Carolina, and about 100 students watch 10 objects like “steel balls” dart through the sky for 25 minutes. Light-colored wispy material in 2–3-inch strips falls from the sky at the same time. Nearby Burlington Industries tests a sample and declares it not a synthetic material. No spiders are found in the strands. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 124; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf), The Author, 1993,pp. 72–75 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2774 ### Event 12461 (4598DF47) **Date:** 10/28/1955 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NEWTON STEWART, SCOTLAND **Description:** Saucer circles van / 5 minute(s). Engine fails. Odd noises. / r23 pg10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4790 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "NEWTON STEWART,SCOTL:SCR CCLs VAN/5min:ENGINE FAILS:ODD NOISES:/r23 pg10", **LatLong:** "54.966669 -4.477778", **LatLongDMS:** "54:58:00 N 04:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.966669,-4.477778)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12462 (56C42731) **Date:** 10/28/1955 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NEAR UBATUBA, BRZ **Description:** 4 / airline(s)/airliner crew. Huge luminous ball changes color(s). Away extremely fast. / r150p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 624) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4791 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "nr UBATUBA,BRZ:4/AL CREW:HUGE LUMn.BALL CHANGES CLRS:AWAY XFAST:/r150p37", **LatLong:** "-23.250001 -45.033335", **LatLongDMS:** "23:15:00 S 45:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.250001,-45.033335)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12463 (A487D5C6) **Date:** 10/28/1955 **Location:** Galloway, UK **Description:** Disc with row of blue lights on rim, maneuvered slowly over car on lonely road. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1886 ### Event 12464 (7740A3C4) **Date:** 10/28/1955 **Location:** Galloway, England **Description:** A disk with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly maneuvered above a car on a deserted road. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Evidence 135, 146 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_377 ### Event 12465 (A56D493C) **Date:** 10/28/1955 **Description:** A disc-shaped object with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly maneuvered above a car on a deserted road In Galloway, England. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 135, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 377 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7221 ### Event 12466 (A9D588C0) **Date:** 10/29/1955 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SANTA ANA, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Long large "pipe" with ball underneath. Going quickly east / 5000' altitude. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 376) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4792 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA ANA,CA:2 OBS:LONG LARGE "PIPE" W/BALL UNDERNEATH:>>E/5000'alt:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -117.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 117:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-117.833339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12467 (581CBF8E) **Date:** 10/30/1955 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** KIGANJO, KENYA **Description:** Military observer(s). Brilliant sphere/orb/globe going southeast. Crosses moons face / 15 second(s). Continues. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4793 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kenya", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KIGANJO,KENYA:MIL.OBS:BRILL.ORB >SE:CROSSES MOONS FACE/15sec:CONTINUES:", **LatLong:** "-0.400000 37.016668", **LatLongDMS:** "00:24:00 S 37:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-0.400000,37.016668)", **State/Prov:** "KGJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12468 (6DD53DEA) **Date:** 10/31/1955 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** NORTH / WAITARA, NZ **Description:** Crew and passengers / DC3. Night light paces plane / 5 minute(s). 850mph. High-Q. Big flap. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4794 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "N/WAITARA,NZ:CREW+PASSENGERS/DC3:NLT PACES PLANE/5min:850mph:HI-Q:BIG FLAP", **LatLong:** "-38.500002 174.500008", **LatLongDMS:** "38:30:00 S 174:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.500002,174.500008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12469 (04CC13CE) **Date:** 10/31/1955 **Location:** Nr. Auckland, NZ **Description:** Bright object passed National Airlines DC-3. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1887 ### Event 12470 (6BBB925C) **Date:** 11/1955 **End date:** 4/1956 **Location:** McMurdo Station **Description:** Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fifth Antarctic expedition (Operation Deep Freeze). By 1955 Byrd was in charge of the United States’ Antarctic program and supervised the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze, which was sent to support the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). This was Byrd’s final visit to Antarctica and although he was only there for a week, he also took his last flight over the South Pole on January 8, 1956. This expedition also established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound (McMurdo Station) and the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Base). **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deep_Freeze) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_545 ### Event 12471 (EA6B931C) **Date:** 11/1955 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** NEAR CHARTRES, FR **Description:** AV.mechanic. Cafe parasol follows car! Both stop. Other cars stop. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4795 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "nr CHARTRES,FR:AV.MECHANIC:CAFE PARASOL FOLOS CAR!:BOTH STOP:OTHER CARS STOP", **LatLong:** "48.333336 1.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:20:00 N 01:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.333336,1.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Eure-et-Loir", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12472 (7B9B7BF5) **Date:** 11/1955 **Location:** Zürich, Switzerland **Description:** J. Heinrich Ragaz begins publishing Weltraumbote in Zürich, Switzerland. It continues through June 1961. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Weltraumbote](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Switzerland/Weltraumbote/Weltraumbote%20-%20No%2001%20-%201955-1956.pdf)[,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Switzerland/Weltraumbote/Weltraumbote%20-%20No%2001%20-%201955-1956.pdf) no. 1 \(November 1955\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2775 ### Event 12473 (8F6F2F56) **Date:** 11/1/1955 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SOUTH / CIMA, CA **Description:** Astronomer and more/others. 800' metallic cylinder/cigar-shape and domed saucer pace railroad/railway train going southwest / 3 minute(s). / r74p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4796 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1200", **HatchDesc:** "S/CIMA,CA:ASTRONOMER++:800'MTLC CGR+DOMED SCR PACE RR TRAIN >SW/3min:/r74p20", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -115.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 115:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-115.550006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12474 (2884FAF4) **Date:** 11/1/1955 **Location:** Mojave Desert, CA **Description:** Astronomer observed cigar-shaped UFO and smaller disc. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1888 ### Event 12475 (C0B16CE0) **Date:** 11/1/1955 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Project 56 No. 1” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_66 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Project 56 No. 1", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 12476 (B4BEFEBE) **Date:** 11/1/1955 **Locations:** New Zealand National Airways DC-3 Flight 108; Waitara, New Zealand **Description:** 8:06 p.m. A flying light paces New Zealand National Airways DC-3 Flight 108 west of Waitara, New Zealand, at 8,000 feet for about 5 minutes. Capt. [William T. Rainbow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212072634/wiliam-thomas-rainbow) and Copilot [Stanley G. Trounce](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232262515/stanley-grant-trounce) spot the object behind them flying along the coast on a parallel course. Changing color from white to yellow to gold to red, it overtakes the aircraft and flies alongside it for 15 miles, then picks up speed and disappears into the distance ahead. Rainbow estimates it is traveling at 850 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 125](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=137&skin=2021); “[1955: ‘Flying Light’ Seen by](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/1955-flying-light-seen-by-nac-capt-and-crew/) [NAC Captain and Crew,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/1955-flying-light-seen-by-nac-capt-and-crew/)” Ufocus.nz, June 15, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2776 ### Event 12477 (D863D178) **Date:** 11/1/1955 **Description:** An 800 foot long cigar-shaped object was seen during the middle of the day over the Mojave Desert in California and then a second object, disc shaped, appeared suddenly and joined it quickly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -- Serious Business, p. 41; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7370 ### Event 12478 (443D5DC2) **Date:** 11/2/1955 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** WILLISTON, FL **Description:** 30m saucer and 6 bell-shapes. Cops limbs go dead and clothes hot. / r70p3-42. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 378) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4797 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "WILLISTON,FL:30m SCR+6 BELL-SHAPES:COPS LIMBS GO DEAD+CLOTHES HOT:/r70p3-42", **LatLong:** "29.383335 -82.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "29:23:00 N 82:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.383335,-82.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12479 (DCE2CF0B) **Date:** 11/2/1955 **Location:** Williams, FL **Description:** Police, others saw as many as six oval-shaped objects in formation. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1889 ### Event 12480 (67F186EC) **Date:** 11/2/1955 **Location:** Williston, Florida **Description:** Deputy-sheriff A. H. Perkins, C. F. Bell, and a dozen other witnesses saw six bellshaped objects moving by successive leaps. One came close to a patrol car; the men inside felt that their arms and legs "went dead" and that their clothes were burning them. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Evidence 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_378 ### Event 12481 (89F113C9) **Date:** 11/3/1955 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Project 56 No. 2” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_67 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Project 56 No. 2", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 12482 (312D1C9A) **Date:** 11/4/1955 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** AUCKLAND, NZ **Description:** 2 / cab. Swish sound. Large silent object with very large windows going south. Lost / cloud bank. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 625) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4798 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "AUCKLAND,NZ:2/CAB:SWISH SOUND:LRG SLNT OBJ W/VLRG WINDOWS >S:LOST/CLOUD BANK", **LatLong:** "-36.883335 174.716675", **LatLongDMS:** "36:53:00 S 174:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.883335,174.716675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12483 (43FB833A) **Date:** 11/4/1955 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** ELWOOD, IN **Description:** 2 / Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post. Saucer with amber lights over town. Going southwest. Returns. Quickly going up [to] straight up! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 625) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4799 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "262", **HatchDesc:** "ELWOOD,IN:2/GOC POST:SCR W/AMBER LITES OVR TOWM:> SW:RETURNS:↑↑ STRAIGHT UP!", **LatLong:** "40.277780 -85.844449", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:40 N 85:50:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.277780,-85.844449)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12484 (650E9E29) **Date:** 11/4/1955 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEAR DACCA, PAKISTAN **Description:** Airport/apartment crews. Large round blue object going south / 7 min. 2nd joins. Lights airport. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4800 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pakistan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "nr DACCA,PAKISTAN:APT CREWS:LRG RND BLU OBJ >S/7 min:2nd joins:LITES AIRPORT", **LatLong:** "24.933335 67.216670", **LatLongDMS:** "24:56:00 N 67:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.933335,67.216670)", **State/Prov:** "DCC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12485 (0A8E1B84) **Date:** 11/5/1955 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** Minister and 1 / car. Silent 30M saucer / square windows hovers / road. Going west. / r70p3-42. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4801 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:MINISTER+1/CAR:SLNT 30M SCR/SQR WINDOWS HVRS/ROAD:>W:/r70p3-42", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -81.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 81:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-81.683337)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12486 (F528BA47) **Date:** 11/5/1955 **Location:** Cleveland, OH **Description:** Minister observed elliptical UFO with square "windows". \[UFOE, VIl\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1890 ### Event 12487 (448DDCB4) **Date:** 11/5/1955 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Project 56 No. 3” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_68 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Project 56 No. 3", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 12488 (672863B0) **Date:** 11/6/1955 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** BOSTON, MA **Description:** Huge lens saucer going down [to] on edge. Flips vertical. Hovers / 2 minutes. Turns on side and quickly going up [to] . **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 629) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4802 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON,MA:HUGE LENS SCR ↓ ON EDGE:FLIPS VERTICAL:HVRS/2mins:TURNS ON SIDE+↑↑.", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -71.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 71:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-71.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12489 (2C369C2A) **Date:** 11/6/1955 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 250KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1054 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "250" ### Event 12490 (958BD023) **Date:** 11/7/1955 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** JEFFERSON, TX **Description:** Metallic sphere turns white / approach. Stops. Sways / sides. Going quickly northeast very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 629) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4803 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "58", **HatchDesc:** "JEFFERSON,TX:MTLC SPHERE TURNS WHT/APPROACH:STOPS:SWAYS/SIDES:>>NE VFAST", **LatLong:** "32.755557 -94.344449", **LatLongDMS:** "32:45:20 N 94:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.755557,-94.344449)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12491 (3953141B) **Date:** 11/8/1955 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ATLANTIC / SS MATHERAN **Description:** Bright yellow night light / 150' altitude. Nears ship. Responds / lamp signals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 390) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4804 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC/SS MATHERAN:BRITE YEL NLT/150'alt:NEARS SHIP:RESPONDS/LAMP SIGNALS", **LatLong:** "35.633335 -14.283334", **LatLongDMS:** "35:38:00 N 14:17:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.633335,-14.283334)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12492 (17E22802) **Date:** 11/9/1955 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** MESSINI, GREECE **Description:** 2 observer(s). Deep humming. Area lit. 5M saucer hovers. Going [to] over hill and hovers again / 30 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 294) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4805 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "MESSINI,GREECE:2 OBS:DEEP HUM:AREA LIT:5M SCR HVRS:>OVR HILL+HVRS AGAIN/30min", **LatLong:** "37.083335 22.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 N 22:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.083335,22.000001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12493 (52FE5401) **Date:** 11/9/1955 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Photographer and several. 12 silver saucers change / V-formation going quickly [to] a-formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4806 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:PHOTOGRAPHER+SVRL:12 SLVR SCRS CHANGE/V-FORMn>>A-FORMn", **LatLong:** "39.933335 -75.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:00 N 75:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.933335,-75.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12494 (A59F03D3) **Date:** 11/9/1955 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** ATLANTIC **Description:** Steamship Matheran again. Same yellow night light hovers near ship / 15 minute(s). Clear weather. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 390) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4807 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC:SS MATHERAN AGAIN:SAME YLW NLT HVRS NEAR SHIP/15min:CLEAR WEATHER", **LatLong:** "35.266668 -20.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "35:16:00 N 20:44:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.266668,-20.733334)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12495 (988E864C) **Date:** 11/9/1955 **Location:** Philadelphia, PA **Description:** Newspaper photographers and others saw 12 silvery-white round objects in formation. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1891 ### Event 12496 (36DC8911) **Date:** 11/10/1955 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** SUNDERLAND, ENGL **Description:** 2 / shop. Silver-grey hemisphere / very low altitude. Silent glide going northwest. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4808 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SUNDERLAND,ENGL:2/SHOP:SLVR-GRY HEMISPHERE/VLO ALT:SLNT GLIDE >NW:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "54.900003 -1.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "54:54:00 N 01:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.900003,-1.400000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12497 (166B1C1A) **Date:** 11/10/1955 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** FORT DAVIS, PANAMA CZ **Description:** Several soldiers. Silent disk / 30 mn. Glow / rim. Going up and down. Light pulses / bottom/underside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4809 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Panama", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "FORT DAVIS,PANAMA CZ:SVRL GIs:SLNT DISK/30mn:GLOW/RIM:↑+↓:LITE PULSES/BTM", **LatLong:** "9.283334 -79.905559", **LatLongDMS:** "09:17:00 N 79:54:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.283334,-79.905559)", **State/Prov:** "Canal Zone", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12498 (BC1A1F10) **Date:** 11/11/1955 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** MIAMI SHORES, FL **Description:** 12 separate observer(s). Whistling sound. Green-glowing saucer over Biscayne Bay. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 391) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4810 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI SHORES,FL:12 SEP.OBS:WHISTLING SOUND:GREEN-GLOWING SCR OVR BISCAYNE BAY", **LatLong:** "25.861112 -80.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "25:51:40 N 80:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.861112,-80.194448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12499 (391C1B91) **Date:** 11/12/1955 **Location:** GORING, OXFORDS **Description:** 3 observer(s). Clearly defined disk east going quickly west over R. Thames. Shoots sparks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4811 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GORING,OXFORDs:3 OBS:CLEARLY DEFINED DISK E>>W OVR R.THAMES:SHOOTS SPARKS", **LatLong:** "51.522225 -1.144444", **LatLongDMS:** "51:31:20 N 01:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.522225,-1.144444)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12500 (3394E22D) **Date:** 11/12/1955 **Description:** A clearly defined disc-shaped object flew over the Thames River at Goring, Oxfordshire, England, shooting sparks. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UFO Nachtrichten, July 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7607 ### Event 12501 (A65728DA) **Date:** 11/14/1955 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA **Description:** Globe / light responds / plane landing lights. 180° turn. / MJ#271. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 631) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4812 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "DESERT HOT SPRINGS,CA:GLOBE/LITE RESPONDS/PLANE LANDING LITES:180°TURN:/MJ#271", **LatLong:** "33.961113 -116.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:40 N 116:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.961113,-116.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12502 (A8BE11C9) **Date:** 11/14/1955 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** GALLOWAY FOREST, SCOTLAND **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). 60' saucer rotates. Dives at car. Clicking sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 392) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4813 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "GALLOWAY FOREST,SCOTL:3 SEP.OBS:60'SCR ROTATES:DIVES AT CAR:CLICKING SOUND", **LatLong:** "55.138892 -4.572222", **LatLongDMS:** "55:08:20 N 04:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.138892,-4.572222)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12503 (CA0B20A7) **Date:** 11/14/1955 **Location:** San Bernardino Mts, CA **Description:** Pilot saw a globe of white light approach plane, blinked landing lights; object blinked in seeming response, reversed course. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1892 ### Event 12504 (3EECEE59) **Date:** 11/14/1955 **Location:** Deming, NM **Description:** Fast Object With Light On Rear Observed By Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [551114](http://www.nicap.org/551114deming%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1893 ### Event 12505 (2D0CD15E) **Date:** 11/14/1955 **Description:** In 1955, Dr. Leslie Ward of Redlands, California, was flying with a passenger over Desert Hot Springs from Phoenix, Arizona. He saw what he first thought was an airliner and blinked his lights twice as a recognition signal. The fiery globe flipped its lights out twice in answer. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Morris Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 349 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7665 ### Event 12506 (8006EB6D) **Date:** 11/17/1955 **Time:** 06:10 **Location:** ST. LOUIS, MO **Description:** 2 observer(s). 12 saucers / 3x4 rectangular formation. Subtend 6.25°. Dark bot and silver top. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4814 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "ST LOUIS,MO:2 OBS:12 SCRS/3x4 RECT.FORMn:SUBTEND 6.25°:DARK BOT+SLVR TOP:>>NE", **LatLong:** "38.650002 -90.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:39:00 N 90:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.650002,-90.183338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12507 (926CE267) **Date:** 11/17/1955 **Location:** St. Louis, MO **Description:** Saw 12 round, flat objects, silver on top/dark on bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3860) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1894 ### Event 12508 (77ADA869) **Date:** 11/17/1955 **Time:** 6:10 AM **Location:** St. Louis, Missouri **Description:** Witness: J.A. Mapes. Twelve round, flat objects, silver on top and dark on the bottom, flew in 4-deep formation, tipping in pitch and roll, for 45 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_395 ### Event 12509 (1CFAFF44) **Date:** 11/17/1955 **Description:** At 6:10 a.m. in St. Louis, Missouri Mr. J. A. Mapes sighted twelve round, flat objects flying in a four-deep formation. They were silver on top and dark on the bottom. They tipped in pitched and rolled as they flew by. They were in sight for 45 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7720 ### Event 12510 (509B324B) **Date:** 11/19/1955 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** GAWLER, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** 5 / car. Small white objects exit odd cloud. Spin? Maneuver in formation. Lost / "cloud". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 632) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4815 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "GAWLER,S.AUSTR:5/CAR:SML WHT OBJS EXIT ODD CLOUD:SPIN?:MNVR/FORMn:LOST/"CLOUD"", **LatLong:** "-34.600002 138.733340", **LatLongDMS:** "34:36:00 S 138:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.600002,138.733340)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12511 (B14B428B) **Date:** 11/20/1955 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** CORSGAM, ENGL **Description:** 3 near quarry. 2 silver bowl saucers flip over. Flat side black. Quickly going up [to] extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4816 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CORSGAM,ENGL:3 nr QUARRY:2 SLVR BOWL SCRS FLIP OVER:FLAT SIDE BLACK:↑↑ XFAST", **LatLong:** "51.433336 -2.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:26:00 N 02:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.433336,-2.166667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12512 (199C521B) **Date:** 11/20/1955 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** LAKE CITY, TN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3862. Several observer(s). 2 semi-transparent ovoids. Erratic. Restricted area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOFTIN, Robert: IDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS: D. McKay, NY 1968 (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4817 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "261", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE CITY,TN:BBK#3862:SVRL OBS:2 SEMI-XPARENT OVOIDS:ERRATIC:RESTRICTED AREA", **LatLong:** "36.216668 -84.155560", **LatLongDMS:** "36:13:00 N 84:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.216668,-84.155560)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12513 (5B28F2EF) **Date:** 11/20/1955 **Location:** Lake City, TN **Description:** 2 oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3862) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1895 ### Event 12514 (708D54E2) **Date:** 11/20/1955 **Time:** 5:20 PM **Location:** Lake City, Tennessee **Description:** Witnesses: Operations Officer Capt. B.G. Denkler and five men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Sqdn. Two oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects flew at terrific speed and erratically, toward and away from each other. Observed by various persons form 4 to 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_396 ### Event 12515 (D3BC03B2) **Date:** 11/20/1955 **Location:** Lake City [now Rocky Top], Tennessee **Description:** 5:20 p.m. Operations Officer Capt. [Edward G. Denkler Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/574396/edward-george-denkler) and 5 men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Squadron see two oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects fly erratically at terrific speed toward and away from each other, over Lake City \[now Rocky Top\], Tennessee. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Seven Witnesses Observe Maneuvering](http://www.nicap.org/551120lakecity%5Fdir.htm) [Objects near Oak Ridge Plant](http://www.nicap.org/551120lakecity%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 232 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2777 ### Event 12516 (2D8C6C37) **Date:** 11/21/1955 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BEDFORD, PA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Small silent moon descends. Circles Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post. Rises until star-like. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 634) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4818 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "337", **HatchDesc:** "BEDFORD,PA:2 OBS:SML SLNT MOON DESCENDS:CCLS GOC POST:RISES UNTIL STARLIKE:", **LatLong:** "40.016669 -78.505559", **LatLongDMS:** "40:01:00 N 78:30:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.016669,-78.505559)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12517 (7E8F9353) **Date:** 11/22/1955 **Location:** Semipalatinsk Test Site **Description:** First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-37) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_557 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic MT:** 1.6 ### Event 12518 (838E4FCD) **Date:** 11/22/1955 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** SOUTH ALPS, NZ **Description:** Very shiny cylinder/cigar-shape-saucer hovers / foothills. Puffs smoke. Enters Sole cloud. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 635) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4819 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "S.ALPS,NZ:VSHINY CGR-SCR HVRS/FOOTHILLS:PUFFS SMOKE:ENTERS SOLE CLOUD:>>N", **LatLong:** "-44.000002 171.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "44:00:00 S 171:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-44.000002,171.000008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12519 (EFE292BE) **Date:** 11/22/1955 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** NAPIER, NZ **Description:** 5+20 observer(s). Green ball hovers. Turns red. Going west. Going east. Shadow above object. Away incredibly fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 645) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4820 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "NAPIER,NZ:5+20 OBS:GRN BALL HVRS:TURNS RED:>W:>E:SHADOW ABOVE OBJ:AWAY XXFAST", **LatLong:** "-39.516669 176.950008", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:00 S 176:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.516669,176.950008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12520 (482CD8AE) **Date:** 11/22/1955 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1600KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1055 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1600" ### Event 12521 (CA00A9B2) **Date:** 11/22/1955 **Locations:** Semipalatinsk Test Site; Kazakhstan **Description:** The first Soviet test of a true thermonuclear bomb takes place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[RDS-37](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-37)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2778 ### Event 12522 (646FCC1C) **Date:** 11/23/1955 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** SPIRIT LAKE, IA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC). Brilliant object hovers / lake. Maneuvers. Going quickly southwest. Back 4X / 7 nights. / r242p66. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4821 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "427", **HatchDesc:** "SPIRIT LAKE,IA:GOC:BRILL.OBJ HVRS/LAKE:MNVRS:>>SW::BACK 4X/7 NITES:/r242p66", **LatLong:** "43.466669 -95.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:28:00 N 95:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.466669,-95.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12523 (27B67B0A) **Date:** 11/23/1955 **Location:** Spirit Lake, IA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps spotters reported a brilliant object which changed color, moved erratically. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1896 ### Event 12524 (C92E3720) **Date:** 11/25/1955 **Location:** BANNING, CA **Description:** USAF flight instructor and doctor. Very large white globe instantly reverses course. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 434) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4822 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "732", **HatchDesc:** "BANNING,CA:USAF FLT INSTRUCTOR+DOCTOR:VLRG WHT GLOBE INSTANTLY REVERSES COURSE", **LatLong:** "33.933335 -116.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:56:00 N 116:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.933335,-116.866672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12525 (41D5BDD0) **Date:** 11/25/1955 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LA VETA, CO **Description:** Blue Book. Senator. Blimp / 15K' altitude. Descends. Levels off. Rises and away. / r70p3-43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4823 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2137", **HatchDesc:** "LA VETA,CO:BBK:SENATOR:BLIMP/15K'alt:DESCENDS:LEVELS OFF:RISES+AWAY:/r70p3-43", **LatLong:** "37.505557 -105.005561", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:20 N 105:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.505557,-105.005561)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12526 (17A4B683) **Date:** 11/25/1955 **Location:** LaVeta, CO **Description:** Dirigible-shaped object, fat front, tapered toward the tail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3869) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1897 ### Event 12527 (60FF0833) **Date:** 11/25/1955 **Time:** 10:30 AM **Location:** La Veta, Colorado **Description:** Witness: State Senator S.T. Taylor. One dirigible-shaped object (fat front, tapered toward the tail) object, which was luminous green-blue and jellylike, appeared overhead diving at a 45' angle, then reduced angle to 30'. Object seen for 5 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_397 ### Event 12528 (22AEFCB7) **Date:** 11/25/1955 **Description:** State Senator S. T. Taylor reported seeing a dirigible-shaped object in La Veta, Colorado with a fat front, tapered toward the tail, which was luminous green-blue and jellylike. It first appeared overhead diving at a 45 degree angle, then reduced the angle to 30 degrees. The object was seen for 5 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7902 ### Event 12529 (A0514C91) **Date:** 11/30/1955 **End date:** 12/2/1955 **Locations:** New York Herald Tribune; Miami Herald **Description:** The New York Herald Tribune and Miami Herald publish two articles by aviation journalist [Ansel Talbert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel%5FTalbert) in which he lists the names of aerospace firms conducting gravity-control propulsion research, including Glenn L. Martin Company, Convair, Bell Aircraft, Lear Inc., Clarke Electronics, and Sperry Gyroscope Division. The Gravity Research Group indicates these companies have constructed “rigs” to improve the performance of [Thomas Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown)’s gravitators through attempts to develop materials with high dielectric constants. Articles about the gravity propulsion research by the aerospace firms cease after 1974. Follow-up studies on Brown’s work and other claims are conducted by [R. L. Talley](https://www.scirp.org/%28S%28351jmbntvnsjt1aadkozje%29%29/reference/referencespapers.aspx?referenceid=916159) in 1990 and 2013 US Air Force studies, NASA scientist [Jonathan W. Campbell](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2003/03-132.html) in a 2003 experiment, and [Martin Tajmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FTajmar) in a 2004 paper. They find that no thrust can be observed in a vacuum and that Brown’s and other [ion-lifter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft) devices produce thrust along their axis regardless of the direction of gravity—consistent with electrohydrodynamic effects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fgravity%5Fcontrol%5Fpropulsion%5Fresearch\#Aerospace%5FResearch%5FLaboratories%5F.28ARL.29) [States gravity control propulsion research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fgravity%5Fcontrol%5Fpropulsion%5Fresearch\#Aerospace%5FResearch%5FLaboratories%5F.28ARL.29)”; Wikipedia, “[Anti-gravity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity\#Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown%27s%5Fgravitator)”; Ansel E. Talbert, “[Scientists Taking First](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024431/) [Steps](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024431/) [in Assault on Gravity Barrier,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024450/)” Miami Herald, November 30, 1955, pp. 1–2; Ansel E. Talbert, “[Future](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024507/) [Planes May Defy Gravity and Air Lift in Space Travels,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024507/)” Miami Herald, December 2, 1955, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2779 ### Event 12530 (47649C6C) **Date:** 12/1955 **Location:** SANGRE GRANDE TO/FROM PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD **Description:** Glowing circular object passes over men / road. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4824 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SANGRE GRANDE> Event 12531 (1267E46D) **Date:** 12/1/1955 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** INGERSOLL, ON **Description:** Several observer(s) and photograph. Black disk going north against wind. 90° turn going east. Slow and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 683) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4825 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "289", **HatchDesc:** "INGERSOLL,ON:SVRL OBS+FOTO:BLK DISK > N AGAINST WIND:90°TURN >E:SLOW+SILENT", **LatLong:** "43.033335 -80.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:02:00 N 80:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.033335,-80.883337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12532 (A4D225E5) **Date:** 12/1/1955 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SOUTH / COLORADO CITY, CO **Description:** 2 / US85. White cylinder/cylindrical object glows on top. Goes slowly going quickly west over Mt. baldy. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4826 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "3153", **HatchDesc:** "S/COLORADO CITY,CO:2/US85:WHT CYL GLOWS ON TOP:GOES SLOWLY>>W OVR Mt BALDY", **LatLong:** "37.044446 -104.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:40 N 104:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.044446,-104.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12533 (A8FA9582) **Date:** 12/6/1955 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** ASHFIELD AND GREENFIELD, MA **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly south. Long rows red lights / side. Going quickly south. / r139#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4827 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "379", **HatchDesc:** "ASHFIELD+GREENFIELD,MA:SVRL OBS:CGR >>S:LONG ROWS RED LITES/SIDE:>>S:/r139#3", **LatLong:** "42.527780 -72.794448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:40 N 72:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.527780,-72.794448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12534 (A567A743) **Date:** 12/6/1955 **Location:** Ashfield & Greenfield, MA **Description:** Several people watched a cigar-shaped object with long rows of brilliant, reddish body lights, moving slowly south. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1898 ### Event 12535 (05B15F19) **Date:** 12/6/1955 **Location:** Marianna, FL **Description:** MATS Pilot Tracks Unidentifed Target (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [551206](http://www.nicap.org/551206mariannadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1899 ### Event 12536 (3A967C48) **Date:** 12/9/1955 **Description:** A bluish white elongated UFO was sighted by a married couple from a terrace of an apartment building in Boonton, New Jersey at 7:00 p.m. as it slowly descended toward the ground above the Empire State Building and the New York City skyline. After several seconds it "blinked out as if lights had been turned off." At 7:30 p.m. a luminous green, bullet-shaped UFO was seen from the New Jersey Turnpike as it flew to the west. It had two round portholes that gave off a white light. It was in full view before it vanished. "It was there and then it wasn't," said the witness. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 29 & January 1956, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8281 ### Event 12537 (C59B22C1) **Date:** 12/10/1955 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** BALBOA, PANAMA CZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Odd fast 2M ring stops. Hovers 50M from hill / 20 minutes.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 635) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4828 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Panama", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BALBOA,PANAMA CZ:SVRL OBS:ODD FAST 2M RING STOPS:HVRS 50M from HILL/20mins..", **LatLong:** "8.966667 -79.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "08:58:00 N 79:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.966667,-79.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Canal Zone", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12538 (F2D10E17) **Date:** 12/11/1955 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** JACKSONVILLE, FL **Description:** 2 airline(s)/airliner crews and many / ground. USAF jets / dogfight / fast orange saucer. / r46p195. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4829 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "JACKSONVILLE,FL:2 AL CREWS+MANY/GND:USAF JETS/DOGFIGHT/FAST ORG SCR:/r46p195", **LatLong:** "30.350001 -81.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "30:21:00 N 81:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.350001,-81.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12539 (35EA2DF3) **Date:** 12/11/1955 **Location:** Jacksonville (near), FL **Description:** Fast maneuvering orange-red round object, with ground radar tracking (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1900 ### Event 12540 (19664EC9) **Date:** 12/11/1955 **Locations:** Near Jacksonville, Florida; Naval Air Station Jacksonville **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Near Jacksonville, Florida, two airline pilots and ground observers see a fast-maneuvering, orange-red, round object, with ground radar tracking. Two USN jets on a practice night-flying mission are vectored to the object by a Naval Air Station Jacksonville controller. On approach the object suddenly rises up to 30,000 feet then dives back down in a circle, buzzing the jets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 232 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2780 ### Event 12541 (883BBD8A) **Date:** 12/12/1955 **Time:** 06:50 **Location:** BECKENHAM, LONDON **Description:** Observer(s) feels urge to look up. Gold saucer streaks across sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4830 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BECKENHAM,LONDON:OBS FEELS URGE TO LOOK UP:GOLD SCR STREAKS ACRS SKY:", **LatLong:** "51.411114 -0.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:24:40 N 00:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.411114,-0.033333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12542 (664043AD) **Date:** 12/12/1955 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** HITCHIN, HERTFS **Description:** Bright silver "saucer" curves down and back up to clouds going quickly southwest. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4831 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HITCHIN,HERTFs:BRITE SLVR "SCR" CURVES DOWN+BACK UP to CLOUDS >>SW:VFAST", **LatLong:** "51.933336 -0.261111", **LatLongDMS:** "51:56:00 N 00:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.933336,-0.261111)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12543 (1CA8FBD0) **Date:** 12/12/1955 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** HORSHAM, WEST SUSSEX **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 25' gold saucer streaks going quickly south / 2500' altitude. Vanishes in sight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4832 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HORSHAM,W.SUSSEX:2 SEP.OBS:25'GOLD SCR STREAKS >>S/2500'alt:VANISHES IN SIGHT", **LatLong:** "51.077780 -0.327778", **LatLongDMS:** "51:04:40 N 00:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.077780,-0.327778)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12544 (97E4BBC1) **Date:** 12/12/1955 **Description:** In 1955 there were three UFO reports from London, Hertfordshire, and West Sussex, England. At 6:45 a.m. an observer in the Beckenham neighborhood of London felt the urge to look up, and then watched a golden colored disc streak across the sky. At 4:40 p.m. a bright silver disc curved down and then flew back up into the clouds over Hitchin, England. It then shot away to the southwest very fast. Twenty minutes later a 25-foot wide golden disc streaked across the sky in Horsham, England heading toward the south. It flew at an estimated altitude of 2500 feet and vanished quickly from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Spaceships, pp. 128-130 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8352 ### Event 12545 (81682FCF) **Date:** 12/13/1955 **Location:** Caddo Lake, LA **Description:** B-47 Tracks Oblong Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [551213](http://www.nicap.org/551213caddolake%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1901 ### Event 12546 (2FC18E4A) **Date:** 12/15/1955 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** OFF SANIBEL, FL **Description:** Buzzing sound. Double-plate saucer hovers over buoy. Portholes. Flashes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 636) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4833 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off SANIBEL,FL:BUZZING SOUND:DBL-PLATE SCR HVRS ovr BUOY:PORTHOLES:FLASHES", **LatLong:** "26.483335 -82.022226", **LatLongDMS:** "26:29:00 N 82:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.483335,-82.022226)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12547 (1C54FBC9) **Date:** 12/15/1955 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MASS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape / bright lights / ends. 7 lights / side. Very slow. Jet sound! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4834 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MASS:2 OBS:CGR/BRITE LITES/ENDS:7 LITES/SIDE:VERY SLOW:JET SOUND!", **LatLong:** "42.583335 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:35:00 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.583335,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12548 (952826C1) **Date:** 12/15/1955 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** CESSIEU, ISERE **Description:** 1 green globe joins 2nd. 3rd red sphere/orb/globe takes off from other side / swam. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4835 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CESSIEU,ISERE:1 GREEN GLOBE JOINS 2nd:3rd RED ORB TAKES OFF FM OTHER SIDE/SWAM", **LatLong:** "45.572224 5.372222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:34:20 N 05:22:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.572224,5.372222)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12549 (952280C1) **Date:** 12/17/1955 **Location:** Laguna, CA **Description:** (McDonald list) Radar Ops Tracked Target For 13 Minutes / Up To 3000 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [551217](http://www.nicap.org/551217laguna%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1902 ### Event 12550 (1AFB231B) **Date:** 12/18/1955 **Location:** EARTH ORBIT **Description:** Much unknown debris backtraced / time and place. Very large and artificial. Origin unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLUNDELL, Nigel & BOAR, Roger: The WORLDS GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES; Octopus, London 1989 & PB/Berkley Books, NY 1990 (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4836 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Earth Orbit or seen from space stations/capsules", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EARTH ORBIT:MUCH UNK DEBRIS BACKTRACED/TIME+PLACE:VLARGE+ARTIFICIAL:ORIGIN UNK", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12551 (64A794E4) **Date:** 12/21/1955 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / WASHBURN, ME **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3893. Domed saucer lights farm. Observer(s) feels mind was read. / r185p25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4837 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "SE/WASHBURN,ME:BBK#3893:DOMED SCR LITES FARM:OBS FEELS MIND WAS READ:/r185p25", **LatLong:** "46.788891 -68.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "46:47:20 N 68:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.788891,-68.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12552 (488E3558) **Date:** 12/21/1955 **Location:** Caribou, ME **Description:** Round, very bright gold, domed disc in short climb, then rotate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3893) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1903 ### Event 12553 (FDCC4ED0) **Date:** 12/21/1955 **Time:** 111 PM **Location:** Caribou, Maine **Description:** Witness: Roberta V. Jacobs. One round, very bright gold, domed disc made a short climb, rotated, hovered and then accelerated during the 6-8 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_398 ### Event 12554 (6AAECE10) **Date:** 12/21/1955 **Description:** From her bedroom window in Washburn, Maine Mrs. Jacobs watched a reddish-orange glare resolve into a golden domed elliptical saucer at eleven o’clock at night. In the lower part of the dome she could see figures moving about, like people "walking in front of a light." The experience made her feel nauseous, and at the same time she had a definite feeling of being watched. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 19; Project Blue Book cases counted in official statistics, case no. 3893; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 71 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8545 ### Event 12555 (CA5BD1A7) **Date:** 12/28/1955 (approximate) **Location:** DOUNEIKA, GREECE **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape circles village / several minutes. Vanishes / cloud / smoke. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4838 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Iceland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "DOUNEIKA,GREECE:SVRL OBS:CGR CCLs VILLAGE/SVRL mins:VANISHES/CLOUD/SMOKE:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.750002 21.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "37:45:00 N 21:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.750002,21.333334)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12556 (23EB67DD) **Date:** 12/29/1955 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** BIRKDALE, LIVERPOOL **Description:** Several observer(s). 16' saucer going south. Turns going quickly west to sea at Formby. No meteor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1955 (3 booklets) Self published. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4839 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BIRKDALE,LIVERPOOL:SVRL OBS:16'SCR > S:TURNS >>W to SEA at FORMBY:no meteor", **LatLong:** "53.616669 -3.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:37:00 N 03:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.616669,-3.033333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12557 (0A353540) **Date:** 12/29/1955 **Location:** New Britain, CT **Description:** Shiny object hovered, sped away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1904 --- ## Year: 1956 (Back to Top) ### Event 12558 (A5E6DD51) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** Mexico **Description:** Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_142 ### Event 12559 (B1421DCB) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** South America **Description:** Much UFO activity in South America **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_143 ### Event 12560 (713F991C) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** Twin Falls, Idaho **Description:** E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs steer from farm **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_146 **Attributes:** cattle mutilation ### Event 12561 (29FDCA4B) **Date:** 1956 **Description:** According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the UFO problem. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research groups. **Type:** secret meeting **Reference:** [“The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69](https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Gene-Interactions-Humanity-Visitors/dp/0958704538) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_558 **See also:** 1955 ### Event 12562 (15B14B9D) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Uranium enrichment) **Type:** atomic plant **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_559 ### Event 12563 (6B7BCCC8) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** Castle AFB, CA **Description:** Late 1956; Castle AFB, CA, luminous elliptical object and two F-86's, radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/late56dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1905 ### Event 12564 (66399C97) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** Modesto (near), CA **Description:** Late 1956; Castle AFB, CA. Luminous ellipt. object and two F-86's (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/56latedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1906 ### Event 12565 (4D76183E) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** North/South Dakota Airspace, Various **Description:** 1956, Late; Bet. N. & S. Dakata. Filmed by AF crew (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/560000dakotasdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1907 ### Event 12566 (9323E68A) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** North/South Dakota Airspace, Various **Description:** RB-36H Encounter / Gnd radar Track of UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/560000dakotasdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1908 ### Event 12567 (0D54E80C) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** North/South Dakota Airspace, Various **Description:** Fall/Winter 1956; North/South, Dakota, Military a/c CE (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/560000dakotasdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1909 ### Event 12568 (F208A9AB) **Date:** 1956 **Description:** French ufologist [Aimé Michel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel) publishes The Truth about Flying Saucers, one of the best early books on UFOs, originally published in French in 1954. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, Criterion, 1956; “[First](https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2012/02/first-read-aime-michels-truth-about.html) [Read: Aimé Michel’s ‘The Truth about Flying Saucers,’](https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2012/02/first-read-aime-michels-truth-about.html)” Magonia, February 25, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2781 ### Event 12569 (1125CE70) **Date:** 1956 **Description:** [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) publishes They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, a bestselling book about the supposed [Albert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) [K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) mystery and his encounter with three men in black. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gray Barker, [They Knew Too Much about Flying](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/mode/2up) [Saucers](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/mode/2up) University Books, 1956; Clark III 178, 190; David Halperin, “[‘They Knew Too Much’: The Book That](https://mshorror.com/they-knew-too-much-the-book-that-almost-scared-me-under-my-bed/) [\(Almost\) Scared Me under My Bed,](https://mshorror.com/they-knew-too-much-the-book-that-almost-scared-me-under-my-bed/)” Ms.Horror.com, March 16, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2782 ### Event 12570 (DE47895D) **Date:** 1956 **Description:** [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) publishes The UFO Annual, an anthology of newspaper and magazine articles about UFOs, and UFO and the Bible, the first book-length attempt to connect biblical miracles with space visitors. Jessup is the first writer to use the term “ufology” in his introduction \(dated December 31, 1955\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel, 1956; Clark III 106, 634–635 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2783 ### Event 12571 (AECDFCD6) **Date:** 1956 **Location:** Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland **Description:** Soviet polar aviator [Valentin Akkuratov](https://www.peoples.ru/military/aviation/valentin%5Fakkuratov/) is flying a Tupolev Tu-4 aircraft near Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland, performing strategic ice reconnaissance. Dropping down below the clouds, he sees an unknown object moving on the port side parallel to his course. It looks like a “large pearl-colored lens with wavy, pulsating edges.” Thinking it is a US aircraft, Akkuratov heads back into the clouds. After flying for 40 minutes to the southeast, the cloud cover ends and Akkuratov encounters it again. He decides to approach the object, which changes course and paces the airplane at the same speed. After 15–18 minutes, the UFO sharply alters course, speeds ahead, and rises quickly until it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 27– 29; Good Above, [pp. 226–227](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/226/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2784 ### Event 12572 (48C8AA18) **Date:** 1956 **Locations:** lake Ozero Blagodati, Primorsky Krai, Russia; Sea of Japan **Description:** Fishermen at lake Ozero Blagodati, Primorsky Krai, Russia, allegedly see an enormous silvery object with an apparent diameter of 4,900 feet rapidly flying above them at 1,960 feet. It resembles a hat with red portholes around its rim and is accompanied by loud grinding sounds and black smoke. The object emits numerous thin metal threads resembling horse hairs that the fishermen pick up the next day. The object crashes into the Sea of Japan. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 113–114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2785 ### Event 12573 (051CA587) **Date:** 1956 **Alternate date:** 1957 **Locations:** North Pacific; Midway Island; Japan **Description:** 7:45 p.m. W. J. Kyncy is aboard the destroyer [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FMaddox%5F%28DD-731%29) [Maddox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FMaddox%5F%28DD-731%29) in the North Pacific between Midway Island and Japan. He and some 30 other sailors on the stern see a steady orange light coming toward them at about 50 mph. It stops for 2 minutes about 1,300 feet away at about 400 feet altitude. It begins moving again at 35 mph then blinks out after 5–10 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2786 ### Event 12574 (AE11FC17) **Date:** 1/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** BARRE-DES-CEVENNES, FR **Description:** 2 cops. 12M domed saucer lands. 4 pseudo-human/entity exit. Sphere/orb/globe flies. / MJ#144. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN 2-250-00464-1 (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4840 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BARRE-des-CEVENNES,FR:2 COPS:12M DOMED SCR LANDS:4 PSH EXIT:ORB FLIES:/MJ#144", **LatLong:** "44.250002 3.638889", **LatLongDMS:** "44:15:00 N 03:38:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.250002,3.638889)", **State/Prov:** "Lozère", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 12575 (B2D88B75) **Date:** 1/1956 **Location:** Edgewood Arsenal facility at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland **Description:** The US Army Chemical Corps begins classified human experiments at its Edgewood Arsenal facility at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The Medical Research Volunteer Program \(1956–1975\) is driven by intelligence requirements and the need for new and more effective interrogation techniques. Overall, about 7,000 soldiers take part in these experiments that involve exposure to more than 250 different chemicals. Some of the volunteers exhibit symptoms at the time of exposure to these agents but long-term follow-up is not planned as part of the Department of Defense studies. The experiments are abruptly terminated by the Army in late 1975 amid an atmosphere of scandal and recrimination as lawmakers accuse researchers of questionable ethics. Many official government reports and civilian lawsuits follow in the wake of the controversy. The chemical agents include VX, sarin, mustard gas, atropine, scopolamine, 2-PAM chloride, LSD, PCP, cannabinoids, riot control agents, alcohol, and caffeine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Edgewood Arsenal human experiments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood%5FArsenal%5Fhuman%5Fexperiments)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2787 ### Event 12576 (EED61FD2) **Date:** 1/1956 **Description:** [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published. His candid opinions about UFOs contradict many of the positions taken on UFOs by the Air Force. He has personally seen the Estimate of the Situation, he confirms the existence of [Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)’s motion study, and he first describes the basic contours of the Robertson Panel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, [The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/n5/mode/2up) Doubleday, 1956; Michael D. Swords, \[Review\], JUFOS 3 \(1991\): 179–183 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2788 ### Event 12577 (36887A23) **Date:** 1/2/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** OVER PASADENA, CA **Description:** 2 / plane. 3 15M saucers / 1900kph. Circle plane. Going quickly west. Clearly seen. / MJ#273. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4841 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "ovr PASADENA,CA:2/PLANE:3 15M SCRS/1900kph:CCL PLANE:>>W:CLEARLY SEEN:/MJ#273", **LatLong:** "34.183335 -118.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:00 N 118:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.183335,-118.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12578 (86C1DA97) **Date:** 1/3/1956 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, IL **Description:** Military observer(s). Orange fireball / green tail. Gradual climb / high-speed. = meteor / USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4842 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "SCOTT AFB,IL:MIL OBS:ORG FBL/GRN TAIL:GRADUAL CLIMB/HI-SPEED:=meteor/USAF", **LatLong:** "38.583335 -89.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:00 N 89:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.583335,-89.783338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "1" ### Event 12579 (8EBFCEF6) **Date:** 1/5/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** FT. WOOD, MO **Description:** 2 soldiers. Big silver balloon going [to] slow. None up then. Rotates? Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 601) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4843 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "370", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.WOOD,MO:2 GIs:BIG SLVR BALLOON >SLOW:NONE UP THEN:ROTATES?:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "37.822224 -92.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:20 N 92:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.822224,-92.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12580 (5BBF3EE1) **Date:** 1/5/1956 **Description:** At midday two soldiers at Fort Wood, Missouri saw a big silver balloon like object fly by slowly. No balloons were scheduled for release in the area at that time. The object rotated, then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4893 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_113 ### Event 12581 (C1B445BF) **Date:** 1/7/1956 **Location:** HONOLULU, HI **Description:** 6 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 100' saucer over homes. Drops going down / ground when plane passes. Sparks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4844 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "HONOLULU,HI:6 OBS/BINOCS:100'SCR OVR HOMES:DROPS↓/GND WHEN PLANE PASSES:SPARKS", **LatLong:** "21.333334 -157.866674", **LatLongDMS:** "21:20:00 N 157:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.333334,-157.866674)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12582 (7A64FD55) **Date:** 1/8/1956 **Location:** ROBERTSON ISLAND, ANTARC **Description:** 4 CHL scientists. 2 vertical 150M metal cigars. Radiation/radioactivity. Photograph. 40 Kkph. / r148p66. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4845 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Antarctic below 70 degrees South", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "ROBERTSON Isl,ANTARC:4 CHL SCIs:2 VERT.150M MTL CGRS:RDA:FOTO:40Kkph:/r148p66", **LatLong:** "-65.166670 -59.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "65:10:00 S 59:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-65.166670,-59.616670)", **State/Prov:** "CHL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12583 (FD90F3AC) **Date:** 1/8/1956 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / BEDFORD, IN **Description:** Several Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) and more/others. Grey ovoid / disk flashes. Going [to] up and down. Military planes chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 602) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4846 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "NW/BEDFORD,IN:SVRL GOC OBS++:GRY OVOID/DISK FLASHES:>UP+DN:MIL PLANES CHASE", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -86.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 86:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-86.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12584 (91C4B1EC) **Date:** 1/8/1956 **Description:** At nine o’clock in the morning on Robertson Island, Antarctica a photograph was taken by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of two cigar-shaped objects, hanging in a vertical position in the sky for 64 minutes. The objects were estimated to be 150 meters in length, and their presence was reportedly confirmed by radar. They shot away at an estimated speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1968, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_191 ### Event 12585 (0B9DD899) **Date:** 1/9/1956 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** BLOOMINGTON, IN **Description:** Several jets and P51 chase saucers. P51 O / O / control. Explodes over farm. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VESCO, Renato: INTERCEPT but DON'T SHOOT; transl. from Italian. Goofy. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4847 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "168", **HatchDesc:** "BLOOMINGTON,IN:SVRL JETS+P51 CHASE SCRS:P51 O/O/CONTROL:EXPLODES OVR FARM", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -86.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 86:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-86.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12586 (C40B6224) **Date:** 1/9/1956 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** KILBEGGAN, EIRE **Description:** Judge. Circular object whistles going north / low altitude. Fast spin. Flashes. / FSRv2#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 601) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4848 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "KILBEGGAN,EIRE:JUDGE:CIRC.OBJ WHISTLES >N/LO ALT:FAST SPIN:FLASHES:/FSRv2#1", **LatLong:** "53.372225 -7.505556", **LatLongDMS:** "53:22:20 N 07:30:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.372225,-7.505556)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12587 (6D062F0A) **Date:** 1/9/1956 **Description:** The CIA’s Applied Science Division takes on the job of holding UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 135](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2789 ### Event 12588 (28B44032) **Date:** 1/11/1956 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** WURTSMITH AIR FORCE BASE, MI **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. Red-orange fireball / end / runway. Jet scrambles. RADAR. / r148p193. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4849 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "193", **HatchDesc:** "WURTSMITH AFB,MI:2/BINOCS:RED-ORG FBL/END/RUNWAY:JET SCRAMBLES:RDR:/r148p193", **LatLong:** "44.450002 -83.388893", **LatLongDMS:** "44:27:00 N 83:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.450002,-83.388893)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12589 (5C72C52E) **Date:** 1/11/1956 **Location:** Wurtsmith AFB, MI **Description:** Culpepper and Complaer. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) F-89 Has Radar LockOn (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560111](http://www.nicap.org/560111wurtsmithdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1910 ### Event 12590 (4014A211) **Date:** 1/12/1956 **Description:** At 5:30 a.m. a scarlet colored object streaked across the northeast sky in Kuantan, Malaysia and then dove into the sea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, case # 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_275 ### Event 12591 (F9A9AE97) **Date:** 1/13/1956 **Locations:** New Kensington, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia **Description:** UFO researcher [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) receives a letter from someone in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who calls himself [Carlos Miguel Allende](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/) \[a pseudonym of Carl Allen\], who alludes to a US Navy experiment to make a destroyer invisible in October 1943 \[the bogus Philadelphia Experiment\]. He writes another letter postmarked May 25 that suggests hypnosis or truth serum might bring out more details. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Philadelphia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment\#Origins%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fstory) [Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment\#Origins%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fstory)”; Clark III 95; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[The Carl Allen Letters,](https://www.de173.com/carl-allen/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, January 31, 2001 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2790 ### Event 12592 (480AD19C) **Date:** 1/14/1956 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** Amateur astronomer. 4 grey ovoids going / linear echelon toward(s) Ellington Field. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 601) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4850 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:AM.ASTRON:4 GRY OVOIDS >/LINEAR ECHELON twrd ELLINGTON FIELD:SLNT", **LatLong:** "29.783335 -95.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:47:00 N 95:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.783335,-95.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12593 (1CAF092D) **Date:** 1/14/1956 **Description:** A 51-year-old amateur astronomer in Houston, Texas named Johnson reported sighting four gray ovoid objects flying by at 10:15 p.m. in linear echelon formation, toward Ellington Field. They made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** CUFOS files, letter dated April 16, 1966; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (Volume 6), p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_310 ### Event 12594 (B2B3EECA) **Date:** 1/15/1956 **Location:** SEA / JPN NEAR PUSAN, KOREA **Description:** Large glowing washtub falls to sea. Floats. Glows. Sinks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4851 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SEA/JPN nr PUSAN,KOREA:LARGE GLOWING WASHTUB FALLS TO SEA:FLOATS:GLOWS:SINKS", **LatLong:** "35.000002 130.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 N 130:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.000002,130.000006)", **State/Prov:** "SJP", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12595 (00DACFFC) **Date:** 1/15/1956 **Locations:** Busan, South Korea; 150 feet offshore Busan, South Korea **Description:** An object the apparent size of a washtub is seen falling into the sea 150 feet offshore Busan, South Korea, by large numbers of townspeople. The glow continues for an hour and a half before the object sinks. Korean and American military authorities are alerted. Military Police Cpl. Ben Elliot observes the glow, which resembles burning alcohol or benzene. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Samuel Norman, “Recent UFOs over Japan,” Fate 9, no. 6 \(June 1956\): 22–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2791 ### Event 12596 (ED48674B) **Date:** 1/16/1956 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** LEEDS, ENGL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 shiny balls shoot down. Converge. Bank. Back up and going quickly west xfast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 604) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4852 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LEEDS,ENGL:2 OBS:2 SHINY BALLS SHOOT DOWN:CONVERGE:BANK:BACK UP+>>W XFAST.", **LatLong:** "53.816669 -1.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:49:00 N 01:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.816669,-1.566667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12597 (706F5E55) **Date:** 1/17/1956 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** ORANGEVILLE, ONT **Description:** 1 observer. Silent 45M saucer / 15M altitude. Lights farmyard. Glows. Gone in seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 605) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4853 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "426", **HatchDesc:** "ORANGEVILLE,ONT:1 OBS:SILENT 45M SCR/15M alt:LITES FARMYARD:GLOWS:GONE IN SECs", **LatLong:** "43.916669 -80.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:55:00 N 80:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.916669,-80.100004)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12598 (FFE6B3AC) **Date:** 1/17/1956 **Location:** Orangeville, CAN **Description:** Disc-shaped UFO seen at close range; rings of light visible on bottom. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1911 ### Event 12599 (1C89AE23) **Date:** 1/18/1956 **Location:** NORTH / MAIQUETIA, VNZL **Description:** Many observer(s). 50M glowing-object dives to sea. Big search finds nothing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 679) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4854 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/MAIQUETIA,VNZL:MANY OBS:50M GLOW-OBJ DIVES to SEA:big search finds nothing", **LatLong:** "10.700001 -67.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:42:00 N 67:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.700001,-67.000003)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12600 (495FAA39) **Date:** 1/18/1956 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** ITAZUKI AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** USAF men. White round object moves fast. No contrail. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4855 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ITAZUKI AFB,JPN:USAF MEN:WHT ROUND OBJ MOVES FAST:NO CONTRAIL:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.850002 130.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:51:00 N 130:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.850002,130.416673)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12601 (458C0C0D) **Date:** 1/18/1956 **Location:** Itazuke AFB, Japan **Description:** Object With No Trail Zooms Over Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 1, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560118](http://www.nicap.org/560118itazuke%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1912 ### Event 12602 (9D9BF4E0) **Date:** 1/18/1956 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Project 56 No. 4” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 20KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_69 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Project 56 No. 4", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "20" ### Event 12603 (0C208B7E) **Date:** 1/18/1956 **Description:** A 50-meter wide glowing object dove into the ocean north of Maiqueta, Venezuela on this night. A large-scale search of the area found nothing. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, July 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_365 ### Event 12604 (8945132C) **Date:** 1/19/1956 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** HORNSBY, NSW **Description:** 12M saucer hovers / 5 minutes. Green vapor / port / bottom/underside. Shoots going quickly southeast toward(s) Sydney. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 604) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4856 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HORNSBY,NSW:12M SCR HVRS/5mins:GREEN VAPOR/PORT/BTM:SHOOTS >>SE twrd SYDNEY", **LatLong:** "-33.700002 151.083341", **LatLongDMS:** "33:42:00 S 151:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.700002,151.083341)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12605 (540BC29F) **Date:** 1/20/1956 **Location:** NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ENGL **Description:** Schoolteacher. Huge dark saucer over town / 15 second(s). Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4857 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "NEWCASTLE-upon-TYNE,ENGL:SCHOOLTEACHER:HUGE DARK SCR OVR TOWN/15sec:>>S", **LatLong:** "55.000003 -1.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "55:00:00 N 01:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.000003,-1.750000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12606 (8710F88A) **Date:** 1/20/1956 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** NEAR WILLIAMS, WEST AUSTR **Description:** 12+observer(s). Silent domed saucer / 15K' altitude. Moves / jerks. Several recent UFO's. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4858 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr WILLIAMS,W.AUSTR:12+OBS:SLNT DOMED SCR/15K'alt:MOVES/JERKS:SVRL RECENT UFOS", **LatLong:** "-33.016668 116.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:01:00 S 116:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.016668,116.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12607 (56DB8807) **Date:** 1/21/1956 **Time:** 00:40 **Location:** WALDEN, NY **Description:** Extra red-glow moon glides by going west. Jet plane follows 10 minute(s) after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 604) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4859 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "108", **HatchDesc:** "WALDEN,NY:EXTRA RED-GLOW MOON GLIDES BY >W:JET PLANE FOLOS 10min after", **LatLong:** "41.561113 -74.188892", **LatLongDMS:** "41:33:40 N 74:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.561113,-74.188892)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12608 (38558AD9) **Date:** 1/21/1956 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** 210MI SOUTHEAST / BERMUDA **Description:** "Star" falls. Hovers. Shoots going quickly north / instantaneous speed. No acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4860 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "210mi SE/BERMUDA:"STAR" FALLS:HOVERS:SHOOTS>>N/INSTANTANEOUS SPEED:NO ACCEL.", **LatLong:** "29.666668 -62.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "29:40:00 N 62:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.666668,-62.000003)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12609 (A9783BA1) **Date:** 1/21/1956 (approximate) **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** EUPHRATES GOVNT, SYRIA **Description:** Pyramid-object going [to] fast over 2 villages. Also saucer over Aleppo. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 607) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4861 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Syria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "EUPHRATES Govnt,SYRIA:PYRAMID-OBJ >FAST OVR 2 VILLAGES:+SCR ovr ALEPPO:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.000002 40.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 40:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,40.000002)", **State/Prov:** "EUP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12610 (5B991987) **Date:** 1/22/1956 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** GMX, LA TO FL **Description:** PAA flight engineer. Large long object / yellow exhaust going quickly east / clouds. / r28p435+/ r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4862 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GMX,LA to FL:PAA FLITE ENG:LRG LONG OBJ/YLW EXHAUST >>E/CLOUDS:/r28p435+/r242", **LatLong:** "28.416668 -86.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "28:25:00 N 86:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.416668,-86.333337)", **State/Prov:** "GMX", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12611 (1DEB08AE) **Date:** 1/22/1956 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico (nr. New Orleans), At Sea **Description:** PanAm engineer saw large elongated object, emitting yellow flame \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1913 ### Event 12612 (048A5FE2) **Date:** 1/22/1956 **Description:** [Jonathan N. Leonard](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/16/archives/jonathan-n-leonard-dies-at-71-author-and-time-science-editor.html) reviews [Harold T. Wilkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FT.%5FWilkins)’s Flying Saucers Uncensored, [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s Flying Saucer Conspiracy, and [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s Report on UFOs in the New York Times. He calls Wilkins a mystic, Keyhoe “repetitious and unconvincing,” and Ruppelt \(most unfairly\) “the longest and dullest of the current crop of saucer books.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jonathan N. Leonard, “[Visitors from Space,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/01/22/90749911.pdf)” New York Times Book Review, January 22, 1956, p. 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2792 ### Event 12613 (48A609BF) **Date:** 1/22/1956 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. a Pan American Airways flight engineer named Mueller sighted a saw long cylindrical object with yellow exhaust while flying not far from New Orleans over the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana to Florida. The UFO flew to the east into the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, January 1957; Paris Flamonde, UFO Exist!, p. 435; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 246; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_409 ### Event 12614 (9CF22962) **Date:** 1/24/1956 **Location:** Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object Tracked For 12 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560124](http://www.nicap.org/560124wheelus%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1914 ### Event 12615 (9F9B22CB) **Date:** 1/25/1956 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** PULLMAN, WA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and several. "Big moon buzzes town". Fast. Over airport. No planes in area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4863 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "732", **HatchDesc:** "PULLMAN,WA:GOC+SVRL:"BIG MOON BUZZES TOWN":FAST:OVR AIRPORT:NO PLANES IN AREA", **LatLong:** "46.716669 -117.188894", **LatLongDMS:** "46:43:00 N 117:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.716669,-117.188894)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12616 (1881E53C) **Date:** 1/26/1956 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** TOLEDO, OH **Description:** Woman / driveway. Silent silver pancake disk passes smoothly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 609) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4864 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "185", **HatchDesc:** "TOLEDO,OH:WOMAN/DRIVEWAY:SLNT SLVR PANCAKE DISK PASSES SMOOTHLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.683335 -83.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:00 N 83:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.683335,-83.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12617 (B1C6EA68) **Date:** 1/26/1956 **Description:** On this afternoon a woman in her driveway in Toledo, Ohio spotted a silver, pancake-shaped disc that flew by smoothly for about a minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (volume 6), p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_516 ### Event 12618 (FBCAD0B3) **Date:** 1/30/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** 9MI EAST / HOLDENVILLE, OK **Description:** 3+1 observer(s). 120' ovoid lights 15 acres from underside. Follows car. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4865 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "9mi E/HOLDENVILLE,OK:3+1 OBS:120' OVOID LITES 15 ACRES fm UNDERSIDE:FOLOS CAR", **LatLong:** "35.077779 -96.250005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:04:40 N 96:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.077779,-96.250005)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12619 (A43345B2) **Date:** 1/30/1956 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. in Lamar, nine miles east of Holdenville, Oklahoma a low flying, 120 foot long ovoid object illuminated an area 15 acres in size; it then pursued four witnesses in a car for 16 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_598 ### Event 12620 (A3E2B946) **Date:** 1/31/1956 **Locations:** Kentucky; Standiford Field; Louisville, Kentucky; Bedford, Indiana **Description:** 3:24 p.m. Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. [Lee J. Merkel](http://www.nicap.org/reports2/Merkel%20Lee%20J.pdf) is flying an F-51 Mustang out of Standiford Field \[now Louisville International Airport\] in Louisville, Kentucky, on a maintenance test flight. His aircraft crashes 10 miles north of Bedford, Indiana, following some confusing information from various sources about an unknown radar target or visual observation in the vicinity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 62–63](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/62/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 215–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/214/mode/2up) [216](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/214/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2793 ### Event 12621 (5A87520C) **Date:** 2/1956 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** PATHFINDER LK, WY **Description:** Whistle. 7 10M disks going [to] abreast. 2 zigzag. Rest not. 1300kph? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4866 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1783", **HatchDesc:** "PATHFINDER Lk,WY:WHISTLE:7 10M DISKS > ABREAST:2 ZIGZAG:REST NOT:1300kph?", **LatLong:** "42.483335 -106.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:29:00 N 106:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.483335,-106.866672)", **RelAlt:** "2500", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12622 (FE82FA0D) **Date:** 2/1956 (approximate) **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** NEAR DAWSON, GA **Description:** Private pilot. Ovoid with lit portholes and 3 strong beams going down. Vanishes on approach. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4867 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "108", **HatchDesc:** "nr DAWSON,GA:Pvt.PILOT:OVOID W/LIT PORTS+3 STRONG BEAMS ↓:VANISHES on approach", **LatLong:** "31.750002 -84.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "31:45:00 N 84:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.750002,-84.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12623 (6FAF82E8) **Date:** 2/1956 **Location:** Nr. Fishguard, S. Wales **Description:** Test Pilot Chases Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [5602XX](http://www.nicap.org/5602XXfishguard%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1917 ### Event 12624 (33CAC142) **Date:** 2/1/1956 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** MT. HAMILTON, CA **Description:** UFO going quickly east / MACH 1+. Returns / 30 second(s). Circles San Jose. Going quickly NNW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4868 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1263", **HatchDesc:** "Mt HAMILTON,CA:UFO >> E/MACH 1+:RETURNS/30sec:CIRCLES SAN JOSE:>>NNW", **LatLong:** "37.344446 -121.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:20:40 N 121:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.344446,-121.666672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12625 (53BF8303) **Date:** 2/2/1956 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** FORT IRWIN, CA **Description:** Military observer(s). UFO north going quickly south. Thousands / MPH. Stops / 'grid 3114'. Rumor = RADAR confirm. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4869 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "718", **HatchDesc:** "FORT IRWIN,CA:MIL OBS:UFO N>>S:1000s/MPH:STOPS/'GRID 3114':RUMOR=RDR CONFIRM", **LatLong:** "35.466668 -116.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:28:00 N 116:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.466668,-116.666672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12626 (62CB82F9) **Date:** 2/2/1956 **Location:** Camp Irwin, CA **Description:** Radar Tracks Objects In Three Instances (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [560202](http://www.nicap.org/560202campirwin%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1915 ### Event 12627 (BCE4C862) **Date:** 2/2/1956 **Location:** 48.56956, 45.90346 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1056 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "48.56956, 45.90346", **LatLongDMS:** "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.56956,,45.90346)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** ".3" ### Event 12628 (421B7074) **Date:** 2/3/1956 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SOMERS POINT, NJ AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** 2+several. Luminous saucer hovers and darts to and fro going up and down. Dark hole / center. / r140#1p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 613) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4870 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "SOMERS POINT,NJ++:2+SVRL:LUM SCR HVRS+DARTS TO+FRO ↑+↓:DRK HOLE/CTR:/r140#1p22", **LatLong:** "39.616669 -74.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:37:00 N 74:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.616669,-74.600004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12629 (1926541E) **Date:** 2/5/1956 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Soviet atomic bomb test R-5M. The RDS-4 comprised the warhead of the R-5M, the first medium-range ballistic missile in the world, which was tested with a live warhead for the first and only time on February 5, 1956. **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Soviet_nuclear_tests) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_560 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** .3 ### Event 12630 (BF65D82D) **Date:** 2/7/1956 **Location:** Coral Gables, FL **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion group in Coral Gables, FL **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_561 ### Event 12631 (D9F59187) **Date:** 2/7/1956 **Location:** Biloxi (Keesler AFB), MS **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1918 ### Event 12632 (66F3E7F5) **Date:** 2/8/1956 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers **Type:** lecture **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_562 ### Event 12633 (414E505F) **Date:** 2/8/1956 **Location:** ST. PETERSBURG, FL **Description:** Silver-white UFO going quickly west. Back west going quickly east chased / jets. MacDill denies involve. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4871 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "St.PETERSBURG,FL:SLVR-WHT UFO >> W:BACK W>>E CHASED/JETS:MacDILL DENIES INVOLV", **LatLong:** "27.783335 -82.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:47:00 N 82:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.783335,-82.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12634 (1F681DB3) **Date:** 2/9/1956 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** CAMP IRWIN, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent brilliant ovoid / grid 3114 going quickly [to] grid 4502. Hovers / 4mn. RADAR 21 February. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4872 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "718", **HatchDesc:** "CAMP IRWIN,CA:2 OBS:SILENT BRILL.OVOID/GRID 3114>>GRID 4502:HVRS/4mn:RDR 21FEB", **LatLong:** "35.466668 -116.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:28:00 N 116:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.466668,-116.683339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12635 (CBB79747) **Date:** 2/9/1956 **Location:** Redondo Beach, California **Description:** 1:30 a.m. Patrolmen Marvin Poer and John Freeland see a ball of fire plunge behind the breakwater at Redondo Beach, California. It bobs on the water’s surface before sinking into 15 feet of water some 300 feet off the shore. Five county lifeguards row out to look for it and retrieve a US Army Signal Corps battery light that was dropped from an airplane. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sea Cools Mystery of Hot Disk,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100118264/)” Los Angeles \(Calif.\) Mirror-News, February 9, 1956, p. 8; “[Sea-Saucer or Searchlight?](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 12 \(March 2, 1956\): 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2794 ### Event 12636 (0FFA5355) **Date:** 2/9/1956 **Description:** In a memo, “Responsibility for Unidentified Flying Objects,” the CIA’s Applied Science Division retains files for incoming raw reports that might provide information on foreign weapons R&D. Other \(more significant?\) reports are forwarded to the Fundamental Sciences Area for review of information on foreign science developments. Still others are to be destroyed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 135–136](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2795 ### Event 12637 (242302CB) **Date:** 2/10/1956 **Location:** COSTA MESA, CA **Description:** 2 cops. 2 flame-color saucers hover / marine airbase. Away / plane nears. / r140#1+6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 673) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4873 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "COSTA MESA,CA:2 COPS:2 FLAME-CLR SCRS HVR/MARINE AB:AWAY/PLANE NEARS:/r140#1+6", **LatLong:** "33.638890 -117.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:38:20 N 117:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.638890,-117.916672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12638 (45C10D40) **Date:** 2/10/1956 **Description:** On this night in Costa Mesa, California two flame-colored discs hovered over the Marine Corp Air Base for two minutes. They flew away when approached by a plane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, January-February 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_795 ### Event 12639 (1AC4055B) **Date:** 2/11/1956 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** BASTROP, LA **Description:** 5 observer(s). 5 saucers emit "smoke-screen" and offload 500 disk-probes going quickly [to] all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4874 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "38", **HatchDesc:** "BASTROP,LA:5 OBS:5 SCRS EMIT "SMOKE-SCREEN"+OFFLOAD 500 DISK-PROBES>>ALL DIRs", **LatLong:** "32.777779 -91.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:46:40 N 91:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.777779,-91.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12640 (5DFC0EBC) **Date:** 2/11/1956 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** PACIFIC 131'30E-28'53N **Description:** Military Air Transport Service (MATS, US) C124 crew. Amber pumpkin / 1000+knts / 7500M altitude. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4875 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PACIFIC 131'30E-28'53N:MATS C124 CREW:AMBER PUMPKIN/1000+knts/7500M alt:>>SW", **LatLong:** "28.883335 131.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "28:53:00 N 131:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.883335,131.500006)", **State/Prov:** "PHS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12641 (8AC1F32A) **Date:** 2/11/1956 **Location:** Japan (S of), At Sea **Description:** C-124 Encounters "Jack O'Lantern" At 1,000 Knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560211](http://www.nicap.org/560211sjapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1919 ### Event 12642 (FB248A96) **Date:** 2/11/1956 **Description:** In Bastrop, Louisiana at 4:00 p.m. at least five silver disc-shaped objects emitted a "smoke screen," darted rapidly, then ejected smaller satellite objects that dispersed in all directions." The duration of the sighting was 45 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, May 1956, citing a newspaper account **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_820 ### Event 12643 (701B4803) **Date:** 2/12/1956 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** 38 MI SOUTHEAST / GOOSE BAY, NFL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3969. 2 F89s RADAR-visual (observation). Also ground RADAR. Blip fades when neared. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4876 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "38mi SE/GOOSE BAY,NFL:BBK#3969:2 F89s RDR-VIS:+GND RDR:BLIP FADES WHEN NEARED.", **LatLong:** "53.000003 -60.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "53:00:00 N 60:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.000003,-60.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12644 (33B9D762) **Date:** 2/12/1956 **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Green & Red Object Circles Jet, Tracked on Radar (BBU 3969) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 3969) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [560212](http://www.nicap.org/560212goosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1920 ### Event 12645 (1C9EE1BD) **Date:** 2/12/1956 **Time:** 11:25 PM **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: F-89 pilot Bowen, radar observer Crawford. One green and red object rapidly circled the aircraft while being tracked on radar during 1 minute sighting. No further details. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_399 ### Event 12646 (E6405185) **Date:** 2/12/1956 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** 10:55 p.m. Two F-89D fighters flying at 20,000 feet, one crewed by pilot Bowen and radar observer Crawford, suddenly see a green and red object 40 miles southeast of Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. It rapidly circles thir jet, and the other fighter tracks it on radar but cannot see it visually. About 15 minutes later, operators at Goose Bay paint a stationary target about 40 miles southwest of the base. The two pilots vectot toward the object and obtain radar contact, but it vanishes when they get within 8 miles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 233; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2796 ### Event 12647 (E9A75D1E) **Date:** 2/15/1956 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** RIVERSIDE, CA **Description:** Navy pilot. Plain brown cylinder/cigar-shape flies straight and level. No further details. / Jan Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4877 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "RIVERSIDE,CA:NAVY PILOT:PLAIN BROWN CGR FLIES S/L:NFD:/Jan Aldrich", **LatLong:** "33.933335 -117.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:56:00 N 117:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.933335,-117.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12648 (39019CB7) **Date:** 2/15/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** KEANSBURG, NJ **Description:** 6 observer(s). Large saucer hovers. Offloads 2 small saucers which follow large object away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4878 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "KEANSBURG,NJ:6 OBS:LRG SCR HVRS:OFFLOADS 2 SML SCRS which FOLO LRG OBJ AWAY", **LatLong:** "40.444446 -74.127781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:40 N 74:07:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.444446,-74.127781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12649 (7DE324B5) **Date:** 2/15/1956 **Location:** Riverside, CA **Description:** F9F Encounters Brown Cigar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560215](http://www.nicap.org/560215riverside%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1922 ### Event 12650 (2D84B561) **Date:** 2/15/1956 **Description:** At 12:40 p.m. a brown cigar-shaped object was seen flying on a straight and level course over Riverside, California by a US Navy enlisted man named Taylor. The sighting lasted eight minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 027 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_921 ### Event 12651 (392EF11D) **Date:** 2/15/1956 **Description:** While a large luminous disc hovered over Keansburg, New Jersey in Monmouth County at 9:30 p.m. two small satellite objects were ejected from it and flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, May 1956, p. 4; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_922 ### Event 12652 (C3274E4D) **Date:** 2/17/1956 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** ANDERSON, SC **Description:** 10000 frantic birds going quickly north. Some die. Silver wheel according to separate observer(s) / south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 617) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4879 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "ANDERSON,SC:10000 FRANTIC BIRDS >>N:SOME DIE:SLVR WHEEL PER SEP.OBS/SOUTH", **LatLong:** "34.516668 -82.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:31:00 N 82:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.516668,-82.650004)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12653 (D27A8437) **Date:** 2/17/1956 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** ORLY AIRPORT/APARTMENT, FR **Description:** Large RADAR blip / 4 hours. 2250mph. Vague shape / lights / airliner. / LDLN#132p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 618) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4880 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "ORLY Apt,FR:LRG RDR BLIP/4hrs:2250mph:VAGUE SHAPE/LITES/AIRLINER:/LDLN#132p26", **LatLong:** "48.750002 2.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:45:00 N 02:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.750002,2.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12654 (81083768) **Date:** 2/17/1956 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** Paris, France, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1923 ### Event 12655 (BC89D671) **Date:** 2/17/1956 **Locations:** Orly Airport, Paris, France; Gometz-le-Châtel, Seine et Oise; Les Mureaux military base, Yvelines **Description:** 10:50 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Orly Airport, Paris, France, see a target appear on their radar screens that is twice the size of a conventional aircraft. It cruises around, hovers, and accelerates at fantastic speeds, and is tracked for a total of 4 hours. When it first appears on radar it is directly above Gometz-le-Châtel, Seine et Oise, and 30 seconds later it is 19 miles away, having moved at nearly 2,500 mph. A second, smaller target appears, identified as an Air France DC-3 airliner flying over the Les Mureaux military base, Yvelines, at 4,500 feet \(800 feet lower than the UFO\). Orly radios the pilot to alert him to the unidentified target. Radio Officer Beaupertuis sees the object through a window on the starboard side of the plane—enormous in size, indistinct in outline, and lit in some areas with a red glow. Capt. Michel Desavoye confirms the sighting, saying he and the crew watch the object for 30 seconds and are certain it is no civil airliner. The sighting duration is nearly 3 hours. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Large UFO Tracked on Ground Radar](http://www.nicap.org/560218parisdir.htm)”; “[A Saucer Shows Up over Paris and Creates a Stir in a Radar Room and](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CMar-Apr%2CV%202%2CN%202.pdf) [a Cockpit,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CMar-Apr%2CV%202%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 2 \(March/April 1956\): 3; Patrick Gross, “[Orly Airport, France, February](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/orly1956.htm) [1956](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/orly1956.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2797 ### Event 12656 (5204AB32) **Date:** 2/17/1956 **Description:** Multiple radar sets at Orly Airport, Paris, France tracked an unknown blip for four hours beginning at 10:50 p.m. It was twice the size of and airliner, and made 2,000 mph bursts of speed. A visual sighting of the object was briefly made by a pilot landing at the airfield. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-NY Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 260 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_959 ### Event 12657 (EDCACB05) **Date:** 2/17/1956 **Description:** In Anderson, South Carolina at 4:15 p.m. several thousand frantic birds took off and flew off >S, some died in the process. A silvery wheel-shaped UFO was sighted by a separate witness. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Anderson (SC) Independent, February 21, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, April 3, 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_960 ### Event 12658 (167C349C) **Date:** 2/18/1956 **Location:** Montelimar Airdrome (N of), France **Description:** A round dot change color every 30 secs from white to red to green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1924 ### Event 12659 (7D07B5E3) **Date:** 2/18/1956 **Location:** Orly Airport, Paris, France **Description:** Light red blinking light flying erratically, tracked by ground radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560218](http://www.nicap.org/560218parisdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1925 ### Event 12660 (9F3898E1) **Date:** 2/18/1956 **Description:** [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) receives a letter from [Lord Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding) that says he doesn’t think there is an official “British attitude to UFOs.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 165 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2798 ### Event 12661 (735AB897) **Date:** 2/18/1956 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. a golden colored disc-shaped UFO with haze around it circled slowly over the treetops in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It then darted into the air and out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_979 ### Event 12662 (A0E06002) **Date:** 2/19/1956 **Time:** 06:10 **Location:** NEAR HOUSTON, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #3977. Unidentified. Airline crew. Intense white night light buzzes and paces / 28 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4881 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "28", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr HOUSTON,TX:BBK#3977:UID:AIRLINE CREW:INTENSE WHT NLT BUZZES+PACES/28min", **LatLong:** "29.766668 -95.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:46:00 N 95:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.766668,-95.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12663 (805C1CD2) **Date:** 2/19/1956 **Location:** Houston, TX **Description:** Object Evades Crew of Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3977) **Reference:** NICAP: [560219](http://www.nicap.org/560219houston%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1926 ### Event 12664 (1E97FC80) **Date:** 2/19/1956 **Time:** 6:07 AM **Location:** Houston, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: crew of Eastern Airlines Super Constellation. One intense white light, moving 4-5 times the speed of the airplane, was evaded by the pilot. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_400 ### Event 12665 (359AE3E2) **Date:** 2/19/1956 **Description:** An Eastern Airlines flight crew reported that a white nocturnal light buzzed their plane over Houston, Texas at 6:07 p.m., and then paced them for 28 minutes. A Project Blue Book unknown. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book "unidentified" case #3977; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1992, p. 15; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_994 ### Event 12666 (87971CDE) **Date:** 2/21/1956 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** NEAR KINGSVILLE, ON **Description:** 1 / plane. Flash. Swarm / objects pace airliner. Duck / clouds and return. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 620) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4882 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "nr KINGSVILLE,ON:1/PLANE:FLASH:SWARM/OBJS PACE AIRLINER:DUCK/CLOUDS+RETURN", **LatLong:** "42.000002 -82.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:00:00 N 82:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.000002,-82.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12667 (0861851F) **Date:** 2/22/1956 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** EAST ROCKAWAY, LI, NY **Description:** 1 observer. Slanting line near airliner = saucer tilting. Air Force uninterested. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4883 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "E.ROCKAWAY,LI,NY:1 OBS:SLANTING LINE nr AIRLINER=SCR TILTING:AF UNINTERESTED", **LatLong:** "40.633335 -73.177781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:38:00 N 73:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.633335,-73.177781)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12668 (6B87C057) **Date:** 2/23/1956 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** BROOKLYN, NY **Description:** Army Sgt. Glowing-saucer rumbles. Trails smoke. Circles airport/apartment. Going quickly northwest. / r140#6p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4884 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BROOKLYN,NY:ARMY SGT:GLOW-SCR RUMBLES:TRAILS SMOKE:CCLS APT:>>NW:/r140#6p21", **LatLong:** "40.650002 -73.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:39:00 N 73:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.650002,-73.966670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12669 (6D86C5A1) **Date:** 2/23/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR LAMORICIERE, ALG **Description:** Fr. soldiers. Huge UFO hovers and flashes / 3 hours. Ring / portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4885 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "nr LAMORICIERE,ALG:FR.SOLDIERS:HUGE UFO HVRS+FLASHES/3hrs:RING/PORTHOLES:", **LatLong:** "34.866668 -1.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:00 N 01:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.866668,-1.016667)", **State/Prov:** "ORA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12670 (DD2BFC1D) **Date:** 2/23/1956 **Description:** In the middle of the afternoon, a blue luminous disc-shaped object was watched by an Army Sergeant for 15 minutes in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It made a loud rumbling noise, and left behind a white trail of smoke. That evening several French soldiers near Lamoriciere, Algeria watched a huge UFO hover and flash for three hours. It had a ring of portholes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 42; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4935, citing LDLN Lecteurs **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1061 ### Event 12671 (E4160EE0) **Date:** 2/29/1956 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** DONELSON, TN **Description:** 2 / home. 12-inch metal disk going [to] past window. Bang! hits garage and flies away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 621) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4886 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "169", **HatchDesc:** "DONELSON,TN:2/HOME:12-INCH MTL DISK >PAST WINDOW:BANG! HITS GARAGE+FLIES AWAY", **LatLong:** "36.161113 -86.672226", **LatLongDMS:** "36:09:40 N 86:40:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.161113,-86.672226)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12672 (6B3D0E7A) **Date:** 2/29/1956 **Description:** At 6:00 a.m. two witnesses in Donelson, Tennessee (a neighborhood of Nashville) watched in astonishment as a 12 inch wide metallic disc flew past their window, banged into a garage, and then flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4936; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (volume 6), p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1187 ### Event 12673 (A7F5555D) **Date:** 3/1956 **Locations:** MIT; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** Mechanix Illustrated publishes a story on the Avro Canada MX-1794 \(Y-2, or Silver Bug\) vertical take-off gyroplane under development by the US Air Force. The cover proclaims, “U.S. Air Force Reveals Our Flying Saucer.” Through 1958, Avro spends $2.5 million and the USAF $5.4 million funding the project. Numerous models are built, and wind-tunnel testing is undertaken at MIT and Wright-Patterson AFB. The design includes eight Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines, a very large center rotor/impeller with Lundstrom compressor turbines, with the cockpit mounted in the top center. Control is achieved through eight small exhausts at the outer edge, directed either through the top or bottom, in addition to the main turbine exhaust through the bottom center of the craft. A multiengine test rig is built and tested in 1956, resulting in powerful thrust, a great deal of noise, and vibrations. In 1957, the USAF provides additional funding to extend the project, by then highly classified and designated as Weapon System 606A. The concept developed is for a circular-winged, supersonic aircraft. Over 1,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing are performed. Drawings developed by Avro show an aircraft that appears to be a merging of a flying saucer with more conventional fuselage shapes—a tailless aircraft with circular wings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada\#Supersonic%5FAvrodynes)”; Willy Ley, “[How the Flying Saucer Works,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Mechanix%20Illustrated/1956%2003%2000%5FMechanix%20Illustrated%5FWilly%20Ley.pdf)” Mechanix Illustrated 52 \(March 1956\): 78–81; Good Need, [p. 215](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/214/mode/2up); Charles Mandel, “[A Saucer from Mars? Nope, Canada,](https://www.wired.com/2001/07/a-saucer-from-mars-nope-canada/)” Wired, July 5, 2001 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2799 ### Event 12674 (444DD66C) **Date:** 3/3/1956 **Location:** US **Description:** Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released **Type:** movie **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_563 ### Event 12675 (FB001A82) **Date:** 3/3/1956 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** FREDERICK, OK **Description:** Civil observer(s). 12 lights / semicircle going quickly north. 600m altitude. Level course. Seen 3 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4887 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "383", **HatchDesc:** "FREDERICK,OK:CIV OBS:12 LITES/SEMICIRCLE>>N:600m alt:LEVEL COURSE:SEEN 3sec", **LatLong:** "34.383335 -99.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:23:00 N 99:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.383335,-99.016671)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12676 (9A3D064E) **Date:** 3/3/1956 **Location:** Spokane, WA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560303](http://www.nicap.org/560303spokanedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1927 ### Event 12677 (55DFC319) **Date:** 3/3/1956 **Location:** Spokane, WA **Description:** 4:40 PM PST, (04/0040Z) 1st Lt. Donald A. Stoner flying an F-86D at 22,000 feet on an air defense mission saw a target on his radar that moved up the scope rapidly and faded. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560303](http://www.nicap.org/560303spokanedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1928 ### Event 12678 (0DD16FC4) **Date:** 3/4/1956 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** NEAR LA GUAIRA, VNZL **Description:** Several / car. 3M metallic blimp with 3+windows slow over hills. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 679) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4888 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "720", **HatchDesc:** "nr La GUAIRA,VNZL:SVRL/CAR:3M MTLC BLIMP W/3+WINDOWS SLOW ovr HILLS:SLNT", **LatLong:** "10.583334 -66.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:35:00 N 66:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.583334,-66.916670)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12679 (CDA33B2A) **Date:** 3/4/1956 **Description:** In 1956 a 3-meter long metallic blimp with 3 or more windows was sighted in La Guaira, Venezuela at about 10 o'clock in the morning. It flew over the hills silently and slowly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1290 ### Event 12680 (2CF5028D) **Date:** 3/5/1956 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Bright wheel / light spins. Erratic. Bobs going up and down [to] as jets circle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4889 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:GOC OBS:BRITE WHEEL/LITE SPINS:ERRATIC:BOBS ↑+↓ AS JETS CIRCLE", **LatLong:** "38.933335 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:56:00 N 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.933335,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12681 (458708B3) **Date:** 3/5/1956 **Location:** Honolulu, HI **Description:** UFO formation photographed. (UFOE, VIII) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1929 ### Event 12682 (0769ED6A) **Date:** 3/10/1956 **Location:** Chichester, England **Description:** British pilot [Peter Twiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FTwiss) reaches an official airspeed of 1,132 mph in a Fairey Delta 2 over Chichester, England. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Peter Twiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FTwiss)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2800 ### Event 12683 (8700B4A4) **Date:** 3/13/1956 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** BARQUISIMETO AND CARORA, VNZ **Description:** 17+observer(s). Violet saucer / several passes / town. Photographs. / APRO JLY'56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4890 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "584", **HatchDesc:** "BARQUISIMETO+CARORA,VNZ:17+OBS:VIOLET SCR/SVRL PASSES/TOWN:FOTOs:/APRO JLY'56", **LatLong:** "10.066667 -69.300003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:04:00 N 69:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.066667,-69.300003)", **State/Prov:** "LRA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12684 (2A0905A8) **Date:** 3/13/1956 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** PONTA GROSSA, BRZ **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Silent silver disk going quickly west. Wild maneuvers. Away with bang! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 622) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4891 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "913", **HatchDesc:** "PONTA GROSSA,BRZ:100s/OBS:SLNT SLVR DISK >>W:WILD MNVRS:AWAY w/BANG!", **LatLong:** "-25.083335 -50.150002", **LatLongDMS:** "25:05:00 S 50:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-25.083335,-50.150002)", **State/Prov:** "PRN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12685 (B550390B) **Date:** 3/13/1956 **Description:** At 3:00 a.m. a violet colored saucer-shaped object made several passes over the city of Barquismeto, Venezuela. There were more than 17 witnesses who reported the event. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 52 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1448 ### Event 12686 (A5100862) **Date:** 3/13/1956 **Description:** At 9:30 a.m. a silent, silver colored disc flew over Ponta Grossa, Brazil and off to the west, making wild maneuvers in the sky. It flew away with a bang. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4941, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1956 Supplement, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1449 ### Event 12687 (76E2B8A1) **Date:** 3/15/1956 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LA PUNA REGN, ARG **Description:** Several cigars / amazing maneuvers. Wingless and silent. Photos taken not shown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 623) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4892 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "3500", **HatchDesc:** "LA PUNA REGN,ARG:SVRL CGRS/AMAZING MNVRS:WINGLESS+SLNT:PHOTOS TAKEN not shown", **LatLong:** "-24.166668 -65.333336", **LatLongDMS:** "24:10:00 S 65:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.166668,-65.333336)", **State/Prov:** "Juhuy", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12688 (3967ADC8) **Date:** 3/16/1956 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** GABLINGEN AIRFIELD, GERM **Description:** Glitter-globular hovers. Turns. Shoots upward / amazing speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 624) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4893 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GABLINGEN AIRFIELD,GERM:GLITTER-GLOB HVRS:TURNS:SHOOTS UPWARD/AMAZING SPEED", **LatLong:** "48.450002 10.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:27:00 N 10:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.450002,10.816667)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12689 (79920156) **Date:** 3/16/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 14KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1057 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "14" ### Event 12690 (408A8324) **Date:** 3/16/1956 **Description:** [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) receives a letter from Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) that ends his affiliation with ADC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2801 ### Event 12691 (1A4B63EC) **Date:** 3/20/1956 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** 3 silver-white saucers over capitol. Tilt. Wobble. Move up and down. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4894 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:3 SLVR-WHT SCRS OVR CAPITOL:TILT:WOBBLE:MOVE UP+DOWN:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "38.933335 -77.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:56:00 N 77:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.933335,-77.000004)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12692 (500FED83) **Date:** Spring 1956 **Location:** YWCA in Washington, D.C. **Description:** The Flying Saucer Discussion Group begins meeting on a more-or-less monthly basis at the YWCA in Washington, D.C. It is begun by Mrs. [Walton C. “Clara” John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john) the publisher of a mimeographed zine called The Little Listening Post, which often covers UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf) [NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2802 ### Event 12693 (1FDAE80C) **Date:** 3/22/1956 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** OFF COOEE, TASMANIA **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly east. Row / windows on side. 1200M altitude? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 624) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4895 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off COOEE,TASMANIA:SVRL OBS:CGR >>E:ROW/WINDOWS ON SIDE:1200M alt?:", **LatLong:** "-41.000002 145.866674", **LatLongDMS:** "41:00:00 S 145:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.000002,145.866674)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "TSM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12694 (34554805) **Date:** 3/23/1956 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** GRAND LEDGE, MI **Description:** 1.5m globe 3m away. "Tries to contact ME-lost all sense / time". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4896 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "257", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND LEDGE,MI:1.5m GLOBE 3m AWAY:"TRIES TO CONTACT ME-LOST ALL SENSE/TIME"", **LatLong:** "42.755558 -84.744448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:45:20 N 84:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.755558,-84.744448)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12695 (B3B796C3) **Date:** 3/23/1956 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CA **Description:** Object Trailing Sparks Observed By Aircrew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560323](http://www.nicap.org/560323goosebay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1930 ### Event 12696 (947ECFA4) **Date:** 3/23/1956 **Description:** While walking along the river bank in Grand Ledge, Michigan at three o'clock in the morning a 27-year-old lab technician named Bassett "felt the presence of something" and looked up. He saw a rapidly descending metallic sphere that gave off an orange glow, then stopped just ten feet away and only four feet above the ground. It made no sound. He "lost all track of time" and felt the UFO had tried to make contact with him. There was possible missing time associated with this case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 21, citing the Lansing State Journal, March 23, 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1621 ### Event 12697 (2CD8FE3A) **Date:** 3/25/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 5.5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1058 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "5.5" ### Event 12698 (D6FA614A) **Date:** 3/26/1956 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, MASS **Description:** Jets chase 130' saucer. Possible gun-footage / landing lights. Glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4897 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "WESTOVER AFB,MASS:JETS CHASE 130'SCR:POSSBL.GUN-FOOTAGE/LANDING LITES:GLOWS", **LatLong:** "42.183335 -72.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:11:00 N 72:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.183335,-72.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12699 (19C49A21) **Date:** 3/26/1956 **Location:** Westover AFB, MA **Description:** At 9:17 PM. A strange blip appeared on Westover tower radar scopes. Jets were quickly scrambled, then vectored toward the circling UFO. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560326](http://www.nicap.org/560326westoverdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1931 ### Event 12700 (84FFE473) **Date:** 3/27/1956 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LELAND AND EMPIRE, MI **Description:** Many reports / night lights. Seen / (seen thru) binoculars = mushroom with red stalk and white top. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4898 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "LELAND+EMPIRE,MI:MANY REPORTS/NLTS:SEEN/BINOCS=MUSHROOM W/RED STALK+WHT TOP", **LatLong:** "45.022224 -85.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "45:01:20 N 85:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.022224,-85.761115)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12701 (0C8F7646) **Date:** 3/31/1956 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** 2+5 kids. 3 round silent night lights. Erratic maneuvers. Going south. Turn going east. Turn going quickly north and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4899 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:2+5 KIDS:3 RND SLNT NLTS:ERRATIC MNVRS:> S:TURN> E:TURN>>N+GONE", **LatLong:** "25.800001 -80.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "25:48:00 N 80:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.800001,-80.172226)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12702 (2AC838FD) **Date:** 3/31/1956 **Description:** Three round lights moved erratically and silently over Miami, Florida at 9:00 p.m. in a perfect equilateral triangle formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History - 1956: January-April, p. 57; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1760 ### Event 12703 (CF95D1D4) **Date:** 4/1956 **Location:** AREQUIPA, PERU **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Silver cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly south. Hovers downtown / 3 minute(s). Exits going quickly west. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4900 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "2414", **HatchDesc:** "AREQUIPA,PERU:SVRL SEP.OBS:SLVR CGR>>S:HVRS DOWNTOWN/3min:EXITS >>W:/FSR", **LatLong:** "-16.400001 -71.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "16:24:00 S 71:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-16.400001,-71.550003)", **State/Prov:** "Arequipa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12704 (E9F05D21) **Date:** 4/1956 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LOCATION UNKNOWN, KENYA **Description:** 3+/ Safari. Silent dull silver object going [to] overhead / low altitude. Going quickly north. Huge red and orange lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4901 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kenya", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "loc.unk,KENYA:3+/SAFARI:SLNT DULL SLVR OBJ >OVHD/LO ALT:>>N:HUGE RED+ORG.LITES", **LatLong:** "-1.000000 37.833335", **LatLongDMS:** "01:00:00 S 37:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-1.000000,37.833335)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12705 (9A576E2C) **Date:** 4/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CHATEAUROUX, FR **Description:** Star rushes up. = 12M domed saucer with portholes. See dwg. Lost behind trees. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 735) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4902 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHATEAUROUX,FR:STAR RUSHES UP:=12M DOMED SCR W/PORTS:see dwg:LOST BHND TREES", **LatLong:** "46.783336 1.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:47:00 N 01:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.783336,1.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Indre", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12706 (C9A0B383) **Date:** 4/1956 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NEAR MOOSE JAW, SASK **Description:** 5M domed saucer dives / car. 2M deep. Glow / top. Bottom/underside dark. Going up [to] and vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 629) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4903 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "545", **HatchDesc:** "nr MOOSE JAW,SASK:5M DOMED SCR DIVES/CAR:2M DEEP:GLOW/TOP:BTM DRK:↑+VANISHES", **LatLong:** "50.383336 -105.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "50:23:00 N 105:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.383336,-105.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12707 (D41CCD35) **Date:** 4/1956 **Description:** USAF Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) succeeds Capt. [Charles Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) as director of Project Blue Book. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2803 ### Event 12708 (F4FF3D92) **Date:** 4/1956 **Locations:** Seminole, Texas; Garland, Texas; Philadelphia Navy Yard; APRO headquarters; Pennsylvania **Description:** An annotated copy of the paperback edition of [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup)’s The Case for the UFO \(1955\) is sent in a manila envelope from Seminole, Texas, to Adm. [Frederick R. Furth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49185633/frederick-r-furth), chief of the Office of Naval Research. The annotations are written in three different colors of ink, apparently by three persons, A, B, and Jemi, who claim to know a great deal about the UFO intelligences. They mention space people, underwater cities, force fields, and much more. The book falls into the possession of Maj. [Darrell L. Ritter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191296509/darrell-lloyd-ritter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191296509/darrell-lloyd-ritter) USMC aeronautical project officer at ONR, who brings it to the attention of ONR Capt. Sidney Sherby and ONR Projects Officer Cmdr. [George W.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49206910/george-w-hoover) [Hoover](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/us-navy-commander-reveals-roswell)[,](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/us-navy-commander-reveals-roswell) who become interested and get permission \(as long as it does not involve official naval personnel\) to send the copy to the Varo Manufacturing Company, in Garland, Texas, which has contracts with the military. Varo publishes 25 spiral-bound copies of the book in black and red ink, which shows the annotations. Meanwhile, Jessup has been receiving at least two strange letters \(January 13 and May 25, 1956\) from someone calling himself [Carlos Miguel Allende](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/)[,](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/) which claim that as a result of a strange experiment at sea utilizing principles of Einstein’s Field Theory, a destroyer \(identified by some as the [USS Eldridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEldridge) and others by the [USS Engstrom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEngstrom), which were not in the Philadelphia Navy Yard at the time\) and all its crew became invisible in October 1943, but the sailors showed side effects. Allende says he has witnessed all of this. Sherby talks to Jessup about the Varo edition; Jessup isn’t much interested but tells him about the Allende letters, which talk about the same things as the annotations and are obviously written by the same person. [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker)’s Saucerian Press publishes the Varo edition in July 1972. Sometime in the 1970s, Carlos Allende appears at APRO headquarters and confesses that the whole annotations thing was a hoax, but he surfaces a few years later saying that the CIA coerced him into saying it was a hoax. In the late 1970s, [Robert A. Goerman](https://robertgoerman.wixsite.com/paranormal) identifies Allende as Carl Allen, who lives near him in Pennsylvania. In the October 1980 issue of Fate, Goerman explains the entire mess, saying that Allen had written all three of the annotation types. [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) and [Charles Berlitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBerlitz) take the whole thing seriously enough to write The Philadelphia Experiment in 1979, which links the force fields back to [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown), later the founder of NICAP. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, [annotated Varo ed.](https://archive.org/details/THECASEFORTHEUFOVaroEditionM.K.Jessup/mode/2up), Saucerian, 1972; Wikipedia, “[Philadelphia Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment)”; Ivan T. Sanderson, “[Jessup and the Allende Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%204%20-%201968.pdf)” Pursuit 1, no. 4 \(September 30, 1968\): 8–10; William L. Moore, with Charles Berlitz, [The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility](https://archive.org/details/philadelphiaexpe00moor), Grosset and Dunlap, 1979; Robert A. Goerman, “Alias Carlos Allende,” Fate 33, no. 10 \(October 1980\): 69–75; Clark III 95–97; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Allende Letters,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/07/allende-letters.html)” A Different Perspective, July 5, 2009; Kevin D. Randle, “[Chasing Sources: The Philadelphia Experiment,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/08/chasing-sources-philadelphia-experiment.html)” A Different Perspective, August 9, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[Carlos Miguel Allende or Carl Meredith Allen or…,](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, August 13, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[The Varo Edition,](https://www.de173.com/the-varo-edition/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2804 ### Event 12709 (6139EB8D) **Date:** 4/2/1956 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** COFFEYVILLE, KS **Description:** Saucer stops low over house. Circles 2nd house. Emits spots / light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 629) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4904 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "COFFEYVILLE,KS:SCR STOPS LO OVR HOUSE:CCLS 2nd HOUSE:EMITS SPOTS/LITE:", **LatLong:** "37.050002 -95.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:00 N 95:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.050002,-95.566671)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12710 (DD1B396F) **Date:** 4/3/1956 **Description:** CIA agent [Joseph Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) writes to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), saying that while he served as special assistant to Air Force Secretary [Thomas Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) he tried to “have him prepare a statement for release when communication was established with a saucer.” Finletter declines to do so. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers, Rose Press International, 2000, p. 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2805 ### Event 12711 (3B37C71E) **Date:** 4/3/1956 **Location:** Virginia **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes a lengthy letter to Sen. [Harry F. Byrd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FF.%5FByrd) \(D-Va.\), criticizing Air Force secrecy, deconstructing Blue Book Special Report no. 14, and requesting a congressional hearing. Keyhoe asks Byrd to forward his letter to the Air Force for a response, but he forwards it himself anyway, as does Byrd. The Air Force’s Gen. [Joe W.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) [Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) responds, dismissing both Keyhoe and UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 222–223 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2806 ### Event 12712 (42DAD03B) **Date:** 4/3/1956 **Description:** A flying humanoid, described as a "silver-colored angel" was sighted flying north over a coal and iron plant in Birmingham, Alabama on this night. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, May 1956, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1813 ### Event 12713 (3DBB2E72) **Date:** 4/4/1956 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** 7MI EAST / MCKINNEY, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4050. 2 observer(s). 2M UFO lands / field 100M away. Fantastic speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4905 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "104", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "7mi E/McKINNEY,TX:BBK#4050:2 OBS:2M UFO LANDS/FLD 100M AWAY:FANTASTIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "33.200002 -96.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:12:00 N 96:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.200002,-96.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12714 (D78A1548) **Date:** 4/4/1956 **Location:** McKinney, TX **Description:** Fat, oblong, stationary object with two lines around its middle (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4050) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1932 ### Event 12715 (058438B0) **Date:** 4/4/1956 **Time:** 3:15 PM **Location:** McKinney, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Capt. Roy Hall, U.S. Army, ret.; Charles Anderson and others; some observed through a 6" telescope, others through a 55-200x telescope. One fat, oblong object with two lines around its middle, remained stationary for 6 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_401 ### Event 12716 (E4F5E460) **Date:** 4/4/1956 **Description:** At 3:15 p.m. retired US Army Captain Roy Hall, Charles Anderson and others in McKinney, Texas observed through telescopes a stationary oblong object. One telescope was a 6" diameter model and the other was a 55-200x telescope. The fat, oblong object had two lines around its middle. It remained stationary for six hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1831 ### Event 12717 (1F59D90E) **Date:** 4/5/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** CASABLANCA, MAROC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 1 meteor-like night light-but for 2+min! No Sputniks up yet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4906 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CASABLANCA,MAROC:BBK#UNK:1 METEOR-LIKE NLT-BUT FOR 2+min!:NO SPUTNIKS UP YET", **LatLong:** "33.650002 -7.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:00 N 07:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.650002,-7.633334)", **State/Prov:** "CAS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12718 (FFD61BD6) **Date:** 4/5/1956 **Location:** Newport (Almy Pond), RI **Description:** Circular silver object with no trail or sound descending from 45° elevation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1933 ### Event 12719 (C5E68267) **Date:** 4/5/1956 **End date:** 5/10/1956 **Locations:** Thule Air Base in Greenland; North Pole; Siberia **Description:** Some 156 overflight missions into Soviet territory by RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft from Thule Air Base in Greenland begin in Operation Home Run. They fly over the North Pole and into Siberia, probing for electronic intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project HOMERUN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FHOMERUN)”; R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie, eds., Early Cold War Overflights, 1950–1956: Symposium Proceedings Held at the Tighe Auditorium, Defense Intelligence Agency, 22–23 February 2001, Volume 1, US National Reconnaissance Office, 2003, [pp. 259–313](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433032546263&view=1up&seq=285&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2807 ### Event 12720 (563C7AA2) **Date:** 4/5/1956 **Description:** A flying humanoid was seen in Birmingham, Alabama. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 398 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1845 ### Event 12721 (F9533F41) **Date:** 4/6/1956 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** US1 NORTH / HENDERSON, NC **Description:** FBI and NSA men. Large 20' top saucer going [to] over car. Absolute(ly) silent. / r8#381. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4907 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "119", **HatchDesc:** "US1 N/HENDERSON,NC:FBI+NSA MEN:LRGE 20'TOP SCR >OVR CAR:ABS SLNT:/r8#381", **LatLong:** "36.327780 -78.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:19:40 N 78:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.327780,-78.400004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12722 (86FCFC44) **Date:** 4/6/1956 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BRISTOL, AVON **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Brilliant white delta/triangle/box-like craft going quickly NNE toward(s) Gloucester. Much faster / jet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4908 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "BRISTOL,AVON:SVRL SEP.OBS:BRILL.WHT DLT>>NNE TWRD GLOUCESTER:MUCH FASTER/JET:", **LatLong:** "51.466669 -2.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 02:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,-2.666667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12723 (4673987D) **Date:** 4/6/1956 **Location:** McKinney (5 miles E of ), TX **Description:** 6 ft silvery, balloon-shaped craft land in a field 300 ft away from them (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1934 ### Event 12724 (F2961140) **Date:** 4/6/1956 **Location:** McKinney, Texas **Description:** Two men saw a silvery, balloonshaped craft about 2 m in diameter land in a field 100 m away from them, about 8 km east of McKinney. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off at fantastic speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_379 ### Event 12725 (26D552E5) **Date:** 4/6/1956 **Description:** Two men saw a silvery, balloon-shaped craft about two meters in diameter land in a field 100 meters away from them, about eight kilometers east of McKinney, Texas. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off at fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 252-253 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1858 ### Event 12726 (470C96F7) **Date:** 4/7/1956 **Location:** South Africa **Description:** Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks to Venusians. **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_144 ### Event 12727 (B728B26C) **Date:** 4/7/1956 **Locations:** Flying Saucer Hill southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Alpha Centauri system **Description:** [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) returns to Flying Saucer Hill southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, drawn by a strange compulsion. The spaceship is waiting for her, and Akon takes her in his hands and says, “Not afraid this time?” He leads her on board the craft, which she learns also carries a second alien, who looks much like Akon except he is darker and more muscular. As the ship first rises into space, Akon says he has been watching her for some time. He lets her look at the earth below through a viewing lens that also has x-ray capability. The saucer goes to a “mother ship” filled with friendly space people. At one point a huge video image projected on the wall allows her to view scenes from their home planet, Meton, in the Alpha Centauri system. They serve her a vegetarian meal. Klarer and Akon begin a lifelong romantic attachment that includes sexual activity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Landing in](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CNov-Dec%2CV%202%2CN%206.pdf) [South Africa,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CNov-Dec%2CV%202%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1956\): 2–5; Elizabeth Klarer, [Beyond the Light Barrier](https://archive.org/details/beyond-the-light-barrier), Howard Timmins, 1980; Clark III 657; Paul Seaburn, “[Woman from Earth Claimed to Have Already Been to](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/08/woman-from-earth-claimed-to-have-already-been-to-proxima-b/) [Proxima b,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/08/woman-from-earth-claimed-to-have-already-been-to-proxima-b/)” Mysterious Universe, August 31, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2808 ### Event 12728 (228DC0E5) **Date:** 4/8/1956 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** OVER SCHENECTADY, NY **Description:** Airliner and jets chase UFO / 1600kph. Going quickly northwest. Coverup. / r46p167+/ r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4909 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "ovr SCHENECTADY,NY:AIRLINER+JETS CHASE UFO/1600kph:>>NW:COVERUP:/r46p167+/r242", **LatLong:** "42.833335 -73.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:50:00 N 73:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.833335,-73.916670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12729 (3607CC57) **Date:** 4/8/1956 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** ELBOEUF, FR **Description:** 5 observer(s). Domed saucer / fireball drops / trees. Fins spin under. Glows. Extremely fast. / r8#380. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 224) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4910 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "ELBOEUF,FR:5 OBS:DOMED SCR/FBL DROPS/TREES:FINS SPIN UNDER:GLOWS:XFAST:/r8#380", **LatLong:** "49.283336 1.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:17:00 N 01:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.283336,1.033333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12730 (7E7E481D) **Date:** 4/8/1956 **Location:** Schenectady, NY **Description:** Air Force Requests Plane Loaded With Passengers To Chase UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560408](http://www.nicap.org/560408ryan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1935 ### Event 12731 (32BB255D) **Date:** 4/8/1956 **Time:** 2345 **Location:** Elboeuf, France **Description:** Near Exauroux, two brothers, 18 and 20, saw a red ball to their left coming down and hovering at tree height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently. The object was a disk about 7.5 m in diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_380 ### Event 12732 (44CA657D) **Date:** 4/8/1956 **Locations:** Albany, New York; Schenectady; Griffiss International Airport, Rome, New York; Syracuse; Oswego, New York **Description:** 10:15 p.m. Capt. [Raymond E. Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan) First Officer William Neff, flight attendant Phyllis Reynolds, and many passengers take off on American Airlines Flight 715 from Albany, New York, heading north then nearly due west at 260 mph and 6,000 feet north of Schenectady, when a brilliant white light about 2–3 miles away is spotted about 90° to the left appearing like an airliner heading in to land at Albany. The white light moves about 90° to dead ahead position about 8–10 miles away at high speed, estimated at about 800–1,000 mph, where it changes color to orange and seems to block the airliner’s path or risk collision. It disappears briefly and reappears as an orange light again but standing still ahead of the airliner to the west. The Convair airliner contacts Griffiss AFB \[now Griffiss International Airport\], Rome, New York, where controllers ask Ryan to turn his lights off and on to help identify aircraft. He is told the airliner is seen and the orange UFO are to the south. The airliner is ordered to maintain course to follow the UFO to the west, skipping its scheduled landing at Syracuse after nearly 30 minutes of following the object. The promised fighter jet interception is never seen. The object disappears at high speed to the northwest towards Oswego, New York. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Air Force Requests Plane Loaded with Passengers to Chase UFO](http://www.nicap.org/560408ryan%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 236; “[Cover-Up Suspected in Reported Air–UFO Chase,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3 \(January 1958\): 10–12; UFOEv, [p. 117](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=129&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2809 ### Event 12733 (F34DBC54) **Date:** 4/8/1956 **Description:** At 11:45 p.m. near Exauroux, France two brothers, ages 18 and 20, saw a red ball of light come down to their left and hover at tree height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently. The object was a disc about 7.5 meters in diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow. It moved away extremely quickly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253 (case 380) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1899 ### Event 12734 (995558D7) **Date:** 4/9/1956 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** NORTHAMPTON, NY **Description:** 2 observer(s). Circle-of-lights beams strong rays going down. Very high. Very fast northeast going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4911 **Attributes:** **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "NORTHAMPTON,NY:2 OBS:CIRCLE-OF-LITES BEAMS STRONG RAYS ↓:VHI:VFAST NE>>SW:", **LatLong:** "43.150002 -74.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:09:00 N 74:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.150002,-74.116670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12735 (D4C3803C) **Date:** 4/9/1956 **Description:** A round UFO surrounded by a "circle of red, blue and green lights" traveled at a high speed from the northeast to the southwest over Northampton, New York as "rays of penetrating light shot from it." There were three witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY Newsletter, May 1956; Amsterdam Record, April 12, 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1921 ### Event 12736 (76E2202B) **Date:** 4/16/1956 **Location:** Henderson, NC **Description:** Top-shaped object as large as the road pass over their car, no sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1936 ### Event 12737 (117DD392) **Date:** 4/16/1956 **Time:** 0500 **Location:** Henderson, North Carolina **Description:** On Route 1, just before dawn, two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made no sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_381 ### Event 12738 (7450AD5F) **Date:** 4/16/1956 **Locations:** Griffiss AFB; Syracuse **Description:** An interview with [Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan) and Neff is taped on the TV show Meet the Millers. They claim that Griffiss AFB “asked us our next point of landing and to identify the aircraft. I told them Syracuse and identified the flight number. Then they told us: ‘Abandon that next landiat-postcardat-postcardng temporarily. Maintain your course and altitude. We’re sending two jets to intercept the object.’” About the UFO, Ryan says, “This was absolutely real. I’m convinced there was something fantastic up there.” [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) obtains a copy of the tape. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, \[[transcript of](http://www.nicap.org/reports/chase2.htm) [Meet the Millers](http://www.nicap.org/reports/chase2.htm) [program,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/chase2.htm) April 16, 1956\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2810 ### Event 12739 (09A1DF23) **Date:** 4/16/1956 **Description:** On U.S. Route 1 in Henderson, North Carolina just before dawn, two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 253 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2050 ### Event 12740 (DA188314) **Date:** 4/16/1956 **Description:** Two police officers, Perkins and Williams, in Lexington, Kentucky sighted a small, pale-red light in the western sky at 11:55 p.m. They drove closer to get a better look. After 5 minutes the object disappeared; it left a glow in the sky for a few seconds. The object appeared to change shape, from round to ellipse, and then back to a circle again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lexington Herald, April 17, 1956; Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY News, June 1956, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2051 ### Event 12741 (048D0EED) **Date:** 4/24/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR FT. WINGATE, NM **Description:** 2 / car. 2 disks going [to] fast. Sudden reversal of direction! Change color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4912 **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2131", **HatchDesc:** "nr Ft.WINGATE,NM:2/CAR:2 DISKS >FAST:SUDDEN REVERSAL OF DIRECTION!:CHANGE CLRS", **LatLong:** "35.466668 -108.538894", **LatLongDMS:** "35:28:00 N 108:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.466668,-108.538894)", **RelAlt:** "6000", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12742 (18728CA7) **Date:** 4/24/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** EL MONTE, CA **Description:** 1 / car. Silent half-egg hovers / 300M altitude. Loops. Speeds back going quickly east. No flame. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4913 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "EL MONTE,CA:1/CAR:SLNT HALF-EGG HVRS/300M alt:LOOPS:SPEEDS BACK >>E:NO FLAME", **LatLong:** "34.077779 -118.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:40 N 118:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.077779,-118.000006)", **RelAlt:** "305", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12743 (915634CD) **Date:** 4/27/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** VUYYURU, INDIA **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 5 silent cigars going south / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation. Light contrail. / r140 #1p84. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4914 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VUYYURU,INDIA:NMRS OBS:5 SLNT CGRS >S/DLT-FORMn:LITE CONTRAIL:/r140 #1p84", **LatLong:** "16.383334 80.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "16:23:00 N 80:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/16.383334,80.850004)", **State/Prov:** "ANP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12744 (C741A781) **Date:** 4/27/1956 **Description:** Five silent cigar-shaped objects flew south over Vuyyuru, Andra Pradesh State, India in a delta formation at 8:30 p.m. They left behind a light contrail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, monthly report April 1956; UFO Nachtrichten, February 1957; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4964, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 2, number 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2365 ### Event 12745 (A08D85F7) **Date:** 4/28/1956 **Location:** Newport (near), UK **Description:** Bright white star increase in brightness in the E at “high altitude” (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1937 ### Event 12746 (AA911122) **Date:** 4/28/1956 **Locations:** Landers, California; San Luis Obispo; Los Angeles **Description:** At the third Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention near Landers, California, contactee Dick Miller plays tape recordings allegedly made by Mon-Ka, a Martian, in which he asks Los Angeles radio stations to shut down for two minutes at 10:30 p.m. on November 7, 1956, so that Mon-Ka can speak from his spacecraft. As a publicity gimmick, two radio stations \(KATY \[now KYNS\] of San Luis Obispo and KBIA of Los Angeles\) go off the air at that time, and KTTV in Los Angeles sends up an airplane to watch for the approaching spacecraft. Nothing happens. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 531, 766–767 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2811 ### Event 12747 (A02FFBDC) **Date:** 5/1956 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** PAYSANDU PROV, URUG **Description:** 3 observer(s). Silent grey domed 50M saucer hovers. Maneuvers and banks. Lost in clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 703) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4915 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "PAYSANDU PROV,URUG:3 OBS:SLNT GRY DOMED 50M SCR HVRS:MNVRS+BANKS:LOST/CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "-32.000002 -57.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "32:00:00 S 57:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.000002,-57.500003)", **RelAlt:** "4000", **State/Prov:** "PYS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12748 (F6DDA3AD) **Date:** 5/1956 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** LIMA, PERU **Description:** Engineer. Loud roar. Wingless fuselage going quickly west. No jets used there then.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 702) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4916 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "LIMA,PERU:ENGINEER:LOUD ROAR:WINGLESS FUSILAGE >>W:no jets used there then..", **LatLong:** "-12.066667 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "12:04:00 S 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.066667,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "LMA", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12749 (23E072E6) **Date:** 5/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** 2+observer(s). Huge silent saucer covers house and more/others. Pipe extends / bottom/underside. Red glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 701) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4917 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:2+OBS:HUGE SLNT SCR COVRS HOUSE++:PIPE EXTENDS/BTM:RED GLOW", **LatLong:** "29.400001 -98.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:24:00 N 98:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.400001,-98.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12750 (064E3F09) **Date:** 5/1/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** WHITE SANDS MR, NM **Description:** 200+observer(s). 1 / 4 moon-size metal saucer hovers during missile tests. News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 634) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4918 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "1250", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE SANDS MR,NM:200+OBS:1/4 MOONSIZE MTL SCR HVRS DURING MISSILE TESTS:NEWS", **LatLong:** "32.883335 -106.250005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:53:00 N 106:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.883335,-106.250005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12751 (E279539F) **Date:** 5/1/1956 **Location:** Virginia **Description:** USAF Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) writes to Sen. [Harry F. Byrd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FF.%5FByrd) \(D-Va.\) that there is a “total lack of evidence that \[UFOs\] are interplanetary vehicles.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[How about Those Three Secret Reports, General Kelly?](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2317.pdf)” CSI News Letter, no. 5 \(September 21, 1956\): 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2812 ### Event 12752 (4D375575) **Date:** 5/1/1956 **Description:** Air Force Manual section 190-4 goes into effect. It affects all USAF official press releases, statements to Congress and the public, and publications about UFOs. It requires the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information to “delete all evidence of UFO reality and intelligent control, which would, of course, contradict the Air Force stand that UFOs do not exist.” NICAP is made aware of the regulation in 1962 when former USAF information spokesman Maj. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1) admits to a NICAP member that Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker)’s book Flying Saucers and the US Air Force was reviewed under AFM 190-4. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Reveals Censorship](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/016%20MAR-%20JUL%201962.pdf) [Controls,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/016%20MAR-%20JUL%201962.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 4 \(July 1962\): 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2813 ### Event 12753 (52F4F5E8) **Date:** 5/1/1956 **Location:** Koto Ward, Tokyo, Japan **Description:** 7:55 p.m. Koto Ward, a factory worker, along with many others, see a large bright object flying low over the rooftops in Tokyo, Japan. Turuko Kurihara, in a different location, sees a greenish object at 7:59 p.m. The object makes no noise but causes severe distortion on the TV sets in the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 103 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2814 ### Event 12754 (6E5FB4E3) **Date:** 5/2/1956 (approximate) **Location:** BUDAPEST **Description:** Army men. Group / UFO's going quickly east. 2 months of sightings all over/all about / hung reported. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4919 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Hungary", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BUDAPEST:ARMY MEN:GROUP/UFOS >>E.:2 MONTHS OF SIGHTINGS ALLO/HUNG REPORTED", **LatLong:** "47.483336 19.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:29:00 N 19:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.483336,19.083334)", **State/Prov:** "BDP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12755 (89B40987) **Date:** 5/3/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** PUEBLO, CO **Description:** Blue Book. Several observer(s). 2 saucers circle. "Wink out". Wave / delta/triangle/box-like crafts etc. 2-7 May / MJ#277. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4920 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "64", **Elev:** "1400", **HatchDesc:** "PUEBLO,CO:BBK:SVRL OBS:2 SCRS CIRCLE:"WINK OUT"::WAVE/DLTs ETC 2-7MAY /MJ#277", **LatLong:** "38.250002 -104.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:15:00 N 104:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.250002,-104.616672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12756 (CBA14935) **Date:** 5/3/1956 **Locations:** Montana; Utah; Washington, D.C. **Description:** Hollywood producer [Clarence Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FGreene) releases a semi-documentary about the UFO phenomenon in the US, U.F.O. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm), and [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) assist in the production. The principal character is Chop, played by Los Angeles Examiner journalist [Tom Towers](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1898817/bio), and examines his career going from skeptical USAF public information officer to Pentagon UFO press spokesman. The film uses only one professional actor, [Harry Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FMorgan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FMorgan) in a voiceover part. UFO witnesses Delbert Newhouse, [Nicholas Mariana](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/05/marianas-ufo-film-one-of-best-produced.html)[,](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/05/marianas-ufo-film-one-of-best-produced.html) and [Willis Sperry](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf) play themselves, and Los Angeles policemen stand in for Ruppelt, Fournet, and Gen [William Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/). The Air Force carefully monitors its reception and readies itself to counter the film’s impact. The documentary analyzes two famous pieces of UFO footage: the Montana film of 1950 and the 1952 UFO Utah film \(both shown for the first time in public\). It concludes with the famous 1952 Washington, D.C., UFO incident, in which Chop played a central role, and recreates his experiences. At the end of the documentary, Chop states his belief that UFOs are a real, physical phenomenon of unknown origin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5F%281956%5Ffilm%29) [\(1956 film\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5F%281956%5Ffilm%29)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131627/)”; Robert Barrow, “Unidentified Flying Objects, Accidental Epic,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 3–6; Robert Barrow, “Tom Towers: The Other Al Chop,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 17–19; Clark III 1188–1189; Swords 222; Curt Collins, “[Project Blue Book:](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html) [UFO,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html) [the](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html) [Motion Picture,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 24, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2815 ### Event 12757 (CC51A053) **Date:** 5/3/1956 **Description:** At 7:32 a.m. several observers including a Ground Observer Corp member, watched two saucers circle in the sky over Pueblo, Colorado and then "wink out". **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files, report dated May 3, 1956; Alexander Mebane, CSI-New York News, June 1956, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 2; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 277 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2468 ### Event 12758 (C53D8A00) **Date:** 5/4/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MARINETTE, WI **Description:** Several observer(s). 1-6-2-9 silent orange blobs going west / one hour. Group / 9 objects going quickly [to] WNW over horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 704) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4921 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "85", **Elev:** "185", **HatchDesc:** "MARINETTE,WI:SVRL OBS:1-6-2-9 SLNT ORG BLOBS >W/1hr:GRP/9 OBJS>>WNW ovr HRZN", **LatLong:** "45.100002 -87.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:06:00 N 87:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.100002,-87.633338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12759 (C10EDE7C) **Date:** 5/4/1956 **Time:** 18:25:29.9 **Location:** 11.5578 162.3550 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Lacrosse” Yield: 40KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_70 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5578 162.3550", **LatLongDMS:** "11:33:28 N 162:21:18 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5578,162.3550)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Lacrosse", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "40" ### Event 12760 (7377ABC4) **Date:** 5/4/1956 **Location:** Marinette, Wisconsin **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Rev. Charles Burmeister, an amateur astronomer, sees five “orange blobs” flying in a U-shape formation east to west at high speed over Marinette, Wisconsin. His son joins him to watch. One more object passes in the same flight path, then a group of six, then one more, followed by another. Blue Book classes the sighting as meteors without even consulting [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) who later says that meteors do not fly in formation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-May-July.pdf), The Author, 1993, pp. 2–7; Swords 229–230 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2816 ### Event 12761 (2FB2B23C) **Date:** 5/6/1956 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** OKLAHOMA CITY, OK **Description:** 3 observer(s). "Strange machine" zigzags across sky. Air Force explosive = star Capella. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4922 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "359", **HatchDesc:** "OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:3 OBS:"STRANGE MACHINE" ZIGZAGS ACRS SKY:AF EXPL=STAR CAPELLA", **LatLong:** "35.483335 -97.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:29:00 N 97:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.483335,-97.533338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12762 (309AE9CD) **Date:** 5/7/1956 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** ALLIANCE, OH **Description:** Silver ovoid briefly / window. Gone / seconds as astronomer runs outside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DAVID, Jay (ed.): FLYING SAUCERS HAVE ARRIVED: HB World Publ. NY 1970. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4923 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "358", **HatchDesc:** "ALLIANCE,OH:SLVR OVOID BRIEFLY/WINDOW:GONE/secs AS ASTRONOMER RUNS OUTSIDE", **LatLong:** "40.916669 -81.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 81:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,-81.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12763 (48E89AFD) **Date:** 5/8/1956 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** VISTA, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). 'Mothership hovers / 3 hours. Small objects with square portholes orbit. All going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 705) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4924 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "VISTA,CA:SVRL OBS:'MOTHERSHIP'HVRS/3hrs:SML OBJs W/SQR PORTS ORBIT:ALL >W", **LatLong:** "33.200002 -117.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:12:00 N 117:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.200002,-117.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12764 (E0713EE5) **Date:** 5/8/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PRATT, KS **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and many and Air Force Base. 3 showings. Pink-glowing saucers going quickly northeast. 1 saucer / 0030hrs. / MJ#277. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 706) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4925 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "595", **HatchDesc:** "PRATT,KS:GOC+MANY+AFB:3 SHOWINGS:PINK-GLO SCRS >>NE:1 SCR/0030hrs:/MJ#277", **LatLong:** "37.644446 -98.738894", **LatLongDMS:** "37:38:40 N 98:44:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.644446,-98.738894)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12765 (B30F13DD) **Date:** 5/8/1956 **Location:** Aliquippa, PA **Description:** (McDonald list) RV Draws Scramble of F-86 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560508](http://www.nicap.org/560508aliquippa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1938 ### Event 12766 (1B3E9D94) **Date:** 5/8/1956 **Description:** At 9:48 a.m. (EST), a flight of seven objects, silver in color, appearing the size of a baseball held at arm's were observed moving south over Aliquippa, Pennsylvania at an altitude of 5,000 to 15,000 feet at an estimated speed of 36 mph. An F-86D fighter was scrambled, but there were negative sightings. The sighting was visual and electronic by TPS 1D radar. Length of observation was 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** McDonald list, Brad Sparks, Dan Wilson, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1956fullrep.htm **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2650 ### Event 12767 (F0C9C238) **Date:** 5/8/1956 **Description:** On this evening a large "mothership" hovered for three hours over Vista, California in San Diego County. Several small objects with square windows were seen orbiting it. They all flew off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2651 ### Event 12768 (B2091537) **Date:** 5/9/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** JACKSONVILLE, FL **Description:** 5+observer(s). Small saucer going [to] in and out of large saucer. Silent / low altitude. Possible abduction. / r8#382. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4926 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "JACKSONVILLE,FL:5+OBS:SML SCR >IN+OUT OF LRG SCR:SLNT/LO ALT:POSS.ABD:/r8#382", **LatLong:** "30.350001 -81.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:21:00 N 81:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.350001,-81.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12769 (AA2C11C3) **Date:** 5/9/1956 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Jacksonville, Florida **Description:** Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. 15 min later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging, and diving to 50 m altitude. As the bus arrived, it seemed that the objects had separated and were about to abduct the witnesses, and they ran to the vehicle in terror. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** APRO Mar., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_382 ### Event 12770 (52B9D17B) **Date:** 5/9/1956 **Description:** A small disc flew in and out of a larger disc at a low altitude in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after 11:00 p.m. They made no noise. Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. Fifteen minutes later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging, and diving to an altitude of only 50 meters. It seemed that the disc-shaped objects had separated and the girls were in fear of being abducted when the bus arrived, and they ran to the vehicle in terror. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, July 1956, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 382, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 86 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2678 ### Event 12771 (BEB15ECF) **Date:** 5/10/1956 **Time:** 05:00? **Location:** TOKYO AND CHIBA CITY, JPN **Description:** Several observer(s). Classic saucer skims rooftops. TV electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r140 #2p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4927 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TOKYO+CHIBA CITY,JPN:SVRL OBS:CLASSIC SCR SKIMS ROOFTOPS:TV EME:/r140 #2p26", **LatLong:** "35.616668 140.133340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:37:00 N 140:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.616668,140.133340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12772 (24B76DA2) **Date:** 5/10/1956 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** TATOW KNOB, UT **Description:** 3 U-prospectors. Bright silver ovoid hovers / strong wind. Up / 75° angle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 706) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4928 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "2400", **HatchDesc:** "TATOW KNOB,UT:3 U-PROSPECTORS:BRITE SLVR OVOID HVRS/STRONG WIND:UP/75°angle", **LatLong:** "39.455557 -113.338894", **LatLongDMS:** "39:27:20 N 113:20:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.455557,-113.338894)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12773 (4CA7B147) **Date:** 5/10/1956 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** HARINGEY, LONDON **Description:** Several observer(s). Brilliant sphere/orb/globe hovers / 45 minute(s) / strong W. wind. Then goes going south / Sussex. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4929 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "HARINGEY,LONDON:SVRL OBS:BRILL.ORB HVRS/45min/STRONG W.WIND:THEN GOES>S/SUSSEX", **LatLong:** "51.566669 -0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:34:00 N 00:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.566669,-0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12774 (BC6D037D) **Date:** 5/12/1956 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** LAKEWOOD, CA **Description:** Nurse. Silent brilliant saucer with wires / edge. 4 turns and away extremely fast. Also 2 separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 709) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4930 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "LAKEWOOD,CA:NURSE:SLNT BRILL.SCR W/WIRES/EDGE:4 TURNS+AWAY XFAST:+2 sep.obs", **LatLong:** "33.855557 -118.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:51:20 N 118:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.855557,-118.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12775 (BB6F0D57) **Date:** 5/12/1956 **Description:** At 3:30 a.m. in Lakewood, Los Angeles County, California several witnesses had a close encounter with a silent, brilliant saucer-shaped object with wires around its edge. It made four turns, then shot away extremely fast. There were at least two independent witnesses, and there were physiological effects reported. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 26 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2756 ### Event 12776 (43641580) **Date:** 5/15/1956 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** JOHOT BAHARU, MALAYA **Description:** Cop and 1. 4 30M saucers exit 150M cylinder/cigar-shape. Going quickly south / V-formation. / r140 #2p27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4931 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Malaysia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "JOHOT BAHARU,MALAYA:COP+1:4 30M SCRS EXIT 150M CGR:>>S/VFORMn:/r140 #2p27", **LatLong:** "1.483333 103.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "01:29:00 N 103:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.483333,103.766672)", **State/Prov:** "JHR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12777 (AEEFD472) **Date:** 5/15/1956 **Description:** Two police watched four 30 meter diameter discs exit from a 150 meter cigar-shaped mother craft over Johot Baharu, Malaysia at 9:15 p.m. The discs then flew to the south in a V formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4981, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 3, number 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2850 ### Event 12778 (3DF58B19) **Date:** 5/16/1956 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** NORTH / NORTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** 2 civilians / radio tower. Silent white ovoid going north overhead. 2000+kph estimated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 710) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4932 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1600", **HatchDesc:** "N/NORTON AFB,CA:2 CIVs/RDO TOWER:SLNT WHT OVOID >N OVHD:2000+kph estm.", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -117.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 117:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-117.266672)", **RelAlt:** "400", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12779 (B1EE5A0F) **Date:** 5/16/1956 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** WOODSTOWN, NJ **Description:** 1 observer. Orange-red night light streaks going north. Veers going west. Then going quickly south. Zigzags. Very fast and bright. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4933 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "WOODSTOWN,NJ:1 OBS:ORG-RED NLT STREAKS> N:VEERS> W:THEN>>S:ZIGZAGS:VFAST+BRITE", **LatLong:** "39.650002 -75.327781", **LatLongDMS:** "39:39:00 N 75:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.650002,-75.327781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12780 (9171C3B5) **Date:** 5/16/1956 **Location:** -20.0000 115.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Mosaic G1” Yield: 15KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1750 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-20.0000 115.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "20:00:00 S 115:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.0000,115.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Mosaic G1", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "15" ### Event 12781 (F22FC4B6) **Date:** 5/16/1956 **Description:** At 10:15 p.m. in Woodstown, Salem County, New Jersey Mr. Locuson, a building contractor, watched an orange-red light zig-zag across the sky near the Delaware River and Delaware Bay. It went north, veered to the west, shot off to the south, and then zig-zagged away. It was very fast and bright. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Salem Sunbeam, May 22, 1956; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4983 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2886 ### Event 12782 (626DE77D) **Date:** 5/17/1956 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** SOUTH BAY, NY **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver metal saucer over east mountain. Rim / edge. Suddenly gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4934 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTH BAY,NY:SVRL OBS:SLVR MTL SCR ovr EAST MTN:RIM/EDGE:SUDDENLY GONE", **LatLong:** "43.522224 -73.505559", **LatLongDMS:** "43:31:20 N 73:30:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.522224,-73.505559)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12783 (A46F9F47) **Date:** 5/17/1956 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** ADA, OK **Description:** 2 boys. 20 silver disks going north in V-groups / 4. Silent. No contrail. / FSRv2#4+/ r140#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4935 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "310", **HatchDesc:** "ADA,OK:2 BOYS:20 SLVR DISKS >N in V-GROUPS/4:SLNT:NO CONTRAIL:/FSRv2#4+/r140#2", **LatLong:** "34.783335 -96.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:47:00 N 96:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.783335,-96.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12784 (8E4C1F95) **Date:** 5/17/1956 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. several people in South Bay, New York including witnesses named Winchell, Green and Harris observed a metallic saucer-shaped craft with a rim hovering over nearby East Mountain from the eastern shore of Lake George. It was silent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, June 1956, p. 9, citing Glens Falls Post Statesman, May 18, 1956; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2918 ### Event 12785 (7E5BFA8E) **Date:** 5/17/1956 **Description:** A man by the name of Meyer reported a formation of twenty silvery gray discs flying in close formation at a low altitude over Ada, Oklahoma at 10:22 p.m. The sighting lasted less than three minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, letter dated May 24, 1956; Flying Saucer Review, July 1956, p. 27; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2919 ### Event 12786 (7CEADBCC) **Date:** 5/17/1956 **Description:** On the same day a Sasquatch was sighted by a man named Hunt along Highway 1 in Flood, British Columbia, Canada. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 21, citing the Toronto Globe, July 6, 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2920 ### Event 12787 (1391D3DB) **Date:** 5/20/1956 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** WEST / PARKER, AZ **Description:** 1 observer. 2 silent silver disks going SSE. Turn going SSW. Bob and bounce / sky. / r140#7p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 679) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4936 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "W/PARKER,AZ:1 OBS:2 SLNT SLVR DISKS > SSE:TURN >SSW:BOB+BOUNCE/SKY:/r140#7p13", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -114.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 114:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-114.283339)", **RelAlt:** "2400", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12788 (4358F31D) **Date:** 5/20/1956 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** COLUMBIA, TN **Description:** 4 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and more/others. 4 classic saucers. RADAR only sees searching USAF jet. / r140#7p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4937 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "194", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBIA,TN:4 GOC++:4 CLASSIC SCRS:RDR ONLY SEES SEARCHING USAF JET:/r140#7p14", **LatLong:** "35.616668 -87.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:37:00 N 87:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.616668,-87.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12789 (0B47BAA0) **Date:** 5/20/1956 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** KINGSTON, RI **Description:** Fireman. 2 glowing saucers glide going northeast during rare aurora Borealis. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4938 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "KINGSTON,RI:FIREMAN:2 GLOWING SCRS GLIDE >NE during rare AURORA BOREALIS", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -71.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 71:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-71.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Rhode Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12790 (4B9BCBBC) **Date:** 5/20/1956 **Time:** 17:50:38.7 **Location:** 11.6683 165.3942 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Cherokee” Yield: 3800KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_71 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6683 165.3942", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:06 N 165:23:39 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6683,165.3942)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-1.32", **NukeName:** "Cherokee", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "3800" ### Event 12791 (BB145E0C) **Date:** 5/22/1956 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** 50 MI NORTHWEST / MONROE, LA **Description:** 2 / USAF. Stub-winged Lima-bean buzzes T33 2X. Fantastic maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** OLSEN, Thomas: REFERENCE for OUTSTANDING UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTS. 1966 UFO Information Retrieval Center, Riderwood, MD 21139. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4939 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "54", **HatchDesc:** "50mi NW/MONROE,LA:2/USAF:STUB-WINGED LIMA-BEAN BUZZES T33 2X:FANTASTIC MNVRS", **LatLong:** "32.933335 -92.733338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:56:00 N 92:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.933335,-92.733338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12792 (3E3D825F) **Date:** 5/22/1956 **Location:** Monroe (58 miles NW of ), LA **Description:** Elliptical Object Comes Straight At T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560522](http://www.nicap.org/560522monroe%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1939 ### Event 12793 (41F95237) **Date:** 5/22/1956 **Location:** Monroe, Louisiana **Description:** 11:05 p.m. USAF 1st Lt. Earl D. Holwadel and 1st Lt. Curtis Carley are piloting a T-33 jet at 18,000 feet 58 miles northwest of Monroe, Louisiana, when they see a bright light due east. They see it again in the east at 11:15 p.m. Holwadel banks right to the southeast somewhat behind the object, which is now a great distance away. The object suddenly comes straight at them at high speed, passing in front of the T-33 at about 225 feet away. It flashes an intensely bright white light from a “greenhouse-shaped dome” or cockpit window at its front end that lights up the canopy of the T-33. The object is about 30-40 feet long, elliptical in shape, shorter than a C-47 but wider, a small steady red running light in the center, with no wings, only stubby protrusions extending 3-4 feet and 25 feet long on each side. The bottom surface is like steel with ribs extending down 2–4 feet with a wave-like appearance. It moves away then returns at high speed on a westerly course with “fantastic” maneuverability. It never changes flight attitude at any time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Elliptical Object Comes Straight at T-33](http://www.nicap.org/560522monroe%5Fdir.htm)”; Walter N. Webb, “Inside Building 263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1992\): cover, 5; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 237 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2817 ### Event 12794 (A8D16A0C) **Date:** 5/23/1956 (approximate) **Location:** BARENTS SEA MURMANSK TO/FROM TERIBERKA, RUSSIA **Description:** Several / (seen thru) binoculars. Saucer maneuvers all over/all about ship. Going south / shore. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4940 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BARENTS SEA MURMANSK>S/SHORE", **LatLong:** "69.500003 34.500002", **LatLongDMS:** "69:30:00 N 34:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.500003,34.500002)", **State/Prov:** "MRM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12795 (0B6C3152) **Date:** 5/26/1956 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** BERNE, SWITZ **Description:** Hundreds / military airshow. White triangle hovers / 3km altitude. Center spins. / r153p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ZINSTAG, Lou & ALLEMANN, Dr. T; UFO-SICHTUNGEN uber der SCHWEIZ; UFO-Verlag, Basel/Zurich 1958 (via Bruno Mancusi) (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4941 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BERNE,SWITZ:100s/MIL.AIRSHOW:WHT TRIANGLE HVRS/3km alt:CENTER SPINS:/r153p17", **LatLong:** "46.916669 7.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:55:00 N 07:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.916669,7.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Berne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12796 (0E4C735C) **Date:** 5/26/1956 **Description:** At 2:40 p.m. hundreds of witnesses at a military airshow in Flutag outside of Bern, Switzerland watched a white triangle-shaped craft hover at three kilometers altitude. The center of the craft was spinning. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UFO Nachrichten, October 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3096 ### Event 12797 (66143A42) **Date:** 5/27/1956 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Yuma” Yield: .19KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_72 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Yuma", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".19" ### Event 12798 (0F981498) **Date:** 5/27/1956 **Time:** 17:56:00.3 **Location:** 11.4967 165.3692 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Zuni” Yield: 3500KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_73 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.4967 165.3692", **LatLongDMS:** "11:29:48 N 165:22:09 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.4967,165.3692)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Zuni", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "3500" ### Event 12799 (309B8A81) **Date:** 5/28/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** KWEKWE, RHODESIA **Description:** Blue-glowing disk on edge paces 2 / car going south. Instant shifts. Lights farms. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4942 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KWEKWE,RHODESIA:BLU-GLO DISK ON EDGE PACES 2/CAR >S:INSTANT SHIFTS:LITES FARMS", **LatLong:** "-18.816668 29.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "18:49:00 S 29:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-18.816668,29.750001)", **State/Prov:** "RHD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12800 (B0EDBFB3) **Date:** 5/28/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** LA PORTE, IN **Description:** 1 / new car. Radio and lights electro-magnetic effect (EME). Moon colored object scans ground / Ir light? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 718) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4943 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "La PORTE,IN:1/NEW CAR:RADIO+LITES EME:MOON CLRD OBJ SCANS GROUND/IR LIGHT?:", **LatLong:** "41.600002 -86.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:36:00 N 86:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.600002,-86.733337)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12801 (5C3C4D0F) **Date:** 5/28/1956 **Description:** A blue glowing disc flying on edge pursued a car in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe in what was then Rhodesia. It made instantaneous maneuvers, and illuminated a farm as it flew over. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1996 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3131 ### Event 12802 (66C7F101) **Date:** 5/30/1956 **Time:** 18:15:29.3 **Location:** 11.5444 162.3644 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Erie” Yield: 14.9KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_74 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5444 162.3644", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:40 N 162:21:52 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5444,162.3644)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Erie", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "14.9" ### Event 12803 (7ABF54BC) **Date:** 6/1956 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** FT FEYZIN, FRANCE **Description:** Landed domed saucer. Small humanoid (or Grey) moves slow and vanishes. "Shock" paralyzes observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 225) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4944 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "Ft FEYZIN,FRANCE:LANDED DOMED SCR:OID MOVES SLO+VANISHES:"SHOCK" PARALYZES OBS", **LatLong:** "45.683336 4.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:41:00 N 04:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.683336,4.850000)", **State/Prov:** "Rhône", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 12804 (FC638B88) **Date:** 6/1956 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** N7 NEAR LA TURBIE, FR **Description:** Football ovoid hovers low / rocky hill. Observer(s) goes to work. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4945 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "N7 nr La TURBIE,FR:FOOTBALL OVOID HVRS LO/ROCKY HILL:obs goes to work:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.744447 7.405556", **LatLongDMS:** "43:44:40 N 07:24:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.744447,7.405556)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12805 (AEFEE76F) **Date:** 6/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** SACANDAGA RESERVOIR, NY **Description:** Camper. 3 F86's going quickly south. White 6M circular object follows 30M behind last jet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4946 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "SACANDAGA RSVR,NY:CAMPER:3 F86s >>S:WHT 6M CIRC.OBJ FOLOS 30M BHND LAST JET", **LatLong:** "43.483335 -71.388892", **LatLongDMS:** "43:29:00 N 71:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.483335,-71.388892)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12806 (2B0BF2A4) **Date:** 6/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** VOLOS, GRC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Huge saucer over estuary. 3 cones / top. Door opens. Small object flies in. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 294) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4947 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VOLOS,GRC:2 OBS:HUGE SCR ovr ESTUARY:3 CONES/TOP:DOOR OPENS:SML OBJ FLIES IN", **LatLong:** "39.383335 22.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "39:23:00 N 22:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.383335,22.900001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12807 (E1FB3EA2) **Date:** 6/1956 **Alternate date:** 6/1957 **Locations:** Wellington, New Zealand; RNZAF Base Ohakea near Bulls **Description:** RNZAF Airman Derek Mansell is a passenger in a Bristol 170 Freighter Mk 31M near Wellington, New Zealand, when the aircraft encounters severe turbulence and its compass and other instruments spin wildly. All communications fail and the engine spurts intermittently for 25 minutes before everything returns to normal. When the Freighter lands at RNZAF Base Ohakea near Bulls, the pilot of a Douglas C-47 Dakota lands and asks them whether they had seen a huge metallic disc about 250 feet in diameter with a blue light on top and a red light on the bottom, which he had observed just above the Freighter pacing it. The Dakota crew apparently took photos, but these have not turned up. After a two-hour debriefing, both crews are told never to discuss the matter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 432–433](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/432/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2820 ### Event 12808 (33458ADF) **Date:** 6/1956 **Locations:** New Hampshire; Ohio **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Two women are driving north toward New Hampshire, Ohio, when a bright light approaches them from a small wooded area. They stop their car to look at it. The light is attached to a large rectangular object resembling a railroad box car that settles near the ground at the edge of the highway opposite to them about 30 feet away. Suddenly the side of the object facing them lights up from inside with a pale green light and they can see three small entities. One is standing next to a console “operating some kind of controls,” and the two others are also active. For 5 minutes, they appear to be observing the women. The entities have dark hair on their heads and arms and are wearing short-sleeved smocks. The object moves up and away toward the southwest and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unreported 1956 CEIII Discovered in Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 3 \(June/July 1982\): 4–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2821 ### Event 12809 (17949022) **Date:** 6/1/1956 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** NEAR ATLANTIC CITY, NJ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Slow 'flying hotel' stops / house nearby. Windows. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 679) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4948 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr ATLANTIC CITY,NJ:2 OBS:SLOW 'FLYING HOTEL' STOPS/HOUSE nearby:WINDOWS:>>SE", **LatLong:** "39.366669 -74.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:22:00 N 74:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.366669,-74.450004)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12810 (2A402EC9) **Date:** 6/2/1956 **Location:** Newton, MS **Description:** Military pilot of Convair T-29 saw white-green light on parallel course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1940 ### Event 12811 (12A6B1A0) **Date:** 6/4/1956 **Description:** There was a reported landing of a UFO near Hicksville, New York on Long Island at just after midnight in 1956. The unconfirmed report said there were landing traces, but the report couldn't be followed up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, June 1956, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3269 ### Event 12812 (2B36D537) **Date:** 6/5/1956 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM, AL **Description:** 2 Air Force pilots / B25. 15m silver saucer going quickly south. 900m altitude. Spins. Silent. / Blue Book report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 234) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4949 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM,AL:2 AF PILOTS/B25:15m SLVR SCR >>S:900m alt:SPINS:SILENT:/BBK RPT", **LatLong:** "33.516668 -86.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:31:00 N 86:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.516668,-86.833337)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12813 (CE55CC0F) **Date:** 6/6/1956 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** 5MI / BANNING, CA **Description:** Silent domed saucer circles car / 100' altitude 100' away. Vanishes. / r8#383. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4950 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "732", **HatchDesc:** "5mi/BANNING,CA:SLNT DOMED SCR CCLs CAR/100'alt 100'AWAY:VANISHES:/r8#383", **LatLong:** "33.933335 -116.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:56:00 N 116:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.933335,-116.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12814 (272CEBC8) **Date:** 6/6/1956 **Location:** Banning, CA **Description:** Thin disc with a small dome, shimmering silver (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4127) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1941 ### Event 12815 (8E173F15) **Date:** 6/6/1956 **Time:** 0430 **Location:** Banning, California **Description:** An object hovered about 30 m above and 100 m away from the witness's car. Showing something like a dome on top, it crossed the road slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind the car, then vanished suddenly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_383 ### Event 12816 (4B378C76) **Date:** 6/6/1956 **Time:** 5:30 AM **Location:** Banning, California **Description:** Witness: Mr. Bierman. One thin disc with a small dome, shimmering silver, hovered about 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds, then zoomed up. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_402 ### Event 12817 (2EF46AE1) **Date:** 6/6/1956 **Time:** 00:55:30.0 **Location:** 11.6764 162.2222 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Seminole” Yield: 13.7KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_75 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6764 162.2222", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:35 N 162:13:20 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6764,162.2222)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Seminole", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "13.7" ### Event 12818 (36005D98) **Date:** 6/6/1956 **Description:** Banning, California - At 5:30 a.m. PDT Mr. Bierman watched a thin disc with a small dome on top, shimmering silver, hover about 30 yards up and 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds. It crossed the road slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind his car. It then suddenly shot straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4127; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3318 ### Event 12819 (A9F7112D) **Date:** 6/10/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WAIKUMETE, NZ **Description:** Airman / ground. Domed saucer flickers. East going west slow. Shoots quickly going up [to] extremely fast. / r140#2p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4951 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WAIKUMETE,NZ:AIRMAN/GND:DOMED SCR FLICKERS:E>W SLO:SHOOTS ↑↑ XFAST:/r140#2p24", **LatLong:** "-36.900002 174.650008", **LatLongDMS:** "36:54:00 S 174:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.900002,174.650008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12820 (283B8B3B) **Date:** 6/10/1956 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** 5MI SOUTH / MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Air Force ground-visual observer(s). "Half dollar size" saucer makes 180 degree turn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4952 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "470", **HatchDesc:** "5mi S/MARCH AFB,CA:AF GND-VISUAL OBS:"HALF DOLLAR SIZE" SCR MAKES 180dgr TURN", **LatLong:** "33.800002 -117.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:48:00 N 117:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.800002,-117.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12821 (59053160) **Date:** 6/11/1956 **Time:** 18:26:00.1 **Location:** 11.6000 165.4514 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Flathead” Yield: 365KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_76 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6000 165.4514", **LatLongDMS:** "11:36:00 N 165:27:05 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6000,165.4514)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Flathead", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "365" ### Event 12822 (FF86346F) **Date:** 6/11/1956 **Time:** 18:26:00.3 **Location:** 11.5511 162.3586 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Blackfoot” Yield: 8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_77 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5511 162.3586", **LatLongDMS:** "11:33:04 N 162:21:31 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5511,162.3586)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.06", **NukeName:** "Blackfoot", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "8" ### Event 12823 (9BC30517) **Date:** 6/11/1956 **Description:** Nueces River, Texas - Dan Martin claimed he was taken aboard a large landed UFO, where he spent seven hours being lectured by the master of the ship. He wrote a book about his experience, entitled 7 Hours Aboard a Space Ship. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Hollywood Citizen-News, July 20, 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3417 ### Event 12824 (A095BF4D) **Date:** 6/12/1956 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** CHELTENHAM AND MORE/OTHERS, ENGL **Description:** Huge silent object over hill. Big square windows. Separate observer(s). / r140#7p25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4953 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "CHELTENHAM++,ENGL:HUGE SLNT OBJ ovr HILL:BIG SQR WINDOWS:SEP.OBS:/r140#7p25", **LatLong:** "51.916669 -2.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:55:00 N 02:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.916669,-2.066667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12825 (65FCC536) **Date:** 6/13/1956 **Location:** US **Description:** Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is released **Type:** movie **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Flying_Saucers) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_564 ### Event 12826 (37E0F17C) **Date:** 6/13/1956 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SHADY COVE, OR **Description:** Bright red saucer over house. 2 more join low over river. Upstream and down slow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 727) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4954 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "426", **HatchDesc:** "SHADY COVE,OR:BRITE RED SCR OVR HOUSE:2 MORE JOIN LO OVR RVR:UPSTREAM+DOWN SLO", **LatLong:** "42.616669 -122.816673", **LatLongDMS:** "42:37:00 N 122:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.616669,-122.816673)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12827 (437EF062) **Date:** 6/13/1956 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Kickapoo” Yield: 1.49KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_78 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Kickapoo", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1.49" ### Event 12828 (1A795593) **Date:** 6/13/1956 **Locations:** Los Angeles; Hollywood **Description:** Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, an American black-and-white science fiction film from Columbia Pictures, produced by [Charles H. Schneer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FH.%5FSchneer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FH.%5FSchneer) directed by [Fred F. Sears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FF.%5FSears), starring [Hugh Marlowe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FMarlowe) and [Joan Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%5FTaylor), and with special effects by [Ray Harryhausen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%5FHarryhausen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%5FHarryhausen) is released in Los Angeles. The film’s storyline is suggested by [Donald E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s nonfiction Flying Saucers from Outer Space \(1953\), but bears little resemblance to the content. Keyhoe has sold the rights to Clover Productions in Hollywood. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%5Fvs.%5Fthe%5FFlying%5FSaucers)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169/)”; Clark III 434 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2822 ### Event 12829 (7BD96CA6) **Date:** 6/14/1956 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 2 'UFO's'. Lights flash. Hover. Make 4 complete stops then go. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4955 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "87", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:GOC OBS:2 'UFOs':LITES FLASH:HVR:MAKE 4 COMPLETE STOPS THEN GO", **LatLong:** "38.950002 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:00 N 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.950002,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12830 (5689AFAC) **Date:** 6/14/1956 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** ENCANTO, CA **Description:** Civil observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Glowing ovoid going quickly southeast 5mi away. Seen / 3 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4956 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "ENCANTO,CA:CIV OBS/BINOCS:GLOWING OVOID >>SE 5mi AWAY:SEEN/3min:", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -117.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 117:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-117.116672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12831 (692989A9) **Date:** 6/14/1956 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** OVER NORFOLK, UK **Description:** Ground and air RADAR's. Huge blip stops. Away as F86-D attacks. / r141#12p29. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: VSD Magazine, France: Special Issue. OVNIs: 50 ans de Rapports Officiels; June 2002 (Bernard Thouanel) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4957 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ovr NORFOLK,UK:GND+AIR RDRS:HUGE BLIP STOPS:AWAY as F86-D ATTACKS:/r141#12p29", **LatLong:** "52.666669 1.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:40:00 N 01:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.666669,1.316667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12832 (AF0CAE9F) **Date:** 6/14/1956 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Ohio **Description:** [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) visits and interviews Project Blue Book head Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohiob . **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter N. Webb, “Inside Building 263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1992\): 3–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2823 ### Event 12833 (662D5A69) **Date:** 6/16/1956 **Time:** 01:13:53.1 **Location:** 11.5467 162.3608 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Osage” Yield: 1.7KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_79 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5467 162.3608", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:48 N 162:21:39 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5467,162.3608)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.21", **NukeName:** "Osage", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1.7" ### Event 12834 (B3B98097) **Date:** 6/17/1956 **Description:** In 1956 a bright blob of light zoomed away when approached by a Royal New Zealand Air Force Vampire jet interceptor, near Ohakea AFB, New Zealand. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28). In Abingdon, England on this night in 1966, an astronomer, a second scientist, and five others watched a domed disc w headlights maneuver in the sky for 90 minutes, beginning at 8:50 p.m. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1966, p. 27). Four pinkish-white football-shaped objects, flying in a rectangular formation, paced a private plane flying between Ladd and Peru, Illinois in the early morning hours of this day in 1969. (Source: Data-Net Report, April 1971). In 1971 at 9:40 p.m. a domed disc with flashing red and green lights repeatedly buzzed the Smith family farmhouse in Gorae West, Victoria, Australia. Watched through binoculars, the Smiths could see that a silver flash emanated from the object when it swooped low over the farmyard. It moved back and forth at high speed for 55 minutes. (Source: Portland (Victoria) Observer, June 21, 1971). In 1972 a 350-meter wide bright orange object descended near George Air Force Base in California at 11:50 p.m. More than thirty base personnel witnessed it. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May 1972 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3528 ### Event 12835 (5AB58A63) **Date:** 6/19/1956 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** ARKANSAS CITY, KS **Description:** 3 cops and 4 others. Several luminous/glowing objects with appendages. Seen / hours. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 235) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4958 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "ARKANSAS CITY,KS:3 COPS+4 OTHERS:SVRL LUMn OBJS w/APPENDAGES:seen/hours:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.066668 -97.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:04:00 N 97:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.066668,-97.033338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12836 (6503CD4C) **Date:** 6/19/1956 **Time:** ~01:00 **Location:** HUTCHINSON, KS AND WICHITA AND ELDORADO AND WELLINGTON **Description:** Night lights cavort. Hutch RADAR paints blip. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 235) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4959 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "470", **HatchDesc:** "HUTCHINSON,KS +WICHITA+ELDORADO+WELLINGTON:NLTS CAVORT:HUTCH RDR PAINTS BLIP", **LatLong:** "38.033335 -97.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:02:00 N 97:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.033335,-97.933338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12837 (C1EB2A61) **Date:** 6/19/1956 **Location:** -20.0000 115.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Mosaic G2” Yield: 60KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1751 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-20.0000 115.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "20:00:00 S 115:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.0000,115.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Mosaic G2", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "60" ### Event 12838 (06FF347C) **Date:** 6/21/1956 **Location:** WATERLOO, IA **Description:** 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. White saucer / red center. To and fro / sky / 30 minute(s). Goes straight going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 252) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4960 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "WATERLOO,IA:2 OBS/BINOCS:WHT SCR/RED CENTER:TO+FRO/SKY/30min:GOES STRAIGHT ↑", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -92.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 92:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-92.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12839 (64D265CA) **Date:** 6/21/1956 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** HOMESTEAD, PA **Description:** 12 scouts and more. Numerous shiny silver disks maneuver / 40 second(s). Enter clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 731) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4961 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "238", **HatchDesc:** "HOMESTEAD,PA:12 SCOUTS+:NMRS SHINY SLVR DISKS MNVR/40sec:ENTER CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "40.405557 -79.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:24:20 N 79:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.405557,-79.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12840 (7EC74730) **Date:** Summer 1956 **Location:** Nellis Air Force Base **Description:** A pilot driving through the desert and bound for Nellis Air Force Base experienced a sudden and inexplicable engine failure. He tried to start the car with no success, then started walking. He saw a strange shape at the side of the highway and, being curious, approached it. To his surprise it took off. Before it left, however, he got a good look, it was a circular disk shaped with a dome on top. When it took off, he clearly saw 3 circular appendages underneath. The pilot went back to his car which started with no trouble. When he reached Nellis, he reported the incident to intelligence and he and one of their officers immediately drove back to the scene. On the ground at the location of the sighting, they found 3 clearly defined concave impressions in the sand. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) **Source:** Trace, **ID:** Magnonia_2 ### Event 12841 (C58085D6) **Date:** 6/21/1956 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Inca” Yield: 15.2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_80 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Inca", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "15.2" ### Event 12842 (B4CBFB0A) **Date:** Summer 1956? **Location:** Garland, Texas **Description:** [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) is invited to the Office of Naval Research to examine the mysteriously annotated version of his The Case for the UFO. He becomes convinced that his correspondent [Carl Allen](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/) has written all or most of it. Capt. Sidney Sherby and Cmdr. [Hoover](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/us-navy-commander-reveals-roswell) ask for the Allen letters and these are included in a special printing of the annotated book by the Varo Publishing Company of Garland, Texas. In 1969, Allen confesses to APRO that he had written the annotations, but he retracts the confession later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(Clark III 95–97; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[The](https://www.de173.com/the-varo-edition/) [Varo Edition,](https://www.de173.com/the-varo-edition/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13, 2016\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2818 ### Event 12843 (0E97364F) **Date:** Summer 1956 **Location:** southwest part of Springfield, Illinois **Description:** 11:30 p.m. A cigar-shaped UFO with lighted portholes is seen by two witnesses in the southwest part of Springfield, Illinois. The car driven by one of the witnesses quits, and the UFO seems to affect the traffic lights as well. The object looks slightly smaller than a blimp. After about 30 seconds it moves straight up and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 14, 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2819 ### Event 12844 (F5A9EBE6) **Date:** 6/21/1956 **Description:** At 10:35 p.m. a group of boy scouts and their scoutmaster sighted several silvery discs in the southeastern sky near Homestead, Pennsylvania maneuvering at high speed among the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, September 1956, p. 3; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3570 ### Event 12845 (61927B34) **Date:** 6/24/1956 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** LUTZ, FL **Description:** 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Orange saucer / red bottom. East going quickly west. Sweeps up and down and up again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 252) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4962 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "LUTZ,FL:2 OBS/BINOCS:ORG SCR/RED BOTTOM:E>>W:SWEEPS UP+DOWN+UP AGAIN", **LatLong:** "28.150001 -82.461115", **LatLongDMS:** "28:09:00 N 82:27:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.150001,-82.461115)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12846 (B7808A4A) **Date:** 6/25/1956 **Time:** 18:06:00.2 **Location:** 11.6028 165.4514 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Dakota” Yield: 1100KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_81 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6028 165.4514", **LatLongDMS:** "11:36:10 N 165:27:05 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6028,165.4514)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Dakota", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1100" ### Event 12847 (5DE94B21) **Date:** 6/25/1956 **Description:** ATIC’s Col. [John Eriksen](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132078491/john-gordon-eriksen), writing for Secretary of the Air Force [Donald A. Quarles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FA.%5FQuarles), replies to a query from Rep. [John E. Moss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMoss) \(D-Calif.\), explaining why USAF is not handing out multiple copies of Blue Book Special Report no. 14 and that it does not intend to withhold UFO information from the public. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 223 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2824 ### Event 12848 (9B001BCA) **Date:** 6/27/1956 **Location:** PLATTSBURG, NY **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Glowing yellow mass nears plane. Then goes going quickly east descending. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4963 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "PLATTSBURG,NY:GOC OBS:GLOWING YELLOW MASS NEARS PLANE:THEN GOES>>E DESCENDING", **LatLong:** "44.700002 -73.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:42:00 N 73:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.700002,-73.466670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12849 (A7A11DD3) **Date:** 6/27/1956 **Location:** TRIESTE, ITL **Description:** Many observer(s) / coast. Luminous object hovers / 10 second(s). Speeds going quickly northeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4964 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TRIESTE,ITL:MANY OBS/COAST:LUMINOUS OBJECT HOVERS/10sec:SPEEDS>>NE:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.650002 13.800001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:00 N 13:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.650002,13.800001)", **State/Prov:** "TS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12850 (011D8334) **Date:** 6/27/1956 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** JAMESTOWN, OH **Description:** 3 observer(s). Car-size domed disk takes off / ground. Silent. Climbs / steep angle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4965 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "322", **HatchDesc:** "JAMESTOWN,OH:3 OBS:CAR-SIZE DOMED DISK TAKES OFF/GND:SILENT:CLIMBS/STEEP ANGLE", **LatLong:** "39.655557 -83.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:39:20 N 83:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.655557,-83.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12851 (46D10AAC) **Date:** 6/27/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** MAHANOY CITY, PA **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 glistening orbs hover. Then shoot upward / seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4966 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "383", **HatchDesc:** "MAHANOY CITY,PA:SVRL OBS:2 GLISTENING ORBS HVR:THEN SHOOT UPWARD/SECONDS:", **LatLong:** "40.811113 -76.144448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:40 N 76:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.811113,-76.144448)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12852 (7D025BB1) **Date:** 6/27/1956 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** NORTH DALLAS, TX **Description:** Amateur astronomers / (seen thru) binoculars and (seen thru) telescope. Round body glows / pulses. Straight and level going quickly [to] horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4967 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "N.DALLAS,TX:AM.ASTRONOMERS/BINOCS+TSCOPE:ROUND BODY GLOWS/PULSES:S/L >>HRZN", **LatLong:** "32.816668 -96.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:49:00 N 96:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.816668,-96.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12853 (79D57137) **Date:** 6/27/1956 **Location:** Trieste, IT **Description:** Luminous object hovered, sped away. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1942 ### Event 12854 (9BF81F43) **Date:** 6/27/1956 **Description:** Two ball-shaped objects were seen hovering over Mahonoy City, Pennsylvania at 8:15 p.m. They glistened brilliantly at the height of normal aircraft height, when suddenly they shot straight up vertically, leaving behind short vapor trail in their wakes. One of the witnesses was a newspaper reporter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3693 ### Event 12855 (A47C2E22) **Date:** 6/28/1956 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** SEATTLE, WA **Description:** Civil observer(s). Silver saucer going up / very fast. Seen / car windshield / 1 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4968 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "SEATTLE,WA:CIV OBS:SLVR SCR ↑/VFAST:SEEN/CAR WINDSHIELD/1min:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.583336 -122.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:35:00 N 122:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.583336,-122.316672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12856 (E2F1AAF4) **Date:** 6/29/1956 **Location:** BANNING, CA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and cops and observer(s) / plane. 400' object / 40K' altitude / 8 hours! 4 square circuits / town! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4969 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "224", **Elev:** "732", **HatchDesc:** "BANNING,CA:GOC+COPS+OBS/PLANE:400' OBJ/40K'alt/8hrs!:4 SQUARE CIRCUITS/TOWN!", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -116.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 116:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-116.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12857 (CD76112D) **Date:** 6/29/1956 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** SR8A SOUTHEAST / AUSTIN, NV **Description:** 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 2+6 silent orange ovoids circle. All shoot up / 45° angle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 756) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4970 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2200", **HatchDesc:** "SR8A SE/AUSTIN,NV:2 OBS/BINOCS:2+6 SLNT ORG OVOIDS CCL:ALL SHOOT UP/45°ANGLE", **LatLong:** "39.483335 -116.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:00 N 116:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.483335,-116.950006)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12858 (9B3F3177) **Date:** 6/29/1956 **Location:** Los Angeles to San Diego, CA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object Tracked At 59,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560629](http://www.nicap.org/560629losang%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1943 ### Event 12859 (D8380AFA) **Date:** 6/30/1956 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** MURPHY, OR **Description:** 5 observer(s). 2 groups / 5-6 saucers streak going quickly northwest 4 minute(s) apart. No contrails. High altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4971 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "324", **HatchDesc:** "MURPHY,OR:5 OBS:2 GROUPS/5-6 SCRs STREAK>>NW 4min APART:NO CONTRAILS:HI ALT.", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -123.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 123:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-123.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12860 (FDE2DC2B) **Date:** 6/30/1956 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** WELLINGTON, NZ **Description:** 3 glowing cigars speed over town. 1754hrs orange saucers over Nelson, NZ. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4972 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "204", **HatchDesc:** "WELLINGTON,NZ:3 GLOWING CGRS SPEED OVR TOWN::1754hrs ORG SCRS ovr NELSON,NZ", **LatLong:** "-41.250002 174.766675", **LatLongDMS:** "41:15:00 S 174:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.250002,174.766675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12861 (E0C33B32) **Date:** 6/30/1956 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. three glowing cigar-shaped objects sped over the city of Wellington, New Zealand. At 5:54 p.m. several orange discs were later seen for several minutes over Nelson, New Zealand. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, August 1956, p. 4; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 64; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3743 ### Event 12862 (C03233AF) **Date:** 7/1956 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** NEWVILLE, PA **Description:** Smooth humming. Huge red-glow ovoid just over barn. Small disk attached. Going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 734) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4973 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "NEWVILLE,PA:SMOOTH HUM:HUGE RED-GLOW OVOID JUST OVR BARN:SML DISK ATTACHED:>E", **LatLong:** "40.166669 -77.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:00 N 77:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.166669,-77.400004)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12863 (D601BDA4) **Date:** 7/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** FORET DE MARSOIS, FR **Description:** 2 helmeted 120cm small humanoids (or Greys) / path stop to see hiker. Walk away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4974 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FORET de MARSOIS,FR:2 HELMETED 120cm OIDS/PATH STOP TO SEE HIKER:walk away", **LatLong:** "48.033336 5.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:02:00 N 05:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.033336,5.350000)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12864 (92221F52) **Date:** 7/1956? **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** LA GRANJA, SEGOVIA, SP **Description:** Farmer and 2. Saucer lands. "Spectacular Case". Government investigation. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4975 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LA GRANJA,SEGOVIA,SP:FARMER+2:SCR LANDS:"SPECTACULAR CASE":GOVT INVEST.:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.883335 -4.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:53:00 N 04:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.883335,-4.000000)", **State/Prov:** "SGV", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12865 (D5D3A543) **Date:** 7/1956 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MAILLY-LE-CAMP, FR **Description:** Noisy 15M saucer with red dome and big windows 50M over military camp. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4976 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MAILLY-le-CAMP,FR:NOISY 15M SCR W/RED DOME+BIG WINDOWS 50M OVR MIL.CAMP:>>NE", **LatLong:** "48.666669 4.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:40:00 N 04:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.666669,4.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Aube", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12866 (14ECC051) **Date:** 7/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MONTDIDIER, FR **Description:** Domed saucer lands / field. Observer(s) flees. Gone on return. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) APR69+Flying Saucer Review (FSR.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4977 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MONTDIDIER,FR:DOMED SCR LANDS/FIELD:OBS FLEES:GONE ON RETURN:/LDLN APR69+FSR", **LatLong:** "49.638891 2.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:38:20 N 02:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.638891,2.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12867 (7F41D4D5) **Date:** 7/1956 **Description:** [Brinsley Le Poer Trench](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty) 8th Earl of Clancarty, takes over as editor of Flying Saucer Review from [Derek](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html) [Dempster](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html)[.](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Flying Saucer Review](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CJul-Aug%2CV%202%2CN%204.pdf) 2, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1956\); Clark III 498 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2825 ### Event 12868 (DAEF7CF7) **Date:** 7/1956 **Locations:** Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico; Glen Cove, Maine **Description:** US parapsychologist [Andrija Puharich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich) and Dutch psychic [Peter Hurkos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHurkos) accidentally meet Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian in Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, both groups in town to view the famous figurines of [Waldemar Julsrud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C3%A1mbaro%5Ffigures)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C3%A1mbaro%5Ffigures) during the time that Hurkos is being studied by Puharich at his medical facility in Glen Cove, Maine. The Laugheads are convinced that Puharich and Hurkos are space people come to assist them, based on the channelings of their associate [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) \(although they do not name him\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Andrija Puharich, Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller, Bantam, 1975, [pp. xviii–xxiv](https://archive.org/details/urijournalofmyst00puha/page/n19/mode/2up); Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 104 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2826 ### Event 12869 (797AFC0B) **Date:** 7/1/1956? **Location:** CAPE JESUP, NORTH / GREENLAND **Description:** Soviet TU-4 pilot. Pearl colored lens-saucer. / r120p226+/ LDLN#204. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 823) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4978 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Arctic above 70 degrees North", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CAPE JESUP,N/GREENLAND:SOV TU-4 PILOT:PEARL CLRD LENS-SCR:/r120p226+/LDLN#204", **LatLong:** "84.000004 -35.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "84:00:00 N 35:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/84.000004,-35.000002)", **State/Prov:** "GRN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12870 (33B68D6B) **Date:** 7/1/1956 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** OVER WINNEMUCCA, NV **Description:** Several observer(s). Huge object circles airliner 3X. Shoots going up / terrific speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4979 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1313", **HatchDesc:** "ovr WINNEMUCCA,NV:SVRL OBS:HUGE OBJ CIRCLES AIRLINER 3X:SHOOTS ↑/TERRIFIC SPD", **LatLong:** "40.972224 -117.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:58:20 N 117:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.972224,-117.733339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12871 (68EF3213) **Date:** 7/1/1956? **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** US40 EAST / BRIDGELAND, UT **Description:** Orange sphere 30M overhead. Hums. Very fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SALISBURY, Frank: The UTAH UFO DISPLAY -- a Biologist Reports; 1974 Devin Adair, New Greenwich,CT. HB 286pp. ISBN 0-815-97000-5 (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4980 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1614", **HatchDesc:** "US40 E/BRIDGELAND,UT:ORANGE SPHERE 30M OVERHEAD:HUMS:VFAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.172224 -110.205561", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:20 N 110:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.172224,-110.205561)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12872 (D14F0022) **Date:** 7/2/1956 **Location:** CONWAY, MASS **Description:** 1 observer. Night light makes several passes over town. 180 turns. Low-pitch humming. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 737) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4981 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "189", **HatchDesc:** "CONWAY,MASS:1 OBS:NLT MAKES SVRL PASSES OVR TOWN:180 TURNS:LO-PITCH HUM:VFAST", **LatLong:** "42.511113 -72.700003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:40 N 72:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.511113,-72.700003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12873 (1D681641) **Date:** 7/2/1956 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** FITZROY, AUSTRALIA **Description:** 8+observer(s). ~30 translucent round objects appear and shoot away. 90° turns etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 737) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4982 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "FITZROY,AUSTRL:8+OBS:~30 XLUCENT RND OBJs APPEAR+SHOOT AWAY:90°TURNS ETC", **LatLong:** "-37.800002 144.966674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:48:00 S 144:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.800002,144.966674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12874 (DB073AD7) **Date:** 7/2/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** WINCHESTER, MASS **Description:** Civil observer(s). Night light makes tight circles. 4 90-turns. 700mph. Exits going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4983 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "WINCHESTER,MASS:CIV OBS:NLT MAKES TIGHT CIRCLES:4 90-TURNS:700mph:EXITS >>NW", **LatLong:** "42.450002 -71.138892", **LatLongDMS:** "42:27:00 N 71:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.450002,-71.138892)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12875 (865584C9) **Date:** 7/2/1956 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Mohawk” Yield: 360KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_82 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Mohawk", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "360" ### Event 12876 (33F595BF) **Date:** 7/2/1956 **Description:** A bright object crossed and re-crossed the sky over Conway, Massachusetts. The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette said that "although traveling at what appeared to be a high rate of speed" the object "was able to reverse its course completely". **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky. New York: Citadel Press, 1956, pg. 280 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3785 ### Event 12877 (DCF48A76) **Date:** 7/3/1956 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** AINSWORTH, NE **Description:** Orange-silver guitar-pick going south against northwest wind. Point up. / r140#7p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4984 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "789", **HatchDesc:** "AINSWORTH,NE:ORG-SLVR GUITAR-PICK >S AGAINST NW WIND:POINT UP:/r140#7p37", **LatLong:** "42.550002 -99.861116", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:00 N 99:51:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.550002,-99.861116)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12878 (7E141ABF) **Date:** 7/4/1956 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN **Description:** Red saucer trails bursts of sparks. Goes behind Khyber hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 266) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4985 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pakistan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PESHAWAR,PAKISTAN:RED SCR TRAILS BURSTS of SPARKS:GOES BHND KHYBER HILLS:", **LatLong:** "34.016668 71.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "34:01:00 N 71:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.016668,71.566670)", **State/Prov:** "NW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12879 (CDE4D698) **Date:** 7/4/1956 **Locations:** Wiesbaden; East Germany; Poland; Grodno, Belarus; Minsk, Belarus; Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia; Baltic states **Description:** Pilot [Hervey Stockman](https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2010-featured-story-archive/agency-u-2-pilots-hervey-stockman.html) makes the first of eight U-2 flights over Soviet Russia, Mission 2013. He flies from Wiesbaden over East Germany and Poland before crossing the Soviet border near Grodno, Belarus, then over bomber bases at Minsk, Belarus; Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\], Russia; and the Baltic states. The mission is tracked by Soviet radar; a number of MiG fighters unsuccessfully try to intercept the U-2. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Spyflight, “Lockheed U-2”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 86–88](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/86/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2827 ### Event 12880 (D3F0742E) **Date:** 7/5/1956 **Time:** 08:10 **Location:** MAINZ, GERMANY **Description:** 1 observer. Cylinder/cigar-shape changes shape as it crosses sky. (Saucer?). / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 266) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4986 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MAINZ,GERMANY:1 OBS:CGR CHANGES SHAPE AS IT CROSSES SKY:(SCR?):/FSR REPORT", **LatLong:** "49.983336 8.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:59:00 N 08:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.983336,8.266667)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12881 (F45CFD9B) **Date:** 7/6/1956 **Location:** Euclid, OH **Description:** 9:37 AM. One spherical object, large, white in color, appeared to be revolving at 5 to 6 thousand feet. Ground visual and ground radar sighting. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560706](http://www.nicap.org/560706eucliddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1944 ### Event 12882 (0E9385A7) **Date:** 7/8/1956 **Time:** 18:06:00.2 **Location:** 11.6714 162.2003 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Apache” Yield: 1850KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_83 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6714 162.2003", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:17 N 162:12:01 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6714,162.2003)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Apache", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1850" ### Event 12883 (98945EC9) **Date:** 7/9/1956 **Locations:** Engels-2 airfield; Saratov, Russia **Description:** One early U-2 mission, Mission 2020, flown by [Martin Knutson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FKnutson), flies over Engels-2 airfield, near Saratov, Russia, and photographs 20 M-4 Bison bombers on the ramp. Multiplying by the number of Soviet bomber bases, the intelligence suggests the Soviets are already well on their way to deploying hundreds of aircraft. Ironically, the U-2 has actually photographed the entire Bison fleet; there is no bomber at any of the other bases. Similar missions over the next year finally prove that. At least in official circles, the bomber gap is disproven. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Spyflight, “Lockheed U-2” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2828 ### Event 12884 (A909D50C) **Date:** 7/10/1956 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** STONESFIELD, ENGL **Description:** 1 observer. B52-size dumbell-shape going quickly [to] overhead very fast and very high. / r140 #7p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4987 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STONESFIELD,ENGL:1 OBS:B52-SIZE DUMBELL-SHAPE >> OVHD VFAST+VHIGH:/r140 #7p40", **LatLong:** "51.833336 -1.433333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:50:00 N 01:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.833336,-1.433333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12885 (DC142329) **Date:** 7/10/1956 **Time:** 17:56:00.3 **Location:** 11.6633 165.3872 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Navajo” Yield: 4500KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_84 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6633 165.3872", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:48 N 165:23:14 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6633,165.3872)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Navajo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "4500" ### Event 12886 (D4A5A6FB) **Date:** 7/10/1956 **Location:** Melbourne, Victoria, Australia **Description:** The Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, coastline and suburbs are draped with “angel hair” that hangs from utility lines and trees. It vanishes within hours, but a sample is recovered for analysis by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation. It cannot be identified, although six scientists rule out wool, cotton, feathers, cellulose, and synthetic fibers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 102; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2829 ### Event 12887 (5A15119E) **Date:** 7/11/1956 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** SETE, HERAULT **Description:** Several / bridge. Red metal UFO appears and vanishes several times / bay surface! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 269) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4988 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SETE,HERAULT:SVRL/BRIDGE:RED MTL UFO APPEARS+VANISHES SVRL TIMES/BAY SURFACE!", **LatLong:** "43.433335 3.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:26:00 N 03:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.433335,3.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Hérault", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12888 (7D8C0E5F) **Date:** 7/11/1956 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** WILMINGTON, DE **Description:** Civil observer(s). Pink-glowing saucer. Quarter / arms length. Straight and level flight south going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 270) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4989 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,DE:CIV OBS:PINK-GLOWING SCR:QUARTER/ARMS LENGTH:S/L FLITE S>>N:", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -75.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 75:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-75.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12889 (9D30C2E2) **Date:** 7/11/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WEST / DURANGO AND PUEBLO, CO **Description:** Blue Book. Weatherman / (seen thru) binoculars and more/others. Red-glowing football maneuvers. / r140#3p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4990 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "W/DURANGO+PUEBLO,CO:BBK:WEATHERMAN/BINOCS++:RED-GLO FOOTBALL MNVRS:/r140#3p24", **LatLong:** "38.266668 -104.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:16:00 N 104:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.266668,-104.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12890 (4B1BCDB1) **Date:** 7/12/1956 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** AGAWAM, MASS **Description:** 3 observer(s). Bright night light scouts / erratically. Flashes. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly east. / r140#2p72. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4991 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "AGAWAM,MASS:3 OBS:BRITE NLT SCOUTS/ERRATICALLY:FLASHES:↑↑ and >>E:/r140#2p72", **LatLong:** "42.083335 -72.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:05:00 N 72:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.083335,-72.616670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12891 (D54BFDC1) **Date:** 7/12/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** OFF WAKAYA ISLAND, FIJI **Description:** 10 / boat. Saucer seen / 2 hours going northwest. Square portholes strongly lit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4992 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off WAKAYA Isl,FIJI:10/BOAT:SCR SEEN/2 hrs >NW:SQUARE PORTHOLES STRONGLY LIT", **LatLong:** "-17.616668 179.000009", **LatLongDMS:** "17:37:00 S 179:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.616668,179.000009)", **State/Prov:** "FJI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12892 (2A213029) **Date:** 7/12/1956 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** NEAR ONTARIO, OR **Description:** Separate observer(s). Grey blimps and silver saucers over airport etc. Air Force team sent in. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 679) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4993 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "660", **HatchDesc:** "nr ONTARIO,OR:SEP.OBS:GRY BLIMPS+SLVR SCRS ovr AIRPORT etc.:AF TEAM SENT IN", **LatLong:** "44.033335 -117.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "44:02:00 N 117:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.033335,-117.000006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12893 (EBD0DDB2) **Date:** 7/12/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MONROVIA, IN **Description:** Civil observer(s). Orange saucer very fast going quickly northwest. Ascends straight up. Quarter / arms length. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4994 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "265", **HatchDesc:** "MONROVIA,IN:CIV OBS:ORG SCR VFAST>>NW:ASCENDS STRAIGHT UP:QUARTER/ARMS LENGTH", **LatLong:** "39.577780 -86.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:34:40 N 86:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.577780,-86.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12894 (89373300) **Date:** 7/12/1956 **Description:** On the Pacific island of Levuka in the Fiji Islands, several people on a fishing boat saw a cigar-shaped UFO. It was close enough that the witnesses were able to describe square windows visible in the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4000 ### Event 12895 (3A0DEA5C) **Date:** 7/13/1956 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** LEVUKA IS.FIJI **Description:** 10 observer(s) / boat. Circular / light with square windows going south. Inside lit. / APRO 9'56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4995 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "LEVUKA Is.FIJI:10 OBS/BOAT:CIRCL/LITE W/SQR WINDOWS >S:INSIDE LIT:/APRO 9'56", **LatLong:** "-17.633334 178.833342", **LatLongDMS:** "17:38:00 S 178:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.633334,178.833342)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "FIJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12896 (9A065F19) **Date:** 7/14/1956 **Time:** 0140 **Location:** Holloman AFB-White Sands range area, NM **Description:** A pale yellow ball of indistinct outline and approximately one fourth the diameter of the sun's image was seen rapidly approaching Holloman AFB from the direction of White Sands, approximately SW. The object was apparently following a flat trajectory when the yellow glow was replaced by two close-set red lights, which appeared to rise straight up and disappeared at a high rate of speed. The observer was anonymous, but his profession was Chemical Engineering. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [APRO Bulletin, 1/1957, page 5](https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1957.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_921 ### Event 12897 (F8E27D3B) **Date:** 7/14/1956 **Location:** ARLINGTON, VA **Description:** Amateur astronomer. Vibrant bright "star" wobbles around sky / 4 hours. / r25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 271) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4996 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "ARLINGTON,VA:AM.ASTRONOMER:VBRITE "STAR" WOBBLES AROUND SKY/4hrs:/r25.", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -77.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 77:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-77.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12898 (DFAE9A46) **Date:** 7/15/1956 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** ALTO COMEDERO, ARG **Description:** Aviators and more/others. Several silent translucent saucers going quickly southwest. 5000kph. 6km altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 747) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4997 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ALTO COMEDERO,ARG:AVIATORS++:SVRL SLNT XLUCENT SCRS >>SW:5000kph:6km alt", **LatLong:** "-24.250001 -65.083336", **LatLongDMS:** "24:15:00 S 65:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.250001,-65.083336)", **RelAlt:** "6000", **State/Prov:** "Juhuy", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12899 (8608E27C) **Date:** 7/16/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SOUTHWEST LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s) and Air Traffic Controllers. Brilliant night light going quickly southeast / 4 minute(s). Gone in a flash of light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 274) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4998 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "SW LOS ANGELES,CA:100s/OBS+ATCS:BRILL.NLT >>SE/4min:GONE IN A FLASH OF LITE:", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -118.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 118:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-118.316672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 12900 (0D591166) **Date:** 7/16/1956 **Locations:** Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, Brazil; São Sebastião; Ilhabela **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Lawyer \(or law professor\) João de Freitas Guimarães is taking a walk on the beach at Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, when he observes a hat-shaped, luminous object leave the sea between São Sebastião and Ilhabela and land only a few yards away from him. A door opens, a metallic stairway emerges, and two tall, human-looking men with long, fair hair emerge wearing green jumpsuits. Through gestures, they encourage him to enter the craft. Inside, the saucer takes off and the crew communicate with him telepathically, telling him about a radiation protection system that exists around the ship and that they have left the atmosphere. They are supposedly from Venus. His alleged trip lasts an hour. When he returns, his watch no longer works. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Luiz do Rosário Real, “[Caso Dr. Freitas Guimarães,](http://querepublicaeessa.an.gov.br/images/Ovni/BR%5FDFANBSB%5FARX%5F0%5F0%5F0006%5Fd0001de0001.pdf)” April 1976; Clark III 548–549; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 257–258](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/256/mode/2up); Equipe UFO, “[João de Freitas Guimarães, o advogado que passeou em um UFO,](https://ufo.com.br/artigos/joao-de-freitas-guimaraes-o-advogado-que-passeou-em-um-ufo.html)” Portal UFO, October 1, 2013; Brazil 32–35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2830 ### Event 12901 (BB7747DF) **Date:** 7/17/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, MASS **Description:** Observer(s) = Nelson. Large RADAR target. 180-turn / 5 second(s). Incredible acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_4999 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "WESTOVER AFB,MASS:OBS=NELSON:LRG RDR TARGET:180-TURN/5sec:INCREDIBLE ACCELERTN", **LatLong:** "42.188891 -72.522226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:11:20 N 72:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.188891,-72.522226)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12902 (A60BA4EA) **Date:** 7/17/1956 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** OTIS AIR FORCE BASE, MASS **Description:** Military-air visual. Glowing saucer / jet-speed. Reverses course without banking. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 276) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5000 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "OTIS AFB,MASS:MIL-AIR VISUAL:GLOWING SCR/JET-SPEED:REVERSES COURSE W/O BANKING", **LatLong:** "41.683335 -70.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:00 N 70:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.683335,-70.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12903 (EE7AEC5F) **Date:** 7/17/1956 **Location:** Westover (Otis AFB), MA **Description:** Uncorrelated Target Tracked At 2400 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560717](http://www.nicap.org/560717westover2%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1945 ### Event 12904 (670EE2D0) **Date:** 7/17/1956 **Location:** Westover (Otis AFB), MA **Description:** Jet Pilot Sees Object Reverse Course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560717](http://www.nicap.org/560717westover%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1946 ### Event 12905 (88EAE2BB) **Date:** 7/17/1956 **Location:** Mastic, Long Island, NY **Description:** Brief Sighting By AF Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) **Reference:** NICAP: [560717](http://www.nicap.org/560717mastic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1947 ### Event 12906 (6EF0F4A2) **Date:** 7/17/1956 **Locations:** Flying Saucer Hill; Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa **Description:** [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) takes several photos of a silvery disc as it is hovering around Flying Saucer Hill, southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 657–658 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2831 ### Event 12907 (FED33CC4) **Date:** 7/18/1956 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** RUSSELL, MASS **Description:** 4 observer(s). Silent metal saucer reflects sun. Hovers and gyrates. 1500' altitude. Going quickly [to] east-northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5001 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "91", **HatchDesc:** "RUSSELL,MASS:4 OBS:SILENT MTL SCR REFLECTS SUN:HVRS+GYRATES:1500'alt:>>ENE", **LatLong:** "42.194446 -72.850003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:11:40 N 72:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.194446,-72.850003)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12908 (13151D41) **Date:** 7/18/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ARKANSAS CITY, KS AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Separate observations. TEARDROPs maneuver. Beams. Jets chase. / r28p435+/ APRO 7'56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 752) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5002 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "ARKANSAS CITY,KS++:SEP.OVS:TEARDROPs MNVR:BEAMS:JETS CHASE:/r28p435+/APRO 7'56", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -97.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 97:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-97.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12909 (1388D1AA) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Location:** California **Description:** Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_145 **Attributes:** ufo photo ### Event 12910 (7963EB59) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Location:** PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** Luminous sphere/orb/globe hovers. Lower half dims. Speeds away. / hall r25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5003 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "345", **HatchDesc:** "PHOENIX,AZ:LUMINOUS ORB HVRS:LOWER HALF DIMS:SPEEDS AWAY:/HALL r25.", **LatLong:** "33.466668 -112.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:28:00 N 112:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.466668,-112.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12911 (23BB5CC0) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SAN BERNARDINO, CA **Description:** Teen photographs classic saucer over house. Shrinks / distance. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v2#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5004 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "SAN BERNARDINO,CA:TEEN FOTOS CLASSIC SCR ovr HOUSE:SHRINKS/DISTANCE:/FSR v2#4", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -117.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 117:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-117.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12912 (276B5230) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** BELLINGHAM, WA **Description:** 1 observer. House-size saucer cruises slowly then shoots away. Steady glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5005 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BELLINGHAM,WA:1 OBS:HOUSE-SIZE SCR CRUISES SLOWLY THEN SHOOTS AWAY:STEADY GLOW", **LatLong:** "48.766669 -122.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "48:46:00 N 122:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.766669,-122.483339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12913 (8A28575B) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Location:** Phoenix, AZ **Description:** Luminous round object hovered, sped away. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1948 ### Event 12914 (C52F31BE) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Location:** Hutchinson, KS **Description:** July 19, 1956; Hutchinson, Kansas, G,V; NAS Tracks UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560719](http://www.nicap.org/560719hutchinsondir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1949 ### Event 12915 (646E0696) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Location:** eastern Europe **Description:** President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) temporarily halts U-2 overflights above eastern Europe. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lockheed U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2\#%22Bomber%5Fgap%22%5Fdisproven)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2832 ### Event 12916 (A0657765) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Location:** Naval Air Station Hutchinson [now Hutchinson Air Force Station], Kansas **Description:** Naval Air Station Hutchinson \[now Hutchinson Air Force Station\], Kansas, reports tracking “a moving unidentified object” on radar, observed visually by state police as a “teardrop shaped” light source. Witnesses report “noticeable maneuvers of UFO vertically and horizontally over a wide area of the sky.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[NAS Tracks](http://www.nicap.org/560719hutchinsondir.htm) [UFO](http://www.nicap.org/560719hutchinsondir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2833 ### Event 12917 (5B04146E) **Date:** 7/19/1956 **Description:** At four o'clock in the morning at the Hutchinson Naval Air Station in Hutchinson, Kansas a teardrop-shaped UFO was tracked on radar and visually observed by State Police as it erratically moved about the sky. That afternoon in Panorama City, California three independent witnesses claimed to have seen three beings emerge from a sphere. They were two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long blond hair, and wore tight-fitting green uniforms. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Topeka (KS) Daily Capital, July 19, 1956; Hollywood (CA) Citizen-News, July 20, 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4195 ### Event 12918 (F8BD4297) **Date:** 7/20/1956 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** 1 observer. Brilliant light. Saucer with wires / edge. Wires rotate. Saucer spins. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 282) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5006 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "LONG BEACH,CA:1 OBS:BRILL.LITE:SCR W/WIRES/EDGE:WIRES ROTATE:SCR SPINS:>>E", **LatLong:** "33.800002 -118.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:48:00 N 118:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.800002,-118.200006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12919 (55499F45) **Date:** 7/20/1956 **Location:** Panorama City, California **Description:** Three witnesses independently claimed that they observed a huge, ballshaped object from which emerged three beings. They were nearly 2 m tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green suits. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Hanlon; Humanoids 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_384 ### Event 12920 (874FE3E8) **Date:** 7/20/1956 **Time:** 17:46:00.0 **Location:** 11.6739 165.3394 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Tewa” Yield: 5000KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_85 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6739 165.3394", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:26 N 165:20:22 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6739,165.3394)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Tewa", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "5000" ### Event 12921 (5BAEFB70) **Date:** 7/20/1956 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** In a lecture delivered at a meeting of [Clara John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john)’s Flying Saucer Discussion Group, author [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) declares that it is time for a new UFO organization. A consensus is reached that a Washington, D.C.–based agency should investigate UFOs, and [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown) offers to draft a preliminary proposal. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 792; “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2834 ### Event 12922 (063DD88A) **Date:** 7/20/1956 **Locations:** Panorama City; Los Angeles; California **Description:** Three witnesses in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, independently observe a huge, ball-shaped object from which emerge three beings. They are nearly 6 feet tall and have long, blond hair, and wear tight, green suits. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald B. Hanlon, “[Questions on the Occupants](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf),” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2835 ### Event 12923 (0C1C51E1) **Date:** 7/20/1956 **Description:** At three o'clock in the morning a brilliant light was seen in the sky over Long Beach, California. It appeared to be a saucer-shaped craft with wires around the edges. The wires seemed to be rotating while the disc flew eastward. At 4:30 a.m a photo was taken of a light seen east of Wichita, Kansas. There were several reports from this area, but most of them appear to be misidentifications of either Mars or Venus. Three witnesses in Panorama City, California independently claimed to have observed a huge, ball-shaped object from which three beings emerged. They were nearly two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green suits. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 82; Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 5; Project Blue Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 253 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4230 ### Event 12924 (5C71B1A5) **Date:** 7/21/1956 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** AUBURN, CA **Description:** 1+2. Silent 2M torpedo follows river. Emits fireballs going quickly [to] all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 285) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5007 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "383", **HatchDesc:** "AUBURN,CA:1+2:SLNT 2M TORPEDO FOLOS RIVER:EMITS FBLS >>ALL DIRECTIONS", **LatLong:** "34.005557 -118.311117", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:20 N 118:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.005557,-118.311117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12925 (36622D60) **Date:** 7/21/1956 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** ESCUINTLA, GUATEMALA **Description:** Cops and several. Luminous cigarette zigzags. 4 saucers whiz going quickly northwest. Low and fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 287) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5008 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guatemala", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "317", **HatchDesc:** "ESCUINTLA,GUATEMALA:COPS+SVRL:LUM.CIGARETTE ZIGZAGS:4 SCRS WHIZ >>NW:LO+FAST", **LatLong:** "14.266667 -90.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "14:16:00 N 90:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.266667,-90.783338)", **State/Prov:** "ESC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12926 (EE580A32) **Date:** 7/21/1956 **Time:** 18:16:00.1 **Location:** 11.6719 162.3692 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Huron” Yield: 250KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_86 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6719 162.3692", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:19 N 162:22:09 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6719,162.3692)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Huron", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "250" ### Event 12927 (5C3A1166) **Date:** 7/21/1956 **Description:** At 11:00 a.m. police in Escuintla, Guatemala sighted a luminous, cigarette-shaped object that zig-zagged silently through the sky. After that four disc-shaped objects whizzed by, low and fast, flying o the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4677; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 87 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4263 ### Event 12928 (D2B583BB) **Date:** 7/22/1956 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** WEST / BAKERSFIELD, CA **Description:** Oilmen and more. 6 disks going southwest. Plane damaged / shock. / r140#7p52+/ r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5009 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "W/BAKERSFIELD,CA:OILMEN+:6 DISKS >SW:PLANE DAMAGED/SHOCK:/r140#7p52+/r150", **LatLong:** "35.333335 -119.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:20:00 N 119:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.333335,-119.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12929 (F97D603C) **Date:** 7/22/1956 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** PIEDRA AND PIXLEY AND FRESNO, CA **Description:** Pilots and many. Wave. Several report(s) / Edwards Air Force Base. / APRO SEPT'56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5010 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "PIEDRA+PIXLEY+FRESNO,CA:PILOTS+MANY:WAVE:SVRL RPTs/EDWARDS AFB:/APRO SEPT'56", **LatLong:** "36.822224 -119.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:49:20 N 119:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.822224,-119.366672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12930 (BCAD72F8) **Date:** 7/22/1956 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** MOSQUITO RIDGE AND FORESTHILL, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Torpedo-shape emits small fireballs / rear / 1 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5011 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "990", **HatchDesc:** "MOSQUITO RIDGE+FORESTHILL,CA:2 OBS:TORPEDO-SHAPE EMITS SML FBLS/REAR/1min", **LatLong:** "39.038891 -120.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:02:20 N 120:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.038891,-120.666672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12931 (F666DE4F) **Date:** 7/22/1956 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** PIXLEY, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Air Force C131 hits saucer! Tail crushed. Crash landing. Big news. / r74p39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5012 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "83", **HatchDesc:** "PIXLEY,CA:BBK:AF C131 HITS SCR!:TAIL CRUSHED:CRASH LANDING:BIG NEWS:/r74p39", **LatLong:** "35.966668 -119.288895", **LatLongDMS:** "35:58:00 N 119:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.966668,-119.288895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12932 (EB0F4E16) **Date:** 7/22/1956 **Location:** Highway City, California **Description:** 5:30 a.m. Mrs. Ray Brown sees an egg-shaped object giving off a green-colored light from its rear end over Highway City, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 72 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2836 ### Event 12933 (17E0110E) **Date:** 7/22/1956 **Locations:** Pixley, California; Kern County Airport [now closed] in Lost Hills **Description:** 11:00 a.m. USAF Maj. [Merwin Stenvers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1220372/merwin-mauritz-stenvers) is flying at 16,000 feet over Pixley, California, in a Convair C-131D and is suddenly staggered and knocked to the right by a terrific blow. He makes an emergency landing at Kern County Airport \[now closed\] in Lost Hills. An examination shows that more than half of the left elevator control surface is gone or smashed, leading to speculation that the airplane had been hit by something. However, an accident investigation team finds that a series of rivets had popped, jamming a rod that controls the elevator servotab and causing the elevator to get stuck. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Plane’s Dive Is Laid to Control Device Failure,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100119663/)” Fresno \(Calif.\) Bee, July 25, 1956, p. 4-B; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 71–73; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 39–40](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/38/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2837 ### Event 12934 (73725ECA) **Date:** 7/22/1956 **Description:** A married couple named McMullins driving between Bakersfield and Pixley, California reporeted seeing a bluish green light at 5:30 a.m. that appeared to be burning as it flew rapidly toward the west. It exploded in the air and fell in two pieces. At the same time a Mrs. Brown, driving near Highway City between Fresno and Pixley, California saw an egg-shaped object that flew south, emitting a green light like a flame from the back. It made no sound when it exploded in the air and crashed to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, citing Californian, July 23, 1956; (2) Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 1; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 71 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4295 ### Event 12935 (AA6AF853) **Date:** 7/23/1956 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** ALPENA, MICH **Description:** Civil observer(s) / car. Tub-shape saucer / holes / edge. Circles in and out / clouds / 7 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 291) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5013 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "202", **HatchDesc:** "ALPENA,MICH:CIV OBS/CAR:TUB-SHAPE SCR/HOLES/EDGE:CIRCLES IN+OUT/CLOUDS/7min:", **LatLong:** "45.061113 -83.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:03:40 N 83:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.061113,-83.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12936 (2F7FD030) **Date:** 7/23/1956 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** ENGLAND, ARK **Description:** 2+observer(s). Star Spica changes shapes. Hovers and moves / 100mph. Smoke trail. / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 292) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5014 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "ENGLAND,ARK:2+OBS:STAR SPICA CHANGES SHAPES:HVRS+MOVES/100mph:SMOKE TRAIL:/BBK", **LatLong:** "34.544446 -91.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:32:40 N 91:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.544446,-91.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12937 (C0D359BB) **Date:** 7/23/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SPRINGFIELD, MASS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Yellow orbs zip and hover. Dart away when jets pass. / Stringfield. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5015 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGFIELD,MASS:2 OBS:YEL ORBS ZIP+HVR:DART AWAY WHEN JETS PASS:/STRINGFIELD", **LatLong:** "42.105558 -72.588892", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:20 N 72:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.105558,-72.588892)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12938 (06BA931B) **Date:** 7/23/1956 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** INVERCARGILL, NZ **Description:** 5 observer(s). Domed saucer below cloud cover. Going north slow then speeds to clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 752) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5016 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "INVERCARGILL,NZ:5 OBS:DOMED SCR BLW CLOUD COVER:>N SLOW then SPEEDS TO CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "-46.400002 168.416675", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:00 S 168:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.400002,168.416675)", **State/Prov:** "XXX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12939 (F8657861) **Date:** 7/23/1956 **Description:** Springfield, Massachusetts - Ms. Virginia Maratea and her sister were sitting on the back porch of her sister's home in the evening, facing west, when suddenly a glowing red object came into view. The object was shaped like a barbell, with two bulbous spheres on each end connected by an amorphous bar. The ends scintillated and were a fiery red, while the part in the center was dimly visible. She estimated the size as that of a large bomber at high altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Thomas Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 48 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4320 ### Event 12940 (CA952CFB) **Date:** 7/24/1956 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** WALNUT GROVE, CA **Description:** Judge. Flying cornucopia going quickly ESE low and fast toward(s) Lodi. Nothing / RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5017 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "WALNUT GROVE,CA:JUDGE:FLYING CORNUCOPIA >>ESE LO+FAST twrd LODI:NOTHING/RDR", **LatLong:** "38.244446 -121.511117", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:40 N 121:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.244446,-121.511117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12941 (36FE09C3) **Date:** 7/24/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SINGAPORE **Description:** Doctor. Oval blue night lights hover and dart like fish in tank / 10 minutes. Vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 755) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5018 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SINGAPORE:DOCTOR:OVAL BLUE NLTS HVR+DART LIKE FISH IN TANK/10mins:VANISH", **LatLong:** "1.283333 103.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "01:17:00 N 103:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.283333,103.866672)", **State/Prov:** "SNG", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12942 (640C8D76) **Date:** Late 7/1956 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Los Alamitos [now Joint Forces Training Base–Los Alamitos], California; US; Hawaii **Description:** A group of US Navy pilots based at Naval Air Station Los Alamitos \[now Joint Forces Training Base–Los Alamitos\], California, tell news reporters from Orange County News Service that they have orders to shoot down any UFOs that seem hostile. The pilots say this is a standard command issued to pilots on the US to Hawaii run. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unanswered Questions: No. 4, Have UFOs Been Fired Upon?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CJan-Feb%2CV%203%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1957\): 18–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2838 ### Event 12943 (14658292) **Date:** 7/26/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** RIO DJ HARBOR, BRZ **Description:** USS Roosevelt. Many / RADAR-visual. Fireball passes / top saucer going down [to] bottom saucer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 295) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5019 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "RIO DJ HARBOR,BRZ:USS ROOSEVELT:MANY/RDR-VISUAL:FBL PASSES/TOP SCR↓BOTTOM SCR", **LatLong:** "-22.966668 -43.133335", **LatLongDMS:** "22:58:00 S 43:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.966668,-43.133335)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12944 (444A8D92) **Date:** 7/26/1956 **Location:** Rio de Janeiro (USS FDR), Brazil **Description:** Huge Cigar Observed & Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560726](http://www.nicap.org/560726acc%5Ffdr%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1950 ### Event 12945 (D63D6765) **Date:** 7/26/1956 **Location:** Atlantic 43.12N 49.30W, At Sea **Description:** DC-7 Encounters Object Over Atlantic (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560726](http://www.nicap.org/560726atlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1951 ### Event 12946 (58FE5E64) **Date:** 7/26/1956 **Location:** Rio de Janeiro, Brazil **Description:** Two disc-shaped objects are suspended in mid-air, one above the other, over the aircraft carrier [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [Franklin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) as it is berthed in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are 75–100 feet in diameter and have two rows of counter-rotating lights. The upper one releases a ball of fire that drops into the top of the lower one. Within seconds they vanish with tremendous speed. One of the witnesses is Petty Officer 3rd Class \(OI\) [Leon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168572511/leon-alton-treadwell) [Treadwell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168572511/leon-alton-treadwell)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168572511/leon-alton-treadwell) who signs papers agreeing he will tell no one for 20 years. Chief Warrant Officer John C. Hau reports that the ship’s radar tracked a cigar-shaped object the day before or after. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 231](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/230/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2839 ### Event 12947 (176ADD68) **Date:** 7/26/1956 **Locations:** Kilburn Estate; District 21; King Albert Park; Singapore **Description:** 8:20 p.m. Physician J. L. Bennet and his wife watch two spinning, powder-blue lights for 10 minutes outside his home in Kilburn Estate, in District 21 near King Albert Park, Singapore. They dart about the sky “like fish in a tank,” come together, hover, and separate at great speed, disappearing from sight. He manages to take several photos, one of which shows two objects, one a nearly perfect oval, the other blurred. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 73 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2840 ### Event 12948 (F193863E) **Date:** 7/28/1956 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** HARTFORD, CT **Description:** 2 amateur astronomers / (seen thru) telescope. Domed saucer / low altitude. Meriden, CT Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) / 14 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 295) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5020 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "13", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "HARTFORD,CT:2 AM.ASTRONOMERS/TSCOPE:DOMED SCR/LO alt::MERIDEN,CT GOC OBS/14min", **LatLong:** "41.783335 -72.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:47:00 N 72:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.783335,-72.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12949 (5B37DB83) **Date:** 7/28/1956 **Location:** Brentwood, California **Description:** 9:55 p.m. Seven witnesses in Brentwood, California, see a sparkling green light flash through the sky and seemingly land in an orchard. Television reception is briefly interrupted. Sheriff’s deputies and reserve officers search a square-mile area for 3 hours but find nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mystery Light Falls in Contra Costa Co.,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99720171/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, July 29, 1956, p. 1; “[Saucer Sightings Mount As Mars Swings Close,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20III%201956-57R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 3, no. 6 \(September 7, 1956\): 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2841 ### Event 12950 (16BC1EB5) **Date:** 7/28/1956 **Description:** A green flash was seen in the sky over Brentwood, California and something crashed in an orchard there. When the unknown object passed over witnesses reported TV interference. The object gave off green sparks. Traces found in the orchard reportedly included a light metal and cardboard impregnated with "unknown substances." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 6; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, September 1956, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4451 ### Event 12951 (497E1748) **Date:** 7/29/1956 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** PASADENA, CA **Description:** Separate Ground Observer Corps (GOC) posts and Air Defense Command RADAR. White night light hovers and speeds about. Going quickly northeast. / r140#2p98. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5021 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "265", **HatchDesc:** "PASADENA,CA:SEP.GOC POSTS+ADC RDR:WHT NLT HVRS+SPEEDS ABOUT:>>NE:/r140#2p98", **LatLong:** "34.150002 -118.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:00 N 118:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.150002,-118.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12952 (3730B4E9) **Date:** 7/29/1956 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** SAN BERNARDINO, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Night light faster / jet. Stops and continues. Pasadena RADAR confirm. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 298) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5022 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "SAN BERNARDINO,CA:SVRL OBS:NLT FASTER/JET:STOPS+CONTINUES:PASADENA RDR CONFIRM", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -117.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 117:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-117.300006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12953 (176714D2) **Date:** 7/29/1956 **Location:** Pasedena, CA **Description:** July 29, 1956; Pasadena, California, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560729](http://www.nicap.org/pasadena560729dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1952 ### Event 12954 (D039C023) **Date:** 7/30/1956 **Location:** UTICA, NY **Description:** 22M mystery-ball going up and down / clouds / 15 minute(s). Hovers. Hides from planes. Very fast. / r148p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5023 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "UTICA,NY:22M MYSTERY-BALL ↑+↓/CLOUDS/15min:HVRS:HIDES fm PLANES:VFAST:/r148p20", **LatLong:** "43.100002 -75.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:00 N 75:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.100002,-75.233337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12955 (4A5B5E55) **Date:** 7/30/1956 **Location:** RIALTO, CA **Description:** Civil observer(s). Bright yellow object = dime / arms length. Violent maneuvers / 2-5 minute(s). Turns red. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5024 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "378", **HatchDesc:** "RIALTO,CA:CIV OBS:BRITE YEL.OBJ=DIME/ARMS LENGTH:VIOLNT MNVRS/2-5min:TURNS RED", **LatLong:** "34.105557 -117.372228", **LatLongDMS:** "34:06:20 N 117:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.105557,-117.372228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12956 (5A21A40B) **Date:** 7/30/1956 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** SAGINAW, MI AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and cops and many. Very fast luminous/glowing 4M object / 150M altitude. Colored lights. / r140#2p98. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5025 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "179", **HatchDesc:** "SAGINAW,MI++:GOC+COPS+MANY:VFAST LUMn 4M OBJ/150M alt:CLRD LITES:/r140#2p98", **LatLong:** "43.416669 -84.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:25:00 N 84:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.416669,-84.016671)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12957 (7CE4A711) **Date:** 7/31/1956 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** SOUTH / SALEM, OR **Description:** 3 small round metallic objects going north / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. Odd hopping trajectory. Lost in the distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 734) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5026 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "56", **HatchDesc:** "S/SALEM,OR:3 SMALL RND MTLC OBJS >N/DLT FORMn:ODD HOPPING TRAJ:LOST/DISTANCE", **LatLong:** "44.783335 -123.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:47:00 N 123:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.783335,-123.033339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12958 (597BB632) **Date:** 8/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** 300KM OFF BAJA CALIFORNIA **Description:** 12M blot / light. Hovers and violent maneuvers. Studies fishing boat? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 757) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5027 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "300km off BAJA CALIF:12M BLOT/LITE:HVRS+VIOLENT MNVRS:STUDIES FISHING BOAT?", **LatLong:** "31.000001 -120.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "31:00:00 N 120:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.000001,-120.000006)", **State/Prov:** "MEX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12959 (44F5D26E) **Date:** 8/1956 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** LONDON, ONT **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 4 silver disks wander all over/all about. Join / diamond formation. Going northwest horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5028 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON,ONT:NMRS OBS:4 SLVR DISKS WANDER ALLO:JOIN/DIAMOND FORMn:>NW HORIZON", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -81.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 81:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-81.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12960 (1C5B8FC4) **Date:** 8/1956 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** Bright silent orange umbrella top / 30M altitude. Paces fast car. Up and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 801) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5029 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:BRITE SLNT ORG UMBRELLA TOP/30M alt:PACES FAST CAR:UP+AWAY:", **LatLong:** "45.533336 -122.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:32:00 N 122:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.533336,-122.666673)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12961 (992D1061) **Date:** 8/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, AK **Description:** Several / USAF. Bright object hovers / 9 km altitude. Quickly going up [to] to 24km! RADAR. 6400kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: New York MUFON. Larry Clark dir. http://www.nymufon.org. Report NY sightings here! **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5030 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.LAWRENCE Isl,AK:SVRL/USAF:BRITE OBJ HVRS/9 km alt:↑↑ to 24km!:RDR:6400kph", **LatLong:** "63.250003 -168.800008", **LatLongDMS:** "63:15:00 N 168:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.250003,-168.800008)", **RelAlt:** "9000", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12962 (2ED3341E) **Date:** 8/1956 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** GRANJA DE TORRHERMOSA, SP **Description:** 30 observer(s). Cone with 3 figure(s) with antennas / inside. Going quickly east. / LDLN#123. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5031 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "GRANJA DE TORRHERMOSA,SP:30 OBS:CONE W/3 FIGS W/ANTENNAS/INSIDE:>>E:/LDLN#123", **LatLong:** "38.305557 -5.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:18:20 N 05:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.305557,-5.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Badajoz", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12963 (69A80C2B) **Date:** 8/1956 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** SAN LUIS, AZ **Description:** Saucer follows Air Force bomber. Stops and blows smoke. 2nd saucer joins. Helps 1st away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5032 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "39", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LUIS,AZ:SCR FOLOS AF BOMBER:STOPS+BLOWS SMOKE:2nd SCR JOINS:helps 1st away", **LatLong:** "32.500002 -114.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:30:00 N 114:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.500002,-114.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12964 (8ADF4721) **Date:** 8/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NEAR NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NV **Description:** Pilot / car / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 100' domed saucer / 3 circular "landing gear". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5033 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "570", **HatchDesc:** "nr NELLIS AFB,NV:PILOT/CAR/EMEs:100' DOMED SCR/3 CIRCULAR "LANDING GEAR"", **LatLong:** "36.250002 -115.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:15:00 N 115:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.250002,-115.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12965 (2C63714C) **Date:** 8/1956 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** SOUTH / AMERICUS, GA **Description:** Scientist/science and 1 / (seen thru) telescope. 12M saucer nears. 2 night lights join. Going quickly southwest. / r210v30#7+/ MJ#280. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 803) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5034 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "S/AMERICUS,GA:Sci+1/TSCOPE:12M SCR NEARS:2 NLTS JOIN:>>SW:/r210v30#7+/MJ#280", **LatLong:** "32.027779 -84.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:01:40 N 84:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.027779,-84.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12966 (FB80C3C2) **Date:** 8/1956 **Location:** Bornholm Island, Den **Description:** August-September 1956; Bornholm Island, Denmark, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1953 ### Event 12967 (DA87BC2E) **Date:** 8/1956 **Location:** Boulder City, NV **Description:** Research technician observed formation of five flat, circular UFOs. (UFOE, VI) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1954 ### Event 12968 (114B2AB3) **Date:** 8/1956 **Description:** FBI Director [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) launches COINTELPRO \(counter-intelligence programs\). These are employed against American dissidents and their organizations; the first one targets the American Communist Party. Typical methods are anonymous or fictitious letters, false defamatory or threatening information, forged signatures, and other disinformation. The FBI blackmails insiders to spread false rumors or promote factionalism. It creates bogus organizations to attack or disrupt a bona fide group, and instigates hostile actions through third parties, such as employers, elected officials, and the media. It enables the FBI to investigate any political organization on the pretext of checking for Communists, including the NAACP, women’s rights groups, and gay rights groups. These programs prompt nearly 330,000 FBI investigations and create a Security Index of over 200,000 dangerous Americans to be detained in the event of war. Documents relating to these programs are marked “Do not file,” offering no clues that they exist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2842 ### Event 12969 (986E41C4) **Date:** 8/1956 **Description:** [John P. Cahn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27512833/john-p%5F-cahn) publishes a second article in True on the [Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucer Swindlers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1956%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FJ%20P%20Cahn.pdf)” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2843 ### Event 12970 (D8192506) **Date:** 8/1956 **Location:** London, England **Description:** [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/) forms the Aetherius Society in London, England, as the result of what King claims are contacts with extraterrestrial intelligences, whom he refers to as “Cosmic Masters.” The main goal of the believer is to cooperate with these Cosmic Masters to help humanity solve its current earthly problems and advance into the New Age. Life on other planets is described as free from war, hatred, disease, want, and ignorance. According to King, the civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria both vanished during an atomic war. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Aetherius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetherius%5FSociety) [Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetherius%5FSociety)”; Clark III 52–53; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [pp. 62–69](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/62/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2844 ### Event 12971 (784266F8) **Date:** 8/1956 **Location:** Newark, Ohio **Description:** Late night. Two young men are camping near Newark, Ohio, when they see five bright lights in a rigid V- formation. They fly in erratic, sharp-turning patterns for about 5 minutes, including sharp 30° turns. One man takes a photo. They report the sighting to the newspapers and the Air Force, but a USAF officer confiscate both the print and the negatives; the newspaper’s copies are also taken. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2845 ### Event 12972 (85C8236B) **Date:** 8/1/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** MUSKEGON, MI **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver dinner-plate size disk circles house several X. Bright yellow rim. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 802) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5035 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "MUSKEGON,MI:2 OBS:SLVR DINNER-PLATE SIZE DISK CCLS HOUSE SVRL X:BRITE YLW RIM", **LatLong:** "43.216669 -86.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:13:00 N 86:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.216669,-86.250004)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12973 (3EC1C054) **Date:** 8/1/1956? **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EAST / EL PASO, TX **Description:** T33 pilot. Glowing-ovoid ahead / 2 minute(s). Size = 6° / arc. Fades / 2 second(s). / APRO Sep. '56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: HAINES, Dr. Richard F.: Unpublished aircraft sightings files. (El Paso, TX 1956 pg 96.) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5036 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1400", **HatchDesc:** "E/EL PASO,TX:T33 PILOT:GLO-OVOID AHEAD/2min:SIZE=6°/ARC:FADES/2sec:/APRO SEP56", **LatLong:** "31.883335 -105.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:53:00 N 105:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.883335,-105.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 12974 (C8611C02) **Date:** 8/2/1956 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** 10 MI EAST / AMARILLO, TX **Description:** Ex-bomber pilot and more/others. Diamond-UFO. Photograph = squiggly trail. / r140#3p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5037 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "135", **Elev:** "1120", **HatchDesc:** "10mi E/AMARILLO,TX:EX-BOMBER PILOT++:DIAMOND-UFO:FOTO=SQUIGGLY TRAIL:/r140#3p7", **LatLong:** "35.233335 -101.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:14:00 N 101:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.233335,-101.650005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 12975 (11BF98F6) **Date:** 8/3/1956 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 6 round pea-size UFO's / triangular formation. Blue Book evaluates = meteors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5038 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:6 ROUND PEA-SIZE UFOS/TRIANGULAR FORMATION:BBK EVALUATES=METEORS", **LatLong:** "39.716669 -104.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:43:00 N 104:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.716669,-104.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12976 (E9288B47) **Date:** 8/3/1956 **Description:** A press leak from the Air Force Association reveals that proposals for two types of UFO-detecting satellites are under development. A television subsystem is cancelled as impractical, but an infrared subsystem requires much lower data transmission rates. Lockheed has signed an Air Force contract. The CIA’s [Richard M. Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) later reveals that the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Deputy Director Gen. [Philip G. Strong](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/25/archives/gen-philip-strong-expert-on-u2-dies.html) has been pushing the Air Force to develop an infrared tracking satellite. The infrared system actually begins as planned in 1968, with initial operational status in 1970. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 813, 1032 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2846 ### Event 12977 (A5E06642) **Date:** 8/4/1956 **Location:** Copenhagen, Den **Description:** September 4, 1956; Copenhagen, Denmark, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1955 ### Event 12978 (38363231) **Date:** 8/6/1956 **Location:** ROSEBURG, OR **Description:** Odd night lights circle TV tower. Change color(s) red to/from/between green. Many reports / police. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5039 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "ROSEBURG,OR:ODD NLTS CIRCLE TV TOWER:CHANGE CLRS RED<>GRN:MANY REPTS/POLICE", **LatLong:** "43.216669 -123.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:13:00 N 123:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.216669,-123.333339)", **RelAlt:** "200", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12979 (01CE3FD9) **Date:** 8/6/1956 **Location:** SO.NEPAL **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Bright sun-size disk changes color(s) red and white. Going [to] clouds. / r140#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5040 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Himalayan states", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "So.NEPAL:1000s/OBS:BRITE SUN-SIZE DISK CHANGES CLRS RED+WHT:> CLOUDS:/r140#3", **LatLong:** "26.933335 87.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "26:56:00 N 87:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.933335,87.333337)", **State/Prov:** "NPL", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12980 (B45B3613) **Date:** 8/6/1956 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** LA JOLLA, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Large silver saucer crosses jets' contrails. Makes 90° turn going quickly north extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5041 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "LA JOLLA,CA:BBK:LRG SLVR SCR CROSSES JETS' CONTRAILS:MAKES 90°TURN >>N XFAST", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -117.372228", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 117:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-117.372228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12981 (90BBE2C4) **Date:** 8/6/1956 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** SSE / PITTSBURG, CA **Description:** 3 teens / (seen thru) binoculars. Circular object glows and maneuvers. Sudden stop. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 806) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5042 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "SSE/PITTSBURG,CA:3 TEENS/BINOCS:CIRC.OBJ GLOWS+MNVRS:SUDDEN STOP:>>SE", **LatLong:** "37.916668 -121.855561", **LatLongDMS:** "37:55:00 N 121:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.916668,-121.855561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12982 (DAB064AF) **Date:** 8/6/1956 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** 1 observer. Silent red night light going north. 90-turn. Stops. Rises 700'. Hovers. Drops. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5043 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:1 OBS:SILENT RED NLT >N:90-TURN:STOPS:RISES 700':HVRS:DROPS:>N", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -118.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 118:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-118.233339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12983 (6E6A5244) **Date:** 8/8/1956 **Location:** DURANGO, CO **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). "Dented football" glows. Swings. Blows steam. Shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5044 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "1988", **HatchDesc:** "DURANGO,CO:2 SEP.OBS:"DENTED FOOTBALL" GLOWS:SWINGS:BLOWS STEAM:SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "37.283335 -107.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:17:00 N 107:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.283335,-107.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12984 (FFE1BC90) **Date:** 8/8/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** EAST HARTFORD, CT **Description:** Several observer(s). 5 pink-glowing saucers going north and northeast and going south. Silver cylinder/cigar-shape seen / 2000hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5045 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "E.HARTFORD,CT:SVRL OBS:5 PINK-GLO SCRS > N+NE + >S:SLVR CGR SEEN/2000hrs", **LatLong:** "41.766669 -72.611115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:46:00 N 72:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.766669,-72.611115)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12985 (EE2AC08A) **Date:** 8/8/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** PERTHUS, FR **Description:** Odd delta/triangle/box-like craft / mountainside. 20M WIDEx80M tall. Vanishes. Night lights seen over mountain after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5046 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PERTHUS,FR:ODD DLT/MTNSIDE:20M WIDEx80M TALL:VANISHES:NLTS SEEN OVR MTN AFTER", **LatLong:** "42.477780 2.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:28:40 N 02:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.477780,2.850000)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12986 (7723488C) **Date:** 8/8/1956 **Location:** Quartsite (20 miles south of), AZ **Description:** Blue-white pulsating light fly fast straight and level (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 4270) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1956 ### Event 12987 (E3FB8623) **Date:** 8/8/1956 **End date:** 8/19/1956 **Location:** Various Cities, CT **Description:** Concentration of sightings over 12-day period. Retired fire department engineer in Hartford saw an oblong UFO with halo (August 8); an egg-shaped UFO was seen over West Redding (August 11); unidentified white lights reported over West Hartford by Ground Observer Corps (August 14) (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1957 ### Event 12988 (88B4EB60) **Date:** 8/8/1956 **Time:** 11 PM **Location:** 20 miles south of Quartsite, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: attorneys W.B. Buttermore and J.W. Smith. One blue-white pulsating light flew fast, straight and level, for 5-7 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_403 ### Event 12989 (C97AD699) **Date:** 8/9/1956 **Location:** NDOLA AND KITWE AND CHINGOLA AND MORE/OTHERS, ZAMBIA **Description:** Bright pulsing saucer all over/all about copper belt. / r140 #3p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5047 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "NDOLA+KITWE+CHINGOLA++,ZAMBIA:BRITE PULSING SCR ALLO COPPER BELT:/r140 #3p22", **LatLong:** "-12.966667 28.583335", **LatLongDMS:** "12:58:00 S 28:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.966667,28.583335)", **State/Prov:** "ZAM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12990 (C4D45648) **Date:** 8/9/1956 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** TARRYTOWN, NY **Description:** 3 cops and 1. Night light 8X brighter / any star. Moves going quickly southeast / series of jerks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5048 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TARRYTOWN,NY:3 COPS+1:NLT 8X BRIGHTER/ANY STAR:MOVES >>SE/SERIES OF JERKS", **LatLong:** "41.077780 -73.861115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:04:40 N 73:51:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.077780,-73.861115)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 12991 (5213B178) **Date:** 8/10/1956 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** GRAND MERE, QBC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer easily seen / 3K' altitude. Stops / 20 second(s). Shoots going quickly north. / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 323) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5049 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "68", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND MERE,QBC:2 OBS:SCR EASILY SEEN/3K'alt:STOPS/20sec:SHOOTS>>N:/BBK", **LatLong:** "46.600002 -72.716670", **LatLongDMS:** "46:36:00 N 72:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.600002,-72.716670)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12992 (6C9C5900) **Date:** 8/10/1956 **End date:** 8/11/1956 **Location:** Dallas (near Duncanville AFS, TX **Description:** McConnell. (Jan Aldrich; McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Radar / Visual With CPS6B (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560810-11](http://www.nicap.org/560810duncanville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1958 ### Event 12993 (5652D0D6) **Date:** 8/11/1956 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** PITTSBURGH, PA **Description:** Bright steel-grey saucer hovers / 2 hours and more. Disappears going quickly west. / newspaper account. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5050 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "PITTSBURGH,PA:BRITE STEEL-GREY SCR HVRS/2hrs+:DISAPPEARS>>W:/NEWSPAPER ACCT", **LatLong:** "40.450002 -80.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:27:00 N 80:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.450002,-80.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12994 (299DCC60) **Date:** 8/11/1956 **Description:** A photograph of a UFO shaped like a dome was taken on this evening in Mo, Norway. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), page 44, case # 115, citing Oslo Nation, September 21, 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4862 ### Event 12995 (AE17EC27) **Date:** 8/11/1956 **Description:** A woman by the name of Stauffer reported to the local newspaper that at around 9:00 a.m. a bright steel-gray, saucer-shaped object hovered over the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for two hours, and then disappeared by flying off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, 19560903; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: August, p. 26 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4863 ### Event 12996 (6DA29BFF) **Date:** 8/12/1956 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** EAST / DANVILLE, IL **Description:** Blue Book. Civil observer(s) = Nicoson. Large red saucer. Intense beam going down. Hovers / 30 minute(s). Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 327) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5051 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "E/DANVILLE,IL:BBK:CIV OBS=NICOSON:LRG RED SCR:INTENSE BEAM ↓:HVRS/30min:>>W", **LatLong:** "40.122224 -87.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:20 N 87:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.122224,-87.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12997 (11C0AE06) **Date:** 8/12/1956 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer outlined / white lights. Going east. Very big. Hovers. Going quickly west. / r140#8p8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5052 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:2 OBS:SCR OUTLINED/WHT LITES:> E:VERY BIG:HVRS:>>W:/r140#8p8", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -104.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 104:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-104.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 12998 (2887765E) **Date:** 8/12/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** PARKERSBURG, WV AND BELPRE AND VIENNA AND MORE **Description:** 3+observer(s). Saucer-sphere/orb/globe in weird darting maneuvers. Exits going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5053 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "198", **HatchDesc:** "PARKERSBURG,WV+BELPRE+VIENNA+:3+OBS:SCR-ORB in WEIRD DARTING MNVRS:EXITS>>E", **LatLong:** "39.233335 -81.561115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:14:00 N 81:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.233335,-81.561115)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 12999 (FB322A82) **Date:** 8/12/1956 **Description:** A Mrs. McCaffrey and her daughter saw an oval disc-shaped object blazing with white lights over Denver, Colorado at around three o'clock in the morning. The object moved to the east, then hovered several minutes, and finally flew off to the west. The edges of the object were clearly defined. The sighting lasted several minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Rocky Mountain News, August 13, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 3; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4936 ### Event 13000 (CF00EDD6) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** ECCLES, ENG **Description:** Silent red 45M domed saucer hovers very low / Barton power station/depot/facility / 15 second(s). Going quickly [to] east-northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 831) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5054 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "ECCLES,ENG:SLNT RED 45M DOMED SCR HVRS VLO/BARTON PWR STN/15sec:>>ENE", **LatLong:** "53.483336 -2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:29:00 N 02:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.483336,-2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13001 (E6649157) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** HERMANSVILLE, MI **Description:** Blue Book. Observer(s) = jetty. Silver-metallic 6m saucer with flat bottom. Seen / 20 second(s). Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5055 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "HERMANSVILLE,MI:BBK:OBS=JETTY:SLVR-MTLC 6m SCR w/FLAT BOTTOM:SEEN/20sec:>>S ", **LatLong:** "45.711113 -87.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:42:40 N 87:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.711113,-87.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13002 (CCFC57DC) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** BENTWATERS AB, ENG **Description:** 3 groups / unidentified blips going quickly [to] WNW. Speeds to 6000mph. / r193#39+/ r24v4#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 194) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5056 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "BENTWATERS AB,ENG:3 GRPS/UID BLIPS >>WNW:SPEEDS to 6000mph:/r193#39+/r24v4#9", **LatLong:** "52.100002 1.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:06:00 N 01:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.100002,1.400000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13003 (EBED9A59) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** LAKENHEATH AB, ENGL **Description:** 4 RADAR's and pilots and Air Traffic Controllers. Jets chase. Photos? Going east / 500mph. MJ#280 and more/others. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 809) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5057 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "LAKENHEATH AB,ENGL:4 RDRS+PILOTS+ATCS:JETS CHASE:PHOTOS?:>E/500mph:MJ#280++", **LatLong:** "52.400002 0.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:24:00 N 00:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.400002,0.550000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13004 (8CCD5C6C) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **Location:** Lakenheath AFB, Bentwaters, UK **Description:** August 13, 1956; Eastern England, G,V,A (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560813](http://www.nicap.org/560813bentwaters%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1959 ### Event 13005 (8AFB88F8) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **Location:** Lakenheath AFB, Bentwaters, UK **Description:** Aug 13, 1956; Lakenheath AFB, Bentwaters, England RV (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560813](http://www.nicap.org/560813bentwaters%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1960 ### Event 13006 (3E9833DD) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **End date:** 8/14/1956 **Locations:** RAF Bentwaters; Bentwaters Parks; Suffolk, England; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Neatishead; Norfolk; RAF Waterbeach; Cambridgeshire; Whitehall; Colorado project; Ent AFB **Description:** 9:30 p.m. A radar-visual UFO sighting begins at RAF Bentwaters \[now Bentwaters Parks\], Suffolk, England. A blip traveling approximately 4,000–8,000 mph on an east-west course is picked up on radar. It moves in a straight line to a position about 15 miles northwest of Bentwaters. Within a few minutes, about a dozen normal targets are spotted 8 miles southwest, moving northeast at about 100 mph. In front of the targets are three objects in a triangular formation, about 1,000 feet apart. All the targets then appear to converge into one extremely large target \(several times the size of a B-36\), which continues moving to the northeast, then stops for a few minutes, then resumes, and is lost to radar. The entire sighting up to this point takes 25 minutes. Five minutes later, another solid target appears, flying east to west at 4,000 mph or more, then vanishes when it moves out of range. A T-33 trainer from the 512th Fighter Interceptor Squadron crewed by 1st Lts. Charles Metz and Andrew Rowe is sent to investigate the radar contacts, but sees nothing. No visual sightings of the objects are made from Bentwaters in this period, with the exception of a single amber star-like object which was subsequently identified as probably being Mars. At 10:55 p.m., another target is picked up 30 miles to the east, traveling west at 2,000–4,000 mph. It passes directly overhead and is seen as a white light by both air \(a C-47 at 4,000 feet reports it passed underneath him\) and ground observers. Bentwaters notifies RAF Lakenheath, also in Suffolk, about what is going on, and Lakenheath personnel see a luminous object stop, then zoom off to the east. Also, two white lights are seen joining from different directions, which are tracked on two screens at Lakenheath. According to T/Sgt. Forrest Perkins, watch supervisor at the Lakenheath radar center, at midnight Lakenheath notifies RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, that a strange object is buzzing the base. A de Havilland Venom night fighter is scrambled, directed by Neatishead radar controller Flight Lt. Freddie H. C. Wimbledon. Perkins and Wimbledon claim the jets are sent up around midnight, but the crews think it is at 2:00 a.m. The Venom, crewed by Flight Officers David Chambers and John Brady from 23 Squadron at RAF Waterbeach \[now closed\] in Cambridgeshire, finds the object on radar north of Cambridge and sees it as a bright white light, which then disappears. The navigator says it is the “clearest target I have ever seen on radar.” The object, however, is behind the plane and stays there for some time, despite climbs, dives, and circling. Ground radar operators say that the object is glued right behind the fighter. After 10 minutes, the fighter heads back. The UFO follows briefly, then stops and hovers. Another Venom, crewed by Flight Officers Ian Fraser-Ker and Ivan Logan, is scrambled at 2:40 a.m. but experiences engine problems and aborts. Ministry of Defence officer Ralph Noyes says that one of the Venom pilots has taken a gun-camera film, which was later shown at a briefing in Whitehall. The object is tracked on two radars, leaving the area at 600 mph. The encounter is classified until 1969, when it is analyzed by the Colorado project. [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) suggests that the “apparently rational, intelligent behavior of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable explanation of this sighting.” A later investigation is conducted by [David Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) [Andy Roberts](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/bioar.htm)[,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/bioar.htm) and [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) In contrast to the reports given in the original classified teleprinter message \(from 3910th Air Base Group to ADC at Ent AFB, now the US Olympic Training Center\) three days after the event and in the accounts of both Wimbledon and Perkins, the air crews now state that the radar contacts were unimpressive and that no “tail-chase” or action on the part of the target occurred. They also assert no visual contacts were made. Chambers and Brady comment that “my feeling is that there was nothing there, it was some sort of mistake,” while Ivan Logan, the second Venom’s navigator, states that “all we saw was a blip which rather indicated a stationary target.” At the time 23 Squadron decides that the radar contact had, if anything, been with a weather balloon. [Martin Shough](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) concludes that there are actually several incidents at different times and places and that the relationship between each is unclear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakenheath-Bentwaters%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Several Incidents of R/V at Bentwaters](http://www.nicap.org/560813bentwaters%5Fdir.htm)”; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents 1](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVar.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVar.pdf) [case documents 2](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVbr.pdf), [case documents 3](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVcr.pdf)\]; Condon, [pp. 163–164](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/162/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/162/mode/2up) [248–256](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/162/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[UFOs over Lakenheath in 1956,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1970\): 9–17, 29; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 91](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/90/mode/2up); RAF Fighter Controller \(Rtd.\), “[UFOs over](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20vol%2024%20no1.pdf) [Lakenheath,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20vol%2024%20no1.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 1 \(June 1978\): 31; Ian Ridpath, “New Light on Lakenheath,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 6–7; Martin L. Shough, “[Background & History](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/background.htm)”; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 219–226; Clark III 665–670; Good Above, [pp. 44–46](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/44/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 238; Ivan Logan, \[[Letter to Dave Clarke](http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/logan3.htm)\], October 23, 2000; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 64–66](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/64/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 66–69](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n111/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2847 ### Event 13007 (6F186D7C) **Date:** 8/13/1956 **Description:** At Bentwaters RAF Base in Suffolk, England radar returns at 9:20 p.m. showed a large unidentified craft moving in excess of 4,000 mph. The crew of a C-47 confirmed a visual sighting of a blur of light moving at high speeds. Both air and ground radars confirm fantastic maneuvers were performed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** James E. McDonald, FSR, March 1970, p. 10; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 86; Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 242; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4962 ### Event 13008 (41A6C986) **Date:** 8/14/1956 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** 4 white saucers change square to/from/between L-shaped formations repeatedly. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 344) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5058 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:4 WHT SCRS CHANGE SQUARE<>L-SHAPED FORMATIONS REPEATEDLY:>>NE", **LatLong:** "29.400001 -98.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:24:00 N 98:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.400001,-98.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13009 (D7EA3735) **Date:** 8/14/1956 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** OADBY, LEICS **Description:** 2 observer(s). 4 orange night lights converge / different directions. Green flash. Silent. Going quickly SSE going [to] London. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 344) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5059 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "84", **HatchDesc:** "OADBY,LEICs:2 OBS:4 ORG NLTs CONVERGE/DIFF.DIRs:GRN FLASH:SILENT:>>SSE>LONDON", **LatLong:** "52.600003 -1.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:36:00 N 01:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.600003,-1.083333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13010 (15A96EB3) **Date:** 8/14/1956 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** ANNAPOLIS, MD **Description:** 4 observer(s). 4 silver dish-saucers cavort over / naval academy. Silent. Form line. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 831) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5060 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "ANNAPOLIS,MD:4 OBS:4 SLVR DISH-SCRS CAVORT OVR/NAVAL ACADEMY:SLNT:FORM LINE", **LatLong:** "38.983335 -76.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:59:00 N 76:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.983335,-76.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13011 (891856D3) **Date:** 8/14/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BOSTON, MASS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Wingless silver-gray saucer with faint electric humming. Going quickly [to] east-northeast very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 343) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5061 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON,MASS:2 OBS:WINGLESS SLVR-GRAY SCR W/FAINT ELECTRIC HUM:>>ENE VFAST:", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -71.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 71:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-71.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13012 (6406AA59) **Date:** 8/15/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EAST / WILLSBORO, NY **Description:** Several observer(s). Orange glowing-sphere/orb/globe over Lake Champlain. Back 01 SEPT66. / r140#2p44. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5062 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "E/WILLSBORO,NY:SVRL OBS:ORG.GLO-ORB ovr Lk.CHAMPLAIN:BACK 01SEPT66:/r140#2p44", **LatLong:** "44.350002 -73.350003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:21:00 N 73:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.350002,-73.350003)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13013 (4BAEA1C6) **Date:** 8/15/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** BOULDER CITY, NV **Description:** 2 observer(s). 5 saucers / V-check formation going quickly south. 60 degree / sky in 6 second(s). / r140#3p44. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5063 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "762", **HatchDesc:** "BOULDER CITY,NV:2 OBS:5 SCRS/V-CHECK FORMn >>S:60dgr/SKY in 6sec:/r140#3p44", **LatLong:** "35.977779 -114.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:58:40 N 114:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.977779,-114.833339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13014 (DDD49FC1) **Date:** 8/15/1956 **Location:** Far East **Description:** The RAND Corporation releases a top-secret 1955 summary detailing more than 143 aircraft incidents in the Far East. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alexander L. George, “[Case Studies of Actual and Alleged Overflights, 1930–1953,](https://www.rand.org/pubs/research%5Fmemoranda/RM1349.html)” Rand Corporation, RM-1349, August 15, 1956; Clark III 56 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2848 ### Event 13015 (ED16D07B) **Date:** Mid 8/1956 **Location:** Boulder City, Nevada **Description:** 10:15 p.m. North American Aviation research technician [Edison F. Carpenter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169807294/edison-fredrick-carpenter) observes a formation of five flat, circular, pinkish UFOs over Boulder City, Nevada. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F00%5FUS%5FNV%5FBoulder-City%5FNICAP%5FCarpenter%5FNL.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=70&skin=2021) [58](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=70&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2849 ### Event 13016 (7BBC4A52) **Date:** 8/16/1956 **Location:** NEW ROCHELLE, NY **Description:** Orange-white sphere/orb/globe bobs going up and down / 25 minute(s). Dives climbs and circles across sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5064 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ROCHELLE,NY:ORG-WHT ORB BOBS ↑+↓/25min:DIVES CLIMBS+CIRCLES ACROSS SKY", **LatLong:** "40.911113 -73.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:40 N 73:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.911113,-73.783337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13017 (3DE9AB9D) **Date:** 8/16/1956 **Location:** ATLANTIC NEAR AZORES **Description:** Airliner takes evasive action. White night light passes 40' / plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5065 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC nr AZORES:AIRLINER TAKES EVASIVE ACTION:WHT NLT PASSES 40'/PLANE", **LatLong:** "37.733335 -29.416668", **LatLongDMS:** "37:44:00 N 29:25:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.733335,-29.416668)", **State/Prov:** "Azores", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 13018 (C13D992B) **Date:** 8/16/1956 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** SONNING, BERKS **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). 1+2 silver saucers / red glow. Small dark circles merge on surface. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 346) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5066 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SONNING,BERKs:1+2 OBS:1+2 SLVR SCRS/RED GLOW:SML DARK CIRCLES MERGE ON SURFACE", **LatLong:** "51.472225 -0.883333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:20 N 00:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.472225,-0.883333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13019 (69AFBDBC) **Date:** 8/16/1956 **Location:** Near Azores, At Sea **Description:** Object Makes Passes / DC-4 Takes Evasive Action (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560816](http://www.nicap.org/560816azores%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1961 ### Event 13020 (64D73330) **Date:** 8/16/1956 **Description:** The CIA’s [Richard M. Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) assembles a group of advisers to begin work on solving the problem of Soviets tracking the U-2 flights. Among the group are [Edwin H. Land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FH.%5FLand), [Edward Mills Purcell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FMills%5FPurcell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FMills%5FPurcell) and [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) They look into radar-absorbing paint. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2850 ### Event 13021 (B7CA84E2) **Date:** 8/17/1956 **Location:** LONGVIEW, WA **Description:** 2 civil and 1 military observer(s). Round object moves going up [to] going down [to] and sideways. Plane circles UFO 2X. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 357) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5067 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "LONGVIEW,WA:2 CIV+1 MIL OBS:ROUND OBJ MOVES ↑↓+SIDEWAYS:PLANE CIRCLES UFO 2X", **LatLong:** "46.166669 -122.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:10:00 N 122:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.166669,-122.950006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13022 (CA714AD7) **Date:** 8/17/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MOUSSAN, AUDE, FR **Description:** Red fireball stops 100M from motorcycle. Shoots going quickly southeast out to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5068 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOUSSAN,AUDE,FR:RED FBL STOPS 100M FROM MOTORCYCLE:SHOOTS >>SE OUT TO SEA", **LatLong:** "43.222224 2.950000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:13:20 N 02:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.222224,2.950000)", **State/Prov:** "Aude", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13023 (663F5A04) **Date:** 8/17/1956 **Location:** Spragueville (SSW \[of\] ), ME **Description:** (McDonald list) F-89 Tracks Object 500 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560817](http://www.nicap.org/560817spragueville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1962 ### Event 13024 (843B52AD) **Date:** 8/19/1956 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** NEWINGTON, CT **Description:** Blue Book. Observer(s) = Gordes. Fiery object makes 90° turn. 4 windows. / r78p176+/ r141#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5069 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NEWINGTON,CT:BBK:OBS=GORDES:FIERY OBJ MAKES 90°TURN:4 WINDOWS:/r78p176+/r141#1", **LatLong:** "41.694446 -72.722226", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:40 N 72:43:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.694446,-72.722226)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13025 (2414B746) **Date:** 8/19/1956 **Location:** Newington, CT **Description:** Fiery object made turn, dimmed, window-like markings became visible. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1963 ### Event 13026 (58871892) **Date:** 8/20/1956 **Location:** CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA **Description:** 2+observer(s). 25+Saturn-UFO's / rough semicircle formation. No further details. / r78p176. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5070 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "38", **HatchDesc:** "CITRUS HEIGHTS,CA:2+OBS:25+ SATURN-UFOS/ROUGH SEMICIRCLE FORMn:NFD:/r78p176", **LatLong:** "38.705557 -121.277784", **LatLongDMS:** "38:42:20 N 121:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.705557,-121.277784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13027 (2D7E1539) **Date:** 8/20/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** 3+several observer(s). Fireball then 2 more. Instant 180° turn going quickly south. Plane vanishes? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 361) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5071 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "97", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:3+SVRL OBS:FBL THEN 2 MORE:INSTANT 180°TURN>>S:PLANE VANISHES?", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13028 (44F374CD) **Date:** 8/20/1956 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** EL MONTE, CA **Description:** Several kids. Saucer north going quickly south. Circles. Faint swishing sound. Continues going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5072 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "86", **HatchDesc:** "EL MONTE,CA:SVRL KIDS:SCR N>>S:CIRCLES:FAINT SWISHING SOUND:CONTINUES >>S", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -118.027783", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 118:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-118.027783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13029 (CB6EA02C) **Date:** 8/20/1956 **Location:** Citrus Heights, CA **Description:** Man & wife saw 25 or more bright, Saturn-like UFOs in a rough semi-circle formation. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1964 ### Event 13030 (9678A3CC) **Date:** 8/20/1956 **Location:** North Bend, OR **Description:** Camillo. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object Tracked At 54,000 Feet (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560820](http://www.nicap.org/560820northbend%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1965 ### Event 13031 (CCFB6678) **Date:** 8/21/1956 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** OFF SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** USAF pilot. Fast "balloon" outmaneuvers and outraces F89D jet. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 361) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5073 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "OFF SAN FRANCISCO,CA:USAF PILOT:FAST "BALLOON" OUTMNVRS+OUTRACES F89D JET:>>W", **LatLong:** "37.833335 -123.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:50:00 N 123:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.833335,-123.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13032 (255F27D5) **Date:** 8/21/1956 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** PASSO FUNDO, BRAZIL **Description:** 2 cops and 2. 2 silent silver disks going west. Stop. Big saucer going west. Small saucer going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 834) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5074 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "550", **HatchDesc:** "PASSO FUNDO,BRZL:2 COPS+2:2 SLNT SLVR DISKS >W:STOP:BIG SCR >W:SML SCR >N", **LatLong:** "-28.283335 -52.216669", **LatLongDMS:** "28:17:00 S 52:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.283335,-52.216669)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13033 (6FED1963) **Date:** 8/21/1956 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** OVER CROW RESERVATION, MT **Description:** Black dogbone buzzes plane. Going quickly northwest / 1Kmph / pilot radios. / r70p3-48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 357) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5075 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1072", **HatchDesc:** "OVR CROW Rsvn,MT:BLK DOGBONE BUZZES PLANE:>>NW/1Kmph/PILOT RADIOS:/r70p3-48", **LatLong:** "45.333335 -107.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:00 N 107:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.333335,-107.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13034 (9CBAB48E) **Date:** 8/21/1956 **Location:** Wyoming-Montana, In Air **Description:** Dumbbell-shaped UFOs approached plane. (UFOE, VII) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1966 ### Event 13035 (B0DF1025) **Date:** 8/21/1956 **Location:** Hamilton AFB, CA **Description:** F-89 Crew Encounter Daylight Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 3) **Reference:** NICAP: [560821](http://www.nicap.org/560821hamiltonafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1967 ### Event 13036 (E37A779B) **Date:** 8/21/1956 **Description:** A reddish orange elongated object jerked up and down over Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley in California on this evening for several minutes around 9:30 p.m. A later report at 11:30 p.m. was made in El Monte, California. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Los Angeles Times, August 1956, p. 22; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, November 1956, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5208 ### Event 13037 (23999D2E) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** ROUTE 115 NORTHEAST / CERET, FR **Description:** 4 pseudo-human/entity / huge motorcycles stare at observer(s). Vanish silently. / FSRv15#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5076 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Rte.115 NE/CERET,FR:4 PSH/HUGE MCYCLES STARE AT OBS:VANISH SILENTLY:/FSRv15#6", **LatLong:** "42.516669 2.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:00 N 02:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.516669,2.783333)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13038 (F7728080) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** NEAR TUCHOLA, POLAND **Description:** Bornholm RADAR. 4 blips circle and maneuver. Speeds to 1Kmph going quickly west. Military investigate. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 371) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5077 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "nr TUCHOLA,POLAND:BORNHOLM RDR:4 BLIPS CCL+MNVR:SPEEDS TO 1Kmph>>W:MIL INVSTG", **LatLong:** "53.600003 17.866668", **LatLongDMS:** "53:36:00 N 17:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.600003,17.866668)", **State/Prov:** "BDG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13039 (A3FDF52B) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** TURLOCK, CA **Description:** 1 observer / bed. ORD-red ovoid flutters going down [to] behind garage. Away quickly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5078 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "TURLOCK,CA:1 OBS/BED:ORD-RED OVOID FLUTTERS ↓ BHND GARAGE:away quickly:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.494446 -120.844450", **LatLongDMS:** "37:29:40 N 120:50:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.494446,-120.844450)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13040 (CDF0B0F3) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** FOSTORIA, OH **Description:** Watchman. 24M round object / 1500' altitude. Orange glow. Loud hiss. Away straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 835) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5079 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "238", **HatchDesc:** "FOSTORIA,OH:WATCHMAN:24M RND OBJ/1500'alt:ORG.GLOW:LOUD HISS:AWAY STRAIGHT UP", **LatLong:** "41.150002 -83.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:09:00 N 83:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.150002,-83.416671)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13041 (C42A9B38) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Location:** Bornholm Island, Den **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index); Objects Orbiting Location & Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560822](http://www.nicap.org/560822bornholm%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1968 ### Event 13042 (EF9682F9) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Location:** Naval Air Station Cecil Field, near Jacksonville, Florida **Description:** 3:40 p.m. A man named Sheetz and another civilian in a car chases a 50-foot, black, bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top several miles east of Naval Air Station Cecil Field, near Jacksonville, Florida. Their engine stalls when the object hovers 10 feet away. The underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes off from the airfield, the object shoots out of sight almost instantly. The car battery is completely dead. Noise from the object compares to a helicopter, but there is no helicopter in the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Car Chases Bell-](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm) [Shaped Object, Engine Stalls](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 246 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2851 ### Event 13043 (C6C9C978) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Location:** Bornholm, Denmark **Description:** 8:50–11:59 p.m. Radars on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, first report 2–3 objects on an easterly heading at 800 mph. Approximately 2 hours later, four objects appear and orbit over the location. About 90 minutes later, the tracks fade. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Objects Orbiting Location and Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/560822bornholm%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2852 ### Event 13044 (75BEEEB9) **Date:** 8/22/1956 **Description:** From the bedroom a witness in Turlock, California saw an orange-red ovoid UFO fluttering up behind the garage at 10:50 p.m. It went away quickly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5220 ### Event 13045 (F407753F) **Date:** 8/23/1956 **Location:** FULLERTON, CA **Description:** 3 kids. Large saucer hovers / minutes. Going quickly south slowly then zooms away. Blue glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 366) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5080 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "FULLERTON,CA:3 KIDS:LRG SCR HVRS/MINUTES:>>S SLOWLY THEN ZOOMS AWAY:BLUE GLOW", **LatLong:** "33.872224 -117.922228", **LatLongDMS:** "33:52:20 N 117:55:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.872224,-117.922228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13046 (92752B4A) **Date:** 8/23/1956 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** GOLETA, CA **Description:** 15 / National Guard. Moon-size saucer hovers 1K' over convoy near missile test center. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 369) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5081 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "GOLETA,CA:15/NATl GUARD:MOONSIZE SCR HVRS 1K' ovr CONVOY nr MISSILE TEST CTR", **LatLong:** "34.450002 -119.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:27:00 N 119:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.450002,-119.816672)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13047 (F1C36CEC) **Date:** 8/23/1956 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** OVER STRATFORD, CT **Description:** 2 / light plane. 2 2' orbs / dumbell structure by helicopter plant. Going quickly north fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 366) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5082 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "ovr STRATFORD,CT:2/LITE PLANE:2 2'ORBS/DUMBELL STRUCT.by COPTER PLANT:>>N FAST", **LatLong:** "41.188891 -73.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:11:20 N 73:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.188891,-73.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13048 (949E0570) **Date:** 8/23/1956 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** NEAR FT. MCLEOD, ALTA **Description:** RCAF pilot / 11km altitude photographs silver 10M saucer. 1 gigawatt! / r24v3#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STURROCK, Dr. Peter A.: The UFO ENIGMA; Warner Books, NY 1999; ISBN 0-446-52565-0 HB 404pp. (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5083 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "720", **HatchDesc:** "nr Ft.McLEOD,ALTA:RCAF PILOT/11km alt FOTOS SLVR 10M SCR:1 gigawatt!:/r24v3#2", **LatLong:** "49.750002 -113.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "49:45:00 N 113:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.750002,-113.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13049 (4CE60D93) **Date:** 8/23/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NEW ORLEANS, LA **Description:** Orange night light flashes green. Sudden 180° turns. Violent zigzags. / r242p156. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 368) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5084 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ORLEANS,LA:ORG NLT FLASHES GRN:SUDDEN 180°TURNS:VIOLENT ZIGZAGS:/r242p156", **LatLong:** "29.950001 -90.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:57:00 N 90:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.950001,-90.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13050 (B67D4FC1) **Date:** 8/23/1956 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** COVINA, CA **Description:** 4 kids / pool. 6M ball / light passes overhead. Returns and away. Swishing sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 835) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5085 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "COVINA,CA:4 KIDS/POOL:6M BALL/LITE PASSES OVHD:RETURNS+away:SWISHING SOUND", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -117.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 117:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-117.916672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13051 (CF40648F) **Date:** 8/23/1956 **Description:** The crew of an F-86 fighter jet flying at 36,000 feet over the Canadian Rockies, near Fort MacLeod, Alberta photographed in color "an intensely brilliant, oval-shaped object" that was emitting a plasma glow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1965, p. 6; John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 211 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5251 ### Event 13052 (D9F9EB64) **Date:** 8/24/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 27KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1059 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "27" ### Event 13053 (49EDEF02) **Date:** 8/25/1956 **Time:** 01:40 **Location:** READING AND CHARLESTOWN, MASS **Description:** Saucer going quickly northeast. Glowing pear / 0230hrs. Going quickly west. Faint steady humming. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 369) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5086 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "39", **HatchDesc:** "READING+CHARLESTOWN,MASS:SCR >>NE:GLOWING PEAR/0230hrs:>>W:FAINT STEADY HUM", **LatLong:** "42.527780 -71.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:40 N 71:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.527780,-71.094448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13054 (673A5314) **Date:** 8/25/1956 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** TANGIERS, MAROC **Description:** Blue Book. Numerous observer(s). Glowing-discs hover / port / 10 second(s). Back 28 August / 0815hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 374) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5087 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TANGIERS,MAROC:BBK:NMRS OBS:GLO-DISCS HVR/PORT/10sec::BACK 28AUG/0815hrs", **LatLong:** "35.800002 -5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "35:48:00 N 05:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.800002,-5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "TAN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13055 (C17A689C) **Date:** 8/26/1956 (approximate) **Location:** LYNN, MASS **Description:** 1 observer. 11 saucers spin rapidly. Rise going quickly [to] east-northeast toward(s) observer(s) leaving luminous trails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 373) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5088 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "LYNN,MASS:1 OBS:11 SCRS SPIN RAPIDLY:RISE>>ENE TWRD OBS LEAVING LUM.TRAILS:", **LatLong:** "42.450002 -70.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:27:00 N 70:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.450002,-70.966670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13056 (8BFFA7A0) **Date:** 8/26/1956 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** NEAR CHEYENNE, WY **Description:** Blue Book. UFO going quickly northwest over abandoned car. Rear window shatters. 15cm hole. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 376) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5089 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1850", **HatchDesc:** "nr CHEYENNE,WY:BBK:UFO >>NW ovr ABANDONED CAR:REAR WINDOW SHATTERS:15cm HOLE", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -104.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 104:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-104.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13057 (E401468D) **Date:** 8/26/1956 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** COLORADO SPRINGS, CO **Description:** Blue Book. Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). 8 dull metal objects cluster in formation. West going quickly southwest / 5 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 379) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5090 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1802", **HatchDesc:** "COLORADO SPRINGS,CO:BBK:GOC OBS:8 DULL MTL OBJS CLUSTER/FORMN:W>>SW/5sec", **LatLong:** "38.850002 -104.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:51:00 N 104:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.850002,-104.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13058 (DEAECD81) **Date:** 8/26/1956 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** FT. COLLINS, CO **Description:** Red-glow cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. Mars also seen. Back 27 August / 10 minute(s). / r140#3p80. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5091 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "37", **Elev:** "1525", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.COLLINS,CO:RED-GLOW CGR HVRS:Mars also seen:BACK 27AUG/10min:/r140#3p80", **LatLong:** "40.583335 -105.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:35:00 N 105:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.583335,-105.100005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13059 (404C1504) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** NELSON, NZ **Description:** Family / (seen thru) telescope. Silver disk surrounded / glow. Never moves (still there?) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 837) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5092 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NELSON,NZ:FAMILY/TSCOPE:SLVR DISK SURROUNDED/GLOW:NEVER MOVES (still there?)", **LatLong:** "-41.266669 173.300008", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 S 173:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.266669,173.300008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13060 (610DA151) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** JUNIATA, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4348. 2 observer(s). Domed disk rises going up [to] and turns going quickly north. Cold wind. / r185p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 838) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5093 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "366", **HatchDesc:** "JUNIATA,PA:BBK#4348:2 OBS:DOMED DISK RISES↑+TURNS>>N:COLD WIND:/r185p26", **LatLong:** "40.533335 -78.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:32:00 N 78:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.533335,-78.383337)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13061 (089BAF41) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** ALTOONA, PA **Description:** 1 observer. 3' saucer / plastic dome spins 4' over backyard. Going up / cold wind. No traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 378) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5094 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "357", **HatchDesc:** "ALTOONA,PA:1 OBS:3'SCR/PLASTIC DOME SPINS 4'OVR BACKYARD:↑/COLD WIND:NO TRACES", **LatLong:** "40.516669 -78.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:31:00 N 78:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.516669,-78.416670)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13062 (D8AB2FC8) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** CALABOZO, VNZL **Description:** 4 / truck. Area lit / day. Huge saucer offloads small saucers. Going quickly west / V formation very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 840) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5095 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "CALABOZO,VNZL:4/TRUCK:AREA LIT/DAY:HUGE SCR OFFLOADS SML SCRS:>>W/VFORM VFAST", **LatLong:** "8.800000 -67.450003", **LatLongDMS:** "08:48:00 N 67:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.800000,-67.450003)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13063 (0A5925E5) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Location:** Juniata, PA **Description:** Bright disc with a clear dome fly vertically, then N (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4348) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1969 ### Event 13064 (8D6F1498) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Location:** Ft. Macleod, Alberta, CAN **Description:** RCAF Pilot Photographs Object Radiating Power (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560827](http://www.nicap.org/560827alberta%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1970 ### Event 13065 (D5377BBE) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Time:** 9:55 PM **Location:** Juniata, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: Mrs. R.S. Pope. One bright disc with a clear dome flew vertically, then north. A very cold breeze seemed to have been originated by the object during the 3 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_404 ### Event 13066 (CB225641) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Locations:** Royal Canadian Air Force; Canadian Rockies; Fort Macleod, Alberta **Description:** 7:20 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force pilot [Robert James “Chick” Childerhose](http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/childerhose%5Fr%5Fj%5Fchick) is flying nearly due west over the Canadian Rockies near Fort Macleod, Alberta. He is flying at 36,000 feet in the second position \(far left side\) of a formation of four F-86 Sabre jet aircraft. While approaching a large thunderhead \(cumulonimbus\) at a ground speed of about 460 mph, he sees at a much lower altitude a “bright light which was sharply defined and disc- shaped” or “like a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” He takes a color photo. An analysis suggests that it would have been radiating in excess of a gigawatt of power within the spectral range of the film. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[RCAF Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/560827alberta%5Fdir.htm) [Photographs Object Radiating Power](http://www.nicap.org/560827alberta%5Fdir.htm)”; Jacques Vallée, “[Estimates of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf) [Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 346–348; Richard F. Haines, “Analysis of Photograph of a High-Speed Ball of Light,” JUFOS 8 \(2003\): 27–48; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 68–69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2853 ### Event 13067 (8FAE7840) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Description:** In Juniata, Pennsylvania at 9:55 p.m. Mrs. R.S. Pope saw a bright disc-shaped object with a clear transparent dome. It flew vertically, and then went off toward the north. A very cold breeze originated from the object during the three-minute sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5393 ### Event 13068 (F10D91EC) **Date:** 8/27/1956 **Description:** An hour later, at 10:55 p.m. a domed disc with a transparent dome twirled like a top only four feet above the ground over a backyard in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The witness, a married woman, felt a cold wind. The object ascended rapidly into the sky. No traces were found. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5394 ### Event 13069 (215CE260) **Date:** 8/28/1956 **Location:** SOUTH / INNERKIP, ON **Description:** Truck malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Saucer 300M overhead. Strong beam going down. Chases driver / 10km. / r140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5096 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "295", **HatchDesc:** "S/INNERKIP,ON:TRUCK EMEs:SCR 300M OVHD:STRONG BEAM ↓:CHASES DRIVER/10km:/r140", **LatLong:** "43.166669 -80.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:10:00 N 80:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.166669,-80.683337)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13070 (1D37CE76) **Date:** 8/28/1956 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** CAMBUQUIRA, BRAZIL **Description:** 6 observer(s). Luminous disk stops over town / 5 minutes. Then going northwest slowly. / A. Fontes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 841) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5097 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "913", **HatchDesc:** "CAMBUQUIRA,BRZL:6 OBS:LUMN.DISK STOPS OVR TOWN/5mins:THEN >NW SLOWLY:/A.Fontes", **LatLong:** "-21.850001 -45.300002", **LatLongDMS:** "21:51:00 S 45:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.850001,-45.300002)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "MGR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13071 (445A6F88) **Date:** 8/28/1956 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** WEST / TANGIERS, MAROC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brilliant silver box going northwest over hills. Local wave. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5098 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "W/TANGIERS,MAROC:2 OBS:BRILL.SLVR BOX >NW ovr HILLS:LOCAL WAVE", **LatLong:** "35.783335 -3.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "35:47:00 N 03:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.783335,-3.783334)", **State/Prov:** "TNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13072 (55B15871) **Date:** 8/28/1956 **Location:** Calabozo, Venezuela **Description:** 11:30 p.m. León Febres, Miguel Talavera, Jesús Prada, and Tomás Hernández are returning home in Calabozo, Venezuela, when the ground around them is lit up by a bright white light. Looking up, they see a large disc hovering silently. Several smaller objects emerge from the large disc, leaving behind a wake of phosphorescent smoke that dissipates quickly. The whole group flies off to the west in a V formation with the large object in the lead. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 74 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2854 ### Event 13073 (C4494209) **Date:** 8/28/1956 **Description:** Mr. Corbett, age 57, was driving two miles south of Innerkip, Ontario, Canada on this night when he encountered a disc-shaped object overhead that shone a strong beam of light on his truck, then chased it for ten kilometers. Some EM effects were noted during the pursuit. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Fate Magazine, December 1956, p. 11; APRO Bulletin, January 1957; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, September 1962, p. 36; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 893 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5410 ### Event 13074 (124162FB) **Date:** 8/29/1956 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena organized in Washington DC **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_147 ### Event 13075 (682433E5) **Date:** 8/29/1956 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** BRADFORD, PA **Description:** 3 observer(s). Double soup-bowl saucer with rim hovers / 1 minute(s). Spirals straight up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 843) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5099 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "440", **HatchDesc:** "BRADFORD,PA:3 OBS:DBL SOUP-BOWL SCR W/RIM HVRS/1min:SPIRALS STRAIGHT UP", **LatLong:** "41.983335 -78.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:59:00 N 78:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.983335,-78.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13076 (6D8D154D) **Date:** 8/29/1956 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** HIGH POINT, NC **Description:** 2 Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and MD. 2 perfect silver disks going quickly east. Turn straight up;leave trail / light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 841) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5100 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "286", **HatchDesc:** "HIGH POINT,NC:2 GOC+MD:2 PERFECT SLVR DISKS >>E:TURN STRAIGHT UP;Lv TRAIL/LITE", **LatLong:** "35.966668 -80.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "35:58:00 N 80:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.966668,-80.016670)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13077 (0E4AD7F5) **Date:** 8/29/1956 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown) files incorporation papers for a new UFO group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena in Washington, D.C. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf) [NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, pp. 2–3; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Aug.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1994, pp. 46–56, 82, 85; Clark III 792 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2855 ### Event 13078 (A82F3D66) **Date:** 8/30/1956 **Location:** ENCONTRAMENTO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Small white sphere/orb/globe flies over town. / Comercio do Porto. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5101 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ENCONTRAMENTO,PORTUGAL:SML WHT ORB FLIES OVR TOWN:/COMERCIO do PORTO", **LatLong:** "39.466669 -8.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "39:28:00 N 08:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.466669,-8.466667)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13079 (1A28259B) **Date:** 8/30/1956 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** HIGH POINT, NC **Description:** 2 Ground Observer Corps (GOC). 2 silver disks again large and small. 1 going southwest. Other going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 843) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5102 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "286", **HatchDesc:** "HIGH POINT,NC:2 GOC:2 SLVR DISKS AGAIN LARGE+SMALL:1 >SW:OTHER >W:", **LatLong:** "35.950002 -80.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "35:57:00 N 80:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.950002,-80.000004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13080 (5A21D1D3) **Date:** 8/30/1956 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** NORTH / ISLE / WIGHT **Description:** 2 RAF pilots. RADAR visual. 300M metal-grey disk. Sudden vertical ascent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 845) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5103 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/Isle/WIGHT:2 RAF PILOTS:RDR VISUAL:300M MTL-GRY DISK:SUDDEN VERTICAL ASCENT", **LatLong:** "50.766669 -1.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:46:00 N 01:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.766669,-1.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13081 (8C5FC43A) **Date:** 8/30/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 900KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1060 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "900" ### Event 13082 (E6D17255) **Date:** 8/30/1956 **Locations:** English Channel; Isle of Wight, England; RAF Odiham in Hampshire; RAF Sopley **Description:** Day. Two RAF Gloster Javelin interceptors, one piloted by E. H. “Wilbur” Wright, are flying west over the English Channel south of the Isle of Wight, England, when one of the navigators obtains a radar return at 19 miles distance \(later calculations indicate it has a diameter of 600 feet\). The pilots get permission to abandon their test exercise and investigate the object. Wright turns north toward the object on his right wing, but it has apparently slowed down and is maintaining its position. The second Javelin pilot has caught up from behind and confirms radar and visual sightings. The two aircraft bank steeply so the object is at 15 miles dead ahead on the radar screen They close the distance to 10 miles and see that the object has a metallic gray appearance. At 8 miles distance, the object suddenly climbs vertically too fast for radar to track \(estimated at 18,000 mph\) and vanishes. After landing at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, the crews are told that ground radar at RAF Sopley \[now closed\] has tracked the object. They are ordered not to speak about the event. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jenny Randles, “Scramble, UFO!” Fortean Times 386 \(December 2019\): 26–27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2856 ### Event 13083 (186D5256) **Date:** 8/31/1956 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR FT. SMITH, MT **Description:** Ground and air observers. Black dog-bone follows plane. More objects join. / FSRv3#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 683) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5104 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1000", **HatchDesc:** "nr Ft.SMITH,MT:GND+AIR OBSs:BLK DOG-BONE FOLOS PLANE:MORE OBJS JOIN:/FSRv3#1", **LatLong:** "45.316669 -107.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:19:00 N 107:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.316669,-107.933338)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13084 (4ED2F60B) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** D948 SOUTHEAST / CERDON, 45, FR **Description:** Car / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 2 hide / field. Beam unrolls and searches. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 281) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5105 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "D948 SE/CERDON,45,FR:CAR/EMEs:2 HIDE/FIELD:BEAM UNROLLS+SEARCHES:>>N", **LatLong:** "47.588891 2.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:35:20 N 02:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.588891,2.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Loiret", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13085 (E795FA92) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 00:30? **Location:** LE BORDES, 45, FR **Description:** Milk truck stalls. UFO shines beams. Driver hides under truck. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 281) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5106 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "LE BORDES,45,FR:MILK TRUCK STALLS:UFO SHINES BEAMS:DRIVER HIDES UNDER TRUCK", **LatLong:** "47.805558 2.405556", **LatLongDMS:** "47:48:20 N 02:24:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.805558,2.405556)", **State/Prov:** "Loiret", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13086 (2D59FF2C) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** US70 12 MI SOUTHWEST / HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Domed saucer / roadside causes traffic jam. Cars electro-magnetic effect (EME.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 281) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5107 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "1228", **HatchDesc:** "US70 12mi SW/HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:DOMED SCR/ROADSIDE CAUSES TRAFFIC JAM:CARS EME ", **LatLong:** "32.711113 -106.211116", **LatLongDMS:** "32:42:40 N 106:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.711113,-106.211116)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13087 (BCDC7C2F) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** NEAR CHESTER, CA **Description:** Hunter. Human looking small humanoid (or Grey). Goes away uphill in 20' leaps on gravel! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5108 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "421", **HatchDesc:** "nr CHESTER,CA:HUNTER:HUMAN LOOKING OID:GOES AWAY UPHILL in 20'LEAPS on GRAVEL!", **LatLong:** "40.305557 -121.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:18:20 N 121:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.305557,-121.233339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13088 (CED0F659) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** ST.-PIERRE-DE-FURSAC, 23, FR **Description:** Long luminous UFO. 3 passes and drops near / ground. Observer(s) immobilized. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5109 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "St-PIERRE-de-FURSAC,23,FR:LONG LUM UFO:3 PASSES+DROPS NR/GND:OBS IMMOBILIZED", **LatLong:** "46.133336 1.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:08:00 N 01:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.133336,1.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13089 (E7473161) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** CABO FRIO, BRZ **Description:** 20M object rises / sea. 2 pseudo-human/entity gather junk / beach. Reboard and fly away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 385) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5110 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CABO FRIO,BRZ:20M OBJ RISES/SEA:2 PSH GATHER JUNK/BEACH:REBOARD+FLY AWAY", **LatLong:** "-22.883334 -42.033335", **LatLongDMS:** "22:53:00 S 42:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.883334,-42.033335)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13090 (A7BB14A2) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** LE HOULME, FR **Description:** Domed saucer / 9M altitude. Rays shoot / antenna base. 3 pseudo-human/entity / portholes. Going quickly south. / r30p228. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5111 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "Le HOULME,FR:DOMED SCR/9M ALT:RAYS SHOOT/ANTENNA BASE:3 PSH/PORTS:>>S:/r30p228", **LatLong:** "49.516669 1.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "49:31:00 N 01:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.516669,1.033333)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13091 (6E0CB1C5) **Date:** 9/1956 **Time:** 2030 **Location:** Cabo Frio, Brazil **Description:** O. Guarichi was walking on the beach with his dogs when he saw an object come from the sea and land. Two men, 1.80 m tall, wearing metallic-looking uniforms, emerged. One of them picked up objects from the beach. There was an exchange of gestures with the witness. One of the dogs turned away when the witness approached the craft, which was 20 m wide 3 m high and showed flashing lights as it left. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Nachrichten Mar., 61 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_385 ### Event 13092 (9D3EF196) **Date:** 9/1956 **Location:** Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio **Description:** The General Physics Laboratory of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories \(ARL\) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, launches an intense program to coordinate research into gravitational and unified field theories with the hiring of [Joshua N. Goldberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%5FN.%5FGoldberg). The precise rationale for creating the program and justifying its budgets and personnel may never be determined. Neither Goldberg nor USAF Deputy for Scientific and Technical Information [Walter Blados](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197955958/walter-roman-blados) can locate the founding documents. [Roy Kerr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FKerr)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FKerr) a former ARL scientist, says the antigravity propulsion purpose of ARL was “rubbish” and that “The only real use that the USAF made of us was when some crackpot sent them a proposal for antigravity or for converting rotary motion inside a spaceship to a translational driving system.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States gravity control propulsion research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fgravity%5Fcontrol%5Fpropulsion%5Fresearch\#Aerospace%5FResearch%5FLaboratories%5F.28ARL.29)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2857 ### Event 13093 (9A22ACEA) **Date:** 9/1956 **Locations:** White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; US Highway 70; Holloman AFB **Description:** Just before 8:00 a.m. A domed, disc-shaped craft allegedly lands within White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, just 150 feet away from US Highway 70. Radios and ignition systems of passing cars go dead, as witnesses—including two USAF colonels, two sergeants, and dozens of base personnel—observe the object as it takes off with a whirring sound. All personnel at Holloman AFB are assembled in a hangar, debriefed, and sworn to secrecy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ralph and Judy Blum, Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs, Bantam, 1974; Good Need, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/218/mode/2up) [219–220](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/218/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2858 ### Event 13094 (16335BB5) **Date:** 9/1/1956 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** NEAR TRAIL, OR **Description:** 9M saucer going [to] up canyon / 70kph. Going up [to] and hovers. Tilts / 45°. Watching military planes? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 903) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5112 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "nr TRAIL,OR:9M SCR >UP CANYON/70kph:↑+HVRS:TILTS/45°:WATCHING MIL PLANES?", **LatLong:** "42.666669 -122.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:40:00 N 122:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.666669,-122.833339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13095 (588461E0) **Date:** 9/2/1956 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** DAYTON, OH **Description:** 6M ovoid hovers 5' / golf course. 40' area lit. Vanishes when lit. / r148p67. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5113 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "DAYTON,OH:6M OVOID HVRS 5'/GOLF COURSE:40'AREA LIT:VANISHES WHEN LIT:/r148p67", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -84.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 84:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-84.200004)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13096 (D0483D18) **Date:** 9/2/1956 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** LEESPORT, PA **Description:** Boy and 2 / farm. 3M thick saucer 60M over field. Glows red going [to] orange going [to] yellow going [to] silver. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 905) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5114 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "LEESPORT,PA:BOY+2/FARM:3M THICK SCR 60M ovr FLD:GLOWS RED>ORG>YLW>SLVR:↑↑", **LatLong:** "40.444446 -75.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:40 N 75:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.444446,-75.966670)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13097 (F5F47086) **Date:** 9/2/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 51KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1061 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "51" ### Event 13098 (F1BB95C5) **Date:** 9/2/1956 **Description:** At 4:30 a.m. a six meter long ovoid UFO hovered 5 feet over a golf course in Dayton, Ohio. It illuminated an area 40 feet wide. The sighting lasted more than 30 minutes, but the UFO vanished when the 19-year-old witness shone a light on it. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4379; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 135; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5566 ### Event 13099 (50E42662) **Date:** 9/3/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NORWOOD, OH **Description:** 3 observer(s). Colored spot hover / sky. 2 more join. Going in formation. Beam flashes between 2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 403) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5115 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "NORWOOD,OH:3 OBS:CLRD SPOT HVR/SKY:2 MORE JOIN:>/FORMn:BEAM FLASHES BETWEEN 2", **LatLong:** "39.161113 -84.461115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:40 N 84:27:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.161113,-84.461115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13100 (B5D38CCD) **Date:** 9/3/1956 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** DAYTON, OH **Description:** 3M metallic ovoid circles / sky. Blurs and vanishes in place! 2nd object shoots by. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 402) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5116 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "DAYTON,OH:3M MTLC OVOID CIRCLES/SKY:BLURS+VANISHES IN PLACE!:2nd obj shoots by", **LatLong:** "39.761113 -84.211115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:40 N 84:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.761113,-84.211115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13101 (F58B0C93) **Date:** 9/3/1956 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SILVER SPRING, MD **Description:** Blue Book reports. Civil observers. Large white ovoid overhead / 10 second(s). Goes straight quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 404) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5117 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER SPRING,MD:BBK RPS:CIV.OBSs:LRG WHT OVOID OVHD/10sec:GOES STRAIGHT ↑↑:", **LatLong:** "39.016669 -77.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:01:00 N 77:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.016669,-77.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13102 (6298684F) **Date:** 9/3/1956 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** LIVINGSTON, NJ **Description:** Private pilot and 1. 2 white disks hover 1200M over airport. Quickly going up. / r140#9p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5118 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "94", **HatchDesc:** "LIVINGSTON,NJ:Pvt.PILOT+1:2 WHT DISKS HVR 1200M ovr AIRPORT:↑↑:/r140#9p7", **LatLong:** "40.783335 -74.316670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:47:00 N 74:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.783335,-74.316670)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13103 (2839BA80) **Date:** 9/3/1956 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SOUTH RIVER, NJ **Description:** 4 boys. Small white disk going [to] overhead. Huge red disk hovers / chemical plant. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 907) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5119 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "24", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTH RIVER,NJ:4 BOYS:SML WHT DISK >OVHD:HUGE RED DISK HVRS/CHEMICAL PLANT:>>S", **LatLong:** "40.444446 -74.388892", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:40 N 74:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.444446,-74.388892)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13104 (8B4433E1) **Date:** 9/3/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** HIGUEROTE, VNZL **Description:** Many / beach. Several silent saucers with somewhat rectangular (SWR) windows / rim. 1 going down / sea and quickly going up / surface. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5120 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HIGUEROTE,VNZL:MANY/BEACH:SVRL SLNT SCRs W/SWR.WINDOWS/RIM:1 ↓/SEA+↑↑/SURFACE", **LatLong:** "10.516667 -66.083336", **LatLongDMS:** "10:31:00 N 66:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.516667,-66.083336)", **State/Prov:** "MRN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13105 (BD4EDE82) **Date:** 9/3/1956 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. many people on the beach in Higuerote, Venezuela watched several silent disc-shaped objects with square windows on the rim; one hovered over the sea, while another one landed on the surface of the ocean. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4771, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5590 ### Event 13106 (A0D9F1CC) **Date:** 9/4/1956 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** COPENHAGEN, DK **Description:** Many. Fireballs and saucers / 3000kph / 5km altitude. RADAR traces. Jets chase. / APRO 56'11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 908) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5121 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "COPENHAGEN,DK:MANY:FBLS+SCRS/3000kph/5km alt:RDR TRACES:JETS CHASE:/APRO 56'11", **LatLong:** "55.683336 12.450001", **LatLongDMS:** "55:41:00 N 12:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.683336,12.450001)", **State/Prov:** "DNM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13107 (C4C33D44) **Date:** 9/4/1956 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** DALLAS, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4379. Military observer(s) and family. Star changes color(s). Hovers and maneuvers. Going quickly west against wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5122 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "23", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS,TX:BBK#4379:MIL OBS+FAMILY:STAR CHANGES CLRS:HVRS+MNVRS:>>W AGNST WIND", **LatLong:** "32.800002 -96.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:48:00 N 96:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.800002,-96.783338)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13108 (C79AE378) **Date:** 9/4/1956 **Location:** Dallas, TX **Description:** Family saw a large star, changing to red color, remain stationary (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4379) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1971 ### Event 13109 (C24166C2) **Date:** 9/4/1956 **Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark **Description:** Radar tracking of several UFOs at about 1800 mph. (UFOE, VIII) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1972 ### Event 13110 (4812F63F) **Date:** 9/4/1956 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** Dallas, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps T/Sgt. R.D. Rogers and family. One large star, changing to red color, remained stationary for 20 minutes, then went west at 200 kts. (230 m.p.h.). Sighting lasted 23 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_405 ### Event 13111 (AD653ED4) **Date:** 9/4/1956 **Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark **Description:** Several fireball-like objects fly over Copenhagen, Denmark, tracked by radar at about 1,800 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 79](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=91&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2859 ### Event 13112 (A788CF8C) **Date:** 9/5/1956 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** KAPONGA, NZ **Description:** Farmer. Delta/triangle/box-like craft with clear cockpit / front hisses going [to] overhead. Rounded delta/triangle/box-like craft-wings. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CATHIE, Bruce: HARMONIC 33. A. & A. Reed, Wellington, NZ (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5123 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KAPONGA,NZ:FARMER:DLT W/CLR COCKPIT/FRONT HISSES >OVHD:ROUNDED DLT-WINGS", **LatLong:** "-39.427780 174.144453", **LatLongDMS:** "39:25:40 S 174:08:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.427780,174.144453)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13113 (A5D4461A) **Date:** 9/5/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** EAST / BUTLER, PA **Description:** 2 / farm. 60cm washtub saucer circles potato patch 30x. Slow. 6 pegs / top. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 909) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5124 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "E/BUTLER,PA:2/FARM:60cm WASHTUB SCR CCLS POTATO PATCH 30x:SLOW:6 PEGS/TOP", **LatLong:** "40.833335 -79.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:50:00 N 79:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.833335,-79.766670)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13114 (23EDD670) **Date:** 9/5/1956 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m. a delta-shaped UFO with a transparent cockpit on the front passed over Kaponga, New Zealand making a hissing noise. Its wings were rounded at the ends. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 106 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5650 ### Event 13115 (E713EB71) **Date:** 9/6/1956 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** MERIDA, VNZL **Description:** Line of 4 70M saucers going [to] over city / 600M altitude. Glow red and green. Split and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 914) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5125 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "MERIDA,VNZL:LINE of 4 70M SCRS >OVR CITY/600M alt:GLOW RED+GRN:SPLIT+AWAY", **LatLong:** "8.583334 -71.150003", **LatLongDMS:** "08:35:00 N 71:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.583334,-71.150003)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "MRD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13116 (2ABF9B6F) **Date:** 9/6/1956 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** PASADENA, CA **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner pilot and Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and many. Erratic white night lights. Report / Air Defense Command. / r78p177+/ APRO SEPT56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5126 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "PASADENA,CA:AL PILOT+GOC+MANY:ERRATIC WHT NLTS:Rpt/ADC:/r78p177+/APRO SEPT56", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -118.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 118:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-118.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13117 (004EAC22) **Date:** 9/6/1956 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** SOUTH / WANGANUI, NZ **Description:** 5+observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape shaped object does strange aerobatics. No further details / local news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 914) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5127 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "S/WANGANUI,NZ:5+OBS:CGR SHAPED OBJ DOES STRANGE AEROBATICS:NFD/LOCAL NEWS", **LatLong:** "-39.966669 175.050008", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 S 175:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.966669,175.050008)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13118 (8BF11203) **Date:** 9/6/1956 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MAINZ, GERM **Description:** Bell-saucer "half Mars size". Glows red going [to] orange. Dims away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5128 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MAINZ,GERM:BELL-SCR "HALF MARS SIZE":GLOWS RED > ORG:DIMS AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "49.983336 8.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:59:00 N 08:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.983336,8.250000)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13119 (6318B0BD) **Date:** 9/6/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** WEST / JUNCTION CITY, KS **Description:** 2 observer(s). 4 silent 30M disks hover north / US40. Lit rims. Going southwest. Stop and go. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 913) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5129 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "330", **HatchDesc:** "W/JUNCTION CITY,KS:2 OBS:4 SLNT 30M DISKS HVR N/US40:LIT RIMS:>SW:STOP+GO", **LatLong:** "39.033335 -96.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:02:00 N 96:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.033335,-96.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13120 (B8FECE12) **Date:** 9/6/1956 **Location:** Pasadena, CA **Description:** Airline Pilot Reports UFO To Air Defense Command (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [560906](http://www.nicap.org/560906pasadena%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1973 ### Event 13121 (6C30B2DE) **Date:** 9/6/1956 **Description:** White lights were seen flying erratically over Pasadena, California at 1:10 a.m. and were reported to the US Air Force by two airline pilots for Western Airlines. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, October 1956, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5679 ### Event 13122 (CB82ABC2) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Location:** Moneymore, Ireland **Description:** Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc escapes. **Type:** ufo encounter **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_148 ### Event 13123 (8459B044) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / CHIHUAHUA, MX **Description:** 4 / car. Fast brilliant silent 4M saucer. Windows / dome. Night light / many separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 681) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5130 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1440", **HatchDesc:** "SE/CHIHUAHUA,MX:4/CAR:FAST BRILL.SLNT 4M SCR:WINDOWS/DOME:NLT/MANY SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "28.500001 -106.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "28:30:00 N 106:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.500001,-106.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Chihuahua", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13124 (71689D04) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** MONEYMORE, NORTH IRL **Description:** 3' saucer going down. Man grabs it. Spins and flies away when set down. / MJ#281. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5131 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "MONEYMORE,N.IRL:3'SCR ↓:MAN GRABS IT:SPINS+FLIES AWAY WHEN SET DOWN:/MJ#281", **LatLong:** "54.700003 -6.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "54:42:00 N 06:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.700003,-6.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Northern Ireland", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 13125 (E0D31BBC) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SOUTH / ROGERSON, ID **Description:** 3 observer(s). 60M glowing-saucer spins going down [to] over steer. Steer gone. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v2#6+/ MJ#281. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 915) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5132 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "S/ROGERSON,ID:3 OBS:60M GLO-SCR SPINS↓ OVR STEER:STEER GONE:/FSR v2#6+/MJ#281", **LatLong:** "42.033335 -114.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:02:00 N 114:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.033335,-114.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13126 (0F6966B5) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** HASTINGS, NZ **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape with row / lights circles city. Stops at Paki Paki. Circles there then going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 914) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5133 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "HASTINGS,NZ:CGR W/ROW/LITES CCLs CITY:STOPS at PAKI PAKI:CCLs THERE THEN >>S", **LatLong:** "-39.672224 176.822231", **LatLongDMS:** "39:40:20 S 176:49:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.672224,176.822231)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13127 (1920A4F6) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Location:** The Loup (near Moneymore), County Derry, Northern Ireland **Description:** 12:30 p.m. Thomas J. and Maud Hutchinson watch an object drop out of low clouds and land in the middle of a bog at The Loup \(near Moneymore\), County Derry, Northern Ireland. They wade 600 feet into the bog until they come upon the small \(3 feet high, 18 inches in diameter\), red, rubbery, motionless object. There are 3 white stripes around the middle and it is pointed at both ends. Hutchinson kicks the object, which rolls over then resumes its upright position. He picks it up and is surprised at its lightness \(estimated 2 pounds\); the top is spinning while the bottom \(a small, saucer-shaped base\) remains stationary. It appears to be made of canvas-like material. They try to take it back with them, but Thomas has to put it down to negotiate a hedge, and the object takes off and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Irishman Caught a ‘Saucer,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94205175/)” The Guardian \(UK\), September 8, 1956, p. 10; Desmond Leslie, “[The Strangest UFO Case of All,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1956\): 2–4; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 74–76; Clark III 328 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2860 ### Event 13128 (A5454632) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Description:** Test pilot [Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven%5FCarl%5FKincheloe%5FJr) reaches an altitude of 126,283 feet in the Bell X-2. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Iven](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven%5FCarl%5FKincheloe%5FJr) [Carl Kincheloe Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven%5FCarl%5FKincheloe%5FJr)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2861 ### Event 13129 (98321DBF) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Description:** In Moneymore, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom at noon on this day a three-foot long cigar-shaped UFO landed in a nearby bog. The witness, a Mr. Hutchinson, attempted to capture it, but it began spinning and rose out of sight. It had three red stripes around the center, and a saucer-shaped base. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, March-April 1963, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5714 ### Event 13130 (09C48EE4) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Description:** A fast moving, brilliant domed disc with windows was seen in the night sky by many separate witnesses southeast of Chihuahua, Mexico. It was estimated to be about four meters in diameter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September-October 1956 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5715 ### Event 13131 (C587C4C4) **Date:** 9/7/1956 **Description:** An attorney and two ranch hands on a ranch 40 miles south of Twin Falls, Idaho reported watching a 200-foot diameter saucer-shaped object land near a steer. When it sped off the steer was gone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5716 ### Event 13132 (B4406FFF) **Date:** 9/8/1956 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** GLEN EDEN, NZ **Description:** 3 / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver ovoid maneuvers and hovers repeatedly. High altitude. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 917) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5134 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "GLEN EDEN,NZ:3/BINOCS:SLVR OVOID MNVRS+HVRS REPEATEDLY:HI ALT:>>W", **LatLong:** "-36.916668 174.650008", **LatLongDMS:** "36:55:00 S 174:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.916668,174.650008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13133 (FDD35504) **Date:** 9/8/1956 **Location:** Las Cruces, New Mexico **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Frank C. Clark is observing Mars with a 12.5-inch reflector in Las Cruces, New Mexico, when he sees a faint starlike object passing in a direction opposite to the apparent drift of Mars. It is visible for 10 seconds before passing out of the field. Clark moves the telescope and is able to see it again for another 10 seconds. It is a yellowish color. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank C. Clark, “[An Observation of an Unidentified Celestial Object,](http://www.the1963aristarchusevents.com/JALPO%5FVols%5F%5F10-14.pdf)” The Strolling Astronomer 10 \(May/June 1956\): 67–68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2862 ### Event 13134 (6AC80B26) **Date:** 9/9/1956 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** PUTARURU, NZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2M silver mirror rises / field. Splits / 2. 90° turn over car and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 918) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5135 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PUTARURU,NZ:2 OBS:2M SLVR MIRROR RISES/FIELD:SPLITS/2:90°TURN OVR CAR+AWAY", **LatLong:** "-38.050002 175.783342", **LatLongDMS:** "38:03:00 S 175:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.050002,175.783342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13135 (741D4ECB) **Date:** 9/9/1956 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** RAPID CITY, SD **Description:** 3 engineers. Silent 6M ovoid flips and wobbles. Rises going north / 190kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 460) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5136 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "975", **HatchDesc:** "RAPID CITY,SD:3 ENGINEERS:SLNT 6M OVOID FLIPS+WOBBLES:RISES >N/190kph:", **LatLong:** "44.100002 -103.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:06:00 N 103:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.100002,-103.216672)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13136 (A98B383C) **Date:** 9/10/1956 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** WALDOBORO, ME **Description:** Blue Book. Military and civil observer(s). Silver grey cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. 2 90° turns. Going SSE over hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 418) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5137 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WALDOBORO,ME:BBK:MIL+CIV OBS:SLVR GRY CGR HVRS:2 90°TURNS:>SSE ovr HILLS:", **LatLong:** "44.094447 -69.377781", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:40 N 69:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.094447,-69.377781)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13137 (15A326E2) **Date:** 9/10/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 38KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1062 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "38" ### Event 13138 (2E94AE72) **Date:** 9/11/1956 **Location:** Baltic Sea, At Sea **Description:** Radar sightings of “mysterious objects” during previous three weeks (Altus (Okla.) Times-Democrat; 7-11-56.) (UFOE) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1974 ### Event 13139 (9BC0D263) **Date:** 9/11/1956 **Locations:** Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Harvard University; US **Description:** The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory officially launches Operation Moonwatch, an effort to enlist amateur astronomers in tracking an artificial satellite that the US intends to launch during the International Geophysical Year. The announcement is made at a news conference by [Armand Spitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand%5FSpitz), coordinator of visual satellite observations. The program is largely the brainchild of Harvard University’s [Fred Whipple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FLawrence%5FWhipple), who recruits [J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) as assistant director to help with the central operation. Until professionally manned optical tracking stations \(using Baker-Nunn camera-telescopes\) come online in 1958, this network of amateur scientists and other interested citizens plays a critical role in providing crucial information on the world’s first satellites. The team records some 36 UFO reports from 1957 to 1966. The program is discontinued in 1975. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMoonwatch) [Moonwatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMoonwatch)”; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 4–5; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 9–16, 24; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf) [Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2863 ### Event 13140 (603B8C08) **Date:** 9/12/1956 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** MENE GRANDE, VNZ **Description:** 5 observer(s). 2 circular objects going quickly south very fast over Santa Rosa oilfield. Yellow trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 919) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5138 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "MENE GRANDE,VNZ:5 OBS:2 CIRC. OBJS >>S VFAST ovr SANTA ROSA OILFIELD:YLW TRAIL", **LatLong:** "9.650000 -70.855559", **LatLongDMS:** "09:39:00 N 70:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.650000,-70.855559)", **State/Prov:** "ANZ", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13141 (BD28B884) **Date:** 9/12/1956 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** NORTHWEST / ELSINORE, CA **Description:** Ex Air Force pilot. Large silver ovoid sucks and blows smoke / forest fire. / r140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** OLSEN, Thomas: REFERENCE for OUTSTANDING UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTS. 1966 UFO Information Retrieval Center, Riderwood, MD 21139. (Index 348) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5139 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "NW/ELSINORE,CA:EX AF PILOT:LRG SLVR OVOID SUCKS+BLOWS SMOKE/FOREST FIRE:/r140", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -117.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 117:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-117.750006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13142 (E4ECDFF9) **Date:** 9/13/1956 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** LITCHFIELD, IL **Description:** 2 / US66. 3 saucers. Big saucer / middle. Dip and reflect light. Going quickly [to] away. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 920) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5140 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "212", **HatchDesc:** "LITCHFIELD,IL:2/US66:3 SCRS:BIG SCR/MIDDLE:DIP+REFLECT LITE:>> AWAY:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -89.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 89:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-89.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13143 (1764A03D) **Date:** 9/13/1956 **Location:** Stockton, CA **Description:** Commercial Pilots Report High Speed Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [560913](http://www.nicap.org/560913stockton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1975 ### Event 13144 (B9855EB0) **Date:** 9/14/1956 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** HIGHLANDS, NC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4399. Cop and 1. 14 saucers southwest going quickly east / 90 minute(s) in all. Swoop up and down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5141 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "1169", **HatchDesc:** "HIGHLANDS,NC:BBK#4399:COP+1:14 SCRS SW>>E/90min IN ALL:SWOOP UP+DOWN", **LatLong:** "35.055557 -83.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:20 N 83:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.055557,-83.194448)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13145 (3C9A53A9) **Date:** 9/14/1956 **Location:** Highland, NC **Description:** Policeman saw 14 yellow-to-red round objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4399) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1976 ### Event 13146 (677E56F4) **Date:** 9/14/1956 **Time:** 1 AM **Location:** Highland, North Carolina **Description:** Witness: Scaly, N. Car. policeman O.S. Gryman. Fourteen yellow-to-red round objects with tremendous exhaust, flew in a Vague formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while swoooping up and down. Sighting lasted 1.5 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_406 ### Event 13147 (BC4511C9) **Date:** 9/14/1956 **Description:** At one o'clock in the morning in Highland, North Carolina three men, one a policeman, sighted fourteen yellow-to-red round objects giving off a tremendous exhaust and flew in a vague formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while swooping up and down. The sighting lasted 1.5 hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5950 ### Event 13148 (6015A75B) **Date:** 9/15/1956 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** NORTHEAST / FRENCH LICK, IN **Description:** 2 / car. Large metallic yo-yo saucer hovers low. Tilts / edge and away incredibly fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 434) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5142 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "NE/FRENCH LICK,IN:2/CAR:LRG MTLC YO-YO SCR HVRS LOW:TILTS/EDGE+AWAY XXFAST", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -86.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 86:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-86.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13149 (3BDB2A48) **Date:** 9/15/1956 **Location:** Salem, Indiana **Description:** About 6:30 a.m. A married couple is driving in Salem, Indiana, when they notice a saucer hovering about 100 feet away in a field by the road. They stop the car and get out for a better look. The object is gunmetal gray in color and looks like two shallow bowls with a dark gap between them. Wisps of smoke are coming from the gap. The object looks as large as the town’s courthouse. It begins undulating as it hovers. After 5 minutes, it tips over on its edge and vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2864 ### Event 13150 (88860235) **Date:** 9/16/1956 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** AUCKLAND, NZ **Description:** 11 / telescopes. Cylinder/cigar-shape offloads 3 saucers. Saucers return. Cylinder/cigar-shape going up [to] and gone. / r212p120. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5143 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "AUCKLAND,NZ:11/TELESCOPES:CGR OFFLOADS 3 SCRS:SCRS RETURN:CGR↑+GONE:/r212p120", **LatLong:** "-36.933335 174.766675", **LatLongDMS:** "36:56:00 S 174:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.933335,174.766675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13151 (3365D303) **Date:** 9/18/1956 (approximate) **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** NEAR MELTON, ENGL **Description:** 4 / car. Large orange flying biscuit with lights / sides passes straight and level. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 921) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5144 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr MELTON,ENGL:4/CAR:LRG ORG FLYING BISCUIT W/LITES/SIDES PASSES S/L:SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "53.500003 -1.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:30:00 N 01:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.500003,-1.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13152 (7E563AF6) **Date:** 9/20/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** USS TAKELMA **Description:** Blue Book. Lookout. Silent black cylinder/cigar-shape crosses moon. 300° turn. Going quickly [to] east-northeast / 950kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 440) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5145 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "USS TAKELMA:BBK:LOOKOUT:SLNT BLK CGR CROSSES MOON:300° TURN:>>ENE/950kph", **LatLong:** "35.000002 -131.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 N 131:15:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.000002,-131.250006)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13153 (80ED59CC) **Date:** 9/20/1956 **Description:** The witness was sitting on the bank of a pond on a sunny day in Hope, Arkansas when at twelve noon he observed nine silver saucers that appeared at a very high altitude in the sky. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded to September 1956 webpage on April 16, 2005 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6123 ### Event 13154 (B6D74960) **Date:** 9/21/1956 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** BIRCHLEIGH, RSA **Description:** Large saucer makes wide circles / sky. Contrail. Flash and fast exit. / r140#4p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5146 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BIRCHLEIGH,RSA:LRG SCR MAKES WIDE CCLS/SKY:CONTRAIL:FLASH+FAST EXIT:/r140#4p37", **LatLong:** "-26.066668 28.233335", **LatLongDMS:** "26:04:00 S 28:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.066668,28.233335)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13155 (31F4F402) **Date:** 9/21/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PRETORIA, RSA **Description:** Several / courthouse. Saucer gleams overhead. Suddenly quickly going up [to] extremely fast. / r140 #4p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5147 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PRETORIA,RSA:SVRL/COURTHOUSE:SCR GLEAMS OVHD:SUDDENLY ↑↑ XFAST:/r140 #4p37", **LatLong:** "-25.716668 28.283335", **LatLongDMS:** "25:43:00 S 28:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-25.716668,28.283335)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13156 (386ACE57) **Date:** 9/21/1956 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** SOUTH / FT. MYERS, FL **Description:** Ex-Navy pilot / Cessna. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly east. 3X size / Navy blimp. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 923) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5148 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S/Ft.MYERS,FL:EX-NAVY PILOT/CESSNA:HUGE CGR >>E:3X SIZE/NAVY BLIMP:", **LatLong:** "25.583335 -81.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "25:35:00 N 81:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.583335,-81.750004)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13157 (0E49B2DE) **Date:** 9/22/1956 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** OFF ST. PETERSBURG, FL **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. Circular array / lights or windows hovers / 7 minutes. USAF form. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 926) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5149 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off St.PETERSBURG,FL:2/BINOCS:CIRC ARRAY/LITES or WINDOWS HVRS/7mins:USAF FORM", **LatLong:** "27.733335 -82.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:44:00 N 82:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.733335,-82.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13158 (6FB4F778) **Date:** 9/22/1956 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** CLEETHORPS, ENGL **Description:** Thousands and RADAR. 24M glass sphere/orb/globe hovers / 16km altitude / 60kph wind. 2 jets quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5150 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CLEETHORPS,ENGL:1000s+RDR:24M GLASS ORB HVRS/16km alt/60kph wind:2 JETS ↑↑", **LatLong:** "53.550003 -0.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:33:00 N 00:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.550003,-0.033333)", **RelAlt:** "16000", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13159 (F1E50002) **Date:** 9/22/1956 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** WILLISTON, ND **Description:** Amateur astronomer. Silent 30M domed V-saucer rocks and follows river going east. / r70p349. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 928) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5151 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "572", **HatchDesc:** "WILLISTON,ND:AM.ASTRON:SLNT 30M DOMED V-SCR ROCKS+FOLOS RIVER >E:/r70p349", **LatLong:** "48.133336 -103.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:00 N 103:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.133336,-103.616672)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13160 (49E054E6) **Date:** 9/22/1956 **Locations:** Williston, North Dakota; Missouri River **Description:** 7:50 p.m. An amateur astronomer in Williston, North Dakota, sees a dull-metallic, elliptical object the size of a small plane, oscillating side to side as it moves at 150 mph above the Missouri River. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Williston \(N.Dak.\) Plains Register, September 22, 1956; Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–UFO](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm) [Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2865 ### Event 13161 (82CAD523) **Date:** 9/22/1956 **Description:** At 7:50 p.m. Mr. Borrud, an amateur astronomer, sighted a dull metallic elliptical object over Williston, North Dakota. It was the size of a small airplane, and it oscillated in a side-to-side motion as it moved above the Missouri River. The estimated speed of the craft was 150 miles per hour, and the sighting lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 1956, p. 3; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 79; Richard F. Haines, International UFO Reporter, April 2000, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6221 ### Event 13162 (ACC9E22B) **Date:** Fall 1956 **Locations:** Europe; Gander, Newfoundland **Description:** More than 30 pilots, navigators, and flight engineers are on their way home from special duty in Europe on a US Navy Super Constellation transport. When they are about 50 miles northeast of Gander, Newfoundland, the pilot notices a cluster of lights beneath the aircraft. Suddenly, the lights dim and spread out, the largest light ascending on an apparent collision course with the transport. As it reaches the plane’s altitude, it tilts, shoots to one side, and paces them at a distance of 300 feet. It is a huge metallic disc, 30 feet thick at the center and 350–400 feet wide, with a blurry glow around the rim. Gradually it pulls ahead, tilts upward, accelerates, and zooms away in 5–8 seconds. Gander Airport confirms that it had a radar target near them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 16–19; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 78–84; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 104–106 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2867 ### Event 13163 (9DDDDA2B) **Date:** Fall 1956 **Location:** Falls City, Nebraska **Description:** A man in Falls City, Nebraska, sees a winged human with a demonic face that approaches him from three blocks away. It is about 8–9 feet tall and approaches him closely, hovering in the air about 25 feet away. As it passes over him, the man feels numb and paralyzed. The episode haunts him for the next 23 years when he talks to an investigator. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 778 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2868 ### Event 13164 (88DD0555) **Date:** Fall 1956 **Alternate date:** Winter 1956 **Location:** Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota **Description:** Shortly after 12:00 noon. An Air Force Convair RB-36H of the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing based at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota, captained by Lt. C. Lenny Marquis, is flying in northern South Dakota at 423 mph when one of the crew sees a metallic disc 100 feet in diameter fly toward the airplane from the left and take up a fixed position on the left wing less than 300 feet away. Other crew members rush to the portholes to take photos. The object has a low dome at the top with three round openings or light sources. The bottom is nearly flat. Its narrow vertical sides are populated by many separate light sources, each a different color. The rest of the disc is a “light golden” hue. After 5–8 minutes, the object suddenly accelerates in parallel with the B-36 and then rises about 30° above the horizontal. The peripheral lights become brighter and turn greenish as it speeds out of sight in several seconds. Both inflight and ground radars detect the object. Substitute navigator Lt. Jimmie Lloyd says the crew turned in all photos, logs, and equipment to an intelligence unit after landing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 22–25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2869 ### Event 13165 (6EADCC4F) **Date:** 9/24/1956 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** WEST / BRISTOL, TN **Description:** 2 10M saucers / 300M altitude. 1 hovers. 1 rocks. Dark circles / rims. Suddenly going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 444) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5152 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "520", **HatchDesc:** "w/BRISTOL,TN:2 10M SCRS/300M alt:1 HVRS:1 ROCKS:DRK CIRCLES/RIMS:SUDDENLY >>E", **LatLong:** "36.566668 -82.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:34:00 N 82:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.566668,-82.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13166 (54A81085) **Date:** 9/24/1956 **Time:** 16:00? **Location:** NORTHWEST / ILKLEY, YORKS **Description:** 4 hikers. Bright orange sphere hovers / 5 minute(s). Going down [to] slow behind hill. / r234p107. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5153 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "NW/ILKLEY,YORKs:4 HIKERS:BRITE ORG.SPHERE HVRS/5min:↓ SLOW BHND HILL:/r234p107", **LatLong:** "53.916669 -1.833333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:55:00 N 01:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.916669,-1.833333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13167 (A36D1168) **Date:** 9/24/1956 **Description:** Two 10 meter wide disc-shaped objects were observed at 300 meters altitude in Gibston, Tennessee at 5:30 a.m. One hovered while the other rocked back and forth. They both had a dark circle around their rims. They suddenly shot off to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: September-October, p. 44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6284 ### Event 13168 (B8F1025D) **Date:** 9/25/1956 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** PAJAS BLANCAS, ARG **Description:** Farmers. 21M black egg lands! Spirals up fast as observers near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 929) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5154 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PAJAS BLANCAS,ARG:FARMERS:21M BLACK EGG LANDS!:SPIRALS UP FAST as OBSs NEAR", **LatLong:** "-34.216668 -64.300003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:13:00 S 64:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.216668,-64.300003)", **State/Prov:** "SLT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13169 (0477F783) **Date:** 9/25/1956 **Location:** Grand Rapids, MI **Description:** Pilot saw 2 delta-shaped objects flying S under the right wing (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1977 ### Event 13170 (FBB3B195) **Date:** 9/25/1956 **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)’s wife [Adelia](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200546241/adelia%5Fdell%5F-stringfield) observes several white tufts of angel’s hair floating down in the front yard of their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. She places it in an airtight jar. After the Stringfields contact the Air Force, M/Sgt Oliver D. Hill retrieves the sample on October 12. Analysis was done by C. G. Cocks and L. Leatherland, who find that the fibers are “multifilament bundles” that are characteristic of “regenerated cellulose fibers, either viscose or cuprammonium rayon,” perhaps from a defective filter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 102–103 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2866 ### Event 13171 (27DA69D4) **Date:** 9/27/1956 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NORTHERN HILLS, OH **Description:** Physician and wife. Small balls maneuvers all directions. All colors. Vanish! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5155 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "256", **HatchDesc:** "NORTHERN HILLS,OH:PHYSICIAN+WIFE:SML BALLS MNVRS ALL DIRs:ALL COLORS:VANISH!", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -84.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 84:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-84.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13172 (59F3D2CB) **Date:** 9/27/1956 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** LISBON, PORT **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Domed metallic ovoid. Jerks all directions. Stops / 3 minutes. Shoots up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 930) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5156 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LISBON,PORT:NMRS OBS:DOMED MTLC OVOID:JERKS ALL DIRs:STOPS/3mins:SHOOTS UP.", **LatLong:** "38.733335 -9.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:44:00 N 09:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.733335,-9.066667)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13173 (33CB0B26) **Date:** 9/27/1956 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** DARMANNES, FR **Description:** Huge blue domed disk by N65. Portholes. Hot beams. Motor and lights electro-magnetic effect (EME.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5157 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "DARMANNES,FR:HUGE BLUE DOMED DISK by N65:PORTHOLES:HOT BEAMS:MOTOR+LITES EME", **LatLong:** "48.166669 5.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:10:00 N 05:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.166669,5.216667)", **State/Prov:** "HMR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13174 (915D0C39) **Date:** 9/27/1956 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** CRYSTAL, MI **Description:** 2 amateur astronomers / (seen thru) telescope. Silent perfect disk hovers overhead. Glows red and quickly going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 930) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5158 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "275", **HatchDesc:** "CRYSTAL,MI:2 Am.ASTRONs/TSCOPE:SLNT PERFECT DISK HVRS OVHD:GLOWS RED+↑↑ FAST", **LatLong:** "43.261113 -84.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:15:40 N 84:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.261113,-84.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13175 (50AD65E6) **Date:** 9/27/1956 **Location:** -30.0000 132.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Buffalo” Yield: 15KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1752 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-30.0000 132.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 132:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.0000,132.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Buffalo", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "15" ### Event 13176 (455708D6) **Date:** 9/28/1956 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Ex Air Force pilot and 1. 8 cigars hover overhead. Follow airliner. Return and maneuver. Rise going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5159 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:EX AF PILOT+1:8 CGRS HVR OHVD:FOLO AIRLINER:RETURN+MNVR:RISE >>W", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -82.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 82:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-82.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13177 (16BAAD78) **Date:** 9/29/1956 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** BASEL, SWTZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Silent irregular ellipse with smoky rim going west. Lit interior. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 931) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5160 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BASEL,SWTZ:SVRL OBS:SLNT IRREGULAR ELLIPSE W/SMOKY RIM >W:LIT INTERIOR", **LatLong:** "47.500002 7.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 07:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,7.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Basel", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13178 (6CDA0362) **Date:** 9/30/1956 **Description:** On this evening several UFOs were observed over Cherry Valley, Illinois by Mr. & Mrs. L. L Leonard, and afterward "angel hair", in the form of a spider web-like substance, was found floating to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Stringfield Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, pp. 49-50; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 101; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 57 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6440 ### Event 13179 (D4D4B7C1) **Date:** 10/1956 **Location:** OSLO, NORWAY **Description:** UFO goes over car and hovers. Prickly sensation. Observers watch magnetized / Jeweler. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MANEY, Charles & HALL, Richard: The CHALLENGE OF UFO'S; NICAP, Washington, DC. 1961 (Index 191) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5161 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OSLO,NORWAY:UFO GOES OVR CAR+HVRS:PRICKLY SENSATION:OBSs WATCH MAGNTZD/Jeweler", **LatLong:** "59.916670 10.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "59:55:00 N 10:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.916670,10.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13180 (FF33C198) **Date:** 10/1956 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** October 1956; Oslo, Norway. Motorist felt "prickly sensation," wristwatch magnetized when UFO flew in front of car and hovered over road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1978 ### Event 13181 (885723E1) **Date:** 10/1956 **Location:** Wiesbaden, Germany **Description:** Karl L. Veit founds the Deutsche UFO/IFO-Studiengemeinschaft in Wiesbaden, Germany, which publishes the newspaper-format UFO-Nachrichten. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[60 Jahre](https://www.ufo-nachrichten.net/ufo-nachrichten/jubilaeum.html) [UFO-Nachrichten,](https://www.ufo-nachrichten.net/ufo-nachrichten/jubilaeum.html)” 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2870 ### Event 13182 (357C14DF) **Date:** 10/1/1956 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** LIESTAL, SWITZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Silent silver ovoid spins / mountains. Shoots rays every 30 second(s). Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 683) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5162 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LIESTAL,SWITZ:SVRL OBS:SLNT SLVR OVOID SPINS/Mtns:SHOOTS RAYS EVERY 30sec:>>W", **LatLong:** "47.466669 7.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:28:00 N 07:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.466669,7.733334)", **State/Prov:** "Basel", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13183 (26090BF4) **Date:** 10/2/1956 **Location:** Trenton, NJ **Description:** Harry Sturdevant, a night watchman of some 20 years, said, “a red light in the sky shot at him. This UFO had no wings, fins or propulsion sounds, except for the sound of “escaping steam”. It was about 60 to 100 ft. in diam. and cigar shaped. The UFO gave him “the greatest shock of my life”. There was a nauseating smell like sulfur and brimstone. He lost the sense of taste and smell and couldn’t swallow properly. He collapsed on the ground and was unable to move for half an hour, after which he managed to drive to his home and call for aid. Six weeks later, a New Jersey workmen’s compensation referee decided that Sturdevant should be paid for medical expenses incurred for the injury done by the UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting with injury **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_566 ### Event 13184 (3DDF2038) **Date:** 10/2/1956 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** TRENTON, NJ **Description:** Guard burnt! Glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape swoops over river and back up. Hiss. Odors. / r70p349. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 450) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5163 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "TRENTON,NJ:GUARD BURNT!:GLOW-CGR SWOOPS OVR Rvr+BACK UP:HISS:ODORS:/r70p349", **LatLong:** "40.200002 -74.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:12:00 N 74:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.200002,-74.750004)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13185 (F4B7ED19) **Date:** 10/2/1956 **Locations:** Herbert Elkin and Company; Trenton, New Jersey **Description:** 3:45 a.m. Harry J. Sturdevant is on duty as a night watchman at Herbert Elkin and Company, a construction firm in Trenton, New Jersey. He sees a cigar-shaped object some 60–100 feet long and 15 feet in diameter swiftly descending toward him. Emitting a red glow, the object is making a hissing noise like steam and generating a foul odor. It swoops past him and vanishes. He loses his sense of taste and smell, possibly permanently. His face is burned to the point where he cannot shave for two weeks. He begins to lose hearing in his right ear. When he returns to work the next day, he finds leaves on the ground that have burned up like tissue paper. Sturdevant applies for workmen’s compensation from the state for his medical expenses. An adjudicator awards him the money based on the fact that he may have only thought he saw something, but was injured when he went to investigate it, which his job required. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Emil Sloboda, “He Collected on a Flying Saucer,” Fate 10, no. 6 \(June 1957\): 66–69; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2871 ### Event 13186 (44032FD4) **Date:** 10/3/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / FRANKFORT, IN **Description:** 2 hunters. 6 silent boat-shapes going southeast toward(s) town single file. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 933) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5164 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "NW/FRANKFORT,IN:2 HUNTERS:6 SLNT BOAT-SHAPES >SE twrd TOWN SINGLE FILE", **LatLong:** "40.344446 -86.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:20:40 N 86:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.344446,-86.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13187 (6532EB6A) **Date:** 10/4/1956 **Location:** -30.0000 132.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Buffalo” Yield: 1.5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1753 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-30.0000 132.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 132:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.0000,132.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Buffalo", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "1.5" ### Event 13188 (0DC51A4A) **Date:** 10/5/1956 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** MANAUS, BRAZIL **Description:** 2 trusted observer(s). Large saucer lights ground / 30 meters around. Climbs sharply. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 934) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5165 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "MANAUS,BRZL:2 TRUSTED OBS:LRG SCR LITES GND/30 METERS AROUND:CLIMBS SHARPLY", **LatLong:** "-3.116667 -60.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "03:07:00 S 60:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-3.116667,-60.016670)", **RelAlt:** "360", **State/Prov:** "Amazonas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13189 (8067ED76) **Date:** 10/6/1956 **Location:** Wetherfield, Essex, UK **Description:** USAF witness Pollock. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) GCA Targets Big As B36's (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [561006](http://www.nicap.org/561006essexdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1979 ### Event 13190 (E7891DD6) **Date:** 10/7/1956 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** 2 F86's chase saucer. RADAR's defeated? Very fast maneuvers. / r24v5#1+/ r25p242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 936) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5166 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "CASTLE AFB,CA:2 F86s CHASE SCR:RDRs DEFEATED?:VFAST MNVRs:/r24v5#1+/r25p242", **LatLong:** "37.383335 -120.555561", **LatLongDMS:** "37:23:00 N 120:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.383335,-120.555561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13191 (5213E96A) **Date:** 10/7/1956 **Locations:** Merced, California; Castle AFB [now Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center] **Description:** 10:45 p.m. UFO reports by police and civilians around Merced, California, reach Castle AFB \[now Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center\] and a lighted elliptical object about 100–120 feet in diameter is seen by the tower. Two interceptors are scrambled. The object ducks under and above a narrow cloud bank. The pilots can see it from various angles and as close as a few hundred yards. It appears to be a flattened circular shape. The pilots decide to fly one above and one below the overcast. Ground radar picks up the planes but not the UFO. One pilot breaks off to return but sees that the UFO is now chasing his buddy’s plane. Several officers arrive from another base to debrief the pilots and they appear very knowledgeable about UFOs. They seek “confirmation, not information” and tell the pilots not to discuss the sighting at all. Citizen witnesses are told the pilots were chasing ducks or geese. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 November–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1994, pp. 52, 59; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 242–244; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 239 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2872 ### Event 13192 (351A1A52) **Date:** 10/8/1956 **Time:** 04:40 **Location:** NGARUAWAHIA, NZ **Description:** Blazing Saturn saucer wakes man. Whirrs. Bounces / sky like ball. Going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 943) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5167 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NGARUAWAHIA,NZ:BLAZING SATURN SCR WAKES MAN:WHIRRS:BOUNCES/SKY LIKE BALL:↑", **LatLong:** "-37.672224 175.127786", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:20 S 175:07:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.672224,175.127786)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13193 (F81D202C) **Date:** 10/8/1956 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** CULVER CITY, CA **Description:** 2 / back yard. Flat plain metallic object follows light plane going west to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 935) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5168 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "CULVER CITY,CA:2/BACK YARD:FLAT PLAIN MTLC OBJ FOLOS LITE PLANE >W to sea", **LatLong:** "33.988891 -118.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:59:20 N 118:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.988891,-118.400006)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13194 (FA3E7777) **Date:** 10/9/1956 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** SPRINGDALE, OH **Description:** 4 observer(s). 6 night lights very erratic. New swarm / red night lights flip east going quickly west. / r70p3-50. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5169 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGDALE,OH:4 OBS:6 NLTS VERY ERRATIC:NEW SWARM/RED NLTS FLIP E>>W:/r70p3-50", **LatLong:** "39.288891 -84.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:17:20 N 84:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.288891,-84.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13195 (9D8674C2) **Date:** 10/10/1956 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** OFF HOKITIKA, NZ **Description:** Land mass going up / sea. Sinks back. Ray / light going down / cloud on same spot. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 948) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5170 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off HOKITIKA,NZ:LAND MASS ↑/SEA:SINKS BACK:RAY/LITE ↓/CLOUD on same spot", **LatLong:** "-42.683335 170.916675", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:00 S 170:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-42.683335,170.916675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13196 (CA134F6D) **Date:** 10/10/1956 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** EDENDALE, NZ **Description:** Cone-saucer exits clouds. U-turn back. Out again as Dakota plane passes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 947) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5171 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "EDENDALE,NZ:CONE-SCR EXITS CLOUDS:U-TURN BACK:OUT AGAIN AS DAKOTA PLANE PASSES", **LatLong:** "-46.316669 168.772230", **LatLongDMS:** "46:19:00 S 168:46:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.316669,168.772230)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13197 (D7D22F74) **Date:** 10/10/1956 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** VILLAMASSARGIA, SARDINIA **Description:** 1 observer. 1+3 orbs north going south. Circle arriving 60' cylinder/cigar-shape. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v9#2p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5172 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "VILLAMASSARGIA,SARDINIA:1 OBS:1+3 ORBS N>S:CIRCLE ARRIVING 60'CGR:/FSR v9#2p3", **LatLong:** "39.283335 8.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "39:17:00 N 08:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.283335,8.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Cagliari", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13198 (7B8FF619) **Date:** 10/10/1956 **Description:** At 10:30 p.m. three balls of light flew from north to south over Villamassargia, Sardegna, Italy and then circled an arriving 60 foot long cigar-shaped object. There were several witnesses, and the sighting lasted 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1963, p. 3; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 82; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 45 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6708 ### Event 13199 (B09F3542) **Date:** 10/11/1956 **Location:** -30.0000 132.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Buffalo” Yield: 3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1754 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-30.0000 132.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 132:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.0000,132.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Buffalo", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "3" ### Event 13200 (4F746679) **Date:** 10/13/1956 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** WEST ORANGE CO, CA **Description:** 3 U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) F9F pilots. Bright silver disk going [to] under jets. / MJ#282 / r140#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5173 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "W.ORANGE co,CA:3 USMC F9F PILOTS:BRITE SLVR DISK >UNDER JETS:/MJ#282/r140#4", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -118.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 118:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-118.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13201 (6E6C867C) **Date:** 10/14/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** VADDO, SWD **Description:** Metallic cylinder/cigar-shape / ovoid going down. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Machined W-carbide fragment found. / r177p382. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STURROCK, Dr. Peter A.: The UFO ENIGMA; Warner Books, NY 1999; ISBN 0-446-52565-0 HB 404pp. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5174 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "VADDO,SWD:MTLC CGR/OVOID ↓:CAR EMES:MACHINED W-carbide frag found:/r177p382", **LatLong:** "59.983336 18.622223", **LatLongDMS:** "59:59:00 N 18:37:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.983336,18.622223)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13202 (E805C4FF) **Date:** Late 1956 **Location:** Castle AFB, CA **Description:** Castle AFB, California: A.A. and J.R. (names withheld) were flying F-86’s near Modesto, CA, on alert duty due to civilian UFO reports in a nearby town. Base instructed them to return because their was an UFO near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed rapidly on a luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below cloud cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and returned to base. Local citizens that witnessed these events were told by the Air Force that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese. **Type:** movie **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_565 ### Event 13203 (E7C83805) **Date:** 10/15/1956 **Location:** US40 NORTHEAST / FERNLEY, NV **Description:** Air Force man and 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / hill. Portholes. Going northeast. Returns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 467) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5175 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1270", **HatchDesc:** "US40 NE/FERNLEY,NV:AF MAN+1/BINOCS:CGR HVRS/HILL:PORTHOLES:>NE:RETURNS", **LatLong:** "39.833335 -118.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:50:00 N 118:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.833335,-118.833339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13204 (EAC86810) **Date:** Late 1956 **Location:** Castle AFB, nr. Modesto, CA **Description:** Cat.9/11. Luminous elliptical object and two F-86's, radar. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2001 ### Event 13205 (7BAEE85E) **Date:** Late 1956 **Location:** Between N. Dakota and S. Dakota, various **Description:** UFO filmed by AF crew. Radar. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2002 ### Event 13206 (1C8D18F3) **Date:** 10/16/1956 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** SHABANI, RHODESIA **Description:** Railroad men. Large circular object going quickly northwest / 1200M altitude. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#1 Jan'57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 470) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5176 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SHABANI,RHODESIA:RAILROAD MEN:LRG CIRC.OBJ >>NW/1200M alt:/FSR v3#1 Jan'57", **LatLong:** "-20.333334 30.033335", **LatLongDMS:** "20:20:00 S 30:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.333334,30.033335)", **State/Prov:** "RHD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13207 (79AA34F2) **Date:** 10/17/1956 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** WHEELUS AIR FORCE BASE, LIBYA **Description:** Military ground and air RADAR's. Bright blips maneuver. Objects invisible to pilots. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 470) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5177 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Libya", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "WHEELUS AFB,LIBYA:MIL GND+AIR RDRs:BRITE BLIPS MNVR:objs invisible to pilots", **LatLong:** "32.783335 13.188890", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 13:11:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,13.188890)", **State/Prov:** "TRI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13208 (ABA5F3E7) **Date:** 10/17/1956 **Location:** Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) F-86's Had Radar Contact With Slow-Moving Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [561017](http://www.nicap.org/561017wheelus%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1980 ### Event 13209 (5A300C17) **Date:** 10/18/1956 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** CARACAS, VNZL **Description:** Separate observer(s). Saucers appear 3x. Maneuvers. Maneuvers. Steep ascent. Ovoids going quickly south / 24 November. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5178 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "99", **Elev:** "910", **HatchDesc:** "CARACAS,VNZL:SEP.OBS:SCRS APPEAR 3x:MNVRS:MNVRS:STEEP ASCENT:OVOIDS >>S/24NOV", **LatLong:** "10.516667 -66.950003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:31:00 N 66:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.516667,-66.950003)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13210 (3FDC2321) **Date:** 10/19/1956 **Location:** 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. **Description:** NICAP’s initial board of governors includes [T. Townsend Brown](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Brown.htm) \(founder\), [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29), Leon C. LeVan, [Albert H. Baller](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baller.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baller.htm) [Charles A.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129667039/charles-a%5F-maney) [Maney](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Maney.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Maney.htm) [Talbot T. Speer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130100340/talbot-taylor-speer)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130100340/talbot-taylor-speer) [Abraham M. Sonnabend](https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Sonnabend/6000000040289386820)[,](https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Sonnabend/6000000040289386820) Col. [Robert B. Emerson](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Emerson.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Emerson.htm) Rear Adm. [Delmer S.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Fahrney%5FD.htm) [Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) Gen. [William E. Kepner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FEllsworth%5FKepner)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FEllsworth%5FKepner) and Brig. Gen. [Thomas B.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10755048/thomas-benton-catron) Catron. Gladys Rose Hackett and Margaret Naylor are hired to do secretarial work, and [Martin H. Heflin](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/28/archives/martin-heflin-rites.html) is hired as public relations specialist. The headquarters are at 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Incorporation is granted on October 24. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 3; Clark III 792; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 September–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Sept-Oct.pdf) [October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1994, pp. 77–78 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2873 ### Event 13211 (1FCF0453) **Date:** 10/22/1956 **Location:** -30.0000 132.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Buffalo” Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1755 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-30.0000 132.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 132:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.0000,132.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Buffalo", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 13212 (AEDEFFDD) **Date:** 10/24/1956 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** NICAP established. One of its board of directors was Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, former CIA director and rumored MJ-12 member. From this position Hillenkoetter and others could steeer NICAP from the inside in any direction they wanted. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_567 ### Event 13213 (60779A67) **Date:** 10/24/1956 **Location:** VILA REAL DE STO ANTONIO, PORT **Description:** Several observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Large metal sphere. Glows blue and red and white. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5179 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "VILA REAL de Sto ANTONIO,PORT:SVRL OBS/BINOCS:LRG MTL SPHERE:GLOWS BLU+RED+WHT", **LatLong:** "37.188891 -7.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:20 N 07:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.188891,-7.433334)", **State/Prov:** "Algarve", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13214 (4E09C666) **Date:** 10/25/1956 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** VICKSBURG, MS **Description:** Silver ovoid dives / airliner. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly east. Back / same observer(s) 31 October / r140#9p53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 951) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5180 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "VICKSBURG,MS:SLVR OVOID DIVES/AIRLINER:↑↑+>>E::BACK/SAME OBS 31OCT/r140#9p53", **LatLong:** "32.350002 -90.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "32:21:00 N 90:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.350002,-90.877782)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13215 (ADCA138D) **Date:** 10/26/1956 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** ANITA, IA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Bright silver disk hovers. Flips over several X. No further details / Blue Book card. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 485) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5181 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "381", **HatchDesc:** "ANITA,IA:GOC OBS:BRITE SLVR DISK HVRS:FLIPS OVR SVRL X:NFD/BBK CARD", **LatLong:** "41.450002 -94.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:27:00 N 94:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.450002,-94.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13216 (71E81ADC) **Date:** 10/28/1956 **Location:** Minot, ND **Description:** October 28, 1956; Minot, North Dakota, photos by missile crew, radar (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1981 ### Event 13217 (19A3C245) **Date:** 10/28/1956 **Location:** Minot, ND **Description:** Oct 28, 1956; Minot, ND, photo from missile crew, RV (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1982 ### Event 13218 (721F32CC) **Date:** 10/28/1956 **Location:** Minot, ND **Description:** October 28, 1956; Minot, N. Dakota, Missile base, RV, Photo, EM (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1983 ### Event 13219 (17A7C0C7) **Date:** 10/28/1956 **Description:** A bright red-orange object was seen by a B-52 crew flying over North Dakota. At same time a missile maintenance man at Minot AFB saw the same or a similar bright orange-red UFO. The B-52 was vectored closer by the base which was tracking the object on radar, some 30 miles to the northwest of the base. The search for the UFO, which may have landed, was complicated by a period of unexplained radio interference. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 137; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1991; UNICAT, case # 274 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7222 ### Event 13220 (2A2771F6) **Date:** 10/29/1956 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** TOBYHANNA, PA **Description:** 4 observer(s). Silver cylinder/cigar-shape hovers over town. Then disappears into Harvey Lake! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5182 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "592", **HatchDesc:** "TOBYHANNA,PA:4 OBS:SLVR CGR HVRS OVR TOWN:THEN DISAPPEARS INTO HARVEY LAKE!", **LatLong:** "41.177780 -75.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:40 N 75:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.177780,-75.416670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13221 (7C3EBAEC) **Date:** 10/29/1956 **Locations:** High Bridge, New Jersey; New York City **Description:** [Howard Menger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FMenger), a sign painter from High Bridge, New Jersey, goes public on the [Long John Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5FJohn%5FNebel) show on WOR-AM in New York City with a story of his contacts with “Aryan-type” Venusians in spaceships. Menger reports that his contacts started in childhood, when he experienced flashbacks of life on another world and sightings of flying discs. In 1932 he met a beautiful blonde woman who could read his mind, and in 1946 he again sees her stepping out of a flying saucer. She is supposedly 500 years old, although she looks 25. Many contacts follow. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 738 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2874 ### Event 13222 (FFD315F2) **Date:** 11/1956 (approximate) **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** NEAR LEMMON, SD? **Description:** USAF RB36H paced. Crew photographs domed metallic saucer. Ground RADAR's. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v25#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: RICHARD HAINES Article from IUR Vol.25 #1 http://www.nicap.dabsol.uk/IURhaines1956.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5183 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "784", **HatchDesc:** "nr LEMMON,SD?:USAF RB36H PACED:CREW FOTOS DOMED MTLC SCR:GND RDRS:/IUR v25#1", **LatLong:** "45.916669 -102.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "45:55:00 N 102:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.916669,-102.166672)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13223 (4C5D28C5) **Date:** 11/1956 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NORTHWEST / CELINA, TX **Description:** School board president / farm. Flat metallic disk. Lit portholes / rim. Away / extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5184 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NW/CELINA,TX:SCHOOL BOARD PRESD/FARM:FLAT MTLC DISK:LIT PORTS/RIM:AWAY/XFAST:", **LatLong:** "33.333335 -97.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:20:00 N 97:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.333335,-97.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13224 (9D756E5D) **Date:** 11/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** CYSOING, FR **Description:** 1 / bicycle. 30M aluminum saucer / field reflects moonlight. Observer(s) scared and goes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5185 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CYSOING,FR:1/BICYCLE:30M ALUM. SCR/FIELD REFLECTS MOONLIGHT:OBS SCARED+GOES", **LatLong:** "50.566669 3.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:34:00 N 03:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.566669,3.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13225 (F029186A) **Date:** 11/1956 **Location:** Malibu, CA **Description:** Flat oval object with three window-like markings on underside flew low, through searchlight beam. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1984 ### Event 13226 (531A5156) **Date:** 11/1/1956 **Location:** St. Louis (60 miles east of), MO **Description:** H. S. Yellow Object Observed By T-33 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 4489) **Reference:** NICAP: [561101](http://www.nicap.org/561101stlouis%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1985 ### Event 13227 (44295279) **Date:** 11/1/1956 **Time:** 5:30 PM **Location:** 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, in Illinois **Description:** Witness: USAF Capt. W..M. Lyons, Intelligence Division Chief (Aerial Weather Reconnaissance Officer), flying a T-33 jet trainer. One orange light with a blue tinge, flew across the sky for 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_407 ### Event 13228 (FB4E05BD) **Date:** 11/4/1956 **Location:** Point Arena, CA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Two Objects Tracked By Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [561104](http://www.nicap.org/561104pointarena%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1986 ### Event 13229 (E05CC02B) **Date:** 11/4/1956 **Description:** NICAP issues its first news release. [T. Townsend Brown](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Brown.htm) emphasizes the group’s “growing membership of responsible citizens from every walk of life and profession” and stresses that “there does exist more than enough evidence of certain and obvious aerial phenomena to justify independent evaluation.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Project](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/Press%20Releases%20%26%20Clippings/1956%5F11%5F04%5FNewsRelease%5F1.jpg) [Skylight,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/Press%20Releases%20%26%20Clippings/1956%5F11%5F04%5FNewsRelease%5F2.jpg)” November 4, 1956 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2875 ### Event 13230 (762EB3AA) **Date:** 11/5/1956 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MALVERN AND MORE/OTHERS, RSA **Description:** 33+observer(s). Huge round object passes. Silent. Sharp edges. Going [to] to cloud. / r140#5p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5186 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MALVERN++,RSA:33+OBS:HUGE RND OBJ PASSES:SLNT:SHARP EDGES:> to CLOUD:/r140#5p3", **LatLong:** "-26.200001 28.100001", **LatLongDMS:** "26:12:00 S 28:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.200001,28.100001)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13231 (1796F777) **Date:** 11/5/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MALIBU, CA **Description:** Brilliant ovoid with windows / underside. Going [to] low through searchlight beam. / r78p177. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5187 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "MALIBU,CA:BRILL.OVOID W/WINDOWS/UNDERSIDE:>LO THRU SEARCHLITE BEAM:/r78p177", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -118.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 118:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-118.633339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13232 (81ACD180) **Date:** 11/5/1956 **Description:** A huge round object with sharply outlined edges passed overhead in Malvern, South Africa at 8:30 p.m. The flying object made no sound as it flew into a cloud. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4816, citing Flying Saucer Review, Volume 3, No. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7468 ### Event 13233 (E23E94C9) **Date:** 11/7/1956 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** PARIS, FR **Description:** Several thousands and astronomers. 2 Brill objects hover over crowds. Away extremely fast. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5188 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "14", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS,FR:SVRL 1000s+ASTRONs:2 BRILL OBJS HVR ovr CROWDS:AWAY XFAST:type unk", **LatLong:** "48.866669 2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:52:00 N 02:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.866669,2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13234 (BD3A578D) **Date:** 11/8/1956 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** SHARPES, FL **Description:** 1 observer. Bright round object follows test missile up into space. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 283) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5189 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "SHARPES,FL:1 OBS:BRITE RND OBJ FOLOS TEST MISSILE up into space:", **LatLong:** "28.433335 -80.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "28:26:00 N 80:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.433335,-80.761115)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13235 (2B7C7BAA) **Date:** 11/8/1956 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** CAPE CANAVERAL, FL **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 saucers buzz F100 jet after missile test. Can't catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 283) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5190 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CAPE CANAVERAL,FL:SVRL OBS:2 SCRS BUZZ F100 JET AFTER MISSILE TEST:CANT CATCH", **LatLong:** "28.433335 -80.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "28:26:00 N 80:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.433335,-80.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13236 (AD1FADCA) **Date:** 11/8/1956 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** CAPE SABLE, FL **Description:** 6 PAA RADAR experts. Blip = huge bar-bell. 6000kph. / MJ#283+/ r140#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5191 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CAPE SABLE,FL:6 PAA RDR EXPERTS:BLIP=HUGE BAR-BELL:6000kph:/MJ#283+/r140#5", **LatLong:** "25.200001 -81.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "25:12:00 N 81:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.200001,-81.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13237 (19C50A97) **Date:** 11/8/1956 **Location:** Miami, FL **Description:** November 8, 1956; Miami, Florida, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1987 ### Event 13238 (F585E4AA) **Date:** 11/8/1956 **Description:** A UFO flap covering the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota began on November 8, 1956. The sightings occurred during nearly every hour of the day and night and continued until December 2, 1956. More than 85 separate sighting reports from some 60 different localities were received from this three state area. Due to the unusually large number of reports, it was possible in some instances to determine that the same UFO or UFOs were seen in widely separate places. At other times the sighting reports suggested that a large number of different objects were aloft at the same time.

The flurry of UFO reports began with a sighting in Dickinson, South Dakota. Farmer Laudie Dvorak was driving into his farmyard about 8:30 p.m., on this date when he glanced up and saw what at first appeared to be a falling star, off to the north. But in a few seconds it seemed to be "right in front of me." He thought it might be an airplane, but it wasn't. "It went too fast," Dvorak said, "even for a jet - maybe 800 to 1000 miles per hour. It was just a streak through the buttes as it approached from the north and traveled in a southerly direction." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bob Gribble, Looking Back November 1956, National UFO Reporting Center website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7529 ### Event 13239 (E9453504) **Date:** 11/8/1956 **Description:** While the UFOs were busy over the northern Plain States they surprised a few people in southern Florida as well. About nine a.m. on November 8th, several witnesses in Coco Beach, Florida observed two UFOs move in behind an F-100 jet fighter. Through 7x50 binoculars, and also with the naked eye, they watched as the jet moved across the sky at about 1250 miles per hour. The UFO came up fast and the jet pilot made a tight turn, but couldn't catch the object. It was learned later that the same object was seen earlier pursuing a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral.

About two hours after the UFO pursued the jet and rocket, a mysterious object which apparently played tag off the tip of Florida for several minutes before shooting into space at 4000 miles per hour was reported by a Pan American World Airways radar expert. Donald Freestone said he picked up the UFO while testing weather radar equipment in the FAA shops at Miami International Airport. Surprised by the unexpected target return on the screen, he called fellow employees. Six of his colleagues confirmed the finding. None knew what it was. "I didn't believe in such things before," said Freestone. "But after this happened, I got some books and read up on it. Now I'm convinced it was something that is out of our experience, so far as aircraft is concerned."

Freestone said the UFO was "four to five times larger than any aircraft observed in the past." It appeared to be egg-shaped or oval-shaped, and to have a double pattern resembling an hourglass or figure eight. The radar expert said he was working on a Bendix RDR-lA weather radar which FAA uses in some planes to spot bad weather ahead. It is capable of "seeing" storms and thunderstorms 150 miles in the path of planes. With the radar at "zero tilt" - that is, pointed straight out, Freestone first saw the UFO. "It appeared at approximately 65 miles southwest of Miami, at an altitude of between 7000 and 8000 feet. It disappeared and reappeared several times. I found that by turning the antenna tilt up, it could be brought back on the screen. It disappeared once at 70 miles and reappeared at about 55 miles, then moved back to 70 miles. The speed was estimated at 550 to 650 miles per hour."

"It then moved in to 50 miles and remained stationary for two to three minutes. Then it began going off in the south-southwest direction it had come from. One time it was noticed that the target moved 20 miles in about six sweeps or rotations of the antenna, which rotates at a speed of 20 times a minute. (Calculations indicate that this showed a flying speed of about 4000 miles per hour.) The object was last observed at about 100 miles from Miami, still moving south-southwest. It was on the radar screen for about 20 minutes from 11:15 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. From the returns the target appeared fairly large, being four to five times larger than any normal aircraft. It had a definite shape and moved on a definite course. Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, Florida was placed on an "alert status." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bob Gribble, Looking Back, November 1956, National UFO Reporting Center website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7530 ### Event 13240 (338B20A4) **Date:** 11/9/1956 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** YOKOHAMA, JPN **Description:** Matsumura and many. Several round silver objects hover and change formation over hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5192 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "YOKOHAMA,JPN:MATSUMURA+MANY:SVRL RND SLVR OBJs HVR+CHANGE FORMn OVR HILLS", **LatLong:** "35.616668 139.650007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:37:00 N 139:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.616668,139.650007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13241 (1F0BE6D1) **Date:** 11/9/1956 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** DESTIN, FL **Description:** Military pilot / air. Long thin object with series / bright orange lights. / r140#10p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 514) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5193 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "DESTIN,FL:MIL.PILOT/AIR:LONG THIN OBJ W/SERIES/BRITE ORG.LITES:/r140#10p7", **LatLong:** "30.383335 -86.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:23:00 N 86:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.383335,-86.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13242 (EA160F1A) **Date:** 11/9/1956 **Location:** Destin, FL **Description:** Pilot saw a long narrow object with a series of bright orange lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1988 ### Event 13243 (DEA03F3A) **Date:** 11/9/1956 **Description:** A long, narrow, fuselage-shaped object with a series of bright orange lights was sighted by an airman flying over Destin, Florida at 6:00 p.m. in a U.S. Air Force RF-84F aircraft from the 3242rd reconaisance squadron. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: November-December, p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7563 ### Event 13244 (C2CC1E6B) **Date:** 11/11/1956 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** EL TORO MARINE AS, CA **Description:** Blue Book. RADAR-visual (observation). Small blips maneuver / 50-2000kts. Rejoin large blip. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 512) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5194 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "224", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "EL TORO MARINE AS,CA:BBK:RDR-VIS:SML BLIPS MNVR/50-2000kts:REJOIN LRG BLIP", **LatLong:** "33.644446 -117.711117", **LatLongDMS:** "33:38:40 N 117:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.644446,-117.711117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13245 (3C9249D5) **Date:** 11/11/1956 **Location:** El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, CA **Description:** Objects Seen & Tracked For Eight Hours (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [561111](http://www.nicap.org/561111eltoro%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1989 ### Event 13246 (B40ABD54) **Date:** 11/11/1956 **Locations:** Väddö, Sweden; Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg are building a house on the island of Väddö, about 56 miles northwest of Stockholm, Sweden. Ekberg is driving his Ford V8 pickup when they see a bright flying object with the shape of a flattened sphere 24 feet wide and 9 feet high approaching from the east. It moves about a half mile in front of them at an altitude of 300 feet. As it makes a sharp turn toward them, the truck engine sputters and dies and the headlights go out. The object starts “slowly gliding down,” rocks back and forth, and comes to a stop in the middle of the road, about 300 feet in front of them, 3 feet above the ground. The object illuminates the surrounding landscape with such a tremendous amount of light that a nearby barn is clearly visible. The air smells of ozone and smoldering insulation. After about 10 minutes the object gets brighter, lifts off the ground, moves to the left and up, makes a sudden turn, and speeds away in the direction it had come. Ekberg restarts the truck and the headlights come back on. Seeing that the grass at the landing site is flattened, they investigate further and find a shiny rock that is hot to the touch. It is a heavy, three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox. After several unsuccessful attempts to have the sample studied, it is taken to the Saab aircraft company where Sven Schalin conducts a thorough analysis. Other tests are later run in laboratories in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. The general conclusion is that the rock is composed of tungsten carbide and cobalt, consistent with manufactured products. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacques Vallée, “[Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf) [Samples,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 365–366 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2876 ### Event 13247 (6AA63C62) **Date:** 11/11/1956 **Description:** At around 10 pm. in the town of Vaddo, near Stockholm, Sweden a car's engine and headlights died when a gray, elliptical flattened sphere came down over the road in front of the vehicle and landed nearby. There were two witnesses inside the car, Mr. Edberg and Mr. Sjoberg. A three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox was found at the landing site. Metalurgical analysis revealed that it was 94.86% tungsten. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 49 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7594 ### Event 13248 (3F142E48) **Date:** 11/14/1956 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** ORTONVILLE, MN AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Huge saucer follows milk truck / 240km! Swoops going down / 300M altitude. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5195 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "245", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "ORTONVILLE,MN++:HUGE SCR FOLOS MILK TRUCK/240km!:SWOOPS ↓/300M alt:SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "45.316669 -96.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "45:19:00 N 96:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.316669,-96.366671)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13249 (D9DD0AB6) **Date:** 11/14/1956 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** GRACEVILLE, MN **Description:** 1500' disk 12' thick. Maneuvers and glows. Quickly going up [to] as truck lights flash. / FSRv3#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 683) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5196 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "342", **HatchDesc:** "GRACEVILLE,MN:1500'DISK 12'THICK:MNVRS+GLOWS:↑↑ as TRUCK LITES FLASH:/FSRv3#1", **LatLong:** "45.566669 -96.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:34:00 N 96:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.566669,-96.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13250 (2A58F3B9) **Date:** 11/14/1956 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** 60 MI NNE / MOBILE, AL **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner pilots. Fireball stops dead. Zigzags all over/all about. Going quickly south. / r242p5+r47+r140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5197 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "60mi NNE/MOBILE,AL:AL PILOTS:FBL STOPS DEAD:ZIGZAGS ALLO:>>S:/r242p5+r47+r140", **LatLong:** "31.666668 -87.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "31:40:00 N 87:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.666668,-87.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13251 (E35A5C2A) **Date:** 11/14/1956 **Location:** Jackson, AL **Description:** Capital Airlines Pilots Sees Acrobatic UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [561114](http://www.nicap.org/561114jackson%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1990 ### Event 13252 (544E45C4) **Date:** 11/14/1956 **Location:** Mobile, AL **Description:** Luminous object descended, hovered in front of airliner, then sped away at upward angle **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Source:** HallUFOEvidence2, **ID:** HallUFOE2_3 ### Event 13253 (E836F552) **Date:** 11/14/1956 **Locations:** New York City; Mobile, Alabama; Jackson, Alabama; Gulf of Mexico **Description:** 10:10 p.m. Captain [William Joseph Hull](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166663770/willam-j%5F-hull) and his copilot Peter H. Macintosh are flying Capital Airlines Flight 77 from New York City to Mobile, Alabama. While approximately above Jackson, Alabama, they see something like a brilliant meteor flash by the aircraft. The object stops, hovers, and engages in a range of acrobatics \(crazy gyrations, lazy 8’s, square chandeliers\) for several minutes before shooting out over the Gulf of Mexico at “fantastic speed.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Sign Historical Group, “[Captain Joe Hull’s UFO Sighting](https://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/nash%5Fhull%5Fletters.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 127–129](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/126/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 240; Swords 230–231 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2877 ### Event 13254 (A63025C1) **Date:** 11/16/1956 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MOBRIDGE AND MILBANK ETC., SD **Description:** Wave / fireballs and circular objects. Drop and stop. Shoot away. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 526) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5198 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "523", **HatchDesc:** "MOBRIDGE+MILBANK etc.,SD:WAVE/FBLS+CIRC.OBJS:DROP+STOP:SHOOT AWAY:/FSR v3#1", **LatLong:** "45.538891 -100.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:32:20 N 100:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.538891,-100.433338)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13255 (EABA925D) **Date:** 11/16/1956 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** LEMMON, SD **Description:** 1M fireball follows train. Boom! Railroad/railway phones and signals out. / MJ#283+/ r140#5p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5199 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "784", **HatchDesc:** "LEMMON,SD:1M FBL FOLOS TRAIN:BOOM!:RR PHONES+SIGNALS OUT:/MJ#283+/r140#5p26", **LatLong:** "45.944447 -102.150005", **LatLongDMS:** "45:56:40 N 102:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.944447,-102.150005)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13256 (A89E8CA7) **Date:** 11/16/1956 **Location:** Lemmon, SD **Description:** November 16, 1956; Lemmon, S.D. Railroad phones, automatic block system "mysteriously dead" as UFO passed over railroad yards (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1991 ### Event 13257 (4B46C04C) **Date:** 11/16/1956 **Location:** Lemmon, South Dakota **Description:** Morning. Telephones and an automatic railroad block mechanism in Lemmon, South Dakota, fail to operate as a glowing red object about 3 feet in diameter flies over the railroad yards. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Mobridge \(S.Dak.\) Tribune, November 22, 1956; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 21–22; Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm) [UFO Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2878 ### Event 13258 (38DFD736) **Date:** 11/17/1956 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** DICKINSON, ND **Description:** Red night light hovers low by railroad/railway tracks. Shoots quickly going up [to] as 2 cops near. Maneuvers / sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 527) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5200 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "735", **HatchDesc:** "DICKINSON,ND:RED NLT HVRS LOW by RR TRACKS:SHOOTS ↑↑ as 2 COPS NEAR:MNVRS/SKY", **LatLong:** "46.877780 -102.788894", **LatLongDMS:** "46:52:40 N 102:47:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.877780,-102.788894)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13259 (5B101630) **Date:** 11/17/1956 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** A. G. Corbett. Burger-bun saucer near military transport plane. Gone in seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5201 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:A.G.CORBETT:BURGER-BUN SCR NR MIL XPORT PLANE:GONE IN SECONDS", **LatLong:** "39.988891 -83.038893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:59:20 N 83:02:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.988891,-83.038893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13260 (5AB3D38F) **Date:** 11/17/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 900KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1063 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "900" ### Event 13261 (18F11718) **Date:** 11/19/1956 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** FRANKFURT, GERM **Description:** Engineering student. 7 blue-white ovoids / V-formation east going quickly west over town. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5202 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FRANKFURT,GERM:ENGINEERING STUDENT:7 BLU-WHT OVOIDS/VFORMn E>>W OVR TOWN:NFD", **LatLong:** "50.100002 8.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:06:00 N 08:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.100002,8.683334)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13262 (853C3483) **Date:** 11/19/1956 **Location:** Frankfurt, Germany **Description:** V-formation of blue-white, elliptical UFOs. (UFOE, X) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [561119](http://www.nicap.org/frankfurt561119dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1992 ### Event 13263 (B8C69A2E) **Date:** 11/21/1956 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** OFF WHARF / KOBE, JPN **Description:** Explosive sound. 2 fireballs whirl on water and sink. Fireworks? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5203 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "OFF WHARF/KOBE,JPN:EXPLOSIVE SOUND:2 FBLS WHIRL ON WATER AND SINK: FIREWORKS?", **LatLong:** "33.883335 135.166673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 N 135:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.883335,135.166673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 13264 (EA910726) **Date:** 11/21/1956 **Location:** Number 1 Pier, Kobe, Japan **Description:** 8:23 p.m. A customs officer named Ueda and a maritime safety officer named Kume are walking along Number 1 Pier, Kobe, Japan, when they hear an explosion. They see something resembling fireworks on the bay and watch as two whirling balls of fire submerge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs), p. 46 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2879 ### Event 13265 (661CF425) **Date:** 11/21/1956 **Description:** On this night in 1956, six Civil Air Patrol members and a service station attendant who was fixing their car's flat tire watched a rectangular-shaped object fly in the southeast sky near Carlstadt, New Jersey. It glowed orange. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 337 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7768 ### Event 13266 (4A3F5101) **Date:** 11/22/1956 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** WEST / ABERDEEN, SD **Description:** 4 separate cops. Large orange glowing-orange going west / 30kph? Brightens and dims. Report / USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5204 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "398", **HatchDesc:** "W/ABERDEEN,SD:4 SEP COPS:LRG ORG GLO-ORG >W/30kph?:BRIGHTENS+DIMS:Rept/USAF", **LatLong:** "45.433335 -98.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:26:00 N 98:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.433335,-98.633338)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13267 (F860577F) **Date:** 11/22/1956 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** NORTH / ZUMBROTA, MN **Description:** 4 observer(s). Wingless round object ringed / red lights. Yellow glow / center. Large and high. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5205 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "306", **HatchDesc:** "N/ZUMBROTA,MN:4 OBS:WINGLESS RND OBJ RINGED/RED LITES:YLW GLOW/CTR:LRG+HI:>N", **LatLong:** "44.372224 -92.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:22:20 N 92:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.372224,-92.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13268 (AC40B4BC) **Date:** 11/22/1956 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTH / ALBION, IL **Description:** 4 / car and several / farm. Saucer buzzes car. Circles area counterclockwise. Aims beams / light. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5206 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "S/ALBION,IL:4/CAR+SVRL/FARM:SCR BUZZES CAR:CCLS AREA CCW:AIMS BEAMS/LITE:>>SE", **LatLong:** "38.316668 -88.027782", **LatLongDMS:** "38:19:00 N 88:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.316668,-88.027782)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13269 (51DBF1AC) **Date:** 11/23/1956 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** ABERDEEN, MD **Description:** Eastern Airlines pilot Duboise passed / torpedo. Possible landing / ground observer(s). Project Bluebook Case #unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5207 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "ABERDEEN,MD:EAL PILOT DUBOISE PASSED/TORPEDO:POSS.LANDING/GND OBS:BBK#UNK", **LatLong:** "39.516669 -76.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:00 N 76:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.516669,-76.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13270 (A3E87EF0) **Date:** 11/24/1956 **End date:** 11/25/1956 **Location:** Pierre (near), SD **Description:** Ground/air/visual. Widespread UFO sightings for several days. State police chased UFO, Air Force jets scrambled. (UFOE, VII) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [561124-25](http://www.nicap.org/561124pierre%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1993 ### Event 13271 (9CBAE818) **Date:** 11/25/1956 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** EAST / PIERRE, SD **Description:** Red silent 2M bowl saucer over SR34. Cops chase / 12km. Photographs. / MJ#283+/ r140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5208 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "450", **HatchDesc:** "E/PIERRE,SD:RED SLNT 2M BOWL SCR OVR SR34:COPS CHASE/12km:FOTOs:/MJ#283+/r140", **LatLong:** "44.277780 -99.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "44:16:40 N 99:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.277780,-99.900005)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13272 (65CE52A4) **Date:** 11/25/1956 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** HOT SPRINGS, SD **Description:** Cop and several. UFO going up and down. 3 jets chase. Only 1 gets RADAR physical trace(s). / MJ#283+/ r140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5209 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1120", **HatchDesc:** "HOT SPRINGS,SD:COP+SVRL:UFO↑+↓:3 JETS CHASE:ONLY 1 GETS RDR TRC:/MJ#283+/r140", **LatLong:** "43.433335 -103.477783", **LatLongDMS:** "43:26:00 N 103:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.433335,-103.477783)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13273 (6BA05D6F) **Date:** 11/25/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / READING, MN **Description:** Girl / farm. Horses spooked. 6 green disks / light circle farm 5-6X. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5210 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SE/READING,MN:GIRL/FARM:HORSES SPOOKED:6 GRN DISKS/LITE CCL FARM 5-6X:", **LatLong:** "43.672224 -95.672227", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:20 N 95:40:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.672224,-95.672227)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13274 (DC0078BE) **Date:** 11/25/1956 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** ELLSWORTH, WI **Description:** 2 observer(s). 10M saucer / 9M altitude. Ringed / 6 flashing lights. 2nd object on horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5211 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ELLSWORTH,WI:2 OBS:10M SCR/9M ALT:RINGED/6 FLASHING LITES:2nd OBJ on HRZN", **LatLong:** "44.733335 -92.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:44:00 N 92:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.733335,-92.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13275 (B40FEABD) **Date:** 11/25/1956 **Location:** Hot Springs, SD **Description:** November 25, 1956; Hot Springs, So. Dakota, G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1994 ### Event 13276 (0F166BCE) **Date:** 11/25/1956 **Locations:** Hot Springs, South Dakota; Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City; Rapid City; 740th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron **Description:** 4:30 a.m. Police radio at Hot Springs, South Dakota, picks up transmissions made by a jet interceptor from the 54th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City that makes three passes at a brilliantly lit UFO bobbing up and down in the sky. On the third pass, the pilot reports that the object registers on his radar. It is rumored that a blip is picked up on ground radar by the 740th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. A sheriff and deputy at Rapid City watch a green stationary UFO with a flashing red light for 30 minutes; an upward-shining white light appears at intervals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Gnd/Air/Visual, Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/561124pierre%5Fdir.htm)”; “[‘Saucers’ Stir](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021254/) [Speculation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021254/)” Rapid City \(S.Dak.\) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, p. 1; “[Hills Residents](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021274/) [Tell of Shining](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021296/) [Objects,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021296/)” Rapid City \(S.Dak.\) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, pp. 1, 7; Pierre \(S.Dak.\) Capitol Journal, November 26, 1956; UFOEv, [pp. 22](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=34&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=34&skin=2021) [79](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=91&skin=2021); Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–UFO](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm) [Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2880 ### Event 13277 (2354CBEF) **Date:** 11/25/1956 **Description:** At 4:30 a.m. near Hot Springs, South Dakota a USAF fighter jet from the 54th Fighter Squadron made three passes at a brilliantly lit UFO that was bobbing up and down. On the third pass the UFO was picked up on radar by the 740th ACW squadron. East of Pierre, South Dakota on highway 34, two police officers sight a UFO that plays a game of cat-and-mouse tag with their patrol car. At around 7 p.m. on the same day Mary Whelan was walking a colt on her farm in Reading, Minnesota when it was spooked by six disc-shaped objects that flew over in a semi-circle. Others horses were also frightened when these UFOs made 5-6 more passes in formation following the same maneuver. The discs gave off a green light as they flew past. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Minneapolis Star, November 28, 1956; Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, January 1957, p. 2; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7903 ### Event 13278 (8FD2CE61) **Date:** 11/26/1956 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** BELFRY, KY **Description:** 2 wakened / humming. 16M disk-saucer seen rising / near ground level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5212 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BELFRY,KY:2 WAKENED/HUM:16M DISK-SCR seen RISING/NR GND LEVEL: ", **LatLong:** "37.622224 -82.272226", **LatLongDMS:** "37:37:20 N 82:16:20 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.622224,-82.272226)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13279 (846C094B) **Date:** 11/26/1956 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** ALAMOGORDO **Description:** Astronomer photos perfect and shape / Parry Crater, moon. Bright and sharp. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: STRANGE WORLD; 1964 & Carol Paperbacks 1992. (Index 274) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5213 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALAMOGORDO:ASTRONOMER PHOTOS PERFECT + SHAPE/PARRY CRATER,MOON:BRIGHT+SHARP.", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "FRA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13280 (A645E2D0) **Date:** 11/26/1956 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** PUKETAPU, NZ **Description:** Separate farmer. Blue beam going [to] through window. See Hatuma. Same description. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5214 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PUKETAPU,NZ:SEP.FARMER:BLUE BEAM >THRU WINDOW:see HATUMA:SAME DESCRIPTION", **LatLong:** "-39.516669 176.800008", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:00 S 176:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.516669,176.800008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13281 (BB465A6D) **Date:** 11/27/1956 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** NEAR HATUMA, NZ **Description:** 30cm wide laser-like beam going [to] window / 45° angle. Leads to saucer outside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5215 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr HATUMA,NZ:30cm WIDE LASER-LIKE BEAM >WINDOW/45°ANGLE:LEADS TO SCR OUTSIDE", **LatLong:** "-40.066669 176.416675", **LatLongDMS:** "40:04:00 S 176:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-40.066669,176.416675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13282 (0209598E) **Date:** 11/27/1956 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** NORTH / CHAMBERLAIN, SD **Description:** Hunters. Silver gondola saucer hovers / 1500M altitude. Shoots up with contrail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5216 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N/CHAMBERLAIN,SD:HUNTERS:SLVR GONDOLA SCR HVRS/1500M alt:SHOOTS UP W/CONTRAIL", **LatLong:** "43.866669 -99.327783", **LatLongDMS:** "43:52:00 N 99:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.866669,-99.327783)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13283 (9FFBFAFE) **Date:** 11/27/1956 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** MITCHELL, SD **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Gondola-saucer going [to] low. Stops. Going up / angle into wind. / r140#5p31. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5217 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "398", **HatchDesc:** "MITCHELL,SD:SVRL SEP.OBS:GONDOLA-SCR > LOW:STOPS:↑/ANGLE INTO WIND:/r140#5p31", **LatLong:** "43.711113 -98.027782", **LatLongDMS:** "43:42:40 N 98:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.711113,-98.027782)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13284 (E13579B7) **Date:** 11/28/1956 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** SOUTH / ODESSA, MN **Description:** Dog howls. Plain brilliant round object 1 / 3 moon-size going east over farm. South and L. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5218 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "S/ODESSA,MN:DOG HOWLS:PLAIN BRILL.RND OBJ 1/3 MOONSIZE >E OVR FARM:S+L:SLNT", **LatLong:** "45.183335 -96.327782", **LatLongDMS:** "45:11:00 N 96:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.183335,-96.327782)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13285 (FB91F41C) **Date:** 11/28/1956 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / WESTBROOK, MN **Description:** Farmer. Saucer hovers / 100M altitude. Quickly going up [to] and hovers. Changes color(s). Portholes? Back / 8 December. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5219 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "426", **HatchDesc:** "SE/WESTBROOK,MN:FARMER:SCR HVRS/100M alt:↑↑+HVRS:CHANGES CLRS:PORTS?:back/8DEC", **LatLong:** "43.977780 -95.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:58:40 N 95:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.977780,-95.383338)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13286 (3084A79A) **Date:** 11/28/1956 **Description:** A strange customer in John Whitworth's shop in Biggelswade, England, someone with a very high forehead, told him that he could see a flying saucer if he would go to a certain spot on this night. Whitworth went there and did see a hovering object like a humming top, with lighted portholes. Just one year later the visitor returned and told him he would again have a contact this time, at another spot. Whitworth went with a crowd of others, including a BBC recording van, and was disappointed. Later he received a telephone call, “in an unearthly voice,” which reproached him for bringing the others. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1956-12, citing Flying Saucer Review, Volume 4, issue # 3, July 1958, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7984 ### Event 13287 (A96B7FEE) **Date:** 11/29/1956 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Moon-colored disk hovers. Going up [to] and stops. Going up [to] and stops several times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 683) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5220 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:SVRL SEP.OBS:MOON-CLRD DISK HVRs:↑+STOPS:↑+STOPS svrl times", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -106.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 106:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-106.050005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13288 (62E1E0E0) **Date:** 11/29/1956 **Description:** A milky green saucer-shaped object was seen by two men from a Capital Airlines flight northeast of Hickory, North Carolina. It was between 60 and 100 feet in diameter, and remained motionless for awhile, and then began moving. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8028 ### Event 13289 (032B2126) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SOUTH / PETERSBURG, IN **Description:** 1 observer. Mechanical noise. 16' saucer going up / 150' altitude. Now silent. Going quickly northeast. / r140#5p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** OLSEN, Thomas: REFERENCE for OUTSTANDING UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTS. 1966 UFO Information Retrieval Center, Riderwood, MD 21139. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5221 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "133", **HatchDesc:** "S/PETERSBURG,IN:1 OBS:MECH.NOISE:16'SCR ↑/150'alt:NOW SILENT:>>NE:/r140#5p37", **LatLong:** "38.444446 -87.277782", **LatLongDMS:** "38:26:40 N 87:16:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.444446,-87.277782)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13290 (4B0BCFEB) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, SC **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4543. Many military observer(s). UFO going quickly [to] 30m over water. Type unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5222 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "CHARLESTON AFB,SC:BBK#4543:MANY MIL OBS:UFO >>30m ovr WATER:TYPE UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "32.916668 -80.072226", **LatLongDMS:** "32:55:00 N 80:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.916668,-80.072226)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13291 (979F6BAF) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** SOUTH / ABERDEEN, SD **Description:** Newsboy. Orange inverted cup saucer northwest going southeast. Windows / side? No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5223 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "S/ABERDEEN,SD:NEWSBOY:ORG INVERTED CUP SCR NW>SE:WINDOWS/SIDE?:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.450002 -98.488894", **LatLongDMS:** "45:27:00 N 98:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.450002,-98.488894)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13292 (A06664EC) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** KETTERING, ENG **Description:** 3+observer(s). Silent disk passes / jet speed. Hole / center. Going quickly northeast. / r140 #5p36. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5224 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KETTERING,ENG:3+OBS:SLNT DISK PASSES/JET SPEED:HOLE/CENTER:>>NE:/r140 #5p36", **LatLong:** "52.400002 -0.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:24:00 N 00:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.400002,-0.716667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13293 (DE233D6C) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Location:** Charleston AFB, SC **Description:** Unspecified object fly at an estimated 100 ft altitude over water (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4543) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1995 ### Event 13294 (A72E6A29) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Time:** 12:48 PM **Location:** Charleston AFB, South Carolina **Description:** Witness: USAF aerial navigator Maj. D.D. Grimes. One unspecified object flew at an estimated 100' altitude over water for 10 minutes. No further details. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_408 ### Event 13295 (EB14187B) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. in Kettering, Northhampton, England a disc-shaped object with a hole in the center flew by at jet speed, shooting off to the northeast. It made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4842, citing Flying Saucer Review **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8065 ### Event 13296 (104B186F) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Description:** At 12:48 p.m. U.S. Air Force aerial navigator Maj. D. D. Grimes saw an unidentified object fly at an estimated 100 feet altitude over water from Charleston AFB, South Carolina. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 4543; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8066 ### Event 13297 (6269C441) **Date:** 11/30/1956 **Description:** Driving on Highway 61 three miles south of Petersburg, Indiana a Mr. Malott had a close encounter with a small UFO flying at low level at noon CST. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, February 1957, p. 1; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 84 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8067 ### Event 13298 (812D129A) **Date:** 12/1956 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** EL GALPON, ARG **Description:** Dentist and 11. Big bright object from hills. Stops. Shoots back to hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5225 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EL GALPON,ARG:DENTIST+11:BIG BRITE OBJ FROM HILLS:STOPS:SHOOTS BACK TO HILLS", **LatLong:** "-25.383335 -64.633336", **LatLongDMS:** "25:23:00 S 64:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-25.383335,-64.633336)", **State/Prov:** "SLT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13299 (1C0C3CBB) **Date:** 12/1956 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NORTH / BANJARMASIN, BORNEO **Description:** Saucer with fiery rim lands / lake. Smoke and noise and foul odor / takeoff. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5226 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "N/BANJARMASIN,BORNEO:SCR W/FIERY RIM LANDS/LAKE:SMOKE+NOISE+FOUL ODOR/TAKEOFF", **LatLong:** "-3.166667 114.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "03:10:00 S 114:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-3.166667,114.583339)", **State/Prov:** "BOR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13300 (955434E3) **Date:** 12/1956 **Location:** Far East, Asia **Description:** December 1956, Far East. Visual & radar sighting of round UFO by Air Force jet pilot. Radar jammed by strong Interference (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1996 ### Event 13301 (357F3FF4) **Date:** 12/1956 **Location:** Far East, Asia **Description:** December 1956; Far East, A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1997 ### Event 13302 (406191DD) **Date:** 12/1956 **Description:** Chemical engineer [Leon Davidson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%5FDavidson) begins to distribute privately printed copies of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, together with his analysis and commentary. He has become convinced that UFOs are secret devices developed by the US government and that Special Report No. 14 is a clever attempt to hide the fact. Mostly, however, he focuses on discrepancies in the Air Force’s public announcements and the actual data in the report. Davidson publishes further editions in October 1957, July 1966, January 1971, and 1976. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Leon Davidson, [Flying Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14](http://cufos.org/books/Air%5FForce%5FProject%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14R.pdf), \[1956\], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; Clark III 930 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2881 ### Event 13303 (23C890C4) **Date:** 12/1/1956 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** VALLEY CITY, ND **Description:** Cops. Small round ball / 300M altitude. Maneuvers going up and down [to] and all directions. All radio out. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 539) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5227 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "372", **HatchDesc:** "VALLEY CITY,ND:COPS:SML RND BALL/300M alt:MNVRS ↑+↓+ALL DIRS:ALL RADIO OUT", **LatLong:** "46.916669 -98.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "46:55:00 N 98:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.916669,-98.016671)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13304 (CB70564D) **Date:** 12/1/1956 **Locations:** Valley City, North Dakota; Jamestown, South Dakota **Description:** 12:20 a.m. A round object, red to orange in color, is observed moving at approximately 1,000 foot above Valley City, North Dakota. It moves rapidly up, down, sideways, and hovers. A police car approaches it, but the car loses radio contact with the station. Valley City also loses contact with Jamestown, South Dakota. All radio contact returns after the object leaves the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, \[[Blue Book file](http://www.nicap.org/docs/561201valleycity%5Fdocs.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2882 ### Event 13305 (938FD26E) **Date:** 12/1/1956 **Description:** In Valley City, North Dakota at 1:20 a.m. in 1956, a round, reddish UFO caused interference on a police radio while being observed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8101 ### Event 13306 (069DE593) **Date:** 12/2/1956 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ORTLEY, SD **Description:** 1 / car and more/others. Cup-saucer with small row / windows soars up 30M and shoots away. Landing? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5228 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "560", **HatchDesc:** "ORTLEY,SD:1/CAR++:CUP-SCR W/SML ROW/WINDOWS SOARS UP 30M+SHOOTS AWAY:landing?", **LatLong:** "45.333335 -97.194449", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:00 N 97:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.333335,-97.194449)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13307 (9BA260ED) **Date:** 12/2/1956 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** FOREST LAKE, MN **Description:** 4+observer(s). Glowing-ovoid maneuvers going up and down. Observer(s) chase / car. Going east slow. Turns going south and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 697) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5229 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "282", **HatchDesc:** "FOREST LAKE,MN:4+OBS:GLO-OVOID MNVRS ↑+↓:OBS CHASE/CAR:> E SLOW:TURNS >S+AWAY", **LatLong:** "45.277780 -92.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "45:16:40 N 92:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.277780,-92.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13308 (90608AB9) **Date:** 12/2/1956 **Locations:** Prescott, Arizona; Mexico; Moyobamba, Peru; Valley of Pariahuanca east of Lima, Peru **Description:** [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) sets off from Prescott, Arizona, with the Laugheads, ufologist brothers [Ray](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html) and [Rex G.](http://archived.parapsych.org/psiexplorer/rexstanford.htm) [Stanford](http://archived.parapsych.org/psiexplorer/rexstanford.htm), and [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), his wife Betty, and toddler son Mark. They are acting in response to a series of Williamson channelings that had begun April 18 when Lord Aramu-Muru announced that “those we have commissioned” are to establish a priory of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays “in a remote area of another country to the south.” After spending some time in Mexico, they head for Moyobamba, Peru, under the direction of their spirit masters. The Laugheads \(who apparently were in Mexico in July\) and Stanfords leave around this time. After a while, those remaining move to the Valley of Pariahuanca east of Lima, Peru, and set up the Outer Retreat of the Monastery of the Seven Rays, which has some cult-like attributes. There they attract new members, including Williamson’s later coauthor John McCoy. Williamson devotes himself for several years to paranormally guided archaeological expeditions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 719–720, 1286; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 105–115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2883 ### Event 13309 (102C1C8E) **Date:** 12/2/1956 **Description:** At 9:45 p.m. a luminous ovoid object maneuvered in the sky, descended, and then ascended to a somewhat higher altitude in Forest Lake, Minnesota. The witness, Mr. Moffett, chased it in his car. The UFO flew to the east slowly, then turned toward the south and flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, March 1957, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8122 ### Event 13310 (D440417D) **Date:** 12/3/1956 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** 2 / ground. Saucer breaks away / transport plane. Spins counterclockwise. Plane chases. / r70p351. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 697) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5230 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:2/GND:SCR BREAKS AWAY/XPORT PLANE:SPINS CCW:PLANE CHASES:/r70p351", **LatLong:** "39.277780 -76.605559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:16:40 N 76:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.277780,-76.605559)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13311 (3C68B7AF) **Date:** 12/3/1956 **Description:** In 1956 a disc paced a transport plane over Baltimore, Maryland for a short while, then broke away, spinning counterclockwise. The plane attempted to follow the UFO but was unable to keep up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, February 1957, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8158 ### Event 13312 (2490E8F4) **Date:** 12/4/1956 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / JAKARTA, INSPECT **Description:** Several observer(s). Metal saucer stops over airport 2X. Splits. Rejoins. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5231 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SE/JAKARTA,INS:SVRL OBS:MTL SCR STOPS OVR AIRPORT 2X:SPLITS:REJOINS:>>E", **LatLong:** "-6.250000 106.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "06:15:00 S 106:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.250000,106.900005)", **State/Prov:** "JVA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13313 (490D40D2) **Date:** 12/4/1956 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** MANHATTAN, NY **Description:** Saucer follows bomber and fighter escort through turn. Flips. Going quickly southeast horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5232 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MANHATTAN,NY:SCR FOLOS BOMBER+FIGHTER ESCORT THRU TURN:FLIPS:>>SE HRZN", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -73.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 73:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-73.916670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13314 (FAED1250) **Date:** 12/5/1956 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** OCEANSIDE, CA **Description:** 3+observer(s). White-glowing disk hovers / coast. Going northwest. Back going southeast. Quickly going up. Jets circle. / r140#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5233 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "OCEANSIDE,CA:3+OBS:WHT-GLO DISK HVRS/COAST:> NW:BACK >SE:↑↑:jets ccl:/r140#10", **LatLong:** "33.200002 -117.388894", **LatLongDMS:** "33:12:00 N 117:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.200002,-117.388894)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13315 (3CDA44DF) **Date:** 12/9/1956 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / GARY, SD **Description:** 3 / farm. Red sphere/orb/globe with multicolor rings. Up and down. Away extremely fast with fiery trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5234 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "976", **HatchDesc:** "NW/GARY,SD:3/FARM:RED ORB W/MULTICLR RINGS:UP+DOWN:AWAY XFAST W/FIERY TRAIL", **LatLong:** "44.850002 -96.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "44:51:00 N 96:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.850002,-96.577782)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13316 (60A9ECAB) **Date:** 12/9/1956 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** WOODSTOCK, MN **Description:** Very large tan 'half pancake' follows car? Going north slow. Going quickly [to] horizon? / r140#5p48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5235 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "447", **HatchDesc:** "WOODSTOCK,MN:VLRG TAN 'HALF PANCAKE' FOLOS CAR?:>N SLOW:>>HRZN?:/r140#5p48", **LatLong:** "44.016669 -96.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:01:00 N 96:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.016669,-96.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13317 (498DB639) **Date:** 12/10/1956? **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** WEST / WESTFIELD, ND **Description:** House sized object hovers / 60M altitude. Small objects exit / all directions and return. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5236 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "W/WESTFIELD,ND:HOUSE SIZED OBJ HVRS/60M alt:SML OBJs EXIT/ALL DIRs+RETURN ", **LatLong:** "46.033336 -100.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "46:02:00 N 100:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.033336,-100.266671)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13318 (7191BD7B) **Date:** 12/10/1956 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** HAWTHORNE, CA **Description:** Airline worker and more/others / car. Mirror-like blimp hovers / 1 minute(s). Away / impossible speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5237 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAWTHORNE,CA:AIRLINE WORKER++/CAR:MIRROR-LIKE BLIMP HVRS/1min:AWAY/IMPOSS.SPD", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -118.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 118:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-118.350006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13319 (230190D6) **Date:** 12/10/1956 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** TSURUMI, JPN **Description:** 3 teens. Round silent silver football hovers / railroad/railway station. Quickly going up. / Y. Matsumura. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5238 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TSURUMI,JPN:3 TEENS:RND SLNT SLVR FOOTBALL HVRS/RR STATION:↑↑:/Y.Matsumura", **LatLong:** "35.500002 139.683340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 139:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,139.683340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13320 (16CD9E5A) **Date:** 12/10/1956 **Location:** Victoria, Texas **Description:** 2:00 p.m. A US Air Force pilot sees a silver object with a “straight wing, having engine rods or large wing pods \[or\] intakes” flying at 56,000–62,000 feet for 15 minutes at Victoria, Texas. The pilot’s description is a dead ringer for a secret U-2 aircraft, which is what Blue Book suspects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue Book: Another Look,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 20–21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2884 ### Event 13321 (E0571A34) **Date:** 12/10/1956 **Description:** Three teenagers sighted a round, silver football that hovered silently over a Railroad Station in Tsurumi, Japan for a couple of minutes, then shot straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Y. Matsumura, APRO Bulletin, January 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8296 ### Event 13322 (6A249B81) **Date:** 12/11/1956 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** NEAR BEAMSLEY, YORKS **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). Bright green 6M sphere hovers / 2K' altitude. Going down. / r234p107+/ r140. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5239 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "nr BEAMSLEY,YORKs:2+1 OBS:BRITE GRN 6M SPHERE HVRS/2K'alt:↓:/r234p107+/r140", **LatLong:** "53.950003 -1.883333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:57:00 N 01:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.950003,-1.883333)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13323 (AF27B253) **Date:** 12/13/1956 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** NORTH / ORCHILA ISLAND, VNZL **Description:** Swedish ship. Glowing-cone going down. Dives. Water glows and boils. / r44p39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 685) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5240 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/ORCHILA ISL,VNZL:SWEDISH SHIP:GLOW-CONE ↓:DIVES:WATER GLOWS+BOILS:/r44p39", **LatLong:** "12.000001 -66.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "12:00:00 N 66:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/12.000001,-66.583337)", **State/Prov:** "VEN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13324 (B6871226) **Date:** 12/13/1956 **Location:** Isla La Orchila, Venezuela **Description:** Capt. Karl Hars Dersson and the crew of the Danish ship [Dorthe Maersk](https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/396230/cat/503) view an intensely bright fireball giving off weird flashes of light for 2–3 minutes north of Isla La Orchila, Venezuela. It explodes on hitting the water. Afterwards, the surface of the sea shimmers with various colors and is disturbed for 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 November–December, Supplemental](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec-SN.pdf) [Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 39–40 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2885 ### Event 13325 (9BF7B19F) **Date:** 12/14/1956 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SOUTH / PIERPONT, SD **Description:** 2+1 separate observer(s). 8' x20' ovoid close / ground. Vertical blue lines. Vanishes? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5241 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "457", **HatchDesc:** "S/PIERPONT,SD:2+1 SEP.OBS:8'x20' OVOID CLOSE/GND:VERTICAL BLUE LINES:VANISHES?", **LatLong:** "45.466669 -97.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:28:00 N 97:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.466669,-97.833338)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13326 (E0518B23) **Date:** 12/14/1956 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 40KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1064 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "40" ### Event 13327 (1895D502) **Date:** 12/15/1956 (approximate) **Location:** Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, NM **Description:** During a missile test firing at a point in space, a UAO was tracked on radar. Result: near-miss with the Unconventional Aerial Object. Anonymous source. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [APRO Bulletin, 1/1957, page 6](https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1957.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_922 ### Event 13328 (6958D7B1) **Date:** 12/15/1956 **Location:** Derry, New Hampshire **Description:** 11:00 a.m. While out gathering Christmas greens near Derry, New Hampshire, A. G. Horne looks up and sees a 2-foot tall green dwarf with a high-domed head, floppy ears, a face like a bloodhound, and lidless eyes like a snake. His skin hangs in folds like an elephant’s. After a few minutes, the being “started for me with a kind of screeching sound,” and Horne flees. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1956](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1956.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1956.pdf) p. 23; Clark III 271 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2886 ### Event 13329 (13A5A771) **Date:** 12/15/1956 **Description:** While out gathering Christmas trees around 11:00 o’clock in the morning in Derry, New Hampshire, a Mr. Horne saw a two-foot tall, green colored dwarf, with a high forehead, large floppy ears, and short arms and legs. The texture of the creature’s skin was course, like the skin of an elephant. The dwarf made a screeching noise when approached. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Walter N. Webb case investigations, report dated November 4, 1964 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8406 ### Event 13330 (8F1A0FC9) **Date:** 12/17/1956 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** ITAZUKE AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** 100M saucer jams RADAR / 2 frequencies. Going up / 3000kph. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v18#3+/ r140+/ r46p104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5242 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "ITAZUKE AFB,JPN:100M SCR JAMS RDR/2 freqs:↑/3000kph:/IUR v18#3+/r140+/r46p104", **LatLong:** "33.866668 130.466673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:52:00 N 130:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.866668,130.466673)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13331 (B1360B3F) **Date:** 12/17/1956 **Location:** Itazuke AFB, Japan **Description:** Radar / Visual From F-86 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [561217](http://www.nicap.org/561217itazuke%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1998 ### Event 13332 (5FC2D9D7) **Date:** 12/17/1956 **Location:** Itazuke Air Base [now Fukuoka Airport] in Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** 4:20 p.m. Near Itazuke Air Base \[now Fukuoka Airport\] in Fukuoka, Japan, a USAF pilot flying an F- 86D interceptor picks up a large blip on airborne radar. The pilot sees a tan object, round on top, at 9.2 miles and closes to within 5.7 miles. The object starts to pull away from the fighter and at 13.8 miles all radar disappears. The pilot estimates its speed as 1,700–2,000 mph. Both the pilot and his wingman report interference resembling ECM \(radar jamming\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Radar/Visual from F-86](http://www.nicap.org/561217itazuke%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 240; “Jet Planes Chased Big Flying Object,” Auckland \(N.Z.\) Star, October 4, 1957; “[Jet Chase of Large Circular Object Investigated by Far East Air](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/002%20AUG-SEPT%201957.pdf) [Force,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/002%20AUG-SEPT%201957.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 2 \(Aug./Sept. 1957\): 1–2; Richard Hall, “Radar/Visual UFOs and Air Force Debunking,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 15–16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2887 ### Event 13333 (CF480953) **Date:** 12/17/1956 **Location:** Conashaugh, Pennsylvania **Description:** Night. Marie Carow goes outside her home in Conashaugh, Pennsylvania, with a flashlight and discovers two little men, 3.5 and 3 feet tall, standing motionless in her back lawn. Both wear helmets and snug-fitting suits of silvery material. Carow shines the light on them for 3 minutes, then runs back to tell her husband. 15 minutes later, they are gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[UFO Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct, 1969\): 16–18; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1956-12-17-usa-conashaugh.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1956-12-17-usa-conashaugh.htm) October 18, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2888 ### Event 13334 (C8788E51) **Date:** 12/17/1956 **Description:** At 3:20 p.m. at Itazuke AFB in Japan a brownish-golden colored UFO was sighted from the air by a pilot and co-pilot. It flew at a high rate of speed and was tracked on radar. Radio interference between the warplane and the base was also noted at the time. On that same night a humanoid encounter occurred in the United States. At about 9 p.m. in Conashaugh, Pennsylvania Ms. M. Carow, a 68-year-old woman, went out in her backyard with a flashlight and was surprised to see two dwarves. One was three feet tall, the other one three and a half feet tall. Both wore tight silver suits and helmets. The shorter one was stocky but the taller one was slender. She shone her flashlight on them for three minutes before they walked away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; NICAP UFO Intestigator, August 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, 104; UNICAT, case # 802; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing International UFO Reporter; (2) Berthold E. Schwarz, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 16, citing Pike County Dispatch, April 17, 1958 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8461 ### Event 13335 (2CEDC585) **Date:** 12/22/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** SR23, MN **Description:** Family going north. 1M red and green object passes over car / 6M altitude 5 times! Emits sparks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5243 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SR23,MN:FAMILY >N:1M RED+GRN OBJ PASSES OVR CAR/6M alt 5 TIMES!:EMITS SPARKS", **LatLong:** "43.661113 -96.427782", **LatLongDMS:** "43:39:40 N 96:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.661113,-96.427782)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13336 (ACD73E59) **Date:** 12/26/1956 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). 2-3 silver ovoids high and fast. 1 reverses course / r140#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5244 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "HUNTINGTON BEACH,CA:SVRL OBS:2-3 SLVR OVOIDS HI+FAST:1 REVERSES COURSE/r140#5", **LatLong:** "33.661113 -118.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:40 N 118:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.661113,-118.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13337 (C2A81EB4) **Date:** 12/26/1956 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** DE FUNIAK SPRS, FL **Description:** Military and civil observer(s). White ovoid "size / grapefruit". Red flashes. Going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 563) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5245 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "De FUNIAK SPRs,FL:MIL+CIV OBS:WHT OVOID "SIZE/GRAPEFRUIT":RED FLASHES:>W", **LatLong:** "30.722224 -86.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:43:20 N 86:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.722224,-86.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13338 (333ECFD3) **Date:** 12/27/1956 (approximate) **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** WEST / KENNEBEC, SD **Description:** Round object with flat bottom/underside follows car. Beam lights ground. To and fro across road. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5246 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "W/KENNEBEC,SD:RND OBJ W/FLAT BTM FOLOS CAR:BEAM LITES GND:TO+FRO ACRS ROAD", **LatLong:** "43.900002 -100.283338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:54:00 N 100:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.900002,-100.283338)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13339 (AD924421) **Date:** 12/27/1956 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** Real estate investor saw three spherical UFOs reflecting sunlight. (UFOE, VII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1999 ### Event 13340 (D4DFDB65) **Date:** 12/28/1956 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** WICKFORD, ENGL **Description:** 1 observer-hits 18' saucer with shotgun. Hovers / treetops / 5 minute(s). Going quickly west. / r148p195. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 564) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5247 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "WICKFORD,ENGL:1 OBS-HITS 18'SCR W/SHOTGUN:HVRS/TREETOPS/5min:>>W:/r148p195", **LatLong:** "51.600002 0.505556", **LatLongDMS:** "51:36:00 N 00:30:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.600002,0.505556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13341 (D82A2A3D) **Date:** 12/28/1956 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** INVERCARGILL, NZ **Description:** Cops and more/others. Flocks / night lights / delta/triangle/box-like craft formations. Night light circles city and going quickly southwest. All below cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 564) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5248 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "INVERCARGILL,NZ:COPS++:FLOCKS/NLTS/DLT FORMns:NLT CCLS CITY+>>SW:all blw cloud", **LatLong:** "-46.400002 168.450008", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:00 S 168:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.400002,168.450008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13342 (0AB4C33A) **Date:** 12/30/1956 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** READING, ENGL **Description:** 4+observer(s). Metallic "tailless fish" zigzags going west across sky. / r140 #5p60. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5249 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "READING,ENGL:4+OBS:MTLC "TAILLESS FISH" ZIGZAGS >W ACRS SKY:/r140 #5p60", **LatLong:** "51.966669 0.983333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:58:00 N 00:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.966669,0.983333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13343 (9F80475E) **Date:** 12/30/1956 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CHIN-SHUI CHEN, TAIWAN **Description:** Red-glowing saucer beams strong light / 3 observer(s). Passes / 55' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 262) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5250 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Taiwan China", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHIN-SHUI CHEN,TAIWAN:RED-GLO SCR BEAMS STRONG LITE/3 OBS:PASSES/55'ALT:", **LatLong:** "24.600001 120.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "24:36:00 N 120:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.600001,120.866672)", **State/Prov:** "MLC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13344 (CBE7A36B) **Date:** 12/31/1956 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** NEAR AGANA, GUAM **Description:** F86D chases white saucer. Saucer circles jet / Max speed/velocity. Going quickly west. / r185p26+/ r148p196. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1956 (3 booklets) 1994 Self published. (Index 562) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5251 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr AGANA,GUAM:F86D CHASES WHT SCR:SCR CCLS JET/MAX SPD:>>W:/r185p26+/r148p196", **LatLong:** "13.472223 144.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "13:28:20 N 144:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/13.472223,144.750007)", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13345 (9FF2AA1C) **Date:** 12/31/1956 **Location:** Airspace over Guam, Guam **Description:** Pilot saw a round, white object fly under the jet (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 4577) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2000 ### Event 13346 (25CF2B8D) **Date:** 12/31/1956 **Time:** 2:10 AM **Location:** Guam **Description:** Witness: USAF lst Lt. Ted Brunson, flying an F-86D jet interceptor. One round, white object flew under the F-86D, which was unable to turn as sharply as the object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_409 --- ## Year: 1957 (Back to Top) ### Event 13347 (51EBBD3E) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Birmingham, England **Description:** Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by spacemen **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_153 ### Event 13348 (BE894944) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Ozyorsk, Russia **Description:** A radioactive waste containment sector near Ozyorsk failed and exploded with a force between 70-100 tons of TNT. Radiation was immediately spread throughout the region, affecting over 250,000 people. The radioactivity released into the atmosphere was estimated to only be one-fourth that of the later Chernobyl disaster. By 1959 every tree within a 12-mile radius of the Chelyabinsk-40 complex was dead. **Type:** radiological event **Reference:** [link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_210 ### Event 13349 (2554450B) **Date:** 1957 **Description:** Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Weapons design and research) **Type:** atomic plant **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_569 ### Event 13350 (8842818C) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** POZNAN, POLAND **Description:** Twice / 1957. Classic saucer seen over town / broad daylight. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5253 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "159", **HatchDesc:** "POZNAN,POLAND:TWICE/1957:CLASSIC SCR SEEN ovr TOWN /broad daylight:NFD", **LatLong:** "52.416669 16.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:25:00 N 16:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.416669,16.916667)", **State/Prov:** "POZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13351 (75DBAB22) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Moriah Center, NY **Description:** April or May 1957; Moriah Center, N. Y. "Television started to have all sorts of trouble"; witness called out-doors in time to see red disc pass overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2005 ### Event 13352 (5D196B8F) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Rouen, France **Description:** 1957; Rouen, France, RAF Flying Review photo (hoax) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [570000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/france57.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2006 ### Event 13353 (8A05227D) **Date:** 1957 **Locations:** Congo basin; moon **Description:** [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) publishes The Expanding Case for the UFO, which argues that human “little people” \(like the pygmy peoples of the Congo basin\) were “planted” from UFOs thousands of years ago. Citing reports of anomalous lights on the moon, Jessup speculates that the pygmy races either colonized the moon or came to the Earth from there. They are the remnants of an advanced civilization that developed levitation, teleportation, and space flight, but had to leave Earth when Atlantis and Mu were sinking into the oceans. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Morris K. Jessup, [The](https://archive.org/details/TheExpandingCaseForTheUFO/page/n5/mode/2up) [Expanding Case for the UFO](https://archive.org/details/TheExpandingCaseForTheUFO/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/TheExpandingCaseForTheUFO/page/n5/mode/2up) Citadel, 1957; Clark III 106–107, 635; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2889 ### Event 13354 (24223EB4) **Date:** 1957 **Locations:** Lake Titicaca, Peru; Arizona **Description:** Metaphysical author [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) writes Other Tongues—Other Flesh \(although it bears a copyright date of 1953\), the first of three books that set forth an alternative occult history shaped by Atlantis, Lemuria, reincarnation, and space people—both benign and malevolent. He writes that space people first arrived 1 billion years ago \[prior to the earliest known multicellular life on land\], were 12 feet tall, and built an underground city beneath Lake Titicaca, Peru. Migrants from the “Sirius system” arrive during the Miocene Epoch \[23–5 million years ago\] looking for terrestrial bodies to inhabit—they select the evolving apes. The next visitation took place in Arizona in 10,000 B.C. \[the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution\] when Venusians land and interact with the Lemurians. Records documenting earth’s unknown history are hidden in various inaccessible places \(“secret places of the lion”\) around the globe. Williamson’s book Secret Places of the Lion follows in 1958 and Road in the Sky in 1959. These are among the first ancient astronaut books. In the latter book, Williamson claims that the Hopi’s ancestors are Martians, while their neighbors the Navajo are from Maldek, the planet whose destruction formed the asteroid belt. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Hunt Williamson, [Other Tongues—Other Flesh](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://dl.lilibook.ir/2016/03/Other-Tongues-Other-Flesh.pdf), Amherst, \[1957\]; George Hunt Williamson, [Secret Places of the Lion](https://archive.org/details/secretplacesofli0000will/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/secretplacesofli0000will/page/n3/mode/2up) Destiny Books ed., 1996; Clark III 104–106, 1286; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 23–26; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 113–120, 235–243 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2890 ### Event 13355 (2176160A) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** New Jersey **Description:** New Jersey contactee [Howard Menger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FMenger) releases an album of “Authentic Music from Another Planet,” featuring a narrative by Menger and bland piano music written by his wife [Connie](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tcpalm/obituary.aspx?n=constance-v-menger&pid=186951650) \(under her nom de plume Marla Baxter, sister of the blonde spacewoman he had met in 1946\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Discogs, “[Authentic Music from Another Planet](https://www.discogs.com/release/3138492-Howard-Menger-Authentic-Music-From-Another-Planet)”; “[Authentic Music from Another Planet by Howard Menger,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9LTUAMM0V0)” Libertad450 YouTube channel, February 22, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2891 ### Event 13356 (FF5F6698) **Date:** 1957 **Description:** [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) announces his invention of a fourth-dimensional space vehicle, a Circular-Foil Spacecraft powered by an Utron Electric Accumulator that makes use of the “free energy of the universe.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 860 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2892 ### Event 13357 (8301C116) **Date:** 1957 **Locations:** Phoenix, Arizona; Cleveland, Ohio **Description:** Ground Saucer Watch is established in Phoenix, Arizona, by Ted Starrett. William H. Spaulding is the Western Division Director, with James A. Spaulding as the Eastern Division Director in Cleveland, Ohio. It publishes Ground Saucer Watch Bulletin from 1976 to 1982. By 1979, GSW has analyzed nearly 700 UFO photographs and films, of which they verify 38 as bona fide. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p, 132](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/131/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2893 ### Event 13358 (74FC3F7F) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Marlborough, Massachusetts **Description:** [George Fawcett](https://www.gastongazette.com/article/20130123/News/301239944) founds the New England UFO Study Group in Marlborough, Massachusetts. It publishes the New England UFO Newsletter from 1976 to 1982. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2894 ### Event 13359 (58460EE0) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Edmond, Oklahoma **Description:** [Hayden C. Hewes](http://www.cryptozoonews.com/hewes-obit/) founds the International UFO Bureau in Edmond, Oklahoma. It publishes the Interplanetary Intelligence Report from 1965 to 1966. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2895 ### Event 13360 (DE01FB95) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Bucegi Mountains, Romania **Description:** Engineer Pantelimon Mizof and others see an object in the Bucegi Mountains, Romania, pass over them silently and land. Some of them approach to get a better look, but when they are 150 feet away, it takes off suddenly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 158–159 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2896 ### Event 13361 (75687DD9) **Date:** 1957 **Locations:** Australian; Victoria **Description:** The Victorian branch of the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society becomes a separate organization, the Victorian UFO Research Society. It publishes the Australian UFO Bulletin from 1957 to September 2007, edited by Les Bristol. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 24; [Australian UFO Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2012%20-%20December%20-%20vol%201%20no%203.pdf) 1, no. 3 \(December 1957\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2897 ### Event 13362 (66703014) **Date:** 1957 **Location:** Barcelona, Spain **Description:** The Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios is founded in Barcelona, Spain. From 1970 to 1981 it publishes a quarterly magazine titled Stendek, and since then it has published occasional groups of papers on UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Stendek](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Stendek%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1383%29/Stendek%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%20June%201970.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(June 1970\); [Papers d’OVNIs](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1391%29/1a%20epoca/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20-%201a%20epoca%20-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1391%29/1a%20epoca/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20-%201a%20epoca%20-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(1994\); [Nous Papers d’OVNIs](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Nous%20Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1405%29/Nous%20Papers%201.pdf), no. 1 \(December 2014\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2898 ### Event 13363 (1CC29E6E) **Date:** 1/1957 **Location:** MILOWKA, POLAND **Description:** Several sightings / Jan. 1 to many observer(s). Spheres and "hats" and 20M saucer etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5252 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MILOWKA,POLAND:SVRL SIGHTINGS/JAN:1 to MANY OBS:SPHERES+"HATS"+20M SCR etc", **LatLong:** "49.566669 19.094445", **LatLongDMS:** "49:34:00 N 19:05:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.566669,19.094445)", **State/Prov:** "BLS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13364 (2356591A) **Date:** 1/1957 **Locations:** Los Angeles; California; Alpha Centauri **Description:** Contactee [Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen) establishes the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups, which in 1959 evolves into Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America in Los Angeles, California. It assumes that UFOs are piloted by friendly extraterrestrials. Around the same time, Green announces his meeting with flying saucer crewmen from the hitherto unknown planet Korendor, orbiting the triple star Alpha Centauri. At its peak, AFSCA has more than 5,000 members. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen)”; Clark III 99; [Thy Kingdom Come](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Thy%20Kingdom%20Come%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/Thy%20Kingdom%20Come%20-%20No%204.pdf), no. 4 \(April/May 1957\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2899 ### Event 13365 (B9773146) **Date:** 1/1957 **Location:** Coral Gables, Florida **Description:** [Norbert F. Gariety](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10841839/norbert-f%5F-gariety) begins publishing S.P.A.C.E. \(Saucer Phenomena and Celestial Enigma\), a monthly newsletter, in Coral Gables, Florida. It continues until January 1963. \([S.P.A.C.E.](http://cufos.org/SPACE%5FGariety/1957%5FSPACE%5FGariety.pdf), no. 1 **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** January 1957 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2900 ### Event 13366 (11CB7DD5) **Date:** 1/1/1957 **Time:** ~04:00 **Location:** RISSINGTON, NZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Huge glow cylinder/cigar-shape hovers low / horizon. Shoots strong rays. Quickly going up [to] and quickly going down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5254 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "RISSINGTON,NZ:2 OBS:HUGE GLOW CGR HVRS LO/HRZN:SHOOTS STRONG RAYS:↑↑+↓↓", **LatLong:** "-39.450002 176.716675", **LatLongDMS:** "39:27:00 S 176:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.450002,176.716675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13367 (EED77315) **Date:** 1/1/1957 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** NEAR SAVANNAH, GA **Description:** 15 M disk hovers 12M over marsh. Hums. Observer(s) fires 9 shots. / r141#11p1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5255 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "nr SAVANNAH,GA:15 M DISK HVRS 12M OVR MARSH:HUMS:OBS FIRES 9 SHOTS:/r141#11p1", **LatLong:** "32.083335 -81.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:05:00 N 81:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.083335,-81.000004)", **RelAlt:** "12", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13368 (A0E5F432) **Date:** 1/1/1957 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** ST. HELENS, ENGL **Description:** Several observer(s). Grey ring-saucer going quickly north high over thin clouds. Then extremely quickly going up. / r141#1p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5256 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "St.HELENS,ENGL:SVRL OBS:GRY RING-SCR >>N HI ovr THIN CLOUDS:THEN ↑↑↑:/r141#1p3", **LatLong:** "53.450003 -2.733333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:27:00 N 02:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.450003,-2.733333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13369 (C5F2A5B0) **Date:** 1/1/1957 **Location:** Ashby, Minnesota **Description:** Shortly before 12:00 midnight. Herbert Naderson and his wife and sons are driving northeast to their home in Ashby, Minnesota, when they see a triangular object traveling slowly at a high altitude. They watch it for 45 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Fergus Falls \(Minn.\) Daily Journal, January 3, 1957; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2901 ### Event 13370 (877B5938) **Date:** 1/1/1957 **Description:** At 2:10 a.m. a F-86D USAF pilot flying near Guam in the Pacific Ocean sighted a UFO that remained unexplained by Project Blue Book. At four o'clock in the morning in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand two people in Rissington saw a huge luminous cigar hovering low over the horizon, and shooting beams of light in several directions. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4577; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, A History, 1957: January-March 22, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3 ### Event 13371 (D515D3CD) **Date:** 1/2/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** WEST MELTON, ENGL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Domed saucer spins and going down. Silent. Reverses course going [to] overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5257 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "WEST MELTON,ENGL:2 OBS:DOMED SCR SPINS+↓:SLNT:REVERSES COURSE > OVHD:", **LatLong:** "53.500003 -1.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:30:00 N 01:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.500003,-1.366667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13372 (785508EA) **Date:** 1/2/1957 **Description:** At nine o’clock in the evening in the South Yorkshire town of West Melton, England two witnesses saw a domed disc-shaped UFO spinning and rising into the sky. It reversed course and passed overhead. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_26 ### Event 13373 (4666413B) **Date:** 1/3/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** MARENGO, ALGERIA **Description:** French Air Force carrier plane crew. Luminous/glowing disk / green tail. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5258 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARENGO,ALGERIA:FRENCH AF CARRIER PLANE CREW:LUMn DISK/GRN TAIL:NFD:", **LatLong:** "36.683335 2.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "36:41:00 N 02:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.683335,2.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Alger", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13374 (9FA97F7A) **Date:** 1/8/1957 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** NAPIER, NZ **Description:** Dark disk going south under white clouds. 2 sharp turns. Going quickly east. Red fireball back / 2300h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5259 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NAPIER,NZ:DARK DISK >S UNDER WHT CLOUDS:2 SHARP TURNS:>>E:RED FBL BACK/2300h", **LatLong:** "-39.500002 176.933342", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 S 176:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.500002,176.933342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13375 (EDB6008B) **Date:** 1/9/1957 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** HALIFAX, NS **Description:** Aero recognition expert. 2 saucers hover. 1 vertical. Going quickly south extremely fast. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) JAN'57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5260 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "145", **HatchDesc:** "HALIFAX,NS:AERO RECOGN.EXPERT:2 SCRS HVR:1 VERTICAL:>>S XFAST:/FSR JAN'57", **LatLong:** "44.633335 -63.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:38:00 N 63:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.633335,-63.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13376 (DB383E82) **Date:** 1/10/1957 **Description:** Six witnesses in Stafford, England including a man named Roestenberg sighted a cigar-shaped object moving toward the southwest at 4:35 p.m. It left behind an orange trail twice its own length. When a jet plane approached it rose vertically and vanished into the sky. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 170; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1957, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_238 ### Event 13377 (757A39D9) **Date:** 1/13/1957 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** BALFOUR, NZ **Description:** Small saucer plays tag with 2 observer(s) on foot! Jumps fence. / r8#386+APRO Mar. '57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 197) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5261 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BALFOUR,NZ:SML SCR PLAYS TAG W/2 OBS ON FOOT!:JUMPS FENCE:/r8#386+APRO Mar57", **LatLong:** "-45.850002 168.600008", **LatLongDMS:** "45:51:00 S 168:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.850002,168.600008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13378 (0AC88729) **Date:** 1/13/1957 **Description:** Two men, West and Liddell, watched as a forty meter in diameter fluorescent oval-shaped object nearly touched down on the grass in Balfour, New Zealand at 3:10 a.m., but it jumped away as the two men approached. It changed to a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. It cleared a fence, and then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 106 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_292 ### Event 13379 (5895D024) **Date:** 1/14/1957 **End date:** 1/16/1957 **Description:** [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown) has proven so financially inept that the NICAP board asks him to step down. [Delmer S. Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) replaces him as board chairman, [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) steps in as director, and Fahrney convenes a press conference in which he announces that UFOs are under intelligent control, but that they are not American or Soviet aircraft. [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) is made public relations adviser. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** T. Townsend Brown, [Letter to NICAP Board of](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%20Founding/1957%5F01%5F16%5FBrown%5FKeyhoe.jpg) [Governors](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%20Founding/1957%5F01%5F16%5FBrown%5FKeyhoe.jpg)[,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%20Founding/1957%5F01%5F16%5FBrown%5FKeyhoe.jpg) January 16, 1957; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 14–20; “[High Speed Objects Reported in the Sky,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/01/17/87258098.pdf)” New York Times, January 17, 1957, p. 31; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 15; Clark III 792 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2902 ### Event 13380 (27A09CF6) **Date:** 1/15/1957 **Time:** early **Location:** Balfour, New Zealand **Description:** William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a shooting star coming close to them appearing then as an oval, fluorescent craft, about 40 m in diameter, which almost touched the grass. They rushed to catch it, but it jumped away, turning into a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to reach it, the craft jumped farther away. It cleared a high fence and slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no explanation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 107 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_386 ### Event 13381 (FD2BBBAE) **Date:** 1/15/1957 **Description:** In the early morning hours of this day in Balfour, New Zealand, William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a shooting star come close to them. As it got closer it appeared to be an oval-shaped craft, fluorescent, about 40 cm in diameter. It came down toward the ground and nearly touched the grass but did not land. They rushed towards it to capture it, but it jumped away and turned into a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to catch it the object jumped further away. It cleared a high fence and slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no explanation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Grey River Argus, January 15, 1957; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 254 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_330 ### Event 13382 (91FA9B66) **Date:** 1/16/1957 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** EL CAJON, CA **Description:** Girl / 17. Saucer appears / time lapse photograph / moon. No visual. Possible prank. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5262 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "112", **HatchDesc:** "El CAJON,CA:GIRL/17:SCR APPEARS/TIME LAPSE FOTO/MOON:NO VISUAL:possible prank", **LatLong:** "32.794446 -116.961117", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:40 N 116:57:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.794446,-116.961117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13383 (4D8943D2) **Date:** 1/16/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / FT. WORTH, TX **Description:** Fireball maneuvers all over/all about. Follows 2 separate Air Force B25s. Radio compass electro-magnetic effect (EME). Flashes code. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard & WEINSTEIN,Dominique: Preliminary Study of 64 Pilot Sightings involving EME on Aircraft Systems NARCAP TR-3 2001 (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5263 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "205", **HatchDesc:** "NW/Ft.WORTH,TX:FBL MNVRS ALLO:FOLOS 2 SEP AF B25s:RDO COMPASS EME:FLASHES CODE", **LatLong:** "32.916668 -97.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:55:00 N 97:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.916668,-97.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13384 (852FD5A0) **Date:** 1/16/1957 **Location:** Lubbock (Bet. Ft. Worth and), TX **Description:** Object Maneuvers Near B-25's (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570116](http://www.nicap.org/570116ftworth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2007 ### Event 13385 (5B25A989) **Date:** 1/16/1957 **Locations:** Sweetwater, Texas; Lubbock, Texas **Description:** 8:00 p.m. The crews of two Air Force B-25s are flying about 90 miles north of Sweetwater, Texas, when they see a round white object make rapid maneuvers. Pilot Lt. Col. [Howard T. Wright](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49339109/howard-t-wright) notes that his radio compass starts pointing directly toward the object, following its movements. The entire object begins blinking on and off. When the aircraft gets within range of Lubbock, Texas, the object flies off on a straight-line course in about 12 seconds. One of the B-25s refuels and is sent on a 4-hour search of the vicinity with no results. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Maneuvers near B-25’s / EME](http://www.nicap.org/570116ftworth%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 241; Swords 244–245 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2903 ### Event 13386 (84EA311B) **Date:** 1/16/1957 **Description:** The crewmen of a USAF B-25 flying northwest of Fort Worth, Texas sighted a round, white light at eight o’clock in the evening making rapid maneuvers in the night sky. It made several 45-degree turns. The radio compass flipped over toward the UFO and held there during the duration of the 40-minute sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_346 ### Event 13387 (61A4408F) **Date:** 1/17/1957 **Time:** 0500 **Location:** Las Vegas, NV **Description:** Art Johnson and his wife, driving north on Decatur Bldv., observed a huge white ball which came straight down out of the sky, then headed towards [Nellis AFB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base). "The object shot out a blast like at least 50 jet planes at once. It had a flaming exhaust colored reddish, blue and orange." A similar object was seen at approximately the same location on 1/3/1957. (Reported in the *Las Vegas Sun*, Cr. W.B. Nash) **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [APRO Bulletin, 1/1957, page 6](https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1957.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_923 **Attributes:** Nellis ### Event 13388 (8CDAD479) **Date:** 1/17/1957 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** YOKOHAMA, JPN **Description:** Photograph / perfect 8M saucer / 20M altitude. Going quickly southeast rising. / r141 #1p25+/ APRO Mar'57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5264 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "YOKOHAMA,JPN:FOTO/PERFECT 8M SCR/20M alt:>>SE RISING:/r141 #1p25+/APRO Mar'57", **LatLong:** "35.616668 139.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:37:00 N 139:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.616668,139.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13389 (73F7AE7F) **Date:** 1/18/1957 **Description:** At 10:00 a.m. many people in Campo Quijano, Argentina witnessed a metallic ovoid UFO land on the slopes of the mountain Cerro Negro. It was viewed through binoculars, and was visible for seven hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, supplement 12, December 1972, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_366 ### Event 13390 (38DB80C9) **Date:** 1/19/1957 **Location:** 48.56956 45.90346 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1065 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "48.56956 45.90346", **LatLongDMS:** "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.56956,45.90346)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 13391 (50640EC3) **Date:** 1/21/1957 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** ARLINGTON, VA **Description:** Several / Army. Large shiny metal ball hovers and vanishes 2X. Small brown colored disks maneuver. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5265 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "ARLINGTON,VA:SVRL/ARMY:LRG SHINY MTL BALL HVRS+VANISHES 2X:SML BRN DISKS MNVR", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13392 (8F7CB531) **Date:** 1/21/1957 **Location:** Kagnew Station [now closed], Asmara, Eritrea **Description:** 10:45 a.m. Near Kagnew Station \[now closed\], Asmara, Eritrea, five enlisted men of the US Army’s 4th Detachment of the Second Signal Service Battalion \(M/Sgt Billy J. Woodruff, Sgt. Frank Haverly, SP2 Robert O. Clewell, SP2 George R. Dean, and SP3 Gerald L. Fennell\) watch a large, shiny, metal sphere hovering at about 2,000 feet. It suddenly disappears but reappears later for a few minutes, then disappears again. Later in the day, Woodruff and Capt. Jesse M. Strong see two brownish, disc-shaped objects maneuvering in formation at a high altitude. One breaks away from the other, moving at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 29](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=41&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2904 ### Event 13393 (91F1A723) **Date:** 1/21/1957 **Description:** A l arge shiny metallic sphere hovered over an Army military installation in Arlington, Virginia at 10:45 a.m. It vanished and reappeared twice. Meanwhile, some small brown discs were also seen maneuvering in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 28; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 409 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_400 ### Event 13394 (F6070EB5) **Date:** 1/24/1957 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** News report. Pilot and many. 4 brilliant night lights trail large pulsing ovoid. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5266 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:NEWS Rpt:PILOT+MANY:4 BRILL.NLTS TRAIL LRG PULSING OVOID:/r242", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -86.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 86:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-86.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13395 (907DEF35) **Date:** 1/24/1957 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** CHIPPENHAM, ENGL **Description:** Airman and 1 / ground. Dark saucer with black stripe appears behind jet. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5267 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "CHIPPENHAM,ENGL:AIRMAN+1/GND:DRK SCR W/BLK STRIPE APPEARS BHND JET:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "51.450002 -2.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:27:00 N 02:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.450002,-2.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13396 (3D24CABE) **Date:** 1/24/1957 **Location:** Unknown City, IN **Description:** Commercial pilot and many others saw four brilliant white lights, in-line formation; trailing object larger, egg-shaped and pulsating. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2008 ### Event 13397 (1D60338F) **Date:** 1/24/1957 **Description:** At around 11:00 a.m. an airman and two others on the ground in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England witnessed a dark saucer-shaped object with a black stripe that appeared behind a jet. It abruptly vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucers, August 1957, p. 36; UFO Nachtrichten, September 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_475 ### Event 13398 (675EDAD5) **Date:** 1/24/1957 **Description:** On this night an airline pilot flying over Indianapolis, Indiana and many others saw four brilliant nocturnal lights trailing a large pulsating ovoid object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 136; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_476 ### Event 13399 (B44EBF0E) **Date:** 1/26/1957 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CORAL GABLES, FL **Description:** 2 / car. Dull red meteor shoots going down. Stops suddenly. Going west / modest speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5268 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CORAL GABLES,FL:2/CAR:DULL RED METEOR SHOOTS ↓:STOPS SUDDENLY: >W/MODEST SPEED", **LatLong:** "25.716668 -80.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "25:43:00 N 80:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.716668,-80.266670)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13400 (6F0D0403) **Date:** 1/26/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** COBALT, ON **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. Glowing-saucer hovers and maneuvers / 2 hours. Swoops and soars. No further details. / r141 #1p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5269 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "311", **HatchDesc:** "COBALT,ON:2/BINOCS:GLOW-SCR HVRS+MNVRS/2hrs:SWOOPS+SOARS:NFD:/r141 #1p30", **LatLong:** "47.350002 -79.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "47:21:00 N 79:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.350002,-79.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13401 (B4BDFF43) **Date:** 1/27/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** GLENDORA, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Noise shakes house. 2 amber saucers hover. Going quickly west / mountains. / r141#1p31. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 687) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5270 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "236", **HatchDesc:** "GLENDORA,CA:SVRL OBS:NOISE SHAKES HOUSE:2 AMBER SCRS HVR:>>W/MTNS:/r141#1p31", **LatLong:** "34.127779 -117.872228", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:40 N 117:52:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.127779,-117.872228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13402 (536F8CFF) **Date:** 1/27/1957 **Description:** Former CIA director Rear Adm. [Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) joins NICAP’s board of directors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf), The Author, 1995, p. 31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2905 ### Event 13403 (07CB32ED) **Date:** 1/31/1957 **Description:** US Army Order number 30-13, “Sightings of Unconventional Aircraft,” stipulates that personnel involved in sightings must “not discuss or disseminate such information to persons or agencies other than their superior officer\(s\) and other personnel authorized by the Acting Chief of Staff, G-2, this headquarters,” by order of Col. [Charles L. Olin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83339384/charles-l-olin)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83339384/charles-l-olin)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Sees Plenty: Tells Nothing,](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2320.pdf)” CSI News Letter, no. 8 \(July 25, 1957\): 7–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2906 ### Event 13404 (A66D1B1B) **Date:** 2/1957 **Location:** CAMBRIDGE, ENG **Description:** Reports flood in. Saucer has green glowing base. 500' altitude. No explanation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5271 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "CAMBRIDGE,ENG:REPORTS FLOOD IN:SCR HAS GREEN GLOWING BASE:500' ALT:NO EXPLAN.", **LatLong:** "52.200002 0.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:12:00 N 00:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.200002,0.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13405 (7D9016E5) **Date:** 2/1957 **Locations:** Addiction Center in Lexington, Kentucky; Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University in Montreal **Description:** Project MKUltra chief [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) organizes field trials of psilocybin for injection into 9 black inmates at the Addiction Center in Lexington, Kentucky. [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) approves psychiatrist [Donald Ewen Cameron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FEwen%5FCameron\#MKULTRA%5FSubproject%5F68)’s application for mind-control experiments to be administered at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University in Montreal, funded through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA cutout organization. Cameron does not know that the money originates from the CIA. In addition to LSD, Cameron experiments with various paralytic drugs, electroconvulsive therapy at 30–40 times the normal power, and sensory deprivation in a “sleep room.” This is a dimly lit dormitory of about 20 beds, which the nurses call “The Zombie Room.” His “psychic driving” experiments consist of putting subjects into drug-induced comas for weeks at a time \(up to three months in one case\) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments are typically carried out on patients who have entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffer permanently from his actions. His treatments result in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators are their parents. The Canadian government is apparently unaware of these activities. [Naomi Klein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi%5FKlein) argues that Cameron’s research and his contribution to the MKUltra project is actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but about designing “a scientifically based system for extracting information from ‘resistant sources.’ In other words, torture.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gordon Thomas, [Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical](https://archive.org/details/journeyintomadne0000thom) [Abuse](https://archive.org/details/journeyintomadne0000thom)[,](https://archive.org/details/journeyintomadne0000thom) Bantam, 1989; Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988; John D. Marks, [The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john) [and Mind Control](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john)[,](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john) Times Books, 1978; Naomi Klein, [The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism](https://archive.org/details/shockdoctriner00unse/page/n11/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/shockdoctriner00unse/page/n11/mode/2up) Picador, 2008; Jim Keith, [Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control](https://archive.org/details/JimKeithMindControlWorldControlTheEncyclopediaOfMindControl/page/n9/mode/2up), 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2907 ### Event 13406 (61181173) **Date:** 2/3/1957 **Description:** A woman named Salter was driving in an uninhabited part of Georgetown, Connecticut around ten p.m. when she encountered a five-meter long cigar-shaped object close to the ground on the left side of the road. It had several portholes, half a meter in diameter, that were lit by a yellow light. She saw shadows moving about inside. After a short while the UFO took off going straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0416, citing investigator Harvey Courtney, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1962, p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_676 ### Event 13407 (7D33D2A6) **Date:** 2/4/1957 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** BOMBAY, INDIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Blue saucer hovers and spins and going east. Tail vanishes. Saucer vanishes. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5272 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BOMBAY,INDIA:MANY OBS:BLU SCR HVRS+SPINS+>E:TAIL VANISHES:SCR VANISHES:/r141", **LatLong:** "18.966668 72.850003", **LatLongDMS:** "18:58:00 N 72:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.966668,72.850003)", **State/Prov:** "BMB", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13408 (CD4E1794) **Date:** 2/6/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** HEBRON, CT **Description:** Separate observer(s). Roar! Jellyfish saucers hover. Move / unison. Drop tentacles. Going quickly [to] very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5273 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "HEBRON,CT:SEP.OBS:ROAR!:JELLYFISH SCRS HVR:MOVE/UNISON:DROP TENTACLES:>>VFAST", **LatLong:** "41.655558 -72.366670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:39:20 N 72:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.655558,-72.366670)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13409 (735EA4DB) **Date:** 2/7/1957 **Location:** Las Cruces, NM **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) 54 Targets / Two Ground Radars & Four Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [570207](http://www.nicap.org/570207lascruces%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2009 ### Event 13410 (577BCD68) **Date:** 2/9/1957 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Ovoid flutters going down. Speeds going up. Repeats sequence several X. Light / top. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5274 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:OVOID FLUTTERS ↓:SPEEDS ↑:REPEATS SEQUENCE SVRL X:LITE/TOP", **LatLong:** "39.933335 -75.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:00 N 75:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.933335,-75.200004)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13411 (8F28C6A3) **Date:** 2/9/1957 **Time:** 2200 **Location:** Georgetown, Connecticut **Description:** Approximate date. Ina Salter was driving on Route 53 in a desolate area when she encountered a cigar-shaped objert about 5 m long, showing several portholes, which was hovering close to the ground to the left of the road. The portholes, about 50 cm in diameter, were illuminated with a yellowish light, and there were shadows moving behind. As she passed the object, it took off straight up, hovered for a few seconds, then rose out of sight **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** APRO Mar., 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_387 ### Event 13412 (325872A6) **Date:** 2/9/1957 **Description:** On or about this date a woman driving along a desolate road in Ridgefield, Connecticut encountered a five meter long cigar-shaped object close to the ground on the left side of the road. It had several portholes about half a meter in diameter that were lit by a yellow light. Shadows could be seen moving around behind the windows. It took off going straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 86, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1962, p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_769 ### Event 13413 (273C8447) **Date:** 2/10/1957 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** BRADENTON BEACH, FL **Description:** Classic saucer going down. Stops 15M over Gulf. Blue glow / bottom/underside. Rises and going quickly [to] going. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5275 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRADENTON BEACH,FL:CLASSIC SCR ↓:STOPS 15M OVR GULF:BLU GLOW/BTM:RISES+>>>", **LatLong:** "27.466668 -82.705559", **LatLongDMS:** "27:28:00 N 82:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.466668,-82.705559)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13414 (34BBDE2E) **Date:** 2/10/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** MOYOBAMBA, PERU **Description:** Ray Stanford and more. 8M domed saucer descends going east to jungle. Incredible black. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: Moyobamba, PERU:Data from Ray Stanford correspondence. Folder PERU57 on file here. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5276 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "900", **HatchDesc:** "MOYOBAMBA,PERU:RAY STANFORD+:8M DOMED SCR DESCENDS >E to JUNGLE:INCRED.BLACK", **LatLong:** "-6.050000 -76.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "06:03:00 S 76:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.050000,-76.966670)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "SMT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13415 (A8E8C564) **Date:** 2/10/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** NEAR GEORGETOWN, CT **Description:** 5M cylinder/cigar-shape over road. Shadows move / portholes. Quickly going up / car nears. / r8#387. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 747) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5277 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "103", **HatchDesc:** "nr GEORGETOWN,CT:5M CGR OVR ROAD:SHADOWS MOVE/PORTHOLES:↑↑/CAR NEARS:/r8#387", **LatLong:** "41.255558 -73.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:15:20 N 73:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.255558,-73.433337)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13416 (E7F0BE96) **Date:** 2/11/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** HONOLULU, HI **Description:** Glowing-disk enters cloud. Going down [to] with / 2nd small object. Both cavort. / r114p93. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5278 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "HONOLULU,HI:GLOW-DISK ENTERS CLOUD:↓ WITH/2nd SMALL OBJ:BOTH CAVORT:/r114p93", **LatLong:** "21.333334 -157.850008", **LatLongDMS:** "21:20:00 N 157:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.333334,-157.850008)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13417 (D1B9F7DE) **Date:** 2/11/1957 **Description:** At 11:45 a.m. in Honolulu, Hawaii a luminous disc-shaped object entered some clouds, then rose above them accompanied by a second, smaller object. Both objects maneuvered about for a couple of minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 40 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_821 ### Event 13418 (3344C802) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** NORTH / LINCOLN AIR FORCE BASE, NE **Description:** 2 separate RADAR's and 5 observer(s). 3 night lights / 600mph. 180° turns. Away extremely fast. / r141#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, J. Allen: The UFO EXPERIENCE, A Scientific Inquiry; Ballentine Books, NY 1974,1977. (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5279 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "374", **HatchDesc:** "N/LINCOLN AFB,NE:2 SEP.RDRs+5 OBS:3 NLTS/600mph:180°TURNS:AWAY XFAST:/r141#1", **LatLong:** "41.000002 -96.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:00:00 N 96:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.000002,-96.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13419 (CCA26A20) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Time:** 04:40 **Location:** TIERRA AMARILLA AFS, NM **Description:** Blue Book. Ground and air RADAR. 2 night lights. 1 follows searching jet / 25 mile(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5280 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "2293", **HatchDesc:** "TIERRA AMARILLA AFS,NM:BBK:GRD+AIR RDR:2 NLTS:1 FOLOS SEARCHING JET/25mi", **LatLong:** "36.700002 -106.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:42:00 N 106:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.700002,-106.550005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13420 (466B896D) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** BURBANK, CA **Description:** Many observer(s). 3 bright saucers / 18km altitude. Searches with beam. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly northeast. / r114p103. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5281 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "236", **HatchDesc:** "BURBANK,CA:MANY OBS:3 BRITE SCRS/18km alt:SEARCHES W/BEAM:↑↑+>>NE:/r114p103", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -118.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 118:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-118.300006)", **RelAlt:** "18000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13421 (A5F7A776) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** PLACERVILLE, CA **Description:** Amateur astronomer. Meteor going south. Veers going west. = black disk! Hovers. Quickly going up [to] to space. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 691) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5282 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "569", **HatchDesc:** "PLACERVILLE,CA:AM.ASTRON:METEOR > S:VEERS >W:=BLK DISK!:HVRS:↑↑ to space", **LatLong:** "38.716669 -120.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:43:00 N 120:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.716669,-120.816672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13422 (02BA54AC) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Location:** Lincoln AFB, NE **Description:** Radar tracked several targets flying behind an airliner , G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570213](http://www.nicap.org/570213lincolnAFBdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2010 ### Event 13423 (1BDEB745) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Location:** Marrero, LA **Description:** Martin (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Nebulous Targets At High Altitude (R/V) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570213](http://www.nicap.org/570213marrero%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2011 ### Event 13424 (145820A7) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Location:** Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM **Description:** Meyer. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Two Objects On AN/FPS-3 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [570213](http://www.nicap.org/570213tierraamarilla%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2012 ### Event 13425 (F484B521) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Location:** Burbank, CA **Description:** Police received many calls about oval-shaped objects over city. Officer Robert Wells, who went to investigate, confirmed sighting. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2013 ### Event 13426 (CFE2B8CA) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Locations:** Lincoln AFB; Lincoln Airport, Nebraska **Description:** 2:30 a.m. The USAF operations director and three tower controllers at two radar sites within Lincoln AFB \[now Lincoln Airport, Nebraska\], the GCA and NCOIC, track several targets flying behind an airliner at a distance of 5–6 miles and traveling twice as fast. There is no IFF response. The objects hover and move at high speed. One splits into two objects, another executes an 180° turn. The radar blips are the size of a B-47. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Radar/Visual at Lincoln AFB](http://www.nicap.org/570213lincolnAFBdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 241; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/96/mode/2up) [96–97](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/96/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2908 ### Event 13427 (DBE50DFE) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Location:** Placerville, California **Description:** 9:40 p.m. Amateur astronomer Steve Papina is walking south in Placerville, California, when he notices off to his left the ionized track of what he takes to be a meteor. It is about 20° above the eastern horizon, rising at a 70° angle. The trail begins widening at about 35° above the horizon and veers in a westerly direction. Suddenly a black disc appears directly in front of the trail, whose diameter is approximately the width of the trail and the size of a nickel held at a distance of 5 feet. Its surface is not smooth but crisscrossed with grooves. It continues to move from east to west and acquires a white, dusty appearance before speeding directly away from Papina at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[ALPO Refers Sighting to APRO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2909 ### Event 13428 (A27FC1C6) **Date:** 2/13/1957 **Description:** Three bright disc-shaped objects were seen flying over Burbank, California at 7:00 p.m. They searched the sky with light beams, then they rose vertically in departure. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated February 14, 1957; APRO Bulletin, March 1957, p. 5; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, March 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_893 ### Event 13429 (C4DCA181) **Date:** 2/14/1957 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** PASADENA, CA **Description:** Cops and many. Ovoids stop. Turn. Search / beams. Land / roof? Vertical exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5283 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "PASADENA,CA:COPS+MANY:OVOIDS STOP:TURN:SEARCH/BEAMS:LAND/ROOF?:VERTICAL EXIT", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -118.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 118:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-118.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13430 (58930356) **Date:** 2/14/1957 **Location:** Stead AFB, NV **Description:** Two Radar Sites Track UFOB (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570214](http://www.nicap.org/570214steadafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2014 ### Event 13431 (E05FDAE6) **Date:** 2/15/1957 **Time:** 19:00? **Location:** MAMARONECK, NY **Description:** Brilliant silent ovoid swings north and south slow. 2+2 night lights exit / opposite directions. Ovoid quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5284 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "MAMARONECK,NY:BRILL.SLNT OVOID SWINGS N+S SLOW:2+2 NLTS EXIT/OPP.DIRs:OVOID ↑↑", **LatLong:** "40.950002 -73.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:57:00 N 73:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.950002,-73.733337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13432 (EB10CF49) **Date:** 2/15/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** WARDLE, ENG **Description:** RAF plane follows UFO. Drops weather balloon gear? / APRO MAY'57+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5285 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "WARDLE,ENG:RAF PLANE FOLOS UFO:DROPS WEATHER BALLOON GEAR?:/APRO MAY'57+/r141", **LatLong:** "53.650003 -2.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:39:00 N 02:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.650003,-2.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13433 (135C4E76) **Date:** 2/15/1957 **Locations:** Wardle, Lancashire, England; Rochdale **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A large, circular object is seen by independent witnesses in Wardle, Lancashire, England. Shortly afterward, a commercial aircraft is seen following the same course as the UFO and displaying unusually powerful lights. Later, at a point along the flight path, a small radio transmitter like those attached to balloons is found, then another piece of meteorological equipment in another spot. In the House of Commons, MP [Tony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeavey) [Leavey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeavey) asks the Secretary of State for Air for an explanation. On March 20, Under-Secretary of State for Air [Ian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) [Orr-Ewing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) responds, saying that the objects were toy balloons illuminated by a flashlight bulb released by Neil Robinson, a laundry mechanic from Rochdale. But on April 17, the Air Ministry sends an investigator to interview the witnesses and tells them not to talk about the sighting. Robinson says he has no idea how to launch a balloon, but there is some evidence that he has considerable technical know-how and a penchant for pranks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clifford Thornton, “[The Wardle Mystery,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CMay-Jun%2CV%203%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 3 \(May/June 1957\): 4; Geoffrey Norris, “[Something in the Sky,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20Kingdom/RAF%20Flying%20Review/1957%2007%2000%20%5FRoyal%20Air%20Force%20Flying%20Review.pdf)” Royal Air Force Flying Review, July 1957, pp. 14–16, 46; Good Above, [pp. 46–47](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/46/mode/2up); David Clarke, “The Wardle ‘Thing,’” Fortean Times 196 \(June 2005\): 40–41 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2910 ### Event 13434 (CDA35472) **Date:** 2/18/1957 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SULLIVAN, IN **Description:** Girl. Top saucers with rims glare white / treetop level. Hover then going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5286 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SULLIVAN,IN:GIRL:TOP SCRS WITH RIMS GLARE WHITE/TREETOP LVL:HVR THEN >N", **LatLong:** "37.094446 -87.405560", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:40 N 87:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.094446,-87.405560)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13435 (4A437544) **Date:** 2/19/1957 **Description:** In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics officials [Hugh Latimer Dryden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FLatimer%5FDryden) and [Jimmy Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) are asked about UFOs. They “flatly denied the existence of such space vehicles.” When asked why they don’t speak out more often, they remark that they “cannot compete with the science-fiction people.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US House Appropriations Committee, Hearings, Independent Offices Appropriations for 1958, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, February 19, 1957, [pp. 1417–1419](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearings/Sk7VAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1417&printsec=frontcover) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2911 ### Event 13436 (98CAC474) **Date:** 2/21/1957 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** NEAR LONGREACH, QLD **Description:** 3 / truck. 4M egg chases truck / 360M altitude. Stops and starts. Going quickly [to] 5000kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5287 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr LONGREACH,QLD:3/TRUCK:4M EGG CHASES TRUCK/360M alt:STOPS+STARTS:>>5000kph", **LatLong:** "-23.450001 144.250007", **LatLongDMS:** "23:27:00 S 144:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.450001,144.250007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13437 (D86A291A) **Date:** 2/24/1957 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** NEAR INDIO, CA **Description:** Miner. Disk hovers / mountain. 4-5 sudden 1-mile jumps. Shoots quickly going up. Whoosh! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5288 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr INDIO,CA:MINER:DISK HVRS/Mtn:4-5 SUDDEN 1-MILE JUMPS:SHOOTS ↑↑:WHOOSH!", **LatLong:** "33.733335 -116.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:00 N 116:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.733335,-116.216672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13438 (18B263E7) **Date:** 2/26/1957 **Locations:** UK; Italy **Description:** UK Air Chief Marshal [Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding) writes to retired Italian diplomat [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) that he is most interested in “accounts of intelligible contacts between human beings and the occupants of interplanetary ships.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 48](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/48/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2912 ### Event 13439 (92F126BE) **Date:** 2/27/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) and military. Night light / 40K' altitude sweeps sky several times. RADAR can't see. 2000mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 286) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5289 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:GOC OBS+MIL:NLT/40K'alt SWEEPS SKY SVRL TIMES:RDR CANT SEE:2000mph", **LatLong:** "29.750001 -95.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:45:00 N 95:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.750001,-95.366671)", **RelAlt:** "12000", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13440 (5FC45954) **Date:** 2/27/1957 **Location:** Castle AFB, CA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) 6,000 MPH Objects On Three CPN-18 Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570227](http://www.nicap.org/570227castleafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2015 ### Event 13441 (50A2F374) **Date:** 3/1/1957 **Description:** [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) publishes the final issue of CRIFO Orbit. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [CRIFO Orbit](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%5FVolume%5FIII%5F1956-57%5FS.pdf) 3, no. 12 \(March 1, 1957\); Clark III 1114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2913 ### Event 13442 (EF3DA0A2) **Date:** 3/2/1957 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** KYOTO, JPN **Description:** 3 / temple. Small metallic disk flies / gardens / low altitude. Sharp fast exit going up / angle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5290 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KYOTO,JPN:3/TEMPLE:SML MTLC DISK FLIES/GARDENS/LO ALT:SHARP FAST EXIT ↑/ANGLE", **LatLong:** "35.000002 135.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 N 135:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.000002,135.750006)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13443 (4206A86B) **Date:** 3/2/1957 **Description:** At 8:15 a.m. a small metallic disc flew over some gardens in Kyoto, Japan at a low altitude. It then made a fast exit at a sharp angle up into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1240 ### Event 13444 (F8B7DE96) **Date:** 3/5/1957 **Description:** On this morning at 8:13 a.m. a fighter pilot flying over Rouen, France photographed a hat-shaped saucer identical in appearance to the McMinnville, Oregon photograph taken by Paul Trent in 1950. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Life Magazine, April 1, 1966; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, pp. 46 & 80; Brinsley LePoer Trench, The Flying Saucer Story, p. P-7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1310 ### Event 13445 (EC3CF7EA) **Date:** 3/6/1957 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** GREAT MEADOWS, NJ **Description:** Blue Book. Saucer hovers and rocks / 1 minute(s). Twinkling lines hang going down. Object quickly going up [to] and going northeast. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5291 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT MEADOWS,NJ:BBK:SCR HVRS+ROCKS/1min:TWINKLING LINES HANG↓:OBJ↑↑+>NE:/r141", **LatLong:** "40.866669 -74.911115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:52:00 N 74:54:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.866669,-74.911115)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13446 (1F4948B1) **Date:** 3/6/1957 **Location:** Great Meadows-Hope, NJ **Description:** White derby-hat-shaped object 50+ ft wide hovering low over a field (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570306](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-570306dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2016 ### Event 13447 (2D8866F0) **Date:** 3/6/1957 **Locations:** Hope Road; Great Meadows, New Jersey **Description:** 2:00 p.m. Hearing the family dogs barking in the backyard, a Mrs. Martin who lives on Hope Road near Great Meadows, New Jersey, looks outside and sees the dogs looking at a white hovering object that looks like a “huge derby hat” about 50 feet in diameter. It is rocking slightly in the air and makes a low, rumbling sound. Beneath it are “streamers or lines” that “twinkle like the fragile strands” of Christmas tinsel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 150–](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/150/mode/2up) [154](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/150/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 241 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2914 ### Event 13448 (2B0E0D80) **Date:** 3/6/1957 **Description:** At two o'clock in the afternoon in Hope Township, New Jersey Mrs. Martin heard her dogs barking. She looked outside to see a Derby hat-shaped UFO with a rounded dome, 30-40 feet high and 50 feet in diameter. It made a gentle rocking motion and a low rumbling sound. Beneath it there were streamers or lines of twinkling material. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Civilian Saucer Intelligence, New York; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 151 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1329 ### Event 13449 (C1B8B788) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** OVER PASADENA, TX **Description:** 2 / DC3. Object with 2 lights buzzes DC3. Maneuvers all over/all about. / APRO Mar'57+/ r141#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 287) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5292 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "ovr PASADENA,TX:2/DC3:OBJ W/2 LITES BUZZES DC3:MNVRS ALLO:/APRO Mar'57+/r141#1", **LatLong:** "29.688890 -95.211116", **LatLongDMS:** "29:41:20 N 95:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.688890,-95.211116)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13450 (DB08D003) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** SOUTH / BAUDETTE, MN **Description:** Pilot / ground. 5.5M saucer So low it swirls up snow. Going quickly [to] into wind. / r46+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 174) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5293 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "336", **HatchDesc:** "S/BAUDETTE,MN:PILOT/GND:5.5M SCR SO LOW IT SWIRLS UP SNOW:>>INTO WIND:/r46+/r8", **LatLong:** "48.700002 -94.605560", **LatLongDMS:** "48:42:00 N 94:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.700002,-94.605560)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13451 (38D78FCF) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Location:** Houston (near) Pasadena, TX **Description:** UFO Maneuvers Near DC-3 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570308](http://www.nicap.org/570308pasadena%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2017 ### Event 13452 (A1D52799) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Location:** Btn Mockville and Arrity, NC **Description:** Long Object With Green Light In Nose (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570308](http://nicap.org/570308mockville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2018 ### Event 13453 (B644EDEE) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Time:** night **Location:** Baudette, Minnesota **Description:** A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind. It was luminous, about 5.5 m in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Keyhoe S ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_388 ### Event 13454 (8B944045) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 19KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1066 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "19" ### Event 13455 (8818318C) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Location:** Baudette, Minnesota **Description:** A pilot watches a UFO from the ground at Baudette, Minnesota. It is circular, 15–18 feet in diameter, and its odd glow shines on the snow-covered ground. It is flying so low that it seems to suck the loose snow up under it as it passes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 56; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, p. 74 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2915 ### Event 13456 (827B1A69) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Locations:** Pasadena, Texas; Tennessee Gas Transmission Company **Description:** 9:45 p.m. Victor Hancock and Guy Miller are flying a DC-3 owned by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company above Pasadena, Texas, when they see a UFO bearing three brilliant white lights. After the UFO speeds by the aircraft, it slows down. When the DC-3 catches up, it speeds ahead. This cat-and-mouse chase continues for some 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[UFO Maneuvers near DC-3](http://www.nicap.org/570308pasadena%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 68–69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2916 ### Event 13457 (59FCBC81) **Date:** 3/8/1957 **Description:** A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind in Baudette, Minnesota. It was luminous, about 5.5 meters in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow on the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Top Secret; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 254 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1377 ### Event 13458 (BE90225F) **Date:** 3/9/1957 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** OFF SC COAST **Description:** Blue Book. Several airliners. Fiery tail falls off green sphere going north. / r141#1p70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE; Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5294 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "OFF SC COAST:BBK:SVRL AIRLINERS:FIERY TAIL FALLS OFF GRN SPHERE >N:/r141#1p70", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -78.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 78:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-78.500004)", **State/Prov:** "SCR", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13459 (6D1ED874) **Date:** 3/9/1957 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** ATLANTIC **Description:** PAA flight 257 ducks glowing-ovoid going west. 7 planes see. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#2+/ r120p287. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 687) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5295 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC:PAA Flt.257 DUCKS GLO-OVOID >W:7 PLANES SEE:/FSR v3#2+/r120p287", **LatLong:** "30.000001 -70.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 N 70:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.000001,-70.666670)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13460 (7EB1A437) **Date:** 3/9/1957 **Location:** San Juan (near), PR **Description:** Pan American Airways pilot took evasive action as fiery round, greenish-white object passed plane. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2019 ### Event 13461 (2A2DC084) **Date:** 3/9/1957 **Location:** Jacksonville, FL **Description:** DC-6A Crew Take Evasive Action (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570309](http://www.nicap.org/570309jacksonville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2020 ### Event 13462 (594B16B0) **Date:** 3/9/1957 **Location:** Atlantic Ocean (off Carolinas), At Sea **Description:** Airliner Encounters Green Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 3) **Reference:** NICAP: [570309](http://www.nicap.org/570309atlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2021 ### Event 13463 (D7586065) **Date:** 3/9/1957 **Location:** Columbia, SC **Description:** Fiery Ball With Tail Passes C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) **Reference:** NICAP: [570309](http://www.nicap.org/570309columbia%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2022 ### Event 13464 (7F14EDAE) **Date:** 3/9/1957 **Locations:** Atlantic Ocean; Jacksonville, Florida; Pan Am Flight 269 **Description:** 4:33 a.m. Capt. [Matthew A. Van Winkle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155966765/matthew-armstrong-van%5Fwinkle)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155966765/matthew-armstrong-van%5Fwinkle) piloting a Pan American World Airways DC-6A airliner at a point over the Atlantic Ocean approximately 350 miles northeast of Jacksonville, Florida, observes a “burning greenish white round object” to the right of the aircraft that appears to be on a collision course. Van Winkle pulls the plane upward in a climb to avoid the object. This sudden maneuver causes four of the passengers to be thrown out of their seats, resulting in injuries. Copilot Dion W. Taylor and Flight Engineer John Washuta also observe the object. Washuta says the UFO is a high-intensity light that appears to stand still for approximately four seconds until it is lost to sight during the evasive action. [Ed Perry](https://clipperpioneers.com/2015-obituaries/)[,](https://clipperpioneers.com/2015-obituaries/) piloting Pan Am Flight 269 about 175 miles behind him, also sees it. Miami Air Traffic Control sends a flash message to the Civil Aeronautics Board describing the incident: “Pilot took evasive action, object appeared to have a brilliant greenish-white center with an outer ring which reflected the glow from the center. … Above description fits with what seven other flights saw…. Miami reports no missile activity…. Original reports of jet activity discounted.” The Air Force quickly explains the sighting as a meteor, but the CAB declares it unexplained after a thorough investigation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[DC6-A Crew](http://www.nicap.org/570309jacksonville%5Fdir.htm) [Take Evasive Action](http://www.nicap.org/570309jacksonville%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 54–56; Swords 245–246; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 38–39](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/38/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 282–283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2917 ### Event 13465 (9DF0F565) **Date:** 3/10/1957 **Location:** New York **Description:** Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run) **Type:** ufo encounter **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_149 **Attributes:** aerospace ### Event 13466 (9DF0F565) **Date:** 3/10/1957 **Location:** New York **Description:** Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run) **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_150 **Attributes:** aerospace ### Event 13467 (848E3B37) **Date:** 3/10/1957 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** JACKSONVILLE, FL **Description:** 2 kids / yard. White disk going quickly south / vertical position. Terrific speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 174) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5296 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "JACKSONVILLE,FL:2 KIDS/YARD:WHT DISK >>S/VERTICAL POSITION:TERRIFIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "30.316668 -81.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:19:00 N 81:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.316668,-81.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13468 (344C8227) **Date:** 3/11/1957 **Location:** Glynco NAS, GA **Description:** Two White Lights Observed From Navy Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570311](http://www.nicap.org/570311glynco%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2023 ### Event 13469 (D8FF9334) **Date:** 3/13/1957 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** TOKYO, JPN **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Dark grey cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. Glides. Turns vertical and shoots quickly going up [to] to clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5297 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TOKYO,JPN:NMRS OBS:DRK.GRY CGR HVRS:GLIDES:TURNS VERTICAL+SHOOTS ↑↑ to clouds", **LatLong:** "35.666668 139.783340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 139:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,139.783340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13470 (BE8E8023) **Date:** 3/13/1957 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** SCARBOROUGH, ENGL **Description:** 6 observer(s) / east pier. Silver cigarette-cylinder/cylindrical object floats by. No further details / r141 #1p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5298 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SCARBOROUGH,ENGL:6 OBS/EAST PIER:SLVR CIGARETTE-CYL FLOATS BY:NFD/r141 #1p75", **LatLong:** "54.266669 -0.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "54:16:00 N 00:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.266669,-0.416667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13471 (E22B2222) **Date:** 3/14/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** NELSON CITY, NZ **Description:** Respected observer(s). Ovoid hovers / 30° elevation. Equally spaced portholes. Fades.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5299 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NELSON CITY,NZ:RESPECTED OBS:OVOID HVRS/30°elev:EQUALLY SPACED PORTS:fades..", **LatLong:** "-41.283335 173.283342", **LatLongDMS:** "41:17:00 S 173:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.283335,173.283342)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13472 (8117EAB3) **Date:** 3/17/1957 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** WHITEWATER, WI **Description:** 6 / golfers. 7 round objects follow jet. Going quickly west. More jets arrive and search area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5300 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "256", **HatchDesc:** "WHITEWATER,WI:6/GOLFERS:7 RND OBJs FOLO JET:>>W:MORE JETS ARRIVE+SEARCH AREA", **LatLong:** "42.833335 -88.733338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:50:00 N 88:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.833335,-88.733338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13473 (5D0112BA) **Date:** 3/22/1957 **Location:** Point Mugu, CA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2024 ### Event 13474 (C08EBA13) **Date:** 3/22/1957 **Location:** Long Beach-Los Angeles Airport, CA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Rectangular Targets Tracked On Radar? Maybe Not. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570322](http://www.nicap.org/570322longbeachdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2025 ### Event 13475 (C218E36F) **Date:** 3/22/1957 **Location:** Oxnard AFB, CA **Description:** Several independent witnesses saw maneuvering lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2026 ### Event 13476 (7227D961) **Date:** 3/22/1957 **Location:** Long Beach-Los Angeles Airport, CA **Description:** At 11:55 p.m., two objects then one were picked up on radar at Los Angeles International Airport. The targets were rectangular and the size of a conventional target. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570322](http://www.nicap.org/570322longbeachdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2027 ### Event 13477 (CEB2DBB4) **Date:** 3/22/1957 **End date:** 3/23/1957 **Locations:** Camarillo, California; Los Palos Hills; North American Rocketdyne plant in the Simi Hills; Oxnard AFB [now Camarillo Airport] **Description:** Mrs. Robert Beaudoin, the wife of an [Air Force officer](https://www.fidler-isburgfuneralchapels.com/obituary/robert-beaudoin), along with her 17-year-old daughter Carol Litten, sees a series of unusual lights at 11:15 p.m. northeast of Camarillo, California. First they see a large, soundless, and pulsing light, with something like a pole on top, making fast and erratic motions. She calls a military friend and then 1st Lt. [Leonard E. Ott](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107037003/leonard-edwin-ott) at nearby Oxnard AFB \[now Camarillo Airport\]. At 12:30 a.m., they see a green object accompanied by two smaller red lights below the horizon of the Los Palos Hills. The green object seems to be hovering over the North American Rocketdyne plant in the Simi Hills. At this time both the green object and the red objects seem to jump around, and the two red objects are zooming past the green object at tremendous velocities. Ott inquires about radar and a Lt. Martin tells him that radar is detecting a stationary object in the same area. The sheriff’s office is contacted, and they send a patrol car. Deputy Sheriffs Segura and Rausch confirm Beaudoin’s report, with the exception that by that time there are five red objects flying well below the green one. All are in motion and constantly changing altitude. Radar calls Ott back and says they have a scramble underway and they will have the aircraft check the area upon their return. Upon the arrival of the interceptors from Oxnard the red objects join the green object and speed away up and to the east. The aircraft are unsuccessful and return to base. At this time two Navy aircraft are sent to the area. Somehow, between the time of this report to Oxnard and the later Air Force investigation by the 4602nd, these red objects are changed, on the report, to stars and the moon above. This happens despite the witness stating that the red lights were below the hills on the horizon. To deal with that, the Air Force adds the theory that a temperature inversion caused light to bend the images of the stars, or, alternatively, the witness saw lights on a barn. Beaudoin herself is judged hysterical due to her pregnancy. The Air Force’s explanation is completed without anyone bothering to interview the teenage daughter or taking anything associated with the airbase into account \(for example, the radar returns\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Objects Seen, Radar Tracked, Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/570323oxnardafb%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 58–61; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 53–54](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/52/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 242; Swords 246–247 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2918 ### Event 13478 (17FBDD86) **Date:** 3/23/1957 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** NEAR PUYALLUP, WA **Description:** Fireball quickly going down [to] behind barn. 2 strong beams. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly north. Possible plane / R141#12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5301 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "nr PUYALLUP,WA:FBL ↓↓ BHND BARN:2 STRONG BEAMS:↑↑ AND >>N:POSS.PLANE/R141#12", **LatLong:** "47.250002 -122.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:15:00 N 122:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.250002,-122.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 13479 (3EF544E9) **Date:** 3/23/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** CAA RADAR and USAF and hundreds. 4 red objects with lights over area / hours. / r242p85. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5302 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "LONG BEACH,CA:CAA RDR+USAF+100s:4 RED OBJS W/LITES OVR AREA/HOURS:/r242p85", **LatLong:** "33.783335 -118.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:00 N 118:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.783335,-118.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13480 (AB358FC6) **Date:** 3/23/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** OXNARD, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Several Navy and cops and Air Traffic Controller / RADAR. Many night lights maneuver. Film. Jet chases. / r46p58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5303 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "OXNARD,CA:BBK:SVRL NAVY+COPS+ATC/RDR:MANY NLTS MNVR:FILM:JET CHASES:/r46p58", **LatLong:** "34.200002 -119.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:12:00 N 119:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.200002,-119.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13481 (4D584248) **Date:** 3/23/1957 **Location:** Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela **Description:** Agriculturist Luis Petriera, along with several others, watches a glowing object plunge into Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. No planes are missing. Officials drag the lake but find nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Report from Venezuela,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2919 ### Event 13482 (FC441823) **Date:** 3/23/1957 **Description:** At 12:22 a.m. Civil Aviation Agency radar tracked a UFO over Oxnard Air Force Base, California. Visual reports of the object were made by a GOC observer, police, and Oxnard AFB personnel. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York files, citing newspaper clipping; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 85 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1622 ### Event 13483 (E3FE1147) **Date:** 3/23/1957 **Description:** At 6 p.m. a huge ball of fire rose up from behind a barn in Puyallup, Washington. It emitted two strong beams of light. It rose vertically, then flew off quickly to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Tacoma News Tribune, March 28, 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1623 ### Event 13484 (416ABCD7) **Date:** 3/24/1957 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** PT HUENEME, CA **Description:** Cops and hundreds. Unknown object with bright lights. Follows car going [to] naval abase. / MJ#287. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 689) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5304 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "Pt HUENEME,CA:COPS+100s:UNK.OBJ W/BRITE LITES:FOLOS CAR > NAVAL ABASE:/MJ#287", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -119.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 119:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-119.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13485 (40B5B019) **Date:** 3/27/1957 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** NEAR ROSWELL, NM **Description:** 3 bright circular lights / collision course / USAAF C45. Pilot signals. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5305 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1090", **HatchDesc:** "nr ROSWELL,NM:3 BRITE CIRC.LITES/COLLISION COURSE/USAAF C45:PILOT SIGNALS:↑↑", **LatLong:** "33.333335 -104.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:20:00 N 104:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.333335,-104.550005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13486 (EABB7500) **Date:** 3/27/1957 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** C-45 Encounters Three Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [570327](http://www.nicap.org/570327roswell%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2028 ### Event 13487 (D8632128) **Date:** 3/28/1957 **Location:** CD.BOLIVAR, VNZL **Description:** 4 kids. Fireball quickly going down [to] going [to] Orinoco River. Observers found unconscious. / r44p226. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 689) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5306 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "Cd.BOLIVAR,VNZL:4 KIDS:FBL ↓↓>ORINOCO RIVER:OBSs found unconscious:/r44p226", **LatLong:** "8.116667 -63.533336", **LatLongDMS:** "08:07:00 N 63:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.116667,-63.533336)", **State/Prov:** "BLV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13488 (1F107C3C) **Date:** 3/28/1957 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** RESEDA, CA **Description:** Blue Book. Observer(s) = Simon. DC6-size cylinder/cigar-shape in bright elliptical glow. / r141#2p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5307 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "RESEDA,CA:BBK:OBS=SIMON:DC6-SIZE CGR in BRITE ELLIPTCL GLOW:/r141#2p12", **LatLong:** "34.200002 -118.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:12:00 N 118:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.200002,-118.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13489 (58D33F77) **Date:** 3/28/1957 **Location:** Reseda, CA **Description:** Cigar-shaped, golden in color, glowing object was observed at approximately 60 degrees above the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [570328](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/reseda570328dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2029 ### Event 13490 (DBCA2AAE) **Date:** 3/28/1957 **Description:** AEC physician and Navy Capt. [Charles Wesley Shilling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FWesley%5FShilling) releases a press statement saying that “excessively hot baths can be as damaging to the human sex glands as radioactive fallout in the amount received in the last five years from the testing of atomic weapons.” It is intended to counter the antinuclear activism of biochemist [Linus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%5FPauling) [Pauling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%5FPauling)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%5FPauling)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Says Hot Baths As Bad for Sex Glands As Fallout,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94239912/)” Newport \(R.I.\) Daily News, March 29, 1957, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2920 ### Event 13491 (38C694BE) **Date:** 3/29/1957 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** WICKENBURG, AZ **Description:** 1 observer / (seen thru) binoculars. 6 small silvery objects play tag / sky. Dive low and shoot away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5308 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "885", **HatchDesc:** "WICKENBURG,AZ:1 OBS/BINOCS:6 SML SLVRY OBJS PLAY TAG/SKY:DIVE LOW+SHOOT AWAY", **LatLong:** "33.966668 -112.727783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:00 N 112:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.966668,-112.727783)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13492 (9A30AC4F) **Date:** 3/29/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NORTH / BAHAMAS **Description:** Brilliant night light follows PAA flight 206A going northeast. On RADAR / 20 minute(s). Visual / 5 minute(s). / r242p42. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5309 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/BAHAMAS:BRILL.NLT FOLOS PAA Flt.206A >NE:ON RDR/20min:VISUAL/5min:/r242p42", **LatLong:** "30.000001 -74.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 N 74:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.000001,-74.333337)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13493 (DF4FDAC3) **Date:** 3/29/1957 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** RADCLIFFE, ENGL **Description:** "Double-banana" saucer shoots near. Stops. Away and back. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5310 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "170", **Elev:** "78", **HatchDesc:** "RADCLIFFE,ENGL:"DOUBLE-BANANA" SCR SHOOTS NEAR:STOPS:AWAY+BACK:/FSR v3#2", **LatLong:** "53.566669 -2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:34:00 N 02:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.566669,-2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13494 (D34DDE53) **Date:** 3/29/1957 **Location:** Off East Coast, FL **Description:** Pan American Airways pilot observed brilliant pulsating light, confirmed by radar. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2030 ### Event 13495 (EBB92CDA) **Date:** 4/1957 (approximate) **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / DE LAND, FL **Description:** Small round cloud follows car / 30 km! Dark center. 90° turn and away fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5311 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NW/DE LAND,FL:SML RND CLOUD FOLOS CAR/30 km!:DRK CENTER:90° TURN+away fast", **LatLong:** "29.116668 -81.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:07:00 N 81:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.116668,-81.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13496 (A43802A2) **Date:** 4/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** MONT-DE-LAVAL, DOUBS **Description:** 2 observer(s). 1M luminous globe with 2M Saturn ring going [to] 50M overhead slow and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5312 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONT-de-LAVAL,DOUBS:2 OBS:1M LUMn.GLOBE W/2M SATURN RING >50M OVHD SLOW+SLNT ", **LatLong:** "47.172224 6.627778", **LatLongDMS:** "47:10:20 N 06:37:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.172224,6.627778)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13497 (30343256) **Date:** 4/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SOUTH / TESSALIT, MALI **Description:** 2 / theodolite. 5 small balls orbit large sphere / 45° plane / 0.5 RPM. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5313 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Sahara", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "S/TESSALIT,MALI:2/THEODOLITE:5 SML BALLS ORBIT LRG SPHERE/45°PLANE/0.5 RPM", **LatLong:** "19.650001 1.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "19:39:00 N 01:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.650001,1.000000)", **State/Prov:** "MLI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13498 (FE24D820) **Date:** 4/1957 **Alternate date:** 5/1957 **Location:** Moriah Center, NY **Description:** "Television started to have all sorts of trouble"; witness called out-doors in time to see red disc pass overhead. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2037 ### Event 13499 (A72292DF) **Date:** 4/1957 **Locations:** Córdoba, Argentina; Rio Ceballos **Description:** 7:30 a.m. An anonymous resident of Córdoba, Argentina, is motorcycling to Rio Ceballos when his engine stops. He sees a large UFO hovering nearby, from which a human-like occupant emerges. He entices the man to enter the UFO with him. Inside, he sees 5–6 screens and intricate equipment, at each of which a similar occupant is seated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May 25th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 63–64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2922 ### Event 13500 (1A9CF0AE) **Date:** Early 4/1957 **Description:** USAF Brig. Gen. Arno H. Leuhman, director of Air Force information, tells the press that “There’s no valid evidence that there are flying saucers.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[AF Intelligence Chief Visits Here,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94240280/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, April 14, 1957, p. 12A **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2921 ### Event 13501 (F2FDB5B5) **Date:** 4/3/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 42KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1067 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "42" ### Event 13502 (6DB9D411) **Date:** 4/4/1957 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** OFF WEST FREUGH, SCT **Description:** Separate RAF RADAR's. Blip all over/all about sea / 60K-14K' altitude. Maneuvers. Going quickly south. / r24 v1#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5314 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off WEST FREUGH,SCT:SEP.RAF RDRS:BLIP ALLO SEA/60K-14K'alt:MNVRS:>>S:/r24 v1#1", **LatLong:** "54.800003 -5.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "54:48:00 N 05:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.800003,-5.166667)", **RelAlt:** "4300", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13503 (668426DD) **Date:** 4/4/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** MINERAL SPRINGS, AR **Description:** 2 teen girls. Silver domed saucer 100m away. 23m over pond. Rotates. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5315 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "MINERAL SPRINGS,AR:2 TEEN GIRLS:SLVR DOMED SCR 100m away:23m OVR POND:ROTATES:", **LatLong:** "33.877779 -93.911116", **LatLongDMS:** "33:52:40 N 93:54:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.877779,-93.911116)", **RelAlt:** "23", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13504 (1706EB57) **Date:** 4/4/1957 **Location:** Wigtownshire, Scotland, UK **Description:** Three Radars Track Maneuvering UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570404](http://www.nicap.org/570404scotland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2031 ### Event 13505 (0BFB8721) **Date:** 4/4/1957 **Locations:** Area 51; Pioche, Nevada **Description:** Pilot [Robert L. Sieker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38254200/robert-lee-sieker) takes a U-2 covered in radar-deflecting paint for a test run out of Area 51 and flies almost 90 miles without incident when suddenly the paint causes the aircraft to overheat, spin out of control, and crash near Pioche, Nevada. Sieker ejects but is killed when a piece of metal hits him in the head. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aviation Safety Network, “[Wikibase Occurrence \#155905](https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/155905)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2923 ### Event 13506 (6ECE4003) **Date:** 4/4/1957 **Locations:** RAF West Freugh; MOD West Freugh; Stranraer, Scotland; Luce Bay, Wigtownshire, Scotland **Description:** Five unusual radar contacts are detected simultaneously on three tracking radars of the Bombing Trials Unit based at RAF West Freugh \[now MOD West Freugh\], southeast of Stranraer, Scotland, and followed for 36 minutes. The three radars are located at two different sites near Luce Bay, Wigtownshire, Scotland. The object flashes across the sky at 60,000 feet, dives to 14,000 feet, circles, and speeds away. Wing Commander Walter Whitworth, in command at West Freugh, is ordered to say nothing about the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three Radars](http://www.nicap.org/570404scotland%5Fdir.htm) [Track Maneuvering UFO](http://www.nicap.org/570404scotland%5Fdir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/48/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 51–53](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n87/mode/2up); Martin Shough, “[Study of Unusual](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/westfreugh.pdf) [Radar Observations near RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire, SW Scotland, April 4, 1957,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/westfreugh.pdf)” March 2010; Patrick Gross, “[The West Freugh Incident, 1957](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/westfreugh57.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2924 ### Event 13507 (0C3B22B7) **Date:** 4/5/1957 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** DALLAS, TX **Description:** Ovoid going southwest. Moves to and fro 6X. White center and red-glow edge. Going quickly SSW. USAF inv. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5316 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS,TX:OVOID > SW:MOVES TO+FRO 6X:WHT CENTER+RED-GLOW EDGE:>>SSW:USAF INV.", **LatLong:** "32.766668 -96.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:46:00 N 96:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.766668,-96.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13508 (58CC6A9D) **Date:** 4/6/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 57KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1068 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "57" ### Event 13509 (A5C779EB) **Date:** 4/7/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** DUBLIN, GA **Description:** Fireman and more/others. Round silver disk hovers / courthouse / hours. Crosses sky / 1 second. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 203) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5317 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "68", **HatchDesc:** "DUBLIN,GA:FIREMAN++:RND SLVR DISK HVRS/COURTHOUSE/HOURS:CROSSES SKY/1 SECOND", **LatLong:** "32.538890 -82.905560", **LatLongDMS:** "32:32:20 N 82:54:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.538890,-82.905560)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13510 (A40BDCEA) **Date:** 4/7/1957 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** TAHUNANUI, NZ **Description:** 1+kids. Ovoid hovers / beach. Suddenly going quickly NNW. 1/2 moon-size. Sharp edges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5318 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TAHUNANUI,NZ:1+KIDS:OVOID HVRS/BEACH:SUDDENLY >>NNW:1/2 MOONSIZE:SHARP EDGES", **LatLong:** "-41.266669 173.250008", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 S 173:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.266669,173.250008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13511 (70852CA1) **Date:** 4/7/1957 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST PLYMOUTH, NZ **Description:** 2 near airport. Cylinder/cigar-shape-night light circles car. Springs going up and down. Sound / clanking iron. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5319 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NW PLYMOUTH,NZ:2 nr AIRPORT:CGR-NLT CCLS CAR:SPRINGS ↑+↓:SOUND/CLANKING IRON", **LatLong:** "-39.066669 174.200008", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:00 S 174:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.066669,174.200008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13512 (5C55B3C5) **Date:** 4/7/1957 **Description:** An ovoid shaped UFO hovered over a beach in Tahunanui, New Zealand at 3:30 p.m. It had sharply defined edges, and was five times the apparent size of the moon. It suddenly shot away to the north-northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History - 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1879 ### Event 13513 (F6A5C8CD) **Date:** 4/8/1957 **Location:** Mont. **Description:** USAF Maj. Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) answers a question from Rep. [Lee Metcalf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) \(D-Mont.\) and denies that the Air Force has muzzled pilots. “Answers are provided on any unidentified flying objects which have attracted national attention.” He admits that interceptors are still sent up “as a matter of security.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2925 ### Event 13514 (4A23DA07) **Date:** 4/10/1957 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** SOUTH / NORFOLK, VA **Description:** Engineer / NAL flight 720. Circular night light and dark disk follows highway going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5320 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "S/NORFOLK,VA:ENGINEER/NAL FLT 720:CIRC.NLT+DRK DISK folos highway >S:", **LatLong:** "36.666668 -76.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:40:00 N 76:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.666668,-76.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13515 (33D74C10) **Date:** 4/10/1957 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** KENSINGTON AND HAMMERSMITH, ENGL **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). Classic saucer hovers / air. Sways. / r141 #2p33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5321 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KENSINGTON+HAMMERSMITH,ENGL:3 SEP.OBS:CLASSIC SCR HVRS/AIR:SWAYS:/r141 #2p33", **LatLong:** "51.483336 -0.183333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:29:00 N 00:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.483336,-0.183333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13516 (2ABFF148) **Date:** 4/10/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 680KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1069 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "680" ### Event 13517 (1DF7577E) **Date:** 4/10/1957 **Description:** [Delmer S. Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) leaves NICAP’s board of directors for urgent and personal reasons, partially because his [wife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744427/agnes-whiting-fahrney) is seriously ill, but also because of the ridicule generated by his peers in the military. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 792–793 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2926 ### Event 13518 (09CA8F01) **Date:** 4/11/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** COHASSET, MA **Description:** 5 jets chase gold disk. Fast sharp turns and away. Jets circle / 1 hour. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5322 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "COHASSET,MA:5 JETS CHASE GOLD DISK:FAST SHARP TURNS+AWAY:jets ccl/1 hour", **LatLong:** "42.233335 -70.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:14:00 N 70:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.233335,-70.816670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13519 (EEFAAE07) **Date:** 4/11/1957 **Description:** At 7:00 p.m. fighter jets were observed chasing a golden colored disc through the sky in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The disc made fast, sharp turns, and shot away from the jets. The jets were seen circling the area for the next hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 33 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1951 ### Event 13520 (AC6ADE70) **Date:** 4/12/1957? **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** FIGANIERES, VAR **Description:** Vegetation all dead! Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Odd cone-saucer going up / side / N562. Going quickly northeast. / r30p230. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5323 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FIGANIERES,VAR:VEG ALL DEAD!:CAR EMEs:ODD CONE-SCR ↑/SIDE/N562:>>NE:/r30p230", **LatLong:** "43.572224 6.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:34:20 N 06:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.572224,6.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13521 (F90FCC07) **Date:** 4/12/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 22KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1070 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "22" ### Event 13522 (7F8E0280) **Date:** 4/12/1957 **Description:** At 8:00 a.m. an odd cone-shaped UFO descended to the side of highway N562 in Figanieres, Var, France, causing the engine of the witness's car to stall. Vegetation at the site was later found to be dead. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1967 ### Event 13523 (27DC61A4) **Date:** 4/14/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** VINS-SUR-CARAMY, FR **Description:** 2+1+2 observer(s). 1.5M top going up and down. Road signs rattle. Magnetized. / r3p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5324 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "VINS-sur-CARAMY,FR:2+1+2 OBS:1.5M TOP ↑+↓:ROAD SIGNS RATTLE:MAGNETIZED:/r3p19", **LatLong:** "43.427780 6.155556", **LatLongDMS:** "43:25:40 N 06:09:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.427780,6.155556)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13524 (26573C93) **Date:** 4/14/1957 **Location:** Vins sur Caramy (1/2 mile E of), France **Description:** 5 ft tall 3 ft wide metallic top-shaped object covered with vibrating sharp spines (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2032 ### Event 13525 (EF4BB3E9) **Date:** 4/14/1957 **Time:** 1500 **Location:** Vins-sur-Caramy, France **Description:** At an intersection, two women, Mrs. Garcin and Mrs. Rami, suddenly heard a noise and saw behind them a top-shaped object, 1 m high and 1 m wide, nearly touching the ground. It made a sudden jump and landed again: There were a number of antennalike projections on top of it. The noise did not come from the object, but from a metallic road sign vibrating in its vicinity. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 207; Challenge 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_389 ### Event 13526 (A7A3F405) **Date:** 4/14/1957 **Location:** Vins-sur-Caramy, Var, France **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Marie Garcin and Julia Rami are walking along road D24 a half-mile east of Vins-sur-Caramy, Var, France, when they hear a deafening noise and see a 5-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide, metallic, top-shaped object covered with vibrating sharp spines that is landing near a road sign. The sign starts to vibrate loudly, then the object hops over the road at a height of about 15–30 feet. Another witness, Jules Boglio, is about 1,000 feet away and sees the object land a second time in the adjoining road, then jump over another road sign which then vibrates loudly. Two other witnesses see the object at a much greater distance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Top-Shaped Object Hovers at 300](http://www.nicap.org/570414france%5Fdir.htm)”; Jimmy Guieu, “[Vins-sur-Caramy \(Var\), 14 avril 1957,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2021%20-%203e%20trim%201957.pdf)” Ouranos, no. 21 \(1957\): 50–52; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 145–146; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 154–156](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/154/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2927 ### Event 13527 (15061013) **Date:** 4/16/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 320KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1071 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "320" ### Event 13528 (FC6E5DA0) **Date:** 4/19/1957 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** DEEP PACIFIC **Description:** Japanese boat. 2 10M silver objects going down [to] and submerge. Sea boils. / r2p185+/ r141#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5325 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "DEEP PACIFIC:JAPN.BOAT:2 10M SLVR OBJS ↓+SUBMERGE:SEA BOILS:/r2p185+/r141#2", **LatLong:** "31.250001 143.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "31:15:00 N 143:30:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.250001,143.500007)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13529 (BD248D9C) **Date:** 4/19/1957 **Location:** Maiquetia, Venezula **Description:** Airliner en route to Maiquetia sighted UFO; strange radio signals received at Maiquetia airport at same time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2033 ### Event 13530 (FB4643B3) **Date:** 4/19/1957 **Time:** 1152 **Location:** Pacific Ocean, near Japan **Description:** Japanese fishermen aboard the "Kitsukawara Maru" saw two metal disks come into the sky. This was followed by violent turbulence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Round-up 147 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_390 ### Event 13531 (BFCD3239) **Date:** 4/19/1957 **Locations:** Pacific Ocean; 300 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japan **Description:** 11:52 a.m. Two metallic discs are seen entering the Pacific Ocean about 300 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japan, by Japanese fisherman aboard the Kitsukawa Maru. A violent turbulence disturbs the ocean after they submerge. The objects are 30 feet long and wingless. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Discs Enter Pacific](http://www.nicap.org/570419pacific%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2928 ### Event 13532 (31F8DD26) **Date:** 4/21/1957 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** MONTLUCON, FR **Description:** 2+observer(s). Jellyfish-saucer reappears several X. Colored strings hang going down. / r141#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5326 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "MONTLUCON,FR:2+OBS:JELLYFISH-SCR REAPPEARS SVRL X:CLRD STRINGS HANG ↓:/r141#2", **LatLong:** "46.333336 2.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:20:00 N 02:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.333336,2.583333)", **State/Prov:** "Allier", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13533 (D2BE8204) **Date:** 4/22/1957 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** PALALDA, FR **Description:** 5M flaming disk hovers / vineyard. Wild spins. Vines thrash. Going quickly northeast. / r8#391. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5327 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PALALDA,FR:5M FLAMING DISK HVRS/VINYARD:WILD SPINS:VINES THRASH:>>NE:/r8#391", **LatLong:** "42.466669 2.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:28:00 N 02:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.466669,2.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Pyrénées-Orientales", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13534 (076B6208) **Date:** 4/22/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** TAEGU, KOREA **Description:** 4 silent smoking odd-colored eggs zigzag across sky / 4 minute(s). / r141 #2p46. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5328 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "TAEGU,KOREA:4 SLNT SMOKING ODD-CLRD EGGS ZIGZAG ACRS SKY/4min:/r141 #2p46", **LatLong:** "35.866668 128.616673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:00 N 128:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.866668,128.616673)", **State/Prov:** "SKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13535 (CBC6194F) **Date:** 4/22/1957 **Time:** 1300 **Location:** Palalda, France **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Firmin Bason heard an unusual noise and saw a whirlwind of flames 10 or 15 m above ground, coming down toward the vineyard. It was red and blue, spinning wildly, flying slowly. It hovered for 5 min over plants which moved violently, then it flew south with a deafening roar, hovered again and departed to the southwest. Diameter at the top: about 5 m. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Ouranos 21 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_391 ### Event 13536 (A6759DAE) **Date:** 4/22/1957 **Description:** A 10:00 p.m. four silent, odd-colored ovoid objects giving off smoke zigzagged across the sky for four minutes in Daegu, Korea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, volume 3, number 4; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4865 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2211 ### Event 13537 (B8A2B976) **Date:** 4/22/1957 **Description:** A flaming cone or disc-shaped object, five-meters in diameter, hovered over a vineyard in Palada, France. It was witnessed by Mr. & Mrs. Firmin Bason. The vines thrashed about as the object spun wildly, and the object then rose rapidly with a loud roar and shot away toward the northeast. The low level whirlwind produced by the object created magnetic effects. The encounter lasted five minutes, and was followed by a police investigation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, computerized catalogue, case #2320; UNICAT database, case 806, citing Jimmy Guieu, Ouranos; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 391; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 46 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2212 ### Event 13538 (B2C4C8DC) **Date:** 4/24/1957 **Location:** 37.0000 -115.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Project 57 No. 1” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_87 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -115.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 115:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-115.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Project 57 No. 1", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 13539 (C41BE69E) **Date:** 4/24/1957 **Locations:** Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada; Nevada Test Site **Description:** 6:27 a.m. Project 57 is an open-air nuclear “dirty-bomb” test conducted in Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada. The high explosives of a nuclear weapon are detonated asymmetrically to simulate an accidental detonation of an XW-25 warhead in an airplane crash. The purpose of the test is to verify that no yield would result, as well as study the extent of plutonium contamination. Some 4,000 galvanized steel pans sprayed with tacky resin are set up around a 10-by-16-square-mile block of land to capture plutonium samples. Some 68 air- sampler stations equipped with micropore paper are spread over 70 square miles. Mock-ups of sidewalks, curbs, and asphalt are set up in the desert; cars and trucks are added; giant air-sampling balloons are tethered in place; 9 burros, 109 beagles, 10 sheep, and 31 white rats are put in cages. Afterward, the contaminated area is fenced off and the contaminated equipment buried in place. Data from the test confirms that plutonium has a 24,000-year half-life; many of the test animals are killed, but security guard [Richard Mingus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FMingus) manages not to inhale any particles. A radiological survey team detects alpha radiation, but no serious beta or gamma radiation. In 1981, the US Department of Energy decontaminates and decommissions the site. Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil and debris are removed from Area 13 and disposed of in a waste facility at the Nevada Test Site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project 57](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5F57)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 100–116](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/100/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2929 ### Event 13540 (EFE43B57) **Date:** 4/25/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** BISTINEAU, LA **Description:** Fisherman. Blood red 60M hemisphere going north. Lands / woods. Noise / separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 207) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5329 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "BISTINEAU,LA:FISHERMAN:BLOOD RED 60M HEMISPHERE >N:LANDS/WOODS:NOISE/SEP.OBS:", **LatLong:** "32.383335 -93.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:23:00 N 93:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.383335,-93.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13541 (D7B08221) **Date:** 4/25/1957 **Location:** Ringgold, LA **Description:** Military witness Robertson. Case missing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4706) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2034 ### Event 13542 (04969A1B) **Date:** 4/25/1957 **Time:** Unknown time **Location:** Ringgold, Louisiana **Description:** Military witness Robertson. Case missing from official files. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_410 ### Event 13543 (F4F2A0E5) **Date:** 4/28/1957 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** OFF CHANNEL ISL.NZ **Description:** 1 / boat. Saucer blows smoke. Maneuvers / all directions / 20 minute(s). Going quickly west. / r24v1#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5330 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off CHANNEL Isl.NZ:1/BOAT:SCR BLOWS SMOKE:MNVRS/all dirs/20min:>>W:/r24v1#2", **LatLong:** "-36.438891 175.344453", **LatLongDMS:** "36:26:20 S 175:20:40 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.438891,175.344453)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13544 (4551F913) **Date:** 4/28/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MODESTO, CA **Description:** 1 observer. 5 luminous hubcap saucers going quickly northeast 3 abreast and 2 trailing. / R141#32p53+56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 689) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5331 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "28", **HatchDesc:** "MODESTO,CA:1 OBS:5 LUMn.HUBCAP SCRS >>NE 3 ABREAST+2 TRAILING:/R141#32p53+56", **LatLong:** "37.650002 -121.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:39:00 N 121:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.650002,-121.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13545 (F2FF1638) **Date:** 4/29/1957 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** LECKHAMPTON, ENG **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape trades light signals with disk. Disk enters cylinder/cigar-shape. (Comet visible.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5332 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "172", **HatchDesc:** "LECKHAMPTON,ENG:CGR TRADES LITE SIGNALS W/DISK:DISK ENTERS CGR:(Comet visible)", **LatLong:** "51.866669 -2.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:52:00 N 02:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.866669,-2.083333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13546 (6BA79E30) **Date:** 4/29/1957 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** WORCESTER, MA **Description:** College kids. Saucer going quickly north. Slows and speeds. Night lights and disks in formation to 2240hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5333 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "144", **HatchDesc:** "WORCESTER,MA:COLLEGE KIDS:SCR >>N:SLOWS+SPEEDS:NLTS+DISKS/FORMn to 2240hrs", **LatLong:** "42.250002 -71.800003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:15:00 N 71:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.250002,-71.800003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13547 (9128C904) **Date:** 4/29/1957 **Location:** Virginia, MN **Description:** 10:15 p.m. Robert Lerdahl and Alex Ellison saw about 36 UFOs which passed overhead in groups of 6 and 8 during a forty minute period. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2035 ### Event 13548 (317F5B4C) **Date:** 4/29/1957 **Location:** English Channel, UK **Description:** Mysterious Objects Sighted Over English Channel (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570429](http://www.nicap.org/570429englishdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2036 ### Event 13549 (368DC22C) **Date:** 4/29/1957 **Description:** Two men, Lerdahl and Ellison, reported that three dozen UFOs flew over Virginia, Minnesota in groups of 6-8 for 40 minutes beginning at 10:15 p.m. The UFOs were greenish, disc-shaped objects flying in crescent formations, and were viewed through binoculars. They went from east to west, and each group flew from horizon to horizon in eight seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1960, p. 7; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2405 ### Event 13550 (10133442) **Date:** 5/1957 **Location:** Manston, Kent **Description:** Pilot Milton Torres flew a F-86 D Sabre from the Royal Air Force base at Manston, Kent and ordered to shoot down a large “aircraft carrier” sized UFO flying at more than 7600mph. Object disappeared, ordered to stay silent and threatened with a national security breach if he talked. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Reuters Link](https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-ufo/u-s-pilot-was-ordered-to-shoot-down-ufo-idUKTRE49J1P620081020) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_570 ### Event 13551 (ACFE096B) **Date:** 5/1957 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** BARBACENA, BRAZIL **Description:** 2 politicos / car. Many luminous/glowing objects. Fast stops and 90° turns. Blue glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5334 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1161", **HatchDesc:** "BARBACENA,BRZL:2 POLITICOS/CAR:MANY LUMN OBJS:FAST STOPS+90°TURNS:BLUE GLOW", **LatLong:** "-21.233334 -43.766669", **LatLongDMS:** "21:14:00 S 43:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.233334,-43.766669)", **State/Prov:** "MGR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13552 (D269976A) **Date:** 5/1957 **Location:** Milford, Pennsylvania **Description:** Frances Stichler, who lived on a farm, was working in her barn when she heard a whirring sound and saw a bowl-shaped object, 7 m in diameter, with a rim over 1 m wide about 5 m above ground. It stopped with one side tilted toward her. A man dressed in a loose, shiny, gray suit, wearing a tight-fitting helmet, was facing her from inside the object. He seemed of average height had deep-set eyes, tanned skin, and a long face with a "quizzical" expression. Almost immediately the object left toward the southeast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 108; Humanoids 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_392 ### Event 13553 (F54DB329) **Date:** 5/1957 **Location:** Everglades, Florida **Description:** NICAP is fed a phony UFO crash story in the Everglades, Florida, by an Associated Press employee who is a “former Signal Corps engineer” with possible ties to the NSA. He admits faking the story but refuses to give any motive. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 64–68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2931 ### Event 13554 (F00B3398) **Date:** 5/1957 **Locations:** RAF Winkleigh Airfield; Devon, England **Description:** 4:50 a.m. A truck driver pulls over at the edge of the disused RAF Winkleigh Airfield \[now the site of the West of England Transport Collection\], Devon, England, to drink some coffee. He notices an object like a metallic, fluorescent-blue submarine with tail fins sitting at the end of the runway. It is about the size of an airliner. He watches it a while, then gets out of the truck and approaches it. He has the object in sight a total of 10–15 minutes and realizes it is hovering just above the ground. When he is 600 feet away, he encounters a type of force field that prevents him from approaching. The object then rises straight up into the sky to about 1,200 feet and shoots off to the north. The force field disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ron Toth, “[UFO Landing at War-time Aerodrome,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Pegasus%20%28SIGAP%29/Pegasus%20-%20Vol%2002%20No%203%20May-June%201970.pdf)” Pegasus 2, no. 3 \(May-June 1970\): 2–4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2932 ### Event 13555 (4272E42C) **Date:** 5/1957 **Location:** Milford, Pennsylvania **Description:** 6:00 a.m. Frances Stichler is working in her barn in Milford, Pennsylvania, when she hears a whirring sound and sees a bowl-shaped object approaching at a height of 15 feet. It is 15 feet in diameter with a rim about 3 feet wide. It hovers with one side tilted toward her 50 feet away. Its lone occupant, a helmeted figure with a long, olive- colored face and a shiny, light gray suit, gazes at her with a quizzical expression on his tanned face. It is sitting on the far rim with feet and legs hidden by the lower part of the object. Inside the open vehicle, she can see levers. After a minute, the object takes off to the southwest making a spinning sound. Her chickens do not seem disturbed by any of this. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[UFO Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1969\): 14–15; Clark III 268; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf) [History: 1957 May 24th–July 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf), The Author, 1996, p. 10; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-05-usa-milford.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-05-usa-milford.htm) December 17, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2933 ### Event 13556 (9BF38922) **Date:** 5/1957? **Location:** Orlando, Florida **Description:** 3:45 p.m. Two men in Orlando, Florida, see an oval object emerge from a larger cigar-shaped UFO about 75– 100 feet long. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7, 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2934 ### Event 13557 (08179A14) **Date:** 5/1/1957 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** PAJAS BLANCAS, ARG **Description:** Pseudo-human/entity asks observer(s) / 60' saucer. 5 pseudo-human/entity / instrument panels. 6 separate observer(s). Going northwest. / r79p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5335 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "586", **HatchDesc:** "PAJAS BLANCAS,ARG:PSH ASKS OBS/60'SCR:5 PSH/INSTRM PANELS:6 SEP.OBS:>NW:/r79p7", **LatLong:** "-31.216668 -64.283336", **LatLongDMS:** "31:13:00 S 64:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.216668,-64.283336)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13558 (02CC30AE) **Date:** 5/1/1957 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** GUYHIRN, ENGL **Description:** Several observer(s). Gold dinner-plate saucer jerks and circles. Vanishes. / r141 #2p65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5336 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GUYHIRN,ENGL:SVRL OBS:GOLD DINNER-PLATE SCR JERKS+CCLs:VANISHES:/r141 #2p65", **LatLong:** "52.650003 0.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:39:00 N 00:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.650003,0.150000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13559 (E165F8AF) **Date:** 5/1/1957 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** HAMILTON, OH **Description:** Top saucer hovers overhead / 12 minutes. All color(s) / rainbow. Shoots away like bullet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5337 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON,OH:TOP SCR HVRS OVHD/12mins:ALL CLRS/RAINBOW:SHOOTS AWAY LIKE BULLET", **LatLong:** "39.400002 -84.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:24:00 N 84:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.400002,-84.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13560 (6F859A44) **Date:** 5/1/1957 **Time:** 0700 **Location:** Pajasblancas Airport, Argentina **Description:** When his motorcycle suddenly failed, the driver observed a disk, 2O m in diameter and 5 m thick, hovering about 15 m above ground. He hid in a ditch and saw the craft come down, making a sound similar to air escaping from a valve. A sort of lift descended from its base almost to the ground. In it was a man of average height, who made friendly gestures to the witness. He was dressed in a plastic diving suit. The witness entered the machine and saw inside several people seated before instrument panels, lighted by an extraordinary light. He was then escorted out, and the disk rose to the northwest. During the next hour, six sightings were made along the same course by independent witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 35; FSR 65, 1; FSR 65, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_393 ### Event 13561 (CC8482A5) **Date:** 5/1/1957 **Location:** Pajas Blancas International Airport in Córdoba, Argentina **Description:** 7:00 a.m. A man driving a motorcycle about 9 miles from Pajas Blancas International Airport in Córdoba, Argentina, sees a UFO shortly after his engine fails. It is 65 feet in diameter and 16 feet thick, hovering about 50 feet above the ground. He hides in a ditch and sees the craft come down, making a sound similar to air escaping from a valve. A lift descends from its base almost to the ground. In it is a man of average height who makes friendly gestures. He is dressed in a plastic diving suit. The witness enters the machine and sees several people inside seated in front of instrument panels, lit by an extraordinary light. He is then escorted out, and the disc rises to the northwest. During the next hour, there are 6 other sightings made by independent witnesses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May 25th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 61–64; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2935 ### Event 13562 (50BCCA69) **Date:** 5/1/1957 **Description:** On or about this day a motorcyclist was traveling down a road near the Pajas Blancas Airport in Cordoba province, Argentina shortly after 7 a.m. when his motorcycle stalled. The driver then saw a disc-shaped object 20 meters in diameter, hovering 15 meters above the ground. An elevator descended from the base, and a human-like being of average height, around five foot eight inches tall, was seen in the elevator. The witness was offered the choice of whether he wanted to enter the craft or not, and he decided to go inside the craft. Inside there were another five or six men dressed in something similar to diving suits working some instrument panels. He was taken for a 30 minute ride. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 393, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 35; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 63; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0417, citing The Humanoids **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2438 ### Event 13563 (7206213F) **Date:** 5/2/1957 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** EAST / EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Cameramen. 30 frames / saucer. Balloon? / r21p361+/ r141#12 especially. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5338 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "702", **HatchDesc:** "E/EDWARDS AFB,CA:CAMERAMEN:30 FRAMES/SCR:balloon?:/r21p361+/r141#12 especially", **LatLong:** "34.894446 -117.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:40 N 117:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.894446,-117.666672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13564 (7F82C3A9) **Date:** 5/2/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** PARKLAND, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Dazzling object hovers / field. Passes water tower / low altitude. Maneuvers away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5339 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "PARKLAND,WA:2 OBS:DAZZLING OBJ HVRS/FIELD:PASSES WATER TOWER/LO ALT:MNVRS AWAY", **LatLong:** "47.155558 -122.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:09:20 N 122:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.155558,-122.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13565 (4167558A) **Date:** 5/2/1957 **Location:** Edwards AFB, CA **Description:** Edwards AFB Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570502](http://www.nicap.org/570502edwardsafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2038 ### Event 13566 (75FBD8A8) **Date:** 5/2/1957 **Locations:** Edwards AFB, California; Mojave Desert **Description:** 6:55–7:20 a.m. Frank E. Baker, supervisor of civilian camera operators at Edwards AFB, California, sends the standard two-man crews out to their Askania tracking telescopes for their daily shifts. Veterans James D. Bittick and [John R. Gettys Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132228244/john-robert-gettys) are in their pickup expecting a normal day. As they approach their station in the Mojave Desert, they see a bright object in the sky. It is initially at about a 45° elevation and seems to be hovering. They need to get permission from Baker to photograph anything, so they call it in, begin readying the scope, load the film, and wait for the okay. Gettys says the base of the object has a circular appearance when high in the sky. Baker gives them his approval and they begin filming, each viewing the object through spotting scopes while the film rolls. They shoot about 100 feet then stop. During filming, the object moves from 1 mile away to 5 miles. What they see is a disc-shaped object with a low dome on top. They contact the base, which scrambles two jets, but they are too late. After they turn the film in, three officers show up and interrogate them. Future astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FCooper) claims he was there that day, involved with the tracking. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Edwards AFB](http://www.nicap.org/570502edwardsafb%5Fdir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/reports/570502edwards%5Fcontinued.htm)”; “[Unidentified Flying Object Filmed, Studied,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94247945/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, May 12, 1957, p. 2; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#photo)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 75–76; Michael D. Swords, “As Great an Enigma As the UFOs Themselves,” IUR 30, no. 1 \(October 2005\): 10–12; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 243; “[Astronaut Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc)” Elhardt YouTube channel, December 27, 2007; Swords 247–248; Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperTorch, 2000, pp. 83–86; Good Need, [pp. 220–222](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/220/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2936 ### Event 13567 (BA9C4C1A) **Date:** 5/3/1957 **Location:** Edwards AFB **Description:** Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper) spots a UFO landing at Edwards AFB. **Type:** ce2 event **Reference:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/1GlVRrk0qgU) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_151 ### Event 13568 (7C3F1A8B) **Date:** 5/3/1957 **Location:** OREWA, NZ **Description:** 1 observer / (seen thru) binoculars. Large cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. Several "revolutions". Reappears 5x. Going quickly / horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5340 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "OREWA,NZ:1 OBS/BINOCs:LRG CGR HVRS:SVRL "REVOLUTIONS":REAPPEARS 5x:>>/HORIZON", **LatLong:** "-36.583335 174.683342", **LatLongDMS:** "36:35:00 S 174:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.583335,174.683342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13569 (F42A3CC1) **Date:** 5/3/1957 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** FORCALQUIER OBSERVER(S), FR **Description:** Astronomic photographs / night light pair. Maneuvers. Same / 19 Aug. '57. / r141#2p65+#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5341 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "FORCALQUIER OBS,FR:ASTRONOMIC FOTOS/NLT PAIR:MNVRS:SAME/19AUG57:/r141#2p65+#4", **LatLong:** "43.933335 5.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:56:00 N 05:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.933335,5.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes de Haute Provence", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13570 (A7D99208) **Date:** 5/4/1957 **Location:** Near Calif. coast (McClellan AFB), CA **Description:** Lights Pass In Front & Below RC-121 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570504](http://www.nicap.org/570504califcoast%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2039 ### Event 13571 (F7620174) **Date:** 5/5/1957 **Location:** Santa Rosa Island, CA **Description:** Orange Objects Fly Over & Under Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570505](http://www.nicap.org/570505santarosa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2040 ### Event 13572 (7D3BD934) **Date:** 5/6/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** USS HUNTERS POINT **Description:** All crew. Classic glowing black saucer going [to] WNW behind clouds. / ttp. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 267) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5342 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "USS HUNTERS POINT:ALL CREW:CLASSIC GLOWING BLK SCR >WNW behind clouds:/ttp", **LatLong:** "26.633335 -23.366668", **LatLongDMS:** "26:38:00 N 23:22:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.633335,-23.366668)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13573 (7951E402) **Date:** 5/10/1957 **Location:** LAKE ISABELLA, CA **Description:** 1 observer / lonely road. Small bubble expands to/from 9' ovoid. Telepathy = "don't fear". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5343 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "794", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE ISABELLA,CA:1 OBS/LONELY ROAD:SML BUBBLE EXPANDS><9'OVOID:TLP="DONT FEAR"", **LatLong:** "35.605557 -118.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:36:20 N 118:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.605557,-118.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13574 (5AB507BE) **Date:** 5/10/1957 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** BEAUCOURT / ANCRE, FR **Description:** UFO hovers 30cm / ground. 4 small humanoids (or Greys) by. Lava-traces. / APRO May'57+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5344 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUCOURT/ANCRE,FR:UFO HVRS 30cm/GND:4 OIDS BY:LAVA-TRACES:/APRO May'57+/r141", **LatLong:** "50.083336 2.694445", **LatLongDMS:** "50:05:00 N 02:41:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.083336,2.694445)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13575 (5B7D0D93) **Date:** 5/10/1957 **Time:** 2250 **Location:** Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France **Description:** A Hungarian refugee, Michel Fekete, was riding his bicycle when he saw an object hovering 30 cm above ground and four little men nearby. The police found lavalike fragments at the site. Six other witnesses vouch for the sighting including Messrs. Iklef and Lepot and their wives. The craft was luminous, pulsating between red and white (remaining red longer). When white, it was more blinding than a powerful searchlight. It was 50 m away from the group of witnesses. Occupants were about 1.30 m tall with a beige-gray body, an abnormally large black head, and a waddling gait. The object flew away when a car came into view. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 109; M 211 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_394 ### Event 13576 (131526EF) **Date:** 5/10/1957 **Location:** Beaucourt-sur-l’Ancre, Somme, France **Description:** After 10:45 p.m. At Beaucourt-sur-l’Ancre, Somme, France, a 29-year-old Hungarian refugee named Fekete is cycling when he is “dazzled by a strange projectile.” He sees four men 4–5 feet tall approaching him in a threatening manner. One of them carries a bright light which prevents him from seeing much detail. He flees on his cycle to a nearby home, where others look out and see the occupants 300 feet away. The UFO is emitting red and white \(or yellow\) rays of light alternatively. They watch for about 20 minutes until 11:15 p.m. when the UFO takes off at a 45° angle. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) [23rd–May 25th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 69–72 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2937 ### Event 13577 (571729AB) **Date:** 5/10/1957 **Description:** An abductee named McBride reported being abducted by aliens while driving along the highway in Lake Isabella, California at dusk. The witness first spotted a white bubble-shaped object floating above the trees. It descended to just 10 feet above the ground. Thin, bony looking humanoids, seven to eight feet tall, emerged from the object wearing transparent clothing. They communicated using telepathy. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ann Drufel, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1978, p. 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2714 ### Event 13578 (5B4EF032) **Date:** 5/10/1957 **Description:** At 10:45 p.m. a 29-year-old man named Fekete was bicyling home along a road in Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France when he was temporarily blinded by a light from above. Together with three of this neighbors, he saw a pulsating object on the ground with the silhouettes of three short men (4-5 feet tall) with large heads and a torrering gait. The light rose into sky when a car passed. A circular ground mark was found at the landing site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 211, Ouranos, issue #21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2715 ### Event 13579 (C8A834A2) **Date:** 5/11/1957 **Locations:** Mojave Desert; Landers, California **Description:** While attending the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, [Wayne Sulo Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) goes for a walk and sees a “majestic egg-shaped light.” He directs a telepathic message to it, and the UFO lands 2 miles away. He begins receiving subtle psychic messages on his earthly mission. That night, Aho undergoes a “cosmic initiation.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 59; Wayne S. Aho, Mojave Desert Experience, May 11, 1957, New Age, 1972 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2938 ### Event 13580 (91D5D1EC) **Date:** 5/12/1957 **Location:** MOAB, UTAH **Description:** Blue-green saucer speeds below observers plane. No further details. / r78p178. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5345 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1227", **HatchDesc:** "MOAB,UTAH:BLU-GRN SCR SPEEDS BELOW OBSERVERS PLANE:NFD:/r78p178", **LatLong:** "38.583335 -109.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:00 N 109:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.583335,-109.583339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13581 (EFDC4C2F) **Date:** 5/12/1957 **Location:** Moab, UT **Description:** Round, blue-green UFO sped past below observer's altitude. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2041 ### Event 13582 (A4ADCC4C) **Date:** 5/13/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM AND NOTTINGHAM AND STAFFORD, ENG **Description:** Many observer(s). Series / ovoids going south / high altitude. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5346 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "134", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM+NOTTINGHAM+STAFFORD,ENG:MANY OBS:SERIES/OVOIDS >S /hi alt:/FSR v3#5", **LatLong:** "52.483336 -1.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:29:00 N 01:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.483336,-1.866667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13583 (FC67E4A7) **Date:** 5/14/1957? **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** CHINA LAKE, CA **Description:** 16 white hemispheres maneuver. 2 / dogfight. Regroup / loose V formation. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5347 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "690", **HatchDesc:** "CHINA LAKE,CA:16 WHT HEMISPHERES MNVR:2/DOGFIGHT:REGROUP/LOOSE VFORM:>>W", **LatLong:** "35.650002 -117.661117", **LatLongDMS:** "35:39:00 N 117:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.650002,-117.661117)", **RelAlt:** "6100", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13584 (39F22A54) **Date:** 5/15/1957 **Time:** 19:37:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1756 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "A" ### Event 13585 (53D47FF7) **Date:** Late Spring 1957 **Locations:** Ellsworth AFB; Rapid City, South Dakota **Description:** Between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. Airman 2nd Class Wallace Fowler is sitting on the front steps of his barracks at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City, South Dakota, when a silver domed disc with portholes appears directly above him. Shadows are moving behind the portholes. The UFO is motionless and the size of a house. After about 2–3 minutes it takes off straight up at high speed. Many others on the base have seen the object as well, and jets are scrambled. The UFO maneuvers around the jets as if toying with them. One of the pursuing jets allegedly goes missing and the wreckage is never found. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [pp. 218–219](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/218/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2930 ### Event 13586 (47B38861) **Date:** 5/17/1957 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** ROSWELL, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Shiny white disk going east against wind. 90° turn going north tilted on a slant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 693) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5348 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1089", **HatchDesc:** "ROSWELL,NM:2 OBS:SHINY WHT DISK > E AGAINST WIND:90° TURN >N TILTED on a SLANT", **LatLong:** "33.416668 -104.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:00 N 104:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.416668,-104.533338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13587 (ECFE0C55) **Date:** 5/17/1957 **Description:** At 7:45 a.m. two observers in Roswell, New Mexico saw a shiny white disc in the sky fly to the east against the wind; it made a 90 degree turn to the north tilted on a slant. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2921 ### Event 13588 (13562D6C) **Date:** 5/20/1957 **Location:** Manston, Kent **Description:** OPERATION INTERCEPT: Two USAF fighters intercept a UFO. The F-86D’s fired Mighty Mouse missiles at the UFO and missed it. The UFO left their 30 mile range area and fell off the radar scope. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [link](https://web.archive.org/web/20070828174845/http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1998/jun/m07-034.shtml) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_571 ### Event 13589 (CB714F71) **Date:** 5/20/1957 **Location:** East Anglia, UK **Description:** Milton Torres / Intercept Mission (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570520](http://www.nicap.org/570520eastanglia%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2042 ### Event 13590 (061C37EA) **Date:** 5/20/1957? **Alternate date:** 1956? **Locations:** RAF Manston [now closed], Kent, England; Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker [now closed] in Essex; East Anglia **Description:** Near 12:00 midnight. USAF Lt. Milton Torres is flying F-86D Sabre fighters with the 406th Bomber Wing based at RAF Manston \[now closed\], Kent, England. He receives an order from an RAF controller, who is tracking an unidentified target from Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker \[now closed\] in Essex, to go up with a wingman to 32,000 feet over East Anglia in pursuit. Over the radio he receives an order to fire a salvo of rockets at the target; the order is so unusual that Torres seeks authentication before firing. Torres locates the large target on his aircraft radar, but when he closes in on it, it shoots away at tremendous speed, disappearing from the radar screens. The target might be explained by a secret CIA-MoD experiment, codenamed [Palladium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%5FDirectorate%5Fof%5FScience%5F%26%5FTechnology\#ELINT)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%5FDirectorate%5Fof%5FScience%5F%26%5FTechnology\#ELINT) to simulate an aircraft blip on Soviet radar screens. On his return to base, Torres is debriefed by a secret service agent and told his mission is top secret. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Milton Torres / Intercept Mission](http://www.nicap.org/570520eastanglia%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOFiles2, [pp. 69–72](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n117/mode/2up); David Clarke, “Intercept and Destroy,” Fortean Times 242 \(December 2008\): 34–35; Paul Crickmore, “[Project](http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-palladium-testing-soviet-radars.html) [Palladium: Testing Soviet Radars,](http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-palladium-testing-soviet-radars.html)” Tails Through Time, January 3, 2011; Curt Collins, “[Area 51, the CIA, and](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2014/01/area-51-cia-and-cold-war-ufos-td-barnes.html) [Cold War UFOS: T. D. Barnes,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2014/01/area-51-cia-and-cold-war-ufos-td-barnes.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, January 9, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2939 ### Event 13591 (E9FB1C3F) **Date:** 5/21/1957 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** CHULA VISTA, CA **Description:** Several observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Silver coin-disk going east over bay. Maneuvers / 45 minute(s). Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5349 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CHULA VISTA,CA:SVRL OBS/BINOCS:SLVR COIN-DISK > E ovr BAY:MNVRS/45min:>>W", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -117.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 117:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-117.116672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13592 (956942F1) **Date:** 5/21/1957 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** NEAR KNOXVILLE, TN **Description:** Noisy metallic ovoid going northwest overhead. Hovers / silence. Possible landing / trees. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 288) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5350 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "267", **HatchDesc:** "nr KNOXVILLE,TN:NOISY MTLC OVOID >NW OVHD:HVRS/SILENCE:POSS.LANDING/TREES", **LatLong:** "36.000002 -84.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 84:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,-84.000004)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13593 (3E6DDDE1) **Date:** 5/21/1957 **Description:** At 4:40 p.m. a metallic ovoid flew overhead to the northwest near Knoxville, Tennessee making a noise. It then hovered in silence, and may have made a possible landing behind some trees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York case files; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 88 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3016 ### Event 13594 (7959170D) **Date:** 5/22/1957 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** BLETCHLEY, ENG **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Fat cylinder/cigar-shape hovers vertical / stiff wind. Turns vertical.. going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5351 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "BLETCHLEY,ENG:100s/OBS:FAT CGR HVRS VERTICAL/STIFF WIND:TURNS VERTICAL..>>SE", **LatLong:** "52.016669 -0.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:01:00 N 00:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.016669,-0.750000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13595 (8A6D9D36) **Date:** 5/22/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** CORAL GABLES, FL **Description:** Amateur astronomer / naked eye. Dim glowing 5M ovoid zigzags extremely fast going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 292) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5352 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CORAL GABLES,FL:AM.ASTRON/NAKED EYE:DIM GLOWING 5M OVOID ZIGZAGS XFAST >>E:", **LatLong:** "25.716668 -80.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:43:00 N 80:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.716668,-80.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13596 (C1E39433) **Date:** 5/23/1957 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** KANSAS CITY, KS **Description:** 4 saucers / box-formation. 2 turn northwest. 2 going quickly north then join pair going quickly northwest. / r114p111. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 294) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5353 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "KANSAS CITY,KS:4 SCRS/BOX-FORMn:2 TURN NW:2 >> N THEN JOIN PAIR >>NW:/r114p111", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -94.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 94:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-94.650005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13597 (FBC67D5A) **Date:** 5/23/1957 **Description:** At 8:15 in the morning over Kansas City, Kansas four discs were sighted flying in a box formation. Two of the objects turned and flew to the northwest, while two shot ahead to the north, joining another pair also going to the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 94; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 110 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3044 ### Event 13598 (DC5F0BDC) **Date:** 5/24/1957 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** NORTHPORT, LI, NY **Description:** Linemen. Large plain cylinder/cigar-shape going south slow. "Flying boxcar" follows. Jet going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 304) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5354 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "NORTHPORT,LI,NY:LINEMEN:LRG PLAIN CGR >S SLOW:"FLYING BOXCAR" FOLOS:JET >>N", **LatLong:** "40.900002 -73.344448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:00 N 73:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.900002,-73.344448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13599 (31AB6128) **Date:** 5/24/1957 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** MARIEMONT, OH **Description:** Silver sphere in Air Force maneuvers. Jets chase. Going quickly west and back going quickly east. All / 25k' altitude. / r148. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5355 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "MARIEMONT,OH:SLVR SPHERE in AF MNVRS:JETS CHASE:>>W+BACK>>E:all/25k'alt:/r148", **LatLong:** "39.144446 -84.377782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:40 N 84:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.144446,-84.377782)", **RelAlt:** "7600", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13600 (301BC1C5) **Date:** 5/25/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** MILFORD, PA **Description:** 7M bowl 5M over ground. Tilts. Pseudo-human/entity inside studies observer(s). / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#4. / r8#393. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 310) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5356 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "MILFORD,PA:7M BOWL 5M OVR GND:TILTS:PSH INSIDE STUDIES OBS:/FSR v16#4:/r8#393", **LatLong:** "41.322224 -74.805559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:19:20 N 74:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.322224,-74.805559)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13601 (587F2062) **Date:** 5/25/1957 **Description:** At around 6:00 a.m. a seven meter in diameter bowl-shaped object was sighted low over the ground in Milford, Pennsylvania by a 62-year-old woman named Stichler. It hovered only five meters above the ground, and then tilted. A human-looking occupant inside the craft, with bronze-colored skin and wearing a silver-colored uniform and helmet, studied the witness for a short while. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: May 24-July 31, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3083 ### Event 13602 (2D6A15FB) **Date:** 5/26/1957 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** BEN LOMOND, SCOTLAND **Description:** Yellow cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers / all directions / 45 minute(s). Quickly going down [to] and quickly going up. Speeds going quickly northwest. / r141 #3p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5357 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "576", **HatchDesc:** "BEN LOMOND,SCOTL:YLW CGR MNVRS/ALL DIRs/45min:↓↓+↑↑:SPEEDS >>NW:/r141 #3p3.", **LatLong:** "56.166669 -4.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "56:10:00 N 04:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.166669,-4.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13603 (764D81DA) **Date:** 5/26/1957 **Location:** London, England **Description:** An article in the UK Empire News on “Flying Saucer Clubs Probe: Peace Messages ‘from Outer Space’” reveals that [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/)’s Aetherius Society has been publishing channeled messages in its Cosmic Voice newsletter that are antiwar and anti-nuclear. It attracts the attention of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, thanks to an informant on the newspaper. King writes to explain that his group is religious and not political. A Special Branch officer visits King in his home in London, England, on May 31, and the group’s writings and activities are watched for at least the next two years. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kremlin 121–126 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2940 ### Event 13604 (5D0F1121) **Date:** 5/26/1957 **Description:** Starting at around 5:00 a.m. a yellow cigar-shaped object maneuvered in the sky in all directions for 45 minutes over Ben Lomond, Strathclyde, Scotland. It ascended, descended, then sped away toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3097 ### Event 13605 (4196A498) **Date:** 5/27/1957 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** ST. ANDRE-TREIZE-VOIES, FR **Description:** Luminous white disk / ground. Takes off quickly going up [to] whirr. Grass crushed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5358 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.ANDRE-TREIZE-VOIES,FR:LUMn.WHT DISK/GND:TAKES OFF ↑↑ WHIRR:GRASS CRUSHED", **LatLong:** "46.933336 -1.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:56:00 N 01:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.933336,-1.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13606 (B71F997A) **Date:** 5/28/1957 **Time:** 11:55:00.2 **Location:** 37.0947 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Boltzmann” Yield: 12KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_88 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0947 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:41 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0947,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Boltzmann", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "12" ### Event 13607 (E37DF2BE) **Date:** 5/28/1957 **Locations:** Nevada Test Site; Area 51 **Description:** Boltzmann, the first of 29 nuclear tests in Operation Plumbbob, takes place at the Nevada Test Site. At 12 kilotons, it is about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and causes Area 51 personnel 11 miles away to be temporarily evacuated. Another test blast buckles aircraft hangar doors in Area 51, shatters windows in the mess hall, and breaks a dormitory ventilator panel. The Plumbbob tests continue until October 7, 1957. While most tests contribute to the development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also test air defense and anti-submarine warheads with small yields. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Plumbbob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2941 ### Event 13608 (2E381EB8) **Date:** 5/29/1957 **Location:** Houma, LA **Description:** (McDonald list) AN/MPS-7 Tracks Object at 100,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570529](http://www.nicap.org/570529houma%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2043 ### Event 13609 (AF751F79) **Date:** 5/30/1957 **Location:** Detroit, MI **Description:** (McDonald list) Blip Size of Two Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570530](http://www.nicap.org/570530detroit%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2044 ### Event 13610 (1DEBBFB6) **Date:** 5/31/1957 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** 2 MI SOUTH / ROCHESTER, KENT **Description:** Saucer buzzes airliner. All radio malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). .OK after. / r175p25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5359 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "2 MI S/ROCHESTER,KENT:SCR BUZZES AIRLINER:ALL RADIO EMEs:.OK after:/r175p25", **LatLong:** "51.400002 0.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:24:00 N 00:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.400002,0.500000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13611 (DBE30BE3) **Date:** 5/31/1957 **Location:** Kent, UK **Description:** Airliner suffered radio failure during UFO sighting. Normal functions returned when UFO left (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2045 ### Event 13612 (69EB7DCB) **Date:** 5/31/1957 **Time:** 19:41:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1757 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "A" ### Event 13613 (1E3B9E80) **Date:** 5/31/1957 **Locations:** Kent; Rochester, England **Description:** 7:17 a.m. A British airliner is flying over Kent, two miles south of Rochester, England, when both the captain and first officer see a brilliant light approaching them. All radio communications cut out. The UFO blinks out and the radio equipment goes back into operation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 122–123; Good Above, [p. 50](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2942 ### Event 13614 (614A359B) **Date:** 5/31/1957 **Description:** At 7:17 a.m. a British Airways airliner flying over Kent, England experienced radio and radar failure when a UFO was sighted. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 12, citing Flying Saucer Review; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 148; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49, citing Geoffrey Falla **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3179 ### Event 13615 (FEBBF70B) **Date:** 6/1957 **Location:** NEAR INVERCARGILL, NZ **Description:** Igy RADAR's. Many unidentified blips dart and turn / high altitude. Absolute(ly) mystery. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5360 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "nr INVERCARGILL,NZ:IGY RDRS:MANY UID BLIPS DART+TURN/HI ALTITUDE:ABS.MYSTERY", **LatLong:** "-46.366669 168.500008", **LatLongDMS:** "46:22:00 S 168:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.366669,168.500008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13616 (2A2A3A5E) **Date:** 6/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** LUTON, BEDFORDS **Description:** Many / schoolyard. Large saucer with tailfin and antenna zigzags low and close. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5361 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LUTON,BEDFORDs:MANY/SCHOOLYARD:LRG SCR W/TAILFIN+ANTENNA ZIGZAGS LO+CLOSE", **LatLong:** "51.850002 -0.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:51:00 N 00:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.850002,-0.366667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13617 (B8182700) **Date:** 6/2/1957 **Location:** Nevada **Description:** Letter to BSRA about a recent nuclear test that was postponed for 2 weeks because the winds would blow fallout in occupied areas. The eventually conducted test blew the fallout over occupied areas anyway. **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1556515931978956801) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_572 ### Event 13618 (8F84D8CA) **Date:** 6/2/1957 **Time:** 11:54:59.9 **Location:** 37.0478 -116.0211 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Franklin” Yield: .14KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_89 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0478 -116.0211", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:52 N 116:01:16 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0478,-116.0211)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.09", **NukeName:** "Franklin", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".14" ### Event 13619 (50E47DE5) **Date:** 6/3/1957 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NEAR SHREVEPORT, LA **Description:** 2 separate RADAR's and visual. Night light hovers. Shoots going up. Follows planes going south / one hour. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, J. Allen: The UFO EXPERIENCE, A Scientific Inquiry; Ballentine Books, NY 1974,1977. (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5362 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "nr SHREVEPORT,LA:2 SEP RDRs+VISUAL:NLT HVRS:SHOOTS↑:FOLOS PLANES >S/1hr:", **LatLong:** "32.500002 -93.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:30:00 N 93:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.500002,-93.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13620 (9C521C2F) **Date:** 6/3/1957 **Location:** Shreveport (near), LA **Description:** Shortly after takeoff from Shreveport Airport a small light was visible nearby, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570603](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/hynekrv6.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2046 ### Event 13621 (9C9E6B69) **Date:** 6/3/1957 **Locations:** Shreveport (Louisiana) Airport; Converse, Louisiana; England AFB [now Alexandria International Airport] **Description:** 9:35 p.m. Shortly after takeoff from Shreveport \(Louisiana\) Airport, Capt. Lynn Kern and Flight Officer [Abbey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203353809/abbey-zimmerman) [Zimmerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203353809/abbey-zimmerman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203353809/abbey-zimmerman) flying Trans-Texas Airlines Flight 103, are told by the control tower that a small light is visible nearby. They see the star-like, blue-green object at about 400 feet altitude. It then climbs rapidly to 1,000 feet and parallels the airliner at a higher altitude and about a half-mile away. Kern flashes his landing lights, and the object responds with a beam of light. A second blue-green, pulsating object joins the first on the opposite side of the airliner \(then at 9,000 feet\). A crew from the air tower confirms that it has both objects on radar and visually through binoculars. The objects head south, climbing to about 10,000 feet, and follow the airliner to Converse, Louisiana, where the pilot queries ADC radar site, England AFB \[now Alexandria International Airport\], which confirms the two targets in the airliner’s vicinity. The objects disappear from sight in a cloud deck to the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Flight 103 & 2 UFOs Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/570603shreveport%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 244; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 94–96](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/94/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2943 ### Event 13622 (6ADCA9BA) **Date:** 6/4/1957 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** KINGSEAT, NZ **Description:** 4M ovoids. Very slow and silent. Going south over hospital farm. Balloon? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 697) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5363 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KINGSEAT,NZ:4M OVOIDS:VERY SLOW+SLNT:>S ovr HOSPITAL FARM:balloon?", **LatLong:** "-37.133335 174.800008", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:00 S 174:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.133335,174.800008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13623 (59F5E39E) **Date:** 6/4/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** CORO, VNZL AND WIDE AREA **Description:** Huge meteor / low altitude crashes. Saucers east to/from/between west for days. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 691) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5364 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "CORO,VNZL+wide area:HUGE METEOR/LO ALT CRASHES:scrs E<>W for days:/FSR v3#5", **LatLong:** "11.333334 -69.750003", **LatLongDMS:** "11:20:00 N 69:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.333334,-69.750003)", **State/Prov:** "FLC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13624 (74CCB86A) **Date:** 6/5/1957 **Location:** URIMAN, VNZL **Description:** Luminous/glowing object going down. Small humanoids (or Greys) exit. Indians attack. 1 gets cut / arm. / MJ#290+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 691) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5365 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "585", **HatchDesc:** "URIMAN,VNZL:LUMn OBJ ↓:OIDS EXIT:INDIANS ATTACK:1 GETS CUT/ARM:/MJ#290+/r141", **LatLong:** "5.377778 -62.611114", **LatLongDMS:** "05:22:40 N 62:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.377778,-62.611114)", **State/Prov:** "BOL", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13625 (9C5A07CD) **Date:** 6/5/1957 **Location:** OFF PUERTO CABELLO, VNZ **Description:** 3 / plane. Luminous red disk cruises / 9K' altitude. / El Nacional. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5366 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off PUERTO CABELLO,VNZ:3/PLANE:LUMn.RED DISK CRUISES/9K'alt:/El Nacional:/r141", **LatLong:** "10.583334 -68.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:35:00 N 68:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.583334,-68.000003)", **RelAlt:** "2700", **State/Prov:** "MND", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13626 (D8BDA933) **Date:** 6/5/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** WARRENSBURG, MO **Description:** Orange ball paces 3 / car. Small blue objects exit / all directions. Watch and radio electro-magnetic effect (EME.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5367 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "242", **HatchDesc:** "WARRENSBURG,MO:ORG BALL PACES 3/CAR:SML BLU OBJS EXIT/ALL DIRs:WATCH+RADIO EME", **LatLong:** "38.761113 -93.733338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:45:40 N 93:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.761113,-93.733338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13627 (70D1691B) **Date:** 6/5/1957 **Location:** Uriman, Venezuela **Description:** Undocumented report of a landing and of "bellicose dwarfs." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_395 ### Event 13628 (1F93D493) **Date:** 6/5/1957 **Time:** 11:45:00.3 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Lassen” Yield: .0005KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_90 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Lassen", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".0005" ### Event 13629 (B42D984C) **Date:** 6/5/1957 **Description:** AEC Commissioner [Willard Libby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%5FLibby) tells Congress that nuclear weapons testing is a “small risk” that must be measured against the “risk of annihilation.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Bomb Testing Is Viewed As Risk to Be Compared with](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94249283/) [Annihilation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94249283/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Chronicle, June 5, 1957, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2944 ### Event 13630 (56358F9C) **Date:** 6/5/1957 **Description:** In Uriman, Venezuela on this night in 1957, members of a local Indian tribe saw a luminous object land and several little men emerge from the object. When they tried to capture one of these dwarf-like creatures, it slashed at them with some kind of knife, and gave one of them a deep arm cut. On the same night another close encounter occurred near Warrensburg, Missouri. At 10:30 p.m. on highway 13 north of town, three people driving together in a car had an orange ball of light approach and follow their car. Several small blue lights exited the larger object and flew off in every direction. A watch stopped working and there was interference on their car radio during the encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher files; J. Allen Hynek investigation files, case P44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3294 ### Event 13631 (3DCA3EEE) **Date:** 6/6/1957 **Location:** NEAR SAN FELIPE, VNZL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Fireball falls. Stops / mid air. Going quickly [to] between hills. Quickly going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5368 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "nr SAN FELIPE,VNZL:NMRS OBS:FBL FALLS:STOPS/MID AIR:>> BETWEEN HILLS:↑↑+AWAY", **LatLong:** "10.233334 -68.750003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:14:00 N 68:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.233334,-68.750003)", **State/Prov:** "YRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13632 (213BCE6B) **Date:** 6/6/1957 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** DIXONS CORNERS, ON **Description:** Teacher and 2 / car / PR2. Definite silver disk hovers / 8km altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5369 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "295", **HatchDesc:** "DIXONS CORNERS,ON:TEACHER+2/CAR/PR2:DEFINITE SLVR DISK HVRS/8km alt:", **LatLong:** "43.100002 -80.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:00 N 80:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.100002,-80.966671)", **RelAlt:** "8000", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13633 (DC50988E) **Date:** 6/6/1957 **Description:** At five o'clock in the afternoon a silver disc was seen hovering over Dixons Corners, Ontario at an estimated altitude of 8,000 meters. That night a fireball descended over San Felipe, Venezuela but stopped in midair. It came down between two hills, then rose up and flew away. Also that evening, around 10 p.m. two friends out stargazing saw seven perfectly circular objects fly over Hicksville, New York. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Flying Saucers magazine, February 1958, p. 64; (1 & 2) Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History,1957: May 24-July 31, pp. 16-17; (3) National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, update to website posted April 16, 2005 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3319 ### Event 13634 (041857D8) **Date:** 6/7/1957 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** OFF NEW JERSEY **Description:** McGuire Air Force Base jets chase 100+RADAR blips. Going west. No further details [in] released. / r114p126. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5370 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off NEW JERSEY:McGUIRE AFB JETS CHASE 100+RDR BLIPS:>W:NFD RELEASED:/r114p126", **LatLong:** "40.000002 -73.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "40:00:00 N 73:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.000002,-73.000003)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13635 (685B8583) **Date:** 6/7/1957 **Location:** New Jersey & Atlantic coast, various **Description:** New Jersey & Atlantic coast, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2047 ### Event 13636 (A0D90E48) **Date:** 6/8/1957 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** FUKUOKA, KYUSHU, JP **Description:** 3 observer(s) photograph 2 silent hovering tadpole objects. Rise O / O / sight. / APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5371 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "FUKUOKA,KYUSHU,JP:3 OBS FOTO 2 SILENT HVRNG TADPOLE OBJS:RISE O/O/SIGHT:/APRO", **LatLong:** "33.683335 130.266673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:00 N 130:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.683335,130.266673)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13637 (1A2CE692) **Date:** 6/9/1957 **Location:** VALENCIA TO/FROM PTO CABELLO, VNZ **Description:** Luminous saucer buzzes DC3. Extremely fast. Ground observer(s) also. / MJ#290. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5372 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "VALENCIA> Event 13638 (FE895DAF) **Date:** 6/9/1957 **Description:** On this night a flat glowing object passed near a LAV DC-3 airliner flying between Puerto Cabello and Valencia, Venezuela. It flew by at an incredible speed and was seen by several onboard. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1992, p. 18; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3384 ### Event 13639 (9375B60B) **Date:** 6/10/1957 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** YOKOHAMA, JPN **Description:** 15+/ railroad/railway station. Long cylinder/cigar-shape with silvery glow southwest going quickly northeast. Absolute(ly) silent. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 693) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5373 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "YOKOHAMA,JPN:15+/RR STATION:LONG CGR W/SLVRY GLOW SW>>NE:ABS SLNT:/FSR v3#5", **LatLong:** "35.600002 139.650007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:36:00 N 139:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.600002,139.650007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13640 (25E0572B) **Date:** 6/10/1957 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** TOKYO, JPN **Description:** Several / Nichigeki theater. 2 small round objects zigzag and hover and flutter / 20 second(s). Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 693) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5374 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TOKYO,JPN:SVRL/NICHIGEKI THEATER:2 SML RND OBJs ZIGZAG+HVR+FLUTTER/20 sec:↑↑", **LatLong:** "35.683335 139.783340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:41:00 N 139:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.683335,139.783340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13641 (12422CC6) **Date:** 6/11/1957 **Description:** CIA operative [Wallace R. Lampshire](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46087129/wallace-r-lampshire) sends a memo to CIA operative [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr), explaining that the agency’s involvement with UFOs is passive, handing off reports to its geophysics or former weapons units. Lampshire has talked with Gen. [Philip J. Strong](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/25/archives/gen-philip-strong-expert-on-u2-dies.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/25/archives/gen-philip-strong-expert-on-u2-dies.html) who knows of no Soviet technology that might be responsible for UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 264–265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2945 ### Event 13642 (121F7397) **Date:** 6/12/1957 **Location:** Milan, Italy **Description:** Object Approaches, Zigzags, Shoots Up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 4760) **Reference:** NICAP: [570612](http://www.nicap.org/570612milan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2048 ### Event 13643 (5E0A573D) **Date:** 6/12/1957 **Time:** 7:30 PM **Location:** Milan, Italy **Description:** Witness: G.U. Donadio, translator for export-import firm. One object "big as a hen's egg" flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and revolved, then shot up after 17 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_411 ### Event 13644 (A2120E23) **Date:** 6/12/1957 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. in Milano, Italy Mr. G. U. Donadio, a translator for export-import firm, sighted a UFO as "big as a hen's egg" that flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and revolved, then shot straight up and away after 17 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3436 ### Event 13645 (D05EA08B) **Date:** 6/13/1957 **Location:** OMAHA, NE **Description:** Blue Book. Civil air patrol. UFO dives going down / 200' altitude. 1500mph. Quickly going up [to] fast. / r141#3p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 93) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5375 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "312", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NE:BBK:CVL AIR PATROL:UFO DIVES↓/200'alt:1500mph:↑↑ FAST:/r141#3p26", **LatLong:** "41.250002 -95.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:15:00 N 95:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.250002,-95.933338)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13646 (27DD823E) **Date:** 6/13/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** HASTINGS, NZ **Description:** Night light going quickly west. 180° turn going quickly east. Series / jerky maneuvers. Leaves silver glowing trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5376 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HASTINGS,NZ:NLT >> W:180°TURN >>E:SERIES/JERKY MNVRS:LEAVES SLVR GLOWING TRAIL", **LatLong:** "-39.644446 176.827786", **LatLongDMS:** "39:38:40 S 176:49:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.644446,176.827786)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13647 (F9DC8942) **Date:** 6/13/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** LA AURORA, GUAT **Description:** 6 observer(s). Silent bright-orange sphere going northeast. Several stops. Turns going northwest. Quickly going up [to] and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5377 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guatemala", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1536", **HatchDesc:** "La AURORA,GUAT:6 OBS:SLNT BRITE-ORG SPHERE > NE:SVRL STOPS:TURNS >NW:↑↑+GONE", **LatLong:** "14.566667 -90.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "14:34:00 N 90:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.566667,-90.533338)", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13648 (A02B4E99) **Date:** 6/14/1957 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** CHILWELL, ENGL **Description:** 1 / truck. Classic silent silver saucer over bridge. Gone fast. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#5p6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5378 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "CHILWELL,ENGL:1/TRUCK:CLASSIC SLNT SLVR SCR OVR BRIDGE:GONE FAST:/FSR v3#5p6.", **LatLong:** "52.933336 -1.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:56:00 N 01:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.933336,-1.233333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13649 (10696447) **Date:** 6/14/1957 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** SILVER BELL, AZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 30M sphere hovers / open pit mine / strong wind. Away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5379 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "804", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER BELL,AZ:2 OBS:30M SPHERE HVRS/OPEN PIT MINE/STRONG WIND:AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "32.400002 -111.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:24:00 N 111:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.400002,-111.516672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13650 (0EFA015F) **Date:** 6/14/1957 **Location:** McChord AFB, WA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) One Vertical Descending Radar Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570614](http://www.nicap.org/570614mcchord%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2049 ### Event 13651 (F5F42DCF) **Date:** 6/15/1957 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** LANCASHIRE CO, ENGL **Description:** Observer(s) / (seen thru) telescope. Saturn-object with 4 portholes below ring. / r141#3p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5380 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "LANCASHIRE co,ENGL:OBS/TSCOPE:SATURN-OBJ W/4 PORTHOLES BELOW RING:/r141#3p30", **LatLong:** "53.816669 -2.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:49:00 N 02:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.816669,-2.750000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13652 (F7689596) **Date:** 6/15/1957 **Location:** Lancashire, UK **Description:** Saturn-like UFO with "portholes" observed through telescope in bright daylight. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2050 ### Event 13653 (FCCE98C4) **Date:** 6/15/1957 **Locations:** UK; Northumberland Avenue, London, England; British Isles **Description:** A report in the UK weekly newspaper Reynold’s News claims that the Air Ministry conducts top secret UFO research in Room 801 of one of its offices on Northumberland Avenue, London, England. A ministry spokesman is quoted as saying the room has “something like 10,000 sightings” on file and a large map of the British Isles with thousands of colored pins representing sightings. Flying Saucer Review editor [Gordon Creighton](https://www.ufoinfo.com/news/gordoncreighton.shtml) says the office belongs to the Deputy Directorate of Intelligence \(Technical\), which employs UFO researchers full-time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 49](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/48/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2946 ### Event 13654 (661EDFBE) **Date:** 6/15/1957 **Location:** Mawdesley, Lancashire, England **Description:** 5:06 p.m. George Marsden watches a Saturn-shaped UFO with portholes through a telescope at Mawdesley, Lancashire, England. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 146](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=158&skin=2021); Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1957%5F06%5F15%5FGB%5FLAN%5FMawdesley%5FNICAP%5FMarsden.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2947 ### Event 13655 (F7F72780) **Date:** 6/16/1957 **Location:** Las Vegas, NV **Description:** Radar tracked an inbound target at average speed of about 6,200 mph for 48 secs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2051 ### Event 13656 (342D7A8F) **Date:** 6/17/1957 **Location:** OHAKEA AIR FORCE BASE, NZ **Description:** Jet pilot and ground RADAR. Bright fireball zooms away when jet nears. / r141#3p32. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5381 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OHAKEA AFB,NZ:JET PILOT+GND RDR:BRITE FBL ZOOMS AWAY when JET NEARS:/r141#3p32", **LatLong:** "-40.200002 175.383342", **LatLongDMS:** "40:12:00 S 175:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-40.200002,175.383342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13657 (29C4475B) **Date:** 6/17/1957 **Location:** Gulfport, MS **Description:** Radar-transmitting UFO which correlated with visual of brilliant white-red light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2052 ### Event 13658 (62BEE1BE) **Date:** 6/18/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** 150MI SOUTHWEST / SAN FRANCISCO **Description:** 2+1 small moons follow ship. / r242p125+/ r46p93+/ APRO Sept57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5382 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "150mi SW/SAN FRANCISCO:2+1 SML MOONS FOLO SHIP:/r242p125+/r46p93+/APRO Sept57", **LatLong:** "35.666668 -126.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 126:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,-126.000006)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13659 (956852B2) **Date:** 6/18/1957 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** JACKSON, MS **Description:** Physics Professor / (seen thru) telescope. Saucer with 3 portholes going west over city. / r46p93+/ r242p68. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5383 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "89", **HatchDesc:** "JACKSON,MS:PHYSICS PROF/TSCOPE:SCR W/3 PORTHOLES >W OVR CITY:/r46p93+/r242p68", **LatLong:** "32.300002 -90.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:18:00 N 90:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.300002,-90.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13660 (BF3387F4) **Date:** 6/18/1957 **Location:** Jackson, MS **Description:** Physics professor sighted UFO with "a halo of light around it and what appeared to be three portholes." \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2053 ### Event 13661 (0748A796) **Date:** 6/18/1957 **Location:** Pacific Ocean, 150 miles off San Francisco, at Sea **Description:** Captain and crew of freighter Hawaiian Fisherman saw three brightly lighted objects "like small moons." \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2054 ### Event 13662 (3831D232) **Date:** 6/18/1957 **Time:** 11:45:00.3 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Wilson” Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_91 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Wilson", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 13663 (F3A34E48) **Date:** 6/18/1957 **Location:** San Francisco, California **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Captain C. G. Wertz and the crew of the Matson freighter Hawaiian Fisherman see two brightly lit objects off the port beam as they are steaming 150 miles off San Francisco, California. A third object joins them at 8:15. They appear as small moons, giving off a cold, white, unchanging light. The three move off in a V formation and pace the ship for a short time. The lights continue their controlled flight as dusk turns to night. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 78 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2948 ### Event 13664 (ADB2C590) **Date:** 6/19/1957 **Time:** 19:40:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1758 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "A" ### Event 13665 (7CCC3016) **Date:** 6/20/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** HADDINGTON, SCT **Description:** 3 / (seen thru) binoculars. Brilliant silver sphere/orb/globe hovers / wind. Vanishes. Compass wavers. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5384 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "93", **HatchDesc:** "HADDINGTON,SCT:3/BINOCS:BRILL.SLVR ORB HVRS/WIND:VANISHES:compass wavers:/r141", **LatLong:** "55.933336 -2.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:56:00 N 02:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.933336,-2.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13666 (35DC5C20) **Date:** 6/20/1957 **Locations:** Bluff Hill; Invercargill, New Zealand; London; New Zealand **Description:** Mysterious radar echoes begin turning up on Bluff Hill, near Invercargill, New Zealand, for several months. The targets are visible from several minutes up to an hour and are located somewhere in the ionosphere. [Michael](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004JBAA..114...47G) [Gadsden](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004JBAA..114...47G) of the Imperial College in London is in New Zealand for the International Geophysical Year and he says the targets’ movements are unusual and suspects that ionized particles are the cause. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 81–82 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2949 ### Event 13667 (7A6BE864) **Date:** Summer 1957 **Locations:** Miami Seaquarium; Florida Keys **Description:** [P. Craig Phillips](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306354070%5FP%5FCraig%5FPhillips%5FAquarist%5FAuthor%5Fand%5FArtist%5F1922-2009)[,](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306354070%5FP%5FCraig%5FPhillips%5FAquarist%5FAuthor%5Fand%5FArtist%5F1922-2009) curator of the Miami Seaquarium, and two other scientists witness a fall of angel hair for two hours as they are sailing northward toward the Florida Keys. Assuming them to be cobwebs from migrating airborne spiders, Phillips takes some samples and puts them in a mason jar. But when he uncaps the jar later in his office, no trace of the material is found, which is uncharacteristic of spider web. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 99–100](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=111&skin=2021); Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2950 ### Event 13668 (4FD7CAED) **Date:** Summer 1957 **Location:** southern California **Description:** Early morning. Contactee [Trevor Constable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%5FJames%5FConstable) and an associate named James Woods take many infrared photos of the desert sky over southern California. When developed, the film reveals a variety of shapes from vague blobs and amoeba-like forms to clearly defined discs. Constable calls them “critters” and thinks they are some kind of life form invisible to the naked eye. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1102; Trevor James \[Constable\], They Live in the Sky, New Age, 1958 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2951 ### Event 13669 (434F5BF3) **Date:** Summer 1957 **Locations:** Levelland, Texas; Reese Technology Center, Lubbock **Description:** Allan Haney and some friends “on a number of occasions” climb onto someone’s roof in Levelland, Texas, to watch 3–4 objects hovering over Reese AFB \[now Reese Technology Center\] in Lubbock, 26 miles to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2952 ### Event 13670 (48BA586D) **Date:** 6/22/1957 **Location:** RYE, NY **Description:** 2 cops. Large object with 2 white and 1 red light. Plunges into L.I. sound. / Local news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5385 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "RYE,NY:2 COPS:LRG OBJ W/2 WHT+1 RED LITE:PLUNGES INTO L.I. SOUND:/Local news", **LatLong:** "40.966669 -73.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:58:00 N 73:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.966669,-73.700004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13671 (DCF72E3D) **Date:** 6/22/1957 **Description:** Two patrolmen at Rye, New York watched a large object with two white lights and one red light plunge into Long Island Sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3602 ### Event 13672 (E57F6646) **Date:** 6/24/1957 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** NORTH BURNABY, BC **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 45 minute(s). Lights / 1 end. Saucers exit other end and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5386 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "N.BURNABY,BC:2/BINOCS:CGR HVRS/45min:LITES/1 END:SCRS EXIT OTHER END+AWAY", **LatLong:** "49.250002 -122.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:15:00 N 122:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.250002,-122.950006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13673 (E8DD3D8B) **Date:** 6/24/1957 **Time:** 13:30:00.1 **Location:** 37.7981 -115.9289 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Priscilla” Yield: 37KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_92 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.7981 -115.9289", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:53 N 115:55:44 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.7981,-115.9289)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.21", **NukeName:** "Priscilla", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "37" ### Event 13674 (1FA882F6) **Date:** 6/25/1957 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** NICAP. Car radio and street lights out as 7 white saucers pass. / r79p7+/ r141#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FALLA, GEOFFREY: VEHICLE INTERFERENCE PROJECT. BUFORA Ltd. 1979. C.F. Lockwood & A.R. Rice editors. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5387 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:NICAP:CAR RADIO+STREETLITES OUT as 7 WHT SCRS PASS:/r79p7+/r141#3", **LatLong:** "39.311113 -76.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:18:40 N 76:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.311113,-76.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13675 (EBCDBCBA) **Date:** 6/25/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / GREENCASTLE, IN **Description:** 4 / car. Night light going down / hit / spotlight. Small object enters car. Flash. Hubcaps gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 693) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5388 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "NW/GREENCASTLE,IN:4/CAR:NLT ↓/HIT/SPOTLt:SML OBJ ENTERS CAR:FLASH:HUBCAPS GONE", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -86.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 86:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-86.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13676 (2AAAABC6) **Date:** 6/25/1957 **Location:** Baltimore, MD **Description:** Car radio stopped playing and street lights went out as formation of seven white discs with red rims passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2055 ### Event 13677 (B9AB43B0) **Date:** 6/25/1957 **Description:** Baltimore, Maryland: "Car radio stopped playing and street lights went out as formation of seven white discs with red rims passed overhead." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 42, citing Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3650 ### Event 13678 (798C35A9) **Date:** 6/27/1957 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** ILFRACOMBE AND WESTLEIGH, ENGL **Description:** Separate observer(s). Thin cylinder/cylindrical object hovers. Going quickly north over Bristol channel. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5389 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "ILFRACOMBE+WESTLEIGH,ENGL:SEP.OBS:THIN CYL HVRS:>>N ovr BRISTOL CHANNEL:/r141", **LatLong:** "51.216669 -4.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:13:00 N 04:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.216669,-4.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13679 (7DD8A957) **Date:** 6/28/1957 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** KAIAPOI, NZ **Description:** 4 workmen. Aluminum disk comes sideways. Levels off. Going quickly west. / r141#12p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 341) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5390 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KAIAPOI,NZ:4 WORKMEN:ALUM.DISK COMES SIDEWAYS:LEVELS OFF:>>W:/r141#12p4", **LatLong:** "-43.383335 172.650008", **LatLongDMS:** "43:23:00 S 172:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-43.383335,172.650008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13680 (2DA0DCF4) **Date:** 6/28/1957 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** HOWE SOUND, BC **Description:** 3 / boat. Silver 8M flat-bottom dome going quickly west against wind. Silent. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5391 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "HOWE SOUND,BC:3/BOAT:SLVR 8M FLAT-BOTTOM DOME >>W against wind:SLNT:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "49.350002 -123.266673", **LatLongDMS:** "49:21:00 N 123:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.350002,-123.266673)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13681 (E089869E) **Date:** 6/29/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NORTH / RIO DJ, BRZ **Description:** Many / DC3. Glowing-saucer maneuvers all over/all about. Reacts / lights. APRO 3 / 58+/ r46p94+/ r148. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 304) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5392 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "350", **HatchDesc:** "N/RIO DJ,BRZ:MANY/DC3:GLO-SCR MNVRS ALLO:REACTS/LITES:APRO 3/58+/r46p94+/r148", **LatLong:** "-21.400001 -43.616669", **LatLongDMS:** "21:24:00 S 43:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.400001,-43.616669)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13682 (ED99A617) **Date:** 6/30/1957 **Location:** Belo Horizonte, Brazil **Description:** Disc-like object paced, maneuvered around airliner. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2056 ### Event 13683 (34AC3A0B) **Date:** 6/30/1957 **Description:** Starting at 6:30 p.m. a bright red-orange disc maneuvered around a Real Aerovias DC-3 airliner flying from Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and subsequently paced the aircraft for 40 minutes. It made several passes, crossing above or under the airliner, and then in front and behind it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 120, citing El Diaro Popular, July 7, 1957; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing Richard Hall **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3744 ### Event 13684 (4A997567) **Date:** 7/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** AZUSA, CA **Description:** Saucer makes wobbling ascent. Amber lights / edge. Portholes? No further details. / r78p178. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5393 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "187", **HatchDesc:** "AZUSA,CA:SCR MAKES WOBBLING ASCENT:AMBER LITES/EDGE:PORTHOLES?:NFD:/r78p178", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -117.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 117:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-117.916672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13685 (BE5C952B) **Date:** 7/1957 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** TOOWOOMBA, AUSTR **Description:** Farmer and kids. Classic domed saucer going quickly [to] overhead. Returns 2X. Going quickly northwest. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 346) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5394 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TOOWOOMBA,AUSTR:FARMER+KIDS:CLASSIC DOMED SCR >> OVHD:RETURNS 2X:>>NW:NFD", **LatLong:** "-27.550001 151.966674", **LatLongDMS:** "27:33:00 S 151:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.550001,151.966674)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13686 (F03F0A4C) **Date:** 7/1957 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SOUTH GIUSTINO COSPAIA, ITL **Description:** Black silent 2.5M cylinder/cigar-shape with port going [to] 4M over kids. Slows. Speeds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5395 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "S.GIUSTINO COSPAIA,ITL:BLK SLNT 2.5M CGR W/PORT > 4M ovr KIDS:SLOWS:SPEEDS", **LatLong:** "43.550002 12.172223", **LatLongDMS:** "43:33:00 N 12:10:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.550002,12.172223)", **State/Prov:** "PG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13687 (5768B5CE) **Date:** 7/1957 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** LEIGHTON BUZZARD, ENGL **Description:** 1 observer. 2 men / spacesuits take twigs and berries. Saucer lands. Missing time. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 304) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5396 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LEIGHTON BUZZARD,ENGL:1 OBS:2 MEN/SSUITS TAKE TWIGS+BERRIES:SCR LANDS:MST", **LatLong:** "51.900002 -0.633333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:54:00 N 00:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.900002,-0.633333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13688 (D3AD5BC4) **Date:** 7/1957 **Location:** Norton AFB [San Bernardino International Airport], California **Description:** The Air Defense Command disbands the 4602nd AISS and reassigns UFO investigative duties to the 1127th Field Activities Group of the 1006th AISS at Norton AFB \[San Bernardino International Airport\], California. Soon afterwards, the Air Force reduces funds for the unit, impairing its investigative ability. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 919 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2953 ### Event 13689 (8F20D02B) **Date:** 7/1957 **Description:** NICAP publishes the first issue of The UFO Investigator. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [UFO Investigator](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/001%20JULY%201957.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(July 1957\); Clark III 793 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2954 ### Event 13690 (7BDD332B) **Date:** 7/1957 **Description:** NICAP learns that the US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations is considering hearings on UFOs and wants its assistance. [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) suggests withholding the best cases, at least initially. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) asks [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), who is now an engineer with Northrup Aircraft, to join the NICAP board at a rehearsal for the I’ve Got a Secret Show on which he is appearing. Ruppelt considers it an honor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 70–79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2955 ### Event 13691 (60735CCC) **Date:** 7/1/1957 **Description:** International Geophysical Year (IGY). It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West had been seriously interrupted. Sixty-seven countries participated in IGY projects. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences: aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric physics, longitude and latitude determinations (precision mapping), meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity. The timing of the IGY was particularly suited for studying some of these phenomena, since it covered the peak of solar cycle 19. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. launched artificial satellites for this event; the Soviet Union’s _Sputnik 1_, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first successful artificial satellite.[3] Other significant achievements of the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by Explorer 1 and the defining of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important confirmation of plate-tectonic theory. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_568 ### Event 13692 (9467EAF7) **Date:** 7/1/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** AVON, MASS **Description:** Cigar-object seen. Apparent green windows / side. No further details. / r78p178. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5397 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "AVON,MASS:CIGAR-OBJ SEEN:APPARENT GREEN WINDOWS/SIDE:NFD:/r78p178", **LatLong:** "42.133335 -71.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:08:00 N 71:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.133335,-71.050003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13693 (D75FB3BE) **Date:** 7/1/1957 **Location:** Azusa, CA **Description:** "Disc with amber lights around edge made wobbling vertical descent. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2057 ### Event 13694 (33D976E2) **Date:** 7/1/1957 **Location:** Avon, MA **Description:** Cigar-shaped UFO with green lights like windows. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2058 ### Event 13695 (94360724) **Date:** 7/1/1957 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Coulomb-A” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_93 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Coulomb-A", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 13696 (32017850) **Date:** 7/2/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** GAVEA ROCK, BRAZIL **Description:** 2 silver moons hover / peak. Black bands grow until surfaces covered! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5398 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "GAVEA ROCK,BRZL:2 SLVR MOONS HVR/PEAK:BLACK BANDS GROW UNTIL SURFACES COVERED!", **LatLong:** "-22.977779 -43.266669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:58:40 S 43:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.977779,-43.266669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13697 (42155E18) **Date:** 7/3/1957 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST MIAMI, FL **Description:** Flash! 2 ovoid disks descend going southeast. Instant turn going quickly south and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 307) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5399 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NW MIAMI,FL:FLASH!:2 OVOID DISKS DESCEND > SE:INSTANT TURN >>S+away", **LatLong:** "25.794446 -80.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:47:40 N 80:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.794446,-80.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13698 (E53A71D2) **Date:** 7/4/1957 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** NEAR CAMPOS, BRZ **Description:** Domed saucer paces and maneuvers all over/all about airliner / one hour. Going quickly [to] WNW. / r242p120+/ r46p94. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5400 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr CAMPOS,BRZ:DOMED SCR PACES+MNVRS ALLO AIRLINER/1hr:>>WNW:/r242p120+/r46p94", **LatLong:** "-21.750001 -41.300002", **LatLongDMS:** "21:45:00 S 41:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.750001,-41.300002)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13699 (D9ADBA6A) **Date:** 7/4/1957 **Location:** Campos (near), Brazil **Description:** Disc with dome and portholes paced airliner. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2059 ### Event 13700 (CAF89560) **Date:** 7/4/1957 **Description:** A disc with brightly illuminated windows followed a REAL airliner flying between Campos and Victoria, Brazil. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1957, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3816 ### Event 13701 (B652B795) **Date:** 7/5/1957 **Time:** 11:40:00.1 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Hood” Yield: 74KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_94 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Hood", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "74" ### Event 13702 (02FD3303) **Date:** 7/5/1957 **Locations:** Nevada Test Site; Area 51; Los Angeles; Canada; Mexico; Pacific **Description:** During the 74-kiloton Plumbbob Hood nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, the Marine Corps conducts a tactical maneuver involving the use of a helicopter airlift, tactical air support, and an amphibian tractor called the LVTP5. Despite the AEC’s assurance that no thermonuclear devices are being tested, Hood is thermonuclear and is the largest atmospheric test in the continental US. All Area 51 personnel are evacuated prior to the blast, but the military neglects to secure the sensitive information in the buildings with security guards. Seventy anesthetized Chester White pigs in military uniforms \(as test fabrics\) are placed in cages a short distance from ground zero. Several types of wood houses are constructed to see how each handles the blast. The Mosler Safe Company sponsors the construction of a steel vault to withstand the blast. Some 100 soldiers, lying in trenches, are stationed to gauge the psychological impact of the bomb. The flash is visible from Canada to Mexico and 800 miles out in the Pacific. The blast wave reaches Los Angeles 25 minutes later. Afterwards, security guard [Richard Mingus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FMingus) has to drive through a highly radioactive ground zero to reach the buildings at Area 51 ten miles away. Area 51 remains an evacuated ghost town until the summer of 1959. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Desert Rock exercises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 119–123](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/118/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2956 ### Event 13703 (D34C0B62) **Date:** 7/7/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEAR SUMMERSIDE, PEI **Description:** 3 observer(s). Dark disk going quickly northwest extremely fast. V-turns. Blows smoke? / RCAF report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5401 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "nr SUMMERSIDE,PEI:3 OBS:DRK DISK >>NW XFAST:V-TURNS:BLOWS SMOKE?:/RCAF Rpt", **LatLong:** "46.416669 -63.750003", **LatLongDMS:** "46:25:00 N 63:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.416669,-63.750003)", **State/Prov:** "Prince Edward Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13704 (A452E650) **Date:** 7/7/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** VANCOUVER, BC **Description:** Blue-metallic 12M ovoid maneuvers / square trajectory. 90° turns. Brightens. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 350) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5402 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,BC:BLU-MTLC 12M OVOID MNVRS/SQUARE TRAJ:90°TURNS:BRIGHTENS:>>SE:", **LatLong:** "49.283336 -123.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "49:17:00 N 123:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.283336,-123.083339)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13705 (BBE00699) **Date:** 7/9/1957 **Location:** Hamilton, Ont., CAN **Description:** Attorney saw speeding, white elliptical UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2060 ### Event 13706 (5290D923) **Date:** 7/10/1957 **Location:** ALDEIA DO BISPO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Disk at differing speeds seen over this border village. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5403 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ALDEIA do BISPO,PORTUGAL:DISK at DIFFERING SPEEDS SEEN OVR THIS BORDER VILLAGE", **LatLong:** "40.333335 -6.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:20:00 N 06:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.333335,-6.850000)", **State/Prov:** "BRA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13707 (9CC820FC) **Date:** 7/10/1957 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** MT. RAINIER, WA **Description:** Lumbermen. 2 silver soup-bowl saucers. 1 going quickly northwest. Other going quickly NNW. Small fin / each. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 311) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5404 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4392", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.RAINIER,WA:LUMBERMEN:2 SLVR SOUP-BOWL SCRS:1 >>NW:OTHER >>NNW:SML FIN/EACH", **LatLong:** "46.833336 -121.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:50:00 N 121:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.833336,-121.766672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13708 (8DB5AEEC) **Date:** 7/10/1957 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** CRAWFORD SPRING, OR **Description:** 2 foresters. Brown hat-saucer going quickly northwest / 1km altitude. Odd "plop" sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 357) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5405 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "900", **HatchDesc:** "CRAWFORD SPRING,OR:2 FORESTERS:BROWN HAT-SCR >>NW/1km alt:ODD "PLOP" SOUND:", **LatLong:** "44.972224 -119.805561", **LatLongDMS:** "44:58:20 N 119:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.972224,-119.805561)", **RelAlt:** "1000", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13709 (A42AA0B1) **Date:** 7/10/1957 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** MT. STERLING, KY **Description:** Cop and several. Cylinder/cigar-shape going south. Turns and going north. Silver / front rest grey. Silent. No trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 311) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5406 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.STERLING,KY:COP+SVRL:CGR >S:TURNS+ >N:SLVR/FRONT REST GRY:SLNT:NO TRAIL", **LatLong:** "37.994446 -83.944448", **LatLongDMS:** "37:59:40 N 83:56:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.994446,-83.944448)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13710 (9288C9B1) **Date:** 7/10/1957 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** MARIANNELUND, SWEDEN **Description:** 5 observer(s). Hollow double-domes connected / shafts. Hovers and shoots off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5407 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "MARIANNELUND,SWEDEN:5 OBS:HOLLOW DOUBLE-DOMES CONNECTED/SHAFTS:HVRS+SHOOTS OFF", **LatLong:** "57.616669 15.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "57:37:00 N 15:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.616669,15.533334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13711 (9DF7B7F4) **Date:** 7/10/1957 **Locations:** Peru; Monastery of the Seven Rays; Petroglyphs of Pusharo; Manú National Park; Cuzco; Cadena del Pantiacolla **Description:** [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), exploring in Peru from his base at the Monastery of the Seven Rays and spurred by his own channelings, rediscovers a wall of petroglyphs \[now known as the Petroglyphs of Pusharo, in the Manú National Park\] in an area northeast of Cuzco called Cadena del Pantiacolla. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Hunt Williamson, “[Project](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CNov-Dic%2CV%203%2CN%206.pdf) [Scroll,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CNov-Dic%2CV%203%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1957\): 18–19; George Hunt Williamson, Road in the Sky, Neville Spearman, 1959; Brother Philip \[Williamson\], Secret of the Andes, Neville Spearman, 1961; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 97–98, 109–115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2957 ### Event 13712 (07C9B17D) **Date:** 7/11/1957 **Location:** ROSEAU, MN **Description:** Civil defense man and several. Large shiny cylinder/cigar-shape / low altitude. Stops. Continues. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5408 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "ROSEAU,MN:CIVIL DEFENSE MAN+SVRL:LRG SHINY CGR/LOW ALT:STOPS:CONTINUES:NFD", **LatLong:** "48.844447 -95.761116", **LatLongDMS:** "48:50:40 N 95:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.844447,-95.761116)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13713 (BDA4C0B0) **Date:** 7/11/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ROLAND PARK, VA **Description:** White circles south going quickly north. Clearly seen / dusk. Silent. No lights. Faster / jet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5409 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ROLAND PARK,VA:WHT CCLS S>>N:CLEARLY SEEN/DUSK:SLNT:NO LITES:FASTER/JET", **LatLong:** "36.894446 -76.261115", **LatLongDMS:** "36:53:40 N 76:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.894446,-76.261115)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13714 (B726345D) **Date:** 7/13/1957 **Location:** ISOLA DI GIGLIO, ITL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Long cone hovers / 2 hours. Turrets / top and bottom/underside. Changes color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5410 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "ISOLA di GIGLIO,ITL:NMRS OBS:LONG CONE HVRS/2 HRS:TURRETS/TOP+BTM:CHANGES CLRS", **LatLong:** "42.383335 10.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:23:00 N 10:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.383335,10.916667)", **State/Prov:** "TSC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13715 (2966DE01) **Date:** 7/13/1957 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** RIVERSIDE, CA **Description:** Disk going quickly west over town. Lights / rotate / rim? Lights top and bottom/underside. Same / Mira Loma. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5411 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "RIVERSIDE,CA:DISK >>W OVR TOWN:LITES/ROTATE/RIM?:LITES TOP+BTM:same/MIRA LOMA", **LatLong:** "33.966668 -117.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:00 N 117:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.966668,-117.383339)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13716 (DE12E518) **Date:** 7/13/1957 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** BEDFORD, OH **Description:** Several observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 saucers pass. Return. Split into 4 saucers. Going quickly / all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 359) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5412 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "293", **HatchDesc:** "BEDFORD,OH:SVRL OBS/BINOCS:2 SCRS PASS:RETURN:SPLIT INTO 4 SCRS:>>/ALL DIRs", **LatLong:** "41.383335 -81.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:23:00 N 81:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.383335,-81.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13717 (F6D3D773) **Date:** 7/14/1957 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** NEAR RIO DOCE, BRZ **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner pilot and copilot. Luminous cylinder/cigar-shape makes 90° turn. / r171+/ r141#3p63. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5413 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "nr RIO DOCE,BRZ:AL PILOT+COPILOT:LUMn.CGR MAKES 90° TURN:/r171+/r141#3p63", **LatLong:** "-20.250001 -42.900002", **LatLongDMS:** "20:15:00 S 42:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.250001,-42.900002)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13718 (4181547A) **Date:** 7/14/1957 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PAMPULHA, BRZ **Description:** Night light follows Air Force B26 / one hour. Hovers / airport. Quickly going up. Military investigation/investigators. / r46p256+/ r141#3p62. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5414 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "850", **HatchDesc:** "PAMPULHA,BRZ:NLT FOLOS AF B26/1hr:HVRS/AIRPORT:↑↑:MIL.INV:/r46p256+/r141#3p62", **LatLong:** "-19.900001 -43.916669", **LatLongDMS:** "19:54:00 S 43:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-19.900001,-43.916669)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13719 (C4FB75CB) **Date:** 7/15/1957 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** JOSHUA TREE, CA **Description:** 12M wingless flying fish going west slow / 15M altitude. Featureless. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5415 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "831", **HatchDesc:** "JOSHUA TREE,CA:12M WINGLESS FLYING FISH >W SLOW/15M alt:FEATURELESS", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -116.311117", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 116:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-116.311117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13720 (1BCAE87E) **Date:** 7/15/1957 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** SOUTHINGTON, CT **Description:** Large blue ball drops in jerks. Brighter / sun. Shoots up and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5416 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "SOUTHINGTON,CT:LRG BLUE BALL DROPS in JERKS:BRIGHTER/SUN:SHOOTS UP+AWAY:", **LatLong:** "41.594446 -72.877781", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:40 N 72:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.594446,-72.877781)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13721 (E543A435) **Date:** 7/15/1957 **Time:** 11:30:00.1 **Location:** 37.1503 -116.1086 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Diablo” Yield: 17KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_95 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1503 -116.1086", **LatLongDMS:** "37:09:01 N 116:06:31 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1503,-116.1086)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Diablo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "17" ### Event 13722 (C51660DF) **Date:** Mid 7/1957 **Locations:** US; N.Y. **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with US Rep. [James C. Healey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FHealey) \(D-N.Y.\) regarding USAF secrecy about UFOs. He shows Healey the 1949 Grudge report and apparently convinces him that the Air Force’s explanations for the 24 cases are “sheer speculation” or “deliberately fitted.” He also presents him Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly)’s April 8 letter to [Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) [Metcalf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) indicating serious interest in UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 81–82, 91, 96 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2958 ### Event 13723 (E319A127) **Date:** 7/16/1957 **Location:** Las Vegas, NV **Description:** Radar tracked an inbound target at average speed of about 6,200 mph for 48 secs \[?\] when it "stopped abruptly" and "remained stationary" for 12 secs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570716](http://www.nicap.org/570716lasvegas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2061 ### Event 13724 (AF7470EE) **Date:** 7/16/1957 **Locations:** Las Vegas Air Force Station [now closed] at Angel Peak, Nevada; Grand Canyon in Arizona; Marble Canyon, Arizona **Description:** 1:56 p.m. 1st Lt. Clifford E. Pocock, scope operator A2C Walter Lyons, and control technician A1C Armand Therrien at Las Vegas Air Force Station \[now closed\] at Angel Peak, Nevada, are using the FPS-3A L-band search radar and track an inbound target at about 6,200 mph when it “stopped abruptly” and “remained stationary” for 12 seconds to the east-northeast 85 miles away to the north of Grand Canyon in Arizona. Then it heads outbound at about 7,000 mph before disappearing at the radar’s maximum range at 224 miles \(near Marble Canyon, Arizona\). The target responds to encrypted military IFF transponder signals and transmits encrypted responses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[6200 MPH Target Hovers near Grand Canyon](http://www.nicap.org/570716lasvegas%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 244 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2959 ### Event 13725 (200E1D51) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** SALT FLAT, TX **Description:** DC6 flight 655 / near collision / big glowing-object. Rises going quickly east. / r120p283. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5417 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "1132", **HatchDesc:** "SALT FLAT,TX:DC6 FLT 655/NEAR COLLISION/BIG GLOW-OBJ:RISES >>E:/r120p283", **LatLong:** "31.744446 -105.094449", **LatLongDMS:** "31:44:40 N 105:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.744446,-105.094449)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13726 (B41CF719) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** WARREN CO, MS **Description:** ECM vs ECM. Brilliant sphere/orb/globe follows RB47 spyplane / 4 states. / r152p226. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5418 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "WARREN co,MS:ECM vs ECM:BRILL.ORB FOLOS RB47 SPYPLANE/4 STATES:/r152p226", **LatLong:** "32.250002 -90.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:15:00 N 90:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.250002,-90.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13727 (74092F0E) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** EAGLE LAKE, TX **Description:** 2 / Cessna 172. Strange object with rounded dome / top. Appears ahead / plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5419 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "EAGLE LAKE,TX:2/CESSNA 172:STRANGE OBJ W/ROUNDED DOME/TOP:APPEARS AHEAD/PLANE", **LatLong:** "29.583335 -96.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:35:00 N 96:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.583335,-96.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13728 (140E8E9F) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** NEW YORK, NY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Observer(s) = Horan. Disk = 9x moon-size. Continuous trajectory. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5420 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NEW YORK,NY:BBK#UNK:OBS=HORAN:DISK=9x MOON-SIZE:CONTINUOUS TRAJ:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.700002 -73.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:42:00 N 73:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.700002,-73.983337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13729 (99529163) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** KATOOMBA, AUS **Description:** Night lights. Brilliant ovoid maneuvers all over/all about. 3 lights flash / bottom. Going quickly southwest. / r141#3p71. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5421 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "KATOOMBA,AUS:NLTS:BRILL.OVOID MNVRS ALLO:3 LITES FLASH/BOTTOM:>>SW:/r141#3p71", **LatLong:** "-33.683335 150.300007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:00 S 150:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.683335,150.300007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13730 (76124C25) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Location:** Mississippi, through Louisiana and Texas and into Oklahoma, Various **Description:** South-Central States, RB-47 case (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [570717](http://www.nicap.org/570717RB47%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2062 ### Event 13731 (C2FBB57A) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Locations:** Forbes Field [now Topeka Regional Airport], Kansas; Mississippi; Louisiana; Texas; Dallas, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** Before dawn. The crew of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft is flying out of Forbes Field \[now Topeka Regional Airport\], Kansas, on an electronic warfare training flight over Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The RB-47 is carrying a 6-man crew, of whom three are electronic warfare officers manning ECM gear in the aft portion of the aircraft. Their names are Lewis Dormon Chase, pilot; [James H. McCoid](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71416736/james-harvey-mccoid), copilot; Thomas H. Hanley, navigator; John J. Provenzano, No. 1 monitor; Frank B. McClure, No. 2 monitor; and [Walter A.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40906934/walter-alex-tuchscherer) [Tuchscherer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40906934/walter-alex-tuchscherer)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40906934/walter-alex-tuchscherer) No. 3 monitor. The crew detects on its Electronic Intelligence \(ELINT\) equipment an airborne radar source that mimics some but not all of the signal characteristics of a common air defense ground radar. Aircraft normally do not carry such high-powered radars. As the key ELINT officer on the RB-47 puts it, “an antenna bigger than the airplane” would be required to emit as strong a signal as he detected from the UFO. Because the UFO signal appears to have comparable or greater received signal strength than the one-megawatt ground radar beam and the UFOs distance is about 5 times closer than the ground radar, a crude estimate of the UFO radar power output using the inverse-square law would be about 40 kilowatts. The maneuvering radar signal coincides in location with a bright UFO. At times the signal moves ahead of the RB-47, then circles around as if airborne, highly maneuverable, and flying faster than the RB-47. The 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Intelligence report states that the Wing’s director of intelligence “has no doubt the electronic D/F’s coincided exactly with visual observations by a/c numerous times thus indicating positively the object being the signal source.” An air defense radar station near Dallas, Texas, reportedly confirms tracking a UFO at the same location reported by the RB-47 crew but later tries to deny it in an unclassified message to ATIC. The UFO is reportedly tracked by the RB-47’s airborne navigation radar as well, though the crew has differing recollections on this point. Twice the UFO blinks out visually when pursued by the RB-47. At the same time the strange signal disappears, either that, or the ground radar site and the RB-47 onboard radar loses the object from their scopes. At least once, the UFO suddenly reappears visually at about the same time the ground radar regains tracking of the object. The main part of the incident occupies 30 minutes over the Fort Worth, Texas, area from 5:30–6:00 a.m. Some earlier ELINT and visual incidents are noted as early as about 4:30 a.m., but they catch the crew off guard, and consequently reports at the time and later recollections have had to be carefully reconstructed. The UFO may have trailed the RB-47 up to 6:40 a.m. following the main events, for a total duration of possibly more than 126 minutes. The RB -47 incident is the first conclusive instrumented proof for the existence of UFOs. Calibrations of the RB-47’s electronic measurements provide an irrefutable case. When the Colorado Project scientists asked the Air Force for the Blue Book file on the RB-47 case, the file could not be found. Ultimately, the case was put together by better file searching at Blue Book, [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s success at locating several crew members and interviewing them, and FOIA searches that located more of the lost documents. Particularly in the [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) years at ATIC, this sort of rejection of the need to clarify almost any significant aspect of a UFO case was constant. If we did not know, from our earlier information, what Captain Gregory understood to be his duty as chief of Blue Book, we would label this as reckless and incompetent. Colorado project investigator [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) declares the case unexplained, and later describes the official USAF explanation \(airliner\) as “literally ridiculous.” [Brad](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) [Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) sums it up in 1998 \(and in 2018\): “This case certainly now ranks as among the best documented unexplained UFO incidents in history, and it has the potential for further revealing disclosures if records of an extremely highly classified investigation can be found and released. All of the UFO observations by multiple visual observers, multiple ELINT receivers, and multiple radar sets, as well as the serendipitous calibrations of the UFO signals against the separately identifiable Duncanville radar signals, provide a unique, tight, interlocking web of intricately fitted evidence.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[RB-47 Incident](http://www.nicap.org/570717RB47%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 244; Condon, [pp. 56,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/56/mode/2up) [136–139,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/136/mode/2up) [260–](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/260/mode/2up) [266](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/260/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[The 1957 Gulf Coast RB-47 Incident,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1970\): 2–6; Gert Herb, “A Rebuttal to Philip J. Klass’s Analysis of the RB-47 Incident of July 17, 1957,” CUFOS Bulletin, Summer 1977, pp. 3–10; Philip J. Klass, \[response to Gert Herb\], CUFOS Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 7–10; Gert Herb, “Gert Herb Replies,” CUFOS Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 9–10; Swords 248–249; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 May 24th–July 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf) The Author, 1996, pp. 64–71; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case interviews](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1957%5F07%5F17%5FUS%5FMI-LA-TX-OK%5FAirCraft-RB-47%5FMcDonald%5FChase-McCoid-Hanley-Provensano-McClure-Tuchscherer.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1957%5F07%5F17%5FUS%5FMI-LA-TX-OK%5FAirCraft-RB-47%5FNICAP%5FChase-McCoid-Hanley-Provensano-McClure-Tuchscherer.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[more case documents\]; UFOs Yes, 126–127; Clark III 953–999 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2960 ### Event 13732 (239B6673) **Date:** 7/17/1957 **Locations:** Dallas; Los Angeles; El Paso, Texas; Salt Flats **Description:** Flight 655 en route from Dallas to Los Angeles, piloted by Capt. Ed Bachner, has a near collision with an object “at least the size of a B-47” over the salt flats some 100 miles east of El Paso, Texas. Bachner puts the plane into a dive and the object passes only 50 feet above them. Two passengers suffer slight injuries and are taken to the hospital on landing. No known aircraft are in the vicinity. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 79; Good Above, [p. 283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2961 ### Event 13733 (185F7BA8) **Date:** 7/18/1957 **Location:** Mt. Lemmon, AZ **Description:** Height-finder radars tracked a stationary target at 42,000 ft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570718](http://www.nicap.org/570718MtLemmon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2064 ### Event 13734 (122558F6) **Date:** 7/18/1957 **Locations:** Mount Lemmon Air Force Station; Tucson, Arizona; Chandler **Description:** 10:46 p.m. Capt. Claiborne F. Bickham and a radar crew at Mount Lemmon Air Force Station \[now closed\] northeast of Tucson, Arizona, using both MPS-7 L-band search and MPS-14 S-band height-finder radars, track a stationary target at 42,000 feet to the northwest about 82 miles away south of Chandler. The target responds to encrypted military IFF Mode 3 transponder signals and transmits encrypted responses that result in “normal Mode 3 paint” on radar scopes. A very slight strobe comes from the object that appears like ECM jamming. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Ground Radar Track Responds to IFF Mode 3](http://www.nicap.org/570718MtLemmon%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 245 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2962 ### Event 13735 (1293B1A5) **Date:** 7/19/1957 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** BANFF, SCT **Description:** Red moon rises / bay. = top saucer! Going [to] away slow. Sparks exit. Football appears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 315) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5422 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BANFF,SCT:RED MOON RISES/BAY:=TOP SCR!:>AWAY SLOW:SPARKS EXIT:FOOTBALL APPEARS", **LatLong:** "57.666669 -2.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "57:40:00 N 02:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.666669,-2.533333)", **State/Prov:** "SCR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13736 (5B497003) **Date:** 7/19/1957 **Time:** 14:00:04.6 **Location:** 37.1606 -116.0531 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “John” Yield: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_96 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1606 -116.0531", **LatLongDMS:** "37:09:38 N 116:03:11 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1606,-116.0531)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-9.14", **NukeName:** "John", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "2" ### Event 13737 (7C8CC33F) **Date:** 7/19/1957 **Location:** Yucca Flats, Nevada **Description:** The Plumbbob John nuclear test at Yucca Flats, Nevada, is the only test of the Air Force’s AIR-2 Genie missile with a nuclear warhead. On the ground, the Air Force carries out a public relations event by having five Air Force officers and a videographer stand under ground zero of the blast, which takes place at between 18,500 and 20,000 feet altitude, with the idea of demonstrating the possibility of the use of the weapon over civilian populations without ill effects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Plumbbob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2963 ### Event 13738 (7F3AADA6) **Date:** 7/20/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** TEMPLE TERRACE, FL **Description:** 3 observer(s). Wingless airplane with dome stops / 56 th street. Lights up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5423 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "TEMPLE TERRACE,FL:3 OBS:WINGLESS AIRPLANE W/DOME STOPS/56th STREET:LITES UP", **LatLong:** "28.033335 -82.388893", **LatLongDMS:** "28:02:00 N 82:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.033335,-82.388893)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13739 (C373BBB7) **Date:** 7/21/1957 (approximate) **Location:** KITWE, NORTH RHODESIA **Description:** Many / mining camps. Wave / disks with flaming tails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 374) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5424 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "KITWE,N.RHODESIA:MANY/MINING CAMPS:WAVE/DISKS W/FLAMING TAILS", **LatLong:** "-12.816667 28.200001", **LatLongDMS:** "12:49:00 S 28:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.816667,28.200001)", **State/Prov:** "ZAM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13740 (BBB0B9FD) **Date:** 7/22/1957 **Location:** Amarillo, Texas **Description:** Night. Capt. G. M. Schemel, the pilot of a TWA Constellation aircraft, is flying at 18,000 feet near Amarillo, Texas, when a big red and green light bears down on his plane in a collision course. He puts the aircraft into a dive and the object passes above him. Schemel has to make an unscheduled landing at Amarillo to hospitalize one passenger who is injured during the maneuver. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Kenosha Pilot Tells of Mysterious Object,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100127421/)” Kenosha \(Wis.\) News, July 24, 1957, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2964 ### Event 13741 (16210E9F) **Date:** 7/23/1957 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** SQUIRES CORNER, NJ **Description:** 1 / car. Large grey ovoid rises / trees. Going southwest. 180° turn. / Ted Bloecher. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 376) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5425 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "158", **HatchDesc:** "SQUIRES CORNER,NJ:1/CAR:LRG GRY OVOID RISES/TREES:> SW:180°TURN:/Ted Bloecher", **LatLong:** "41.050002 -74.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:03:00 N 74:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.050002,-74.950004)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13742 (EE24A903) **Date:** 7/23/1957 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** OVER AMARILLO, TX **Description:** TWA flight 21 forced to dive. Red-green night light dead ahead. / r46p98. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5426 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1105", **HatchDesc:** "ovr AMARILLO,TX:TWA FLT 21 FORCED TO DIVE:RED-GRN NLT DEAD AHEAD:/r46p98", **LatLong:** "35.250002 -101.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:15:00 N 101:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.250002,-101.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 13743 (280C007D) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** DEVONPORT, NZ **Description:** Bright silver disk hovers near grand hotel. Sharp outlines. Quickly going up / angle very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 379) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5427 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DEVONPORT,NZ:BRITE SLVR DISK HVRS nr GRAND HOTEL:SHARP OUTLINES:↑↑/ANGLE VFAST", **LatLong:** "-36.833335 174.783342", **LatLongDMS:** "36:50:00 S 174:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.833335,174.783342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13744 (6B7BD3D4) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** NEMURO STRAIT, JP **Description:** US and Soviet Anti-Aircraft guns/teams fire / group / fast saucers. 2 F86's chase and fire. / MJ#291. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5428 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NEMURO STRAIT,JP:US+SOVIET AA FIRE/Grp/FAST SCRS:2 F86s CHASE+FIRE:/MJ#291", **LatLong:** "43.833335 145.250007", **LatLongDMS:** "43:50:00 N 145:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.833335,145.250007)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13745 (B09D5F9B) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** NEMURO STRAIT, JPN **Description:** Soviet Anti-Aircraft guns/teams guns fire on fleet / UFO's. See above. / r47p51+/ r211p33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FOWLER, Raymond E.: UFO'S, INTERPLANETARY VISITORS; Prentice Hall & Bantam Books, NY 1979. 346pp. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5429 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NEMURO STRAIT,JPN:SOVIET AA GUNS FIRE ON FLEET/UFOS:see above:/r47p51+/r211p33", **LatLong:** "43.750002 145.250007", **LatLongDMS:** "43:45:00 N 145:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.750002,145.250007)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13746 (A57B0F1A) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** MAUDE, VICT AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Car-size glowing-ovoid going north slow and low. Seen widely / circular path. Shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5430 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MAUDE,VICT++:CAR-SIZE GLO-OVOID >N SLOW+LOW:SEEN WIDELY/CIRC.PATH:SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "-37.950002 144.166674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:57:00 S 144:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.950002,144.166674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13747 (98460265) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Location:** Nemuro Strait, Japan **Description:** 86 jet fighters scrambled to intercept disc-shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2065 ### Event 13748 (40CE8450) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Time:** 11:49:59.9 **Location:** 37.0833 -116.1000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Kepler” Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_97 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0833 -116.1000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 N 116:06:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0833,-116.1000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Kepler", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 13749 (FBC0BFB8) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Locations:** Kuril Islands; Sakhalin Oblast; Pacific Ocean; Nemuro Strait; Hokkaido; Japan **Description:** Russian antiaircraft batteries on the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, in the Pacific Ocean open fire on luminous, fast-moving UFOs. No hits are made. The US claims it has no aircraft in the area. However, at 10:00 a.m., two USAF pilots flying F-86s are scrambled to intercept a disc-shaped object over the Nemuro Strait, north of Hokkaido, Japan, that is tracked by ground radar and seen by ground witnesses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 42](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/42/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 245 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2965 ### Event 13750 (DA243771) **Date:** 7/24/1957 **Locations:** White Sands; Las Cruces, New Mexico; Organ Mountains **Description:** White Sands Missile Flight Safety Director [Nathan Wagner](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.wsmr-history.org/HallOfFame52.htm) is driving with his wife [Alma](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106431664/alma-s%5F-wagner) south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, when they see a large, fast object at high altitude moving east toward the Organ Mountains. They watch it for 30 seconds until it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Space Vehicles Sighted?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100129577/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, July 30, 1957, p. 1; NICAP, “[Missile Safety Chief Says Object Unknown](http://www.nicap.org/570724lascruces%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2966 ### Event 13751 (B1D54B2D) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** NIAGARA FALLS, NY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #321. USAF RADAR-visual (observation). White saucer / green lights. Quickly going up / angle southwest going northeast. / r141#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5431 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "NIAGARA FALLS,NY:BBK#321:USAF RDR-VIS:WHT SCR/GRN LITES:↑↑/ANGLE SW>NE:/r141#3", **LatLong:** "43.100002 -79.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:00 N 79:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.100002,-79.033337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13752 (DFC430AC) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** HUANGSHI, HUBEI, CH **Description:** Several observer(s). Loud humming. Spinning saucer makes big curve going quickly east. Leaves (something behind) trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5432 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HUANGSHI,HUBEI,CH:SVRL OBS:LOUD HUM:SPINNING SCR MAKES BIG CURVE>>E:LVS TRAIL", **LatLong:** "30.200001 115.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "30:12:00 N 115:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.200001,115.083339)", **State/Prov:** "HUB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13753 (8E642549) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** OREGON CITY, OR **Description:** 2 / car. Brilliant disk spins across sky fast. Slight tilt. Meteor? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 379) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5433 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "OREGON CITY,OR:2/CAR:BRILL.DISK SPINS ACRS SKY FAST:SLIGHT TILT:meteor?", **LatLong:** "45.355558 -122.605561", **LatLongDMS:** "45:21:20 N 122:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.355558,-122.605561)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13754 (88AF7C05) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** SAO SEBASTIAO, BRZ **Description:** 4 pseudo-human/entity invite Professor / saucer. 40 minute(s) ride. Telepathy. Watch magnetized. / MJ#226. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5434 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "SAO SEBASTIAO,BRZ:4 PSH INVITE PROF/SCR:40min RIDE:TLP:WATCH MAGNTZD:/MJ#226", **LatLong:** "-23.800001 -45.416669", **LatLongDMS:** "23:48:00 S 45:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.800001,-45.416669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13755 (2FA95ACF) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SAVANNE, ONT **Description:** Ranger. 3 40cm night lights cross Trans-Canada Highway going south slow. 2 / front and 1 / rear. Straight and level flight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5435 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SAVANNE,ONT:RANGER:3 40cm NLTS CROSS TCH >S SLOW:2/FRONT+1/REAR:S/L FLITE", **LatLong:** "48.950002 -90.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "48:57:00 N 90:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.950002,-90.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13756 (B1236926) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** NORTH HAVRE, MT **Description:** Blue Book. Bright round silver object zigzags going north. Size = dime / arms length. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 381) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5436 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "765", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH HAVRE,MT:BBK:BRITE RND SLVR OBJ ZIGZAGS >N:size= dime/arms length:NFD", **LatLong:** "48.583336 -109.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "48:35:00 N 109:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.583336,-109.683339)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13757 (B877EC0B) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Location:** Niagara Falls, NY **Description:** CPS6 ADC Radar Tracks Brilliant White Light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570725](http://www.nicap.org/570725niagarafalls%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2066 ### Event 13758 (EF6FB7BF) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 1910 **Location:** Sao Sebastiao, Brazil **Description:** Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who is a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore when he saw a hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits, came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him "telepathically" to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no longer worked. (Humanoids 36; FSR 57, 6 **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_396 ### Event 13759 (F3900F77) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Time:** 13:29:59.7 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Owens” Yield: 9.7KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_98 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Owens", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "9.7" ### Event 13760 (CF3F022A) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Location:** Huangshi, Hubei, China **Description:** 4:00 a.m. Several workers are taking a break at the Daye Steel Plant in Huangshi, Hubei, China, when they hear a humming sound. They notice a bright spot in the clear sky that is increasing in apparent size. As it comes closer, it is seen as a circular plate giving off a dazzling white light and leaving a white trail. It flies above the observers at an altitude of 3,300 feet and produces a whistling sound that is louder than a jet. As the object approaches the witnesses, the low pitch changes to a high pitch. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2967 ### Event 13761 (E67A4C37) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Description:** Russian coastal artillery batteries fired on high speed UFOs on this day along the Pacific Coast of the Soviet Union. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ion Hobana, UFOs from behind the Iron Curtain, p. 41 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4374 ### Event 13762 (84162025) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Description:** At 12:45 p.m. a brilliant disc spun as it flew fast across the sky at a slight tilt in Oregon City, Oregon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4375 ### Event 13763 (98DDE091) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Description:** Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who was a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore in Sao Sebastiao, Brazil at 7:10 p.m. when he saw a hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits, came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him "telepathically" to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no longer worked. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Issue #1, p. 36; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 256 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4376 ### Event 13764 (46F84B61) **Date:** 7/25/1957 **Description:** A UFO was seen zigzagging through the sky over North Havre, Montana at 11:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4377 ### Event 13765 (5E4CEF4D) **Date:** 7/26/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** RIO DJ, BRAZIL **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Silent triangle and saucer quickly going down / clouds. Maneuver over airport and city / 2 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 703) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5437 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "111", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "RIO DJ,BRZL:1000s/OBS:SLNT TRIANGLE+SCR ↓↓/CLOUDS:MNVR ovr AIRPORT+CITY/2hrs", **LatLong:** "-22.950001 -43.150002", **LatLongDMS:** "22:57:00 S 43:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.950001,-43.150002)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13766 (4675007F) **Date:** 7/26/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** EVORA, PORTUGAL **Description:** 2-3 observer(s). Big noise. Disk of light hovers and maneuvers overhead. Shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5438 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EVORA,PORTUGAL:2-3 OBS:BIG NOISE:DISK OF LITE HVRS+MNVRS OVHD:SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "38.583335 -7.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:00 N 07:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.583335,-7.916667)", **State/Prov:** "AAL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13767 (0CC4FAE0) **Date:** 7/26/1957 **Time:** 08:00:00.0 **Location:** 37.0518 -116.0334 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Pascal-A” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 20KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_99 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0518 -116.0334", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:06 N 116:02:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0518,-116.0334)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Pascal-A", **NukeSource:** "AEC", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "20" ### Event 13768 (65B9BBAC) **Date:** 7/27/1957 (approximate) **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** LONGMONT, CO **Description:** Observer(s) = silverly. Thick disk with honeycomb pattern / top. Rocks over hilltops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5439 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1506", **HatchDesc:** "LONGMONT,CO:OBS=SILVERLY:THICK DISK W/HONEYCOMB PATTERN/TOP:ROCKS ovr HILLTOPS", **LatLong:** "40.183335 -105.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:11:00 N 105:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.183335,-105.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13769 (6DB9D798) **Date:** 7/27/1957 **Location:** Longmont, CO **Description:** A thick disc, ice blue, with a top like honeycomb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4841) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2067 ### Event 13770 (73E4DE87) **Date:** 7/27/1957 **Time:** Early morning **Location:** Longmont, Colorado **Description:** Or July 29, 1957. Witness: J.L. Siverly. One thick disc, ice blue, with a top like honeycomb (interconnected hexagons), hovered and rocked below the hill tops for 10 minutes. Middle band was scalloped, bottom had four kidney-shaped forms. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_412 ### Event 13771 (5A5B25B8) **Date:** 7/28/1957 **Location:** Groom Lake, Nevada **Description:** A Douglas Aircraft Company employee named Edward K. Current Jr. makes an emergency landing on the former U-2 airstrip at Groom Lake, Nevada. He claims he has been on a cross-country training flight when he became lost and ran low on fuel. The area is still evacuated for nuclear testing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 125–126](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/124/mode/2up); T. D. Barnes, “[False Emergency Landings at Groom Lake,](https://roadrunnersinternationale.com/coldwarstories/gl%5Femergencies.html)” Roadrunners Internationale, November 22, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2968 ### Event 13772 (8BFDAF09) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** OLDSMAR, FL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4848. Observer(s) = Henkins. Gold fireball glides / 1 minute(s) into water and explodes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5440 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "OLDSMAR,FL:BBK#4848:OBS=HENKINS:GOLD FBL GLIDES/1min INTO WATER+EXPLODES:", **LatLong:** "28.033335 -82.661115", **LatLongDMS:** "28:02:00 N 82:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.033335,-82.661115)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13773 (8F66C96D) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** OVER CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4847. Airline(s)/airliner flight 841 chases moon-size object going quickly northwest. Too fast. / r141#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5441 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "ovr CLEVELAND,OH:BBK#4847:AL FLT 841 CHASES MOONSIZE OBJ >>NW:TOO FAST:/r141#3", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -81.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 81:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-81.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13774 (9E979E45) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Location:** Cleveland, OH **Description:** Airliner Unable To Catch Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 4847) **Reference:** NICAP: [570729](http://www.nicap.org/570729cleveland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2068 ### Event 13775 (85988DFF) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Location:** Oldsmar, FL **Description:** A pale yellow fireball glide into the water and exploded (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4848) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2069 ### Event 13776 (DE5D2736) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Time:** 10:31 PM **Location:** Cleveland, Ohio **Description:** Witnesses: Capital Airlines Capt. R.L. Stimley, First Officer F.J. Downing. One large, round, yellow-white object dimmed once, crossed the bow of the airliner, which then gave chase but was unable to catch it. Sighting last 8 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_413 ### Event 13777 (2C774BC7) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Time:** 11:45 AM **Location:** Oldsmar, Florida **Description:** Witness: E.E. Henkins. One pale yellow fireball glided into the water and exploded. Viewed for 1 minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_414 ### Event 13778 (FECAECBE) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Description:** Flight CAL 841 over Cleveland, Ohio at 10:31 p.m. Capital Airlines Captain R. L. Stimley and First Officer F. J. Downing sighted a large, round, yellow-white object that dimmed once, and then crossed the bow of their airliner. They gave chase but were unable to catch it. Their sighting last eight minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 4847; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4479 ### Event 13779 (B945F999) **Date:** 7/29/1957 **Description:** In Oldsmar, Florida at 11:45 a.m. witness E. E. Henkins observed a pale yellow fireball glide into the water and explode. It was viewed for approximately one minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 4848; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4480 ### Event 13780 (82645B2A) **Date:** 7/30/1957 **Location:** Galt, Ontario **Description:** Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for 45 minutes **Type:** ce2 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_152 ### Event 13781 (F0CBB7B7) **Date:** 7/30/1957 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** NEAR GALT, ONT **Description:** 10M saucer going down. Dome still. Edge turns. Follows boy. / MJ#231+/ FSRv4#1+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5442 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "nr GALT,ONT:10M SCR ↓:DOME STILL:EDGE TURNS:FOLOS BOY:/MJ#231+/FSRv4#1+/r141", **LatLong:** "43.350002 -80.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:21:00 N 80:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.350002,-80.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13782 (246181BB) **Date:** 7/30/1957 **Location:** Galt, Ontario, CAN **Description:** Dog snarled and barked at landed domed disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** NICAP: [570730](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ar-570730dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2070 ### Event 13783 (7B2A91C7) **Date:** 7/30/1957 **Location:** Galt, Ontario, Canada **Description:** A great deal of excitement was generated in the community when a group of frightened teenagers came within inches of a spaceship. Jack Stephens, a very trustworthy young man according to his parents and teachers, said the party of 5 had accidentally stumbled upon the object, complete with portholes, as it rested on 2 ball shaped landing gears in a field outside town. Additional proof of the incident came after an analysis was made of the scorched Earth discovered on the spot. Paul Hartman, a writer for the Galt Reporter, says the change in soil composition at the site was incredible. Topsoil dug up from the landing area glowed in the dark. Also, when grain samples from the burned patch were studied under a microscope, it was found that they were healthier and sturdier than the samples taken from elsewhere in the field. Finally, the insects there had undergone a certain instability and peculiarity in character. Ants, where the saucer had touched down, were larger and stronger looking than their counterparts in untouched areas. The ant hills themselves, according to Hartman, were much higher than usual and a spider which had accidentally found its way into a jar containing soil from the Galt UFO landing site, had grown to about 10 times the normal size for this particular species. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) **Source:** Trace, **ID:** Magnonia_4 ### Event 13784 (920B8DC9) **Date:** 7/30/1957 **Location:** Galt, Ontario, Canada **Description:** Jack Stephenson was walking about 7 km from Galt when he saw a flash in the sky. A circular object making a whirring sound came down and landed with a throw of flames. It took off again 30 min later,leaving the ground blackened and branches broken. The craft had a stationary dome, but the periphery was spinning. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Round-up 188 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_397 ### Event 13785 (673E4FCC) **Date:** 7/30/1957 **Location:** four miles south of Galt, Ontario **Description:** 10:30 a.m. Jack Stephenson is walking his dog four miles south of Galt, Ontario, when he sees an aluminum- colored object with a dome. It circles, stops, and hovers, then lands in a gulley surrounded by woods. He watches it for 45 minutes as it hovers about 2 feet off the ground. It finally takes off at a 45° angle to avoid a power line, then shoots away. Local residents examine the area and find burned patches on the ground and small tree limbs that are broken. There are four burned or charred areas, each about 1 foot 3 inches in diameter, forming a four- sided figure with these measurements: 20 feet x 20 feet x 6.5 feet x 11.5 feet. Two large three-toed prints are also found, but the relationship of the prints to the object is unknown. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Boy Reports ‘Saucer,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96057701/)” Brantford \(Ont.\) Expositor, August 3, 1957, p. 1; “[Says He Saw Flying Saucer for 45 Minutes,](https://redstarfilms.blogspot.com/2015/03/galt-ontario-ufo-sighting-1957.html)” Milk River \(Alberta\) Review, August 25, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 51–53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2969 ### Event 13786 (66C2AF3D) **Date:** 7/30/1957 **Description:** In Galt, Ontario at 10:30 a.m. a young man named Galt witnessed a silvery disc-shaped object descend close to ground near a power transmission station. It made a humming sound, and flames came from underneath the object. Dogs reacted by barking furiously. At the landing site the ground and vegetation were burned and charred. Large claw-like impressions were also found. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 51 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4503 ### Event 13787 (07EE9C0E) **Date:** 7/31/1957 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** CALISTOGA, CA **Description:** Businessman. 2 brilliant white night lights circle and maneuver impossibly. No form seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5443 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "CALISTOGA,CA:BUSINESSMAN:2 BRILL.WHT NLTS CIRCLE+MNVR IMPOSSIBLY:NO FORM SEEN", **LatLong:** "38.577780 -122.577784", **LatLongDMS:** "38:34:40 N 122:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.577780,-122.577784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13788 (6BC1A8A2) **Date:** 7/31/1957 **Location:** Calistoga, CA **Description:** Businessman watched two erratically maneuvering brilliant white objects. \[VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2071 ### Event 13789 (5ADCA783) **Date:** 8/1957 (approximate) **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** CASTIGLIONCELLO COVE, ITL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Big green-glow ovoid quickly going down. Stops over trees / several min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5444 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CASTIGLIONCELLO COVE,ITL:2 OBS:BIG GRN-GLOW OVOID ↓↓:STOPS OVR TREES/SVRL MIN.", **LatLong:** "43.400002 10.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:24:00 N 10:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.400002,10.400000)", **State/Prov:** "LI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13790 (1B029549) **Date:** 8/1957 **Locations:** Burbank, California; Skunk Works **Description:** Radar technician [Edward Lovick Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182829326/edward-lovick) begins work at Lockheed’s secret Advanced Development Projects facility \(the Skunk Works\) in Burbank, California. His first assignment is to investigate radar-deflecting technology for the U-2 aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/126/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2970 ### Event 13791 (E5596A78) **Date:** 8/1957 **Location:** Peru, Indiana **Description:** Night. A young woman is driving home after work in Peru, Indiana, and notices people standing along the road looking at the sky. She stops, and they point to a large black object hovering above some nearby trees at about 100 feet. It is about 1,000 feet long and has a “soft delta” shape with rounded corners and window-like lighted areas underneath. There seems to be movement within the lighted areas. In the middle of the bottom is a round area that looks like it might be the outline of an entryway. It moves slowly away, making a noise like a quiet vacuum cleaner. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2971 ### Event 13792 (C806A515) **Date:** 8/1/1957 **Location:** Toronto, Ontario, CAN **Description:** Large glowing object hovered 20 minutes, sped away. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2072 ### Event 13793 (8F5C5EFB) **Date:** 8/1/1957 **Location:** US **Description:** The North American Air Defense Command is announced by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[North American Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FAerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2972 ### Event 13794 (4387EC71) **Date:** 8/2/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** REEFTON, NZ **Description:** 150+widely separate observer(s). Silent silver cylinder/cigar-shape / sharp maneuvers. Going down / 900M altitude. / and #14p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 404) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5445 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "REEFTON,NZ:150+WIDELY SEP.OBS:SLNT SLVR CGR/SHARP MNVRS:↓/900M alt:/+#14p5", **LatLong:** "-42.116669 171.866675", **LatLongDMS:** "42:07:00 S 171:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-42.116669,171.866675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13795 (3190F0B4) **Date:** 8/2/1957 **Description:** Widely separate observers, including more than 150 school children, watched a silent "rocket" make intricate maneuvers in the sky over Reefton, New Zealand in the early afternoon. It rose, then hovered at 900 meters altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1957, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4591 ### Event 13796 (70F796C5) **Date:** 8/3/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** DENVILLE, NJ **Description:** 2 guards. 2 silent flat disks going quickly southeast overhead as if connected. Sharp edges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 411) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5446 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "DENVILLE,NJ:2 GUARDS:2 SLNT FLAT DISKS >>SE OVHD as if connected:SHARP EDGES", **LatLong:** "40.894446 -74.477781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:53:40 N 74:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.894446,-74.477781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13797 (71E6EB8B) **Date:** 8/3/1957 **Location:** San Francisco, CA **Description:** Radar detected a target on IFF Mode 2 transponder only (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570803](http://www.nicap.org/570803sanfrancisco%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2073 ### Event 13798 (18536DED) **Date:** 8/3/1957 **Locations:** Pacific Ocean; San Francisco, California **Description:** 7:45 p.m. 1st Lt. Robert J. Springer Jr., T/Sgt. [Herman L. Giles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146765909/herman-low%5France-giles), and 16 other air crewmen, while on routine Airborne Operations Center radar early warning patrol over the Pacific Ocean about 175 miles southwest of San Francisco, California, aboard an RC-121D aircraft, detect a radar target on IFF Mode 2 transponder only. At 7:56 p.m., the IFF target becomes a direct radar “skinpaint.” At 8:02 p.m., the IFF equipment APX-6/APX-7 is turned off, but the target is still tracked on airborne radar. At 8:15 p.m., the target is at a 2 o’clock position 10 miles away when the aircraft starts a right turn to reverse course, putting the target dead ahead. It suddenly takes off to the northwest at very high speed, disappearing 58 miles away. Radar contact is regained at 8:18 p.m. as the target is tracked moving right to left, crossing in front of the aircraft again, and closing distance to 8 miles at 11 o’clock. At 8:20 p.m., the target turns to head on a parallel path. The crew loses contact at 8:24 p.m., 15 miles behind the plane. No visual confirmation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[RC-121D Has IFF Radar Targets](http://www.nicap.org/570803sanfrancisco%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 246 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2973 ### Event 13799 (5F298346) **Date:** 8/4/1957 **Location:** Naples International Airport, Italy **Description:** An Italian Air Force noncommissioned officer on duty in the control tower at Naples International Airport, Italy, and about 30 other witnesses see a number of luminous, disc-shaped objects passing above them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2974 ### Event 13800 (1D720FCB) **Date:** 8/5/1957 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** SAN FERNANDO, CA **Description:** 2+observer(s). Bright golden disks going west. Dip down. Lost / cloud. #unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 413) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5447 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "294", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FERNANDO,CA:2+OBS:BRITE GOLDEN DISKS >W:DIP DOWN:LOST/CLOUD:# UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.333335 -118.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:20:00 N 118:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.333335,-118.450006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13801 (1B074751) **Date:** 8/5/1957 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** TOLAR GRANDE TO/FROM/BETWEEN CAIPE, ARG **Description:** Several observer(s). Top-saucers maneuver low / salt marshes. Photographs. / r141#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FSR CASE HISTORIES. Bimonthly/London. Supplements 2 - 18 (final issue) (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5448 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "104", **Elev:** "3500", **HatchDesc:** "TOLAR GRANDE<>CAIPE,ARG:SVRL OBS:TOP-SCRs MNVR LOW/SALT MARSHES:FOTOs:/r141#4", **LatLong:** "-24.550001 -67.750003", **LatLongDMS:** "24:33:00 S 67:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.550001,-67.750003)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "SLT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13802 (FC90DDE8) **Date:** 8/5/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NANJING, CHINA **Description:** 5+observer(s). Grey-white 2M egg overhead. Slow then fast. Flashes and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 409) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5449 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NANJING,CHINA:5+OBS:GRY-WHT 2M EGG OVHD:SLOW then FAST:FLASHES+AWAY:", **LatLong:** "32.566668 118.777783", **LatLongDMS:** "32:34:00 N 118:46:40 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.566668,118.777783)", **State/Prov:** "JNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13803 (363FEC19) **Date:** 8/5/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LERGRAVSIKEN, SWD **Description:** Saucer going southwest. Sharp turn going quickly south. Tilts / edge. 2nd small object follows. / r141#4p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5450 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "LERGRAVSIKEN,SWD:SCR>SW:SHARP TURN >>S:TILTS/EDGE:2nd SML OBJ FOLOS:/r141#4p15", **LatLong:** "57.816669 18.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "57:49:00 N 18:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.816669,18.950001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13804 (0C10DD5B) **Date:** 8/5/1957 **Locations:** Gotland, Sweden; Baltic Sea **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Policeman Ernst W. Akerberg and his wife Karin are at their summer cottage on the island of Gotland, Sweden, in the Baltic Sea when they see a disc-shaped object heading toward them from the sea. When it reaches the shore about 600 feet away, the object changes course and executes a sharp turn at less than 90° of arc and turns on its edge, swaying briefly. The disc moves toward the southeast and makes another sharp turn just over a half-mile away, again turning on its edge and fluttering before passing out of view. A second, smaller object approaches and goes through the same maneuvers. Air currents from both objects make the water surface ripple and the treetops swing. Estimated to be about 80 feet in diameter, the objects seem to be made of shining metal, and the upper part rotates slowly over the lower part. Both objects have a kind of tube with two red lights. They are silent except for a hollow clicking sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Story, [pp. 152–153](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/152/mode/2up); Clas Svahn, “[1957 Diskusarna svängde](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/svenska-rapporter/1294-diskusarna-svangde-framfor-polismannen) [framför polismannen,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/svenska-rapporter/1294-diskusarna-svangde-framfor-polismannen)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2975 ### Event 13805 (4CAEFD40) **Date:** 8/6/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** OLD GREENWICH, CT **Description:** Moon-size ovoid / S. sky. Going west in series / 10 rounded hops. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 409) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5451 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "OLD GREENWICH,CT:MOONSIZE OVOID/S.SKY:>W IN SERIES/10 ROUNDED HOPS:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "41.022224 -74.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:20 N 74:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.022224,-74.566670)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13806 (4B7AEBF6) **Date:** 8/7/1957 **Location:** Piqua (area), OH **Description:** Sightings Over Wide Area / Radar Track In Ohio (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570807](http://www.nicap.org/570807ohio%5Findiana%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2074 ### Event 13807 (BB2A2AF8) **Date:** 8/7/1957 **Time:** 12:25:00.2 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Stokes” Yield: 19KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_100 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Stokes", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "19" ### Event 13808 (1403078F) **Date:** 8/10/1957 **Time:** 00:59:55.1 **Location:** 37.1939 -116.0333 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Saturn” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_101 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1939 -116.0333", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:38 N 116:02:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1939,-116.0333)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Saturn", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 13809 (62505377) **Date:** 8/13/1957 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** OFF OGDEN DUNES, IN **Description:** 2 / beach. Classic domed 20M saucer glows and hovers 15M over lake. Maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 429) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5452 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "176", **HatchDesc:** "off OGDEN DUNES,IN:2/BEACH:CLASSIC DOMED 20M SCR GLOWS+HVRS 15M ovr LAKE:MNVRS", **LatLong:** "41.633335 -87.188893", **LatLongDMS:** "41:38:00 N 87:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.633335,-87.188893)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13810 (8D3F7CB7) **Date:** 8/13/1957 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** KANGATSIAQ, GREENLAND **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Classic metallic saucers / distance east going west / hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5453 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "164", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KANGATSIAQ,GREENLAND:NMRS OBS:CLASSIC MTLC SCRS/DISTANCE E>W/HOURS", **LatLong:** "68.300003 -53.466669", **LatLongDMS:** "68:18:00 N 53:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/68.300003,-53.466669)", **State/Prov:** "KAN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13811 (7D51F886) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** CAIRO, IL **Description:** 2 ovoids below clouds / 45 min. 1 blinks on and off. 1 swings like pendulum. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 430) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5454 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "CAIRO,IL:2 OVOIDS BELOW CLOUDS/45 min:1 BLINKS ON+OFF:1 SWINGS LIKE PENDULUM", **LatLong:** "37.016668 -89.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:01:00 N 89:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.016668,-89.183338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13812 (B2D8C746) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** NEAR WHITES POND, NJ **Description:** Hairdresser makes U-turn. 10M saucer hovers on / over road. / Bloecher. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 431) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5455 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "184", **HatchDesc:** "nr WHITES POND,NJ:HAIRDRESSER MAKES U-TURN:10M SCR HVRS ON/OVR ROAD:/Bloecher", **LatLong:** "41.050002 -74.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:03:00 N 74:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.050002,-74.916670)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13813 (4DBF5C06) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** NEAR JOINVILLE, BRZ **Description:** Domed saucer buzzes Varig C47. Engines and electric electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r215p53+r242p120. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 411) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5456 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "nr JOINVILLE,BRZ:DOMED SCR BUZZES VARIG C47:ENGINES+ELEC.EME:/r215p53+r242p120", **LatLong:** "-26.300001 -48.833336", **LatLongDMS:** "26:18:00 S 48:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.300001,-48.833336)", **State/Prov:** "STC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13814 (9F373A5A) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** PRESTON, ON **Description:** Bright fiery circular object follows teen girls. Away and back. Eyes bloodshot. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 432) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5457 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "288", **HatchDesc:** "PRESTON,ON:BRITE FIERY CIRC.OBJ FOLOS TEEN GIRLS:AWAY+BACK:eyes bloodshot", **LatLong:** "43.400002 -80.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:24:00 N 80:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.400002,-80.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13815 (94AD25AB) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Location:** Joinville (near), Brazil **Description:** Airliner cabin lights dimmed and engine sputtered during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2075 ### Event 13816 (6CDCF1B6) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Location:** Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil **Description:** 8:55 p.m. Varig Airlines pilot Capt. Jorgé Campos Araujo and First Officer Edgar Onofre Soares observe a domed disc pacing their C-47 cargo plane at 6,300 feet over Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The UFO speeds up and crosses just in front of them, hovers briefly, then dives into the undercast at 5,700 feet. When the object hovers, it affects the engines, which cough and wheeze, and dims the cabin lights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 120](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=133&skin=2021); Olavo T. Fontes, “[Top Secret Report Unveiled,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 1, 5; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 123–127; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 August–September, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Aug-Sept-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Aug-Sept-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 11–13; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 153–155](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n159/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2976 ### Event 13817 (E8FA6C33) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Description:** AT 8:55 p.m. a red domed disc-shaped object with a green dome buzzed a Varig Airlines C-47 flying near Joinville, Santa Catarina province, Brazil. It caused temporary disruption of the performance of the engines and the electrical system. The reception of the airplane's radio was suddenly interrupted when the red disc approached the plane, while the cabin lights also dimmed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September 1959, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 553; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 153, citing Olavo T. Fontes; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1992 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5002 ### Event 13818 (F08DD8C9) **Date:** 8/14/1957 **Description:** In Preston, Waterloo county, Ontario at 10:30 p.m. a bright fiery, circular object followed two teenage girls. During the next five minutes it first moved away and then came back again. The women were reported to be suffering from conjunctivitis of the eyes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Galt (ON) Evening Reporter, August 15, 1957; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, July 1969; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5003 ### Event 13819 (09EC359A) **Date:** 8/15/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** WOODLAND HILLS, CA **Description:** Ex-Navy pilot. Solid white disk hovers. Tilts and quickly going up. / NICAP. / r78p178. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5458 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "273", **HatchDesc:** "WOODLAND HILLS,CA:ex-NAVY PILOT:SOLID WHT DISK HVRS:TILTS+↑↑:/NICAP:/r78p178", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -118.600006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 118:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-118.600006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13820 (744C2761) **Date:** 8/15/1957 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** CEDAR POINT, GA **Description:** Round meteor drops / yard! Comes toward(s) porch. Pulses. Shoots up going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 416) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5459 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CEDAR POINT,GA:RND METEOR DROPS/YARD!:COMES TWRD PORCH:PULSES:SHOOTS UP >>NE", **LatLong:** "31.500002 -81.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "31:30:00 N 81:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.500002,-81.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13821 (9823C773) **Date:** 8/15/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ATCHISON, KS **Description:** 3 observer(s). 4 small saucers 5cm thick dart and maneuver. Hide / plane passes. Glow. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 432) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5460 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "327", **HatchDesc:** "ATCHISON,KS:3 OBS:4 SML SCRS 5cm THICK DART+MNVR:HIDE/PLANE PASSES:GLOW:>>SE", **LatLong:** "39.561113 -95.122227", **LatLongDMS:** "39:33:40 N 95:07:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.561113,-95.122227)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13822 (62AD28D6) **Date:** 8/15/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** GOREVILLE, IL **Description:** Sheriff and 1. 6 luminous/glowing silver 2M eggs circle over field. 3 clockwise and 3 counterclockwise. Domes / sides. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 413) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5461 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "GOREVILLE,IL:SHERIFF+1:6 LUMN SLVR 2M EGGS CCL ovr FLD:3 CW+ 3 CCW:DOMES/SIDES", **LatLong:** "37.555557 -88.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:33:20 N 88:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.555557,-88.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13823 (D67F4C92) **Date:** 8/15/1957 **Location:** Woodland Hills, CA **Description:** Retired Navy pilot watched disc wobble, climb away. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2076 ### Event 13824 (1ACEBE07) **Date:** 8/15/1957 **Description:** In Atchison, Kansas around 9:00 p.m. three women watched four small discs, estimated to be only five centimeters thick, dart and maneuver around the sky for 30 minutes, then hide from an airplane that passed overhead. They were described as glowing, and flew off to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Atkinson (KS) Globe, August 16, 1957; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5031 ### Event 13825 (FD63F558) **Date:** 8/17/1957 **Location:** LIMA, OH **Description:** 15 observer(s). 100' glowing disk going west. 90° turn going quickly south over steel foundry. Silent. No Radio Frequency Interference (RFI.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 433) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5462 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "LIMA,OH:15 OBS:100'GLOW.DISK > W:90° TURN >>S ovr STEEL FOUNDRY:slnt:no rfi", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -84.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 84:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-84.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13826 (23E06080) **Date:** 8/18/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ADDISON TWP, IN **Description:** 3M saucer stops low / cornfield. Clangs! Going southeast / 30M altitude. Colored lights / rim. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 417) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5463 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "233", **HatchDesc:** "ADDISON Twp,IN:3M SCR STOPS LO/CORNFIELD:CLANGS!:>SE/30M alt:CLRD LITES/RIM", **LatLong:** "39.527780 -85.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:40 N 85:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.527780,-85.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13827 (13C476DB) **Date:** 8/18/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR SHELBYVILLE, IN **Description:** 3M ovoid going down / 30M altitude over cornfield. Lights / rim. Clanking noise! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 434) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5464 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "nr SHELBYVILLE,IN:3M OVOID ↓/30M alt ovr CORNFIELD:LITES/RIM:CLANKING NOISE!", **LatLong:** "39.522224 -85.777782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:20 N 85:46:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.522224,-85.777782)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13828 (5A57BC11) **Date:** 8/18/1957 **Time:** 12:00:00.0 **Location:** 37.1280 -116.1064 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Shasta” Yield: 17KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_102 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1280 -116.1064", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:41 N 116:06:23 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1280,-116.1064)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Shasta", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "17" ### Event 13829 (6AB76F3C) **Date:** 8/18/1957 **Description:** In Shelbyville, Indiana at 9:00 p.m. a three-meter long ovoid rose up 30 meters over a cornfield. It had lights on its periphery, and made a clanking noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gray Barker, Flying Saucers magazine, February 1958, p. 46; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5122 ### Event 13830 (C96F8542) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Location:** QUILINO, ARG **Description:** Saucer quickly going down. Voice = "don't fear.. .have base in Salta region". Going quickly north. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 437) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5465 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **TLP:** Telepathy, **NWS:** News media report, **CNT:** Contactee related, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "403", **HatchDesc:** "QUILINO,ARG:SCR ↓↓:VOICE="DONT FEAR...HAVE BASE IN SALTA REGION":>>N:/FSR v3#4", **LatLong:** "-30.200001 -64.483336", **LatLongDMS:** "30:12:00 S 64:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.200001,-64.483336)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13831 (F4E58CCB) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / CARORA, VNZL **Description:** Several / car. 10 small saucers orbit huge saucer / Monay Plains. 1 lands / zigzag. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 436) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5466 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "SW/CARORA,VNZL:SVRL/CAR:10 SML SCRs ORBIT HUGE SCR/MONAY PLAINS:1 LANDS/ZIGZAG", **LatLong:** "9.750000 -70.316670", **LatLongDMS:** "09:45:00 N 70:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.750000,-70.316670)", **State/Prov:** "TRJ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13832 (DE2D9936) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Time:** ~11:30 **Location:** FUJISAWA, JPN **Description:** 2+15 observer(s). Cylinder/cylindrical object-UFO photographed. 4000' altitude. 90-turn. 250-500mph. Silent. / r219p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5467 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "FUJISAWA,JPN:2+15 OBS:CYL-UFO FOTOd:4000'alt:90-TURN:250-500mph:SLNT:/r219p11", **LatLong:** "35.333335 139.483340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:20:00 N 139:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.333335,139.483340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13833 (6F578D30) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Location:** Fujisawa City, Japan **Description:** August 20, 1957; Fujisawa City, Japan, Takeda photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2077 ### Event 13834 (E196DBB4) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Location:** Quilino, Argentina **Description:** An Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound and saw a disk that came down as grass and plants fluttered wildly under it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which "seemed to be glued in its holster." A voice came from the craft, telling him in Spanish that UFO's had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 36 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_398 ### Event 13835 (15425D8A) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Location:** Enoshima Beach, Kanagawa, Japan **Description:** 11:28 a.m. Shinichi Takeda takes a photo of a silvery disc near Enoshima Beach, Kanagawa, Japan. The object is also seen by his sister, who calls his attention to it. It gives off a brilliant glow at an estimated altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet, traveling north to south. The object makes a 90° left turn, speeds up, and disappears in the clouds. The photo shows capsule-shaped image near bank of cumulus clouds. A few minutes later, 15 people on the beach report a similar object that passes over at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Capsule-Shaped Object in Clouds /](http://www.nicap.org/570820japan%5Fdir.htm) [Takeda Photo](http://www.nicap.org/570820japan%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2977 ### Event 13836 (E3F4A66C) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Alternate date:** 8/22/1957 **Locations:** Quilinos, Córdoba, Argentina; Salta region **Description:** A member of the Argentine Air Force guarding a downed aircraft is in a tent near Quilinos, Córdoba, Argentina, when he hears a high-pitched hum. Dashing out, he sees a disc slowly descending, making the grass and plants flutter wildly. Reaching for his revolver, he feels that something is preventing him from drawing his weapon, which seems glued in his holster. A voice from the disc tells him in Spanish that spacecraft have a base in the Salta region and that they are here to warn about nuclear energy. The craft rises vertically and speeds off to the north. Probable hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[UFO Bases in South America?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2011%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1965\): 30– 31; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-08-20-argentina-quilino.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-08-20-argentina-quilino.htm) December 8, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2978 ### Event 13837 (AFD1E290) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Description:** In Venezuela at 10:30 a.m. ten small discs orbited one huge disc southwest of Carora, Lara province, and one landed. The rest engaged in zig-zag maneuvers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 36 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5172 ### Event 13838 (B635F9E1) **Date:** 8/20/1957 **Description:** In the evening in Quilino, Cordoba, Argentina an Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound and then saw a disc that descended while grass and plants fluttered wildly underneath it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which "seemed to be glued in its holster." A voice came from inside the craft, telling him in Spanish that UFOs had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon Creighton, FSR Special Edition #1: The Humanoids, p. 36; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 197; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 398 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5173 ### Event 13839 (4E56A234) **Date:** 8/21/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** CAMBRIA AFS, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 6 include/including USAF plane. RADAR-visual. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). 3 UFO's / 70 min. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5468 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "CAMBRIA AFS,CA:BBK#UNK:6 INCL USAF PLANE:RDR-VISUAL:EME:3 UFOS/70 MIN:type unk", **LatLong:** "35.566668 -121.077784", **LatLongDMS:** "35:34:00 N 121:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.566668,-121.077784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13840 (C8133A31) **Date:** 8/21/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOLWAY FIRTH TO NEWCASTLE, ENGL **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Cylinder/cylindrical object-cylinder/cigar-shape jerks north and south. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#6p9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 442) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5469 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SOLWAY FIRTH to NEWCASTLE,ENGL:MANY SEP.OBS:CYL-CGR JERKS N+S:/FSR v3#6p9", **LatLong:** "54.750003 -3.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "54:45:00 N 03:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.750003,-3.666667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13841 (51683210) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** CECIL NAS, FL **Description:** Bell-shape chases civilians. Hides as jets pass. Dead battery. / r8#399. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5470 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "CECIL NAS,FL:BELL-SHAPE CHASES CIVs:HIDES AS JETS PASS:DEAD BATTERY:/r8#399", **LatLong:** "30.133335 -81.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:08:00 N 81:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.133335,-81.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13842 (6035495F) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** WHITTIER, CA **Description:** Many separate observer(s). 6 domed saucers join and circle / pairs. 1 / each pair puffs smoke! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 446) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5471 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "21", **Elev:** "111", **HatchDesc:** "WHITTIER,CA:MANY SEP.OBS:6 DOMED SCRS JOIN+CCL/PAIRS:1/EACH PAIR PUFFS SMOKE!", **LatLong:** "33.977779 -118.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:40 N 118:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.977779,-118.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13843 (6A4EF845) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **Location:** Cecil NAS, FL **Description:** Car chased a 50 ft black, bell shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2078 ### Event 13844 (8A911207) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **End date:** 8/23/1957 **Location:** Cambria AFS, CA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Radar/Visual; F2H Fighter & FPS-6 Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570822-23](http://www.nicap.org/570822cambriaAFS%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2079 ### Event 13845 (13685AFB) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **Time:** 1540 **Location:** Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida **Description:** A black, bellshaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top and maeasuring 15 m in diameter was chased by a civilian in a car until the engine stalled. The object was then hovering 3 m away. The underside of the machine resembled a disk with fins. When a jet aircraft took off from the airfield, the object went out of sight almost instantaneously. The car battery was found completely dead. There was no helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise made by the object to that of a helicopter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_399 ### Event 13846 (C0F6ED88) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 520KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1072 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "520" ### Event 13847 (CEE884F9) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **Location:** Naval Air Station Cecil [now Cecil Airport] in Jacksonville, Florida **Description:** 3:40 p.m. A couple named Sheetz in a car at Naval Air Station Cecil \[now Cecil Airport\] in Jacksonville, Florida, chase a 50-foot, black, rotating, bell-shaped object bearing two bright white lights at the top. Their engine stalls when object hovers 10 feet away. Its underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes off from the airfield, the object goes out of sight almost instantly. The car battery is completely dead. Noise from the object is compared to a helicopter, although there are no helicopters in the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Car Chases Bell-Shaped Object,](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm) [Engine Stalls](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm)”; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2979 ### Event 13848 (3129E025) **Date:** 8/22/1957 **Description:** Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida. At 3:40 p.m. a black, bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top and maeasuring 15 meters in diameter was chased by a civilian named Sheetz in his car until the car engine stalled. The object then started hovering just three meters away. The underside of the machine resembled a disc with fins. When a jet aircraft took off from the nearby U.S. Navy airfield, the object went out of sight almost instantaneously. The car battery was found to be completely dead.There was no helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise made by the object to that of a helicopter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 257, case 399, citing Project Blue Book; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5221 ### Event 13849 (050E5C89) **Date:** 8/23/1957 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** RIO TO/FROM NITEROI, BRAZIL **Description:** Crowds / piers. 10M saucer zigzags over bay. Going up [to] slowly until gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5472 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "RIO> Event 13850 (919CB53D) **Date:** 8/23/1957 **Time:** 12:30:00.1 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Doppler” Yield: 11KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_103 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Doppler", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11" ### Event 13851 (9B1D3541) **Date:** 8/24/1957 **Location:** AHU, NINGINO ISLANDS, PNG **Description:** Night light changes color(s). Hovers and violent maneuvers. Quickly going down / sea. / r44p39+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5473 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AHU,NINGINO ISLs,PNG:NLT CHANGES CLRS:HVRS+VIOLENT MNVRS:↓↓/sea:/r44p39+/r141", **LatLong:** "-1.316667 144.166674", **LatLongDMS:** "01:19:00 S 144:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-1.316667,144.166674)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13852 (4F30A86D) **Date:** 8/24/1957 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** CHESTERTOWN, MD **Description:** Assistant secretary / defense and 2. 13 oval night lights / cylinder/cigar-shape formation. Vanish! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 301) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5474 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "CHESTERTOWN,MD:Asst.SECRETARY/DEFENSE+2:13 OVAL NLTS/CGR FORMn:VANISH!", **LatLong:** "39.150002 -76.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:00 N 76:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.150002,-76.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13853 (B587E0BE) **Date:** 8/26/1957 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** TILBURG, NETHL **Description:** Ellipse-disk shoots through gaps clouds. Lost / overcast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 451) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5475 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TILBURG,NETHL:ELLIPSE-DISK SHOOTS THRU GAPS CLOUDS:lost/overcast:NFD", **LatLong:** "51.550002 5.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:33:00 N 05:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.550002,5.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13854 (73537A10) **Date:** 8/26/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MONROE CO, PA **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Ovoid going southwest over Poconos Mountains. Green beams going down. "Large and low". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 453) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5476 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "MONROE co,PA:MANY SEP.OBS:OVOID >SW OVR POCONOS Mtns:GRN BEAMS ↓:"LARGE+LOW"", **LatLong:** "41.050002 -75.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:03:00 N 75:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.050002,-75.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13855 (8BAA5624) **Date:** 8/26/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1073 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** ".1" ### Event 13856 (720C4ADB) **Date:** 8/26/1957 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. an ovoid object was seen flying in the southwestern sky in Monroe County, Pennsylvania over the Poconos Mountains. It was emitting green beams of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 53 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5360 ### Event 13857 (DEC5BC79) **Date:** 8/27/1957 **Location:** Dry Tortugas, FL **Description:** Crew of aircraft saw object/ bright red to reddish-yellow pulsating light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [570827](http://www.nicap.org/570827drytortugas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2080 ### Event 13858 (5563045A) **Date:** 8/27/1957 **Time:** 22:35:00.0 **Location:** 37.0491 -116.0340 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Pascal-B” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 20KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_104 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0491 -116.0340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:57 N 116:02:02 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0491,-116.0340)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Pascal-B", **NukeSource:** "AEC", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "20" ### Event 13859 (64AA76F4) **Date:** 8/27/1957 **Locations:** Russia; Kazakhstan; Baikonur Cosmodrome; Pacific Ocean **Description:** Russia makes the first successful long flight of an ICBM, the R-7 Semyorka, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The dummy warhead lands in the Pacific Ocean. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[R-7 Semyorka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7%5FSemyorka)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2980 ### Event 13860 (C1BC0A06) **Date:** 8/27/1957 **Description:** An unidentified flying object with a bright red to reddish-yellow pulsating light flew over the Dry Tortugas near Florida. The UFO was tracked on radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5395 ### Event 13861 (A421D2FA) **Date:** 8/28/1957 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NAZARE, PRT **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer beams going down / beach. Rocks and plants cleared / 4 Sq meters. / r141#4p51. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5477 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NAZARE,PRT:2 OBS:SCR BEAMS ↓/BEACH:ROCKS+PLANTS CLEARED/4 SQ MTRs:/r141#4p51", **LatLong:** "39.583335 -9.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "39:35:00 N 09:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.583335,-9.066667)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13862 (36472AF6) **Date:** 8/28/1957 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** GLENDALE, CA **Description:** 2 flying cops. Dark 15' cylinder/cylindrical object with struts passes under helicopter. Going quickly [to] No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5478 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "GLENDALE,CA:2 FLYING COPS:DARK 15'CYL W/STRUTS PASSES UNDER COPTER:>>NFD", **LatLong:** "34.150002 -118.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:00 N 118:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.150002,-118.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13863 (E44D56F5) **Date:** 8/28/1957 **Description:** A teenage couple on the beach in Nazare, Portugal saw an ellipsoidal UFO low over the shore, just five meters from the ground, and 100 meters away. Its circular main body had a curved window and was surmounted by a small tower. The craft shot a greenish-yellow beam at the ground. Plants and stones vanished from a four-meter square area. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5411 ### Event 13864 (7242F85E) **Date:** 8/28/1957 **Description:** A silent crescent-shaped object followed three people driving in a car in Glenelg, South Australia at 8:15 p.m. When the car stopped, the object hovered for 20 seconds, then shot away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UFO Research South Australia, Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS) case files, case SA57001 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5412 ### Event 13865 (81234F74) **Date:** 8/29/1957 **Location:** PASO ROBLES, CA **Description:** Silver saucer flies from north going quickly west. Seen / 4 minute(s). No further details / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5479 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "PASO ROBLES,CA:SLVR SCR FLIES FROM N>>W:SEEN/4min:NFD/BBK", **LatLong:** "35.627779 -120.688895", **LatLongDMS:** "35:37:40 N 120:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.627779,-120.688895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13866 (8F643316) **Date:** 8/29/1957 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** WICHITA, KS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Flying military observer(s). Also Braniff flight 40. UFO / complex trajectory / 2 minutes. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5480 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA,KS:BBK#UNK:FLYING MIL OBS:+BRANIFF FLT 40:UFO/COMPLEX TRAJ/2 mins:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.683335 -97.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:41:00 N 97:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.683335,-97.350005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13867 (18ECCCD9) **Date:** 8/29/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** ADELAIDE, SA **Description:** Silent crescent-saucer follows 3 / car. Car stops. Saucer hovers / 20 second(s) and shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 451) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5481 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ADELAIDE,SA:SLNT CRESCENT-SCR FOLOS 3/CAR:CAR STOPS:SCR HVRS/20sec+SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "-34.950002 138.616673", **LatLongDMS:** "34:57:00 S 138:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.950002,138.616673)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13868 (D2E9AF3C) **Date:** 8/29/1957 **Location:** Paso Robles, CA **Description:** Silver circular object flying N to W. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2082 ### Event 13869 (3F3BC544) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** SPRING LAKE, NJ **Description:** Wingless DC3 fuselage follows coast. Flat 180° turn going south. Night light exits and scouts. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 417) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5482 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "SPRING LAKE,NJ:WINGLESS DC3 FSLG FOLOS COAST:FLAT 180°TURN >S:NLT EXITS+SCOUTS", **LatLong:** "40.155557 -74.027781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:09:20 N 74:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.155557,-74.027781)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13870 (4025F23D) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SAN RAFAEL, HONDURAS **Description:** Large cylinder/cigar-shape going down / mountains. Wires flash / one end. Earth tremors. Spirals quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 456) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5483 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Honduras", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "963", **HatchDesc:** "San RAFAEL,HONDURAS:LRG CGR ↓/Mtns:WIRES FLASH/ONE END:EARTH TREMORS:SPIRALS↑↑", **LatLong:** "14.733334 -88.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "14:44:00 N 88:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.733334,-88.416671)", **State/Prov:** "LMP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13871 (96740CEF) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** NEAR SEA ISLE CITY, NJ **Description:** 2 engineers / boat / (seen thru) binoculars. Plain metallic cylinder/cylindrical object hovers. Going southwest. Good report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 461) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5484 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr SEA ISLE CITY,NJ:2 ENGINEERS/BOAT/BINOCS:PLAIN MTLC CYL HVRS:>SW:good rept", **LatLong:** "39.155557 -74.705559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:20 N 74:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.155557,-74.705559)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13872 (B329D8D0) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** NORFOLK, VA **Description:** Fast night light stops near 2 ships. Clear RADAR blip / 14km altitude. Vanishes! / r141#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5485 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,VA:FAST NLT STOPS nr 2 SHIPS:CLR RDR BLIP/14km alt:VANISHES!:/r141#4", **LatLong:** "36.850002 -76.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:51:00 N 76:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.850002,-76.266670)", **RelAlt:** "14000", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13873 (14E1BB5D) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Location:** Chesapeake Bay, nr. Norfolk, VA **Description:** Two Aircraft Observe Object / Excellent Blip On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570830](http://www.nicap.org/570830chesapeake%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2083 ### Event 13874 (0A383715) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Time:** 12:39:59.9 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Franklin Prime” Yield: 4.7KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_105 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.23", **NukeName:** "Franklin Prime", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "4.7" ### Event 13875 (21DFEA25) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Location:** Norfolk, Virginia **Description:** Night. A Capital Airlines pilot is flying a Viscount at 12,000 feet approaching Norfolk, Virginia, with a Northeast Airlines DC-6 directly above on the same heading at 20,000 feet. The Viscount pilot sees a brilliant object that “flew fast and then abruptly halted 20 miles in front of us at 60,000 feet altitude.” The Northeast pilot tries to acquire the object on radar. With the antenna at 0° elevation, nothing is detected, but with the antenna elevated to 15° he acquires “an excellent blip right where I told him to look for the object.” According to the Viscount pilot, the object “dissolved right in front of my eyes, and the crew above lost it from the scope at the same time. They said it just faded away.” The entire incident lasts several minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/570830chesapeake%5Fdir.htm) [Observe Object / Excellent Blip on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/570830chesapeake%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 128–129](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/128/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2981 ### Event 13876 (D9B686A6) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Description:** At noon in San Rafael, Honduras a large cigar-shaped object was seen over the mountains, emitting flashes from one end. Earth tremors were felt at the time. The object spiraled out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 56 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5487 ### Event 13877 (BDE97284) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Description:** At 12:30 in the afternoon two engineers in a boat on the Atlantic Ocean near Sea Isle City, Cape May County, New Jersey watched a metallic cylinder hovering for three minutes with binoculars. It moved off to the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5488 ### Event 13878 (3D77097C) **Date:** 8/30/1957 **Description:** At 10:10 p.m. the crew of two separate airliners flying over Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia, a Capital Airlines flight and a Northwest Airlines DC-6, sighted a bright object that flew at great speed, then stopped abruptly. The UFO was confirmed on their airborne radars and ground radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon D. Thayer in Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 128; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5489 ### Event 13879 (61AA7D29) **Date:** 8/31/1957 **Description:** In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.” **Type:** letter **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_573 ### Event 13880 (66446339) **Date:** 8/31/1957 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EAST THERMOPOLIS, WY **Description:** 12+observer(s). Round blue silent 5M object hovers / 3M altitude 30M away. Going quickly [to] fast. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5486 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "990", **HatchDesc:** "E.THERMOPOLIS,WY:12+OBS:RND BLU SLNT 5M OBJ HVRS/3M alt 30M away:>> FAST:/r141", **LatLong:** "43.644447 -108.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "43:38:40 N 108:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.644447,-108.200005)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13881 (B7A7D5AE) **Date:** 8/31/1957 **Time:** 12:30:00.0 **Location:** 37.1872 -116.0678 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Smoky” Yield: 44KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_106 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1872 -116.0678", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:14 N 116:04:04 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1872,-116.0678)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.21", **NukeName:** "Smoky", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "44" ### Event 13882 (BCD4C252) **Date:** 8/31/1957 **Description:** After nuclear test Plumbbob Smokey, Army troops conduct an airlift assault. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Desert Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises) [exercises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2982 ### Event 13883 (1C9071CD) **Date:** 8/31/1957 **Description:** Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) \(R-Ariz.\) sends a letter to a constituent about UFOs, saying, “I, frankly, feel that there is a great deal to this.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 173](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=185&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2983 ### Event 13884 (4EECD0F7) **Date:** 9/1957 **Location:** CAMPINAS, SP, BRZ **Description:** Man faints. Saucer lands. Pseudo-human/entity check out saucer and put samples / box. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 400) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5487 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "662", **HatchDesc:** "CAMPINAS,SP,BRZ:MAN FAINTS:SCR LANDS:PSH CHECK OUT SCR+PUT SAMPLES/BOX:NFD", **LatLong:** "-22.916668 -47.066669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:55:00 S 47:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.916668,-47.066669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13885 (30D52250) **Date:** 9/1957 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** FT BELVOIR, VA **Description:** 6 photograph. Black hoop / sky grows its own cloud going south. A-bomb simulation? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 427) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5488 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "Ft BELVOIR,VA:6 PIX:BLK HOOP/SKY GROWS ITS OWN CLOUD >S:A-bomb simulation?", **LatLong:** "38.694446 -77.177781", **LatLongDMS:** "38:41:40 N 77:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.694446,-77.177781)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 13886 (AF65CB80) **Date:** 9/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** AL AHMADI, KUWAIT **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Brilliant saucer hovers / oil jetty. Going [to] inland. Going quickly east. / r141#19p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5489 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kuwait", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "Al AHMADI,KUWAIT:2 SEP.OBS:BRILL.SCR HVRS/OIL JETTY:> INLAND:>>E:/r141#19p11", **LatLong:** "29.066668 48.133336", **LatLongDMS:** "29:04:00 N 48:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.066668,48.133336)", **State/Prov:** "AAM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13887 (36162AC4) **Date:** 9/1957 **Location:** Campinas, Brazil **Description:** A man suddenly fell, as if paralyzed, and his two companions then observed an object shaped like a disk with a dome on top and another dome under it, 50 m away. A door opened and three men, 1.70 m tall, wearing close-fitting, iridescent clothing, and who walked as if on skis, appeared to make a check of the craft and the surroundings. They gathered samples in a large box. The witnesses saw small portholes and a tripod landing gear. The craft took off after 20 min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Nachrichten Jul., 60 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_400 ### Event 13888 (34C86696) **Date:** 9/1957 **Locations:** Frankfurt, Germany; Alexander Litvinenko **Description:** Soviet defector [Nikolai Khokhlov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%5FKhokhlov) suffers a sudden and severe illness while attending an anti-Communist meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. He is treated for thallium poisoning and survives. This case is often claimed to be the first radiological attack by the KGB, especially when compared to the poisoning of [Alexander Litvinenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FLitvinenko) in 2006, although it remains unclear what isotope was used, if any. Former KGB officer Stanislav Lekarev claims, however, that Khokhlov is poisoned by radioactive polonium \(not thallium\), exactly as Litvinenko is later. Litvinenko’s poisoning is also initially mistaken for thallium. A unique mechanism for administering poison is described by a knowledgeable source at the time as a pneumatically operated poison ice “atomizer” that leaves no wound or other evidence of the cause of death. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Nikolai Khokhlov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%5FKhokhlov\#Poisoning%5Fby%5Fthallium)”; Andy Wright, “[The Russian Spy](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nikolai-khokhlov-kgb-paranormal) [Who Convinced America to Take ESP Seriously,](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nikolai-khokhlov-kgb-paranormal)” Atlas Obscura, January 13, 2017; Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, [The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB](https://archive.org/details/swordshieldmitro0000andr%5Fq5i4/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/swordshieldmitro0000andr%5Fq5i4/page/n5/mode/2up) Basic Books, 1999; David Kurlander, “[Ending in a Fall: America’s Response to the Poisoning of Soviet Defector](https://cafe.com/article/ending-in-a-fall-americas-response-to-the-poisoning-of-soviet-defector-nikolai-khokhlov/) [Nikolai Khokhlov,](https://cafe.com/article/ending-in-a-fall-americas-response-to-the-poisoning-of-soviet-defector-nikolai-khokhlov/)” Café, September 3, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2984 ### Event 13889 (AB58454C) **Date:** 9/1957 **Locations:** Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil; Avenida Julio Mesqita **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Hélio Penteado and his foreman Zaca Sabiá are repairing a fence on Penteado’s farm in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, when Sabiá’s dog begins growling at something in the mint field. They hear a loud, irritating sound and see a disc about 50 feet wide landing in the field and supported by three legs with spheres on the end that pierce the ground. Penteado goes closer to investigate and sees two beings about 4 feet tall leave the UFO wearing green coveralls. They seem to float along the ground and take a vessel from under the craft. One of them is carrying something like a gun or flamethrower. They pass through a fence on the way to a river. After 10 minutes the beings return with the vessel apparently full of river water. The entity with the flamethrower shoots it at a jacaranda tree and a eucalyptus tree, damaging their trunks. They reenter the object via the dome, which takes off toward the city. Back at his barn, Penteado notices that all his metallic tools are stacked in a cone, the birds are dead, his monkey is agitated, and his watch has stopped working. The same day, people observe a UFO over a hospital on the Avenida Julio Mesqita, where the object dumps two drops of liquid metal that falls in the street. The UFO goes so low that it hits the corner of a parked truck. An analysis of the metal by an unnamed organization \(possibly the Brazilian Air Force\) shows that the metal is high in magnesium. Penteado later goes to the landing site and takes plaster casts of the footprints, which he sends to the Agronomy Institute of Campinas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Caso do disco proximo de Campinas,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20014%20-%201960.pdf)” Boletim SBEDV, no. 14 \(March 1, 1960\): 1–3; Brazil 35–37 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2986 ### Event 13890 (A9EBE742) **Date:** 9/1/1957 **Location:** LE MARS, IA **Description:** Flash / sky. 2 observer(s). Car lights and engine quit. No object seen. / r141+/ FSRv4#3p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FALLA, GEOFFREY: VEHICLE INTERFERENCE PROJECT. BUFORA Ltd. 1979. C.F. Lockwood & A.R. Rice editors. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5490 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "365", **HatchDesc:** "LE MARS,IA:FLASH/SKY:2 OBS:CAR LITES+ENGINE QUIT:no obj seen:/r141+/FSRv4#3p13", **LatLong:** "42.794446 -96.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:47:40 N 96:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.794446,-96.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 13891 (EACE009B) **Date:** 9/1/1957 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** CHITOSE AIR FORCE BASE, JAPAN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4928. Unidentified. 5 daylight photos / dark ovoid. Not Chiltose! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad (ed.): PROJECT BLUEBOOK; Ballentine Books 1976. 423pp. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5491 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHITOSE AFB,JAPAN:BBK#4928:UID:5 DAYLITE PHOTOS/DARK OVOID:not Chiltose!", **LatLong:** "42.888891 141.561118", **LatLongDMS:** "42:53:20 N 141:33:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.888891,141.561118)", **State/Prov:** "HKD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13892 (5B703894) **Date:** 9/1/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** OFF PORTHCAWL, WALES **Description:** 3 cops. Large red saucer rises / Bristol channel. Going quickly west. / r141#4p63. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5492 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off PORTHCAWL,WALES:3 COPS:LRG RED SCR RISES/BRISTOL CHANNEL:>>W:/r141#4p63", **LatLong:** "51.488891 -3.705556", **LatLongDMS:** "51:29:20 N 03:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.488891,-3.705556)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13893 (844E5128) **Date:** 9/2/1957 **Time:** 12:40:00.0 **Location:** 37.0531 -116.1025 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Galileo” Yield: 11KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_107 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0531 -116.1025", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:11 N 116:06:09 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0531,-116.1025)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Galileo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11" ### Event 13894 (771EBA79) **Date:** Early 9/1957 **Location:** Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil **Description:** Several people fishing near Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, watch a disc dive down from the sky and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. One of the witnesses writes an anonymous letter and sends three pieces to O Globo, but no witnesses to the event have ever come forward. APRO representative [Olavo T.](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) [Fontes](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) examines the fragments, which are dull gray, irregular, and strongly oxidized. One sample is shot through with microscopic cracks and shows a fissure running through two-thirds of its length. All three have whitish smears of a powdery substance like cinders. Fontes takes one sample to the Mineral Production Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture for analysis, which shows it to be “magnesium of a high degree of purity.” Chemist Luisa Maria A. Barbosa, who conducts a spectrographic analysis, says that not even trace elements are apparent. Fontes also has it analyzed by chemist Elson Teixeira and the Brazilian Army. The Laboratory of Crystallography conducts some X-ray diffraction work. All conclude that the material is pure magnesium, while one gives it a density of 1.866 \(normal magnesium is 1.741\). APRO sends a second fragment to the US Air Force, which accidentally destroys it. The third sample is sent to the Colorado Project in February 1968. [Roy Craig](https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/ufo-investigator-isu-alumnus-dead/article%5Fd3e1f4e4-28e6-5600-bff7-846c287c3b6b.html) runs tests on it at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the IRS in Washington and Dow Chemical’s Metallurgical Laboratory. Both determine that the level of purity is not as high as was determined in 1957 \(although this is now seen as a major misrepresentation of the actual results\). APRO does two further tests with University of Arizona metallurgical engineer Walter A. Walker and Robert W. Johnson of the Materials Research Corporation at Orangeburg, New Jersey. Walker and Johnson both find that the sample “had undergone a directional crystal growth type of manufacture.” Walker concludes that the material was likely exposed to the earth’s atmosphere at elevated temperatures. Researchers [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) and [Michael Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) examine Roy Craig’s [archived original](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) [notes](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) from the Colorado Project and find that the team had covered up the fact that an abnormal concentration of magnesium isotope Mg-26 had indeed been found and knowingly misrepresented the sample to APRO as “essentially the same as terrestrial magnesium,” blaming them for cherry-picking the Brazilian lab results. [Peter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) [A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) acquires the remnant of the samples from APRO and performs further analysis on two of them in 1997. In 2018, Michael Swords and [Robert Powell](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/) borrow one Ubatuba sample from Sturrock and arrange for further tests at an accredited lab, finding variations well outside the normal range for magnesium, strontium, copper, and barium. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Ubatuba Incident](http://www.nicap.org/5709XXubatuba%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Physical Evidence,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1960, pp. 1, 3; Olavo T. Fontes, “[A Report on the Investigation of Magnesium Samples from a UFO Explosion over the Sea in](http://www.nicap.org/reports/ubatubatd.htm) [the Ubatuba Region of Brazil,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/ubatubatd.htm)” 1962; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 104–145](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n101/mode/2up); Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 212–216; Condon, [pp. 94–97](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/94/mode/2up), [257–260](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/256/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Analysis of Alleged Fragments from an Exploding UFO near Ubatuba, Brazil: An Introduction,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 1–5; Walter W. Walker and Robert W. Johnson, “Further Studies on the Ubatuba UFO Magnesium Samples,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 6–25; Walter W. Walker, “Scientific Studies of the Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments: A 1992 Perspective,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 26–37; Peter A. Sturrock, “Letter: Ubatuba,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 19; Paul R. Hill, Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis, Hampton Roads, 1995, pp. 226–234; Peter A. Sturrock, “[Composition](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/15/jse%5F15%5F1%5Fsturrock.pdf) [Analysis of the Brazil Magnesium,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/15/jse%5F15%5F1%5Fsturrock.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 15, no. 1 \(2001\): 69–95; Pierre Kaufmann and Peter A. Sturrock, “[On Events Possibly Related to the ‘Brazil Magnesium,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/18/jse%5F18%5F2%5Fkaufmann.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 18, no. 2 \(2004\): 283–291; Clark III 1143–1155; Brazil 510–517; Robert M. Powell, Michael D. Swords, Mark Rodeghier, and Phyllis Budinger, “[Isotope Ratios and Chemical Analysis of the 1957 Brazilian Ubatuba](https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/2415) [Fragment,](https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/2415)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 36, no. 1 \(Spring 2022\): 39–48 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2985 ### Event 13895 (08C314C6) **Date:** 9/2/1957 **Location:** Nevada Test Site **Description:** After the Plumbbob Galileo nuclear shot at the Nevada Test Site, Army troops are tested to determine their psychological reactions to witnessing the nuclear detonation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Desert Rock exercises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2987 ### Event 13896 (97C67605) **Date:** 9/3/1957 **Location:** ARUSSI PROV, ETHIOPIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Silent ovoid hovers / nose down. 2 contrails. Going quickly [to] going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5493 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ethiopia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ARUSSI prov,ETHIOPIA:MANY OBS:SLNT OVOID HVRS/NOSE DOWN:2 CONTRAILS:>>>N", **LatLong:** "7.500000 39.500002", **LatLongDMS:** "07:30:00 N 39:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/7.500000,39.500002)", **State/Prov:** "ARS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13897 (8062D8C3) **Date:** 9/4/1957 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** Cleric and 2. Moon-size disk going east. Stops. Quickly going up [to] as USAF jets near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 467) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5494 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX CITY,IA:CLERIC+2:MOONSIZE DISK >E:STOPS:↑↑ as USAF jets near:", **LatLong:** "42.533335 -96.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:32:00 N 96:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.533335,-96.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13898 (41C2C1BE) **Date:** 9/4/1957 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** CORUCHE, PORT **Description:** 4 PAF jets buzzed / objects which exit large saucer. / r141#4+/ r120p147. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5495 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "CORUCHE,PORT:4 PAF JETS BUZZED/OBJS WHICH EXIT LRG SCR:/r141#4+/r120p147", **LatLong:** "38.966669 -8.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:58:00 N 08:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.966669,-8.566667)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 13899 (915AF545) **Date:** 9/4/1957 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** COIMBRA, PORT **Description:** Weathermen. Extraordinary changes / earth magnetic field. / r120p148. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5496 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "COIMBRA,PORT:WEATHERMEN:EXTRAORDINARY CHANGES/EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD:/r120p148", **LatLong:** "40.233335 -8.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:00 N 08:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.233335,-8.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Beira littoral", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13900 (D48404E7) **Date:** 9/4/1957 **Location:** Unknown City, Portugal **Description:** Portuguese Air Force Jets Have 40-Minute Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [570904](http://www.nicap.org/570904portugal%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2084 ### Event 13901 (FA2A54EC) **Date:** 9/4/1957 **Locations:** Ota, Portugal; Granada, Spain; Portalegre, Portugal **Description:** Four Portuguese jet fighter-bombers under the command of Capt. [José Lemos Ferreira](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FLemos%5FFerreira) are flying at night at 24,600 feet between Ota, Portugal, and Granada, Spain. Near Granada they turn to head to Portalegre, Portugal. At this point, Ferreira notices a UFO like a bright star with a scintillating, colored nucleus that changes from deep green to blue. The object suddenly grows to 5 or 6 times its original size, then shrinks to a barely visible yellow point. These changes repeat several times, possibly due to changes in position. The UFO maintains its position 90° to the left of the squadron. Suddenly a small circle of yellow light emerges from the object and three smaller yellow objects appear, maneuver, then disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Portuguese Air Force Jets Have 40-Min. Encounter /](http://www.nicap.org/570904portugal%5Fdir.htm) [E-M](http://www.nicap.org/570904portugal%5Fdir.htm)”; Marciano Alves, “[Air Force Pilots Spend 40 Minutes with Saucers,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 \(May/June 1958\): 2–3; Good Above, [pp. 147–148](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up); Kean, [p. 50](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2988 ### Event 13902 (3A3F671A) **Date:** 9/4/1957 **Description:** At 8:06 p.m. four Portuguese F-84 fighter jets from Ota AFB on a night training flight at 25,000 feet altitude between Cordoba and Coruche, Portugal sighted a large disc-shaped object. It was changing color from green to yellow to blue. It also appeared to change size. Four small circles of light detached from a larger light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, July 1958; Brinsley LePoer Trench, Flying Saucer Story, p. 37; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29; Flying Saucers magazine, September 1962, p. 30; UNICAT, case # 791 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5626 ### Event 13903 (9BD7C44D) **Date:** 9/5/1957 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** WEST / DAYTON, OH **Description:** Shiny ball-disk going quickly northeast. Stops. Maneuvers. Going quickly south. Clearly seen. / Ray Palmer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 467) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5497 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "W/DAYTON,OH:SHINY BALL-DISK >>NE:STOPS:MNVRS:>>S:clearly seen:/Ray Palmer", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -84.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 84:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-84.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13904 (EC7EEBC8) **Date:** 9/6/1957 **Time:** 12:45:00.0 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Wheeler” Yield: .197KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_108 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Wheeler", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".197" ### Event 13905 (E7FD96EE) **Date:** 9/6/1957 **Time:** 20:05:00.6 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Coulomb-B” Yield: .3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_109 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Coulomb-B", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".3" ### Event 13906 (6C82CAFC) **Date:** 9/7/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** UBATUBA, BRZ **Description:** Saucer maneuvers and explodes. Mg fragments with 500ppm strontium. / r111p104+/ r74p43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 723) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5498 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "UBATUBA,BRZ:SCR MNVRs+EXPLODES:Mg FRAGs W/500ppm STRONTIUM:/r111p104+/r74p43", **LatLong:** "-23.433334 -45.066669", **LatLongDMS:** "23:26:00 S 45:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.433334,-45.066669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13907 (F83ED890) **Date:** 9/7/1957 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** FLATONIA, TX **Description:** Huge fireball follows car 22 km. Just off US90+1km behind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5499 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "FLATONIA,TX:HUGE FBL FOLOS CAR 22 km:JUST OFF US90+1km BEHIND:", **LatLong:** "29.688890 -97.111116", **LatLongDMS:** "29:41:20 N 97:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.688890,-97.111116)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13908 (1B63CF46) **Date:** 9/7/1957 **Time:** 08:00:01.0 **Location:** 70.72333 54.6963 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 32KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1074 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "70.72333 54.6963", **LatLongDMS:** "70:43:24 N 54:41:47 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.72333,54.6963)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "KHRISTOFOROV", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "32" ### Event 13909 (540B23DF) **Date:** 9/8/1957 **Time:** 12:59:59.8 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Laplace” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_110 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.23", **NukeName:** "Laplace", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 13910 (907A6B4B) **Date:** 9/9/1957 **Location:** POUGHKEEPSIE, NY **Description:** 2 observer(s). Shiny objects faster / jets. Drop angel hair? none recovered. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5500 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "POUGHKEEPSIE,NY:2 OBS:SHINY OBJS FASTER/JETS:DROP ANGEL HAIR? NONE RECOVERED", **LatLong:** "41.700002 -73.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:42:00 N 73:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.700002,-73.933337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13911 (D777007A) **Date:** 9/10/1957 **Location:** Ubatuba, Brazil **Description:** Approximate date. Anonymous witnesses saw a disk dive down and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. Some samples were gathered, sent to a Brazilian newsman, analyzed by friends of Dr. Fontes, of Rio, and were found to consist of surprisingly pure magnesium. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor.l 90; 110 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_401 ### Event 13912 (79757EF5) **Date:** 9/11/1957 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** AUCKLAND, NZ **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. 60' domed saucer emits yellow rays. Ball-antennas / bottom. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CATHIE, Bruce: HARMONIC 33. A. & A. Reed, Wellington, NZ (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5501 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "AUCKLAND,NZ:1/BINOCS:60'DOMED SCR EMITS YLW RAYS:BALL-ANTENNAS/BOTTOM:>>SW:", **LatLong:** "-36.900002 174.700008", **LatLongDMS:** "36:54:00 S 174:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.900002,174.700008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13913 (E7F330D9) **Date:** 9/12/1957 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** LEAD, SD **Description:** 5+observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape (line / 6 night lights) going south. Small lights around main lights. Ground Observer Corps (GOC) report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 420) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5502 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1560", **HatchDesc:** "LEAD,SD:5+OBS:CGR (LINE/6 NLTS) >S:SML LITES AROUND MAIN LITES:GOC RPT", **LatLong:** "44.350002 -103.761116", **LatLongDMS:** "44:21:00 N 103:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.350002,-103.761116)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 13914 (C3D01614) **Date:** 9/12/1957 **Location:** Tulsa, OK **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) APS-64 Tracks Object At 24,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570912](http://www.nicap.org/570912tulsa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2085 ### Event 13915 (ADF04E7A) **Date:** 9/12/1957 **Locations:** Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Canada; United States; Continental US **Description:** NORAD’s command headquarters is established at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Canada and the United States agree that the NORAD commander will always be a US officer, with a Canadian vice commander, and Canada “agreed the command’s primary purpose would be…early warning and defense for SAC’s retaliatory forces.” Every continental US military radar UFO case in the Blue Book files from now on is a NORAD case because the subordinate USAF Air Defense Command belongs to NORAD. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 801; Wikipedia, “[North American Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FAerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2989 ### Event 13916 (BC33C7B1) **Date:** 9/13/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 5.9KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1075 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "5.9" ### Event 13917 (BA31C108) **Date:** 9/14/1957 **Location:** Ubatuba, Brazil **Description:** UFO explodes and leaves fragments (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [570914](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ubatubadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2086 ### Event 13918 (B70FC2F0) **Date:** 9/14/1957 **Time:** 16:44:59.8 **Location:** 37.0336 -116.0314 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Fizeau” Yield: 11KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_111 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0336 -116.0314", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:01 N 116:01:53 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0336,-116.0314)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Fizeau", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11" ### Event 13919 (ED03BED9) **Date:** 9/14/1957 **Time:** 05:30:00.0 **Location:** -30.0000 132.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Antler” Yield: 1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1759 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-30.0000 132.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 132:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.0000,132.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Antler", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "1" ### Event 13920 (288FE43D) **Date:** 9/15/1957? **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** QUILLAN, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 silent orange cigars hover / vineyard 200M away. / r30p234+/ Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v22#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5503 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "QUILLAN,FR:SVRL OBS:2 SLNT ORG CGRs HVR/VINYARD 200M AWAY:/r30p234+/FSR v22#2", **LatLong:** "42.883335 2.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:53:00 N 02:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.883335,2.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Aude", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13921 (6FB5CAA9) **Date:** 9/16/1957 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** GRENOBLE, FR **Description:** Engineers and more. 5 silent saucers hover. 1 dives going down. 2 going quickly east. 2 go quickly going up. / MJ#233+/ r3p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5504 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "GRENOBLE,FR:ENGINEERS+:5 SLNT SCRS HVR:1 DIVES↓:2>>E:2 GO↑↑:/MJ#233+/r3p24", **LatLong:** "45.233335 5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:14:00 N 05:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.233335,5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Isère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13922 (6D6B3940) **Date:** 9/16/1957 **Time:** 930 **Location:** Smithfield, Australia **Description:** Les McDonald, 17, and Gladys Smith, 14, saw a red light changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area about 100 m diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and "felt a warm glow." They had no fear, but were "merely cognizant of things as they were without being able to react." This sensation lasted two min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** UFO Bulletin Dec., 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_402 ### Event 13923 (CD97DEB1) **Date:** 9/16/1957 **Time:** 12:49:59.9 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Newton” Yield: 12KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_112 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Newton", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "12" ### Event 13924 (033BAA5E) **Date:** 9/16/1957 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** ATIC briefs [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) now chairman of the Defense Science Board, on Project Blue Book, presumably because he wants to find out how the Air Force is implementing the recommendations of the 1953 Robertson Panel. The briefing book \(including Special Report no. 14 as well as reports on [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and the UFO movie\) is delivered by the Pentagon’s Maj. James F. Byrne. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 265–266 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2990 ### Event 13925 (F26B805F) **Date:** 9/16/1957 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. in Smithfield, Queensland, Australia Les McDonald, age 17, and Gladys Smith, age 14, saw a red light changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area about 100 meters in diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and "felt a warm glow." They had no fear, but were "merely cognizant of things as they were without [the ability] to react." This sensation lasted two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258 (case 402), citing UFO Bulletin, December 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6009 ### Event 13926 (557BB9B0) **Date:** 9/17/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** FORT DEVENS, MASS **Description:** 8 orange saucers going [to] over base. One oscillate going up and down. Going quickly [to] all directions. / r141+/ r78p179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5505 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "91", **HatchDesc:** "FORT DEVENS,MASS:8 ORG SCRS >OVR BASE:ONE OSCL ↑+↓:>> ALL DIRS:/r141+/r78p179", **LatLong:** "42.550002 -71.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:00 N 71:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.550002,-71.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13927 (0E316BD2) **Date:** 9/17/1957 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** NORTH LONDON, ENGL **Description:** Many observer(s). Blue-green cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly [to] fast. Descriptions match. Meteor? / MJ#233. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5506 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "N.LONDON,ENGL:MANY OBS:BLU-GRN CGR >>FAST:DESCRIPTs MATCH:METEOR?:/MJ#233", **LatLong:** "51.533336 -0.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:32:00 N 00:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.533336,-0.066667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 13928 (FEEEBA8F) **Date:** 9/17/1957 **Location:** Devens, MA **Description:** Army report on eight round, orange UFOs which flew over base, one oscillating up and down. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2087 ### Event 13929 (DF64D978) **Date:** 9/18/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** IPPLEPEN, ENGL **Description:** Former aircraft mechanic. 30M diameter silver ovoid going quickly northeast very fast / 1500M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 425) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5507 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "IPPLEPEN,ENGL:FORMER ACFT MECHANIC:30M diam SLVR OVOID >>NE VFAST/1500M alt:", **LatLong:** "50.483336 -3.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:29:00 N 03:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.483336,-3.633334)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13930 (0A513BCA) **Date:** 9/18/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** IPPLEPEN, DEVON **Description:** Ex RAF mechanic. 90' ovoid glitters / sunlight. Goes fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5508 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "IPPLEPEN,DEVON:EX RAF MECHANIC:90'OVOID GLITTERS/SUNLITE:GOES FAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "50.483336 -3.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:29:00 N 03:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.483336,-3.616667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13931 (EB4A6F50) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Location:** NORTH / ST. PETERSBURG, FL **Description:** Newsmen? Large metallic ovoid hovers / airport. Away extremely fast. / r46p124. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 478) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5509 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "N/ST.PETERSBURG,FL:NEWSMEN?:LRG MTLC OVOID HVRS/AIRPORT:AWAY XFAST:/r46p124", **LatLong:** "27.911112 -82.688893", **LatLongDMS:** "27:54:40 N 82:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.911112,-82.688893)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13932 (AA94555E) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Time:** ~01:00 **Location:** DALLAS-FT WORTH, TX **Description:** Barn-size UFO plays cat & mouse / Air Force plane. 3 observer(s). / r33p261. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CONDON, Dr. Edward: SCIENTIFIC STUDY of UFO..etc; Bantam 1969. 965pp. (Index 136) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5510 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS-FT WORTH,TX:BARN-SIZE UFO PLAYS CAT&MOUSE/AF PLANE:3 OBS:/r33p261", **LatLong:** "32.750002 -97.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:45:00 N 97:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.750002,-97.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13933 (E727FA55) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** POINT PLEASANT, NJ **Description:** Boomerang going down. Grass flat. Voice = "say nothing". Going quickly south. / r141#4p78. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 403) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5511 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "POINT PLEASANT,NJ:BOOMERANG ↓:GRASS FLAT:VOICE="say nothing":>>S:/r141#4p78", **LatLong:** "40.083335 -74.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:05:00 N 74:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.083335,-74.066670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13934 (181C4207) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Location:** Point Pleasant, NJ **Description:** Boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house land. Grass flattened (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2088 ### Event 13935 (55993069) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Time:** 1840 **Location:** Point Pleasant, New Jersey **Description:** A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported to have landed. Grass flattened. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_403 ### Event 13936 (637655AC) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Time:** 16:59:59.5 **Location:** 37.1958 -116.2031 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Rainier” Yield: 1.7KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_113 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1958 -116.2031", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:45 N 116:12:11 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1958,-116.2031)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.24", **NukeName:** "Rainier", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "1.7" ### Event 13937 (875016C6) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Location:** Nevada Test Site **Description:** The Plumbbob Rainier nuclear shot at the Nevada Test Site is the first fully contained underground nuclear test, meaning that no fission products are vented into the atmosphere. This test of 1.7 kilotons can be detected around the world by seismologists using ordinary seismic instruments. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob) [Plumbbob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2991 ### Event 13938 (8F8680E9) **Date:** 9/19/1957 **Description:** A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported to have landed in Point Pleasant, New Jersey at 6:40 p.m. According to eyewitness accounts the grass had been flattened at the landing site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6082 ### Event 13939 (47FAB8C6) **Date:** 9/20/1957 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** KADENA AIR FORCE BASE, OKINAWA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #4959. 3 military. Silent glowing ovoid. 4 passes north going quickly south. / r141#4p79. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5512 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "KADENA AFB,OKINAWA:BBK#4959:3 MIL:SLNT GLOWING OVOID:4 PASSES N>>S:/r141#4p79", **LatLong:** "26.350001 127.716673", **LatLongDMS:** "26:21:00 N 127:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.350001,127.716673)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13940 (2D011889) **Date:** 9/20/1957 **Location:** Kadena AFB, Okinawa **Description:** Object like a coke bottle w/o the neck, translucent and fluorescent (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4959) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2089 ### Event 13941 (219C6538) **Date:** 9/20/1957 **Location:** Montauk, NY **Description:** High speed 2,300 mph radar target at 50,000 ft altitude tracked/ multiple radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [570920](http://www.nicap.org/570920montauk%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2090 ### Event 13942 (73DB1D1E) **Date:** 9/20/1957 **Time:** 8 PM **Location:** Kadena AFB, Okinawa **Description:** Witnesses: S/Sgt. H.T. O'Connor, S/Sgt. H.D. Bridgeman. One object, shaped like a coke bottle without the neck, translucent and fluorescent. Made four 5-10 second passes from north to south, with 4-5 minutes between passes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_415 ### Event 13943 (A07E3DA4) **Date:** 9/20/1957 **Locations:** Montauk, New York; Omaha, Nebraska; Kinross AFB [now Chippewa County International Airport] south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Truax AFB [now Truax Field Air National Guard Base] northeast of Madison, Wisconsin; Ontario, Michigan; Illinois; Iowa; Russia **Description:** 3:05 p.m. A national defense alert is called when the first of two or three supersonic objects, varying in speed for the next 30 minutes from 800 to 12,000 mph and varying in altitude from 50,000 to 135,000 feet, is picked up over the Atlantic by NORAD radar at Montauk, New York. A second \(or same\) UFO heads straight toward SAC headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, in what is perceived as a threat trajectory potentially aiming for a nuclear knockout kill of the entire US nuclear force. At 3:10 p.m., interception is attempted by two F-102 jets from Kinross AFB \[now Chippewa County International Airport\] south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and later from Truax AFB \[now Truax Field Air National Guard Base\] northeast of Madison, Wisconsin. At 3:24 p.m., another UFO joins the first on a similar trajectory 150 miles behind. It passes over Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. The UFO sends radio replies to IFF interrogation signals, on different frequencies, confirming its location on the radar plots and making it impossible to explain as a malfunction or interference. Interception is impossible at these speeds and altitudes. SAC goes on high alert and apparently launches nuclear bombers toward Russia, but the alert is called off when the UFOs disappear. NORAD triggers a White House alert. High-level meetings of CIA and USAF intelligence, and the Intelligence Advisory Committee meet in executive session. The CIA Director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, [Herbert Scoville Jr.](http://scoville.org/herbert-scoville-jr/biography/)[,](http://scoville.org/herbert-scoville-jr/biography/) suggests that the object might be a maneuverable Soviet cruise missile, but that is not yet in the Soviet inventory. President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is briefed multiple times. One year later, NORAD still cannot identify any malfunction that could possibly make the radar targets agree with the IFF signals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Multiple Radars Track 4,500 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/570920montauk%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 802–804, 814– 824; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 249–250; Swords 266–267 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2992 ### Event 13944 (DDB2FF30) **Date:** 9/20/1957 **Description:** At 8:05 in the evening Sergeants H. T. O'Connor and H. D. Bridgeman at Kadena AFB on Okinawa observed an object shaped like a coke bottle without the neck. It was described as translucent and fluorescent. It made four 5-10 second passes over the airbase from north to south, with 4-5 minutes between passes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 4959; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6124 ### Event 13945 (C9116FF3) **Date:** 9/21/1957 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** FT. AMADOR, PANAMA **Description:** 1 military observer(s). Luminous white fuselage-cylinder/cigar-shape going southeast over canal. Suddenly quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 481) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5513 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Panama", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.AMADOR,PANAMA:1 MIL.OBS:LUMN.WHT FSLG-CGR >SE ovr CANAL:SUDDENLY ↑↑:", **LatLong:** "8.933334 -79.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "08:56:00 N 79:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.933334,-79.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Canal Zone", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13946 (C1AA85C4) **Date:** 9/22/1957 **Location:** BRICEVILLE, TN **Description:** Several and Air Force RADAR. Huge saucer. USAF info officer blabs to local papers! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5514 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "BRICEVILLE,TN:SVRL+AF RDR:HUGE SCR:USAF INFO OFFICER BLABS TO LOCAL PAPERS!", **LatLong:** "36.177780 -84.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:10:40 N 84:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.177780,-84.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13947 (4E988A51) **Date:** 9/22/1957 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** JULLAND, DK **Description:** Location approximate. Saucer circles Army group / 1200M altitude. Shoots going quickly [to] horizon. / r141#4p80. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5515 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "JULLAND,DK:loc.aprx:SCR CCLS ARMY GROUP/1200M alt:SHOOTS>>HRZN:/r141#4p80", **LatLong:** "56.333336 9.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "56:20:00 N 09:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.333336,9.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13948 (C460A50C) **Date:** 9/22/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** EVILLERS, FR **Description:** Cops / car. Huge luminous/glowing ball going southeast. Abrupt turn and 90° straight up. / LDLN#106. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 425) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5516 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "EVILLERS,FR:COPS/CAR:HUGE LUMN BALL>SE:ABRUPT TURN+90°STRAIGHT UP:/LDLN#106", **LatLong:** "46.966669 6.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:58:00 N 06:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.966669,6.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13949 (9CE5D089) **Date:** 9/22/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** D41 NORTHEAST / AUBONNE, FR **Description:** 2 cops / car. Moon-size fireball going quickly southeast / 200kph. Makes 90° turn vertical! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5517 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "D41 NE/AUBONNE,FR:2 COPS/CAR:MOON-SIZE FBL >>SE/200kph:MAKES 90°TURN VERTICAL!", **LatLong:** "47.050002 6.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "47:03:00 N 06:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.050002,6.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13950 (19EAB488) **Date:** 9/23/1957 **Time:** 12:29:59.8 **Location:** 37.1383 -116.1175 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Whitney” Yield: 19KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_114 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1383 -116.1175", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:18 N 116:07:03 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1383,-116.1175)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Whitney", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "19" ### Event 13951 (E86A7035) **Date:** 9/24/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** US51 NORTH / MENDOTA, IL **Description:** Long gold cylinder/cigar-shape drops. Levels off. Floats going north. More join! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 426) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5518 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "US51 N/MENDOTA,IL:LONG GOLD CGR DROPS:LEVELS OFF:FLOATS >N:MORE JOIN!", **LatLong:** "41.583335 -89.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:00 N 89:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.583335,-89.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13952 (05EB0D00) **Date:** 9/24/1957 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1600KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1076 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1600" ### Event 13953 (E5F4542C) **Date:** 9/25/1957 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** GREENLAND **Description:** 2 observer(s) wakened / intense red glow. Silent object glides west going east. Islands lit / glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5519 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GREENLAND:2 OBS WAKENED/INTENSE RED GLOW:SLNT OBJ GLIDES W>E:ISLANDS LIT/GLOW", **LatLong:** "67.516670 -52.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "67:31:00 N 52:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/67.516670,-52.000002)", **State/Prov:** "KAN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13954 (BBCCDEE5) **Date:** 9/25/1957 **Time:** 00:30:00.0 **Location:** -30.0000 132.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Antler” Yield: 6KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1760 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-30.0000 132.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 132:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.0000,132.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Antler", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "6" ### Event 13955 (5B75114D) **Date:** 9/25/1957 **Description:** Shortly after 11:00 p.m. a white luminous sphere landed in a field 700 yards away from the house of Mr. & Mrs. Aellig in Alliance, Ohio. Eleven or twelve men, all seven feet tall, walked through the cornfield, wearing gray diver suits. One walked between the house and their garage. The encounter lasted 18 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0426 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6311 ### Event 13956 (B71CDFCF) **Date:** 9/26/1957 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** Confidential report, from U.S. Embassy officer and wife, of bright elliptical UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2091 ### Event 13957 (705E9523) **Date:** 9/26/1957 **Time:** sunset **Location:** Yellow Falls, Texas **Description:** Three hundred people were said to have seen three elongated objects with a series of portholes, maneuvering at ground level in an area with many empty oil wells. One of these objects, said to be 150 m long and 20 m high, pearl-colored, glistening under the setting sun and showing a series of circles painted on its surface, landed for 20 min. An occupant emerged, observed the abandoned derricks and took off again. Observed through binoculars, he appeared as a "monster," 1 m tall, moving with strange jumps. He picked up something from the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Perego ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_404 ### Event 13958 (874BBE8F) **Date:** 9/26/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 13KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1077 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "13" ### Event 13959 (6AE348C7) **Date:** 9/27/1957 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** GLENDALE, CA **Description:** Round object with dark center seen tailing two jets going over Tujunga AR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5520 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "GLENDALE,CA:ROUND OBJ W/DARK CENTER SEEN TAILING TWO JETS GOING OVR TUJUNGA AR", **LatLong:** "34.166668 -118.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:10:00 N 118:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.166668,-118.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13960 (97459847) **Date:** 9/27/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SACRE COUR, PARIS, FR **Description:** US embassy Officer and 1. Bright orange ovoid seen / 20 minute(s). / confidential. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5521 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SACRE COUR,PARIS,FR:US EMBASSY OFFCR+1:BRITE ORG.OVOID SEEN/20min:/confidntl", **LatLong:** "48.872225 2.338889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:52:20 N 02:20:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.872225,2.338889)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13961 (8E1C69A5) **Date:** 9/28/1957 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** WEST / MORRIS, IL **Description:** Gold egg hovers. 2 jets arrive and dive at it. Flattens / disk and rises going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 428) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5522 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "W/MORRIS,IL:GOLD EGG HVRS:2 JETS ARRIVE+DIVE AT IT:FLATTENS/DISK+RISES>>NW", **LatLong:** "41.355558 -88.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:21:20 N 88:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.355558,-88.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13962 (796CACBC) **Date:** 9/28/1957 **Time:** 12:59:59.9 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Charleston” Yield: 12KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_115 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Charleston", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "12" ### Event 13963 (3858F652) **Date:** 9/29/1957 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** DERWOOD M-SITE, MD **Description:** Sentry. Humming! Green-white cylinder/cigar-shape hits treetops. / r35p61+/ r46+/ r8#405. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 707) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5523 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "143", **HatchDesc:** "DERWOOD M-SITE,MD:SENTRY:HUM!:GRN-WHT CGR HITS TREETOPS:/r35p61+/r46+/r8#405", **LatLong:** "39.116669 -77.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 77:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,-77.166670)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13964 (694DBFCA) **Date:** 9/29/1957 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** FLORIDA, SOUTH AFRICA **Description:** 2+observer(s). Star brightens. Changes color(s). Moves down-then up again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5524 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "FLORIDA,S.AFRICA:2+OBS:STAR BRIGHTENS:CHANGES CLRS:MOVES DOWN-THEN UP AGAIN:", **LatLong:** "-26.183335 27.933335", **LatLongDMS:** "26:11:00 S 27:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.183335,27.933335)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13965 (166E0965) **Date:** 9/29/1957 **Time:** 0500 **Location:** Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland **Description:** Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile men. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Keyhoe S ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_405 ### Event 13966 (2FEC2AC1) **Date:** 9/29/1957 **Locations:** Chelyabinsk-40; Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia **Description:** 4:20 p.m. A nuclear waste storage tank explodes spontaneously at the Mayak plutonium production site \(Chelyabinsk-40\) for nuclear weapons and fuel reprocessing at Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It launches a kilometer-tall pillar of dust and smoke into the sky. Gray radioactive ash and debris settles over the industrial zone. There are no immediate fatalities, though up to 200+ additional cancer deaths perhaps ensue from the radioactive contamination of some 20,000 square miles; 270,000 people are exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over 30 small communities are removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Kyshtym disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym%5Fdisaster)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2993 ### Event 13967 (BCD54CDE) **Date:** 9/29/1957 **Description:** Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland. 5:00 a.m. Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile men. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6418 ### Event 13968 (3C3B23D1) **Date:** 10/1957 **Location:** NIQUELANDIA, BRZ **Description:** Saucer / ground. Blinding light. Goes dark and flies when neared. / r141#5p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 406) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5525 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "653", **HatchDesc:** "NIQUELANDIA,BRZ:SCR/GND:BLINDING LITE:GOES DARK+FLIES WHEN NEARED:/r141#5p12", **LatLong:** "-14.450001 -48.450002", **LatLongDMS:** "14:27:00 S 48:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-14.450001,-48.450002)", **State/Prov:** "GOI", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13969 (1E332281) **Date:** 10/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** CROISSY-BEAUBOURG, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Vertical cylinder/cigar-shape hovers over contrail. Tilts horizontal. Going quickly [to] going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5526 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "CROISSY-BEAUBOURG,FR:MANY OBS:VERTICAL CGR HVRS OVR CONTRAIL:TILTS HZNTL:>>>E", **LatLong:** "48.333336 2.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:20:00 N 02:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.333336,2.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13970 (56F7A879) **Date:** 10/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOUTH MICHELE EXTRA, VERONA, ITL **Description:** Priest. 10M cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] overhead / 20M altitude. Pseudo-human/entity in portholes! Telepathy? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5527 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "S.MICHELE EXTRA,VERONA,ITL:PRIEST:10M CGR >OVHD/20M alt:PSH in PORTHOLES!:TLP?", **LatLong:** "45.450002 11.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:27:00 N 11:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.450002,11.016667)", **State/Prov:** "VR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 13971 (AFA9C48B) **Date:** 10/1957 **Location:** Niquelandia, Brazil **Description:** At the Gabiroba farm, owners A. Santinoni and S. de Oliveira were blinded by beam from a round object at ground level. The light was green and yellow. When they came near, all went dark and the object vanished. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Round-up 205 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_406 ### Event 13972 (C07ECFC1) **Date:** 10/1957 **Description:** [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) privately publishes Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue that summarizes his early years as a UFO investigator and as director of Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, [Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm) The Author, 1957 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2994 ### Event 13973 (82049F70) **Date:** 10/1957 **Location:** Allen Park, Michigan **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Mrs. James Masterson and her sister Bernice Childers while driving see a reddish-orange disc, 30 feet in diameter, just above the treetops in Allen Park, Michigan. They chase it for a block or two before it streaks off. One of the women sees two figures wearing white Navy uniforms in a window on the lower section. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1957](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf) p. 17; Clark III 268 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2995 ### Event 13974 (63765279) **Date:** 10/1/1957 **Location:** SANTA BARBARA, CA **Description:** 3 observer(s). 30M crosses sky / 15 second(s). Air Force jet chases. RADAR. Away / 2900kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 502) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5528 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA BARBARA,CA:3 OBS:30M CROSSES SKY/15sec:AF JET CHASES:RDR:AWAY/2900kph", **LatLong:** "34.433335 -119.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:26:00 N 119:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.433335,-119.716672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13975 (171FB04F) **Date:** 10/1/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SHIPPINGPORT, PA **Description:** Several observer(s). 60M glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape going south. 180° turn over nuclear power plant. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 501) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5529 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "1228", **HatchDesc:** "SHIPPINGPORT,PA:SVRL OBS:60M GLO-CGR > S:180°TURN ovr NUCL.POWER PLANT:>N:", **LatLong:** "40.633335 -80.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:38:00 N 80:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.633335,-80.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13976 (F083230A) **Date:** 10/1/1957 **Location:** Shippingport, PA **Description:** UFO circled atomic plant (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [571001](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-shippingport.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2092 ### Event 13977 (CDE52203) **Date:** 10/3/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR LAS CRUCES, NM **Description:** 2 / car. 3 small ovoids going up / desert and vanish / flash in series. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5530 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1200", **HatchDesc:** "nr LAS CRUCES,NM:2/CAR:3 SML OVOIDS ↑/DESERT+VANISH/FLASH in series:SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "32.266668 -106.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:16:00 N 106:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.266668,-106.766672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13978 (E5783954) **Date:** 10/4/1957 **Description:** Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on 1/4/58 **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_574 **See also:** 11/12/1957 ### Event 13979 (27D003F6) **Date:** 10/4/1957 **Location:** USSR **Description:** The USSR launches the first artificial earth satellite, [Sputnik 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F1), which transmits radio pulses for 21 days. Some 4% of Americans claim to have seen Sputnik in orbit. However, what most are actually seeing is the 100- foot-long R-7 rocket core stage, outfitted with reflective panels that make it a first magnitude object, trailing 600 miles behind the 22-inch satellite until October 26 when the batteries run out. The satellite is barely visible at sixth magnitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Sputnik 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F1)”; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2996 ### Event 13980 (A48701A0) **Date:** 10/4/1957 **Locations:** Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan; Saguramachi Middle School **Description:** 10:00 a.m. A tadpole-like UFO is seen at Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Afterwards, material like spider web falls in great profusion around Saguramachi Middle School for about 2 hours. Chemical analysis reveals that it is organic, dissolvable in hydrochloric acid, and burns. The crystal structure is different from spider web. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Angel Hair,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1958\): 21; Robert N. Webster, “Things That Fall from UFO’s,” Fate 11, no. 10 \(October 1958\): 26; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 21; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 103; Clark III 124–125 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2997 ### Event 13981 (66E27DCD) **Date:** 10/4/1957 **Description:** Angel hair residue fell on Ichinoseki, Japan at 11:45 a.m. on this day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 101, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1958 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6555 ### Event 13982 (6F7BDDC1) **Date:** 10/5/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SOUTH FRANCISCO DE SALES, BRZ **Description:** A. V. boas and 1. Headlight searches down all over/all about farm and house. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5531 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "436", **HatchDesc:** "S.FRANCISCO DE SALES,BRZ:A.V.BOAS+1:HEADLITE SEARCHES DOWN ALLO FARM+HOUSE", **LatLong:** "-19.866668 -49.766669", **LatLongDMS:** "19:52:00 S 49:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-19.866668,-49.766669)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 13983 (EBAFDF36) **Date:** 10/5/1957 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Francisco de Sales, Brazil **Description:** Antonio Villas-Boas who could not sleep because of the heat, opened the shutters of his house and saw a silvery glow in the yard, but no flying object. The light moved and was seen going over the house. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_407 ### Event 13984 (9587BA11) **Date:** 10/5/1957 **Location:** São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil **Description:** 11:00 p.m. [Antonio Villas-Boas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio%5FVillas%5FBoas) gets up from bed on his family’s farm near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to open a window and notices a silvery reflection over the corral. After a short time, it moves towards the window. He and his brother watch as an object approaches and lights up the room. It disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1226 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2998 ### Event 13985 (40647A4D) **Date:** 10/5/1957 **Description:** Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. Antonio Villas-Boas could not sleep because of the heat, so he opened the shudders on his house and saw a silvery glow in the yard. The light began to move and left going over his house. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 259 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6573 ### Event 13986 (C3575B7E) **Date:** 10/6/1957 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** Engineer / (seen thru) binoculars and 7. Tiny orbs exit small ovoid. All silver. Going northwest. / r141#15p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 747) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5532 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:ENGINEER/binocs+7:TINY ORBS EXIT SML OVOID:ALL SLVR:>NW:/r141#15p4", **LatLong:** "32.183335 -110.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:11:00 N 110:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.183335,-110.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13987 (17A6C4F8) **Date:** 10/6/1957 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 2900KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1078 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "2900" ### Event 13988 (B4E58101) **Date:** 10/6/1957 **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** 4:15 p.m. Amateur astronomer [Earl Sydow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67773739/earl-charles-sydow) spots a bright object with the magnitude of the planet Venus through his telescope over Tucson, Arizona. Six other observers also watch the object, which measures approximately 3 minutes in diameter along its major axis and 1 minute along its minor axis. Smaller flat-white or silver-white objects, as many as 6–10, seem to emerge from the primary object as observations continue. The smaller objects are apparently short traces of light at some times and semi-wedge-shaped at other times. The smaller objects disappear from the field of the telescope until only the original object is visible, and it disappears as if moving directly away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2999 ### Event 13989 (2E708A46) **Date:** 10/7/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CAPE CANAVERAL, FL **Description:** 12 observer(s). White saucer back / 2nd night. Maneuvers. / r142#1p2+/ APRO Nov'57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5533 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "160", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CAPE CANAVERAL,FL:12 OBS:WHT SCR BACK/2nd NITE:MNVRS:/r142#1p2+/APRO Nov'57", **LatLong:** "28.416668 -80.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "28:25:00 N 80:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.416668,-80.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13990 (4E593D37) **Date:** 10/7/1957 **Location:** Cape Canaveral, FL **Description:** White oval object seen near Cape for second consecutive night. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2093 ### Event 13991 (BA1DF27D) **Date:** 10/7/1957 **Time:** 13:00:00.1 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Morgan” Yield: 8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_116 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Morgan", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "8" ### Event 13992 (ED598A0B) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Time:** 07:10 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / BOSTON, MA **Description:** PAA pilot. Fast silver night light / high altitude. Sputnik? / LDLN#334p34+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5534 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SW/BOSTON,MA:PAA PILOT:FAST SLVR NLT/HI ALT:SPUTNIK?:/LDLN#334p34+/r141", **LatLong:** "42.366669 -71.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:22:00 N 71:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.366669,-71.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 13993 (8BF8496B) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** (NIKE SITE), WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #5003. 2 military observer(s). 2 small disks / odd trajectory / 30 second(s). Turn going northwest. / r141#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5535 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "(NIKE SITE),WA:BBK#5003:2 MIL OBS:2 SML DISKS/ODD TRAJ/30sec:TURN >NW:/r141#5", **LatLong:** "48.166669 -123.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "48:10:00 N 123:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.166669,-123.000006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 13994 (F1E196E7) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** NEAR NAWACA, FIJI **Description:** White saucer going down / sea. Figure beams / light at 4 / boat. Quickly going up. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v3#6. / r242p125. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5536 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr NAWACA,FIJI:WHT SCR ↓/SEA:FIG.BEAMS/LITE at 4/BOAT:↑↑:/FSR v3#6:/r242p125", **LatLong:** "-18.666668 175.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "18:40:00 S 175:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-18.666668,175.000008)", **State/Prov:** "FIJ", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 13995 (014DD778) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Location:** Boston (near), MA **Description:** Pan American Airways pilot saw a brilliant object flying at high speed in daylight. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2094 ### Event 13996 (8C2109C1) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Location:** Bua Province, Fiji Islands **Description:** Natives in small boat saw UFO descend vertically, hover about 20 feet above sea. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2095 ### Event 13997 (9A4D3D01) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Location:** Seattle, WA **Description:** 2 flat, round, white objects fly in trail formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5003) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2096 ### Event 13998 (9DB5DF65) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Time:** 1500 **Location:** Nabouwalu, Fiji Islands **Description:** Two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in a motor boat saw a white object come down from the sky, thought it was a plane in trouble and went closer. They found the object hovering 7 m above the water, and a figure on board the craft aimed at them a beam so bright they "felt weak." The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took off vertically at high speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Round-up 202; Challenge 18 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_408 ### Event 13999 (79C09BD8) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Time:** 9:17 AM **Location:** Seattle, Washington **Description:** Witnesses: two U.S. Army sergeants. Two flat, round, white objects flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently banking during 25-30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_416 ### Event 14000 (738976E2) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Location:** Nabouwalu, Viti Levu, Fiji **Description:** Day. Four Fijians in a punt with an outboard motor off Nabouwalu, Viti Levu, Fiji, see a white, circular object, which is hovering about 20 feet above the ocean. They approach it. It appears to be revolving, and they can see the figure of a man standing on the outside. The figure shines a blinding light at their boat, which makes them feel dazed and weak. As they draw closer, the figure disappears and the object rises rapidly upward, disappearing straight up. R. O. Aveling, an official of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, sees a similar object at the same time but at a different location. It is hovering at about 5,000 feet and swinging in a balloon-like fashion. Its color varies from bright white to deep, flashing red. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Fiji Reports Sighting Object Like Texas Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100135693/)” Honolulu \(Hawaii\) Advertiser, November 5, 1957, p. 1; “[Strange Object Seen in South Pacific Skies,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95889466/)” Long Beach \(Calif.\) Press- Telegram, November 5, 1957, p. 3; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 81; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History, 1957, October 1st–November 2nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 19; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-08-fiji-nabouwalu.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-08-fiji-nabouwalu.htm) February 16, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3000 ### Event 14001 (AD25ECC4) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Description:** At three o'clock in the afternoon two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in the Fiji Islands by motor boat saw a white colored object descend from the sky. They thought it was a plane in trouble so they went closer. Instead of plane wreakage they found the object hovering seven meters above the water, and a figure onboard the craft then aimed a beam of energy at them that was very bright and made them feel weak. The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took off vertically at high speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 18; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 408 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6646 ### Event 14002 (742EBD92) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Description:** At 7:05 a.m. a bright silver object flew at great speed over the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The witness, Mr. J. Flynn, was flying in a Pan Am DC-7C airliner over Norfolk County at the time of his sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 967, citing New York World Telegram & Sun, October 8, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 42 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6647 ### Event 14003 (310B8481) **Date:** 10/8/1957 **Description:** At 9:17 a.m. two U.S. Army sergeants outside of Seattle, Washington observed two flat, round, white objects that flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently banking during the 25-30 seconds of their sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5003; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6648 ### Event 14004 (5A849C98) **Date:** 10/9/1957 **Time:** 07:30:00.0 **Location:** -30.0000 132.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Antler” Yield: 25KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1761 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-30.0000 132.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 S 132:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.0000,132.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Antler", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "25" ### Event 14005 (97814F3E) **Date:** 10/9/1957 **Locations:** Windscale Pile Number One; Sellafield; Cumbria, England; UK; Europe **Description:** Evening. Fire ignites Windscale Pile Number One, an air-cooled, graphite-moderated, uranium-fueled reactor used for plutonium and isotope production at the Windscale facility \[now Sellafield\] in Cumbria, England. It burns for three days, and there is a release of radioactive iodine that spreads across the UK, contaminating surrounding dairy farms, as well as the rest of Europe. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Windscale fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale%5Ffire)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3001 ### Event 14006 (67BCB233) **Date:** 10/9/1957 **Location:** Kelowna, British Columbia **Description:** Night. Radio station CKOV in Kelowna, British Columbia, after reports on Sputnik, rebroadcasts [Orson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson%5FWelles) [Welles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson%5FWelles)’s 1938 War of the Worlds radio drama. Some 60 phone calls come in from listeners who think that Russians have landed in North America. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Welles, ‘Moon,’ Terrify Town,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94391410/)” Windsor \(Ont.\) Star, October 10, 1957, p. 28 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3002 ### Event 14007 (34FE0431) **Date:** 10/9/1957 **Locations:** Naval Air Station South Weymouth; Shea Field Naval Aviation Historical Museum; Massachusetts **Description:** 7:24 p.m. The tower operator at Naval Air Station South Weymouth \[now the Shea Field Naval Aviation Historical Museum\], Massachusetts, sights a constant, conical, greenish-blue object with a phosphorescent glow through binoculars. In sight approximately 90 seconds, the observer sees no navigation lights. It is traveling faster than a jet plane on a track from northeast to south-southwest. The object comes out of the horizon and toward the end of its path makes three “crazy” gyrations then vanishes, possibly behind cloud cover. The object has no trail like a meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3003 ### Event 14008 (3954F49C) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Location:** MARIAVILLE, NY **Description:** Saucer lands 2X / 2 days. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) exit and enter woods. / r8#409+/ r141#5p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5537 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "390", **HatchDesc:** "MARIAVILLE,NY:SCR LANDS 2X/2 DAYS:2 OIDS EXIT+ENTER WOODS:/r8#409+/r141#5p7", **LatLong:** "42.816669 -74.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:49:00 N 74:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.816669,-74.116670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14009 (6B60296E) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Time:** ~04:00 **Location:** NEAR KEMMERER, WY **Description:** 4 / oil field. "Flaming whale" going south / 150M altitude. 3 minute(s) to horizon. Seen / Utah. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 524) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5538 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2120", **HatchDesc:** "nr KEMMERER,WY:4/OIL FIELD:"FLAMING WHALE" >S/150M alt:3min to HRZN:SEEN/UTAH", **LatLong:** "41.800002 -110.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "41:48:00 N 110:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.800002,-110.533339)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14010 (AA41D98B) **Date:** 10/10/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** WEST / DRAKE, MO **Description:** 3+/ US50. Silver cylinder/cigar-shape incredibly fast. Red flame / rear. 90° turn! Police report made. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 509) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5539 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "265", **HatchDesc:** "W/DRAKE,MO:3+/US50:SLVR CGR XXFAST:RED FLAME/REAR:90°TURN!:POLICE RPT MADE:", **LatLong:** "38.472224 -91.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:28:20 N 91:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.472224,-91.500004)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14011 (8CBDEEEF) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NEAR CERES, BRZ **Description:** 150M saucer / long antenna. 7 small humanoids (or Greys). Small saucer exits. / r113p369+/ r141#15p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5540 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "562", **HatchDesc:** "nr CERES,BRZ:150M SCR/LONG ANTENNA:7 OIDS:SML SCR EXITS:/r113p369+/r141#15p7", **LatLong:** "-15.333334 -49.622225", **LatLongDMS:** "15:20:00 S 49:37:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-15.333334,-49.622225)", **State/Prov:** "GOI", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14012 (F7568E68) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SILVER CITY, NM **Description:** Prospector. Distant brilliant red fireball hovers / 45m. High radiation/radioactivity / Geiger counter. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5541 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "1810", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER CITY,NM:PROSPECTOR:DISTANT BRILL.RED FBL HVRs/45m:HI RDA/GEIGER COUNTER", **LatLong:** "32.783335 -108.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 108:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,-108.216672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14013 (B48A23E8) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Location:** Schenectady, New York **Description:** Mrs. Edward Yeager who lived in a trailer on the Duanesburg-Church Road near Mariaville, saw a circular object go down behind the hill. Two min later it flew up again, very bright. The next day she was feeding animals that ran away as the same or a similar object came within 2 m of the ground. Two dark, little men came out of the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there two min, then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was said to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 58, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_409 ### Event 14014 (D66BF2F9) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Time:** night **Location:** Quebracoco, Brazil **Description:** Naval officer Miguel Espanhol and another man, traveling to Ceres, saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and came down to ground level as the truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped, over 150 m in diameter and 40 m deep, with a dome supporting a long "aerial" with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits, who looked down at them for about 3 min. The craft flew south and released a smaller disk, which flew north. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 36 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_410 ### Event 14015 (19E69F49) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Location:** 70.7030 54.60 **Description:** Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1079 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "70.7030 54.60", **LatLongDMS:** "70:42:11 N 54:36:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.7030,54.60)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.03", **NukeSource:** "KHRISTOFOROV", **NukeType:** "NWCS", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 14016 (C8C10DD6) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Locations:** Myton, Utah; NAS Alameda [now closed], California; Salt Lake City Airport **Description:** 4:00 a.m. A huge fireball plunges from the sky near Myton, Utah, just missing a US Navy DC-6 transport plane out of NAS Alameda \[now closed\], California, with 36 persons aboard. Pilot Lt. Cmdr. W. F. Norris reports the incident to Salt Lake City Airport. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Big Fireball Perils Plane,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94391673/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, October 10, 1957, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3004 ### Event 14017 (62D0F8DE) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Locations:** Ceres; Quebra Coco, Goiás, Brazil **Description:** The coffee truck driven by Miguel Espanhol Navarrete and his driver stalls northwest of Ceres near Quebra Coco, Goiás, Brazil, as a UFO lands nearby. They see an intense light as they begin a steep ascent, and then realize that the flying object appears to be more than 600 feet long. It lights up the entire area, even though it is gliding at a great height. The driver panics and tries to speed away, but the truck’s engine stalls as the object approaches and flies over the vehicle about 130 feet away. The object is about 3 feet in diameter by 40 inches high and is unevenly oval, with the upper section greater than the lower section. It looks like two superimposed plates separated by a strip 65 feet thick. When it is at an altitude of 20 feet, the UFO stops in the air and its light goes out. It lands, a door opens, and seven apparently human people come out dressed in luminous suits. Then the crew reenters the UFO and takes off, stopping at about 1,650 feet altitude. At that moment a smaller object detaches itself from the larger one and flies north. The larger object follows in a southeasterly direction. Navarrete is interviewed by Judge Gabriel Barbosa de Andrade, then-Secretary of the Interior and justice of the State of Goiás; Joaquim Neves Pereira; and Antenor Gomes, then-Secretary of Public Security for Goiás. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 192–193](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/196/mode/2up); Clark III 230; “[Caso Ceres,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1950/ceres)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-10-brazil-quebracoco.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-10-brazil-quebracoco.htm) October 17, 2006; Brazil 40–41 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3005 ### Event 14018 (BF46F979) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Description:** At 2:30 in the afternoon Mrs. Edward Yeager, who lived in a trailer on the Duanesburg Church Road in Schenectady, New York near Mariaville, saw a circular UFO go down behind a hill. Two minutes later it flew up again and was very bright. The next day she was feeding her animals and the animals ran away when the same or a similar object came down within two meters of the ground. Two dark little men came out of the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there for two minutes, then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was reported to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 259, case 409; Flying Saucer Review, May 1958 & FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0432 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6709 ### Event 14019 (F90B6303) **Date:** 10/10/1957 **Description:** Quebracoco, Brazil. On this night a naval officer, Miguel Espanhol and another man, were driving to Ceres, Goias State, Brazil when they saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and flew down to ground level as their truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped, over 150 meters in diameter and 40 meters deep, with a dome supporting a long "aerial" with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits, who looked down at them for about three minutes. The craft flew south and released a smaller disc, which flew north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 259; O Cruzeiro, May 17, 1958; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 110 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6710 ### Event 14020 (E8FEE9BA) **Date:** 10/11/1957 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** DERBY, ENGL **Description:** Night lights maneuver before Sputnik / 2250h. Silent saucer / Alvaston goes and returns after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5542 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "DERBY,ENGL:NLTS MNVR BEFORE SPUTNIK/2250h:SLNT SCR/ALVASTON GOES+RETURNS AFTER", **LatLong:** "52.900003 -1.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:54:00 N 01:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.900003,-1.450000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14021 (C0442F67) **Date:** 10/11/1957 **Time:** 2000 **Location:** Roulon, France **Description:** Two witnesses in a car saw something they described as "a dark, transparent ball" about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of the road. It had appendages trailing behind. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 111 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_411 ### Event 14022 (8FD37770) **Date:** 10/11/1957 **Description:** At around 8:00 p.m. two witnesses in a car being driven in Roulon, France saw something they described as "a dark, transparent ball" about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of the road. It had appendages trailing behind. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 260, case # 411 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6760 ### Event 14023 (88C0DF80) **Date:** 10/11/1957 **Description:** At 10:20 p.m. in Derby, England nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in front of the new Sputnik satellite. A silent disc-shaped object was seen at Alvaston which went away, but soon returned. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6761 ### Event 14024 (C4EC0C0E) **Date:** 10/12/1957 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** NORTH / MARTHAS VINYARD, MA **Description:** Ovoid with antennas dives at 5 / boat. Levels off going quickly southwest. / r141#5p29. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5543 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/MARTHAS VINYARD,MA:OVOID W/ANTENNAS DIVES at 5/BOAT:Lvls off >>SW:/r141#5p29", **LatLong:** "41.450002 -70.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:27:00 N 70:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.450002,-70.616670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14025 (5BD65A01) **Date:** 10/12/1957 **Location:** Martha's Vineyard, MA **Description:** 3:20 p.m., a strange round object bearing southeast-appeared to be a sphere with sensing elements or spikes protruding from it (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [571012](http://www.nicap.org/mvineyard571012dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2097 ### Event 14026 (5AC945D5) **Date:** 10/12/1957 **Locations:** Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; Coro; Trujillo **Description:** 9:15 p.m. Many witnesses see a luminous oval object pass over Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, at great speed. The same or a similar object is seen at Coro at 9:25 p.m. and at Trujillo at 12:00 midnight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 82 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3006 ### Event 14027 (231E6588) **Date:** 10/13/1957 **Description:** On this night Antonio Villas Boas witnessed a UFO making complex maneuvers in the sky above his family's farmhouse in Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. This is three nights prior to his famous abduction experience, which occurred in the early morning hours of October 16. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6809 ### Event 14028 (77356574) **Date:** 10/14/1957 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** SOUTH FRANCISCO / SALES, BRZ **Description:** Avb. Blazing disc? plays tag 20x / farm field. 100M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5544 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "436", **HatchDesc:** "S.FRANCISCO/SALES,BRZ:AVB:BLAZING DISC? PLAYS TAG 20x/FARM FIELD:100M alt", **LatLong:** "-19.883334 -49.766669", **LatLongDMS:** "19:53:00 S 49:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-19.883334,-49.766669)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14029 (CAC6F2A0) **Date:** 10/14/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** PINE BLUFF TO/FROM STUTTGART, ARK **Description:** Saucer over US79. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) and pulled to roadside / 4 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5545 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "68", **HatchDesc:** "PINE BLUFF >< STUTTGART,ARK:SCR OVR US79:CAR EMEs+PULLED TO ROADSIDE/4min", **LatLong:** "34.422224 -91.705560", **LatLongDMS:** "34:25:20 N 91:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.422224,-91.705560)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14030 (E666DA0E) **Date:** 10/14/1957 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** SAN BERNARDINO, CA **Description:** Civil observer(s). Cup-saucer maneuvers in and out of clouds. = moon / Blue Book card. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 535) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5546 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "SAN BERNARDINO,CA:CIV.OBS:CUP-SCR MNVRS IN and OUT of CLOUDS:=MOON/BBK card", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -117.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 117:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-117.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14031 (D24CF8FA) **Date:** 10/14/1957 **Time:** 2145 **Location:** Francisco de Sales, Brazil **Description:** Second observation by A. Villas-Boas. He was plowing a field with his brother when they saw a red light at the edge of the field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he went close. It vanished on the spot. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_412 ### Event 14032 (85A87716) **Date:** 10/14/1957 **Locations:** Naval Air Station North Island tower; San Diego, California; Point Loma **Description:** 7:00 p.m. The Naval Air Station North Island tower in San Diego, California, directs a Navy S2F-1Tracker anti-submarine aircraft toward a bright light over Point Loma. The aircraft, piloted by Lt. [Allen L. Ries](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199036061/allen-louis-ries), tracks the UFO on airborne radar at some points suddenly moving at 1,700 mph average speed \(3,500 mph at peak\) and 1,100 mph average relative to the aircraft’s \(peak 2,200 mph\). Radar indicates the object is about 12 miles ahead. After 3 minutes the aircraft loses the object visually and on radar. Blue Book explains this as the star Arcturus, which is in the wrong direction in the sky, then changes the explanation to a balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, \[[Blue Book](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/571014-North%20Island%20NAS%20Navy.pdf) [documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/571014-North%20Island%20NAS%20Navy.pdf)\]; Clark III 389–390 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3007 ### Event 14033 (0A1FF21A) **Date:** 10/14/1957 **Description:** Around 9:30 p.m. [Antonio Villas-Boas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio%5FVillas%5FBoas) and another brother are plowing and see a bright object hovering 300 feet in the air. He approaches it, but it evades him and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1226–1227 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3008 ### Event 14034 (B41FD6A1) **Date:** 10/14/1957 **Description:** Antonio Villas Boas, age 23, had his second UFO sighting prior to his famous UFO abduction, when at 9:45 p.m. he watched a blazing object, possibly disc shaped, play tag with him over a field on his family farm in Sao Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was plowing the field with his brother on a tractor when they saw a red light at the edge of the field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he got close. The object nearly touched down, and came down to a height of 100 meters. It vanished on the spot. The sighting lasted from ten to twenty minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Olavo T. Fontes, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 23; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 62; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 412 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6834 ### Event 14035 (C453B930) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Location:** Brazil **Description:** Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an human-looking female. **Type:** abduction **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_575 ### Event 14036 (3E16485A) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** COVINGTON, IN **Description:** 4M saucer hovers / farm. Combine malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) as saucer going [to] overhead. / r8+/ r79+/ r141#15p9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5547 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "159", **HatchDesc:** "COVINGTON,IN:4M SCR HVRS/FARM:COMBINE EMEs as SCR > OVHD:/r8+/r79+/r141#15p9", **LatLong:** "40.133335 -87.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:08:00 N 87:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.133335,-87.383338)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14037 (FE20753F) **Date:** 10/15/1957? **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** WEST / QUINCY, FL **Description:** 1 / US90. 2 airliner size eggs with flashing lights hover. 1 going quickly east other going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 501) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5548 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "W/QUINCY,FL:1/US90:2 AIRLINER SIZE EGGS W/FLASHING LITES HVR:1 >>E OTHER >>W", **LatLong:** "30.594446 -84.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:35:40 N 84:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.594446,-84.616671)", **RelAlt:** "90", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14038 (D4AFD0CA) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Location:** Minas Gerais State, Brazil **Description:** Villas Boas abduction, sexual encounter case (UFOE, section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2098 ### Event 14039 (0ACD952D) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Location:** Covington, IN **Description:** Combine engine failed as hovering UFO began to rise (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2099 ### Event 14040 (4EEB2A10) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Time:** daylight **Location:** Covington, Indiana **Description:** Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disk which hovered above his tractor; the engine failed when the object rose. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_413 ### Event 14041 (7A15AFDD) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Location:** Minas Gerais State, Brazil **Description:** Villas Boas abduction, sexual encounter case **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Source:** HallUFOEvidence2, **ID:** HallUFOE2_4 ### Event 14042 (0C1A05C1) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Location:** Franklin County, Indiana **Description:** Afternoon. Robert Moudy sees a glowing object hovering above his combine in Franklin County, Indiana, at about 1,500 feet. It appears to be silver and platter-shaped, perhaps 12 feet in diameter, with a pink flame coming from its base. It makes a loud whirring noise as it hovers. When it starts ascending at a 22° angle, its color changes from pink to light blue and the combine stops working. He notices two stalled cars on a nearby road. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Indiana Farmer Says ‘Whatsit’ Was Overhead,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99758833/)” Indianapolis News, November 5, 1957, p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3009 ### Event 14043 (C23E8CF1) **Date:** 10/15/1957 **Description:** On this day while working outside, Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disc that hovered above his tractor in Covington, Indiana. The tractor engine failed when the object took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 260, case # 413 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6860 ### Event 14044 (4C52B5A6) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Location:** MENTONE, AUST **Description:** Ex-CIC / RAAF! Dark ovoid / 300M altitude passes / 600kph. / r120p161+/ r141#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5549 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MENTONE,AUST:EX-CIC/RAAF!:DRK OVOID/300M alt PASSES/600kph:/r120p161+/r141#5", **LatLong:** "-37.983335 145.066674", **LatLongDMS:** "37:59:00 S 145:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.983335,145.066674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14045 (F2815D01) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** SOUTH FRANCISCO / SALES, BRZ **Description:** Avb abduction. Small humanoids (or Greys). Wash and exam. Sex / woman. Sperm sample. / r113p61. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 799) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5550 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "255", **Elev:** "436", **HatchDesc:** "S.FRANCISCO/SALES,BRZ:AVB ABD:OIDS:WASH+EXAM:SEX/WOMAN:SPERM SAMPLE:/r113p61", **LatLong:** "-19.866668 -49.750002", **LatLongDMS:** "19:52:00 S 49:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-19.866668,-49.750002)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "13" ### Event 14046 (9D2713FC) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** NORTH / TULAROSA, NM **Description:** Nurse photographs white-glow ovoid over Holloman range. / r219p11+/ r11p245. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 701) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5551 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1230", **HatchDesc:** "N/TULAROSA,NM:NURSE FOTOs WHT-GLOW OVOID ovr HOLLOMAN RANGE:/r219p11+/r11p245", **LatLong:** "33.322224 -106.077783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:19:20 N 106:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.322224,-106.077783)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14047 (21752FB1) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** VIMIOSO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Luminous disk going quickly south over town. Makes several maneuvers. / Journal do Noticias. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5552 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VIMIOSO,PORTUGAL:LUM.DISK >>S OVR TOWN:MAKES SVRL MNVRS:/JORNAL do NOTICIAS", **LatLong:** "41.594446 -6.522223", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:40 N 06:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.594446,-6.522223)", **State/Prov:** "TOM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14048 (59A2CCBA) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Location:** Unknown City, AU **Description:** Round UFO sighted by former Commander-in-Chief of Royal Australian Air Force. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2100 ### Event 14049 (1620BC85) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Time:** 0100 **Location:** Francisco de Sales, Brazil **Description:** Third observation by A. Villas-Boas. Alone in the fields on a clear night, he saw a big, red star which took the appearance of a luminous, egg-shaped object and stopped 50 m above his tractor. Its light was brighter than that of the headlights as it landed 15 m away. The top part was spinning. It became green as it slowed down, was then seen as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it settled down. The tractor engine stalled, and the witness was seized by unknown individuals and carried aboard the craft, where he was medically examined, then left with a woman of short stature with whom he had sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that crew members wore tight, white clothes with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with them. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66, 4 et seq. ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_414 ### Event 14050 (DADEF0CC) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Location:** São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil **Description:** 1:00 a.m. [Antonio Villas-Boas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio%5FVillas%5FBoas) is plowing alone near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when a red, egg-shaped object appears above him. His tractor motor and lights fail. It lands nearby and something grabs him as he tries to run away. Three small figures bring him into the object, where he is subjected to tests and made to have sex twice with an odd-looking woman. Afterwards, she points to her belly then points to the sky. Then he is given a tour of the craft and taken outside again around 5:30 a.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The A.V.B. Contact Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20026-27%20-%201962.pdf)” Boletim SBEDV, no. 26/27 \(Apr./July 1962\): 7–9; Gordon Creighton, “[The Most Amazing Case of All, Part 1: A Brazilian](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2011%2CN%201.pdf) [Farmer’s Story,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2011%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1965\): 13–17; Gordon Creighton, “[The Most](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2011%2CN%202.pdf) [Amazing Case of All, Part 2: Analysis of the Brazilian Farmer’s Story,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2011%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1965\): 5–8; Gordon Creighton, “[Postscript to the Most Amazing Case of All,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2011%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1965\): 24–26; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…: Further Light on the A.V.B.](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%204.pdf) [Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1966\): 23–27; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf) [2: The A.V.B. Case Continued,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1966\): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part III,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1966\): 14–16; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part IV,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1967\): 25–27; Olavo T. Fontes, “[Even More Amazing…Part V,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 3 \(May/June 1967\): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part VI: The Medical Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\): 18–20; Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 42–72](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/42/mode/2up); “Brazil: New Light on a Sexual Abduction,” IUR/Probe, Sept. 1980, p. 79; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 56–59; Brazil 41–47; Clark III 1227–1229; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3010 ### Event 14051 (EDC70F2F) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Location:** Tularosa, New Mexico **Description:** Day. Nurse Ella Louise Fortune is driving north of Tularosa, New Mexico, when she sees a brilliant-white, elliptical object hovering in a deep-blue sky. It seems to have a faint exhaust trail at one edge. She stops her car and snaps a 35mm Kodachrome photo. Analysts generally agree this is a bright lenticular cloud with a trail of ice crystals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter N. Webb, “The Fortune Photo Revisited,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 14–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3011 ### Event 14052 (43ACE511) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Location:** Mentone, Victoria, Australia **Description:** Evening. Former Australian Air Marshal [George Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FJones%5F%28RAAF%5Fofficer%29) and his wife see a round object like a “flying balloon” moving silently at the speed of a jet over their home in Mentone, Victoria, Australia. It moves from south to north at an altitude of 1,000–1,500 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Jones, “[Former Air Chief Sees Saucers,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 \(May/June 1958\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3012 ### Event 14053 (FEA30368) **Date:** 10/16/1957 **Description:** Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. A famous alien abduction and sexual encounter case occurred in the early morning hours of this day. Alone in the fields on a clear night, Antonio Villas-Boas saw a big, red star which soon took on the appearance of a luminous, egg-shaped object that stopped and hovered 50 meters above his tractor. Its light was brighter than that of the tractor headlights as it landed 15 meters away. The top part of the UFO was spinning, and it became green as it slowed down. It then appeared as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it settled down. Sr. Villas-Boas's tractor engine stalled and he tried to run through the furrows in the freshly plowed field, but he was quickly seized by unknown individuals who dragged him aboard the craft, where he was medically examined. After being stripped and sponged down with what he took to be a disinfectant liquid he was then left alone with a woman of short stature with whom he had sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that the woman had high cheekbones and a sharp chin. He was allowed to redress himself and spent a short time subsequently with the other crew members. He reported they wore tight-fitting, white uniforms with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 260 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6893 ### Event 14054 (5E470815) **Date:** 10/17/1957 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** FATIMA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Angel hair all over just like 1917. Samples taken for analysis. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5553 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FATIMA,PORTUGAL:ANGEL HAIR ALL OVER JUST LIKE 1917:SAMPLES TAKEN FOR ANALYSIS", **LatLong:** "39.583335 -8.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "39:35:00 N 08:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.583335,-8.583334)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 14055 (D72EFC14) **Date:** 10/17/1957 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** WHAKAPARA, NZ **Description:** Orange ball hovers. Night lights exit and maneuver and return. Brilliant color(s). Fades away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 552) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5554 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "WHAKAPARA,NZ:ORG.BALL HVRS:NLTS EXIT+MNVR+RETURN:BRILL.CLRS:fades away", **LatLong:** "-35.533335 174.283342", **LatLongDMS:** "35:32:00 S 174:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.533335,174.283342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14056 (B2EB564A) **Date:** 10/19/1957 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** NYC, NY **Description:** Separate observer(s) / 2 days. Series / 3 saucers spin and going [to] overhead. Ovoid maneuvers / 20 October. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 554) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5555 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NYC,NY:SEP.OBS/2 DAYS:SERIES/3 SCRS SPIN+>OVHD:OVOID MNVRS/20 Oct:/news", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -73.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 73:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-73.950004)", **State/Prov:** "NYC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14057 (D847A47E) **Date:** 10/19/1957 **Location:** Mildenhall, UK **Description:** (McDonald list) Targets on Lakenheath Radar (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571019](http://www.nicap.org/571019mildenhall%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2101 ### Event 14058 (8F950148) **Date:** 10/21/1957 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** BACHAQUERO, VNZL **Description:** 2 / farm. 2 cylinders hover / high altitude. Silent. Wingless with 3-pointed tail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5556 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "71", **HatchDesc:** "BACHAQUERO,VNZL:2/FARM:2 CYLS HVR/HI ALT:SLNT:WINGLESS W/3-POINTED TAIL:", **LatLong:** "8.750000 -71.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "08:45:00 N 71:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.750000,-71.816670)", **State/Prov:** "MRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14059 (4A04046F) **Date:** 10/21/1957 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** RAF GAYDON, ENGL **Description:** Near collision / RAF jet and saucer at 28K'. RADAR confirm. Nuclear station/depot/facility. / r120p50. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5557 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "129", **HatchDesc:** "RAF GAYDON,ENGL:nr COLLISION/RAF JET+SCR @28K':RDR CONFIRM:NUCL STN:/r120p50.", **LatLong:** "52.183336 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:11:00 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.183336,-1.466667)", **RelAlt:** "8500", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14060 (AB6309C8) **Date:** 10/21/1957 **Location:** RAF Gaydon (Warwickshire), UK **Description:** Meteor Jet Almost Collides With Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [571021](http://www.nicap.org/571021rafgaydon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2102 ### Event 14061 (A90AC35F) **Date:** 10/21/1957 **Locations:** RAF North Luffenham; RAF Gaydon; North Warwickshire, England; RAF Langtoft **Description:** 9:18 p.m. Flying Officer D. W. Sweeney is flying a Meteor jet at 28,000 feet on a training exercise from RAF North Luffenham \[now St. George’s Barracks\] when he nearly collides with an unidentified object over RAF Gaydon \[now closed\], North Warwickshire, England. After taking evasive action, Sweeney tries to approach the object, whereupon its six lights go out and it disappears. The UFO is tracked on radar at RAF Langtoft \[now closed\] in South Kesteven. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[UFO over British A-Bomber Base: Air Ministry Baffled,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1958\): 6; Good Above, [pp. 50–51](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3013 ### Event 14062 (FC8F1FEB) **Date:** 10/22/1957 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** WIESBADEN, HESSE, GER **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Military observer(s). RADAR image and more/others. 1 UFO / 5+minutes. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5558 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "WIESBADEN,HESSE,GER:BBK#UNK:MIL OBS:RDR IMAGE++:1 UFO/5+ MINUTES:NFD", **LatLong:** "50.088891 8.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:05:20 N 08:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.088891,8.250000)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 14063 (A35CDB38) **Date:** 10/22/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** PITTSBURGH, PA **Description:** Family. 3+3 night lights maneuver in formations. 1 makes V-turn and away. / r141#5p61. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5559 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "PITTSBURGH,PA:FAMILY:3+3 NLTS MNVR in FORMns:1 MAKES V-TURN+AWAY:/r141#5p61", **LatLong:** "40.433335 -80.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:26:00 N 80:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.433335,-80.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14064 (D0BFBF62) **Date:** 10/22/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** PRAIA GRANDE, BRZ **Description:** 5 observer(s). Object / ground near beach. Type unknown. Lights area / beams. Going quickly east and quickly going up [to] extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 561) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5560 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "PRAIA GRANDE,BRZ:5 OBS:OBJ/GND nr BEACH:type unk:LITES AREA/BEAMS:>>E+↑↑ XFAST", **LatLong:** "-24.000001 -46.400002", **LatLongDMS:** "24:00:00 S 46:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.000001,-46.400002)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14065 (32D734E6) **Date:** 10/22/1957 **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA **Description:** Family saw six UFOs in two separate groups, changing position in formation. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2105 ### Event 14066 (6E71E54A) **Date:** 10/22/1957 **Location:** Wiesbaden, Germany **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) AN/TPS-1D Tracks Object Three Times (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571022](http://www.nicap.org/571022wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2106 ### Event 14067 (89D875DC) **Date:** 10/22/1957 **Description:** The US Continental Army Command sends a memo to the Army Chief of Research and Development indicating its interest in the flying saucer concept and requesting initiation of a feasibility study of a “manned flying saucer.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard P. Weinert, History of Army Aviation, 1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November 1976, [pp. 220–221](https://archive.org/details/DTIC%5FADA236573/page/n225/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3014 ### Event 14068 (EFD7A5D1) **Date:** 10/22/1957 **Description:** UFO was seen on the ground near the beach in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. It Illuminated the area with beams of light, it took off toward the east, then ascended vertically into the sky very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November 2, p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7018 ### Event 14069 (F8E3B15E) **Date:** 10/23/1957 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** 12 MI SOUTH / LORING AIR FORCE BASE, ME **Description:** RADAR-visual (observation) / Army man. Blue Book. Huge UFO no description. [Nike Base]. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 572) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5561 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "12 mi S/LORING AFB,ME:RDR-VIS/ARMY MAN:BBK:HUGE UFO no descript:[Nike Base]", **LatLong:** "46.750002 -67.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "46:45:00 N 67:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.750002,-67.883337)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14070 (E384EF71) **Date:** 10/23/1957 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** WEST / ESTELLINE, TX **Description:** 2 pilots. Glowing ovoid going quickly southwest. Fast 3km ascent then going quickly southwest. / r141#5p63. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 46) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5562 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "256", **HatchDesc:** "W/ESTELLINE,TX:2 PILOTS:GLOW.OVOID >>SW:FAST 3km ASCENT then >>SW:/r141#5p63", **LatLong:** "34.500002 -101.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:30:00 N 101:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.500002,-101.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14071 (D869353B) **Date:** 10/23/1957 **Location:** London, UK **Description:** Disc traveling on edge. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2107 ### Event 14072 (CD5926DB) **Date:** 10/23/1957 **Description:** Strands of "angel hair" as long as fifty feet fell over a 110 mile-long area from Portales to Hobbs, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7042 ### Event 14073 (EDB6876A) **Date:** 10/24/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** GOLD BEACH, OR **Description:** Trucker. Saucer sways side to side / forward flight. Strange shaped halo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 571) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5563 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "GOLD BEACH,OR:TRUCKER:SCR SWAYS SIDE to SIDE/FORWARD FLITE:strange shaped halo", **LatLong:** "42.433335 -124.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:26:00 N 124:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.433335,-124.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14074 (A29E48C6) **Date:** 10/25/1957? **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** SOUTHWEST / LOUBRESSAC, FR **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Silent domed saucer lands. Observer(s) paralyzed. Car self-starts after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5564 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SW/LOUBRESSAC,FR:CAR EMEs:SLNT DOMED SCR LANDS:OBS PRLZD:CAR SELF-STARTS AFTER", **LatLong:** "44.850002 1.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:51:00 N 01:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.850002,1.800000)", **State/Prov:** "Lot", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14075 (34EFE3A0) **Date:** 10/25/1957 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** PETROPOLIS, BRZ **Description:** 7+observer(s). 2 small humanoids (or Greys) cure girl / cancer / fantastic 30 mn operation. / r215p77. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLUM, Ralph & Judy: BEYOND EARTH: Mans Contact with UFO's Bantam, NY 1974 (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5565 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **OPR:** Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "854", **HatchDesc:** "PETROPOLIS,BRZ:7+OBS:2 OIDS CURE GIRL/CANCER/FANTASTIC 30mn OPERATION:/r215p77", **LatLong:** "-22.516668 -43.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:31:00 S 43:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.516668,-43.166669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 14076 (9E5D9688) **Date:** 10/25/1957 **Location:** Petropolis, Brazil **Description:** A girl suffering from cancer appeared about to die when the house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight had been aimed at the room. It came from an object whose top part was reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They were about 1.20 m tall, had long yellow-red hair, small green, slanted eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white clothes. Before the astounded witnesses (the author of the report and the family of the girl), they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another instument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient. After 30 min they went away, leaving her completely cured. The report was anonymous. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 67, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_415 ### Event 14077 (CCE23292) **Date:** 10/25/1957 **Location:** Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil **Description:** On a farm near Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a housekeeper \(pseudonym = Anazia Maria\) is taking care of a family member who is dying of stomach cancer. She claims that two diminutive, long-haired beings emerge from a landed UFO, come inside the house, examine the girl for an hour with a device that looks like a flashlight, communicate telepathically to the family, cure the girl, and leave behind some medication to give her. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Olavo T. Fontes, “[Dying Girl Saved by Humanoid Surgeons,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1967\): 5–6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3015 ### Event 14078 (39577C95) **Date:** Late 10/1957 **Locations:** Maralinga, South Australia; Operation Antler series of blasts **Description:** Late one afternoon, a British RAF team is planning to return home from the Maralinga, South Australia, nuclear test site where the Operation Antler series of blasts have occurred \(September 14, 25, October 9\). They go outside and see a silvery-blue, metallic UFO with a flat base and a dome on top. Several squarish portholes are visible around the center. The object tilts at 45° and hovers. After 15 minutes, the UFO shoots up out of sight without a sound. One of the witnesses is Derek Murray, later a Home Office photographer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf) [UFO Connection: Startling Implications for Australia’s North West Cape, and for Australia’s Security,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 \(July 1986\): 18–19; Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [pp. 94–95](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/94/mode/2up); Good Above, [p. 163](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3020 ### Event 14079 (B5CA36D8) **Date:** 10/25/1957 **Description:** In Petropolis, Brazil a girl suffering from cancer appeared near death when the house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight had been aimed at her room. It came from an object whose top part was reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They were about 1.20 meters (4 feet) tall, had long reddish-yellow hair, slanted small green eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white uniforms. Before the astounded family and another witness astounded witnesses they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another instrument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient. After 30 minutes they left, leaving her completely cured. The report was filed by an anonymous source. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 260-261, case 415 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7121 ### Event 14080 (53931BA0) **Date:** 10/27/1957 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** TULSA, OK **Description:** Several observer(s). Flattened sphere. V-antenna / top. Moves fast. Light blinks / side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 577) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5566 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "242", **HatchDesc:** "TULSA,OK:SVRL OBS:FLATTENED SPHERE:V-ANTENNA/TOP:MOVES FAST:LITE BLINKS/SIDE", **LatLong:** "36.166668 -95.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:10:00 N 95:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.166668,-95.983338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14081 (734A2147) **Date:** 10/29/1957 **Location:** BARCELONA, VNZL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Huge fireball going quickly south. Stops overhead / seconds. Continues. / APRO November 57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 697) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5567 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BARCELONA,VNZL:NMRS OBS:HUGE FBL >>S:STOPS OVHD/seconds:CONTINUES:/APRO Nov.57", **LatLong:** "10.133334 -64.716670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:08:00 N 64:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.133334,-64.716670)", **State/Prov:** "ANZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14082 (D16743CD) **Date:** 10/29/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** SELMA, AL **Description:** Air Force Captain and 5. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and electro-magnetic effect (EME). 30M saucer wobbles slow then fast. 1500M altitude. Pulses. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 579) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5568 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "SELMA,AL:AF Capt+5:RFI+EME:30M SCR WOBBLES SLOW then FAST:1500M alt:PULSES", **LatLong:** "32.416668 -87.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:25:00 N 87:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.416668,-87.033337)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14083 (7531BCF5) **Date:** 10/30/1957 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** WILLIAMS, AZ **Description:** Trucker. Silent 10M globe crosses US66 several X. 24m antenna! 500kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 783) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5569 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2062", **HatchDesc:** "WILLIAMS,AZ:TRUCKER:SLNT 10M GLOBE CROSSES US66 SVRL X:24m ANTENNA!:500kph", **LatLong:** "35.250002 -112.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:15:00 N 112:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.250002,-112.200005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14084 (B592A5CD) **Date:** 10/30/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NORTH / CASPER, WY **Description:** 2 teens / car. 10M saucer with 2 peaks just over road. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r70p3-52+/ r141#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5570 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1575", **HatchDesc:** "N/CASPER,WY:2 TEENS/CAR:10M SCR W/2 PEAKS JUST OVR ROAD:EME:/r70p3-52+/r141#5", **LatLong:** "43.055558 -106.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:03:20 N 106:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.055558,-106.316672)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14085 (3D948113) **Date:** 10/30/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** OKA, QB **Description:** Brill 120cm disk spins fast. Up and down / 3M altitude. Follows woman / bicycle. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 584) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5571 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "OKA,QB:BRILL 120cm DISK SPINS FAST:UP+DOWN/3M alt:FOLOS WOMAN/BICYCLE:SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "45.466669 -74.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:28:00 N 74:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.466669,-74.083337)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14086 (CBAEE8AC) **Date:** 10/30/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NOVY-CHEVRIERES, FR **Description:** 4 cops. Silent luminous saucer going quickly south / 200M altitude. Stops / town. Shoots going quickly SE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOURRET, Jean-Claude: Le NOUVEAU DEFI des OVNI. Editions France Loisirs, Paris. 1976 ISBN 2-7242-0104-3 395pp. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5572 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NOVY-CHEVRIERES,FR:4 COPS:SLNT.LUMn.SCR >> S/200M alt:STOPS/TOWN:SHOOTS >>SE.", **LatLong:** "49.533336 4.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:32:00 N 04:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.533336,4.450000)", **State/Prov:** "Ardennes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14087 (2874899A) **Date:** 10/30/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** D69 SOUTHWEST / MOREZ, JURA, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Large phony train / railroad/railway tracks flies. Very fast and silent. / r8#416. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5573 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "D69 SW/MOREZ,JURA,FR:2 OBS:LRG PHONY TRAIN/RR TRACKS FLIES:VFAST+SLNT:/r8#416", **LatLong:** "46.516669 5.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:31:00 N 05:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.516669,5.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Jura", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14088 (F5DECF50) **Date:** 10/30/1957 **Location:** Casper, WY **Description:** Car motor kept stalling as motorist tried to turn around to avoid UFO sitting on road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2108 ### Event 14089 (CE1C747B) **Date:** 10/30/1957 **Location:** Casper, Wyoming **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Hugh Pulju and Shirley Moyer are driving 10 miles north of Casper, Wyoming, when a round, shiny object appears in the road about 250 feet ahead. Pulju tries to turn around, but the engine keeps stalling. It works well once he reaches a main highway. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Mystery Object’ Is Reported Here,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100197994/)” Casper \(Wyo.\) Tribune- Herald, November 5, 1957, p. 1; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 237–238; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3016 ### Event 14090 (6A78C61A) **Date:** 10/30/1957 **Description:** A 19-year-old couple, Moyer and Pulju, were driving ten miles north of Casper, Wyoming at 9:00 p.m. when they encountered 50-foot wide, silvery sphere or disc just over the road that caused electromagnetic effects on their car. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Casper (WY) Tribune-Herald, November 5, 1957; Alexander D. Mebane, "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 237; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7301 ### Event 14091 (A8ADF117) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LUMBERTON, NC **Description:** 4 observer(s). 60m fireball. Quickly going up [to] vertical. Cars stall / flame shoots. / r141#15p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5574 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "LUMBERTON,NC:4 OBS:60m FBL:↑↑ VERTICAL:CARS STALL/FLAME SHOOTS:/r141#15p21", **LatLong:** "34.633335 -79.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:38:00 N 79:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.633335,-79.000004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14092 (74600BD9) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** ANNAPOLIS, MD **Description:** 4 kids. Blue-glowing disk low and slow. Vanishes / flash and bang! Dome / bottom/underside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 519) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5575 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "ANNAPOLIS,MD:4 KIDS:BLU-GLO DISK LOW+SLOW:VANISHES/FLASH+BANG!:DOME/BTM", **LatLong:** "38.983335 -77.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:59:00 N 77:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.983335,-77.000004)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14093 (918E3B45) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** MCCOLL, SC **Description:** 2 / pond. Large black sphere/orb/globe going down. Away when lamp out. Back when lit. Follows beam / light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 520) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5576 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "56", **HatchDesc:** "McCOLL,SC:2/POND:LRG BLK ORB↓:AWAY WHEN LAMP OUT:BACK WHEN LIT:FOLOS BEAM/LITE", **LatLong:** "34.666668 -79.544448", **LatLongDMS:** "34:40:00 N 79:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.666668,-79.544448)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14094 (60120B19) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Location:** Lumberton, NC **Description:** Car motor failed as UFO observed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2109 ### Event 14095 (FDF85B99) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Time:** 0000 **Location:** Longchaumois, France **Description:** A businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness at very high speed, but without noise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_416 ### Event 14096 (F9BA2CFF) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with Rep. [James C. Healey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FHealey) again, who tells him the Air Force has “made a strong attempt to disprove your claims.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 113 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3017 ### Event 14097 (518F44D1) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Location:** Longchaumois, Jura, France **Description:** A businessman and his wife at Longchaumois, Jura, France, see a large lighted object with openings. It hovers close to the ground and takes off with a great increase in brightness, silently, at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October 1st–November 2nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 83 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3018 ### Event 14098 (A079CDCF) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Location:** Lumberton, North Carolina **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Barbara Jean Stokes, her husband Paul, and another couple are driving in Lumberton, North Carolina, when they spot an object about 200 feet long in the sky. Suddenly the object rises straight up and flames. As this happens, the car stalls until the object disappears a few seconds later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Woman Says She Saw](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99760268/) [Ball of Fire on Road,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99760268/)” Charlotte \(N.C.\) Observer, November 5, 1957, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3019 ### Event 14099 (0811C74F) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Description:** At midnight in Longchaumois, France a businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness as it flew away at very high speed, but without noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 261, case 416, citing Aime Michel **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7330 ### Event 14100 (2E1FE83F) **Date:** 10/31/1957 **Description:** That evening in Lumberton, North Carolina a car engine failed as a UFO was observed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charlotte Observer, November 4, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7331 ### Event 14101 (14BFB23C) **Date:** 11/1957 **Location:** US **Description:** When the "flap" of UFO reports began about November 1, "fact sheets" were issued on the letterhead of the Department of Defense, Office of Public Affairs. These emphasized the percentages of explained cases, and again the lack of evidence of "a threat to the security of the country." **Type:** USAF fact sheets **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_884 ### Event 14102 (B0C4D357) **Date:** 11/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** PROVENCAL, LA **Description:** Car stopped / beam / Army green UFO. Destroyed / heat. Diesel engineering sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 417) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5577 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "1", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "PROVENCAL,LA:CAR STOPPED/BEAM/ARMY GREEN UFO:DESTROYED/HEAT:DIESEL ENGN SOUND", **LatLong:** "31.650002 -93.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "31:39:00 N 93:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.650002,-93.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 14103 (487D2116) **Date:** 11/1957 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Provencal, Louisiana **Description:** Haskell Raper, Jr., was driving home on a rainy night when he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought was a truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car, apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away. The object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in color. It bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some numbers. A sort of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in panic as the vehicle caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a diesel engine. Raper ran to the town, less than 2 km away; and reported the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was completely destroyed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS Oct., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_417 ### Event 14104 (5232DAF9) **Date:** 11/1957 **Description:** Lt. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) succeeds Maj. Gen. [Ralph Canine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%5FCanine) as director of the National Security Agency. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3021 ### Event 14105 (AEA74742) **Date:** 11/1957 **Location:** Willowdale, Ontario **Description:** [Gene Duplantier](http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/03/Duplantier-obit.html) launches the quarterly magazine Saucers, Space, and Science in Willowdale, Ontario. It continues through 1972. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Saucers, Space & Science](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Saucers%2C%20Space%20%26%20Science%20%20%28Duplantier%29/Saucers%2C%20Space%20%26%20Science%20-%20No%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(November 1957\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3022 ### Event 14106 (8516221B) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** NEAR BALLINGER, TX **Description:** 4 / oil crew. Red egg-shape hovers. Sails away. / r242p163+/ r28p338. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 586) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5578 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "496", **HatchDesc:** "nr BALLINGER,TX:4/OIL CREW:RED EGG-SHAPE HVRS:SAILS AWAY:/r242p163+/r28p338", **LatLong:** "31.750002 -99.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:45:00 N 99:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.750002,-99.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14107 (2C29F7B7) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** YOUNGSTOWN, OH **Description:** 2 / car. 1M glowing-egg maneuvers. Going [to] through cemetery / low altitude. Follows road. Turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 586) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5579 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "YOUNGSTOWN,OH:2/CAR:1M GLOW-EGG MNVRS:> thru CEMETERY/lo alt:FOLOS ROAD:TURNS", **LatLong:** "41.100002 -80.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:06:00 N 80:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.100002,-80.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14108 (7EAB362A) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Time:** 09:20? **Location:** JOHANNESBURG AND PRETORIA, RSA **Description:** 2 saucers maneuver. Jet chases. Going quickly south. / r242p163 / r3p158+/ FSRv4#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5580 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "JOHANNESBURG+PRETORIA,RSA:2 SCRS MNVR:JET CHASES:>>S:/r242p163/r3p158+/FSRv4#1", **LatLong:** "-26.100001 27.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "26:06:00 S 27:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.100001,27.900001)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14109 (EAAE90B1) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY **Description:** Boy-scouts exec. Luminous/glowing ovoid sweeps over and away. No further details. / r242p163. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5581 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "266", **HatchDesc:** "CAMPBELLSVILLE,KY:BOY-SCOUTS EXEC:LUMn OVOID SWEEPS OVR AND AWAY:NFD:/r242p163", **LatLong:** "37.316668 -85.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "37:19:00 N 85:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.316668,-85.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14110 (E00A6159) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** HUNTINGTON, WV **Description:** 2 observer(s). Beeping noise. 2 2M hemispheres joined off-center! Hover. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 587) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5582 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "173", **HatchDesc:** "HUNTINGTON,WV:2 OBS:BEEPING NOISE:2 2M HEMISPHERES JOINED OFF-CENTER!:HVR:↑↑", **LatLong:** "38.383335 -82.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:23:00 N 82:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.383335,-82.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14111 (BD884DA7) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Locations:** Luipaardsvlei mine near Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa; Pretoria **Description:** 9:15 a.m. More than 50 workers at the Luipaardsvlei mine near Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa, watch two UFOs hanging motionless in the air at a great height until the afternoon. A Sabre jet from the South African Air Force is sent up to investigate. It climbs to 45,000 feet, but the objects are still above it. One of the witnesses is Maj. G. Ogilvie-Watson, from an ACF squadron at Pretoria. They move off at great speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Jet](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf) [Unable to Reach UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1958\): 2; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October 1st–November 2nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 85 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3023 ### Event 14112 (A964ABA0) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Description:** On this morning in 1957 a South African Air Force Sabre jet pilot pursued a high altitude, hovreing craft over Johannesburg, South Africa. It was seen from the ground by several hundred witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 4; UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 410 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7371 ### Event 14113 (61EB0D58) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Description:** Four men working as an oil rig crew watched a red egg-shaped object hover over an oil field near Ballinger, Texas at around 2 a.m. then sail away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November, p. 86 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7372 ### Event 14114 (0EA7EE82) **Date:** 11/1/1957 **Description:** A glowing egg-shaped object, one meter in diameter, maneuvered through a cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio at 3:00 a.m. at a low altitude, follows a road, and then turned before flying away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November, p. 86 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7373 ### Event 14115 (EE73A8B7) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **End date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Levelland, TX **Description:** Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars stalled **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_154 ### Event 14116 (33A38E16) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Location:** Loveland, TX **Description:** Multiple landings on roadways, E-M (electro-magnetic) effects, etc. Sheriff Weir Clem was sent out to search the roads as a result of earlier UFO reports and saw a reddish oval crossing the road and illuminating the pavement. Ronald Martin saw an UFO land in front of his truck and turn from red to bluish-green at which time the truck’s electrical system failed. It then turned reddish again and took off. Within the next few hours an Army Jeep Patrol at White Sands, N.M., reported an egg-shaped UFO that descended to about 50 yards above a bunker used during the first A-bomb explosion. This wave of sightings continued for 2–3 weeks. After retirement in 1975, Sheriff W. Clem gave a more graphic description of the UFO he saw: “The object was shaped like a huge football and had bright white lights. No living human could believe how fast it traveled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit up the whole area.” In an interview in 1977, Sheriff Clem said, “After the publicity of UFOs over the next few days, the number of witnesses to them rose to about a hundred people.” **Type:** ce2 event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_576 **See also:** 11/5/1957 ### Event 14117 (1534760E) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** WEST / CANADIAN, TX **Description:** 8M cylinder/cigar-shape lands. Small humanoid (or Grey) near. Flash! car headlights out. See / r141#18p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5583 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "739", **HatchDesc:** "W/CANADIAN,TX:8M CGR LANDS:OID NEAR:FLASH! CAR HDLITES OUT:see /r141#18p14", **LatLong:** "35.911113 -100.427783", **LatLongDMS:** "35:54:40 N 100:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.911113,-100.427783)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14118 (43FABFB5) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** ANDOVER, HAMPS **Description:** Several / football game. 6 dark grey cloud disks swoop in formation and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5584 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANDOVER,HAMPS:SVRL/FOOTBALL GAME:6 DRK GRY CLOUD DISKS SWOOP/FORMATION+away:", **LatLong:** "51.200002 -1.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:12:00 N 01:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.200002,-1.500000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14119 (E2F2137E) **Date:** 11/2/1957 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** MARALINGA, SOUTH AUSTR **Description:** Huge saucer tilts / 45°. Portholes. Follows atomic tests. / FSRv31#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5585 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "MARALINGA,S.AUSTR:HUGE SCR TILTS/45°:PORTHOLES:folos atomic tests:/FSRv31#5", **LatLong:** "-30.227779 131.561117", **LatLongDMS:** "30:13:40 S 131:33:40 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.227779,131.561117)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14120 (9F6558D7) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** LOGANSPORT, LA **Description:** 2 Air Force airmen / car and separate observer(s). Phony sun going up [to] over hill. Hovers and going down [to].. at 1900hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 589) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5586 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "62", **HatchDesc:** "LOGANSPORT,LA:2 AF AIRMEN/CAR+SEP.OBS:PHONY SUN ↑ OVR HILL:HVRS+↓..at 1900hrs", **LatLong:** "31.977779 -94.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "31:58:40 N 94:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.977779,-94.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14121 (CB73E10D) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** PETTIT, TX **Description:** 4 engines in 2 grain combines electro-magnetic effect (EME) as glowing-object going [to] overhead. / r149p35+/ r79p8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5587 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1107", **HatchDesc:** "PETTIT,TX:4 ENGINES in 2 GRAIN COMBINES EME as GLOW-OBJ >OVHD:/r149p35+/r79p8", **LatLong:** "33.683335 -102.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:00 N 102:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.683335,-102.516672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14122 (952FE075) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** CLOVIS, NM **Description:** Radio station/depot/facility owner = Otis Echols. Yellow-glow object going quickly southeast fast. No further details. / r2p189. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5588 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1300", **HatchDesc:** "CLOVIS,NM:RADIO STN OWNER=OTIS ECHOLS:YLW-GLOW OBJ >>SE FAST:NFD:/r2p189", **LatLong:** "34.416668 -103.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:25:00 N 103:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.416668,-103.200005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14123 (F62656D4) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** SEMINOLE, TX **Description:** Car motor and lights die. Bright lights on road ahead quickly going up [to]! / r79p9+/ r141#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5589 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1005", **HatchDesc:** "SEMINOLE,TX:CAR MOTOR+LITES DIE:BRITE LITES ON ROAD AHEAD ↑↑!:/r79p9+/r141#5", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -102.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 102:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-102.650005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14124 (445365A1) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** CLEMMONS, NC **Description:** Yellowish ovoid jumps into cloudbank. No further details. / r28p338+/ r242p163. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5590 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "162", **HatchDesc:** "CLEMMONS,NC:YELLOWISH OVOID JUMPS INTO CLOUDBANK:NFD:/r28p338+/r242p163", **LatLong:** "36.016668 -80.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:01:00 N 80:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.016668,-80.383337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14125 (62591B10) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** SR114 WITH LEVELLAND, TX **Description:** 2 / truck. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). 60M torpedo rises / field. Going quickly east. / APRO 11'57+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin D.: The UFO CASEBOOK; Warner Books 1989. 256pp. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5591 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1072", **HatchDesc:** "SR114 W/LEVELLAND,TX:2/TRUCK:EME:60M TORPEDO RISES/FIELD:>>E:/APRO 11'57+/r141", **LatLong:** "33.600002 -102.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:36:00 N 102:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.600002,-102.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14126 (F593DF44) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** LEVELLAND, TX **Description:** Many separate observer(s). 60M saucer-cylinder/cigar-shape / 3 hours. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). Follows cars. Spotlights. / r242p168. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 185) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5592 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "1071", **HatchDesc:** "LEVELLAND,TX:MANY SEP.OBS:60M SCR-CGR/3 Hrs:EME:FOLOS CARS:SPOTLITES:/r242p168", **LatLong:** "33.588890 -102.377783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:20 N 102:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.588890,-102.377783)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14127 (4DDE8BA7) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LITTLEFIELD, TX **Description:** 2 / car. Brilliant ovoid going west. Small blue night light exits and returns. Fireball turns going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 694) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5593 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1102", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLEFIELD,TX:2/CAR:BRILL.OVOID > W:SML BLU NLT EXITS+RETURNS:FBL TURNS >>S", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -102.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 102:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-102.316672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14128 (E48E4FBA) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** 2 Air Traffic Controllers and more/others. Blue 9M saucer flashes at tower! Cars stall. / r242p163+/ r141#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 188) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5594 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1115", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:2 ATCs++:BLU 9M SCR FLASHES AT TOWER!:CARS STALL:/r242p163+/r141#5", **LatLong:** "35.216668 -101.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:13:00 N 101:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.216668,-101.833338)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14129 (398D681F) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** WHITHARRAL, TX **Description:** Huge UFO malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) car. Headlights dim in sync / UFO pulsations. / r11p325. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5595 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1060", **HatchDesc:** "WHITHARRAL,TX:HUGE UFO EMEs CAR:HEADLITES DIM IN SYNC/UFO PULSATIONS:/r11p325", **LatLong:** "33.738890 -102.327783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:20 N 102:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.738890,-102.327783)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14130 (893DC3FD) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** SHALLOWATER, TX **Description:** 2 couples / car. Flash / sky. Headlights and radio electro-magnetic effect (EME). Engine unaffected. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5596 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1022", **HatchDesc:** "SHALLOWATER,TX:2 COUPLES/CAR:FLASH/SKY:HEADLITES+RADIO EME:ENGINE UNAFFECTED", **LatLong:** "33.688890 -102.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:20 N 102:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.688890,-102.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14131 (344F1FC8) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Location:** Levelland, TX **Description:** Many witnesses, series of sightings, watched egg-shaped UFOs on or near ground, nine instances of car interference (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571102](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/571102level%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2110 ### Event 14132 (E91F5233) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Location:** Seminole (near), TX **Description:** Car motor and headlights failed, UFO seen on road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2111 ### Event 14133 (8F84849F) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Location:** Canadian (3 miles W of ), TX **Description:** Submarine-shaped object, red and white, 2-3x car length & 10ft high (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2112 ### Event 14134 (6767C724) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 0330 **Location:** Canadian, Texas **Description:** 5 km west of this town, military and civilian witnesses reported a submarine-shaped object, red and white, two or three times as long as a car and about 3 m high, at ground level. A figure was seen near this object, also something compared to a white flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of the headlights. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_418 ### Event 14135 (021A0837) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Time:** 2250 **Location:** Levelland, Texas **Description:** A large number of reports from the Levelland area described a low-flying object, over 60 m long, equipped with a bright light, and which interfered with car ignition. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 136; map ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_419 ### Event 14136 (EA7DF09F) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Location:** Three miles west of Canadian, Texas **Description:** 3:30 a.m. Three miles west of Canadian, Texas, S/Sgt. [Alfred A. Calvin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19806662/alfred-a%5F-calvin) and a civilian witness see a submarine-shaped object, red and white, about 40–60 feet long and about 10 feet high, at ground level. A figure is near the object holding a white flag. When he stops the car, a flash of light from the object coincides with the sudden failure of the headlights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Submarine-Shaped UFO, Entity, E-M Case](http://www.nicap.org/571102canadian%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 253; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 11–12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3024 ### Event 14137 (C5623761) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Locations:** Seminole; Seagraves, Texas; US Highway 62 **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A witness is driving between Seminole and Seagraves, Texas, on US Highway 62 when he sees lights on the road ahead. As he approaches them, his headlights go out and his engine dies. A few seconds later, the lights rise into the air and disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobbs \(N.Mex.\) News-Sun, November 5, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3025 ### Event 14138 (1C8375DF) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Locations:** Levelland, Texas; Route 116 [now 114]; Pettit; Five Mile Road; Pettit, Texas **Description:** 10:50 p.m. Farmhand and veteran [Pedro Saucedo](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195253400/pedro-hernandez-saucedo) and Joe Salaz are driving four miles west of Levelland, Texas, on Route 116 \[now 114\] south of Pettit \(near its intersection with Five Mile Road\). They see a flash of light to the right of the road. Then a 200-foot-long, 6-foot-wide blue rocket-shaped object, with yellow flame and white smoke coming from the rear, rises up out of the field, heads straight toward their truck, passes directly overhead at about 200 feet with a loud thundering roar, a rush of wind, and great heat. Their truck engine dies and the headlights to go out. The UFO disappears in the east towards Levelland. The lights come back on spontaneously and the engine restarts. A frightened Saucedo calls the occurrence in to Patrolman A. J. Fowler of the Levelland sheriff’s office. At Pettit, Texas, the same night, two grain combines, each with two engines, fail as a UFO passes overhead. The Air Force calls the Levelland sightings ball lightning or St. Elmo’s fire, even though there are no electrical storms in the area. [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) calls it a mirage. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Levelland UFO case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelland%5FUFO%5Fcase)”; NICAP, “[The Levelland Sightings / Saucedo](http://www.nicap.org/571102levelland%5Fsaucedo%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Whatnik Sidelines Sputnik,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99448190/) [Woofnik,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99448293/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Star- Telegram, November 4, 1957, pp. 1–2; “[The Levelland Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2011%2000%20-%20Nov.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 1; “[Did the Air](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf) [Force Deceive the Public about the November Sightings?](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3 \(January 1958\): 1, 3; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 26–27, 32; Clark III 683–684; UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 141–142](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/140/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/140/mode/2up) [146–147](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/146/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 253; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 8; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 67–70](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/66/mode/2up); “[Levelland 1957,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=237)” Texas UFO Museum & Research Library, March 15, 2002; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Antonio F. Rullán, “The Southwestern UFO Wave of 1957,” IUR 31, no. 3 \(October 2007\): 8–15, 22; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 12–16, 43–55, 128–136, 150–152, 215–217, 234 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3026 ### Event 14139 (07D56885) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Location:** Shallowater, Texas **Description:** 11:55 p.m. Two married couples driving near Shallowater, Texas, see a flash of orange light in the southwestern sky. The headlights and radio of their car fail for three seconds as they see the light. The car motor is not affected. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 9; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 16, 220–221 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3027 ### Event 14140 (7BFFA51D) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Locations:** Route 51; Whitharral, Texas **Description:** About midnight. José Alvarez is driving along Route 51 in Whitharral, Texas, when he comes across a 200-foot-long object sitting in the road. His car engine stops as he approaches, and the headlights go out. At that point, the object rises quickly into the air. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 27–28; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3028 ### Event 14141 (CF45A48B) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Location:** Route 114 four miles east of Levelland, Texas **Description:** About midnight. Jim Wheeler sees a 200-foot-long, egg-shaped, brightly lit object on Route 114 four miles east of Levelland, Texas. As he gets close to it, his engine and lights cease functioning. He gets out of his car as the light ascends; its lights blink out, and his engine and lights resume functioning. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 27; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 17–18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3029 ### Event 14142 (3C410F3A) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Description:** Five kilometers west of Canadian, Texas military and civilian witnesses reported seeing a submarine-shaped object at 3:30 a.m. It was red and white, two or three times as long as a car, and at ground level. It was about three meters in height. A figure was seen standing near this object, and there was something else that witnessed to a white signal flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of the car's headlights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 418 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7414 ### Event 14143 (5BB532E3) **Date:** 11/2/1957 **Description:** Beginning at 10:50 p.m. in Levellend, Texas "...a number of motorists and police officers in different localities encountered at close range a luminous egg-shaped object estimated at about 200 feet in length. Several reports confirmed that when the object passed at close range car engines and lights failed. One report described how two men driving a truck watched as the object came near. The lights and engine failed, then the object passed directly over the vehicle with a sound like thunder and a rush of wind. The truck rocked from the blast and a lot of heat was felt. Later there were reports of apparently the same luminous object on the ground and taking off in other areas near Levelland. Reports of vehicle interference followed a similar pattern, with engines and lights returning to normal on the departure of the object." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 419 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7415 ### Event 14144 (B8C265E9) **Date:** 11/3/1957 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR GUNNISON, CO **Description:** 4 / rifle-scopes. Brilliant cone saucer over Ridgetop. Ringed / red and green lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 693) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5597 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2348", **HatchDesc:** "nr GUNNISON,CO:4/RIFLE-SCOPES:BRILL.CONE SCR OVR RIDGETOP:RINGED/RED+GRN LITES", **LatLong:** "38.550002 -106.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:33:00 N 106:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.550002,-106.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14145 (B14D9D73) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** NEAR BARAHONA, DOM.REP. **Description:** 2 huge silent saucers hover 100M / coffee works. Going quickly east. / r242p164+/ r46. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 697) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5598 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "nr BARAHONA,DOM.REP.:2 HUGE SLNT SCRS HVR 100M/COFFEE WORKS:>>E:/r242p164+/r46", **LatLong:** "18.250001 -71.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "18:15:00 N 71:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.250001,-71.250003)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "DMR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14146 (BCE6D971) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** SMYER, TX **Description:** Car dies. Ammeter-going down. 24M saucer on road. Shoots going quickly north and car OK. / r79p9+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5599 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1033", **HatchDesc:** "SMYER,TX:CAR DIES:AMMETER-↓:24M SCR on ROAD:shoots >>N and CAR OK:/r79p9+/r141", **LatLong:** "33.600002 -102.155560", **LatLongDMS:** "33:36:00 N 102:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.600002,-102.155560)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14147 (399E3DF5) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** ~00:10 **Location:** ANTON, TX **Description:** Constable L. Bollen and others. Cars stall as UFO going quickly [to] over. Type unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5600 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1037", **HatchDesc:** "ANTON,TX:CONSTABLE L.BOLLEN+OTHERS:CARS STALL AS UFO >>OVR:TYPE UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.811113 -102.161116", **LatLongDMS:** "33:48:40 N 102:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.811113,-102.161116)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14148 (058F31CE) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** WEST / LEVELLAND, TX **Description:** Big fireball hovers. Going down / road. Truck malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Fireball quickly going up [to] and truck restarts itself! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 603) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5601 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1073", **HatchDesc:** "W/LEVELLAND,TX:BIG FBL HVRS:↓/ROAD:TRUCK EMEs:FBL ↑↑+TRUCK RESTARTS ITSELF!", **LatLong:** "33.588890 -102.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:20 N 102:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.588890,-102.450005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14149 (D3E25000) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** WACO, TX **Description:** James D. Long's car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) as UFO passes near. Quickly going up [to] with a boom! / r46p115. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5602 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "WACO,TX:JAMES D.LONG'S CAR EMES as UFO PASSES NEAR:↑↑ with A BOOM!:/r46p115", **LatLong:** "31.550002 -97.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:33:00 N 97:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.550002,-97.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14150 (DDCDCC0C) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** TRINITY SITE, NM **Description:** 80M ovoid lands / 1st A-test site. Back / 2000h. / r111p92+/ r242p169. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5603 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "224", **Elev:** "1409", **HatchDesc:** "TRINITY SITE,NM:80M OVOID LANDS/1st ATEST SITE:BACK/2000h:/r111p92+/r242p169", **LatLong:** "33.683335 -106.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:00 N 106:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.683335,-106.500005)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14151 (A3D2D0A9) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** BOSTON, MA **Description:** 1 observer?? 30M lens-saucer on edge levels off. Turns on edge again and quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 708) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5604 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "BOSTON,MA:1 OBS??:30M LENS-SCR ON EDGE LEVELS OFF:TURNS ON EDGE AGAIN+↑↑", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -71.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 71:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-71.050003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14152 (39FA0FC0) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** SCOTIA, NE **Description:** Helicopter sound. Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. Observer(s) frozen. Hides / thick smoke. / MJ#235+/ r141#16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5605 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "640", **HatchDesc:** "SCOTIA,NE:COPTER SOUND:CGR HVRS:OBS FROZEN:HIDES/THICK SMOKE:/MJ#235+/r141#16", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -98.705560", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 98:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-98.705560)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14153 (0B733CBD) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SIBBALD, ALTA **Description:** 3 / PR9. Night light going [to] over car. Motor and lights act up. Going quickly northwest. / r242p164+/ r141#16p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5606 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "788", **HatchDesc:** "SIBBALD,ALTA:3/PR9:NLT >OVR CAR:MOTOR+LITES ACT UP:>>NW:/r242p164+/r141#16p5", **LatLong:** "51.561114 -110.177783", **LatLongDMS:** "51:33:40 N 110:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.561114,-110.177783)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14154 (197DA3CD) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** CLIFTON, AZ **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Silver hub-cap saucer going quickly west fast. Through clouds to horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 619) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5607 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1057", **HatchDesc:** "CLIFTON,AZ:NMRS SEP.OBS:SLVR HUB-CAP SCR >>W FAST:thru clouds to horizon", **LatLong:** "33.050002 -109.294450", **LatLongDMS:** "33:03:00 N 109:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.050002,-109.294450)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14155 (527DA618) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** DEMING, NM **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) and newsman. 200' saucer maneuvers / clear sky. 35' / film taken. Follows car? / r46p116. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5608 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1322", **HatchDesc:** "DEMING,NM:GOC+NEWSMAN:200'SCR MNVRs/CLR SKY:35'/FILM TAKEN:FOLOS CAR?:/r46p116", **LatLong:** "32.266668 -107.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:16:00 N 107:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.266668,-107.766672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14156 (ACA68DDC) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** YOKOHAMA, JPN **Description:** Several observer(s). Silent moon-size glowing-sphere/orb/globe north going quickly south. Similar at Tokyo / 1845h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5609 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "YOKOHAMA,JPN:SVRL OBS:SLNT MOONSIZE GLOW-ORB N>>S:similar at Tokyo/1845h", **LatLong:** "35.600002 139.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:36:00 N 139:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.600002,139.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14157 (6D969C64) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WICHITA FALLS, TX **Description:** Rain. Brief power outage. Ovoid going northwest. Southwest radio buzzes. / r242p165. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5610 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "304", **HatchDesc:** "WICHITA FALLS,TX:RAIN:BRIEF PWR OUTAGE:OVOID >NW:SW RADIO BUZZES:/r242p165", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -98.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 98:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-98.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14158 (7AEBCE03) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Air Traffic Controller Waddell. Odd-glow red object near San Angelo highway. / r141+/ r24 v1#3p3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5611 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "545", **HatchDesc:** "DYESS AFB,TX:ATC WADDELL:ODD-GLOW RED OBJ nr SAN ANGELO HWY:/r141+/r24 v1#3p3.", **LatLong:** "32.450002 -99.805560", **LatLongDMS:** "32:27:00 N 99:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.450002,-99.805560)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14159 (D6314D8E) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Levelland (9 miles E of ), TX **Description:** White or aluminum-colored oval-shaped object flat on the bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2113 ### Event 14160 (4DC35E37) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** MP incident, taped radio report (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [571103](http://www.nicap.org/571103wsdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2114 ### Event 14161 (3F9A1343) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Ararangua, Brazil **Description:** Airliner direction finder and transmitter - receiver burnt during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2115 ### Event 14162 (41248129) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Sao Vicente, Brazil **Description:** Ltaipu Fort electrical system failed, sentries received burns as UFO approached and hovered (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2117 ### Event 14163 (AAD8D477) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Calgary, Alta. (near ), CAN **Description:** Car motor missed, headlights flickered as UFO arced overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2118 ### Event 14164 (D4AF1572) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Time:** 0300 **Location:** White Sands, New Mexico **Description:** At Stallion Site, an army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, "apparently controlled," luminous object on the ground near the site of the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sunlike source 50 m above ground, descending to ground level after 3 min, and landing several km away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 238 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_420 ### Event 14165 (1AA60A6E) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Locations:** Texas Tech college; Smyer, Texas **Description:** 12:05 a.m. Texas Tech college student Newell H. Wright is driving west one mile west of Smyer, Texas, when the ammeter gauge on his car dashboard starts fluctuating widely. The car motor gradually goes out then the headlights and radio die. He gets out to check and sees a white or aluminum-colored, oval-shaped object flat on the bottom like a loaf of bread, with a bluish-green tint, about 75–125 feet long. After a few minutes, the object suddenly rises up from the road ahead and ascends almost vertically at great speed slightly to the north, disappearing in seconds. Afterward the car can start again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Oval-Shaped Object & EME on Ammeter](http://www.nicap.org/571103levelland%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 28–29; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 143](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/142/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 254; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Swords 253–256; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 16–17, 212–214 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3030 ### Event 14166 (CAF6D0FF) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Whitharral, Texas **Description:** 12:15 a.m. Frank Williams, a farmer, is near Whitharral, Texas, when he encounters an object described as an egg sitting on the crossroads. The UFO pulsates steadily; each time it glows bright, the car’s power goes on and off. The object leaves with a thunderous sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 29–30; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 143–144](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/140/mode/2up); Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3031 ### Event 14167 (3D30154B) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Locations:** Highway 116; Smyer, Texas **Description:** 12:45 a.m. Ronald Martin is on Highway 116 near Smyer, Texas, when he sees a glowing red UFO land ahead of his truck, then turn to bluish-green. The truck’s electrical system fails. When the UFO takes off, it turns reddish again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 30–31; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 144](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 18–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3032 ### Event 14168 (A611A980) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Locations:** Levelland (Texas); Oklahoma Flat **Description:** Around 1:00 a.m. Levelland \(Texas\) Fire Marshall Ray Jones, while out driving around and looking for some explanation of the many UFO reports, sees a “streak of light” north of the Oklahoma Flat. His headlights dim and engine sputters as he sees the light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 32; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 145–146](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3033 ### Event 14169 (5ADFDDBB) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Levelland, Texas **Description:** 1:15 a.m. James Long is 5 miles northwest of Levelland, Texas, on a farm-to-market road. He reports a bright object that is egg or oval-shaped, about 200 feet long, 200 feet away, sitting in the road. He hears a “thunderclap.” The car’s lights and motor quit. The object rises quickly and speeds away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 31; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 144–145](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3034 ### Event 14170 (11129EA2) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Hockley County (Texas) **Description:** 1:30 a.m. Near the same spot as James Long, Hockley County \(Texas\) Sheriff [Weir Clem](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21861246/weir-sam-clem) and Pat McCullough see a flash of light “like a brilliant red sunset” 300–400 yards to the south of them, lighting up the pavement. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 31–32; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up) [145–146](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 19–21, 170–181, 218–219 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3035 ### Event 14171 (F720BB66) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** White Sands Missile Test Range, New Mexico **Description:** About 3:00 a.m. Two MPs at White Sands Missile Test Range, New Mexico, Cpl. Glenn H. Toy and Pfc. James E. Wilbanks are making rounds in their jeep when they notice a bright object high in the sky. It drops down to about 150 feet and the light goes out. A few minutes later the light goes on again and it drops to the ground in a bunker area 3 miles away and goes out. The UFO is egg-shaped and about 225–300 feet in diameter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Three MPs Report Object over White Sands Base](http://www.nicap.org/571103whitesands%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 37–38; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 6; UFOEv, [p. 169](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=181&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 254; Swords 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 23–27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3036 ### Event 14172 (37B87321) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Location:** Sibbald, Alberta **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Edna Ireland is driving with two friends near Sibbald, Alberta, when a blinking light appears in the sky and passes nearly above the car toward the northwest. Their engine coughs and the headlights flicker. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Winnipeg \(Man.\) Tribune, November 7, 1957; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 239; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 42–43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3037 ### Event 14173 (77FAEC2E) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Locations:** Trinity Site; White Sands Proving Ground; New Mexico **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Army Specialist 3rd Class [Henry R. Barlow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/325380/henry-r-barlow) and Specialist 3rd Class Forest R. Oakes, Army Garrison Detachment 5, are in a jeep patrol driving west near the site of the first A-bomb explosion, Trinity Site, in White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. They see a pulsating red light thar turns to white, possibly 200– 300 feet in size and 4–5 miles away. It brightens and dims then sometimes goes out, rising in the sky from the ground or from about 50 feet over the bunker up to about 45° elevation until it looks like a star or point source. They watch it for 25 minutes before it disappears. Possibly Venus in the southwest, which sets at about 8:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 254; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 38; Randle, Levelland, 2021,pp. 27–31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3038 ### Event 14174 (F9A8BD0D) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Description:** The USSR launches [Sputnik 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2) carrying Laika the dog. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Sputnik 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3039 ### Event 14175 (AE02DA78) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Description:** A large number of reports around Levelland, Texas which began the night before continued in the early morning hours. They described a low-flying ovoid or cigar-shaped object, over 60 meters long, equipped with a bright light, and which interfered with car and truck ignition and electrical systems. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 136 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7428 ### Event 14176 (B156C931) **Date:** 11/3/1957 **Description:** At 3:00 a.m. at the Stallion Missile Test Site on the White Sands, New Mexico proving grounds an Army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, "apparently controlled," luminous object on the ground near the site of the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sun-like source 50 meters above ground, and it then descended to ground level after three minutes, landing several kilometers away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two U.S. Army witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 420 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7429 ### Event 14177 (72953D71) **Date:** 11/4/1957 (approximate) **Location:** FT. HOOD, TX **Description:** 20M luminous object lands. Army tanks electro-magnetic effect (EME) / overheat / approach. / KFJZ radio report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 830) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5612 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.HOOD,TX:20M LUMn.OBJ LANDS:ARMY TANKS EME/OVERHEAT/APPROACH:/KFJZ radio rpt", **LatLong:** "31.183335 -97.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:11:00 N 97:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.183335,-97.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14178 (6D77ECAD) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** USSR **Description:** Sputnik 2 launched. Laika = first dog in space. Alien dognappings follow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John Wallace: NO EARTHLY EXPLANATION; Bantam Books 1974. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5613 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Earth Orbit or seen from space stations/capsules", **Credibility:** "14", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "USSR: SPUTNIK 2 LAUNCHED:LAIKA=FIRST DOG in SPACE:alien dognappings follow", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "SOV", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14179 (C5CD08BA) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** ~00:10 **Location:** AMARILLO, TX **Description:** Glowing object / road surrounded / fog. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) entering fog. Battery dead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5614 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1105", **HatchDesc:** "AMARILLO,TX:GLOWING OBJ/ROAD SURROUNDED/FOG:CAR EMES ENTERING FOG:BATTERY DEAD", **LatLong:** "35.216668 -101.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:13:00 N 101:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.216668,-101.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14180 (F62F6DA3) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** SUNDOWN, TX **Description:** Orange fireball hovers. Lands / road. Truck lights and engine fail. Flies going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5615 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1074", **HatchDesc:** "SUNDOWN,TX:ORNG FBL HOVERS:LANDS/ROAD:TRUCK LITES+ENGINE FAIL:FLIES↑+AWAY", **LatLong:** "33.522224 -102.411116", **LatLongDMS:** "33:31:20 N 102:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.522224,-102.411116)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14181 (556D763C) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** ARARANGUA, BRZ **Description:** Varig C46 buzzed / red fireball. Electronics fried. / r242p120+/ r141#5p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5616 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "ARARANGUA,BRZ:VARIG C46 BUZZED/RED FBL:ELECTRONICS FRIED:/r242p120+/r141#5p20", **LatLong:** "-28.983335 -49.483336", **LatLongDMS:** "28:59:00 S 49:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.983335,-49.483336)", **State/Prov:** "STC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14182 (9CB53CBE) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** FORT ITAIPU, BRZ **Description:** Saucer over base. All electrical fails. Heat and radiation/radioactivity burns. / r47p23+/ r141#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5617 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "FORT ITAIPU,BRZ:SCR OVR BASE:ALL ELECTR.FAILS:HEAT+RDA BURNS:/r47p23+/r141#5", **LatLong:** "-23.966668 -46.383336", **LatLongDMS:** "23:58:00 S 46:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.966668,-46.383336)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14183 (C61F66A8) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** ELMWOOD PARK, IL **Description:** Electro-magnetic effect (EME). Ovoid hovers / cemetery. Cops chase going quickly west. / FSRv4#1+/ r55p172+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5618 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "194", **HatchDesc:** "ELMWOOD PARK,IL:EME:OVOID HVRS/CEMETERY:COPS CHASE >>W:/FSRv4#1+/r55p172+/r141", **LatLong:** "41.922224 -87.811115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:55:20 N 87:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.922224,-87.811115)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14184 (E0C5966C) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** US54 SOUTH / OROGRANDE, NM **Description:** Cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Ovoid maneuvers. Going quickly west. / MJ#235+/ FSRv4#1+/ r242p169+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5619 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1270", **HatchDesc:** "US54 S/OROGRANDE,NM:CARS EME:OVOID MNVRS:>>W:/MJ#235+/FSRv4#1+/r242p169+/r141", **LatLong:** "32.250002 -106.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:15:00 N 106:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.250002,-106.083338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14185 (F8511CCC) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** SPOONER, WI **Description:** 5 good observer(s). Fast ovoid flattens to cylinder/cigar-shape. / r242p164+r49p241+/ APRO 11'57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5620 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "328", **HatchDesc:** "SPOONER,WI:5 GOOD OBS:FAST OVOID FLATTENS to CGR:/r242p164+r49p241+/APRO 11'57", **LatLong:** "45.822224 -91.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "45:49:20 N 91:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.822224,-91.883338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14186 (1926DAAB) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** 14 MI NORTH / DICKINSON, ND **Description:** 3 observer(s). Colored bullet-shape slows and hovers / high altitude. Gains speed and going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 641) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5621 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "742", **HatchDesc:** "14mi N/DICKINSON,ND:3 OBS:CLRD BULLET-SHAPE SLOWS+HVRS/HI ALT:GAINS SPEED+>>S", **LatLong:** "47.050002 -102.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "47:03:00 N 102:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.050002,-102.800005)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14187 (A4FFD02C) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BORREGO SPRS, CA **Description:** Big red object flashes / 2 second(s) intervals. Low and below horizon. / r141#6p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5622 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "BORREGO SPRS,CA:BIG RED OBJ FLASHES/2sec INTERVALS:LOW+BELOW HRZN:/r141#6p37", **LatLong:** "33.255557 -116.372228", **LatLongDMS:** "33:15:20 N 116:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.255557,-116.372228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14188 (963DDF59) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Woman / home. Gold sphere/orb/globe. Hovers / west / 5 minute(s). Larger / moon. / r111p99+. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5623 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1490", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:WOMAN/HOME:GOLD ORB:HOVERS/WEST/5min:LARGER/MOON:/r111p99+", **LatLong:** "35.116668 -106.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:07:00 N 106:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.116668,-106.633338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14189 (0DE95BFE) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** KRAKOW, POLAND **Description:** Strange sphere = no satellite. Orange. Very fast. Flies going quickly northeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5624 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KRAKOW,POLAND:STRANGE SPHERE=NO SATELLITE:ORG:VERY FAST:FLIES>>NE:NFD", **LatLong:** "50.083336 20.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "50:05:00 N 20:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.083336,20.000001)", **State/Prov:** "CRA", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14190 (C23453A4) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** EL PASO, TX **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Ovoid going quickly northeast over car to mountains. Quickly going up [to] and away. / r79p11+/ r141#6p18. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5625 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1110", **HatchDesc:** "EL PASO,TX:CAR EMEs:OVOID >>NE OVR CAR to Mtns:↑↑+AWAY:/r79p11+/r141#6p18", **LatLong:** "31.766668 -106.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:46:00 N 106:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.766668,-106.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14191 (5591D437) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MONROE, LA **Description:** 4 observer(s). Gaseous car-sized body quickly going up [to] from roadside. No form seen. / r141#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5626 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "MONROE,LA:4 OBS:GASEOUS CAR-SIZED BODY ↑↑ from ROADSIDE:no form seen:/r141#6", **LatLong:** "32.511113 -92.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:30:40 N 92:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.511113,-92.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14192 (00D5513B) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** KODIAK, AK **Description:** Cop. Red fireball going west 15M over school. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) = 'dit-dit'. / r46p145+/ r141#6+/ r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5627 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "KODIAK,AK:COP:RED FBL >W 15M ovr SCHOOL:RFI='dit-dit':/r46p145+/r141#6+/r242", **LatLong:** "57.788892 -152.405563", **LatLongDMS:** "57:47:20 N 152:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.788892,-152.405563)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14193 (7979D1BB) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 2 Air Traffic Controllers. Night light cavorts and tails jets etc. / 5 minute(s). RADAR / 20 min. Going east. / r0p87. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5628 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1510", **HatchDesc:** "KIRTLAND AFB,NM:2 ATCs:NLT CAVORTS+TAILS JETS etc./5min:RDR/20MIN:>E:/r0p87", **LatLong:** "35.050002 -106.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:00 N 106:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.050002,-106.633338)", **RelAlt:** "1000", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14194 (75FC7169) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Elmwood Park, IL **Description:** Squad car lights and spotlight dimmed as police pursued low-flying UFO (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2119 ### Event 14195 (C516EF79) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Egg-shaped UFO hovers over base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [571104](http://www.nicap.org/571104kirtland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2120 ### Event 14196 (854EC7C5) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Kodiak, AK **Description:** A "steady dit-dit-dit" interference on police radio during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2121 ### Event 14197 (315436FF) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Orogrande, NM **Description:** Stokes Case (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [571104](http://www.nicap.org/571104orogrande%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2122 ### Event 14198 (312B2C7C) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Toronto, Ont., CAN **Description:** TV interference (audio); viewers called out by neighbors to see UFO (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2123 ### Event 14199 (D3646198) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Elmwood Park, IL **Description:** Police and witness saw red-orange cigar-shaped object - they chased it (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2124 ### Event 14200 (606933AE) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** El Paso (3 miles SE of airport), TX **Description:** Egg shaped object w/bluish glow approaching from the SW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2125 ### Event 14201 (672B8C4D) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Albuquerque (Kirtland AFB), NM **Description:** Highly maneuverable 15-20 ft egg-shaped object w/white light at its base (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2126 ### Event 14202 (41549879) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Time:** 0315 **Location:** Elmwood Park, Illinois **Description:** Two policemen, Joseph Lukasek and Clifford Schau, and a third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from them, coming down. The car hadlights functioned properly again and they drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall. They turned off all lights and watched the object for two min. It played "hide and seek" with them as they tried to reach its location. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 240; 113 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_421 ### Event 14203 (8E801990) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Grenada, Spain; Córdoba **Description:** Portuguese Air Force Capt. Lenos Ferreira is conducting a training mission at the head of three jet fighters over Grenada, Spain, when he observes a luminous object changing color from an intense green to bright red. The object maintains a constant altitude while oscillating. Ferreira orders a change of course toward Córdoba, but the object follows his group for 40 minutes, dropping four smaller objects that also accompany the jets. Suddenly the objects go into a dive and disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[UFO Chasing Jet Fighter Squadron, Lisbon, 1957](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/lisboa57.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3040 ### Event 14204 (4855AF65) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Amarillo, Texas; Palo Duro Canyon **Description:** After 12:00 midnight. A young couple are returning to Amarillo, Texas, from Palo Duro Canyon when they see a glowing object in the middle of the road, surrounded by fog. As they drive closer and enter the fog, the car engine and battery die. Another car has to push them into town to get the battery recharged. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Amarillo \(Tex.\) Daily News, November 4, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 43–44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3041 ### Event 14205 (B1765776) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Porto Alegre; São Paulo, Brazil; Araranguá, Santa Catarina **Description:** 1:30 a.m. Chief Pilot Captain Jean Vincent de Beyssac and his copilot are flying a Varig Airlines C-46 cargo plane from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. They are near Araranguá, Santa Catarina, when de Beyssac notices a red light on his left. It seems to be getting bigger, so he banks towards it out of curiosity. The light gets much bigger then begins to glow more brilliantly. The pilot and copilot smell smoke and, as they are looking for the source, the light disappears. De Beyssac returns to Porto Alegre. It turns out that the right engine’s magneto \(or generator\), automatic direction finder, and the radio \(both receiver and transmitter\) have burnt out, allegedly simultaneously. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Aircraft Encounters UFO / ADF, etc. Affected](http://www.nicap.org/571104brazil%5Fdir.htm)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[Top Secret Report](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf) [Unveiled,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 5–6; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [p. 155](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n159/mode/2up); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 126–127; Patrick Gross, “[UFO / Aircraft Close Encounter in Brazil, 1957](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/varig57.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3042 ### Event 14206 (B2F55B25) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Fortaleza de Itaipu in Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Two sentries at the Fortaleza de Itaipu in Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil, watch an orange object approaching the fort. It holds its course until it is directly above them. Its diameter is at least as large as the wingspan of a DC-3 and scarcely 300 feet away. Suddenly there is a strange buzzing noise and the men feel a wave of glowing heat. One of them collapses on the spot, but the other succeeds in reaching safety in the shadow of the gun emplacements. His shouts of alarm rouse his comrades inside the fort, where the lights suddenly go out. In the meantime, the emergency power is switched on but immediately gives out. Only a few minutes after the alarm, two other men are out of the fort and at their sides. They too see the UFO, which is now heading out to sea. It leaves a luminous trail as it shoots away across the Atlantic. The two sentries are taken to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. They suffer second and third-degree burns on large areas of their body, chiefly in areas covered by clothing. Afterwards, Brazilian Army and USAF personnel, along with investigators of the Brazilian Air Force, fly to the fort to interview them. There is some reason to think that [Olavo T. Fontes](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) made this case up, as no first- hand witnesses to the event have come forward. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Fort Itaipu Incident](http://www.nicap.org/571103itaipu%5Fdir.htm)”; Wikipedia, “[Caso do Forte de](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso%5Fdo%5FForte%5Fde%5FItaipu) [Itaipu](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso%5Fdo%5FForte%5Fde%5FItaipu)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[Top Secret Report Unveiled,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 6–7; Jules Lemaître, “[A Strange Story from Brazil,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJan-Feb%2CV%206%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1960\): 9–11; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 135–140; Kevin D. Randle, “[Fort Itaipu and Footnotes,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/fort-itaipu-and-footnotes.html)” A Different Perspective, October 12, 2014; Kevin D. Randle, “[Fort Itaipu and Olavo Fontes Revisited,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/06/fort-itaipu-and-olavo-fontes-revisited.html)” A Different Perspective, June 15, 2016; Clark 537 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3043 ### Event 14207 (EB6711C6) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Location:** Elmwood Park, Illinois **Description:** 3:12 a.m. At Elmwood Park, Illinois, three policemen \(Clifford Shaw, [Joseph Lukasek](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138496096/joseph-f%5F-lukasek), and Dan Diglovanni\) see a bright cigar-shaped object in the sky. The headlights and spotlight on the squad car dim. The car chases the UFO for a mile and a half, which dips and rises before speeding off. Fireman Bob Volz also sees a reddish-orange UFO about the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Bright Cylinder Chased by Police, E-M Effects](http://www.nicap.org/571104elmwoodpark%5Fdir.htm)”; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 239; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 117; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 90–91; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 22–27; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 255 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3044 ### Event 14208 (957C018F) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico; Orogrande, New Mexico; Sacramento Mountains **Description:** 1:10 p.m. James W. Stokes, electronics technician at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, is driving on US 54 about 8 miles south of Orogrande, New Mexico. The car radio fades, and the car slows as if the battery is failing. Stokes notices 6–12 cars ahead of him have also stopped and drivers are out looking at the sky \(looking behind him to the northeast\), including a Mr. Duncan and Allan D. Baker. Stokes stops and gets out, sees a pearl-white oval or egg-shaped object about 500 feet wide with a slight purplish tinge heading south at an estimated speed of 1,500–2,000 mph. It is below the elevation angle of the Sacramento Mountains ridgeline, descending from about 5,000 feet above ground level in a shallow dive to about 1,500–2,500 feet altitude as it swerves to pass to the south of Stokes and the other stopped cars. At its closest it is about 2–5 miles away. It then circles around headed west and disappears. The same or another object appears in the northeast \(as if the object has completely circled\) and performs the same rounded course but passing farther to the south of the parked cars and disappears in the west. Duncan takes a 35mm film of the object. Stokes notices a wave of heat from the object at closest approach. Later that evening he is sunburned, but it clears up the next day. The Air Force calls it a hoax based on the Levelland sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Stokes Incident](http://www.nicap.org/571104orogrande%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The New Mexico Story,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2011%2000%20-%20Nov.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, pp. 1–2; L. J. Lorenzen, “[The Stokes Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1958, pp. 2, 6; UFOEv, [p. 169](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=181&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 39–42; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 255; Swords 256–259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 32–42, 228 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3045 ### Event 14209 (428CF22A) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Texas state border; El Paso Airport; Texas; Franklin Mountains **Description:** 7:30 p.m. A Texas state border inspector is driving 3 miles southeast of El Paso Airport in Texas when his car engine stalls and the headlights go dim then out. He gets out and notices an object approaching that is making a whirring sound like an artillery shell. It passes above his car at about 150 feet, heading west and changing altitude occasionally. When it gets to the Franklin Mountains, it lifts into the air vertically. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Egg-Shaped](http://www.nicap.org/571104elpaso%5Fdir.htm) [Object Stalls Car](http://www.nicap.org/571104elpaso%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 181](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/180/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3046 ### Event 14210 (DB3D50CA) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Kodiak, Alaska; Mission Road **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Jan Boucher, a policeman in Kodiak, Alaska, sees a red ball of fire with a greenish-yellow trail as he is patrolling on Mission Road. It apparently moves 50 feet above a nearby school. He tries to radio in a report but his radio gets interference for 2 minutes after the sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anchorage \(Alaska\) Daily News, November 7, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 89–90 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3047 ### Event 14211 (39C8D740) **Date:** 11/4/1957 **Locations:** Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Area; Albuquerque Low Frequency Range Station **Description:** 10:45 p.m. CAA air traffic controllers R. M. Kaser and E. G. Brink see a highly maneuverable 15–20-foot egg-shaped object with a white light at its base circle over one end of Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 150–200 mph. It comes down in a steep 30° dive as if landing on Runway 26 to the north of the tower at about 1,500 feet. Radar tracks part of this maneuver. The object then crosses the flight line, runways, and taxiways heading towards the tower at about 50 mph and 20–30 feet above ground, observed through 7x binoculars until it reaches about 3,000 feet near the northeast corner of the flood-lit restricted Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Area and a B-58 bomber service site. It hovers for 20–60 seconds, then heads east again at about 200–300 feet altitude. Suddenly it shoots up in a steep climb. Controllers contact Radar Approach Control, which tracks the object on CPN-18 radar traveling east, then turning south, circling the Albuquerque Low Frequency Range Station. It then heads north, disappearing at 10 miles and reappearing 20 minutes later to follow 1/2 mile behind a USAF C-46 that has just taken off to the south. It continues for 14 miles until both go off the scope. A hovering radar target then appears to the north over an outer marker for 90 seconds before fading. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Kirtland AFB UFO sighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland%5FAFB%5FUFO%5Fsighting)”; NICAP, “[Kirtland UFO Incident / Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/571104kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 256; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 87–90](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/86/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 141–143](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/140/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[The Kirtland Airfield UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%205.pdf),” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1970\): 6–8; Swords 259–260 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3048 ### Event 14212 (84685049) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Kearney, NE **Description:** Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks to spacepeople **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_155 ### Event 14213 (42F2A907) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Loveland, TX **Description:** A single investigator from Project Blue Book headquarters arrived at Loveland, TX. He interviewed only two persons who had stalled cars and reported that all the UFO activity in Texas between Nov. 2–4 was the result of a “rather heavy electrical storm…All witnesses saw the same streak of lightning…which stimulated the populace into a high level of excitement….and resulted in an inflation of stories by some witnesses.” **Type:** investigation **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_577 ### Event 14214 (C5A9963A) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** FUNCHAL, MADEIRA ISLANDS **Description:** Luminous ovoid flies over city. Fast. Reflects various colors. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5629 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FUNCHAL,MADEIRA Isls:LUM.OVOID FLIES OVR CITY:FAST:REFLECTS VARIOUS COLORS", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -16.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 16:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-16.866667)", **State/Prov:** "MDR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14215 (874535ED) **Date:** 11/5/1957 (approximate) **Location:** DECATUR, MI **Description:** News-editor and police chief and cops and hundreds. Strange UFO. Type unknown. Useless. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5630 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "238", **HatchDesc:** "DECATUR,MI:NEWS-EDITOR+POLICE CHIEF+COPS+100s:STRANGE UFO:TYPE UNK:useless.", **LatLong:** "42.105558 -85.972226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:20 N 85:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.105558,-85.972226)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 14216 (572FA04B) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** DURANGO, CO **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver moon passes fast. Flipped over = ovoid. / r141#16p8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5631 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1988", **HatchDesc:** "DURANGO,CO:2 OBS:SLVR MOON PASSES FAST:FLIPPED OVR = OVOID:/r141#16p8", **LatLong:** "37.266668 -107.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:00 N 107:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.266668,-107.883338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14217 (6F738127) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** BEAUMONT, TX **Description:** Police Captain and 5 cops and reporter. Large night light maneuvers. Type unknown. / APRO Nov'57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5632 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUMONT,TX:POLICE Capt+5 COPS+REPORTER:LRG NLT MNVRS:TYPE UNK:/APRO Nov'57", **LatLong:** "30.066668 -94.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:04:00 N 94:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.066668,-94.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14218 (6703AAD5) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** NEAR DIXON, CA **Description:** Trucker. Meteor going down [to] fast. Slows. Hovers and pulsates in place. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5633 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "nr DIXON,CA:TRUCKER:METEOR ↓ FAST:SLOWS:HVRS+PULSATES IN PLACE:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.444446 -121.822228", **LatLongDMS:** "38:26:40 N 121:49:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.444446,-121.822228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14219 (7960B532) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** NORTH BRONX, NY **Description:** 2 observer(s). Domed saucer spins / park. Portholes. Hovers / tree-height. / r242+/ r141#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5634 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "N.BRONX,NY:2 OBS:DOMED SCR SPINS/PARK:PORTHOLES:HVRS/TREE-HEIGHT:/r242+/r141#6", **LatLong:** "40.866669 -73.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:52:00 N 73:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.866669,-73.883337)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14220 (0BAB1160) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** GALESBURG, IL **Description:** Dog barks. Fiery orange ovoid hovers. Then going quickly northwest. / Paxton Record 6 Nov. '57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 650) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5635 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "236", **HatchDesc:** "GALESBURG,IL:DOG BARKS:FIERY ORG.OVOID HVRS:THEN >>NW:/Paxton Record 6NOV57", **LatLong:** "40.950002 -90.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:57:00 N 90:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.950002,-90.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14221 (324CBB41) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 05:10 **Location:** GULF / MEXICO **Description:** CG cutter Sebago. RADAR-visual (observation). Several blips. 1 going north 3300mph. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v4#1+/ MJ#235. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5636 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "27", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GULF/MEXICO:CG CUTTER SEBAGO:RDR-VIS:SVRL BLIPS:1>N 3300mph:/FSR v4#1+/MJ#235", **LatLong:** "28.000001 -90.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "28:00:00 N 90:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.000001,-90.500004)", **State/Prov:** "GMX", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14222 (82795ABD) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, MS **Description:** Airman. Ovoid going north. Rapidly speeds up into clouds. No further details / r141#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5637 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "KEESLER AFB,MS:AIRMAN:OVOID >N:RAPIDLY SPEEDS UP INTO CLOUDS:NFD/r141#6", **LatLong:** "30.405557 -88.922226", **LatLongDMS:** "30:24:20 N 88:55:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.405557,-88.922226)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14223 (A2266651) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** NEAR SANTA MONICA, CA **Description:** 4 cars stalled. Saucer / beach. Small humanoids (or Greys) ask many dumb questions / telepathy. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5638 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr SANTA MONICA,CA:4 CARS STALLED:SCR/BEACH:OIDS ASK MANY DUMB QUESTIONS/TLP", **LatLong:** "34.016668 -118.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:01:00 N 118:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.016668,-118.466672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14224 (888983EA) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright planet object zigzags. Cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Roars. Going quickly southeast. / r242p165. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5639 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:SVRL OBS:BRITE PLANET OBJ ZIGZAGS:CARS EME:ROARS:>>SE:/r242p165", **LatLong:** "29.733335 -95.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:44:00 N 95:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.733335,-95.366671)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14225 (12E37D0C) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** EAST ST. LOUIS, IL **Description:** 3 railroad/railway men. 2 silvery ovoids going quickly [to] overhead / high speed. No further details. / r78p179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RIDGE, Francis: REGIONAL ENCOUNTERS in the FC Files. 170pp. UFO FILTER CENTER, Mt. Vernon, IN 1994 (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5640 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "E.ST.LOUIS,IL:3 RR MEN:2 SILVERY OVOIDS >>OVHD/HIGH SPEED:NFD:/r78p179", **LatLong:** "38.616669 -90.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:37:00 N 90:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.616669,-90.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14226 (47F06F44) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** SOUTH / LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and weathermen and more/others. 6 saucers play / storm. / MJ#235+/ r141#6+APRO 5'58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5641 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S/LONG BEACH,CA:ATCs+WEATHERMEN++:6 SCRS PLAY/STORM:/MJ#235+/r141#6+APRO 5'58", **LatLong:** "33.616668 -118.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:37:00 N 118:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.616668,-118.200006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14227 (810521E7) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Orange cylinder/cigar-shape over Holloman Air Force Base and orange night light going north going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5642 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "SE/ALAMOGORDO,NM:2 SEP.OBS:ORANGE CGR OVR HOLLOMAN AFB+ORG NLT GOING N>>E", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -105.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 105:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-105.916672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14228 (570D76FE) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** HAVERHILL, MASS **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observers. Disk vibrates going up [to] & going down [to] and side-to-side. No further details. / r78p179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5643 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "HAVERHILL,MASS:GOC OBSs:DISK VIBRATES ↑&↓ AND SIDE-TO-SIDE:NFD:/r78p179", **LatLong:** "42.777780 -71.077781", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:40 N 71:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.777780,-71.077781)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14229 (D6BCC2C3) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** OFF CLEARWATER, FL **Description:** 20+observer(s). Brill cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / high altitude. USAF jets show (too low.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 819) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5644 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off CLEARWATER,FL:20+OBS:BRILL CGR HVRS/HIGH ALT:USAF JETS SHOW (too low)", **LatLong:** "28.083335 -82.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "28:05:00 N 82:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.083335,-82.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14230 (0A419059) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** SAVANNAH R., SC **Description:** Red glowing-ball hovers over Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) plant. RADAR. Possible scramble. / r43p029. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5645 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SAVANNAH R.,SC:RED GLO-BALL HVRS ovr AEC PLANT::RDR:poss.scramble:/r43p029", **LatLong:** "33.300002 -81.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:18:00 N 81:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.300002,-81.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14231 (975A65A8) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** NORTH / WABASH, IN **Description:** White luminous object 500' / farm. Going quickly southwest. Reappears 15 minute(s) later. Hums and turns. P244. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 244) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5646 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "241", **HatchDesc:** "N/WABASH,IN:WHT LUM OBJ 500'/FARM:>>SW:REAPPEARS 15min LATER:HUMS+TURNS:p244", **LatLong:** "40.900002 -85.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:00 N 85:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.900002,-85.816671)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14232 (EA2957BC) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** DAUPHIN, MBA **Description:** 20 observer(s) / wide area. Silver-orange saucer-ovoid variously described. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5647 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "284", **HatchDesc:** "DAUPHIN,MBa:20 OBS/WIDE AREA:SLVR-ORG SCR-OVOID VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED:NFD", **LatLong:** "51.150002 -100.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "51:09:00 N 100:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.150002,-100.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14233 (5B54E241) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** MCMINNVILLE, OR **Description:** Orange glow egg-shape hovers / chicken farm. Lights ground. Away fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 674) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5648 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "49", **HatchDesc:** "McMINNVILLE,OR:ORG.GLOW EGG-SHAPE HVRS/CHICKEN FARM:LITES GROUND:AWAY FAST", **LatLong:** "45.233335 -123.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:14:00 N 123:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.233335,-123.183339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14234 (060E8AC6) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** RED BANK, TN **Description:** Glowing pulsing object hovers by clouds. Finally rises until gone. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5649 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "RED BANK,TN:GLOWING PULSING OBJ HVRS by CLOUDS:FINALLY RISES UNTIL GONE:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.100002 -85.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:06:00 N 85:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.100002,-85.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14235 (18316F04) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** WINNIPEG, MBA **Description:** Shiny silver object hovers. Shifts left and right. Going quickly southwest as RCAF planes near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5650 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "WINNIPEG,MBa:SHINY SLVR OBJ HVRS:SHIFTS LEFT+RIGHT:>>SW AS RCAF PLANES NEAR", **LatLong:** "49.883336 -97.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "49:53:00 N 97:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.883336,-97.166671)", **State/Prov:** "MTB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14236 (84F295E9) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** STORNOWAY, SCOTLAND **Description:** Coast guards and more/others. Oval fireball going [to] over Hebrides islands / 17 minute(s). Large flames. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5651 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "17", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STORNOWAY,SCOTL:COAST GUARDS++:OVAL FBL >OVR HEBRIDES ISLS/17min:LRG FLAMES", **LatLong:** "58.211114 -6.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "58:12:40 N 06:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.211114,-6.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14237 (06826135) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** HEDLEY, TX **Description:** Pulsating blue-green object near ground. Shape unknown. TV reception affected. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5652 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "801", **HatchDesc:** "HEDLEY,TX:PULSATING BLU-GRN OBJ nr GND:SHAPE UNK:TV RECEPTION AFFECTED:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.866668 -100.661116", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:00 N 100:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.866668,-100.661116)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14238 (E3BA9CEC) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** ANTIOCH, IL **Description:** 2 / car. Luminous/glowing saucer follows car. Bobs going up and down. Swish noise. TV Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) / Ringwood. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5653 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "ANTIOCH,IL:2/CAR:LUMn SCR FOLOS CAR:BOBS ↑+↓:SWISH NOISE:TV RFI/RINGWOOD:/r141", **LatLong:** "42.477780 -88.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:28:40 N 88:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.477780,-88.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14239 (4DA69AD2) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** OTTAWA, ONT **Description:** Physics professor Jacques Hebert. Rocket-shaped device goes overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5654 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "OTTAWA,ONT:PHYSICS PROFESSOR JACQUES HEBERT:ROCKET-SHAPED DEVICE GOES OVERHEAD", **LatLong:** "45.383335 -75.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:23:00 N 75:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.383335,-75.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14240 (EF66BE48) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** BILTHOVEN, NETHL **Description:** Odd torpedo-shaped object stops over town. Going east. No further details. / Disc Digest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 683) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5655 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BILTHOVEN,NETHL:ODD TORPEDO-SHAPED OBJ STOPS OVR TOWN:>E:NFD:/Disc Digest", **LatLong:** "52.133336 5.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:08:00 N 05:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.133336,5.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14241 (5325F007) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 1 / moving-van. Night light alternates bright and dim. Possible landing. / r111p99+. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5656 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1600", **HatchDesc:** "SW/ALBUQUERQUE,NM:1/MOVING-VAN:NLT ALTERNATES BRITE+DIM:POSS LANDING:/r111p99+", **LatLong:** "35.050002 -106.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:00 N 106:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.050002,-106.683338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14242 (2A27907D) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** JOHANNESBURG, RSA AND WIDE AREA **Description:** Cylinders hover / 2 hours. Maneuver against wind. / FSRv4#1+/ r141#7p49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5657 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "JOHANNESBURG,RSA+WIDE AREA:CYLs HVR/2hrs:MNVR AGAINST WIND:/FSRv4#1+/r141#7p49", **LatLong:** "-26.116668 27.883335", **LatLongDMS:** "26:07:00 S 27:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.116668,27.883335)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14243 (AB96EDAA) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SAN ANTONIO, TX **Description:** Car radio and lights electro-magnetic effect (EME). 18M saucer / field. Going up [to] and going southeast. Heat felt. / r79p11+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5658 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "SAN ANTONIO,TX:CAR RADIO+LITES EME:18M SCR/FIELD:↑+>SE:HEAT FELT:/r79p11+/r141", **LatLong:** "29.450001 -98.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:27:00 N 98:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.450001,-98.500005)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14244 (CB237A30) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** DUNNOTAR, RSA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Huge cylinder/cylindrical object hovers. Hides / clouds when hit / spotlights. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v4#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5659 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "DUNNOTAR,RSA:100s/OBS:HUGE CYL.HVRS:HIDES/CLOUDS WHEN HIT/SPOTLITES:/FSR v4#1", **LatLong:** "-26.355557 28.472224", **LatLongDMS:** "26:21:20 S 28:28:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.355557,28.472224)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14245 (4DA47F7B) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** NEW CASTLE, IN **Description:** Big silent platter hovers over 3 / car. Beams going down. Night lights follow. / r49p245. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 690) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5660 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "331", **HatchDesc:** "NEW CASTLE,IN:BIG SLNT PLATTER HVRS ovr 3/CAR:BEAMS ↓:NLTS FOLO:/r49p245", **LatLong:** "39.927780 -85.372226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:40 N 85:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.927780,-85.372226)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14246 (51BD9AB4) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** US62 38 MI WITH HOBBS, NM **Description:** Night light / road. Quickly going up [to] over oil pipeline plant. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). More. / r79p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 689) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5661 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1200", **HatchDesc:** "US62 38mi W/HOBBS,NM:NLT/ROAD:↑↑ OVR OIL PIPELINE PLANT:CAR EMES:MORE:/r79p12", **LatLong:** "32.561113 -103.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:33:40 N 103:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.561113,-103.683338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14247 (19FCD308) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Long Beach (Airport), CA **Description:** Zibello (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2127 ### Event 14248 (005A6419) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Eglin AFB, FL **Description:** (McDonald list) AN/FPS-16 Tracks at High Altitude (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571105](http://www.nicap.org/571105eglin%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2128 ### Event 14249 (E4DB1622) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Selma, AL **Description:** 3 USAF pilots at Selma saw a bright object flash from S to N; The CG Cutter Sebago Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571105](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2129 ### Event 14250 (02B74891) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Scotia, NE **Description:** Balloon-like, elongated object coming to ground level, w/o touching down (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2130 ### Event 14251 (E2948436) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Ft. Oglethorpe, GA **Description:** Brilliant round orange object hovered, revolving; television blacked out (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2131 ### Event 14252 (96FA2500) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Gulf of Mexico, At Sea **Description:** The Coast Guard Cutter Sebago Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [571105](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2132 ### Event 14253 (E1801E93) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Hedley, TX **Description:** Farmer saw UFO; neighbor reported TV off at same time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2133 ### Event 14254 (91DED16A) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Hobbs, NM **Description:** Speeding car, motor failed, lights went out as UFO swooped over car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2134 ### Event 14255 (10B6EA62) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Philadelphia, PA **Description:** Apartment lights dead, electric clock stopped; bright light awakened couple. Milkman reported flaming disc (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2135 ### Event 14256 (3CC5B9E3) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Ringwood, IL **Description:** UFO followed car returning to town. TV sets in town dimmed, finally lost both picture and sound during same period of time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2136 ### Event 14257 (D4823D5B) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** San Antonio (near), TX **Description:** Car radio quit, headlights dimmed, engine stopped; UFO seen hovering low over field (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2137 ### Event 14258 (1BC5FB90) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Springfield, OH **Description:** Car and cab stalled as UFO observed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2138 ### Event 14259 (44AA9B4A) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** East St. Louis, IL **Description:** Three Alton & Southern Railroad employees saw two silvery, egg-shaped UFOs.(UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2139 ### Event 14260 (4541FDD7) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** Haverhill, MA **Description:** Ground Observer Corps reported a circular or spherical glowing object which appeared to vibrate up and down and from side to side while hovering. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2140 ### Event 14261 (9A60EA49) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Location:** New Castle, Indiana **Description:** An object looking like "a big meat platter" was seen at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 245 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_422 ### Event 14262 (6A1729AB) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 0430 **Location:** New York City, New York **Description:** In Van Cortland Park, Frank C. was talking with a bus driver when they saw in the park, about 400 m away, a metallic object shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree-height. A yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off "like a shooting star." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 241 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_423 ### Event 14263 (68AFB411) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Time:** 1730 **Location:** Scotia, Nebraska **Description:** A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and perceived a "burning" odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The witness was "paralyzed" during the observation. The object appeared to have generated thick smoke. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_424 ### Event 14264 (09BD34F4) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Locations:** Gulf of Mexico; Mobile, Alabama **Description:** 5:10 a.m. The US Coast Guard Cutter [Sebago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%5FSebago%5F%28WHEC-42%29) \(WHEC-42\), Commander [Clarence H. Waring Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49333776/clarence-henry-waring), cruising in the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles south of Mobile, Alabama, tracks a radar target at a range of 22 miles moving at 650 mph. It disappears at 55 miles range. Three other unusual radar contacts are made in the next 10 minutes. A visual object like a brilliant planet is seen at 5:21 a.m. speeding north to south for five seconds by Ensign Wayne Schotley, Lt. Donald E. Shaffer, 1stClass Quartermaster Kenneth Smith, and radio operator Thomas Kirk. The Air Force ascribes it to confused radar operators who mistake ordinary plane blips for a UFO. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Coast Guard Cutter](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) [Sebago](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) [a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 50–51; Condon, [pp. 165–167](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/164/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 256; Swords 260–262 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3049 ### Event 14265 (1ADA8D0F) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Locations:** Kearney, Nebraska; Oakland, California; Tulare County **Description:** Late afternoon. Grain buyer [Reinhold O. Schmidt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold%5FO.%5FSchmidt) is driving through the countryside near Kearney, Nebraska, when he notices a large, cigar-shaped object resting in a field. He is soon escorted inside the spaceship, which turns out to be crewed by completely human-looking space aliens, four males and two females, who apparently speak perfect German and claim to be from the planet Saturn. They also claim to be interested in the recently launched Russian sputniks and the satellite-launching plans of the US. Later Schmidt brings local police to view the landing site, where they find deep imprints and some “mysterious green residue.” Schmidt also claims subsequent visits to the spaceship and many friendly conversations with its learned crew. Schmidt notices they drink MJB brand coffee, and also carry in their cigar-shaped craft an ordinary terrestrial MG sports car, which they use for running errands and buying groceries. \(A schematic drawing of the ship’s interior in Schmidt’s later booklet depicts a Volkswagen Beetle.\) Unlike most spaceships, the Saturnian ship has large propellers at both ends. Eventually Schmidt gets a ride up to earth orbit and a tour of the mother ship. On October 26, 1961, Schmidt is convicted in Oakland, California, for grand theft after bilking a widow out of $5,000 for a worthless mining venture in Tulare County, where he claims to have seen huge quartz crystals from a spaceship. Judge [Donald K. Quayle](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40784320/obituary-donald-k-quayle-1991/) sentences him to 1–10 years in prison. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1038–1039; Swords 262; Curt Collins, “[The](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-trial-of-ufo-gold-digger.html) [Trial of a UFO Gold Digger,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-trial-of-ufo-gold-digger.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 27, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3050 ### Event 14266 (98E300B1) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Description:** The Department of Defense Office of Public Affairs issues a new UFO fact sheet, emphasizing the high percentage of explained cases and the lack of a threat to national security. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 107](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=119&skin=2021); Swords 262 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3051 ### Event 14267 (1EF80817) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Locations:** Antioch, Illinois; Ringwood **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Larry and Marilynn Beaman are driving near Antioch, Illinois, when they notice a ball of fire fluctuating from white to yellow pacing their car on the right side, about 1,000 feet up. It goes out for a time then switches back on. At its largest, it seems 30 feet in diameter. It follows them all the way to Ringwood and then lands in some trees behind a school building two blocks from where they live. It glitters like a welder’s arc and makes a sound like water swishing. Beaman rounds up some other witnesses and goes back to the landing site, but the object takes off, changes to purple, and moves away to the southwest. TV sets in town dim, finally losing both picture and sound during the same time period. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 104–109 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3052 ### Event 14268 (6267BEE9) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Locations:** Woodstock, Illinois; Genoa City; Delavan, Wisconsin **Description:** 8:43 p.m. A witness in Woodstock, Illinois, sees a large, red, triangular object with a green light in the front and a yellow light in the rear. It makes a low droning sound and moves west to east. Woodstock police officers and another individual in Genoa City see the same object. At 10:15 p.m., an amber or orange UFO 200 feet long is seen for 5 minutes at Delavan, Wisconsin. Project Blue Book claims it is an aurora or jet aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Marler 131–132 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3053 ### Event 14269 (A50D9A92) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Locations:** US Highway 81; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Civil service employee Lon Yarborough is driving along US Highway 81 about 1.5 miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas, when he sees an extremely bright object settle down in a ravine about 600 feet from him. The egg-shaped object is approximately 60 foot long and causes the lights and engine of his car to fail. The object rests a few minutes and finally takes off to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** San Antonio \(Tex.\) Light, November 6, 1957; NICAP, “[60ʹ Egg-Shaped Object Disables Auto](http://www.nicap.org/571105sanantonio%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 44–45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3054 ### Event 14270 (F62FF60D) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Locations:** US Highway 62; Hobbs, New Mexico; Permian Basin Pipeline plant **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Two young men see a red light north of US Highway 62 at a point 38 miles west of Hobbs, New Mexico. They watch for 9–10 minutes, thinking it is an oil flare, but the light suddenly rises straight up. After pacing their car for a few minutes, the light turns toward the car, passes over it, and hovers over the Permian Basin Pipeline plant. As it passes overhead, the car engine sputters, then dies, and the lights go out. After the men coast the car down the road, the motor restarts and they drive away. The battery is found to be dead the following morning and the dashboard clock is stopped. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 45–47; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3055 ### Event 14271 (0B69CE48) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Description:** A brilliant white ovoid object moving at a high rate of speed was sighted by the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sebago, 200 nautical miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. Three radar contacts were made with the UFO between 5:10 and 5:20 a.m. It was clocked moving at 1,020 mph. It was seen by four crew members as it moved horizontally through the sky from south to north and disappeared behind some clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 6, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 86; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 253 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7469 ### Event 14272 (D7343D23) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Description:** New Castle, Indiana. An object looking like "a big meat platter" was seen at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 422, citing Alexander Mebane **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7470 ### Event 14273 (5C79EC8A) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Description:** New York, New York. In Van Cortland Park in New York City at 4:30 a.m., Frank C. was talking with a bus driver when they both saw a metallic disc-shaped UFO in the park, about 400 m away. It was spinning and making a soft whirring sound. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree height. A yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off "like a shooting star. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 262-263 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7471 ### Event 14274 (FEF07182) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Description:** Three railroad men watched two silvery ovoid UFOs pass overhead at high speed in East St. Louis, Illinois at 11:45 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 165 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7472 ### Event 14275 (7B1FA1DE) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. a man in Scotia, Nebraska heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and perceived a "burning" odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The witness was "paralyzed" during the observation. The object appeared to have generated thick smoke. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 263 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7473 ### Event 14276 (C5C14582) **Date:** 11/5/1957 **Description:** At 6:20 p.m. an object variously described as silver or orange, and saucer or ovoid shaped, was seen over a wide area for a ten minute period around Dauphin, Manitoba. At 6:40 p.m. a shiny silver UFO hovered over Winnipeg, Manitoba and was seen shifting from left to right and back again in the sky. It shot off toward the southwest when RCAF planes approached. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 165 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7474 ### Event 14277 (9800A603) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars, talk to spacepeople **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_156 ### Event 14278 (6AD397B8) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** DANSVILLE, NY **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s) to buffalo USAF. High-polished or glowing UFO's / news leak. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5662 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "312", **HatchDesc:** "DANSVILLE,NY:GOC OBS to BUFFALO USAF:HI-POLISHED or GLOWING UFOS/news leak", **LatLong:** "42.561113 -77.694448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:40 N 77:41:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.561113,-77.694448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14279 (9476D2DE) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** VILA FRANCA DE XIRA, PORT **Description:** Group / Navy officers. Saucer reflects sunlight east going west / 10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5663 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "VILA FRANCA de XIRA,PORT:GROUP/NAVY OFFICERS:SCR REFLECTS SUNLIGHT E>W/10min", **LatLong:** "38.950002 -9.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:00 N 09:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.950002,-9.000000)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14280 (EF85D426) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** RICHMOND, IN **Description:** Men / highway weigh station. Red ovoid zigzags and changes color(s). Going quickly south. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5664 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "345", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND,IN:MEN/Hwy WEIGH STATION:RED OVOID ZIGZAGS+CHANGES CLRS:>>S:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.983335 -84.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:59:00 N 84:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.983335,-84.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14281 (2B528C72) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** SANTA FE, NM **Description:** 2 / car. Ovoid overhead. Engine and clock and watch stop. Hums. Going quickly southeast. / r79+/ r242p166. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 701) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5665 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2097", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA FE,NM:2/CAR:OVOID OVHD:ENGINE+CLOCK+WATCH STOP:HUMS:>>SE:/r79+/r242p166", **LatLong:** "35.683335 -106.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:41:00 N 106:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.683335,-106.016672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14282 (61816CE2) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / PELL CITY, AL **Description:** Sky lit. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 200M saucer hovers / 60M altitude. Ground burnt. / r79p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 701) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5666 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "NE/PELL CITY,AL:SKY LIT:CAR EMEs:200M SCR HVRS/60M alt:GND BURNT:/r79p12", **LatLong:** "33.688890 -86.205560", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:20 N 86:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.688890,-86.205560)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14283 (F11712B2) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** SPRINGFIELD, OH **Description:** Cops. Blue night light / sky / 10 second(s). 2 separate cars electro-magnetic effect (EME) at same time. / r79p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 703) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5667 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGFIELD,OH:COPS:BLUE NLT/SKY/10 sec:2 SEP.CARS EME at SAME TIME:/r79p12", **LatLong:** "39.922224 -83.811115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:20 N 83:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.922224,-83.811115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14284 (E4FBEF3F) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** EAST / RICHMOND, IL **Description:** 60M ovoid changes color(s) / 600M altitude. Zigzag course. Going quickly south. / Chicago News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 708) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5668 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "247", **HatchDesc:** "E/RICHMOND,IL:60M OVOID CHANGES CLRS/600M alt:ZIGZAG COURSE:>>S:/Chicago News", **LatLong:** "42.477780 -88.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:28:40 N 88:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.477780,-88.300004)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14285 (4F568E5E) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** WAYCROSS, GA **Description:** 1 / car. Red glowing saucer going [to] 30kph through trees and over microwave tower. / r141#17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5669 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "41", **HatchDesc:** "WAYCROSS,GA:1/CAR:RED GLO SCR >30kph thru TREES+OVR MICROWAVE TOWER:/r141#17", **LatLong:** "31.211113 -82.355559", **LatLongDMS:** "31:12:40 N 82:21:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.211113,-82.355559)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14286 (4557237C) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** OPORTO AND LISBON, PORTUGAL **Description:** Unidentified cylinder/cylindrical object goes over both cities. East going west in Lisbon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5670 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OPORTO+LISBON,PORTUGAL:UID CYL GOES OVR BOTH CITIES:E>W IN LISBON", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -8.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 08:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-8.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Douro", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14287 (27DC1D41) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** DANTE, TN **Description:** Boy. 4 pseudo-human/entity try / grab 2 dogs. Fail. Walk through solid wall to saucer. / r141#7p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5671 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "317", **HatchDesc:** "DANTE,TN:BOY:4 PSH TRY/GRAB 2 DOGS:FAIL:WALK THRU SOLID WALL to SCR:/r141#7p17", **LatLong:** "36.033335 -84.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:00 N 84:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.033335,-84.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14288 (7D9BE79C) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** TORONTO, ON **Description:** Many observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with fins / front going west. Hovers. Turns going north and going south. Leaves (something behind) trail / sky. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5672 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "TORONTO,ON:MANY OBS:CGR W/FINS/FRONT > W:HVRS:TURNS> N +>S:Lvs TRAIL/SKY:/r141", **LatLong:** "43.700002 -79.366670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:42:00 N 79:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.700002,-79.366670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14289 (0708BB30) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** NORTH / SEOUL, KOREA **Description:** Military observer(s). White luminous object hovers. Vanishes like a light turned off. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5673 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N/SEOUL,KOREA:MIL OBS:WHT LUM OBJ HVRS:VANISHES LIKE A LITE TURNED OFF:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.666668 127.050006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 127:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,127.050006)", **State/Prov:** "SEO", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14290 (05870AB8) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 08:10 **Location:** AMITY, OR **Description:** School principal. 15M grey ovoid hovers over fir trees. Gone on 2nd glance! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 709) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5674 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "AMITY,OR:SCHOOL PRINCIPAL:15M GRY OVOID HVRS ovr FIR TREES:GONE on 2nd GLANCE!", **LatLong:** "45.116669 -123.205561", **LatLongDMS:** "45:07:00 N 123:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.116669,-123.205561)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14291 (E4611B8C) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** DUNN, NC **Description:** Minister. Lampshade saucer hovers / potato-patch. Quickly going up [to] straight up. / r141#7p9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5675 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "DUNN,NC:MINISTER:LAMPSHADE SCR HVRS/POTATO-PATCH:↑↑ STRAIGHT UP:/r141#7p9", **LatLong:** "35.305557 -78.611115", **LatLongDMS:** "35:18:20 N 78:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.305557,-78.611115)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14292 (15E434A8) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** ANAHEIM, CA **Description:** Man photographs blimp over Disneyland. Odd structure. Night lights / 7 November. P275. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5676 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "ANAHEIM,CA:MAN FOTOS BLIMP OVR DISNEYLAND:ODD STRUCTURE:NLTS/7NOV:p275", **LatLong:** "33.850002 -117.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:51:00 N 117:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.850002,-117.933339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14293 (FF22189C) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** ATLANTA, GA **Description:** 3 separate trucks. Red ovoid / road vanishes / approach. / r141#17p2+#7p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5677 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTA,GA:3 SEP.TRUCKS:RED OVOID/ROAD VANISHES/APPROACH:/r141#17p2+#7p30", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -84.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 84:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-84.383337)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14294 (BAFBB79D) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** STANTON, MN **Description:** 2+6 kids. White soup-bowl saucer follows car to farm. Yellow-green glow. Quickly going up. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 732) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5678 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "STANTON,MN:2+6 KIDS:WHT SOUP-BOWL SCR FOLOS CAR to FARM:YLW-GRN GLOW:↑↑:/news", **LatLong:** "44.472224 -93.022227", **LatLongDMS:** "44:28:20 N 93:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.472224,-93.022227)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14295 (6E1F661E) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** LEOMINSTER TO/FROM GREENFIELD, MA **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Long silver cylinder/cigar-shape follows Connecticut River.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 731) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5679 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "LEOMINSTER> Event 14296 (7E31F1CB) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SCHROON LAKE AND PLATTSBURGH, NY **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Silver sphere hovers / police station/depot/facility. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5680 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "SCHROON LAKE+PLATTSBURGH,NY:MANY SEP.OBS:RFI:SLVR SPHERE HVRS/POLICE Stn:/r141", **LatLong:** "43.777780 -73.777781", **LatLongDMS:** "43:46:40 N 73:46:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.777780,-73.777781)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14297 (F189842E) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** BAGANSIAPIAPI, INDONESIA **Description:** 2 / boat / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Delta/triangle/box-like craft dives. Blows smoke. Hovers. Sea boils. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 736) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5681 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BAGANSIAPIAPI,INDONESIA:2/BOAT/EMES:DLT DIVES:BLOWS SMOKE:HVRS:SEA BOILS:↑↑", **LatLong:** "2.200000 100.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "02:12:00 N 100:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/2.200000,100.816671)", **State/Prov:** "SMT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14298 (8C916BDE) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** PALM SPRINGS, CA **Description:** Shiny saucer leaves (something behind) trail near. Turns back toward(s) mountains. Back 07 November / 0540h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5682 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "PALM SPRINGS,CA:SHINY SCR LVS TRAIL NEAR:TURNS BACK TWRD MTNS:back 07NOV/0540h", **LatLong:** "33.833335 -116.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 N 116:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.833335,-116.550006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14299 (65C34029) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BOERNE, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #5205. 5M red ovoid hovers / 4M altitude. Several observer(s) insist.. no plane. / r8#431. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 742) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5683 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "428", **HatchDesc:** "BOERNE,TX:BBK#5205:5M RED OVOID HVRS/4M alt:SVRL OBS INSIST..NO PLANE:/r8#431", **LatLong:** "29.794446 -98.733338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:47:40 N 98:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.794446,-98.733338)", **RelAlt:** "4", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14300 (198B9E0A) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NEAR DANVILLE, IL **Description:** Cops chase glowing-ovoid / 15 mile(s). Radio out. / r70p12+/ r242p166+/ r141#7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 701) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5684 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "182", **HatchDesc:** "nr DANVILLE,IL:COPS CHASE GLOW-OVOID/15mi:RADIO OUT:/r70p12+/r242p166+/r141#7", **LatLong:** "40.133335 -87.627782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:08:00 N 87:37:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.133335,-87.627782)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14301 (83277A0F) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** EVERITTSTOWN, NJ **Description:** Saucer going down. Small humanoid (or Grey) "only wants dog". Chased. Saucer quickly going up. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#4+/ r141#7p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 177) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5685 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "EVERITTSTOWN,NJ:SCR ↓:OID "ONLY WANTS DOG":CHASED:SCR ↑↑:/FSR v16#4+/r141#7p56", **LatLong:** "40.566669 -75.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:34:00 N 75:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.566669,-75.033337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14302 (4637099D) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** YORKEYS KNOW, AUSTRALIA **Description:** Several separate farmers. Silver-glow object lands / cane fields. Going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 793) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5686 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "YORKEYS KNOW,AUSTRL:SVRL.SEP.FARMERS:SLVR-GLOW OBJ LANDS/CANE FIELDS:↑+away", **LatLong:** "-15.900001 145.300007", **LatLongDMS:** "15:54:00 S 145:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-15.900001,145.300007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14303 (EFECFEEE) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** DRY RIDGE, KY **Description:** 4 separate state cops. Odd red ovoid night light hops through sky. / Cincinnati Post. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 756) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5687 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "291", **HatchDesc:** "DRY RIDGE,KY:4 SEP.STATE COPS:ODD RED OVOID NLT HOPS THRU SKY:/Cincinnati Post", **LatLong:** "38.683335 -84.588893", **LatLongDMS:** "38:41:00 N 84:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.683335,-84.588893)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14304 (D8BDCFCD) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MARION, IN **Description:** Many observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with row / bright lights / side. Hovers. Going quickly [to] away fast. / r141#7p48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5688 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "MARION,IN:MANY OBS:CGR W/ROW/BRITE LITES/SIDE:HVRS:>> AWAY FAST:/r141#7p48", **LatLong:** "40.561113 -85.661115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:33:40 N 85:39:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.561113,-85.661115)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14305 (0DA40312) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** EDWARDS / MUROC AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Widely separate MPs. Orange sphere/orb/globe over jet test center. Leaked / local cops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5689 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "702", **HatchDesc:** "EDWARDS/MUROC AFB,CA:WIDELY SEP MPs:ORG ORB ovr JET TEST CTR:leaked/local cops", **LatLong:** "34.883335 -117.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 N 117:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.883335,-117.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14306 (8564514B) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOUTH / ROSCOE, IL **Description:** Local wave / night lights etc. Huge brilliant red cloud stalls car. Radiator boils. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 762) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5690 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "S/ROSCOE,IL:LOCAL WAVE/NLTS ETC:HUGE BRILL.RED CLOUD STALLS CAR:RADIATOR BOILS", **LatLong:** "42.383335 -89.011115", **LatLongDMS:** "42:23:00 N 89:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.383335,-89.011115)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14307 (6C233BD3) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** LAKE BASKATONG, QB **Description:** Radio hams. Sphere beams going up and down. Strong Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) / 1 frequency. Going south. / r141#7p70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5691 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "223", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE BASKATONG,QB:RADIO HAMS:SPHERE BEAMS↑+↓:STRONG RFI/1 Freq:>S:/r141#7p70", **LatLong:** "46.833336 -75.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "46:50:00 N 75:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.833336,-75.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14308 (D72DA233) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR CORDELE, GA **Description:** Rangers. Ovoid lit from inside. Turns without turning. Smoke inside? Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 706) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5692 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "nr CORDELE,GA:RANGERS:OVOID LIT from INSIDE:TURNS W/O TURNING:SMOKE INSIDE?:>N", **LatLong:** "32.000002 -83.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:00:00 N 83:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.000002,-83.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14309 (33FC0DDB) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** MEROM, IN **Description:** 5+observer(s). 40' saucer hovers / 300M. Scans farm / blue light. Going west. UV burns skin. / r70p3-53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 767) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5693 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "133", **HatchDesc:** "MEROM,IN:5+OBS:40'SCR HVRS/300M:SCANS FARM/BLU LITE:>W:UV BURNS SKIN:/r70p3-53", **LatLong:** "39.050002 -87.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:00 N 87:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.050002,-87.533338)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14310 (14644455) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SOUTH / LINCOLNVILLE, IN **Description:** 30m brown cloud nears car. Lands / field. Orange light / center. Roars. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5694 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "253", **HatchDesc:** "S/LINCOLNVILLE,IN:30m BROWN CLOUD NEARS CAR:LANDS/FIELD:ORG LITE/CENTER:ROARS", **LatLong:** "40.738891 -85.688893", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:20 N 85:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.738891,-85.688893)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14311 (98AA2C36) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** DUGGER, IN **Description:** Brilliant round object hovers low overhead. Rises and going quickly west. Observer(s) treated / eye inflammation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5695 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "DUGGER,IN:BRILL.ROUND OBJ HVRS LOW OVHD:RISES+>>W:OBS.TREATED/EYE INFLAMMATION", **LatLong:** "39.055557 -87.261115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:20 N 87:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.055557,-87.261115)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14312 (DB6614E1) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** RADIUM SPRS, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #5227. Several cops and more. Red blob quickly going up [to] from mountain top. Changes color(s). / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5696 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1213", **HatchDesc:** "RADIUM Sprs,NM:BBK#5227:SVRL COPS+:RED BLOB ↑↑ from Mtn TOP:CHANGES CLRS:/r141", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -106.955561", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 106:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-106.955561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14313 (EAEEC41F) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** MONTVILLE, OH **Description:** 1 observer. 2 saucers. 1 going down / 20 minute(s). Humming and radiation/radioactivity and physical traces. / r198p104+/ r242p166+/ MJ#235. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 779) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5697 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "366", **HatchDesc:** "MONTVILLE,OH:1 OBS:2 SCRs:1↓/20min:HUM+RDA+TRCs:/r198p104+/r242p166+/MJ#235", **LatLong:** "41.605558 -81.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:36:20 N 81:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.605558,-81.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14314 (64F69C3F) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Atlanta (near), GA **Description:** Three truckers independently reported seeing reddish elliptical objects on the road.(UFOE) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2141 ### Event 14315 (FBBBD7BD) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Boerne, TX **Description:** Oval object, about 15 ft long, bright orange (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5205) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2142 ### Event 14316 (0CE2A877) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Cannon AFB, NM **Description:** 17 Targets of Slow-Moving Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106cannon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2143 ### Event 14317 (79705EF2) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Danville, IL **Description:** Police chased UFO, unable to notify headquarters "because their radio went mysteriously dead." (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2144 ### Event 14318 (01FC8017) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Houston, TX **Description:** Car motor stalled, radio blanked with static, during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2145 ### Event 14319 (DEFD5E90) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Kagoshima, Japan **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2146 ### Event 14320 (7B8E7799) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Lake County, OH **Description:** Unbearably bright round object, landed on a ridge, then took off (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2147 ### Event 14321 (4117BFA9) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Laredo AFB, TX **Description:** (McDonald list) GCA Picks Up More Than Seven Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106laredo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2148 ### Event 14322 (57D575F1) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Merom, IN **Description:** Gilham Case. Ironworker stood under UFO for ten minutes, treated at hospital for burns (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [571106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/meromdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2149 ### Event 14323 (062F930B) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Merom, IN **Description:** Gilham Case (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) **Reference:** NICAP: [571106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/meromdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2150 ### Event 14324 (A4DE87A2) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Montville, OH **Description:** Olden Moore Case / Close Encounter / (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases, Code: T, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106montville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2151 ### Event 14325 (1876DA0A) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Ottawa (north of ), CAN **Description:** Battery radio and portable short wave radio failed, tone signal heard on one short wave frequency. UFO hovering (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2152 ### Event 14326 (C78BD166) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Pell City, AL **Description:** Car motor stalled, as driver attempted to approach UFO hovering low over ground (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2153 ### Event 14327 (5C78DAF6) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Radium Springs, NM **Description:** Round object changing from red to green to blue to white (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5227, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [571106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/571106b.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2154 ### Event 14328 (60EFB7E1) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Santa Fe, NM **Description:** Car motor failed, car clock and wristwatch stopped as UFO passed low over car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2155 ### Event 14329 (01093781) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Soeul, S. Korea **Description:** Luminous bluish-white barrel-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2156 ### Event 14330 (82B096EA) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Whiteman AFB, MO **Description:** Whiteman AFB, Missouri, G , (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106whiteman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2157 ### Event 14331 (CFCB38EE) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 0010 **Location:** Santa Fe, New Mexico **Description:** J. Martinez and A. Gallegos saw an egg-shaped object coming toward them at low altitude. It moved slowly, illuminating their car and producing a humming sound. The car engine, the clock and a wristwatch stopped. The object shot away toward the southwest. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 246 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_425 ### Event 14332 (976283C4) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** morning **Location:** Seoul, Korea **Description:** North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It rose and vanished "like a light switched off." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_426 ### Event 14333 (E80D4E6A) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 0540 **Location:** Playa del Rey, California **Description:** Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach when his engine stopped, and so did three other cars. The man got out and observed an egg-shaped object wrapped in "a blue haze" on the beach. Two men, below average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their identity, what time it was, etc. They looked normal wore black leather pants, white belts, light-colored jerseys, and seemed to have yellowish-green skin. They went back inside the craft, which left rapidly, and the cars could then be started. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_427 ### Event 14334 (8969B7D1) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 0630 **Location:** Lake County, Ohio **Description:** A civilian source reported an object so bright that his eyes could not sustain it. It appeared to land on a ridge, then took off again. It was round and much larger than a plane, had an "odd color," left no trail and made no noise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_428 ### Event 14335 (DFEB2220) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 0630 **Location:** Knoxville, Tennessee **Description:** 12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the ground and four occupants, two men and two women who spoke a language he thought was similar to German. They went back to the craft in a manner the witness could not understand, for he saw no door. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 271;114; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_429 ### Event 14336 (8D328B2C) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** evening **Location:** Everittstown, New Jersey **Description:** John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in front of a barn and was confronted with a being 1 m tall with a putty-colored face and frog-like eyes. He thought the dwarf said in broken English: "We are peaceful people; we only want your dog." The little man, who was dressed in a green suit with shiny buttons, a green tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a shiny object at the tip of each finger, fled when the witness denied his request. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 56; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_430 ### Event 14337 (DCD9D33F) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 1800 **Location:** Boerne, Texas **Description:** A civilian source reported an oval object, about 5 m long, bright orange, similar to glowing coals, hovering 4 m above ground. The witness went to call his family; the object had vanished when he returned. Unidentified. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_431 ### Event 14338 (F87045DB) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Baskatong Lake, Canada **Description:** 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop about 4 km away. From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the south. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 249 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_432 ### Event 14339 (D47E7F6B) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 2330 **Location:** Montville, Ohio **Description:** Olden Moore, 28, a plasterer was driving home when he suddenly saw an object looking like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 m above a field and came to the ground with a soft whirring sound, 150 m away. After observing it for 15 min, Moore then walked to the object, which he found to be shaped like "a covered dish" 15 m in diameter, 5 m high, with a cone on top about 3 m high, surrounded by haze or fog, pulsating slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were found at the site by Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 252 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_433 ### Event 14340 (76ABF318) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Time:** 10:50 PM **Location:** Radium Springs, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: one Las Cruces policeman, one Dona Ana County Deputy Sheriff. One round object--changing from red to green to blue to white--rose vertically from a mountain top. Sighting lasted 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_417 ### Event 14341 (05FE87D7) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Santa Fe, New Mexico **Description:** Just after 12:00 midnight. A taxicab company owner, Joe Martinez, and one of his drivers, Alberto Gallegos, sees a UFO approach them in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They hear a humming sound as it comes close. The object is egg-shaped and multicolored. As it passes over their car, the engine stalls and the dashboard clock stops. The UFO then pulls up and moves rapidly into the southeast. One witness later discovers that his wristwatch has also stopped at the time of sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight Line, pp. 246–247; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 47– 48; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3056 ### Event 14342 (56A7C14C) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Locations:** Long Point Road; Houston, Texas **Description:** 4:30 a.m. William Rush II is driving on Long Point Road in Houston, Texas. A brilliant red, egg-shaped UFO kills his car engine and causes static on his radio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Houston \(Tex.\) Chronicle, November 6, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 48 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3057 ### Event 14343 (0EC678E2) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Locations:** Vista Del Mar; Playa Del Rey, California **Description:** 5:40 a.m. Richard Kehoe is driving along Vista Del Mar in Playa Del Rey, California, when his engine fails. Two other cars on the highway are also affected, and the drivers \(Ronald Burke and Joe Thomas\) all get out. They see an egg-shaped object that seems to be wrapped in a blue haze. It is tan or cream-colored and has two metallic rings around it. Two smallish men, about 5 feet 5 inches tall and wearing black leather pants, a white belt, and a light-colored jersey, exit the object. They ask Kehoe and the others where they are and what time it is in something approaching English. They walk back to the object, which takes off. After it leaves, Kehoe’s car starts with no problem. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/130/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3058 ### Event 14344 (01A08FB9) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Locations:** Dante, Knoxville, Tennessee; Oak Ridge National Laboratory **Description:** 6:30 a.m. [Everett Orain Clark](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186597176/everette-orain-clark), 12 , of Dante, Knoxville, Tennessee, lets his dog Frisky outside and sees an object like an elongated egg in a field 300 feet away from his house. 20 minutes later, he calls to bring the dog back and sees Frisky with other dogs on the other side of the road close to the object. Clark walks toward the UFO and sees two men and women, apparently dressed in a normal manner. One of the men tries to catch Frisky who grunts and moves away. They are speaking in a foreign language that sounds like German to him. The four people go into the craft by seemingly walking right through the wall. Journalist [Carson Brewer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%5FBrewer) goes back to the site with Clark and finds an “oblong ring of pressed grass” 24 feet by 4.5 feet. In the afternoon, two men from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory \(engineer [Wallace Russell Gambill](https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/23749101/wallace-russell-gambill-obituary) and physicist N. D. Greene\) collect soil samples and check for radiation \(they find none\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Scientists Check](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95281666/) [‘Space Ship’ Field,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95282194/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) News-Sentinel, November 7, 1957, pp. 1, 12; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) [November 6th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 17–19; Clark III 672–673; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-06-usa-dante.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-06-usa-dante.htm) August 17, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3059 ### Event 14345 (61E2F002) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Locations:** US; El Paso **Description:** US scientists are “pretty shook up” about the recent UFO sightings, according to astronomer [Charles F.](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/jbeish/ChickCapen.html) [“Chick” Capen](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/jbeish/ChickCapen.html) in the November 7 El Paso Times. However, Capen talks more about missile launches and lunar photography than UFO sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sighting ‘Shakes’ Scientists,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99804264/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 21; “[El Pasoans Take Look](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99803781/) [at Sputnik,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99803893/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, November 7, 1957, pp. 1, 3; Swords 264 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3060 ### Event 14346 (6633BA8F) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Bagansiapiapi, Sumatra, Indonesia **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Two Malay fisherman are in a waterway near Bagansiapiapi, Sumatra, Indonesia, when they see a black and red object swiftly approaching their boat and trailing black and greenish smoke. The top and bottom of the object are curved like discs. When it is 60 feet away it stops in mid-air about 35 feet above the water, and the bottom part continues to rotate as the water foams below it. The object is a triangular shape and white smoke is coming out from each point. The object speeds up and disappears, leaving behind black and greenish smoke lines. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Marler 133 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3061 ### Event 14347 (4C56037E) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Merom, Indiana **Description:** Early evening. [Varine “Rene” Gilham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143536580/varine-n%5Frene%5F-gilham) sees a brilliant object radiating a strong red light as he is using an outhouse on his farm near Merom, Indiana. The whole farm and surrounding area are bathed in the light for 10 minutes. A small object joins the larger one and the light grows more intense. The two objects fly away. The next day, Gilham has “sunburn” in many places. Two days later he is admitted to a hospital for treatment. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Merom/Gilham Incident](http://www.nicap.org/reports/meromrep.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) [November 6th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 67, 72–73. Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6-SN.pdf) [a History: 1957 November 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6-SN.pdf), The Author, 2003, pp. 6–7; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3062 ### Event 14348 (79C48180) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Toronto, Ontario **Description:** 8:02 p.m. Six people in Toronto, Ontario, watch a yellow-white light travel silently from south to north across the eastern sky. One experiences static on his TV set as the object passes, slower than a meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 80–81 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3063 ### Event 14349 (D79475FE) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Danville, Illinois **Description:** Night. Two state policemen in Danville, Illinois, observe a brilliant white light that changes color successively to amber and orange. They chase it for 15 miles because the light appears to be low in the sky. During the chase, their communications radio does not function. The light eventually flies out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[2 State](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99808224/) [Troopers See ‘Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99808224/)” Hammond \(Ind.\) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 12; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 91–92 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3064 ### Event 14350 (D1CD2A48) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Baskatong Reservoir, Quebec **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Jacques Jacobsen and three others are in a hunting lodge on the Baskatong Reservoir, Quebec, listening to a battery-powered radio. Outside, they see a glowing, yellow-white sphere 2–3 miles away to the southwest. It remains in place for 15 minutes. During this time the radio goes off, and one of the men’s shortwave radios is working on only one frequency that emits a strong, rapidly modulated tone that sounds like, but is not, Morse code. The UFO rises into the clouds and the radios function normally again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 79–80; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3065 ### Event 14351 (4FD11E23) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Locations:** St. Mary’s Seminary; Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** 9:43 p.m. [Kenneth J. Delano](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179862761/kenneth-j%5F-delano), who is participating in aurora and meteor watches for the International Geophysical Year, is observing the sky at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a brilliant white light in the northwest. He watches it approach until it is nearly overhead. Then a faint, silvery-gray, elliptical disc is visible for a few seconds above the light. It is silent, except for a faint whirring sound. He watches it for a total of 4 minutes until it passes behind some buildings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth J. Delano, “UFO over Baltimore,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 17–18, 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3066 ### Event 14352 (DFED3694) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Location:** Montville, Ohio **Description:** 11:30 p.m. Olden J. Moore is driving home in Montville, Ohio, when he sees an object like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which heads straight up. The other becomes larger while its color changes from bright white to blue green. It hovers about 200 feet above a field and lands with a soft whirring sound, perhaps 500 feet away. Moore watches cautiously for 15 minutes, then approaches it. The UFO is shaped like a “covered dish,” and is about 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet high, with a cone on top about 10 feet high. It is pulsating slowly, and a haze surrounds it. Moore goes home to get another witness \(his wife\) but when they return the UFO is gone. Mrs. Moore reports the sighting to County Sheriff [Louis Robusky](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107231232/louis-arthur-robusky) the next morning, and a civil defense director, Kenneth Locke, visits the site. Locke finds high levels of radioactivity \(a maximum of 150 microroentgens/hour, suggestive of an approximately one-hour radionuclide half-life or less\) two perfectly formed holes six inches in diameter, and unusual footprints that come from nowhere and go nowhere. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Olden](http://www.nicap.org/571106montville%5Fdir.htm) [Moore Case / Close Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/571106montville%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 169–170](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=181&skin=2021); Center for UFO Studies, \[[case files](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/63C.pdf)\]; Clark III 772–773, 950; Sparks, p. 257 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3067 ### Event 14353 (F61E0E90) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** North of Seoul, South Korea a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and luminous, was seen close to the ground in the morning. Its reflection could be seen in a pool of water. It rose and vanished "like a light switched off." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 433 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7489 ### Event 14354 (1B2DE90A) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** At a few minutes after midnight two men, Martinez and Gallegos, were driving near Santa Fe, New Mexico when an ovoid object came down and hovered over their car, making a humming sound. After a minute the UFO shot away. Both the car's clock and a wristwatch stopped. , 12:10 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, 1957 Saucer Wave in the US , in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 246; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 12; Santa Fe New Mexican, November 6, 1957; APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7490 ### Event 14355 (FCF9E899) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** At 4:50 a.m. in Springfield, Ohio two cars stalled at the same time. A blue light was seen in the sky for 10 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Marietta Times, November 6, 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7491 ### Event 14356 (6341FFD2) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** At 5:40 a.m. Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach in Playa del Rey, California when his car engine stopped, and so did three other cars. He and the other witnesses got out of their cars and observed an egg-shaped object wrapped in "a blue haze" on the beach. The object seemed to be resting on two metal rings. Two men of below average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their identity, what time it was, etc. They looked to be normal human beings, although their skin was an olive complexion. They wore black leather pants, white belts, and light-coloured jerseys. They went back inside the craft, which left rapidly, and the cars could then be started. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 178; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 431 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7492 ### Event 14357 (101C6BA2) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** A man in Lake County, Ohio reported to the U.S. Air Force that at 6:30 a.m. he saw a UFO so bright that his eyes could not stand to look directly at it. It appeared to land on a nearby ridge, and then took off again silently . It was round and much larger than a plane, had an "odd color," and left no trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 429 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7493 ### Event 14358 (E57FAAD7) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** In Knoxville, Tennessee at 6:30 a.m.12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the ground and four human-looking occupants, two men and two women who spoke in a language he thought sounded similar to German. They went back inside the craft in a manner the witness was not able to comprehend, because he saw no door. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 428 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7494 ### Event 14359 (C06EBB74) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. in Boerne, Texas a civilian source reported to the U.S. Air Force that an oval object, about 5 meters long was seen hovering four meters above the ground. It was bright orange in color, similar to glowing coals. The witness went to call his family, but the object had vanished when he returned. The case was listed as a Project Blue Book unidentified report. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 426 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7495 ### Event 14360 (2EEDB612) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** In Everittstown, New Jersey that same evening John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in front of a barn. He was next confronted by a one-meter tall being with a putty-colored face and froglike eyes. He thought the dwarf said in broken English: "We are peaceful people, we only want your dog. " The little man, who was dressed in a green uniform with shiny buttons, and wore what looked like a green tam-o-shanter cap with gloves that had shiny objects at the tips of each finger, fled when Mr. Trasco turned down his request. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 427 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7496 ### Event 14361 (ACED8F58) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. two domed discs were sighted by two people driving on US highway 40 in New Castle, Delaware. The UFOs beamed down a light beam onto the highway, and the witnesses felt a vibration. One of the object came back three times, then went away quickly toward the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7497 ### Event 14362 (8687D4D8) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. near Baskatong Lake, Quebec 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere that was hovering over a hilltop about four kilometers away. From the top and bottom of the object came cones of light that illuminated the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one shortwave wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, 1957 Saucer Wave in the US, in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 248; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 425 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7498 ### Event 14363 (5FC7106B) **Date:** 11/6/1957 **Description:** Twenty-eight year old Olden Moore, a plasterer, was driving home in Montville, Ohio at 11:30 p.m. when he suddenly noticed an object looking like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 meters above a field and came down to the ground making a soft whirring sound, landing 150 meters away. After watching it for 15 minutes Moore walked up to the object, which he found to be shaped like a "covered dish" 15 meters in diameter and five meters high, with a cone on top about 3 meters tall. It was surrounded by haze or fog and pulsated slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were later found at the site by Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 430 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7499 ### Event 14364 (05FCEA69) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** ~04:00 **Location:** COATZACOALCOS, MX **Description:** Many observer(s). 50x20M white luminous/glowing rectangle passes over town several times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 802) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5698 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COATZACOALCOS,MX:MANY OBS:50x20M WHT LUMN RECTANGLE PASSES OVR TOWN SVRL TIMES", **LatLong:** "18.150001 -94.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "18:09:00 N 94:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.150001,-94.416671)", **State/Prov:** "VRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14365 (0CB00388) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** CANON CITY, CO **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silent shiny metallic ovoid going east over Royal Gorge. Stops. Going west again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 802) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5699 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1625", **HatchDesc:** "CANON CITY,CO:2 OBS:SLNT SHINY MTLC OVOID > E ovr ROYAL GORGE:STOPS:>W AGAIN", **LatLong:** "38.450002 -105.250005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:27:00 N 105:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.450002,-105.250005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14366 (9CA2B423) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** HOUSE, MS **Description:** Saucer with propellers / road. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) speak gibberish. 2+independent observer(s). / r8#265+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5700 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "171", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSE,MS:SCR W/PROPELLERS/ROAD:3 OIDS SPEAK GIBBERISH:2+ IND OBS:/r8#265+/r141", **LatLong:** "32.650002 -89.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:39:00 N 89:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.650002,-89.033338)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14367 (0F8D8305) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** LAKE CHARLES, LA **Description:** 5M silver saucer hovers 60m overhead. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Saucer going quickly north very fast. / r79p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 805) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5701 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE CHARLES,LA:5M SLVR SCR HVRS 60m OVHD:CAR EMEs:SCR>>N VFAST:/r79p13", **LatLong:** "30.233335 -93.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:14:00 N 93:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.233335,-93.233338)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14368 (1A74C443) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** NORTH / OROGRANDE, NM **Description:** 3 observer(s). Speedometer jumps wildly. Metallic saucer going southwest. / MJ#235+/ r141#18p10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5702 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1275", **HatchDesc:** "N/OROGRANDE,NM:3 OBS:SPEEDOMETER JUMPS WILDLY:MTLC SCR >SW:/MJ#235+/r141#18p10", **LatLong:** "32.516668 -106.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:31:00 N 106:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.516668,-106.066672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14369 (4FA9AE61) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** STRAWBERRY, WEST AUSTRALIA **Description:** 3 / farm. Night light going southeast / low altitude. Quickly going up [to] overhead. Circles 2X. Going quickly northwest. Separate report(s) / 2115h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 821) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5703 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "STRAWBERRY,W.AUSTRL:3/FARM:NLT > SE/LO ALT:↑↑ OVHD:CCLs 2X:>>NW:sep.rpts/2115h", **LatLong:** "-27.416668 116.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "27:25:00 S 116:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.416668,116.133339)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14370 (639238D8) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** SOMERS POINT, NJ **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Silver ovoid hovers. Goes back and forth / 2 minute(s). No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 819) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5704 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "SOMERS POINT,NJ:NMRS SEP.OBS:SLVR OVOID HVRS:GOES BACK+FORTH/2min:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "39.316669 -74.594448", **LatLongDMS:** "39:19:00 N 74:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.316669,-74.594448)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14371 (FCBD4DD3) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** PANTEX, TX **Description:** Several military and cops. Odd objects with lights all over Major nuclear plant. 1 lands? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 828) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5705 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "1054", **HatchDesc:** "PANTEX,TX:SVRL MIL+COPS:ODD OBJS W/LITES all ovr MAJOR NUCL PLANT:1 LANDS?", **LatLong:** "35.366668 -101.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:22:00 N 101:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.366668,-101.583338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14372 (9AA29F26) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MT. CORCOVADO, BRZ **Description:** Many observer(s). Luminous/glowing delta/triangle/box-like craft hovers. Splits! Half going down / ground-other half hovers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 804) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5706 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.CORCOVADO,BRZ:MANY OBS:LUMN DLT HVRS:SPLITS!:HALF ↓/GND-OTHER HALF HVRS", **LatLong:** "-22.950001 -43.216669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:57:00 S 43:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.950001,-43.216669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14373 (2218D9A9) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** WEATHERLY, PA **Description:** Group / teens. Ovoid swoops going down. 4 red lights / rim. Spins fast and silent. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 834) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5707 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "333", **HatchDesc:** "WEATHERLY,PA:GRP/TEENS:OVOID SWOOPS ↓:4 RED LITES/RIM:SPINS FAST+SLNT:>>SW ", **LatLong:** "40.944446 -75.827781", **LatLongDMS:** "40:56:40 N 75:49:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.944446,-75.827781)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14374 (3DCEC1E8) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** WACO, TX **Description:** George Beardon. Silver egg-cylinder/cigar-shape WHIRRs going quickly south. / Waco News-Tribune 8 Nov. '57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 835) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5708 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "WACO,TX:GEORGE BEARDON:SLVR EGG-CGR WHIRRs >>S:/Waco News-Tribune 8NOV57", **LatLong:** "31.566668 -97.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:34:00 N 97:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.566668,-97.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14375 (8E203AA0) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** WAIUKU, NZ **Description:** Air Force flight engineering. Ovoid over road. Dives and circles lake / slow / low altitude. Follows coast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CATHIE, Bruce: HARMONIC 33. A. & A. Reed, Wellington, NZ (Index 113) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5709 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WAIUKU,NZ:AF FLITE ENGn:OVOID OVR ROAD:DIVES+CCLS LAKE/SLOW/LO alt:FOLOS COAST", **LatLong:** "-37.255557 174.738897", **LatLongDMS:** "37:15:20 S 174:44:20 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.255557,174.738897)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14376 (5D1FC6C3) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Location:** Harlingen AFB, TX **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2158 ### Event 14377 (D3802F3B) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Location:** Orogrande (near ), NM **Description:** Car traveling about 60 mph. Speedometer waved wildly between 60 and 110. UFO then sighted (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2159 ### Event 14378 (898D3F2D) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Location:** Lake Charles, LA **Description:** Silvery disc hovered, car motor failed.(UFOE) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2160 ### Event 14379 (69F4D426) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Time:** 0725 **Location:** Meridian, Mississippi **Description:** Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 m tall, in gray clothes, with "pasty white faces" that seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to understand their "chattering." "I stood there for what seemed like an eternity." They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no ignition interference. An 8-year-old girl from Honse independently reported a round object crossing the sky toward the south. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 273; 115 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_434 ### Event 14380 (02BEFF16) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Locations:** Holloman Air Force Base; Alamogordo, New Mexico **Description:** 1:45–1:55 a.m. Seven airmen at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico—Bradford Rickets, James Cole, Dennis Murphy, Wayne Hurlburt, and Harry Uhlrich—see a UFO while on duty at a salvage yard on the north side of the base. The object makes a whistling noise and turns from white to orange to red. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 100–101](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n97/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3068 ### Event 14381 (12810439) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Locations:** House, Mississippi; one mile east of House, Mississippi **Description:** 7:25 a.m. Truck driver Melvin Stevens stops one mile east of House, Mississippi, because a silvery “blimp” about 5 feet high and 2 feet long is blocking the road. He walks toward it, a sliding door opens, and three small, pasty-faced men about 4.5 feet tall emerge. Stevens feels paralyzed. After a short time, the beings make a military about-face and reenter the UFO, which takes off vertically. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf) [1957](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf) p. 32; Clark III 269 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3069 ### Event 14382 (AB7F73D2) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Locations:** US Highway 54; Orogrande, New Mexico; Organ Mountains **Description:** 9:20 a.m. Trent Lindsey and his wife and son Byron are driving on US Highway 54 near Orogrande, New Mexico, when Byron notices that the speedometer is jumping wildly back and forth from the top to the bottom of its range. It then stops just as suddenly. The three witnesses later see a metallic-appearing UFO high in the sky to the southwest. It continues moving away for three minutes until it was lost from view over the Organ Mountains. The speedometer functions normally after the UFO is gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Family Reports Seeing Large Object over NM,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99616431/)” Albuquerque Tribune, November 8, 1957, p. 1; Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 99–100](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n95/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3070 ### Event 14383 (82900966) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Locations:** Riverhead, Long Island, New York; New York City area; Western Hemisphere **Description:** 9:38 a.m. Mysterious radio signals on the 108 megacycle radio band are recorded by RCA Communications at Riverhead, Long Island, New York. The signal is a continuous, tone-modulated hum at a low pitch of 200 cycles per second. The FCC admits it is baffled, but suspects that it comes from a radio amateur or equipment testing in the New York City area. Another report claims that Vanguard and Federal Communications Commission watchers at 18 monitoring stations throughout the Western Hemisphere are picking up signals at 14.286 megacycles, possibly connected with Sputnik 2. The signal is a long note of low pitch followed after a few seconds by two short notes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mystery Signals Are](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100140952/) [Unconnected with Satellites,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100141149/)” Fort Myers \(Fla.\) News-Press, November 8, 1957, pp. 1–2; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 83 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3071 ### Event 14384 (CB610217) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Locations:** Atomic Energy Commission’s Pantex Plant; Amarillo, Texas; Farin Road 2373; Highway 60 **Description:** 7:46 p.m. Bright, flashing objects hover for 30 minutes over the Atomic Energy Commission’s Pantex Plant 15 miles east of Amarillo, Texas. The UFOs are reported to the State Highway Patrol office by plant guards, and a patrolman dispatched to the plant arrives at 8:15 p.m. and sees a strange light. Guards at the plant are “all shook up” from watching three objects floating 50 feet above the ground. One of the objects apparently lands on Farin Road 2373, three miles north of Highway 60. Guards tell the patrolman they tried to approach the objects by turning off their lights, “but the things would just slip away from them when they got near.” They are unable to estimate the size of the objects but seem positive “they saw more than just lights.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Lights Shake Up](http://www.nicap.org/571107amarillo%5Fdir.htm) [Guards at Nuclear Plant](http://www.nicap.org/571107amarillo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 258 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3072 ### Event 14385 (F86C9FFB) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Location:** Waterloo, Iowa **Description:** Night. Paul Rutledge, a packinghouse worker at Waterloo, Iowa, sees an object hovering above his garage. He can see two figures walking around inside. The object is about 30 feet long and has a shiny bottom and a glass top. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 84; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-08-usa-waterloo.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-08-usa-waterloo.htm) January 24, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3073 ### Event 14386 (1A3B5E1F) **Date:** 11/7/1957 **Description:** Truck driver Malvin Stevens, age 48, was driving to Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, Mississippi he saw an object that appeared to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 meters tall, wearing gray uniforms. They had "pasty white faces." They seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to understand their "chattering." "I stood there for what seemed like an eternity." They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no vehicle ignition interference. An eight-year-old girl from Honse, Mississippi independently reported a round object crossing the sky toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 434 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7523 ### Event 14387 (A0D7D2EE) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** SLOANSVILLE, NY **Description:** US20+SR30A. 70M cigar seen 20' over ground. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 436) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5710 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "SLOANSVILLE,NY:US20+SR30A:70M CIGAR SEEN 20' OVER GROUND:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.766669 -74.372226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 74:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,-74.372226)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14388 (3B4252BC) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** AU SABLE FORKS, NY **Description:** Observer(s) / ground. Shiny silver object like disk flipping. Paces bomber plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5711 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "AU SABLE FORKS,NY:OBS/GND:SHINY SLVR OBJ LIKE DISK FLIPPING:PACES BOMBER PLANE", **LatLong:** "44.438891 -73.677781", **LatLongDMS:** "44:26:20 N 73:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.438891,-73.677781)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14389 (0E43DB35) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** CAMARILLO, CA **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Triangle glides overhead going northwest. Lit from inside. / r141#2p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5712 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "CAMARILLO,CA:2 SEP.OBS:TRIANGLE GLIDES OHVD >NW:LIT FROM INSIDE:/r141#2p37", **LatLong:** "34.216668 -119.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:13:00 N 119:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.216668,-119.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14390 (8D47C7D6) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** GIAVENO, ITL **Description:** Hunter. Whistle! 2 disks land. 2 pseudo-human/entity exit and make repairs? Burnt grass. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5713 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "GIAVENO,ITL:HUNTER:WHISTLE!:2 DISKS LAND:2 PSH EXIT+MAKE REPAIRS?:burnt grass", **LatLong:** "45.033335 7.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:00 N 07:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.033335,7.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Torino", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14391 (6477663B) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** MERRICK, LI, NY **Description:** 1 observer. 3.5' bar-shaped object gives blue flashes and swishing sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5714 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "MERRICK,LI,NY:1 OBS:3.5' BAR-SHAPED OBJ GIVES BLU FLASHES+SWISHING SOUND:", **LatLong:** "40.661113 -73.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:39:40 N 73:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.661113,-73.550004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14392 (6558D8D6) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EAST / PORTALES, NM **Description:** Bus driver. Round metallic object hovers over Cannon Air Force Base. Vanishes! / r141#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 695) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5715 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "E/PORTALES,NM:BUS DRIVER:RND MTLC OBJ HVRS ovr CANNON AFB:VANISHES!:/r141#2", **LatLong:** "34.400002 -103.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:24:00 N 103:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.400002,-103.316672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14393 (82797008) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** HOLLY, WV **Description:** 9 observer(s). 12M cylinder/cigar-shape with portholes lands by lake. Figure(s) move outside. / r141#2p47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 265) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5716 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "284", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLY,WV:9 OBS:12M CGR W/PORTHOLES LANDS by LAKE:FIGs MOVE OUTSIDE:/r141#2p47", **LatLong:** "38.650002 -80.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:39:00 N 80:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.650002,-80.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14394 (4B7530A8) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND **Description:** 14 observer(s). Saucer paces and buzzes truck. Turns going quickly northeast to Firth and sea. / FSRv4#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 809) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5717 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "EDINBURGH,SCOTL:14 OBS:SCR PACES+BUZZES TRUCK:TURNS >>NE to FIRTH+SEA:/FSRv4#1", **LatLong:** "55.933336 -3.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "55:56:00 N 03:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.933336,-3.233333)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14395 (FE8BD949) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** MT. STROMLO, AUS **Description:** 3 astronomers. Pink-glowing object going west slow. / r3p26+news text / r141#2p36. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5718 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.STROMLO,AUS:3 ASTRONOMERS:PINK-GLO OBJ >W SLOW:/r3p26+news text/r141#2p36", **LatLong:** "-35.333335 149.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:20:00 S 149:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.333335,149.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Australian Capital Territory", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14396 (25C7D51A) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ORGUEIL, FR **Description:** Domed saucer going west. Going down / low altitude overhead. Going quickly south. Reappears in north! / LDLN#165. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 236) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5719 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ORGUEIL,FR:DOMED SCR > W:↓/LO ALT OVHD:>>S:REAPPEARS IN NORTH!:/LDLN#165", **LatLong:** "43.761113 1.411111", **LatLongDMS:** "43:45:40 N 01:24:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.761113,1.411111)", **State/Prov:** "Tarn-et-Garonne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14397 (020032B3) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** CARTHAGE, TN **Description:** Cops and many separate observer(s). Silent red night lights hover and spin and flash and maneuver. / r141#2p51. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5720 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "157", **HatchDesc:** "CARTHAGE,TN:COPS+MANY SEP.OBS:SLNT RED NLTS HVR+SPIN+FLASH+MNVR:/r141#2p51", **LatLong:** "36.250002 -85.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:15:00 N 85:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.250002,-85.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14398 (0886797A) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** TOULOUSE OBSERVER(S), FR **Description:** Astronomer and hundreds. Fireball going [to] WNW. Going up. Sharp loop and going quickly ESE and quickly going up [to] again. / r3p27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN 2-250-00464-1 (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5721 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TOULOUSE OBS,FR:ASTRONOMER+100s:FBL >WNW:↑:SHARP LOOP+>>ESE+↑↑ again:/r3p27", **LatLong:** "43.611113 1.461111", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:40 N 01:27:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.611113,1.461111)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14399 (E2C16A38) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** WATERLOO, IA **Description:** Separate observer(s). 10M saucer going [to] over garage. Dome lit. Stays / 30 minute(s). Going north. Figure(s)? / r8#438. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 848) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5722 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "WATERLOO,IA:SEP.OBS:10M SCR > OVR GARAGE:DOME LIT:STAYS/30min:>N:FIGs?:/r8#438", **LatLong:** "42.483335 -92.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:29:00 N 92:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.483335,-92.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14400 (0498D8EB) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Location:** Merrick, Long Island, NY **Description:** A bar-shaped object, 3.5 ft long, giving off blue flashes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5254) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2161 ### Event 14401 (9133A941) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Location:** Edinburgh, Scotland **Description:** Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to police that a diskshaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Round-up 217; 116 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_435 ### Event 14402 (F80CC440) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 0200 **Location:** Sloanville, New York **Description:** A cigar-shaped object 70 m long was observed less than 7 m above ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 264; 117 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_436 ### Event 14403 (417BB0B4) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 1430 **Location:** Holly, West Virginia **Description:** Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated object, 12 m long, with several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and dropped to the ground. People seemed to be moving around it, but the witnesses were driven away by a hard rain. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 265 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_437 ### Event 14404 (758FA46C) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** night **Location:** Waterloo, Iowa **Description:** Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 m long flying over his garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible inside. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 266 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_438 ### Event 14405 (369FCBF9) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** l0:10 AM **Location:** Merrick, Long Island, New York **Description:** Witness: Mrs. L. Dinner. One bar-shaped object, 3.5' long, giving off blue flashes, made a swishing sound. No further data. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_418 ### Event 14406 (896F6AF3) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Time:** 17:47:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” Yield: 1800KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1762 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "1800" ### Event 14407 (144E905B) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Location:** Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, Australia **Description:** 3:03 a.m. Polish-Australian astronomer [Antoni Przybylski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni%5FPrzybylski) and Dutch-American astronomer [Bart Bok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%5FBok) see a vivid pink object moving slowly across the sky at Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, Australia. It is visible to the naked eye for two minutes. Przybylski has just finished observing Sputnik 1 and 2, so it wasn’t a satellite or a meteor. Assistant Director [Arthur Robert Hogg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FRobert%5FHogg) thinks it might be circling the earth like a satellite. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf), The Author, 1998, p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 10–11; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3074 ### Event 14408 (1D8EBBBE) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Location:** Camarillo, California **Description:** 6:22 a.m. Connie Foster watches a lighted triangular object flying from southeast to northwest over Camarillo, California. It is moving with the base facing forward and has bright lights on the tips of the triangle. She watches it for nearly 30 minutes before it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 37 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3075 ### Event 14409 (60A23420) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** Spencer Whedon, chief of Air Intelligence at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, tells the press that of 5,700 UFO reports received by his office since 1940, 97% have been identified satisfactorily and the other 8% remain unidentified due to insufficient information. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seeing Things? No, Sky Really Red,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100142456/the-cincinnati-post/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Post, November 7, 1957, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3076 ### Event 14410 (CD8D15F3) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Locations:** San Francisco; Honolulu **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Pan Am Flight 7, a Boeing Stratocruiser flying across the Pacific mysteriously crashes midway between San Francisco and Honolulu. One of the crew is UFO witness Capt. [William H. Fortenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7). The cause of the crash is never determined. Fortenberry’s journalist son, [Ken H. Fortenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%5FFortenberry), suspects that the bereaved and mentally unstable purser Oliver Eugene Crosthwaite, has deliberately caused the crash, killing himself and murdering 43 innocent people in the process. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Pan Am Flight 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7)”; Ken H. Fortenberry, Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father’s Killer, Fayetteville Mafia, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3077 ### Event 14411 (947258CB) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Locations:** Newhailes Road; Edinburgh; Musselburgh, Scotland; Portobello **Description:** Night. 12 female and 4 male farmworkers are in a truck on the Newhailes Road returning to Edinburgh from picking Brussels sprouts in a nursey at Musselburgh, Scotland. One of them spots a gray, round object seemingly following the truck at a distance of 60 feet. Mary Horne says it is domed on the top and bottom. It follows them for 5–10 minutes then moves off towards Portobello leaving a double vapor trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 54– 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3078 ### Event 14412 (43A99CC8) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Description:** In Edinburgh, Scotland fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to the police that a disc-shaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came within 20 meters of them, and then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 435 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7531 ### Event 14413 (F86F5D38) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Description:** At 2:00 a.m. a cigar-shaped object, 70 meters long, was observed less than seven meters above the ground in Sloanville, New York. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 437 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7532 ### Event 14414 (F7D39408) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated object land in Holly, West Virginia. It was 12 meters long and had several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and then dropped to the ground. People seemed to be moving around outside the landed UFO, but the witnesses were driven away by a hard rain. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 436 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7533 ### Event 14415 (AD3AE139) **Date:** 11/8/1957 **Description:** On the same night Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 meters long flying over his garage in Waterloo, Iowa. The top part was bright and there were two figures visible inside. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alexander Mebane, "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 438 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7534 ### Event 14416 (AC473E93) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** LAKE CITY, MO **Description:** Ammunition dump. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 16M object hovers / 15m altitude. Type unknown. / r8#439. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5723 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE CITY,MO:AMMO DUMP:CAR EMEs:16M OBJ HVRS/15m alt:type UNK:/r8#439", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -94.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 94:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-94.433338)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14417 (C30341CF) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** DS85 NORTH / PUEBLO, CO **Description:** Cop and separate observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 5 minute(s). Going quickly south extremely fast.. vanishes in sight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 864) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5724 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1402", **HatchDesc:** "DS85 N/PUEBLO,CO:COP+SEP.OBS:CGR HVRS/5min:>>S XFAST..VANISHES in sight", **LatLong:** "38.616669 -104.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:37:00 N 104:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.616669,-104.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14418 (306BCA31) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LAFAYETTE, LA **Description:** Captain Gile and airline(s)/airliner crew. Large silver disk hovers / airport. Air Defense Command investigation/investigators. / r141#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5725 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LAFAYETTE,LA:Capt GILE+AL CREW:LRG SLVR DISK HVRS/AIRPORT:ADC INV:/r141#2", **LatLong:** "30.233335 -92.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:14:00 N 92:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.233335,-92.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14419 (72EEF678) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** SACRAMENTO, CA **Description:** 3 disks bob going up and down [to] and circle in Eastern sky. All vanish! / r141#2p65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5726 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "SACRAMENTO,CA:3 DISKS BOB ↑+↓ and CIRCLE in EASTERN SKY:ALL VANISH!:/r141#2p65", **LatLong:** "38.583335 -121.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:00 N 121:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.583335,-121.450006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14420 (644F616C) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** NORTH / CARRIZOZO, NM **Description:** 3 / car. Headlights die. UFO going north turns going quickly southwest / fast. / r141#18p11+/ r79p10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5727 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1660", **HatchDesc:** "N/CARRIZOZO,NM:3/CAR:HEADLITES DIE:UFO> N TURNS >>SW/FAST:/r141#18p11+/r79p10", **LatLong:** "33.816668 -105.861116", **LatLongDMS:** "33:49:00 N 105:51:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.816668,-105.861116)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14421 (810E41DB) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** SOUTH / BEDFORD, IN **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars and separate observer(s). Cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Domed saucer rises / ground. Hovers. Going quickly [to] over hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 866) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5728 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "221", **HatchDesc:** "S/BEDFORD,IN:1/BINOCS+SEP.OBS:CARS EME:DOMED SCR RISES/GND:HVRS:>> OVR HILLS:", **LatLong:** "38.800002 -86.488893", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:00 N 86:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.800002,-86.488893)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14422 (0CF52CEE) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEAR HUMBOLDT, TN **Description:** Man / horseback and separate observer(s). Silver ovoid glows and spins overhead. Faint moan. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 863) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5729 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "nr HUMBOLDT,TN:MAN/HORSEBACK+SEP.OBS:SLVR OVOID GLOWS+SPINS OVHD:FAINT MOAN", **LatLong:** "35.822224 -88.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:49:20 N 88:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.822224,-88.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14423 (7342304B) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Location:** Lake City, MO **Description:** Man saw object 50 ft long. Car engine died as he approached (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2162 ### Event 14424 (B51DAD8F) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Location:** White Oaks (near), NM **Description:** Car lights failed as UFO observed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2163 ### Event 14425 (E865D1C1) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Time:** 0100 **Location:** Lake City, Missouri **Description:** A civilian driving his car home from work observed a hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object's position, and it started again only after the object's departure. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_439 ### Event 14426 (27BDC562) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Location:** Sacramento, California **Description:** 12:15 a.m. A man is driving in Sacramento, California, when his car engine and headlights fail. He looks up and sees an elongated egg-shaped object with delta-shaped wings, 150–200 feet long and 40–50 feet wide. The wings come back to about 30 feet from the rear of the fuselage. It has a bright bluish hue and leaves a bluish fluorescent trail. The sighting lasts 2–3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3079 ### Event 14427 (33322E9A) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Location:** Lafayette (Louisiana) Airport **Description:** 9:15 a.m. Eastern Airline pilot Capt. [Truman Gile Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119188315/truman-gile) is preparing to take off from Lafayette \(Louisiana\) Airport when he sees a big silvery object about 20,000 feet in the air. Gile watches it for 3 minutes and it doesn’t move. He alerts copilot James E. Hall, the stewardess, and the ground agents, and they all watch it another 5 minutes before it fades away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 61–62 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3080 ### Event 14428 (93EE25D5) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Locations:** Carrizozo, New Mexico; US Highway 54; White Oaks; US Highway 380 **Description:** 7:20 p.m. Several witnesses are driving 12 miles northeast of Carrizozo, New Mexico, on US Highway 54 in the vicinity of White Oaks when a large, rapidly moving light approaches their car from the south and apparently causes the vehicle’s lighting system to fail. The light changes course and speeds off to the southwest. [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) are driving east on US Highway 380 about 10 miles east of Carrizozo when they spot an anomalous light that might be the same object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp, 101–102](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n97/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3081 ### Event 14429 (EB9956A3) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Description:** At 1:00 a.m. a civilian driving his car home from work in Lake City, Missouri observed a hovering object 16 meters long. It had an elongated shape, and hovered 50 feet above the ground. His car engine died as he neared the object's position. When the object left the performance of the engine returned to normal. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 439 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7564 ### Event 14430 (74C5B6D0) **Date:** 11/9/1957 **Description:** In Bedford, Indiana a UFO was seen by a Mr. Merry at 9:10 p.m. His car stalled, and his head was covered with burns following the close encounter. On the same night just south of the same town a woman named Baxter also had her car stopped by a domed saucer, which rose from the ground, hovered, and then flew off over the hills. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, Fate magazine, March 1958, pp. 27 & 32; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: November 7-12, p. 66 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7565 ### Event 14431 (2B6B65EE) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** MADISON, OH **Description:** 12 Mx3M 'acorn' / 20M / altitude. Observer(s) gets sick. Dog dies / cancer. / r141#2p69. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5730 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "227", **HatchDesc:** "MADISON,OH:12Mx3M 'ACORN'/20M /alt:OBS GETS SICK:dog dies/cancer:/r141#2p69", **LatLong:** "41.772224 -81.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:46:20 N 81:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.772224,-81.050004)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14432 (1C7F4FAA) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** KATOOMBA, AUSTR **Description:** Huge luminous/glowing cylinder/cigar-shape races toward(s) Sputnik! Vanishes. Sputnik brightens! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 871) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5731 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KATOOMBA,AUSTR:HUGE LUMn CGR RACES TWRD SPUTNIK!:VANISHES:SPUTNIK BRIGHTENS!", **LatLong:** "-33.700002 150.300007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:42:00 S 150:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.700002,150.300007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14433 (0EF0CD13) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** SKARYSZEW, POLAND **Description:** ~12 observer(s). Bright cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 30 minute(s) then flies going [to] east. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5732 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SKARYSZEW,POLAND:~12 OBS:BRITE CGR HOVERS/30min THEN FLIES >EAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "51.311114 21.261112", **LatLongDMS:** "51:18:40 N 21:15:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.311114,21.261112)", **State/Prov:** "RDM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14434 (284D3B02) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** LYTHRODHONDA, CYPRUS **Description:** Villagers. 2 wine casks fly past / great speed. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 812) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5733 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "410", **HatchDesc:** "LYTHRODHONDA,CYPRUS:VILLAGERS:2 WINE CASKS FLY PAST/GREAT SPEED:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.950002 33.300002", **LatLongDMS:** "34:57:00 N 33:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.950002,33.300002)", **State/Prov:** "CYP", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14435 (DBBA21B8) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** VARGINHA, BRAZIL **Description:** Prof. / medicine and 4. Silent 70cm metallic round object appears and reappears / 30 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 873) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5734 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "897", **HatchDesc:** "VARGINHA,BRZL:PROF./MEDICINE+4:SLNT 70cm MTLC RND OBJ APPEARS+REAPPEARS/30min", **LatLong:** "-21.566668 -45.416669", **LatLongDMS:** "21:34:00 S 45:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.566668,-45.416669)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14436 (9F3B3D02) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTH / HAMLET, NE **Description:** Teen and 2. 24M glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 22M altitude. Going west slow. Blimp? / Benkelmen Post. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 877) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5735 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "930", **HatchDesc:** "S/HAMLET,NE:TEEN+2:24M GLO-CGR HVRS/22M alt:>W SLOW:blimp?:/Benkelmen Post", **LatLong:** "40.350002 -101.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:21:00 N 101:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.350002,-101.233338)", **RelAlt:** "22", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14437 (8B16ED0F) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** HAMMOND, IN **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Cops chase elusive 'basket'. Radio and TV Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and beeps. / r79p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5736 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "HAMMOND,IN:100S/OBS:COPS CHASE ELUSIVE 'BASKET':RADIO+TV RFI+BEEPS:/r79p13", **LatLong:** "41.583335 -87.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:00 N 87:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.583335,-87.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14438 (208CC00A) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / BULAWAYO, RHOD **Description:** 2 / road. Flashy ball / light stops. Hovers. Drops going southwest / staircase trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 812) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5737 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SE/BULAWAYO,RHOD:2/ROAD:FLASHY BALL/LITE STOPS:HVRS:DROPS >SW/STAIRCASE TRAJ:", **LatLong:** "-20.250001 28.766668", **LatLongDMS:** "20:15:00 S 28:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.250001,28.766668)", **State/Prov:** "RHD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14439 (8C9F0B2F) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Location:** Hammond, IN **Description:** Loud beeping caused radio interference as police chased UFO. TV blackout in city, motorist reported radio failure (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2164 ### Event 14440 (A3FB1500) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Location:** Madison, OH **Description:** Close encounter with domed-top 40' UFO (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) **Reference:** NICAP: [571110](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/571110dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2165 ### Event 14441 (C3833729) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Time:** 0125 **Location:** Madison, Ohio **Description:** Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 m above ground. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was over 10 m wide, 3 to 4 m thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin irritation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** M 267; 118 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_440 ### Event 14442 (9FFEA9AC) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Location:** Madison, Ohio **Description:** 1:25 a.m. [Leita Mae Kuhn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90719676/leita-mae-kuhn) is checking the stove in her Doberman dog kennel at Madison, Ohio, when she notices a glowing, domed disc hovering 60 feet above the rear of the kennel. It is about 40 feet in diameter and emitting puffy clouds of smoke. Her eyes begin to burn after watching it for 20–30 minutes, and she runs back into the house and locks the door. She has rashes and her eyes hurt so badly she visits a doctor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 11–12; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 69–71; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 30–31; Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3082 ### Event 14443 (98847DCB) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Location:** Skaryszew, Poland **Description:** Residents of Skaryszew, Poland, watch a huge, radiant, cigar-shaped object slowly moving west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3083 ### Event 14444 (3DB3128F) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Locations:** Montville, Ohio; Youngstown **Description:** Evening. UFO witness Olden Moore of Montville, Ohio, is visited by Sheriff [Robusky](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107231232/louis-arthur-robusky), a deputy, and a USAF officer who asks him to go with them to Youngstown to be interviewed by military officers. They drive him to the field where the encounter took place and put him aboard a military helicopter. He is interviewed in Youngstown, then he is returned to the field at 11:00 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 773 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3084 ### Event 14445 (65A06834) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Locations:** Tokyo, Japan; Lake Imba-numa **Description:** 5:55 p.m. [Wilfred S. Hardy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209207265/wilfred-ivan%5Fsamuel-hardy), an assistant safety engineer at the Tokyo, Japan, Engineer Supply Center, sees \(along with his wife and a Japanese boat boy\) a huge cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes above Lake Imba-numa 10 miles away. He estimates it is about 200–500 feet long. The object lights up the entire lake, then disappears to the south 10 seconds later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 86 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3085 ### Event 14446 (4D4B51BF) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Location:** Hammond, Indiana **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Many people see a UFO at Hammond, Indiana. Two policemen \(Sgt. [Charles J. Mauder](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48437421/charles-j%5F-mauder), Office Steve Betuslak\) see a red and white light hovering 500–1,000 feet overhead. They hear a beeping sound and there is interference on the police radio while the object is in view. Another witness sees a green light on a basket-shaped object; his car radio fails. The lights fly away when anyone tries to approach. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 268; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 92–95; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 73, 75 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3086 ### Event 14447 (E8AA4249) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Locations:** Toulouse Observatory; France **Description:** Night. French astronomer Jacques Chapuis at Toulouse Observatory in France observes a maneuvering, yellow, star-like object for 5 minutes. It ascends straight up out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 50](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3087 ### Event 14448 (65D07692) **Date:** 11/10/1957 **Description:** At 1:25 a.m. Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 meters above the ground in Madison, Ohio. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was over 10 meters wide, three to four meters thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin irritation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 440 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7591 ### Event 14449 (FE8E97EB) **Date:** 11/11/1957 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** EAST-NORTHEAST / LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner passenger. 250' metallic saucer going [to] low over desert hills. Erratic path. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5738 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "800", **HatchDesc:** "ENE/LOS ANGELES,CA:AL PASSENGER:250'MTLC SCR >LO OVR DESERT HILLS:ERRATIC PATH", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -117.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 117:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-117.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14450 (874C7E7C) **Date:** 11/11/1957 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** BANNING, CA **Description:** 2 white shapeless objects going quickly southeast. Red-glow cylinder/cigar-shape follows. / r49p268+/ r141#2p84. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SACHS, Margaret: CELESTIAL PASSENGERS - UFO'S and SPACE TRAVEL; Penguin Books, 1977. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5739 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "732", **HatchDesc:** "BANNING,CA:2 WHT SHAPELESS OBJS >>SE:RED-GLOW CGR FOLOS:/r49p268+/r141#2p84", **LatLong:** "33.916668 -116.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:55:00 N 116:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.916668,-116.866672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14451 (2777D1E2) **Date:** 11/11/1957 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** SANTA SUSANNA MTS, CA **Description:** 4 rocket engineers. Cylinder/cigar-shape and 3 silver saucers going quickly southwest / 8000kph. / r46p186. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 885) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5740 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "350", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA SUSANNA Mts,CA:4 ROCKET ENGINEERS:CGR+3 SLVR SCRS >>SW/8000kph:/r46p186", **LatLong:** "34.266668 -118.644450", **LatLongDMS:** "34:16:00 N 118:38:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.266668,-118.644450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14452 (A202528B) **Date:** 11/11/1957 **Location:** Canoga Park, CA **Description:** Four engineers observed three UFOs flying in formation in bright daylight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [571111](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/canogapark571111dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2168 ### Event 14453 (CDEB39AF) **Date:** 11/11/1957 **Location:** Los Angeles (near), CA **Description:** Airline passenger saw elliptical UFO flying low over ground below plane. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2169 ### Event 14454 (D13697DB) **Date:** 11/11/1957 **Location:** San Fernando Valley, CA **Description:** Rocketdyne engineers observed three UFOs climbing at high speed. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [571111](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/canogapark571111dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2170 ### Event 14455 (F8A0E406) **Date:** 11/11/1957 **Location:** Desert east of Los Angeles, California **Description:** A silvery elliptical UFO is seen flying below Western Airlines Flight 61 over the desert east of Los Angeles, California. Robert D. Hahn, a jewelry designer, is a passenger and describes it as a large, elliptical, metallic object with dark patches zigzagging about 200 feet above the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 67](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=79&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3088 ### Event 14456 (34310350) **Date:** 11/12/1957 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** FBI STATUS REPORT: “Ever since the Russians release ‘Sputnik’ there has been a great increase in the number of flying saucers and other UFOs reportedly seen by people all over the U.S.” [Angle: Artificial satellite spurs Alien interest in mankind. Other Angle: Artificial satellite causes populace to go sky crazy.] **Type:** status report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_578 ### Event 14457 (B80BC7D9) **Date:** 11/12/1957 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** HAZLETON, PA **Description:** Delta/triangle/box-like craft / lit corners seen 3x / one hour. OTHERs to 15 November. TV electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r141#2p91. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5741 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "494", **HatchDesc:** "HAZLETON,PA:DLT/LIT CORNERS SEEN 3x/1hr:OTHERs to 15NOV:TV EME:/r141#2p91", **LatLong:** "40.961113 -75.972226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:57:40 N 75:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.961113,-75.972226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14458 (08B91341) **Date:** 11/12/1957 **Location:** Hazelton, PA **Description:** TV disrupted as UFO seen (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2171 ### Event 14459 (C920E048) **Date:** 11/12/1957 **Location:** Rumney, NH **Description:** Car motor and lights failed. Ground Observer Corps reported UFO at same time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2172 ### Event 14460 (5E7DDF84) **Date:** 11/13/1957 **Location:** CROWNSVILLE, MD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. UFO explodes over state hospital. Fragments analyzed / USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE; Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5742 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "CROWNSVILLE,MD:BBK#UNK:UFO EXPLODES OVR STATE HOSPITAL:FRAGS ANALYZED/USAF", **LatLong:** "39.027780 -76.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:01:40 N 76:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.027780,-76.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14461 (ED5AB3F5) **Date:** 11/13/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** ONEIDA TO/FROM WAMPSVILLE, NY **Description:** 1 / car. Small saucer maneuvers all directions. Vanishes / flash when neared. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 901) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5743 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "ONEIDA> Event 14462 (E5153BEE) **Date:** 11/13/1957 **Locations:** State Hospital at Crownsville, Maryland; Fort George G. Meade; Air Research and Development Center in Baltimore **Description:** An object explodes over the State Hospital at Crownsville, Maryland, and two or three burned pieces of metal fall on the hospital grounds. It is recovered by employees William A. Zick and J. Caswell. The pieces are checked for radiation and confiscated by army intelligence officers at Fort George G. Meade. They are apparently sent to the Air Research and Development Center in Baltimore. An ARD colonel tells NICAP member and WFBR news director [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) that he has no idea what the metal is. Some of the material is perhaps sent to ATIC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Metal Object from Skies Rushed to ATIC for Analysis,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3 \(January 1958\): 5–6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3089 ### Event 14463 (ED15C092) **Date:** 11/13/1957 **Description:** In 1957 a UFO exploded over the State Hospital in Crownsville, Maryland at 9:10 in the morning. Fragments were recovered and sent to the US Air Force for analysis. On this same date a UFO was seen high in the sky east of Port Broughton, South Australia. It drifted slowly toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 5; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 160 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7629 ### Event 14464 (409C1165) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Location:** MOUNTAINS EAST / BANNING, CA **Description:** 2 / private plane. Saucer returns light signals 2X. 50mph. Sudden retreat. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 904) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5744 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1300", **HatchDesc:** "Mtns E/BANNING,CA:2/Pvt.PLANE:SCR RETURNS LITE SIGNALS 2X:50mph:sudden retreat", **LatLong:** "33.966668 -116.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:58:00 N 116:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.966668,-116.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14465 (0E977A0C) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** PULASKI, WI **Description:** Animals panic. 60M top-saucer hovers. Blue beam sweeps. Going up [to] to clouds silently. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 609) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5745 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "239", **HatchDesc:** "PULASKI,WI:ANIMALS PANIC:60M TOP-SCR HVRS:BLU BEAM SWEEPS:↑ to CLOUDS SILENTLY", **LatLong:** "44.672224 -88.244449", **LatLongDMS:** "44:40:20 N 88:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.672224,-88.244449)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14466 (AC381782) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** Cylinder/cylindrical object cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 5 minute(s). Going up [to] and away / 13 second(s) going southeast toward(s) Tokyo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 903) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5746 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "JOHNSON AFB,JPN:CYL CLOUD-CGR HVRS/5min:↑+away/13 sec >SE twrd Tokyo", **LatLong:** "35.916668 139.583340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:55:00 N 139:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.916668,139.583340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14467 (156B8F27) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** TAMAROA, IL **Description:** Moon saucer. Beams and flashes and booms. Power out / 4 mile(s) area / 10 minute(s). / r141#9p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: FLYING SAUCERS & the STRAIGHT LINE THEORY HB (hard to find) (Index 269) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5747 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "154", **HatchDesc:** "TAMAROA,IL:MOON SCR:BEAMS+FLASHES+BOOMS:POWER OUT/4 MI AREA/10min:/r141#9p4.", **LatLong:** "39.133335 -89.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:00 N 89:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.133335,-89.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14468 (7FB3B8D3) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SOUTH CROYDEN, ENGL AND WIDE AREA / NORTH SURREY **Description:** Large red-orange sphere hovers / 700' altitude. Maneuvers. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5748 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "S.CROYDEN,ENGL+WIDE AREA/N.SURREY:LRG RED-ORG SPHERE HVRS/700'alt:MNVRS:>>N", **LatLong:** "51.333336 -0.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:20:00 N 00:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.333336,-0.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14469 (88723A2E) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** OPORTO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Several calls / newspaper. Big strange object beams strong lights down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5749 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "OPORTO,PORTUGAL:SVRL CALLS/NEWSPAPER:BIG STRANGE OBJ BEAMS STRONG LITES DOWN", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -8.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 08:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-8.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Douro", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14470 (C46F4B70) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Location:** Rothwesten, West Germany **Description:** Numerous Targets Tracked (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571114](http://www.nicap.org/571114rothwesten%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2173 ### Event 14471 (5E565E22) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Location:** Tamaroa, IL **Description:** Power failed for 10 minutes in a four mile area, just after hovering UFO flashed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2174 ### Event 14472 (D5A2D297) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Locations:** Tamaroa, Illinois; US Highway 51; Du Bois **Description:** Afternoon. [Evalyn Riead](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22308264/evalyn-riead) hears a sputtering noise like someone is pulling into her driveway in Tamaroa, Illinois. She looks outside and sees a bright, moon-shaped object with a tail moving above the trees bordering US Highway 51. It disappears after 5–6 booms and 3 flashes of light. As soon as this happens, the lights in her home go out. Electrical power in a 4-mile area between Tamaroa and Du Bois is interrupted for 10 minutes. Power is restored when the company closes an open circuit breaker, but they could find no cause. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Current Cut Off As](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99860979/) [Flying ‘Thing’ Appears in Illinois,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99860979/)” Lima \(Ohio\) Citizen, November 15, 1957, p. 10; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 140–141 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3090 ### Event 14473 (819A7EE8) **Date:** 11/14/1957 **Description:** Two years later, at Tamaroa, in southern Illinois, there was another occurrence of an electro-magnetic interference case. Mrs. John Riead, wife of Tamaroa's justice of the peace, said she heard "a sputtering noise" and observed a bright, moon-shaped object appear over the trees bordering US Highway 1, which had "a sort of a tail or ray extending down from it as it moved along." The UFO was accompanied by five or six loud booms and three brilliant flashes. Then the lights in her home went out. Electric power in a four-mile wide area was interrupted for about ten minutes. Service was restored when workmen closed an open circuit breaker, although investigation could find no apparent cause. In Oporto, Portugal at 7:30 p.m., several witnesses watched a big UFO send down a beam of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alex Mebane, in Aime Michel's Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 269; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, investigation files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7666 ### Event 14474 (7CF43339) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** LA GRANGE, CA **Description:** Huge 'cucumber' tumbles end over end. Shoots beams. Lights area going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 910) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5750 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "79", **HatchDesc:** "La GRANGE,CA:HUGE 'CUCUMBER' TUMBLES END ovr END:SHOOTS BEAMS:LITES AREA >W", **LatLong:** "37.666668 -120.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:40:00 N 120:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.666668,-120.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14475 (77ED7032) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** MT. ELGIN, ON **Description:** 2 / ground. Metallic ball hovers. Going quickly SSE when light plane passes under. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 910) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5751 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "258", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.ELGIN,ON:2/GND:MTLC BALL HVRS:>>SSE when LITE PLANE PASSES UNDER", **LatLong:** "42.966669 -80.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:58:00 N 80:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.966669,-80.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14476 (3B9638B7) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** CACHOEIRA, BRZ **Description:** Silent 60M saucer hovers 90M / airport. All cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Power outages. Quickly going up. / r79. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 920) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5752 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "133", **HatchDesc:** "CACHOEIRA,BRZ:SLNT 60M SCR HVRS 90M/AIRPORT:ALL CARS EME:PWR OUTAGES:↑↑:/r79", **LatLong:** "-12.600001 -38.966669", **LatLongDMS:** "12:36:00 S 38:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.600001,-38.966669)", **RelAlt:** "90", **State/Prov:** "Bahia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14477 (0599DF8D) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** WEST / DALY CITY, CA **Description:** Cop and more. Huge white glowing-object hovers 1km offshore. Shifts to and fro / 3km altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 920) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5753 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "W/DALY CITY,CA:COP+:HUGE WHT GLO-OBJ HVRS 1km OFFSHORE:SHIFTS TO+FRO/3km alt", **LatLong:** "37.733335 -122.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:44:00 N 122:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.733335,-122.550006)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14478 (A4A0CA8A) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** MOURA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright 2M object beams 4 lights down / ground. / O Seculo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5754 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MOURA,PORTUGAL:SVRL OBS:BRITE 2M OBJ BEAMS 4 LITES DOWN/GND:/O SECULO", **LatLong:** "38.133335 -7.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:08:00 N 07:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.133335,-7.466667)", **State/Prov:** "BXA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14479 (D0D0ED83) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** EAST / VIKING, MN **Description:** Tapping under parked car. Car shakes. Saucer quickly going up [to] 100M away. Beams and portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 922) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5755 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "340", **HatchDesc:** "E/VIKING,MN:TAPPING under parked car:CAR SHAKES:SCR ↑↑ 100M away:BEAMS+PORTS", **LatLong:** "48.216669 -94.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "48:13:00 N 94:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.216669,-94.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14480 (8056EDF0) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Location:** Cachoeira, Brazil **Description:** Several car motors failed as drivers attempted to approach UFO hovering low above ground (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2175 ### Event 14481 (EFE2BC62) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Location:** Carthage, TN **Description:** Highway patrolman, sheriff, others saw many flashing revolving red lights which moved around slowly, hovered. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2176 ### Event 14482 (978DC228) **Date:** Mid 11/1957 **Locations:** US; Arkansas **Description:** The US Senate Committee on Government Operations, chaired by Sen. [John L. McClellan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FL.%5FMcClellan) \(D-Ark.\), begins an inquiry into UFOs. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is called to give testimony. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, 1960 ed., p. 253 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3091 ### Event 14483 (AC34BE64) **Date:** 11/15/1957 **Description:** In 1957, at 2:00 in the afternoon, cars stalled when their drivers attempted to approach a 200' diameter metallic UFO hovering 300' over an aerodrome in Cachoeira, Brazil. East of Viking, Minnesota, at 11:45 that night, a parked car was buffeted by a flying disc, 100 yards away. The occupants of the car heard and felt tapping underneath the car. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP files; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 9), p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7686 ### Event 14484 (AEF6AEF8) **Date:** 11/16/1957 **Location:** SEGURA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Globe-shaped object flies over village. No further details. / Diario de Noticias. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5756 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SEGURA,PORTUGAL:GLOBE-SHAPED OBJ FLIES OVR VILLAGE:NFD:/DIARIO de NOTICIAS", **LatLong:** "39.811113 -7.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "39:48:40 N 07:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.811113,-7.000000)", **State/Prov:** "BRB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14485 (E726B1C2) **Date:** 11/16/1957 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** EAST / DENTON, NE **Description:** Several / car. Red star blinks. White night lights pace. Paralysis. Lights going up / field.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 923) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5757 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "383", **HatchDesc:** "E/DENTON,NE:SVRL/CAR:RED STAR BLINKS:WHT NLTS PACE:PARALYSIS:LITES ↑/FIELD..", **LatLong:** "40.738891 -96.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:20 N 96:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.738891,-96.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14486 (B16B5E89) **Date:** 11/16/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** BAGE', BRZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Red-yellow blinding object lands / park. Going up [to] and maneuvers. Lands again. / r8#441. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 928) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5758 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "193", **HatchDesc:** "BAGE',BRZ:SVRL OBS:RED-YEL BLINDING OBJ LANDS/PARK:↑+MNVRS:LANDS AGAIN:/r8#441", **LatLong:** "-31.333335 -54.100003", **LatLongDMS:** "31:20:00 S 54:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.333335,-54.100003)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14487 (D5EB2071) **Date:** 11/16/1957 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Bage City, Brazil **Description:** A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed-first near the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_441 ### Event 14488 (FA31D112) **Date:** 11/16/1957 **Location:** 87 Fentham Road in Aston, Birmingham, England **Description:** Afternoon. [Cynthia Appleton](https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The%2Briddle%2Bof%2BBrum%27s%2Balien%2Bbaby%3B%2B44%2BYEARS%2BON%3A%2BWHERE%2BIS%2B%27BOY%2BFROM...-a096940811) blacks out unexpectedly at her home in 87 Fentham Road in Aston, a suburb of Birmingham, England. On November 19, she feels faint again as the light outside dims, and a man with blond hair and wearing coveralls materializes in the center of the room. She hears him speaking to her telepathically. He tells her not to be afraid and that he is from a world he calls Gharnasvarn \(which we know as Venus\) and he shows her what seems to be a holographic image of two spaceships. She has other visitations by entities on January 7 and February 7, 1958. In September 1958, the spaceman informs her that she is pregnant, which is apparently true, as she gives birth on June 2, 1958, to a boy with blond hair that she and her husband Ron name Matthew. Appleton says the Venusians visited her a few more times, but the trail grows cold in July 1960. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Birmingham Woman Meets Spacemen,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMar-Apr%2CV%204%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 \(March/April 1958\): 5–6; Jenny Randles, “A Visitor from Gharnasvarn,” IUR 13, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1988\): 4–8; Birmingham Sunday Mercury, January 26, 2003; Andy Roberts, “The Space Baby,” Fortean Times 191 \(December 2004\): 32–38; Bill Chalker, “[Flying Saucery, Cosmic Bethlehem, and Midwich Cuckoos: The Cynthia Appleton Contacts \(1957–1959\),](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F34.htm)” Australian UFO Researcher Bill Chalker, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3092 ### Event 14489 (08B22828) **Date:** 11/16/1957 **Description:** A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed first near the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition in Bage City, Brazil at 10:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 441 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7715 ### Event 14490 (5AC07393) **Date:** 11/17/1957 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR VALPARAISO, IN **Description:** 1 / car. Ovoid going down. Stops 3M over snow. Aims strong beam. Quickly going up [to] and paces car. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 929) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5759 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "nr VALPARAISO,IN:1/CAR:OVOID ↓:STOPS 3M ovr SNOW:AIMS STRONG BEAM:↑↑+PACES CAR", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -87.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 87:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-87.066671)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14491 (4BC3BB7F) **Date:** 11/17/1957 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** CORAOPOLIS, PA **Description:** Important woman / car. 8M metallic saucer / treetop level 80M away near airport. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 930) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5760 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "CORAOPOLIS,PA:IMPORTANT WOMAN/CAR:8M MTLC SCR/TREETOP lvl 80M away nr airport", **LatLong:** "40.500002 -80.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:30:00 N 80:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.500002,-80.150004)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14492 (EDBF1BA1) **Date:** 11/17/1957 **Locations:** Montville, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** An Air Force car with two officers comes to UFO witness Olden Moore’s house in Montville, Ohio. He is told they are taking him to Washington, D.C., for extended questioning. They drive him to a waiting airplane, which stops briefly at Wright-Patterson AFB to pick up one officer and drop another off. In Washington, Moore is housed in a building said to be a federal courthouse \[US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces?\]. He is kept there and interrogated for several days. Officers watch him constantly, even when he is sleeping. Toward the end of his stay, Moore is shown slides of UFO photos and a UFO film taken from inside a military plane. Moore is asked to sign a document that swears him to secrecy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 114](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=126&skin=2021); Clark III 773 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3093 ### Event 14493 (4F896EE9) **Date:** 11/18/1957 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** MARACAJA, BRZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 6 pseudo-human/entity board 10' saucers. Join 3 more saucers. All going east / sea. / r113p150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5761 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "MARACAJA,BRZ:2 OBS:6 PSH BOARD 10'SCRS:JOIN 3 MORE SCRS:ALL >E/SEA:/r113p150", **LatLong:** "-28.850001 -49.466669", **LatLongDMS:** "28:51:00 S 49:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.850001,-49.466669)", **State/Prov:** "STC", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14494 (B7A322CC) **Date:** 11/18/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** ASTON, ENGLAND **Description:** Pseudo-human/entity materializes. Asks Mrs. Appleton / good source / titanium. / r67p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5762 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CNT:** Contactee related, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ASTON,ENGLAND:PSH MATERIALIZES:ASKS MRS APPLETON/GOOD SOURCE/TITANIUM:/r67p17.", **LatLong:** "52.466669 -1.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:28:00 N 01:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.466669,-1.933333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14495 (EA5BD631) **Date:** 11/18/1957 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ARKANSAS CITY, KS **Description:** Numerous observer(s) and cops. Fast fireball maneuvers / all directions. Away extremely fast. / Traveller. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 934) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5763 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "ARKANSAS CITY,KS:NMRS OBS+COPS:FAST FBL MNVRs/ALL DIRs:AWAY XFAST:/Traveller", **LatLong:** "37.083335 -97.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 N 97:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.083335,-97.033338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14496 (AAFA667F) **Date:** 11/18/1957 **Time:** 1030 **Location:** Maracaja, Brazil **Description:** Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming sound, then saw two aluminum-colored disks 200 m away. Near them were six mm of average height, slim build, dressed in "dark gray suits glued to their bodies." The disks were about 3.5 m wide, hovering 1 m above ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees below them bent double. Three more disks rose from behind the trees, and all five flew toward the Atlantic. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 36 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_442 ### Event 14497 (A42E898C) **Date:** 11/18/1957 **Time:** 1500 **Location:** Aston, Great Britain **Description:** Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_443 ### Event 14498 (F34860C2) **Date:** 11/18/1957 **Description:** In Maracaja, Brazil Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming sound at 10:30 a.m., then saw two aluminum-colored discs 200 meters away. Near them were six men of average height and slim build, dressed in "dark gray suits glued to their bodies." The discs were only about 3.5 meters wide, and hovered one meter above the ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees below them bent over double. Three more discs rose from behind the trees, and then all five flew away toward the Atlantic Ocean. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 443 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7727 ### Event 14499 (49A7D7F7) **Date:** 11/18/1957 **Description:** An hour and a half later Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, age 27 and mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace in Aston, England at three o'clock in the afternoon at the same time that a whistling sound became audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. He suddenly disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 442 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7728 ### Event 14500 (8F950D0A) **Date:** 11/19/1957 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** ROCKINGHAM, NC **Description:** 2 observer(s). 8+glowing-saucers cross sky / 1 minute(s) / V-formation. Under 1500M altitude / amateur astronomer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 971) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5764 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKINGHAM,NC:2 OBS:8+GLO-SCRS CROSS SKY/1min/VFORMn:UNDER 1500M alt/AM.ASTRON", **LatLong:** "34.938891 -79.772226", **LatLongDMS:** "34:56:20 N 79:46:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.938891,-79.772226)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14501 (E463CEE8) **Date:** 11/20/1957 **Location:** GESTEN, RIBE, DK **Description:** "Transparent pyramid" flies over road. 2 regular men inside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 444) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5765 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GESTEN,RIBE,DK:"TRANSPARENT PYRAMID" FLIES OVR ROAD:2 REGULAR MEN INSIDE", **LatLong:** "55.533336 9.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "55:32:00 N 09:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.533336,9.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14502 (21B4D724) **Date:** 11/20/1957 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BRIGHTON, NZ **Description:** Horseshoe shape hovers and glows. Torus circles and maneuvers between arms / horseshoe. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 697) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5766 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BRIGHTON,NZ:HORSESHOE SHAPE HVRS+GLOWS:TORUS CCLs+MNVRS BETWEEN ARMS/HORSESHOE", **LatLong:** "-45.944447 170.300008", **LatLongDMS:** "45:56:40 S 170:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.944447,170.300008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14503 (07BC8CAC) **Date:** 11/20/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BORNHOLM ISLAND, DK **Description:** Separate report(s) / many observer(s). Silent delta/triangle/box-like craft? hovers / air station/depot/facility. Maneuvers. / r141#9p56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5767 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "BORNHOLM Isl,DK:SEP.Rpts/MANY OBS:SLNT DLT? HVRS/AIR Stn:MNVRS:/r141#9p56", **LatLong:** "55.083336 15.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "55:05:00 N 15:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.083336,15.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14504 (8A4D09BC) **Date:** 11/20/1957 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** MCMINNVILLE, TN **Description:** Flashing red night light buzzes car. Going northwest. Cops can't catch. / r141#9p44. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5768 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "McMINNVILLE,TN:FLASHING RED NLT BUZZES CAR:>NW:COPS CANT CATCH:/r141#9p44", **LatLong:** "35.666668 -85.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 85:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,-85.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14505 (D34D1FDA) **Date:** 11/20/1957 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** VERACRUZ, MX **Description:** Many observer(s). 50M ovoid going [to] over main Boulevard! Radios out. Watches stop. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 964) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5769 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VERACRUZ,MX:MANY OBS:50M OVOID >OVR MAIN BOULEVARD!:RADIOS OUT:WATCHES STOP", **LatLong:** "19.200001 -96.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "19:12:00 N 96:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.200001,-96.133338)", **State/Prov:** "VRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14506 (733CBA57) **Date:** 11/21/1957 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** CHEROKEE, AL **Description:** High School principal and 1. Saucer with flashing lights. Hovers. Shoots up and down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 906) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5770 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CHEROKEE,AL:HS PRINCIPAL+1:SCR W/FLASHING LITES:HVRS:SHOOTS UP+DOWN:", **LatLong:** "34.800002 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:48:00 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.800002,-87.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14507 (E313F283) **Date:** 11/21/1957 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** SOUTH / REEDSBURG, WI **Description:** Cop and 2. Silent transparent 3M globe hovers / field. Lights inside. Quickly going up [to] when lit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 963) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5771 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "277", **HatchDesc:** "S/REEDSBURG,WI:COP+2:SLNT XPRNT 3M GLOBE HVRS/FIELD:LITES INSIDE:↑↑ when lit", **LatLong:** "43.483335 -90.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:29:00 N 90:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.483335,-90.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14508 (302282F6) **Date:** 11/21/1957 **Location:** Houma, LA **Description:** (McDonald list) Huge Target Picked Up On Three Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571121](http://www.nicap.org/571121houma%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2177 ### Event 14509 (5D0B0CA1) **Date:** 11/21/1957 **Description:** The Army Chief of Research and Development responds to CONARC’s October 22 request on the feasibility of building a manned “flying saucer,” stating that he had reviewed the Avrocar disc concept and that it looked promising. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard P. Weinert, History of Army Aviation, 1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November 1976, [pp. 220–221](https://archive.org/details/DTIC%5FADA236573/page/n225/mode/2up); Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3094 ### Event 14510 (38F21F14) **Date:** 11/21/1957 **Locations:** Gesten, Denmark; Egholt; Jordrup; Vorbasse **Description:** Merchant [Hans Haugaard Hansen](https://www.geni.com/people/Hans-Haugaard-Hansen/6000000021669778682) is driving out of Gesten, Denmark, on the road to Egholt when he sees a triangular UFO moving low over a field some 300–600 feet away. It is emitting a red or orange light and makes no sound. The bottom of the object is solid, but the upper part is transparent, and he can see two figures inside. He stops the car to watch as it moves about 40 mph. Similar objects are seen at Jordrup and Vorbasse. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf) [Saucer Reports Pour in from Denmark,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 2; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-13-30.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 13th–30th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-13-30.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-13-30.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 56; Willy Wegner, “[UFO bogen, Kapitel 19: Rumfolkene viser sig,](https://www.skeptica.dk/?p=8019)” Skeptica, September 1, 2004 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3095 ### Event 14511 (4585A1BF) **Date:** 11/21/1957 **Locations:** Reasty Hill; Silpho, North Yorkshire, England; Broxa Forest; Scarborough; London's Science Museum **Description:** Night. Frank Dickenson and two friends are driving up Reasty Hill near the village of Silpho, North Yorkshire, England, when their car stalls and they see a glowing object in the sky that appears to fall to the ground on a ridge above Broxa Forest. Dickenson leaves the car with a flashlight, climbs up a bank, and finds in a patch of bracken a metallic saucer shaped like a “large flattish spinning top,” 18 inches in diameter and weighing 33 pounds. As he returns to tell his friends, he passes a young couple walking toward the scene. When the tree men return to search for it, the disc is gone. Dickenson places an advertisement in a Scarborough newspaper about the disc, and he is able to recover it for £10 from a man who claims he was the mystery man on the moor. Photos taken by UFO researcher John Dale show that the copper base of the object is inscribed with a mystery script. The top of the disc is made from layers of laminated metal that has been painted with a white substance. The two halves are stuck together with a grayish substance resembling cellulose, and a pencil-thick iron rod runs through a “white metal bearing” in the top. When the bearing is drilled out, they find a heap of ash inside the cavity, as well as pieces of fused glass and a tightly rolled cylinder of copper. Also inside is a tiny booklet of 17 sheets of thin copper foil fastened at one edge. The booklet is engraved with script similar to that found on the outside. The coded script is translated by a café proprietor from Scarborough named Philip Longbottom, who claims the 2,000- word inscription is from an alien named Ulo, with later text added by an apparently female companion named Tarngee. A metallurgist at the University of Manchester analyzes the disc and finds the outer casing is made primarily from lead, and the copper foil is triple laminated an unusually free from impurities. In 2017, [David](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) [Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) discovers that five specimens from the Silpho disc have been preserved in a tin cigarette box housed in London’s Science Museum. The specimens were sent to aviation historian [Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FHarvard%5FGibbs-Smith) in 1963 by Essex ufologist C. C. Stevens for analysis. Gibbs-Smith judged the items to be of terrestrial origin, and they were donated to the Science Museum with his papers after his death in 1981. Veteran Scarborough Evening News editor Mick Jefferson said in 2003 the newspaper had long ago exposed the object as a hoax made from a “domestic hot-water cylinder.” However, the hoaxers have never surfaced. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Silpho Moor Mystery,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMar-Apr%2CV%204%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 \(March/April 1958\): 4; “[Silpho Moor Controversy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 19; Philip Longbottom, “[The Silpho Moor Mystery,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CNov-Dec%2CV%204%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1958\): 15–17; Jenny Randles, UFO Retrievals, Blandford, 1995, [pp. 77–82](https://archive.org/details/uforetrievalsrec0000rand/page/76/mode/2up); David Clarke, “The Return of the Silpho Moor Saucer,” Fortean Times 364 \(March 2018\): 42–46 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3096 ### Event 14512 (D2241B0D) **Date:** 11/22/1957 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** 10 MILE(S) SOUTHEAST / TARAKLI, TURKEY **Description:** Turk.af pilot. 10' regular hexagon-shaped object seen. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5772 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Turkey", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "10mi.SE/TARAKLI,TURKEY:TURK.AF PILOT:10'REGULAR HEXAGON-SHAPED OBJ SEEN:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.250002 30.533335", **LatLongDMS:** "40:15:00 N 30:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.250002,30.533335)", **State/Prov:** "NW", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14513 (FC2E182D) **Date:** 11/22/1957 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CANUTILLO, TX **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) supervisor. Metallic UFO hovers. Going quickly west. Stops. Going quickly east. Then quickly going up. / r141#19p10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5773 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1230", **HatchDesc:** "CANUTILLO,TX:GOC SUPERVISOR:MTLC UFO HVRS:>> W:STOPS:>> E:then ↑↑:/r141#19p10", **LatLong:** "31.911113 -106.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:54:40 N 106:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.911113,-106.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14514 (C6A186C2) **Date:** 11/22/1957 **Location:** Tarakly (10 miles SE of), Turkey **Description:** Turkish Air Force pilot saw a 10 ft regular-hexagon-shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2178 ### Event 14515 (4F4D7EF5) **Date:** 11/22/1957 **Location:** Canutillo, TX **Description:** Silvery UFO sped back and forth, ascended. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2179 ### Event 14516 (F0D391EF) **Date:** 11/22/1957 **Location:** Gesten, Denmark **Description:** A shop owner saw a pyramidshaped, luminous, transparent object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly saw two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the craft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_444 ### Event 14517 (81D9D74F) **Date:** 11/22/1957 **Description:** At 4:00 p.m. a shop owner in Gesten, Denmark saw a pyramid-shaped, luminous, transparent object fly fast across the road. It was over 250 meters away, but he could clearly see two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 444 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7794 ### Event 14518 (EBA9B0BD) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** US95 30 MI WITH TONOPAH, NV **Description:** 4 15M saucers / ground. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Loud whine. Saucers going north. / r141#9p73. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: SMITH, Willy: ON PILOTS and UFO's. UNICAT Project, 8011 SW 189th St. Miami, FL 33175 USA. March 1997. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5774 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1600", **HatchDesc:** "US95 30mi W/TONOPAH,NV:4 15M SCRS/GND:CAR EMES:LOUD WHINE:SCRS >N:/r141#9p73", **LatLong:** "38.055557 -117.677783", **LatLongDMS:** "38:03:20 N 117:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.055557,-117.677783)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14519 (4A7E2EE4) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** TIRO, OH **Description:** Pan disk follows car. Swings / all directions. Away as 2nd car nears. / r141#9p70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5775 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "TIRO,OH:PAN DISK FOLOS CAR:SWINGS/ALL DIRs:AWAY as 2nd CAR NEARS:/r141#9p70", **LatLong:** "40.905558 -82.772226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:20 N 82:46:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.905558,-82.772226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14520 (77D89CD9) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Location:** Joliet, IL **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Radar Contact On Visuals By Five Pilots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571123](http://www.nicap.org/571123joliet%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2180 ### Event 14521 (A89F175F) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Location:** Tonopah (30 miles W of), NV **Description:** Car engine stalled, saw 4 landed 50-foot saucer-shaped UFO's (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2181 ### Event 14522 (9DF4AE34) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Time:** 0630 **Location:** Tonopah, Nevada **Description:** Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for 20 min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they took off with an unbearable humming sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_445 ### Event 14523 (EA848CC5) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Location:** Tonopah, NV **Description:** Air Force officer's car failed, he saw disc-shaped objects on ground **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Source:** HallUFOEvidence2, **ID:** HallUFOE2_5 ### Event 14524 (ED6CE4B5) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Location:** 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada **Description:** 6:10 p.m. Fighter pilot 1st Lt. Joseph F. Long’s car engine stalls 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada. He hears a high-pitched whining noise and sees four 50-foot, domed, saucer-shaped UFOs landed on the right side of the road about 900–1,200 feet away. They are glowing brightly and equipped with three landing gears. Long estimates they are about 10–15 feet tall. When he approaches to within 50 feet of the closest object, the hum increases in intensity and Long’s ears begin to hurt. The objects take off abruptly, retracting the landing gears. The rise about 50 feet into the air and proceed across the highway to the north at about 10 mph. The total time of the sighting is 20 minutes. Shallow, bowl-shaped ground impressions in the shape of a triangle are found at the landing site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Four Huge Saucers Land near Car, Engine Stalls](http://www.nicap.org/571123tonopah%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 182–186](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/182/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 222–223](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/222/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/222/mode/2up) [228](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/228/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 101–106 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3097 ### Event 14525 (D4F92A6C) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Locations:** State Highway 8; Richland Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Butler Valley Turnpike exit **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Six truck drivers watch a strange object with three lights in a triangular pattern hovering above a field off State Highway 8 just north of the Butler Valley Turnpike exit in Richland Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It has a green light at the bottom, a red light at the right corner, and a yellow light at the left corner. They get out of their car and approach the object, but when they are 75 feet away, it moves to the east, then south. They go back to the car and shine their lights on the object, which is about 20 feet above some trees. The lights go out and the object disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[3-Lighted ‘Whatsit’ Floats over Field,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99081594/)” Pittsburgh \(Pa.\) Sun- Telegraph, November 27, 1957, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3098 ### Event 14526 (58301833) **Date:** 11/23/1957 **Description:** In the desert 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada Joseph Long's car engine died at 6:10 a.m. He then heard a high-pitched whining sound and saw to his right four large, metallic Saturn-shaped craft resting on the ground 400 meters away. The objects were 50 feet in diameter, with a dome in the center and a rotating ring on the edge. He walked up to within 50 feet of the objects during the next 20 minutes, when the four objects slowly rose up and left the area, at which time he returned to his vehicle and the car engine could be restarted. The humming sound increased in pitch when the objects took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 182; UNICAT database, case # 286, citing Hynek; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 445; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 13; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7838 ### Event 14527 (FD57A02C) **Date:** 11/24/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** KORTEDALA, SWD **Description:** Army Captain / (seen thru) binoculars. Ovoid spirals going up [to] toward(s) moon. Glows / 1 side. / r141#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5776 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "KORTEDALA,SWD:ARMY Capt/BINOCS:OVOID SPIRALS ↑ twrd MOON:GLOWS/1 SIDE:/r141#9", **LatLong:** "57.716669 11.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "57:43:00 N 11:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.716669,11.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14528 (F7EDD937) **Date:** 11/24/1957 **Description:** Army Captain Kohrtz in Kortedala, Goteborg, Sweden at 3:30 p.m. watched with binoculars as an ovoid flying object spiraled upwards towards the Moon, glowing on one side. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, Volume 1, Number 3; Karl Gosta Rehn **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7868 ### Event 14529 (3B18F77F) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** UGINES TO/FROM FAVERGES, FR **Description:** 2 engineers. Sphere ZIGZAGs over N508. Vanishes / thin air. P267. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 446) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5777 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "UGINES> Event 14530 (3E1992A3) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** Odd round cloud becomes rectangle / sharp edges! Fades away! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 978) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5778 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:ODD ROUND CLOUD BECOMES RECTANGLE/SHARP EDGES!:FADES AWAY! ", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -86.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 86:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-86.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14531 (A82C843E) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** FOLLETT, TX **Description:** Many observer(s). 1 white and 2 red balls maneuver impossibly / all directions. Extremely fast acrobatic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 980) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5779 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "804", **HatchDesc:** "FOLLETT,TX:MANY OBS:1 WHT+2 RED BALLS MNVR IMPOSSIBLY/ALL DIRs:XFAST ACROBATIC", **LatLong:** "36.433335 -100.138894", **LatLongDMS:** "36:26:00 N 100:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.433335,-100.138894)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14532 (B768FBD9) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Location:** Eglin AFB, FL **Description:** USAF B-66 crew saw 3 objects, tracked by ground radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [571125](http://www.nicap.org/571125eglin%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2182 ### Event 14533 (9DB52FC3) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Location:** Mogi Mirim, Brazil **Description:** All city lights failed as three UFOs passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2184 ### Event 14534 (A19CB4CE) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Time:** 1430 **Location:** Ugines, France **Description:** Two engineers were driving about 200 m from the railroad crossing in Faverges when they saw a nearly spherical object at ground level, performing zig-zags on the road. They stopped and were amazed as the object simply vanished, leaving no trace. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_446 ### Event 14535 (008FCEE5) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Location:** Mogi Mirim, São Paulo, Brazil **Description:** 10:00 p.m. All the lights in the town of Mogi Mirim, São Paulo, Brazil, suddenly dim and fail. Numerous people see a circular light traveling directly overhead. Two similar lights follow a short time later. The blackout only lasts 5 minutes, but the power station has no explanation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 141–142 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3099 ### Event 14536 (46902956) **Date:** 11/25/1957 **Description:** In 1957, at 4:15 p.m., an odd round cloud observed in Indianapolis, Indiana became a rectangular object with sharp edges, and then faded away. In Mogi Mirim, Brazil all lights failed in the city at around 10 p.m. as a UFO flew overhead. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 9), p. 45); Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7904 ### Event 14537 (1D556E87) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** NEAR NEWBERRY SPRS, CA **Description:** Separate observer(s). Metallic coin disk quickly going up / desert. Hovers / 1 hr and more. Many reports. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 981) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5780 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "80", **Elev:** "562", **HatchDesc:** "nr NEWBERRY Sprs,CA:SEP.OBS:MTLC COIN DISK ↑↑/DESERT:HVRS/1 hr+:many reports", **LatLong:** "34.833335 -116.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:50:00 N 116:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.833335,-116.683339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14538 (48471CB9) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** OPORTO, DOURO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Circular object fast over city. No further details. / Diario DE Noticias. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5781 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OPORTO,DOURO,PORTUGAL:CIRC.OBJ FAST OVER CITY:NFD:/DIARIO DE NOTICIAS", **LatLong:** "41.183335 -8.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:11:00 N 08:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.183335,-8.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Douro", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14539 (CC0D89E7) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** WEST / JOLIET, IL **Description:** ANG F86 chases yellow flat metallic object going quickly east. Cannot catch. Big Air Force investigation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 987) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5782 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "W/JOLIET,IL:ANG F86 CHASES YLW FLAT MTLC OBJ >>E:CANNOT CATCH:big af investgn", **LatLong:** "41.533335 -88.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:32:00 N 88:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.533335,-88.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14540 (54518695) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** 3 Air Traffic Controllers and weatherman and 4. Silver cylinder/cylindrical object going north and south over base / 8 minutes. Vanishes. / r43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5783 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ROBINS AFB,GA:3 ATCs+WEATHERMAN+4:SLVR CYL > N+S OVR BASE/8 mins:VANISHES:/r43", **LatLong:** "32.616668 -83.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:37:00 N 83:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.616668,-83.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14541 (973CEB69) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** FUNCHAL, MADEIRA ISLANDS, PORTUGAL **Description:** Fast bright sphere north going quickly south. / Comercio do Porto. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5784 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FUNCHAL,MADEIRA ISLs,PORTUGAL:FAST BRITE SPHERE N>>S:/COMERCIO do PORTO", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -16.850001", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 16:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-16.850001)", **State/Prov:** "MDR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14542 (116DD4DE) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** HAMILTON, NZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright orange domed saucer / southwest sky near Venus. Sudden sidewise hops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 988) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5785 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON,NZ:2 OBS:BRITE ORG DOMED SCR/SW SKY nr Venus:sudden sidewise hops", **LatLong:** "-37.733335 175.466675", **LatLongDMS:** "37:44:00 S 175:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.733335,175.466675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14543 (42096DEE) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** NDOLO, NORTH RHODESIA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 8 small disks going quickly north in west-formation. Absolute(ly) silent. / r141#9p88. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5786 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NDOLO,N.RHODESIA:2 OBS:8 SML DISKS >>N in W-FORMATION:ABS SLNT:/r141#9p88", **LatLong:** "-12.950001 28.583335", **LatLongDMS:** "12:57:00 S 28:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.950001,28.583335)", **State/Prov:** "ZAM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14544 (E69068F5) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Location:** West Mesa AFS, NM **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [571126](http://www.nicap.org/571126westmesa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2185 ### Event 14545 (DA64FB01) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Location:** Sea of Okhotsk, W of Kamchatka, USSR **Description:** Crew of RB-50, saw a brilliant red object with bluish-green tail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2186 ### Event 14546 (A525715F) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Location:** Joliet, IL **Description:** Pilot saw a stationary yellowish object disappear (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2187 ### Event 14547 (185BE945) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Location:** Robins AFB, GA **Description:** Many saw silver, cigar-shaped object, which suddenly vanished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5419) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2188 ### Event 14548 (75A75E0F) **Date:** 11/26/1957 **Time:** 10:07 AM **Location:** Robins AFB, Georgia **Description:** Witnesses: three control tower operators, one weather observer and four others. One silver, cigar-shaped object suddenly vanished after 8 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_419 ### Event 14549 (EA32F30A) **Date:** 11/27/1957 (approximate) **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** TRINIDADE ISLAND, ATLANTIC **Description:** Boat crew. Silver ovoid hovers near Igy radiosonde. 2nd signal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5787 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "TRINIDADE ISL,ATLANTIC:BOAT CREW:SLVR OVOID HVRS nr IGY RADIOSONDE:2nd signal", **LatLong:** "-20.550001 -29.350001", **LatLongDMS:** "20:33:00 S 29:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.550001,-29.350001)", **State/Prov:** "BRZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14550 (C6E4ADA7) **Date:** 11/27/1957 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** HERFORDSHIRE, ENG **Description:** 1 observer. Huge brilliant white domed-saucer with halo hovers low. Going quickly southwest. / FSRv4#3p6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 989) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5788 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HERFORDSHIRE,ENG:1 OBS:HUGE BRILL.WHT DOMED-SCR W/HALO HVRS LO:>>SW:/FSRv4#3p6", **LatLong:** "51.833336 -0.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:50:00 N 00:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.833336,-0.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14551 (752F994F) **Date:** 11/27/1957 **Location:** Yakima, WA **Description:** Control tower operator on the ground saw a bright red glow (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2189 ### Event 14552 (08991FC9) **Date:** 11/27/1957 **Location:** Toledo, OH **Description:** Northwest pilots saw an object flying straight at about 4,800 knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2190 ### Event 14553 (34E6A993) **Date:** 11/27/1957 **Locations:** French Alps; Swiss border **Description:** The director of an engineering firm and four of his staff members see five black, disc-shaped objects hovering in the French Alps for 8 minutes. The group performs a series of maneuvers, after which a parachute- shaped object emerges from one of them. Suddenly they all shoot away at supersonic speed toward the Swiss border. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3100 ### Event 14554 (D8EC42A8) **Date:** 11/27/1957 **Description:** A huge, brilliant, white domed disc-shaped object with a halo hovered low over Herefordshire, England at 9:30 p.m. It then flew off to the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: November 13-30, p. 89, citing Flying Saucer Review **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7955 ### Event 14555 (1A84CB93) **Date:** 11/28/1957 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** LOUISA MTS SOUTHEAST / COIMBRA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Scientists. Slow blinding object changes color(s) / 35 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5789 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "LOUISA MTs SE/COIMBRA,PORTUGAL:SCIENTISTS:SLOW BLINDING OBJ CHANGES CLRS/35min", **LatLong:** "40.233335 -8.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:00 N 08:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.233335,-8.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Beira littoral", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14556 (B25B868C) **Date:** 11/28/1957 **Locations:** Hawaii Belt Road; Ninole, Hawaii **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Regino Lacuesta is driving on the Hawaii Belt Road near Ninole, Hawaii, when his car engine begins missing. Suddenly he sees a bright flash of light 20 feet above the highway in front of him. The engine dies, the headlights go out, and the car rolls to a stop at the point where the light had been. Lacuesta feels numb and cannot move. Soon the headlights come on and the car starts up again, although it is in high gear and he has not touched the starter. He drives straight home. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 49–51 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3101 ### Event 14557 (C4508C41) **Date:** 11/29/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** BRECON BEACONS, WALES **Description:** Trucker and separate cops. Large red fireball and more / or blue delta/triangle/box-like craft. West going quickly east. Very high and fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5790 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "628", **HatchDesc:** "BRECON BEACONS,WALES:TRUCKER+SEP.COPS:LRG RED FBL +/or BLU DLT:W>>E:VHI+FAST", **LatLong:** "51.883336 -3.433333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:53:00 N 03:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.883336,-3.433333)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 14558 (CC75D0AB) **Date:** 11/29/1957 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** NORTHWEST / GLENCOE, ON **Description:** 1 / car. 18cm glowing-ball circles. Quickly going down [to] 30cm over road. Clears fence. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 990) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5791 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "217", **HatchDesc:** "NW/GLENCOE,ON:1/CAR:18cm GLOW-BALL CIRCLES:↓↓ 30cm ovr ROAD:CLEARS FENCE", **LatLong:** "42.766669 -81.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 81:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,-81.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14559 (D5146777) **Date:** 11/29/1957 **Locations:** Port Jack, Douglas, Isle of Man; Scotland **Description:** 2:30 a.m. Capt. Fred Sutton, skipper of the fishing trawler Ella Hewett, is 4 miles off Port Jack, Douglas, Isle of Man, when an orange ball of fire crosses the sky. As it passes over the hull of the small boat, the vessel grows luminous, with firefly-like sparks of luminescence everywhere. The fireball bursts like fireworks, seen by others on the island as well as Scotland. The crew notices that the white paint on the metal railings at the edge of the boat has disappeared, leaving only the red undercoating. At daybreak, however, the paintwork is perfectly normal again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jenny Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 13–14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3102 ### Event 14560 (65FAC4D8) **Date:** 11/29/1957 **Location:** Building 1535 of the Geophysics Research Directorate at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts **Description:** Two German expatriates, G. R. Miczaika and Eberhart W. Wahl, form Project Space Track in Building 1535 of the Geophysics Research Directorate at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. Its mission is to track and compute orbits for all artificial earth satellites and space probes, including US and Soviet payloads, booster rockets, and debris. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project Space Track](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FSpace%5FTrack)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3103 ### Event 14561 (E9ACF01F) **Date:** 11/29/1957 **Description:** At 5:10 p.m. a small, 18 cm in diameter luminous ball circled very low over a road two miles north of Glencoe, Ontario. It then flew over a fence. It was seen by a single witness, a Mrs. Alderman, for approximately one minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** C. W. Fitch, APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8029 ### Event 14562 (9F3904E4) **Date:** 11/30/1957 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** NEW ORLEANS, LA **Description:** 3 USCG men. Round object changes colors. Splits / 3 parts. Turn red. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5792 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ORLEANS,LA:3 USCG MEN:ROUND OBJ CHANGES COLORS:SPLITS/3 PARTS:TURN RED", **LatLong:** "29.950001 -90.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:57:00 N 90:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.950001,-90.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14563 (971FC051) **Date:** 11/30/1957 **Location:** Minot, ND **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) FPS-6 Blip Travels 100 Miles in 20 Seconds (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571130](http://www.nicap.org/571130minot%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2191 ### Event 14564 (C9676866) **Date:** 11/30/1957 **Location:** New Orleans, LA **Description:** Round object turn white, then gold, then separate into 3 parts (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5445) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2192 ### Event 14565 (5D89ED2E) **Date:** 11/30/1957 **Time:** 2:11 PM **Location:** New Orleans, Louisiana **Description:** Witnesses: three U.S. Coast Guardsmen. One round object turned white, then gold, then separated into three parts and turned red. Sighting lasted 20 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_420 ### Event 14566 (878ECBC9) **Date:** 11/30/1957 **Description:** At 2:11 p.m. three U.S. Coast Guardsmen in New Orleans, Louisiana saw a round object turn white, then gold. It then separated into three parts and turned red. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5445; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8068 ### Event 14567 (9EF1CC84) **Date:** 12/1957 (approximate) **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN **Description:** 2 observer(s). Roaring saucer-cylinder/cigar-shape. Heads and thin necks / portholes. 2 hours missing time. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 298) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5793 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "CRAWFORDSVILLE,IN:2 OBS:ROARING SCR-CGR:HEADS+THIN NECKS/PORTHOLES:2hrs MST:", **LatLong:** "40.033335 -86.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:02:00 N 86:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.033335,-86.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14568 (C311FEC3) **Date:** 12/1957 **Location:** Pacific Ocean, At Sea **Description:** Photograph of alleged disc-shaped UFO. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2193 ### Event 14569 (235C0E84) **Date:** 12/1957 **Time:** night **Location:** El Cajon, California **Description:** Edmund Rucker was awakened by a roaring noise and saw a strange object land near his house. "Its windows were lighted, and I saw strange-looking heads there." An opening became visible and four creatures emerged. They had large heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They delivered a message to the witness in English, stating that they had philanthropic and scientific purposes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS Jul., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_447 ### Event 14570 (A44AA842) **Date:** 12/1957 **Description:** National Intelligence Estimate \(NIE\) 11-10-57 predicts that the Soviets will “probably have a first operational capability with up to 10 prototype ICBMs” at “sometime during the period from mid-1958 to mid- 1959.” The numbers of the missile gap start to inflate. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Missile gap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile%5Fgap)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3104 ### Event 14571 (A17B3470) **Date:** 12/1957 **Locations:** Canada; RCAF headquarters **Description:** A classified Canadian Department of National Defence memorandum states that the “RCAF has no official policy concerning the subject” of UFOs and “there has never been a serious investigation of any report on file” at RCAF headquarters. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gregory M. Kanon, “[UFOs and the Canadian Government, Part One,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%206%20-%201975.pdf)” no. 22 \(1975\): 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3105 ### Event 14572 (87EA2070) **Date:** 12/1957 **Location:** Finland-Russia border **Description:** Several UFO sightings take place along the Finland-Russia border. A cigar-shaped object is seen by two Finnish farmers moving horizontally at a high altitude from west to east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 307–308](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/306/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3106 ### Event 14573 (BFAD9B39) **Date:** 12/1957 **Location:** Rio de Janeiro, Brazil **Description:** Walter K. Buhler launches the Sociedade Brasiliera de Estudos sobre Discos Voadores in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It publishes the Boletim SBEDV through 1988. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Boletim SBEDV](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20001%20-%201957.pdf), no. 1 \(December 1957\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3107 ### Event 14574 (88BEEBB4) **Date:** 12/1957 **Location:** El Cajon, California **Description:** Night. Edmund Rucker is awakened by a roaring noise in El Cajon, California, and watches a strange object land near his house. Its windows are lighted and he can see some strange-looking heads inside. An opening becomes visible, and four creatures emerge. They have large heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They deliver a message to Rucker in English, saying they have philanthropic and scientific purposes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-12-usa-elcajon.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-12-usa-elcajon.htm) July 28, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3108 ### Event 14575 (DED15E98) **Date:** 12/1957 **Location:** CBS Armstrong Circle Theater **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) is invited to appear on the CBS Armstrong Circle Theater anthology drama TV program hosted by [Douglas Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FEdwards) to talk about UFOs with [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) and [Clarence S. Chiles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles) Others invited are [Edward J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) and an Air Force representative. But Keyhoe finds out that it will not be a panel discussion but a scripted conversation, and he will only have 7 minutes. He is promised he will have final say over his part of the script, and he agrees. However, writer [Irve Tunick](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/10/obituaries/irve-tunick-dies-at-75-led-tv-writers-group.html) cuts out critical portions of Keyhoe’s material \(including references to the Estimate of the Situation and the Robertson Panel\), saying it is too long. Ruppelt, Chiles, and Arnold soon withdraw from the program, expanding Keyhoe’s segment to 11 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 167–168 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3109 ### Event 14576 (EA763DD2) **Date:** 12/1/1957 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR JOLIETVILLE, IN **Description:** 2 observer(s). Air Force plane circles / low altitude as 1M disk hovers above.. vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5794 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "281", **HatchDesc:** "nr JOLIETVILLE,IN:2 OBS:AF PLANE CCLS/LO ALT as 1M DISK HVRS ABOVE..vanishes", **LatLong:** "40.050002 -86.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:03:00 N 86:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.050002,-86.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14577 (C431946D) **Date:** 12/1/1957 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** SILVER LAKE, OH **Description:** Brilliant cone / lawn. Many small lights blink. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) = dot dot dash.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5795 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "330", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER LAKE,OH:BRILL.CONE/LAWN:MANY SML LITES BLINK:RFI=DOT DOT DASH..", **LatLong:** "41.161113 -81.455559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:09:40 N 81:27:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.161113,-81.455559)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14578 (FB6C5442) **Date:** 12/1/1957 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** YOKOHAMA, JPN **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Huge cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] slow. 8cm / arms length. 8 shimmering lights / side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5796 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "YOKOHAMA,JPN:100s/OBS:HUGE CGR > SLOW:8cm/ARMS LENGTH:8 SHIMMERING LITES/SIDE", **LatLong:** "35.633335 139.650007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:38:00 N 139:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.633335,139.650007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14579 (2B09E980) **Date:** 12/1/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). White ovoids cross entire sky 3-4X. USAF takes negatives. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5797 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:SVRL OBS:WHT OVOIDS CROSS ENTIRE SKY 3-4X:USAF TAKES NEGATIVES", **LatLong:** "34.083335 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:05:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.083335,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14580 (17406043) **Date:** 12/1/1957 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** Formation of oval UFOs photographed. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2194 ### Event 14581 (38009F41) **Date:** 12/1/1957 **Location:** Ras El-Kanayis, Egypt **Description:** 1:30 a.m. Swissair pilot [Walter Borner](http://www.pionnair-ge.com/spip1/spip.php?article127) is flying a DC-6B at 18,000 feet over Ras El-Kanayis, Egypt, when he sees a “giant, red, burning cylinder falling down vertically, leaving a yellowish trail.” It is possible that this is the reentry of the final stage of the rocket that launched Sputnik I. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Luis Schoenherr, “Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3110 ### Event 14582 (6F372D9D) **Date:** 12/1/1957 **Description:** In 1957 at 6:00 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object with 8 shimmering lights on its side moved slowly through the morning sky in Yokohama, Japan. Later that same day a US Air Force plane circled at a low altitude as a 1 meter in diameter disc hovered above it. The disc vanished in plain sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 10), pp. 1,4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8102 ### Event 14583 (3891D9DD) **Date:** 12/3/1957 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** EXETER, DEVON **Description:** Many observer(s). Large silver cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly west fast. Seen / 30 minute(s) in Lewtown 02 December. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5798 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "26", **HatchDesc:** "EXETER,DEVON:MANY OBS:LRG SLVR CGR >>W FAST:seen/30min in Lewtown 02Dec:/r141", **LatLong:** "50.716669 -3.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:43:00 N 03:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.716669,-3.533334)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14584 (91A141E8) **Date:** 12/3/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** ELLENSBURG, WA **Description:** Odd fireball hangs over Menastash Ridge / 20 minute(s). Lights sky up. Truck malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5799 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "ELLENSBURG,WA:ODD FBL HANGS OVR MENASTASH RIDGE/20min:LITES SKY UP:TRUCK EMES", **LatLong:** "46.994447 -120.544450", **LatLongDMS:** "46:59:40 N 120:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.994447,-120.544450)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14585 (64A9CDE2) **Date:** 12/3/1957 **Location:** Cobalt, Ont, CAN **Description:** Radio static as several UFOs seen over area (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2195 ### Event 14586 (8FD64299) **Date:** 12/3/1957 **Location:** Ellensburg (near), WA **Description:** Truck motor "almost stopped, "caught again, as UFO sighted. Sighting confirmed by police (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2196 ### Event 14587 (CDD907E9) **Date:** 12/3/1957 **Location:** San Pedro, California **Description:** 2:30 p.m. [Z. Thad Fogl](https://rr0.org/people/f/FoglThad/), radio officer of the SS Ramsey, claims to have taken a photo of a saucer off the coast of San Pedro, California. The photo appears in Flying Saucer Review in 1959 and Life in 1966. However, in 1967 Fogl admits that he had faked the photo using parts of plastic airplane models. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Disc with Landing](http://www.nicap.org/5712XXcalifornia%5Fdir.htm) [Gear Photo / Fogl Case](http://www.nicap.org/5712XXcalifornia%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Radio Officer’s Amazing Story: UFO Snapped from Ship,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CJan-Feb%2CV%205%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1959\): 6–7; “[A Hoax Exposed,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1966\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3111 ### Event 14588 (350E92C5) **Date:** 12/3/1957 **Locations:** Menastash Ridge; Ellensburg, Washington **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Many residents of the Menastash Ridge area of Ellensburg, Washington, watch a “strange ball of fire” for 20 minutes. A truck driver sees the light hovering above his truck, causing the motor to cough and sputter. His engine does not stop completely, however, so he drives away. The night is misty, but the object is so bright that it lights up the sky as if it were daytime. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 51–52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3112 ### Event 14589 (DD18D1FB) **Date:** 12/3/1957 **Description:** In 1957 at 7 p.m. in Ellensburg, Washington a truck engine reportedly missed but did not stall in the presence of a UFO. Many residents of the Menastash Ridge area of Ellensburg saw a "strange ball of fire" for 20 minutes. A truck driver reported that the light hovered over his truck, causing the motor to cough and sputter. His engine did not stop completely, however, so he drove away. The night was misty, but the object was so bright that it lit up the sky as if it were daytime. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP investigation files, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 85, citing Schopick **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8159 ### Event 14590 (9EDBA6E4) **Date:** 12/4/1957 **Location:** Levelland, Texas **Description:** Blue Book Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) complains that as a result of pressure from the press and public, “Assistant Secretary of Defense requested that ATIC immediately submit a preliminary analysis to the press” of the Levelland, Texas, cases, even though he has “limited data.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 147](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/146/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3113 ### Event 14591 (48ED05F7) **Date:** 12/5/1957 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and Saucers” **Type:** status report **Reference:** [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_579 ### Event 14592 (7D9E66E0) **Date:** 12/5/1957 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** JACKSON, MS **Description:** 2 railroad/railway men. Disk spins going south / 5 minute(s). Big flash / horizon. Fireball shrinks there. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5800 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "89", **HatchDesc:** "JACKSON,MS:2 RR MEN:DISK SPINS >S/5min:BIG FLASH/HRZN:FBL SHRINKS there", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -90.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 90:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-90.183338)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14593 (EC05772E) **Date:** 12/5/1957 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** TULSA, OK **Description:** Doctor and 1. Circular object hovers / 200M altitude / 5 minute(s). Shoots going quickly north with front edge glowing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5801 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "241", **HatchDesc:** "TULSA,OK:DOCTOR+1:CIRC.OBJ HVRS/200M alt/5min:SHOOTS >>N W/FRONT EDGE GLOWING", **LatLong:** "36.150002 -96.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:09:00 N 96:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.150002,-96.016671)", **RelAlt:** "200", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14594 (910596D4) **Date:** 12/5/1957 **Location:** Ainsworth, Nebraska **Description:** Morning. An unidentified beeping sound is picked up for three minutes on KBR Rural Public Power Radio in Ainsworth, Nebraska, operating at 72.3 AM. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unidentified Beeping Heard on KBR Power Radio on](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100167452/) [Thursday,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100167452/)” Ainsworth \(Neb.\) Star-Journal, December 12, 1957, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3119 ### Event 14595 (32E3B32E) **Date:** 12/5/1957 **Description:** At 12:10 p.m. a spinning disc-shaped object was sighted flying south by two railroad men in Jackson, Mississippi. After five minutes there was a big flash on the horizon, and a fireball appeared there, then shrank. In Tulsa, Oklahoma a doctor and a second witness watched a circular object hover at 10:30 p.m. for five minutes, then shoot off to the northwest. It had a glowing front edge. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, pp. 21-22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8196 ### Event 14596 (09B1A0B7) **Date:** 12/6/1957 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** SALVADOR, BRAZIL **Description:** Metallic body low / horizon. Splits. Half descends going south. Other half hovers / place. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5802 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SALVADOR,BRZL:MTLC BODY LOW/HRZN:SPLITS:HALF DESCENDS >S:OTHER HALF HVRS/PLACE", **LatLong:** "-12.983334 -38.516669", **LatLongDMS:** "12:59:00 S 38:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.983334,-38.516669)", **State/Prov:** "Bahia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14597 (8D1AF4E9) **Date:** 12/6/1957 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** TUMACACORI NATL.MNMT, AZ **Description:** 2 / car. Domed saucer maneuvers / mountains. Red glow / bottom. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5803 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1600", **HatchDesc:** "TUMACACORI Natl.Mnmt,AZ:2/CAR:DOMED SCR MNVRS/MTNS:RED GLOW/BOTTOM:", **LatLong:** "31.566668 -111.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:34:00 N 111:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.566668,-111.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14598 (D263010C) **Date:** 12/6/1957 **Time:** 20:15:00.0 **Location:** 37.0499 -116.0309 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Pascal-C” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 20KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_117 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0499 -116.0309", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:00 N 116:01:51 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0499,-116.0309)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.08", **NukeName:** "Pascal-C", **NukeSource:** "AEC", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "20" ### Event 14599 (FFD3377C) **Date:** 12/6/1957 **Description:** A letter written to contactee [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) on State Department stationery from R. E. Straith, Cultural Exchange Committee, is a hoax concocted by ufologists [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) and [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley). The letter informs Adamski that the State Department knows his claims are true and they encourage his activities. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James D. Villard, “[The ‘R. E. Straith’ Case,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%204.pdf)” Saucers 6, no. 4 \(Winter 1958/1959\): 2–6; Clark III 44–45; Saucer Smear, January 10, 1985; Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983, pp. 148–153; James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 124–127, 381–402; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) [Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3114 ### Event 14600 (D49A31CD) **Date:** 12/6/1957 **Description:** At around one o'clock in the afternoon a metallic looking object hovered low over the horizon in Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil. It split in half. One half descended while heading to the south, while the other half hovered in place. That same day in the Tumacacori National Monument in Arizona, a disc-shaped object with a dome maneuvered over the mountains for five minutes at 5:15 p.m. It had a red glowing bottom. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, pp. 22 & 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8230 ### Event 14601 (33CF7EBE) **Date:** 12/7/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NEAR ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA **Description:** 35 observer(s). Silver circular object hovers 3km over Osborne powerhouse / 45 mn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5804 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "nr ADELAIDE,S.AUSTRL:35 OBS:SLVR CIRC.OBJ HVRS 3km OVR OSBORNE POWERHOUSE/45mn", **LatLong:** "-34.916668 138.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "34:55:00 S 138:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.916668,138.666673)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14602 (BF10D3C2) **Date:** 12/7/1957 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** BRISBANE, CA **Description:** Numerous observer(s) / US101. 2 fast saucers maneuver and circle. 1 going quickly west. 1 going quickly south. Seen to Moffett field. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5805 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BRISBANE,CA:NMRS OBS/US101:2 FAST SCRS MNVR+CCL:1>>W:1>>S:seen to Moffett Fld", **LatLong:** "37.683335 -122.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:41:00 N 122:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.683335,-122.400006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14603 (071D2C81) **Date:** 12/7/1957 **Locations:** western Victoria; eastern South Australia **Description:** 10:00 p.m. In western Victoria and eastern South Australia, witnesses see a moon-like object explode with a vivid flash. Unexpected blackouts are reported in the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3115 ### Event 14604 (6FF2FDAC) **Date:** 12/7/1957 **Description:** Two disc-shaped objects maneuvered and circled in the sky over Brisbane, California at 7:10 p.m. One flew off to the west, one flew south toward Moffett Field. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8256 ### Event 14605 (F512FCEA) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** BONANZA AND OLONE, OR **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Luminous saucer hovers / 6km altitude / hills. Suddenly going quickly southwest / 800kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5806 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1255", **HatchDesc:** "BONANZA+OLONE,OR:2 SEP.OBS:LUMN.SCR HVRS/6km alt/HILLS:SUDDENLY >>SW/800kph", **LatLong:** "42.200002 -121.405561", **LatLongDMS:** "42:12:00 N 121:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.200002,-121.405561)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14606 (151C9049) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** NEAR SVEA, MN **Description:** Several observer(s). 10M red disk roars / 6M altitude lights ground. Going [to] woods then going up [to] and going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5807 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "384", **HatchDesc:** "nr SVEA,MN:SVRL OBS:10M RED DISK ROARS/6M alt LITES GND:> WOODS then ↑+>>W", **LatLong:** "45.005558 -95.022227", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:20 N 95:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.005558,-95.022227)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14607 (4264DCBD) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / MONOD, MAROC **Description:** US military observer(s) and 2 / car. Elongated night light going down [to] then going up [to] again. Large and distant. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5808 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SE/MONOD,MAROC:US MIL.OBS+2/CAR:ELONGATED NLT ↓ then ↑ AGAIN:LRG+DISTANT:>>S", **LatLong:** "33.900002 -6.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 N 06:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.900002,-6.416667)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14608 (6AADC2FC) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** WOODWARD TO SEILING, OK **Description:** 16M saucer with portholes. Car restarts itself! 3 abduction? / r79p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5809 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "WOODWARD to SEILING,OK:16M SCR W/PORTHOLES:CAR RESTARTS ITSELF!:3 ABD?:/r79p14", **LatLong:** "36.216668 -99.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:13:00 N 99:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.216668,-99.033338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14609 (CEEFFDDF) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SR17 NORTH / SOAP LAKE, WA **Description:** 2 cars stall. Lights fail. Dome lights come on! UFO north going quickly south. 8 observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5810 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "327", **HatchDesc:** "SR17 N/SOAP LAKE,WA:2 CARS STALL:LITES FAIL:DOME LITES COME ON!:UFO N>>S:8 OBS", **LatLong:** "47.533336 -119.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:32:00 N 119:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.533336,-119.500006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14610 (83DF0C89) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Location:** Coulee City (near), WA **Description:** Automobiles stalled, headlights flickered and went out, as large fiery object passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2197 ### Event 14611 (505FC797) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Time:** 1750 **Location:** Woodward, Oklahoma **Description:** Between Woodward and Seiling, 12 km from the latter, an unknown flying object allegedly took complete control of a car with three passengers. The driver, an employee of an aircraft company, had turned the heater, windshield wiper, and radio on. He was nearing a hill in this wooded area when a bright light appeared ahead. It reminded the witness of the light from a mercury lamp. As a crash seemed imminent, the car slowed down by itself and stopped, as if the entire electrical circuit had failed. Over the vehicle was a disk 16 m in diameter with portholes around the periphery, emitting a current of hot air and a high-pitched sound. It had a dome on top and bottom. It rose as the car started by itself. The car was a 1954 Dodge Coronet without automatic transmission. The witness spent four hours with two Kirtland AFB officers who told him of similar observations. The case was never reported to Blue Book. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_448 ### Event 14612 (6A070E30) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Locations:** Woodward, Oklahoma; Kirtland AFB in New Mexico **Description:** 5:30 p.m. A disc-shaped UFO with a dome and three pads on the underside suddenly comes toward a car with three passengers at Woodward, Oklahoma. The car heater, wipers, and radio fail and finally the car stalls out as the UFO hovers overhead at 200 feet. It emits a high-pitched whining sound. It is over 50 feet in diameter and has portholes. The whine increases in pitch after about two minutes, and the UFO rises vertically out of sight. The headlights come on and the engine of the car starts by itself. The driver spends 4 hours with two officers from Kirtland AFB in New Mexico who tell him of similar observations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 267–268](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/266/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3116 ### Event 14613 (FCA7AEB7) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Locations:** Coulee City; Soap Lake, Washington; Highway 17 **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Eight people traveling together in two cars on Highway 17 between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington, see a huge, fiery object pass overhead from north to south. Both cars stall out and their headlights also fail as the UFO passes overhead. In addition, the inside dome lights come on, even though they aren’t turned on. The cars remain stalled until the object passes out of sight. Police say the object stalled as many as six cars along that sparsely traveled road. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 52–53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3117 ### Event 14614 (971984E9) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Description:** At 5:15 p.m. three U.S. military witnesses in Morocco, driving in the desert between Tiflet and Monor, sighted an elongated aerial object. It ascended into the sky, descended, then made a second ascent. Large and distant, the object shot off toward the south. This case is listed in the Project Blue Book files as case number 61 for the month of December, but is considered "explained" by the US Air Force as contrails. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8262 ### Event 14615 (9467ADF6) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Description:** Later that day in Svea, Minnesota at four o’clock in the afternoon, a ten-meter diameter red disc roared through the sky, flying at only six meters above the ground. It was seen by many witnesses at it lit up the ground, moved through some woods, and then climbed into the sky, shooting away toward the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clippings, December 12, 1957 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8263 ### Event 14616 (B37F2FAE) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Description:** At the same time in Bonanza, Oregon two people claimed to have seen a luminous disc hovering over some hills at six kilometers altitude. It suddenly shot away toward the southwest at 800 kilometers per hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History: December 1957, p.26 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8264 ### Event 14617 (76AE6496) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. near Woodward, Oklahoma Mr. and Mrs. Martin were driving through some woods with their child and were nearing a hill when a domed, disc-shaped UFO flew nearby and temporarily took control of their car. The UFO was described as about 16 meters in diameter with portholes around the rim. The electrical system of their 1954 Dodge Coronet failed when the UFO approached. They felt a hot blast of air and heard a high pitched sound at the same time. The car restarted by itself when the UFO flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek investigation files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 86 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8265 ### Event 14618 (77DFF4A5) **Date:** 12/8/1957 **Description:** At nine o’clock in the evening the engine and headlights of two cars traveling between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington died when a huge, fiery UFO flew overhead from north to south. Strangely, the dome lights came on inside both cars during the engine and headlight failures, even though they weren't turned on. The cars remained stalled until the object had passed out of sight. There were eight witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 87, citing Schopick **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8266 ### Event 14619 (D431A133) **Date:** 12/9/1957 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Coulomb-C” Yield: .5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_118 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Coulomb-C", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".5" ### Event 14620 (4B83DA5C) **Date:** 12/10/1957 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** JABOTICABAL, BRAZIL **Description:** Farmer. 4M 'watermelon' lands / field 20M away. Grass crushed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5811 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "612", **HatchDesc:** "JABOTICABAL,BRZL:FARMER:4M 'WATERMELON' LANDS/FIELD 20M AWAY:GRASS CRUSHED", **LatLong:** "-21.266668 -48.316669", **LatLongDMS:** "21:16:00 S 48:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.266668,-48.316669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14621 (8CEFFA09) **Date:** 12/10/1957 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BOSO PENINSULA, JPN **Description:** 100M cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly south / 1100kph. White glow and red trail. Straight and level 25km away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 697) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5812 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOSO PENINSULA,JPN:100M CGR >>S/1100kph:WHT GLOW+RED TRAIL:S/L 25km away", **LatLong:** "35.333335 140.166673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:20:00 N 140:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.333335,140.166673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14622 (E3338EC7) **Date:** 12/10/1957 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** OVER QUERETARO, MX **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner crew. 200M round object flashes. Shoots up / incredible speed. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5813 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1868", **HatchDesc:** "ovr QUERETARO,MX:AL CREW:200M RND OBJ FLASHES:SHOOTS UP/INCREDIBLE SPEED:/news", **LatLong:** "20.600001 -100.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "20:36:00 N 100:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/20.600001,-100.383338)", **State/Prov:** "QTR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14623 (0DE17DC4) **Date:** 12/10/1957 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** NEAR LAGOS, MX **Description:** Pilot and 2 / airline(s)/airliner crew. Round object emits rays / light. No further details. / Project 1947. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5814 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1750", **HatchDesc:** "nr LAGOS,MX:PILOT+2/AL CREW:ROUND OBJ EMITS RAYS/LITE:NFD:/Proj.1947", **LatLong:** "21.416668 -102.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "21:25:00 N 102:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.416668,-102.233338)", **State/Prov:** "QTO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14624 (7E44BE13) **Date:** 12/10/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BARRA DO PIRAI, BRAZIL **Description:** 10M luminous disk low over road. Away extremely fast / truck turns lights on. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5815 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "BARRA do PIRAI,BRZL:10M LUMn.DISK LO ovr ROAD:AWAY XFAST/TRUCK TURNS LITES ON", **LatLong:** "-22.466668 -43.816669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:28:00 S 43:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.466668,-43.816669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14625 (ED16BD51) **Date:** 12/10/1957 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. a glowing white cigar-shaped object with a red trail, estimated to be 100 meters long, was sighted from the Boso Peninsula in Japan. It shot off to the south at 1,100 km/h. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, January 1958 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8297 ### Event 14626 (C08FE2E8) **Date:** 12/10/1957 **Description:** In 1957, a pilot reported seeing three luminous objects cross the sky at 20,000 feet altitude in Bogotá, Colombia. At 1:00 p.m. in Jabuticabal, Brazil a four-meter long "watermelon" landed in a field, only 20 meters from a farmer. The grass was crushed at the landing site. In Barra do Pirai, Brazil at 10 p.m., a 10-meter wide luminous disc descended low over a roadway. When a truck turned on its headlights it shot away extremely fast. At 8:45 p.m. three crewmembers of a Mexicana Airline flight reported witnessing a round UFO emitting rays of light near Lagos, Mexico in the state of Queretaro. It departed by shooting straight up into the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30; Loren Gross, UFOs A History. 1957 (Volume 10), pp. 34-36 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8298 ### Event 14627 (C978F44A) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Location:** CHESTNUT, LA **Description:** UFO like rising sun. Disabled car seen. Lady and child with burns. / r141#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 449) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5816 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "82", **HatchDesc:** "CHESTNUT,LA:UFO LIKE RISING SUN:DISABLED CAR SEEN:LADY+CHILD W/BURNS:/r141#10", **LatLong:** "32.055557 -93.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:03:20 N 93:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.055557,-93.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14628 (46DD5D93) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** ELLSWORTH, WI **Description:** Many cars stop to see 15M saucer. Dome / bottom. 50mph. Altitude = 6 meters. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 450) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5817 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "374", **HatchDesc:** "ELLSWORTH,WI:MANY CARS STOP TO SEE 15M SCR:DOME/BOTTOM:50mph:ALT=6 meters", **LatLong:** "44.716669 -92.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "44:43:00 N 92:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.716669,-92.466671)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14629 (1644C0DF) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR LOCKBOURNE AIR FORCE BASE, OH **Description:** 3 F86 pilots. Orange crescent / saucer. Erratic maneuvers / Mach 1.5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5818 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "nr LOCKBOURNE AFB,OH:3 F86 PILOTS:ORG.CRESCENT/SCR:ERRATIC MNVRS/Mach 1.5", **LatLong:** "39.800002 -82.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:48:00 N 82:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.800002,-82.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14630 (D7797EFA) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Location:** Guthrie, PA **Description:** USAF pilots saw orange circular or crescent-shaped object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [571211](http://www.nicap.org/571211guthriedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2198 ### Event 14631 (F64070E2) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Location:** Lake City AFS, TN **Description:** (McDonald list) FPS-10 Picks Up Target Large As Three B-47's (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571211](http://www.nicap.org/571211lakecity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2200 ### Event 14632 (6AD19797) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Location:** Chestnut, Louisiana **Description:** Mary Louise Tobin, a schoolteacher, was driving on State Highway 1 when she saw an object that she compared to the rising sun, in the vicinity of a smoking car. The driver, an elderly lady, came out with a child who seemed to have suffered burns. The unknown object went away: The disabled car did not catch on fire. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS Jul., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_449 ### Event 14633 (48828FCC) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Time:** 1600 **Location:** Ellsworth, Wisconsin **Description:** Many cars stopped to observe a silent, reddish, glowing disk, about 15 m in diameter, which flew 6 m above the ground at about 80 km/h. A small, windowless cabin was visible on the underside of the object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS Jul., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_450 ### Event 14634 (BC655E2A) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Locations:** Mexico; Mexico City **Description:** Night. Mexican pilot Gilberto Castillo del Valle is flying at 10,000 feet near Mexico City when a brilliant light illuminates his cockpit. He turns off the aircraft lights and sees a large luminous object darting from left to right and back again ahead of him. Passengers and crew also see the light, as do personnel at the Mexico City control tower. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 88 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3118 ### Event 14635 (E81F4698) **Date:** 12/11/1957 **Description:** An orange circular or crescent-shaped object moved erratically through the sky over Lockbourne AFB, Ohio. It was sighted by the crew of a U.S. Air Force F-86 from the 87th FIS and tracked by ground radar moving at a speed of Mach 1.5. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8338 ### Event 14636 (96D6213D) **Date:** 12/12/1957 **Time:** 04:50 **Location:** NEAR DRUMMOND CENTER, ON **Description:** Car ammeter freaks out. Bus-sized white round object hovers. Away fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 913) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5819 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "145", **HatchDesc:** "nr DRUMMOND Ctr,ON:CAR AMMETER FREAKS OUT:BUS-SIZED WHT RND OBJ HVRS:AWAY FAST", **LatLong:** "45.033335 -76.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:00 N 76:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.033335,-76.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14637 (13182326) **Date:** 12/12/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** EAST / CHATHAM, ONT **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner pilot and cops and many. Saucer spins. Fast arc / low altitude. / LDLN#334p35+/ r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5820 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "E/CHATHAM,ONT:AL PILOT+COPS+MANY:SCR SPINS:FAST ARC/lo alt:/LDLN#334p35+/r141", **LatLong:** "42.416669 -82.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:25:00 N 82:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.416669,-82.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14638 (0819BF5C) **Date:** 12/12/1957 **End date:** 12/15/1957 **Location:** Misawa Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Jets Scrambled After Radar/Visual UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571212-15](http://www.nicap.org/571212misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2201 ### Event 14639 (96C48F3B) **Date:** 12/12/1957 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Tokyo, Japan, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2202 ### Event 14640 (C932FD4B) **Date:** 12/12/1957 **Location:** Chatham, Windsor area, CAN **Description:** Trans-Canada Airlines pilot, many police, saw orange oval UFO curving rapidly at low altitude. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2203 ### Event 14641 (313D7FA0) **Date:** 12/12/1957 **Location:** Edwards AFB, California **Description:** A USAF pilot attains 1,208 mph in a McDonnell F-101A Voodoo at Edwards AFB, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[McDonnell F-101 Voodoo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell%5FF-101%5FVoodoo)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3120 ### Event 14642 (2E4D2FE6) **Date:** 12/12/1957 **Locations:** Sea of Japan; Misawa Air Base, Japan **Description:** 5:45 p.m. At least 13 witnesses see a bright light over the Sea of Japan. The object is tracked on radar and seen through binoculars. At 7:22 p.m., a scramble is ordered and two F-86D’s take off from Misawa Air Base, Japan. Multiple radar and visual sightings take place over the next three days. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/571212misawa%5Fdir.htm) [after Radar/Visual UFO](http://www.nicap.org/571212misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 261 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3121 ### Event 14643 (811D90E3) **Date:** 12/13/1957 **Time:** 09:40 **Location:** COL. ANAHUAC, MEXICO **Description:** 14 saucers / vertical stack. Drop / bottom / sequence. / r55p120+/ r141#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 93) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5821 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1993", **HatchDesc:** "Col ANAHUAC,MEX:14 SCRS/VERTICAL STACK:DROP/BOTTOM/SEQUENCE:/r55p120+/r141#10", **LatLong:** "28.500001 -106.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "28:30:00 N 106:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.500001,-106.750005)", **State/Prov:** "MEX", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14644 (31A8B23E) **Date:** 12/13/1957 **Location:** Col Anahuac, Mexico **Description:** 14-15 \[or 30\] circular, tapered discs, very bright, fly in a formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5545) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2204 ### Event 14645 (8CDD4809) **Date:** 12/13/1957 **Time:** 9:35 AM **Location:** Col Anahuac, Mexico **Description:** Witness: R.C. Cano. Fourteen-fifteen circular, tapered discs, very bright, flew in a formation like a stack of coins, then changed to an inverted-V formation. Sighting lasted 20 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_421 ### Event 14646 (1FED82B6) **Date:** 12/14/1957 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** FREDERICIA, DK **Description:** 3 observer(s). Huge ovoid going down [to] slow. Quivers. Small objects exit. Balloons? / r141#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5822 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "FREDERICIA,DK:3 OBS:HUGE OVOID ↓SLO:QUIVERS:SML OBJS EXIT:balloons?:/r141#10", **LatLong:** "55.583336 9.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:35:00 N 09:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.583336,9.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14647 (883FC820) **Date:** 12/14/1957 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** SIDNEY, OH **Description:** Orange-glow saucer / sky. Sound like conventional propeller plane. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 913) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5823 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "306", **HatchDesc:** "SIDNEY,OH:ORG-GLOW SCR/SKY:SOUND LIKE CONVENTIONAL PROP.PLANE:NFD/NEWS", **LatLong:** "40.283335 -84.155560", **LatLongDMS:** "40:17:00 N 84:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.283335,-84.155560)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14648 (EB8477A8) **Date:** 12/14/1957 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** SOUTH OXHEY, HAMPS **Description:** 4 observer(s). Saucer with shaft through center hovers. Separate observer(s) / 09 Dec. '57 / separate school.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5824 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "S.OXHEY,HAMPs:4 OBS:SCR W/SHAFT thru CTR HVRS:SEP.OBS/09DEC57/SEP.SCHOOL..", **LatLong:** "51.633336 -0.383333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:38:00 N 00:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.633336,-0.383333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14649 (A205988E) **Date:** 12/14/1957 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** COLUMBIA CITY, IN **Description:** 2 / car stop. 5 fast saucers stop also. Continue going quickly west as car leaves. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5825 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "256", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBIA CITY,IN:2/CAR STOP:5 FAST SCRS STOP also:CONTINUE >>W as car leaves", **LatLong:** "41.155558 -85.488893", **LatLongDMS:** "41:09:20 N 85:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.155558,-85.488893)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14650 (ED3B3B21) **Date:** 12/14/1957 **Locations:** Langdon, North Dakota; University of North Dakota **Description:** Night. Ed Waslashi sees a lighted green object fall into a haystack on his farm at Langdon, North Dakota. He picks out a strange metallic substance from the ashes of the burned hay. The material finds its way to geologist [Nicholas N. Kohanowski](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21539755/nicholas-n-kohanowski) at the University of North Dakota, who finds that it is light, porous, and mostly magnesium dioxide. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[What Is It?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100146678/)” Winona \(Minn.\) Daily News, December 17, 1957, p 1; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3122 ### Event 14651 (820CED66) **Date:** 12/15/1957 **Location:** Almind, Denmark **Description:** 1:00–2:00 a.m. Three young men see a huge light in the sky at Almind, Denmark. It is oval-shaped, emits red or orange rays, and appears to be descending. They watch it for 18–19 minutes as it hovers at a 10° angle and quivers. Suddenly it becomes still and from its center emerge two small objects that drift away in a northerly direction and soon disappear. The large object lies on its side and quivers some more. Later it ascends and a fan-shaped tail of light spreads after it. The UFO is seen later along the coast and photographed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf) [Saucer Reports Pour in from Denmark,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 2; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3123 ### Event 14652 (BE0F84B9) **Date:** 12/15/1957 **Description:** A UFO photograph was taken in Misawa, Japan and sent to the US Air Force Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book did not provide an evaluation of the photo. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1957, case 89 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8407 ### Event 14653 (6D4DBAFA) **Date:** 12/16/1957 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** OLD SAYBROOK, CT **Description:** Saucer / portholes. Robot(s)/android(s) float inside. Antenna going up [to] and sparkles. Going north. Quickly going up / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5826 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "OLD SAYBROOK,CT:SCR/PORTHOLES:RBTS FLOAT INSIDE:ANTENNA ↑+SPARKLES:>N:↑↑/r141", **LatLong:** "41.300002 -72.344448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:18:00 N 72:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.300002,-72.344448)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 14654 (D3004E78) **Date:** 12/16/1957 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** CHROCKATT DE SA, BRAZIL **Description:** Aluminum disk follows train / 10 minute(s). Maneuvers to and fro. Brilliant orange light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5827 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1150", **HatchDesc:** "CHROCKATT de SA,BRZL:ALUM DISK FOLOS TRAIN/10min:MNVRS TO+FRO:BRILL.ORG LITE", **LatLong:** "-20.466668 -43.800002", **LatLongDMS:** "20:28:00 S 43:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.466668,-43.800002)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14655 (AE24F3A0) **Date:** 12/16/1957 **Location:** Old Saybrook, CN **Description:** Elliptical UFO with "portholes." \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2205 ### Event 14656 (E1C7BC2F) **Date:** 12/16/1957 **Locations:** Old Saybrook, Connecticut; Yale **Description:** Between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. Mary M. Starr, a resident of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and a former teacher with a master’s degree from Yale, is awakened by a bright light in her room. A cigar-shaped object, brightly lit and with square portholes, hovers just above her clothesline. She can see men inside. The object is approximately 20–30 feet long and dark gray or black in color, hovering motionless about 5 feet above the ground. Through its lighted windows Starr sees two figures that pass each other, walking in opposite directions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore, eds, UFOs: A New Look, NICAP, 1969, [pp. 27–28](http://www.nicap.org/newlook/section%5FVII.htm); Clark III 269 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3124 ### Event 14657 (886FDCE1) **Date:** 12/16/1957 **Description:** Mrs. Mary M. Starr, a long-term resident of Old Saybrook, Connecticut and a graduate of Yale University with two degrees, was in the habit of spending all but two or three winter months in a two story beach house situated only a few hundred feet from Long Island Sound. At the beginning and end of the tourist season her home is the only building occupied in the vicinity, and marshy ground surrounds her property on three sides. On this night Mrs. Starr was awakened from a sound sleep sometime between two three a.m. by bright lights passing her bedroom window, which faces north. She looked out her east window and saw a fuselage-shaped craft coming to a stop just 10 feet from the hourse. It was 20 to 30 feet long, dark gray or black, with brightly lit square windows. The object hovered motionless, just five feet above the ground. It had no wings, fins, or other external structure.

Behind the lighted windows were two humanoid forms that passed each other, walking in opposite directions. They appeared to be wearing yellow jackets, and each had his right hand raised. She thought at first they might be stewards, carrying trays, except that their heads were unusual. They were square or rectangular and a reddish orange in color. Their feet were out of view below the portholes. Then a third man entered from the left, and Mrs. Starr leaned forward to try to see his face more clearly. As she did so the portholes faded and the entire object began to glow with scintillating brilliance. Immediately, there rose from the nearer end a kind of antenna, about six inches long. It oscillated and sparkled. For almost five minutes the glow and the sparking continued, then the antenna lowered and the object began to move to the right, back in the direction from which it had come. It made a very sharp right-angle turn. Mrs. Starr thought it would hit her blue spruce but it did not. It had by now turned a dull bluish gray again, and instead of portholes small circular lights outlined the entire rim. It's shape now appeared to be oval, and as it dipped or "undulated" to follow the contour of a shallow depression just beyond the garden, she saw that it was very shallow in depth. Over the marsh it tilted steeply and shot up into the sky at the speed of a jet taking off, but in complete silence.

Except for the figures, she had seen nothing inside the object. The men could not have been more than four feet tall at the most, given the size of the object as determined by occlusion of nearby objects. The U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book recorded the case as "little men in cigar." Project Blue Book filed a newspaper article on the case, but did not investigate. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, July 15, 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 451; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 77 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8441 ### Event 14658 (F16CEF52) **Date:** 12/16/1957 **Description:** Later that same night at around 8:45 p.m. an aluminum colored, disc-shaped UFO followed a train near Chrockatt de Sa in Minas Gerais State, Brazil for ten minutes, maneuvering back and forth from side to side of the train. It had a bright orange light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 53 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8442 ### Event 14659 (D457B041) **Date:** 12/17/1957 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** NEAR GRAND JUNCTION, CO **Description:** 1 observer. Round object changes colors. Stops. Reverses course etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5828 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "1380", **HatchDesc:** "nr GRAND JUNCTION,CO:1 OBS:ROUND OBJ CHANGES COLORS:STOPS:REVERSES COURSE etc", **LatLong:** "39.066669 -108.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:00 N 108:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.066669,-108.550005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14660 (B424A4FA) **Date:** 12/17/1957 **Location:** Fruita-Grand Junction, CO **Description:** Round object change from yellow to white to green to red (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5559) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2206 ### Event 14661 (8B075ED6) **Date:** 12/17/1957 **Time:** 7:20 PM **Location:** near Grand Junction, Colorado **Description:** Witness: F.G. Hickman, 17. One round object changed from yellow to white to green to red; red tail was twice as long as the body. It stopped, started, backed up for 45 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_422 ### Event 14662 (CC931162) **Date:** 12/17/1957 **Location:** Denmark **Description:** Skandinavisk UFO Information is founded in Denmark by [Hans-Christian Petersen](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/p/1237-petersen-hans-christian-1923) under the name Sydjysk UFO Information. It publishes the journal UFO-Nyt from 1958 to 2010. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Skandinavisk UFO](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandinavisk%5FUFO%5FInformation) [Information](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandinavisk%5FUFO%5FInformation)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3125 ### Event 14663 (8A90D573) **Date:** 12/17/1957 **Locations:** US; Cape Canaveral, Florida **Description:** The US conducts its first successful launch of an SM-65A Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[SM-65A Atlas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65A%5FAtlas)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3126 ### Event 14664 (D15161F3) **Date:** 12/18/1957 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** NEAR SCENIC, SD **Description:** 1 observer. Huge silent saucer going south over car. Ground lit like day. Shoots going up. / r141. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 236) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5829 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "860", **HatchDesc:** "nr SCENIC,SD:1 OBS:HUGE SLNT SCR >S OVR CAR:GROUND LIT LIKE DAY:SHOOTS↑:/r141", **LatLong:** "43.777780 -102.555560", **LatLongDMS:** "43:46:40 N 102:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.777780,-102.555560)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14665 (3AF3C3AA) **Date:** 12/18/1957 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** CARACAS, VNZ **Description:** Engineer. Object paces Sputnik. Veers away and back! Time-photograph. / r111p145. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 699) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5830 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "910", **HatchDesc:** "CARACAS,VNZ:ENGINEER:OBJ PACES SPUTNIK:VEERS AWAY+BACK!:TIME-FOTO:/r111p145", **LatLong:** "10.483334 -66.950003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:29:00 N 66:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.483334,-66.950003)", **State/Prov:** "CAR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14666 (C4DEADD7) **Date:** 12/18/1957 **Location:** Sarasota, FL **Description:** White light source glided overhead, TV interference noted (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2207 ### Event 14667 (CC683FDA) **Date:** 12/18/1957 **Time:** night **Location:** Old Saybrook, Connecticut **Description:** Mary Stan was awakened by a brilliant light and saw through her east window the fuselage of a craft that hovered in midair. Aboard were two men, each with his right hand raised, wearing yellowish jackets. A third man joined the first two, then all lights went off inside the craft while it glowed like brass. A spinning antennalike device was noted. A few minutes later it flew off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 60,3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_451 ### Event 14668 (C2B94DA7) **Date:** 12/18/1957 **Location:** Caracas, Venezuela **Description:** Luis E. Corrales of Caracas, Venezuela, finds an odd luminous streak on a photographic plate recording the passage of [Sputnik 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2) It is a luminous trail running parallel to the satellite’s trail, then veering away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 57 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3127 ### Event 14669 (CA79A886) **Date:** 12/18/1957 **Description:** A huge flying saucer flew over Oacoma, South Dakota at 5:40 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Max Miller, Saucers, March 1958; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5385 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8487 ### Event 14670 (DCE8A219) **Date:** 12/18/1957 **Description:** A white light source glided overhead in Sarasota, Florida. There were many witnesses and TV interference was noted at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 75, 147; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8488 ### Event 14671 (27905182) **Date:** 12/19/1957 **Location:** Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Red Egg-Shaped Object Also Tracked On Radar / 5 Photos Taken (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [571219](http://www.nicap.org/571219pepperrellafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2208 ### Event 14672 (732D54FF) **Date:** 12/21/1957 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** PONTA PORA, BRZ **Description:** 5 observer(s). 5M saucer paces jeep / 2 hours. 2nd saucer circles. / r113p34+/ r141#10p62. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5831 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "653", **HatchDesc:** "PONTA PORA,BRZ:5 OBS:5M SCR PACES JEEP/2 hrs:2nd SCR CCLs:/r113p34+/r141#10p62", **LatLong:** "-22.533334 -55.583336", **LatLongDMS:** "22:32:00 S 55:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.533334,-55.583336)", **State/Prov:** "MGS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14673 (7C982736) **Date:** 12/21/1957 (approximate) **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** BRYSON CITY, NC **Description:** Several observer(s). 20M cylinder/cigar-shape / 1.5diam. Going east. Slowly circles valley. Sharply outlined. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5832 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "529", **HatchDesc:** "BRYSON CITY,NC:SVRL OBS:20M CGR/1.5diam:>E:SLOWLY CCLS VALLEY:sharply outlined", **LatLong:** "35.433335 -83.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "35:26:00 N 83:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.433335,-83.450004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14674 (7DB32575) **Date:** 12/21/1957 **Location:** Ponta Poran, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil **Description:** Before this sighting was over, the object, which ultimately chased a jeep load of people for approximately 30 minutes, had made a couple of landings. On the last of these landings, before leaving the area, the object left an odd, luminous haze floating in the air where the object had hovered. The observers stayed and watched the material slowly dissolve in the faint, warm wind blowing from the North. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) **Source:** Trace, **ID:** Magnonia_3 ### Event 14675 (906C8285) **Date:** 12/21/1957 **Time:** 1830 **Location:** Ponte Poran, Brazil **Description:** Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons saw a light in the south, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to the witnesses on an oscillating course. One of them hovered close to the car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. Estimated diameter: 5 m. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** APRO Mar., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_452 ### Event 14676 (8E10113A) **Date:** 12/21/1957 **Locations:** Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil; Paraguayan border **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Yvonne Torres de Mendonça, her three small children, and a servant are traveling in a jeep driven by her mechanic, Marcio Gonçalves, towards Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, along the Paraguayan border. They see a large ball of light about the size of the full moon that starts moving toward them, and they realize that it is two lights flying silently side by side. The lights straddle the road, oscillating from one side to the other in a strange wobbling motion and spinning on their axes. One of them stops in mid-air and dives toward the ground in a falling-leaf motion 60 feet ahead of them, while the other maneuvers in circles around the jeep. The lights are spherical and encircled by a Saturn-like ring at the center. The upper hemisphere and rim are fiery red, while the lower hemisphere is silvery white. The two objects follow the jeep for 2 hours, all the way to town, maneuvering intelligently around them, especially when the jeep stops twice to evaluate the objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Olavo T. Fontes, [“Shadow of the Unknown, Part II: UAOs Chase Cars,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, pp. 3–6; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 148–150; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 60–63; Clark III 245–246 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3128 ### Event 14677 (0CCD933B) **Date:** 12/21/1957 **Description:** In 1957 in Bryson City, North Carolina a 20-meter-long cigar-shaped object flew slowly to the east, then circled the valley at around nine o’clock in the evening. It had a very distinct outline. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1957: December, p. 63 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8546 ### Event 14678 (D8891A9F) **Date:** 12/21/1957 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons in Ponta Poran, Brazil saw a light in the southern sky, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to them on an oscillating course. One of the UFOs hovered close to their car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. The estimated diameter of each was five meters. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 452 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8547 ### Event 14679 (9AE07FCC) **Date:** 12/22/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEAR HORSEFLY, CO **Description:** Several observer(s). Night light = saucer / (seen thru) binoculars. Red-glowing top and band / red light. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5833 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3000", **HatchDesc:** "nr HORSEFLY,CO:SVRL OBS:NLT = SCR/BINOCS:RED-GLO TOP+BAND/RED LITE:vanishes", **LatLong:** "38.200002 -108.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:12:00 N 108:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.200002,-108.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14680 (F234AEFB) **Date:** 12/23/1957 **Location:** Sea of Japan, At Sea **Description:** Projectile Sighted From RB-47/ Tracked By Air & Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [571223](http://www.nicap.org/571223seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2209 ### Event 14681 (9C870C38) **Date:** 12/26/1957 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** SHEFFIELD, AL **Description:** Amateur astronomer. Moon-size neon-glow ovoid going northwest. Turns going west. Circles overhead. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5834 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "168", **HatchDesc:** "SHEFFIELD,AL:AM.ASTRON:MOONSIZE NEON-GLOW OVOID > NW:TURNS > W:CCLs OVHD:>>N", **LatLong:** "34.766668 -87.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:46:00 N 87:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.766668,-87.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14682 (9DCA14C9) **Date:** 12/26/1957 **Description:** At 8:40 p.m. an amateur astronomer sighted a neon-colored, glowing ovoid object over Sheffield, Alabama. The object was first seen flying to the northwest. It turned to the west, W, circled overhead, then shot off toward the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 69 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8612 ### Event 14683 (4CA49E01) **Date:** 12/27/1957 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** EVANS CITY, PA **Description:** Girl / 14. Yellow sphere maneuvers in trees / 12M altitude. Zigzags. / NICAP report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5835 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "286", **HatchDesc:** "EVANS CITY,PA:GIRL/14:YLW SPHERE MNVRS IN TREES/12M alt:ZIGZAGS:/NICAP Rpt", **LatLong:** "40.766669 -80.061115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:00 N 80:03:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.766669,-80.061115)", **RelAlt:** "12", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14684 (24717201) **Date:** 12/28/1957 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is released **Type:** movie **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterians) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_580 ### Event 14685 (FF8DEDEF) **Date:** 12/28/1957 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** LIVERMORE FALLS, ME **Description:** Blue Book. Small round vibrant bright fast object maneuvers going up and down [to] and away into clouds. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5836 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "LIVERMORE FALLS,ME:BBK:SML RND VBRITE FAST OBJ MNVRS ↑+↓+AWAY into clouds:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.477780 -70.188892", **LatLongDMS:** "44:28:40 N 70:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.477780,-70.188892)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14686 (641923FB) **Date:** 12/28/1957 **Time:** 16:40 **Location:** ELIZABETH CITY, NC **Description:** Red football cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] at jet speed. No further details / USAF records. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5837 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ELIZABETH CITY,NC:RED FOOTBALL CGR > at JET SPEED:NFD/USAF RECORDS", **LatLong:** "36.300002 -76.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:18:00 N 76:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.300002,-76.233337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14687 (533B34DF) **Date:** 12/28/1957 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 12KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1080 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "12" ### Event 14688 (F27C9FE5) **Date:** 12/29/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** KAITAIA, NZ **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Small silver disk going quickly south. 2 more follow / 2 min intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5838 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "KAITAIA,NZ:SVRL SEP.OBS:SML SLVR DISK >>S:2 MORE FOLO/2 min intervals", **LatLong:** "-35.116668 173.266675", **LatLongDMS:** "35:07:00 S 173:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.116668,173.266675)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14689 (DDD9646F) **Date:** 12/29/1957 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** KAIKOHE AND WAIHARARA, NZ **Description:** Boy / 11. Silver disk going south. 2nd disk passes first. / r141#19p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5839 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KAIKOHE+WAIHARARA,NZ:BOY/11:SLVR DISK >S:2nd DISK PASSES FIRST:/r141#19p14", **LatLong:** "-35.416668 173.800008", **LatLongDMS:** "35:25:00 S 173:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.416668,173.800008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14690 (BE6184B9) **Date:** 12/30/1957 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** DRAKESTOWN, NJ **Description:** 2 observer(s). 5M ovoid maneuvers and going down / trees. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) exit and pick up heavy object / ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1957 (19 booklets) Self published. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5840 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "DRAKESTOWN,NJ:2 OBS:5M OVOID MNVRS+↓/TREES:3 OIDS EXIT+PICK UP HEAVY OBJ/GND", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -74.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 74:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-74.816670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14691 (6487E52B) **Date:** 12/30/1957 **Time:** night **Location:** Drakestown, New Jersey **Description:** George Chowanski, an auto mechanic was alerted by the barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Chowanski and his wife as it came within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures came out of the bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one picked up something before returning to the craft, which then took off. Total duration: 2 min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS Oct., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_453 ### Event 14692 (1FE17AB5) **Date:** 12/30/1957 **Location:** Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey **Description:** Night. George Chowanski is cutting wood at his home in Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey, when his two dogs begin to bark and howl. He hears a whirring noise like an electric shaver that persists for one minute. Then he sees a saucer-shaped object, 5 feet high and 15 feet wide, hovering about 2 feet above the ground in a grove of trees 100 feet from the back porch. Three individuals come out of the craft and walk about in the clearing. One of them bends over to pick something up and carries something heavy back to the object. After 2–3 minutes, it slowly rises, spiraling through the tall trees, and flies off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 88–89 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3129 ### Event 14693 (605EBA0B) **Date:** 12/30/1957 **Description:** On this night George Chowanski, an auto mechanic living in Drakestown, New Jersey was alerted by the barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Mr. Chowanski and his wife as it came to within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures got out of the bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one of them picked up something before returning to the craft, which then took off. The encounter lasted two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 453; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 88 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8652 ### Event 14694 (652553AB) **Date:** Late 1950's **Description:** The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished and all records were transferred to the Air Force. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p55) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_427 **See also:** 5/16/84 --- ## Year: 1958 (Back to Top) ### Event 14695 (A59A9E10) **Date:** 1958 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon program **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon) **Reference:** Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's Manuscript **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_581 ### Event 14696 (2282FFBD) **Date:** 1958 **End date:** 1959 **Location:** US **Description:** USAF issues "Fact Sheets" - issued approximately semiannually. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_885 ### Event 14697 (5D4EA4F4) **Date:** 1958 **Location:** Location unknown, unknown **Description:** Dewline radar, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2211 ### Event 14698 (940D6968) **Date:** 1958 **Location:** Unnamed AF Base, various **Description:** AF Base, SW United States, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2212 ### Event 14699 (BDF1710C) **Date:** 1958 **Location:** Carribean near Cuba, At Sea **Description:** Huge Cigar Observed With "Entities" (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [58XXXX](http://www.nicap.org/58XXXXacc%5Ffdr%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2213 ### Event 14700 (8C1C2833) **Date:** 1958 **Locations:** Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada; Area 13 **Description:** The Atomic Energy Commission puts a barbed wire fence around Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada, where the Project 57 “dirty bomb” had been detonated in April 1957, with signs indicating “do not enter / nuclear material.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 297](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/296/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3130 ### Event 14701 (FFF2DA05) **Date:** 1958 **Locations:** Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site; Mars **Description:** Project Orion, an effort to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft, begins at a maximum-security facility in Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site. Led by [Ted Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FTaylor%5F%28physicist%29) of General Atomics and physicist [Freeman Dyson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%5FDyson), its initial focus is to send astronauts to Mars and back. The spaceship would be 16 stories tall and piloted by 150 men. Soon ARPA and the Air Force take over the project and redesign it for a space-based battleship that could launch nuclear missiles from space. But no one builds Orion and it is effectively disbanded by the 1963 nuclear test ban. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project Orion \(nuclear propulsion\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FOrion%5F%28nuclear%5Fpropulsion%29)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 304–305](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/304/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3131 ### Event 14702 (791E415B) **Date:** 1958 **Location:** France **Description:** French ufologist [Aimé Michel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel) publishes Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, an examination of the UFO wave of September–October 1954 in France. The book’s preface is written by Gen. [Lionel-Max Chassin](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel-Max%5FChassin)[,](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel-Max%5FChassin) in which he expresses his opinion that UFOs are genuinely mysterious \(“That strange things have been seen is now beyond question, and the ‘psychological’ explanations seem to have misfired”\). Michel contends that each day’s sightings, when plotted on a map, occur along straight-line paths, even though different objects seem to figure in each sighting. The alignments, which he calls “orthotenic lines,” do not necessarily correspond to a trajectory. However, [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) later concludes that the alignments can be explained by chance alone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Aimé Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, Criterion, 1958; “[An Evaluation of Aimé Michel’s Study of the](http://www.nicap.org/books/coufo/partII/chIX.htm) [Straight Line Mystery,](http://www.nicap.org/books/coufo/partII/chIX.htm)” in C. A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, NICAP, 1961, pp. 90–98; Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/57/mode/2up) [57–82](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/57/mode/2up); Don Johnson, “New Lines in UFO Research: Orthoteny Revisited,” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 18–19, 32; Claude Maugé, “Orthoteny: Lost Cause, or a Redeemed One?” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 24–28; Clark III 747, 858–860 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3132 ### Event 14703 (36FAF325) **Date:** 1958 **Location:** South Pole **Description:** [Trevor James Constable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%5FJames%5FConstable) writes They Live in the Sky, which explains UFOs as etheric \(good\) and astral \(bad\) entities that are engaged in a battle for control of earthly minds. He bases this on his analysis of occult texts and channeled communications from cosmic informant Ashtar. The astral entities are based inside the earth, but they can leave it through an opening in the South Pole and fly 125,000 miles into space. Only the atomic bomb can penetrate the astral realm, which is why astrals disguised as benevolent Space Brothers argue fervently for nuclear disarmament. The men in black are reincarnated versions of [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)‘s deros. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Trevor James \[Constable\]. They Live in the Sky, New Age, 1958; Trevor James \[Constable\], “[Scientists, Contactees, and Equilibrium,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJan-Feb%2CV%206%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1960\): 19–21; Clark III 1102 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3133 ### Event 14704 (3E8C2443) **Date:** 1958 **Locations:** South Korea; Yellow Sea; China **Description:** Night. A sergeant in charge of a fire truck crash crew at an air base in South Korea is positioned near the runway awaiting an emergency landing by an American jet fighter low on fuel. The men see a bright light approaching from across the Yellow Sea. It grows bigger and, within several hundred yards of the shore, stops and hovers. The control tower operators, watching the object through binoculars, do not know what it is. Suddenly the object shines a beam of light straight down on the water. It soon goes out, but the water remains luminescent for a while before fading out. The object again shines a light on the water and turns it off a minute or so later. By this time, the jet that is low on fuel is landing. A second jet is asked to check out the object, which instantly shoots back toward China and disappears in seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, online ed., [p. 164](https://archive.org/details/UFODangerZoneBobPrattHowTheyStealOurBloodAndMayKillPeoplePreIceAgeUfoOccupantsAn/page/n163/mode/2up); Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3134 ### Event 14705 (431892D9) **Date:** 1/1958 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** DEPEW, NY **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). 50' rod sinks into roadside. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) by. Saucer flies. Snow melted. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5841 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "209", **HatchDesc:** "DEPEW,NY:CAR EMEs:50' ROD SINKS INTO ROADSIDE:2 OIDS BY:SCR FLIES:SNOW MELTED", **LatLong:** "42.905558 -78.694448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:54:20 N 78:41:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.905558,-78.694448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 14706 (50F6513A) **Date:** 1/1958 **Time:** 0130 **Location:** Depew, New York **Description:** A lady who was driving on the New York State Thruway during a snow storm saw a large shape with a tall, luminous pole on the side of the road. Her car stalled, and the lights went off. Two figures, looking like animals or huge insects were observed near the pole. They soon disappared, and the object took off spinning. The witness was then able to start her car. She noted that the snow at the site had been melted and the grass was warm. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Binder; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_454 ### Event 14707 (FF218535) **Date:** 1/1958 **Description:** The US Senate Committee on Government Operations asks to meet with representatives from the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Legislative Action to discuss the possibility of holding open hearings on the Air Force UFO program. USAF fears “uncontrolled publicity,” but agrees to go along with it. Soon, however, [Richard E.](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html) [Horner](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html), USAF assistant secretary for research and development, persuades the committee’s chief counsel, Donald O’Donnell, that hearings are “not in the best interest of the air force,” nor necessary for national security. Horner says Project Blue Book has things well in hand, and he tells Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) \(R-Ariz.\) that allegations about the Air Force withholding information are “entirely in error.” People who report UFOs simply want confidentiality, and the Air Force respects that. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 140–](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/140/mode/2up) [141](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/140/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/140/mode/2up) [144](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/144/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3135 ### Event 14708 (5B562D16) **Date:** 1/1958 **Locations:** Lackland AFB; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, asks for [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s permission to use The Flying Saucer Conspiracy to develop a script for closed-circuit broadcast at the base. Keyhoe agrees. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 218 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3136 ### Event 14709 (697965DF) **Date:** 1/1958 **Locations:** New York State Thruway; Niagara Falls, New York **Description:** 1:30 a.m. A woman is driving along the New York State Thruway near Niagara Falls, New York, when she sees an illuminated 50-foot pole in the center parkway ahead. It seems to be retracting and getting shorter. As she closes in on it, her engine stops and the headlights go out. The pole is attached to a saucer-shaped object, and she sees shadowy figures floating around it. The UFO rises and moves away, and she starts the car again. An area of snow a foot in diameter has melted dry where the pole has been. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(Mar. 2008\): 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3137 ### Event 14710 (71679379) **Date:** 1/1/1958 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** TRINIDADE ISLAND, BRZ **Description:** Numerous military observer(s). Brilliant night light makes 90° turn and away. Shiny. / r111p172. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5842 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TRINIDADE ISL,BRZ:NMRS MIL.OBS:BRILL.NLT MAKES 90°TURN+AWAY:SHINY:/r111p172", **LatLong:** "-20.550001 -29.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "20:33:00 S 29:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.550001,-29.300001)", **State/Prov:** "SAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14711 (948B10E4) **Date:** 1/1/1958 **Description:** A photograph of a brilliant light making a ninety-degree turn and then shooting away was taken at Trindade Island in the Atlantic Ocean at 7:70 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 172 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4 ### Event 14712 (B65C3992) **Date:** 1/3/1958 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** HONOLULU, HI **Description:** Nuclear physics student. 90s / 8mm film / 9 silver 6M globes. / r66p203. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5843 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "HONOLULU,HI:NUCL PHYSICS STUDENT:90s/8mm FILM/9 SLVR 6M GLOBES:/r66p203", **LatLong:** "21.350001 -157.866674", **LatLongDMS:** "21:21:00 N 157:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.350001,-157.866674)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14713 (F2A8FA57) **Date:** 1/3/1958 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** OLD WESTBURY, LI, NY **Description:** Spherical cloud goes going east. High and fast. Straight trajectory. Dusk. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5844 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "OLD WESTBURY,LI,NY:SPHERICAL CLOUD GOES >E:HIGH+FAST:STRAIGHT TRAJECTORY:DUSK", **LatLong:** "40.783335 -73.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:47:00 N 73:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.783335,-73.583337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14714 (49DADE2A) **Date:** 1/3/1958 **Location:** Unknown City, HI **Description:** Group of round UFOs reportedly photographed. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2214 ### Event 14715 (4AF419D0) **Date:** 1/3/1958 **Location:** Old Westbury, Long Island, NY **Description:** Fensterstock. (Hynek UFO Rpt p.43; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2215 ### Event 14716 (019B8A76) **Date:** 1/3/1958 **Locations:** Vallejo, California; Diamond Head, Hawaii **Description:** Cliff DeLacey, a 23-year-old college student from Vallejo, California, shoots 90 seconds of film of UFOs at Diamond Head, Hawaii. DeLacey sees nine UFOs flashing across the sky and immediately grabs his camera. He is careful enough to shoot the tops of nearby trees, allowing a reference to the height and relative speed of the unknown objects. The objects appear to be about 3–4 miles away from the camera, flying at an altitude of 7,000– 8,000 feet, and moving at a speed slightly greater than that of a jet. The silvery globules appear to be no more than 20 feet in diameter. They are spherical, and no tail fins or protrusions of any kind are visible. The film, in color, is said to be clear and to show at least two of the nine UFOs in considerable detail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[‘Genuine Flying](http://www.nicap.org/580103diamond-head%5Fdir.htm) [Saucer…Caught on Movie Film’](http://www.nicap.org/580103diamond-head%5Fdir.htm)”; Max B. Miller and Norman S. Kossuth, “[How to Film Unidentified Flying](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%203.pdf) [Objects,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%203.pdf)” Saucers 6, no. 3 \(Autumn 1958\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3138 ### Event 14717 (FD260DB8) **Date:** 1/3/1958 **Description:** At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a nuclear physics college student, Mr. Delacy, shot 90 seconds of 8 mm movie film of nine silver globes over Diamond Head on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_51 ### Event 14718 (558B06C0) **Date:** 1/4/1958 **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Sputnik deorbits **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_582 ### Event 14719 (50EEA51A) **Date:** 1/4/1958 **Location:** STAVANGER, NORWAY **Description:** UFO lands. Very tall man emerges. Cops and military examine all. P269. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 455) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5845 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "STAVANGER,NORWAY:UFO LANDS:VERY TALL MAN EMERGES:COPS+MIL EXAMINE ALL:p269", **LatLong:** "58.983336 5.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "58:59:00 N 05:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.983336,5.733334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14720 (28B0471A) **Date:** 1/4/1958 **Location:** SW Libya, Libya **Description:** Military aircraft pilot saw a bright orange light streaking across the sky (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [580104](http://www.nicap.org/580104libyadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2216 ### Event 14721 (0F45910A) **Date:** 1/4/1958 **Location:** Stavanger, Norway **Description:** A woodcutter reported that he saw an object land, and a very tall man with a tanned face, wearing a helmet, stepped from the machine. He went back in after a few minutes; the craft took off "with a noise like a flock of birds." Air Force officers and policemen searched the snowcovered hill for traces. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 58, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_455 ### Event 14722 (71471BA7) **Date:** 1/4/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1.3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1081 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1.3" ### Event 14723 (2814895E) **Date:** 1/4/1958 **Description:** A woodcutter in Stavanger, Norway saw a UFO land in a forest at 2:30 in the afternoon. A very tall man with a tan face got out. The being wore a helmet as part of his uniform. After a few minutes he got back in the craft, and it took off without making any noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 455 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_83 ### Event 14724 (1C905498) **Date:** 1/5/1958 **Location:** BEACHWOOD, OH **Description:** 3 night lights trace perfect imaginary triangle / sky! Fly / separate directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5846 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "363", **HatchDesc:** "BEACHWOOD,OH:3 NLTS TRACE PERFECT IMAGINARY TRIANGLE/SKY!:FLY/SEP.DIRECTIONS", **LatLong:** "41.466669 -81.511115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:28:00 N 81:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.466669,-81.511115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14725 (AF8B78AE) **Date:** 1/5/1958 (approximate) **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** NEAR BLOEMFONTEIN, RSA **Description:** 2 / car. Silver grey saucer follows roadside / low altitude. Sudden acceleration away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5847 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr BLOEMFONTEIN,RSA:2/CAR:SLVR GRY SCR FOLOS ROADSIDE/LO ALT:SUDDEN ACCEL.AWAY", **LatLong:** "-29.250001 26.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "29:15:00 S 26:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.250001,26.250001)", **State/Prov:** "Orange Free State", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14726 (C63193A2) **Date:** 1/5/1958 **Description:** At around 4 p.m. a silver gray disc followed two witnesses in their car along the side of road in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa at low altitude. It then abruptly shot off into the sky. Later that same evening in Beachwood, Ohio three nocturnal lights traced a perfect triangular path in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, July 1992; (2) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 15; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 38; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 90 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_114 ### Event 14727 (B85CB9E9) **Date:** 1/6/1958 **Time:** ~11:30 **Location:** TRINIDADE I, BRZ **Description:** Weather balloon going [to] cloud. Exits without instruments. Saucer exits going west. / r142. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5848 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TRINIDADE I,BRZ:WEATHER BALLOON >CLOUD:EXITS W/O INSTRMNTS:SCR EXITS >W:/r142", **LatLong:** "-20.500001 -29.350001", **LatLongDMS:** "20:30:00 S 29:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.500001,-29.350001)", **State/Prov:** "SAT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14728 (1AF0CF58) **Date:** 1/7/1958 **Location:** Aston, Great Britain **Description:** Two figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton and spoke to her in English (see Case 443). **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_456 ### Event 14729 (BE3E5F05) **Date:** 1/7/1958 **Description:** At 2:15 p.m. two human looking figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton in Aston, Warwickshire, England and spoke to her in a mechanical form of English. Their message stated that "our images are projections." Her first encounter occurred the previous November 18th, when a man appeared next to her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 456, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 4; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 87 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_180 ### Event 14730 (83A0B609) **Date:** 1/9/1958 **Location:** El Paso (Biggs AFB), TX **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Uncorrelated Targets on Gnd radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580109](http://www.nicap.org/580109biggs%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2218 ### Event 14731 (316037DA) **Date:** 1/9/1958 **Location:** Marion, IL **Description:** Three reports of seven red lighted objects in straight line formation. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2219 ### Event 14732 (C8F34F28) **Date:** 1/9/1958 **Location:** Troy, MI **Description:** Oval UFO photographed. \[UFOE,VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [580109](http://www.nicap.org/fotocat/580209stump%5Folmos.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2220 ### Event 14733 (9BAC41A0) **Date:** 1/10/1958 **Locations:** Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil; South Atlantic **Description:** Day. Capt. Chrysólogo Rocha is sitting with his wife on the porch of a house in Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, overlooking the South Atlantic. He is trying to focus with his binoculars on what appears to be a small island. When he does get focused, he realizes the island is getting bigger and is in two parts, both a clear, gray color. One part is in the sea, while the other seems suspended above it. Without warning, both parts suddenly sink out of sight. Shortly afterwards, a steamer comes into view, on a course that will take it very close to the object. About 15 minutes later, when the ship is out of sight, the object again rises slowly out of the sea. He now sees clearly that the two parts are joined by several narrow upright shafts or tubes that are bright and visible to the naked eye. These shafts, “like beads on a necklace” pass in a “disorderly and simultaneous movement.” Shortly afterwards the two parts of the object close up again, and it disappears below the waves. Probably an inferior mirage of an island in combination with a towering effect. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Charles Bowen, “[A South American Trio,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2011%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1965\): 20–21; Wim van Utrecht, “[A UFO Dives in and Out of the Ocean,](https://www.caelestia.be/curitiba.html)” Caelestia **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3139 ### Event 14734 (5E8A24BC) **Date:** 1/11/1958 **Time:** 07:30 **Location:** NORTH / ADAK ISLAND **Description:** 4 / Navy P2V-5F. RADAR blip hovers. Turns going quickly [to] WSW. Matching night lights seen. / r171p58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 119) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5849 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/ADAK ISL:4/NAVY P2V-5F:RDR BLIP HVRS:TURNS >>WSW:MATCHING NLTS SEEN:/r171p58", **LatLong:** "54.716669 -176.633342", **LatLongDMS:** "54:43:00 N 176:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.716669,-176.633342)", **State/Prov:** "BRS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14735 (29C61D55) **Date:** 1/11/1958 **Location:** Atka Island, Aleutian Islands, AK **Description:** P2V-5F Encounters 3 Lights Tracked at 1,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580111](http://www.nicap.org/580111beringseadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2221 ### Event 14736 (DCE16B40) **Date:** 1/11/1958 **Description:** At 7:30 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V-5F with a crew of four flying north of Adak Island, Alaska sighted a formation of three lights flying at 900 knots and picked them up on radar. The radar targets then merged into a single blip.The sighting lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 19; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_250 ### Event 14737 (1E54F24A) **Date:** 1/12/1958 **Location:** Wake Island (W of), At Sea **Description:** Pilot saw a greenish-blue object emitting a bright flash (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2228 ### Event 14738 (2270800D) **Date:** 1/13/1958 **Location:** Casino, N.S.W, AU **Description:** Interference on car radio as UFO followed car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2222 ### Event 14739 (FC80812A) **Date:** 1/13/1958 **Time:** 2345 **Location:** Farm Hill, Australia **Description:** Brian Crittendon, 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he drove home on a half-flat tire, followed for 5 km by the object, which was about 50 m away and 10 m above ground. It overtook his car at a speed exceeding 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted, but no noise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_457 ### Event 14740 (045289C0) **Date:** 1/13/1958 **Locations:** Casino, New South Wales, Australia; Benns Road **Description:** 11:45 p.m. Brian Crittenden sees a dome-shaped light with a long narrow light underneath coming directly towards him as he is leaving a friend’s house southwest of Casino, New South Wales, Australia. He jumps into his car and heads home. The UFO chases his car along Benns Road, practically touching the telephone poles. His car radio develops interference when the UFO approaches him. It follows him all the way to town, 7 miles away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 81; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) [February](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3140 ### Event 14741 (6CA8123C) **Date:** 1/13/1958 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. in Casino, New South Wales, Australia Brian Crittendon, age 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he drove home on a flat tire, followed for five kilometers by the object, which was about 50 meters away from him and 10 meters above ground. It overtook his car at a speed in excess of 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted but the UFO made no noise. There was an independent witness to the UFO. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs in the Southern Hemisphere, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 457; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 89 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_293 ### Event 14742 (46120393) **Date:** 1/14/1958 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** CASINO, AUST **Description:** Silent domed saucer / beam chases car / 3 mile(s). Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Separate observer(s). / r142#7p1+/ r79p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5850 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "CASINO,AUST:SLNT DOMED SCR/BEAM CHASES CAR/3 mi:RFI:sep.obs:/r142#7p1+/r79p14", **LatLong:** "-28.833335 153.050007", **LatLongDMS:** "28:50:00 S 153:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.833335,153.050007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14743 (D1B53877) **Date:** 1/14/1958 **Location:** Bering Sea, At Sea **Description:** Military Aircraft Crew Encounters 3 Lights Tracked at 400 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [580114](http://www.nicap.org/580114beringseadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2223 ### Event 14744 (17D4E11B) **Date:** 1/16/1958 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** VILLA VELHA, BRZ **Description:** Doctor and 3. Large silent metallic Saturn-saucer hovers offshore. Beams going down / sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5851 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "VILLA VELHA,BRZ:DOCTOR+3:LRG SLNT MTLC SATURN-SCR HVRS OFFSHORE:BEAMS ↓/SEA:", **LatLong:** "-20.333334 -40.133335", **LatLongDMS:** "20:20:00 S 40:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.333334,-40.133335)", **State/Prov:** "ESP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14745 (6821835B) **Date:** 1/16/1958 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** TRINIDADE I, ATLANTIC OCEAN. **Description:** 100+9 scientists. 4 photographs / 120' saucer. Electric power out. Going northeast. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) V8#4+/ r149p38. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 702) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5852 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "TRINIDADE I,ATL:100+9 SCIs:4 FOTOS/120'SCR:ELEC.PWR OUT:>NE:/IUR V8#4+/r149p38", **LatLong:** "-20.500001 -29.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "20:30:00 S 29:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.500001,-29.300001)", **State/Prov:** "SAT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14746 (3D0876B3) **Date:** 1/16/1958 **Location:** Trindade Island (NE of), At Sea **Description:** Trindade Island Photo (E-M, Radar, AR) Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580116](http://www.nicap.org/580116trindade%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2225 ### Event 14747 (0F8045BF) **Date:** 1/16/1958 **Locations:** Ilha da Trindade, Brazil; Atlantic Ocean; Pico Desejado **Description:** Around 12:00 noon. As the International Geophysical Year research ship [Almirante Saldanha](https://www.naval.com.br/ngb/A/A044/A044.htm) is anchored on the south side of Ilha da Trindade, Brazil, 730 miles off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean, the commander and many crew members, including photographer Almiro Baraúna, see a Saturn-shaped object maneuvering over the island. It reportedly comes toward the island from the east, flies towards the Pico Desejado, makes a steep turn, and goes away very quickly to the northwest. Baraúna takes four photos with a Rolleiflex 2.8 model E. Commander [Paulo Moreira da Silva](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo%5FMoreira%5Fda%5FSilva) of the Brazilian Navy Hydrography and Navigation Department \(who technically outranks the ship’s captain, [José Santos de Saldanha da Gama](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FSantos%5Fde%5FSaldanha%5Fda%5FGama)\), is apparently an eyewitness and states, “the object was encircled by a greenish glow, our \[meteorological\] balloon was of a red color.” Baraúna is officially there to take photos of the island, underwater photos, photos of the IGY activities, and the ship’s operations. The radar detection of an unexplained supersonic target reportedly occurs the day before, at about 12:05 p.m. There is a power failure on the ship when the object is seen; the power returns upon the object’s departure. Instruments like radio transmitters and apparatus with magnetic needles cease operating while the flying object remains in the island’s proximity. [Willy Smith](https://www.oocities.org/ufomiami.geo/Obituary.html)’s April 20, 1983, interview of Baraúna takes on more significance: “I asked if the object had been detected by ship’s radar. He \[Baraúna\] replied that it hadn’t because all the electrical power aboard ship was out at the time. He was sure of the reality of the power outage because just before the object appeared a launch was being hauled up from the water by electric pulley, and it stopped midway just as the UFO appeared!” The ship’s log is provably incomplete since it does not even mention the UFO photo incident. A 1999 analysis by [Martin J. Powell](http://www.aenigmatis.com/) seems to indicate that the object photographed is an airplane, distorted by Baraúna through a double-exposure process. In August 2010, a major TV show in Brazil airs information stating that the original photographer had made hoax photographs in the past. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Trindade Island UFO hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trindade%5FIsland%5FUFO%5Fhoax)”; Wikipedia, “[Caso da Ilha da Trindade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trindade%5FIsland%5FUFO%5Fhoax)”; NICAP, “[Trindade Island Photo \(E-M,](http://www.nicap.org/580116trindade%5Fdir.htm) [Radar, AR\) Case](http://www.nicap.org/580116trindade%5Fdir.htm)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[The UAO Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part 1,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1960, pp. 5–9; Olavo T. Fontes, “[UAO Sightings over Trindade, Part II,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1960, pp. 5–8; Olavo T. Fontes, “[UAO Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part III,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1960, pp. 4– 9; John T. Hopf, “[Exclusive IGY Photo Analysis,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1960, pp. 1, 4; “[New Evidence on IGY](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf) [Photos,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, pp. 1, 3–8; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 205– 210; Willy Smith, “[Trindade Revisited,](http://www.nicap.org/trindade/cufos%5Fpages/baraunaIUR.htm)” IUR 8, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1983\): 3–5, 14; Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 109–111; Martin J. Powell, “[The Trindade Island UFO:](https://aenigmatis.com/trindade-island-ufo-1958/trindade.htm) [A Detailed Study of Photos 1 and 2,](https://aenigmatis.com/trindade-island-ufo-1958/trindade.htm)” Aenigmatis, Summer 1999; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 71–77](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/70/mode/2up); Martin Shough, “[The Trindade Island Photographs, 16 Jan 1958,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/trindade/index.htm)” Aerial Phenomena Studies Index, 2004; Equipe UFO, “[Documento raro sobre o caso Trindade ressurge no exterior,](https://ufo.com.br/noticias/documento-raro-sobre-o-caso-trindade-ressurge-no-exterior/)” Portal UFO, August 31, 2010; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 262; Story, [pp. 366–369](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/366/mode/2up); Swords 463–465; Brazil 49–57; Clark III 1132–1136; Patrick Gross, “[The Trindade Island](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/trindade58.htm) [Photographic Case of 1958](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/trindade58.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3141 ### Event 14748 (DD9D3B98) **Date:** 1/16/1958 **Description:** At 2:30 a.m. a doctor in Villa Velha in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo and three others witnessed a large silent metallic Saturn-shaped UFO hovering offshore. It directed a beam of light downward into the ocean. Later than same day a famous set of photographs of a Saturn-shaped UFO was taken at 12:15 p.m. from a Brazilian Navy ship participating in the International Geophysical Year explorations, and anchored at Trindade Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Sr. Barauna, the ship’s photographer took the photographs, but over 100 witnesses aboard ship witnessed the maneuvering UFO. The four photos are somewhat over exposed, but show the object reversing direction and flying back over a craggy mountaintop. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History -1958: January-February, p. 23; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 164 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_347 ### Event 14749 (BE067D9D) **Date:** 1/17/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1082 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** ".5" ### Event 14750 (8663BEAD) **Date:** 1/21/1958 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** TUMACACORI MTS, AZ **Description:** 2 white silent hat-saucers going southwest. Flip over. Sawtooth trajectory. Enter cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5853 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1624", **HatchDesc:** "TUMACACORI Mts,AZ:2 WHT SLNT HAT-SCRS >SW:FLIP OVER:SAWTOOTH TRAJ:ENTER CLOUD", **LatLong:** "31.500002 -111.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "31:30:00 N 111:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.500002,-111.033339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14751 (CCC23859) **Date:** 1/21/1958 **Description:** Two white, silent, hat-shaped saucers flew over the Tumacacori Mountains in Arizona at 4:00 p.m., heading toward the southwest. They flipped over, then flew in a sawtooth trajectory and entered a cloud. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 33 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_401 ### Event 14752 (BD100BDA) **Date:** 1/22/1958 **Description:** Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO discussion **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_157 ### Event 14753 (925C2E0B) **Date:** 1/22/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** WIMBERLEY, TX **Description:** 6+observer(s). 2 luminous/glowing objects Skip about and play tag / sky. / San Marcos Record 23 Jn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5854 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "WIMBERLEY,TX:6+OBS:2 LUMn OBJS SKIP ABOUT+PLAY TAG/SKY:/San Marcos Record 23Jn", **LatLong:** "29.994446 -98.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:59:40 N 98:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.994446,-98.100005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14754 (CED635E2) **Date:** 1/22/1958 **Description:** The “UFO: The Enigma of the Skies” segment of Armstrong Circle Theater airs on CBS. USAF Reserve Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from ATIC says all UFOs are explainable. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) comes on and starts reading his script for a few minutes, then shocks everyone by deviating from it, saying “And now, Mr. [Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FEdwards), I would like to make a disclosure, something which has never been revealed to the public. For the last six months our committee has been working with a Senate committee which is investigating official secrecy on UFOs. If the hearings are held, open hearings, I feel it would prove beyond doubt that flying saucers are real—”. Then his microphone is cut off, although the filming continues. [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) then appears, then USAF spokesman [Richard E.](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html) [Horner](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html) comes on afterward and says that the Air Force is not hiding anything about UFOs. Keyhoe later claims this is not censorship by the show, although he thinks it is the Air Force silence group at work. In April, CBS director of editing Herbert A. Carlborg tells NICAP that Keyhoe’s deviation “might lead to statements that neither this network nor the individuals on the program were authorized to release. As a consequence, public interest was served.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 167–168; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 22–23, 155–165; “[UFO Archives: Project Blue Book—Col.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOGN6h9RC0) [Spenser Whedon, Dr. Donald Menzel, Major Donald Keyhoe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOGN6h9RC0)” \[audio only\], UFO Archives YouTube channel, May 22, 2014; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) [February](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 23, 28–30, 35–39; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 10–17; Swords 272; Good Above, [pp. 286–287](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/286/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3142 ### Event 14755 (8FC85BF6) **Date:** 1/22/1958 **Description:** Two luminous objects skipped about and played tag in the sky over Wimberley, Texas at one o'clock in the afternoon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** San Marcos (TX) Record, January 23, 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_410 ### Event 14756 (73DF8D6F) **Date:** 1/23/1958 **Location:** Langley AFB, Virginia **Description:** Capt. G. H. Oldenburgh, public information officer at Langley AFB, Virginia, writes to a NICAP member who has been denied a request to place an ad in the base newspaper asking for UFO reports: “I felt it would encourage Air Force personnel to violate present Air Force policy and specifically AF Regulation 200-2.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p. 51](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3143 ### Event 14757 (DE2E9492) **Date:** 1/24/1958 **Description:** An unidentified object followed behind Sputnik II while orbiting over Brooklyn Park, South Australia on this evening. It travelled fast to the east, and then swung to the north before disappearing. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 163 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_477 ### Event 14758 (6F19EF48) **Date:** 1/26/1958 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SHIMADA, JPN **Description:** Vibrant bright object lands / beach. Figure(s) float down. Talk gibberish. / r8 #458. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5855 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SHIMADA,JPN:VBRITE OBJ LANDS/BEACH:FIGs FLOAT DOWN:TALK GIBBERISH:/r8 #458", **LatLong:** "34.816668 138.216673", **LatLongDMS:** "34:49:00 N 138:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.816668,138.216673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14759 (D512336A) **Date:** 1/26/1958 **Time:** 1600 **Location:** Shimada City, Japan **Description:** A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers; they reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 58, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_458 ### Event 14760 (6A5518BF) **Date:** 1/26/1958 **Location:** Shimada, Japan **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Some chemical workers at Shimada, Japan, see a bright object land and claim that beings fell from the sky without parachutes. They wear strange suits and speak an unknown language. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[They Are Landing in](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf) [Japan, Too,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 \(May/June 1958\): 33 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3144 ### Event 14761 (9F26F2C8) **Date:** 1/26/1958 **Description:** A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers in Shimada City, Japan at 4 p.m. They reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1958; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 458; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0458 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_517 ### Event 14762 (DCDAD61A) **Date:** 1/27/1958 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** SOBY / SKIVE, DK **Description:** 3 silver objects going quickly [to] WNW. Then 3 more. 1 drops bubble which bursts.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5856 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SOBY/SKIVE,DK:3 SLVR OBJS >>WNW:THEN 3 MORE:1 DROPS BUBBLE WHICH BURSTS..", **LatLong:** "56.533336 9.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "56:32:00 N 09:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.533336,9.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14763 (4BA2B05F) **Date:** 1/27/1958 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEAR NAZCA, PERU **Description:** Shocks! Car and truck and bus electro-magnetic effect (EME). 15' saucer going down. Hovers / 150'. / MJ#237+/ APRO 1'59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5857 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Peru", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "590", **HatchDesc:** "nr NAZCA,PERU:SHOCKS!:CAR+TRUCK+BUS EME:15'SCR↓:HVRS/150':/MJ#237+/APRO 1'59", **LatLong:** "-14.833334 -74.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "14:50:00 S 74:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-14.833334,-74.666670)", **RelAlt:** "45", **State/Prov:** "LIM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14764 (FEC15C51) **Date:** 1/28/1958 **Locations:** Capitol Hill; Ohio **Description:** [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) announces that “two committees on Capitol Hill” are investigating the UFO controversy. Rep. [William Hanes Ayres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHanes%5FAyres) \(R-Ohio\) writes a letter to constituent Melvin V. Knapp, saying that “Congressional investigations have been held and are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects \(UFO’s\). Since most of the material presented to the committees is classified, the hearings are never printed. When conclusions are reached, they will be released if possible.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucer Proof Clouded by Air Force, Private Probers Say,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94512727/)” Rochester \(N.Y.\) Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1958, p. 8; UFOEv, [p. 173](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=185&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3145 ### Event 14765 (D3F50973) **Date:** 1/30/1958 **Time:** 05:20 **Location:** MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Photographs / UFO up close. 1 object seen 30 min. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5858 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEVIDEO,URUGUAY:BBK#UNK:FOTOS/UFO UP CLOSE:1 OBJ SEEN 30 MIN:NFD", **LatLong:** "-34.816668 -56.150003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:49:00 S 56:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.816668,-56.150003)", **State/Prov:** "MON", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14766 (6ACC9C00) **Date:** 1/30/1958 **Location:** Lima (near), Ohio **Description:** Truck, bus, and car passengers felt shock; motors of all three vehicles failed, as UFO descended and hovered (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2226 ### Event 14767 (6C025A8E) **Date:** 1/30/1958 **Locations:** Arequipa; Lima; Peru; Yauca District; Pan American Highway; 220 miles northwest of Arequipa **Description:** 11:45 p.m. Attorney José Valencia Dongo, his wife, and their nephew feel an electric shock as they are driving between Arequipa and Lima, Peru, at a point \(roughly around the Yauca District\) along the Pan American Highway 220 miles northwest of Arequipa. Several seconds later the headlights and engine of their car fails. They then see an inverted mushroom-shaped object, about 15 feet in diameter, descending from the sky. It hovers for about 8 minutes at a 150-foot altitude, glowing red. A truck and bus are also affected. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Civilian Saucer Intelligence, “[Shapes in the Sky,](https://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV10n04195810/page/n111/mode/2up)” Fantastic Universe, 10, no. 4 \(October 1958\): 111; Charles A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, NICAP, 1961, [p. 82](https://archive.org/details/challengeofunide00mane/page/82/mode/2up); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 58–59; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3146 ### Event 14768 (4843FFC1) **Date:** 1/30/1958 **Description:** At 11:45 p.m. a lawyer, his wife, and their nephew felt an electric shock at a point 220 miles north of Arequipa, Peru heading towards Lima. Several seconds later the headlights and engine of their car failed. An inverted mushroom-shaped object was then observed, about 15 feet in diameter, descending from the sky. It hovered for about eight minutes at a 150-foot altitude, glowing red. A truck and a bus were also affected by the presence of the UFO. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 90, citing Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_599 ### Event 14769 (7CD7AF96) **Date:** 1/31/1958 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** 60 MI SOUTH / ZAMA, JPN **Description:** 2 T33 pilots. 5+3+4 yellow night lights flash every 5-8 second(s). Also circular object? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5859 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "60mi S/ZAMA,JPN:2 T33 PILOTS:5+3+4 YEL.NLTS FLASH EVERY 5-8sec:+CIRCULAR OBJ?", **LatLong:** "34.600002 139.400007", **LatLongDMS:** "34:36:00 N 139:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.600002,139.400007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14770 (DF9D631F) **Date:** 1/31/1958 **Location:** Tokyo (25 miles SW of), Japan **Description:** USAF pilots saw 12 yellow-orange lights fly S in 3 groups (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2227 ### Event 14771 (5E16269B) **Date:** 1/31/1958 **Description:** A meeting is held in the office of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Richard E. Horner](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=richard-e-horner&pid=88822680) under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, even though Sen. [John L. McClellan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FL.%5FMcClellan) \(D-Ark.\) and other senators are absent. The Air Force is represented by Maj. James F. Byrne, Maj. [Joseph E. Boland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8792087/joseph-edward-boland), and Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) who meet with the subcommittee’s FBI liaisons. Tacker declares that USAF does not want a congressional investigation, and the McClellan effort dies immediately. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 275 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3147 ### Event 14772 (3AAC24F0) **Date:** 1/31/1958 **Location:** Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida **Description:** 10:48 p.m. The US launches its first satellite, Explorer 1, from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida. It is the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Explorer 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%5F1)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3148 ### Event 14773 (AA885D2D) **Date:** 2/1958 **Description:** Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_158 ### Event 14774 (B2E2B02E) **Date:** 2/1958 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EAGLE POINT, OR **Description:** 1 observer. 500' disk going down [to] low. Extends funnel going down / pond / 20 minute(s). Fog follows object going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 916) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5860 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "398", **HatchDesc:** "EAGLE POINT,OR:1 OBS:500'DISK ↓ LOW:EXTENDS FUNNEL ↓/POND/20min:FOG FOLOS OBJ↑", **LatLong:** "42.472224 -122.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "42:28:20 N 122:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.472224,-122.800006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14775 (EAD434E5) **Date:** 2/1958 **Locations:** Armstrong Circle Theater; Ryan **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets again with Rep. [James C. Healey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FHealey) and tells him that the Armstrong Circle Theater incident was Air Force censorship. A few days later, Healey tells Keyhoe that the Air Force is claiming that the program proves “there are no such things as flying saucers.” Keyhoe gives Healey the facts about the 1956 [Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan) case pointing to USAF ordering a commercial flight to pursue UFOs, citing the Meet the Millers tape from April 16, 1956, which he has obtained. He offers to get the committee a transcript. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 166–167, 182–184 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3149 ### Event 14776 (2D45E4D9) **Date:** 2/1958 **Location:** Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Haute-Loire, France **Description:** Ufologist Raymond Veillith launches the UFO journal Lumières dans la Nuit in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Haute-Loire, France. It continues on under various editors until at least 2018. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Lumières dans la Nuit](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20001.pdf) no. 1 \(February 1958\); Wikipedia, “[Lumières dans la Nuit](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumi%C3%A8res%5Fdans%5Fla%5Fnuit)”; Story, p. 218 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3150 ### Event 14777 (FF21E450) **Date:** 2/1/1958 **Location:** Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26 **Description:** First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26 **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_583 ### Event 14778 (C346877F) **Date:** 2/1/1958 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** LADAPEYRE, FR **Description:** 5 observer(s). Elongated red ovoid going [to] low and slow / 2 minute(s). Turns white and rises slowly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5861 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LADAPEYRE,FR:5 OBS:ELONGATED RED OVOID >LOW+SLOW/2min:TURNS WHITE+RISES SLOWLY", **LatLong:** "46.250002 2.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:15:00 N 02:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.250002,2.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14779 (5C67448C) **Date:** 2/1/1958 **Description:** A huge luminous disc hovered for more than 30 minutes over farm country in Ladapeyre, France beginning at 11:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_652 ### Event 14780 (FE9AA8E4) **Date:** 2/2/1958 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** HOKKAIDO ISLAND, JPN **Description:** 3 / farm. Location unknown. Silent ovoid passes. Drops / hills. No further details. / r8#459. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5862 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HOKKAIDO Isl,JPN:3/FARM:loc.unk:SLNT OVOID PASSES:DROPS/HILLS:NFD:/r8#459", **LatLong:** "43.500002 142.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "43:30:00 N 142:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.500002,142.750007)", **State/Prov:** "HKD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14781 (6F632348) **Date:** 2/2/1958 **Location:** New South Wales, AU **Description:** Elliptical UFO with two "porthole" like markings. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2229 ### Event 14782 (CAFE5B58) **Date:** 2/2/1958 **Time:** 1530 **Location:** Hokkaido, Japan **Description:** Farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 58, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_459 ### Event 14783 (9577EF74) **Date:** 2/2/1958 **Location:** New South Wales, Australia **Description:** An elliptical UFO with two porthole-like markings is seen somewhere in New South Wales, Australia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 137](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=149&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3151 ### Event 14784 (FBF34DC2) **Date:** 2/2/1958 **Description:** At 3:30 p.m. farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently in Hokkaido, Japan. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 459 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_663 ### Event 14785 (D59FCFCC) **Date:** 2/2/1958 **Description:** At 8:15 p.m. a UFO with a cone-shaped orange flame at its tail moved southwest to northeast over Seacombe Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia. It made a droning noise like a motor, and flew at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 163 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_664 ### Event 14786 (AA1DBDA3) **Date:** 2/3/1958 **Location:** Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** OTC Enterprises runs a two-page ad in a Baltimore, Maryland, newspaper and distributes a well-printed brochure announcing that [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) has approached the US government and offered to build it a working spacecraft called the OTC-X1—circular, 45 feet in diameter and 15 feet high—for $20 million. He sets a date of December 7, 1959, to take a three-man crew on the spacecraft on a round trip to the Moon. Some press accounts treat Carr as if he is a real scientist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 860 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3152 ### Event 14787 (A3E522B0) **Date:** 2/5/1958 **Location:** Kearney, NE **Description:** Reinhold Schmidt's 2nd contact with saucers & spacepeople, takes ride. **Type:** ce4 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_159 ### Event 14788 (2CA15473) **Date:** 2/5/1958 **Description:** The Air Force revises AFR 200-2 and recreates the system of air base commanders conducting initial investigations of sightings in their areas. It also continues ATIC’s responsibility to “reduce the percentage of unidentifieds to the minimum.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Department of the Air Force, “[Intelligence: Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFO\),](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F200-2%5F020558.pdf)” Air Force Regulation 200-2, February 5, 1958; Department of the Air Force, “[Intelligence: Unidentified Flying](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F200-2A%5F070358%5Fchange.pdf) [Objects \(UFO\),](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F200-2A%5F070358%5Fchange.pdf)” Air Force Regulation 200-2A, July 3, 1958 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3153 ### Event 14789 (041B27E8) **Date:** 2/6/1958 (approximate) **Location:** PT. MORESBY, PNG **Description:** Several observer(s). Red blob / light going southwest. Stops / airport / 60M altitude. Quickly going up. / APRO 7'61. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5863 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Pt.MORESBY,PNG:SVRL OBS:RED BLOB/LITE >SW:STOPS/AIRPORT/60M alt:↑↑:/APRO 7'61", **LatLong:** "-9.583334 147.333340", **LatLongDMS:** "09:35:00 S 147:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.583334,147.333340)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14790 (86486579) **Date:** 2/7/1958 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** In response to the launching of Sputnik, President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency and houses it in the Pentagon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[DARPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3154 ### Event 14791 (467C48CB) **Date:** 2/9/1958 **Location:** Troy, MI **Description:** Oval UFO photographed. \[UFOE,VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [580209](http://www.nicap.org/fotocat/580209stump%5Folmos.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2230 ### Event 14792 (C3FF31DD) **Date:** 2/13/1958 **Location:** Wake Island (west of), At Sea **Description:** Radar Contacts & Flare-Like Explosion (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [580213](http://www.nicap.org/580213wake%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2231 ### Event 14793 (E70C79A8) **Date:** 2/17/1958 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** ALCALDE, NM **Description:** 2 / car and several pilots. Silent domed ovoid and beams. Watch stops. 2 hours missing time. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5864 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "1739", **HatchDesc:** "ALCALDE,NM:2/CAR+SVRL PILOTS:SLNT DOMED OVOID+BEAMS:WATCH STOPS:2 HRS MST:", **LatLong:** "36.100002 -106.055561", **LatLongDMS:** "36:06:00 N 106:03:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.100002,-106.055561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14794 (20A274EA) **Date:** 2/17/1958 **Locations:** Alcalde, New Mexico; State Highway 68; Albuquerque; Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque **Description:** Evening. [Flora Evans](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64039683/flora-janette-evans) and Bernice McIntosh twice encounter an intensely brilliant orange light about 15 feet in diameter that sends out peculiar grid-like or diamond-shaped patterns and lights up a canyon northeast of Alcalde, New Mexico, along State Highway 68. The two women are temporarily blinded. Their trip home to Albuquerque inexplicably takes 4 hours instead of the normal 2 hours. Both witnesses are exhausted and have burned or reddened areas on their skin, some on their kneecaps and the back of their lower legs, even though they have not left the car. Evans has a reddened area shaped like a triangle on her back. An acquaintance, Paul Boyett, has a Geiger counter, with which he gets a high radiation count from both women on February 19. The next day Evans, who is working in some capacity in civil defense, goes to her doctor at the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, to see about possible radiation burns and exposure. She overhears a comment about “178 roentgens” exposure, but the doctor says there is nothing to worry about. McIntosh’s symptoms \(nausea, vomiting, rash\) are initially more irritating but subside substantially, although both women have swellings in their lower legs, and both gain serious weight \(some 50 pounds\) over the next few months. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–February](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 60–64 ; Michael D, Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 2” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 4–5; Swords 280–281; Clark III 1–2, 950 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3155 ### Event 14795 (502F453C) **Date:** 2/19/1958 **Time:** 04:40 **Location:** PORTIERA ORTIZ, BRZ **Description:** Many observer(s). Saturn-saucer follows jeep / 80 mn. Hovers / military base. / APRO3'59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5865 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "80", **Elev:** "661", **HatchDesc:** "PORTIERA ORTIZ,BRZ:MANY OBS:SATURN-SCR FOLOS JEEP/80mn:HVRS/MIL.BASE:/APRO3'59", **LatLong:** "-22.483334 -55.633336", **LatLongDMS:** "22:29:00 S 55:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.483334,-55.633336)", **State/Prov:** "MGS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14796 (D02194EA) **Date:** 2/19/1958 **Location:** Hokkaido, Japan **Description:** Giant Radar Return Reported to Air Force PBB (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BB) **Reference:** NICAP: [580219](http://www.nicap.org/580219hokkaido%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2232 ### Event 14797 (2F7FCF88) **Date:** 2/19/1958 **Locations:** Porteiro Ortiz, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil; Highway 463; Ponta Porã **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Cicero Claudino da Silva, Mustafa Esgaib, Alegario Campos, and João Manuel Vasquez are investigating the Ponta Porã case from December. They are at Porteiro Ortiz, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, along Highway 463 and shining their lights in the direction of the Paraguayan frontier when a reddish light appears and becomes larger, as if approaching them. The ground around their car is illuminated for a few seconds, and they realize that another red light is nearing them on the other side of the car. They head for Ponta Porã at breakneck speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Olavo T. Fontes, “[The Shadow of the Unknown,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3156 ### Event 14798 (AC50BF14) **Date:** 2/20/1958 **Location:** Winslow (NW of), AZ **Description:** 12 military officers saw a round or cigar-shaped stationary object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2233 ### Event 14799 (3558F249) **Date:** 2/22/1958 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Venus” YieldMax: .001KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_119 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Venus", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeYMax:** ".001" ### Event 14800 (589BAB40) **Date:** 2/23/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 860KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1083 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "860" ### Event 14801 (6E6C134F) **Date:** 2/24/1958 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** SOUTH ANTONIO DE JESUS, BRZ **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Luminous/glowing silent object going down / 3M. Going up [to] as observer(s) walk near. / r70p3-55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5866 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "205", **Elev:** "173", **HatchDesc:** "S.ANTONIO de JESUS,BRZ:CAR EMES:LUMn SLNT OBJ↓/3M:↑ as OBS WALK NEAR:/r70p3-55", **LatLong:** "-12.983334 -39.266669", **LatLongDMS:** "12:59:00 S 39:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.983334,-39.266669)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Bahia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14802 (900D2D49) **Date:** 2/24/1958 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** RICHMOND, BC **Description:** Boy / 12. 3M ovoid with buzzing arms / 1M altitude. BEAMs toward(s) car and observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5867 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND,BC:BOY/12:3M OVOID W/BUZZING ARMS/1M alt:BEAMs twrd CAR+OBS:", **LatLong:** "49.166669 -123.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:10:00 N 123:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.166669,-123.150006)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14803 (10108CD8) **Date:** 2/24/1958 **Location:** Santa Antonio de Jesus (near), Brazil **Description:** Car motor failed; passengers then noticed a Saturn-shaped disc hovering overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2234 ### Event 14804 (550119F5) **Date:** 2/24/1958 **Time:** 0305 **Location:** Conceicao Almeida, Brazil **Description:** Three witnesses, among them Dr. C. da Costa, decided to sleep in their car when the engine stalled and could not be started again. Then a very large, blue silvery object appeared and came to ground level with a swinging motion. was shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring. When they tried to approach it, the object maneuvered in a strange "aerial dance." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_460 ### Event 14805 (58AA2324) **Date:** 2/24/1958 **Locations:** Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil; Salvador **Description:** 3:05 a.m. Attorney Carlos José de Costa Pereira, Manoel Mendes, and Antônio de Araujo are driving near Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil. The car engine sputters and fails. All attempts to detect the trouble fail. The next inhabited place is far away, so the travelers decide that the best thing to do is to sleep at that spot, beside the road. Next morning they will try to do something about their situation, getting help from some nearby village or farm. It was then that they notice a large luminous Saturn-shaped object silently approaching to about 240 feet from them and only 90 feet from the ground. It then descends in a falling-leaf pattern to about 12 feet. They can see it is about 60–75 feet in diameter with a rotating center section. Suddenly it climbs vertically to 600 feet, makes a tight circle, then tilts to 45° and makes a number of high-speed maneuvers, then descends again in a falling-leaf motion before shooting up vertically at tremendous speed. After this, the car starts easily and they proceed to Salvador. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Olavo T. Fontes, “[The Shadow of the Unknown,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1959, p. 7; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 59–61 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3157 ### Event 14806 (42A4CB40) **Date:** 2/24/1958 **Description:** In the early morning predawn hours Dr. C. da Costa and two others were traveling by car in Conceicao Almeida, Brazil when their engine stalled near Santo Antonio de Jesus. It could not be re-started, and although they got out of the car to check the engine they could find nothing wrong, so they decided to sleep in the car. A short while later, at 3:05 a.m., a very large blue silvery disc-shaped object appeared with a flat ring spinning at high speed around the middle of the craft. It descended towards the ground a pendulum motion. Two of the men walked toward it, at which point it rose up to about 600 feet in altitude. The UFO then began a series of high-speed maneuvers, finally disappearing at 4:35 a.m. The car still would not start. At 6:30 a.m. the UFO appeared once more, looking silvery in color and hovering at a low altitude. It then shot away, vanishing almost instantly, and the witnesses' car could be started easily. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 460; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 91 (p. 15), citing Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1077 ### Event 14807 (85082FB4) **Date:** 2/25/1958 **Location:** Glenwood, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2235 ### Event 14808 (84FE7B49) **Date:** 2/25/1958 **Location:** Gander AFB, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Radar Tracks Zigzagging Object (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580225](http://www.nicap.org/580225gander%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2236 ### Event 14809 (CD29C67C) **Date:** 2/27/1958 (approximate) **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** CIRCLEVILLE, OH **Description:** 2 / farm. Domed saucer going west. Returns. Maneuvers. Tilts and lands. See drawings. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5868 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "214", **HatchDesc:** "CIRCLEVILLE,OH:2/FARM:DOMED SCR > W:RETURNS:MNVRS:TILTS+LANDS:see dwgs", **LatLong:** "90.588893 -82.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "90:35:20 N 82:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.588893,-82.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14810 (09A97F53) **Date:** 2/27/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 250KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1084 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "250" ### Event 14811 (6E3037CC) **Date:** 2/27/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1500KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1085 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1500" ### Event 14812 (8E37CDC4) **Date:** 2/28/1958 **Location:** McClellan Senate subcommittee **Description:** USAF Director of Information Gen. [Arno H. Luehman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%5FH.%5FLuehman) naively inquires of the McClellan Senate subcommittee whether, based on its “preliminary informal investigation,” it would state that the Air Force is investigating UFOs and not withholding information. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 275 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3158 ### Event 14813 (E6AEEAB2) **Date:** 2/28/1958 **Location:** Brazil **Description:** Brig. Gen. [João Adil Oliveira](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%5FAdil%5FOliveira)[,](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%5FAdil%5FOliveira) chief of the Brazilian Air Force’s General Staff information service, tells O Globo that the UFO phenomenon is a “fact confirmed by material evidence. There are thousands of documents, photos, and sighting evidence demonstrating its existence.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/232/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3159 ### Event 14814 (CEC5B71C) **Date:** 2/28/1958 **Location:** Miami, Florida **Description:** Police detective [Faustin Gallegos](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/678921/faustin-gallegos) and his wife Dorothy see something like a “large medicine ball” descend and land in their back yard in Miami, Florida. Outside, he sees a football-shaped object 20 inches long and 8 inches high, lined with “thousands of minute cells resembling those of a honeycomb. It is clear and pulsating. He touches it and his fingers leave marks. They put it in a jar, but it evaporates on the way to the police station. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Faustin Gallegos, “The Pulsing Honeycomb from Space,” Fate 11, no. 9 \(September 1958\): 40–43; Clark III 1102 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3160 ### Event 14815 (0345DEA7) **Date:** 3/1958 **Location:** Arizona **Description:** Big "flap" in Arizona. Much activity. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_160 ### Event 14816 (5CB690CE) **Date:** 3/1958 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** BOUAHMAMA, ALG **Description:** Legionaire. 300M saucer going down. Green cone-beam going down. Whistle and going up [to] and going quickly northwest. / FSRv19#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 220) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5869 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BOUAHMAMA,ALG:LEGIONAIRE:300M SCR ↓:GRN CONE-BEAM ↓:WHISTLE+↑+>>NW:/FSRv19#3", **LatLong:** "34.766668 6.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:46:00 N 06:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.766668,6.700000)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14817 (845FA092) **Date:** 3/1958 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** MARION CO, GA **Description:** Flight instructor and ground RADAR. Silver lens-saucer going [to] into 180 knt wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5870 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "MARION co,GA:Flt.INSTRUCTOR+GND RDR:SLVR LENS-SCR > INTO 180 knt WIND", **LatLong:** "32.433335 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:26:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.433335,-84.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14818 (C5D8A402) **Date:** 3/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / MONKLAND, ONT **Description:** 2 / car. Huge bowl-saucer whirrs. Lights / bottom/underside. Going south overhead. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) and restarts. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CAMERON, Vicky: UFO EXPERIENCES in CANADA, Don't tell anyone but.. ; 1995 General Store Publishing ; Burnstown, Ontario ISBN 1-896182-20-8 (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5871 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "112", **HatchDesc:** "NE/MONKLAND,ONT:2/CAR:HUGE BOWL-SCR WHIRRS:LITES/BTM:>S OVHD:CAR EMEs+RESTARTS", **LatLong:** "45.216669 -74.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:13:00 N 74:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.216669,-74.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14819 (E1256616) **Date:** 3/1958 **Description:** The Air Force releases parts of the 1953 Robertson Panel report, a mere three paragraphs recommending that “the national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[CIA Evades, Then Denies](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/004%20JUNE%201958.pdf) [Charge of Attempted UFO Censorship,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/004%20JUNE%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 4 \(June 1958\): 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3161 ### Event 14820 (13FC0D83) **Date:** 3/1958 **Locations:** Bouamama; Sidi Chami; Algeria **Description:** A French Foreign Legionnaire on sentry duty at Bouamama, near Sidi Chami, Algeria, hears a whistling noise and sees an enormous, elliptical-shaped object descend and hover 115–131 feet above the ground 165 feet away. The object is surrounded by pale green light, and a relaxing emerald-green beam of light is coming from its base to the ground. Seemingly paralyzed, he stares at the object for 45–50 minutes. The noise returns, the object rises gently, and flies off at tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joël Mesnard, “[Tranquillizing Visitation at Bouahmama: An Algerian](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%203.pdf) [Report of 1958,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1973\): 17–18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3162 ### Event 14821 (341E2979) **Date:** 3/1/1958 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** KUNASHIRI ISLAND, JPN / (USSR OCC) **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 2 10 minute(s) events / 1 object-10 minutes apart. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5872 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "69", **HatchDesc:** "KUNASHIRI ISL,JPN/(USSR occ):BBK#UNK:2 10min EVENTS/1 OBJ-10 MINUTES APART:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.166669 146.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "44:10:00 N 146:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.166669,146.000007)", **State/Prov:** "KNS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14822 (53961491) **Date:** 3/1/1958 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. two ten minute sightings of the same UFO occurred 10 minutes apart in the Kunashir Islands, Japan and the Soviet Union. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5367 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1200 ### Event 14823 (3E013949) **Date:** 3/2/1958 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** TAMPA, FL **Description:** USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC) observer(s). Civil sees balloon-object land / airfield. Rises. Hovers / 250M. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 461) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5873 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "TAMPA,FL:ATIC OBS:CIV SEES BALLOON-OBJ LAND/AIRFIELD:RISES:HVRS/250M:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "27.966668 -82.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:58:00 N 82:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.966668,-82.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14824 (1BA118B1) **Date:** 3/2/1958 **Location:** Tampa, FL **Description:** Balloon-shaped object with bright light land on the airfield (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2237 ### Event 14825 (B561C3E6) **Date:** 3/2/1958 **Time:** 1945 **Location:** Tampa, Florida **Description:** A civilian source was said to have observed a balloon-shaped object land on the airfield then take off slowly and hover at 250 m altitude before disappearing. It showed a bright light source. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_461 ### Event 14826 (AFFCEDEB) **Date:** 3/2/1958 **Location:** Ilha da Trindade **Description:** The Brazilian Navy, after an analysis of the January 16 Ilha da Trindade sighting and photos, offers an ambiguous conclusion: “the existence of personal testimonies and of a photographer, of some value given the circumstances involved permit the admission that there are indications of the existence of the UFO.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brazil Department of the Navy, “[Clarification of the Observation of Unidentified Flying Objects Sighted on the Island of](http://www.nicap.org/reports/barauna%5Fdocs.htm) [Trinidad, in the Period of 12/5/57 to 1/16/58,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/barauna%5Fdocs.htm)” March 2, 1958 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3163 ### Event 14827 (45E5D868) **Date:** 3/2/1958 **Description:** At 7:45 p.m. a man observed a balloon-shaped object land on the airfield in Tampa, Florida and then take off slowly and hover at 250 meters altitude before disappearing. It had a bright light source on it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 461 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1241 ### Event 14828 (604A1323) **Date:** 3/3/1958 **Location:** MARSHALL, TX **Description:** Family. 2 bright "planets" hover. Smaller night lights orbit them. / r78p181. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5874 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "MARSHALL,TX:FAMILY:2 BRITE "PLANETS" HVR:SMALLER NLTS ORBIT THEM:/r78p181", **LatLong:** "32.533335 -94.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:32:00 N 94:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.533335,-94.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14829 (495450CA) **Date:** 3/3/1958 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** NEAR PONTA PORA, BRZ **Description:** Saturn-saucer chases jeep. Headlights curve up! / APRO 5'59+/ r70p3-56. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5875 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "660", **HatchDesc:** "nr PONTA PORA,BRZ:SATURN-SCR CHASES JEEP:HLITES CURVE UP!:/APRO 5'59+/r70p3-56", **LatLong:** "-22.533334 -55.466669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:32:00 S 55:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.533334,-55.466669)", **State/Prov:** "MGS", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 14830 (B47CDC24) **Date:** 3/3/1958 **Location:** Marshall (near), TX **Description:** Family saw two bright, planet-like objects with 6 or 7 smaller lights moving around them. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2238 ### Event 14831 (167BE0D8) **Date:** 3/3/1958 **Description:** Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) responds to [Luehman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%5FH.%5FLuehman), falsely stating that the Air Force has done “considerable work” with the McClellan subcommittee. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 275–276 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3164 ### Event 14832 (031AC05A) **Date:** 3/7/1958 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** HASTINGS, NZ **Description:** Bright ellipse descends going east. Stops. Shoots going quickly south. "Two tails". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 718) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5876 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "HASTINGS,NZ:BRITE ELLIPSE DESCENDS > E:STOPS:SHOOTS >>S:"two tails"", **LatLong:** "-39.650002 176.833342", **LatLongDMS:** "39:39:00 S 176:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.650002,176.833342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14833 (90D7785C) **Date:** 3/8/1958 **Location:** Korea, Korea **Description:** Korea, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2239 ### Event 14834 (DA22FB60) **Date:** 3/8/1958 **Location:** Korea **Description:** A USAF radar site in Korea tracks a UFO slowly descending from 77,000 to 25,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 80](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=92&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3165 ### Event 14835 (4FC9A3BE) **Date:** 3/8/1958 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) appears on ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview and mentions the Estimate of the Situation, [Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)’s motion study, and the CIA Robertson Panel. [Wallace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FWallace) surprises him by saying Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Richard E. Horner](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=richard-e-horner&pid=88822680) told his producers that the Senate Committee “show no interest in any hearings.” This is news to Keyhoe. Wallace also quotes from the Robertson Panel summary that was just released. A few days later, Keyhoe receives two letters from the Senate Committee confirming that it “does not intend to investigate the United States Air Force.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Major Donald Keyhoe Interviewed by Mike Wallace \(1958\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9tgxqYCaI)” pfreal1 YouTube channel, August 25, 2012; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 9; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 189–190; Swords 272–273; “[Mike Wallace Interview](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol2No1.pdf) [of Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe: A Sequel to the Arnstrong Circle Theater,](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol2No1.pdf)” Journal of UFO History 2, no. 1 \(March/April 2005\): 8–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3166 ### Event 14836 (AE3A35A1) **Date:** 3/9/1958 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** TABOGA ISLAND AND PANAMA CANAL **Description:** Strong RADAR blips. Evasive maneuvers. No visual. / r142#2p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5877 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Panama", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "241", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "TABOGA ISL+PANAMA CANAL:STRONG RDR BLIPS:EVASIVE MNVRS:NO VISUAL:/r142#2p21", **LatLong:** "8.800000 -79.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "08:48:00 N 79:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.800000,-79.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Canal Zone", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14837 (A412E20F) **Date:** 3/9/1958 **Location:** Panama Canal Zone, Panama **Description:** Radar Lock Broken By UO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [580309](http://www.nicap.org/580309panamacanalzone%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2240 ### Event 14838 (ADD08C82) **Date:** 3/10/1958 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** PANAMA CANAL **Description:** More RADAR blips. Jets scramble. Objects shoot going up [to] when hit / searchlight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5878 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Panama", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "42", **HatchDesc:** "PANAMA CANAL:MORE RDR BLIPS:JETS SCRAMBLE:OBJS SHOOT↑ WHEN HIT/SEARCHLITE", **LatLong:** "9.266667 -79.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "09:16:00 N 79:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.266667,-79.916670)", **State/Prov:** "Canal Zone", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14839 (61AEB1ED) **Date:** 3/11/1958 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** JOSE IGNACIO, URUG **Description:** Buzz and UV light. 50M saucer outside. Hose sucks something / ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5879 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "JOSE IGNACIO,URUG:BUZZ+UV LITE:50M SCR OUTSIDE:HOSE SUCKS SOMETHING/GND", **LatLong:** "-34.650002 -55.233336", **LatLongDMS:** "34:39:00 S 55:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.650002,-55.233336)", **State/Prov:** "MLD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14840 (103416C2) **Date:** 3/11/1958 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** PANDO, URUGUAY **Description:** 2 / bus. 60M domed ovoid with colored lights. Slow maneuvers. Going quickly southwest. / Ciovni 1962. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5880 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "PANDO,URUGUAY:2/BUS:60M DOMED OVOID W/CLRD LITES:SLOW MNVRS:>>SW:/CIOVNI 1962", **LatLong:** "-34.733335 -55.966669", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:00 S 55:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.733335,-55.966669)", **State/Prov:** "CNL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14841 (F79188B8) **Date:** 3/13/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1.2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1086 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1.2" ### Event 14842 (E77C1CCF) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Time:** 08:50 **Location:** HEALDSBURG, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #5716. 2 observer(s). 1M saucer lands / backyard. More UFO's / separate observer(s). / r8#462. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 231) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5881 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "HEALDSBURG,CA:BBK#5716:2 OBS:1M SCR LANDS/BACKYARD:more ufos/sep.obs:/r8#462", **LatLong:** "38.600002 -122.866673", **LatLongDMS:** "38:36:00 N 122:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.600002,-122.866673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14843 (0D27D6E0) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Location:** Healdsburg, CA **Description:** 3ft round, black object come from the W (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5716) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2241 ### Event 14844 (D38A9AB0) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Time:** 0845 **Location:** Healdsburg, California **Description:** Two persons, in their backyard, saw a round object 1 m in diameter come from the west and land 15 m away. It took off toward the east, turned south, and was lost to sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_462 ### Event 14845 (618634B3) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Time:** 8:45 AM **Location:** Healdsburg, California **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Cummings and one other. A 3' round, black object touched the ground and then took off. Watched for 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_423 ### Event 14846 (91F5C8A7) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Uranus” YieldMax: .001KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_120 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Uranus", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeYMax:** ".001" ### Event 14847 (1B3441EE) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 35KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1087 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "35" ### Event 14848 (D54A0710) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 40KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1088 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "40" ### Event 14849 (0B1A031F) **Date:** 3/14/1958 **Description:** At 8:45 a.m. two residents of Healdsburg, California saw a round object one meter in diameter come from the west and land in their backyard, only 15 meters away. It took off toward the east, turned south, and was lost to sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 5716; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 270, case 462; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1478 ### Event 14850 (9DD3D800) **Date:** 3/15/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 14KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1089 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "14" ### Event 14851 (92DF727A) **Date:** 3/17/1958 **Location:** CATIA, VNZL **Description:** Banker / (seen thru) binoculars and 4. Round luminous/glowing cylinder/cylindrical object over Avila Mountain. Going southeast. 2nd cylinder/cylindrical object follows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5882 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "CATIA,VNZL:BANKER/BINOCS+4:RND LUMN CYL ovr AVILA Mtn:>SE:2nd CYL FOLOS", **LatLong:** "10.550001 -66.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:33:00 N 66:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.550001,-66.983337)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14852 (CC89591E) **Date:** 3/18/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .16KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1090 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** ".16" ### Event 14853 (6BEC4A1B) **Date:** 3/19/1958 (approximate) **Location:** PODMOSKOVNAYA, RS **Description:** Large saucer lands. Spirals up and away into forest. / r8#463+/ r106p314. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 239) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5883 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PODMOSKOVNAYA,RS:LRG SCR LANDS:SPIRALs UP+AWAY into FOREST:/r8#463+/r106p314", **LatLong:** "55.816669 37.516668", **LatLongDMS:** "55:49:00 N 37:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.816669,37.516668)", **State/Prov:** "MOS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14854 (0819DF2A) **Date:** 3/19/1958 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** TAUNTON, ENGL **Description:** Several / college. 2 sharp silver ovoids going quickly south fast. 1 returns going quickly north / 2150hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5884 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "TAUNTON,ENGL:SVRL/COLLEGE:2 SHARP SLVR OVOIDS >>S FAST:1 RETURNS >>N/2150hrs", **LatLong:** "51.050002 -3.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:03:00 N 03:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.050002,-3.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14855 (50860BA8) **Date:** 3/19/1958 **Location:** Moscow, USSR **Description:** Near Moscow, a large, disk-shaped object was seen on the ground. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost to sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_463 ### Event 14856 (D89AD910) **Date:** 3/19/1958 **Description:** A large, disc-shaped object was seen on the ground near Moscow, Russia. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 463 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1563 ### Event 14857 (49AECEED) **Date:** 3/20/1958 **Location:** HENRIETTA, MO **Description:** Saturn-like disc descends. Hovers. Moves away. / r78p181. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5885 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "214", **HatchDesc:** "HENRIETTA,MO:SATURN-LIKE DISC DESCENDS:HOVERS:MOVES AWAY:/r78p181", **LatLong:** "39.233335 -93.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:14:00 N 93:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.233335,-93.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14858 (BDE893E5) **Date:** 3/20/1958 **Location:** Henrietta, MO **Description:** Saturn-like disc descended hovered, moved away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2242 ### Event 14859 (3831DC6C) **Date:** 3/20/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 12KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1091 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "12" ### Event 14860 (56D42F31) **Date:** 3/21/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 650KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1092 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "650" ### Event 14861 (F53769F1) **Date:** 3/22/1958 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 18KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1093 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "18" ### Event 14862 (16AAD137) **Date:** 3/25/1958 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NEAR WOOMERA RANGE, SOUTH AUS **Description:** 4 observer(s). Disks / fast maneuvers. Shimmer and change color(s). Investigated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5886 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "nr WOOMERA RANGE,S.AUS:4 OBS:DISKS/FAST MNVRS:SHIMMER+CHANGE CLRS:investigated", **LatLong:** "-30.500001 131.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "30:30:00 S 131:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.500001,131.750006)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14863 (7FB43B0C) **Date:** Late 3/1958 **Description:** NICAP begins a new campaign to open another government UFO investigation. This time it approaches the Department of Justice, the National Security Council, the CIA, and the US Army. It receives rebuffs and denials. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 191 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3167 ### Event 14864 (99485295) **Date:** 3/25/1958 **Description:** Two disc-shaped objects made fast maneuvers over the Woomera Missile Test Range at 10 p.m. in the desert of South Australia. They shimmered and changed colors as they flew. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 50; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 53 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1649 ### Event 14865 (864BB115) **Date:** 3/31/1958 **Location:** Walnut Ridge, AR **Description:** Uncorrelated Target Doing 1300 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [580331](http://www.nicap.org/580331walnutridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2243 ### Event 14866 (9607C7A2) **Date:** 4/1958 **Location:** New York City, New York **Description:** All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in respective countries **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_161 ### Event 14867 (3716131A) **Date:** 4/1958 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** MACEIO, BRZ **Description:** 20M saucer / portholes hovers / waves. Going up and down [to] and disturbs water. / MJ#240+/ FSRv10#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 464) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5887 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MACEIO,BRZ:20M SCR/PORTHOLES HVRS/WAVES:↑+↓+DISTURBS WATER:/MJ#240+/FSRv10#6", **LatLong:** "-9.666667 -35.716668", **LatLongDMS:** "09:40:00 S 35:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.666667,-35.716668)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "ALG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14868 (BE8EE8DE) **Date:** 4/1958 **Time:** 0600 **Location:** Maceio, Brazil **Description:** Near Paripueira, jeweler Wilson Lustosa and numerous fishermen saw an object hovering 15 m above the sea, 40 m away. It was lens-shaped, about 12 m thick, and showed portholes with a glowing red light. Below the object the water seemed to be "boiling" or attracted upward, while a soft, whirring sound was heard. For one hour the object kept going up and down. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** SBEDV ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_464 ### Event 14869 (48FE307D) **Date:** 4/1958 **Location:** Pretoria, South Africa **Description:** Edgar Sievers begins publishing a pro-Adamski newsletter titled Approach in Pretoria, South Africa. It folds in March 1960. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Approach](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/South%20Africa/Approach%20%28Edgar%20Sievers%29/Approach%20-%20Vol%201%20No%2001%20-%201958%2004.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(April 1958\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3168 ### Event 14870 (BC0C9132) **Date:** 4/1958 **Location:** Brazilian coast between Maceió and Paripueira, Alagoas, Brazil **Description:** 6:00 a.m. At some place along the Brazilian coast between Maceió and Paripueira, Alagoas, Brazil, Wilson Lustosa stops to ask some fishermen what they are looking at. He hears a humming sound and sees a disc-shaped object hovering about 50 feet above the ocean and 120 feet away. It has a small lighted dome on top and a band of square portholes around its midsection through which a red light is shining. Under the UFO the water seems disturbed. The object is visible for an hour. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gordon W. Creighton, “[A Brazilian Sighting,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2010%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1964\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3169 ### Event 14871 (59BAB5C2) **Date:** 4/1/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** AALBORG AIR FORCE BASE, DK **Description:** 2 airmen / ground. Small delta/triangle/box-like craft falls / Hunter jet. Splits. Parts rise and going NNE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SUFOI UFO NEWS. Annual. Articles translated from UFO - Nyt. Skandavinsk UFO Information; Postbox 6, DK-2820 Gentoffte, DENMARK. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5888 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AALBORG AFB,DK:2 AIRMEN/GND:SML DLT FALLS/HUNTER JET:SPLITS:PARTS RISE+>NNE", **LatLong:** "57.066669 9.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "57:04:00 N 09:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.066669,9.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14872 (638AEAF1) **Date:** 4/2/1958 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Cigar shape maneuvers / river. Long row / portholes. Going west. / r78p181+/ r242p147. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5889 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:NMRS OBS:CIG MNVRS/RIVER:LONG ROW/PORTHOLES:>W::/r78p181+/r242p147", **LatLong:** "39.933335 -83.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:00 N 83:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.933335,-83.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14873 (1269DACE) **Date:** 4/2/1958 **Location:** Columbus, OH **Description:** Cigar-shaped UFO with long row of "portholes or windows." \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2244 ### Event 14874 (C0037365) **Date:** Early 4/1958 **Locations:** Walnut housing area; Ellwood City, Pennsylvania **Description:** Night. A 2-foot red blinking light frightens children over the Walnut housing area in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Police officers Joseph Scala and Emanuel Mavero investigate and watch the bright disc for 10 minutes. Their police radio malfunctions. They try to get closer, but it disappears when they get to the top of a hill. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** C. W. Fitch, “[Monitoring and Scanning Discs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1964, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3170 ### Event 14875 (7344E903) **Date:** 4/2/1958 **Description:** On the evening of this day in 1958 a cigar-shaped UFO maneuvered along the course of the Ohio River. It had a long row of portholes along its side, and flew downriver. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 137 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1798 ### Event 14876 (58C770F1) **Date:** 4/3/1958 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** ELLWOOD CITY, PA **Description:** Cops. 2' red saucer blinks and going up and down [to] and maneuvers. Police radio malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). / r79p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 255) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5890 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "273", **HatchDesc:** "ELLWOOD CITY,PA:COPS:2' RED SCR BLINKS+↑+↓+MNVRS:POLICE RADIO EMEs:/r79p7", **LatLong:** "40.861113 -80.288893", **LatLongDMS:** "40:51:40 N 80:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.861113,-80.288893)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14877 (5567EF52) **Date:** 4/4/1958 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** SANTA MONICA, CA **Description:** Boy / 9 / (seen thru) telescope. Cylinder/cigar-shape with long row / windows. Quickly going up [to] fast. / r78p181+/ r242p147. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5891 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA MONICA,CA:BOY/9/TSCOPE:CGR W/LONG ROW/WINDOWS:↑↑ FAST:/r78p181+/r242p147", **LatLong:** "34.016668 -118.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:01:00 N 118:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.016668,-118.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14878 (309B1B96) **Date:** 4/4/1958 **Location:** Santa Monica, CA **Description:** Cigar-shaped UFO with "windows" observed in rapid vertical climb. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2245 ### Event 14879 (38ED0FEA) **Date:** 4/7/1958 **Location:** Newport Beach, CA **Description:** Police watched two UFOs with flashing body lights, maneuver near coastline. \[UFOE, VII\] Similar sightings for two nights in El Toro and Santa Ana. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2246 ### Event 14880 (0A111F11) **Date:** 4/7/1958 **Location:** Dayton (airport), OH **Description:** Pilot saw a very dark blue 6-8 ft cloud-shaped object on a SW heading (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2247 ### Event 14881 (B96BFAD9) **Date:** 4/9/1958 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** KETA, GHANA **Description:** Many observer(s). Animals act up. Night light rises / sea. Back 10 April. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v4#5+v16#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 79) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5892 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Liberia", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "KETA,GHANA:MANY OBS:ANIMALS ACT UP:NLT RISES/SEA:BACK 10APR:/FSR v4#5+v16#5", **LatLong:** "6.000000 1.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "06:00:00 N 01:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/6.000000,1.000000)", **State/Prov:** "GHN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14882 (A3168076) **Date:** 4/9/1958 **Time:** 19:20? **Location:** NEAR CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** Several observer(s). Row / 9 yellow saucers splits / 2 groups 4+5. No further details. / r242p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5893 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "nr CLEVELAND,OH:SVRL OBS:ROW/9 YLW.SCRS SPLITS/2 GROUPS 4+5:NFD:/r242p15", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -81.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 81:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-81.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14883 (18C01B53) **Date:** 4/9/1958 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEWPORT BEACH, CA **Description:** Cops and more/others. 2 delta/triangle/box-like crafts / sharp silent turns low / sea. Going northeast. / r242p64+/ APRO 5'58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 268) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5894 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NEWPORT BEACH,CA:COPS++:2 DLTs/SHARP SLNT TURNS LO/SEA:>NE:/r242p64+/APRO 5'58", **LatLong:** "33.616668 -117.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:37:00 N 117:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.616668,-117.866672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14884 (FA59909F) **Date:** 4/9/1958 **Location:** Cleveland, OH **Description:** Nine yellow UFOs in V-formation; split into two groups (5 and 4). \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2248 ### Event 14885 (2F88BDA4) **Date:** 4/9/1958 **Location:** Cleveland, Ohio **Description:** A family in Cleveland, Ohio, sees a flight of nine UFOs that suddenly separates into two groups of four and five objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 15](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=27&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3171 ### Event 14886 (DAAA0EBE) **Date:** 4/9/1958 **Locations:** St. Vincent Street; Nelson, New Zealand; Tasman Bay; Matipo Terrace **Description:** 7:15 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. B. Mills are driving on St. Vincent Street in Nelson, New Zealand, when they see a bright-red triangular object with white lights around its perimeter. It is descending from the northeast at a 45° angle and moving across Tasman Bay. They see the object again, somewhat dimmer, around 8:00 p.m. from a friend’s house on Matipo Terrace. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Triangular Object over New Zealand,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3172 ### Event 14887 (2CEBCDBA) **Date:** 4/9/1958 **Description:** On this date in 1958 the CIA Robertson Panel report was released. At 3:30 a.m. a UFO was seen over Keta, Ghana swinging in a falling leaf motion. That same night a row of nine yellow discs flew over Cleveland, Ohio and split up into two groups of four and five. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald H. Menzel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 143; FSR, September-October 1970, p. 28; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 137 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1922 ### Event 14888 (BBDA8338) **Date:** 4/10/1958 **Location:** SKYRDSTRUP FIELD, DK **Description:** Formation / saucers leaves Danish Air Force jet behind. / r46p204. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 269) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5895 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SKYRDSTRUP FIELD,DK:FORMn/SCRs LEAVES DANISH AF JET BEHIND:/r46p204", **LatLong:** "55.205558 9.244445", **LatLongDMS:** "55:12:20 N 09:14:40 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.205558,9.244445)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14889 (BD280E2C) **Date:** 4/10/1958 **Locations:** Denmark; Vojens; Skrydstrup Airport **Description:** A Danish fighter pilot reports seeing a formation of UFOs. They are also tracked on radar at Skrydstrup Airport in Vojens, Denmark. The pilot attempts to overtake them, but they accelerate and disappear. The commander of Fighter Wing Skrydstrup appeals to the public to report any UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf), The Author, 1998, p. 69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3173 ### Event 14890 (1455EA41) **Date:** 4/11/1958 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** JOHANNESBURG, RSA **Description:** Airport Tech and more/others. Red-white UFO arcs east and west. Extreme speeds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 124) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5896 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "JOHANNESBURG,RSA:AIRPORT TECH++:RED-WHT UFO ARCS EAST+WEST:EXTREME SPEEDS", **LatLong:** "-26.150001 27.883335", **LatLongDMS:** "26:09:00 S 27:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.150001,27.883335)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14891 (FF025BB9) **Date:** 4/11/1958 **Location:** Johannesburg, S. Africa **Description:** Airport instrument inspector, others watched reddish-white UFO arc back and forth. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2249 ### Event 14892 (0862B5FD) **Date:** 4/12/1958 **Location:** SICHEVITA, ROMANIA **Description:** 1.5M fish-cigar goes south going quickly northeast / 10 minute(s). Tail of flames. Odd. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5897 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SICHEVITA,ROMANIA:1.5M FISH-CIGAR GOES S>>NE/10min:TAIL OF FLAMES:ODD", **LatLong:** "44.700002 21.866668", **LatLongDMS:** "44:42:00 N 21:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.700002,21.866668)", **State/Prov:** "CRS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14893 (26CE3F7F) **Date:** 4/12/1958 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** TABLADITAS, ARG **Description:** University Professor and 1. 30M luminous object going down / ground level. Halo. Turns going east. / r156#17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 270) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5898 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3680", **HatchDesc:** "TABLADITAS,ARG:UNIVERSITY PROF+1:30M LUM OBJ↓/GND LEVEL:HALO:TURNS>E:/r156#17", **LatLong:** "-22.733334 -65.594448", **LatLongDMS:** "22:44:00 S 65:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.733334,-65.594448)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Juhuy", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14894 (A5E77874) **Date:** 4/12/1958 **Description:** On this night university professor Dr. Garron and his wife were in Tabladitas, Jujuy Province, Argentina when they watched a 30 meter luminous object descend to ground level. It had a halo; it turned and flew off to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 70 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1968 ### Event 14895 (90E8596F) **Date:** 4/13/1958 **Location:** Allentown, Pennsylvania **Description:** 9:40 p.m. Lester Billheimer and Carl Kern watch an object shaped like a “solid right angle” glowing like a white neon light over Allentown, Pennsylvania. It travels northwest at first, then turns west and disappears after three seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3174 ### Event 14896 (1107939F) **Date:** 4/14/1958 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** LYNCHBURG, VA **Description:** C47 pilot. Large dark-grey rectangular object rotates / horizontal axis. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5899 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "249", **HatchDesc:** "LYNCHBURG,VA:C47 PILOT:LRG DARK-GREY RECTANGULAR OBJ ROTATES/HORIZONTAL AXIS", **LatLong:** "37.400002 -79.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "37:24:00 N 79:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.400002,-79.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14897 (C6B29F6F) **Date:** 4/14/1958 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** USAF man. ~30 gold night lights / V formation. More night lights orbit. / r242p22+/ r28p436. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 271) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5900 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1485", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQQ,NM:USAF MAN:~30 GOLD NLTs/VFORM:MORE NLTS ORBIT:/r242p22+/r28p436", **LatLong:** "35.050002 -106.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:00 N 106:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.050002,-106.650005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14898 (3CB24300) **Date:** 4/14/1958 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** Air Force Staff Sergeant saw large formation of unidentified lights. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2250 ### Event 14899 (10E1BB55) **Date:** 4/14/1958 **Location:** Lynchberg, VA **Description:** Grey Black Rectangle Encountered By C-47 (CIRVIS) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2, BB: 5763) **Reference:** NICAP: [580414](http://www.nicap.org/580414lynchburg%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2251 ### Event 14900 (79E2BE7D) **Date:** 4/14/1958 **Time:** 1 PM **Location:** Lynchburg, Virginia **Description:** Witness: USAF Maj. D.G. Tilley, flying C-47 transport. One grey-black rectangular object rotated very slowly on its horizontal axis for 4 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_424 ### Event 14901 (8775E882) **Date:** 4/15/1958 **Location:** BROAGER, DK **Description:** 20+observer(s). Big black delta/triangle/box-like craft / low altitude. Brilliant horseshoe objects exit. Local wave / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5901 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BROAGER,DK:20+OBS:BIG BLK DLT/LO ALT:BRILL.HORSESHOE OBJS EXIT:LOCAL WAVE/BBK", **LatLong:** "54.883336 9.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "54:53:00 N 09:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.883336,9.683334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14902 (E621BD16) **Date:** 4/15/1958 **Location:** Tabladitas, Argentina **Description:** Approximate date. In the mountains, about 14 km from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 m in diameter came to ground level. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_465 ### Event 14903 (6C99ED47) **Date:** 4/15/1958 **Location:** Broager, Denmark **Description:** Day. A witness in Broager, Denmark, sees a large, black, low-flying, triangular object. As it flies over town, a number of horseshoe-shaped objects emerge, emitting a strong light. Twenty other witnesses see a triangular “spaceship” at the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 77 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3175 ### Event 14904 (9A0C48D2) **Date:** 4/15/1958 **Description:** On or about this date in the mountains near Tabladitas, Argentina about 14 kilometers from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 meters in diameter came down to ground level. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 465 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2020 ### Event 14905 (682F5B21) **Date:** 4/15/1958 **Description:** A cigar shaped object with smaller satellite objects was sighted at 12:30 a.m. over Broager, Denmark. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UFO Nachtrichten, June 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 78 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2021 ### Event 14906 (0459CA44) **Date:** 4/16/1958 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** LINCOLN, NE **Description:** 1 large and 9 small objects / rigid formation. Very erratic path going quickly west. / r242p156. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5902 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "345", **HatchDesc:** "LINCOLN,NE:1 LRG+9 SML OBJS/RIGID FORMn:VERY ERRATIC PATH >>W:/r242p156", **LatLong:** "40.816669 -96.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:49:00 N 96:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.816669,-96.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14907 (2F01464A) **Date:** 4/16/1958 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** INGERSOLL, ON **Description:** Several / farm. Several large silver delta/triangle/box-like crafts going south. 1 lands / field. Quickly going up [to] fast. Jerky trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5903 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "289", **HatchDesc:** "INGERSOLL,ON:SVRL/FARM:SVRL LRG SLVR DLTS >S:1 LANDS/FLD:↑↑ FAST:JERKY TRAJ", **LatLong:** "43.033335 -80.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:02:00 N 80:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.033335,-80.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14908 (A09D137D) **Date:** 4/17/1958 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NEAR TUPANCIRETA, BRZ **Description:** 3 saucers hover and maneuver all night. Trade light signals. / r246p77. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 466) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5904 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "244", **Elev:** "484", **HatchDesc:** "nr TUPANCIRETA,BRZ:3 SCRS HVR+MNVR ALL NITE:TRADE LITE SIGNALS:/r246p77", **LatLong:** "-29.083335 -53.850003", **LatLongDMS:** "29:05:00 S 53:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.083335,-53.850003)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14909 (70FEF7DE) **Date:** 4/17/1958 **Time:** 1925 **Location:** Abaatu, Brazil **Description:** All night long, three hovering disks were seen by several witnesses in this area. A railroad employee, Mr. Cavalheiro, and the station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police, and all saw the objects coming to ground level about 1 km away. At times they appeared to exchange signals. One of the disks flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** LDLN ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_466 ### Event 14910 (B21D3554) **Date:** 4/17/1958 **Description:** Three hovering discs were observed all night long in Boa del Tigre, Argentina by several witnesses in the area. Mr. Cavalheiro, a railroad employee, and his station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police and all saw the UFOs come to ground level about one kilometer away. At times the discs appeared to exchange signals. One of the them flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 466 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2079 ### Event 14911 (20E9B667) **Date:** 4/19/1958 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** NORTH / GRANTS, NM **Description:** White saucer aims colored beams all over/all about mine. Going up. Going quickly east. Flash / each maneuver. / APRO 5'58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5905 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "2200", **HatchDesc:** "N/GRANTS,NM:WHT SCR AIMS CLRD BEAMS ALLO MINE:↑:>>E:FLASH/EACH MNVR:/APRO 5'58", **LatLong:** "35.500002 -107.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 107:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,-107.833338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14912 (814528C6) **Date:** 4/20/1958 **Location:** SERNANCELHE, PORTUGAL **Description:** Elongated metallic object going [to] over village. / Diario de Coimbra. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 59) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5906 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "SERNANCELHE,PORTUGAL:ELONGATED METALLIC OBJ >OVR VILLAGE:/DIARIO de COIMBRA", **LatLong:** "40.905558 -7.477778", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:20 N 07:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.905558,-7.477778)", **State/Prov:** "BRA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14913 (5C27809D) **Date:** 4/22/1958 **Time:** ~02:00 **Location:** ABROSIA LAKE, NM **Description:** Guards / uranium mine. Blinding light hovers and maneuvers / hours. Shoots up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 718) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5907 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "2130", **HatchDesc:** "ABROSIA LAKE,NM:GUARDS/URANIUM MINE:BLINDING LITE HVRS+MNVRS/HOURS:SHOOTS UP", **LatLong:** "35.433335 -107.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:26:00 N 107:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.433335,-107.833338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14914 (DD49B8DB) **Date:** 4/25/1958 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** MISIDENTIFIED (CONVENTIONAL PHENOMENA)-ATLANTIC 54° 30W-38° 00N **Description:** Steamship Cocle. UFO type unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5908 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MID-ATLANTIC 54°30W-38°00N:SS COCLE:UFO TYPE UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.000002 -54.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 54:30:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,-54.500003)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 14915 (9F57F9B3) **Date:** 4/25/1958 **Locations:** Denmark; US **Description:** The officer for UFO investigation in Denmark, Lt. Col. [Hans-Christian Petersen](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/p/1237-petersen-hans-christian-1923), tells the magazine B-T that multiple-witness sightings are commonplace and that the current Danish wave is comparable to that of the US 1952 wave. “Nothing is gained by rejecting all the accounts as fantasy,” he tells reporters. Petersen has founded the Skandinavisk UFO Information group in December with five other Danish military jet pilots. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 97–99 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3176 ### Event 14916 (83FF00A1) **Date:** 4/26/1958 **Description:** At 9:05 p.m. a red hot coal-like object streaked across the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It made a hissing noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2332 ### Event 14917 (1F6C35C7) **Date:** 4/28/1958 **Time:** 02:40:00.3 **Location:** 12.6167 168.0250 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Yucca” Yield: 1.7KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_121 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "12.6167 168.0250", **LatLongDMS:** "12:37:00 N 168:01:30 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/12.6167,168.0250)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-26.21", **NukeName:** "Yucca", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1.7" ### Event 14918 (1B6E4E7A) **Date:** 4/28/1958 **Time:** 19:05:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” Yield: 3000KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1763 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "3000" ### Event 14919 (D6241118) **Date:** 4/30/1958 **Time:** ~19:30 **Location:** EL PADUL, SP **Description:** Shepherd. 10M saucer lands. Flies going quickly [to] east-northeast toward(s) Baza. Leaves yellow trail / sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5909 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "EL PADUL,SP:SHEPHERD:10M SCR LANDS:FLIES >>ENE TWRD BAZA:LEAVES YLW TRAIL/SKY", **LatLong:** "37.033335 -3.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:00 N 03:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.033335,-3.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Grenada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14920 (26819F80) **Date:** 4/30/1958 **Description:** A craft 10 meters in diameter came to rest on a hillside in El Padul, Spain at dusk. It was sighted by two witnesses named Leyva and Sanchez. A short time later the UFO flew away towards Baza, leaving a yellow trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, July 1971, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2421 ### Event 14921 (9F1D0524) **Date:** 5/1958 **Location:** Maelstrom AFB, Montana **Description:** Maelstrom AFB, Montana: Just after midnight an UFO approached the alert hanger where one guard was standing on duty. At about 1000 ft. altitude. The UFO appeared as a round metallic looking object (called a “Flying Saucer” by the guard). The base radar and FAA radar picked up the UFO as it was apparently hovering over the alert hanger and the atomic bomb storage nearby. The saucer then moved slowly down the length of runway and then proceeded across town to the Muni Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard parking ramp for the F-89’s and then flew off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_585 ### Event 14922 (DCD746EB) **Date:** 5/1958 **Location:** RICHMOND, VA **Description:** NICAP. "Car engine runs roughly. Driver sees UFO following". No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5910 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND,VA:NICAP:"CAR ENGINE RUNS ROUGHLY:DRIVER SEES UFO FOLLOWING":NFD", **LatLong:** "37.566668 -77.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:34:00 N 77:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.566668,-77.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14923 (4B599F32) **Date:** 5/1958 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** FONTANA, CA **Description:** 2 150' silver saucers stop 1K' over steelyard. Tilt and flip and away. / r142#7p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5911 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "376", **HatchDesc:** "FONTANA,CA:2 150'SLVR SCRS STOP 1K'OVR STEELYARD:TILT+FLIP+away:/r142#7p26", **LatLong:** "34.100002 -117.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:06:00 N 117:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.100002,-117.433339)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14924 (3F64B9D6) **Date:** 5/1958 **Location:** Richmond (near), VA **Description:** Engine of car began running roughly, driver then noticed UFO following car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2252 ### Event 14925 (84682E33) **Date:** 5/2/1958 **Location:** Bogota, Colombia **Description:** Eight people working in a wood saw a green creature with scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers nearly touched the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Dischi Volanti, by L. Bulgarini ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_467 ### Event 14926 (459A5A7C) **Date:** 5/2/1958 **Description:** Eight people working in a forest near Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia saw a green creature with scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers nearly touched the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 467, citing L. Bulgarini; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0460 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2453 ### Event 14927 (E6E4F67F) **Date:** 5/3/1958 **Location:** Flagstaff, AZ **Description:** Elongated Object Seen & Tracked By F3D Aircraft (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580503](http://www.nicap.org/580503flagstaff%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2253 ### Event 14928 (92631668) **Date:** 5/4/1958 **Description:** [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) confirms, in a statement to NICAP, the existence of the Estimate of the Situation and his own motion study from 1952. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 110](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=122&skin=2021); Swords 509 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3177 ### Event 14929 (1458C618) **Date:** 5/5/1958 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** PAN DE AZUCAR, URG **Description:** 18m cone buzzes light plane. Great heat. Going south / sea extremely fast. / MJ#241. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5912 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "79", **HatchDesc:** "PAN de AZUCAR,URG:18m CONE BUZZES LITE PLANE:GREAT HEAT:>S/SEA XFAST:/MJ#241", **LatLong:** "-34.800002 -55.233336", **LatLongDMS:** "34:48:00 S 55:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.800002,-55.233336)", **State/Prov:** "MLD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14930 (AE715106) **Date:** 5/5/1958 **Location:** Pan De Azucar, Uruguay **Description:** Aerial encounter, heat, between Piper Cub and "top-shaped" object (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [580505](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/580505dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2254 ### Event 14931 (41C2AC73) **Date:** 5/5/1958 **Location:** Pan De Azucar, Uruguay **Description:** Top-Like Object Heats Up Piper Cub (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [580505](http://www.nicap.org/580505uruguay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2255 ### Event 14932 (37516F93) **Date:** 5/5/1958 **Time:** 18:15:00.1 **Location:** 11.5564 162.3542 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Cactus” Yield: 18KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_122 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5564 162.3542", **LatLongDMS:** "11:33:23 N 162:21:15 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5564,162.3542)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Cactus", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "18" ### Event 14933 (CB62BF22) **Date:** 5/5/1958 **Locations:** Capitán de Corbeta Naval Air Base; Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport; San Carlos, Uruguay **Description:** 3:40 p.m. Experienced pilot [Carlos Alejo Rodriguez](https://desdevergaraylaregion.blogspot.com/2016/11/alejo-rodriguez-y-su-perrito-piper.html) is flying his Piper Cub in the vicinity of Capitán de Corbeta Naval Air Base \[now part of Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport\] near San Carlos, Uruguay, when a brilliant top-like object \(symmetrical above and below\) suddenly approaches his plane head-on. The UFO is about 45–60 feet in diameter, stops about 6,500 feet away and “rocked twice, in a balancing motion.” Rodriguez feels strong heat, so he removes his jacket and opens the aircraft windows. The UFO takes off abruptly toward the sea “at a fantastic speed,” leaving a thin vapor trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Top-Like Object Heats Up Piper Cub](http://www.nicap.org/580505uruguay%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 120](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=132&skin=2021); Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3178 ### Event 14934 (DB7B807F) **Date:** 5/5/1958 **Description:** On this day at 3:40 p.m. a brilliant top-shaped UFO (that was symmetrical above and below the middle), suddenly approached an aircraft being flown by 40-year-old Carlos Alejo Rodriguez near the airfield in Pan de Azucar near the city of San Carlos, Maldonado province, Uruguay. The object, estimated to be three times the size of the Piper aircraft, or 15-20 meters in diameter, passed within 500 meters, and the pilot felt a wave of heat. The UFO stopped and hovered for three seconds, rocked twice in a balancing motion, then shot away toward the sea leaving a vapor trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 246; UNICAT, case #477, citing Thomas M Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-57 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2538 ### Event 14935 (4D29A81F) **Date:** 5/6/1958 **Location:** St. Petersburg, Florida **Description:** In a letter to NICAP member George Stocking of St. Petersburg, Florida, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says he is “now convinced that the reports of UFO’s are nothing more than reports of balloons, aircraft, astronomical phenomena, etc. I don’t believe they are anything from outer space.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) [History: 1958 May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3179 ### Event 14936 (BE21E83B) **Date:** 5/7/1958 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s friend [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) has received from a military friend of Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) news that Twining is still concerned about UFOs. Keyhoe writes to him and receives a note from Twining’s executive officer, Col. [James C. Sherrill](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105639/lieutenant-general-james-c-sherrill/): “No effective means have been developed for the establishment of communication by radio or otherwise with unknown aerial objects. The technical obstacles involved in such an endeavor, I am sure, are quite obvious to you.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 198–199 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3180 ### Event 14937 (335E37D5) **Date:** 5/8/1958 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** US19 / TARPON SPRINGS, FL **Description:** 2 / car. Fireball near sun. 1600 reading / photographer light meter. Sun = 300. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 769) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5913 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "US19/TARPON SPRINGS,FL:2/CAR:FBL nr SUN:1600 reading/FOTOG.LITE METER:SUN=300 ", **LatLong:** "28.144446 -82.755560", **LatLongDMS:** "28:08:40 N 82:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.144446,-82.755560)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14938 (311A6F01) **Date:** 5/8/1958 **Locations:** US; Ohio **Description:** US Rep. [John E. Henderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FHenderson) \(R-Ohio\) writes to Secretary of Defense [Neil H. McElroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%5FH.%5FMcElroy) asking about the status of UFO reports and the USAF investigation. ATIC decides to give Henderson a formal briefing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 5–8, 42; Swords 276 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3181 ### Event 14939 (6D408AD5) **Date:** 5/9/1958 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** BOHOL ISLAND, PHL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #5800. Airline pilot. Shiny metallic object falls and spins / 90 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5914 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Philippines", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOHOL ISLAND,PHL:BBK#5800:AIRLINE PILOT:SHINY MTLC OBJ FALLS+SPINS/90sec", **LatLong:** "9.850000 124.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "09:51:00 N 124:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.850000,124.200006)", **State/Prov:** "BOH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14940 (2C55F43B) **Date:** 5/9/1958 **Location:** Bohol Island, Philippines **Description:** Pilot saw object w/shiny metallic surface, falling and spinning (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 5800) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2256 ### Event 14941 (F725542B) **Date:** 5/9/1958 **Time:** 11:05 AM **Location:** Bohol Island, Phillipine Islands **Description:** Witness: Phillipine Airlines pilot. One object with a shiny, metallic surface was falling and spinning for 1.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_425 ### Event 14942 (6FB7A9DF) **Date:** 5/9/1958 **Description:** At 1:05 p.m. an airline pilot for Philippines Airline saw a bright, shiny metallic object fall and spin through the sky for 90 seconds while flying over Bohol Island, The Philippines. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5800; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2679 ### Event 14943 (92C1E565) **Date:** 5/11/1958 **Time:** 17:50:00.1 **Location:** 11.6908 165.2736 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Fir” Yield: 1360KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_123 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6908 165.2736", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:27 N 165:16:25 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6908,165.2736)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Fir", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1360" ### Event 14944 (389354B1) **Date:** 5/11/1958 **Time:** 18:15:00.1 **Location:** 11.5411 162.3506 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Butternut” Yield: 81KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_124 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5411 162.3506", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:28 N 162:21:02 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5411,162.3506)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Butternut", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "81" ### Event 14945 (D0270C65) **Date:** 5/12/1958 **Time:** 18:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6750 162.2056 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Koa” Yield: 1370KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_125 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6750 162.2056", **LatLongDMS:** "11:40:30 N 162:12:20 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6750,162.2056)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Koa", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1370" ### Event 14946 (2AA73302) **Date:** 5/13/1958 **Locations:** RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta; Victoria, British Columbia; Calgary, Alberta **Description:** 12:15 p.m. A Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota DC-3 is flying to RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta, from Victoria, British Columbia. When it changes its heading about 25 miles southwest of Calgary, Alberta, a large, thick, black cloud suddenly appears directly across their flight path at the same altitude. Their VHF communications with Cold Lake and Calgary suddenly cease working. The cloud has indistinct, hazy edges, and it increases in size as they approach at about 155 mph. The pilot unsuccessfully tries to radio Calgary to request a flight path change to avoid the cloud, which is now about 10 miles away. Suddenly he sees a brilliant white pinpoint of light materialize in the dark mass. It grows in size, forming a brilliant ball that quickly approaches the aircraft on a collision course. He braces himself, but the light disappears, and the black cloud vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Don Ledger, “Two Spherical UAP Cases Witnessed by Pilots in Canadian Airspace,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 7–9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3182 ### Event 14947 (BAF808E7) **Date:** 5/15/1958 **Location:** Caracas, Venezuela **Description:** Formation of Circular Saucers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580515](http://www.nicap.org/580515caracus%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2257 ### Event 14948 (B78BDD85) **Date:** 5/15/1958 **Location:** Malmstrom AFB, MT **Description:** Object Flies Low Over Base, Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [580515](http://www.nicap.org/580515malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2258 ### Event 14949 (40B2A130) **Date:** 5/15/1958 **Location:** Fort Bragg, NC **Description:** Airline pilots saw an orange round object heading N at high speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2259 ### Event 14950 (CF039F62) **Date:** 5/15/1958 **Locations:** Baikonur Cosmodrome; Kazakhstan **Description:** The Soviets launch Sputnik 3 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Sputnik 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F3)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3183 ### Event 14951 (7792AE4D) **Date:** 5/15/1958 **Locations:** Lackland AFB; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Lackland AFB’s chief of education planning for the officer candidate school, Maj. Warren Akin, suggests, at a meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio, Texas, that UFOs are spacecraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Visitors from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94523637/) [Outer Space Already May Have Visited Us, Major Says](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94523637/),” San Antonio \(Tex.\) Express, May 16, 1958, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3184 ### Event 14952 (513A8662) **Date:** 5/16/1958 **Time:** 01:30:00.5 **Location:** 11.3447 162.1789 **Description:** Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Wahoo” Yield: 9KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_126 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.3447 162.1789", **LatLongDMS:** "11:20:41 N 162:10:44 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.3447,162.1789)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Wahoo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NWCU", **NukeY:** "9" ### Event 14953 (64F72075) **Date:** 5/16/1958 **Location:** Edwards AFB, California **Description:** USAF Capt. [Walter W. Irwin](https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/walter-w-irwin/) reaches 1,404 mph in a Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter at Edwards AFB, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-104%5FStarfighter)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3185 ### Event 14954 (9E92B714) **Date:** 5/17/1958 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** HAYWARD, CA **Description:** 8+observer(s). Fireballs tumble going quickly northwest. 1 in rear glides and accelerates and passes others! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5915 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "HAYWARD,CA:8+OBS:FBLs TUMBLE >>NW:1 in rear GLIDES+ACCELERATES+PASSES OTHERS!", **LatLong:** "37.650002 -122.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:39:00 N 122:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.650002,-122.066672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14955 (054C96BC) **Date:** 5/17/1958 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NORTHWEST / FT. LAUDERDALE, FL **Description:** 2 / boat. Orange fireball flares up and flees when hit / spotlight. / r242p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5916 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "NW/Ft.LAUDERDALE,FL:2/BOAT:ORG FBL FLARES UP+FLEES when HIT/SPOTLITE:/r242p12", **LatLong:** "26.366668 -80.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "26:22:00 N 80:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.366668,-80.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14956 (9FB8430F) **Date:** 5/17/1958 **Location:** Ft. Lauderdale, FL **Description:** UFO sped away when light was shone at it. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2260 ### Event 14957 (3769FC3B) **Date:** 5/17/1958 **Description:** At 11:45 p.m. two men in a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida watched as an orange fireball flared up and sped away when a spotlight was shone at it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 12, 121; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2922 ### Event 14958 (1ED606BC) **Date:** 5/18/1958 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** BULAWAYO, RHOD **Description:** 5 observer(s). 5' x2'RECTANGLE hovers / house. Going quickly south when hit with light. / MJ#124. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HIND, Cynthia: UFO'S, AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS; Gemini Books, Salisbury, Zimbabwe 1982. 236pp (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5917 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Zimbabwe & Zambia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "BULAWAYO,RHOD:5 OBS:5'x2'RECTANGLE HVRS/HOUSE:>>S WHEN HIT W/LIGHT:/MJ#124", **LatLong:** "-20.216668 28.700001", **LatLongDMS:** "20:13:00 S 28:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.216668,28.700001)", **State/Prov:** "BLW", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14959 (5B70C5C4) **Date:** 5/20/1958 **Time:** 18:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.5439 162.3561 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Holly” Yield: 5.9KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_127 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5439 162.3561", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:38 N 162:21:22 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5439,162.3561)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Holly", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "5.9" ### Event 14960 (2468C207) **Date:** 5/21/1958 **Time:** 21:20:00.2 **Location:** 11.4961 165.3708 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Nutmeg” Yield: 25.1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_128 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.4961 165.3708", **LatLongDMS:** "11:29:46 N 165:22:15 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.4961,165.3708)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Nutmeg", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "25.1" ### Event 14961 (8FB55D18) **Date:** 5/23/1958 **Location:** medium earth orbit **Description:** Explorer 1 loses contact **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_584 ### Event 14962 (67577392) **Date:** 5/25/1958 **Location:** KIRCHBURG, HUNSRUCK, GERM **Description:** Businessman and 1. Silver disk with antennas maneuvers into clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5918 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KIRCHBURG,HUNSRUCK,GERM:BUSINESSMAN+1:SLVR DISK W/ANTENNAS MNVRS INTO CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "49.933336 7.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:56:00 N 07:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.933336,7.416667)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14963 (F74E7988) **Date:** 5/25/1958 **Location:** Kirchberg, Hunsruck, Germany **Description:** Circular silvery UFO observed moving through clouds. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2261 ### Event 14964 (086B4F1F) **Date:** 5/26/1958 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** JAVNGYDE, DK **Description:** All scouts / camp. Blazing vertical ovoid hovers. Lights area. / r142#3p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5919 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "JAVNGYDE,DK:ALL SCOUTS/CAMP:BLAZING VERTCL OVOID HVRS:LITES AREA:/r142#3p26", **LatLong:** "56.116669 9.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "56:07:00 N 09:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.116669,9.833334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14965 (DF276529) **Date:** 5/26/1958 **Time:** 02:00:00.1 **Location:** 11.6603 162.2253 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Yellowwood” Yield: 330KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_129 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6603 162.2253", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:37 N 162:13:31 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6603,162.2253)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Yellowwood", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "330" ### Event 14966 (267D6FF7) **Date:** 5/26/1958 **Time:** 18:00:00.1 **Location:** 11.5428 162.3539 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Magnolia” Yield: 57KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_130 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5428 162.3539", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:34 N 162:21:14 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5428,162.3539)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Magnolia", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "57" ### Event 14967 (90201892) **Date:** 5/27/1958 **Location:** OFF BAHIA, BRZ **Description:** Varig pilot. Luminous/glowing saucer maneuvers under liner. Dives toward(s) sea. / LDLN#334. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5920 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off BAHIA,BRZ:VARIG PILOT:LUMn SCR MNVRS UNDER LINER:DIVES TWRD SEA:/LDLN#334", **LatLong:** "-13.000001 -38.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "13:00:00 S 38:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-13.000001,-38.000002)", **State/Prov:** "Bahia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14968 (8779D4A2) **Date:** 5/27/1958 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** BOCA DEL TIGRE, ARG **Description:** Trucker. 3M giant / road. Blinding beam / chest. Missing time. / r113p150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 709) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5921 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "527", **HatchDesc:** "BOCA del TIGRE,ARG:TRUCKER:3M GIANT/ROAD:BLINDING BEAM/CHEST:MST:/r113p150", **LatLong:** "-33.316668 -64.733336", **LatLongDMS:** "33:19:00 S 64:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.316668,-64.733336)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14969 (D6A045A0) **Date:** 5/27/1958 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** WEDNESFIELD, ENGL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright silver object going [to] overhead. All pigeons watch. / LDLN#130. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5922 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "WEDNESFIELD,ENGL:2 OBS:BRITE SLVR OBJ > OVHD:ALL PIGEONS WATCH:/LDLN#130", **LatLong:** "52.600003 -2.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:36:00 N 02:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.600003,-2.083333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14970 (5F1C85A6) **Date:** 5/27/1958 **Location:** Bahia State Coast, Brazil **Description:** Varig Airlines pilot watched a brightly luminous circular object maneuver under his plane. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2262 ### Event 14971 (BA0FC1B3) **Date:** 5/27/1958 **Time:** late **Location:** Boa del Tigre, Argentina **Description:** Remo dell'Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe when he saw a figure, 3 m tall, blocking the road. He went toward it with an iron bar but could not approach because of the stench and the blinding phosphorescent light emanating from it. It had very long arms, a scaly body, and wore a flight coverall. The witness fainted; nothing was left to be seen when he regained consciousness. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Perego; Bulgarini ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_468 ### Event 14972 (CDED5C5F) **Date:** 5/27/1958 **Description:** Remo dell'Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe, Argentina when he saw a giant figure, three meters tall, blocking the road near the town of Boa del Tigre. He went towards it with an iron bar but could not get close because of the stench and a blinding phosphorescent light that emanated from the creature. It had very long arms, a scaly body, and wore a flightsuit coverall. The witness fainted; when he regained consciousness the being was gone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 468; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3114 ### Event 14973 (69865C85) **Date:** 5/28/1958 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** PETARE AND MORE/OTHERS, VNZL **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge cylinder/cigar-shape with lights going west toward(s) Caracas. No sputnik / physics man. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 703) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5923 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "887", **HatchDesc:** "PETARE++,VNZL:MANY OBS:HUGE CGR W/LITES >W twrd CARACAS:no sputnik/physics man", **LatLong:** "10.483334 -66.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:29:00 N 66:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.483334,-66.833337)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14974 (B813D69F) **Date:** 5/28/1958 **Location:** Templehof, Germany **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2263 ### Event 14975 (97A21AA1) **Date:** 5/30/1958 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** URALSK, KAZAKH SSR **Description:** 32+observer(s). Night light circles airfield. 2nd night light joins. Going northwest. / LDLN#204+/ r84p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 328) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5924 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kazakh Republic", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "URALSK,KAZAKH SSR:32+OBS:NLT CCLS AIRFIELD:2nd NLT JOINS:>NW:/LDLN#204+/r84p40", **LatLong:** "51.250002 51.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "51:15:00 N 51:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.250002,51.166669)", **State/Prov:** "URL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14976 (985F4D73) **Date:** 5/30/1958 **Time:** 02:15:00.2 **Location:** 11.6633 162.2300 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Tobacco” Yield: 11.6KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_131 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6633 162.2300", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:48 N 162:13:48 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6633,162.2300)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Tobacco", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11.6" ### Event 14977 (9FCF5298) **Date:** 5/30/1958 **Description:** At 9:20 p.m. a science writer in Ural'sk, Kazakstan, USSR watched as a red light made the start of a pattern to land at the south edge of an airfield, but then stopped, stood motionless for a few moments, made a 90 degree turn, stopped again, and after several minutes got smaller. A second red light joined the first, then they separated and silently flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28, citing the US Air Force; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3165 ### Event 14978 (4455BDE1) **Date:** 5/31/1958 **Time:** 03:00:00.1 **Location:** 11.6908 165.2736 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Sycamore” Yield: 92KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_132 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6908 165.2736", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:27 N 165:16:25 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6908,165.2736)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Sycamore", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "92" ### Event 14979 (E5685BB4) **Date:** 5/31/1958 **End date:** 6/1/1958 **Locations:** Giant Rock; Landers, California **Description:** The fifth Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention takes place at Giant Rock, near Landers, California. [Dana Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%5FHoward%5F%28contactee%29), [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) John McCoy, [Wayne Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry), and [Reinhold O. Schmidt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold%5FO.%5FSchmidt) join host [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) for two days of contactee conviviality. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dana Howard, “[Dana Howard Reporting the Giant](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf) [Rock Convention, 1958,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 20–21, 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3186 ### Event 14980 (771730B5) **Date:** 6/1958 **Location:** SAMARIA ISL., PNG **Description:** Pale-blue disk stops overhead / 4 minute(s). Extremely bright. Going north. Vanishes / mid-sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 739) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5925 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAMARIA Isl.,PNG:PALE-BLUE DISK STOPS OVHD/4min:XBRITE:>N:VANISHES/MID-SKY", **LatLong:** "-10.616667 150.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "10:37:00 S 150:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.616667,150.666674)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14981 (607353F2) **Date:** 6/1958 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** SINAIA, ROMANIA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Domed saucer arcs over resort going east. Triangular part / underside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5926 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SINAIA,ROMANIA:2 OBS:DOMED SCR ARCS OVR RESORT >E:TRIANGULAR PART/UNDERSIDE", **LatLong:** "45.333335 25.550001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:00 N 25:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.333335,25.550001)", **State/Prov:** "PRH", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14982 (93E76FC6) **Date:** 6/1958 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** ADRO, ITL **Description:** Several observer(s). 2.3M saucer / slow spin. Lands / field. Faces / portholes! Quickly going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5927 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ADRO,ITL:SVRL OBS:2.3M SCR/SLOW SPIN:LANDS/FIELD:FACES/PORTHOLES!:↑↑ FAST", **LatLong:** "45.616669 9.950000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:37:00 N 09:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.616669,9.950000)", **State/Prov:** "Brescia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 14983 (1F2BE9B1) **Date:** 6/1958 **Description:** A USAF officer secretly meets with [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and gives him three UFO reports and warns him that the Air Force will ask him for “certain UFO information. Think it over carefully before you decide.” NICAP could be in trouble, he says. Two days later, NICAP receives a request from the Air Force requesting any cases that indicate intelligent maneuvers by UFOs. Keyhoe refuses the request, sensing a setup. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 199, 232–233 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3189 ### Event 14984 (050695A4) **Date:** 6/1958 **Description:** [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) joins NICAP as executive secretary and associate editor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 30, 208 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3190 ### Event 14985 (37319342) **Date:** 6/1958 **Locations:** Lackland AFB; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, has prepared a 17-page TV script based on a straightforward interpretation of [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, even including the 1953 [Moncla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FMoncla) case. The script states that “the most logical explanation is that the saucers are interplanetary.” It also says that USAF has “concealed information which was thought to be of danger because of the impending possibility of hysteria and panic.” Keyhoe approves the script, but Lackland withdraws it from consideration by December. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 219–227 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3191 ### Event 14986 (AD7D4F37) **Date:** 6/1958 **Location:** Sinaia, Romania **Description:** 4:00 a.m. A woman doctor at a resort at Sinaia, Romania, sees a silvery domed disc traveling slowly and silently toward the southeast at 1,500 feet. On its underside it has a bluish triangular section with rounded points. It passes within 900 feet of her hotel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 159–160 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3192 ### Event 14987 (AB6EDAAF) **Date:** 6/1958 **Locations:** Chimbay, Uzbekistan; Aral Sea **Description:** 9:00 p.m. B. Muratov and his father are returning home to Chimbay, Uzbekistan, after a fishing expedition to the Aral Sea. They notice a disc-shaped object approaching them directly at low altitude from the northeast. It flies over them and see that its diameter is about 82 feet and it is traveling at 150–180 mph. Its hull is shiny and one side shines with a red color. A pipe is attached to one side, and it gives off a steady “zing zing zing” sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 123 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3193 ### Event 14988 (7356EC6C) **Date:** 6/1/1958 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** ALTAFJORD, NORW **Description:** 1 observer. Delta/triangle/box-like craft turns and going down / fjord. Ships subs and divers find only dead fish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SUFOI UFO NEWS. Annual. Articles translated from UFO - Nyt. Skandavinsk UFO Information; Postbox 6, DK-2820 Gentoffte, DENMARK. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5928 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALTAFJORD,NORW:1 OBS:DLT TURNS+↓/FJORD:SHIPS SUBS+DIVERS FIND ONLY DEAD FISH", **LatLong:** "70.200003 23.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "70:12:00 N 23:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.200003,23.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 14989 (4EF3AEB0) **Date:** 6/1/1958 **Location:** Altafjord, Troms og Finnmark, Norway **Description:** 11:15 a.m. Bjørn Taraldsen, Nils M. Turi, Kate Julsen, and Rasmus Hykkerud watch a silent “unknown aircraft” like a twin-engine, delta-wing jet with no identifying marks plunge into the Altafjord, Troms og Finnmark, Norway. A column of water rises up, and dead fish float to the surface. The frigate [KNM Arendal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FBadsworth) and the submarine KNM Sarpen, along with divers, search fruitlessly for more than a week, although the Arendal does get a sonar reading of a mobile object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3194 ### Event 14990 (50469DE7) **Date:** 6/1/1958 **Description:** At 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 1st, a silent "unknown aircraft" with no identifying markers crashed into the Alta fjord, Norway. At the impact site, 70 meters deep, a column of water rose up. The aircraft resembled a twin-engine delta-winged jet. The witnesses were Bjorn Taraldsen, Nils M. Turi, Kate Julsen, and Rasmus Hykkerud. When others arrived half an hour later all they found were a number of dead fish. The frigate KNM Arendal and the submarine KNM Sarpen, along with divers, searched for the aircraft fruitlessly for over a week. The Arendal, however, did get a sonar reading of a mobile object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ole Jonny Braenne, International UFO Reporter, January-February 1995, pp. 12-13 & 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3199 ### Event 14991 (809A221F) **Date:** 6/2/1958 **Time:** 18:45:00.1 **Location:** 11.5411 162.3517 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Rose” Yield: 15KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_133 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5411 162.3517", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:28 N 162:21:06 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5411,162.3517)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Rose", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "15" ### Event 14992 (E4757FBC) **Date:** 6/3/1958 **Location:** Princeton, New Jersey **Description:** Physicist [Freeman Dyson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%5FDyson) in Princeton, New Jersey, writes a speculative paper on “The Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation” in which he discusses how an advanced civilization might be visible from Earth. He suggests that the logical endpoint of the drive to capture as much energy from a sun would be for engineers to completely enclose it in a hollow sphere. Once the builders have completed it, the only light visible from their star would be the muted infrared glow of radiation heat. Such a structure, which becomes known as a “Dyson sphere,” would be a sure sign of an advanced race. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Freeman J. Dyson, “[Search for Artificial Stellar](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/SETI1.HTM) [Sources of Infrared Radiation,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/SETI1.HTM)” Science 131 \(1960\): 1667–1668; Wikipedia, “[Dyson sphere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%5Fsphere)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3195 ### Event 14993 (75934388) **Date:** 6/4/1958 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** SARASOTA, FL **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. Fuzzy oval night light zigzags overhead going quickly north. / r78p181+/ r242p137 / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5929 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "SARASOTA,FL:1/BINOCS:FUZZY OVAL NLT ZIGZAGS OVHD >>N:/r78p181+/r242p137/NICAP", **LatLong:** "27.350001 -82.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "27:21:00 N 82:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.350001,-82.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14994 (8ADCBD5A) **Date:** 6/4/1958 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CHIMURBAY, KZK **Description:** 2 observer(s). Shiny 24M disk going [to] overhead / 100M altitude. Glows. Antenna / top. Chimes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5930 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kazakh Republic", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CHIMURBAY,KZK:2 OBS:SHINY 24M DISK >OHVD/100M alt:GLOWS:ANTENNA/TOP:CHIMES!", **LatLong:** "41.750002 68.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:45:00 N 68:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.750002,68.783337)", **State/Prov:** "KRK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 14995 (B74ECA0D) **Date:** 6/4/1958 **Location:** Sarasota, FL **Description:** White oval-shaped object zigzagged overhead. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2264 ### Event 14996 (DAA29802) **Date:** 6/6/1958 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes to NICAP member George Stocking saying that [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) has a job at an aircraft company that contracts with the Air Force and thus might be playing it safe about UFOs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1023 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3196 ### Event 14997 (90AF4A80) **Date:** 6/7/1958 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEAR MT. EGMONT, NZ **Description:** 6 observer(s). Red glow / mountains. White ovoid shoots quickly going up. Stops. Going quickly [to] going up [to] and northwest overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 337) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5931 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr Mt.EGMONT,NZ:6 OBS:RED GLOW/MTNS:WHT OVOID SHOOTS ↑↑:STOPS:>>↑+NW OVHD", **LatLong:** "-36.133335 174.250008", **LatLongDMS:** "36:08:00 S 174:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.133335,174.250008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 14998 (2F1149D4) **Date:** 6/7/1958 **Description:** A red glow appeared over the mountains in Mount Egmont, New Zealand at 9:30 p.m. A white ovoid object shot up, stopped, then shot off horizontally to the northwest passing over the heads of the witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the apocalypse: UFOs: A history. 1958: May-July, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3349 ### Event 14999 (0DC4CA43) **Date:** 6/8/1958 **Time:** 18:15:00.2 **Location:** 11.3808 162.2192 **Description:** Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Umbrella” Yield: 8KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_134 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.3808 162.2192", **LatLongDMS:** "11:22:51 N 162:13:09 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.3808,162.2192)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.05", **NukeName:** "Umbrella", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NWCU", **NukeY:** "8" ### Event 15000 (23B95280) **Date:** 6/9/1958 **Location:** Central Puget Sound, WA **Description:** Cylinder Maneuvers Around F-102 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580609](http://www.nicap.org/580609pugetsound%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2265 ### Event 15001 (1556FA6C) **Date:** 6/9/1958 **Description:** At 10:17 a.m. a pilot named Scharf flying an F-102 fighter aircraft over Puget Sound, Washington State and many others sighted a white cylinder-shaped UFO with a slight orange tint, which oscillated and maneuvered for four minutes. The Air Force attempted to explain this sighting as a weather balloon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report form dated June 11, 1958; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3385 ### Event 15002 (92D4419B) **Date:** 6/10/1958 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** NEAR GRASS VALLEY, CA **Description:** 2 / cab. 150M cloud cylinder/cigar-shape quickly going up / woods. Going quickly southwest under cloudy ceiling. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 339) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5932 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "735", **HatchDesc:** "nr GRASS VALLEY,CA:2/CAB:150M CLOUD CGR ↑↑/WOODS:>>SW UNDER CLOUDY CEILING", **LatLong:** "39.250002 -121.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:15:00 N 121:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.250002,-121.083339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15003 (D0AE088C) **Date:** 6/10/1958 **Time:** 17:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6872 165.4150 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Maple” Yield: 213KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_135 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6872 165.4150", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:14 N 165:24:54 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6872,165.4150)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Maple", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "213" ### Event 15004 (C9ECF98E) **Date:** 6/10/1958 **Location:** UK House of Commons **Description:** MP [George Chetwynd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FChetwynd) in the UK House of Commons asks the Air Ministry how many instances of UFOs were reported in the past 12 months and what steps were taken to look into them. Under-Secretary of State for Air [Ian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) [Orr-Ewing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) replies that 54 reports were received and that most were meteors, balloons, aircraft, and satellites. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unsatisfactory Answer to M.P.’s Question on UFOs by Undersecretary for Air,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 5; Good Above, [p. 51](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3197 ### Event 15005 (80A2A2E2) **Date:** 6/12/1958 **Time:** 01:00? **Location:** OFF LE BRUSC, FR **Description:** 3 / fishermen. 4M glowing-saucer going down. Makes waves. Hums. Vanishes! / r156#14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5933 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "off Le BRUSC,FR:3/FISHERMEN:4M GLO-SCR↓:MAKES WAVES:HUMS:VANISHES!:/r156#14", **LatLong:** "43.083335 5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:05:00 N 05:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.083335,5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15006 (1A42B6C5) **Date:** 6/12/1958 **Location:** Huntsville (10 miles W of), TX **Description:** B-52 Crew Member Observes Object / Spuynik III Rocket? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580612](http://www.nicap.org/580612huntsville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2266 ### Event 15007 (830C8D0D) **Date:** 6/12/1958 **Description:** near Le Brusc, France - Three fishermen had gone to sea on the Mediterranean Sea at night to set their nets. It was a very clear, starry night, and the sea was calm. A big orange-colored ball of light descended very quickly towards the sea, and soon it became a great big globe lying on the surface of the water. "Just lightly touching the waves it remained there for several minutes, but we had the impression that it was revolving, like a wheel turning round and round on the same place." It caused a strong air disturbance for they could see the water being whipped up around it. The ball came rolling toward the fishermen's boat, and they were terrified that it would collide with them. It didn't in fact go over them but passed very close by, making such big waves that they nearly capsized. They felt a powerful blast of heat and a strong blast of air. As it went by it made a faint humming noise. Comparing it to their boat, it seemed to be about 4 meters in diameter. Moving along by leaps, half-disappearing among the waves, it made a right-hand turn and disappeared on the horizon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** FSR Case Histories, April 1973, pp. 13-14; Lumieres dans la Nuit (Contact Lecteurs), Series 3, No. 5, January 1971 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3437 ### Event 15008 (40AB8DA7) **Date:** 6/14/1958 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** PUEBLO, CO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #5852. Weatherman. 10M Saturn / 30K' altitude. 500mph and more. No balloon. / r59p149. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 343) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5934 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1410", **HatchDesc:** "PUEBLO,CO:BBK#5852:WEATHERMAN:10M SATURN/30K'alt:500mph+:no balloon:/r59p149", **LatLong:** "38.266668 -104.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:16:00 N 104:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.266668,-104.616672)", **RelAlt:** "9000", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15009 (46F1A37A) **Date:** 6/14/1958 **Location:** Pueblo, CO **Description:** A theodolite sighted an object shaped like Saturn (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5852) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2267 ### Event 15010 (6991037C) **Date:** 6/14/1958 **Time:** 10:46 AM **Location:** Pueblo, Colorado **Description:** Witness: airport weather observer O.R. Foster, using a theodolite. An object shaped like Saturn, less the bottom part; silver with no metallic luster, flew overhead for 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_426 ### Event 15011 (2214DBA0) **Date:** 6/14/1958 **Time:** 17:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6908 165.2733 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Aspen” Yield: 319KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_136 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6908 165.2733", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:27 N 165:16:24 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6908,165.2733)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Aspen", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "319" ### Event 15012 (1E447CB3) **Date:** 6/14/1958 **Time:** 18:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6603 162.2253 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Walnut” Yield: 1450KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_137 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6603 162.2253", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:37 N 162:13:31 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6603,162.2253)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Walnut", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1450" ### Event 15013 (7FD2091B) **Date:** 6/14/1958 **Description:** At 10:46 a.m. airport weather observer O. R. Foster in Pueblo, Colorado using a theodolite, sighted a domed disc-shaped object. It was silver in color but gave off no metallic luster. It flew overhead for five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5852; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3473 ### Event 15014 (A8BFDB26) **Date:** 6/18/1958 **Time:** 03:00:00.1 **Location:** 11.5442 162.3564 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Linden” Yield: 11KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_138 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5442 162.3564", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:39 N 162:21:23 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5442,162.3564)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Linden", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "11" ### Event 15015 (DEF874FE) **Date:** 6/20/1958 **Time:** 23:10 **Location:** FT BRAGG, NC **Description:** Army officer. Silver saucer hovers and wavers / green haze. Shoots away. / r70p3-57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5935 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "Ft BRAGG,NC:ARMY OFFICER:SLVR SCR HVRS+WAVERS/GRN HAZE:SHOOTS AWAY:/r70p3-57", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -78.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 78:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-78.983337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15016 (5AB59AA8) **Date:** 6/20/1958 **Location:** Fort Bragg, NC **Description:** Silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through green haze (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5857) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2268 ### Event 15017 (C57D5C06) **Date:** 6/20/1958 **Location:** Glennie (4 miles N of), MI **Description:** An object hit water of a private lake making a circle 10 ft across w/foam (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2269 ### Event 15018 (E89BB71B) **Date:** 6/20/1958 **Location:** Crystal Lake, IL **Description:** Pilot saw a white disc the size of a basketball in straight line flight (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2270 ### Event 15019 (7FCF5AE2) **Date:** 6/20/1958 **Time:** 11:05 PM **Location:** Ft. Bragg, North Carolina **Description:** Witness: Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley. One silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze, hovered, then oscillated slightly, then moved at great speed. Watched for 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_427 ### Event 15020 (595C4C80) **Date:** 6/20/1958 **Location:** Capitol building in Columbus, Ohio **Description:** USAF Maj. [Joseph E. Boland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8792087/joseph-edward-boland) and Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) brief Rep. [John E. Henderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FHenderson) \(R-Ohio\) for one hour on the status of Air Force UFO investigations in the Capitol building in Columbus, Ohio. Also in attendance are Rep. [William C. Cramer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FC.%5FCramer) \(R-Fla.\), and Rep. [Donald H. Magnuson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FH.%5FMagnuson) \(D-Wash.\). Afterward, the legislators express confidence in the investigation and agree that publicity is unwise, “particularly in an open or closed formal congressional hearing.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) [May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 48–50; Swords 276–277 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3198 ### Event 15021 (30714427) **Date:** 6/20/1958 **Description:** At 11:05 p.m. Fort Bragg, North Carolina Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley observed a silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze, hover, then oscillate slightly, and then move away at great speed. He watched it for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5857; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3552 ### Event 15022 (3E0FC1E2) **Date:** 6/21/1958 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** CHENXI CO, HUNAN, CH **Description:** 30+observer(s). 2M orange fireball spins smoke. 120° turn near school. Ozone odor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5936 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "CHENXI co,HUNAN,CH:30+OBS:2M ORG.FBL SPINS SMOKE:120°TURN nr SCHOOL:OZONE ODOR", **LatLong:** "28.050001 110.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "28:03:00 N 110:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.050001,110.500005)", **State/Prov:** "HUN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15023 (597E0952) **Date:** 6/21/1958 **Time:** 09:40 **Location:** ROSWELL-WALKER AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 2 UFO's / 25 second(s). (Rumors / ball-shaped landing gear.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLUM, Ralph & Judy: BEYOND EARTH: Mans Contact with UFO's Bantam, NY 1974 (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5937 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1119", **HatchDesc:** "ROSWELL-WALKER AFB,NM:BBK#UNK:2 UFOS/25sec:(RUMORS/BALL-SHAPED LANDING GEAR)", **LatLong:** "33.300002 -104.566672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:18:00 N 104:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.300002,-104.566672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15024 (AA69A468) **Date:** Summer 1958 **Location:** Air Force Base, Southwest US, In Airspace **Description:** Radar Confirms Incident (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [58Summer](http://www.nicap.org/58SUMRswUS%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2272 ### Event 15025 (0FD3DF09) **Date:** Summer 1958 **Location:** Air Force base in the Southwest US **Description:** At an unidentified Air Force base in the Southwest US, two jets are vectored in on two UFOs flying together as seen on radar. As the jets close in, one UFO disappears from the radarscope and quickly reappears behind the first jet. The first pilot reverses his course and again tries to close in. The UFO climbs out of range. The second pilot has the same difficulty with the other UFO. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[UFO Chase by AF Jets Revealed to NICAP,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/008%20JUNE%201959.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8 \(June 1959\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3187 ### Event 15026 (BC87183E) **Date:** Summer 1958 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Evening. A mechanic at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, allegedly sees a disc-like craft hovering silently above the tarmac. As the object retracts its landing gear, he manages to alert another mechanic in time for them both to see it take off at high speed. The Air Force officers who interrogate them tell them the object was also seen by control tower operators. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 223](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/222/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3188 ### Event 15027 (A7E9B1E9) **Date:** 6/21/1958 **Description:** A two meter in diameter orange ball of fire was sighted by many at 7:15 a.m. over Chenxi County, Hunan Province, China. It was spinning out a cloud of smoke. It made a 120 degree turn near a school, and left behind a smell of ozone in the air. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 37 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3571 ### Event 15028 (A4770E67) **Date:** 6/23/1958 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** ALEXANDRIA, LA **Description:** Near England Air Force Base. Patrolman photographs 2 round objects. No further details. / r78p182. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5938 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA,LA:nr ENGLAND AFB:PATROLMAN FOTOS 2 ROUND OBJs:NFD:/r78p182", **LatLong:** "31.311113 -92.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "31:18:40 N 92:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.311113,-92.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15029 (9F4EFBC2) **Date:** 6/23/1958 **Location:** England AFB (near), LA **Description:** State policeman photographed two round UFOs. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2271 ### Event 15030 (219C5F47) **Date:** 6/25/1958 **Locations:** Lisbon, Portugal; Caracavelos, Portugal **Description:** 8:05 p.m. Rádio Renascença in Lisbon, Portugal, broadcasts a Portuguese-language version of The War of the Worlds with only the names of characters and places changed. The Martians are supposedly landing in Caracavelos, Portugal. A certain amount of confusion results. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, pp. 120–129 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3199 ### Event 15031 (640B1EFA) **Date:** 6/26/1958 **Location:** New York **Description:** The New York sector becomes the first operational component of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, a system of large computers that coordinates data from many radar sites and processes it to produce a single unified image of airspace over a wide area. SAGE directs and controls the NORAD response to a Soviet air attack, operating in this role from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Its enormous computers and huge displays remain a part of Cold War lore. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Semi-Automatic Ground Environment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic%5FGround%5FEnvironment)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3200 ### Event 15032 (D0BA363D) **Date:** 6/27/1958 **Time:** 17:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6872 165.4150 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Redwood” Yield: 412KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_139 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6872 165.4150", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:14 N 165:24:54 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6872,165.4150)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Redwood", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "412" ### Event 15033 (6CD97E60) **Date:** 6/27/1958 **Time:** 18:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6633 162.2300 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Elder” Yield: 880KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_140 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6633 162.2300", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:48 N 162:13:48 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6633,162.2300)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Elder", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "880" ### Event 15034 (98B7DF98) **Date:** 6/28/1958 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** NEAR SHANNON, IREL **Description:** KLM airline(s)/airliner pilot / early morning. Luminous round object seen. No further details. / J. Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5939 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr SHANNON,IREL:KLM AL PILOT/EARLY MORNING:LUMn.ROUND OBJ SEEN:NFD:/J.Aldrich", **LatLong:** "52.500003 -10.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:30:00 N 10:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.500003,-10.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15035 (5935958D) **Date:** 6/28/1958 **Time:** 19:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6078 162.1078 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Oak” Yield: 8900KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_141 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6078 162.1078", **LatLongDMS:** "11:36:28 N 162:06:28 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6078,162.1078)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Oak", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "8900" ### Event 15036 (F1E808E9) **Date:** 6/28/1958 **Location:** New York City **Description:** [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and Norman Evans Colton appear on the [Long John Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5FJohn%5FNebel) show on WOR-AM in New York City. After Carr praises his mentor, [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla), another guest asks Carr to enumerate one or two of his discoveries. Carr feigns a memory lapse, then later is unable to recite even one of [Newton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%5FNewton)’s three laws of motion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 860 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3201 ### Event 15037 (1928C2FB) **Date:** 6/28/1958 **End date:** 6/29/1958 **Locations:** Detroit, Michigan; Mountain View, Missouri; Ozarks; Wolf Star 359 in the Titanian system; Trijanon **Description:** [Lee Childers Jr.](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-04-usa-detroit.htm), a baker from Detroit, Michigan, speaks at a flying saucer convention near Mountain View, Missouri, in the Ozarks hosted by contactee [Buck Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%5FNelson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%5FNelson) He claims that since April 1955 he has made 21 trips to other planets \(and even to “Wolf Star 359 in the Titanian system” that has 2 planets revolving around it\) on a saucer piloted by a spaceman named Commander Marcosan. He also went to a space station 2,000 miles in diameter called Trijanon. Other people tell their personal fantastic stories, among them [Wayne Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) and Buck Nelson himself. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Out-of-This-World Ozark Convention,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94527629/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 6, 1958, p. 71; Clark III 915 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3202 ### Event 15038 (C2A21873) **Date:** 6/29/1958 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** GRIMSBY, ENGL **Description:** 2 / light plane photograph 2M black dumbell. Maneuvers. 1100kph. Going quickly northeast to sea. / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 359) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5940 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GRIMSBY,ENGL:2/LITE PLANE FOTO 2M BLK DUMBELL:MNVRS:1100kph:>>NE to sea:/r150", **LatLong:** "53.566669 -0.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:34:00 N 00:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.566669,-0.066667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15039 (15A658C1) **Date:** 6/29/1958 **Time:** 00:00:00.1 **Location:** 11.4961 162.3708 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Hickory” Yield: 14KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_142 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.4961 162.3708", **LatLongDMS:** "11:29:46 N 162:22:15 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.4961,162.3708)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Hickory", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "14" ### Event 15040 (278F12C3) **Date:** 6/29/1958 **Location:** Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England **Description:** Day. Former RAF Flight Engineer Peter Spencer is flying in an Auster aircraft piloted by Dennis Jackson at 800 feet near the docks at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. A large black dumbbell appears below them, flying against the wind. Suddenly it rises up to their height and flies along with them for a while at their speed. Then it accelerates in a terrific burst of speed to a position above them. They try to follow it, but it speeds out over the docks at 1,000 feet and 800 mph. Spencer manages to take three photos of it, but the images show a speed blur. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958, May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3203 ### Event 15041 (CA35B958) **Date:** 7/1958 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 2 men. Silent 25' Adamski-saucer near runway. Several portholes / dome. Wobbles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5941 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:2 MEN:SLNT 25'ADAMSKI-SCR nr RUNWAY:SVRL PORTS/DOME:WOBBLES", **LatLong:** "32.816668 -106.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:49:00 N 106:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.816668,-106.083338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15042 (1D405080) **Date:** 7/1958 **Locations:** Pakistan; Badaber (Peshawar Air Station) **Description:** President [Dwight Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) requests permission from Pakistan to establish a secret US intelligence facility at Badaber \(Peshawar Air Station\) to fly U-2 reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[1960 U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%5FU-2%5Fincident) [incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%5FU-2%5Fincident)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3204 ### Event 15043 (899F7641) **Date:** 7/1958 **Location:** St. Albans, West Virginia **Description:** Dusk. [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) and his brother Tom are at home in St. Albans, West Virginia, and listening to WCHS- AM radio where someone is calling in a UFO report. They rush to a window and see a domed disc with a revolving top cruise quietly across the landscape. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 12; Michael D. Swords **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3205 ### Event 15044 (353B0355) **Date:** 7/1958 **Locations:** Pease AFB in Portsmouth; CFB Goose Bay **Description:** Night. A 509th Refueling Mission is returning to an Air Force Base in New Hampshire \[Pease AFB in Portsmouth?\] from Goose Bay \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. The crew is flying a KC-97 at about 17,000– 18,000 feet. A light like a “moving star” appears. It approaches below the cloud cover and seems to be spherical and as bright as Venus. It soon becomes the apparent size of the Moon, lighting up the clouds above it. The light is a brilliant blue-white with two dark spots, possibly indicating a structure. The object angles upwards and speeds out of sight in 5 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 24–25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3206 ### Event 15045 (D7F9D838) **Date:** 7/1958 **End date:** 9/1958 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** A civilian in Washington, D.C., manages to repeatedly photograph “geometrically shaped flying objects as they passed between his telescope and the moon.” The photos are “remarkably clear and certainly indicated a phenomenon for which he had no ready explanation.” The writer of an October 1 memo, a CIA employee, requests advice on “how we might get our hands on these materials to examine them firsthand and to make a more complete analysis of them.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 136–137](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/136/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3207 ### Event 15046 (693C08E3) **Date:** 7/1/1958 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** NORFOLK, VA **Description:** 8 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Flat white disk going west overhead. Absolute(ly) silent / 25 minute(s). Then shoots going quickly [to] going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5942 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,VA:8 OBS/BINOCS:FLAT WHT DISK >W OVHD:ABS SLNT/25min:THEN SHOOTS >>>W", **LatLong:** "36.833335 -76.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:50:00 N 76:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.833335,-76.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15047 (B25C282A) **Date:** 7/1/1958 **Time:** 18:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.5442 162.3564 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Sequoia” Yield: 5.2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_143 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5442 162.3564", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:39 N 162:21:23 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5442,162.3564)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Sequoia", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "5.2" ### Event 15048 (1E9FDC6A) **Date:** 7/2/1958 **Time:** 17:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6908 165.2736 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Cedar” Yield: 220KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_144 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6908 165.2736", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:27 N 165:16:25 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6908,165.2736)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Cedar", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "220" ### Event 15049 (A28DE930) **Date:** 7/5/1958 **Time:** 18:30:00.2 **Location:** 11.6633 162.2300 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Dogwood” Yield: 397KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_145 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6633 162.2300", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:48 N 162:13:48 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6633,162.2300)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Dogwood", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "397" ### Event 15050 (F74E65BF) **Date:** 7/8/1958 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** CANISTEAR RESERVOIR, NJ **Description:** 2 / boat. Large red-glow "bar" going north. Tilts 45°. Levels off. 90° turn.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 365) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5943 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "331", **HatchDesc:** "CANISTEAR Rsvr,NJ:2/BOAT:LRG RED-GLOW "BAR" >N:TILTS 45°:LEVELS OFF:90°TURN..", **LatLong:** "41.100002 -74.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:06:00 N 74:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.100002,-74.483337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15051 (37FEC2A3) **Date:** 7/12/1958 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** GRAGA, MINHO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Fiery disk changes colors over city. / Comercio do Porto. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5944 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GRAGA,MINHO,PORTUGAL:FIERY DISK CHANGES COLORS OVR CITY:/COMERCIO do PORTO", **LatLong:** "41.333335 -8.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:20:00 N 08:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.333335,-8.416667)", **State/Prov:** "MNH", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15052 (B7503885) **Date:** 7/12/1958 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** BEJA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Observer(s) / balcony. Saucer-shaped object seen. No further details. / Diario de Alentejo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5945 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BEJA,PORTUGAL:OBS/BALCONY:SCR-SHAPED OBJ SEEN:NFD:/DIARIO de ALENTEJO", **LatLong:** "38.050002 -7.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "38:03:00 N 07:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.050002,-7.883334)", **State/Prov:** "BXA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15053 (18D817DF) **Date:** 7/12/1958 **Time:** 03:30:00.1 **Location:** 11.6881 165.2644 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Poplar” Yield: 9300KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_146 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6881 165.2644", **LatLongDMS:** "11:41:17 N 165:15:52 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6881,165.2644)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Poplar", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "9300" ### Event 15054 (4C56B6E0) **Date:** 7/14/1958 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** WULKURAKA, QLD **Description:** 12 workmen. Round white cloud-saucer going [to] NQ. Bottom glows. No plane / balloon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 369) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5946 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "WULKURAKA,QLD:12 WORKMEN:RND WHT CLOUD-SCR >NQ:BOTTOM GLOWS:no plane/balloon", **LatLong:** "-27.616668 152.733341", **LatLongDMS:** "27:37:00 S 152:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.616668,152.733341)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15055 (290BC94B) **Date:** 7/14/1958 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** GREENWOOD LAKE, NY **Description:** 3 observer(s). Domed saucer tilts and vanishes. Back / 220Ohrs. [ 1956?? ]. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 367) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5947 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "74", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "GREENWOOD LAKE,NY:3 OBS:DOMED SCR TILTS+VANISHES:BACK/220Ohrs:[ 1956 ?? ]", **LatLong:** "41.222224 -74.294448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:13:20 N 74:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.222224,-74.294448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15056 (4B019D2A) **Date:** 7/14/1958 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Scaevola” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_147 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Scaevola", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 15057 (A90E7A32) **Date:** 7/16/1958 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** RICHMANSWORTH, ENGL **Description:** Class / teens. White-glowing hat-saucer maneuvers near dark clouds. / r142#3p70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5948 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMANSWORTH,ENGL:CLASS/TEENS:WHT-GLO HAT-SCR MNVRS nr DRK CLOUDS:/r142#3p70", **LatLong:** "51.666669 -0.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:40:00 N 00:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.666669,-0.466667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15058 (88FAC037) **Date:** 7/17/1958 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** CARIBBEAN / 76° 05W-16° 00N **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 1 UFO seen / 8 min. Time = GMT. No further details [in] at all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5949 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CARIBBEAN/76°05W-16°00N:BBK#UNKN:1 UFO SEEN/8 MIN:TIME=GMT:NFD AT ALL", **LatLong:** "16.000001 -76.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "16:00:00 N 76:05:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/16.000001,-76.083337)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15059 (907E9648) **Date:** 7/17/1958 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** CHITOSE AIR FORCE BASE, JPN **Description:** RADAR and Air Traffic Controllers and more. Red star south going north / 100M altitude. Circles base. Then denied. / r242p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 370) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5950 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHITOSE AFB,JPN:RDR+ATCs+:RED STAR S>N/100M alt:CCLS BASE:then denied:/r242p22", **LatLong:** "42.900002 141.550007", **LatLongDMS:** "42:54:00 N 141:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.900002,141.550007)", **State/Prov:** "HKD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15060 (D5B16DAA) **Date:** 7/17/1958 **Location:** Chitose AFB, Japan **Description:** Radar-visual sighting of circling reddish light. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2273 ### Event 15061 (A6197268) **Date:** 7/17/1958 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Pisonia” Yield: 255KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_148 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Pisonia", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "255" ### Event 15062 (8F9FD66E) **Date:** 7/17/1958 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) to say he is puzzled about his current stance on UFOs, but understands that he might be under pressure from the Air Force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “[The Forgotten Correspondence of](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Edward J. Ruppelt: The Story behind](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf)” pp. 15–16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3208 ### Event 15063 (13A5F964) **Date:** 7/18/1958 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 8:30 p.m. High-school student Chris Kauffman is gazing at the night sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees an object shaped like an equilateral triangle pass directly overhead in a north to south direction at 70–100 mph and 1,000 feet altitude for 10 seconds. It is flying with one point of the triangle as a forward edge and has 12 small orange lights along its edges. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) [1958, May–July,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 76–77 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3209 ### Event 15064 (535DC786) **Date:** 7/20/1958 **Location:** Hamar, Norway **Description:** Two Bright Rocket-Shaped Objects Nr Navy Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) **Reference:** NICAP: [580720](http://www.nicap.org/580720hamar%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2274 ### Event 15065 (A16D4187) **Date:** 7/20/1958 **Description:** A pilot flying over Crystal Lake in Chicago, Illinois at 5:07 p.m. sighted a white disc-shaped object. The disc appeared to be the size of a basketball, and flew in a straight line. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4231 ### Event 15066 (95038532) **Date:** 7/22/1958 **Time:** 04:20:00.1 **Location:** 11.4961 165.3708 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Juniper” Yield: 65KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_149 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.4961 165.3708", **LatLongDMS:** "11:29:46 N 165:22:15 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.4961,165.3708)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Juniper", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "65" ### Event 15067 (B8046724) **Date:** 7/22/1958 **Time:** 20:30:00.2 **Location:** 11.6633 162.2300 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Olive” Yield: 202KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_150 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6633 162.2300", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:48 N 162:13:48 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6633,162.2300)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Olive", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "202" ### Event 15068 (0BBDF9BE) **Date:** 7/26/1958 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** DURANGO, CO **Description:** Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer(s). Silver sphere going quickly northwest / incredibly fast. Jet noise. ~12km altitude. (UPI) / r28p436. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5951 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1988", **HatchDesc:** "DURANGO,CO:GOC OBS:SLVR SPHERE >>NW/XXFAST:jet noise:~12km alt:(UPI)/r28p436", **LatLong:** "37.266668 -107.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:00 N 107:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.266668,-107.850005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15069 (C89C0421) **Date:** 7/26/1958 **Location:** Durango, CO **Description:** Ground Observer Corps Supervisor spotted a round silvery object moving "at tremendous speed." \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2275 ### Event 15070 (45F4C2FB) **Date:** 7/26/1958 **Time:** 20:30:00.2 **Location:** 11.6561 162.2197 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Pine” Yield: 2000KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_151 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.6561 162.2197", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:22 N 162:13:11 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.6561,162.2197)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Pine", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "2000" ### Event 15071 (41E5A40D) **Date:** 7/29/1958 **Locations:** National Aeronautics and Space Administration; National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics **Description:** The National Aeronautics and Space Administration succeeds the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The new agency is to have a distinctly civilian orientation, encouraging peaceful applications in space science. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[NASA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3210 ### Event 15072 (0F4C2504) **Date:** 7/29/1958 **Location:** Alamogordo, New Mexico **Description:** An Associated Press writer in Alamogordo, New Mexico, sees an abridged version of [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung)’s 1954 letters on UFOs in the APRO Bulletin and jumps to the conclusion that the psychologist believes them to be extraterrestrial in origin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Carl Jung, “[On Unconventional Aerial Objects,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 1, 5; “[Dr. Jung Says ‘Saucers’ Exist: Bars Psychological Explanations,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/07/30/81921973.pdf)” New York Times, July 30, 1958, p. 13; Clark III 637 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3211 ### Event 15073 (6AB802C1) **Date:** 7/30/1958 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** UTRECH-WEST, NTHL **Description:** Blazing grey disk hovers. Dims. Shoots away / incredibly fast. / Disk Digest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 387) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5952 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "UTRECH-WEST,NTHL:BLAZING GREY DISK HVRS:DIMS:SHOOTS AWAY/XXFAST:/Disk Digest", **LatLong:** "52.100002 5.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:06:00 N 05:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.100002,5.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15074 (14A87E80) **Date:** 7/30/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ST. J.BAPTISTE / ROUVILLE, QB **Description:** Domed saucer tilts and follows terrain. Stops / lake / 5 minute(s). Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5953 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "St.J.BAPTISTE/ROUVILLE,QB:DOMED SCR TILTS+FOLOS TERRAIN:STOPS/LAKE/5min:XFAST", **LatLong:** "45.516669 -73.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:31:00 N 73:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.516669,-73.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15075 (0CE369B9) **Date:** 7/30/1958 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** NORTH / CAMAS, WA **Description:** 2 / car and separate observer(s). Radio fades.. beeps! Black object hovers / roadside. 2 red beams. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 384) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5954 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "N/CAMAS,WA:2/CAR+SEP.OBS:RADIO FADES..BEEPS!:BLK OBJ HVRS/ROADSIDE:2 RED BEAMS", **LatLong:** "45.616669 -122.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:37:00 N 122:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.616669,-122.400006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15076 (CAC6C068) **Date:** 7/30/1958 **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) writes [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) back, saying he has “always been convinced that UFO’s were nothing more than reports of airplanes, balloons, astronomical phenomena, etc.” He says he is not being intimidated, he is just not interested in UFOs anymore and too busy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “[The Forgotten Correspondence of](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Edward J. Ruppelt: The Story behind](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf)” p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3212 ### Event 15077 (C11F63A1) **Date:** 7/30/1958 **Location:** UK House of Commons **Description:** MP [George Chetwynd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FChetwynd) presses further questions in the UK House of Commons by asking the Secretary of State for Air [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) what action is taken to identify unexplained UFOs. Ward replies that the unidentified reports are “not sufficiently precise.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More Questions in House of Commons,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CSep-Oct%2CV%204%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1958\): iv; Good Above, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3213 ### Event 15078 (6EE43883) **Date:** 8/1958 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** LAKE PLACID, NY **Description:** 3 observer(s). Metallic blimp going south against strong wind. Absolute(ly) silent. No fins. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 733) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5955 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "566", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE PLACID,NY:3 OBS:MTLC BLIMP >S AGAINST STRONG WIND:ABS SLNT:NO FINS:", **LatLong:** "44.294447 -73.994448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:17:40 N 73:59:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.294447,-73.994448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15079 (EC25E2BA) **Date:** 8/1958 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** KUCHING, MALAYSIA **Description:** 5 observer(s). Orange sphere hovers and pulses. Going down [to] into forest. Army finds nothing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5956 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Malaysia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KUCHING,MALAYSIA:5 OBS:ORG SPHERE HVRS+PULSES:↓ INTO FOREST:ARMY FINDS NOTHING", **LatLong:** "1.533333 110.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "01:32:00 N 110:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.533333,110.333339)", **State/Prov:** "SWK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15080 (16BB2A82) **Date:** 8/1958 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MULHACEN PEAK, SP **Description:** 3 observer(s). 8M rocket rests / 3 legs. Going south overhead toward(s) Africa. / FSRv17#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5957 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "MULHACEN PEAK,SP:3 OBS:8M ROCKET RESTS/3 LEGS:>S OVHD twrd AFRICA:/FSRv17#4", **LatLong:** "37.055557 -3.305556", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:20 N 03:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.055557,-3.305556)", **State/Prov:** "Grenada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15081 (A5159FC3) **Date:** 8/1958 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** TRIESTE, ITL **Description:** 2 kids. 25M domed saucer. White steady light and 2 colored beams going down. 500M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5958 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TRIESTE,ITL:2 KIDS:25M DOMED SCR:WHT STEADY LITE+2 CLRD BEAMS ↓:500M alt", **LatLong:** "45.650002 13.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:00 N 13:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.650002,13.766667)", **State/Prov:** "TS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15082 (9E392C12) **Date:** 8/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BOYANG CO, JIANGXI, CH **Description:** Big panic. Round object low and slow. Shoots blue-beams. / r208p39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5959 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOYANG co,JIANGXI,CH:BIG PANIC:RND OBJ LO+SLO:SHOOTS BLU-BEAMS:/r208p39", **LatLong:** "29.033335 116.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "29:02:00 N 116:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.033335,116.700006)", **State/Prov:** "Jianxi", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15083 (8D91F064) **Date:** 8/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** MARYVILLE, TN **Description:** 4 observer(s). Glowing disk going down. 2nd and 3rd join from low altitude. Complex maneuvers. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 443) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5960 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "286", **HatchDesc:** "MARYVILLE,TN:4 OBS:GLO DISK ↓:2nd+3rd JOIN from lo alt:COMPLEX MNVRS:>>E", **LatLong:** "35.750002 -83.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:45:00 N 83:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.750002,-83.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15084 (25CD9F79) **Date:** 8/1958 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** SOUTHEAST OTTAWA, ON **Description:** 2 observer(s). Huge flattened sphere going southeast. Stops / 60 seconds. Going quickly south. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 733) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5961 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "116", **HatchDesc:** "SE OTTAWA,ON:2 OBS:HUGE FLATTENED SPHERE > SE:STOPS/60secs:>>S:ABS SLNT", **LatLong:** "45.366669 -75.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "45:22:00 N 75:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.366669,-75.666670)", **RelAlt:** "1400", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15085 (624B8BB8) **Date:** 8/1958 **Locations:** Warsaw; Świdnica; Poland **Description:** Polish Air Force pilot Apoloniusz Czernów of the 3rd Fighter Regiment in Warsaw, is returning from an attempted balloon interception in the area around Świdnica, Poland. Flying at 26,000 feet, he sees another possible balloon 9 miles away at a height of 3,200 feet and turns his MiG-17 toward it. But when he approaches it, he sees it is a cigar-shaped object tilted at a 45° angle, silvery-orange in color, and pulsating with a weird light. He gets closer and the object ascends at high speed, heads north, changes to orange-red, and disappears. Base radar has detected nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 63–64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3214 ### Event 15086 (74779D5F) **Date:** 8/1/1958 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** BENTLEYVILLE, PA **Description:** 3 observer(s). 2 40cm disks / low altitude stop / several minutes. Circle away going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 401) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5962 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "BENTLEYVILLE,PA:3 OBS:2 40cm DISKS/LO alt STOP/SVRL MINUTES:CIRCLE AWAY >>NE", **LatLong:** "40.116669 -80.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:00 N 80:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.116669,-80.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15087 (B5661C8A) **Date:** 8/1/1958 **Time:** 10:50:05.6 **Location:** 16.7439 -169.5333 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Teak” Yield: 3800KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_152 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "16.7439 -169.5333", **LatLongDMS:** "16:44:38 N 169:32:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/16.7439,-169.5333)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-76.81", **NukeName:** "Teak", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "3800" ### Event 15088 (6581AA29) **Date:** 8/1/1958 **Locations:** Johnston Atoll; North Pacific Ocean; Hawaii **Description:** The Teak thermonuclear test, part of Operation Hardtack I, is launched from Johnston Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean and carries a payload of 3.8 megatons. The warhead is carried on a Redstone missile, which has a “program failure,” causing it to go straight up and detonate directly above the island. In a sanitized film record of the event, men in flip-flops and shorts can be seen ducking for cover as a phenomenal fireball consumes the sky overhead. During the Teak test, all crew on and around Johnston Atoll are given protective eyewear to prevent flash blindness from the explosion. Besides the hazard of blindness, thermal radiation is another concern—even at an altitude of 50 miles. A crew member on Johnston at the time is said to have received a slight sunburn from the amount of thermal radiation that had reached the island. While only slight to the crew member, it creates issues for the local fauna. Many birds are seen in distress. Unsure if this is caused by blindness or thermal radiation, the project members decide to take precautions to protect local wildlife during the next test. The explosion can be seen from Hawaii 806 miles away and is said to be visible for almost half an hour. After the explosion, high- frequency, long-distance communication is interrupted across the Pacific. Due to this failure, Johnston Atoll personnel are unable to contact their superiors to advise of the test results until about 8 hours after the detonation. The detonation disturbs [Wernher Von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) so greatly that he leaves the island shortly after comms are restored. The explosion causes the blue sky to turn red, white, and gray, and it creates an aurora 2,100 miles long along the geomagnetic meridian. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Hardtack I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FHardtack%5FI\#Teak)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 170–171](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/170/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3215 ### Event 15089 (E5ED25F2) **Date:** 8/3/1958 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** ROMA AND MORE/OTHERS, ITL **Description:** Power outage as fireball going southeast. AOK after. / r242p75+/ r79+/ r142#4p1+/ r98#65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FALLA, GEOFFREY: VEHICLE INTERFERENCE PROJECT. BUFORA Ltd. 1979. C.F. Lockwood & A.R. Rice editors. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5963 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ROMA++,ITL:PWR OUTAGE as FBL > SE:AOK AFTER:/r242p75+/r79+/r142#4p1+/r98#65", **LatLong:** "41.916669 12.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "41:55:00 N 12:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.916669,12.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Rome", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15090 (E77D9A67) **Date:** 8/3/1958 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Luminous UFO observed passing overhead as city lights failed; one report of car radio failure (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2276 ### Event 15091 (A0BD9BBA) **Date:** 8/3/1958 **Locations:** Rome, Italy; Sgurgola; Rieti; Naples **Description:** 2:25 a.m. A sudden violet-orange brightness illuminates the sky over Rome, Italy, for about 3 seconds. Lights in the city dim, failing completely in some areas. Physician Angelo Corsi witnesses it 37 miles southeast of Rome in Sgurgola. After his car radio fails, and the house and streetlights go out, he sees a long whitish trail like a fan in the sky. At 2:22 a.m., in Rieti a sergeant and some guards see a yellow-green cigar-shaped object moving rapidly toward the southeast. It leaves a luminous trail that lights up roads, mountains, and houses for several seconds. A similar sight is seen in Naples. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 142–143; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 1, 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3216 ### Event 15092 (C0EEBD63) **Date:** 8/4/1958 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, MT **Description:** Air Force guard. Large featureless silver delta/triangle/box-like craft-wing whistles going north straight and level. RADAR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 404) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5964 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1075", **HatchDesc:** "MALMSTROM AFB,MT:AF GUARD:LRG FEATURELESS SLVR DLT-WING WHISTLES >N S/L:RDR", **LatLong:** "47.516669 -111.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:31:00 N 111:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.516669,-111.183339)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15093 (FD61C8AE) **Date:** 8/4/1958 **Location:** Malmstrom AFB, MT **Description:** (McDonald list) Delta Craft Observed & Tracked On Radar At Key Base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580804](http://www.nicap.org/580804malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2277 ### Event 15094 (7F2A4761) **Date:** 8/6/1958 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Quince” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_153 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Quince", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 15095 (E076F4D5) **Date:** 8/8/1958 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** WEST / BOLIVAR, ARG **Description:** Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Domed saucer 300M away. Going quickly south. Missing time. / r215p50+/ r156#17+/ r27+/ r3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 429) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5965 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "W/BOLIVAR,ARG:CAR EMEs:DOMED SCR 300M AWAY:>>S:MST:/r215p50+/r156#17+/r27+/r3", **LatLong:** "-36.250002 -61.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:15:00 S 61:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.250002,-61.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15096 (72CE331A) **Date:** 8/8/1958 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** 12+observer(s). 35+night lights and disks going southeast in formation. Silent maneuvers / low altitude. / NICAP v1#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 427) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5966 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1351", **HatchDesc:** "ALAMOGORDO,NM:12+OBS:35+NLTS+DISKS >SE/FORMn:SLNT MNVRS/lo alt:/NICAP v1#5", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -105.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 105:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-105.983338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15097 (A2B51E10) **Date:** 8/8/1958 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** FLAT ROCK, MI **Description:** 32+separate observer(s). Dull silver saucer 30M away / 60M altitude. Beams going down. Going quickly southwest. / r161p116. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5967 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "192", **HatchDesc:** "FLAT ROCK,MI:32+SEP.OBS:DULL SLVR SCR 30M away/60M alt:BEAMS↓:>>SW:/r161p116", **LatLong:** "42.094446 -83.294448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:05:40 N 83:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.094446,-83.294448)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15098 (EBF778E2) **Date:** 8/8/1958 **Locations:** Ky.; Mass.; N.Y.; Mont. **Description:** An informal two-hour hearing on UFOs is held by the House Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena, chaired by Rep. [William Natcher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FNatcher) \(D-Ky.\), which is part of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, chaired by Rep. [John W. McCormack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FMcCormack) \(D-Mass.\). Although McCormack wants an extended hearing in closed secret session, unrecorded, ATIC Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) persuades him to allow the Air Force to give a briefing, while allowing people like [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel), [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), and [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) to offer their opinions later. NICAP as a whole should be excluded, he emphasizes. The main witnesses turn out to be Gregory and Maj. [Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker). The subcommittee, which also includes [Kenneth Keating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FKeating) \(R-N.Y.\) and [Lee Metcalf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) \(D-Mont.\), commends Gregory for his presentation on Project Blue Book’s “improved” methods. The hearings were to have been extended to the following week, but they decide to call no more witnesses at the suggestion of scientific consultant Dr. [Charles S.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/09/12/charles-sheldon-ii-dies/904f7180-198d-4a93-82ac-ff28c700b9e0/) [Sheldon II](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/09/12/charles-sheldon-ii-dies/904f7180-198d-4a93-82ac-ff28c700b9e0/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/09/12/charles-sheldon-ii-dies/904f7180-198d-4a93-82ac-ff28c700b9e0/) who thus maneuvers Keyhoe out of appearing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 5–27; Swords 277–279 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3217 ### Event 15099 (E9D47307) **Date:** 8/8/1958 **Description:** At 1:27 a.m. an official of the Argentine National Senate experienced a complete car failure, including his dashboard clock, when he saw a domed disc-shaped object 300 meters away while driving on the highway between Unsue and Bolivar, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. The object made a soft whistling sound. It approached the car, then climbed away rapidly, after which the car could be restarted. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4770 ### Event 15100 (D46670B8) **Date:** 8/9/1958 **Description:** [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung) issues a denial to the Associated Press about his “extraterrestrial” statement, saying that witnesses are “in need of fantasy.” He thinks “something is being seen,” but his interest is more in what they think they are seeing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Dr. Jung Says Flying Saucers Are a New ‘Savior Myth,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94531153/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 9, 1958, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3218 ### Event 15101 (384B93B5) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** OLEAN, NY **Description:** Separate / observer(s). Grey "amoeba" shape going [to] by / 15 second(s). Silver dots inside dark "eyes". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 435) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5968 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "422", **HatchDesc:** "OLEAN,NY:SEP/OBS:GRY "AMOEBA" SHAPE > BY/15sec:SLVR DOTS INSIDE DRK "EYES"", **LatLong:** "42.077780 -78.427782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:04:40 N 78:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.077780,-78.427782)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15102 (779335B6) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** CHAUTAUQUA LAKE, NY **Description:** Engineering Professor. Circle / night lights seem attached. Other night lights. / r64p58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5969 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "75", **Elev:** "504", **HatchDesc:** "CHAUTAUQUA LAKE,NY:ENGINEERING PROF:CCL/NLTS SEEM ATTACHED:OTHER NLTS:/r64p58", **LatLong:** "42.183335 -79.427782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:11:00 N 79:25:40 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.183335,-79.427782)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15103 (D586535E) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Location:** Osel Island and Gulf of Finland, At Sea **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2278 ### Event 15104 (EA0B40A8) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Location:** Chautauqua Lake, NY **Description:** Engineering professor observed unidentified lights arranged as if on oval object. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2279 ### Event 15105 (DC3420C6) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Locations:** Johnston Atoll; Hawaii **Description:** The Orange thermonuclear test is launched by Redstone missile from Johnston Atoll with a yield of 3.8 megatons. Although Orange is visible from Hawaii, it is not the great spectacle Teak had been. The light from the 28-mile-high blast is visible for about 5 minutes, but does not cause a large communication interruption; however, some commercial flights to Hawaii are said to have lost contact with air traffic controllers for a short period of time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Hardtack I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FHardtack%5FI\#Orange)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3219 ### Event 15106 (C996C4BF) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Locations:** Lima, Peru; Europe **Description:** Betty Jane Williamson dies in Lima, Peru, when her husband [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) is on a lecture tour in Europe. Her death is caused by malnutrition generated by an alternative diet regimen. [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) later circulates an outrageously false accusation that Williamson killed Betty by pushing her off a cliff, but the charge is a complete fabrication. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1286; James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 137–138; Jerome Clark, “The Trivialist,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 15–19, 29–30; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 117, 123–124 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3220 ### Event 15107 (C92046FD) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Description:** At 3:45 p.m. a gray "amoeba" shape flew by Orlean, New York in 15 seconds; there were silver dots inside dark "eyes" according to the separate witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: August, p. 37 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4864 ### Event 15108 (68E66C3C) **Date:** 8/11/1958 **Description:** A procession of four or five flying objects passed over Chautauqua Lake, New York beginning at around nine o'clock in the evening and continuing until 10:30 p.m. An engineering professor reported seeing a circle of nocturnal lights that seemed to be attached, plus other NLs. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1958, p. 2; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 58; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5460 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4865 ### Event 15109 (E82EAB71) **Date:** 8/12/1958 **Time:** 11:50? **Location:** 12 MI NORTHWEST / LAS VEGAS, NV **Description:** Diffuse glowing-ball goes going up and down. Hovers / treetop level. Shoots off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5970 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "602", **HatchDesc:** "12mi NW/LAS VEGAS,NV:DIFFUSE GLO-BALL GOES ↑+↓:HOVRS/TREETOP LEVEL:SHOOTS OFF", **LatLong:** "36.283335 -115.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:17:00 N 115:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.283335,-115.200005)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15110 (43E37A01) **Date:** 8/12/1958 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** Electrical engineer and family. Small ovoid going south / low altitude. Air-rushing sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 705) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5971 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1351", **HatchDesc:** "ALAMOGORDO,NM:ELECTR.ENGINEER+FAMILY:SML OVOID >S/LO alt:AIR-RUSHING SOUND:", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -105.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 105:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-105.950005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15111 (48516BE7) **Date:** 8/12/1958 **Location:** Las Vegas (12 miles NW of), NV **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2280 ### Event 15112 (B83DA627) **Date:** 8/12/1958 **Time:** 10:30:08.6 **Location:** 16.3583 -169.5356 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Orange” Yield: 3800KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_154 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "16.3583 -169.5356", **LatLongDMS:** "16:21:30 N 169:32:08 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/16.3583,-169.5356)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-42.98", **NukeName:** "Orange", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "3800" ### Event 15113 (C33CF006) **Date:** 8/12/1958 **Description:** A small ovoid object was sighted by an electrical engineer and his family as it flew to the south at a low altitude at 9:30 p.m. over Alamagordo, New Mexico. A sound of rushing air was heard. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September 1958 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4937 ### Event 15114 (0A953397) **Date:** 8/16/1958 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** LAKE LEMAN, SWZ **Description:** Silent 10M saucer going down / 15M / lake. Windows / dome. Spins and jumps. / r96#200. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 469) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5972 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE LEMAN,SWZ:SLNT 10M SCR ↓/15M/LAKE:WINDOWS/DOME:SPINS+JUMPS:/r96#200", **LatLong:** "46.233336 6.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:14:00 N 06:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.233336,6.083334)", **State/Prov:** "GNV", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15115 (EDBD0EDC) **Date:** 8/16/1958 **Time:** 1700 **Location:** Leman Lake, Switzerland **Description:** A dozen people out on the lake in perfect weather saw a bright light coming down. They stopped their boat as it came to hover about 15 m above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 m in diameter, with a cabin showing several windows on top. The outer disk below the cabin was spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was created. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in mid-air, the craft flew off at "unbelievable" speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_469 ### Event 15116 (D0BF3F06) **Date:** 8/16/1958 **Location:** Lake Geneva, Switzerland **Description:** Around 5:00 p.m. Several persons on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, watch a bright light descending. It comes to hover about 45 feet above their boat. It is saucer-shaped, about 39 feet in diameter, and has a cabin on top with several windows. It causes a noticeable current in the water. After several leaps in the air, it flies off at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [p. 272](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/272/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3221 ### Event 15117 (ECDD4966) **Date:** 8/16/1958 **Description:** A dozen people were out on Leman Lake in Switzerland in perfect weather at five o'clock in the afternoon when they saw a bright light coming down toward the lake. They stopped their boat as it came to hover about 15 meters above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 meters in diameter, and had a cabin with several windows showing on top. The outer disc below the cabin was spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was created on the surface. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in mid-air, the craft flew off at "unbelievable" speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 469, citing Aime Michel **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5073 ### Event 15118 (EDFB2CCD) **Date:** 8/17/1958 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** KANSAS CITY, KS **Description:** Classic domed saucer with portholes chases jets around and hovers. / r78p182. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 147) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5973 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "KANSAS CITY,KS:CLASSIC DOMED SCR W/PORTHOLES CHASES JETS AROUND+HVRS:/r78p182", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -94.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 94:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-94.633338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15119 (3552B7AF) **Date:** 8/17/1958 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** WARREN, MI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #5999. 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. 20m saucer stops. Going NNE. Flips and going quickly [to] WSW. / r70p3-58+/ r59p175. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 437) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5974 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "189", **HatchDesc:** "WARREN,MI:BBK#5999:1/BINOCS:20m SCR STOPS:> NNE:FLIPS+>>WSW:/r70p3-58+/r59p175", **LatLong:** "42.466669 -83.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:28:00 N 83:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.466669,-83.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15120 (1E0745B4) **Date:** 8/17/1958 **Location:** Kansas City, KS **Description:** Dome-shaped disc with "portholes" followed jets, hovered. \[NICAP, XII\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2281 ### Event 15121 (C1AFE9DD) **Date:** 8/17/1958 **Location:** Warren, MI **Description:** Extremely bright object shaped first like a bell, then a saucer (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5999) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2282 ### Event 15122 (AA721BFE) **Date:** 8/17/1958 **Time:** 7:05 PM **Location:** Warren, Michigan **Description:** Witness: A.D. Chisholm. One extremely bright object shaped first like a bell, then like a saucer, hovered for 5 minutes, flipped over and sped away to the west-south-west. Sighting lasted 6-10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_428 ### Event 15123 (55014077) **Date:** 8/17/1958 **Description:** At 7:05 p.m. in Warren, Michigan Mr. A. D. Chisholm observed an extremely bright UFO shaped first like a bell and then like a saucer. When maneuvering it seemed shaped like a fried egg. It gave the impression of a huge size at extreme range. It was much brighter than Venus, at 70 degrees elevation. It hovered for five minutes, then flipped over and sped away to the west-southwest. The sighting lasted 6-10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 5999; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 71; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 100 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5110 ### Event 15124 (25F40344) **Date:** 8/18/1958 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** NEAR HAMMONTON, NJ **Description:** 3 / car. 6M ovoid follows road / very low altitude. Glows. Stops. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 438) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5975 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "nr HAMMONTON,NJ:3/CAR:6M OVOID FOLOS ROAD/VLO alt:GLOWS:STOPS:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "39.633335 -74.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:38:00 N 74:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.633335,-74.800004)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15125 (B3861C43) **Date:** 8/18/1958 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** TABACAL, ARG **Description:** Several sugar plantation. Disk crosses sky going quickly south descending. Violet trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 709) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5976 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "286", **HatchDesc:** "TABACAL,ARG:SVRL SUGAR PLANTATION:DISK CROSSES SKY >>S DESCENDING:VIOLET TRAIL", **LatLong:** "-23.266668 -64.250003", **LatLongDMS:** "23:16:00 S 64:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.266668,-64.250003)", **State/Prov:** "SLT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15126 (49CA6D67) **Date:** 8/18/1958 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** BELLS CORNERS, ON **Description:** 2 observer(s). Patch / blue light / field. Only 1 observer(s) sees small humanoid (or Grey) lying / ground inside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS & CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5977 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "113", **HatchDesc:** "BELLS CORNERS,ON:2 OBS:PATCH/BLU LITE/FLD:only 1 obs sees OID LYING/GND INSIDE", **LatLong:** "45.333335 -75.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:00 N 75:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.333335,-75.816670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15127 (E7E672F9) **Date:** 8/18/1958 **Location:** 11.0000 162.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Fig” Yield: .02KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_155 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.0000 162.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:00:00 N 162:00:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.0000,162.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Fig", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".02" ### Event 15128 (3F0935BD) **Date:** 8/18/1958 **Locations:** 21950 Cunningham Avenue, Warren, Michigan; University of Minnesota **Description:** 7:05 or 7:10 p.m. Typewriter repairman Alex Donald Chisholm is at home at 21950 Cunningham Avenue in Warren, Michigan, with Walter Moilanion and his wife and possibly a young daughter, when he sees a light much brighter than Venus in the vicinity of a flight of four military aircraft. He watches the object through 8x30 mm Japanese artillery-observer field glasses. It looks to be a Saturn-shaped grayish object like a “fried egg in pan.” Later it flips over, and another more elongated ring can be seen surrounding it. The object is about 60 feet long and is stationary for 5-8 minutes. However, the object is probably a Skyhook balloon launched from the University of Minnesota on August 17. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 392; NICAP, \[[case file](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1958%5F08%5F18%5FUS%5FMI%5FWarren%5FChisholm.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3222 ### Event 15129 (0033A177) **Date:** 8/21/1958 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** EAST / NORTH BERGEN, NJ **Description:** 2 teen girls. Rounded delta/triangle/box-like craft going down. Zigzags and maneuvers over marsh. Going quickly south. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 446) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5978 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "E/N.BERGEN,NJ:2 TEEN GIRLS:ROUNDED DLT ↓:ZIGZAGS+MNVRS OVR MARSH:>>S:↑↑", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -73.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 73:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-73.983337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15130 (5DACB8EA) **Date:** 8/22/1958 **Time:** 18:00:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” Yield: 24KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1764 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "24" ### Event 15131 (891E1A0D) **Date:** 8/23/1958? **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** NEAR PEEKSKILL, NY **Description:** 2 IBM programmers abduction / 36 hours. Sperm samples. Observer(s) fear tape drives. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: KENT, Malcom: The TERROR ABOVE US. Tower Books, NY 1967 (Entire PB book: IBM programmers abducted.) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5979 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "48", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "nr PEEKSKILL,NY:2 IBM PROGRAMMERS ABD/36hrs:SPERM SAMPLES:OBS FEAR TAPE DRIVES", **LatLong:** "41.266669 -73.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 N 73:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.266669,-73.883337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15132 (7623A212) **Date:** 8/23/1958 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** CURACAO, WEST INDIES **Description:** KLM airline(s)/airliner man and 1. 8 saucers / 4.5km altitude pass in formation. 3X-4X plane speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 447) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5980 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CURACAO,W.INDIES:KLM AL MAN+1:8 SCRs/4.5km alt PASS/FORMn:3X-4X PLANE SPEED.", **LatLong:** "12.250001 -68.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "12:15:00 N 68:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/12.250001,-68.916670)", **RelAlt:** "4500", **State/Prov:** "DWI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15133 (4DD53BB2) **Date:** 8/24/1958 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** WESTWOOD, NJ **Description:** 2 cops. Orange glowing "pizza" hovers. Going quickly east. / r242p137+/ r78p182+/ r142#4p48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5981 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "WESTWOOD,NJ:2 COPS:ORG.GLO "PIZZA" HVRS:>>E:/r242p137+/r78p182+/r142#4p48", **LatLong:** "40.988891 -74.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:59:20 N 74:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.988891,-74.033337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15134 (748B5977) **Date:** 8/24/1958 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** ATLANTIC / LIBERIAN TANKER 70° 25W-36° 24N **Description:** 1 UFO seen 30-40 second(s). No further details [in] at all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5982 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC/LIBERIAN TANKER 70°25w-36°24N:1 UFO SEEN 30-40 SEC:NFD AT ALL", **LatLong:** "36.700002 -70.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:42:00 N 70:25:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.700002,-70.416670)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15135 (E1AB45C1) **Date:** 8/24/1958 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** BROOK, IN **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brilliant "pie plate" going quickly northeast. Sudden turn going quickly southeast. / Lafayette newspaper. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5983 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "198", **HatchDesc:** "BROOK,IN:2 OBS:BRILL."PIE PLATE" >> NE:SUDDEN TURN >>SE:/Lafayette newspaper", **LatLong:** "40.850002 -87.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:51:00 N 87:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.850002,-87.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15136 (D2E77068) **Date:** 8/24/1958 **Location:** Westwood, NJ **Description:** Police reported a circular, orange UFO which hovered, sped away. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2283 ### Event 15137 (7E5CC18B) **Date:** 8/25/1958 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** SVENDBORG, FYN, DK **Description:** Local official. Huge dark grey cylinder/cigar-shape crosses road / 650kph. No glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 449) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5984 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SVENDBORG,FYN,DK:LOCAL OFFICIAL:HUGE DRK GRY CGR CROSSES ROAD/650kph:no glow", **LatLong:** "55.066669 10.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "55:04:00 N 10:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.066669,10.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15138 (A29D6F9C) **Date:** 8/26/1958 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** LYNCHBURG, VA **Description:** 1 observer. Glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape crosses sky extremely fast. Shoots back again. All repeated 3X. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 449) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5985 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "249", **HatchDesc:** "LYNCHBURG,VA:1 OBS:GLO-CGR CROSSES SKY XFAST:SHOOTS BACK AGAIN:ALL REPEATED 3X", **LatLong:** "37.400002 -79.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "37:24:00 N 79:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.400002,-79.116670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15139 (85A8607B) **Date:** 8/27/1958 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** HILLSBORO, NH **Description:** 4 / car. Big classic saucer passes into woods. Red orange. Silent. Featureless. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 450) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5986 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "177", **HatchDesc:** "HILLSBORO,NH:4/CAR:BIG CLASSIC SCR PASSES INTO WOODS:RED ORG:SLNT:FEATURELESS", **LatLong:** "43.100002 -71.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:00 N 71:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.100002,-71.883337)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15140 (31BF03CF) **Date:** 8/27/1958 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** EDMONTON, ALTA **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Luminous circular object hovers under overcast. Truncated beam going down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 451) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5987 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "660", **HatchDesc:** "EDMONTON,ALTA:MANY SEP.OBS:LUMN.CIRC.OBJ HVRS UNDER OVERCAST:TRUNCATED BEAM ↓", **LatLong:** "53.516669 -113.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "53:31:00 N 113:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.516669,-113.483339)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15141 (CC355877) **Date:** 8/27/1958 **Location:** -38.5000 -11.5000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Argus I” Yield: 1KT YieldMax: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_156 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-38.5000 -11.5000", **LatLongDMS:** "38:30:00 S 11:30:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.5000,-11.5000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Argus I", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1", **NukeYMax:** "2" ### Event 15142 (8EC81F23) **Date:** 8/27/1958 **End date:** 9/6/1958 **Locations:** South Atlantic Ocean; South Africa; Berkeley, California; Livermore branch [now the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory] of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory **Description:** In Operation Argus, three nuclear warheads are launched from X-17 rockets from the deck of the [USS Norton Sound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FNorton%5FSound%5F%28AVM-1%29) in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa. They explode approximately 300 miles into space. The tests are proposed by [Nicholas Christofilos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FChristofilos) in an unpublished paper of the Livermore branch \[now the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\] of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, as a means to verify the Christofilos effect, which argues that high-altitude nuclear detonations will create a radiation belt in the extreme upper regions of the Earth’s atmosphere \(they do create artificial electron belts that persist several weeks\), or an electronic pulse that could hypothetically damage the arming devices on Soviet ICBM warheads \(they do not\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Argus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FArgus)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3223 ### Event 15143 (D5B92D92) **Date:** 8/30/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / EGYPT, PA **Description:** Radio buzz. 2 cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Plain dark 6M blimp going north overhead. Car AOK after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 451) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5988 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "NW/EGYPT,PA:RADIO BUZZ:2 CARS EME:PLAIN DRK 6M BLIMP >N OVHD:CAR AOK AFTER", **LatLong:** "40.700002 -75.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:42:00 N 75:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.700002,-75.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15144 (F5EDF010) **Date:** 8/30/1958 **Location:** Killeen (Gray AFB), TX **Description:** (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Target At 3,300 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580830](http://www.nicap.org/580830gray%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2284 ### Event 15145 (5FB0157C) **Date:** 8/30/1958 **Location:** -49.5000 -8.2000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Argus II” Yield: 1KT YieldMax: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_157 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-49.5000 -8.2000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:30:00 S 08:12:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-49.5000,-8.2000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Argus II", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1", **NukeYMax:** "2" ### Event 15146 (EBC0969C) **Date:** 8/31/1958 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** LA VERDE, ARG **Description:** Private pilot. Engine REVs up. Flat 10M domed saucer quickly going up. / r27p21+/ r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 455) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5989 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "LA VERDE,ARG:Pvt PILOT:ENGINE REVs UP:FLAT 10M DOMED SCR ↑↑:/r27p21+/r150", **LatLong:** "-34.700002 -59.333336", **LatLongDMS:** "34:42:00 S 59:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.700002,-59.333336)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15147 (DA4C162A) **Date:** 8/31/1958 **Location:** La Verde, Arg **Description:** Light aircraft (Piper) engine increased its revolutions abnormally during UFO sighting. Engine normal after UFO left (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2285 ### Event 15148 (99596F9F) **Date:** 8/31/1958 **Description:** Over La Verde, Buenos Aires province, Argentina an airplane's engine increased revolutions when a UFO was sighted. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 21, citing Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jigsaw, p. 214 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5522 ### Event 15149 (AF47FC5E) **Date:** 9/1958 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** POLIGNY, FR **Description:** 20M transparent globe hovers. "Man" / 1 side. Door opens / other side. Figure gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5990 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "POLIGNY,FR:20M XPRNT GLOBE HVRS:"MAN"/1 SIDE:DOOR OPENS/OTHER SIDE:FIG.GONE", **LatLong:** "46.833336 5.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:50:00 N 05:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.833336,5.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Jura", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15150 (167EC5A6) **Date:** 9/1958 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / TAIX, FR **Description:** 1 observer. Red cylinder/cigar-shape follows valley going northwest / 4mn. Contrail. Exact same / 3 weeks later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5991 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "SW/TAIX,FR:1 OBS:RED CGR FOLOS VLY >NW/4mn:CONTRAIL:EXACT SAME/3 WEEKS LATER", **LatLong:** "44.000002 2.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:00:00 N 02:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.000002,2.100000)", **State/Prov:** "Tarn", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15151 (5F1D3A1D) **Date:** 9/1958 **Description:** NICAP fires its office manager, treasurer, and typist Rose Hackett Campbell after she gives membership cards to [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and other contactees. [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) begins work at NICAP as associate editor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Resignations,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 2; “[Richard Hall Becomes Assoc. Editor,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3224 ### Event 15152 (30246A20) **Date:** 9/1958 **Locations:** Caribbean Sea; Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba **Description:** Around 9:00 p.m. The [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) is on a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea out of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, when at least 25 of the 3,000 crew members notice a light following the aircraft carrier. Fireman’s apprentice [Chester C. Grusinski](https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0677-039) watches it as it comes close and sees a cigar-shaped object with portholes and figures inside looking out. Grusinki can feel heat coming from the object, and some of the ship’s power apparently goes out. After a few minutes, the object turns red-orange and takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chester C. Grusinski, “[UFOs Seen by Crew of an American Aircraft Carrier \(1952–1958\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201995%20V%2040%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 40, no. 3 \(Autumn 1995\): 1–4; Gordon Creighton, “[Confirmation of an Important U.S. Naval Sighting,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202001%20V%2046%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 46, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 17–20; Good Need, [pp. 234–236](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/234/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3225 ### Event 15153 (74F2618B) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** WHEELUS AIR FORCE BASE, TRIPOLI, LIBYA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6027. Blue-white sphere/orb/globe grows / nears. Fast. Slow. Stops. Gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5992 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Libya", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "WHEELUS AFB,TRIPOLI,LIBYA:BBK#6027:BLU-WHT ORB GROWS/NEARS:FAST:SLO:STOPS:GONE", **LatLong:** "32.783335 13.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 13:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,13.183334)", **State/Prov:** "TRP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15154 (19E54A41) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** BREWSTER, WA **Description:** Cop. 1M saucer / 20M altitude tilts and flashes. Possible electro-magnetic effect (EME). Big USAF investigation/investigators. / r60#311. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 454) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5993 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "BREWSTER,WA:COP:1M SCR/20M alt TILTS+FLASHES:POSS.EME:BIG USAF INV:/r60#311", **LatLong:** "48.083336 -119.777783", **LatLongDMS:** "48:05:00 N 119:46:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.083336,-119.777783)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15155 (75C24370) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** GOUZON, 23, FR **Description:** Odd lights. Motorcycle stops. 7M saucer passes overhead. Going quickly [to] Chambon. Grey trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5994 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOUZON,23,FR:ODD LITES:MCYCLE STOPS:7M SCR PASSES OVHD:>>CHAMBON:GREY TRAIL", **LatLong:** "46.200002 2.238889", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:00 N 02:14:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.200002,2.238889)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15156 (0E1BCF68) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / LAVAL, FR **Description:** 20M double-cone saucer. 20 windows. Hovers 10M / ground. Jet sound. / Oeste France. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 470) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5995 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NE/LAVAL,FR:20M DBL-CONE SCR:20 WINDOWS:HVRS 10M/GND:JET SOUND:/Oeste France", **LatLong:** "48.133336 -0.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:00 N 00:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.133336,-0.666667)", **State/Prov:** "MYN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15157 (9455B0DC) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Location:** Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, N. Africa **Description:** A round, blue-white object fly at varying speeds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6027) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2286 ### Event 15158 (3F9537D6) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Laval, France **Description:** About 11 km before Laval, a businessman coming from Paris suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 m above ground, to the left of the road, 150 m away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and showed two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed about 20 m wide, metallic, with a light similar to that of a red traffic light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and maneuvered to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard. The object rose very slowly, flew off faster climbing out of sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 119 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_470 ### Event 15159 (DC8C980D) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Time:** 12:15 AM **Location:** Wheelus AFB, Libya **Description:** Witness: Philco technical representative A.M. Slaton. One round, blue-white object flew at varying speeds. First sighting lasted 2 minutes, second lasted 1.5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_429 ### Event 15160 (9E370C27) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Description:** At 12:15 a.m. A. M. Slaton, a Philco technical representative working as a government contractor, sighted a round, bluish-white object at Wheelus AFB, Libya. It was flying at varying speeds. His first sighting lasted two minutes and the second lasted 1.5 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5552 ### Event 15161 (3A82E15E) **Date:** 9/1/1958 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m., about 11 km before reaching Laval, France a businessman driving from Paris suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 meters above ground to the left of the road. It was about 150 meters away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and had two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed about 20 meters wide, metallic, with a light similar to a red traffic light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and maneuver his car to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard. The object rose very slowly, and then flew off faster climbing out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 470 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5553 ### Event 15162 (3FC6D9AB) **Date:** 9/2/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** DOCELLES, FR **Description:** Violent blue-white flashes. 4 deep rectangular traces 5M apart / dirt / r30p237. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5996 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DOCELLES,FR:VIOLENT BLU-WHT FLASHES:4 DEEP RECT.TRACES 5M APART/DIRT /r30p237", **LatLong:** "48.138891 6.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:08:20 N 06:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.138891,6.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15163 (35791084) **Date:** 9/2/1958 **Time:** 17:24:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” Yield: 1000KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1765 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "1000" ### Event 15164 (CB50CB88) **Date:** 9/2/1958 **Description:** At nine o'clock several violent bluish-white flashes were seen at ground level in Docelles, France. The next day four deep rectangular imprints were found in the ground at the site. The imprints were five meters apart, and arranged in a square. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5567 ### Event 15165 (F228972E) **Date:** 9/5/1958 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** ATLANTIC / PAA FLIGHT **Description:** 68° 56W-29° 03N. RADAR-visual (observation). Bright night light going west. Blue Book. No further details. / UFOCAT. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5997 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC/PAA FLITE:68°56W-29°03N:RDR-VIS:BRITE NLT >W:BBK:NFD:/ufocat", **LatLong:** "29.050001 -68.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "29:03:00 N 68:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.050001,-68.933337)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15166 (AB5734F1) **Date:** 9/5/1958 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NORTH FUNEN ISL., DK **Description:** Girl / motorbike / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Small strong night light going down / 1M altitude. 90° turn. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5998 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N.FUNEN Isl.,DK:GIRL/MOTORBIKE/EMEs:SML STRONG NLT ↓/1M alt:90°TURN:sep.obs", **LatLong:** "55.500003 10.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "55:30:00 N 10:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.500003,10.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15167 (61B6FDE4) **Date:** 9/5/1958 **Location:** Atlantic (at 29° 3' N, 68°56' W)., At Sea **Description:** Pan Am Pilot Observes Object / Tracked By Airborne Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580905](http://www.nicap.org/580905atlantic%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2287 ### Event 15168 (5916B927) **Date:** 9/6/1958 **Location:** -48.5000 -9.7000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Argus III” Yield: 1KT YieldMax: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_158 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "-48.5000 -9.7000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:30:00 S 09:42:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-48.5000,-9.7000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Argus III", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1", **NukeYMax:** "2" ### Event 15169 (A7E8B992) **Date:** 9/7/1958 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** MISSION, KS **Description:** Publisher and 1. White disc speeds overhead southwest going quickly northeast. Over horizon / 15 second(s). Distinct. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5999 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "MISSION,KS:PUBLISHER+1:WHT DISC SPEEDS OVHD SW>>NE:OVR HRZN/15sec:DISTINCT", **LatLong:** "39.027780 -94.655560", **LatLongDMS:** "39:01:40 N 94:39:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.027780,-94.655560)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15170 (618FC30C) **Date:** 9/7/1958 **Location:** Minot (Miles City AFS, Ellsworth AFB), ND **Description:** Uncorrelated Targets Vanish When A/C Approached (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580907](http://www.nicap.org/580907milescity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2288 ### Event 15171 (613BF9A1) **Date:** 9/7/1958 **Location:** Mission, KS **Description:** Publisher saw white disc speed overhead. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2289 ### Event 15172 (64BC2B2D) **Date:** 9/8/1958 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, NE **Description:** 25 / USAF. Contrail = cylinder/cigar-shape. Black dots exit and orbit. / MJ#195+r71p112+/ r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 459) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6000 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "319", **HatchDesc:** "OFFUTT AFB,NE:25/USAF:CONTRAIL=CGR:BLK DOTS EXIT+ORBIT:/MJ#195+r71p112+/r242", **LatLong:** "41.122224 -95.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:07:20 N 95:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.122224,-95.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15173 (934B6DB3) **Date:** 9/8/1958 **Location:** SAC HQ, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE **Description:** Offutt air traffic control tower personnel, saw an brilliantly white elongated cylindrical object hovering in the W (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2290 ### Event 15174 (088FB856) **Date:** 9/8/1958 **Locations:** Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska; Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo, California **Description:** 6:40 p.m. At Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska, SAC Operations Officer Maj. [Paul A. Duich](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43844001/paul-a-duich)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43844001/paul-a-duich) plus several officers from USAF Ballistic Missiles Division, Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo, California; many other air base officers and airmen; and Offutt air traffic control tower personnel see a brilliant-white, elongated, cylindrical object hovering in the west just after sunset. The object is oriented vertically with the blunter end highest. After several minutes, the object turns dull orange-red and becomes sharper in outline. A swarm of about 10 “black specks” appears to “cavort” around the lower end of the object for about one minute before disappearing. Then the cylindrical object begins to rotate counterclockwise and starts drifting slowly to the south from due west and drops in elevation angle over about 5 minutes. During the final 5-minute observation, the object continues angular descent and gradually decreases in angular size, but it begins rotating clockwise until it disappears by fading into the slight atmospheric haze. A USAF colonel takes several color photos with a 35mm camera on a tripod but later claims nothing came out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 59–63; UFOEv, [pp. 25](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=37&skin=2021), [27](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=39&skin=2021); Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 5–6; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 265; Swords 280 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3226 ### Event 15175 (F80C84EF) **Date:** 9/8/1958 **Description:** Air Force Major Duich and several others at Offutt AFB, Nebraska saw a rocket-like UFO with a group of satellite objects for 20 minutes at 6:40 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 4; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 127, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5755 ### Event 15176 (B08F7279) **Date:** 9/11/1958 **Time:** 17:48:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” Yield: 800KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1766 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "800" ### Event 15177 (920C40F7) **Date:** 9/12/1958 **Time:** 20:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.0500 -116.0319 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Otero” Yield: .038KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_159 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0500 -116.0319", **LatLongDMS:** "37:03:00 N 116:01:55 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0500,-116.0319)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Otero", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".038" ### Event 15178 (B325E59B) **Date:** 9/12/1958 **Locations:** Nevada Test Site; Area 51 **Description:** The Operation Hardtack II series of 37 nuclear tests takes place at the Nevada Test Site through October 30, all within 18 miles of Area 51. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Hardtack II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FHardtack%5FII)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3227 ### Event 15179 (63FA6D41) **Date:** 9/14/1958 **Location:** Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya **Description:** Unidentified Returns on GCI Scope (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580914](http://www.nicap.org/580914tripoli%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2291 ### Event 15180 (2684E42B) **Date:** 9/16/1958 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** EL PORTEZUELO, ARG **Description:** Cops and more/others. Disk / high altitude clearly seen. Going southwest. No further details. / El Tribuno, Salta. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 709) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6001 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1200", **HatchDesc:** "El PORTEZUELO,ARG:COPS++:DISK/HI ALT CLEARLY SEEN:>SW:NFD:/El Tribuno,Salta.", **LatLong:** "-24.833335 -65.483336", **LatLongDMS:** "24:50:00 S 65:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.833335,-65.483336)", **State/Prov:** "SLT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15181 (8370F1A4) **Date:** 9/17/1958 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** ATLANTIC 48° 00W-35° 00N MILITARY OBSERVER(S) **Description:** 1 UFO / 2 minute(s). No further details [in] at all. Project Bluebook Case #unknown. ? / r246p134? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6002 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC 48°00W-35°00N MIL OBS:1 UFO/2min:NFD AT ALL:BBK#UNK::?/r246p134?", **LatLong:** "35.000002 -48.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 N 48:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.000002,-48.000002)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15182 (FF767B31) **Date:** 9/17/1958 **Time:** 19:30:00.2 **Location:** 37.0494 -116.0330 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Bernalillo” Yield: .015KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_160 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0494 -116.0330", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:58 N 116:01:59 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0494,-116.0330)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Bernalillo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".015" ### Event 15183 (F91C8D37) **Date:** 9/19/1958 **Time:** 14:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Eddy” Yield: .083KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_161 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Eddy", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".083" ### Event 15184 (643F0E51) **Date:** 9/20/1958 **Location:** RIJEN, NETHL **Description:** Man / motorcycle / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Dull red 25M disk / 75M altitude. Light humming. AOK after. / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 465) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6003 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RIJEN,NETHL:MAN/MCYCLE/EMEs:DULL RED 25M DISK/75M alt:LITE HUM:AOK AFTER:/r171", **LatLong:** "51.577780 4.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:34:40 N 04:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.577780,4.916667)", **RelAlt:** "75", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15185 (4B049EFD) **Date:** 9/21/1958 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** SHEFFIELD LAKE, OH **Description:** Separate observer(s). 6M saucer hovers 5' altitude. Wobbles and smokes. / MJ#245+/ r142#5p45. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6004 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "SHEFFIELD LAKE,OH:SEP.OBS:6M SCR HVRS 5'alt:WOBBLES+SMOKES:/MJ#245+/r142#5p45", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -82.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 82:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-82.116671)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15186 (6FAA4C82) **Date:** 9/21/1958 **Location:** Sheffield Lake, OH **Description:** Woman inside her house saw a circular, aluminum color flat object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2292 ### Event 15187 (4A26ACBC) **Date:** 9/21/1958 **Time:** 0300 **Location:** Sheffield Lake, Ohio **Description:** A circular, flat object, 7 m in diameter, 2 m thick, hovering 1.5 m above ground, and making a jetlike sound was seen from a house by a civilian woman. Its color was that of aluminum; it had a wobbling motion and emitted gray smoke before rising again and taking off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_471 ### Event 15188 (109C9159) **Date:** 9/21/1958 **Time:** 19:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.0492 -116.0336 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Luna” Yield: .0015KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_162 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0492 -116.0336", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:57 N 116:02:01 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0492,-116.0336)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Luna", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".0015" ### Event 15189 (D4EDE06F) **Date:** 9/21/1958 **Location:** Sheffield Lake, Ohio **Description:** 3:00 a.m. Mrs. William H. Fitzgerald of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, sees through her east-facing bedroom window a metallic domed disc, 12–22 feet in diameter and 6 feet thick. It sweeps in over the front lawn heading north and descending in a falling-leaf oscillating motion to about 6 feet altitude, then crosses over her driveway, and stops for several seconds about 40 feet away. It then reverses course heading south and hovers 5 feet above the lawn about 25 feet away, making a jetlike sound. The object wobbles and emits gray smoke, makes two tight clockwise turns, then rises and takes off straight up over the house towards the east. Her 10-year-old son also observes the event from another room. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[12ʹ Diameter 6ʹ Thick Disc within 40ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/580921sheffield%5Fdir.htm)”; UFO Ev, [p. 113](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=125&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 68–72 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3228 ### Event 15190 (51AF210A) **Date:** 9/21/1958 **Description:** A circular, flat object, seven meters in diameter and two meters thick, was seen by a woman from her home at three o'clock in the morning, hovering 1.5 meters above the ground in Sheffield Lake, Ohio. It made a sound like a jet and was aluminum in color. It wobbled and emitted gray smoke before rising up again and taking off into the night sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1958, p. 2, December 1958, p. 5; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 471; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 113 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6179 ### Event 15191 (1F21DED7) **Date:** 9/23/1958 **Location:** Kindley AFB, Bermuda **Description:** (McDonald list) Red Object Tracked At Mach 1 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [580923](http://www.nicap.org/580923bermuda%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2293 ### Event 15192 (FEA6112D) **Date:** 9/23/1958 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Mercury” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 20KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_163 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Mercury", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "20" ### Event 15193 (904104F9) **Date:** 9/23/1958 **Time:** 17:58:00.0 **Location:** 1.6700 -157.2500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “grapple” Yield: 25KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1767 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "1.6700 -157.2500", **LatLongDMS:** "01:40:12 N 157:15:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.6700,-157.2500)", **NukeCountry:** "Britain", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "grapple", **NukeSource:** "BOLT", **NukeType:** "NACG", **NukeY:** "25" ### Event 15194 (E3827C9E) **Date:** 9/25/1958 **Location:** Portland, Oregon **Description:** The Project Moonwatch team in Portland, Oregon, is looking at the Moon when they see objects crossing the lunar disc. Occasionally they recognize the transit as a bird, but there are “tiny dark objects” that behave differently. All the object pass in the same direction and in the same location for about one second. Supervisor Alex Geddes, who was not present, sends a supportive letter to the observers, thanking them for the data. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3229 ### Event 15195 (7C9074AB) **Date:** 9/26/1958 **Time:** 20:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.0497 -116.0297 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Valencia” Yield: .002KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_164 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0497 -116.0297", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:59 N 116:01:47 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0497,-116.0297)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Valencia", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".002" ### Event 15196 (600EA8BD) **Date:** 9/27/1958 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** EAGLE LAKE, CA **Description:** Hunters / camper. Psi effects? Night lights hover and maneuver near forest fire. Going quickly [to] away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 476) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6005 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1520", **HatchDesc:** "EAGLE LAKE,CA:HUNTERS/CAMPER:PSI EFFECTS?:NLTS HVR+MNVR nr FOREST FIRE:>> away", **LatLong:** "40.566669 -120.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "40:34:00 N 120:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.566669,-120.750006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15197 (FD526956) **Date:** 9/28/1958 **Time:** 00:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.1931 -116.2006 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Mars” Yield: .013KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_165 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1931 -116.2006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:35 N 116:12:02 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1931,-116.2006)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Mars", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".013" ### Event 15198 (696C3DC4) **Date:** 9/29/1958 **Time:** 14:05:00.1 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Mora” Yield: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_166 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Mora", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "2" ### Event 15199 (2AAF2D99) **Date:** 9/29/1958 **Location:** Nike missile base W-93 in Derwood, Maryland **Description:** 5:30 a.m. Pvt. Jerome A. Scanlon, stationed at Nike missile base W-93 in Derwood, Maryland, is walking from his sentry post to the barracks to sound reveille when he hears a humming sound above him. He looks up and sees a teardrop-shaped object 300 feet up and coming in for a landing at 30 mph. It moves over trees, breaking branches, and lands about 1.5 miles away. Exhaust flames issue from its rear, and its luminous green skin illuminates the terrain. It rises again and disappears. Scanlon runs to inform Riney Farris, the sergeant of the guard, who has also seen the object. They go to the landing site and find broken branches and a scorched strip of earth and vegetation about half a mile long. After the story appears in newspapers, the Air Force explains it as repair trucks doing welding jobs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Brass to Hear GI’s Account of Fiery ‘Saucer,’” New York Journal- American, October 7, 1958; “‘Saucer’ Landed, Say Two Soldiers,” Goldsboro \(N.C.\) Record, October 9, 1958; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 90–91; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3230 ### Event 15200 (ACCE5A3B) **Date:** 9/30/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 900KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1094 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "900" ### Event 15201 (2416A7E3) **Date:** 9/30/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1200KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1095 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1200" ### Event 15202 (4AAF455C) **Date:** 10/1958 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** RENEDALE, FR **Description:** 2 / farm. 3 25cm disks whistle overhead to rock-pile / 1M altitude. Turn going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6006 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RENEDALE,FR:2/FARM:3 25cm DISKS WHISTLE OVHD to ROCK-PILE/1M alt:TURN >SW", **LatLong:** "47.033336 6.283334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:02:00 N 06:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.033336,6.283334)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15203 (9F16FB3B) **Date:** 10/1958 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BASCARA, SP **Description:** Observer(s) hides. 8M saucer down / woods. 1 small humanoid (or Grey) / dome. 2 outside take samples. Going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6007 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BASCARA,SP:OBS HIDES:8M SCR DOWN/WOODS:1 OID/DOME:2 OUTSIDE TAKE SAMPLES:>E", **LatLong:** "42.116669 2.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:07:00 N 02:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.116669,2.900000)", **State/Prov:** "GER", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15204 (0128C543) **Date:** 10/1958 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** LUNEL, FR **Description:** Saucer lands. Sweeps 3 observer(s) and area / white beam. Going northwest then going up. Traces found. / r30p238. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6008 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LUNEL,FR:SCR LANDS:SWEEPS 3 OBS+AREA/WHT BEAM:>NW THEN ↑:TRACES FOUND:/r30p238", **LatLong:** "43.683335 4.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:41:00 N 04:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.683335,4.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Hérault", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15205 (482A70AF) **Date:** 10/1958 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LANSDALE, PA **Description:** 5M saucer hovers / 10M altitude. Lit dome. 3 observers walk underneath.. hit by light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 590) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6009 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "110", **HatchDesc:** "LANSDALE,PA:5M SCR HVRS/10M alt:LIT DOME:3 OBSs WALK UNDERNEATH..HIT BY LITE", **LatLong:** "40.238891 -75.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:20 N 75:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.238891,-75.283337)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15206 (D2C22D4B) **Date:** 10/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** BETHLEHEM, NH **Description:** 3+2 separate observer(s). 3 small objects join large saucer. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Observers frozen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 591) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6010 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "435", **HatchDesc:** "BETHLEHEM,NH:3+2 SEP.OBS:3 SML OBJs JOIN LRG SCR:CAR EMEs:OBSs FROZEN ", **LatLong:** "44.277780 -71.688892", **LatLongDMS:** "44:16:40 N 71:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.277780,-71.688892)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15207 (9BBB9E84) **Date:** 10/1958 **Description:** Maj. [Robert J. Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) takes over as head of Project Blue Book, relieving Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) About this time, a new USAF fact sheet states that investigative improvements have reduced unsolved sightings to 1.8%. The “refinement” comes from lumping “probable” and “possible” identifications into “identified.” At the same time, a secret staff study by USAF intelligence officers addresses the public relations problems caused by [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe), who is characterized as a “political adventurer” allied with [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) both of whom are in the UFO “business” strictly for the money. Yet together “they represent a formidable team from which plenty of trouble can be expected.” The study recommends that 18–20 personnel be assigned to temporary UFO investigation duty. They would solve reports that have not been sent directly to Blue Book. Though ATIC urges implementation of the plan, Air Force Headquarters kills it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 146–151](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/146/mode/2up); Clark III 920; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 25–27](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/24/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3231 ### Event 15208 (7F195EDA) **Date:** 10/1/1958 **Locations:** Hampton, Virginia; Mountain View, California; Brook Park, Ohio **Description:** NASA begins operations. It includes three major labs: Langley Aeronautical Laboratory \[now Langley Research Center\] in Hampton, Virginia; Ames Aeronautical Laboratory \[now Ames Research Center\] in Mountain View, California; and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory \[now Glenn Research Center\] in Brook Park, Ohio. It incorporates elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the US Naval Research Laboratory. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[NASA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3232 ### Event 15209 (685CC12E) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** STROUDSBURG, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6089. 2 / car. Huge smoky ovoid going up / valley. Sharp maneuvers and flips. / r45p29. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 502) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6011 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "131", **HatchDesc:** "STROUDSBURG,PA:BBK#6089:2/CAR:HUGE SMOKY OVOID ↑/Vly:SHARP MNVRS+FLIPS:/r45p29", **LatLong:** "40.983335 -75.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:59:00 N 75:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.983335,-75.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15210 (A6445170) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** PANDO, URUGUAY **Description:** Blue-green ovoid going northeast over Air Force Base / 350M altitude. 2x moon-size. Turns toward(s) town. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 501) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6012 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "PANDO,URUGUAY:Blu-Grn OVOID >NE ovr AFB/350M alt:2x MOONSIZE:turns twrd town", **LatLong:** "-34.750002 -55.966669", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 S 55:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.750002,-55.966669)", **RelAlt:** "350", **State/Prov:** "PND", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15211 (88297A65) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Location:** Stroudsburg, PA **Description:** Naturalist Ivan Sanderson saw a dull-grey object w/flat bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6089) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2294 ### Event 15212 (24F270FD) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Location:** Blairstown (near), NJ **Description:** Zoologist watched disc circling and maneuvering. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2295 ### Event 15213 (22D5A5AD) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Time:** 2:30 PM **Location:** Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania **Description:** Witness: naturalist Ivan Sanderson. One dull-grey object, shaped like a pickle with a flat bottom, flew erratically and made loops for 15 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_430 ### Event 15214 (80D3A383) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 40KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1096 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "40" ### Event 15215 (507FAF3B) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 290KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1097 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "290" ### Event 15216 (2A92C219) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Locations:** Delaware Water Gap; Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania **Description:** Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Naturalist [Ivan T. Sanderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson) sees a dull-gray object, shaped like a pickle with a flat bottom, fly erratically in loops over the Delaware Water Gap near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Nickel-](http://www.nicap.org/581002blairstown%5Fdir.htm) [Shaped Object Flies Loops \(Sanderson Case\)](http://www.nicap.org/581002blairstown%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 52](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=64&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 266 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3233 ### Event 15217 (8DCE26EF) **Date:** 10/2/1958 **Description:** An enormous object that first looked like a puff of smoke, then "like pickle with a flat bottom" was sighted in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania at 5:29 p.m. At was a dull gray color. It went from appearing diaphanous to solid in appearance, then went black momentarily. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6089 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6493 ### Event 15218 (7B4BD7AC) **Date:** 10/3/1958 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** OWASCO, IN **Description:** 5 observer(s). 4 12M glowing-OVOIDs follow long train. Maneuver. Going quickly northeast. / r74p63+/ APRO Nov. '58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6013 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "OWASCO,IN:5 OBS:4 12M GLO-OVOIDs FOLO LONG TRAIN:MNVR:>>NE:/r74p63+/APRO Nov58", **LatLong:** "40.455557 -86.622226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:27:20 N 86:37:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.455557,-86.622226)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15219 (C97638DE) **Date:** 10/3/1958 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** TRINDADE ISLAND, ATLANTIC OCEAN. **Description:** Brazil Navy sentry. Fast round red-glowing object stops / 4 minute(s). Shoots going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 510) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6014 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "TRINDADE Isl,ATL:BRZL NAVY SENTRY:FAST RND RED-GLO OBJ STOPS/4min:SHOOTS >>NE", **LatLong:** "-20.527779 -29.327779", **LatLongDMS:** "20:31:40 S 29:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.527779,-29.327779)", **State/Prov:** "BRZ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15220 (0F65758D) **Date:** 10/3/1958 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** WACO, TX **Description:** 5 observer(s). 4 luminous ovoids pass over entire 1 / 2 miles train / both directions and follow / 70 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6015 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "WACO,TX:5 OBS:4 LUM.OVOIDS PASS OVR ENTIRE 1/2mi TRAIN/BOTH DIRs+FOLO/70min", **LatLong:** "31.566668 -97.150005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:34:00 N 97:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.566668,-97.150005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15221 (1E738B12) **Date:** 10/3/1958 **Location:** Fukushima-Ken, Japan **Description:** Portable radio emitted strange buzz as green fireball passed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2296 ### Event 15222 (2EB8757D) **Date:** 10/3/1958 **Location:** Wasco, IN **Description:** The Monon RR UFO Incident (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [581003](http://www.nicap.org/581003wasco%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2297 ### Event 15223 (49A2AD34) **Date:** 10/3/1958 **Locations:** Owasco; Kirklin, Indiana **Description:** 3:10 a.m. A Monon Railroad freight train is traveling between Owasco and Kirklin, Indiana, when a formation of four odd white lights crosses ahead of the train. The entire crew watch the UFOs turn and traverse the full length of the train, front to back \(about a half mile\). After passing the rear of the train, the objects swing east, turn back, and follow the train. The bright glow conceals their exact shape, but they appear flattened and sometimes fly on edge. The objects follow the train until the conductor shines a bright light on them. Immediately the objects speed away, but return quickly and continue to pace the train. Total time of observation is about 1 hour 10 minutes. Finally the UFOs move away to the northeast and disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Monon RR UFO](http://www.nicap.org/581003wasco%5Fdir.htm) [Incident](http://www.nicap.org/581003wasco%5Fdir.htm)”; “[They’re Back Again—in Indiana,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1958, 1, 3; Frank Edwards, “UFO Buzzes Train,” Fate 12, no. 2 \(February 1959\): 25–30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3234 ### Event 15224 (548808F8) **Date:** 10/3/1958 **Description:** At 3:20 a.m. in Owasco, Indiana four big, soft white elliptical lights, about 40 meters in diameter, maneuvered back and forth just above tree top level while changing color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1959, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6525 ### Event 15225 (B04FBF3D) **Date:** 10/4/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 9KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1098 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "9" ### Event 15226 (8E18B611) **Date:** 10/5/1958 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** NORTH GREENFIELD, MA **Description:** Huge brilliant orange-silver disk going north slow. Black top. No trail. / G. Fawcett. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 516) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6016 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "N.GREENFIELD,MA:HUGE BRILL.ORG-SLVR DISK >N SLOW:BLK TOP:NO TRAIL:/G.FAWCETT", **LatLong:** "42.616669 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:37:00 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.616669,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15227 (3116A3DD) **Date:** 10/5/1958 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SOUTH / FARGO, ND **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Round object ringed / colored lights going east. Swerves going quickly north. 500kph? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 515) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6017 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "272", **HatchDesc:** "S/FARGO,ND:NMRS.SEP.OBS:RND OBJ RINGED/CLRD LITES >E:SWERVES >>N:500kph?", **LatLong:** "46.833336 -96.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "46:50:00 N 96:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.833336,-96.833338)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15228 (C5CFC57D) **Date:** 10/5/1958 **Time:** 14:10:00.1 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Hidalgo” Yield: .077KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_167 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.11", **NukeName:** "Hidalgo", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".077" ### Event 15229 (C5032FBE) **Date:** 10/5/1958 **Time:** 16:15:00.2 **Location:** 37.0489 -116.0342 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Colfax” Yield: .0055KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_168 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0489 -116.0342", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:56 N 116:02:03 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0489,-116.0342)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.15", **NukeName:** "Colfax", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".0055" ### Event 15230 (54DAF8A7) **Date:** 10/5/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 15KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1099 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "15" ### Event 15231 (1B74AD52) **Date:** 10/6/1958 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** CLIFFSIDE PARK, NJ **Description:** 3 men / tree. 2 silver globes cross sky / 2x jet-speed. Seen / 2 minutes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 516) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6018 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "CLIFFSIDE PARK,NJ:3 MEN/TREE:2 SLVR GLOBES CROSS SKY/2x JET-SPEED:seen/2 mins", **LatLong:** "40.822224 -73.988892", **LatLongDMS:** "40:49:20 N 73:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.822224,-73.988892)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15232 (D7D63C47) **Date:** 10/6/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 5.5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1100 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "5.5" ### Event 15233 (BE4C9B1B) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** TOWNSVILLE, QLD **Description:** Engineer and 2 / airport. Red-gold object swings and maneuvers / 20 minutes. / UFOIC. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 521) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6019 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "TOWNSVILLE,QLD:ENGINEER+2/AIRPORT:RED-GOLD OBJ SWINGS+MNVRS/20mins:/UFOIC", **LatLong:** "-19.216668 146.800007", **LatLongDMS:** "19:13:00 S 146:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-19.216668,146.800007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15234 (1F2AA3DE) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** 7 MILE(S) SOUTHEAST / INDIAN HEAD, SSK **Description:** 2 / farm. 3M and blue-white glowing-object going down / 3M altitude 6M from house! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 527) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6020 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "581", **HatchDesc:** "7mi.SE/INDIAN HEAD,SSK:2/FARM:3M+ BLU-WHT GLOW-OBJ ↓/3M alt 6M from HOUSE!", **LatLong:** "50.483336 -103.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "50:29:00 N 103:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.483336,-103.633338)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15235 (049982B7) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** AMESBURY, MA **Description:** Repeater. Flat disk hovers / Lake Attitash. Hums. / Haverhill Gazette. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 735) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6021 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "AMESBURY,MA:REPEATER:FLAT DISK HVRS/Lake ATTITASH:HUMS:/Haverhill Gazette", **LatLong:** "42.850002 -70.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:00 N 70:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.850002,-70.816670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15236 (DC6E820C) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** BUZZARDS BAY, MA **Description:** Ferry crew and more/others. Grey ovoid hovers / 3km altitude. Rises and going quickly northeast. / r28p436+/ r142. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6022 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BUZZARDS BAY,MA:FERRY CREW++:GRY OVOID HVRS/3km alt:RISES+>>NE:/r28p436+/r142", **LatLong:** "41.566669 -70.750003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:34:00 N 70:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.566669,-70.750003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15237 (8DD64488) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ALEXANDRIA, VA **Description:** 1 observer. Huge silent silver Saturn-sphere rises and going quickly south. / DoD Report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 521) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6023 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA,VA:1 OBS:HUGE SLNT SLVR SATURN-SPHERE RISES+>>S:/DOD Rpt:", **LatLong:** "38.800002 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:00 N 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.800002,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15238 (2E94365C) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Location:** Nantucket, MA **Description:** Ship's Master, others watched a grayish oval object hover for several minutes, then climb away at high speed. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2298 ### Event 15239 (6DBE3EC8) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Location:** Alexandria, VA **Description:** Saturn shaped “silvery” or “aluminum clad” oblate spherical object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2299 ### Event 15240 (8303EB6A) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Location:** Nantucket Channel, Massachusetts **Description:** 2:55 p.m. Joseph Gwooz, master of the [SS Nantucket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FNantucket%5F%281957%29), sees a gray, oval object in the sky at an altitude of 8,000–10,000 feet at the entrance to the Nantucket Channel, Massachusetts. It remains stationary for more than one minute, then shoots up and away to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 71](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=83&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3235 ### Event 15241 (5ADAC720) **Date:** 10/7/1958 **Location:** Alexandria, Virginia **Description:** 6:02 p.m. Chemist John R. Townsend, special assistant for research and engineering to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, sees a large, stationary, sharply outlined Saturn-shaped silvery object \(with a “gossamer” surface appearance and a rim or girdle around its equator\) in a clear sky in Alexandria, Virginia. It rapidly rises at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph and disappears to the south after 40 seconds. At one point a passing Capitol Airlines Flight 407 flies directly between his line of sight and the UFO at 2 miles distance, allowing him to estimate the UFO’s size as about 500 feet. Townsend reenacts the timing by walking the half block down Lee Street to get a better feeling for its distance and size. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Saturn-Shaped Object Observed, Object](http://www.nicap.org/581007alexandria%5Fdir.htm) [Confirmed by Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/581007alexandria%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 282; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 267 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3236 ### Event 15242 (A86052D6) **Date:** 10/8/1958 **Time:** 22:00:00.1 **Location:** 37.1953 -116.2003 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Tamalpais” Yield: .072KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_169 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1953 -116.2003", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:43 N 116:12:01 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1953,-116.2003)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.10", **NukeName:** "Tamalpais", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".072" ### Event 15243 (67CBAF4A) **Date:** 10/9/1958 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LITTLE SHEEP MOUNTAIN, WY **Description:** 3 doctors. Large bright night light jerks and tumbles. Angular turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 536) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6024 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3116", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLE SHEEP Mtn,WY:3 DOCTORS:LRG BRITE NLT JERKS+TUMBLES:ANGULAR TURNS:", **LatLong:** "43.316669 -109.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:19:00 N 109:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.316669,-109.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15244 (3F1BD0D3) **Date:** 10/10/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LAYTONSVILLE, MD **Description:** Ex-military observer(s). Large round glowing-object hovers / 20M altitude near Nike base. Quickly going up [to] and going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 541) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6025 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "186", **HatchDesc:** "LAYTONSVILLE,MD:EX-MIL OBS:LRG RND GLO-OBJ HVRS/20M alt nr NIKE BASE:↑↑+>>E", **LatLong:** "39.211113 -77.144448", **LatLongDMS:** "39:12:40 N 77:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.211113,-77.144448)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15245 (689DE845) **Date:** 10/10/1958 **Time:** 14:30:00.1 **Location:** 37.0947 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Quay” Yield: .079KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_170 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0947 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:41 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0947,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.03", **NukeName:** "Quay", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".079" ### Event 15246 (0D4E6288) **Date:** 10/10/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 68KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1101 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "68" ### Event 15247 (DA0AFA8E) **Date:** 10/11/1958 **Location:** VOSTOK STATION, ANTARCTIC **Description:** 4 Russian scientists. Silent metallic disk. 2 low passes. Telepathy? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 554) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6026 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Antarctic below 70 degrees South", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VOSTOK Stn.,ANTARCTIC:4 RUSS.SCIENTISTS:SLNT MTLC DISK:2 LOW PASSES:TLP?", **LatLong:** "-78.466670 106.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "78:28:00 S 106:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-78.466670,106.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Vostok", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15248 (4326B254) **Date:** 10/11/1958 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** FRESNO, CA **Description:** Woman. 2 flat silver disks going quickly east. Seen briefly. / Fresno Bee 12 Oct. '58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 554) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6027 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "0", **Elev:** "89", **HatchDesc:** "FRESNO,CA:WOMAN:2 FLAT SLVR DISKS >>E:seen briefly:/Fresno Bee 12OCT58", **LatLong:** "36.766668 -119.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:46:00 N 119:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.766668,-119.766672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15249 (5FBFF16D) **Date:** 10/11/1958 **Location:** Laredo, TX **Description:** (McDonald list) Unidentified Target During Radar Mission 164 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [581011](http://www.nicap.org/581011laredo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2300 ### Event 15250 (29FE3AD7) **Date:** 10/12/1958 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** MONTEVIDEO, URUG **Description:** Yellow-white football wobbles and maneuvers by TV tower. Jerky exit. / Ciovni. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 556) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6028 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEVIDEO,URUG:YLW-WHT FOOTBALL WOBBLES+MNVRS by TV TOWER:JERKY EXIT:/CIOVNI", **LatLong:** "-34.816668 -56.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "34:49:00 S 56:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.816668,-56.166669)", **State/Prov:** "MNT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15251 (D542036B) **Date:** 10/12/1958 **Location:** Aurora, IL **Description:** Police reported several yellowish UFOs moving in all directions. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2301 ### Event 15252 (8DE4550A) **Date:** 10/12/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1450KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1102 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1450" ### Event 15253 (F1FA1E0A) **Date:** 10/13/1958 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** OFF BEAR CREEK, NY **Description:** Cop and 2. Fireball going up [to] and hovers / 90 minutes. Going down / Lake Ontario. / r44p226+/ r24 v1#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 559) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6029 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "off BEAR CREEK,NY:COP+2:FBL ↑+HVRS/90 mins:↓/Lake ONTARIO:/r44p226+/r24 v1#6", **LatLong:** "43.333335 -77.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:20:00 N 77:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.333335,-77.250004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15254 (6951457B) **Date:** 10/13/1958 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** BRANDT, OH **Description:** Several teens. Large white disk going northeast. Instant turn going south. Accelerations. Jets chase. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 561) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6030 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "302", **HatchDesc:** "BRANDT,OH:SVRL TEENS:LRG WHT DISK > NE:INSTANT TURN > S:ACCELS:jets chase:>>SE", **LatLong:** "39.900002 -84.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "39:54:00 N 84:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.900002,-84.094448)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15255 (AA5151B0) **Date:** 10/13/1958 **Time:** 13:20:00.1 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Lea” Yield: 1.4KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_171 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Lea", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1.4" ### Event 15256 (52A34C8C) **Date:** 10/14/1958 **Time:** 18:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.1939 -116.1997 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Neptune” Yield: .115KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_172 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1939 -116.1997", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:38 N 116:11:59 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1939,-116.1997)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.03", **NukeName:** "Neptune", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".115" ### Event 15257 (34C4795F) **Date:** 10/15/1958 **Time:** 16:00:00.2 **Location:** 36.8022 -115.9322 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Hamilton” Yield: .0012KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_173 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.8022 -115.9322", **LatLongDMS:** "36:48:08 N 115:55:56 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.8022,-115.9322)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.02", **NukeName:** "Hamilton", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".0012" ### Event 15258 (62AEECB1) **Date:** 10/15/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1500KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1103 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1500" ### Event 15259 (976CEF5F) **Date:** 10/16/1958 **Time:** 06:00:00.1 **Location:** 37.1842 -116.2011 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Logan” Yield: 5KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_174 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1842 -116.2011", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:03 N 116:12:04 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1842,-116.2011)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.25", **NukeName:** "Logan", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "5" ### Event 15260 (5016EE0C) **Date:** 10/16/1958 **Time:** 14:20:00.1 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Dona Ana” Yield: .037KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_175 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Dona Ana", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".037" ### Event 15261 (FA189867) **Date:** 10/17/1958 **Location:** GRAND RAPIDS, MI **Description:** 24 round amber objects / high altitude. Dime-size. 2 groups / 12 each. = meteors / Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 44) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6031 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND RAPIDS,MI:24 RND AMBER OBJS/HI ALT:DIME-SIZE:2 GRPS/12 EACH:=METEORS/BBK", **LatLong:** "42.966669 -85.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:58:00 N 85:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.966669,-85.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15262 (99002215) **Date:** 10/17/1958 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** OPORTO, PORTUGAL **Description:** Airport workers and small plane. 2 bright objects make odd maneuvers. Unidentified. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6032 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "OPORTO,PORTUGAL:AIRPORT WORKERS+SML PLANE:2 BRITE OBJS MAKE ODD MNVRS:UID", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -8.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 08:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-8.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Douro", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15263 (2A89B2AB) **Date:** 10/17/1958 **Location:** Grand Rapids, MI **Description:** (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 44) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2302 ### Event 15264 (729B4513) **Date:** 10/17/1958 **Time:** 23:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.1225 -116.0347 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Vesta” Yield: .024KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_176 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1225 -116.0347", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:21 N 116:02:05 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1225,-116.0347)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Vesta", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".024" ### Event 15265 (C21D8A37) **Date:** 10/18/1958 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MA **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Silver orange disk hovers over football game. Going [to] through clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6033 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MA:NMRS OBS:SLVR ORG DISK HVRS ovr FOOTBALL GAME:> THRU CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "42.694446 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:40 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.694446,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15266 (FECF6DCF) **Date:** 10/18/1958 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** BUENOS AIRES, ARG **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Group / disks going northeast. Rock and hover and maneuver / 1 hr then away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 709) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6034 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "BUENOS AIRES,ARG:MANY SEP.OBS:GROUP/DISKS >NE:ROCK+HVR+MNVR/1 hr then away", **LatLong:** "-34.616668 -58.466669", **LatLongDMS:** "34:37:00 S 58:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.616668,-58.466669)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15267 (9FF02F30) **Date:** 10/18/1958 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** DOGURA, PAPUA-NG **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Night lights pass. Brilliant green flare / 1200M altitude going south. Lights ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 739) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6035 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "DOGURA,PAPUA-NG:NMRS.SEP.OBS:NLTS PASS:BRILL.GRN FLARE/1200M alt >S:LITES GND", **LatLong:** "-10.100000 150.083340", **LatLongDMS:** "10:06:00 S 150:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.100000,150.083340)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15268 (F6FB771A) **Date:** 10/18/1958 **Time:** 14:25:00.1 **Location:** 37.0411 -116.0258 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Rio Arriba” Yield: .09KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_177 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0411 -116.0258", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:28 N 116:01:33 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0411,-116.0258)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.02", **NukeName:** "Rio Arriba", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".09" ### Event 15269 (BF43D6C0) **Date:** 10/18/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 2900KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1104 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "2900" ### Event 15270 (8EA9ECB4) **Date:** 10/19/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 0KT YieldMax: .001KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1105 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** ".001" ### Event 15271 (68769379) **Date:** 10/19/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 40KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1106 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "40" ### Event 15272 (4EFB355B) **Date:** 10/20/1958 **Time:** 14:30:00.2 **Location:** 37.0447 -116.0297 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “San Juan” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_178 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0447 -116.0297", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:41 N 116:01:47 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0447,-116.0297)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.02", **NukeName:** "San Juan", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 15273 (8B735229) **Date:** 10/20/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 440KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1107 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "440" ### Event 15274 (C85A94B7) **Date:** 10/21/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NEAR CLARKSVILLE, TN **Description:** Coed. Saucer lands near Fort Campbell. Orange cloud over saucer! No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 571) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6036 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "nr CLARKSVILLE,TN:COED:SCR LANDS nr Fort Campbell:ORG.CLOUD OVR SCR!:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "36.500002 -87.361115", **LatLongDMS:** "36:30:00 N 87:21:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.500002,-87.361115)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15275 (861E2939) **Date:** 10/21/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1108 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "2" ### Event 15276 (BE897695) **Date:** 10/22/1958 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Oberon” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_179 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Oberon", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 15277 (86323174) **Date:** 10/22/1958 **Time:** 13:30:00.2 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Socorro” Yield: 6KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_180 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Socorro", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "6" ### Event 15278 (E2F0B1E1) **Date:** 10/22/1958 **Time:** 16:50:00.1 **Location:** 36.7981 -115.9289 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Wrangell” Yield: .115KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_181 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.7981 -115.9289", **LatLongDMS:** "36:47:53 N 115:55:44 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.7981,-115.9289)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Wrangell", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".115" ### Event 15279 (C0FAF9DD) **Date:** 10/22/1958 **Time:** 23:40:00.1 **Location:** 37.1347 -116.0408 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Rushmore” Yield: .188KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_182 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1347 -116.0408", **LatLongDMS:** "37:08:05 N 116:02:27 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1347,-116.0408)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.15", **NukeName:** "Rushmore", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".188" ### Event 15280 (B7878AD4) **Date:** 10/22/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 2800KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1109 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "2800" ### Event 15281 (C37735E2) **Date:** 10/23/1958 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** CAIRNS, QLD **Description:** Separate observer(s). Bright orange triangle stops / police station/depot/facility. Many dots / light. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 737) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6037 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CAIRNS,QLD:SEP.OBS:BRITE ORG TRIANGLE STOPS/POLICE Stn:MANY DOTS/LITE", **LatLong:** "-17.033334 145.783340", **LatLongDMS:** "17:02:00 S 145:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.033334,145.783340)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15282 (EDB07F14) **Date:** 10/24/1958 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** VAALHARTZ, RSA **Description:** Ex Air Force pilot. 3 10M saucers hover / 10 minutes. Lights / rims. Suddenly gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6038 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "VAALHARTZ,RSA:EX AF PILOT:3 10M SCRS HVR/10 mins:LITES/RIMS:suddenly gone", **LatLong:** "-28.116668 24.933335", **LatLongDMS:** "28:07:00 S 24:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-28.116668,24.933335)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15283 (9A13B6A1) **Date:** 10/24/1958 **Time:** 15:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.0431 -116.0269 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Catron” Yield: .021KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_183 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0431 -116.0269", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:35 N 116:01:37 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0431,-116.0269)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.02", **NukeName:** "Catron", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".021" ### Event 15284 (BB779338) **Date:** 10/24/1958 **Time:** 16:01:00.2 **Location:** 37.1233 -116.0378 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Juno” Yield: .0017KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_184 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1233 -116.0378", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:24 N 116:02:16 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1233,-116.0378)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeName:** "Juno", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".0017" ### Event 15285 (5BCE6F1B) **Date:** 10/24/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 1000KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1110 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "1000" ### Event 15286 (98AAFB6E) **Date:** 10/25/1958 (approximate) **Location:** NORTH / ROSWELL, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright luminous disk buzzes lonely house. Fast reversal and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 563) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6039 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1095", **HatchDesc:** "N/ROSWELL,NM:2 OBS:BRITE LUMn.DISK BUZZES LONELY HOUSE:FAST REVERSAL+away", **LatLong:** "33.483335 -104.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:29:00 N 104:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.483335,-104.516672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15287 (55844EA9) **Date:** 10/25/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 0KT YieldMax: .1KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1111 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** ".1" ### Event 15288 (84FD2421) **Date:** 10/25/1958 **Location:** 73.7500 54.7500 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 190KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1112 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "73.7500 54.7500", **LatLongDMS:** "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/73.7500,54.7500)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "190" ### Event 15289 (1DB8C856) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Location:** LAFAYETTE, IND **Description:** Chemist with telescope. 3 bright/brilliant saucers "near the moon". No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 436) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6040 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "LAFAYETTE,IND:CHEMIST W/TELESCOPE:3 BRT SCRS "NEAR THE MOON":NFD", **LatLong:** "40.416669 -86.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:25:00 N 86:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.416669,-86.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15290 (40B8BD9E) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** LOCH RAVEN DAM, MD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6148. 2 observer(s). 30M saucer over bridge. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). Quickly going up [to] with bang. / APRO 11'58. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 573) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6041 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "LOCH RAVEN DAM,MD:BBK#6148:2 OBS:30M SCR OVR BRIDGE:EME:↑↑ W/BANG:/APRO 11'58", **LatLong:** "39.444446 -76.555559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:26:40 N 76:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.444446,-76.555559)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15291 (CBA56FB1) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Location:** Baltimore, MD **Description:** UFO observed hovering over bridge ahead of car; motor and headlights failed, two passengers felt heat (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2303 ### Event 15292 (1B030449) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Location:** Lafayette, IN **Description:** Research chemist saw 2-3 bright objects pass through field of telescope. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2304 ### Event 15293 (ADC81439) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Location:** Lock Raven Dam, MD **Description:** Egg-Shaped Object & E-M Effects Over Bridge (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 6148, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [581026](http://www.nicap.org/581026lochravendam%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2306 ### Event 15294 (D2122B14) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Time:** 04:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.1814 -116.0686 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Ceres” Yield: .0007KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_185 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1814 -116.0686", **LatLongDMS:** "37:10:53 N 116:04:07 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1814,-116.0686)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.01", **NukeName:** "Ceres", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".0007" ### Event 15295 (BCFD6E0A) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Time:** 10:20:00.1 **Location:** 36.7981 -115.9289 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Sanford” Yield: 4.9KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_186 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "36.7981 -115.9289", **LatLongDMS:** "36:47:53 N 115:55:44 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.7981,-115.9289)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Sanford", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "4.9" ### Event 15296 (72316404) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Time:** 16:00:00.1 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “De Baca” Yield: 2.2KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_187 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "De Baca", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "2.2" ### Event 15297 (218AFE07) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Locations:** Maryland Route 146; Loch Raven Reservoir, Maryland; Towson, Maryland; St. Joseph’s Hospital in Baltimore **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small are rounding a curve on Maryland Route 146 some 600–900 feet south of the bridge at Loch Raven Reservoir, Maryland. They see a large \(100 feet long\) egg-shaped object hanging 100–150 feet above the bridge. When they drive to within 75 feet of it their car stalls and the dash lights turn off. They get out of the car and watch the UFO from behind it for 30–45 seconds. The UFO flashes a beam of white light and they feel heat on their faces. They also hear a dull explosion. The UFO rises vertically and disappears in 5–10 seconds. They are able to start the car and drive into Towson, Maryland, to make a phone call to the Ground Observer Corps and the police. Police Cpl. Kenneth Hartmann and Patrolman Richard Fink drive up and they tell them the story, then they go to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Baltimore and are given a cursory examination for burns. Other people in the neighborhood either see an object at the time or hear the boom. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Baltimore’s Flying Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99777236/)” Baltimore \(Md.\) Evening Sun, December 15, 1958, p. 21; NICAP, “[Egg-Shaped](http://www.nicap.org/581026lochravendam%5Fdir.htm) [Object & E-M Effects over Bridge](http://www.nicap.org/581026lochravendam%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 62–63; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Oct.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp, 73–86; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 132](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/132/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/132/mode/2up) [139–140](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/138/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 268; Clark III 686 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3237 ### Event 15298 (4DCF4C6A) **Date:** 10/26/1958 **Description:** Two men, Small and Cohen, had a close encounter with a 100-foot-long ovoid object with an irridescent moon glow as they drove near Loch Raven Dam in Baltimore County, Maryland. The object flew at 150 feet altitude, and when it approached their car at the bridge over the reservoir the car engine, dashboard lights, and headlights all died at a distance of 200 to 300 feet. The witnesses felt heat coming from the object and later discovered that they had sunburns on their exposed skin. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6148; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, pp. 74-75; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 115; UNICAT, case # 392 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7145 ### Event 15299 (AC992992) **Date:** 10/27/1958 **Location:** UNION DALE, PA **Description:** Large cylinder/cigar-shape with tail Assembly flies / treetop height. Swishing sound.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 472) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6042 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "517", **HatchDesc:** "UNION DALE,PA:LRG CGR WITH TAIL ASSY FLIES/TREETOP HEIGHT:SWISHING SOUND..", **LatLong:** "41.716669 -75.494448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:43:00 N 75:29:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.716669,-75.494448)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15300 (BDA39A77) **Date:** 10/27/1958 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** FRONTEIRA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Strange bright sphere seen here. / Diario de Lisboa. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6043 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FRONTEIRA,PORTUGAL:STRANGE BRIGHT SPHERE SEEN HERE:/DIARIO de LISBOA", **LatLong:** "39.066669 -7.672223", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:00 N 07:40:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.066669,-7.672223)", **State/Prov:** "AAL", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15301 (8CD0CC1E) **Date:** 10/27/1958 **Location:** Union Dale, PA **Description:** Large gray cigar-like object with an assembly tail flew at treetop height (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2305 ### Event 15302 (D94E8F69) **Date:** 10/27/1958 **Location:** Union Dale, Pennsylvania **Description:** An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly tail flew at treetop height, making a strong "swishing" sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_472 ### Event 15303 (88CFCAD5) **Date:** 10/27/1958 **Time:** 10:30 PM **Location:** Lock Raven Dam, Maryland **Description:** Witnesses: Phillip Small, Alvin Cohen. One large, flat egg-shaped object affected a car's electrical system and caused a burning sensation on one of its occupants. Sighting lasted 1 minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_431 ### Event 15304 (E3B93BD7) **Date:** 10/27/1958 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Chavez” Yield: .0006KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_188 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Chavez", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".0006" ### Event 15305 (90F0B028) **Date:** 10/27/1958 **Description:** An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly tail flew at treetop level over Union Dale, Pennsylvania making a strong "swishing" sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 472 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7190 ### Event 15306 (8952BC88) **Date:** 10/28/1958 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** N75 NORTH / SERRES, FR **Description:** 1 / car. 100M saucer over bridge. No electro-magnetic effect (EME). Absolute(ly) silent. Quickly going up [to] extremely fast. / r142#5p88. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 226) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6044 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N75 N/SERRES,FR:1/CAR:100M SCR OVR BRIDGE:NO EME:ABS SLNT:↑↑ XFAST:/r142#5p88", **LatLong:** "44.450002 5.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:27:00 N 05:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.450002,5.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Hautes Alpes", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15307 (08B2A812) **Date:** 10/28/1958 **Description:** Two members of the Ohio Highway Patrol drove east of Georgetown, Ohio on SR125 at 4:20 p.m. when the witness saw a "huge silver disc" over the power lines and he asked the driver to stop. They went back to the police station, and the dispatcher also saw it. The three of them watched until the UFO departed off in the distance. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Delbert E. Anderson, MUFON field investigation database, case 951112dC **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7223 ### Event 15308 (188A53B5) **Date:** 10/29/1958 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Mazama” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_189 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Mazama", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 15309 (EA76BCA8) **Date:** 10/29/1958 **Time:** 00:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.1947 -116.2047 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Evans” Yield: .055KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_190 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1947 -116.2047", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:41 N 116:12:17 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1947,-116.2047)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.26", **NukeName:** "Evans", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** ".055" ### Event 15310 (C19E3047) **Date:** 10/29/1958 **Time:** 14:45:00.1 **Location:** 37.0478 -116.0247 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Humboldt” Yield: .0078KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_191 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0478 -116.0247", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:52 N 116:01:29 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0478,-116.0247)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.01", **NukeName:** "Humboldt", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".0078" ### Event 15311 (74254B91) **Date:** 10/30/1958 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** OBLONG, IL **Description:** Large round silver object ringed by 6 small disks. Small disks exit / all directions! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 589) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6045 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "OBLONG,IL:LRG RND SLVR OBJ RINGED by 6 SML DISKS:SML DISKS EXIT/ALL DIRs!", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -87.911115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 87:54:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-87.911115)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15312 (1CC2DD6C) **Date:** 10/30/1958 **Location:** 37.0000 -116.0000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Ganymede” Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 0KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_192 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0000 -116.0000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 116:00:00 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0000,-116.0000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Ganymede", **NukeSource:** "NV209", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "0", **NukeYMax:** "0" ### Event 15313 (383B810A) **Date:** 10/30/1958 **Time:** 03:00:00.1 **Location:** 37.0867 -116.0236 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Santa Fe” Yield: 1.3KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_193 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.0867 -116.0236", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:12 N 116:01:25 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.0867,-116.0236)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.46", **NukeName:** "Santa Fe", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "1.3" ### Event 15314 (B56BDFF2) **Date:** 10/30/1958 **Time:** 15:00:00.2 **Location:** 37.1858 -116.2019 **Description:** Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Blanca” Yield: 22KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_194 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1858 -116.2019", **LatLongDMS:** "37:11:09 N 116:12:07 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1858,-116.2019)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.25", **NukeName:** "Blanca", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NUCU", **NukeY:** "22" ### Event 15315 (A49001DC) **Date:** 10/30/1958 **Time:** 20:34:00.2 **Location:** 37.1772 -116.0692 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Titania” Yield: .0002KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_195 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "37.1772 -116.0692", **LatLongDMS:** "37:10:38 N 116:04:09 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.1772,-116.0692)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.01", **NukeName:** "Titania", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** ".0002" ### Event 15316 (01282806) **Date:** 10/31/1958 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** NORTHEAST / PAISLEY, ON **Description:** 2+2 separate cops. Saucer hovers and pulsates / 1100M altitude. 4 lights. Changes color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 593) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6046 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "214", **HatchDesc:** "NE/PAISLEY,ON:2+2 SEP.COPS:SCR HVRS+PULSATES/1100M alt:4 LITES:CHANGES CLRs", **LatLong:** "44.316669 -81.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:19:00 N 81:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.316669,-81.233337)", **RelAlt:** "1100", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15317 (47DCAF9E) **Date:** 10/31/1958 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** CALEDON EAST, ONT **Description:** Saucer descends / 4M altitude. Up and down in jerks. Silent. "Explodes". / r8#473. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 591) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6047 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "302", **HatchDesc:** "CALEDON EAST,ONT:SCR DESCENDS/4M alt:UP+DOWN in jerks:SLNT:"EXPLODES":/r8#473", **LatLong:** "43.866669 -79.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:52:00 N 79:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.866669,-79.866670)", **RelAlt:** "4", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15318 (787FE68D) **Date:** 10/31/1958 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** ARLINGTON, OH **Description:** Several observer(s). Disk going quickly southeast / high altitude / several minutes. Lost in clouds. 1 side lit and 1 dark. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 593) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6048 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "ARLINGTON,OH:SVRL OBS:DISK >>SE/HI alt/SVRL mins:LOST/CLOUDS:1 SIDE LIT+1 DARK", **LatLong:** "41.066669 -81.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:04:00 N 81:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.066669,-81.483337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15319 (C8E3CC09) **Date:** 10/31/1958 **Location:** Caledon East, Ontario, CAN **Description:** Civilian saw an elliptical, aluminum-colored (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2307 ### Event 15320 (5EC80ABB) **Date:** 10/31/1958 **Time:** 1550 **Location:** Caledon East, Canada **Description:** A civilian reported an eliptical, aluminum-colored object at 2 km altitude, coming down to 4 m, flying up and down by sudden jumps, stopping at ground level less than 200 m away for five min. A red light appeared at one end of the object, which gradually took a fiery color, then exploded. The witness ran away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_473 ### Event 15321 (BD3293B0) **Date:** 10/31/1958 **Description:** At 3:50 p.m. an elliptical, aluminum object was first spotted flying at two kilometers altitude in Caledon East, Ontario but it quickly descended to just four meters above the ground. It flew up-and-down by sudden jumps at the ground level, less than 200 meters away, for five minutes. It had a red light at one end that changed to a fiery color, then the object exploded. The witness ran. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 473, citing US Air Force ATIC **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7332 ### Event 15322 (7ECF7E28) **Date:** 11/1958 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** BRAEMAR, SCOT **Description:** Soldiers. Gurgle noise. 2 7' figure(s) / odd suits. Saucer takes off. / r67p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6049 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "321", **HatchDesc:** "BRAEMAR,SCOT:SOLDIERS:GURGLE NOISE:2 7'FIGS/ODD SUITS:SCR TAKES OFF:/r67p19", **LatLong:** "57.005558 -3.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "57:00:20 N 03:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.005558,-3.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15323 (4D25B7AA) **Date:** 11/1958 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** LODI, CA **Description:** Teen / (seen thru) binoculars. Twin silver cigars hover. 2 red orbs exit. 1 going north and 1 going south going. 5 lit portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6050 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "LODI,CA:TEEN/BINOCS:TWIN SLVR CGRS HVR:2 RED ORBS EXIT:1>N+1>S>:5 LIT PORTHs", **LatLong:** "38.116668 -121.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:07:00 N 121:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.116668,-121.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15324 (08343F6B) **Date:** 11/1958 **Location:** DEW Line, DEW Line **Description:** Radar tracked UFO which descended, moved horizontally, climbed out of radar beam. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2308 ### Event 15325 (6CDFF27A) **Date:** 11/1958 **Time:** 0500 **Location:** Braemar, Scotland **Description:** Two soldiers of the Territorial Army on an exercise near Ballater heard a "gurgling noise" and saw two figures, over 2 m tall, dressed in peculiar suits. As they fled, they heard a "swishing" noise and saw a large disk flying at ground level, which then swooped over their heads and away, pulsating and leaving a sparkling trail. Witnesses were in a state of shock. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_474 ### Event 15326 (42D4E027) **Date:** 11/1958 **Locations:** Denmark; Minot, North Dakota **Description:** Skandinavisk UFO Information in Denmark begins publishing UFO-Nyt. \([UFO-Nyt](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1958/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20November%201958.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1958/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20November%201958.pdf) November 1958\) November 3 — 2:01 p.m. At Minot, North Dakota, M/Sgt. William R. Butler, a medic, sees one bright-green object, shaped like a 10-cent piece, and one smaller, silver round object. The first object explodes, then the second object moves toward the location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasts 1 minute. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 268 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3238 ### Event 15327 (2495D1E5) **Date:** 11/1/1958 **Location:** 48.56956 45.90346 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1113 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "48.56956 45.90346", **LatLongDMS:** "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.56956,45.90346)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 15328 (C3BB3AF4) **Date:** 11/2/1958 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** HAPPY, TX **Description:** Observer(s) drives under blue night light. Ammeter going [to] Max and more. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Object going quickly south rising. / r141#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6051 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1288", **HatchDesc:** "HAPPY,TX:OBS DRIVES UNDER BLU NLT:AMMETER>MAX+:CAR EMEs:OBJ >>S RISING:/r141#6", **LatLong:** "34.744446 -101.855560", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:40 N 101:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.744446,-101.855560)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15329 (0F511F94) **Date:** 11/3/1958 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** MINOT, ND **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6153. Military observer(s). Bright green coin-disk explodes. Small silver sphere/orb/globe rushes over. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6052 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "467", **HatchDesc:** "MINOT,ND:BBK#6153:MIL OBS:BRITE GRN COIN-DISK EXPLODES:SML SLVR ORB RUSHES OVR", **LatLong:** "48.250002 -101.283338", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:00 N 101:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.250002,-101.283338)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15330 (CBCC76B3) **Date:** 11/3/1958 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** VIRGINIA BEACH, VA **Description:** Many observer(s). Fast silver cylinder/cigar-shape stops and blows smoke. Going south. Stops. Sails away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6053 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VIRGINIA BEACH,VA:MANY OBS:FAST SLVR CGR STOPS+BLOWS SMOKE:>S:STOPS:SAILS AWAY", **LatLong:** "36.850002 -75.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:51:00 N 75:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.850002,-75.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15331 (4CF50242) **Date:** 11/3/1958 **Location:** Minot, ND **Description:** Bright green object and one smaller, silver round object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6153) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2309 ### Event 15332 (B328E895) **Date:** 11/3/1958 **Time:** 2:01 PM **Location:** Minot, North Dakota **Description:** Witness: M/Sgt. William R. Butler, medic. One bright green object, shaped like a 10 cent piece, and one smaller, silver round object. First object exploded, then second object moved toward the location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasted 1 minute. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_432 ### Event 15333 (8E9C196E) **Date:** 11/3/1958 **Location:** 48.56956 45.90346 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 10KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1114 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "48.56956 45.90346", **LatLongDMS:** "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.56956,45.90346)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "10" ### Event 15334 (367D5642) **Date:** 11/4/1958 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** INTERVALE, NH **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Orange ovoid hovers / horizon. Going up and down / regular intervals. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6054 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "167", **HatchDesc:** "INTERVALE,NH:2 SEP.OBS:ORG.OVOID HVRS/HRZN:↑+↓/REGULAR INTERVALS:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.083335 -71.050003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:00 N 71:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.083335,-71.050003)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15335 (E5B887E8) **Date:** 11/4/1958 **Location:** Pope AFB, NC **Description:** Object On Collision Course With KB-50 Tanker, Circles (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [581104](http://www.nicap.org/581103pope%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2310 ### Event 15336 (3A7247AF) **Date:** 11/4/1958 **Locations:** Pope AFB; Fayetteville, North Carolina **Description:** 9:03 p.m. The pilot of a KB-50 USAF tanker is in the downwind leg of the traffic pattern during a ground- controlled approach to Pope AFB \[now Pope Field\] in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he notices an object on a collision course. He and his flight crew also notice that “strange lights were observed in his cockpit while he was on the final approach...” He executes a go-around maneuver and climbs in altitude to await the disappearance of the object. Air Force tower personnel also see the UFO hovering above the airport, watching it through their binoculars for 20 minutes. They are convinced it is not an atmospheric phenomenon. They say that “the UFO presented a hazard to aircraft operating in the area.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object on Collision Course with KB-50 Tanker,](http://www.nicap.org/581103pope%5Fdir.htm) [Circles](http://www.nicap.org/581103pope%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard F. Haines, “[Aviation Safety in America: A Previously Neglected Factor,](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ea1772637c00014776c5/1560472092579/narcap.TR1.AvSafety.pdf)” NARCAP, October 15, 2000, pp. 53–54; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 268 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3239 ### Event 15337 (501C6C81) **Date:** 11/5/1958 **Location:** NEAR PIONEER, OHIO **Description:** "Strange craft" lands. "Midgets" seen nearby / gerry hunt. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HUNT, Gerry: BIZARRE AMERICA; Berkley Books, NY. PB 1988. [ inexpensive ] (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6055 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "266", **HatchDesc:** "nr PIONEER,OHIO:"STRANGE CRAFT" LANDS:"MIDGETS" SEEN NEARBY / GERRY HUNT.", **LatLong:** "41.666669 -84.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 84:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,-84.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15338 (A3261FB9) **Date:** 11/5/1958 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / BLOEMFONTAIN, RSA **Description:** Pilots and many. Disk hovers / official airport opening. Military inv. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6056 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SE/BLOEMFONTAIN,RSA:PILOTS+MANY:DISK HVRS/OFFICIAL AIRPORT OPENING:mil.inv.", **LatLong:** "-29.183335 26.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "29:11:00 S 26:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.183335,26.300001)", **State/Prov:** "Orange Free State", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15339 (FDE2FC4E) **Date:** 11/5/1958 **Location:** Conway, NH **Description:** Hovering light suddenly sped away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2311 ### Event 15340 (2B477CFE) **Date:** 11/5/1958 **Location:** UK House of Commons **Description:** MP [Roy Mason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FMason) asks the Air Minister in the UK House of Commons to what extent official records are kept of UFO sightings and what departments are involved. Air Minister [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) replies in writing that reports involving national security are investigated but “nothing suggests that they are other than mundane.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Come Off It, Mr. Ward! ‘Nothing Suggests That They Are Other Than Mundane,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CJan-Feb%2CV%205%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1959\): 2; Good Above, [p. 52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3240 ### Event 15341 (C354A86F) **Date:** 11/6/1958 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** LABELLE, QBC **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver specks fly singly / pairs / large groups. Jets chase / too fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6057 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "LABELLE,QBC:SVRL OBS:SLVR SPECKS FLY SINGLY/PAIRS/LRG GRPS:JETS CHASE/TOO FAST", **LatLong:** "46.277780 -74.727781", **LatLongDMS:** "46:16:40 N 74:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.277780,-74.727781)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15342 (01B187C7) **Date:** 11/6/1958 **Description:** At 3:00 p.m. in Shawbridge, Quebec several silver points of light flew in pairs and large groups. Jet aircraft pursued them but could not catch up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 42 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7500 ### Event 15343 (72EE2065) **Date:** 11/8/1958 **Location:** RIVERSIDE, CA **Description:** Biped reptile attacks and claws car. Observer(s) runs over it. Definite traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6058 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "RIVERSIDE,CA:BIPED REPTILE ATTACKS+CLAWS CAR:OBS RUNS OVER IT:DEFINITE TRACES", **LatLong:** "33.950002 -117.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:00 N 117:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.950002,-117.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 15344 (FB664F93) **Date:** 11/8/1958 **Location:** Brazilia, Brazil **Description:** Air Force pilot and 500 observers saw a moving saucer at 40,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2312 ### Event 15345 (773B80A7) **Date:** 11/9/1958 **Locations:** Trinidad; Rio Dell; McKinleyville; Humboldt State College **Description:** Residents of Trinidad, Rio Dell, and other towns in northern California report showers of cobweblike material, some in strands 5–6 feet long. Two fishermen at sea, [George Korkan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210091895/george-washington-korkan) and Jack Curry, say the substance settles on their boat in such quantity that it makes the boat appear “a million years old.” A sample obtained at McKinleyville is examined by biologist Erwin Bielfuss at Humboldt State College. He rules out mold or an animal product and suggests it is plant material or plastic. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Cobweb Like Substance in Area Mystifies](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94537253/) [Zoologist,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94537253/)” Eureka \(Calif.\) Humboldt Standard, November 10, 1958, p. 5; UFOEv, [p. 99](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=111&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3241 ### Event 15346 (6B08C115) **Date:** 11/9/1958 **Locations:** Stockholm, Sweden; Väddö island; Älmstä; Väddö Bay; Linköping; University of California, Berkeley **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Two carpenters, Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg, are returning from Stockholm, Sweden, to their cabin on Väddö island, about 20 miles to the northeast. About 6 miles north of Älmstä their car engine begins to sputter and fail, and the headlights go out. They see a huge, shining object descending toward them and making a turn above Väddö Bay to the left of the road. It lands in the middle of the road about 300 feet in front of their car, its neon glow illuminating the landscape. They estimate it is 53 feet long and 20 feet high, with a bright glow underneath the object and a dazzling mist surrounding it. They watch the object for about 10 minutes, then it rises from the road and shoots into the sky to their right. Afterward, the air is stifling and hot, but the engine starts up right away. A few minutes later they return to the landing site and find flattened grass and a still-hot, smooth, triangular piece of metal the size of a matchbox, which they retrieve. They submit the metal to several labs over the next few years, apparently without ambiguous results, but in the process it is split into three pieces. Finally, an engineer in Linköping named Schalin finds the metal has the hardness of sapphire and a specific weight of 15.2. It can take several thousand degrees C. heat without getting red hot. One of the pieces is submitted to the US Air Force and not returned. In the early 1970s, another piece is examined by [James Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) at the University of California, Berkeley, who establishes it is composed of tungsten carbide, cobalt, and traces of titanium, and that it has been manufactured. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Christer Nordin, “[The Väddö Case,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201981%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, no. 1 \(1981\): 2–6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3242 ### Event 15347 (848224A5) **Date:** 11/11/1958 **Time:** 01:40 **Location:** TOPEKA, KS **Description:** Separate observer(s). Blazing fireball floats / low altitude. Quickly going up [to] vertical when porch light lit! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 605) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6059 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "TOPEKA,KS:SEP.OBS:BLAZING FBL FLOATS/lo alt:↑↑ VERTICAL WHEN PORCH LITE LIT!", **LatLong:** "39.050002 -95.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:00 N 95:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.050002,-95.700005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15348 (2FE2F27D) **Date:** 11/11/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** BERKELEY, CA **Description:** 2 / patio. Parachute saucer going quickly southwest toward(s) city center. Silent. 800 kph. 300M altitude? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 605) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6060 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "BERKELEY,CA:2/PATIO:PARACHUTE SCR >>SW TWRD CITY CENTER:SLNT:800 kph:300M alt?", **LatLong:** "37.872224 -122.272228", **LatLongDMS:** "37:52:20 N 122:16:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.872224,-122.272228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15349 (CB037B09) **Date:** 11/11/1958 **Locations:** Topeka, Kansas; Philip Billard Municipal Airport **Description:** 1:35 a.m. A Mrs. Kinney, who is a Lt. Col. in the Civil Air Patrol in Topeka, Kansas, wakes up when her bedroom floods with an amber-colored light and her three dogs begin barking. The source is a 25-foot diameter sphere that is sitting on the walkway in the yard about 30 feet away. Kinney opens a door to go out on a porch, but the light zooms straight up and out of sight. She goes back to bed and the phone rings; it is a neighbor who has seen the light going toward her house. At 7:30 a.m., the phone rings again; this time it is the controllers at the Philip Billard Municipal Airport, who know her well and tell her about the light they saw. In the evening, she finds there is an electrical failure on the east side of the house. Lights, radios, and refrigerators are not working. Kinney replaces some fuses, but not everything turns on again. An electrician comes and replaces some wiring on November 12, but Kinney’s eyes develop subconjunctival hemorrhages and sensitivity to bright light. She begins to wear sunglasses regularly. Both of her male dogs develop cataracts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 287–288 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3243 ### Event 15350 (4F35913E) **Date:** 11/12/1958 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / CARACAS, VNZL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Brilliant blue-glowing disk with 2 domes low / main highway. Jet sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6061 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "NE/CARACAS,VNZL:NMRS OBS:BRILL.BLU-GLO DISK W/2 DOMES LOW/MAIN HWY:JET SOUND", **LatLong:** "10.550001 -66.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:33:00 N 66:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.550001,-66.916670)", **State/Prov:** "CRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15351 (D96636E2) **Date:** 11/12/1958 **Description:** A brilliant blue glowing disc with two domes flew low over a main highway in Caracas, Venezuela at five o'clock in the morning. It made a sound like a jet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, May 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7608 ### Event 15352 (FFDE652A) **Date:** 11/13/1958 **Location:** Troy Peak (and Tonopah Airport), NV **Description:** (McDonald list) Three Radars Track Slow Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [581113](http://www.nicap.org/581113troypeak%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2313 ### Event 15353 (7CBFA8A8) **Date:** 11/15/1958 (approximate) **Time:** ~12:20 **Location:** LOA, UT **Description:** Mailman and 2. Slow dark 10M cylinder/cylindrical object. 1.5M diameter. Several 90° turns. Going southwest. / Bluebook files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 610) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6062 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "2134", **HatchDesc:** "LOA,UT:MAILMAN+2:SLOW DRK 10M CYL:1.5M diam:SVRL 90° TURNS:>SW:/BLUEBOOK files", **LatLong:** "38.400002 -111.644450", **LatLongDMS:** "38:24:00 N 111:38:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.400002,-111.644450)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15354 (DCE35E9C) **Date:** 11/16/1958 **Location:** TARAKAN, BORNEO **Description:** 2 separate locations. Cylinder/cigar-shape streaks by. "Smoke exits doorlike openings". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6063 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TARAKAN,BORNEO:2 SEP.LOCs:CGR STREAKS BY:"SMOKE EXITS DOORLIKE OPENINGS"", **LatLong:** "-3.333333 117.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "03:20:00 S 117:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-3.333333,117.633339)", **State/Prov:** "BRN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15355 (21CA1D7F) **Date:** 11/16/1958 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** UPPLANDS-VASBY, SWD **Description:** 2 / car stalls. Headlights out. 50' saucer lands / roadside. Grass physical trace(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6064 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "UPPLANDS-VASBY,SWD:2/CAR STALLS:HEADLITES OUT:50' SCR LANDS/ROADSIDE:GRASS TRC", **LatLong:** "59.533336 17.922223", **LatLongDMS:** "59:32:00 N 17:55:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.533336,17.922223)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15356 (1EDC3E33) **Date:** 11/17/1958 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Double disk spins? / high altitude. Steadily going north across sky. Half moon-size. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 612) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6065 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:DOUBLE DISK SPINS?/hi alt:STEADILY >N ACROSS SKY:HALF MOONSIZE", **LatLong:** "39.983335 -83.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:59:00 N 83:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.983335,-83.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15357 (217848D3) **Date:** 11/17/1958 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** FT. SMITH, ARK **Description:** 3 observer(s). 2M glowing plate-saucer hovers / treetops / rainstorm. Booming sounds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6066 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "134", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.SMITH,ARk:3 OBS:2M GLOWING PLATE-SCR HVRS/TREETOPS/RAINSTORM:booming sounds", **LatLong:** "35.416668 -94.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:25:00 N 94:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.416668,-94.400005)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15358 (D91040FA) **Date:** 11/17/1958 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** WOODS NEAR SOSNOVSKOYE, RUSSIA **Description:** UFO goes west going east. Joined / disk. Fly off Opp directions. / LDLN#204. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6067 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "WOODS nr SOSNOVSKOYE,RUSS:UFO GOES W>E:JOINED/DISK:FLY OFF OPP DIRs:/LDLN#204", **LatLong:** "55.600003 43.750002", **LatLongDMS:** "55:36:00 N 43:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.600003,43.750002)", **State/Prov:** "GRK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15359 (457B0287) **Date:** 11/17/1958 **Time:** 2203 **Location:** Soviet Union, exact location not revealed **Description:** A luminous object, with an apparent diameter greater than that of the full moon, was seen coming down from a high altitude, hovering at tree height, then landing. It was observed for two min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_475 ### Event 15360 (899BAB4B) **Date:** 11/17/1958 **Location:** Russia **Description:** 10:03 p.m. Somewhere in Russia a luminous object hovers and lands. It is seen for 2 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [p. 273](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/272/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3244 ### Event 15361 (8421CA84) **Date:** 11/19/1958 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** MONTAUK AFS, NY **Description:** Blue Book. Military observer(s) = Frey. CE2. 1 UFO on RADAR for hours! No further details [in] at all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6068 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "MONTAUK AFS,NY:BBK:MIL OBS=FREY:CE2:1 UFO ON RDR FOR HOURS!:NFD AT ALL", **LatLong:** "41.033335 -71.950003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:02:00 N 71:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.033335,-71.950003)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15362 (CEA42BCD) **Date:** 11/19/1958 **Location:** Montauk AFB, Long Island, NY **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2314 ### Event 15363 (2F032CED) **Date:** 11/20/1958 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SOLOMONS, MD **Description:** Several observer(s). 3 thin red cigars going east. 4th materializes. Flash! A saucer! going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 613) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6069 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SOLOMONS,MD:SVRL OBS:3 THIN RED CGRS >E:4th MATERIALIZES:FLASH!:a SCR! >>NE", **LatLong:** "38.316668 -76.405559", **LatLongDMS:** "38:19:00 N 76:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.316668,-76.405559)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15364 (63AC63A1) **Date:** 11/20/1958 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** PINEVILLE, LA **Description:** Yellow-white ovoid over treetops / 5 min. 3 cm / arms length. 90° turn. Circles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 613) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6070 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "PINEVILLE,LA:YLW-WHT OVOID OVR TREETOPS/5 min:3 cm/ARMS LENGTH:90°TURN:CCLS:", **LatLong:** "31.322224 -92.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:19:20 N 92:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.322224,-92.433338)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15365 (7A40A5B0) **Date:** 11/20/1958 **Location:** W of Calif. coast, At Sea **Description:** Man in C-118 Reports Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [581120](http://www.nicap.org/581120califcoast%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2315 ### Event 15366 (0AC65536) **Date:** 11/23/1958 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** COJUTEPEQUE, EL SALVADOR **Description:** 6.5' man inspects 12M UFO then flies. Men in Black? / r8#476. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6071 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "El Salvador", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "854", **HatchDesc:** "COJUTEPEQUE,EL SALVADOR:6.5'MAN INSPECTS 12M UFO THEN FLIES:MIBs?:/r8#476", **LatLong:** "13.700001 -88.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "13:42:00 N 88:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/13.700001,-88.966671)", **State/Prov:** "CSC", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15367 (FA3D44B3) **Date:** 11/23/1958 **Time:** 2335 **Location:** Cojutepeque, San Salvador **Description:** An engineer, Julio M. Ladaleto, stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 m away. It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 m diameter, 7 m high, resting on three half-spheres. An occupant 2.5 m tall was photographed by the witness as he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The observation lasted 10 min, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revaled anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Settimana Incom. Sep. 16, 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_476 ### Event 15368 (F55FAAB1) **Date:** 11/23/1958 **Description:** At 11:35 p.m. Julio M. Ladaleto, an engineer, stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road in Cojutepeque, El Salvador. He then observed an object about 35 meters away. It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 meters diameter, seven meters high, and resting on three half-spheres. An very tall occupant, 2.5 meters in height, was photographed by the witness as the crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. The UFOnaut wore a blue coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The observation lasted 10 minutes, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revealed anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 476; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 151 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7839 ### Event 15369 (43DD87CF) **Date:** 11/25/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** DATIL TO/FROM PIE TOWN, NM **Description:** 2 teardrop shapes connected / metallic shafts. Objects turn back going north and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 627) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6072 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2300", **HatchDesc:** "DATIL>N +away", **LatLong:** "34.200002 -108.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:12:00 N 108:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.200002,-108.000005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15370 (AE283EB8) **Date:** 11/27/1958 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ATHENS, TN **Description:** ~20 observer(s). Fast bowl-saucer going quickly southwest fast. Lights / rim pulsate. / police report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 615) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6073 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "390", **HatchDesc:** "ATHENS,TN:~20 OBS:FAST BOWL-SCR >>SW FAST:LITES/RIM PULSATE:/POLICE RPT:", **LatLong:** "35.444446 -84.594448", **LatLongDMS:** "35:26:40 N 84:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.444446,-84.594448)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15371 (C42A5CEC) **Date:** 11/29/1958 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** SANTA CRUZ, CA **Description:** Bright silver white saucers play and maneuver / all directions. 1 shoots quickly going up. 1 turns going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 617) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6074 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA CRUZ,CA:BRITE SLVR WHT SCRS PLAY+MNVR/ALL DIRs:1 SHOOTS ↑↑:1 TURNS >>N", **LatLong:** "37.000002 -122.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 122:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,-122.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15372 (B510371A) **Date:** 11/30/1958 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** Ex-Navy man. 6-8 classic saucers pass / crescent formation. / NICAP Jan'59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 617) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6075 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:EX-NAVY MAN:6-8 CLASSIC SCRS PASS/CRESCENT FORMn:/NICAP Jan'59", **LatLong:** "41.483335 -81.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 81:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,-81.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15373 (0F7AC6EA) **Date:** 11/30/1958 **Location:** Boston **Description:** Tom Gerber of the Boston Herald features interviews with unnamed Air Force officers who proclaim an “undeclared war on phony organizations that capitalize on the ‘mystery’ of flying saucers.” Supposedly, the Air Force has evidence that “perhaps as many as 100,000 persons belong to these UFO organizations” and are “making a wad of money.” As many as 16% of the UFO sightings investigated by USAF are “hoaxes originated by members or officials of these organizations”—an obvious swipe at NICAP. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 282–283 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3245 ### Event 15374 (E9DFA04F) **Date:** 11/30/1958 **Description:** A retired Navy man reported seeing 6 to 8 classic disc-shaped objects fly over Cleveland, Ohio at 7:40 p.m. in a crescent formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1959; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: November-December, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8069 ### Event 15375 (D8D81390) **Date:** 12/1958 **Locations:** Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Pasadena, California **Description:** The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is transferred to NASA from the Army, becoming the agency’s primary planetary spacecraft center. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Jet Propulsion Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%5FPropulsion%5FLaboratory)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3246 ### Event 15376 (461627C1) **Date:** 12/1958 **Description:** Some 450 airline pilots have signed a petition protesting the official policy of debunking UFO sightings. One pilot describes the policy as a “lesson in lying, intrigue, and the ‘Big Brother’ attitude carried to the ultimate extreme.” Of the signatories, more than 50 personally have reported UFO sightings but are told by the Air Force that they are mistaken. USAF warns them that they face up to 10 years in prison under JANAP 146 if they reveal details of their sighting to the media. Because of situations like this, Maj. [Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) unsuccessfully requests that Blue Book be transferred from ATIC to Air Research and Development Command on the grounds that UFOs are a scientific, not a military problem. His staff complains that the work is time-consuming and unproductive, and ARDC could speak to the public with authority and persuasiveness. ARDC briefly considers, then declines, the offer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 284](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up); Clark III 922 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3247 ### Event 15377 (F95D67CB) **Date:** 12/1/1958 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** EAST / GRANTS, NM **Description:** Several observer(s). Wingless B52 fuselage circles slow / high altitude. Hovers / same spot 3X. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 619) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6076 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1965", **HatchDesc:** "E/GRANTS,NM:SVRL OBS:WINGLESS B52 FSLG CCLS SLOW/hi alt:HVRS/SAME SPOT 3X:>>NW", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -107.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 107:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-107.600005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15378 (CB9C6637) **Date:** 12/1/1958 **Description:** One year later, a wingless fuselage circled slowly at a high altitude east of Grants, New Mexico at 2:30 in the afternoon. Earlier that day, at 2:07 a.m., a round, white glowing object moved back and forth for 90 minutes new Lake Elsinore, California. The observers signaled the UFO with a flashlight, and it approached to within 10 feet, pacing their truck and emitting a high-pitched hum. They then saw a "well built" man run across the road in front of them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 90 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8103 ### Event 15379 (8F66F6F6) **Date:** Early 12/1958 **Locations:** New York City; Tythan **Description:** Contactee [Lee Childers](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-04-usa-detroit.htm) visits a New York City group called the Bureau of UFO Research and Analysis to present a lecture. By now he is calling himself Prince Neosom of Tythan, which is 8.5 light years from Earth. He also answers to the name Dana. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 915 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3248 ### Event 15380 (00D7EBB0) **Date:** 12/6/1958 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** WEST / ANNISTON, AL **Description:** Guard. 2M ovoid going [to] 15kph / 15M altitude. Hovers / ordnance depot. Shoots going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 623) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6077 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "W/ANNISTON,AL:GUARD:2M OVOID > 15kph/15M alt:HVRS/ORDNANCE DEPOT:SHOOTS >>NW", **LatLong:** "33.650002 -86.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:00 N 86:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.650002,-86.000004)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15381 (D7634968) **Date:** 12/6/1958 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** BARI, ITALY **Description:** Many observer(s). Saucer passes / very low altitude. Power blackout / entire city. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN 2-250-00464-1 (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6078 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BARI,ITALY:MANY OBS:SCR PASSES/VLO ALT:POWER BLACKOUT/ENTIRE CITY:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.116669 16.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "41:07:00 N 16:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.116669,16.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Bari", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15382 (4B6299AB) **Date:** 12/6/1958 **Locations:** Russia; India; Mars **Description:** Between 6:38 and 6:40 p.m. Along the border of Russia and India, an observer sees a bright UFO cross his field of vision through his telescope from north to south as he is observing Mars. He thinks it might be Sputnik 3, but the location and direction of the object do not bear that out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 137–138](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/136/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3249 ### Event 15383 (122C4EFC) **Date:** 12/6/1958 **Location:** LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida **Description:** 5:44 a.m. The first launch of a Juno II, carrying Pioneer 3, at LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, suffers a premature first-stage cutoff, preventing the upper stages from achieving sufficient velocity. Pioneer 3 cannot escape Earth orbit but transmits data for some 40 hours before reentering the atmosphere. A malfunction in a propellant depletion circuit is found to be the cause of the failure, although the exact nature of it cannot be determined. The circuit is redesigned afterwards. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Juno II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno%5FII)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3250 ### Event 15384 (E82F31B9) **Date:** 12/6/1958 **Description:** A disc-shaped object passed very low over the city of Bari, Apulia, Italy at about 11:00 p.m. A power blackout occurred over the entire city. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes (Third Edition), p. 78 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8231 ### Event 15385 (96D65536) **Date:** 12/11/1958 **Description:** On this day a fuselage-shaped object had landed on the sea ice on McMurdo Sound near Mount Erebus, Antarctica. It was supported by girder-like structures. A thirty-year-old U.S. Navy man named R. Benson saw two thin Grey beings, who were walking in slow circles near the craft, their long arms dangling to the ice. They had very long faces. His radio quit working. He did not file an official Navy report of his encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1543, citing Yvonne Durfield, Ideal UFO Magazine, March 1978, p. 44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8339 ### Event 15386 (40495E69) **Date:** 12/12/1958 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / TAMPA, FL **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). Brilliant 30M top saucer going west slow / 1200M altitude. News silenced! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 627) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6079 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SW/TAMPA,FL:NMRS SEP.OBS:BRILL.30M TOP SCR >W SLOW/1200M alt:news silenced!", **LatLong:** "27.883335 -82.533337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:53:00 N 82:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.883335,-82.533337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15387 (5C65A681) **Date:** 12/16/1958 **Location:** Hawk Inlet, AK **Description:** Diesel Generator Disrupted On Fishing Boat (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [581216](http://nicap.org/581216hawkinlet%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2316 ### Event 15388 (D96BF963) **Date:** 12/17/1958 **Location:** KAJAANI, FINLAND **Description:** 6 observer(s). Moon-size red-orange sphere quickly going down. Stops over trees / 2 min. Drops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 632) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6080 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KAJAANI,FINLAND:6 OBS:MOONSIZE RED-ORG SPHERE ↓↓:STOPS OVER TREES/2 min:DROPS", **LatLong:** "64.233336 27.683335", **LatLongDMS:** "64:14:00 N 27:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.233336,27.683335)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15389 (2C539F34) **Date:** 12/17/1958 **Time:** 00:40 **Location:** THOMPSONVILLE, CT **Description:** Cop. Silent blue-glowing ovoid passes / 1 min. Flame / rear. Seen widely.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6081 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "34", **HatchDesc:** "THOMPSONVILLE,CT:COP:SLNT BLU-GLO OVOID PASSES/1 min:FLAME/REAR:seen widely..", **LatLong:** "41.994446 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "41:59:40 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.994446,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15390 (542DDA6E) **Date:** 12/17/1958 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** FORNELLS, MENORCA, SP **Description:** 2.5M x 30cm "missile". Vibrant bright. Maneuvers 2 min. Going [to] behind trees. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6082 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FORNELLS,MENORCA,SP:2.5M x 30cm "MISSILE":VBRITE:MANEUVERS 2 MIN:>BEHIND TREES", **LatLong:** "40.016669 4.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:01:00 N 04:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.016669,4.100000)", **State/Prov:** "BLR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15391 (D48ADA36) **Date:** 12/17/1958 **Description:** Fornells de Minorca, Baleares Islands, Spain. Mr. Galvez, a 55-year-old retired artillery sergeant was motorcycling on this Mediterranean Island when he observed a missile-shaped UFO 2.5 meters long flying only ten meter above some pine trees. It made a buzzing sound. There were some other witnesses nearby, according to Mr. Galvez. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 27, citing Eduardo Buelta as the field investigator **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8462 ### Event 15392 (8E9CE15A) **Date:** 12/19/1958 **Location:** Newark (N.J.) **Description:** John Lester, a writer for the Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, has polled 1,000 US government radar operators over the past month and found that 80% have observed UFOs traveling at fantastic speeds, executing perfect 90° turns, steep vertical climbs, and hovering stops. They fly in formation and manage to stay just ahead of USAF jets scrambled to intercept them. [Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) responds immediately that the UFOs are natural phenomena \(“lightning, meteors, and meteorites”\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, December 19, 21, 1958 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3251 ### Event 15393 (099BC57E) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Location:** Dunellen, NJ **Description:** Patrolmen Le Roy A. Arboreen and B. Talada while on patrol suddenly spotted a glowing red object which came directly toward them at a phenomenal rate of speed from the West, Increasing rapidly in size, then coming to an abrupt stop, it was ellipsoid in shape and solid bright red while giving off a pulsating glow. After hovering a few seconds it went straight up like a shot and faded beyond the stars. Visibility: unlimited. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_586 ### Event 15394 (E6D48A4B) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** DUNELLEN, NJ **Description:** Silent 25M glowing-ovoid buzzes cops. Extremely fast. Quickly going up [to] vertical. / r25p246+/ r242p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 639) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6083 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "DUNELLEN,NJ:SLNT 25M GLO-OVOID BUZZES COPS:XFAST:↑↑ VERTICAL:/r25p246+/r242p5", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -74.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 74:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-74.466670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15395 (0948348A) **Date:** 12/20/1958 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** CLERMONT-FERRAND, FR **Description:** 20M saucer seen. Damage to ground. No further details. / Quincy. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 478) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6084 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CLERMONT-FERRAND,FR:20M SCR SEEN:DAMAGE TO GROUND:NFD:/Quincy", **LatLong:** "45.777780 3.094445", **LatLongDMS:** "45:46:40 N 03:05:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.777780,3.094445)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15396 (CF176BE1) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Location:** Dunellen, NJ **Description:** Police witnesses, vehicle encounter, vertical ascent (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [581220](http://www.nicap.org/581220dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2317 ### Event 15397 (F991AF7E) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Location:** Dunellen, NJ **Description:** Police witnesses, vehicle encounter (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [581220](http://www.nicap.org/581220dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2318 ### Event 15398 (E5203721) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Time:** 0255 **Location:** Hoganas, Sweden **Description:** Near Domsten, Hans Gustavsson, 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30, saw something in the woods and stopped their car to observe it. They found a disk about 5 m wide set on a tripod. All of a sudden they were attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as "fluid," but one witness reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings fled and the craft took off, emitting "paralyzing vibrations." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. II 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_477 ### Event 15399 (46B09D9A) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Time:** 1600 **Location:** Clermont-Ferrand, France **Description:** Approximate date. A disk of 20 m diameter was observed and caused damage on the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_478 ### Event 15400 (E22A669B) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Locations:** Helsingborg, Sweden; Domsten **Description:** 2:55 a.m. Hans Gustafsson, a 24-year-old truck driver, and Stig Rydberg, a 30-year-old student, claim that while driving home to Helsingborg, Sweden, from a dance they see a strange light in a glade on their right near Domsten. They leave the car and walk up to the object, which turns out to be a disc-shaped vehicle 16 feet in diameter resting on 3 legs. The two are suddenly attacked by four gray creatures about 4 feet tall who try to drag them to the UFO. In January 1959, a medical doctor, Lars-Erik Essén, hypnotizes the men in what is perhaps the first use of hypnosis of a UFO witness, but the two manage to fool Essén. In the late 1980s, Gustafsson’s brother Artur reveals to ufologist [Clas Svahn](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clas%5FSvahn) that before he died his brother had told him the story was a hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 413–414; Rob Morphy, “[Terrible Flying Jelly Bags aka Domsten Blobs \(Sweden\),](https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/05/terrible-flying-jelly-bags-sweden/)” Cryptopia, May 6, 2018; Swords 366–367; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, Domstensfallet: En svensk närkontakt 1958, AFU, 1989 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3252 ### Event 15401 (7D95FF8D) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Description:** At 12:55 a.m. two policemen, Officers Arboreen and Talada of the Dunellen Township police department in Middlesex County, New Jersey, watched in amazement as a glowing red, football-shaped UFO came directly at their police cruiser. The UFO came to an abrupt stop a short distance away, pulsated while hovering, and then shot straight up into the sky and was gone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP case investigation files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8527 ### Event 15402 (51254EC1) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Description:** Not far from Domsten, Sweden Hans Gustavsson, age 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30, saw something strange in the woods near the village of Haganas and stopped their car to observe it. They discovered that it was a disc about five meters wide, set on tripod landing gear. Next they were suddenly attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as "fluid" in appearance, but one of the men reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings then fled and the craft took off, emitting "paralyzing vibrations." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 478 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8528 ### Event 15403 (C8F6A180) **Date:** 12/20/1958 **Description:** On that same day at four o’clock in the afternoon in France, or nine hours later, a disc-shaped UFO was seen near the ground in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department. The 20-meter diameter object caused some damage on the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Computerized catalogue, case # 2802, citing Quincy; Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 477 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8529 ### Event 15404 (58754C5F) **Date:** 12/21/1958 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** FT. HOOD, TX **Description:** Rumor. 36 soldiers. Domed 6M saucer hovers / 100M. Sharp beam going down. Going quickly northwest silent. / CUFOS. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 644) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6085 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.HOOD,TX:RUMOR:36 GIs:DOMED 6M SCR HVRS/100M:SHARP BEAM ↓:>>NW slnt:/CUFOS", **LatLong:** "31.200001 -97.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:12:00 N 97:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.200001,-97.750005)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15405 (DDAC3583) **Date:** 12/21/1958 **Location:** Newark (N.J.) **Description:** A group of more than 50 commercial airline pilots, all of whom have had at least one UFO sighting, tell reporter John Lester with the Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger that the Air Force policy of censorship and denial regarding reports is the “Big Brother attitude carried to the ultimate extreme.” Most express disgust with the USAF methods of interrogating civilian pilots and complain about the gag order about publicly talking about their sightings under penalty of 10 years in prison or $10,000 in fines \(JANAP 146\). “Nuts to that. Who needs it?” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, December 22, 1958; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Nov-Dec.pdf) [a History: 1958 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Nov-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Nov-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3253 ### Event 15406 (3B7F1BB1) **Date:** 12/22/1958 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** MUSZYNA, POL **Description:** Photograph through window / odd orange glow 500M away shows ovoid / center. / r84p67. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6086 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MUSZYNA,POL:FOTO thru WINDOW/ODD ORG GLOW 500M away shows OVOID/CTR:/r84p67", **LatLong:** "49.355558 20.844445", **LatLongDMS:** "49:21:20 N 20:50:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.355558,20.844445)", **State/Prov:** "NSC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15407 (5FE385BA) **Date:** 12/22/1958 **Location:** Muszyna, Poland **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Stanislaw Kowalczewski, a physician, takes a photograph of a dark, disc-shaped object over Muszyna, Poland. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 67–68; Wiki Meteoritica, “[Muszyna 1958](http://wiki.meteoritica.pl/index.php5/Muszyna%5F1958)”; Poland 21–23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3254 ### Event 15408 (EC9973A5) **Date:** 12/28/1958 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** PORTGLENONE, NORTH IRE **Description:** Black 2M flying object cuts 2' tree / half and keeps flying. / r142#6p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6087 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "114", **HatchDesc:** "PORTGLENONE,N.IRE:BLK 2M FLYING OBJ CUTS 2' TREE/HALF+KEEPS FLYING:/r142#6p64", **LatLong:** "54.866669 -6.477778", **LatLongDMS:** "54:52:00 N 06:28:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.866669,-6.477778)", **State/Prov:** "Northern Ireland", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15409 (02C837A5) **Date:** 12/28/1958 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** Portglenone, Ireland **Description:** A black flying object, 2 m wide, cut a tree in two, 3 m above ground, and did not stop. The tree in question is 70 cm wide and 13 m tall. This event was observed by a farmer named Bennett. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 59, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_479 ### Event 15410 (354C64BF) **Date:** 12/28/1958 **Description:** On this afternoon in Portglenone, Ireland a two-meter wide black flying object cut an oak tree in two, three meters above the ground and did not stop. The tree in question was 70 cm wide and 13 meters tall. The event was observed by a farmer named Bennett. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, May 1959, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 479 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8629 ### Event 15411 (74461F2D) **Date:** 12/29/1958 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / ATLAS, IL **Description:** 2 / car. 2 saucers "dogfight" all over/all about sky. Collision! 1 going quickly east. 2nd follows.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1958 (7 booklets) 1998/03 Self published. (Index 666) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6088 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "148", **HatchDesc:** "SE/ATLAS,IL:2/CAR:2 SCRS "DOGFIGHT" ALLO SKY:COLLISION!:1 >>E:2nd FOLLOWS..", **LatLong:** "39.500002 -90.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 N 90:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.500002,-90.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15412 (39A3CAC1) **Date:** 12/30/1958 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** ST. RAPHAEL, FR **Description:** Man / roof. Plain silent silver fuselage going [to] over slow. Then away / seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6089 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.RAPHAEL,FR:MAN/ROOF:PLAIN SLNT SLVR FUSELAGE >OVR SLOW:THEN AWAY/SECONDS", **LatLong:** "43.433335 6.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:26:00 N 06:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.433335,6.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15413 (094FA444) **Date:** 12/30/1958 **Location:** Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland **Description:** 3:30 p.m. Joseph Bennett, a farmer in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is out walking and hears a noise like a rush of wind. A black object 7 feet across comes hurtling through the air about 20 feet above the ground. Moving from south to northwest, it crashes into an oak tree, splitting it in two at a height of 10 feet, then ascends and disappears in seconds. The tree has no burn or scorch marks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[UAOs Collide with Tree, Roof,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2; “[We’re Not Roswell, We’re Portglenone,](http://forteanireland.blogspot.com/2019/03/were-not-roswell-were-portglenone.html)” Fortean Ireland, March 17, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3255 ### Event 15414 (ECD2799C) **Date:** 12/31/1958 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** LA HERRERIA, SP **Description:** 2 / truck. 2 2 Mx30cm rockets going up / terrific ascent. No flame. / FSRv17#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6090 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LA HERRERIA,SP:2/TRUCK:2 2Mx30cm ROCKETS ↑/TERRIFIC ASCENT:NO FLAME:/FSRv17#4", **LatLong:** "37.416668 -6.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "37:25:00 N 06:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.416668,-6.133334)", **State/Prov:** "SVL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15415 (10127F9A) **Date:** 12/31/1958 **Description:** Two men in their late 40s, Srs. Salas and Acosta, watched a cylindrical object with a pointed end shoot straight up in the sky at 11:55 p.m. in Umbrete, Sevilla province, Spain. A moment later, when one of them opened the door of the truck in which they had been driving, a second object-two meters long-shot up from the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, July-August 1971, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8667 --- ## Year: 1959 (Back to Top) ### Event 15416 (AB6CFA37) **Date:** 1959 **Description:** Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact with Aliens. **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_591 **Attributes:** Majestic **See also:** 4/15/64 ### Event 15417 (728D82A0) **Date:** 1959 **Location:** EAST PAPUA, NG **Description:** 62 UFO's / 1959. 18 / Boianai and 13 / Baniara and 7 / Ruabapain and 6 / Dagura and more/others / r55p217.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6197 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "31", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "E.PAPUA,NG:62 UFOS/1959:18/BOIANAI+13/BANIARA+7/RUABAPAIN+6/DAGURA++/r55p217..", **LatLong:** "-10.000000 150.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "10:00:00 S 150:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.000000,150.000007)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15418 (3ED4644E) **Date:** 1959? **Location:** Nevada Test Site **Description:** According to weapons specialist David Middleton, sometime in the late 1950s a few hours prior to a nuclear weapons test at the Nevada Test Site, he and several other technicians watch two silver discs race across then swoop down and maneuver near the detonation tower where the atomic weapon is mounted. The two objects fly a tight circle around the tower before zooming off at high velocity. The test is immediately postponed by senior AEC personnel. Middleton is debriefed and sworn to secrecy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nukes 58–59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3256 ### Event 15419 (A8D7AB4E) **Date:** 1959 **Locations:** Baker-Nunn cameras; Naval Space Command; Naval Network and Space Operations Command **Description:** The original US Navy Space Surveillance System goes into operation. From 1960 until the early 1990s the system is used in conjunction with a network of Baker-Nunn cameras that can see an object the size of a basketball at 25,000 miles. The system is operated by the US Navy for NORAD from 1961 to October 2004. Initially independent, it is run by Naval Space Command from 1993 to 2002, and then by Naval Network and Space Operations Command from 2002 to 2004, when it is taken over by the Air Force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FSystem) [Space Surveillance System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FSystem)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3257 ### Event 15420 (DFA4A3E1) **Date:** 1959 **Locations:** Edgewood Arsenal; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland **Description:** The US Army and CIA at Edgewood Arsenal at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, show significant interest in deploying a new drug, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate \(BZ\), as a chemical warfare agent. The drug’s effects last for three days, perhaps as long as six. Between 1959 and 1975, some 2,800 soldiers are given BZ at Edgewood. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Reid Kirby, “[Paradise Lost: The Psycho Agents,](http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/hsp/documents/CBWCB71.pdf)” The CBW Conventions Bulletin, no. 71 \(May 2006\): 1–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3258 ### Event 15421 (E7399546) **Date:** 1959 **Locations:** UK; Zurich, Switzerland **Description:** Psychologist [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung) publishes Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies in the UK, a translation of Ein moderner Mythus von Dingen, die am Himmel gesehen werden, published in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1958, in which he compares the discs to archetypes, dreams, visions, paintings, and the metaphysical symbol of a mandala: “the rounded wholeness of the mandala becomes a space ship controlled by an intelligent being.” However, he remains puzzled by the physical evidence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Carl Jung, [Flying Saucers: A Modern](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju) [Myth of Things Seen in the Skies](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju)[,](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju) Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959; Clark III 637–638 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3259 ### Event 15422 (865F8C84) **Date:** 1959 **Location:** Santiago, Chile **Description:** Author [Hugo Correa](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Chile/UFO%20Chile/) founds UFO Chile in Santiago, Chile. Its newsletter appears from August 1967 to May 1969. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hugo Correa, “[¿Que es ‘UFO Chile’?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Chile/UFO%20Chile/UFO%20Chile%20-%20Issue%2001.pdf)” UFO Chile, no. 1 \(August 1967\): 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3260 ### Event 15423 (39D8961B) **Date:** 1959 **Description:** The Soviet KGB has created its own disinformation Department D \(Dezinformatsiya\) in the First Chief Directorate, which under [Yuri Andropov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%5FAndropov) is later renamed Department A \(for “active measures”\). It specializes in the fabrication and dissemination of forged documents, tapes, letters, manuscripts, photos, rumors, and false intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Active measures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%5Fmeasures)”; John Barron, [KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents](https://archive.org/details/kgbsecretworkofs00barr), Bantam, 1974; Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson, [Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy](https://archive.org/details/dezinformatsiaac0000shul/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/dezinformatsiaac0000shul/page/n5/mode/2up) Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1984 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3261 ### Event 15424 (3BC1F37E) **Date:** 1959 **Description:** Contactee [Howard Menger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FMenger) publishes From Outer Space to You, an account of his meetings with space people. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Howard Menger, [From Outer Space to You](https://archive.org/details/fromouterspaceto00meng/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/fromouterspaceto00meng/page/n3/mode/2up) Saucerian, 1959; Clark III 739 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3262 ### Event 15425 (7D064AAE) **Date:** 1959 **Location:** Giant Rock, California **Description:** [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) claims the space people have taught him a method of rejuvenating the human body. Using his new-found knowledge and funds provided by [Howard Hughes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHughes)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHughes) he completes the outer structure of the Integraton at Giant Rock, California, a four-story domed structure, 55 feet in diameter, built mostly of wood without nails, screws, iron, or steel. Van Tassel claims it will harness the EMF energy required for recharging the cells in our bodies. In the course of its construction, Van Tassel discovers that the Integraton functions as a time machine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Integraton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron)”; Clark III 1219; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [pp. 79–81](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/78/mode/2up); David Clarke and Tom Clark, “Going ‘Out There’ in SoCal,” Fortean Times 388 \(January 2020\): 75–76 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3263 ### Event 15426 (0D2ADA6C) **Date:** 1/1959 **Location:** NEAR VERONA, ITL **Description:** 1 / train. Metallic disk / 10M altitude 200M away. Lit portholes / dome. Telepathy? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6091 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr VERONA,ITL:1/TRAIN:MTLC DISK/10M alt 200M away:LIT PORTHOLES/DOME:TLP?", **LatLong:** "45.500002 11.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 11:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,11.000001)", **State/Prov:** "VR", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15427 (2E484ECD) **Date:** 1/1959 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** TOBOLSK, USSR **Description:** Bright "star" forms cloud. Emits similar object. Moves. Original = "Tobilsk". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6092 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "TOBOLSK,USSR:BRITE "STAR" FORMS CLOUD:EMITS SIMILAR OBJ:MOVES:orig="TOBILSK"", **LatLong:** "58.150003 68.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "58:09:00 N 68:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.150003,68.466670)", **State/Prov:** "NVS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15428 (D628508F) **Date:** 1/1959 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** DUMAS, ARK **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Ovoid going quickly southeast. Reddish glow. Light-bulb shape. Back in May nearby. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6093 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "DUMAS,ARK:100s/OBS:OVOID >>SE:REDDISH GLOW:LIGHT-BULB SHAPE:BACK IN MAY NEARBY", **LatLong:** "33.877779 -91.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:52:40 N 91:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.877779,-91.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15429 (6AA500B4) **Date:** 1/1959 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** STRATFORD-ON-AVON, WARWICKS **Description:** Fiery saucer lands. 3 men exit and sit clumsily. Observer(s) frozen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 480) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6094 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "STRATFORD-on-AVON,WARWICKs:FIERY SCR LANDS:3 MEN EXIT+SIT CLUMSILY:OBS FROZEN:", **LatLong:** "52.216669 -1.683333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:13:00 N 01:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.216669,-1.683333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15430 (145EFA90) **Date:** 1/1959? **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** WELDON SPRING, MO **Description:** Blue Book. 3 observer(s). Saucer hovers / government nuclear facility / 20 minute(s). Then going quickly SE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6095 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "WELDON SPRING,MO:BBK:3 OBS:SCR HVRs/GOV'T NUCLEAR FACILITY/20min:THEN >>SE.", **LatLong:** "38.711113 -90.688893", **LatLongDMS:** "38:42:40 N 90:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.711113,-90.688893)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15431 (DD5C5498) **Date:** 1/1959 **Time:** 1715 **Location:** Stratford-on-Avon, Great Britain **Description:** Leonard Hewins, of Tredington, saw a fiery, round object come down from the east and land 100 m away. While a blue haze formed, three figures emerged from the object and seemed to sit down with clumsy movements. The witness was unable to move until the craft and its occupants took off swiftly, leaving a trail of stars. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 67, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_480 ### Event 15432 (DC70AA9E) **Date:** 1/1959 **Location:** Stratford-on-Avon, England **Description:** Leonard Hewins sees a fiery, round object come down near Stratford-on-Avon, England, from the east and land 300 feet away. A blue haze forms and three figures emerge and sit down with clumsy movements. Hewins is unable to move until the UFO takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John D. Llewellyn, “[Stratford-on-Avon Landing with Occupants:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%205.pdf) [January 1959,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1967\): 15; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-01-uk-stratfordonavon.htm), March 9, 2008 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3264 ### Event 15433 (9C7973B3) **Date:** 1/1/1959 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** NEWPORT BEACH, CA **Description:** Harbor guards. UFO splits / 4. 2 going up [to] very fast. 1 going quickly southeast. 1 stays. / r143#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 709) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6096 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NEWPORT BEACH,CA:HARBOR GUARDS:UFO SPLITS/4:2 ↑ VFAST:1 >>SE:1 STAYS:/r143#1", **LatLong:** "33.616668 -117.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:37:00 N 117:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.616668,-117.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15434 (2014CEAB) **Date:** 1/1/1959 **Location:** Newport Beach, CA **Description:** County Harbor Department guards watched UFO split in four parts; two rose vertically at high speed, one headed SE, one remained stationary. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2319 ### Event 15435 (EE6C5C94) **Date:** 1/1/1959 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Rocket scientist [Wernher von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) on holiday in Germany, makes a cryptic statement about the failed launch of [Pioneer 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer%5F3) by a Juno II rocket on December 6, 1958: “We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers, and in six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 370](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/370/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3265 ### Event 15436 (17F7714C) **Date:** 1/1/1959 **Locations:** Harbor Department in Corona del Mar, California; Newport Beach **Description:** 4:55 p.m. Deputy Fred Gunzelman of the Harbor Department in Corona del Mar, California, spots a bright object outside department headquarters. He summons Deputy Elmer Sandling and Sgt. Bruce Young and the three watch the object through binoculars, where it appears to be a disc-shaped object with a rotating tail. They notify the lifeguard headquarters at Newport Beach, where Lt. Mike Henry, Guard Jack Bell, and Lt. Jim Richards also see the UFO. The planet Venus is clearly visible in the same section of sky. During the 15 minutes it is visible, it starts moving to the southeast and then splits into four parts. Two rise vertically at high speed, another heads southeast, and the last remains stationary. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 137](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=149&skin=2021); Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 95 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3266 ### Event 15437 (370B763E) **Date:** 1/2/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** ANNISTON ORDNANCE, AL **Description:** Military and civil. Silent silver glowing-sphere/orb/globe hovers and maneuvers / fast circles. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6097 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "226", **HatchDesc:** "ANNISTON ORDNANCE,AL:MIL+CIV:SLNT SLVR GLOW-ORB HVRS+MNVRS/FAST CCLs:>>SW", **LatLong:** "33.650002 -85.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:39:00 N 85:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.650002,-85.983337)", **State/Prov:** "LAL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15438 (5C4BC5E5) **Date:** 1/2/1959 **Description:** In Calhoun County, Alabama at 7 p.m. a silent silver globe hovered and maneuvered over the Anniston Army Ordnance Depot. The UFO made several quick circles in the sky then flew off toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_27 ### Event 15439 (52A01759) **Date:** 1/3/1959 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** DOVER, OH **Description:** 2+6 kids / car. Large silent cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 40M altitude. Red and green and white lights / surface. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6098 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "274", **HatchDesc:** "DOVER,OH:2+6 KIDS/CAR:LRG SLNT CGR HVRS/40M alt:RED+GRN+WHT LITES/SURFACE", **LatLong:** "40.516669 -81.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:31:00 N 81:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.516669,-81.466671)", **RelAlt:** "40", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15440 (DBFA8912) **Date:** 1/3/1959 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ROCHESTER, NY **Description:** Pilot / (seen thru) binoculars and more/others. Orange round object going south. Crackles. Turns going southwest. Night light exits going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6099 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "ROCHESTER,NY:PILOT/BINOCS++:ORG.RND.OBJ > S:CRACKLES:TURNS >SW:NLT EXITS >>W:", **LatLong:** "43.166669 -77.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:10:00 N 77:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.166669,-77.633337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15441 (E4F898F8) **Date:** 1/3/1959 **Description:** At 1:30 p.m. a six-foot long shining cigar-shaped object flew over Adelaide, South Australia. It gave off a red glow. It was followed shortly by a six-foot square object, spinning and shining brightly in the daytime sky. At 8:00 p.m. another cigar-shaped UFO hovered over Dover, Ohio at 40 meters altitude. It was large, silent, and had red, green and white lights on its surface. At about the same time or shortly after eight p.m. a round orange object flew south of Rochester, New York. It made a crackling noise as it flew. A nocturnal light exited from the larger craft, and flew off quickly to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164; Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: January-March, p. 4; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_52 ### Event 15442 (9C1B1ED8) **Date:** 1/4/1959 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** SOUTH / CLINES CORNERS, NM **Description:** 3+2 / car. Glowing-sphere/orb/globe scouts routes US185+66. Sharp maneuvers and stops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6100 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "2145", **HatchDesc:** "S/CLINES CORNERS,NM:3+2/CAR:GLOW-ORB SCOUTS Rtes US185+66:SHARP MNVRS+STOPS", **LatLong:** "34.900002 -105.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:54:00 N 105:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.900002,-105.616672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15443 (D652BF7F) **Date:** 1/4/1959 **End date:** 1/5/1959 **Location:** Taft, CA **Description:** Three Airliners See Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590104-05](http://www.nicap.org/590104taft%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2320 ### Event 15444 (B0552587) **Date:** 1/4/1959 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m. five people saw a luminous globe make sharp maneuvers in the sky about ten miles south of Clines Corner, New Mexico. It then hovered over a highway intersection for fifteen minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_84 ### Event 15445 (9A182DB1) **Date:** 1/6/1959 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** MARKHAM, IL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Sparkling glowing-sausage going southwest / low altitude. Turns going west. Unknown. separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6101 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "187", **HatchDesc:** "MARKHAM,IL:2 OBS:SPARKLING GLOW-SAUSAGE > SW/lo alt:TURNS >W:unkn.sep.obs", **LatLong:** "41.594446 -87.694449", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:40 N 87:41:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.594446,-87.694449)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15446 (068F98F2) **Date:** 1/8/1959 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** WALWORTH, WI **Description:** Ex Air Traffic Controller / flight controller. Round object going down [to] slow. Then going quickly southwest. / r242p45+/ r143#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6102 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "WALWORTH,WI:EX ATC/FLT CONTROLLER:RND.OBJ ↓ SLOW:THEN >>SW:/r242p45+/r143#1", **LatLong:** "42.550002 -88.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:00 N 88:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.550002,-88.577782)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15447 (D4A50458) **Date:** 1/8/1959 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** RISDON, TASM **Description:** 2 electric engineers. 2 white sheets going down [to] and maneuver impossibly. Night lights maneuver overhead. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6103 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "RISDON,TASM:2 ELEC.ENGs:2 WHT SHEETS ↓+MNVR IMPOSSIBLY:NLTS MNVR OVHD:see ref", **LatLong:** "-42.800002 147.333340", **LatLongDMS:** "42:48:00 S 147:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-42.800002,147.333340)", **State/Prov:** "TSM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15448 (CE3DFD99) **Date:** 1/8/1959 **Time:** ~19:30 **Location:** BALBOA, PANAMA CZ **Description:** Silver object crosses sky. Tracked / RADAR / 24 Jan / NY Times / r242p137. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6104 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Panama", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BALBOA,PANAMA CZ:SLVR OBJ CROSSES SKY::TRACKED/RDR/24JAN/NY Times/r242p137", **LatLong:** "8.966667 -79.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "08:58:00 N 79:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/8.966667,-79.566670)", **State/Prov:** "Canal Zone", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15449 (A468A88A) **Date:** 1/8/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR ANN ARBOR, MI **Description:** 2 / farm. 5 cigars maneuver and circle / 50M altitude. Red lights flash / top. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6105 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "nr ANN ARBOR,MI:2/FARM:5 CGRS MNVR+CCL/50M alt:RED LITES FLASH/TOP:ABS SLNT", **LatLong:** "42.250002 -83.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:15:00 N 83:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.250002,-83.750004)", **RelAlt:** "50", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15450 (77ACAF45) **Date:** 1/8/1959 **Location:** Walworth (near), WI **Description:** Former control tower operator and flight controller saw UFO descend slowly, then speed away like meteor. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2321 ### Event 15451 (777A6DB8) **Date:** 1/8/1959 **Description:** Shortly after nine a.m. on a clear day two MEc employee in Hobart, Tasmania saw a 2.7-meter long object disappear between buildings. Three more were seen in the sky and a fifth object shaped like an inverted skittle with a ball handle dove in the River Derwent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated January 21, 1959 citing USAF **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_192 ### Event 15452 (5F45AF05) **Date:** 1/11/1959 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** NEAR SHORT PUMP, VA **Description:** 3 / car. Disk going southwest over car. 2.5cm / arms length. Yellow windows all over/all about / rim. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6106 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "88", **HatchDesc:** "nr SHORT PUMP,VA:3/CAR:DISK >SW ovr CAR:2.5cm/ARMS LNGTH:YLW WINDOWS ALLO/RIM", **LatLong:** "37.650002 -77.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:39:00 N 77:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.650002,-77.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15453 (680FBA9F) **Date:** 1/11/1959 **Location:** Ottawa, Ontario **Description:** [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) speaks on UFOs at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Canadian Regional Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. He claims that “Various items of ‘hardware’ are known to exist, but are usually clapped into security and are not available to the general public.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p.](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up) [48](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3267 ### Event 15454 (8BAF5B2D) **Date:** 1/13/1959 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** PYMATUNING RESERVOIR, PA **Description:** UFO stops overhead. Motor and lights and radio fail. Going quickly west and truck OK. / r79p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6107 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "310", **HatchDesc:** "PYMATUNING RSVR,PA:UFO STOPS OVHD:MOTOR+LITES+RADIO FAIL:>>W+TRUCK OK:/r79p16", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -80.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 80:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-80.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15455 (BB750AA6) **Date:** 1/13/1959 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** BYGHOLM, DK **Description:** 1 / car. 15M ovoid hovers. Going west over car. Engine quits. Lights OK. / r143#1p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6108 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BYGHOLM,DK:1/CAR:15M OVOID HVRS:>W OVR CAR:ENGINE QUITS:LITES OK:/r143#1p17", **LatLong:** "55.866669 9.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "55:52:00 N 09:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.866669,9.833334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15456 (361CF914) **Date:** 1/13/1959 **Location:** Bygholm, Den **Description:** Car motor failed as UFO passed overhead; headlights and spotlight functioned normally (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2322 ### Event 15457 (8B7D0A0D) **Date:** 1/13/1959 **Location:** Pymatuning Lake, PA **Description:** Truck motor, lights and radio failed as UFO hovered over truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2323 ### Event 15458 (3F4C9169) **Date:** 1/13/1959 **Locations:** Hartstown Road; Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania **Description:** 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins is driving a pickup truck south on Hartstown Road across Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania, when he sees a bright light approaching from the east and illuminating the ground. It stops above his truck, hovering 200 feet above it for several minutes. The truck’s electrical system fails, the engine dies, and the headlights and radio go out. The object’s light illuminates an area about 300 feet in front of him. It takes off and disappears in seconds, and the truck begins working again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Area Man’s Encounter with Unidentified Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99784357/) [Object](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99784357/) [Called Weirdest Experience,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99784380/)” Greenville \(Pa.\) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959, pp. 1–2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3268 ### Event 15459 (8546C7F1) **Date:** 1/13/1959 **Description:** A witness driving alone in Bygholm, Denmark saw a stationary object ahead in the sky. After about five seconds the object moved toward the car and passed over it at a height of 100 meters. The car's engine stopped at this point but the headlights were not affected. The object, which now changed color from yellow-green to yellow-white, moved quickly away into the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 97, FSR, Vol. 5, No. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_294 ### Event 15460 (E53791A4) **Date:** 1/13/1959 **Description:** At 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins, while driving a pick-up truck near Greenville, Pennsylvania, noticed lights in the sky he thought were a plane making an emergency landing. The lights eventually coalesced into a single bright light. This light then hovered over his truck for several minutes. His truck's engine, lights, and radio failed at this point. The light, which was too bright for Mr. ColIins to discern any structure, departed quickly to the west and out of sight in 30 seconds. The truck then could be restarted. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Greenville (PA) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 98, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 75 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_295 ### Event 15461 (7CFAF331) **Date:** 1/14/1959 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** AIRLINER TO NY **Description:** Copilot. Brilliant yellow cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly west 1500M ahead. 4 silver rectangular panels / side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6109 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "AIRLINER to NY:COPILOT:BRILL.YLW CGR >>W 1500M ahead:4 SLVR RECT.PANELS/SIDE", **LatLong:** "29.333335 -79.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "29:20:00 N 79:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.333335,-79.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15462 (25FCB1E0) **Date:** 1/17/1959 **Locations:** Auckland, New Zealand; North Island; Kaikohe **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) arrives in Auckland, New Zealand, on the first stop on his world lecture tour where he is received by North Island Adamski Correspondence Group leaders [Henk](http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/1998/may/m27-004.shtml) and Brenda Hinfelaar for a 6-week engagement starting with a talk in Kaikohe on January 20. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up), The Author, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3269 ### Event 15463 (9D2B42B6) **Date:** 1/18/1959 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** ST. CLAIR, NZ **Description:** Prof. astronomers. Night light going quickly west / 30-90 second(s). No explanation. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) MAR'59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6110 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.CLAIR,NZ:PROF.ASTROMOMERS:NLT >>W/30-90sec:no explanation:/FSR MAR'59", **LatLong:** "-45.800002 170.483341", **LatLongDMS:** "45:48:00 S 170:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.800002,170.483341)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15464 (2B375DA9) **Date:** 1/18/1959? **Locations:** Stigsjö, Sweden; Lake Länsjön **Description:** Eight people see a UFO over Stigsjö, Sweden. The round object, 18–24 feet in diameter, approaches slowly from the south over Lake Länsjön at a height of 900 feet. It is surrounded by a luminous ring 6 feet wide. It is visible for 3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3270 ### Event 15465 (6F741E45) **Date:** 1/20/1959 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** STIGSJO, SWDN **Description:** 2+6 observer(s). 7M saucer with 2M glowing-ring going northeast over Lake Langsjoen. / r26p138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6111 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "STIGSJO,SWDN:2+6 OBS:7M SCR W/2M GLOW-RING >NE ovr Lk.LANGSJOEN:/r26p138", **LatLong:** "62.633336 17.666668", **LatLongDMS:** "62:38:00 N 17:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.633336,17.666668)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15466 (1730C7DC) **Date:** 1/21/1959 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LANDER, WY **Description:** Farmer. Plain white 12M cylinder/cigar-shape 3.5M wide and 1.5M thick. Arcs around and going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 127) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6112 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1635", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LANDER,WY:FARMER:PLAIN WHT 12M CGR 3.5M WIDE+1.5M THICK:ARCS AROUND+>>W", **LatLong:** "42.766669 -108.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 108:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,-108.650005)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15467 (39B9B649) **Date:** 1/21/1959 **Locations:** Gdynia, Poland; Gdynia Polytechnic University; Polish Naval Academy; Soviet Union **Description:** 6:00 a.m. A flying object is seen crashing into the waters of the harbor at Gdynia, Poland. Rumors later claim that a rust-free fragment is retrieved by divers and, after being examined by the Polish navy, sent to Gdynia Polytechnic University \[possibly the Polish Naval Academy\]. A few days later, an injured occupant of the craft is allegedly found wandering in the area. He speaks no known language, wears an odd uniform, and apparently has burns on the face. He is taken to a hospital, but he dies when doctors attempt to remove an armband. His remains are said to have been shipped to the Soviet Union. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 1–2; Poland 25–28, 115 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3271 ### Event 15468 (BD90A2E9) **Date:** 1/21/1959 **Locations:** UK House of Commons; Canada; US **Description:** MP [Roy Mason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FMason) asks the Air Minister another question in the UK House of Commons: What instructions have been sent to RAF stations about collecting military UFO reports, and what collaboration is there with Canada and the US? Air Minister [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) replies that RAF units have standing instructions for handling reports, and there is no special collaboration with those countries. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Roy Mason Asks Another,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CMar-Apr%2CV%205%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 2 \(March/April 1959\): 2; Good Above, [p. 52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3272 ### Event 15469 (7F835CC8) **Date:** 1/21/1959 **Description:** A luminous object was seen falling into the harbor of Gdynia, Poland on this night. Divers were sent to retrieve it and brought back a piece of un-rusted metal whose composition was not publicly disclosed. Several days later, a strange male figure wearing "a sort of uniform" was encountered dragging himself along the beach. Part of his face appeared to be burnt and his hair singed. After being taken to hospital it was discovered that the uniform he wore was made of metal, and the being's organs were quite different from those of a human being. It had six digits on its hands and feet. The creature died after an armband was removed, and the body was sent to the Soviet Union. An autopsy allegedly revealed a different structure of internal organs and a spiral system of blood circulation. It had six fingered extremities and was about 1.60 meters in height. The body was placed in a freezer and stored in an underground bunker, supposedly in the Moscow area. The divers apparently also found another half of the object that crashed, embedded in the underwater mud.

According to additional details revealed later, a second alien body was recovered on shore a short time after the first recovery. The alien that had still been alive was treated at the Gdynia-Redlow hospital, but soon fell into a coma-like state after an arm bracelet was removed. Both aliens had six digits on their hands and feet. An autopsy was conducted on one of the dead aliens; the one in a coma was put in a special chamber aimed at supporting its vital functions. The six-fingered being taken to the U.S.S.R. is allegedly being stored in an isolated top-secret underground bunker, located under a building on a biomedical research center facility east of Solnechnogorsk. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-02, citing Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh; Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova, Larissa Chora, and Bronislaw Rzepecki **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_402 ### Event 15470 (CEEF9678) **Date:** 1/23/1959 **Location:** Panama Canal, Panama **Description:** Panama Canal, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2324 ### Event 15471 (F39E4205) **Date:** 1/23/1959 **Description:** A bright silver object was sighted as it arced across the sky in the Panama Canal Zone. It was tracked by US radar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119, citing New York Times, January 23, 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_438 ### Event 15472 (D57EE581) **Date:** 1/24/1959 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** SYDNEY, NSW **Description:** 2 observer(s). Skyquakes. Metallic cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 5 min. 90° turns. Going quickly [to] away extremely fast. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6113 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SYDNEY,NSW:2 OBS:SKYQUAKES:MTLC CGR HVRS/5 min:90°TURNS:>> AWAY XFAST:ABS.SLNT", **LatLong:** "-33.900002 151.216674", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 S 151:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.900002,151.216674)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15473 (4AA09E12) **Date:** 1/24/1959 **Description:** Mr. Armstrong and a second person in Centennial, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia heard skyquakes at 11:30 a.m. They then observed a metallic, cigar-shaped object hovering for 5 minutes. It made 90 degree turns, then shot away extremely fast. It was absolutely silent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 53; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_478 ### Event 15474 (0B9C353A) **Date:** 1/26/1959 **Location:** Coral Gables, FL **Description:** Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral Gables, FL. **Type:** whistleblower **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_588 ### Event 15475 (74D6F677) **Date:** 1/26/1959 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** HOKKAIDO ISLAND, JP **Description:** Many observer(s). 2 glowing lens-saucers going west slow. 1 turns 180° going east. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6114 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HOKKAIDO Isl,JP:MANY OBS:2 GLOW.LENS-SCRS >W SLOW:1 TURNS 180° >E:ABS.SLNT", **LatLong:** "43.500002 143.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "43:30:00 N 143:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.500002,143.000007)", **State/Prov:** "HKD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15476 (86EC214D) **Date:** 1/26/1959 **Description:** On the island of Hokkaido, Japan at 4 p.m. many witnesses watched two glowing lens-shaped discs that flew slowly to the west. One made a 180 degree turn to the east. Both were completely silent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_518 ### Event 15477 (1BD13462) **Date:** 1/27/1959 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** CLEVELAND, OH **Description:** 2 observer(s). Sausage with lights lands behind warehouse. Nothing found. / r24v1#7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6115 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "CLEVELAND,OH:2 OBS:SAUSAGE W/LITES LANDS BHND WAREHOUSE:nothing found:/r24v1#7", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -81.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 81:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-81.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15478 (77C4AE12) **Date:** 1/28/1959 **Locations:** Astor Hotel; New York City **Description:** At a Symposium on Aerospace Technology by the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences at the Astor Hotel in New York City, USAF Maj. Gen. [Donald J. Keirn](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106554/major-general-donald-j-keirn/), assistant deputy chief of staff on development for nuclear systems, talks about nuclear aircraft propulsion. He mentions that if intelligent extraterrestrials do exist, “it is entirely possible that some of them may have passed through our stage of evolution, and may have already achieved a higher level of social and technological culture than our own.” He suggests using electromagnetic emissions to detect them, as they may be doing with us. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Hearings, Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program, July 23, 1959, [p. 153](https://archive.org/details/aircraftnuclearp00unit/page/152/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3273 ### Event 15479 (E5B19842) **Date:** 1/29/1959 **Location:** OFF VIANA DO CASTELO, PORTGL **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 300M altitude / 30 minute(s). Turns vertical. Extremely quickly going up [to] extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6116 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "off VIANA do CASTELO,PORTGL:CGR HVRS/300M alt/30min:TURNS VERTICAL:↑↑↑ XFAST", **LatLong:** "41.683335 -8.733334", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:00 N 08:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.683335,-8.733334)", **State/Prov:** "MNH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15480 (4690A6D6) **Date:** 1/30/1959 **Description:** A truck driver driving this night on U.S. Route 52 near New Richmond, Ohio saw a bizarre gray "ugly" creature with tentacles crossing the road ahead of the truck. Two hours later, just across the border in Covington, Kentucky a woman reported seeing a strange grayish creature with a lopsided chest, ugly tentacles, and rolls of fat running in a bent over fashion. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Bigfoot: Tales of Unexplained Creatures, UFOs, and Psychic Connections **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_600 ### Event 15481 (A236C130) **Date:** 1/31/1959 **Description:** The US Ground Observer Corps is deactivated with the advent of automated Army \(Missile Master\) and Air Force \(SAGE\) radar systems. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Ground Observer Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%5FObserver%5FCorps)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3274 ### Event 15482 (DC19B7A6) **Date:** 2/1959 **Location:** Umiat, Alaska **Description:** 350 km east of Umiat, trappers saw a red, disk-shaped object less than 4 km away, going up and down, sometimes nearly touching the ground. It circled and went away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 59, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_481 ### Event 15483 (A817FD08) **Date:** 2/1959 **Location:** Digeliotika, Greece **Description:** 9:30 p.m. The people of Digeliotika, Greece, hear a humming noise coming from the direction of the sea. Running out of their homes, many people see a luminous disc circling the village for about 10 minutes. Radios fail to operate and the electrical current in one house fails completely. When the disc flies low over the house of the priest, Papa Costas, there is a loud noise and the whole house shakes. The object moves off to the west. Inspection of the house the next day reveals that many of the roof tiles have been displaced, and others are on the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[UAOs Collide with Tree, Roof,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3275 ### Event 15484 (94C6EB2B) **Date:** 2/1/1959 **Location:** Canada **Description:** JANAP 146\(D\) integrates Canada into the CIRVIS reporting instructions. The Canadian Department of National Defence launches a series of Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings in line with the JANAP procedures. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gregory M. Kanon, “[UFOs and the Canadian Government,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%207%20-%201976.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 7 \(Spring 1976\): 17–18; Antonio F. Rullán, “[Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf)” December 10, 2002 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3276 ### Event 15485 (AFC98603) **Date:** 2/2/1959 **Location:** Sandusky (near), OH **Description:** UofM professor saw a yellow half-sphere in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2325 ### Event 15486 (15498287) **Date:** 2/4/1959 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** SOUTH / SWAN ISLAND **Description:** Pan-AM crew. Red night light zigzags in front / DC6B. Quickly going up [to] extremely fast. / r242p42+/ r143. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6117 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S/SWAN Isl:PAN-AM CREW:RED NLT ZIGZAGS IN FRONT/DC6B:↑↑ XFAST:/r242p42+/r143", **LatLong:** "17.333334 -83.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "17:20:00 N 83:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/17.333334,-83.933337)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15487 (BFD02D7F) **Date:** 2/4/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** EL COCO AIRPORT/APARTMENT, COSTA RICA **Description:** Air Traffic Controller. Ovoid flashes west going quickly east. No further details / pilot John Novak. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6118 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Costa Rica", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "895", **HatchDesc:** "El COCO Apt,COSTA RICA:ATC:OVOID FLASHES W>>E:NFD/pilot John Novak", **LatLong:** "9.983334 -84.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "09:59:00 N 84:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.983334,-84.200004)", **State/Prov:** "SNJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15488 (F8B87CBA) **Date:** 2/4/1959 **Location:** Swan Island, Gulf of Mexico, at Sea **Description:** Reddish Light Performs Maneuvers Near Airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [590204](http://nicap.org/590204swanisland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2326 ### Event 15489 (E4FD653B) **Date:** 2/7/1959 **Time:** 01:40 **Location:** ATLANTIC CITY, NJ **Description:** Rumble! 15M and saucer going west / 150kph. All lit. Square portholes. Returns and hovers / 20m. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6119 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "ATLANTIC CITY,NJ:RUMBLE!:15M+ SCR >W/150kph:ALL LIT:SQR PORTS:RETURNS+HVRS/20m", **LatLong:** "39.383335 -74.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:23:00 N 74:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.383335,-74.450004)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15490 (888F1A5D) **Date:** 2/7/1959 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** US 601, SC **Description:** TV engineer. Car hood glows green. 30M saucer overhead. Away fast. / r143 v1p43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6120 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "US 601,SC:TV ENGINEER:CAR HOOD GLOWS GRN:30M SCR OVHD:AWAY FAST:/r143 v1p43", **LatLong:** "33.666668 -80.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:40:00 N 80:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.666668,-80.783337)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15491 (F98103CD) **Date:** 2/8/1959? **Location:** 200MI EAST / UMIAK, AK **Description:** Trappers. Red saucer rises falls hovers circles & quickly going up. / r141#1p50+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6121 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "200mi E/UMIAK,AK:TRAPPERS:RED SCR RISEs FALLs HVRs CCLs & ↑↑:/r141#1p50+/r8", **LatLong:** "69.333337 -142.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "69:20:00 N 142:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.333337,-142.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15492 (71870CF7) **Date:** 2/9/1959 **Location:** IMPERIAL BEACH, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright object with halo filmed. Hovers. Gone. Reappears. Going quickly west to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 92) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6122 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "IMPERIAL BEACH,CA:2 OBS:BRITE OBJ W/HALO FILMED:HVRS:GONE:REAPPEARS:>>W to SEA", **LatLong:** "32.583335 -117.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:35:00 N 117:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.583335,-117.083339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15493 (F103E6C7) **Date:** 2/9/1959 **Location:** Imperial Beach, CA **Description:** Bright UFO with halo filmed. \[NICAP UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2327 ### Event 15494 (15156114) **Date:** 2/11/1959 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** NEAR PHILIPSBURG, PA **Description:** 3 plane crews and passengers. 3 300' saucers pace airline(s)/airliner. Not / RADAR. / MJ#250. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6123 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "437", **HatchDesc:** "nr PHILIPSBURG,PA:3 PLANE CREWS+PASSENGERS:3 300'SCRs PACE AL:NOT/RDR:/MJ#250", **LatLong:** "40.894446 -78.222226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:53:40 N 78:13:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.894446,-78.222226)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15495 (8D9DB1C8) **Date:** 2/12/1959 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** MIAMI, FL **Description:** 1 observer. White cigarette cylinder/cylindrical object jerks to and fro over cloud. Gone suddenly. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 148) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6124 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MIAMI,FL:1 OBS:WHT CIGARETTE CYL JERKS TO+FRO ovr CLOUD:GONE SUDDENLY:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "25.783335 -80.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "25:47:00 N 80:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.783335,-80.172226)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15496 (12134A00) **Date:** 2/12/1959 **Description:** At 6:10 p.m. a white cylindrical object, shaped like a cigarette in appearance, jerked back and forth over a cloud in Miami, Florida. It then vanished suddenly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 48 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_862 ### Event 15497 (D1EBE960) **Date:** 2/13/1959 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** OFF OAK HARBOR, WA **Description:** Air Traffic Controller and 6 military. 30cm green fireball emerges / sea. Hisses and spins and rises and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6125 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off OAK HARBOR,WA:ATC+6 MIL:30cm GRN FBL EMERGES/SEA:HISSES+SPINS+RISES+AWAY", **LatLong:** "48.250002 -122.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:00 N 122:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.250002,-122.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15498 (644647D0) **Date:** 2/16/1959 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BENGHAZI, LIBYA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Military observer(s) = rose. 1 UFO seen / 15 min. No further details [in] at all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6126 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Libya", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BENGHAZI,LIBYA:BBK#UNK:MIL OBS=ROSE:1 UFO SEEN/15 MIN:NFD AT ALL", **LatLong:** "32.116668 20.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "32:07:00 N 20:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.116668,20.083334)", **State/Prov:** "BEN", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15499 (ABD3A5D5) **Date:** 2/16/1959 **Location:** Benghazi, Libya **Description:** Silvery blue to reddish to dark round object with dome, sharply outlined (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2328 ### Event 15500 (1B1A32AE) **Date:** 2/17/1959 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) wants to start bringing together ATIC and Blue Book personnel for monthly meetings where scientific and PR problems are reviewed. To get it going, he meets with Air Force Intelligence, Secretary of the Air Force officials, and Blue Book staffers in the Pentagon. This meeting includes, besides Hynek, Maj. [Robert J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) [Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) Col. Leonard T. Glaser, [Alex Francis Arcier](http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/127948-alex-francis-arcier-waco-cargo-gliders-general-designer/)[,](http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/127948-alex-francis-arcier-waco-cargo-gliders-general-designer/) Maj. James F. Byrne, Maj. [Joseph E. Boland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8792087/joseph-edward-boland), Maj. [Lawrence](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) [J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) and [Burgoyne Lee Griffing](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124036/burgoyne-lee-griffing)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124036/burgoyne-lee-griffing) The group agrees that eventually the term “UFOs” should be jettisoned and older unsolved cases reexamined in the light of “greater scientific knowledge” that will move them from unknowns to knowns. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 148–149](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/148/mode/2up); Clark III 919; Swords 286; “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3277 ### Event 15501 (DB3FECD4) **Date:** 2/20/1959 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** OKLAHOMA CITY, OK AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Wave / fireballs. 1 makes 180° turn. Compass spins. Gun camera photographs? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6127 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "OKLAHOMA CITY,OK++:WAVE/FBLS:1 MAKES 180°TURN:COMPASS SPINS:gun camera fotos?", **LatLong:** "35.466668 -97.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:28:00 N 97:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.466668,-97.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15502 (8F1DD147) **Date:** 2/20/1959 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** B57 pilot / 12km altitude and more/others. Brilliant round object going west flashing color(s). Observer(s) chases. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6128 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:B57 PILOT/12km alt++:BRILL.RND.OBJ >W FLASHING CLRS:OBS CHASES", **LatLong:** "39.111113 -84.522226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:40 N 84:31:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.111113,-84.522226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15503 (BD09E9FD) **Date:** 2/20/1959 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** SR20 6MI EAST / US91, UT **Description:** Saucer south going north. Missile Tech abduction? Relapse. Must see references. / r113p347. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6129 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "1950", **HatchDesc:** "SR20 6mi E/US91,UT:SCR S>N:MISSILE TECH ABD?:RELAPSE:must see refs:/r113p347", **LatLong:** "38.083335 -112.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:05:00 N 112:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.083335,-112.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 15504 (3665CE06) **Date:** 2/20/1959 **Locations:** Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas; Cedar City, Utah; Idaho **Description:** Pfc. Bernard G. “Gerry” Irwin, on leave from Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is driving near Cedar City, Utah, when he stops to investigate what seems to be a crashing plane. He is later found unconscious in the snow and treated at the Cedar City hospital. He suffers from amnesia, continues to have fainting spells, and returns more than once to the site in some kind of fugue. He soon deserts and perhaps disappears, but not forever, as he is living in Idaho in 2013, where [David Booher](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/booher-david/88852) interviews him about his PTSD-like symptoms. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Coral Lorenzen, “[Soldier Sees Flash; Unconscious 24 Hours,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, pp. 1, 10; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 97–99; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 347+; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1961 July–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 56–60; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1962 July–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf), The Author, 2005, pp. 68–70; Kevin D. Randle, The UFO Dossier, Visible Ink, 2015, [pp. 134–141](https://archive.org/details/ufodossier100yea0000rand/page/134/mode/2up); David Booher, No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert Operation?, Anomalist, 2017; Clark III 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3278 ### Event 15505 (CF388767) **Date:** 2/20/1959 **Locations:** Canada; USAF Project Office **Description:** Just as the first working models of the Army’s VZ-9 Avrocar are being manufactured, the Canadian government cancels the Avro CF-105 Arrow program. Almost all Avro Canada employees are laid off, including those with the Special Projects Group. However, three days later, many of the Special Projects employees are rehired, but it isn’t quite business as usual. The USAF Project Office devoted to the Avro projects recommends that the WS-606A and all related work \(including the Avrocar\) be cancelled. However, in May the USAF authorizes Avro to continue its “flying saucer” programs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3279 ### Event 15506 (837C3A54) **Date:** 2/20/1959 **Description:** Wave of fireballs were seen flying over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma starting at 7:30 p.m. One made a 180 degree turn. A compass was reported to have begun spinning during the sightings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Hayden Hewes, The Oklahoman, April 18, 1965 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1021 ### Event 15507 (276248AB) **Date:** 2/21/1959 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** GDYNIA, POL **Description:** UFO going down / harbor. Odd metal found. Rumor small humanoid (or Grey) and all going [to] Moscow. / txt file here. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6130 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GDYNIA,POL:UFO ↓/HARBOR:ODD METAL FOUND:rumor OID+ALL >MOSCOW:/txt file here", **LatLong:** "54.538891 18.550001", **LatLongDMS:** "54:32:20 N 18:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.538891,18.550001)", **State/Prov:** "NW", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15508 (10341903) **Date:** 2/22/1959 **Description:** Two witnesses saw three white discs pass into a cloud over the city of Warsop, England from which they never reappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Bernard Delair, Awareness, October 1977, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1044 ### Event 15509 (9A3FC92E) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** BRADFORD, PA AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** 6 airline(s)/airliner crews. 3 saucers pace. / r46p27+/ APRO 3'59+/ r242+/ r143+/ FSRv5#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6131 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "440", **HatchDesc:** "BRADFORD,PA++:6 AL CREWS:3 SCRS PACE:/r46p27+/APRO 3'59+/r242+/r143+/FSRv5#3", **LatLong:** "41.950002 -78.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:57:00 N 78:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.950002,-78.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15510 (8C049AE2) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** VICTORVILLE, CA **Description:** House lit. Dogs howl. 50M ovoid / 3 wide passes. Hums. / r55p167. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 161) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6132 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "876", **HatchDesc:** "VICTORVILLE,CA:HOUSE LIT:DOGS HOWL:50M OVOID/3 WIDE PASSES:HUMS:/r55p167", **LatLong:** "34.533335 -117.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:32:00 N 117:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.533335,-117.283339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15511 (7560B6D6) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Location:** Williamsport (13 miles SW of), PA **Description:** Killian case (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590224](http://www.nicap.org/590224williamsport%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2329 ### Event 15512 (1B3E43E9) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Location:** Victorville, CA **Description:** Witness sighted a biconvex dull red object about 25 ft wide (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590224](http://www.nicap.org/ar-590224dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2330 ### Event 15513 (8F0ABD82) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Locations:** Newark; Detroit; Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh **Description:** 8:20 p.m. Capt. [Peter W. Killian](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370897/peter-w%5F-killian) is flying an American Airlines flight from Newark to Detroit when he encounters three bright lights flying in a precise line. The initial detection takes place when the aircraft is flying at 8,500 feet and 50 mph about 13 miles west of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At first Killian thinks he is seeing Orion’s sword, but he can see those stars elsewhere. One of the objects abruptly leaves formation and approaches the plane, slows down before Killian takes evasive action, then rejoins the other two. Killian alerts copilot James John Dee and then announces on the intercom for the passengers to take a look. He also puts out a call to nearby aircraft, and five other commercial airline pilots indicate that they can see the objects. The lights remain at about the 9 o’clock position for 40 minutes, providing an opportunity for many of the 35 passengers to observe them. They are also seen by the crews of two other planes flying much farther to the south, as well as by the tower operators in Pittsburgh. The Air Force quickly identifies the objects as the three Orion stars, changes that to an aerial refueling operation, then accuses Killian of being drunk. But an independent sighting of the UFOs by an Air Force transport plane 150 miles further south confirms Killian’s observation, and no refueling routes exist in central Pennsylvania. [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) uncovers new evidence in 2016 that supports the witnesses’ story. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Killian Case](http://www.nicap.org/590224williamsport%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 116–117](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=128&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 58–60; Clark III 385–387; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 270; Willy Smith, “Over Pennsylvania,” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 13–14, 29–30; Swords 285; Patrick Gross, “[The Killian–](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/killian59.htm) [Orion Belt Sightings, 1958](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/killian59.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3280 ### Event 15514 (196008E4) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Location:** Victorville, California **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A 17-year-old male is home babysitting the family pets and his younger brother in Victorville, California, when he sees a bright light shining in his bedroom window. The dogs begin to howl and run around. He goes outside and sees a luminous object like an “elongated egg,” dull red with purple waves inside it, flying in a descending path toward his house. It passes over the front yard at a height of only 8–10 feet. As the object returns, he goes inside to get a gun, but as he goes outside the object is making a third pass and he goes back inside. When the parents return home, they find the dogs in a terrified state. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 167–170](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/166/mode/2up); Swords 286–287 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3281 ### Event 15515 (760808E1) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Description:** At 8:45 p.m. American Airlines pilot Capt. Killian on Flight 937 sighted three bright yellow-orange maneuvering lights, changing colors, above the cloud layer while flying over Philipsburg and Bradford, Pennsylvania. His co-pilot also sighted the lights, and up to 37 other witnesses from Pan American and United Airlines flights also reported seeing the unusual lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1078 ### Event 15516 (519C1145) **Date:** 2/24/1959 **Description:** At 9:10 p.m. in Victorville, California two young men reported that a red egg shaped object made five passes over their house, which is located eight miles from George AFB. Their pet dogs began howling and ran to get inside the house. They also reported that the UFO caused radio interference. and made a humming sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 61; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 167; UNICAT database, case 280 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1079 ### Event 15517 (7C6C32A3) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Time:** 06:50 **Location:** BARBERTON, OH **Description:** 1 / SR21. Dark saucer / 150M altitude. Red light / top. No blimp in area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6133 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "295", **HatchDesc:** "BARBERTON,OH:1/SR21:DRK SCR/150M alt:RED LITE/TOP:no blimp in area", **LatLong:** "41.011113 -81.605559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:00:40 N 81:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.011113,-81.605559)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15518 (3FEDBA17) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** SOUTH / HOBBS, NM **Description:** Ovoid going quickly east. Repeated 'dot-dot-dash' on car radio. Duration = 35 second(s). / r79p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6134 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1105", **HatchDesc:** "S/HOBBS,NM:OVOID >>E:REPEATED 'DOT-DOT-DASH' on CAR RADIO:DUR=35sec:/r79p16", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -103.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 103:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-103.133338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15519 (97D9203F) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** PALOS VERDES, CA **Description:** 1 observer. 5 orange saucers descend and play tag! Going quickly southwest to sea / military jet nears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 167) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6135 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "PALOS VERDES,CA:1 OBS:5 ORG SCRS DESCEND+PLAY TAG!:>>SW TO SEA/mil jet nears", **LatLong:** "33.766668 -118.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:46:00 N 118:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.766668,-118.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15520 (6F271E87) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Location:** Hobbs, NM **Description:** Signals on car radio (steady succession of two dots and a dash) as UFO passed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2331 ### Event 15521 (237A1CDA) **Date:** Late 2/1959 **End date:** 4/15/1959 **Locations:** Sydney; Perth; Adelaide; Melbourne; Brisbane, Australia **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) continues his world lecture tour in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3282 ### Event 15522 (13882C6A) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Location:** State Highway 18 south of Hobbs, New Mexico **Description:** 8:30 a.m. Jim Dobbs Jr. is driving south on State Highway 18 south of Hobbs, New Mexico, when he sees an egg-shaped object glowing like radium on a watch dial. He estimates it is 10° above the southern horizon and traveling fast. His radio fades out and produces only a steady succession of two dots and a dash. The object disappears in the east after 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Hobbs Man Sees Glowing UFO, Hears Signals,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3283 ### Event 15523 (07662709) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Locations:** Huntsville, Alabama; Detroit, Michigan **Description:** Lt. Col. [Lee B. James](http://www.astronautix.com/j/jameslee.html), chief of the Liaison Branch of the Army Ballistic Agency in Huntsville, Alabama, gives a talk at the Detroit Chapter of the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers on space flight. Because of the recent Killian incident, he is asked about UFOs. Referring to the witness on that aircraft, he says: “If they \(35 passengers and several crew members\) saw what they really saw, it would have to come from outer space—a civilization decades before ours.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3284 ### Event 15524 (C1C718C8) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Locations:** London Airport (now Heathrow); England **Description:** 7:25 p.m. A pale-yellow light is seen by officials above one of the runways at London Airport \[now Heathrow\], England. Airport and air defense radars do not pick up any target. RAF Fighter Command Headquarters says the light fluctuates in intensity and is about 200 feet from the ground. It stays in one position for 20 minutes then climbs away at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, “[Venus and the Nose-Cone Light: A](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CMay-Jun%2CV%205%2CN%203.pdf) [Study in the Lunacy of Explainistics,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CMay-Jun%2CV%205%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 3 \(May/June 1959\): 10–11, 31; Good Above, [p. 52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up); UFOEv, [p. 122](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3285 ### Event 15525 (42F0A581) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Description:** At 6:45 a.m., sixty miles north of Barberton, Ohio on State Route 21 in Summit County a dark disc-shaped UFO with a red light on top flew around for five minutes at 150 meters altitude. No blimp was flying in the area at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1097 ### Event 15526 (2845C83E) **Date:** 2/25/1959 **Description:** On the same morning at 8:30 a.m. in Hobbs, New Mexico an ovoid UFO was seen by a Mr. Dobbs. The car radio repeated a "dot-dot-dash" for 35 seconds during the sighting. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 99, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1098 ### Event 15527 (4DAB67A6) **Date:** 2/26/1959 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** HEATHROW AIRPORT/APARTMENT **Description:** Many observer(s). Brilliant glowing disk hovers / runway / 20 minute(s). No RADAR image. Quickly going up. / r24v1#7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6136 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "HEATHROW APT:MANY OBS:BRILL.GLO DISK HVRS/RUNWAY/20min:NO RDR IMG:↑↑:/r24v1#7", **LatLong:** "51.455558 -0.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:27:20 N 00:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.455558,-0.450000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15528 (B2B75524) **Date:** 2/26/1959 **Location:** London, UK **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers, others saw a bright yellow disc which hovered for 20 minutes above airport, then climbed away at high speed. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2332 ### Event 15529 (EF9DEB3D) **Date:** 2/28/1959 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** CORDOBA, ARG **Description:** Many observer(s). Round silver saucer hovers / 25 minute(s). Several brilliant flashes. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6137 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "384", **HatchDesc:** "CORDOBA,ARG:MANY OBS:RND SLVR SCR HVRS/25min:SVRL BRILL.FLASHES:VANISHES:", **LatLong:** "-31.416668 -64.183336", **LatLongDMS:** "31:25:00 S 64:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.416668,-64.183336)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15530 (7AE7AB69) **Date:** 2/28/1959 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** SOUTH SALVADOR DE JUJUY, ARG **Description:** Rotorless silent helicopter beams going [to] linemen. Red balls exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6138 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1201", **HatchDesc:** "S.SALVADOR de JUJUY,ARG:ROTORLESS SLNT COPTER BEAMS >LINEMEN:RED BALLS EXIT", **LatLong:** "-24.183334 -65.305559", **LatLongDMS:** "24:11:00 S 65:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.183334,-65.305559)", **State/Prov:** "Juhuy", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15531 (5201E53D) **Date:** 2/28/1959 **Location:** Cedar City, Iowa **Description:** Private Gerry Irwin stopped his car to investigate what he thought was a crashing plane. He was later found unconscious. Sequels of the incident (fainting, amnesia and his return to the site in a trancelike state) are sometimes quoted as evidence of psychologial experience correlated with the observation of the luminous object. Irwin deserted, and his subsequent whereabouts are unknown. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 121; Lorenzen; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_482 ### Event 15532 (E37CFCAC) **Date:** 2/28/1959 **Location:** US **Description:** The US Air Force launches Discoverer 1, the first of a series of satellites that are part of the Corona spy program. The mission is a failure due to problems with the Agena upper stage. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Discoverer 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoverer%5F1)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3286 ### Event 15533 (DDD093CB) **Date:** 2/28/1959 **Description:** Private Gerry Irwin, a Nike missile technician, was driving from Nampa, Idaho to his barracks at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. He had reached Cedar City, Utah at about 1 p.m. when he observed a glowing object cross the sky. Irwin decided it could have been an airliner on fire attempting a crash landing, so he went to investigate. Using shoe polish, he wrote "Stop" on the side of his car, and left a note on the steering wheel that read: "Have gone to investigate possible plane crash. Please call law enforcement officers." A short time later a fish and game inspector did stop and took the note to the Cedar County sheriff, Otto Pfief, who returned to the site with a group of volunteers. No trace of an airplane crash was found, but Irwin was soon found unconscious and taken to a hospital. When Irwin finally woke up form a deep sleep, he was puzzled by the absence of his jacket. He was flown back to Fort Bliss and placed under observation for four days, after which he returned to duty.

Irwin behaved strangely: he was plagued by fainting, didn't seem to be aware of the correct date, and kept asking, "were there any survivors?" He was placed in a hospital for psychiatric examination. On April 18th, the day after being discharged, Irwin felt a powerful urge to return to the site of his strange encounter. Once there he walked straight to a bush and found his missing jacket. There was a pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. Irwin curiously took the paper and burned it. He then went to sheriff Pfief, who provided him with the details of the initial incident. Shortly afterwards Irwin's case came to the attention of the inspector general, who ordered a new investigation. On July 10, Irwin re-entered the hospital. On August 1, he failed to report for duty. One month later, he was listed as A.W.O.L. and was not seen again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing The Ignored and Unexplained; Jacques Vallee, Passport To Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 481 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1174 ### Event 15534 (79FA1371) **Date:** 2/28/1959 **Description:** At 8:40 p.m. a round silver disc-shaped object hovered in the sky over the city of Cordoba, Argentina for 15 minutes. It gave off several brilliant flashes before vanishing. At 11:40 p.m. a rotorless silent helicopter-shaped object directed a beam of light at some linemen workers in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. Red lights were seen exiting from the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, May 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1175 ### Event 15535 (04724AA5) **Date:** 3/1959 **Location:** KOLOBRZEG, POL **Description:** Soldiers. 4M triangle rises / sea. Circles over waves and away. / r2p192. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6139 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "KOLOBRZEG,POL:SOLDIERS:4M TRIANGLE RISES/SEA:CCLS ovr WAVES+AWAY:/r2p192", **LatLong:** "54.166669 15.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "54:10:00 N 15:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.166669,15.583334)", **State/Prov:** "KOS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15536 (148B1E5D) **Date:** 3/1959 **Location:** Kolobreg, Poland **Description:** On the Polish coast, not far from Kolobreg, soldiers saw the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 4 m in size, emerged, circled the barracks, and flew away at high speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 122 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_483 ### Event 15537 (9074CBA0) **Date:** 3/1959 **Locations:** Baltic Sea coast; Kołobrzeg, Poland **Description:** On the Baltic Sea coast near Kołobrzeg, Poland, soldiers watch the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 12 feet in diameter, emerges, circles the barracks, and flies away at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [p. 275](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/274/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3287 ### Event 15538 (58187986) **Date:** 3/2/1959 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MT. AIRY, NC **Description:** 2 kids and more. 6M lighted saucer / 60M altitude near quarry. No further details / news account. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6140 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "336", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.AIRY,NC:2 KIDS+:6M LIGHTED SCR/60M alt nr QUARRY:NFD/news acct", **LatLong:** "36.500002 -80.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:30:00 N 80:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.500002,-80.616671)", **RelAlt:** "60", **State/Prov:** "NVR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15539 (54AA519F) **Date:** 3/2/1959 **Description:** A six-meter in diameter disc hovered 60 meters over a quarry in Mount Airy, North Carolina at 7:30 p.m. It had body lights and was witnessed by two children. The sighting lasted about two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 72 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1242 ### Event 15540 (EACB9EAD) **Date:** 3/7/1959 **Description:** At 9:30 a.m. Rev. Pearl Kerwin of Silver Spring, Maryland saw a man wearing a white "helmet" behind a hedge, so she went around the hedge to meet him. She encountered a being wearing a white, one-piece coverall suit that covered even his feet, with bright blue trunks. The "helmet" was part of the suit, like a hood. She yelled and the man ran off very rapidly, apparently "skimming" over the ground. John Gill, who saw the creature's face at a distance of 15 feet, said there were two black holes where the eyes should be. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-03, citing Eli Berzweig, Don Neill, & Richard Hall, NICAP **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1363 ### Event 15541 (D883D9E1) **Date:** 3/10/1959 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** 60 MI SSE / GD.BAHAMA AUX.AFB **Description:** RADAR blip circles 2X and figure-8 maneuver by missile test! Going northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6141 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "60mi SSE/Gd.BAHAMA Aux.AFB:RDR BLIP CCLs 2X+ Fig-8 MNVR by missile test!:>NE", **LatLong:** "25.750001 -78.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "25:45:00 N 78:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.750001,-78.166670)", **State/Prov:** "BAH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15542 (77203A83) **Date:** 3/10/1959 **Location:** Grand Bahama Island, West Indies **Description:** (McDonald list) UFO Maneuvers ON FPS-8, Converges On Missile (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590310](http://www.nicap.org/590310grandbahama%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2333 ### Event 15543 (5157ABDF) **Date:** 3/11/1959 **Locations:** Antarctica; Wellington, New Zealand **Description:** Rear Admiral [George J. Dufek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FJ.%5FDufek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FJ.%5FDufek) on his way back from commanding Operation Deepfreeze in Antarctica, tells reporters in Wellington, New Zealand, that he does not think the existence of UFOs can be discounted: “I think it is very stupid for human beings to think no one else in the universe is as intelligent as we are.” Asked years later why he said this, he explains that it was because of sightings related to him by people who worked with him at the South Pole. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 290 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3288 ### Event 15544 (97BA400F) **Date:** 3/12/1959 **Location:** BERGEN, NORW **Description:** Several observer(s). 5 objects cross sky north going south in succession. Each takes 2 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 138) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6142 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "BERGEN,NORW:SVRL OBS:5 OBJS CROSS SKY N>S IN SUCCESSION:EACH TAKES 2min", **LatLong:** "60.400003 5.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "60:24:00 N 05:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.400003,5.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 15545 (CF67109F) **Date:** 3/12/1959 **Location:** Bergen, Norway **Description:** Several witnesses at Bergen, Norway, see a bright object passing north to south, taking two minutes to move from horizon to horizon. Several minutes later another appears, following the same course. This is soon followed by three more in succession. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 138](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/138/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3289 ### Event 15546 (A4711221) **Date:** 3/12/1959 **Description:** On this night 6-year-old Kim Marks of Purnong Landing, South Australia was preparing for bed when he saw a five foot tall man with a crimson face, wearing a red jacket and trousers with white trimmings. He was visible for a minute and a half. Kim's dog did not react. A few hours later, a multi-colored luminous UFO was seen close to the Marks property. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-04, citing Keith Basterfield; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, case 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1433 ### Event 15547 (6F77A629) **Date:** 3/13/1959 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** PURNONG, SOUTH AUST **Description:** 60M domed saucer / field. Going up [to] and going southwest when 2+observer(s) near. / MJ#251+/ FSRv5#3+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6143 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PURNONG,S.AUST:60M DOMED SCR/FLD:↑+>SW when 2+ OBS near:/MJ#251+/FSRv5#3+/r8", **LatLong:** "-34.866668 139.600007", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:00 S 139:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.866668,139.600007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15548 (4A8DE334) **Date:** 3/13/1959 **Location:** Duluth, MN **Description:** A/C Crew Saw Lights / Radar Targets Confirmed (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590313](http://www.nicap.org/590313duluth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2334 ### Event 15549 (861F0257) **Date:** 3/13/1959 **Time:** 1410 **Location:** Pumong, Australia **Description:** Near Claypans, 150 km northeast of Adelaide, Carl Towill, postmaster, and Percy Briggs, mail carrier, saw a dome-shaped object take off from a field 400 m away. It resembled a huge, brilliant circus tent, studded with lights that kept changing from red to blue. They approached within 200 m, then saw it rise, hover, and shoot off at immense speed toward the south. They had observed it for 10 min. Mr. Briggs was questioned by investigators from Woomera Rocket range. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 59,5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_484 ### Event 15550 (B7A28315) **Date:** 3/13/1959 **Locations:** Purnong; Mannum, South Australia; Cournamont Hill; Murray River **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Percy Briggs is driving from Purnong to Mannum, South Australia, with a load of vegetables and Claypans Postmaster C. Towill as passenger. They have just climbed Cournamont Hill near the Purnong Ferry over the Murray River. They see to the left of the road a huge dome-shaped object with 8–9 red and blue lights about 20 feet apart. The UFO soon rises from the ground at a 15° angle and moves away to the southwest. The separate lights merge into one big light. They watch it recede for about 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 79–80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3290 ### Event 15551 (FC39E34D) **Date:** 3/13/1959 **Description:** Driving over a hill in Purnong Landing, South Australia at 2:10 a.m., 1.6 kilometers from the ferry, two men names Briggs and Towill came upon a multi-colored domed disc on the ground. It was about 10 meters in diameter and 100 meters away from them. The UFO went through a regular sequence of color changes. It had red and blue lights, and when on the ground they were half blue and half red, which would switch colors. When they decided to get closer it rose and flew off. They watched it for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia Newsletter, March 1982, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1450 ### Event 15552 (6D0CACF0) **Date:** 3/14/1959 **Time:** ~23:50 **Location:** KYGER, OH **Description:** Separate observer(s). Saucer with sphere / top chases teen / car. Beams going down. Descends / low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6144 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "KYGER,OH:SEP.OBS:SCR W/SPHERE/TOP CHASES TEEN/CAR:BEAMS ↓:DESCENDS/LO ALT", **LatLong:** "38.983335 -82.155559", **LatLongDMS:** "38:59:00 N 82:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.983335,-82.155559)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15553 (2497F355) **Date:** 3/14/1959 **Location:** Ellsworth AFB, SD **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2335 ### Event 15554 (B0EB2E9B) **Date:** 3/14/1959 **Description:** A disc-shaped object with a sphere on top paced a teenage driving in a car in Kyger, Gallia County, Ohio at 11:45 p.m. It beeamed a light down, and descended to a low altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 81 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1479 ### Event 15555 (32B498AE) **Date:** 3/15/1959 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** TORINO, ITL **Description:** Red-yellow sphere/orb/globe stops 100M over airfield / 20 minute(s). Pulsates. Vibrant bright. Going up. / r100. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6145 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "TORINO,ITL:RED-YEL ORB STOPS 100M OVR AIRFIELD/20min:PULSATES:VBRITE:↑:/r100", **LatLong:** "45.083335 7.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:05:00 N 07:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.083335,7.766667)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Torino", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15556 (AA435432) **Date:** 3/15/1959 **Description:** A reddish yellow sphere stopped 100 meters over the Torino, Italy airfield at 11:00 p.m. It was pulsating and very bright, and hovered 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** UFO Nachtrichten, September 1959; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #5696, citing Flying Saucer Review, July 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1523 ### Event 15557 (4539AE23) **Date:** 3/18/1959 **Location:** Denville, New Jersey **Description:** 8:50 p.m. Jesse Wilson of Denville, New Jersey, is taking photos of the Moon through a telescope and captures an image of two groups of multiple objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1959%5F03%5F18%5FUS%5FNJ%5FDenville%5FNICAP%5FWilson-Moon-Photo.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3291 ### Event 15558 (3CED5795) **Date:** 3/19/1959 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** COLEBROOK, NH **Description:** Man abduction. Pseudo-human/entity = leader. Many saucers to/from/between cylinder/cigar-shape. Small humanoids (or Greys) absorb paste / skin as food. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 302) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6146 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "COLEBROOK,NH:MAN ABD:PSH=LEADER:MANY SCRS<>CGR:OIDS ABSORB PASTE/SKIN AS FOOD", **LatLong:** "44.894447 -71.494448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:53:40 N 71:29:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.894447,-71.494448)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 15559 (47273CFF) **Date:** 3/19/1959 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / KYGER, OH **Description:** Blue Book. Buzz / car radio. Lights dim. 6M metal saucer paces. / MJ#251+/ r242p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6147 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "SE/KYGER,OH:BBK:BUZZ/CAR RADIO:LITES DIM:6M MTL SCR PACES:/MJ#251+/r242p75", **LatLong:** "38.966669 -82.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:58:00 N 82:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.966669,-82.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15560 (4B1A5ECC) **Date:** 3/19/1959 **Location:** Kyger, OH **Description:** Buzzing static-like sound on car radio. Lights dimmed; unidentified light source seen ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2336 ### Event 15561 (02F6DFD1) **Date:** 3/19/1959 **Location:** Killian **Description:** USAF spokesman Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) retracts the dubious Orion explanation for the [Killian](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370897/peter-w%5F-killian) case and says instead that the pilots saw B-47 bombers refueling in flight from a KC-97 tanker. Killian tells the papers, “I don’t care what the air force says,” he knows what refueling looks like and the UFOs were “at least three times the size of any tanker or bomber we have. They could travel at 2,000 mph. And they were not conventional aircraft.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 82–84 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3292 ### Event 15562 (B4A078A5) **Date:** 3/19/1959 **Description:** At 8:45 p.m. on this day in 1959 a metallic disc, six meters in diameter, paced a car on highway 124 southeast of Kyger, Ohio. Electromagnetic effects noted at the time of this close encounter were a buzzing on the car radio and the dimming of the headlights and dashboard lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gallipolis (Ohio) Daily Tribune, March 20, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 100, citing Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1564 ### Event 15563 (F32DD30F) **Date:** 3/19/1959 **Description:** Fifteen minutes later, at 9:00 p.m., two seminary roommates were outdoors on the grounds of the Lady of Grace Monastery in Colebrook, New Hampshire when they saw a silvery colored, Saturn-shaped, ovoid UFO descend over them. The craft had lighted windows around its lower portion and blinking red, yellow, and green lights around its outer rim. It also emitted a loud humming sound. The craft flew towards and then retreated from the witnesses several times. They apparently suffered a period of amnesia. Years later under hypnosis one of the witnesses recalled that the craft landed nearby on three legs and all normal noises ceased. They both were paralyzed and were both then floated up a ramp and taken onboard the craft, where they communicated by telepathy with four humanoids of differing heights, including a taller six-foot tall being that appeared to be the leader. Both were given physical exams and several experiments were conducted on them. They were able to see a "mother ship" and other craft through a window in the UFO on which they flew, and were taken onboard the larger craft where they saw other human abductees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Morton Schaffer, MUFON field investigations database, case # 930402E; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 715, citing Morton Schafer, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 302 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1565 ### Event 15564 (8AF53DD8) **Date:** 3/20/1959 **Alternate date:** 6/8/1959 **Location:** Redstone Arsenal **Description:** A group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) produced for the Army a classified study report titled Project Horizon, A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost by 1965. **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_587 ### Event 15565 (1B116FC3) **Date:** Spring 1959 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** ex-CIA Whistleblower Kewper Stein (likely Oscar Wayne Wolff 1935-2015), part of the CIA's secret UFO investigation project, claims in the spring of 1959, he returned to Washington D.C. and met with President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, and a CIA official at FBI headquarters. A few FBI officials took part in the meeting but not Director J. Edgar Hoover. Stein gave these leaders a thorough briefing on his fact-finding mission. The evidence he shared included a variety of reports and photographic images of flying saucers and unknown aerial crafts taken by various sources worldwide. Eisenhower looked them over with substantial interest and made informed remarks. He seemed to know a good deal more than Nixon, who was seemingly “stunned” and somewhat “out of the loop” on the otherworldly topic. Decades later starting in the 1990's, Kewper claimed that Project Blue Book was just window dressing and for public relations, and the most interesting reports were secretly forwarded to the CIA for investigation. **Type:** secret meeting **Reference:** ["Deanonymizing “Anonymous” (“Agent Kewper”)" by Richard Geldreich, Jr.](https://medium.com/@richgel99/deanonymizing-anonymous-agent-kewper-a1284fdab3fe) **Reference:** ["Anonymous: A Former CIA Agent comes out of the Shadows to Brief the White House about UFOs", by C. Ronald Garner](https://www.amazon.com/Former-Agent-comes-Shadows-Brief/dp/1936517841) **Reference:** "The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter" by Paul Blake Smith, page 10 **Reference:** ["Ex-CIA Agent Deathbed Confession On UFOs: Visited Area-51 & Saw Living Aliens"](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-cia-agent-deathbed-confession-on-ufos-visited-area-51-saw-living-aliens/) **Reference:** [Part 1: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases](https://www.lowelegacy.com/flying-saucers/part-1-army-cia-unit) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_900 ### Event 15566 (69627F98) **Date:** 3/20/1959 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** OSTROLEKA, POLAND **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 silent cigars going quickly west like meteors. 3rd object follows. / txt file. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 211) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6148 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OSTROLEKA,POLAND:SVRL OBS:2 SLNT CGRS>>W like meteors:3rd OBJ FOLOS:/txt file", **LatLong:** "53.088891 21.588890", **LatLongDMS:** "53:05:20 N 21:35:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.088891,21.588890)", **State/Prov:** "OST", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15567 (386EA4FA) **Date:** 3/20/1959 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR MURRAY BRIDGE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA **Description:** 2 / car. Blazing gold coin-disk over road. Arcs up extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 187) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6149 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr MURRAY BRIDGE,S.AUSTRL:2/CAR:BLAZING GOLD COIN-DISK OVR ROAD:ARCS UP XFAST", **LatLong:** "-35.133335 139.250007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:08:00 S 139:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.133335,139.250007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15568 (2CFEA04A) **Date:** 3/20/1959 **Location:** Ostroleka, Poland **Description:** 5:30 p.m. Witold Sambrowski, an electronics engineer, sees two noiseless cigar-shaped, reddish-pink objects flying over Ostroleka, Poland. They are traveling horizontally at a speed greater than a jet. When the two vanish, a third appears and follows the path the others have taken. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 211–212 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3293 ### Event 15569 (00B883E7) **Date:** Spring 1959 **Location:** New York Yacht Club **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) at the New York Yacht Club to discuss NICAP strategy. USAF Public Information Officer [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) has sent the organization a letter asking it to stop writing to Air Force personnel about UFOs. Keyhoe tells Hillenkoetter that three scientists have contacted a certain congressman to report UFO sightings. Hillenkoetter advises, “we’ll have to do something to speed things up.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 15, 247–248 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3297 ### Event 15570 (D39D12C0) **Date:** Spring 1959 **Location:** Sverdlovsk, Russia **Description:** Soviet radar and Air Defense personnel observe UFOs circling and hovering for more than 24 hours above the headquarters of the Tactical Missile Command at Sverdlovsk, Russia. Fighter aircraft sent to intercept them report that the UFOs easily outmaneuver them and zigzag to avoid machine gun fire. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966, pp. 6–10; Good Above, [p. 227](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/226/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3298 ### Event 15571 (F19A4EDD) **Date:** Spring 1959 **Locations:** Tokyo, Japan; Misawa Air Base; Honshu; Tsugaru Strait; Pentagon **Description:** Early evening. A weather officer with the US Fifth Air Force in Tokyo, Japan, is in the operations center when the staff tracks a UFO near Misawa Air Base on the north end of Honshu. One of the officers says this happens frequently, that the objects travel at 2,000 mph, and they often stop in one position and hover for 30 minutes to several hours before taking off westward along the Tsugaru Strait and disappearing in a burst of speed. The center commander orders the pilots of two specially equipped F-106s based at Misawa to intercept the target. One of the planes is having instrumentation problems, but the other goes up. After 10 minutes he is being guided toward the target through Misawa. The pilot says the object is circular and metallic with a cockpit on top. The commander calls the Pentagon for authorization for the pilot to fire on the UFO, and he gets permission for the pilot to make a firing pass. The pilot fires two missiles, but they detonate just at the edge of the object, as if it is protected. The UFO then turns toward the terrified pilot, and the command center watches as the two blips merge into one. The blip disappears. Crews search for wreckage for 4 days but find none. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1991\): 8–9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3299 ### Event 15572 (68D7C7A9) **Date:** 3/22/1959 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEAR HERMOSILLO, MX **Description:** 2 engineers. Intensely blue object hovers / low altitude near mine. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6150 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "nr HERMOSILLO,MX:2 ENGINEERS:INTENSELY BLUE OBJ HVRS/lo alt nr MINE:NFD", **LatLong:** "29.000001 -110.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "29:00:00 N 110:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.000001,-110.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Sonora", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15573 (B13A8C25) **Date:** 3/22/1959 **Location:** Ann Arbor, MI **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2337 ### Event 15574 (BFBC353F) **Date:** 3/22/1959 **Location:** Ann Arbor, Michigan **Description:** 1:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bond are driving near Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they see an intensely lighted object hovering about 2 miles to the southeast. It is about 200 feet in the air and just south of a main road. Intense shafts of light are shining from two oval ports at the bottom. As they drive closer, they can hear no sound and find it is about 50–75 feet from the road. The UFO parallels their car at first, then the light shafts go out, and a circle of 8–10 red lights appear on the bottom. Then it rises rapidly and disappears in seconds. A local radio astronomer, Allen Barrot, claims the couple saw the lights of his telescope. But the Air Force finds that the couple were never looking in the direction of Barrot’s observatory. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 288–289; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 87–90 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3294 ### Event 15575 (6C5D70DD) **Date:** 3/23/1959 **Description:** Two men, Briggs and Elio, saw a strange, domed disc-shaped object apparently on or near to the ground, then later in the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It was in view for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1624 ### Event 15576 (E94630F7) **Date:** 3/25/1959 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** WARSAW, POLAND **Description:** Big and small spheres connected / cylinder/cylindrical object. Hovers / institute. Turns into saucer!! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6151 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "WARSAW,POLAND:BIG+SML SPHERES CONNECTED/CYL:HVRS/INSTITUTE:TURNS INTO SCR!!", **LatLong:** "52.250002 21.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:15:00 N 21:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.250002,21.083334)", **State/Prov:** "WAR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15577 (1EE08625) **Date:** 3/25/1959 **Location:** N Montana, MT **Description:** (McDonald list) B-52 & Gnd Radar / Radar Visual / Radar Freqs From UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590325](http://www.nicap.org/590325nmontana%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2338 ### Event 15578 (DC7BBAEB) **Date:** 3/25/1959 **Description:** Two silver spheres joined by a cylinder changed shape to a disc over Warsaw, Poland at around 11:30 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 212 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1650 ### Event 15579 (6ECCF145) **Date:** 3/26/1959 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** CORSICA, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6317. Odd 20' "fish-shape" UFO hovers and drops behind trees. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6152 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "492", **HatchDesc:** "CORSICA,PA:BBK#6317:ODD 20' "FISH-SHAPE" UFO HVRS+DROPS BHND TREES:ABS SILENT.", **LatLong:** "41.238891 -79.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:14:20 N 79:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.238891,-79.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15580 (953B918B) **Date:** 3/26/1959 **End date:** 3/27/1959 **Location:** Corsica, PA **Description:** Dark red, barrel-shaped object, 20 ft long, 6-7 ft high (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6317) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2339 ### Event 15581 (5FBA8ED4) **Date:** 3/26/1959 **Time:** 12:45 PM **Location:** Corsica, Pennsylvania **Description:** Or March 27, 1959. Witness: T.E. Clark. One dark red, barrel-shaped object, 20' long, 6-7' high, descended below some trees during the 3 minute sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_433 ### Event 15582 (B5385EE5) **Date:** 3/27/1959 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** DOGURA, PNG **Description:** Cleric and more/others. "Tilley lamp" going west from sea over Cape Frere and here. Separate night light report(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6153 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "DOGURA,PNG:CLERIC++:"TILLEY LAMP" >W FROM SEA ovr CAPE FRERE+here:SEP NLT Rpts", **LatLong:** "-10.133334 150.083340", **LatLongDMS:** "10:08:00 S 150:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.133334,150.083340)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15583 (60818E06) **Date:** 3/27/1959 **Location:** Maryland **Description:** [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) has told [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that Rep. [Samuel Friedel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FFriedel) \(D-Md.\) is “all set to hop on this [Killian](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370897/peter-w%5F-killian) business” and begins to plan for Killian to meet with him. But Killian’s [wife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370921/catharine-m%5F-killian) now tells Keyhoe that he is under strict orders from the Air Force not to talk to anyone about the sighting or risk losing his job. Soon afterwards, the Air Force releases a statement from Killian that says, “Having never seen night refueling of jets by a tanker, I suppose that could be what we saw.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 27–36; UFOEv, [pp. 116–117](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=128&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3295 ### Event 15584 (C0FFFBC7) **Date:** 3/27/1959 **Description:** A blue, barrel-shaped UFO landed remotely a half mile away in a wooded area west of Corsica, Pennsylvania at 12:45 p.m. It was seen by a man and a woman. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 35; Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 6317 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1692 ### Event 15585 (2FE790CB) **Date:** 3/28/1959 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** VILA NOVA / FUENTES, PRT **Description:** Several observer(s). Strong beam going down / house. Retracts. Going down / rocks. Night light going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6154 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VILA NOVA/FUENTES,PRT:SVRL OBS:STRONG BEAM ↓/HOUSE:RETRACTS:↓/ROCKS:NLT >>W", **LatLong:** "37.716668 -8.783334", **LatLongDMS:** "37:43:00 N 08:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.716668,-8.783334)", **State/Prov:** "???", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15586 (567FBB50) **Date:** 3/28/1959 **Description:** On this night three witnesses encountered a seven foot tall luminous humanoid in a swampy area of Charles Mill Lake, Ohio. It appeared to be armless and had large, bright greenish eyes. It left tracks behind resembling those of the footgear worn by skin divers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 314, citing Loren Coleman, Curious Encounters **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1708 ### Event 15587 (DAE2D2B8) **Date:** 3/29/1959 **Description:** At eight o'clock in the evening 26-year-old Horst Raps of Lampertheim, Germany had gone out for a walk as recommended by his doctor after being diagnosed with lung disease. As he walked along he sighted a light coming down from the sky. The light approached and he saw an object hovering just one meter above the ground. The craft was saucer-shaped and surrounded by a blue-violet light. It had a cupola on top that emitted bright beams of light. Fascinated, he watched as a stairway descended to the ground and a tall, heavy-set man emerged. The figure wore a tight-fitting, multicolored uniform. He approached Raps and spoke to him in perfect German.. He warned the witness of approaching future dangers and asked him to return to the same place three days later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing UFO Geheimnisse, Berlin, January 1998 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1717 ### Event 15588 (C8C64230) **Date:** 3/31/1959 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** ADELAIDE, SA **Description:** 3 kids and separate observer(s). Ovoid with fuzzy edges and lights going east. Circles. Going west again. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 199) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6155 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "ADELAIDE,SA:3 KIDS+SEP.OBS:OVOID W/FUZZY EDGES+LITES >E:CCLS:>W AGAIN:NFD", **LatLong:** "-34.950002 138.633340", **LatLongDMS:** "34:57:00 S 138:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.950002,138.633340)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15589 (F01A5387) **Date:** 3/31/1959 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** WEST / GOOLWA, AUSTR **Description:** 5M red-orange dome / windows / ground. Glows. Going up [to] and going quickly east. / r143 #1p99+/ r8#485. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6156 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "W/GOOLWA,AUSTR:5M RED-ORG DOME/WINDOWS/GND:GLOWS:↑+ >>E:/r143 #1p99+ /r8#485", **LatLong:** "-35.522224 138.766673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:31:20 S 138:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.522224,138.766673)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15590 (62CCBC61) **Date:** 3/31/1959 **Time:** 1330 **Location:** Port Elliot, Australia **Description:** Barry Neale was driving home to Goolwa when he saw on the ground a glowing, reddish-orange object with a row of portholes. It illuminated the trees, was about 5 m wide. He got within 300 m of it, and drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. No radioactivity was found at the spot. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 59,5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_485 ### Event 15591 (2BEB511C) **Date:** 3/31/1959 **Locations:** Port Elliot; Goolwa, South Australia **Description:** 11:30 p.m. Barry Neale, operator of the Port Elliot movie theater, is driving home to Goolwa, South Australia, and sees a dome-shaped, reddish-orange object with a row of evenly spaced portholes around it. He estimates it to be about 15 feet wide, and it is on the ground about 900 feet from the road. He sees it disappear to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 99–100 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3296 ### Event 15592 (3BF67368) **Date:** 3/31/1959 **Description:** Three Adelaide, South Australia children reported having seen strange objects moving about in the sky. Neil Abercrombie, his mother, brother, and some other friends, all saw a strange object at 6:05 p.m. He described it as an "elongated circle with indistinct edges" and said it had been flying quite high. Two other nearby residents saw a round object with red flashing lights at about 7:50 p.m. They said the object circled and disappeared in the west, appearing to be smaller than a plane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, London: Robert Hale, 1975, p. 165 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1761 ### Event 15593 (E65D2F17) **Date:** 3/31/1959 **Description:** Later that same evening the Adelaide Weather Bureau received a report of a UFO at about eight p.m. from Goolwa, near Port Elliott, South Australia. And at 11:30 p.m. a young man spotted a reddish-orange oval-shaped object on the ground about 100 meters from the rural road he was driving on. Barry Neale, age 15, was driving home between Goolwa and Port Elliot, South Australia when he saw the glowing, reddish-orange object on the ground. It had a row of 8 or 9 portholes, was about five meters (16 feet) wide, and it illuminated the trees. He drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. "It climbed at an angle of 45 degrees towards Hindmarsh Island and soon disappeared." No radioactivity was found at the spot. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 484; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1762 ### Event 15594 (E678E8CC) **Date:** 4/1959 (approximate) **Location:** SVERDLOVSK, RUSSIA **Description:** UFO's over launchpads. Evade jets. Zigzag / RADAR. / LDLN#204+/ r148p200. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 283) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6157 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "160", **HatchDesc:** "SVERDLOVSK,RUS:UFOS OVR LAUNCHPADS:EVADE JETS:ZIGZAG/RDR:/LDLN#204+/r148p200", **LatLong:** "56.850003 60.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "56:51:00 N 60:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.850003,60.600003)", **State/Prov:** "SVR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15595 (7CD536E9) **Date:** 4/1/1959 **Location:** Orting, WA **Description:** An Air Force C-118 transport plane with four passengers suddenly radioed in ”MAYDAY, we’ve been hit!” Col. R.E. Booth told reporters that a mid-air collision had taken place at 8:19 p.m. APRG (Aerial Phenomena Research Group) investigators determined that from 7:00 p.m. on through the early evening several mysterious aerial explosions had shaken the Seattle, WA, area. Several residents had reported seeing mysterious UFOs from 20 miles north of the crash scene to about 8 miles southeast of it. These sightings were confirmed by the Orting Chief of Police and by Public Information Officer at McChord AFB. Several persons told APRG investigator, R. Gribble, that as the C-118 passed over their area it was followed by 2 parachute-shaped objects and that the C-118 was missing its tail assembly. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones reported 3 or 4 parachute-shaped UFOs following the C-118 as it passed over their home. Chief of Police, Fred Emard, told R. Gribble that he would be glad to furnish information on the UFOs to APRG, but changed his mind the next day after an interview with an Air Force Colonel. “The Chief and other officials of Orting had been silenced,” Gribble reported. **Type:** mid-air collision **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_589 **See also:** 9/29/59 **See also:** 5/61 ### Event 15596 (8DED519A) **Date:** 4/1/1959 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** ORTING, WA **Description:** Saucers follow USAF C118? C118 Radios collision. 4 die. / MJ#252+/ FSRv32#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6158 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "ORTING,WA:SCRS FOLO USAF C118?:C118 Radios COLLISION:4 DIE:/MJ#252+/FSRv32#3", **LatLong:** "47.094447 -122.205561", **LatLongDMS:** "47:05:40 N 122:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.094447,-122.205561)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15597 (BFDFAC85) **Date:** 4/1/1959 **Locations:** Sumner; Orting; Washington; McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord]; Tacoma **Description:** An Air Force C-118 plane with four on board crashes between Sumner and Orting, Washington, about an hour after taking off from McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] in Tacoma. Their last radio message indicates that they hit something or that something hit them. [Bob Gribble](http://avalonlibrary.net/Wendy%5FConnors%5FFaded%5FDisc%5Farchive/NuforcDirectory.pdf) and other UFO investigators find witnesses who claim to have seen two orange or yellow objects closing in on the plane. Best guess is that the plane hit a tree and the UFO observations are unrelated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 2–4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3300 ### Event 15598 (65E58AB6) **Date:** 4/1/1959 **Description:** Horst Raps returned to the previously appointed site in Lampertheim, Germany where he had encountered a UFOnaut on March 29th and found the hovering blue-violet disc-shaped craft and the tall humanoid waiting for him. This time he was invited onboard the UFO, and supposedly taken on an otherworldly ride to another planet in the Alpha Centauri system. There he encountered various races of people, who allegedly lived in dwellings shaped like cupolas and cultivated multicolored flowers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 2440, citing Ulrich Magin **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1781 ### Event 15599 (78B25F57) **Date:** 4/3/1959 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** OCOEE, FL **Description:** Ex-treasury officer. Large green night light going up and down. Hovers. Going up [to] and gone. / r143#1p4+/ r242p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6159 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "OCOEE,FL:EX-TREASURY OFFICER:LRG GRN NLT ↑+↓:HVRS:↑+GONE:/r143#1p4+/r242p64", **LatLong:** "28.566668 -81.544448", **LatLongDMS:** "28:34:00 N 81:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.566668,-81.544448)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15600 (CDD4895E) **Date:** 4/3/1959 **Location:** Ocoee, FL **Description:** Treasury enforcement officer saw UFO ascending and descending. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2340 ### Event 15601 (A762B054) **Date:** 4/4/1959 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** ROSKILDE, DK **Description:** 1 / motorbike / malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Luminous tube hovers vertical. Moves 200M away and motor OK. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6160 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROSKILDE,DK:1/MOTORBIKE/EMEs:LUMn.TUBE HVRS VERTICAL:MOVES 200M AWAY+MOTOR OK", **LatLong:** "55.650003 12.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:39:00 N 12:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.650003,12.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15602 (3BB43D51) **Date:** 4/5/1959 (approximate) **Location:** YERGA ALEM, ETHIOPIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Green sphere sways and maneuvers all over area. / APRO 5'59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6161 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ethiopia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "YERGA ALEM,ETHIOPIA:MANY OBS:GRN SPHERE SWAYS+MNVRS ALL OVR AREA:/APRO 5'59", **LatLong:** "6.716667 38.400002", **LatLongDMS:** "06:43:00 N 38:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/6.716667,38.400002)", **State/Prov:** "SDM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15603 (297E0636) **Date:** 4/7/1959 **Locations:** CFB St. Hubert; Montreal/Saint-Hubert Airport; Quebec **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Control tower operators at CFB St. Hubert \[now Montreal/Saint-Hubert Airport\], Quebec, spot a red, glowing light hanging in the sky for a few minutes at 3,000–7,000 feet altitude. It suddenly darts to the north at supersonic speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3301 ### Event 15604 (CE6D0126) **Date:** 4/9/1959 **Description:** At 6:50 p.m. a UFO was seen against the mountains by the Sideia Mission Brothers in Boianai, Papua New Guinea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Bowen, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1923 ### Event 15605 (72B6C91D) **Date:** 4/11/1959 **Location:** Woodlands, New Zealand **Description:** Two businessmen at Woodlands, New Zealand, watch a glowing 40-foot-long object with a balloon-like attachment on the underside hovering just above the trees. As they approach it in their car, it speeds off to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3302 ### Event 15606 (3B863BDE) **Date:** 4/12/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MONTREAL, QB **Description:** Military Air Traffic Controller and more/others. Red night light-cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / Air Force Base. Going quickly north. Nothing / RADAR. / APRO 5'59+/ r242p118. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 207) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6162 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "MONTREAL,QB:MIL.ATC++:RED NLT-CGR HVRS/AFB:>>N:NOTHNG/RDR:/APRO 5'59+/r242p118", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -73.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 73:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-73.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15607 (BC09AD5F) **Date:** 4/12/1959 **Location:** Montreal, CAN **Description:** St. Hubert Air Base Control Tower Operators, others saw red light which hovered over base, then darted away. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2341 ### Event 15608 (228B0640) **Date:** 4/12/1959 **Locations:** St. Hubert Air Defence Command Base [now CFB St. Hubert], Quebec; Montreal **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Control tower personnel and airport officials at St. Hubert Air Defence Command Base \[now CFB St. Hubert\], Quebec, as well as local residents watch a red ball of light hovering above the airfield at 3,000–7,000 feet. Descriptions vary from a black ball with a red light to a long red cigar. Radar does not pick it up. Suddenly it takes off toward Montreal to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 94–96 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3303 ### Event 15609 (FB2881C0) **Date:** 4/13/1959 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** ANTIGO AND MADISON, WI **Description:** Photographs / 25-30 RADAR blips. Object with red and green lights / type unknown. Maneuvers. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 206) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6163 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "ANTIGO+MADISON,WI:FOTOS/25-30 RDR BLIPS:OBJ W/RED+GRN LITES/type unk:MNVRS:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.133335 -89.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:00 N 89:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.133335,-89.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15610 (697B6F6A) **Date:** 4/13/1959 **Location:** Antigo & Madison, WI **Description:** (McDonald list) Highly Maneuverable Lights Tracked / Fighter Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590413](http://www.nicap.org/590413antigo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2342 ### Event 15611 (8B16260B) **Date:** 4/14/1959 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** FYN ISL., DK **Description:** 1 observer. Metallic dome / 1M altitude. Away and back. Follows motorbike / 5km. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 713) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6164 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "FYN Isl.,DK:1 OBS:MTLC DOME/1M alt:AWAY+BACK:FOLOS MOTORBIKE/5km:sep.obs", **LatLong:** "55.333336 10.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "55:20:00 N 10:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.333336,10.500001)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15612 (A33F8F38) **Date:** 4/15/1959 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / SVENBORG, DK **Description:** Saucer / ground. Paces bicycle / 5km / 6M altitude. Luminous and glassy. / FSR'59#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 486) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6165 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "NE/SVENBORG,DK:SCR/GND:PACES BICYCLE/5km/6M ALT:LUM+GLASSY:/FSR'59#3", **LatLong:** "55.105558 10.727778", **LatLongDMS:** "55:06:20 N 10:43:40 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.105558,10.727778)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15613 (E161B38B) **Date:** 4/15/1959 **Time:** evening **Location:** Svendborg, Denmark **Description:** Between Svendborg and Nyborg, Ove Christensen, coming home after work on his bicycle, was stopped on the road by a disk-shaped object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing him, flying 6 m above him for 5 m. The object was luminous and seemed made of glass. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 59, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_486 ### Event 15614 (A1862E98) **Date:** 4/15/1959 **Description:** On this evening Ove Christensen was coming home after work on his bicycle along the road between Svendborg and Nyborg, Denmark when he was stopped by a disc-shaped object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing him, flying six meters above him for five minutes. The UFO was luminous and seemed to be made of a glasslike material. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 486; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2022 ### Event 15615 (6F547C4D) **Date:** 4/17/1959 **Locations:** Kolkata, India; Varanasi, India **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) meets with [Sisir Kumar Maitra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisir%5FKumar%5FMaitra)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisir%5FKumar%5FMaitra) head of the Department of Philosophy and dean of the Faculty of Arts of Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi during a stopover in Kolkata, India. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Lecture](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/) [Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3304 ### Event 15616 (5AAB6B9E) **Date:** 4/18/1959 **End date:** 5/14/1959 **Locations:** London, England; Tunbridge Wells; Weston-super-Mare; Bournemouth; Caxton Hall in London; Birmingham University; Manchester **Description:** [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) arrives in London, England, and appears on the TV show In Town Tonight on April 18 and on the BBC program Panorama on April 20 where he debates with astronomer [Patrick Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FMoore), a show that is seen by 9 million viewers. Both Gen. [Frederick Browning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FBrowning) and RAF Commander [Peter Horsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley) meet with Adamski and [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) during their visit to a private address in London. Adamski gives further lectures in Tunbridge Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Bournemouth, at Caxton Hall in London \(on April 28\), Birmingham University \(April 29\), Manchester \(May 1\), and several more around the British Isles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3305 ### Event 15617 (9479D1B6) **Date:** 4/19/1959 **Locations:** Oklahoma; Frontier City amusement park northeast of Oklahoma City; Mercy Hospital; Baltimore **Description:** 3:00 p.m. [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and Norman Colton, who have been in Oklahoma since February, pretend to attempt the launch of their OTC-X1 spacecraft in a gravel pit 6 miles east of the Frontier City amusement park northeast of Oklahoma City. Frontier City obligingly erects a model of the spacecraft as a ride. However, Carr comes down with a mysterious throat ailment and goes to Mercy Hospital on April 17. He invites [Long John Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5FJohn%5FNebel) to have a brief glimpse of the model, but Nebel thinks it looks like a jumble of unconnected parts. As it turns out, the OTC- X1 develops a “mercury leak” and the launch is delayed then canceled. Those who have come for the April 19 launch hear contactee [Dana Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%5FHoward%5F%28contactee%29) talk about her trip to Venus, and [Margaret Storm](https://hello-earth.com/margaretstorm/margaretstorm.html) \(Carr’s “publications editor” in Baltimore\) declares that Carr is inspired by the “Divine Master St. Germain.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Difficulties Put Off](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94562531/) [Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94562581/) [Test,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94562635/)” Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, April 20, 1959, pp. 1–2, 13; Clark III 860–861 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3306 ### Event 15618 (83DA7C2B) **Date:** 4/20/1959 **Location:** Dade County park, Florida **Description:** Ufologist [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) commits suicide in a Dade County park, Florida, from carbon monoxide poisoning. Some theorists connect his involvement with the Allende letters and the [Philadelphia experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment) to his death, but friends say Jessup has been discussing suicide with them for several months. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 635; “[Jessup](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%204%20-%201968.pdf) [and the Allende Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%204%20-%201968.pdf)” Pursuit 1, no. 4 \(September 30, 1968\): 8–10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3307 ### Event 15619 (3023E849) **Date:** 4/23/1959 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** BRADENTON, FL **Description:** Glowing-disk stops 2km away. 1cm apparent size. Beam going down [to] searches ground. Going quickly south / 1500kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 216) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6166 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BRADENTON,FL:GLO-DISK STOPS 2km away:1cm BDB:BEAM ↓ SEARCHES GND:>>S/1500kph", **LatLong:** "27.500001 -82.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "27:30:00 N 82:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.500001,-82.550004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15620 (1C220AFA) **Date:** 4/23/1959 **Description:** At 12:10 a.m. a luminous disc flew over a pasture in Bradenton, Florida and stopped two kilometers away from the witnesses. It emitted a beam of light that searched the ground for a couple of minutes, then it flew away toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2252 ### Event 15621 (4F95A0D2) **Date:** 4/24/1959 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** SALVADOR, BRZ **Description:** Domed saucer with symbols / under. Telepathy = stop atom tests. 4 clear photographs. / r79p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6167 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CNT:** Contactee related, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SALVADOR,BRZ:DOMED SCR W/SYMBOLS/UNDER:TLP=STOP ATOM TESTS:4 CLR FOTOS:/r79p16", **LatLong:** "-12.966667 -38.533335", **LatLongDMS:** "12:58:00 S 38:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.966667,-38.533335)", **State/Prov:** "Bahia", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15622 (40DF7274) **Date:** 4/25/1959 **Description:** Luis Da Silva saw a "red hot" colored disc in the sky on the evening of April 23rd in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Around midnight of April 23-24 he awoke and felt the need to go outside to the garden. There he found a noted that told him to return the following night at 1:30 a.m. When he did so, a circular UFO appeared in the air 300 feet above the ground, and he felt himself paralyzed. A man descended from the UFO in a slow spiral, but when he reached the ground he stopped above it and his feet did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and some form of plastic clothing, and gloves looking like they were made of a transparent, glass material. He told Da Silva to return on Thursday at 2:05 a.m., and then re-ascended in a spiral into the craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but the next time three entities descended in sequence. The last one of these men asked Da Silva for a piece of paper, and inscribed upon it a message of some kind, written in indescipherable markings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1967, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2293 ### Event 15623 (77718DB7) **Date:** 4/26/1959 **Description:** Luis Da Silva had seen a red colored disc in the sky before he went to bed in Sao Paulo, Brazil and when he awoke at midnight he felt a compulsion to go out into his garden, where he found a note telling him to return the next night at 1:30 a.m. He did so, and a circular UFO appeared at a low altitude, perhaps 100 meters. He felt paralyzed and unable to move. In a spiral a man descended from the UFO but did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and was clad in plastic looking clothing, with gloves that looked transparent like glass. He told Da Silva to return again on Thursday at 2:05 a.m. and then re-ascended in a spiral to his craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but this time three entities descended, one at a time. The last of these beings asked Da Silva for a sheet of paper, and he inscribed upon it a message consisting of undecipherable markings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1967, p. 7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, SBEDV **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2333 ### Event 15624 (2593C1CE) **Date:** 4/29/1959 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** SELIZHAROVO STATION/DEPOT/FACILITY, RUSSIA **Description:** Engineers and more/others. Saucer hovers. Violet glow beneath. Moves. / r9p184. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6168 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SELIZHAROVO Stn,RUSS:ENGINEERS++:SCR HVRS:VIOLET GLOW BENEATH:MOVES:/r9p184", **LatLong:** "56.833336 33.516668", **LatLongDMS:** "56:50:00 N 33:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.833336,33.516668)", **State/Prov:** "TVR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15625 (41AAD9D1) **Date:** 4/29/1959 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** NEAR GRASSY PLAINS, BC **Description:** 14' ovoid with lit dome on gravel road. Gone fast. / r8#487+/ r2p190. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6169 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "885", **HatchDesc:** "nr GRASSY PLAINS,BC:14'OVOID W/LIT DOME on GRAVEL Rd:GONE FAST:/r8#487+/r2p190", **LatLong:** "53.933336 -125.905562", **LatLongDMS:** "53:56:00 N 125:54:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.933336,-125.905562)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15626 (D752090B) **Date:** 4/29/1959 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Grassy Plains, Canada **Description:** Alex Gillis and Jerry Monkman saw from a hilltop an egg-shaped object in the middle of the road. It was about 5 m long, the top part emitting a bright light. The object went away silently. Fearing ridicule, the witnesses reported the incident one month later. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 59, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_487 ### Event 15627 (A1D7C833) **Date:** 4/29/1959 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. Rod Lightfoot and another man in Blackwood Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia took a photograph of a saucer-shaped object. The main body of the UFO appeared to be rotating on its vertical axis, but the row of lights remained steady. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Adelaide Advertiser, April 30, 1959; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 165; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register (Volume 7), p. 49; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # SA59001 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2406 ### Event 15628 (75B1B2F8) **Date:** 5/1959 **Location:** Mississauga, Ontario **Description:** The first Avrocar, \#58-7055, rolls out of the Avro Malton factory in Mississauga, Ontario. From June 9 to October 7 it is tested in a static hover rig. A second Avrocar is completed in August. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar) [VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3308 ### Event 15629 (E625F16A) **Date:** 5/2/1959 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** PEASE AIR FORCE BASE, NH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Many military observer(s). Multiple RADAR's / photographed. 14 objects. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6170 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "100", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "PEASE AFB,NH:BBK#UNK:MANY MIL OBS:MULTIPLE RDRS/PHOTOD:14 OBJS:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "43.100002 -70.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:00 N 70:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.100002,-70.816670)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15630 (5D0EDBC7) **Date:** 5/2/1959 **Location:** Pease AFB, NH **Description:** (McDonald list) Three Radars Have 18 Tracks, 10+ Aircraft Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590502](http://www.nicap.org/590502pease%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2343 ### Event 15631 (7B8F9EB7) **Date:** 5/4/1959 **Locations:** Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Frontier City **Description:** [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and his attorney are summoned to the county courthouse in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to answer questions about stock sales by OTC Enterprises, including a block of 21,000 shares to Frontier City promoter [Jimmy Burge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%5FCity%23Burge/Williams%5Fera%5F%281958-1981%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%5FCity%23Burge/Williams%5Fera%5F%281958-1981%29) oilman [Frank Buttram](https://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/b/buttram-frank-1940)[,](https://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/b/buttram-frank-1940) and publisher [Edward K. Gaylord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FK.%5FGaylord)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FK.%5FGaylord) Carr pleads the Fifth Amendment. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 861 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3309 ### Event 15632 (6074D60F) **Date:** 5/5/1959 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio **Description:** [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s newly formed UFO Advisory Panel holds its first meeting at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The panel consists of Hynek, Lt. Col. [Richard M. Graham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49191941/richard-marshall-graham) \(chaplain\), Lt. Col. Theodore J. Hieatt \(PR\), Maj. Leroy D. Pigg \(psychologist\), V. J. Handmacher \(physicist\), and L. V. Robinson \(astronomer\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Reading](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html) [Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 148–](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/148/mode/2up) [149](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/148/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3310 ### Event 15633 (60FD4B9B) **Date:** 5/7/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** OVER ITAPETININGA, BRZ **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner crew and ground observer(s). Luminous ball hovers. Vanishes. Reappears elsewhere. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 224) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6171 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "680", **HatchDesc:** "ovr ITAPETININGA,BRZ:AL CREW+GND OBS:LUMn.BALL HVRS:VANISHES:REAPPEARS ELSEWHR", **LatLong:** "-23.600001 -48.050002", **LatLongDMS:** "23:36:00 S 48:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.600001,-48.050002)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15634 (B729228D) **Date:** 5/8/1959 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** BLOOMSBURG, PA **Description:** 2+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Brilliant ovoid circles town 4X in 7 minutes. Then shoots going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 223) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6172 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "530", **HatchDesc:** "BLOOMSBURG,PA:2+OBS/BINOCS:BRILL.OVOID CCLS TOWN 4X in 7 mins:THEN SHOOTS >>NW", **LatLong:** "41.016669 -76.455559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:00 N 76:27:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.016669,-76.455559)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15635 (49DCEF45) **Date:** 5/13/1959 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MONTEVIDEO, URU **Description:** 2 observer(s). Circular object rotates CW(seen / bottom). Glows. Dome flashes. Going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6173 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEVIDEO,URU:2 OBS:CIRC.OBJ ROTATES CW(seen/bottom):GLOWS:DOME FLASHES:>W", **LatLong:** "-34.850002 -56.150003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:51:00 S 56:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.850002,-56.150003)", **State/Prov:** "MTV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15636 (00BA459A) **Date:** 5/13/1959 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NORTHWEST / OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, NE **Description:** Blue Book. Military and civil Air Traffic Controllers and all / airliner. Fireball night light going southwest / 15 second(s). Plane speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6174 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "322", **HatchDesc:** "NW/OFFUTT AFB,NE:BBK:MIL+CIV.ATCs+ALL/AIRLINER:FBL NLT >SW/15sec:PLANE SPEED", **LatLong:** "41.111113 -95.922227", **LatLongDMS:** "41:06:40 N 95:55:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.111113,-95.922227)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15637 (F04D553C) **Date:** 5/13/1959 **Location:** Omaha (Offutt AFB), NE **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2344 ### Event 15638 (D47BD21A) **Date:** 5/13/1959 **Description:** At 7:00 p.m. a domed disc was seen over the city of Colon, Uruguay. The circular bottom of the object rotated clockwise. The object itself was self-luminous, and the dome of the craft flashed. The UFO flew off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Roberto Enrique Banchs; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2794 ### Event 15639 (BA62C8DB) **Date:** 5/13/1959 **Description:** Military witnesses at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, a civilian ATC, and all onboard a Braniff airliner witnessed a fireball fly across the sky toward the SW for 15 seconds. It was sighted on a clear night at 9:21 p.m. and was estimated to be traveling at the same speed as the plane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, July 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2795 ### Event 15640 (40900C59) **Date:** 5/14/1959 **Location:** Des Moines, IA **Description:** UFO hovered, sped away. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2345 ### Event 15641 (E2F8FAD2) **Date:** 5/14/1959 **Location:** Philadelphia, PA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2346 ### Event 15642 (FBD7A8D6) **Date:** 5/17/1959 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** COOKTOWN, AUST **Description:** 3 hunters. Huge saucer / trees. Portholes. 1 observer very sick-1 dies. / r229'82#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6175 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "COOKTOWN,AUST:3 HUNTERS:HUGE SCR/TREES:PORTHOLES:1 OBS vSICK-1 DIES:/r229'82#2", **LatLong:** "-15.666667 145.333340", **LatLongDMS:** "15:40:00 S 145:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-15.666667,145.333340)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15643 (45EAC90B) **Date:** 5/17/1959 **Description:** Three crocodile hunters saw a huge football-shaped object 100 meters away from them while hunting in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia at 4:30 a.m. The object spewed forth a 50 meter wide band of vapor. Two of the hunters stood up to get a better look. One of the two later died, and the other suffered some severe physiological aftereffects from the encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 101; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2923 ### Event 15644 (0ED2A56A) **Date:** 5/18/1959 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** GIRARD, KS **Description:** Trucker. Orange disk lands / road! Covers both lanes. Going up [to] and away. Unknown separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 230) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6176 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "301", **HatchDesc:** "GIRARD,KS:TRUCKER:ORG DISK LANDS/ROAD!:COVERS BOTH LANES:↑+away:unk sep.obs", **LatLong:** "37.500002 -94.833338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:00 N 94:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.500002,-94.833338)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15645 (F83712F5) **Date:** 5/18/1959 **Location:** Greenbush, KS **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2347 ### Event 15646 (91E7E923) **Date:** 5/18/1959 **Locations:** Soestdijk Palace in Baarn; The Hague **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) has an audience with Queen [Juliana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNetherlands) and Prince [Bernhard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FBernhard%5Fof%5FLippe-Biesterfeld) of the Netherlands at Soestdijk Palace in Baarn on his world lecture tour, amid fiercely critical media coverage. The royal audience, scheduled to last 45 minutes, goes on for two hours, making Adamski 20 minutes late for his lecture in The Hague. The royal couple claim that the British royal family, especially [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh), are also keen to meet Adamski. After the audience, Dutch Aeronautical Association president [Cornelis Kolff](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis%5FKolff) says “The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject.” Royal Netherlands Air Force Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Haye Schaper says, “The man’s a pathological case.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3311 ### Event 15647 (65122610) **Date:** 5/18/1959 **Description:** A truck driver in Girard, Kansas reported that at 2:00 a.m. an orange disc-shaped object landed on the highway and covered both lanes. It rose up vertically after a short while and flew away. A separate witness was not identified. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross: The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 30 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2951 ### Event 15648 (DB374F0B) **Date:** 5/20/1959 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** TRES LOMAS, ARG **Description:** Domed saucer 150M away. 8' tall. Grass flattened. / r8+/ r180p23+/ r3p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 715) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6177 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "113", **HatchDesc:** "TRES LOMAS,ARG:DOMED SCR 150M AWAY:8'TALL:GRASS FLATTENED:/r8+/r180p23+/r3p64", **LatLong:** "-36.450002 -62.850003", **LatLongDMS:** "36:27:00 S 62:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.450002,-62.850003)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15649 (948EAC06) **Date:** 5/20/1959 **Time:** 1730 **Location:** Tres Lomas, Argentina **Description:** Two hunters saw a diskshaped object resting on the ground 150 m away. It looked like an aluminum craft about 2.5 m high, with a dome on top. Grass flattened. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Challenge 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_488 ### Event 15650 (13FD1E14) **Date:** 5/20/1959 **Location:** Pehuelches station, Buenos Aires, Argentina **Description:** 5:30 p.m. Antonio Sanchez and Ernesto Fogliani are hunting rabbits about 7 miles from Pehuelches station, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They see a saucer-shaped, silvery machine resting on the ground about 980 feet away. They approach to about 490 feet when the object rises into the sky and disappears. At the spot where it was, they find the grass flattened in the shape of a large oval. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3312 ### Event 15651 (C72B6297) **Date:** 5/20/1959 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. two hunters named Sanchez and Fogliani observed a landed silvery metallic disc in Tres Lomas, La Pampa, Argentina. Grass at the landing site was flattened. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** La Razon, May 24, 1959; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3005 ### Event 15652 (9465E31D) **Date:** 5/21/1959 **Location:** BRINDISI, ITL **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge yellow glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape going northeast. Circles town and continues going northeast to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6178 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRINDISI,ITL:MANY OBS:HUGE YLW GLO-CGR >NE:CIRCLES TOWN+ CONTINUES >NE to sea", **LatLong:** "40.616669 17.916668", **LatLongDMS:** "40:37:00 N 17:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.616669,17.916668)", **State/Prov:** "APL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15653 (65E02A4C) **Date:** 5/21/1959 **Location:** Rapid City (8 miles E of), SD **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2348 ### Event 15654 (D579B614) **Date:** 5/21/1959 **Description:** On this afternoon around 1:00 p.m. a huge yellow glowing cigar flew toward the northwest and circled the town of Brindisi, Italy before continuing on toward the northeast and out to sea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3017 ### Event 15655 (E2975654) **Date:** 5/22/1959 **Description:** The UFO Advisory Panel meets to “determine the type of information which should be used for correlation in bringing Special Report \#14 up to date.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3313 ### Event 15656 (5A3EAB5A) **Date:** Late 5/1959 **Locations:** Zürich, Switzerland; Switzerland; Italy; Austria; Denmark **Description:** [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) tells [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) he is revising his book to bring it more up to date and requests NICAP’s most recent information. He says the Air Force is giving its full cooperation and he is “middle of the road” on the UFO question. \(Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 258–260\) May 26, 29 — [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) gives two lectures in Zürich, Switzerland. At the second talk, he meets with organized resistance by a group of 300 students \(in an audience of 700\) who have been led to believe he will discredit Swiss astronomer [Fritz Zwicky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FZwicky)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FZwicky) When a reporter afterwards asks if he will accept an apology, Adamski replies that it should not be given to him, but to the Swiss public. Due to recurring heart problems, Adamski cancels his remaining lectures in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Denmark. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3314 ### Event 15657 (426FDDF3) **Date:** 5/27/1959 (approximate) **Location:** Black Mountain, NV **Description:** AP Newswire: *Mystery Object Flits Over Vegas*: Unidentified objects, visible to the naked eye but not on radar, were reported in the Las Vegas area during a 3 week period. A man told [Nellis Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) officials that he saw 4 unidentified objects flying in apparent formation at tremendous speed over the Black Mountains, 40 miles SE of Las Vegas area. The Air Force said none of the objects sighted could have been planes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Quest International - Journal of UFO Investigation - Issue 145 (1947-1973), 1990](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Quest_Publications/Quest_Publications_010-Rare_news_reports_1947-1973.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_912 **Attributes:** Nellis ### Event 15658 (F899F61D) **Date:** 5/28/1959 **Description:** [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and two OTC Enterprises employees \(Lari Kendrick and Charles O. Rhoades\) are barred by a federal court order from selling any further stock in the company. The SEC contends that they have been selling unregistered securities fraudulently since November 18, 1955, using the US mail to do so. Contactee associate [Wayne Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) escapes arraignment, while Norman Colton has fled the state and cannot be located. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 861 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3315 ### Event 15659 (1E053501) **Date:** 5/28/1959 **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Night. Two observers on a Project Moonwatch team in San Antonio, Texas, see two silvery objects through their telescopes that shoot across the sky in less than one second, one curving away in a parabolic path, the other executing a more gradual hyperbolic curve. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 13–14; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3316 ### Event 15660 (1D3B4857) **Date:** 5/31/1959 **Description:** A man named Priest sighted a reddish orange object with a tapering tail fly over Port Elliot, South Australia at 6:13 a.m. It moved from west to east at 25 degrees elevation in southern sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 166 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3180 ### Event 15661 (19A25EEC) **Date:** 6/1959 **Location:** RIO PARDO, BRZ **Description:** Saucer overhead points tube at crocodile hunters. All absolute(ly) silent! / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v13#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6179 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "340", **HatchDesc:** "RIO PARDO,BRZ:SCR OVHD POINTS TUBE at CROC HUNTERS:ALL ABS SILENT!:/FSR v13#4", **LatLong:** "-20.450001 -53.766669", **LatLongDMS:** "20:27:00 S 53:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.450001,-53.766669)", **State/Prov:** "MGS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15662 (812E3468) **Date:** 6/1959 **Location:** Buenos Aires harbor, Argentina **Description:** The Argentine Navy bottles up a fast, submarine-like object in the Buenos Aires harbor, Argentina. It is shaped like a huge fish, is silver in color, and sports a tail like the stabilizer on a B-17. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 52–53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3317 ### Event 15663 (F0301DE2) **Date:** 6/1959 **Locations:** Lockheed’s Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory; Dawson Forest; Dawsonville, Georgia **Description:** The radiation effects reactor at Lockheed’s Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory \[now closed\] in the Dawson Forest outside Dawsonville, Georgia, is brought up to full power and unsheathed for the first time. It is a water- cooled 10-megawatt nuclear reactor in a shielded underground shaft with the purpose of irradiating military aircraft as well as the forest itself to determine the effects of nuclear war on wildlife. The experiment exposes everything within a 1,000-foot radius to a lethal dose of radiation. Bugs fall from the air, and small animals and the bacteria living in and on them are exterminated, in a phenomenon the technicians call “instant taxidermy.” Oak trees turn brown, yet crabgrass is seemingly unaffected. Pine trees are the hardest hit of all. Clear Coca-Cola bottles turn brown, hydraulic fluid coagulates into chewing gum, transistorized equipment stops working, and rubber tires become rock hard. Documents about the reactor remain highly classified, and the entrance to the underground portion of the facility has been buried. The area is closed in 1971, and only objects left above ground were the concrete foundations on which the buildings and reactors were placed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Georgia Nuclear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%5FNuclear%5FAircraft%5FLaboratory) [Aircraft Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%5FNuclear%5FAircraft%5FLaboratory)”; Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, p. 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3318 ### Event 15664 (BEF47562) **Date:** 6/2/1959 **Description:** Mrs. Henry X. Buller reported that she and her husband saw two cigar-shaped objects fly northeast of Windom, Minnesota while driving between Windom and Mountain Lake at 9:15 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Fate magazine, October 1959; Jay Rath, The M-Files, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3224 ### Event 15665 (FCD291D9) **Date:** 6/3/1959 (approximate) **Location:** Las Vegas, NV **Description:** AP Newswire: *Mystery Object Flits Over Vegas*: Unidentified objects, visible to the naked eye but not on radar, were reported in the Las Vegas area during a 3 week period. One object was reported sighted over Las Vegas, over the eastern horizon near the city. The Air Force said none of the objects sighted could have been planes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Quest International - Journal of UFO Investigation - Issue 145 (1947-1973), 1990](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Quest_Publications/Quest_Publications_010-Rare_news_reports_1947-1973.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_913 **Attributes:** Nellis ### Event 15666 (55C42EF9) **Date:** 6/3/1959 **Location:** BLOOMINGTON, IN **Description:** Torpedo-cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. Dives out-of-sight. Time unknown. No further details. / r78p184. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6180 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "168", **HatchDesc:** "BLOOMINGTON,IN:TORPEDO-CGR HOVERS:DIVES OUT-OF-SIGHT:TIME UNK:NFD:/r78p184", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -86.527782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 86:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-86.527782)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15667 (9E1D25EC) **Date:** 6/3/1959 **Location:** Genoa, Italy **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2349 ### Event 15668 (28970D94) **Date:** 6/3/1959 **Location:** Bloomington (near), IN **Description:** Torpedo-shaped UFO hovered, dove out of sight. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2350 ### Event 15669 (4725CD7A) **Date:** 6/3/1959 **Description:** On this day in Bloomington, Indiana a torpedo-shaped object first hovered, then dove out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 137 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3242 ### Event 15670 (FAE7D22B) **Date:** 6/6/1959 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NOURLANGE, AUSTRALIA **Description:** Several / Safari. Red "saucer" going up [to] fast. Hovers / 30 second(s). Quickly going up [to] again. Lights cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 246) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6181 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NOURLANGE,AUSTRL:SVRL/SAFARI:RED "SCR" ↑ FAST:HVRS/30sec:↑↑ AGAIN:LITES CLOUD", **LatLong:** "-12.750001 132.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "12:45:00 S 132:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.750001,132.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Northern Territory", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15671 (102448FA) **Date:** 6/6/1959 **Description:** Several members of a safari in the Australian outback near Nourlange, Northern Territory watched a red disc descend fast, then stop and hover for 30 seconds. It shot straight up into the clouds and illuminated the clouds a reddish color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: April-June, p. 46 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3320 ### Event 15672 (04A84CBB) **Date:** 6/9/1959 **Location:** Manassas-Roanoke, VA **Description:** (McDonald list) Two Sites Track At 62,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590609](http://www.nicap.org/590609manassa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2351 ### Event 15673 (5CCCEF63) **Date:** 6/11/1959 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** HENDERSON, NV **Description:** Guards. 4 silver 30M cigars / circular formation. Regroup to line. Going [to] east-northeast. / r242p71. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6182 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "573", **HatchDesc:** "HENDERSON,NV:GUARDS:4 SLVR 30M CGRS/CIRC.FORMn:REGROUP TO LINE:>ENE:/r242p71", **LatLong:** "36.050002 -114.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:03:00 N 114:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.050002,-114.983339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15674 (E9383A5A) **Date:** 6/11/1959 **Location:** Henderson, NV **Description:** Security officers observed a formation of four disc-like objects. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2352 ### Event 15675 (142A881E) **Date:** 6/12/1959 **Description:** [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes an open letter to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) that lists his past statements on UFOs and urges him not to let the Air Force intimidate him into retracting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, “[Capt. Ruppelt Revising His UFO Book: Air Force](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/008%20JUNE%201959.pdf) [Rumored to Be Pressuring Former Project Chief,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/008%20JUNE%201959.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8 \(June 1959\): 5–6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3319 ### Event 15676 (85D8F3DA) **Date:** 6/13/1959 **Description:** [Charles S. Sheldon II](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49313174/charles-stuart-sheldon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49313174/charles-stuart-sheldon) technical director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, writes to [Richard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) [H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) at NICAP to say that while he thinks UFOs are “extremely interesting,” they do not pose a national security threat.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 290 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3320 ### Event 15677 (6B104C7E) **Date:** 6/13/1959 **Locations:** Ristorante La Cisterna in the Trastevere area of Rome, Italy; Copenhagen, Denmark **Description:** [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) along with follower Lou Zinsstag, meets with diplomat [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) and Mario Maioli at Ristorante La Cisterna in the Trastevere area of Rome, Italy, then go on an all-night taxi ride around the city. He returns to the United States via Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 17. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; 1Pinotti 106 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3321 ### Event 15678 (F50741D1) **Date:** 6/15/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** NEAR GOOSE AIR FORCE BASE, NFLD **Description:** 2 circular objects hover overhead / 2 minutes. Shoot going quickly northwest and back several X. Then quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6183 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr GOOSE AFB,NFLD:2 CIRC.OBJs HVR OVHD/2mins:SHOOT >>NW+back SVRL X:THEN ↑↑", **LatLong:** "53.283336 -60.333336", **LatLongDMS:** "53:17:00 N 60:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.283336,-60.333336)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15679 (5F561020) **Date:** 6/16/1959 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** YOUNGSTOWN, OH **Description:** Large saucer hovers over 2 small disks. Saucer going / horizon. Disks going quickly [to] behind trees.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6184 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "YOUNGSTOWN,OH:LRG SCR HVRS OVR 2 SML DISKS:SCR >/HRZN:DISKS >> BHND TREES..", **LatLong:** "41.116669 -80.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:07:00 N 80:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.116669,-80.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15680 (DCB1DD9D) **Date:** 6/16/1959 **Location:** Meridian (SE of), MS **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2353 ### Event 15681 (EE9DA6FE) **Date:** 6/17/1959 **Time:** 22:55 **Location:** Las Vegas, NV **Description:** AP Newswire: *Mystery Object Flits Over Vegas*: An unidentified object, visible to the naked eye but not on radar, was reported in the Las Vegas area. It was the 3rd mysterious sighting in the area in the last three weeks. A sherriff's sergeant, control tower crewman at McCarran Field, and Air Force men were amoung those reporting seeing a bright object flash down towards the desert northwest of Las Vegas at 10:55pm. Airman at the Air Force radar installation at Angel's Peak, 30 miles NW of Las Vegas, saw the object. Radar was not able to track it. The Air Force said none of the objects sighted could have been planes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Quest International - Journal of UFO Investigation - Issue 145 (1947-1973), 1990](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Quest_Publications/Quest_Publications_010-Rare_news_reports_1947-1973.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_911 **Attributes:** Nellis ### Event 15682 (A0910F24) **Date:** 6/18/1959 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / PIQUEROBI, BRAZIL **Description:** Mayor and several. Domed saucer very low near road. Violent maneuvers. Vibrant bright. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 255) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6185 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "380", **HatchDesc:** "SE/PIQUEROBI,BRZL:MAYOR+SVRL:DOMED SCR VERY LOW nr ROAD:VIOLENT MNVRS:VBRITE", **LatLong:** "-21.916668 -51.700002", **LatLongDMS:** "21:55:00 S 51:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-21.916668,-51.700002)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15683 (FD2A2470) **Date:** 6/18/1959 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** EDMONTON, ALTA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6400. 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 20' cylinder/cigar-shape rises / horizon / 4 min then vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6186 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "660", **HatchDesc:** "EDMONTON,ALTA:BBK#6400:2 OBS/BINOCS:20'CGR RISES/HORIZON/4MIN THEN VANISHES:", **LatLong:** "53.533336 -113.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "53:32:00 N 113:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.533336,-113.466672)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15684 (06E24280) **Date:** 6/18/1959 **Location:** Pacific bet. Hawaii and Calif, At Sea **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2354 ### Event 15685 (E258A340) **Date:** 6/18/1959 **Location:** Edmonton, Alberta, CAN **Description:** Brown, cigar-shaped object come from below the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6400) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2359 ### Event 15686 (EEC72D9A) **Date:** 6/18/1959 **Time:** 9:30 PM **Location:** Edmonton, Alberta, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: A. Cavelli and R. Blessin, using 7x binoculars. One brown, cigar-shaped object came from below the horizon (close to the witnesses) ascending to 40-50^ above the horizon in 4 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_434 ### Event 15687 (28987068) **Date:** 6/21/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** THE WILLOWS, RSA **Description:** 12M saucer hovers 5M over farm field. Orange glow and green light / side. Going / low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6187 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "The WILLOWS,RSA:12M SCR HVRS 5M ovr FARM FIELD:ORG GLOW+GRN LITE/SIDE:>/lo alt", **LatLong:** "-24.383334 30.583335", **LatLongDMS:** "24:23:00 S 30:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.383334,30.583335)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15688 (9EC1393F) **Date:** 6/21/1959 **Time:** 2000 **Location:** The Willows, South Africa **Description:** A civilian woman observed a saucer-shaped object hovering 5 m above ground. It was bathed in an orange glow, similar to that of a dying fire. It flew away horizontally and was lost to sight behind a hill. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 59, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_489 ### Event 15689 (51011F2D) **Date:** 6/22/1959 **Time:** 07:40 **Location:** SOUTH CHINA SEA **Description:** Blue Book. USAF RB66 pilot and gunner and RADAR confirm. 4 groups / 8 round objects going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6188 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S.CHINA SEA:BBK:USAF RB66 PILOT+GUNNER+RDR CONFIRM:4 GROUPS/8 RND OBJS >SW", **LatLong:** "21.083334 113.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "21:05:00 N 113:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.083334,113.200005)", **State/Prov:** "SCS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15690 (AFCB564A) **Date:** 6/22/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SALTA, ARG **Description:** Luminous sphere/orb/globe north going south over hills. Power out / entire town / several minutes. / r111p178. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6189 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "1183", **HatchDesc:** "SALTA,ARG:LUM ORB N>S ovr HILLS:POWER OUT/ENTIRE TOWN/SVRL MINUTES:/r111p178", **LatLong:** "-24.766668 -65.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "24:46:00 S 65:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.766668,-65.416670)", **State/Prov:** "SLT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15691 (1A3450C3) **Date:** 6/22/1959 **Location:** Macao (South China Sea S of), China **Description:** Gunner of RB-66 saw 4 groups of 8 dark round objects heading SW (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2360 ### Event 15692 (458EB98D) **Date:** 6/22/1959 **Location:** Salta, Arg **Description:** Luminous sphere observed passing in sky, city lights failed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2361 ### Event 15693 (89394A3B) **Date:** 6/22/1959 **Location:** Salta, Argentina **Description:** 8:00 p.m. A large, luminous UFO passes over Salta, Argentina, and blacks out all electrical power for several minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bernardo Passíon, “[Report from Argentina,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1959, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 56 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3322 ### Event 15694 (A1B99217) **Date:** 6/25/1959 **Location:** Taegu (S) of, Korea **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2362 ### Event 15695 (C2322F44) **Date:** 6/26/1959 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** BOIANAI, PNG **Description:** Fr Gill and 37. Saucer and 4 small humanoids (or Greys) wave back! Blue beam shot going up. Going quickly southwest. / r111p175. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6190 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOIANAI,PNG:Fr GILL+37:SCR+4 OIDS WAVE BACK!:BLUE BEAM SHOT↑:>>SW:/r111p175", **LatLong:** "-10.016667 149.883340", **LatLongDMS:** "10:01:00 S 149:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.016667,149.883340)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15696 (5427C841) **Date:** 6/26/1959 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** OFF GIWA, NEW GUINEA **Description:** Trader. Bright green 70' saucer with portholes hovers. Going quickly west. / r70p3-65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6191 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off GIWA,NEW GUINEA:TRADER:BRITE GRN 70'SCR W/PORTHOLES HVRS:>>W:/r70p3-65", **LatLong:** "-9.833334 149.866674", **LatLongDMS:** "09:50:00 S 149:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.833334,149.866674)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15697 (B6E6915F) **Date:** 6/26/1959 **Location:** Papua (Boianai Mission), New Guinea **Description:** Father Gill Case -saw Platform shaped object with "men" on top (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590626](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/en-590626dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2363 ### Event 15698 (34CEEA70) **Date:** 6/26/1959 **Time:** 1845 **Location:** Boianai, New Guinea **Description:** Many witnesses, among them Fr. W. B. Gill, head of a local mission, saw an orange object that hovered in mid-air. Four engines were visible on its "deck" and a beam of blue light was emitted upward from it. The object did not come to ground level, but its position above the ocean was almost on a level with the observers standing on the hill. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 123; Anatomy 145 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_490 ### Event 15699 (C74FEE46) **Date:** 6/26/1959 **End date:** 6/28/1959 **Locations:** Boianai Mission, Papua New Guinea; Giwa **Description:** 6:45 p.m. At Boianai Mission, Papua New Guinea, Rev. [William Booth Gill](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2007/08/reverend-william-bill-booth-gill-1929.html) and 38 others watch a platform-shaped object with legs that appears in the sky above Venus. It has an electric blue spotlight and is hovering about 500 feet away at a height of 300–400 feet. On top of the object, four humanlike figures, their bodies surrounded by illumination, are busy with some unknown task. The men and spotlight disappear at 7:20 p.m. and the object vanishes into the clouds. It reappears at 8:28 without the men or spotlight but now joined by second, third and fourth objects at 8:29, 8:35, and 8:35–8:50 p.m., coming and going through the clouds. The main UFO, “large, clear, stationary,” gives off a red light and disappears overhead into clouds at 9:10 p.m., reappears at 9:20, moves across the sea to Giwa appearing white-red-blue, then disappears at 9:30. An overhead object reappears at 9:46, hovering, disappears behind a cloud at 10:10, reappears in a gap between clouds at 10:30, then is gone at 10:50. The next day, the object returns at 6:00–6:30 p.m. with two others, one to the west and one overhead. “Two of the figures seemed to be doing something near the center of the deck. They were occasionally bending over and raising their arms as though adjusting or setting up something \(not visible\). One figure seemed to be standing, looking down at us.” Father Gill and another teacher wave their arms, and two of the figures on the main object wave back. Gill waves a flashlight and the object moves back and forth laterally. Gill goes in for dinner and a church service; when he returns at 7:45 p.m., the UFO is gone. The next evening at 6:45 p.m., some eight objects align themselves across a section of the sky. No occupants are visible. [Martin Kottmeyer](https://www.dios.com.ar/notas1/biografias/escribas/kottmeyer%5Fmartin/kottmeyer%5Fmartin.htm) suggests that Gill was watching a lighted squid-fishing boat close to shore, but Gill has confirmed the object was over his head. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Men Seen in Flight: Amazing Sighting from Papua,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CNov-Dic%2CV%205%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1959\): 7–8; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “[Flying Saucers over Papua: A Report on Papuan Unidentified Flying](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/frgill1959.pdf) [Objects,](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/frgill1959.pdf)” March 1960; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “[What Happened in Papua in 1959?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CNov-Dec%2CV%206%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1960\): 3–7; “[Father Gill and the Rev. Lionel Browning,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1961%2CSep-Oct%2CV%207%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1961\): 23–25; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “[Flying Saucers over Papua,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201971%20N%204%2CUFOs%20in%20Two%20Worlds.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds, special issue of FSR, August 1971, pp. 3–38; Gordon Creighton, “[The New Guinea Sightings; A Note on Some](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201971%20N%204%2CUFOs%20in%20Two%20Worlds.pdf) [Anthropological Aspects,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201971%20N%204%2CUFOs%20in%20Two%20Worlds.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds, special issue of FSR, August 1971, p. 39; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 167– 172](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/166/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/166/mode/2up) [271–273](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/270/mode/2up); Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 216–223](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/216/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 59–68, 69–71; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 4–7; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited, Part Two,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 4–8; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 59–62; Martin Kottmeyer, “[Gill Again: The Father Gill Case Reconsidered,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/12/gill-again-father-gill-case-reconsidered.html)” Magonia, no. 54 \(November 1995\): 11–14; Bill Chalker, “[The Boianai Visitants of 1959,](http://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/father-gill-1959-papua-new-guinea-ufo-sighting/)” The Black Vault, May 16, 2016; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(Mar. 2012\): 31–32; Swords 383–385; Clark III 533–536 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3323 ### Event 15700 (BCCDA1FD) **Date:** 6/26/1959 **Description:** At 6:45 p.m. at Boianai Mission on Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea an Anglican missionary named Father Gill and 37 others watched four luminous figures on top of a low, hovering, disc-shaped UFO. It was circular with a wide base and a narrower upper deck, and had four tapering legs, two at each end, on the bottom. A shaft of blue light that shone upwards at a 45 degree angle was witnessed part of the time. The four figures on top of the craft were surrounded at a little distance by an aura of luminescence. "If wearing clothes, they were very tight-fitting," reported Father Gill. One of the beings waved back in an apparent response to hand waves from the witnesses. The UFO also wobbled in response to flashlight signals. Thirty minutes later an oval-shaped craft with portholes was seen maneuvering over Giwa, Papua New Guinea. The UFO made a series of moves and stops, and made a "whoomp whoomp" noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Bowen, UFOs in the Two Worlds, FSR Special Edition No. 4, pp. 35 & 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3668 ### Event 15701 (799984DA) **Date:** 6/26/1959 **Description:** Earlier that same day Mr. Taylor, a 22-year-old man living in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England observed two tall men walking down Alexander Avenue. They were dressed like motorcyclists, stood over six-feet tall, wore tight fitting trousers and heavy boots, and had long blond hair. They turned a corner and when Taylor quickly followed, the men had already vanished into thin air. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type-I Reports, case 892, published in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin (MUFOB), which later was re-named Magonia magazine; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 345, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3669 ### Event 15702 (EFDB952A) **Date:** 6/27/1959 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BOIANAI, PNG **Description:** Fr Gill and 25. Saucer and small humanoids (or Greys) over sea. Respond / signals. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) Si #4+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v5#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6192 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOIANAI,PNG:Fr GILL+25:SCR+OIDS OVR SEA:RESPOND/SIGNALS:/FSR SI #4+FSR v5#6", **LatLong:** "-10.033334 149.866674", **LatLongDMS:** "10:02:00 S 149:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.033334,149.866674)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15703 (89969FA3) **Date:** 6/27/1959 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** OFF ILHEUS, BRZ **Description:** Luminous sphere/orb/globe scouts destroyer Bauru. Very fast 90° turns. Avoids spotlight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6193 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off ILHEUS,BRZ:LUMn.ORB SCOUTS DESTROYER BAURU:VFAST 90°TURNS:AVOIDS SPOTLITE", **LatLong:** "-14.833334 -39.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "14:50:00 S 39:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-14.833334,-39.000002)", **State/Prov:** "Bahia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15704 (038651C7) **Date:** 6/27/1959 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** DANVILLE, VA **Description:** 4 small objects exit diving cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape. Follow cloud back up after. Going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6194 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "152", **HatchDesc:** "DANVILLE,VA:4 SML OBJS EXIT DIVING CLOUD-CGR:FOLO CLOUD BACK UP AFTER:>SE", **LatLong:** "36.633335 -79.411115", **LatLongDMS:** "36:38:00 N 79:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.633335,-79.411115)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15705 (356FBD78) **Date:** 6/27/1959 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SOUTH / RIACHUELO, BRAZIL **Description:** Sgt. and 5. Silent metallic domed tub saucer stops low. Lights ground. Quickly going up / jet sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 271) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6195 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "108", **HatchDesc:** "S/RIACHUELO,BRZL:SGT+5:SLNT MTLC DOMED TUB SCR STOPS LO:LITES GND:↑↑/jet sound", **LatLong:** "-5.833334 -35.766668", **LatLongDMS:** "05:50:00 S 35:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-5.833334,-35.766668)", **State/Prov:** "RGN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15706 (0BB05A9C) **Date:** 6/27/1959 **Location:** Dunville, VA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2364 ### Event 15707 (F7D3594F) **Date:** 6/27/1959 **Location:** Papua (Boianai Mission), New Guinea **Description:** Object returned from previous night with 2 others (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590627](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/en-590626dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2365 ### Event 15708 (A3AC16B5) **Date:** 6/27/1959 **Description:** Twenty-four hours after their previous sighting, a UFO re-appeared in the same position in the sky over the Boianai Mission on Milne Bay, New Guinea, only a little further off. Four men were again seen occupied with some activity on top of it. Father William Gill waved, and one of the men on the UFO did the same; then all the observers waved, and all four UFO occupants appeared to wave back. Flashlight signals were answered by movements of the object, which oscillated and then came somewhat closer. After this there was no further response. After about 90 minutes of visibility some low clouds obscured the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Rev. Norman E. G. Crutwell, UFOs in the Two Worlds, FSR Special Edition No. 4., p. 35; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-10, citing FSR Special Issue #4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3694 ### Event 15709 (D178ECAD) **Date:** 6/28/1959 **Location:** Papua (Boianai Mission), New Guinea **Description:** Father Gill saw up to 8 lights at varying heights (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590628](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/en-590626dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2366 ### Event 15710 (E42BF558) **Date:** 6/30/1959 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** PATUXENT RIVER NAS, MD **Description:** 2 military observer(s). Project Bluebook Case #6409. 9x1 gold ovoid. 100mph. 4000' altitude. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6196 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PATUXENT RVR NAS,MD:2 MIL OBS:BBK#6409:9x1 GOLD OVOID:100mph:4000'alt:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "39.183335 -77.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:11:00 N 77:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.183335,-77.183337)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15711 (BC8DE7DC) **Date:** 6/30/1959 **Location:** Patuxent River, MD **Description:** Metallic gold, oblate-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6409) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2367 ### Event 15712 (937D8AAA) **Date:** 6/30/1959 **Time:** 8:23 PM **Location:** Patuxent River NAS, Maryland **Description:** Witness: USN Cdr. D. Connolly. One gold, oblate-shaped object, nine times as wide as it was thick, metallic and with sharp edges, flew straight and level for 20-30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_435 ### Event 15713 (6A7CC1EA) **Date:** 6/30/1959 **Description:** A U.S. Navy Commander and a female companion at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, Maryland sighted a metallic gold, oblate object at 8:23 p.m. EDT. He spotted it to the north; the UFO traveled in a straight and level flight path.A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 179; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 77 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3745 ### Event 15714 (BAD99B69) **Date:** 7/1959 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SQ / ELKADER, IA **Description:** 2 blue-white 5M disks skim trees. Follow 2 observer(s) / 12M altitude. Sandy surface. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 302) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6198 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "285", **HatchDesc:** "SQ/ELKADER,IA:2 BLU-WHT 5M DISKS SKIM TREES:FOLO 2 OBS/12M alt:sandy surface", **LatLong:** "45.800002 -91.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:48:00 N 91:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.800002,-91.450004)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15715 (25E0022D) **Date:** 7/1959 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** JANE LEW, WV **Description:** Dogs bark. Odd whine. 2 observer(s) frozen. Glow outside. 8M oval / burnt soil. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 346) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6199 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "307", **HatchDesc:** "JANE LEW,WV:DOGS BARK:ODD WHINE:2 OBS FROZEN:GLOW OUTSIDE:8M OVAL/BURNT SOIL", **LatLong:** "39.111113 -80.405559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:40 N 80:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.111113,-80.405559)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15716 (2245CDFF) **Date:** 7/1959 **Location:** Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia **Description:** The Air Force reassigns UFO investigative duties to the 1127th Field Activities Group stationed at Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia, replacing the 1006th AISS. The unit will also be responsible for Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/134/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 16–17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3324 ### Event 15717 (D893993B) **Date:** 7/1959 **Description:** Contactee [Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen) rebrands his group as the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America and publishes the AFSCA World Report from 1959 to 1961, UFO International from 1962 to 1965, and Flying Saucers International from 1966 to 1969. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [AFSCA Information Sheet](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/AFSCA%20World%20Report%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/AFSCA%20Information%20Sheet%20-%20No%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/AFSCA%20World%20Report%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/AFSCA%20Information%20Sheet%20-%20No%201.pdf) no. 1 \(1959\); [AFSCA UFO International](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20International%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/UFO%20International%20-%20No%2017.pdf), no. 17 \(Sept./Oct. 1962\); [Flying Saucers International](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20-%20No%2024.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20-%20No%2024.pdf) no. 24 \(July 1966\); Clark III 99 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3325 ### Event 15718 (F2C2CA30) **Date:** 7/1/1959 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** RACINE, WI **Description:** 2 observer(s). Squeaky whirr. Silver saucer going down / Johnson's Wax building! Phones dead. News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 304) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6200 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "189", **HatchDesc:** "RACINE,WI:2 OBS:SQUEEKY WHIRR:SLVR SCR ↓/JOHNSONS WAX BLDG!:PHONES DEAD:news", **LatLong:** "42.716669 -87.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:43:00 N 87:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.716669,-87.783338)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15719 (52B72572) **Date:** 7/3/1959 **Location:** Needles, CA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2368 ### Event 15720 (035159D1) **Date:** 7/4/1959 (approximate) **Location:** BUTTERWORTH RAAF, MALAYSIA **Description:** Rumor. 2 jets down saucer. Next day saucer zaps 2 jets. Gone! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 175) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6201 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Malaysia", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "BUTTERWORTH RAAF,MALAYSIA:RUMOR:2 JETS DOWN SCR:NEXT DAY SCR ZAPS 2 JETS:GONE!", **LatLong:** "5.416667 100.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "05:25:00 N 100:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.416667,100.400005)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 15721 (1419F78C) **Date:** 7/4/1959 **Time:** 06:40 **Location:** SOUTH CHINA SEA **Description:** 112.35E-20.38N. USAF B66 pilot and gunner. 16 cream-colored ovoids / 36000 Ft. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6202 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S.CHINA SEA:112.35E-20.38N:USAF B66 PILOT+GUNNER:16 CREAM-CLRD OVOIDS/36000 Ft", **LatLong:** "20.633334 112.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "20:38:00 N 112:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/20.633334,112.583339)", **State/Prov:** "SCS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15722 (031395A9) **Date:** 7/4/1959 **Location:** Macao (South China Sea S of), China **Description:** USAF pilot and gunner of RB-66 saw a group of 18 cream-colored objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2369 ### Event 15723 (4280AFE1) **Date:** 7/4/1959 **Description:** The crew of a USAF RB-66 aircraft sighted a group of 16 cream colored oval-shaped objects flying at 36,000 feet altitude over the China Sea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3817 ### Event 15724 (BEA5F5DE) **Date:** 7/5/1959 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** NEW ALBANY, MS **Description:** Cigar-object hovers / 45° angle. Then slides up into clouds going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 209) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6203 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "111", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ALBANY,MS:CIGAR-OBJ HVRS/45°ANGLE:THEN SLIDES UP INTO CLOUDS >NW", **LatLong:** "34.494446 -89.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:29:40 N 89:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.494446,-89.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15725 (895DA707) **Date:** 7/5/1959 **Location:** Macao (South China Sea S of), China **Description:** USAF pilot and gunner of RB-66 gunner of RB-66 saw 5 oval objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2370 ### Event 15726 (94C7662F) **Date:** 7/5/1959 **End date:** 7/6/1959 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Eliot, Maine; Washington; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** US Navy Cmdr. Julius Larsen, an ONI liaison officer to the CIA’s Photographic Intelligence Center in Washington, D.C., rediscovers the Swan-Knowles-Affa correspondence from 1954 in a file and decides to follow up on it. He goes to Eliot, Maine, to visit Adm. [Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23) and interview Frances Swan. Larsen tries his hand at automatic writing and channels a message from Affa. Back in Washington on July 6, Larsen goes to director of the Photographic Intelligence Office, [Arthur C. Lundahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FC.%5FLundahl), and tells the story to him and his assistant Lt. [Robert S.](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/) [Neasham](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/)[.](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/) They urge Larsen to try to contact the extraterrestrials. Larsen goes into a trance, asks Affa questions, and writes the answers down. When Neasham challenges Affa to appear in person or let them see his spaceship, Larsen stops writing and tells Neasham to go to the window. Lundahl sees nothing unusual, but Neasham insists a spaceship is hiding behind some fluffy clouds. He also insists that he later contacted Washington National Airport and heard from the radar tower that the sector where the UFO appeared had been “blocked out.” Neasham urges Project Blue Book’s Maj. [Robert Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) to come over for a briefing. He shows up on July 9 and hears Neasham’s version of the story, and Larsen even channels some messages. Friend goes back to Dayton, Ohio, and prepares a memo for his boss. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 153–154](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/152/mode/2up); Clark III 1118–1119; Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, Present, and Future, Ballantine, 1974 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3326 ### Event 15727 (F4B9B708) **Date:** 7/6/1959 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** WASHINGTON, DC **Description:** CIA and ONI men. Telepathy from "Affa". Dark saucer going [to] over. RADAR blocked / area. / r33p66. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: VALLEE, Jacques:The INVISIBLE COLLEGE; E. P. Dutton, NY 1975. Hardcover. (Washington, DC 1959 pg 74. Ashland, NE 1967 pg 57.) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6204 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "WASHINGTON,DC:CIA+ONI MEN:TLP fm "AFFA":DRK SCR > OVR:RDR BLOCKED/AREA:/r33p66", **LatLong:** "38.933335 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:56:00 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.933335,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15728 (3A14792A) **Date:** 7/6/1959 **Description:** At 12:50 a.m. a round oval-shaped UFO with a dark band encircling the object and four illuminated domed portholes under the dark band, was sighted by Orwin and Smith in Baniara, Papua New Guinea. That night at 8:40 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO did a loop over Dogura, Papua New Guinea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Norman E G Cruttwell, UFOs in the two worlds: FSR Special Edition no. 4, pp. 21, 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3874 ### Event 15729 (B0A34FEC) **Date:** 7/7/1959 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** SSE / BURREN JCT., NSW **Description:** Separate observer(s). Dome-saucer / roadside. Brilliant object shines beams going down / 2120hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6205 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "132", **HatchDesc:** "SSE/BURREN Jct.,NSW:SEP.OBS:DOME-SCR/ROADSIDE:BRILL.OBJ SHINES BEAMS↓/2120hrs:", **LatLong:** "-30.250001 149.050007", **LatLongDMS:** "30:15:00 S 149:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.250001,149.050007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15730 (D22B95A2) **Date:** 7/7/1959 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** BREMERTON, WA **Description:** Silent dark-brown colored cylinder/cylindrical object / high altitude overtakes 2 planes. Planes audible only. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6206 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BREMERTON,WA:SLNT DRK-BRN CYL/HI alt OVERTAKES 2 PLANES:planes audible only", **LatLong:** "47.583336 -122.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:35:00 N 122:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.583336,-122.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15731 (D2154463) **Date:** 7/8/1959 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** AMAGER ISLAND, DK **Description:** 2 young birdwatchers. 3 photographs / classic saucer / low altitude. News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6207 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "AMAGER Isl,DK:2 YOUNG BIRDWATCHERS:3 FOTOS/CLASSIC SCR/lo alt:news", **LatLong:** "55.616669 12.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:37:00 N 12:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.616669,12.616667)", **State/Prov:** "AMG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15732 (EA5C241A) **Date:** 7/8/1959 (approximate) **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** MATANZAS, CUBA **Description:** Boys. Brill-shiny top-saucer. Going up [to] fast. Descends over bay. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6208 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MATANZAS,CUBA:BOYS:BRILL-SHINY TOP-SCR:↑ FAST:DESCENDS OVR BAY:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "23.083334 -81.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "23:05:00 N 81:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.083334,-81.566671)", **State/Prov:** "CBA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15733 (4A64939B) **Date:** 7/8/1959 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** KARUMBA, AUST **Description:** Several observer(s). Silent 18M disk / light going northwest straight and level fast. / APRO Nov'59+/ r198p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 310) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6209 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KARUMBA,AUST:SVRL OBS:SLNT 18M DISK/LITE >NW S/L FAST:/APRO Nov'59+/r198p24", **LatLong:** "-17.483334 140.833340", **LatLongDMS:** "17:29:00 S 140:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.483334,140.833340)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15734 (AF151873) **Date:** 7/8/1959 **Time:** ~18:50 **Location:** PORT LIHOU, QLD, AUST **Description:** Natives and many. Red-glow object lands / hill. / APRO 9'59+/ r198p25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6210 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PORT LIHOU,QLD,AUST:NATIVES+MANY:RED-GLOW OBJ LANDS/HILL:/APRO 9'59+/r198p25", **LatLong:** "-10.733334 142.233340", **LatLongDMS:** "10:44:00 S 142:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.733334,142.233340)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15735 (DC586829) **Date:** 7/8/1959 **Location:** Columbus, IN **Description:** Family in car chased three pulsating object seen moving slowly at low altitude in V-formation. (Two WTTV employees saw similar formation few minutes earlier, 25-30 miles away.) \[NICAP UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2371 ### Event 15736 (CF8B7AE2) **Date:** 7/8/1959 **Locations:** Prince of Wales Island; Port Lihou; Thursday Island; Mapoon Mission; Cape York **Description:** Night. Mrs. Napau Abednego and other indigenous people on Prince of Wales Island in the Torres Strait off Queensland, Australia, see a huge, glowing red object land on top of a hill at Port Lihou. The same night, residents of nearby Thursday Island see a green UFO flying low, and a strange object is also reported at Mapoon Mission on the west coast of Cape York. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3327 ### Event 15737 (3D0AC516) **Date:** 7/9/1959 **Location:** unknown location, Bahamas **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2372 ### Event 15738 (F4D3750F) **Date:** 7/9/1959 **Description:** An interesting parapsychological experiment closely tied to the UFO phenomenon was conducted on this day in Washington, DC by the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. Naval Intelligence. It was held at an office in a government building at the corner of 5th and K Streets (quadrant of the city not given). According to Lt. Colonel Robert Friend, the officer in charge of Project Blue Book at the time and who was present at the session, telepathic communication was attempted through a psychic channeler who was also a military officer.

Colonel Friend was invited to attend a meeting with this officer, and was given the following background information. A Canadian woman, Mrs. Swan, had come to their attention through the Canadian government. The Canadians had conducted an extensive investigation into Mrs. Swan's claims of contact with the aliens. With two Naval Intelligence officers present, she went into a trance and they asked her scientific and technical questions to which a woman of her education could not possibly know the answers. Yet as questions were put to her, she was able to answer quickly and easily, apparently with telepathic help from purported extraterrestrials. According to the report, the aliens represented an organization called the "Universal Association of Planets," and this group had a project monitoring Earth. The investigation took an unexpected turn when the woman informed one of the Naval officers that "they" were willing to answer questions directly through him, a Navy commander and intelligence officer--with no prior experience in telepathic communications. He took over, attempting to write down the answers to questions put to him by his associate Naval officer.

The word traveled back quickly to Washington officials and a very skeptical CIA. Nevertheless, there was no strong reason to totally disbelieve the report of this respected Navy commander and his partner.

A meeting was arranged to be held in the security portion of a Washington government building. When trance state contact was achieved, several questions were put to him, and answers came back quickly. "Do you favor any government group or race?" and "Would there be a third world war?" Both were answered "No." The officials present then asked to see a spaceship. The commander, still in a trance, told the group to look out the window and they would have proof. They did promptly and a dark saucer-shaped object was seen hovering in the sky "at approximately 1400 hours."

They hurriedly made calls to the Washington radar center to confirm the presence of the object. They were told by the radar operators that they were experiencing a strange type of technical difficulty with their equipment, and radar was blocked for that quadrant of the sky over Washington. During the question and answer exchange the answer to one question indicated that the UFOs acknowledged difficulty in slipping through our radar net undetected. A number of other questions were put to the psychic, including whether Catholics were the chosen people. They were told that they were not. A follow-up contact session was attempted that same day with only limited success. It was indicated by the few answers that the Commander received that "this was not the right time" [emphasis added]. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Elkins, Secrets of the UFOs, p. 34; Robert Emenegger, UFO's, Past, Present and Future, pp. 55-62 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3952 ### Event 15739 (A433222D) **Date:** 7/10/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** NORMA, NJ **Description:** 2 white-glowing ovoids / sharp outlines. 3rd joins. All circle dock / 10 minutes. Going [to] slow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6211 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "28", **HatchDesc:** "NORMA,NJ:2 WHT-GLO OVOIDS/SHARP OUTLINES:3rd JOINS:ALL CCL DOCK/10mins:> SLOW", **LatLong:** "39.494446 -75.088892", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:40 N 75:05:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.494446,-75.088892)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15740 (7ED932CD) **Date:** 7/10/1959 **Description:** At two a.m. two white glowing ovoid objects with sharp outlines were joined by a third over Norma, New Jersey and all three UFOs circled a dock for 10 minutes, then flew away slowly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3983 ### Event 15741 (2A353781) **Date:** 7/11/1959 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** SF TO/FROM HAWAII **Description:** 8 airliners. Huge Brill objects maneuver and turn. Extremely fast. 1 going south. / MJ#255+/ APRO 7'59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6212 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SF>S:/MJ#255+/APRO 7'59", **LatLong:** "28.416668 -144.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "28:25:00 N 144:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.416668,-144.500007)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15742 (B5F05CB7) **Date:** 7/11/1959 **Location:** N Pacific, 800 n.mi. from, HI **Description:** Pilots (Wilson & Moffatt) and crew saw a big bright light followed by 3-4 smaller lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2373 ### Event 15743 (32CF90E4) **Date:** 7/11/1959 **Locations:** Pacific Ocean; Honolulu, Hawaii **Description:** 6:02 a.m. A Pan American Boeing Stratocruiser piloted by Capt. George Wilson flying over the Pacific Ocean about 1,035 miles northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii, encounters a large bright light with 3–4 satellite lights in a line below, behind, and to the left of the main object. It makes a sharp right turn and disappears to the south. Copilot Richard Lorenzen and Flight Engineer Bob Scott also see the UFOs. Another Pan Am flight sees essentially the same phenomenon, as well as an Air Force bomber crew, a Slick Airways plane, and a Canadian Pacific airliner. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 125](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=137&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3328 ### Event 15744 (D6D269E3) **Date:** 7/12/1959 **Location:** RIDGECREST, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6962. Military electrical Tech. Saucer hovers and maneuvers over desert. / r78p184. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6213 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "698", **HatchDesc:** "RIDGECREST,CA:BBK#6962:MIL.ELECTR.TECH:SCR HVRS+MNVRS OVR DESERT:/r78p184", **LatLong:** "35.616668 -117.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:37:00 N 117:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.616668,-117.650006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15745 (9151C7A1) **Date:** 7/12/1959 **Location:** Ridgecrest (near), CA **Description:** Electronics mechanic at China Lake U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station saw three disc-like UFOs which alternately hovered and moved at high speeds over desert to the Southwest. \[NICAP UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2374 ### Event 15746 (B3D83C3C) **Date:** 7/12/1959 **Description:** A military electronic technician named Guerrero saw a saucer-shaped object hover and maneuver over the desert in Ridgecrest, California. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 138 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4001 ### Event 15747 (5A84D4C4) **Date:** 7/13/1959 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** BLENHEIM, NZ **Description:** 2 figure(s) / 9M domed saucer. Hovers / 8M altitude. Green beams. / r3p13+/ MJ#255+/ r174p98. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6214 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "BLENHEIM,NZ:2 FIGs/9M DOMED SCR:HVRS/8M alt:GRN BEAMS:/r3p13+/MJ#255+/r174p98", **LatLong:** "-41.533335 173.916675", **LatLongDMS:** "41:32:00 S 173:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.533335,173.916675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15748 (DC85E0EF) **Date:** 7/13/1959 **Location:** Blenheim, NZ **Description:** Domed disc descended, hovered. (NICAP UFOE, XIV) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2375 ### Event 15749 (B6415136) **Date:** 7/13/1959 **Time:** 0530 **Location:** Blenheim, New Zealand **Description:** Mrs. Moreland saw a diskshaped object as she was milking cows. It was about 10 m diameter, had two intense, green lights and two rows of jets around the rim, emitting orange flames. Inside a glass dome on top were two men dressed in aluminumlike suits. The craft did not land, but took off at great speed with a high-pitched sound. Heat sensation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 124; Challenge 24 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_491 ### Event 15750 (4CFFE0F2) **Date:** 7/13/1959 **Location:** Blenheim, New Zealand **Description:** Disc with dome illuminated area in green light, two beings visible in dome **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Source:** HallUFOEvidence2, **ID:** HallUFOE2_6 ### Event 15751 (A624058A) **Date:** 7/13/1959 **Location:** Blenheim, New Zealand **Description:** 5:30 a.m. Eileen Moreland, a farmwoman in Blenheim, New Zealand, goes to the barn to milk her cows and sees a huge object, about 20–30 feet in diameter, with two intense green lights on its underside descend towards her and hover at rooftop height. It bathes her in green light. Two rows of jets around the middle shoot out orange flames. She can see two men inside, dressed in close-fitting suits of shiny material and opaque helmets. The jets turn on again, the object tilts, and it shoots up vertically at great speed, making a high-pitched sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 25–28; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 23; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-07-13-nzealand-blenheim.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-07-13-nzealand-blenheim.htm) November 2, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3329 ### Event 15752 (791E439C) **Date:** 7/13/1959 **Description:** Walking to her cow shed on her farm in Blenheim, New Zealand at 5:40 a.m. Mrs. Frederick Moreland saw a round object with two intense green lights come down out of the clouds and hover at rooftop level. Around its rim were two counter-rotating rows of jets giving off orange flames and heat. A transparent glass-like cowling covered the top, and through this she could see two men wearing diver's helmets. One of them stood up and leaned forward. Both wore tight-fitting silvery suits. As it departed the UFO made a high-pitched whining noise, and left behind an odor "like pepper." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-11, citing Harold Fulton, APRO Bulletin, September 1959; SATCU, Xenolog, November 1975, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 491 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4030 ### Event 15753 (D9A94980) **Date:** 7/13/1959 **Description:** At midnight in Suchs, Spain a Mr. Domingo watched a 80 cm sphere hover only 15 meters above the ground. It illuminated the countryside "like daylight." The witness panicked and ran when he heard the sound of an explosion. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4031 ### Event 15754 (90797031) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** SUCHS, LERIDA, SPAIN **Description:** 80cm sphere lights countryside like day. Later goes east to/from/between west. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6215 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SUCHS,LERIDA,SPAIN:80cm SPHERE LITES COUNTRYSIDE like DAY:LATER GOES E<>W:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.483335 0.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:00 N 00:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.483335,0.400000)", **State/Prov:** "LRD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15755 (638EF3F2) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SALISBURY, NC **Description:** Rotating ovoid going west. Oscillate/oscillation high-frequency sound. Strong TV Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and outages. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6216 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "227", **HatchDesc:** "SALISBURY,NC:ROTATING OVOID >W:OSC.HI-FREQ SOUND:STRONG TV RFI+OUTAGES:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "35.683335 -80.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:41:00 N 80:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.683335,-80.466671)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15756 (ECFACCE9) **Date:** 7/14/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Night lights / dark silent craft. Going east slow / across high winds. Hovers and onward. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6217 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:2 OBS:NLTS/DRK SLNT CRAFT:>E SLOW/ACRS HIGH WINDS:HVRS+ONWARD", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -106.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 106:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-106.100005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15757 (A0DDFDAF) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Location:** New Delhi, India **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2376 ### Event 15758 (6C79DDB0) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Location:** Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil **Description:** Luminous object followed FAB (Brazilian Air Force) B-26, hovered near airport. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2377 ### Event 15759 (53E71D3E) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Location:** Salisbury, NC **Description:** Television sets blacked out, some lights reported off, as circular UFO observed; loud oscillating high frequency noise reported (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2378 ### Event 15760 (F3DD510C) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Location:** Prince of Wales Island, Australia **Description:** Hunters reported the landing of a red object on the island. Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 123 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_492 ### Event 15761 (3DEEA0D1) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Location:** Salisbury, North Carolina **Description:** 8:22 p.m. TV sets in Salisbury, North Carolina, mysteriously go dead as residents see a flash of light and hear a loud vibrato noise. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 111–113 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3330 ### Event 15762 (32735EB2) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Description:** A group of Aboriginal hunters reported the landing of a red glowing object on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, Queensland, Australia. Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 492, citing Australian Flying Saucer Review, January 1960; Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1962, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4048 ### Event 15763 (4AA05A27) **Date:** 7/14/1959 **Description:** A light followed a Brazilian Air Force B-26 bomber plane for one hour as it flew from Pampulha to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. All the time it was changing colors. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 120; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 256 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4049 ### Event 15764 (3F5A44D1) **Date:** 7/15/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** MT. LAUREL, NJ **Description:** Kids. Silent moon-size glowing-ovoid going south over NJ Turnpike / low altitude. "Pulses". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6218 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "24", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.LAUREL,NJ:KIDS:SLNT MOONSIZE GLO-OVOID >S OVR NJ TURNPIKE/lo alt:"PULSES"", **LatLong:** "39.933335 -74.888892", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:00 N 74:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.933335,-74.888892)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15765 (BBB617A6) **Date:** 7/15/1959 **Description:** On this evening seven children in Mount Laurel, New Jersey witnessed a low level, glowing ovoid UFO fly south over the New Jersey Turnpike. It was silent in flight, the apparent size of the Moon, and gave off "pulses." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4069 ### Event 15766 (10F7AC16) **Date:** 7/16/1959 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** RIO DJ, BRAZIL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Wobbling ovoid stops / apartment building. Wobbles. Away fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6219 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "RIO DJ,BRZL:NMRS OBS:WOBBLING OVOID STOPS/APARTMENT BLDG:WOBBLES:AWAY FAST", **LatLong:** "-22.933334 -43.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:56:00 S 43:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.933334,-43.166669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15767 (EB7AE88B) **Date:** 7/18/1959 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** EAST / OORINDI, AUSTR **Description:** Several observer(s). Flashing "streak" / 15' altitude shoots going quickly north toward(s) Norman River. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MANEY, Charles & HALL, Richard: The CHALLENGE OF UFO'S; NICAP, Washington, DC. 1961 (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6220 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "E/OORINDI,AUSTR:SVRL OBS:FLASHING "STREAK"/15'alt SHOOTS >>N twrd NORMAN Rvr", **LatLong:** "-20.683334 141.116673", **LatLongDMS:** "20:41:00 S 141:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.683334,141.116673)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 15768 (10FCF57D) **Date:** 7/18/1959 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. a flashing light streaked to the north over the Norman River in Corindie, Queensland, Australia. Twenty minutes later a red glowing object landed on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, Queensland. Around 8:00 p.m. a UFO was seen moving over the mountains at Didiwa, Papua New Guinea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5771; Norman Crutwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 35; APRO Bulletin, September 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4165 ### Event 15769 (3596B047) **Date:** 7/19/1959 **Description:** A father and daughter were driving south on Highway 77 to Lincoln, Nebraska. When they got two miles south of Ceresco, Nebraska at around 10:30 p.m. they saw a bright white light hovering in the south-southeastern sky. The light went out, revealing a dark, sixty-foot wide domed disc-shaped object with several one foot wide windows around the rim. The object dropped several small red lights, then made a sharp turn and flew off to the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report dated July 24, 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4196 ### Event 15770 (ABB91BF9) **Date:** 7/20/1959 **Location:** WOOMERA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA **Description:** Many / town and base. Bright white cylinder/cigar-shape going south over test range. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6221 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WOOMERA,S.AUSTRL:MANY/TOWN+BASE:BRITE WHT CGR >S ovr TEST RANGE:NFD/NEWS", **LatLong:** "-31.250001 136.716673", **LatLongDMS:** "31:15:00 S 136:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.250001,136.716673)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15771 (7AC9517E) **Date:** 7/20/1959 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** WEST / OAK, NEBR **Description:** 4 / 2 cars. Round small luminous object follows car going west. Maneuvers. Inches / diameter. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6222 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "525", **HatchDesc:** "W/OAK,NEbr:4/2 CARS:ROUND SML LUMn.OBJ FOLOS CAR >W:MNVRs:INCHES/DIAMETER:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.227780 -98.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:13:40 N 98:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.227780,-98.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15772 (3E956B68) **Date:** 7/20/1959 **Locations:** RAAF Woomera Range Complex; South Australia **Description:** A shuttlecock-shaped UFO is seen over the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South Australia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3331 ### Event 15773 (11A2CA2D) **Date:** 7/20/1959 **Description:** A UFO was seen flying over a mountain in Papua New Guinea at around 6 p.m. At 10:15 p.m. a bright white cigar-shaped object flew south over the Woomera missile test range in South Australia. Many at the military base as well as in the town saw it, and the newspapers carried the report widely. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September-October 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4232 ### Event 15774 (5E648BA8) **Date:** 7/21/1959 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** LIMA, OH **Description:** Woman. Disk going south through clouds. Tilt reveals shape. No further details. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6223 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "LIMA,OH:WOMAN:DISK >S THRU CLOUDS:TILT REVEALS SHAPE:NFD:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "40.733335 -84.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:00 N 84:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.733335,-84.083337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15775 (E4FBC25D) **Date:** 7/21/1959 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ST. ROSE, LA **Description:** 60cm ball going southwest / 30kph. 700M altitude. Light buzz. Changes color(s). 180° turn going northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 341) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6224 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "St.ROSE,LA:60cm BALL > SW/30kph:700M alt:LITE BUZZ:CHANGES CLRS:180° TURN >NE", **LatLong:** "29.950001 -90.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "29:57:00 N 90:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.950001,-90.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15776 (443B267F) **Date:** 7/21/1959 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** BROKEN HILL, AUSTRALIA **Description:** Numerous observer(s) / 5 glowing-objects exit long fireball. Going [to] low single files going [to] horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 209) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6225 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BROKEN HILL,AUSTRL:NMRS OBS/5 GLOW-OBJS EXIT LONG FBL:>LOW SINGLE FILES>HRZN", **LatLong:** "-31.916668 141.583340", **LatLongDMS:** "31:55:00 S 141:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.916668,141.583340)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15777 (083939F0) **Date:** 7/21/1959 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana a 0.6 meter in diameter sphere flew over at 30 km/hour heading south at an altitude of 700 meters. It made a slight buzzing sound. It changed colors, and then made a 180 degree turn traveling back to the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5775, citing Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 41 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4264 ### Event 15778 (24EB7B37) **Date:** 7/22/1959 **Location:** FORTALEZA, BRAZIL **Description:** Air Traffic Controller and several pilots and more/others. Flying disks hover over city. / No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 343) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6226 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FORTALEZA,BRZL:ATC+SVRL PILOTS++:FLYING DISKS HVR OVR CITY:/NFD/news", **LatLong:** "-3.716667 -38.500002", **LatLongDMS:** "03:43:00 S 38:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-3.716667,-38.500002)", **State/Prov:** "CEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15779 (33AE32B4) **Date:** 7/22/1959 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** EAST / MENAPI, PAPUA-NG **Description:** Native. Classic saucer. Luminous dome. Going quickly [to] to sea / low altitude. / r97#035. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 343) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6227 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "E/MENAPI,PAPUA-NG:NATIVE:CLASSIC SCR:LUMn.DOME:>> TO SEA/lo alt:/r97#035", **LatLong:** "-9.750000 149.916674", **LatLongDMS:** "09:45:00 S 149:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.750000,149.916674)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15780 (EDA103EC) **Date:** 7/22/1959 **Description:** At 7:45 p.m. in Porayebayebera, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea the son of a paramount chief sighted a domed disc-shaped object with a dark base and an illuminted dome on the top at a low altitude. It flew out to sea. The witness had been known to the author, Norman Cruttwell, for over eight years. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4296 ### Event 15781 (14F02781) **Date:** 7/23/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** BELLEVUE, WA **Description:** Metallic silver disk / elliptical orbit. No wind. Vanishes instantly. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 341) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6228 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BELLEVUE,WA:MTLC SLVR DISK/ELLIPTICAL ORBIT:NO WIND:vanishes instantly:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "47.600002 -122.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:36:00 N 122:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.600002,-122.200006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15782 (BDCAC251) **Date:** 7/23/1959 **Description:** A silver metallic disc was seen flying in an elliptical orbit in the sky over Bellevue, Washington at noon. There was no wind at the time. It vanished in an instant. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5779; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 41 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4321 ### Event 15783 (45FDF8DE) **Date:** 7/25/1959 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** IRONDEQUOIT, NY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6446. 50' crescent with dome / center. Still then 800mph. Seen / (seen thru) binoculars. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6229 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "117", **HatchDesc:** "IRONDEQUOIT,NY:BBK#6446:50' CRESCENT W DOME/CTR:STILL then 800mph:SEEN/BINOCS", **LatLong:** "43.183335 -77.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:11:00 N 77:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.183335,-77.583337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15784 (3130B3D3) **Date:** 7/25/1959 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** GAIAWANAKI, PNG **Description:** 3 observer(s). Huge saucer / treetop level on edge. Beam lights beach like day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 344) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6230 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GAIAWANAKI,PNG:3 OBS:HUGE SCR/TREETOP LVL ON EDGE:BEAM LITES BEACH LIKE DAY", **LatLong:** "-9.816667 149.700007", **LatLongDMS:** "09:49:00 S 149:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.816667,149.700007)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15785 (A669EE48) **Date:** 7/25/1959 **Location:** Irondequoit, NY **Description:** Thin, crescent moon-shaped object, with a small white dome (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6446) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2379 ### Event 15786 (BCDD3590) **Date:** 7/25/1959 **Time:** 1 PM **Location:** Irondequoit, New York **Description:** Witness: technical illustrator W.D. Neva. One thin, crescent moon-shaped object with a small white dome in the center, flew at tremendous speed for 5-10 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_436 ### Event 15787 (F08014A3) **Date:** 7/25/1959 **Description:** In Gaiawanaki, Papua New Guinea a beam of light shone down on men on the beach, lighting up the area like day. A domed disc came down to a low altitude. It had a dark, concave base, and illuminated dome, and traveled on its side in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Norman Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4378 ### Event 15788 (982C12A0) **Date:** 7/25/1959 **Description:** On this day at about 1:30 p.m. in Irondequoit, New York W.D. Neva, a technical illustrator, saw a thin, crescent-shaped object with a small white dome in the center resembling a gun turret at 1:00 p.m. The object flew at an estimated 800 mph, banked, and disappeared from view behind some trees after 5-10 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 6446; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4379 ### Event 15789 (958758BE) **Date:** 7/26/1959 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** LADAPEYRE, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Huge luminous disk hovers / 30+min. Lenticular cloud? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6231 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "LADAPEYRE,FR:2 OBS:HUGE LUMn.DISK HVRS/30+min:lenticular cloud?", **LatLong:** "46.250002 2.033333", **LatLongDMS:** "46:15:00 N 02:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.250002,2.033333)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15790 (E9BF5724) **Date:** 7/27/1959 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Ohio **Description:** The UFO Advisory Panel meets at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to discuss trends and statistics and recent sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3332 ### Event 15791 (9452CBBF) **Date:** 7/28/1959 **Time:** 14:10 **Location:** CORPUS CHRISTI, TX **Description:** Ray Stanford and more/others. 4 large cigars and disk / 16 mm film. / r2p210+/ r242p91. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6232 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "CORPUS CHRISTI,TX:Ray STANFORD++:4 LRG CGRs+DISK/16mm FILM:/r2p210+/r242p91", **LatLong:** "27.800001 -97.388894", **LatLongDMS:** "27:48:00 N 97:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.800001,-97.388894)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15792 (6F4FD415) **Date:** 7/28/1959 **Location:** Corpus Christi, TX **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2380 ### Event 15793 (F49FE8A7) **Date:** 7/28/1959 **Location:** 2629 Lynch Street, Corpus Christi, Texas **Description:** 2:10 p.m. [Ray Stanford](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html) and a friend simultaneously take 8mm and 16mm film footage of three cigar-shaped objects maneuvering in the sky above his parents’ home at 2629 Lynch Street, Corpus Christi, Texas. A fourth UFO appears about 5 minutes later. At one point a jet aircraft appears to alter its course to fly closer to one of the objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ray Stanford, “[The July 28 Movies,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%207%20no%203-4.pdf)” Saucers 7, no. 3/4 \(Fall/Winter 1959/1960\): 20–23; “[Out of the](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1984\): 5–7; “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 7–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3333 ### Event 15794 (7B5EE3C0) **Date:** 8/1959 **Location:** VNUKOVO AIRPORT, RUSSIA **Description:** 3 disks / RADAR. Planes sent up.. see nothing! / LDLN#204. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 284) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6233 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "VNUKOVO AIRPORT,RUSS:3 DISKS/RDR:PLANES SENT UP..see nothing!:/LDLN#204", **LatLong:** "55.633336 37.416668", **LatLongDMS:** "55:38:00 N 37:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.633336,37.416668)", **State/Prov:** "MOS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15795 (D62328B5) **Date:** 8/1959 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** SKIATOOK, OK **Description:** 2 cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Saucer over creek. Hose sucks water. Water comes up. / r79p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 359) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6234 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "204", **HatchDesc:** "SKIATOOK,OK:2 CARS EME:SCR OVR CREEK:HOSE SUCKS WATER:WATER DOMES UP:/r79p16", **LatLong:** "36.366668 -96.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:22:00 N 96:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.366668,-96.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15796 (95420AE4) **Date:** 8/1959 **Location:** Brisbane car park **Description:** Stan Seers, president of the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau \[now UFO Research Queensland\], is contacted by a man who requests a meeting with him in a Brisbane car park and offers him important information on UFOs. At the meeting he finds out that the man is an agent of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, who indicates he knows quite a bit about the group and its officers. By suggesting that ASIO could offer them significant information, the agent subsequently infiltrates the group and causes dissension and confusion. Some QFSRB members are pacifists, apparently, and are seeking to contact Russian scientists about the UFO phenomenon through the Soviet cultural organization VOKS. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 164–166](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/164/mode/2up); Kremlin 137– 144 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3334 ### Event 15797 (AC00BD70) **Date:** 8/1959 **Location:** Skiatook, Oklahoma **Description:** 2:00 p.m. A son and his father are driving near Skiatook, Oklahoma. Upon nearing a bridge, the car engine dies. Another car is stopped on the other side of the bridge with its hood up. They see a metallic, domed disc with a flexible hose hovering less than a foot above the water of a creek. They watch it for 5 minutes, then the hose draws in and the disk rises to 10 feet, disturbing the water’s surface into a foot-deep trench. It flies upward and the cars start again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 59–61; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 16–17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3335 ### Event 15798 (46C45883) **Date:** 8/1959 **Location:** New Matamoras, Ohio **Description:** Kathleen O’Rourke is asleep with her two children in her bedroom in New Matamoras, Ohio, when her son yells her awake. There are a dozen globes of yellow light circling about a foot above his bed. They are about 3 inches in diameter. Then a second group enters the room, passing through the screen. They split, half joining the first and half sailing over Kathleen. They all then move to her bed and circle above her. Not one of the lights goes to her daughter’s bed. She presses the light switch, and the lights turn into straight-edged streaks of light and disappear. There are no holes in the screens. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3336 ### Event 15799 (332B50BB) **Date:** 8/2/1959 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2382 ### Event 15800 (8BE748B5) **Date:** 8/2/1959 **Description:** A petroleum worker measuring levels in storage tanks at 1:00 a.m. in Cullen, Chile had a bright light fly over his head and follow him, which caused him to run away, leaving the tank hatchways open. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type I Reports, case 902, citing Pablo Petrowitsch **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4592 ### Event 15801 (EB7ABAF3) **Date:** 8/3/1959 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** SILVER SPRING, MD **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 silver disk-ovoids repeat staircase maneuvers. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 348) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6235 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER SPRING,MD:SVRL OBS:2 SLVR DISK-OVOIDS REPEAT STAIRCASE MNVRS:↑↑", **LatLong:** "38.983335 -77.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:59:00 N 77:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.983335,-77.016670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15802 (8B9737DE) **Date:** 8/3/1959 **Location:** Silver Springs, MD **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2383 ### Event 15803 (49D20E9F) **Date:** 8/4/1959 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** GLOVERSVILLE, NY **Description:** Several observer(s). Big boat rests / empty field. Green-brown colored tarp covers. Going up [to] and away! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6236 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "243", **HatchDesc:** "GLOVERSVILLE,NY:SVRL OBS:BIG BOAT RESTS/EMPTY FLD:GRN-BRN TARP COVERS:↑+AWAY!", **LatLong:** "43.050002 -74.344448", **LatLongDMS:** "43:03:00 N 74:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.050002,-74.344448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15804 (15A2144E) **Date:** 8/4/1959 **Description:** At 7:00 p.m. a white spherical object was sighted hovering over Wakwapu, Papua New Guinea by Mr. R. Smith. It had coherent light beams. There were green rays of light emanating from the base of the object, one on either side at an angle of 15 degrees from the vertical, and one aimed straight up vertically. All beams receded into the UFO in a coherent fashion like retracting appendages. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4644 ### Event 15805 (7E9FFDBE) **Date:** 8/9/1959 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SOMBRERO, TDF, CHILE **Description:** 3 / car O / O / fuel. Upright egg with probes and beams circles. / r8#493. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: UFO's OVER THE AMERICAS; Signet Books, NY 1968. 243p. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6237 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "SOMBRERO,TDF,CHILE:3/CAR O/O/FUEL:UPRIGHT EGG W/PROBES+BEAMS CIRCLES:/r8#493", **LatLong:** "-52.733336 -69.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "52:44:00 S 69:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-52.733336,-69.333337)", **State/Prov:** "TDF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15806 (B7812B11) **Date:** 8/9/1959 **Time:** 1954 **Location:** Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego **Description:** Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses had to stop when they ran out of fuel; they observed a light swinging like a pendulum, coming close to the ground. It appared as a large, vertical, egg-shaped object which made a "whooshing" sound. Closest approach was 120 m. Estimated height: 2 m; width, 1.5 m. When Uribe aimed a rifle at the object, it went out of sight within seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. IlI 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_493 ### Event 15807 (8B1562E7) **Date:** 8/9/1959 **Location:** Cerro Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego, Chile **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Petroleum engineer Armando Uribe is returning home from Cerro Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, with his wife and an 11-year-old housemaid when their pickup runs out of fuel. As they are waiting for another vehicle, the girl spots a bright blue light around 7:54 p.m. that is swinging in the air with a pendulum-like motion. As it approaches, they see it is an object like a metallic egg standing on end with two shafts of white light projecting from the bottom. A rose-colored, rotating device is on top. The object makes a quick movement when Uribe gets out of the truck, but then moves closer. Uribe points a rifle at it, and it quickly recedes and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 14–16; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 53–54 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3337 ### Event 15808 (F3625FB9) **Date:** 8/9/1959 **Description:** Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses had to stop when they ran out of fuel at Sombrero, Magallanes, Chile. At 7:54 p.m. they observed a light swinging in the sky like a pendulum, and coming closer to the ground. It appeared to be a large, vertical, ovoid object that made a "whooshing" sound. Its closest approach was 120 meters. They estimated its dimensions at two meters in height and 1.5 meters in width. When Uribe aimed his rifle at the object it went out of sight within seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 493; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4791 ### Event 15809 (8BA62D7C) **Date:** 8/10/1959 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** BANIARA, PNG **Description:** Sphere maneuvers. Brief beams going up. Small disk paces maneuvers. 2nd sphere shows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 354) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6238 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BANIARA,PNG:SPHERE MNVRS:BRIEF BEAMS ↑:SML DISK PACES MNVRS:2nd SPHERE SHOWS", **LatLong:** "-9.766667 149.850007", **LatLongDMS:** "09:46:00 S 149:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.766667,149.850007)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15810 (4651764B) **Date:** 8/10/1959 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Pilot saw large star-like light cross 53° of sky (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 6462) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2384 ### Event 15811 (78FCA5A4) **Date:** 8/10/1959 **Time:** 1:28 AM **Location:** Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada **Description:** Witness: Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Flt. Lt. M.S. Mowat, on ground. One large star-like light crossed 53 degree of sky in 25 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_437 ### Event 15812 (B52E2EE4) **Date:** 8/10/1959 **Description:** Two multi-colored spheres (of many dazzling colors) and a bronze disc flew over the shore of Baniara, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea at 3:50 a.m. local time. About twelve hours later that same night, at 1:28 a.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, a 30-year-old RCAF pilot saw a bright light fly from horizon to overhead at Goose Bay Air Force Base in Labrador, Canada. It crossed 53 degrees of sky in 25 minutes, then mysteriously vanished. Project Blue Book lists this case as an "unknown." At 7:30 p.m. a disc flew over Wayne, Pennsylvania. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds, FSR Special Issue No. 4, p. 35; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6462; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 34; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), pp. 79, 156; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; (3) Walter N. Webb, case investigation files, case no. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4818 ### Event 15813 (89C45534) **Date:** 8/12/1959 **Location:** BRION, SP **Description:** Ovoid lands. Goes going up [to] and going north toward(s) Santiago. Cobas event / 8 August / 1700h = hoax / Flying Saucer Review (FSR.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 494) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6239 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRION,SP:OVOID LANDS:GOES ↑+>N twrd SANTIAGO::COBAS EVENT/8AUG/1700h=HOAX/FSR", **LatLong:** "42.850002 -8.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:00 N 08:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.850002,-8.666667)", **State/Prov:** "LAC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15814 (149DF9A0) **Date:** 8/12/1959 **Time:** 08:10 **Location:** MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** Girl. 1M saucer / low altitude. Dome hops going up and down [to] and away. Wires extend and point going west. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 355) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6240 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "MEMPHIS,TN:GIRL:1M SCR/lo alt:DOME HOPS ↑+↓+away:WIRES EXTEND+POINT >W:see ref", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -90.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 90:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-90.000004)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15815 (BA2CDD5C) **Date:** 8/12/1959 **Location:** Brion, Spain **Description:** A 60-year-old farmer saw an eggshaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture near a river. Then it took off vertically and flew away toward Santiago. Traces. Engine noise, not similar to helicopter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_494 ### Event 15816 (BE18BF78) **Date:** 8/12/1959 **Description:** A 60-year-old farmer in Brion, La Coruna province, Spain saw an egg-shaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture near a river. It then took off vertically and flew away toward Santiago. It left behind traces on the ground, and it made an engine noise that was not similar to helicopter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 494, citing Aime Michel **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4938 ### Event 15817 (86ABA6D9) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / CORONA, NM **Description:** Pilot. 3 saucers. Compass spins. Warned / sickness / USAF. / MJ#186+/ r24v3#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard & WEINSTEIN,Dominique: Preliminary Study of 64 Pilot Sightings involving EME on Aircraft Systems NARCAP TR-3 2001 (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6241 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "2200", **HatchDesc:** "SE/CORONA,NM:PILOT:3 SCRS:COMPASS SPINS:WARNED/SICKNESS/USAF:/MJ#186+/r24v3#1", **LatLong:** "33.833335 -105.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 N 105:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.833335,-105.050005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15818 (C159ACAF) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** FREEPORT, TX **Description:** Cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Bright UFO flies over into woods. 2+4 observer(s). No description. / r8+/ r79. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6242 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "150", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "FREEPORT,TX:CARS EME:BRITE UFO FLIES OVR INTO WOODS:2+4 OBS:NO DESCR:/r8+/r79", **LatLong:** "28.950001 -95.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "28:57:00 N 95:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.950001,-95.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15819 (75D2F6E3) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Location:** Freeport, TX **Description:** UFO crossed road ahead of car at low altitude. Motor and headlights failed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2385 ### Event 15820 (B36DBA7D) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Location:** Corona (Bet. Roswell and), NM **Description:** Fmr Navy PBY pilot enc EME and elliptical object (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [590813](http://www.nicap.org/590813roswell%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2386 ### Event 15821 (B27DD122) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Time:** 2130 **Location:** Freeport, Texas **Description:** A bright, flying object passed low over a car, whose engine stalled, and landed in a wooded area. Six witnesses in two separate groups observed the object, and the police were called. The dense underbrush prevented investigation of the site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** APRO Sep., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_495 ### Event 15822 (2E998E63) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Locations:** Hobbs; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Roswell; Corona; Kirtland AFB **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Pilot Jack H. Goldsberry, flying a Cessna 170 from Hobbs to Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 8,000 feet, notices halfway between Roswell and Corona, that his Magnesyn electric compass has suddenly moved around a slow 360° rotation in about 4–5 seconds. His other standard magnetic compass is spinning wildly. About this time, he sees three small, gray, and slightly fuzzy elliptical objects in close echelon formation passing in front from left to right and around his plane at a distance about 450–600 feet at a speed of about 200 mph. The Magnesyn compass follows the objects’ position as they circle the plane, and after one full circle they disappear to the rear. Then both compasses settle back to normal. The controller at Albuquerque cancels his flight plan and orders him to land at Kirtland AFB, where he is interrogated by a USAF major, who tells him that he might become ill from the experience. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Former Navy PBY Pilot Encounter / EME](http://www.nicap.org/590813roswell%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 278; Swords 287; “[AF Secretly Warns Pilot of Danger,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/025%20MAR-APR%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 \(March/April 1965\): 5; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 127–128 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3338 ### Event 15823 (39B6D0DF) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Locations:** Highway 332; Freeport, Texas **Description:** Around 9:45 p.m. Orville Shanks is driving with three passengers on Highway 332 north of Freeport, Texas, when they see a bright object with two satellite lights approach at low altitude. The car motor stalls and the headlights go out. The two lights appear to land, the main object follows them, continually changing colors and varying the intensity of its light. The motor and lights come back on when the UFOs cross the road, and Shanks drives on. About midnight they return, and the object is still there. Shanks gets out and approaches, but the UFO starts glowing brightly and making a noise, and they drive off again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Object Lands in Texas, U.S.,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 55–60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3339 ### Event 15824 (B2DF43E3) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Description:** Two women at a lake near Ogden Dunes, Indiana saw a glowing domed disc at six o'clock in the morning. The object was 20 meters in diameter, and hovered and maneuvered 15 meters over the lake for two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gary (IN) Post-Tribune, August 14, 1959; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 29 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4963 ### Event 15825 (1CB96B5A) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Description:** At around 4:00 p.m. a pilot flying a Cessna 170 between Hobbs and Albuquerque, New Mexico encountered three round, gray UFOs that circled his aircraft just southeast of Corona, New Mexico and caused his compass to spin. Compass deviation. The pilot reported the incident and was later interrogated by the U.S. Air Force. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 5; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4964 ### Event 15826 (4B19C20A) **Date:** 8/13/1959 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. six woman travelling by car through a rural area near Freeport, Texas saw a bright UFO pass low in front of their car, causing the car's engine and headlights to die. The UFO landed in a wooded area. Dense underbrush prevented approaching landing site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 277 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4965 ### Event 15827 (7B94C018) **Date:** 8/14/1959 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** WEST / PUUWAAWAA, HI **Description:** Silver ovoid rises / beach. Going [to] to sea then going east behind mountains. Extremely fast acceleration. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 362) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6243 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "W/PUUWAAWAA,HI:SLVR OVOID RISES/BEACH:> TO SEA THEN >E BHND MTNS:XFAST ACCEL", **LatLong:** "19.800001 -155.883341", **LatLongDMS:** "19:48:00 N 155:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.800001,-155.883341)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15828 (3FA90B85) **Date:** 8/14/1959 **Location:** NE of Hawaii, HI **Description:** Military pilot saw a very bright white light change color to red as it moved (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2388 ### Event 15829 (C93BCFAF) **Date:** 8/16/1959 **Location:** Macon and Forsyth, GA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2389 ### Event 15830 (DDE36D5C) **Date:** 8/17/1959 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** UBERLANDIA, BRZ **Description:** All CCTS out / electric main and substations as UFO overflies each. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6244 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "688", **HatchDesc:** "UBERLANDIA,BRZ:ALL CCTS OUT/ELECTRIC MAIN+SUBSTATIONS AS UFO OVERFLIES EACH", **LatLong:** "-18.916668 -48.300002", **LatLongDMS:** "18:55:00 S 48:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-18.916668,-48.300002)", **State/Prov:** "Minas Gerais", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15831 (1B1CA7B3) **Date:** 8/17/1959 **Location:** Uberlandia, Brazil **Description:** Automatic keys at power station turned off as round UFO passed over following trunk line. After UFO left, keys turned back on. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2390 ### Event 15832 (2C8B9416) **Date:** 8/17/1959 **Location:** Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil **Description:** The automatic keys at the power station in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suddenly disconnect power to all four trunk lines. A technician at a substation 45 miles away reports that all the keys disconnected as a UFO passes overhead, traveling toward the main station along the power lines. The chief engineer resets all the keys but they turn off again. Outside he sees a bright object approaching at high speed. As soon as it passes, the entire system returns to normal. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 179–180](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n179/mode/2up); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 143–145; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 152–153; McCampbell, Ufology, 1976, pp. 66–67; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 66–67 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3340 ### Event 15833 (A1C18514) **Date:** 8/18/1959 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** PONTIAC, MI **Description:** Many / drive-in theater. 2 yellow disks hover. Streak overhead and maneuver / 20 minutes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 368) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6245 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "292", **HatchDesc:** "PONTIAC,MI:MANY/DRIVE-IN THEATER:2 YLW DISKS HVR:STREAK OVHD+MNVR/20mins", **LatLong:** "42.650002 -83.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:39:00 N 83:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.650002,-83.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15834 (98270543) **Date:** 8/19/1959 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** 80 MI EAST / WASH, DC **Description:** Unidentified RADAR blip larger / 747. 3000-8000mph. 7 UFO's in all. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6246 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "80MI E/WASH,DC:UID RDR BLIP LARGER/747:3000-8000mph:7 UFOS IN ALL:see ref", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -74.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 74:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-74.000004)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15835 (7F6FDAFC) **Date:** 8/19/1959 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** 6MI WITH MITCHELL AIR FORCE BASE, LI, NY **Description:** Vertical luminous red UFO flies straight going quickly southeast. 1 observer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 206) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6247 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "6mi W/MITCHELL AFB,LI,NY:VERTICAL LUM RED UFO FLIES STRAIGHT >>SE:1 OBS", **LatLong:** "40.727780 -73.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:43:40 N 73:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.727780,-73.683337)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15836 (89C1DE70) **Date:** 8/19/1959 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** TRENTON, NJ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Vertical cylinder/cigar-shape makes 8-10 90° turns. Joined by saucers. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 206) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6248 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "TRENTON,NJ:BBK#UNK:VERTICAL CGR MAKES 8-10 90°TURNS:JOINED BY SCRS:>>NE", **LatLong:** "40.233335 -74.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:00 N 74:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.233335,-74.750004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15837 (D4C339A2) **Date:** 8/19/1959 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ELBURN, IL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. United Airlines (UAL) FLT333 sees 3-4 headlights / sky. Go from WNW-going NNW. Observer(s) = Moore. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 207) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6249 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "ELBURN,IL:BBK#UNK:UAL FLT333 SEES 3-4 HEADLITES/SKY:GO FROM WNW->NNW:OBS=MOORE", **LatLong:** "41.894446 -88.472226", **LatLongDMS:** "41:53:40 N 88:28:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.894446,-88.472226)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15838 (CBDF8C12) **Date:** 8/19/1959 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** SHELTON, CT **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Work crew. Bright star spirals going northeast / 3 minute(s). / r3p207+/ r201p103. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 367) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6250 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "SHELTON,CT:BBK#UNK:WORK CREW:BRITE STAR SPIRALS >NE/3min:/r3p207+/r201p103", **LatLong:** "41.316669 -73.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:19:00 N 73:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.316669,-73.094448)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15839 (DB8E6041) **Date:** 8/19/1959 **Location:** 80 miles E of U.S. \[?\]., Unk **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2391 ### Event 15840 (45FCFEA7) **Date:** 8/19/1959 **Location:** Elburn, IL **Description:** Airline pilot saw a string of 3-4 white lights seemingly part of one object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2392 ### Event 15841 (5E9C1A66) **Date:** 8/20/1959 **Description:** The witness and three young girls were sleeping in a station wagon at Lake Bonita, New Mexico. At around three a.m. they were awake to see a bright fireball descend and land on the side of the nearby mountain. Several figures carrying what looked like bright flashlights emerged from the object and approached their location, shining beams of light inside their car and illuminating the area like daylight. The figures then left the area and the witnesses ran from their vehicle and crawled to the relative safety of a nearby cabin. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 3604, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5174 ### Event 15842 (9798F4EE) **Date:** 8/23/1959 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. a student watched a bright, pulsating ellipsoid object hover in Midland, Michigan. It made a whirring sound, was sharply outlined, and about the size of a T-33 plane. It changed color from white to bluish-white when it shot off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John M. Windover, UFO Research Center case files, report dated June 22, 1966 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5252 ### Event 15843 (E0FB1A22) **Date:** 8/24/1959 **Location:** EMMITSBURG, MD **Description:** Planet-like object hovers. Shoots straight up. No further details. / r78p184. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 138) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6251 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "EMMITSBURG,MD:PLANET-LIKE OBJ HOVERS:SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP:NFD:/r78p184", **LatLong:** "39.705557 -77.327781", **LatLongDMS:** "39:42:20 N 77:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.705557,-77.327781)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15844 (82E4D24A) **Date:** 8/24/1959 **Location:** Emmitsburg (near), MD **Description:** Planet-like UFO hovered, took off straight up. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2393 ### Event 15845 (BDF728CB) **Date:** 8/25/1959 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** WERDOHL-EVEKING, GER **Description:** 30M saucer lands / tripod. 2 rows / bright openings. Observer(s) faints. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 496) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6252 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "WERDOHL-EVEKING,GER:30M SCR LANDS/TRIPOD:2 ROWS/BRITE OPENINGS:OBS FAINTS", **LatLong:** "51.250002 7.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:15:00 N 07:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.250002,7.750000)", **State/Prov:** "NRW", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15846 (C97D586A) **Date:** 8/25/1959 **Time:** 1100 **Location:** Werdehl-Eveking, Germany **Description:** Near Hagen, Lutz Holtmann went toward a bright object in a forest, and fainted when he got close to it. When he regained consciousness, he saw it take off silently and vertically. It was round, had a tripod landing gear, two rows of bright openings, and was about 30 m in diameter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Nachrichten Oct., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_496 ### Event 15847 (AE3C9EC5) **Date:** 8/25/1959 **Location:** Eveking, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany **Description:** 11:00 a.m. At Eveking, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Lutz Holtman walks towards a bright object in a forest and faints after he gets close to it. When he regains consciousness, he sees the UFO take off silently and vertically. The object is circular, has a tripod landing gear and two rows of bright openings, and is about 90 feet in diameter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vallée, Magonia, [p. 277](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/276/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3341 ### Event 15848 (B25CFD0E) **Date:** 8/25/1959 **Description:** At around eleven o'clock in the morning near Hagen, Werdehl-Eveking, Germany Lutz Holtmann began walking toward a bright object he had seen in the forest, but he fainted when he got close to it. When he regained consciousness he saw it silently take off in a vertical ascent. He described the UFO as round with tripod landing gear and two rows of bright openings. It was about 30 meters in diameter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 496;Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, both citing UFO Nachrichten, October 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5314 ### Event 15849 (EB1FA6CA) **Date:** 8/27/1959 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, BC **Description:** 2 ships Captains. White pillar / light going down. Black saucer shoots / bottom/underside. / MJ#256. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 370) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6253 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CHARLOTTE ISLs,BC:2 SHIPS CAPTns:WHT PILLAR/LITE↓:BLK SCR SHOOTS/BTM:/MJ#256", **LatLong:** "53.833336 -132.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "53:50:00 N 132:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.833336,-132.000006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15850 (EA6FCFBD) **Date:** 8/27/1959 **Description:** Two ship captains sailing in the Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia saw a pillar of white light shoot up into the sky. A black disc-shaped object was ejected from the bottom. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5396 ### Event 15851 (83ED7017) **Date:** 8/28/1959 **Location:** Charlotte Island, CAN **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2394 ### Event 15852 (57284F96) **Date:** 8/31/1959 **Location:** OFF HAMMERFEST, NORW **Description:** Captain. Silent 3M diameter cylinder/cylindrical object hovers over bow / steamship Aida. / APRO 9'59. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 370) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6254 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "off HAMMERFEST,NORW:CAPTAIN:SLNT 3M diam.CYL HVRS ovr BOW/SS AIDA:/APRO 9'59", **LatLong:** "70.750003 23.666668", **LatLongDMS:** "70:45:00 N 23:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.750003,23.666668)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15853 (79D89FCA) **Date:** 8/31/1959 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NORTH / BARSTOW, CA **Description:** 2 cops. 4 huge brilliant disks follow jet. 90° turns and away extremely fast. / r143#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 717) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6255 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "660", **HatchDesc:** "N/BARSTOW,CA:2 COPS:4 HUGE BRILL.DISKS folo JET:90°TURNS+AWAY XFAST:/r143#3", **LatLong:** "34.950002 -117.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:57:00 N 117:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.950002,-117.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15854 (87BA5B2B) **Date:** 8/31/1959 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. two police officers on a pistol range in Barstow, California saw four huge brilliant disc-shaped objects following a jet aircraft. One of the UFOs makes a 90 degree turn, then flies away in a separate direction. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, September 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5523 ### Event 15855 (1342C690) **Date:** 9/1959 **Location:** EURAMO, AUSTR **Description:** Farmer. Large Brill 10M cone over sugar cane. Lights house nearby. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 822) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6256 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "EURAMO,AUSTR:FARMER:LRG BRILL 10M CONE OVR SUGAR CANE:LITES HOUSE NEARBY", **LatLong:** "-17.883334 145.850007", **LatLongDMS:** "17:53:00 S 145:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-17.883334,145.850007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15856 (2CBEE6FF) **Date:** 9/1959 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BLAYDON, ENG **Description:** 1 / train. Domed circular object hovers / power station/depot/facility. Away fast. Thin cylinder/cylindrical object nearby. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6257 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "BLAYDON,ENG:1/TRAIN:DOMED CIRC.OBJ HVRS/POWER Stn:AWAY FAST:THIN CYL NEARBY", **LatLong:** "54.966669 -1.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "54:58:00 N 01:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.966669,-1.700000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15857 (BE55402D) **Date:** 9/1959 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / WHEELING, WV **Description:** 2+observer(s). 20' silver saucer lands / Ogilbay Park. Photographs lost. Going east smooth and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The WEST VIRGINIA UFO NEWSLETTER. Bob Teets editor. Headline Books Inc. PO Box 52; Terra Alta, WV 26764 Bimonthly. Terra Alta at AOL.com 304/789-5951 (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6258 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "NE/WHEELING,WV:2+OBS:20'SLVR SCR LANDS/OGILBAY PARK:FOTOS LOST:>E SMOOTH+SLNT", **LatLong:** "40.116669 -80.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:00 N 80:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.116669,-80.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15858 (B95376B2) **Date:** 9/1959 **Location:** Westover AFB, MA **Description:** B-52 On Flight Line Tracks Seven Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [5909xx](http://www.nicap.org/5909XXwestover%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2395 ### Event 15859 (0C8BA3CF) **Date:** 9/1959 **Locations:** Area 51, Nevada; Burbank, California **Description:** Employees of Lockheed’s Skunk Works are the first to return to Area 51 in Nevada to develop an aircraft that will replace the U-2. The Archangel-12 \(A-12\) spy plane will be designed to reduce its radar cross section by 50%. Following tests with wooden models at Burbank, California, proof-of-concept tests are to be carried out at Area 51 with full-scale mockups elevated onto 50-foot pylons. The CIA program to develop the follow-on aircraft to the U-2 is code-named Project Oxcart. EG&G agrees to move its radar test facility here. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [p.](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/130/mode/2up) [131](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/130/mode/2up); Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3342 ### Event 15860 (75FB71E2) **Date:** 9/1959 **Description:** [Waveney Girvan](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/ian-waveney-girvan-as-a-fortean) takes over the editorship of Flying Saucer Review from [Brinsley Le Poer Trench](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Trench Resigns,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CSep-Oct%2CV%205%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1959\): 2; Clark III 498 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3343 ### Event 15861 (75CF2365) **Date:** 9/1959 **Locations:** Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts **Description:** Harvard University psychologist [Henry Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FMurray) begins what are widely considered unethical experiments, in which he uses 22 Harvard undergraduates as research subjects in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among other purposes, experiments focus on measuring people’s reactions under extreme stress. The unwitting undergraduates are submitted to what Murray calls “vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive” attacks. Specific, tailored assaults on their egos, cherished ideas, and beliefs are used to cause high levels of stress and distress. The subjects then repeatedly view recorded footage of their reactions to this verbal abuse. Among them is 17-year-old [Ted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKaczynski) [Kaczynski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKaczynski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKaczynski) a mathematician who goes on to become the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist targeting academics and technologists for 18 years. [Alston Chase](http://www.identitytheory.com/alston-chase/)’s book Harvard and the Unabomber connects Kaczynski’s abusive experiences under Murray to his later criminal career. His participation in these experiments and his service in the OSS have led many to believe that Murray was a part of the MK Ultra program. His experiments are not so much for observing stress reactions, but for a study of brainwashing and enhanced interrogation techniques. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Henry Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FMurray)”; Alston Chase, [Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist](https://archive.org/details/harvardunabomber00chas), Norton, 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3344 ### Event 15862 (B64C3BED) **Date:** 9/3/1959 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** BALLSTON LAKE, NY **Description:** Several observer(s). Large glowing-saucer maneuver away and back / 15 minutes. Flame-glow / rim. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 372) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6259 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "BALLSTON LAKE,NY:SVRL OBS:LRG GLO-SCR MNVR AWAY+BACK/15mins:FLAME-GLOW/RIM", **LatLong:** "42.916669 -73.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:55:00 N 73:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.916669,-73.866670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15863 (8F301FB1) **Date:** 9/4/1959 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** NEAR PETALUMA, CA **Description:** 3+/ car. Dull silver cylinder/cylindrical object going down / 45° angle. Hides / clouds. Watches traffic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 372) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6260 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "nr PETALUMA,CA:3+/CAR:DULL SLVR CYL ↓/45°ANGLE:HIDES/CLOUDS:WATCHES TRAFFIC", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -122.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 122:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-122.633339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15864 (6256689C) **Date:** 9/5/1959 **Location:** Naha, Okinawa **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2396 ### Event 15865 (BF405F5F) **Date:** 9/7/1959 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** WALLINGFORD, KY **Description:** Grey ovoid lights area blue. Blue beam going down [to] as object going quickly east. Burnt circle / ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 377) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6261 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "258", **HatchDesc:** "WALLINGFORD,KY:GRY OVOID LITES AREA BLUE:BLU BEAM↓ AS OBJ >>E:BURNT CCL/GND", **LatLong:** "38.405557 -83.611115", **LatLongDMS:** "38:24:20 N 83:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.405557,-83.611115)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15866 (B5F6EA85) **Date:** 9/7/1959 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** NORTH / LEXINGTON, KY **Description:** Blue Book. Ex Air Force pilot and more. 5 glowing-ovoids dive and, maneuver east and west. Sharp turns. Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 374) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6262 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "290", **HatchDesc:** "N/LEXINGTON,KY:BBK:EX AF PILOT+:5 GLO-OVOIDS DIVE+,MVR E+W:SHARP TURNS:XFAST", **LatLong:** "38.200002 -84.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:12:00 N 84:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.200002,-84.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15867 (3D2A9883) **Date:** 9/7/1959 **Location:** Wallingford, KY **Description:** 15-ft burned mark left by object on takeoff (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2397 ### Event 15868 (E32FF107) **Date:** 9/7/1959 **Location:** Wallingford, Kentucky **Description:** A bluish, disk-shaped object was observed at ground level by a mail carrier. It suddenly went away horizonally, leaving a stained ring on the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** NICAP Nov., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_497 ### Event 15869 (1B4F918A) **Date:** 9/7/1959 **Location:** Wallingford, Kentucky **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Rural mail carrier [Walter E. Ogden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116830199/walter-e-ogden) sees a glowing, pumpkin-shaped object about 40 feet above the trees in his pasture at Wallingford, Kentucky. After a minute, a bluish blaze of fire comes from the bottom and it rises about 500 feet, leaving a circular smoke ring. It then zooms away horizontally. Six days later, a 12-foot depressed ring of scorched earth is discovered on the spot, along with a kerosene smell. Air Force investigators show up and declare it a hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 74–75, 77–80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3345 ### Event 15870 (A2B8F775) **Date:** 9/7/1959 **Description:** At 2:30 a.m. while driving along highway 559 in Wallingford, Kentucky a postman saw an elliptical shape hovering just over the ground. It rose vertically emitting a blast of flame, and then sped away horizontally. There was a 30 cm wide stained ring on the ground enclosing a 4-meter diameter circle. At 9:05 p.m. north of Lexington, Kentucky five glowing ovoid objects dived and maneuvered toward the east and west, making extremely fast, sharp turns. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1960, p. 5; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 497 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5717 ### Event 15871 (3B0E13F5) **Date:** 9/9/1959 **Locations:** Vandenberg Space Force Base; Lompoc, California; Francis E. Warren AFB; Cheyenne, Wyoming **Description:** The first Atlas-D ICBM is successfully launched at Vandenberg AFB \[now Vandenberg Space Force Base\] near Lompoc, California, and Gen. [Thomas S. Power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FS.%5FPower)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FS.%5FPower) CINCSAC, declares the first ICBM to be operational. Shortly afterward, the first operational Atlas-D ICBM squadron goes on alert at Francis E. Warren AFB, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is equipped with six SM-65D Atlas missiles based in above-ground launchers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Vandenberg Space Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg%5FSpace%5FForce%5FBase\#SM-65%5FAtlas)”; Wikipedia, “[SM-65 Atlas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65%5FAtlas\#Atlas-D%5Fdeployment)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3346 ### Event 15872 (AB3BD523) **Date:** 9/10/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** WEST / TILLER, OR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 silver globes hover. Shoot going quickly west as airliner passes. Going quickly [to] back again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 391) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6263 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "W/TILLER,OR:2 OBS:3 SLVR GLOBES HVR:SHOOT >>W as AIRLINER PASSES:>>BACK AGAIN", **LatLong:** "42.933335 -123.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "42:56:00 N 123:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.933335,-123.000006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15873 (3A3578CA) **Date:** 9/10/1959 **Location:** Camp Kinser, Okinawa **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2398 ### Event 15874 (ED4486CD) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** GILLS ROCK, WI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6506. Large fuzzy saucer going down / farm. Loud jet sound. Going up [to] and away. / r70p3-66. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6264 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "GILLS ROCK,WI:BBK#6506:LRG FUZZY SCR ↓/FARM:LOUD JET SOUND:↑+AWAY:/r70p3-66", **LatLong:** "45.288891 -87.022226", **LatLongDMS:** "45:17:20 N 87:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.288891,-87.022226)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15875 (5C5A71FC) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** GRISSOM AIR FORCE BASE WITH BUNKER HILL, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6507. Air Traffic Controllers and pilots. Jets can't catch pear-shape. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6265 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "243", **HatchDesc:** "GRISSOM AFB W/BUNKER HILL,IN:BBK#6507:ATCs+PILOTS:JETS CANT CATCH PEAR-SHAPE", **LatLong:** "40.644446 -86.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:38:40 N 86:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.644446,-86.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15876 (FDE45CC0) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Location:** Gills Rock, WI **Description:** Round yellow light, with 8 blue lights in it, 5 larger red lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6506) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2399 ### Event 15877 (70EA070C) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Location:** Bunker Hill AFB, IN **Description:** Nearly motionless white,cream and metallic pear-shaped obj (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 6507) **Reference:** NICAP: [590913](http://www.nicap.org/590913bunkerhill%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2400 ### Event 15878 (ACB33750) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Time:** 1:05 AM **Location:** Gills Rock, Wisconsin **Description:** Witness: R.H. Daubner. One round yellow light, with eight blue lights within it, and then five larger red lights, flew very fast vertically while making a pulsating jet noise. Sighting lasted 10 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_438 ### Event 15879 (BCEA0CEB) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Time:** 4 PM **Location:** Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana **Description:** Witnesses: at least two control tower operators and the pilot of a Mooney private airplane. One pear-shaped object, colored white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. Object showed little movement during 3 hours. Attempted intercept by USAF T-33 jet trainer failed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_439 ### Event 15880 (DEC47ADE) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Locations:** Kirtland AFB; Albuquerque; New Mexico **Description:** 9:58 p.m. A radar target is tracked at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, moving at 2,300 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet and heading northwest. A total of four radar stations track the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 103 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3347 ### Event 15881 (00157695) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Description:** At 1:05 a.m. Mr. R. H. Daubner of Gills Rock, Wisconsin observed a yellow ring of lights, with eight blue lights within it, and then five larger brilliant red lights. The object rose very fast vertically from a field three kilometers away, while making a pulsating jet noise. The tremendous pulsating noise hurt the ears of the witness. The encounter lasted ten minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6506; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5910 ### Event 15882 (9A8CFC8F) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Description:** Scott Mitchell was in the hallway of his home near Gills Rock, Wisconsin at around two o'clock in the afternoon when he saw a being with dark gray, wrinkled skin standing at the opposite end. The being communicated in a telepathic voice that went directly to the witness head, "Do not be afraid, we will not harm you." Frightened, he tried to run away but was paralyzed in his tracks, and time seemed to slow down around him. A greenish haze surrounded him and the being glided towards him. The witness then lost consciousness. His next memory was of waking up in the house in a back bedroom. The witness subsequently experienced further close encounters. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing UFOs and Aliens Among Us **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5911 ### Event 15883 (80D44473) **Date:** 9/13/1959 **Description:** At four p.m. at least two control tower operators at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana plus the pilot of a Mooney private aircraft sighted a pear-shaped object, colored white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. The UFO showed little movement during the three hour sighting. An intercept was attempted by a USAF T-33 jet trainer, but it failed to find the UFO in time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6507; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5912 ### Event 15884 (5351B19F) **Date:** 9/14/1959 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** Air Force Regulation 200-2 is revised, with additional emphasis on reducing the number of unknowns. This version devotes five full paragraphs to public release of information, which is now restricted to the Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Information Services at the Pentagon. Local base commanders can release information only if an object is positively identified. Air Force personnel are not to contact private individuals on UFO cases or discuss their operations unless ordered to. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[USAF UFO Program,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/590928-staff-study.pdf)” September 28, 1959; Clark III 920–921 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3348 ### Event 15885 (79FB06BB) **Date:** 9/14/1959 **Description:** The CIA emphasizes antiradar study, aerodynamic structural tests, and engineering designs, selecting the Lockheed A-12 over rival Convair’s Kingfish. [Edward Lovick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182829326/edward-lovick)’s suggestion for adding cesium to the A-12’s fuel in order to ionize the exhaust and mask it from radar is also persuasive. Lockheed has also added twin canted fins instead of a single right-angle one. Project Oxcart is officially established. The A-12 design, a combination of their A-7 and A-11 submissions, emphasizes low radar cross section, extremely high altitude, and high-speed performance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3349 ### Event 15886 (004B7768) **Date:** 9/15/1959 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** TRENTON, OH **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Disk hovers / 2 hours. Lights / rim darken for each passing plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 380) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6266 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "199", **HatchDesc:** "TRENTON,OH:NMRS OBS:DISK HVRS/2 hrs:LITES/RIM DARKEN for EACH PASSING PLANE", **LatLong:** "39.483335 -84.455560", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:00 N 84:27:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.483335,-84.455560)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15887 (787A11DB) **Date:** 9/15/1959? **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** MONTIGNY-EN-OSTREVENT, FR **Description:** 3M hat-saucer with rectangular windows / low altitude. Beam searches going down. Going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6267 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MONTIGNY-en-OSTREVENT,FR:3M HAT-SCR W/RECT.WINDOWS/LO alt:BEAM SEARCHES ↓:>SE", **LatLong:** "50.383336 3.183333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:23:00 N 03:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.383336,3.183333)", **State/Prov:** "Nord", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15888 (81AB2F0A) **Date:** 9/15/1959 **Location:** Kadena AFB, Okinawa **Description:** Radar Target Illuminated By Rotating Beacon (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [590915](http://www.nicap.org/590915okinawadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2401 ### Event 15889 (92EED59A) **Date:** 9/17/1959 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** ROCHESTER, MICH **Description:** 1 observer. Small silver disk circles / clouds. Red glow / underside. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 380) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6268 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "ROCHESTER,MICH:1 OBS:SML SLVR DISK CCLS/CLOUDS:RED GLOW/UNDERSIDE:NFD/NEWS", **LatLong:** "42.666669 -83.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:40:00 N 83:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.666669,-83.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15890 (7DBB2EFE) **Date:** 9/17/1959 **Location:** Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, California **Description:** The first powered X-15 flight is piloted by [Albert Scott Crossfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FScott%5FCrossfield) out of the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[North American X-15](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FX-15)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3350 ### Event 15891 (9A636716) **Date:** 9/20/1959 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** JAKARTA, INDONS **Description:** Air Force patrol. Disk hovers. Sudden glare. Shoots going quickly northeast silently. / Salutin? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 381) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6269 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indonesia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "JAKARTA,INDONS:AF PATROL:DISK HVRS:SUDDEN GLARE:SHOOTS >>NE SILENTLY:/Salutin?", **LatLong:** "-6.166667 106.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "06:10:00 S 106:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-6.166667,106.800005)", **State/Prov:** "JVA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15892 (7960DBC4) **Date:** 9/21/1959 **Location:** ALGES AND CRUZ QUEBRADA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Several observer(s) can't agree / shape of strange objects / sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6270 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ALGES+CRUZ QUEBRADA,PORTUGAL:SVRL OBS CAN'T AGREE/SHAPE of STRANGE OBJs/SKY", **LatLong:** "38.700002 -9.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:42:00 N 09:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.700002,-9.216667)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15893 (575731CA) **Date:** 9/21/1959 **Description:** The Air Technical Intelligence Center is renamed the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NASIC, “[National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage](https://www.nasic.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/611728/national-air-and-space-intelligence-center-heritage/)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3351 ### Event 15894 (344E2487) **Date:** 9/24/1959 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** EAST / REDMOND, OR **Description:** Cops and RADAR. 60M disk hovers. Going east very fast. 4 jets chase. / MJ#257+/ APRO 1'60. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6271 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "920", **HatchDesc:** "E/REDMOND,OR:COPS+RDR:60M DISK HVRS:>E VFAST:4 JETS CHASE:/MJ#257+/APRO 1'60", **LatLong:** "44.233335 -121.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "44:14:00 N 121:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.233335,-121.200006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15895 (8F36C9FC) **Date:** 9/24/1959 **Location:** Redmond, OR **Description:** Huge Disc Sparks Scramble (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [590924](http://nicap.org/590924redmond%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2402 ### Event 15896 (452B486A) **Date:** 9/24/1959 **Locations:** Redmond, Oregon; Prineville Highway; Seattle Air Route Control Center in Washington; Hamilton AFB [now closed], Novato, California; Portland; Seattle Center; USAF Air Defense Center radar site at Klamath Falls, Oregon **Description:** About 4:55 a.m. In Redmond, Oregon, police officer Robert Dickerson sees a bright white light rapidly descending north of the airport. It stops abruptly and hovers about 200 feet above ground for several minutes, lighting up the juniper trees below. Dickerson drives toward it on the Prineville Highway, then turns toward the airport. The object turns reddish-orange and moves rapidly to about 10 miles northeast of the airport to hover again. Dickerson arrives at the airport to report his sighting in person to the FAA Air Traffic Communication Station. Flight Service Specialist [Laverne Wertz](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189049553/laverne-john-wertz)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189049553/laverne-john-wertz) Dickerson, and others view the object through binoculars as flat and round with occasional flames extending from its edge. The FAA reports the UFO to Seattle Air Route Control Center in Washington at 5:10 a.m., which in turn reports it to Hamilton AFB \[now closed\], Novato, California, which scrambles six F-102 jets from Portland to intercept the object. FAA station observers see the object hover and emit long tongues of red, yellow, and green light that extend and retract at irregular intervals. As the jets approach the object from the southeast, it turns into a mushroom shape, emits red and yellow flames from the lower side, and ascends rapidly, disappearing above scattered clouds at about 14,000 feet. The object’s departure forces one F-102 to swerve to avoid collision. Another nearly loses control from the UFO’s turbulent wake. The UFO is tracked on one F-102 gunsight radar, but the jets cannot intercept. The UFO reappears about 20 miles south of Redmond at about 25,000 feet. The Seattle Center reports at 6:20 a.m. radar contact with the object about 25 miles south. The USAF Air Defense Center radar site at Klamath Falls, Oregon, tracks a large target abruptly changing course and vectors B-47 and F-89 aircraft to identify it. Redmond FAA controllers lose sight of the object. Seattle FAA reports at 7:11 a.m. that Klamath Falls radar still is tracking it at 25 miles south of Redmond but varies in altitude from 6,000 to 52,000 feet. The Air Force claims the UFOs are caused by false radar returns, with excitable witnesses imagining the glow. But locals notice the FAA is checking for abnormal radioactivity, so the Air Force changes its explanation to weather balloon. And NICAP obtains FAA logs showing all the details. The Air Force again changes its explanation to Venus. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Huge Disc Sparks Scramble](http://www.nicap.org/590924redmond%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 44](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021) [48](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=60&skin=2021), [113–114](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=125&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=125&skin=2021) [138](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 33–36](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/32/mode/2up); WFAA, Dallas, Texas, “[Archive 1959: Fighter Jets Sent to Intercept Redmond UFO](https://www.wfaa.com/video/news/special-reports/archive-video/redmond-oregon-ufo-fighter-jets/283-2189790),” May 12, 2016; Patrick Gross, “[The Redmond UFO](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/redmond59.htm) [Incident, USA, September 24, 1959](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/redmond59.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3352 ### Event 15897 (081361DD) **Date:** 9/25/1959 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** WNW / TRES ARROYOS, ARG **Description:** 5 / car. 2 brilliant spheres hover / 3km altitude. 1 lands and quickly going up. 2nd darkens. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6272 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "WNW/TRES ARROYOS,ARG:5/CAR:2 BRILL.SPHERES HVR/3km alt:1 LANDS+↑↑:2nd DARKENS", **LatLong:** "-38.266668 -60.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "38:16:00 S 60:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.266668,-60.550003)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15898 (46B88FC0) **Date:** 9/25/1959 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** LEROY, OH **Description:** 4 observer(s). 6M grey disk with lights spins counterclockwise / hover and clockwise rising. Lands / field. Quickly going up. / r143. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6273 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "LEROY,OH:4 OBS:6M GRY DISK W/LITES SPINS CCW/HVR+CW RISING:LANDS/FLD:↑↑:/r143", **LatLong:** "41.016669 -81.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:00 N 81:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.016669,-81.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15899 (DC7BD6FD) **Date:** 9/25/1959 **Description:** Two brilliant spheres hovered at three kilometers altitude northwest of Tres Arroyos, Argentina at 7:45 p.m. One of the object landed, while the second object darkened until it could no longer be seen. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, November 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6312 ### Event 15900 (91AAD614) **Date:** 9/25/1959 **Description:** At 11:20 p.m. a gray disc-shaped objects with lights, estimated to be six meters in diamete, hovered while spinning counterclockwise near Akron, Ohio. It appeared to spin in a clockwise direction when rising in altitude. It eventually landed in a field. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, November 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6313 ### Event 15901 (8C15678F) **Date:** 9/26/1959 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** RUTHVEN, IA **Description:** Cops and more/others. Brilliant ovoid swoops and 180° turns. 20M altitude. Maneuvers. Bright and dim. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 388) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6274 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "431", **HatchDesc:** "RUTHVEN,IA:COPS++:BRILL.OVOID SWOOPS+180°TURNS:20M alt:MNVRS:BRITE+DIM:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "43.127780 -94.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "43:07:40 N 94:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.127780,-94.900005)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15902 (8843A5FB) **Date:** 9/26/1959 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** 150MI EAST / GOOSE BAY, NFLD **Description:** PAA flight-114. Odd object going quickly north / high altitude / 30 second(s). Type unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6275 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "150mi E/GOOSE BAY,NFLD:PAA FLT-114:ODD OBJ >>N/HI ALT/30sec:TYPE UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "53.333336 -58.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "53:20:00 N 58:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.333336,-58.000003)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15903 (0D9CD416) **Date:** 9/26/1959 **Description:** On this night a Russian military aircraft reportedly spotted from the air the crash site of a large disc-shaped craft not far from Moscow, Russia. The object appeared to be smoldering and it was shattered with one large piece broken off. The largest section of the craft was transported by helicopter to a nearby airfield at Aktyubinsk. It was badly damaged by some kind of explosion and fire, and the inside was completely charred. Noticeable radiation was detected at the crash site, where among the remaining wreakage was discovered the fragments of the body of a dwarf humanoid, perhaps 80 cm tall. Fragments of the craft were transported to different secret scientific research locations and the body was allegedly taken to an underground bunker in Moscow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Anton "Cade" Belousov, Soviet X Files List **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6346 ### Event 15904 (041F0FD2) **Date:** 9/28/1959 **Location:** Detroit, MI **Description:** Spherical-shaped white to blue in color object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [590928](http://www.nicap.org/590928detroit%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2404 ### Event 15905 (C12EB092) **Date:** 9/28/1959 **Description:** ATIC issues a staff study by Col. [Richard R. Shoop](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197896549/richard-raymond-shoop) reassessing its UFO investigating role. It recommends that the UFO program be transferred to the Air Research and Development Command, which has better scientific capabilities, and then implement an effective public relations campaign with the goal of “the eventual elimination of the program as a special project.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[USAF UFO Program,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/590928-staff-study.pdf)” September 28, 1959; “[Saucer](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html) [Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., [p.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/150/mode/2up) [151](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/150/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3353 ### Event 15906 (A39DE046) **Date:** 9/29/1959 **Location:** Buffalo, Texas **Description:** Maj. R.O. Braswell, while flying an C-47 at 6500 ft. alt., spotted an UFO. “It was colored like a large red fire and looked like an atomic cloud”, he stated. At about 5 degrees above my plane it appeared massive and was at about 13000 ft. alt. The UFO appeared to be about 1000 ft. thick (top to bottom). Billie Guyton of Centerville, TX, also observed the UFO and said that he observed a smaller UFO emerge from it. Another ground observer, Jackie J. Cox, schoolteacher, saw a “bright light in the sky that spread to cover the entire sky.” W.S. Webb of Buffalo, N.Y., glanced out his bedroom window and saw a ball of fire shooting through the sky, after which he heard a noise, as if something was falling from the sky. The next day Braniff Airways Flight 542, carrying 28 passengers and 6 crew members, was found shredded in a thousand pieces. Subsequent inquiry found that there had been no fire or explosion aboard the jet before or after the crash and that scorch marks found on the exterior windows, fuselage and parted tail section showed signs of having been exposed to tremendous exterior heat. Also the force causing the plane to come down did not come from within the plane. Radar Operator, E.H. Tindale, later told investigators that he had plotted an UFO twice on the night Flight 542 crashed. Both plots of the UFO were in the area where the wreckage of the airliner was found. The UFO was stationary both times it was tracked. **Type:** mid-air collision **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_590 **See also:** 4/1/59 **See also:** 5/61 ### Event 15907 (7CB9A5A8) **Date:** 9/29/1959 **Location:** Texas **Description:** Maj. R. O. Braswell, flying an Air Force C-47 at 6,500 feet over Texas, sees a “large red fire” that looks like a mushroom cloud. It is 5° above his plane, with its base at 12,000–15,000 feet and its top at 16,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 160–161](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/160/mode/2up?q=Braswell) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3354 ### Event 15908 (2AF42A68) **Date:** 9/29/1959 **Description:** The first attempt to hover a tethered Avrocar is made. After the vehicle becomes airborne, an uncontrollable roll and pitch-coupled oscillation starts that forces each of the three wheels into the ground in turn. The pilot, W. D. “Spud” Potocki, immediately shuts down all engines. Changes are made to the stability system to provide more control authority, while new tethers are investigated to improve the ability to control the problem. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3355 ### Event 15909 (375CFF0B) **Date:** 9/29/1959 **Description:** An electrical power outage occurred In Mariannelund, Sweden at 6:55 p.m. Going outside during the power failure, Mr. Gideon Johansson and his son saw a brilliant white light hovering over a nearby building. The object descended, breaking through the top of a maple tree, until it was 18 inches above the street and only ten feet from Mr. Johansson. It was a domed, oval-shaped machine 12 feet long and 8 feet high, and light blue in color. In the front of the object was a large window surrounded by rivets. Inside, brilliantly illuminated by a white light, he could see two small, seated individuals. They had very high crowned heads, big eyes, small mouths, and pointed chins. Each had what looked like an earphone on one ear. They wore white uniforms with broad black belts crossed over their shoulders and chests. One of them loosened his belt to work on something below the window level. After two minutes the craft floated along the street for 25 meters then disappeared in a flash, with a gust of air. A glassy deposit was found on the power line a kilometer away. Mr. Johansson suffered ill effects to his health and the maple tree eventually died. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-12, citing K. Gosta Rehn, APRO, and Anders Liljegren, UFO Sweden **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6419 ### Event 15910 (664C5EBC) **Date:** 9/30/1959 **Location:** Poznań, Poland **Description:** Night. During a training flight with a student over Poznań, Poland, a pilot named Leszczyński sees two large circles of light with another pair some 12 miles away. He makes a close approach, but one of the objects shoots off while the other grows dimmer. After a short while, the dark object moves away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 63 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3356 ### Event 15911 (29FC4BAA) **Date:** 10/1959 **Location:** EARTH ORBIT **Description:** NASA getting signals / mystery satellite. Can't decode. Not US / Russian. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 255) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6276 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Earth Orbit or seen from space stations/capsules", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "EARTH ORBIT:NASA GETTING SIGNALS/MYSTERY SATELLITE:CANT DECODE:NOT US/RUSSIAN", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "SAT", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15912 (88ADBCB9) **Date:** 10/1959 **Description:** NICAP continues collecting statements in preparation for potential congressional hearings. It gets statements from USAF pilot and UFO witness Lt. Col. [Richard T. Headrick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21731388/richard-throop-headrick)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21731388/richard-throop-headrick) Sgt. James H. Sawyer, and Sgt. Oliver Dean. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 252–254; UFOEv, [p. 25](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=37&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3357 ### Event 15913 (11FEF804) **Date:** 10/1959 **Location:** Núcleo Bandeirante region in Brasília, Federal District, Brazil **Description:** 10:00 a.m. Fr. Raimundo Nascimento Teixeira, a professor at Don Bosco College, is walking in the Núcleo Bandeirante region in Brasília, Federal District, Brazil, when he sees a crowd watching a strange object moving and stopping in the blue sky. He sees a student of his with a box camera, and he takes six photos of what he calls a flying saucer. A few days later, Teixeira meets with another witness, Israel Pinheiro, president of the New Building Company, who takes the negatives of his three best photos to forward to the Brazilian Navy for analysis. A few months later, the Navy returns different photos and offers no technical report. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 197; Roberto Affonso Beck, “[Um Fenômeno Desafiador,](https://doczz.com.br/doc/754518/um-fen%C3%B4meno-desafiador)” September 2005, pp. 35–36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3358 ### Event 15914 (DC355ABB) **Date:** 10/1/1959 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** EVANSVILLE, IN **Description:** 2 teens. 15M thin silver cylinder/cylindrical object hovers level / 100M altitude. Lights / rear. Quickly going up [to] fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 401) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6277 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "117", **HatchDesc:** "EVANSVILLE,IN:2 TEENS:15M THIN SLVR CYL HVRS LEVEL/100M alt:LITES/REAR:↑↑ FAST", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -87.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 87:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-87.533338)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15915 (75F6D67C) **Date:** 10/1/1959 **Location:** Telephone Ridge, OR **Description:** Bright light approach hover about 30 mins, then disappear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6534) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2405 ### Event 15916 (398E3CC7) **Date:** 10/1/1959 **Location:** Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 9:20 a.m. A radar target moving at 719 mph on a northwest course is tracked at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At 10:29 a.m., another radar target is detected moving at 1,000 mph to the northwest. Its altitude is 41,000 feet. Two F-89J Scorpion fighters are scrambled to intercept it but they can see nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 103–104 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3359 ### Event 15917 (70758298) **Date:** 10/2/1959 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** SEATTLE, WA **Description:** 1211. McChord RADAR tracks 5+erratic blips. Round objects visually. / r37p145. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 402) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6278 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "SEATTLE,WA:1211:McCHORD RDR TRACKS 5+ ERRATIC BLIPS:RND OBJs VISUALLY:/r37p145", **LatLong:** "47.616669 -122.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:37:00 N 122:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.616669,-122.300006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15918 (710E57C6) **Date:** 10/2/1959 **Location:** Seattle, WA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2406 ### Event 15919 (8663E5A7) **Date:** 10/2/1959 **Location:** Glenora, Canada **Description:** Approximate date. Miss G. Wilson, 14, was out riding a horse when a luminous object dived toward her, and she rushed home in fear. Her father came out and saw the object, which he described as orange and making a "painful" sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 125 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_498 ### Event 15920 (14F70F81) **Date:** 10/2/1959 **Location:** McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] near Tacoma, Washington **Description:** 12:20 a.m. For three hours, a Hercules radar site \(\#13\) at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] near Tacoma, Washington, tracks a total of five objects that usually appear in pairs. The radar returns are said to be “weak.” Visually, at least one soundless, round. “quarter sized,” blue-white light is seen in the sky. ARTC reports no air traffic in the area of the radar site during the time of contact. The first object on radar is seen at 10° elevation. The last object seen on radar was at 20° elevation. The visual object is at 10° degrees elevation. When last observed, the visual object is 20° elevation. Flight patterns are erratic. Range changes from 12,000 feet to 24,000 feet, and azimuth from 190° to 170°. Objects seem to fade from the scope and visual contact when finally lost. Visual contact is disrupted by intermittent fog. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Hercules Site Tracks Objects for Three Hours](http://www.nicap.org/591002seattle%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 145–148](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/144/mode/2up); Swords 287 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3360 ### Event 15921 (CB40799C) **Date:** 10/3/1959 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** 240 KM NORTH / AZORES **Description:** Navy crew. Very large fireball paces USS chambers / 10 kts / 1 hr. 150M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 403) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6279 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "240 km N/AZORES:NAVY CREW:VLRG FBL PACES USS CHAMBERS/10 kts/1 hr:150M alt", **LatLong:** "41.500002 -27.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "41:30:00 N 27:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.500002,-27.000001)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15922 (0C8E1D3B) **Date:** 10/4/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** EAST / DUNCAN, BC **Description:** 11+horse. Orange disk going down. Painful humming. Windows / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#5+v6#1+/ r2p190+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 390) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6280 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "E/DUNCAN,BC:11+HORSE:ORG.DISK↓:PAINFUL HUM:WINDOWS/FSR v16#5+v6#1+/r2p190+/r8", **LatLong:** "48.783336 -123.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "48:47:00 N 123:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.783336,-123.666673)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15923 (DBD4BD4F) **Date:** 10/4/1959 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** QUEZON CITY, PI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6538. 2 military observer(s). Saucer changes color(s). Flew south-L / 15 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6281 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Philippines", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "QUEZON CITY,PI:BBK#6538:2 MIL OBS:SCR CHANGES CLRS:FLEW S-L/15min:NFD", **LatLong:** "14.666667 121.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "14:40:00 N 121:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.666667,121.033339)", **State/Prov:** "QUE", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15924 (FAB29E5F) **Date:** 10/4/1959 **Location:** Quezon, Philippines **Description:** Large round or oval object, changing from red to red orange (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6538) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2407 ### Event 15925 (E6967E64) **Date:** 10/4/1959 **Time:** 9:25 PM **Location:** Quezon, Phillipine Islands **Description:** Witnesses: USN Lt. C.H. Pogson, CPO K.J. Moore. One large round or oval object, changing from red to red-orange, flew straight and level for 15 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_441 ### Event 15926 (A5F56B76) **Date:** 10/5/1959 **Description:** Admiral Hyman Rickover's submarine the SSN Sea Dragon detected an unidentified submerged object outside Portsmouth, New Hampshire harbor on this day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 994 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6574 ### Event 15927 (4FA54A16) **Date:** 10/6/1959 **Location:** NEAR FORREST CITY, ARK **Description:** Air Traffic Controllers and more. ANG-T33 chases glowing-object. Too fast for photographs. / r242p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6282 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "84", **HatchDesc:** "nr FORREST CITY,ARK:ATCs+:ANG-T33 CHASES GLOW-OBJ:TOO FAST FOR FOTOS:/r242p37", **LatLong:** "35.005557 -90.788893", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:20 N 90:47:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.005557,-90.788893)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15928 (9B730327) **Date:** 10/6/1959 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LINCOLN, NE **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6543. 2 military observer(s). Round white-yellow night light. Abrupt turns. Very fast. / r143#4p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6283 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "340", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LINCOLN,NE:BBK#6543:2 MIL OBS:RND WHT-YEL NLT:ABRUPT TURNS:VFAST:/r143#4p7", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -96.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 96:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-96.633338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15929 (C05FBCF4) **Date:** 10/6/1959 **Location:** Lincoln, NE **Description:** Round, white-yellow light make several abrupt turns at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6543) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2408 ### Event 15930 (ACCCA8FD) **Date:** 10/6/1959 **Time:** 8:15 PM **Location:** Lincoln, Nebraska **Description:** Witnesses: Lt. Col. L. Liggett (Selective Service) and wife. One round, white-yellow light made several abrupt turns and flew very fast for 2 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_442 ### Event 15931 (A4C46932) **Date:** 10/6/1959 **Description:** At 8:15 p.m. U.S. Army Lt. Colonel L. Liggett and two members of his family sighted a round yellowish-white nocturnal light southeast of Lincoln, Nebraska that made several abrupt turns in the sky at very fast speeds for two minutes. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6543; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6599 ### Event 15932 (37CE92E8) **Date:** 10/6/1959 **Description:** On this night an Air National Guard T-33 aircraft with a pilot and co-pilot aboard chased a glowing UFO over Forrest City, Arkansas. It flew too fast to get any photos. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 256 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6600 ### Event 15933 (ECC1C563) **Date:** 10/7/1959 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** EASTERN AIRLINES FLIGHT 541 FM WDC **Description:** Crew and 1. Cylinder/cigar-shape paces airliner going southwest / 10 minutes. Lit portholes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 405) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6284 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "EAL Flt.541 fm WDC:CREW+1:CGR PACES AIRLINER >SW/10 mins:LIT PORTHOLES:", **LatLong:** "37.000002 -79.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 79:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,-79.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15934 (27BF29A8) **Date:** 10/7/1959 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** FAIRLIE, NZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Large white dome shaped mass going quickly west fast. Lost over hills. / local (as a local wave) news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 406) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6285 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FAIRLIE,NZ:SVRL OBS:LRG WHT DOME SHAPED MASS >>W FAST:lost ovr hills:/lcl news", **LatLong:** "-44.100002 170.800008", **LatLongDMS:** "44:06:00 S 170:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-44.100002,170.800008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15935 (DE8DB41E) **Date:** 10/7/1959 **Location:** Forest City, AR **Description:** Kentucky Air National Guard pilot chased glowing object. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2409 ### Event 15936 (266F1EF2) **Date:** 10/7/1959 **Description:** Eastern Airlines flight 541, flying over Virginia at 3:10 a.m., was paced by a cigar-shaped object for ten minutes. The craft had illuminated portholes. At approximately the same time (8:00 p.m. New Zealand time) a large white, domed shaped mass flew quickly toward the west over Fairlie, New Zealand, and was gone from sight behind some hills. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 5835 & 5836 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6629 ### Event 15937 (8B742691) **Date:** 10/8/1959 **Locations:** Mobile, Alabama; Moon **Description:** Night. Two amateur astronomers in Mobile, Alabama, observe an unknown object traverse the Moon’s disk from west to east directly over the crater Copernicus. They watch the fast-moving shape “every night the weather permitted for a period of 33 days.” They write to Project Moonwatch about the observations, but they reply that no other lunar observers have seen the phenomenon, so it must be closer to the Mobile observers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3361 ### Event 15938 (91D120F5) **Date:** 10/12/1959 **Location:** Washington, GA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2410 ### Event 15939 (E288ED40) **Date:** 10/12/1959 **Locations:** Washington; Sharon; Crawfordville, Georgia; Robins AFB, Georgia **Description:** 1:00 p.m. Multiple witnesses at Washington, Sharon, and Crawfordville, Georgia, watch “brown or black footballs” traveling southeast to west, followed by angel hair covering a vast area. The substance consists of “threads from 10ʹ to 50ʹ long connected at ¾ʺ intervals by minute particles resembling snowflakes.” The material falls for about 2 hours. Five samples are collected and sent to the Chemicals and Materials Laboratory at Robins AFB, Georgia. No unusual elements are discovered except for high amounts of silver in one and some silver in three others. The conjecture is that “cloud seeding with a silver salt could have caused the phenomenon.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 103–104 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3362 ### Event 15940 (89E1008D) **Date:** 10/13/1959 **Description:** In his syndicated column, [Joseph Alsop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FAlsop) goes so far as to describe “classified intelligence” as placing the Soviet missile count as high as 1,500 by 1963, and the US will have only 130 at that time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joseph Alsop, “[True](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94633531/) [Missile Gap Picture Belies Pentagon Response,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94633531/)” Eugene \(Oreg.\) Register-Guard, October 13, 1959, p. 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3363 ### Event 15941 (426BC3A6) **Date:** 10/15/1959 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** MONTEVIDEO, URG **Description:** Red fireball going quickly south / high altitude. Short irregular tail. Stops. Turns. Going [to] into clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 409) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6286 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEVIDEO,URG:RED FBL >>S/hi alt:SHORT IRREG.TAIL:STOPS:TURNS:> INTO CLOUDS:", **LatLong:** "-34.833335 -56.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "34:50:00 S 56:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.833335,-56.166669)", **State/Prov:** "MNT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 15942 (2828AABC) **Date:** 10/15/1959 **Location:** Terre Haute, IN **Description:** Ground/Air Visuals Over City Stir Air Force (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [591015](http://nicap.org/591015terrehaute%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2411 ### Event 15943 (ACE3DD5E) **Date:** 10/16/1959 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** RESISTENCIA, ARG **Description:** Airliner chases grey ovoid. 4 small objects exit. Saucer going quickly south. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v6#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6287 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "RESISTENCIA,ARG:AIRLINER CHASES GRY OVOID:4 SML OBJs EXIT:SCR >>S:/FSR v6#4", **LatLong:** "-27.450001 -58.983336", **LatLongDMS:** "27:27:00 S 58:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.450001,-58.983336)", **State/Prov:** "CRR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15944 (CCEC5BD8) **Date:** 10/16/1959 **Description:** A worker was alone at a local water plant in El Cobre, Algeciras province, Spain at three a.m. when suddenly all electricity and lights at the plant were shut off. He went outside to see what had caused the outage and felt a strange electrical sensation in the air. He then saw a hovering luminous object about 200 meters away that was very close to the ground. It was shaped like a half egg on top of a plate, and it emitted brilliant orange, green and purple lights. Next to the object stood two tall human-like figures wearing shiny silvery-orange outfits. One of the beings bent down under the object and appeared to look inside. All the time the witness was not able to move a muscle, holding a flashlight in his hand. Somehow he was finally able to turn the flashlight on and when he did so both beings re-entered the object, which then ascended slowly, emitting a loud buzzing sound and increasing in luminosity. Ground traces were found at the site. The witness nearly suffered a nervous breakdown afterwards. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 94, citing Vicenter-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6894 ### Event 15945 (18622B38) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** COLOMBIAN NAVY SHIP **Description:** Small luminous/glowing circular object / S. sky. Dark spots / sides. No further details / report to Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6288 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Colombia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "COLOMBIAN NAVY SHIP:SML LUMn CIRCLR OBJ/S.SKY:DRK SPOTS/SIDES:NFD/rpt to BBK", **LatLong:** "10.133334 -75.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "10:08:00 N 75:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.133334,-75.833337)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15946 (D13CA5D4) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** NEAR POQUOSON, VA **Description:** Teen shoots at 4' black disk with silver ring / 80' altitude. Clank and gone. / MJ#258. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 413) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6289 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr POQUOSON,VA:TEEN SHOOTS at 4'BLK DISK W/SLVR RING/80'alt:CLANK+GONE:/MJ#258", **LatLong:** "37.122224 -76.344448", **LatLongDMS:** "37:07:20 N 76:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.122224,-76.344448)", **RelAlt:** "24", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15947 (7D0A941A) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** PLAINVILLE, KS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6563. USAF pilot. Bright yellow night light buzzes T33. Dims and gone. / r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6290 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "665", **HatchDesc:** "PLAINVILLE,KS:BBK#6563:USAF PILOT:BRITE YEL.NLT BUZZES T33:DIMS+GONE:/r242", **LatLong:** "39.233335 -99.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:14:00 N 99:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.233335,-99.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15948 (99AB673C) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Location:** Langley AFB (N of), VA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2412 ### Event 15949 (6408F8D4) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Location:** Plainville, KS **Description:** Bright yellowish light on collision course with the T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 6563) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2413 ### Event 15950 (D3D548A1) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Time:** 9:15 PM **Location:** 3rd or 4th week. Telephone Ridge, Oregon **Description:** Witness: department store manager C.A. Cissman. One bright light approached, hovered about 30 minutes, and then was up and gone in 2 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_440 ### Event 15951 (E5CECDE2) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Time:** 9:25 PM **Location:** Plainville Kansas **Description:** Witness: Capt. F.A. Henney, engineering instructor at USAF Academy, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One bright yellowish light came head-on at the T-33, the pilot avoided it and the light dimmed. Sighting lasted 30 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_443 ### Event 15952 (22AE6560) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Description:** At 9:25 p.m. Captain F. A. Henney, an engineering instructor at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado was flying a T-33 jet trainer over Plainville, Kansas at 9:25 p.m. when a bright yellow light came directly head-on at him. The T-33 pilot avoided it and the light then dimmed. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6563; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 28 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6978 ### Event 15953 (62EC1787) **Date:** 10/19/1959 **Description:** Two teenagers were in Poquoson, Virginia at 6:15 in the evening when they saw a four foot wide black disc with a silver ring around it, hovering at eighty feet altitude and making a whirring noise. One of them took a shot at it with a rifle, and they heard a clank suggesting that the bullet hit a solid object, then the UFO disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, November 1961, p.27; C. W. Fitch, APRO Bulletin, May 1963, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6979 ### Event 15954 (8151DE26) **Date:** 10/20/1959 **Location:** SOUTH SALVADOR / JUJUY, ARG **Description:** Pulsating ovoid hovers / northeast sky. Too bright to watch. Back 21 October. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6291 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1201", **HatchDesc:** "S.SALVADOR/JUJUY,ARG:PULSATING OVOID HVRS/NE SKY:too brite to watch:BACK 21OCT", **LatLong:** "-24.166668 -65.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "24:10:00 S 65:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-24.166668,-65.266670)", **State/Prov:** "Juhuy", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15955 (BB803956) **Date:** 10/20/1959 **Location:** KEY WEST, FL **Description:** 2 Navy men. 2 star-like night lights meet and speed away. No further details. / r78p184. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6292 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KEY WEST,FL:2 NAVY MEN:2 STARLIKE NLTS MEET+SPEED AWAY:NFD:/r78p184", **LatLong:** "24.566668 -81.783337", **LatLongDMS:** "24:34:00 N 81:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.566668,-81.783337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15956 (A5203A0A) **Date:** 10/20/1959 **Location:** Key West, FL **Description:** Navy enlisted men watched two UFOs rendezvous, speed away. \[NICAP UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2414 ### Event 15957 (BCC038E0) **Date:** 10/21/1959 **Location:** Warsaw, NY **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2415 ### Event 15958 (3ED6F7DA) **Date:** 10/22/1959 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** CUMBERLAND, MD **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer going down [to] 50' over road. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Shoots going up / clouds. Car OK. / r79p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 423) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6293 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "CUMBERLAND,MD:3 OBS:SCR ↓ 50' OVR ROAD:CAR EMES:SHOOTS↑/CLOUDS:CAR OK:/r79p17", **LatLong:** "39.650002 -78.761115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:39:00 N 78:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.650002,-78.761115)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15959 (AE75970E) **Date:** 10/22/1959 **End date:** 10/23/1959 **Location:** Loring AFB (near), ME **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2416 ### Event 15960 (07042395) **Date:** 10/22/1959 **Location:** Cumberland, MD **Description:** Car motor, headlights, and radio failed as UFO hovered low over road ahead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2417 ### Event 15961 (9FFEF4F4) **Date:** 10/22/1959 **Location:** Cumberland, Maryland **Description:** Night. Three witnesses are driving through Cumberland, Maryland, when they see a metallic disc emitting a bluish-green light around its edge. The driver abruptly stops, but leaves the car running. Suddenly the object drops down to 50 feet altitude and hovers 100 feet away in front of the car, making a humming vibration. As two of the witnesses open the door to get out, the car engine, lights, and radio fail. Shortly afterward, the disc shoots straight up, then forward, makes a 90° angle, then disappears in clouds. The car begins functioning normally again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Newark \(Md.\) Evening News, November 5, 1959; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 67–68; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 104–105 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3364 ### Event 15962 (1240AA7E) **Date:** 10/22/1959 **Description:** A disc-shaped object paced a car in Cumberland, Maryland at dusk, and stayed 50 feet overhead while the car's engine, lights and radio stopped working. The disc then shot up into the clouds, and the car returned to normal operation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 104 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7019 ### Event 15963 (43DEFE04) **Date:** 10/23/1959 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** CORDOBA, ARG **Description:** 40 / outdoor party. Strange buzz. Luminous saucer goes overhead going quickly northwest. Wave / Arg. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6294 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "384", **HatchDesc:** "CORDOBA,ARG:40/OUTDOOR PARTY:STRANGE BUZZ:LUMn. SCR goes OVHD >>NW:wave/Arg.", **LatLong:** "-31.400001 -64.200003", **LatLongDMS:** "31:24:00 S 64:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.400001,-64.200003)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15964 (DF5F9744) **Date:** 10/23/1959 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MT. GWOIRA, PAPUA NG **Description:** Bright disk / light going northwest. Circles peak. Maneuvers. Going southeast again. Changes color(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 423) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6295 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.GWOIRA,PAPUA NG:BRITE DISK/LITE >NW:CCLS PEAK:MNVRS:>SE AGAIN:CHANGES CLRS", **LatLong:** "-9.816667 149.516674", **LatLongDMS:** "09:49:00 S 149:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.816667,149.516674)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15965 (D1EA3999) **Date:** 10/23/1959 **Description:** A strange buzzing sound was heard when a luminous saucer-shaped object flew over Cordoba, Argentina at 8:00 p.m. It flew off to the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, November 1959 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7043 ### Event 15966 (67E18786) **Date:** 10/25/1959 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY NORTHWEST / FT WILLIAM, ON **Description:** 4 hunters / car paced / 50km. Stays / 15M altitude. / r148p285+/ r8#499. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6296 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "TCH NW/Ft WILLIAM,ON:4 HUNTERS/CAR PACED/50km:STAYS/15M alt:/r148p285+/r8#499", **LatLong:** "48.583336 -89.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "48:35:00 N 89:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.583336,-89.500004)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15967 (172DA612) **Date:** 10/25/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** TELEPHONE RIDGE, ID **Description:** 4 / rifle scopes / Hells canyon. Project Bluebook Case #6534. Vibrant bright night light hovers and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6297 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1800", **HatchDesc:** "TELEPHONE RIDGE,ID:4/RIFLE SCOPES/HELLS CANYON:BBK#6534:VBRITE NLT HVRS+AWAY ", **LatLong:** "45.433335 -116.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "45:26:00 N 116:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.433335,-116.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 15968 (7A529D4D) **Date:** 10/25/1959 **Location:** Fort William, Canada **Description:** On the Trans-Canada Highway west of this town, four hunters (Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of Port-Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 m above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, was white in color and remained with them for nearly 50 km. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 60, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_499 ### Event 15969 (DD41FB38) **Date:** Late 10/1959 **Location:** Mariannelund, Småland, Sweden **Description:** 6:55 p.m. Electrician Gideon Johansson is at home in Mariannelund, Småland, Sweden, when there is a power failure. He goes outside to look at the power lines when he bumps into his son Rolf, who points out a brilliant white object hovering above a three-story building. The object descends slowly and appears to be heading toward Johansson’s garden. The machine oscillates three times and smashes into the top of a maple tree, descends through the branches and hovers about 18 inches above the ground. Only about 10 feet away, Johansson can see the object has a large window, through which two entities are visible. Their heads have high crown and they have big, friendly eyes. They have mall mouths and pointed chins and are wearing white uniforms with broad black belts. One seems to be working at an instrument panel. They are only the size of a 14-year-old. Soon the object moves up and shoots away in a flash. Glassy deposits are found on some power lines in addition to the damaged tree, and Johansson gets prickly pains in his lower body. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren, “[Mariannelund UFO and Occupants,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 14–17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3365 ### Event 15970 (04322807) **Date:** 10/25/1959 **Description:** On the Trans-Canada Highway west of Fort William, Canada four hunters (Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of Port Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 meters above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, and was white in color. It paced their car and remained with them for nearly 50 km. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 499, citing Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1960 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7122 ### Event 15971 (2E9C9F5B) **Date:** 10/26/1959 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** GIZYCKO, POLAND **Description:** 10M ovoid swoops going down / woodsman. Heat and odd vacuum. Nosebleed! Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6298 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GIZYCKO,POLAND:10M OVOID SWOOPS ↓/WOODSMAN:HEAT+ODD VACUUM:NOSEBLEED!:sep.obs", **LatLong:** "54.033336 21.766668", **LatLongDMS:** "54:02:00 N 21:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.033336,21.766668)", **State/Prov:** "SWL", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 15972 (E4A328B6) **Date:** 10/26/1959 **Location:** Toccoa, GA **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2418 ### Event 15973 (00600B64) **Date:** 10/28/1959 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** VALPARAISO, CHL **Description:** Astronomer / (seen thru) telescope and several. Orange concave disk maneuvers. / r242p120+news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 426) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6299 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "163", **HatchDesc:** "VALPARAISO,CHL:ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE+SVRL:ORG.CONCAVE DISK MNVRS:/r242p120+news", **LatLong:** "-33.050002 -71.611115", **LatLongDMS:** "33:03:00 S 71:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.050002,-71.611115)", **State/Prov:** "VLP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15974 (60130F34) **Date:** 10/28/1959 **Location:** Valparaiso, Chili **Description:** Astronomer, others, observed maneuvering orange disc. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2419 ### Event 15975 (BF8DF9F1) **Date:** 10/28/1959 **Description:** An astronomer and several other witnesses saw an orange concave disc-shaped object maneuvering in the sky over Valparaiso, Chile at 9:15 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 120 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7224 ### Event 15976 (C8B0D769) **Date:** 10/30/1959 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** AUBAGNE, FR **Description:** Saucer over line / shoppers. 20 pseudo-human/entity / white suits / transparent dome laugh! / r30p239. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6300 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "AUBAGNE,FR:SCR OVR LINE/SHOPPERS:20 PSH/WHT SUITS/XPRNT DOME LAUGH!:/r30p239", **LatLong:** "43.300002 5.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:18:00 N 05:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.300002,5.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 15977 (B7D3F194) **Date:** 10/30/1959 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** MONTEVIDEO, URUG **Description:** Several observer(s). Dark metallic hubcap-saucer going north. Turns going west. Turns and speeds going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 427) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6301 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Uruguay", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEVIDEO,URUG:SVRL OBS:DRK MTLC HUBCAP-SCR > N:TURNS >W:TURNS+SPEEDS >E", **LatLong:** "-34.833335 -56.150003", **LatLongDMS:** "34:50:00 S 56:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.833335,-56.150003)", **State/Prov:** "MNT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15978 (757B2F8E) **Date:** 10/30/1959 **Description:** A domed disc hovered over a queue of shoppers in the city of Aubagne, Bouches-Rhone, France at 6 p.m. Twenty human-looking occupants were visible inside the transparent dome, and appeared to be laughing at them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 125 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7302 ### Event 15979 (4CDBA9EC) **Date:** 10/31/1959 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** OHINGAITI HILL, NZ **Description:** Large street lamp follows 2 / car / 100km. Scouts valley. Quickly going up / daybreak. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6302 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "OHINGAITI HILL,NZ:LRG STREET LAMP FOLOS 2/CAR/100km:SCOUTS VALLEY:↑↑/daybreak", **LatLong:** "-39.861113 175.694453", **LatLongDMS:** "39:51:40 S 175:41:40 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.861113,175.694453)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15980 (E14BF9C3) **Date:** 10/31/1959 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet Col. [Georgy Mosolov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FMosolov) reaches an airspeed record of 1,484 mph in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 over the Soviet Union. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Georgy Mosolov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FMosolov)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3366 ### Event 15981 (33C950E1) **Date:** 10/31/1959 **Description:** Two brothers with the last name of Hawkins were followed for 95 kilometers between Marton and Matamata, New Zealand by a luminous object that looked like a large street lamp. The UFO maneuvered around their car when they stopped near Oningaiti, New Zealand and it ascended vertically at daybreak. The incident began at 4:15 a.m. and continued until the break of day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin, citing Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1960, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7333 ### Event 15982 (F94C7733) **Date:** 11/1959 **Location:** Area 51 in Nevada **Description:** A full-scale mockup of the A-12 is shipped to Area 51 in Nevada for radar signature testing by EG&G. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3367 ### Event 15983 (7196D904) **Date:** 11/2/1959 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** EVORA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Scientists and many. 2 saucers. 1 maneuvers. 10-legged bug found in angel hair. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6303 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "EVORA,PORTUGAL:SCIs+MANY:2 SCRS:1 MNVRS:10-LEGGED BUG FOUND IN ANGEL HAIR", **LatLong:** "38.583335 -7.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:00 N 07:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.583335,-7.883334)", **State/Prov:** "AAL", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 15984 (5EF9BF07) **Date:** 11/2/1959 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** BEACH NEAR PORTO ALEGRE, BRZ **Description:** 4 / car. Domed saucer going [to] overhead. 2 saucers form cylinder/cylindrical object between them! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6304 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BEACH nr PORTO ALEGRE,BRZ:4/CAR:DOMED SCR>OVHD::2 SCRS FORM CYL BETWEEN THEM!", **LatLong:** "-30.066668 -51.200002", **LatLongDMS:** "30:04:00 S 51:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.066668,-51.200002)", **State/Prov:** "RGS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15985 (356167A2) **Date:** 11/2/1959 **Locations:** Evora, Portugal; University of Lisbon **Description:** 12:00 noon. A substance described as angel hair falls from two UFOs seen in Evora, Portugal, and is collected and analyzed under a microscope by a school director, Dr. Amaral, and later by armed forces technicians and scientists at the University of Lisbon. The scientists conclude that the substance is produced by a small insect or some strange kind of single-celled organism about 4 millimeters in length. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hayley Price, “[Evora Angel Hair,](https://www.ufoweeklynews.com/ufo-sightings/evora-angel-hair)” UFO Weekly News; Nicole Guardiola, “[An Extraterrestrial Living Being, Captured and Studied Eighteen Years](https://caballodetroy.medium.com/an-extraterrestrial-living-being-captured-and-studied-eighteen-years-ago-222dfa7bfe78) [Ago,](https://caballodetroy.medium.com/an-extraterrestrial-living-being-captured-and-studied-eighteen-years-ago-222dfa7bfe78)” translated from El País, October 13, 1978 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3368 ### Event 15986 (E278AFC8) **Date:** 11/3/1959 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** EAST / KENNINGTON, NZ **Description:** 2 / car. 12M rectangle / trees. Going quickly north as car nears. / APRO Nv'59+/ r143#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6305 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "E/KENNINGTON,NZ:2/CAR:12M RECTANGLE/TREES:>>N as car nears:/APRO Nv'59+/r143#4", **LatLong:** "-46.383336 168.500008", **LatLongDMS:** "46:23:00 S 168:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.383336,168.500008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15987 (16D183C0) **Date:** 11/3/1959 **Location:** Utica, NY **Description:** Stationary round yellow-white obj move away, disappear, then reappear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2420 ### Event 15988 (167D7A25) **Date:** 11/5/1959 **Location:** ELVAS, PORTUGAL **Description:** Several observer(s). Strange object seems to shoot fire. Seen / 2 hours. / O Seculo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6306 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "ELVAS,PORTUGAL:SVRL OBS:STRANGE OBJ SEEMS TO SHOOT FIRE:SEEN/2hrs:/O SECULO", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -7.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 07:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-7.183334)", **State/Prov:** "AAL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15989 (606E5C11) **Date:** 11/5/1959 **Location:** Montauk AFB, Long Island, NY **Description:** Three Radars Track Blip (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [591105](http://www.nicap.org/591105montauk%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2421 ### Event 15990 (30DD7933) **Date:** 11/6/1959 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** STATESVILLE, NC AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Blue ball / light paces car / miles. Stops with car 6X. Separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6307 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "281", **HatchDesc:** "STATESVILLE,NC++:BLU BALL/LITE PACES CAR/MILES:STOPS WITH CAR 6X:SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "35.783335 -80.888893", **LatLongDMS:** "35:47:00 N 80:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.783335,-80.888893)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15991 (D1126E4E) **Date:** 11/8/1959 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** SOUTH / ALVIN, TX **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape follows gasoline truck / miles. Drops and sprays highway with fog. Missing time. / MJ#259. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 434) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6308 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "S/ALVIN,TX:CGR FOLOS GASOLINE TRUCK/MILES:DROPS+SPRAYS HWY W/FOG:MST:/MJ#259", **LatLong:** "29.366668 -95.244449", **LatLongDMS:** "29:22:00 N 95:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.366668,-95.244449)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 15992 (781F4E1E) **Date:** 11/8/1959 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** EVERGLADES NOT PLOTTED ON MAPS, FL **Description:** PAA aero RADAR's. Huge ovoid blip / fast maneuvers. Quickly going up [to] to space / 6500 kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 432) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6309 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "EVERGLADES NP,FL:PAA AERO RDRS:HUGE OVOID BLIP/FAST MNVRS:↑↑ TO SPACE/6500 kph", **LatLong:** "25.416668 -80.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "25:25:00 N 80:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.416668,-80.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 15993 (4FC8437B) **Date:** 11/8/1959 **Location:** Kandahar, Afghanistan **Description:** A large, luminous object is seen moving at great speed over Kandahar, Afghanistan, to the northwest. Shortly afterward it explodes with a loud roar in nearby mountains, causing some slight earth tremors. Possible Russian missile test. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 308](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3369 ### Event 15994 (66026DD3) **Date:** 11/8/1959 **Description:** On this morning a cigar-shaped UFO followed a gasoline tanker truck for miles in Austin, Texas. It dropped down and sprayed the highway with fog. Later, it was realized that the driver had experienced approximately 40 minutes of missing time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch,U computer database, case # 5860, citing Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7535 ### Event 15995 (A23BD0D0) **Date:** 11/10/1959 **Description:** Requests to transfer responsibility for UFO investigations from ATIC to ARDC are sent to Maj. Gen. [Charles B. Dougher](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107232/major-general-charles-b-dougher/) \(ATIC commander\), Col. Philip G. Evans \(ATIC Deputy for Sciences and Components\), and Maj. Gen. [James H. Walsh](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105288/major-general-james-h-walsh/) \(AF Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3370 ### Event 15996 (FA6F4EDE) **Date:** 11/12/1959 **Description:** The first completely free flight of an Avrocar takes place. This test proves the nozzle control system unacceptable. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3371 ### Event 15997 (0A9CC26C) **Date:** 11/15/1959 **Description:** The witness, a young man who was on leave from the Army, had been driving on U.S. highway 99 near Marysville, California with two friends when he suddenly found himself onboard a hovering, bluish-white craft. His two friends had apparently been put to sleep and were not disturbed. The witness was taken by six four-foot tall humanoids with large human like eyes to a room that had many instruments, and was given a medical examination. The beings wore silvery gray outfits with a dark triangle-like insignia on their chest. They glided above the floor instead of walking. The witness was later deposited back in his vehicle unharmed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 196, citing Nick H. Edwards, CUFORN Bulletin, November-December 1988 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7687 ### Event 15998 (5AD908E9) **Date:** 11/16/1959 **Locations:** Czech Air Force; Czechoslovakian airfield; Czech Republic **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Czech Air Force officer Commander Duchoň is driving with another officer named Bezák to a Czechoslovakian airfield \[now in the Czech Republic\] to supervise night-flying exercises. At about 6 miles from the airfield, the car engine begins to stall. Suddenly they see a light sapphire-colored band moving at high speed at an altitude of 1,600–2,600 feet. It is completely silent. Some minutes later they are able to start the car again. Personnel at the airfield tell them they had seen a flaming ball that rotated, made a 90° turn, and passed over the airfield again. The tower tracks the object on radar at an altitude of 3,000 feet during its second pass. The object is about 500 feet in diameter with a glowing ring around it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucers and the Iron Curtain: A Report from](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJul-Aug%2CV%206%2CN%204.pdf) [Czechoslovakia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJul-Aug%2CV%206%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1960\): 31–32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3372 ### Event 15999 (9D3FA5EB) **Date:** 11/17/1959 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** VERDI, NV **Description:** 3 / car / US40. 3 silver-white flat-bottom cone-saucers going [to] overhead / 8000M altitude. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 439) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6310 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1471", **HatchDesc:** "VERDI,NV:3/CAR/US40:3 SLVR-WHT FLAT-BOTTOM CONE-SCRS > OVHD/8000M alt:/news", **LatLong:** "39.516669 -119.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:00 N 119:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.516669,-119.966672)", **RelAlt:** "2400", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16000 (788FAB8E) **Date:** 11/18/1959 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** SOUTH / CRYSTAL SPRS, MS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #6600. 1 observer. Row / red lights drifts then off / fantastic speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6311 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "S/CRYSTAL Sprs,MS:BBK#6600:1 OBS:ROW/RED LITES DRIFTS THEN OFF/FANTASTIC SPEED", **LatLong:** "31.966668 -90.355560", **LatLongDMS:** "31:58:00 N 90:21:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.966668,-90.355560)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16001 (1D55D35C) **Date:** 11/18/1959 **Location:** Crystal Springs (South of), MS **Description:** A row of red lights fly slow, then accelerate immensely (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6600) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2422 ### Event 16002 (BC2AC585) **Date:** 11/18/1959 **Time:** 6:25 PM **Location:** Crystal Springs, Mississippi **Description:** Witness: J.M. Porter. A row of red lights flew slow, then speeded up immensely. Sighting lasted 5-6 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_444 ### Event 16003 (53BBCF3E) **Date:** 11/18/1959 **Description:** At 6:25 a.m. in Crystal Springs, Mississippi Mr. J. M. Porter witnessed a row of red lights that flew slowly through the sky, and then sped up incredibly fast. His sighting lasted from 5-6 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7729 ### Event 16004 (AFDEDE4E) **Date:** 11/19/1959 **Location:** Yukon, Oklahoma **Description:** [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) is convicted in federal court of selling unregistered securities to [Gurney G. Warnberg](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80077817/gurney-g-warnberg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80077817/gurney-g-warnberg) a pilot and railroad man in Yukon, Oklahoma, and fined $5,000. Unable to pay, Carr works off his fine in jail at a dollar a day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 861 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3373 ### Event 16005 (1E593ADE) **Date:** 11/20/1959 **Time:** 04:20 **Location:** WEST / BLACKWOOD, SOUTH AUSTRALIA **Description:** 2 cops. Disk with transparent dome skims sea going north. Maneuvers past moon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 439) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6312 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "W/BLACKWOOD,S.AUSTRL:2 COPS:DISK W/XPRNT DOME SKIMS SEA >N:MNVRS PAST MOON", **LatLong:** "-35.016668 138.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:01:00 S 138:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.016668,138.416673)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16006 (D0F001F6) **Date:** 11/20/1959 **Description:** In 1959, at 4:15 a.m. in Adelaide Hills, South Australia a flat object with a large bubble on top was seen just before sunrise. It reflected light from the Moon, and appeared to skim above the waves on the ocean. It flew to the North, and was seen again over the city. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 169. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7746 ### Event 16007 (5FEF0815) **Date:** 11/23/1959 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** KOIABAGIRI, PAPUA-NG **Description:** 3 observer(s). Brilliant disk half-moon-size going down / cloud. Dark 'boat' under. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 721) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6313 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KOIABAGIRI,PAPUA-NG:3 OBS:BRILL.DISK HALF-MOONSIZE ↓/CLOUD:DRK 'BOAT' UNDER", **LatLong:** "-9.800000 149.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "09:48:00 S 149:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.800000,149.750007)", **State/Prov:** "PNG", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 16008 (3E540FB9) **Date:** 11/24/1959 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEW FERRY, ENGL **Description:** Housewife. Silver saucer with yellow lit dome. Spins. Light flashes. Going NNE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6314 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "NEW FERRY,ENGL:HOUSEWIFE:SLVR SCR W/YLW LIT DOME:SPINS:LITE FLASHES:>NNE", **LatLong:** "53.350003 -3.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:21:00 N 03:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.350003,-3.000000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16009 (E8B53DAA) **Date:** 11/24/1959 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** PRAIA, CAPE VERDE ISLANDS **Description:** Luminous object surrounded by halo with pulsing light. / Novidades. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6315 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "PRAIA,CAPE VERDE ISLs:LUMN.OBJ SURROUNDED BY HALO W/PULSING LITE:/NOVIDADES", **LatLong:** "15.000001 -23.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "15:00:00 N 23:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/15.000001,-23.500001)", **State/Prov:** "CVI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 16010 (2E46FF82) **Date:** 11/24/1959 **Description:** At 1:00 p.m. Mrs. Sperring in New Ferry, Cheshire, England watched a silver domed disc with a yellow illuminated dome. It was spinning, and had flashing lights. It flew off to the north-northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5866; FSR, March 1960 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7869 ### Event 16011 (5E4B5649) **Date:** 11/28/1959 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** EAST / BASIN, WY **Description:** 2 / farm. White-glow cone-saucer / night light hovers. Going down [to] low. Going up [to] and hovers high as observer(s) near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 445) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6316 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1180", **HatchDesc:** "E/BASIN,WY:2/FARM:WHT-GLOW CONE-SCR/NLT HVRS:↓ LOW:↑+HVRS HIGH as obs near", **LatLong:** "44.377780 -108.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "44:22:40 N 108:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.377780,-108.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16012 (27472865) **Date:** 12/1959 **Time:** 05:50 **Location:** PROBERTA, CA **Description:** Truck radio and lights electro-magnetic effect (EME). Saucer hovers. Going [to] east-northeast. Observer(s) felt lifted. Battery melted. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 459) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6317 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "PROBERTA,CA:TRUCK RDO+LITES EME:SCR HVRS:>ENE:OBS FELT LIFTED:BATTERY MELTED", **LatLong:** "40.083335 -122.172228", **LatLongDMS:** "40:05:00 N 122:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.083335,-122.172228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 16013 (E801E3CD) **Date:** 12/1959 **Description:** The new edition of [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published with three new UFO debunking chapters, the last of which is completely different in tone from the rest of the book. He claims there is no Air Force secrecy on UFOs and NICAP is just a bunch of grandstanding nuts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1024; Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Forgotten Letters of Edward J. Ruppelt,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 20–26, 30, 32; Swords 301 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3374 ### Event 16014 (4A185080) **Date:** 12/1959 **Location:** London **Description:** The London UFO Research Organisation is founded by Paul Teugells, Nigel Stephenson, Susanne Stebbing, and Roy Stemman, and begins publishing a monthly magazine, LUFORO Bulletin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [LUFORO Newsletter](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201959-1963%20LUFORO%20BULLETIN%20Vols.1%20to%204/LUFORO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%201%20No%2001%20-%201st%20Dec%201959.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201959-1963%20LUFORO%20BULLETIN%20Vols.1%20to%204/LUFORO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%201%20No%2001%20-%201st%20Dec%201959.pdf) no. 1 \(December 1959\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3375 ### Event 16015 (212841C6) **Date:** 12/1959 **Locations:** Cambridge, Massachusetts; National Space Surveillance Control Center (NSSCC) **Description:** Project Space Track moves to a new building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the National Space Surveillance Control Center \(NSSCC\), which is formally dedicated on February 9, 1960. The NSSCC is part of the Air Force Command and Control Development Division, Air Research and Development Command. Harold O. Curtis of Lincoln Laboratory is the director of the NSSCC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project Space Track](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FSpace%5FTrack)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3376 ### Event 16016 (937AFA25) **Date:** 12/1959 **Locations:** US Highway 99 near Proberta, California; Sierra foothills **Description:** 5:45 a.m. Larry Jensen is driving to work on US Highway 99 near Proberta, California, when his radio begins making “snapping” noises, and his lights dim. He pulls over to the side of the road and gets out to check his headlights, which he finds are shining feebly. He notices a huge, bright, bluish-green, crescent-shaped object hovering about 60 feet above the road a quarter of a mile behind him. It appears to be 80–90 feet across and 15– 20 feet thick. Suddenly and inexplicably, he finds his clothes are soaked and he feels an alarming feeling as if he is getting crushed inside. He also feels as if he is being sucked up into the object. He grabs for a car door, then collides with a side mirror and staggers backward, but manages to get inside. Looking out the right-door window, he sees the UFO a few miles away, heading northeast and climbing at a shallow angle over the Sierra foothills. It vanishes within 10 seconds. Jensen’s car lights come back on. He resumes driving, but 600 feet away is forced to stop because he smells burning rubber. The battery caps are blown out, and the battery is swollen out of shape, the generator is not working, and the armature and field wires have melted together. Later, he finds it odd that he has not encountered another single car during or after the episode. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 866; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 56–59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3377 ### Event 16017 (B11321F7) **Date:** 12/1/1959 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** EAST FONTANA, CA **Description:** 2 cops. Lampshade saucer lights area. Beams going down. Going quickly [to] very fast. Contrail. / FSRv6#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 721) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6318 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "380", **HatchDesc:** "E.FONTANA,CA:2 COPS:LAMPSHADE SCR LITES AREA:BEAMS ↓:>>VFAST:CONTRAIL:/FSRv6#2", **LatLong:** "34.100002 -117.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:06:00 N 117:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.100002,-117.416672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16018 (110DE11B) **Date:** 12/1/1959 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** At a NASA news conference in Washington, D.C., Cal Tech geochemist [Harrison Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%5FBrown) suggests that boneless animals similar to jellyfish abound in oceans on Venus. The speculation comes in the wake of the discovery that the planet’s atmosphere contains water vapor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Scientist Says Jellyfish May Live on Venus,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100914555/)” Wilmington \(Del.\) News Journal, December 2, 1959, p. 29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3378 ### Event 16019 (A3DD05D6) **Date:** 12/2/1959 **Location:** GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN **Description:** Bright saucer seen going quickly southwest / 2 min. Possible Soviet missile. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6319 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Afghanistan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GHAZNI,AFGHANISTAN:BRIGHT SCR SEEN >>SW/2 MIN:possible Soviet missile", **LatLong:** "33.633335 68.622225", **LatLongDMS:** "33:38:00 N 68:37:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.633335,68.622225)", **State/Prov:** "Ghazni", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 16020 (7EE2FB9A) **Date:** 12/2/1959 **Location:** Ghazni, Afghanistan **Description:** A bright, circular object is seen in the sky heading southwest over Ghazni, Afghanistan. It disappears after 2 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 308](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3379 ### Event 16021 (ED95A890) **Date:** 12/3/1959 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** CHATTON, NZ **Description:** 4 observer(s). Saucer going northeast. Stops and circles / 45 minutes. Bright glow / edge. Lost in clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6320 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "CHATTON,NZ:4 OBS:SCR >NE:STOPS+CCLS/45 mins:BRITE GLOW/EDGE:LOST in CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "-45.983336 168.916675", **LatLongDMS:** "45:59:00 S 168:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.983336,168.916675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16022 (24F07412) **Date:** 12/3/1959 **Description:** In 1959 on a cloudy night on a farm near Chatton, New Zealand a disc flew in around 9:45 p.m. flying toward the northeast, stopped and then circled for 45 minutes. It gave off a bright glow around its rim. It was finally lost from sight behind the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1959, volume 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8160 ### Event 16023 (E5C06099) **Date:** 12/5/1959 **Description:** After five flights, testing of the Avrocar is temporarily halted, by which time it has logged 18.5 hours of test time in total. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3380 ### Event 16024 (11B3249C) **Date:** 12/7/1959 **Description:** Maj. Gen. [James H. Walsh](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105288/major-general-james-h-walsh/) writes to Lt. Gen. [Bernard A. Schriever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FSchriever)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FSchriever) commander of ARDC, regarding transfer of UFO duties. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3381 ### Event 16025 (085F5512) **Date:** 12/11/1959 **Description:** A memo reaches CIA head [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles)’s desk recommending the removal of [Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro). He sets the wheels in motion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3382 ### Event 16026 (D4B713E4) **Date:** 12/13/1959 **Locations:** La Orchila Island, Venezuela; Caribbean **Description:** Karl Lars Dersson is walking on the deck of the Danish tanker Dorthe Mærsk just north of La Orchila Island, Venezuela. He sees a brilliant cone-shaped object descending from the sky and alerts the crew. It gets brighter as it nears the surface of the Caribbean, and the crew hear a loud concussion as it enters the water. The surface becomes turbulent and brilliant with many colors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 50–51 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3383 ### Event 16027 (FD93AB00) **Date:** 12/13/1959 **Locations:** Fort Bliss; El Paso, Texas **Description:** Early evening. A rocket project officer at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is out looking at the Moon with binoculars when a lighted object approaches the Moon very slowly in the six o’clock position. Once nearly in line with the lunar edge, it begins a precision journey, skirting the edge until it reaches three o’clock. It then leaves on a straight track directly away. During the observation, the man calls his wife and two neighbors to watch the performance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 14–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3384 ### Event 16028 (11B450F2) **Date:** 12/13/1959 **Description:** A brilliant cone giving off flares descended into the ocean near La Orchila Island in the Dependencias Federales chain of islands belonging to Venezuela. The witnesses were three crewmen aboard the ship SS Dorthemaersk. After the object submerged the sea became brilliant with many bright colors and very turbulent at that spot. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8369 ### Event 16029 (1D9286B7) **Date:** 12/15/1959 **Location:** Edwards AFB, California **Description:** USAF Maj. [Joseph Rogers](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jwrogersjr.htm) attains an airspeed of 1,526 mph in a Convair F-106 Delta Dart at Edwards AFB, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Convair F-106 Delta Dart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair%5FF-106%5FDelta%5FDart)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3385 ### Event 16030 (7BD89019) **Date:** 12/17/1959 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** HAVERHILL, MA **Description:** 4 kids / bus. Flash! Round silver domed object going down / field. Door opens. Figure exits! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 453) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6321 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "HAVERHILL,MA:4 KIDS/BUS:FLASH!:RND SLVR DOMED OBJ ↓/FLD:DOOR OPENS:FIG.EXITS!", **LatLong:** "42.772224 -71.072226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:20 N 71:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.772224,-71.072226)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 16031 (7853E3A4) **Date:** 12/17/1959 **Description:** On this day at eight o’clock in the morning four children on a school bus in Haverhill, Massachusetts saw a flash in the sky, then watched a silver, domed disc land in a field. A door in the craft opened and a humanoid occupant exited. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8463 ### Event 16032 (E77809DE) **Date:** 12/18/1959 **Location:** S Victoria Island, CAN **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2423 ### Event 16033 (85BEEF03) **Date:** 12/19/1959 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** BURGOON, OH **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer going down [to] tilted. Slow spin. Plane passes. Object gone! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 453) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6322 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "BURGOON,OH:2 OBS:SCR ↓ TILTED:SLO SPIN:PLANE PASSES:OBJ GONE!:", **LatLong:** "41.266669 -81.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 N 81:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.266669,-81.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16034 (5885FD86) **Date:** 12/20/1959 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** REDONDO BEACH, CA **Description:** 2 / home. 8 saucers race and play tag. Vibrant bright yellow and bronze. Moon high and full. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1959 (4 booklets) 1999/00 Self published. (Index 456) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6323 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "REDONDO BEACH,CA:2/HOME:8 SCRS RACE+PLAY TAG:VBRITE YLW+BRONZE:moon hi+full", **LatLong:** "33.850002 -118.388895", **LatLongDMS:** "33:51:00 N 118:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.850002,-118.388895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 16035 (A2A0D63A) **Date:** 12/20/1959 **Description:** At 2:20 a.m. on a clear night with the full Moon high in the sky, eight disc-shaped craft maneuvered and seemed to be playing tag over the shoreline in Redondo Beach, California. They were bright yellow and bronze in color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5875, citing Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. UFOs: A History, 1959 (volume 4), p. 56 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8530 ### Event 16036 (E1AEE4B6) **Date:** 12/22/1959 **Time:** 2350 **Location:** Oakdale, California **Description:** Kenneth Lindsley and several other witnesses saw a bright, orange object at ground level. It was bowl-shaped, as wide as the road, and shadows that appeared to be moving could be seen. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 60, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagnonia, **ID:** Magnonia_500 ### Event 16037 (3BC205D9) **Date:** 12/22/1959 **Description:** Kenneth Lindsey was walking along a road near Modesto, California at around 11:50 at night when he saw a bright, orange bowl-shaped object descend to about 20 feet above the road, extending across the entire roadway. "On it I could see shadows which appeared to be moving, but I could not distinguish what they were." After two minutes it rose again into the air. There were others in the neighborhood who also saw the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-14, citing Coral Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, January 1960 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8561 ### Event 16038 (FFC9ED22) **Date:** 12/23/1959 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** OAKDALE, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright orange 7M bowl-saucer. Shadows move inside. / r143#4+/ FSRv6#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 721) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6324 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "55", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "OAKDALE,CA:SVRL OBS:BRITE ORG 7M BOWL-SCR:shadows move inside:/r143#4+/FSRv6#3", **LatLong:** "37.766668 -120.844450", **LatLongDMS:** "37:46:00 N 120:50:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.766668,-120.844450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 16039 (2DCB100B) **Date:** 12/23/1959 **Location:** Albuquerque (W of), NM **Description:** (McDonald list) Three Objects Tracked By MPS-14 At 70,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [591223](http://www.nicap.org/591223albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2424 ### Event 16040 (CBAA7A4C) **Date:** 12/23/1959 **Description:** At a few minutes after midnight in Oakdale, California several witnesses sighted a seven-meter wide, bowl-shaped disc. Shadows were seen moving about inside the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, January-February 1960 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8568 ### Event 16041 (E06EF9F4) **Date:** 12/24/1959 **Location:** US **Description:** Air Force Inspector General brief to Operations and Training Commands: "UFOs Serious Business." Stated that UFO investigators on base level "should be equipped with binoculars, camera, geiger counter, magnifying glass and have a source for containers in which to store samples." **Type:** briefing **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_886 ### Event 16042 (F32977A8) **Date:** 12/24/1959 **Location:** US **Description:** Maj. Gen. [Richard E. O’Keefe](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106024/major-general-richard-j-okeefe/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106024/major-general-richard-j-okeefe/) acting inspector general of the Air Force, issues instructions pertaining to “UFO business” to every air base commander in the US. The document is not intended for public distribution, but NICAP obtains a copy. Across the top are the words “UFOs Serious Business.” It says that UFOs “must be rapidly and accurately identified as serious USAF business in the ZI \[Zone of Interior\]” and specifies that UFO investigators “should be equipped with binoculars, camera, Geiger counter, magnifying glass and have a source for containers in which to store samples.” O’Keefe asks that UFO explanations be “reasonable and knowledgeable.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 61, 65–66; Swords 286; Good Need, [pp. 226](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/226/mode/2up), [229](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/228/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3387 ### Event 16043 (53E3388E) **Date:** Late 12/1959 **Location:** Namsenfjorden, Trøndelag, Norway **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Lorentz Johnsen sees a dark, silent object with a row of windows fly slowly by at an altitude of 500 feet, headed in the direction of Namsenfjorden, Trøndelag, Norway. It descends to about 160 feet, grows fiery red, then explodes with a crash and falls into the water. He says that it looks like a cover is torn off in one piece like a “curved sheet of metal.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3386 --- # Year Histogram * 1950, 911 * 1951, 455 * 1952, 2631 * 1953, 931 * 1954, 2467 * 1955, 728 * 1956, 789 * 1957, 1347 * 1958, 721 * 1959, 628